Yang Feng's fleet went straight down the river, soon arrived at Haiyan, docked here to show military might, entered Hangzhou Bay and cut to the mouth of the Yangtze River, and then turned around at the mouth of the Yangtze River to take advantage of the southeast wind that had just begun to blow to the northwest, and soon arrived in Haizhou, where it joined the transport fleet that had been assembled on standby before, and continued to go north along the coastline in the farewell of the people in the port, and replenished all the way forward in Shijiu, Banqiao, Chengshan and other places that had been controlled by Dazhong, and finally reached the real starting point of this cross-sea expedition. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info

Dengzhou.

"Wait for the king!"

On the wharf of Dengzhou Port, Li Xianzhong, the new envoy of Dazhong Liaodong and the commander of the sixth town, led 25,000 officers and soldiers under his command to shout in unison, and the people of Dengzhou, who had just been liberated behind them, also bowed down.

"Flat, pass on the king's will, give the people of Dengzhou sweet potatoes, 50,000 catties of potatoes each, and 20,000 catties of corn seeds!"

Yang Feng stood on the dock and said.

Then immediately there was a cheer on the shore.

Obviously, this is more affordable than anything else, Dengzhou is more mountainous, this is not a good place in the agricultural era, whether it is rice or wheat can not produce much, there is also a fishery supplement, but the common people do not have enough to eat is the norm, after all, there can be no refrigerator and car in this era, and it is meaningless to go out more than 30 miles of fish caught at sea. The power of sweet potatoes, potatoes and corn in the thin land of the mountains has already been tested by practice for two years, especially the sweet potatoes have made the Yimeng Mountains say goodbye to famine almost all at once, and the people in those mountainous areas have already begun to cheer the miracle that sweet potatoes have brought to them.

Uh, the miracle of sweet potato pancakes and vermicelli.

And now this kind of good thing is finally the turn of the people of Dengzhou.

Yang Feng looked at the scene of thousands of people cheering with great satisfaction, it was obvious that he was creating a sweet potato prosperous world.

But there is no way, in this era without chemical fertilizers, if you want to solve the problem of insufficient food production, sweet potatoes are the most important means, whether it is corn or potatoes, can not compete with this kind of thing.

The significance of potatoes is to solve the food problem in the northwest and northeast under cold conditions, which can allow the real control area of the Han people to extend to the north as much as possible, and of course, soybean sorghum, the iconic crops of the northeast. Russia's history has proven that only potatoes can solve the problem of feeding farmers at high latitudes, without having to learn to fish and hunt with the Tunguska, but the virus problem makes this kind of thing very unreliable in warm regions, and it is easy to repeat the mistakes of Ireland if you are not careful. And the breeding problem of corn also limits its power, this thing is not breeding is Kendi, and breeding requires technology, its promotion is destined to be a slow and long process, not to mention that corn is also very sensitive to pests and diseases, which corn on the cob in the ripe season has not yet a bunch of bugs.

Only sweet potatoes are foolproof guarantees, and the promotion of sweet potatoes is also easier, after all, this thing can thrive in another place by pulling the roots and seedlings, and one does not care about pests and diseases and is not afraid of barren land, just like cockroaches, it can tenaciously grow in an environment that almost all other crops cannot tolerate, and it can also give you more or less some harvest.

"Sweet potatoes are prosperous, let's be sweet potatoes!"

Yang Feng said with emotion.

"Li Qing, who is your pioneer this time?"

He asked Li Xianzhong.

His fleet has limited transportation capacity, and can only ensure that he can carry a brigade of infantry to play a cross-sea landing operation, and this brigade will have to hold on for at least nearly ten days after landing before the reinforcements can arrive, so this first batch must be really elite.

"Back to the king, the 21st Infantry Brigade is the vanguard!"

Li Xianzhong said.

Immediately after that, an officer beside him stepped forward.

"Wei Sheng, commander of the 21st Brigade of the Infantry Brigade, pays a visit to the king."

He saluted.

"You are Wei Sheng, I have heard of you, the first to rush up to capture the flag in Muling Pass, yes, you are indeed a fierce general, reward you with a good thing!"

Yang Feng patted him on the shoulder and said with satisfaction.

As soon as he stretched out his hand to the side, Han Ying immediately handed over a short-barreled flintlock pistol.

Yang Feng took the short gun that was also gilded, then pulled the hammer, pulled the trigger at the sky, the gun rang out, and an unlucky seagull fell with a scream above his head, and then he took the paper shell bullet handed by Han Ying, and bit open the seal to complete the loading procedure.

At this time, Wei Sheng's gaze was already extremely eager.

"Do you understand?"

