Body 574 The purpose of the war
The three giant ships slowly sailed out of the exit of the Seto Inland Sea, and then the three warships slowly followed behind the Tang Dragon Boat, protecting the Dragon Boat and slowly sailing to the coastline a little farther away, and then the four warships docked there, waiting for the fighters, waiting for the Japanese warships to go out.
The sky gradually darkened, and many warships of the Japanese Kingdom on the sea sailed out of the exit of the Seto Inland Sea in dense form, and then fan-shaped, slowly approaching the three warships and one dragon boat of the Tang Dynasty.
The afterglow of the setting sun sprinkled on the sea, waving pieces of golden, golden sea, golden warships, under the illumination of the afterglow, all seemed to have a trace of holiness and sacredness.
As time passed, the warships of the Japanese kingdom began to change silently from a fan shape, like the many islands in the Seto Inland Sea, and became like small islands.
The minimum number of dozen warships was arranged in battle formation, and the maximum even reached thirty or fifty, presenting a phalanx to discharge the attack formation.
Like small islands of different sizes, slowly drifting on the sea, you can even faintly hear the sound of war drums, like thunder, rumbling on the sea.
"Your Highness......." Cui Zhibian's expression was solemn, only he gave up the Suzaku and ran to the dragon boat, kneeling in front of Li Hong.
"What do you want to say?" Li Hong put down the telescope in his hand, and his expression was also solemn.
The princess of Dalai has been following Li Hong's side, and at this moment, when she heard the Tang military generals who came by boat, she respectfully called the person who was being dragged by her arm as His Royal Highness, and immediately let go of her hand as if she was electrocuted, and then looked at Li Hong with an incredible face, with an angular side face.
"Your Highness, Your Minister...... The minister begs you to abandon the ship and go to the Suzaku or the Xuanwu, or your husband, but this dragon boat can no longer stay. Cui Zhibian's tone was unprecedentedly solemn, and he looked at the sea from time to time, and said with the dynamics of the densely packed warships of the Japanese Kingdom.
Li Hong opened his hands, felt the moist sea breeze on the sea, and muttered, "I'm afraid there will be a storm tonight." ”
"So the minister dared to ask His Highness to abandon the ship, this dragon boat ......." Cui Zhiyan didn't say any more, and the sky in the distance, the overwhelming dark clouds, like a beast that people couldn't imagine how huge it was, slowly spread from the connection between the sea and the sky, and was spreading to this side.
"So how about stopping the war? I can tell my father to stop the war. As if grasping the last straw, the princess looked at Li Hong, who was murderous at some point, and pleaded.
"Do you think your father will be on that dense warship?" Li Hong squinted at her, then looked farther behind him.
"Your Highness, this dragon ship is clumsy, if you want to keep it, unless you evacuate it immediately, but now...... The storm is coming, and I'm afraid I'll get out of the ....... ”
"Needless to say, immediately order all the soldiers to go to the Suzaku, Xuanwu, and Fuzhu and sink the dragon ship!" Li Hong immediately decided.
In his heart, he didn't have much influence on the meaning of the dragon boat, but in the hearts of Cui Zhifen and other generals, sinking the dragon ship was completely ominous.
But if you don't sink it, wait a while to fight the Japanese warship, and once the ship is surrounded, its clumsy maneuverability will put it under the enemy's iron ball.
"Yes, Your Highness, the minister will arrange it." As if he had received the holy decree he wanted most, Cui Zhifen immediately began to order the soldiers on the dragon boat to start moving, including some valuable things on the dragon boat.
"Do you know, we warriors of the Japanese Kingdom are not afraid of death, even if you use three warships that we can't reach to deal with us, we will not be afraid to fight, and we will die with you!" The princess of Dalai watched Li Hong give up the dragon ship she had brought for a long time, and wanted to continue to persuade Li Hong to withdraw her troops immediately.
"Who told you that the soldiers of the Tang Dynasty were afraid of death? I sank this dragon ship, but I didn't want to drag my other Datang warships back because of the storm, by the way, there is one more thing I forgot to tell you, Datang warships are not three, but five! Li Hong sneered, and a murderous aura came to his face, making the princess of Dalai shiver involuntarily.
Then, the princess saw that in the place where His Royal Highness the Prince of the Tang Dynasty, who had not figured out the truth or falsehood, looked at him, a black shadow slowly fell down this way.
"What do you mean?" The princess looked at Li Hong's murderous face, but her heart was like falling into an ice cave, and she muttered.
"Datang often says that the four holy beasts, now that Vermilion Bird and Xuanwu are here, do you think that in this battle, the other two holy beasts will not come?" Li Hong squatted down, pinched the delicate and sexy chin of the princess, stared at her eyes and asked.
"Vermilion Bird, Xuanwu, I have never seen the green dragon and the white tiger, you ...... Do you have five of these giant ships? The princess sat on the ground completely, looked up at Li Hong, who was half-squatting on the deck, and asked in astonishment.
