Huaxia is indeed a vast land, coming back from Jiangnan, the sea immediately felt a chill, this went around Jiangnan a big circle, and actually spared it back

Fortunately, I went completely near the sea, you must know that this accident happened to be the main artery of the Ming Empire, the starting point of the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal in Hangzhou and the end of the section of Dezhou, the military grain transferred from the north to the south, and the grain transported from the south to the north.

However, this can't be changed, a canal, the court doesn't know how many black hands are making money in it, knowing that it is a bad government, but no imperial historian dares to stir up trouble on the canal, and the offended interest groups are too big.

This is also the sadness of the late dynasty, with the accumulation of time, these dark unspoken rules have precipitated more and more closely, and top-down reforms often face huge resistance, and it is extremely easy to repeat, just like Zhang Juzheng's new deal, as soon as people die, the policy is immediately revoked, and there are more and more shortcomings.

This seems to be the curse of Chinese history, every time they fall into this strange circle, and Mao Jue and Dongjiang are also struggling in this difficult last days.

After finishing up the thieves in the East China Sea, Mao Jue hurried to the north as soon as possible, and did not stop supplying along the coast of Xuzhou at all, and rushed directly to Shandong, which was already the sixth day of going north.

"This should be on the surface of the sea in Shandong!"

Early in the morning, there is a fog on the sea, this ancient navigation is really difficult, there is no GPS, with the current, I don't know where I floated, holding the telescope, Mao Jue was a little anxious with his small cannon barrel and watched left and right, but unfortunately, even if there was this thing, he didn't see out dozens of meters, and he could vaguely see the Hongtu sail battleship in front of him.

Putting down the binoculars, Mao Jue said a little anxiously.

"Don't panic, general, our position should have entered the waters of Shandong."

Fortunately, there are many old shipwrights borrowed from Phi Dao, and a nautical chart is the GPS of this era, with a compass on it, and the flag is still calculating the speed, and the captain of other galleons records the itinerary every day, and only the Black Pearl is the first mate to calculate.

Looking at the charts, this fifty-year-old old who had participated in the Wanli Korean War under Deng Zilong, the chief soldier of the Ming Army's naval division, said Cheng Zhu in his chest.

Looking at the map, it is indeed not far from the tip of the Shandong Peninsula, but even so, Mao Jue is still anxious, he has clearly received the news before departure, Dongjiang is fighting, on the one hand, he doesn't know how the losses of his own Iron Righteous Army are, on the other hand, these Liao people are still their own reserve soldiers, once there are too many casualties, he is also uncomfortable, the least distressed is Sun Yuanhua, but this old official is still talented, if he is gone, Dongjiang is even more uncomfortable.

Thinking about it, the battleship in front suddenly stopped, and the flag soldiers on the bird's nest waved the flag desperately, which was a signal that there was an unknown ship ahead, and immediately the sailors of the entire Black Pearl were also busy.

"Sail down! Hurry up! You idiot! Go to the front, untie the third cable, turn right in front of the jib......"

Holding the rudder with both hands, the old mate scolded with the unique roughness of a sailor, and in his shouting, the second and third officers also smoothly carried this behemoth, and in the violent creaking sound, turned the bow of the ship, and the herringbone shape of the seven giant ships was laid in the front, and the back of the big fortune boats, the wide ships, and the bought Guan boats, Cangshan boats or something were protected behind the back.

Three-tenths of the wealth of Hangzhou City is in this large fleet, and it is distressing to sink a single Mao Jue.

However, this time I really didn't go out to see the yellow calendar, in the guard, in the thick fog, the outlines of the same three behemoths were slowly revealed, the dark bow was also a few meters high, the oblique triangular front sail, and the huge mainmast did not know more than ten meters high.

Although this is the Ming Sea, but it is also the scope of activities of the Japanese Invaders, the last time the Tokugawa Shogunate's Nagasaki Castle was pulled out, and now I have not seen the reaction of the Japanese Invaders, but they also have contact with the Westerners, the drawings of the Liaodong battleship are also copied from the family that placed the family in the Korean Wangjing, I don't know which Daimyo descendants, Mao Jue is not sure if the Japanese can build this kind of Western battleship.

