Yellow Sea.

"When there is no wind in the sea, the waves are long!"

Wang Guangyang sat on the deck, raised his wine glass and looked at the vast sea and chanted.

There were slight waves on the blue sea in front of him, and the more than ten zhang long battleship under his feet was sailing gently to the southwest under the impetus of the northeast wind, although the ship was still shaking, but for him who had just sailed nearly two thousand miles, it was already considered calm, and in the distance, a strip of green could be faintly seen at the end of the sea and sky, which was their destination.

Penglai saury village.

"It's finally here!"

On the other side of the wine table beside him, Liao Yongzhong said with relief.

"General Liao, you are still from the navy, you grew up on a boat since you were a child, and you are a famous water dragon, why might as well be this literati!"

Wang Guangyang said sarcastically.

"There's a foot high wave on Chaohu Lake?"

Liao Yongzhong gave him a roll of the eye.

Poor this can be said that Zhu Yuanzhang's subordinates are second only to Yu Tonghai, but in fact they are more valued by Zhu Yuanzhang, the famous generals of the naval army who fought almost all over the south of the Yangtze River for Zhu Yuanzhang in history, after experiencing a two-thousand-mile voyage and the devastation of the high waves in the Yellow Sea wind, he has also lost a whole circle, and it looks like he has been in prison for half a year, as he said, he did grow up on the boat, but he grew up on the boat of Chaohu Lake, and there can be a huge wave on Chaohu Lake?

A foot high is considered a big wave.

"Then you'd better let all the ships check how many soldiers are still able to fight, and if there are Yuan troops or magistrates who refuse to surrender after landing, then a big war is indispensable."

Wang Guangyang said.

Liao Yongzhong's expression was frozen, and he immediately stood up and prepared to give the order.

This problem is quite serious, his ships are indeed driven by boatmen hired from Fang Guozhen, but the soldiers on the ship are all inland river soldiers like him, who have been training in the coastal waters of Zhoushan for several months at most, and now even he is seasick and vomits, let alone those ordinary soldiers. It's really hard to say how many of them will be able to go directly into battle after ten days of sailing at sea, and he didn't have many soldiers with him this time, a total of thirty new bird boats, and the total number of ships that actually landed in combat was only 5,000 soldiers. Although these soldiers were trained according to the new training methods, and were all equipped with flintlock pistols and artillery line infantry like Zhang Dingbian's department, as long as half of them could not be put into battle, then it was very suspenseful that he would have to meet nearby reinforcements if he wanted to capture Penglai.

"Enemy Army!"

Just as he stood up, the observer holding the telescope on the mast above his head exclaimed.

Wang Guangyang immediately stood up.

He and Liao Yongzhong rushed to the cockpit at the fastest speed, each ran out with binoculars, and then aimed at the direction of Penglai together, and soon a dense sail forest appeared in their field of vision, and it seemed that there were hundreds of ships.

"Isn't there no sailor in Penglai?"

Liao Yongzhong exclaimed.

They have already done reconnaissance before, the Yuan army naval division in Denglai has long been abandoned, all the forces that the Yuan army can mobilize have been transferred to the Daimyo battlefield, they don't even care about the mountain peninsula and what naval divisions they need, although there must be some local Han army warships to guard against pirates, but the scale cannot be so large, it is obvious that their previous intelligence is wrong, Penglai's sea portal is not open.

"Signal to prepare for battle, a column!"

Liao Yongzhong pulled out his knife without hesitation and shouted.

Immediately after that, the signalman above his head sent a signal to the following ships with flags, and the thirty battleships sailed side by side in two columns, and all the soldiers dragged their weak bodies and rushed towards one cannon after another.

These bird ships were actually different from the real bird ships, to be precise, duck butts, Chinese and Western hulls plus Chinese hard sails, all of them were 300-ton ships, although there were no two-tier gun decks, but they were equipped with thirty cannons behind the bulwarks of the upper decks, but they were all nine-pound cannons, and each had four eighteen-pounder guns for heavy firepower. Of course, this is enough to run rampant on the sea, after all, the best enemy they can encounter in this era is the bowl mouth gun, gunpowder arrows, in essence, it is still mainly cold weapons, and there will be no thick planks like sail battleships, there is no need for larger guns at all, especially eighteen pounder cannons in this era warships are no problem.

Soon, the original two columns of thirty warships changed into one column, and by this time the coastline was already clearly visible, and those enemy ships were even clearer.

"It's not like a sailor!"

Wang Guangyang said with a telescope.

In the distance, this fleet was very chaotic, and it was different from what they thought, it was actually sailing to the shore, and their flag was different from that of the Yuan army, and a large number of ordinary people could be seen flocking to Penglai City on the shore.

"Pirates, it's a pirate!"

He immediately guessed what it was.

"Cross the cut, pull it closer to a hundred feet, and face the enemy on the side side!"

Liao Yongzhong said.

He hadn't really fought with this new type of warship, so he could only follow the art of war of the Immortal Master.

His order was immediately signaled, the flagship turned to the cross-cut, and all the battleships behind followed, and more than four hundred cannons on the side of the thirty battleships began to be loaded, including those infantry with flintlock pistols who were also lying on the bulwark. And the enemy ships also discovered them, and more than a hundred large and small warships that had already rushed to the coast turned in confusion, ready to meet the sudden opponent behind them, while a group of soldiers on the shore who were preparing to meet them stopped there and watched the same sudden fleet together with the people who fled to the city.

Wang Guangyang guessed correctly, these warships are actually Japanese pirates.

This area is the hardest hit area by the Japanese invaders.

