Chapter 1196: We Were Wronged
In addition to the main warships of the Tang Dynasty, there are also a large number of transport ships of about 1,200 tons, which are currently popular near the port of Guangzhou.
On this fleet, more than 15,000 men gathered on it.
"General Li, shall we go directly to the shore?" Admiral Qiu Feng asked.
"Is this the largest port in the Queen's Kingdom?" Li Xiaogong asked.
"Yes, this is the largest port in the Queen's Kingdom, because the Real Wax Country has always traded with them, and a lot of the grain sold by the Real Wax to our country comes from the Queen's Kingdom, so the Queen's port has also been greatly developed, and the scale here is at least three times larger than a few years ago, and our ships can be docked directly."
"Then prepare to land." Li Xiaogong took a deep breath and said in a deep voice.
"Are we going to attack directly, or are we going to shout for them to surrender?" Qiu Feng hesitated and asked.
Li Xiaogong pondered for a while, he was thinking about this problem on the way here, it is naturally okay to attack directly, but as long as it is a war, it will inevitably kill people, and once it dies, it will clash with the local people.
Although this kind of conflict is not difficult to resolve, after all, it is impossible to really not cause any casualties, which is unrealistic.
But if the Queen's Kingdom could be taken with fewer casualties, it would be better.
This is where the constraints of being a great power come in, especially when you are ready to rule this land, and if you don't want to rule, you just want to defeat the enemy, then it doesn't matter.
And now, the territory of the Queen's Kingdom and the Piao Kingdom, including the real wax, is actually quite important to the Tang Dynasty, although they are already located in the hinterland of the Tang Dynasty, but these places are extremely good grain producing areas, and the rice that crops three times a year is for the Tang Dynasty, if the residents here are like the people of the Tang Dynasty, and do their best to reclaim the land, their grain production can at least increase several times compared to now.
This is not what Li Xiaogong said, but based on the trade between Datang and Zhen Wax in the past two years, when Datang did not start trade with Zhen Wax and other countries, the annual grain production of Zhen Wax was not too much, or that food was not a problem for their population at all.
Their native people don't grow too much food at all, because too much growing food will require more taxes, and for the people, it's enough to eat, anyway, there is no need to worry about natural disasters here, no need to worry about natural disasters such as drought, and they don't care about three crops a year, so they don't care at all.
The land is any kind of land, and there is no such thing as intensive cultivation.
But after the trade with the Tang Dynasty, there was a demand for food, and the real wax royal family began to forcibly require local residents to grow a large amount of grain, and in the past two years of trade with the real wax, the grain provided by the real wax has more than tripled compared to the first year, and the price of grain has fallen further.
Therefore, this place is very important to Datang.
"Forcibly dock at the dock, if someone attacks, fight back directly, if no one attacks, send soldiers to quickly occupy the dock, and then surround the entire city as quickly as possible, shout to the city, and make them surrender." Lee Hyo-gong quickly made a decision.
"Yes!" Qiu Feng decisively agreed.
The port of the Queen's Kingdom could dock three capital warships, so after determining the three docking ships, Datang's fleet quickly began to approach each other, and the soldiers transported by other ships quickly began to board these three ships.
If you don't take into account the needs of long-term transportation, just a short-distance transportation within a few hours, one ship does not count the naval soldiers who operate the ship, and three thousand soldiers can accommodate it!
The three battleships were fully loaded with 10,000 soldiers, and when they were ready, they began to approach directly with full sails.
Two hours later, in the port of the Queen's Kingdom, everyone found a huge fleet approaching the sea, and the people on the entire port didn't take it seriously at first, but when the whole fleet gradually began to approach the port, the crowd in the port finally stirred.
When the fleet was still more than a thousand meters away from the port dock, the person on the dock who noticed that something was wrong finally notified the official in charge of the dock.
Buali was stunned as he watched the already huge ships approaching the dock, several of which were already dragging each other's long, thick cables towards the dock.
At this moment, the two or three hundred defenders gathered on the dock were nervous, they still had bows and arrows in their hands, but they didn't know what to do at the moment.
Because above these ships, a huge red Datang flag is fluttering in the wind!
"County Order, are we attacking?" A military general standing next to Buali swallowed his spit and asked.
"Attack, attack your mother! This is Datang! Do you attack one by one? Do you see the soldiers on that deck? What to attack? Are there hundreds of people around us? Buali turned around and cursed the local foul language.
Offensive? You don't think I'm dying fast enough, are you?
"Then we're going to do nothing?"
"If you want to attack, you can give the order." Buali turned his head and glared at him viciously.
"This ...... Be. The general hesitated for a moment but didn't make a move, because he didn't want to die either.
The ships close to the pier have begun to lower their sails, the mainsail has long been retracted, and the spinnaker in the bow is slowing down in the reverse wind, and when the big ship is still dozens of meters away from the pier, it has almost stopped, just moving with the waves, but it has already dragged the cable to the shore of the small boat, and dozens of soldiers have come down from each small boat, and some special pulleys are fastening some special pulleys to the huge wooden stakes near the pier, and then they begin to pull quickly.
I don't know if I found that they didn't seem to have any intention of making a move, and the other party just reserved a few people to be on guard.
Buali silently watched as the three huge ships of the other side moved almost laterally, leaning against the dock.
After docking, a special iron ladder was lowered directly from the ship, and countless soldiers swarmed down from the ship.
Looking at these soldiers, Buali knew that the comers were not good.
But even if you know it's not good, what can you do?
The other laborers on the dock have all fled, and some merchants who have shops near the dock port have also closed their shops, and no one is stupid, everyone can see that something is wrong.
And what made Buali's scalp a little tingling was that after these soldiers came down, they only reserved more than a hundred people to supervise them, and the rest of the soldiers simply ignored them and quickly began to control the entire dock port in all directions.
Especially when the neatly lined up ranks of heavily armed soldiers quickly drove in all directions, it made Buali's scalp tingle.
The fact that there were so many soldiers, and that they went inland without concealment, says a lot.