At the beginning of June, Wu Yue court discussed that the main force of the Mingzhou Navy Division would send troops in the middle of the month to exterminate the Taihu Zhukou who went to sea.

However, it was not until June 20, under the repeated urging of the governor Cao Peng, that the main force of the Mingzhou Naval Division of 2,000 people left the port of Mingzhou slowly. Not all deployed Jia Hefu deliberately delayed, but it was really that the soldiers of the Mingzhou Navy Division did not have a strong fighting spirit.

Wu Yueguo's three established water divisions, Suzhou water division is actually the Yangtze River water division, facing the Song and Tang dynasties, and this is Wu Yue's most powerful water division. However, the combat strength of the Song naval division stationed in Yangzhou is average, and if Wu Yueguo builds a naval division like the Tang Dynasty, wouldn't it make the Song Dynasty jealous like the Tang Dynasty? Therefore, the construction of the Suzhou Naval Division has slowed down recently, and it is the thousand-stone ship that was originally intended to be allocated to the Suzhou Naval Division, and later it was also given to the Taihu Lake Naval Division. In fact, what I want is to use the Taihu Lake Sailor as the reserve of the Suzhou Sailor, if there is something to happen to the Yangtze River, the Taihu Lake Sailor will go straight into the Yangtze River and fight side by side with the Suzhou Sailor.

The Mingzhou Naval Division's control of the Qiantang River estuary actually had the intention of defending Kyoto, and it should have been the direction of Wu Yue's key construction. However, for this naval division that will affect the situation in the Zhoushan Islands, the forces within Wu Yue have their own evil intentions.

The reason is that the pirates on the Zhoushan Islands are actually both businessmen and thieves, and all pirates must have a close connection with a certain force on the mainland. Some goods that are not suitable for the government to know are transferred through these islands. If the Mingzhou sailors are too strong, they will naturally stifle the living space of the Zhoushan pirates, which is contrary to the interests of the sea merchants.

Therefore, the Mingzhou Navy Division has an establishment of 5,000 people, and there are actually more than 3,000 soldiers, but they are limited by various constraints, but there are not many large ships suitable for fighting in the ocean. In the words of the officials of the three divisions in charge of finance, the cost of a large ship of 1,000 stones can build 10 ships of 300 stones, but the number of soldiers is less than three times, so it is better to build more small boats. In fact, the core reason is that there is no money.

And within the Mingzhou Navy, they are also deeply infiltrated by the sea merchants, and their enthusiasm for exterminating pirates is naturally not high.

In order to prevent the grass from startling the snake, the Mingzhou sailors set out, but they first went south, then turned east, and drew a big bend around the Zhoushan Islands. Then from the southeast, the Taihu Kou of Butterfly Island was raided.

Two thousand-stone ships, four six-hundred-stone ships, this is all the high-end combat power in Jia Heyu's hands, and dozens of two- and three-hundred-hundred-stone ships follow in three columns, looking majestic. But with such a lineup, if he really wants to confront the pirate forces hidden by several sea merchants in Wu Yueguo, Jia Heyu is also unsure.

This court discussion wants to suppress Taihu Kou, which also makes Jia Heyu a little incomprehensible. And the small action of the deputy capital deploying Tian Haomiao to suddenly die and leave some of the Tian family's children behind with various transfers also made Jia Hefu suspicious. It's just that Cao Peng, the capital eunuch, doesn't understand the war and blindly forces, and Jia Heyu is helpless. However, Jia Heyu didn't think it was too inappropriate, after all, Taihu Kou was certainly a dragon crossing the river on Taihu Lake, but when they first arrived on this sea, they didn't believe that they could learn without a teacher, and they could also be proficient in naval warfare.

Jia Heyu didn't know that his every move was under the control of others. When Jia and Yu were sailing on the sea, there were also some warships that set off from Changguo, Daishan, and Qushan Islands in twos and threes and headed for Sanheng Island to the west of Butterfly Island.

And on the ocean east of Bird and Flower Island, a huge fleet has been entrenched for many days. Bird and Flower Island is already the easternmost Lantau of the Sisheng Islands. Li Congyi's fleet stopped in the ocean east of Bird and Flower Island. There is at least three hours of sea route from Butterfly Island, which is a little farther, but on the ocean east of Butterfly Island, there are often merchant ships coming and going, and Li Congyi's fleet has more than ten large ships.

