Two hours later, when the sun was setting, twenty newly-built ships and fifteen merchant ships of Su Ji formed a huge fleet of thirty-five ships.

Two of the six iron boats were on the periphery, and eight hundred soldiers of the Su Family Fire Battalion were scattered to take on the responsibility of guarding; Twelve ships loaded with various materials sailed in the middle circle, and seventeen large ships carrying precious materials such as gold and silver and more than 3,000 people who followed Su Jin's departure were in the innermost circle.

Su Jin stood on the largest big ship and looked back, there was still smoke in the sky over Mingzhou Port at sunset, which made the sky above Mingzhou Port look gray and a little bleak and sad; A group of black-pressed crowds on the port were faintly visible, where the officials who had gone to the banquet and the people who had rushed to hear the news had gathered spontaneously, there were no cheers, no waves, only endless silence.

Su Jin sighed, relieved from his sad emotions, and turned around and instructed Wang Chao: "Beat the flag and order Ma Han, who opened the road in front, to pay attention to the enemy situation ahead, Han Jiang, the dog thief, led the Zhejiang Navy Division to intercept us on the sea, and be ready to meet the enemy. ”

Wang Chao said: "Don't worry, once you find out, you will immediately fly out of the hot air balloon to bomb, and if you don't give them a chance to react, you will definitely sink them in the sea." ”

Su Jin nodded, and said to Li Chong, who was standing beside him: "Brother Zhaoting, you have to work harder after going to sea, and I am afraid that you will be responsible for all the trivial affairs that the crew of the fleet takes care of." ”

Li Zhong smiled: "That's natural, you can rest assured." ”

Su Jin looked at Li Chong and said, "Brother Zhaoting, will you blame me for dragging you onto a road of no return?" Originally, you could have a better future in the Great Song Dynasty, but following my ignorance of the future, it also violated your ancestral teachings. ”

Li Chong shook his head and said: "Brother Su, although I Li Chongren is stupid, but I am not a stubborn person, after seeing you in Luzhou that day, I was first impressed by Brother Su's talent, and then gradually understood that Brother Su's most powerful thing is not to write poems and lyrics, but to dare to be the first in the world; Following Brother Su made me feel more important than ever, I always felt that I couldn't help myself with many things, and I knew how to do it, but I couldn't do it; Following Brother Su, I knew what it means to turn my hands into clouds and cover my hands for rain, and what it means to grasp my fate. ”

Su Jin smiled: "Really? ”

Li Chongdao: "If it's not me, General Jingtai, General Pan Jiang, we all have the same feeling when we chat; What we admire the most is not what you have done for Da Song, do you know what it is? ”

Su Jin smiled and asked, "What is it?" ”

Li Zhong looked at the seagulls soaring up and down in the air, plated all over golden in the sunset, and said slowly: "We all thought in private that the emperor was like this to you, and you would definitely take the throne with military advice, with your appeal and advanced weapons such as firearms, grenades, airships, etc., it should not be difficult to do this, but you didn't do it, but chose to leave the Great Song Dynasty and go overseas to find a place to live, which is what makes me and others completely obey you; You have not forgotten that you are a citizen of the Great Song Dynasty, and your actions are enough to convince all the people of the Great Song Dynasty of your loyalty, and any slander and rumors will not be believed by them. ”

Su Jin laughed and said: "Brother Zhaoting, how can you praise me so face-to-face, so that I will my tail, you may be mistaken, I chose to leave not because of my loyalty to the emperor, but because I don't want to see the prosperous era of the Great Song Dynasty created by our own hands destroyed in the war, and tens of millions of people are displaced and return to suffering, so what is the point of our struggle for more than ten years?" Haven't you been busy for more than ten years? ”

Li Chong was surprised: "Then you are willing to throw everything you have created with your own hands to the emperor?" ”

Su Jindao: "Wrong, I didn't lose it to the emperor, but to the people, and to future generations, what I left to the Great Song Dynasty is not only the mines, commercial markets, convenient roads and other visible things, these things can be destroyed by manpower, but there is one thing that can never be destroyed, that is the change of lifestyle and the opening of people's wisdom, this is the most valuable wealth, but also the most proud point." ”

Li Zhong nodded slowly, looking thoughtfully at the tumbling sea water under the side of the ship, and the same thoughts in his heart were like a tide.