Yang Feng said.

Wei Sheng nodded hurriedly.

"Take it!"

Yang Feng said.

"Thank you, Lord for the reward!"

Wei Sheng knelt down and took it with both hands, and said excitedly.

Immediately afterwards, Yang Feng handed him a box of bullets.

"King, this is the musket?"

Li Xianzhong said with envy.

"This is a flintlock pistol, but this is only used by officers, what is really used by soldiers is a spear, that range can exceed the Divine Arm Bow, even if there is heavy armor within thirty zhang, it can be fatal with one shot, but although this thing is good The manufacturing process is very complicated, it is difficult for our craftsmen to produce it in large quantities, at least for the time being, it is impossible to equip all soldiers, so before cultivating a sufficient number of craftsmen, let's continue to use the Divine Arm Bow!"

Yang Feng said.

This is indeed the steel that he found several of the best craftsmen in the Lin'an Ministry of Works, who can be said to be the top masters, and then made it with his personal guidance and help, and did not use modern steel, including the pressing plate spring, which was also made by them together with a small graphite crucible and coke furnace, and even added a hydraulic blower, and the barrel was made with wrought iron smelted from the Pudlin furnace after being beaten with the same hydraulic forging hammer.

He can make flintlock pistols.

But it is impossible to count on the equipment of flintlock muskets in large quantities in the short term.

So far, there are only five craftsmen in the entire Dazhong and Great Song Dynasty combined, and the output can probably reach one per month, so they can only make short pipes for Yang Feng to reward his subordinates, hoping to really equip soldiers with flintlock pistols, I am afraid that within five years, it is not to think about it, and it is already very gratifying that he can achieve flintlock pistol within ten years.

As for the arquebus, it has been eliminated by Yang Feng, because the actual power of the Divine Arm Bow is no worse than that of the arquebus after being replaced with a new steel armor-piercing arrow, at least there is no pressure at all in dealing with the Jin soldiers, this thing was originally to suppress the Jin Army on the battlefield, and after the new hydraulic forging hammer forged three-edged heavy arrow has been quenched, even the best cold forging armor can't stop it. In this case, there was no need for him to create another weapon that would need to be eliminated in the short term, especially since he still had countless Divine Arm Bows in his hands to use.

First use the god arm bow to increase the cannon, mix three or five years to train a sufficient number of craftsmen, and then start to use flintlock guns, within ten years to achieve all firearms, basically in the future, you can hang the world.

"Board the ship!"

Yang Feng then said.

"Board the ship!"

Wei Sheng raised his short gun, pulled the trigger at the sky, and shouted at the sound of gunfire.

The 5,000 officers and men of the 21st Infantry Brigade, who had long been ready to go on the shore, immediately boarded the ship with their respective weapons.

This is a standard infantry brigade of the Red Turban Army, with three battalions of Divine Arm Bows, each battalion of 1,000 people, in addition to the Divine Arm Bow, each person is equipped with an additional can opener, uh, the beak hoe, the waist knife or anything, the Divine Arm Archers do not participate in close combat, there is really no way to pick the crane's beak hoe that should actually be called a war hammer. Another battalion spearman, all of them are giant spears, which are used to block cavalry, and there are a thousand knife hands, this thing is a simplified version of the Mo knife, with a long handle and a broad blade and a double-edged blade, which is actually a three-pointed and two-edged knife, the latter is an alienated version of the knife. This is used for attack, but it varies from general to general, and some brigade commanders prefer tomahawks, in short, they are all aimed at the heavy armor of the Jin army, whether it is a knife or a tomahawk, even if it is cut up, even if the iron float has to kneel, the two most powerful weapons of the Song army evaluated by the golden vulture are the divine arm bow and battle axe. The spear and the god arm bow and then the cannon, this is a whole, but this whole lacks attack power, the attack is responsible for the knife or tomahawk man, the cannon bombards the city wall during the siege, the god arm bow is responsible for suppressing, the spearman guards like the wall advances, the whole body heavy armor of the knife hand or tomahawk charge, the former in the field formation with defense to consume the enemy, the enemy is exhausted when the knife hand or tomahawk hand attack.

This was the standard tactic developed by those generals.

In addition to the 21st Infantry Brigade, there was also a heavy field artillery battalion with steel pipes and an artillery post equipped with six 20-pound mortar guns, which used woodpipe fuses to bloom shells, and then there was a cavalry battalion attached to it, which added up to nearly 7,000 men and horses to board the battleships one after another.

When all the soldiers finished boarding the ship and the entire fleet was replenished with enough supplies, Yang Feng waved goodbye to the soldiers and civilians on the shore in cheers, and embarked on an expedition to Liaodong, which was the first time since the Tang Dynasty that the Han army set foot on this long-lost land for hundreds of years.

