Since Xiao Ming has made up his mind, he needs to mobilize all, and the warship has brought nearly 5,000 sailors to Buyong, and Xiao Ming calls them marines! This is a team of soldiers who are basically selected from the Tiger Guards, with very good combat skills and water nature, and they will be tasked with seizing islands and land forces.

Xiao Ming is ready to conquer the countries of the South Seas, but the ultimate goal is to target the pirates entrenched in various narrow waterways and shipping routes, but it is something that Xiao Ming is happy to do to be able to deal with the various national forces in the South Seas, otherwise in the near future, his foreign overseas trade will be a very difficult thing to go smoothly.

And under the South Seas is Xiao Ming's biggest strategic preparation for his merchant ships to go to the sea, and his goal is to control all the straits, for the fleet of more than 40 warships he has built, Xiao Ming feels that it is far from enough.

Before carrying out this operation, there is still a lot of preparation work to convince the old monk Yilu to go to sea with him, which must be solved, but fortunately, Xiao Ming has reached a consensus with him last time, and the Buddha treasure is an excuse to help him, and Yilu finally knows Xiao Ming's true identity.

In order to stabilize the righteous law, Xiao Ming also gave him a gift, which was completed by Goryeo craftsmen after only a few years, the entire Tripitaka printed in Khitan and Chinese bilingually, a total of 63 volumes, that is a kind of metal movable type printing scroll, not only the text is clear but also the paper is also very particular, the whole book is also equipped with a variety of exquisite illustrations 407 pieces! It can be described as a rare print of Buddhist classics.

The old monk was naturally grateful, and he also felt that it was incumbent on him to help Xiao Ming eliminate the pirates, so Yilu, a living sea map, successfully became an important figure in Xiao Ming's expedition to the South Seas! But he really wanted Yilu to draw that chart for him again, and Yilu agreed.

Guangzhou has now become a huge naval base, in order to deal with the Nanyang countries, Xiao Ming needs to make a detailed battle plan, and Guangzhou is his logistics supply base, at this point, Xiao Ming can use his official status as a consolation envoy from all over the world to make the entire Guangzhou officialdom obey.

As a huge fleet, it is not enough to rely on more than 40 warships, in order to bring more necessary materials and equipment, Xiao Ming has requisitioned dozens of merchant ships, of course, with the current situation that there are not many hybrid ships in the South China Sea, he can only requisition those sea ships that are completely sail-powered.

So there has always been a fleet of more than 100 large and small ships finally formed, such a fleet is not to mention in the Great Song Dynasty, even in the world, it is also the largest in the world, but also steam-powered ships, just the coal burned, it needs to be transferred from Meizhou and other places dozens of tons! Not to mention the other supplies needed.

The navy is Xiao Ming's private army, but it can use the food and salary of the Great Song Dynasty officials, but some special things need Xiao Ming to buy at his own expense, such as some special spare parts, canvases, ropes, and floating rings and lifeboats that are processed locally.

This time, among the people who followed Xiao Ming's expedition to Nanyang, there were many newcomers, but as his artillery commander, Qian Baguang was still dead-faced, and then there were two brothers, Zhang Bofen and Zhang Zhongxiong, who trained sailors for him in Weihai, and then there was a talent in water warfare that Xiao Ming had recently promoted, this person was named Ji Tong!

Ji Tong was originally an apprentice of the Hongshan people, and he only knew a lot about shipbuilding and ships, but he actually liked to be a soldier very much, because his father Ji Cong was an officer of the Great Song Dynasty Naval Division, and he was very interested in sea charts and naval operations.

In the next few training and drills, Ji Tong's talent gradually appeared, and the sailor's combat method practiced according to the tactics and steps he studied may be the only naval warfare method at that time! So Xiao Ming directly promoted him to be the chief of staff of his naval fleet! The official positions are Bingyoshiro and Sentoshi War.

Although there are soldiers and generals, but of course the battle is still under the command of Xiao Ming, due to the logistics of the early stage of military supplies are very complicated, which also delays the time of using troops in Nanyang, and also delays Xiao Ming's time, he only now knows that there is a lack of personnel around him who can help him manage logistics, so he began to miss Wu Yong.

Anyway, the assembly of the entire fleet and the preparation of materials were finally completed, and after setting a specific departure date, Xiao Ming went to invite Master Yi to the ship, and when he saw that Xiao Ming was on a strange big ship, Yilu couldn't help but sigh, "The whole world is indeed different!" ”

The date of departure arrived, the day was well chosen, the weather was unusually fine, cloudless, the whole fleet anchored and left the port, with the sound of a whistle, the big metal pipes on the backs of the big ships suddenly emitted thick black smoke, and sailed away from the port of Guangzhou in the surprised eyes of the locals.

The fleet went all the way south, caught up with the sailing ship that went to sea in advance to transport supplies for the fleet, and after converging, they formed a formation together and drove south, according to the map drawn by Yilu for him, Xiao Ming's destination this time was Palembang! This is the largest port in the South Seas and the capital of Sriwijayaya.

Sriwijaya is still ruled by the Charenta dynasty founded by the original Charente family in East Java, but their birthplace Java is now occupied by the Shalients and gradually expelled from the Shalients, but the Ishana kingdom established by Java has been hit by the Alenga kingdom that emerged in East Java.

