And this time, the more than 50 warships newly returned from Mingshan Island, except for Xu Hai's ship "Mingshan" and Zheng Sihai's "Flying Tiger", the other ships were all less than 1,000 materials, and most of them were small ships of 400 to 600 materials. In this way, the Song army formed a huge fleet of more than 130 ships to attack Zanglong Island.

The wind roars and the waves are like flying. This was the largest number of warships dispatched since Li Gongzuo led the naval division to Quang Nam. Even Gu Xueping stood at the bow of the boat and exclaimed: "It's so spectacular." ”

This time, Yue Lin, Zhao Ruyu, and Gao Zhen were still left in Guangzhou. Zhao Qianru, Chen Liang, Wu Xi, Tie Chenglin, Gu Leiping and others still went out with the fleet. Xu Hai was also afraid of arousing suspicion, so he handed over all his fleet to his younger brother Xu Jiang to lead, and he and his wife Ji Xiangqiong also followed Yang Yan on the Shenzhou. Since his surrender, he has been very low-key, but his wife Ji Xiangqiong has visited Zhao Qianru a few times. Ji Xiangqiong was a popular prostitute second only to Yan Rui when she was also a prostitute in Yangzhou, and she was proficient in piano, chess, calligraphy and painting, reading words and songs, and she was also good at seeing and talking. After Zhao Qianru was in Guangnan, there was a lack of such a female companion around her, so she was quite speculative, even on the boat, the two often chatted alone in the same room.

After two days of travel, seeing that it was approaching Hidden Dragon Island, Yang Yan walked into the handsome cabin, only to see Li Gongzuo lying on the table and drawing on a piece of paper. Yang Yan couldn't help but smile and said, "Is it good for Li to be a Danqing?" ”

Li Gongzuo saw that it was Yang Yan who came in, put down the pen in his hand, and said: "Let the adults see and laugh, it's just a martial artist below, what kind of danqing will be there, but he is just drawing a sea chart." ”

"Charts?" When Yang Yan heard this, he was quite interested and walked to the table to watch. Li Gongzuo said: "This is a habit in the next place, every time you go to a sea area, you must write down the water lines, islands, reefs, etc., and draw detailed charts after the war for future use." He pointed to a large red-lacquered cabinet behind him and said, "All the things hidden in this cabinet are the charts drawn by my father and my family." There are three sets in total, one set for me here, one set for my father's ship, and one set for the coastal envoy in Haizhou. ”

Yang Yan nodded, he naturally knew the important role of maps in the war, and said, "Commander Li, your father and son are really caring people. ”

Li Gongzuo took out a chart from the cabinet again, put it on the table, and said: "Your Excellency, please see, this is the chart drawn by the sea from Haizhou to Shandong in the fourth year of the Gandao (1168) when he received the expedition of the adults in Dengzhou. ”

Yang Yan looked at the sea chart, and sure enough, the coast, islands, and terrain along the way were all drawn in great detail. Li Gongzuo said with a smile: "In the future, if the Great Song Dynasty is on the Northern Expedition, dispatches troops from Jianghuai, and goes straight to the Central Plains, the Jin soldiers will definitely deploy Chen Chong's troops in the Tokyo area, and the Shandong and Hebei areas will definitely be empty." With this chart, the imperial court can send another fleet to carry tens of thousands of soldiers along the coast to the north, still in the Dengzhou area along the coast, can attack Shandong, and then wave troops directly at the central capital, then Shandong, the Central Plains, Hebei and other places can all go down in one drum. ”

Yang Yan nodded and said, "This is an easy ......" Suddenly remembered something, his face changed, and said: "Li Tongzhi, do you know where Jinzhou is?"

Li Gongzuo pointed to the map and said: "Jinzhou is here, but it is too deep in the Golden Realm, and it is not suitable to be a place to step on the shore, so it is still in the ......" Li Gongzuo said as he spoke, and suddenly found that Yang Yan's face had changed greatly, and he couldn't help but say: "My lord, is there something wrong with Jinzhou?" ”

Yang Yan said: "It's not good, so that's the case." The Jin people will definitely attack the Great Song Dynasty from the sea. ”

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"How could the Jin people attack the Great Song Dynasty from the sea?" After listening to Yang Yan's words, everyone was stunned. Chen Liang couldn't help but ask at that time.

Yang Yan said: "I used to feel that something was wrong, first, if the Jin Kingdom intended to invade the south, then it would inevitably try its best to conceal it and surprise it, how could it be known in advance?" Second, Wan Yan Yong is not a mediocre king, how could he suddenly think of Mount Tai Feng Chan, third, Wan Yan Changzhi is one of the few capable generals in the Jin country, if the Jin army invades the south, he will definitely take on a heavy responsibility, how can he let Jinzhou build a dragon ship for Wan Yan Yong? Now it seems that there is only one explanation that makes it clear, the real goal of the Jin people is actually to march from the sea to bypass Jianghuai and directly attack Lin'an. Everything else is just a bluff and a cover-up. Wanyan Changzhi was not building a dragon ship for Wanyan Yongjian in Jinzhou, but building a warship and preparing to attack the Great Song Dynasty. ”

After he finished speaking, everyone else was stunned, and they had to admit that what Yang Yan said made sense. But Li Gongzuo still didn't believe it, and said: "My lord, the Jin people have always been bad at water warfare, I'm afraid they wouldn't have thought of attacking the Great Song Dynasty from the sea." ”

Yang Yan shook his head and said: "It is precisely because everyone thinks like this that the Jin people are even more surprisingly victorious when they do this." And others may not think of it, but Wan Yan Changyi must be able to think about it, not to mention that when you led the fleet to meet our expedition in Dengzhou, you just gave him a hint. Although the Jin people are not good at sailing, it does not mean that the Jin people will never sail the boat, not to mention the coastal areas of Shandong and Hebei, all the Han people who can sail the boat, with these Han people, the Jin people are not difficult to learn to sail the boat. ”

He paused for a moment, and then said: "What's more, in order to pacify Guangnan this time, Haizhou's naval army brought half of it, so that the defense of the Jianghuai area was greatly weakened, and it was the time when the Jin people could take advantage of the situation." At this time, it was too coincidental that the news that the Jin people were preparing to invade the south suddenly appeared. Once the Jin people kick the shore along the coast in the Lin'an area, it will inevitably cause turmoil in the Lin'an government and the opposition, and they will inevitably urgently recruit the Jianghuai defenders to withdraw and defend Lin'an. In this way, the Jianghuai defense line will be lost, and the Lin'an will be lost, and the Great Song Dynasty may be in danger of losing the country. ”

What he said made everyone's hearts sink deeply. Zhao Qianru was convinced of his words and said, "So what should I do now?" ”

Yang Yan said: "Don't hesitate, I will immediately report to the imperial court, strengthen the coastal guards, and prevent the sailors of the Jin State from attacking the Great Song Dynasty from the sea." He turned his head to Chen Liang and said, "Brother Tongfu, please immediately write a recital according to what I just meant." ”

Chen Liang didn't dare to slack off, took the pen and paper, and waved it. Yang Yan read it, immediately stamped his big seal, and then ordered the clipper to take it back to Guangzhou and hand it to Yue Lin, so that he could immediately send it back to Lin'an with eight hundred miles of expedited. But in my heart I was silently praying, hoping that it would be too late.