At this time, the sun is shining, and the waves on the ocean are not happy. A huge fleet of five thousand-stone ships and six large ships of more than 500 stones was in full swing at this time. Combat at sea is not as good as melee combat on the Yangtze River or Taihu Lake, which is dominated by jumping gangs, and the long-range bed crossbow is really the first combat weapon. In order not to be conspicuous on the Yangtze River, the Ningguo Army Water Battalion did not install combat equipment on weekdays, and after going to sea, the bed crossbow was lifted out of the cabin.

Under the guidance of Li Congyi, the bed crossbow produced by Xuanzhou Iron and Steel is actually a scorpion crossbow, which is a torsion crossbow. Torsion crossbows are characterized by their lightness, high power and small size, and at the same time easy to wind. Of course, only in terms of power, the Song army's three-bow bed crossbow is known as the eight-ox crossbow, which requires eight oxen to pull away, and the range can reach 1,000 steps, but the crossbow can also be placed on the city wall, cannot be moved, and the frequency of shooting is too low. Moreover, with a range of more than 1,000 steps, Li Congyi also has a counterweight trebuchet to greet him, and his power is even more impressive. However, the counterweight trebuchet needed to be specially modified to the deck before it could be installed, and this time it was not in time.

However, Li Congyi also prepared another epoch-making weapon, that is, the oil tank. Today, Xuanmei has successfully made coking coal, and the by-product is coke kerosene. The small jar made of Xuan porcelain, filled with three taels of coal tar, the total weight is not more than one catty, and then sealed with yellow mud, when using, only need to pull up the cloth strip at the sealing place, expose the small hole, and light the cloth strip with flint, after throwing it out, the can is splashed with broken oil, and the flame on the cloth strip ignites the coal tar.

On the one hand, Li Congyi wanted to fight a war of annihilation, wanting to establish his prestige in the waters of Zhoushan in a battle, and on the other hand, this was a battle at sea in Wuyue, and he did not think that it would make the Song army realize the damaging effect of the oil tank tactics on the morale of the heavy infantry group.

At this time, Li Congyi stood in the second-floor cabin of a thousand-stone ship, watching the ships on the sea shuttling back and forth, the sailors climbing up and down, constantly adjusting the sails, and the soldiers constantly practicing the use of bed crossbows. At this time, Kou Zishi came with the latest information.

Qian Hailu's judgment was that the Tian clan of Mingzhou wanted to rebel, or they would divide Changguo and surrender to Song, or they had already sent people to Bianliang.

The Tian clan of Mingzhou is also one of the six major maritime merchants of Wuyue. However, Tian's sea trade has been hit hard recently, and it has been stormy. The external reason was that the Japanese lords of Kyushu were also attacking each other, and the Japanese lords who traded with the Tian clan were defeated, and as a result, the Tian clan not only lost a batch of goods, but also lost several ships. The Tian clan wanted to open up new trade routes, and when they went north and were forced by the rest of the maritime merchant families, they set their sights on the south. As a result, there were several fights with pirates on the sea surface of Guangdong, and they suffered heavy losses. As a result, the original head of the Tian family was in a hurry, and he was killed.

The new head of the Tian family is none other than Tian Haomiao, the deputy capital of the Mingzhou Water Division. At this time, Tian's senior member in the court, Tian Haohan, a member of the Zhongshu House, was overshadowed by someone and made a big mistake, but he was caught by a group of imperial historians, and was dismissed by Qian Yu. Without Qian Yu's support for a while, Tian's family was in dire straits both internally and externally, and it was in urgent danger.

The so-called taking advantage of your illness to kill you, although each family has no connection, but with tacit understanding, they will take active action, wanting to turn Wu Yue maritime merchants into the five major before stopping. First of all, the Mingzhou Sailor was caught and sore and participated in a book, Tian Haomiao, the Mingzhou Sailor Division, was deployed into the deputy capital deployment, and then Qian Yu was encouraged to send Cao Peng as the capital supervisor, and these two people continued to weaken the Tian family's control over the Mingzhou Navy.