"You guessed it." As soon as Li Hong stretched out his hand, on his bare arm, a huge bird that had been flying high in the sky slowly landed on his bare arm.
The fish that had just been caught by Li Hong, after Li Hong let go of the delicate chin of the princess, picked up a fish and put it in his hand, and let Hai Dongqing, whose eyes and appearance were terrifying, peck in his hand.
Under the command of Cui Zhifen, the entire dragon boat quickly evacuated all the soldiers, but the sailors were left on the boat by Li Hong, and on the left and right sides, there were three or four Meng Chong each, ready to be used by the sailors to escape when the dragon boat was about to be surrounded by the warships of the Japanese Kingdom.
"What else are you going to do?" The Lady of Coming climbed up to Li Hong on the deck, shook Li Hong's hand and asked.
"Fishing naturally requires bait, this dragon boat is cheap for your country, it can become a prominent achievement in the history of your country's water war, and it will be very majestic to say it, isn't it, but the dragon boat that sank my Tang Dynasty is amazing, right?" Li Hong shook off the hands of the princess, untied the thin tube of Hai Dongqing's paws, took out the letter inside and glanced at it, and then turned his head to the west side of the sea.
The dim line of sight obscured people's vision, and two huge objects could be faintly seen moving towards this direction in the distance, and the distance between the huge objects was getting farther and farther as they got closer to the dragon boat.
"Do you really want to destroy all the warships of my country in one fell swoop? Why are you provoking a war? Why maim innocent lives! The Empress Dalai was really panicked at the moment, and from time to time she looked at the two huge warships that were blurred in the distance, and then from time to time she saw the warships of their Japanese kingdom cruising on the sea, slowly sailing towards this side.
"There's no way, I Datang need this battle, I Datang need to overcome the fear of the sea, and I Datang need to challenge the unknown with courage. If the Chinese nation wants to stand forever in the forest of strong countries and become rich and strong forever, we must conquer the sea and believe that on the ocean, our warships will be as invincible and invincible as our cavalry on land! Li Hong looked at the sad expression of the princess and said with some heaviness.
In the past 5,000 years, the Chinese nation has never really realized what kind of wealth the ocean will bring to mankind and the country, and has always been complacent, dreaming of being the center of the world, although it has indeed become the center of the world many times during this period.
Whether it is Spain, Portugal, England and other countries, they have clearly portrayed their strength in the pace of human history in the era of colonial rule, and at the same time, they have plundered all the wealth of the world to their countries and their museums.
As for the Chinese nation, even the Ming Dynasty, which is known as a powerful navy, only relies on the sense of smell of the court and merchants to exchange their own goods for the wealth of the world, leaving the world with only a glimpse of the Chinese nation.
He has never really conquered the world, conquered the sea, and never received real wealth from the sea or from other countries.
Just like Spain, England, and Portugal, they relied on their powerful navies to plunder the wealth and resources of the world.
And this is also the ultimate goal of Li Hong to take the initiative to provoke a war this time and provoke a war against the Japanese state, that is, through this war, the Tang people are full of confidence and pride at sea, just like on land, and are willing to face all kinds of challenges brought by the unknown sea.
In the same way, I also hope that through this battle, the Wa Kingdom will be completely in awe, afraid of the Tang Dynasty, afraid of the Chinese nation, and even in the future, it will become the eleventh of the Tang Dynasty!
"For the sake of the future prosperity of your nation, and for the eternal prosperity of your country, will you sacrifice the lives of the people of the Japanese country? Don't you think it's cruel? Damnation will you do so! You will pay for your cruelty! The princess stood up, looked up at Li Hong's eyes, at this moment, he believed that this shameless person was His Royal Highness the Crown Prince of the Tang Dynasty.
Although this person still looks like a man and has no proper shape, who is not a madman as a king? Which one is not hubris? Which one doesn't have a dream of conquering the world in his heart?
Even if it was his father, before he became the emperor, when his uncle was in power, he tried his best to encourage Emperor Tianji to launch a war against Baekje, so as to plunder the land, so as to test the bottom line of the Tang Dynasty, so as to leave a name for himself in history, and write a strong stroke in the annals of history.
"Are they the people? Which one is the people? You point it out to me! Are they not the soldiers of your kingdom who have been armed? If I am weak and you are strong now, then they are executioners and demons to my Tang Dynasty, right? When you are powerless in the face of Baekje, don't you also be able to do it? Li Hong took the arm of the Empress Dalai, still standing on the highest deck of the dragon boat, pointing to the dim sea, the light that was absent and asked.
"It's different, they are forced, if they don't stand up and resist, the Wa Kingdom will perish."
"So for the sake of safety, I defeated the enemy when it was not yet strong, and saved it from being strong, and I had to make it more troublesome, didn't I?" The corners of Li Hong's mouth wiped a trace of murderous intent, and said coldly.
Then he took the arm of the princess, walked off the deck, and went up to the husband who came to meet him.
(PS: I'm sorry, I'm going to change it today, I have to think about how to write about naval battles, and I hope to write this battle more bloody and intense.) Thank you for your please. Thank you! )