Li Tianyang looks aggrieved on the surface, but in fact, he is extremely helpless in his heart.

What the old general Shen thought in his heart, Li Tianyang was naturally very clear, but as a veteran general who had to maintain a good relationship with the government and maintain a certain distance, and politely refused the old general, this kind of thing really made Li Tianyang very difficult.

"In the future, you'd better not get involved in a party like this eunuch, lest you really want to go to the officialdom, and you will be squeezed out by the people in the officialdom like Cao Yongyi, a shameless person." As a martial artist who was influenced by orthodox Confucianism, General Shen also had no good impression of eunuchs, so he kept telling Li Tianyang at this time, but it was also for Li Tianyang's good and worried that he would go astray.

"Don't worry, general, this kid also said casually in a hurry, and he would never do such a short-sighted thing." Li Tianyang was moved by the care of the old general in his heart, and replied again and again at the same time.

Subsequently, General Shen said again, complaining about Li Tianyang from beginning to end, and finally couldn't help but be curious, and asked Li Tianyang about the details of this military parade, especially the six Western-style foreign ships served in the Hongtang team, which were good things that even the old General Shen who had been fighting for decades was excited, and it made the old General Shen inquire about Li Tianyang's tone, hoping to share one or two ships for their Fujian naval division.

In this regard, Li Tianyang of course politely refused, the previous return of Magong Island free of charge had already made Li Tianyang's heart hurt so much, at this time, he also wanted him to donate two six powerful warships that they spent a lot of energy and material resources to build, how could it be that the old general Shen, an old man who had no real power and no interests, could be fooled with a few words.

Old General Shen didn't care much, he also knew that if a Western warship like this could fall into the hands of Li Tianyang and their Hongtang, it would definitely cost their team a lot of effort and material resources.

"Anyway, if the matter of Hongtang's acceptance of the recruitment team can be completed, won't these six warships also be in the pocket of our Daming Sailor at that time?" General Shen also had some calculations in his heart, Li Tianyang had far-reaching insights, and he was willing to spend a huge price to obtain advanced weapons from Westerners to arm himself, and his plan was naturally not small. This is much more powerful than the bigwigs in the court who are still shouting about the ancestral legal system and cannot enter the sea.

As a soldier who has dealt with the sea all his life, he has deeply studied the history of foreigners and their experiences, and he is convinced that the future of the sea will be no small compared to those who talk about the tiger's color change in the court. But it's a pity that now he is an old man who is dying, as a martial artist and has no influence in the court, and even his plan to pursue the development of Dayuan for many years has not made any progress so far.

Therefore, he began to win over Li Tianyang and his Hongtang, hoping that through the ambition of young people, the Ming Dynasty could share the dividends brought by the development of the sea.

After staying in the chicken coop port for a few days, the old general with regrets embarked on the return voyage in Li Tianyang's farewell.

Finally fooled the old General Shen, Li Tianyang's mood suddenly relaxed a little, facing the care of an old man who was digging out his heart and lungs, the pressure of Li Tianyang with guilt and ghost thoughts in his heart can be imagined.

Although he knew that the old general paid so much attention to them and also had his purpose, Li Tianyang was still very moved by the old general's efforts for them, in this era of learning literature and martial arts and selling them to the emperor's family, the old general thought that accepting Zhao'an was their best choice for Hong Tang, in fact, it was also the idea of the vast majority of people.

It's just that they don't understand that Li Tianyang, who has been in the future for hundreds of years, has no great ambitions in his heart, but he doesn't think that a good team must rely on the feudal emperor to survive, not to mention that this dynasty has not existed for many years in Li Tianyang's memory, so it is even more impossible for him to accept Zhao'an, and when the building is about to fall, they Hongtang will become a victim of the dynasty's hegemony.

At the same time, after Wu Daofu and his men approached the main island of the Yaeyama Islands for more than 50 miles, they finally had an opponent in front of them.

Although Wu Daofu was not surprised by the appearance of this opponent, he also attached great importance to it, because this opponent was not an ordinary pirate team, but a daimyo of the Tokugawa Shogunate.

As early as more than 10 years ago, the Japanese kingdom Kagoshima Tsu clan sent the general Kayama Hisataka to invade and capture Shuri, the royal capital of the Ryukyu Zhongshan Shoshi Dynasty, and captured more than 100 people including King Shoning to Kagoshima to be imprisoned, and it was not until three years later that the king of Shoning was forced to sign the "Fifteen Articles of Ingots", which recognized in writing the control of Satsuma and the five islands of Satsuma and at the same time put the five islands of Tsuyama under the direct jurisdiction of Samosa, and the king of Zhongshan, Shōnin and others were released.