Wu Yue's six major maritime merchants, except for the Tian family, the other five families are all the big families where the eight capitals of Hangzhou were located, and the Mingzhou Tian family can be among them, and the biggest reliance is the Mingzhou sailor. With the Mingzhou Sailor as the Olympic aid, the Tian family stood tall in Mingzhou.

It's not that the Tian family hasn't thought about compromise, but everyone thinks that the Tian family is now a fish on a sticky board, and no one is willing to come forward to help.

When he saw that the Taihu Lake Sailor was completely annihilated by the Taihu Kou, Tian Haomiao also thought about it. This Wu will be finished sooner or later, why should my Tian clan be tossed to death on this broken ship?

Tian Haomiao was also ruthless, and immediately decided to drive the tiger and devour the wolf. opened the way with gold and silver, and finally bribed a few high-ranking officials who had originally had friendships, and kept writing to ask Mingzhou sailors to destroy Taihu Lake.

Tian's small actions are not unsuspecting. However, the Tian clan did not raise the flag of rebellion for a day, and everyone watched coldly for a day. As for the final level of trouble, everyone is too lazy to care about this idle matter. Anyway, with the power of the Tian family, how much waves can it set off? In order to prevent themselves from being burned, the major maritime merchants suspended their voyages to the sea, and strictly ordered the pirates to guard their camps. For a while, the waters of the Zhoushan Islands were noisy.

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In a box at the Hangzhou Hotel, Qian Weijun held a bottle of Jingtingshan in one hand and poured himself a drink.

Sun Bin sat opposite, but he endured it for a long time before he said: "Shizi, a bottle of this royal special wine is a hundred taels of silver, you need to drink it slowly." ”

Qian Weijun poured another glass, then looked at Sun Bin and smiled: "One, I spent money on this wine and this dish, I didn't eat and drink in vain, Sun shareholders can rest assured; Second, my bottle needs to be pretended, and the other one or two silver bottles are poured into the ordinary Jingting Mountain, and the shareholders are worried that I can't afford it. ”

Sun Bin's face froze, but he didn't think that Qian Weijun was also pretending like this, and he couldn't get a seizure when he was ridiculed, and he said after a while: "The unknown prince called me over, what happened?" ”

Qian Weijun said leisurely: "Recently, the East China Sea has not been peaceful, presumably the Sun family is also keeping an eye on it." If there is any movement, I would like you to send someone to inform me as soon as possible. ”

Sun Bin was silent.

I heard Qian Weijun say again: "This time the Mingzhou sailors are on the expedition, and there are many people who want to see jokes, so there is no shortage of me, right?" ”

"Jia Heyu can also be regarded as a general, even if the Mingzhou Sailor misses, then Taihu Kou Xu is not an opponent." Sun Bin replied.

Qian Weijun finally got impatient, "You are squeezing out the Tian family in every way, don't you want to force the Tian family to do it, so that the Tian family can be uprooted?" It's time to coax me! ”

Sun Bin couldn't help it: "Since the prince already knows, why do you want to ask me?" "He walked away.

Qian Weijun watched the box door being taken by Sun Bin's backhand, and shook non-stop, making people worry that it would fall. Just sighed, drank the wine in the glass, and was about to pour himself another glass, when he saw Qian Hailu push the door and walk in.

"If the eldest brother can't let go, why don't you go to your father and confess your mistake. You are always the eldest son of your father. Qian Hailu persuaded as she took away his wine bottle.

"What can't I put down? Why can't I let it go? Qian Weijun smiled bitterly. This Wu Yueguo's broken ship has long been stormy, some have jumped ship, and some are desperate to benefit themselves, how can anyone take care of this ship anymore? ”

Qian Hailu sat down opposite Qian Weijun, and said after a while: "If one day, my father and emperor will be a vassal to Song Natu, but the position of the head of the Qian family will be passed to Weizhi, will the eldest brother accept it?" "Qian Weizhi is the eldest son of Qian Yu's brother Qian Liang, but he is deeply loved by Qian Yu and entrusted with political affairs, but he is more like the real son of Wu Yue than Qian Weijun.

Qian Weijun was stunned, and the green tendons on his right hand holding the wine glass burst out, but he was silent.