Chapter 223: The Great Storm

Yun Hao has been very busy and irritable lately. The war to destroy the Eastern Turks was the glory of the empire, but it also consumed a lot of vitality for the empire. Li Er understands that the Tang Empire will not fight a second war until the vitality is restored.

Peace is the nightmare of the army, and the value of the military is reflected in war. There were too many troops during the Taiping period, which was a disaster, not a blessing. With a military horse in his hand, Li Er will unconsciously want to kill something. Because the army itself is a destabilizing factor, Li Er is the emperor immediately. Naturally, I know what the soldiers want, everyone wants merit, everyone wants wealth.

But Datang's national strength is limited, and he can't afford to raise so many idle people. This is Li Er, who has focused his attention on the bloated Tang nobles all these years. And think of ways to reduce the swelling of this class!

Wealth and nobility must be exchanged for their lives, which is the unanimous recognition of the noble class of the Tang Dynasty. But now with a sword, he can't find an opponent. Yun Hao's commander-in-command set out to give the nobles hope. The only army that is fighting now is the navy under Yun Hao's auspices.

There are countless hairy young men in the capital, all of whom worship without saying a word. shouted a handsome, and was ready to carry a knife to cut people. Among them, Cheng Biting Jin's son, Cheng Chumo is the most violent. Shirtless under the sun, his fists slammed into the trees. The rough bark was smashed to pieces by his fist.

Looking at his hands, looking at Cheng Chumo's hands, Yun Hao felt that he was embarrassing to the generals.

The letters are bloodier than the other, and after reading these letters, Yun Hao feels that these guys don't look like sisters-in-law. It looks like it was born by a maid! At the end of the day, the child sent you here. Whether you send it to carry explosives bags to blow up the bunker, or charge ahead to be cannon fodder, it's up to you. Even if you are beaten to death during training, it is no problem.

For the sake of the child's future and the wealth of the whole family, the nobles are out of the way. Even if he dies in battle, he can bring infinite sorrow and glory to his family. It's far better than messing around in Chang'an and drowning in a wine vat at the end.

There is no need to worry about the affairs on the ship. Li Wenzhong handled the matter very well, and took Xiao Gao to Huating when the ship docked. After coming back, the two of them hooked up and became best friends. Money and women are always able to quickly bring men closer. Of course, if not disposed of well. Money and women are also the main reasons for using the knife.

So Yun Hao often saw that every day the soldiers and workers were stuffed in the cabin together. Learn the controls and principles of various equipment, and at night it becomes a sea of drunkards. The soldiers and workers all drank wine in their arms and ate meat in large pots.

In order to quickly establish friendship between the soldiers and the workers, Li Wenzhong made a bloody investment. Every meal is big fish and big meat. Every few days, there is also a big meal such as roasting whole sheep. The wine is a steamed wine of the Yun family, except for women, basically everything that can be put on the boat anyway.

They are all people who have followed Li Wenzhong to the sea for several years, and they know what the sea is like. For some obvious unreasonable designs, they can also be corrected in time. Two huge warships are entering the pages of history with unprecedented attitudes.

Those little guys from Chang'an, as well as the soldiers of the six prefectures in Jiangnan who were transferred to Yun Hao. was carefully selected by Yun Hao, and finally selected three thousand marines.

Others don't know what's going on in Yizhou, but Yun Hao still knows. With such a large island, it is impossible to surround it with its own ships. There is no Marine team capable of fighting, and Zhang Zhongjian will definitely play a game of hide and seek. In that case, he won't be able to return to Chang'an for ten years.

Leaving Huating is also leaving the Yangtze River, the turbid Yangtze River water and the blue sea water form a clear dividing line. When we reached the sea, the wind and waves suddenly became much stronger. The giant boat kept bumping in the wind and waves, and the boiler was running at full power, testing how fast the two ships could run.

Liu Renliang was surprised to find that such a large ship had no sails. He was running faster than his previous sailboat, and if he didn't think about his own life, he would have liked to dive down to see what that thing called a propeller was.

The huge bow of the ship crashed into the waves like a mountain, and the sea water smashed overwhelmingly on the windshield of the bridge. In the distance, there were large dark clouds gathering in the sky. The seagulls under the clouds flew quickly towards the land, and the waves were higher and higher.