Su Jin patted him on the shoulder and said, "There are some things I can't tell you in the Great Song Dynasty, when we get to the land we want to go to, I will tell you everything, and you will be even more surprised when the time comes; By the way, which boat is your eldest brother, General Jingtai, on? ”

Li Chong's face turned red and pointed to a big boat in the distance behind him: "General Jingtai, General Pan and Yan Xiang are on that boat, they have prepared more than a hundred jars of good wine, and during this time at sea, I am afraid that I will get drunk all day long." ”

Su Jin laughed and said: "It's okay, if you get drunk and relieve a thousand sorrows, they were also pulled into the water by me, but they will be of great use in the future." ”

Li Chongdao: "By the way, you haven't told us where we're going?" Are we just looking for an overseas desert island? ”

Su Jin waved his hand and smiled: "How is it possible, I was about to tell you about the situation, since you asked, I will tell you first, on the other side of the sea......"

"Discover the enemy's situation......" Su Jin's words were interrupted by Ma Han's loud voice, and the two hurriedly looked in the direction of the bow of the ship, only to see more than a dozen black dots lined up on the sea level in the distance, which was the Zhejiang Road Sailor led by Han Jiang.

Su Jin immediately ordered the other ships to slow down, and the six escort ships quickly sailed forward to prepare for the battle, after a pillar of incense, the two fleets traveling in the opposite direction gathered less than a thousand steps away, and the other party rushed directly towards it with a fierce momentum, and the bed crossbow and rockets on the ship were also ready, Han Jiang gritted his teeth and gave the order to attack freely, after being suppressed by Su Jin for more than ten years, today he can finally kill Su Jin mercilessly.

The two fleets approached quickly, the enemy ship moved quickly, suddenly turned to the right seven hundred steps away, drew an arc to seize the upper hand position, Han Jiang did not care, ordered the sailors to go into the water with axes and chisel the boat, hundreds of sailors chisels jumped into the sea wearing leather clothes, and at the same time, Han Jiang suddenly found that strange balls rose above the enemy ship, and they were pulled by a long rope and slowly floated to the bow of the boat.

"What kind of fame?" Han Jiang frowned and asked the commander of the sailor beside him.

"I don't know." The commander had obviously not seen the battle, but he felt a faint unease.

"Lord Han, don't worry about them, our water spirits will soon be able to sneak next to the enemy ship, they are all white fish in the sea, and they can scuttle through the enemy ship in no time." There is a general's confident way.

Han Jiang put down his thoughts and ordered: "Approach the enemy ship, enter the range of bows and arrows, shoot arrows from above, and chisel boats from below, both at the same time." ”

"Yes!"

Han Jiang looked at the hundreds of black shadows under the sea swimming to the bottom of the opponent's boat, he didn't think that the other party had any chance to fight back in this battle, he only had a few hundred private soldiers, even if he had already found out that he had a gun, but that thing could not sink the warship.

Unconsciously, those round balloons had floated into the air, and Han Jiang looked up at the dozens of small black dots, really not understanding what Su Jin was going to do; Suddenly, countless small black balls rained down from the sky, and most of them fell into the sea due to lack of accuracy, but there were still a few 'dong dong' falling on the deck, billowing with pungent green smoke.

Han Jiang was still stunned, and suddenly heard the hoarse shouts of the sailors and generals around him: "Hide!" ”

Boom Boom! The deafening explosion sounded, and the air wave lifted Han Jiang and his chair away, fell straight into the side of the ship, and fell into the sea with a pop, Han Jiang was shocked with blood from his mouth and nose, and he was already unconscious in mid-air, but he woke up when he was agitated by the cold seawater, and drank a few mouthfuls of seawater, choking his brain and swelling and struggling to float to the sea, when he raised his head to see the situation on the sea, he opened his mouth in horror, and his heart also sank into the cold seabed.