The main ship is located in the second position on the left side of the ship town, watching the battleship on the opposite side begin to slowly twist the hull, while ordering to do the same tactical move, Mao Jue also frowned and shouted.

"Hit the flag and tell the other party that the general is the Ming Dongjiang Iron Righteous Army! Ask them if they dare to go against me? ”

"Yes!"

With a bow, the woolly lance himself ran out with the flag, waving at the bird's nest on the bow mast, and the observation post above also hurriedly beat the flag out, but after a while, the woolly lance was full of strange faces, and ran back quickly.

"General, they say that they are also the Iron Righteous Army of Dongjiang Town, Daming......"

"Uh......"

…………

It really almost washed away the Dragon King Temple, these three are the latest first-class sail battleships launched on the Dongjiang River, the White Horse, the Iron Mountain and the Yizhou, in addition to these three, there are seven smaller and larger, about fifty meters of second-class battleships, and more than ten thirty-meter smaller first-class supply ships.

In fact, a perfect fleet does not have to be all behemoths, the cooperation of large and small ships is the king, the first level of battleships has developed to ten, Mao Jue is going to stop, and the rest are second, third and other smaller, this time it is really Mao Jue's little family background is taken out, the fleet led by Shen Rong has a regiment with more than 1,200 sailors, and eliminated the fortune ships that did not have many gun positions before, the Guangzhou ship type, and the smallest one has a row of side gun compartments.

This is the fleet of dreams.

With Shen Rong leading the team, Mao Jue can be regarded as rushing out of the fog, seeing the coastline, which is about the location of Qingdao in the future, and docked in a temporary military port here.

Leaning on the shore, a fairly neat military camp is leaning against the port, the battle of Hangzhou, the Ming army claims to be 100,000, but there are less than 1,000 tents, here Mao Jue's Iron Righteous Army should have only come to five regiments to see the regimental flag, plus the same auxiliary soldiers behind are less than 10,000, and the number of tents is more than 2,000.

A tent for people, a tent for horses, rich, that's how capricious!

It is estimated that Shen Rong sent a small boat back to report before, on the dock, the generals of the tenth are already waiting there, not to mention, there are really enough to come, Wen Meng, Kong Youde, the Zhao brothers, Tian Tao, and the general Tie Yi are all there.

And there's a new guy here.

Zhao Tiehan!

That Mao Jue was the first Liaodong man he met in Dengzhou.

"General!"

I haven't seen each other for a few months, these guys still have a conscience, and they all came up quite affectionately and stepped forward to hold their fists and bowed, especially Zhao Tiehan, who obviously seemed a lot excited, and the eyes of the man who was more than one meter eight were actually red.

"Get up! It's been a long time! Don't say it, the iron man has grown a lot, but you, uncle, have gained a lot of weight! Looks like I should send you to stay on the other side of the Yalu River! ”

In the past few months of intrigues, the gang of rough men in front of him is the most cordial, sighed, and his fist slammed on Wen Meng's shoulder again, and Mao Jue also made a joke.

"Master Jiang, you too, haven't even had a letter for a few months, won't you be fascinated by the girls in Jiangnan and forget about our gang of coarse people?"

Deliberately showing the closeness of the relationship, Wen Meng also laughed, but the cheeky sea who listened to it hurriedly made a look.

"Lao Wen, don't talk nonsense!"

This trip to Jiangnan was indeed a little unsmooth, for the sake of His Holiness, the huge sea was afraid of causing Mao Jue's unhappiness, but he obviously thought about Mao Jue's strength, and stretched out his hand to swing the huge sea, and Mao Jue nodded at Wen Meng, who was a little stunned.

"Something happened this time, let's go back and talk about it!"

"What the general said is right, let's accompany the general to go back!"

(End of chapter)