"Dashuai, let's go back to Huating to hide, can we stand such a big storm?" Li Wenzhong said with some concern.

No wonder he was worried, his men used to be sailboats. This thing needs to be powered by the wind, but too much wind is a disaster for the sailboat. God knows where there are reefs and eddies in this uncharted sea area. In case the sea breeze hits the reef, the whole boat should not want to live.

"Hide? In the vast sea, you hid this time, where will you hide next time? Do you only dare to march along the coastline in your life? Our goal is the sea of stars, and you may sail for a month or two without seeing land, and where are you going to hide by then? Hiding in the sky? Yun Hao glanced at Li Wenzhong coldly.

Li Wenzhong was still a little aggressive before, but since he kidnapped Li Jing and was infinitely suppressed by Li Jing, he has been a little forward-looking. Although I was not careful enough to drop a leaf for fear of smashing my head, I became much more cautious.

I used to drive sailboats, and my ability to resist wind and waves was naturally poor. Zhenhai and Dinghai are steam engine ships with internal power. There is a world of difference from a sailboat, but it is necessary to look at the wind resistance of these two ships.

"Uh......!" Li Wenzhong was suffocated with a big red face, he didn't dare to speak anymore, so he could only stand beside Yun Hao and not speak.

"Let those sailboats go back to Huating to avoid the storm, and we will fight with God on this sea. It is necessary to see if the warships built by Datang can withstand the wind and waves of the typhoon. Yun Hao's words were full of momentum, and Cheng Chu listened to the surging blood, eager to use the horizontal knife to cut down God now.

"No!" When Liu Renliang heard Yun Hao's order, he went to pass the order after making a big promise. He was also very worried, and followed him to several Liaodong sailing ships in the East China Sea. With such a big wind and waves, Zhenhai and Dinghai may be able to withstand it, and those sailboats will definitely not be able to withstand it.

September is the most frequent typhoon season along the coast of Zhejiang, and generally speaking, typhoons blow from southeast to northwest. When passing through Yizhou, the typhoon will weaken somewhat. Yun Hao went to sea this time, in fact, to consider the resistance of the warship to the typhoon. If you can't even resist the typhoon along the coast of Fujian and Zhejiang, it will definitely be even more terrible to go to Yizhou.

The tonnage is large enough, which also gives Yun Hao some confidence. Although the sea surface is rough and windy, it is mostly swelling. The shape of these waves is more like radio waves, with peaks and troughs. In order to sail smoothly on the sea, the boat needs to be large enough. If you can press two waves, the boat will seem to be standing at the tip of two crests. Such a ship will be much more stable, and the huge bodies of Zhenhai and Dinghai have no problem holding down the two waves. This greatly increases safety, and ride comfort.

A horn sounded on the sea, and the sailboat, which had long been tired, heard the horn and immediately withdrew in the direction of Huating with its sails full. Looking at the sea, there is still a daytime at most before a typhoon arrives. This is not the time for heroes, and it is important to escape, and fools will wait slowly for the typhoon to catch up.

Before it got dark, the sky was obscured by dark clouds. Darkness swallowed the last ray of sunshine, and the big test for Zhenhai and Dinghai finally came. After passing the test, these two ships will be able to ride the wind and waves in and out of the deep sea in the future. If you can't pass the test, all of them will fall into the sea and become the snack of the Sea Dragon King.

Yun Hao stood on the wide Jianqiao of the Zhenhai and looked at the boiling sponge through the heavy windshield. The storm was coming, and the soybean-sized raindrops smashed on the glass and made a crackling sound. Although the Zhenhai is large enough, it still looks very small in front of Huanghuang Tianwei.

The huge ship was like a leaf, struggling in the wind. Kotaka had to have someone tie himself to a pillar behind him, and his hands grabbed the rudder. On the other Dingyuan, his father was doing the same thing. The workers in the boiler were even more crazy to fill the furnace with a spade of good coking coal.

Smoke billowed from the chimneys, and the two giant ships were at full speed, sprinting again and again against the mountain-like waves. The triangular bow of the ship crashed into a wall of water, and an even larger wall of water awaited in front of it.

