Chapter 605: I Just Want to Talk About Business and Don't Want to Destroy the Country (Part I)
After receiving Li Ke's order, Liu Yilong immediately led his army to land first, and when the sky was dark, Liu Yilong had already led his army to control the entire small port.
Then all the large ships began to dock, and soon, 1,000 navy was left to control the harbor, 1,000 navy to guard the ships, and the remaining 5,000 navy was ready to go straight to Xianglin City.
And Li Ke, who had just landed, also received the latest information about the battle near Xianglin City sent by Yuelai Commercial Bank.
"Liu Yilong." Li Ke looked at this small port, looked at the information in his hand again, thought about it and then spoke.
"The last general!"
"You lead 5,000 navy to attack Xianglin City only, I have given you the map near Xianglin City, ambush behind the hill south of Xianglin City, I will take a boat to appear from the sea outside Xianglin City, and lead 500 troops to meet the king of Linyi."
"If they want to do it, then it's time for you to do it." Li Ke said.
"Your Highness, the minister does not agree, let alone a Linyi, even if the entire Lingnan Road is inferior to you, if your safety is threatened in any way, even if the minister dies, he will not be able to replace a single hair of your hair." Liu Yilong said in a deep voice.
"If Your Highness wants to take down Linyi, the minister will directly lead the army to attack, then with the strength of Linyi, give the minister ten days, and the minister will knock down the entire Linyi and hand it over to His Highness." Liu Yilong said with a serious face.
"This is an order, not a consultation. Lin Yi is not strong, but to destroy a country, the most important thing is not whether we can fight it, but to stand on the moral high ground and point fingers at others, even if this moral high ground is artificially created, we have to do it, understand? Li Ke said with a calm face.
"Minister...... Yes, sir! Liu Yilong's face was full of confusion, but the military order was like a mountain, and he couldn't change His Highness's order.
"General Huo, the safety of His Highness will be handed over to you." Liu Yilong took a deep breath, turned to Huo Gang next to him, and solemnly saluted him.
"General Liu, please rest assured, no one can hurt His Highness before I die in battle!" Huo Gang also saluted Liu Yilong with a serious face.
Liu Yilong stopped talking nonsense, simply saluted Li Ke, and then quickly led the army away.
Li Ke also turned around and boarded the ship, but this time Li Ke did not take the King of Qin, but changed to a smaller ship and went straight to the outside of Xianglin City, and the speed was not the fastest.
Early in the morning, Shi Lang, who was sleeping soundly, was suddenly shaken and woke up, "Shi Lang, hurry, there is a fleet outside the city, it seems to be the fleet of Datang." The faces of the soldiers who woke up Shi Lang were full of joy.
"Huh? I'll take a look. Shi Lang was stunned, and he quickly followed the soldier to the top of the wooden watchtower.
When Shi Lang boarded the watchtower, he immediately saw a huge ship appearing on the sea in the distance, which was bigger than any ship Shi Lang had ever seen, and the previous Datang merchant ships were not so big!
This is definitely the ship of the Great Tang Dynasty! Because there is no other country in the world that can build such a huge ship! What's more, although the distance is very far, the flag with black letters on a red background on the ship is unusually conspicuous!
Although the distance was too far to see the words on it, he understood that it was definitely the national flag of Datang! It is the national flag of the Tang Dynasty mentioned by His Royal Highness King Qin!
Shi Lang had been to the border between Linyi and Datang, and he had seen that flag at the border!
"Shi Lang, should we hang up our Datang flag." The soldiers who came with him immediately spoke excitedly.
"Nope." Shi Lang shook his head very dryly.
"Why?" The soldier was stunned for a moment.
"This fleet was not called by our people, think about it, our talent has been away for less than two days, and we may not even arrive at the border at this time, how can we lead the army of the Tang Dynasty to come? This fleet should just arrive at the right time, whether there are soldiers on it is unknown, if we erect the banner of Datang at this time, then we are an inexplicable enemy to Datang. ”
"And we didn't catch Fan Yanzhi, if we hadn't caught some of his family, he would have been attacking desperately now, if we put up the flag first, Fan Yanzhi would have enough excuse to question Datang, at that time, for the sake of face, Datang's border guards had to report to the court first."
"And we can't afford to delay this time! We can only wait until the Tang army's army actually arrives outside Xianglin City, then we can erect the Datang national flag, because at that time, since the Datang army is here, it means that the Datang has allowed us to belong. Otherwise, Datang's army would not have come. Shi Lang said with a calm face.
"Good!" The soldier hesitated, but did not continue to ask.
However, the arrival of the Tang fleet made the morale of the rebel army led by Shi Lang, which was a little demoralized yesterday, rise again.
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Li Ke looked at the city in the distance, a little speechless, this was completely different from the king he imagined, the entire wall of Xianglin City was actually made of wood...... The city where the king dwelt was a fence of trees. (From "Old Tang Book")
Looking at the fence made of thick logs, Li Ke didn't know how to comment, this thing ...... Use a stone thrower to still ignite the oil and ignite it directly...... Is this wall a ghost? So this is the royal capital?
This reminded Li Ke of the wooden fence of the Empire era that he played with in high school in his previous life, at most it was stronger than that.
It is estimated that the other party dug a moat outside in order to place a fire attack...... Forehead Creek, anyway, Li Ke thinks that this thing can't be called a moat, a thing that a stronger horse can jump over directly, do you call this a river?
"Landing in." Li Ke waved his hand directly.
There is also a river outside the city of Xianglin that flows into the sea, but this river first formed a large lake with a large area in it, because there is a narrow natural embankment composed of mountains and rocks between the lake and the sea, which makes this a natural harbor, but because the draft depth of the estuary is too low, it can only pass fishing boats, but the adjacent Da Nang can be used as a large port.
Soon the boats kept being lowered, and 500 guards landed first, and finally Li Ke boarded the boat and landed on land.
The boat drove directly into this inner lake, and then landed ashore, Li Ke and their were located in the southeast of Xianglin City, and the main force of the army of Lin Yi was located in the southwest of Xianglin City, in addition, several other directions of Xianglin City had been surrounded.
The sudden appearance of the Tang fleet not only attracted the attention of the rebels in the city, but also Fan Yanzhi was also stunned, he didn't expect such a large Tang fleet to arrive here at this time.
The point is, those soldiers who got off the ship!