These kingdoms eventually submitted completely to the new Koshari kingdom, and at the same time there was a new Sukhothai dynasty rising in the northern ports of the Malay Peninsula, and the princely states and kingdoms were basically in a state of chaos, and Mahayana Buddhism flourished here, but it could not stop the ambition and greed of the people.

Why didn't Xiao Ming go directly to Mayi Island in the Philippines and directly threaten Ma Ge's base camp? That was Xiao Ming's consideration of the complex relationship between Ma Ge and the entire South Sea countries of the Malay Peninsula, just imagine that a pirate can continue to grow and develop in such an archipelago area, which is inseparable from the calmness of the various countries in this place, which shows that Ma Ge is inextricably linked with them.

Therefore, Xiao Ming wants to cut off the foundation of Ma Ge's reliance on the entire South Sea, and then make the final blow to Ma Ge on Ma Yi Island, and his fleet is already fully capable of implementing this strategic plan in terms of numbers!

In fact, the routes in this part of the South China Sea are very busy, in ancient times, all ships powered by a sail, due to their own reasons, they all had to find the nearest route on the sea to sail, and even they would always sail close to the coastline, in order to save the loss of ship power and materials.

Along the way, Xiao Ming will let go of any merchant ships that encounter passing ships and ships that go north to the Great Song Dynasty in China, but there are also some foreign merchant ships that go to Mayi and the Ryukyu Islands, which will be directly detained by Xiao Ming, and the size of his fleet is too large, and it is impossible not to expose the target collection, so Xiao Ming came with a blatant idea.

After less than three days of sailing, the fleet began to blockade the entire perimeter of Palembang within a nautical mile, all ships were allowed to enter and leave, and all ships that disobeyed the order were sunk.

There must be a negotiation process before the fight, the Charliente Kingdom does not have too many troops in the entire Palembang, and they use some primitive weapons and bows and arrows, but they still have some of their own sailors, but judging from the assembled state, Qian Baguang laughed out with a snort.

"My lord! , their ships of the South China Sea barbarians are also called warships? ”

It really can't be called a warship, the Charente Kingdom controls the Sriwijaya, although the maritime trade is developed, but their own shipbuilding skills are very primitive, and they can build larger ships for combat on the basis of the original fishing boats, even less than one-tenth of the Xiao Ming Jiaolong.

Such a ship obviously can't compete with the fleet led by Xiao Ming, this time Xiao Ming was also holding on to test the entire fleet and train people, but he didn't expect that the opponent would be so weak, so he couldn't fight, and he couldn't fight.

Although the two sides entered the wartime, Xiao Ming did not order an attack, but asked some local merchant ships to bring a message to the defenders here, that is, to tell the other party that the Great Song Naval Division of the Celestial Dynasty came to attack the crime, so that they must hand over all the pirates, and ensure that there will be no more trouble with the merchant ships of the Great Song Kingdom in the future.

The other party finally sent a messenger to come, Xiao Ming didn't want to see it, but after thinking about Yilu's feelings, he still decided to meet the messenger, because the chart that Yilu gave him had not yet been drawn, and if he fought now, it would be easy for the old monk to feel disgusted.

The envoy was a bearded man, claiming that Sri Buddha had been friendly with the Middle Earth Dynasty for generations, why did the sword soldiers meet today, and the interpreter said the translated words to Xiao Ming, Xiao Ming told him that although Sri Buddha had sent an envoy to pay tribute to the Shang Kingdom, he was not a subject country of China, and there were many things that colluded with pirates to rob the merchant ships of the Great Song Dynasty.

In fact, the Three Buddhas sent envoys to the imperial court in the five years of Chunxi in the Great Song Dynasty, and they had sent envoys more than 30 times from the Tang Dynasty to the Great Song Dynasty, and the Chinese civilization used Chinese characters, which means that Chinese civilization had a great influence on them, but most of the country's income has always relied on the taxes of maritime trade and foreign plunder, and has never stopped the intrusion of the ships of the Great Song Dynasty.

By contrast, their sea raids were even more profitable, and their ports were stocked with local and Chinese, Indian, and Arab produce. This situation changed after the envoy of the Great Song Dynasty, and at the same time, the interaction between the merchants and monks of the two countries increased considerably, and it was at that time that Yilu went to the Three Buddhas to stay for a few years.

So Xiao Ming reprimanded them for colluding with pirates and robbing merchant ships to and from the Great Song Dynasty, it was not without purpose, the envoy sneered and left, he felt that Xiao Ming's words were too full behind him, their king was the "dragon spirit" chosen by heaven, how could Sri Buddha be coerced by others and give up more than half of his wealth and income?

Then there is nothing to say, after Xiao Ming sent him away, he ordered the fleet to approach Palembang and prepare to fight, at this time Sri Buddha first organized an attack, wanting to burn a few Xiao Ming's warships, but how could a small boat like him withstand the baptism of artillery fire, a few cannons down, the waves set off were enough to capsize their ships.

After solving this kind of harassment, Xiao Ming immediately ordered the warships to be placed in an array on the sea, ten warships on each floor, and the guns on one side were all facing the port, such an array had four layers, end to end, after a burst of guns, the next array fired, and the warships were fired in rotation with the guns of the two ships.

With an order, the sea was suddenly covered in white smoke, and with the shaking of the warship, all the artillery under the command of Qian Baguang opened fire together, and the sound was simply earth-shattering!