Cheng Chumo regretted that he died, if he could move now. He will choose to commit suicide as soon as possible! It's so fucking sinful, and the only thing I'm glad about now is having someone tie themselves to a pillar. In fact, the pillars of the cabin were tied with them, the noble sons and daughters from Chang'an. Riding a horse in Guanzhong since childhood, the landlubber has never even been in a puddle, how can there be a reason not to get seasick when he reaches the sea.

The dog sympathetically hung an iron pass around Cheng Chumo's neck, and Cheng Chumo wanted to open his mouth to scold. But as soon as I opened my mouth, the vomit that I couldn't control anymore gushed out.

After hanging the bucket around, the dog stumbled out. I can't stay in this anymore, and the smell is so good that it hurts people's brains.

Cheng Chumo felt that heaven and earth could no longer be distinguished, just like his already chaotic brain. The brain and the brain seemed to be separated, and the high fighting spirit just now was blown away by this storm. After drinking too much of the Yun family's steamed wine, it would be a fart compared to now.

Cheng Chumo, who had never believed in gods and Buddhas, suddenly realized that he began to ask for help from all the gods he knew, whether they were Buddhists or Taoists. I didn't want to be able to survive, I just wanted to rain a thunder and quickly split myself. Even if you die, it is a pleasure, and it is better than living and suffering like this.

Li Wenzhong stared nervously at the slipway, the sea was completely shrouded in darkness. All people can only rely on gyroscopes to distinguish east, west, north and south, inside the dark sky. From time to time, purple lightning flashed across the canopy like forks, and it was a long time before the sound of rolling thunder came. Then the light of the lightning flashed, and the Dinghai could be seen a few miles away, which was also battling the storm.

The "creaking" sound of the wood sounded as if it sounded on the tip of the heart. Every strange sound can make people's hearts sink to the bottom in an instant.

The mountain-like waves are endless, smashing at you wave after wave. Several times, Li Wenzhong felt that the Zhenhai was about to fail. But every time, the Zhenhai survived miraculously.

Li Wenzhong has also been running for several years, and he can be regarded as a fierce general in the Tang Dynasty. But he had never experienced such a big storm. If it was a sailboat, the wave just now would have smashed the mast. He has a new understanding of the East China Sea. It's even more dangerous than the Yellow Sea, and the Bohai Bay is simply paradise.

Liu Renliang gripped the slipway hard, and kept conveying Yun Hao's orders one after another. His heart was extremely excited, and he had never dared to think of driving in such a storm before.

I don't know if this grandfather is an immortal, he always has the ability to predict the future. Thinking about the rattan hat on his head, Liu Renliang admired this Duke of Chu. His head had hit the pillar eight times, and if it hadn't been for this rattan hat, he would have been hit on the head and bled out.

Now I finally understand why I want to hold everything that can move in place. In a storm of this magnitude, there is nothing to stay put, not even people.

A lot of experience on a sailboat used to work, but it doesn't work here. Under strong winds, heavy rains and strong winds, the boat can still move on its own. If it was a sailboat, it would have fallen sail long ago, and it would have been possible to try its luck with the currents. If you're lucky, you're just drifting along the current, and if you're unlucky, you're on a reef. Or the currents carry the ship to the open sea, and then it will be dead.

This huge ship is actually able to cut through the waves. For the first time, Liu Renliang gave birth to the confidence to go to the far sea to take a look. In the depths of the ocean, is there a crystal clear Dragon Palace. Is there a singing kraken, or a beautiful woman with a fish's tail?

The dog's eyes widened, and he looked curiously at everything in front of him. For the first time, he saw lightning striking the sea, and after the silver snake-like lightning came into contact with the sea, a large cloud of fire burst out, and he couldn't imagine the lightning striking the Zhenhae.

It's so fucking enjoyable, it's much more enjoyable than in Dongting Lake. Almost instantly, the dog fell in love with sailing. A huge amount of adrenaline stimulated his nerves, and he was not only not afraid at all, but even excited to death. God forbid, this storm will never end. It's so fucking enjoyable!

Xiong Kuohai's face turned a little pale, and the hand holding the pillar couldn't help but shake it vigorously. In front of Huanghuang Tianwei, the dog bear who killed people without blinking also felt fear. He felt like he had never been so close to death, and he could swear to God that he had never felt that fear.

Xue Rengui, who was standing behind Yun Hao, closed his eyes tightly, trying to control his stomach, thinking in his heart. If he really died, the Yun family should be kind to his sister......!