"Hu Wuren, Han Daochang, today this king will take you to open the prosperous era of China!"

Yang Feng on the deck said.

"Swear to follow the king!"

Li Bao and the other generals saluted and said.

The mighty fleet rode the southeast wind and rushed straight to Liaodong.

Early the next morning.

"King, there's a ship ahead!"

Li Bao's voice sounded outside Yang Feng's cockpit door.

"Got it!"

Yang Feng said in a low voice.

Then this guy pushed Han Ying, who was exhausted by him all night, out of his arms, poor Han Ying was alone to bear the rain and dew of his way, uh, the storm, that is, relying on good health, the resistance that grew up on the boat since childhood, if it was replaced by Concubine Liu, it would have been abolished long ago, and it was obvious that it was urgent to find a sister for her.

Yang Feng quickly dressed himself and walked out.

At this time, two large sea ships can already be seen on the sea level in the distance, one in front of the other and one behind them are diagonally inserted to the northeast, and behind these two ships, the coastline of the Lushun area is faintly visible in the telescope, at this time, of course, there will be no name Lushun, which belongs to the Jinzhou Lion's Mouth in Jinguo.

"It's a sea ship of Goryeo."

Li Bao said with a telescope.

"No matter who it is, don't let them pass, our battleships haven't opened yet, let's try them first!"

Yang Feng said.

The Jin people did not have binoculars, so they would not be seen from a distance, and these two ships must have gone to the lion's mouth, as soon as they arrived at the place, the Jin army would know that they were coming, and the landing on the sea should first ensure the suddenness, and it would be self-inflicted trouble to give the enemy enough time to prepare.

Although Yang Feng was not ready to land in Lushun.

As Li Bao's order was issued, the six warships that were not equipped with soldiers to patrol immediately broke away from the formation.

Because it was a tailwind, they quickly crossed to the front of the two Goryeo merchant ships, and then lined up in a battle line on the sea according to the king's teaching, and all the forty-eight cannons on the starboard side were launched, and the muzzles of black holes were aimed at the two merchant ships that were not too large with standard T-shaped tactics, and the gunners on the deck who were fighting for the first time nervously lay behind the barrels, holding the ignition rod and carefully aiming, waiting for a roar that shook the sea.

The Koreans on the merchant ship opposite apparently did not know what this meant.

But so many Song warships sailed to Liaodong Bay without guessing and understanding the purpose, since it was a surprise attack, naturally they would not let them dock and leak the news, they still had this awareness, the sailors on the two merchant ships were busy turning to the shore in panic to take shelter, and there were people on the ship who knew Chinese shouting explanations.

But the sailors on the six ships were certainly not interested in listening.

Just after the flags on the Yang Fengzao ship were issued, I saw the flames of the starboard guns of the six warships flashing rapidly, and at the same time as the white gunpowder smoke filled the sea, countless pieces of wood on the two Korean merchant ships kept splashing away, and one after another shocking holes appeared, and at the same time, there were also columns of water stirred up by those missed shells. But even though more than a third of the shells did not hit the target, this round of salvo still caused heavy damage to the two merchant ships, and the frightened Koreans screamed and jumped down like crazy, while the sailors on the battleships loaded their ammunition as fast as they could in the captain's scolding, and the second salvo began in just half a minute, and the two unlucky Korean merchant ships were gradually shattered in the impact of the shells.

And all the officers and men of the entire fleet were enjoying this entertaining drama with great interest.

Yang Feng was also watching.

He just deliberately wanted to involve Goryeo in the war, at this time Goryeo was not the later Lee Joseon, Lee Joseon was deferential enough to China, and he was also a loyal minister of the Ming Dynasty, but at this time it was Wang Goryeo, and the king of Goryeo at this time was Wang Kai known as Injong. This country has always been like a wild dog, lying on China's side and staring closely, refusing to let go of any opportunity, vainly tearing off a piece of fat from China again, when the Liao State was destroyed, they had already tried to get involved in the northeast, but they were immediately taught to be a man by Wanyan Agu.

Yang Feng didn't mind having a grass to beat the rabbit.

At this time, Wang Kai had officially surrendered to the Jin State and became a vassal of the Wanyan family, so theoretically Goryeo was also an enemy country of the Great Song Dynasty, since it was an enemy country, then it was necessary to treat them like an enemy country, anyway, Yang Feng's plan was originally intended to grab Goryeo's territory as a springboard for attack, and then bypass the Korean Peninsula to attack the Tumen River, and now simply provoke the war first.