Chapter 485: Too Risky
Li Wanjiang followed Xiao Chen's suggestion and sent someone to Yizhou to send a message to Xiao Xinghan, ordering him to immediately prepare a fleet to stand by, go north within three months to fight against the Rus fleet, and recover the Shunfeng Harbor that belongs to our China!
also wrote a pair of pairs for him: the four towns have many different hearts, Yidao Tunshi, dare to fight for half of the wall in the southeast; The kings have no land, and they have a corner of resistance, and they know that there are lonely loyalists overseas!
Xiao Xinghan was really ridiculous at first sight.
It's not Li Wanjiang, are you serious?
Or are you kidding me?
However, then he realized that Li Wanjiang was serious.
Because the holy decree written in black and yellow on the paper is very clear, and it is also stamped with Li Wanjiang's jade seal.
This is tantamount to handing over the evidence to him, if Li Wanjiang is engaged in some kind of conspiracy, he will inevitably lose his prestige, and he should be despised by the world!
This is really the army of Xiao Xinghan.
made him hesitate, and for several days he didn't think about tea and dinner, and every day he stood in the harbor and looked at the other side, and one stop was a day.
In the end, a difficult decision was made, send troops!
Two reasons, one bright and one dark.
For obvious reasons, Shunfeng Harbor is an inseparable part of our Chinese territory, and as the descendants of Yan and Huang, especially the Han royal family, we must not watch him fall into the hands of foreign races!
There is a family feud with Li Wanjiang, but there is a national hatred with the Rus!
Therefore, it is necessary to repay the hatred of the country first, and then the revenge of the family.
The secret reason is to compete with Li Wanjiang.
You Li Wanjiang can have such a mind, don't I Xiao Xinghan have it?
I'll just be on the same bar with you, so that the heroes of the world can know that I, Xiao Xinghan, also have the spirit of an emperor.
Of course, sending troops is sending troops, how to send troops, how much, how to go, how to return, how to take advantage as much as possible in this cooperation, and suffer less......
It will also need to be carefully discussed.
So the combined fleet planned by Xiao Chen could add the Yizhou Naval Division, and Xiao Xinghan promised to send at least ten warships, three of which were large warships, and the sailors should be about 3,000 people.
The Great Zhou Naval Division can almost dispatch five large warships, ten medium-sized warships, and dozens of other small warships, and the number of sailors is about six or seven thousand, which is almost all the family background of the Great Zhou Naval Division.
Li Wanjiang really let go this time.
Xiao Chen also let go, and when he was about to leave for his return, he received news from Yanyun County, saying that Wilson's merchant ship had arrived at Shunfeng Harbor, and he wanted to meet Xiao Chen and ask Xiao Chen when he would go back?
Xiao Chen immediately sent someone to quickly rush back to deliver the message, asking Wilson to come directly to Fengyang City to find him, and he decided to go south in person to negotiate with the pirates!
This move is also a bit presumptuous.
Not only Fu Yan and Xu Haiming resolutely opposed it, but even Li Wanjiang felt that it was inappropriate.
But Xiao Chen had already made up his mind, because he felt that this matter could only be discussed by himself, otherwise who would he send?
It's not appropriate for anyone to go.
Besides, you have to talk to them about this kind of thing, and Wilson said those guys all speak English, which of you can speak English?
It's not appropriate to find a translator, because there are few people in Da Zhou who can speak English, and they are not very proficient in speaking, and once there is a mistake in the translation of this kind of negotiation, even if it is a very small mistake, it may miss a big thing.
Li Wanjiang thought about it for several days before finally agreeing, but he told Xiao Chen to pay attention to safety, those pirates are all outlaws, if they can talk about it, it is best if they can't talk about it, if they can't talk about it, they don't have to be reluctant.
But Fu Yan and the others still strongly objected, because they felt that this risk was unnecessary.
"The battle to regain Shunfeng Harbor is extremely important, if we fail, it will be difficult to have this opportunity again in the future, so we are desperate, we can only succeed, and we must not fail." Xiao Chen knew the importance of this battle too well.
Although victory and defeat are common things in soldiers, this battle can only be won, not defeated!
It can even be said that the future life and death of Yanyun County are all in one fell swoop.
Therefore, it is necessary to unite all the forces that can be united, and the strength of the pirates should not be underestimated, and with their joining, this victory will be greatly increased.
"Then let's transfer at least two large warships from the Naval Division, right?" Fu Yan saw that he had made up his mind, so he no longer tried to persuade him in vain, but began to plan his itinerary.
"We don't take a boat, the boat is too slow, and we go directly to land." As soon as Xiao Chen's words came out, the big guys thought they had heard it wrong.
We're going to go to pirates, right? It's not to find bandits, and if you don't go by sea or land, how can you find them?
Xiao Chen ordered someone to take out the map, press his finger on Fengyang City first, and then go all the way south, cross Jiuxi and enter Myanmar and then go south......
The end point is Baderi Port in Myanmar.
"The pirates we are looking for are operating in this ocean, and we can borrow a few warships from Burma to go to sea to find them, I heard Liu Ruyun say that Burma also has sailors, although the scale is not large, but there are dozens of warships, I want to go and talk to the king of Burma by the way, to see if it is possible to borrow another ten or eight warships from them."
The idea is also feasible.
If Li Wanjiang is asked to issue an order to the king of Burma and order him to send a fleet to support the battle, I am afraid that the king of Burma will have more than a hundred reasons to refuse, just say that there is no ship or the ship is broken, what can you do with him?
But if Xiao Chen went in person, it would be different, he could see the situation of the Burmese warship in person, and the Burmese king would have no way to hide it, and Xiao Chen's friendship with the Burmese king was extraordinary, don't forget the one who saved his life at the beginning.
Therefore, if he makes this request and gives some benefits to the king of Burma as compensation, the king of Burma should agree.
Besides, there is Liu Ruyun, Xiao Chen has already told her about this, and asked her to write a handwritten letter to the King of Burma.
"Okay, on the back, this is going south, the road I rely on is thousands of miles away, and my fat body is not very convenient, otherwise I will go to Yanyun County first and wait for you." Shangguan gave up his illness and said that he would not be accompanied.
"There are a few of us in total, we all have to go, and you Shangguan have to go, in case of a fight, there will definitely be injuries, can you not go?" Fu Yan said.
"Isn't it a negotiation? Why did you make a fight and kill again? Shangguan Qi grinned, and suddenly thought of a good reason, "We have to ride a horse, right?" I don't know how to ride a horse! ”
"If we don't go here, we have to ride a horse, we must also speed up the horse, day and night, change horses without changing people, Shangguan if you don't know how to ride a horse......" Xiao Chen looked at Shangguan and abandoned his eyes full of understanding.
"It's really not, I've been afraid of being high since I was a child." Shangguan abandoned the disease and said that he really couldn't lie.
"That's okay, just tie you to the back of the horse with a rope, it's safer, no matter how fast you run, you won't fall off, but it may be a little bumpy." Xiao Chen said with a smile.
"I can ride, I can ride! I'm just playing a little joke on you...... The one who can't ride is the son! Shangguan Qijian was taken aback and hurriedly changed his words.