Since then, the Ryukyu Islands have become the territory of the actual influence and control of the Japanese state, and now the Hongtang brigade is killing the generals with great vigour, no more than those rabble of pirates and rogues, and if the Samoto who came from the state violence agency could not learn the news in advance, then they would not be worthy of being called a prince.

Although the island occupied by Satsuma was to the south of the Ryukyu Islands, for the princes who had actually controlled the Ryukyu Kingdom for a few years, any matter related to the Ryukyu Kingdom was worth their attention.

Along the way, Hong Tang's hanging team swelled a few points, and many pirates who temporarily joined the fleet because they were afraid of Hong Tang's strength have now expanded from forty warships to more than fifty, and even the crew has increased by almost a thousand.

Now there are few sea ships that dare to sway in front of such a huge fleet, and there are few masterminds behind them.

In addition, the newly joined pirates took the initiative to guide Wu Daofu and them to the route and identify the opponent, and soon the identities of these ships following behind Hongtang's fleet were also known by Wu Daofu.

"It seems that the time has come for us to withdraw our troops." Along the way, Hongtang's fleet swept away the pirates in the itinerary like a devastating force, and suddenly Hongtang's territory extended from Huludao to the Ryukyu Islands for three or four hundred miles.

Although it is a pity that the Hongtang Brigade still has not experienced fierce battles, and several Western warships have not been able to sharpen themselves, but for the order given by Li Tianyang to Wu Daofu, it will indeed take Hongtang a long time to sort out such a huge piece of territory.

Wu Daofu knows very well the truth that he can't eat hot tofu in a hurry, plus the opponent he is about to face now will be a country's regular army, if Wu Daofu is not worried at all, it must be fake. Over the years, Hongtang has dominated the territory of the South China Sea, but most of the opponents he faced are pirates, except for a few battles with the Dutch, other opponents are honestly quite different from their Hongtang.

But it is precisely because of the battle with the Dutch that Wu Daofu and the others know that there are people outside the world, and maybe they are invincible and invincible in killing pirates, but for the regular beating of the national army, maybe they are really immature and honest, so Wu Daofu decided to take a step back before he completely explored the strength of the other party.

Not to mention that with the elongation of the army line, Wu Daofu's logistics and supply work has become more and more difficult, and in the case of smooth sailing, it is necessary to transport a batch of materials from Jilong Port for at least more than 20 days, and the pressure on Wu Daofu and them is not small. Especially after being coerced with so many pirates, Wu Daofu couldn't help but put logistics and supply as the top priority.

However, at this time, Wu Daofu and the others wanted to retreat, as if it was already a little late, and a group of more than 100 warships composed of King Shangning, the king of the Zhongshan Kingdom of the Ryukyus, and the general of Satsuma, Kayama Hisada, had already approached Wu Daofu's Hongtang fleet.

"Yo, I said why didn't I see those bold pirates all the way, I feel that they came here to take refuge in this Japanese people!" Listening to the pirate guides around him carefully identify the old acquaintances of many pirates from more than a hundred warships, Wu Daofu couldn't help but laugh at himself pointing to some of the vaguely recognizable ships.

Most of these sea ships identified by Wu Daofu were a few groups of pirates who harassed Huludao and Jilong Harbor at the beginning, and Wu Daofu had the intention of eradicating them in one fell swoop this time, but the people had already led the team to escape before Wu Daofu and them arrived, leaving Wu Daofu with only a few empty islands and cottages in depression.

Unexpectedly, today, he saw them in the fleet of the Japanese and the Ryukyu Kingdom, but it also made Wu Daofu feel surprised and happy.

Although they don't know much about the Ryukyu Kingdom and the details of this Satsuma, He Yong and Changsheng have paid some attention to these potential targets in their trade with the Japanese Kingdom in recent years, and Wu Daofu and the others are not ignorant of them.

Subject to the relationship between the Japanese and Samosa, to be honest, the army of the Ryukyu Kingdom in recent years is just an ornament, and its actual combat effectiveness is not worth mentioning, because no matter how stupid the Japanese are, it is impossible for the Ryukyuan people to redevelop an army that can fight against them.

Therefore, in this fleet of more than 100 sea ships, most of the sea ships are composed of warships of the Japanese people, as well as those pirates who are proud that they can't fight against Hongtang alone, but they are reluctant to resist the prosperous route of the Japanese Kingdom-Daming.

Although the number of warships in the opponent's fleet was nearly twice that of Hongtang's fleet, Wu Daofu didn't want to retreat at this time, but he was ready to stay and fight with this fleet!!

Three chapters combined into two chapters, each with 3,000 words!!

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