In fact, since the end of the Southern Song Dynasty, the Japanese have begun to attack the coast, and it was the Goryeo people who were first poisoned by them, after all, at that time, neither the Southern Song Dynasty nor the later Yuan Dynasty dared to provoke the Japanese invaders, these were all powerful naval armies, and Goryeo was the most suitable target. However, with the continuous growth of the strength of the Japanese invaders, especially the war at the end of the Yuan Dynasty, they had no time to care about coastal defense, and their goals began to gradually expand from north to south, and even at this time, even the coastal areas of Zhejiang began to appear as traces of the Japanese invaders. However, at this time, the coastal area of Zhejiang was guarded by the thieves of the pirates, and last year Fang Guozhen violently beat a group of pirates, and after the Yuan army withdrew from the Shandong Peninsula, Denglai became the preferred target of the pirates, after all, it has become a vacuum area for defense.

And this was the biggest attack they had ever assembled.

It's just bad luck.

They were bumped into by Liao Yongzhong's Northern Expedition fleet before they could land, but these pirates were not afraid of this fleet, after all, they had almost four times the numerical advantage, although these warships were larger, but most of them were galleys, they were more agile in this breezy sea, and these were all brand new giant ships were undoubtedly the most tempting targets, one by one pirate ships, pirates from the Wa Kingdom, Goryeo and even local China relied on oars to complete the turn, like a garbage patch covering the sea.

And Liao Yongzhong also completed the cross-cutting.

Because of the weak wind, his fleet was actually very slow, and it was very close to each other, and finally it was like a moving wall, and it suddenly crossed in front of the Japanese Kou.

"Ready!"

Liao Yongzhong said as he looked at the enemy who was getting closer and closer.

Thirty warships, with 5,000 marines and 3,000 sailors, were all on standby, and everyone was watching the enemy.

Soon the advance of the Japanese fleet entered two hundred zhang.

Wang Guangyang looked at Liao Yongzhong.

Liao Yongzhong did not give the order to open fire.

The Japanese fleet continued to move forward, their main tactic was to jump the gang, but Liao Yongzhong's warships were taller than them, so the front of the Japanese was also the largest, and the large galleys were driven by the dense oars on both sides, facing the wind and constantly closing the distance, and all the pirates on the ship's floor raised their bows and crossbows, roaring excitedly and preparing to ram, and their warships had angles of attack in front of them.

Liao Yongzhong looked at them motionlessly.

Soon the distance is 100 zhang.

"Fire!"

He said it indifferently.

Immediately after the command of the flag was issued, the next moment from the flagship under his feet, all the battleships suddenly erupted in flames, and the earth-shattering sound of cannons shook the sea, and more than four hundred cannons aimed at the twenty largest galleys and fired cannonballs, and the whistling sound of cannonballs crossed the sea, and in the blink of an eye, they hit the Japanese ships. Even the nine-pounder guns were lethal to these thin-planked ships, but they could not stop the cast-iron solid shells that approached the speed of sound, and the main decks of the galleys were constantly pierced by the splash of broken wood, and the splinters and shells were immediately among the oarsmen below. Twenty large Japanese ships slowed down almost at the same time, and even two of the bows began to sink rapidly, apparently piercing the bottom of the ship by eighteen-pound shells.

The gunners on all the Northern Expeditionary ships reloaded as fast as they could, and after only half a minute, the nine-pounder guns began the second round of firing first, and then the eighteen-pounder guns continued.

The targets are still those big ships.

After this round of firing, half of the twenty largest galleys had stopped, and four were essentially finished, their bows sinking sharply.

Then came the third round of shelling.

When this round of shelling was over, the twenty largest Japanese ships all stopped, and all of them looked covered in terrible scales, and even the Japanese on board began to abandon the ship, but those small and medium-sized Japanese ships because they had no time to turn, or the turning radius was not enough, but they were still close to Liao Yongzhong's fleet in the turn, and soon entered fifty zhang, some of the faster ones were even parallel to the fleet at most thirty zhang away, while some of the more brave Japanese ships continued to rush forward and prepared to help.

"Fire, this battle is easy to fight!"

Liao Yongzhong said.

While the cannons were aiming at the Japanese ships, the flintlock pistols in the hands of all the soldiers on the deck pulled the trigger one after another, and the dense bullets instantly hit the dead bodies of the Japanese on these ships, and then all the cannons and flintlock pistols fired at the fastest speed all the time. In the smoke that filled the sea, the ships sank in the splash of debris, and the bewildered Japanese invaders turned into floating corpses on the surface of the sea in the dense bullets, and they were slaughtered like lambs to the slaughter by firepower that transcended hundreds of years. Thirty warships stood on the sea like an impregnable wall, and in the spray of flames and gunsmoke, they used bullets and cannonballs to block the enemy at a distance of about 100 meters, and even the six Japanese ships that finally rushed to them with speed were all lost in the blink of an eye.

The remnants of the Japanese collapsed without any suspense.

"The ships continue to pursue separately and eliminate the evil!"

Liao Yongzhong said as he took off the armor he had just put on.

"This thing looks useless in the future!"

He said with some embarrassment.

Obviously, there will be no more fighting on the deck in the future naval battles, and his bird ships can sweep the enemy so easily, if it is a battleship with hundreds of giant cannons on the three decks of the immortal master's design, it is estimated that a salvo can shatter the enemy ships a hundred zhang away, and what enemy can get close to them?

He tidied up his dusty official uniform, put on his official hat, and said, "Dock." ”

"Single-ship docking?"

Wang Guangyang, who also changed into an official uniform and hat, asked.

He was appointed by Zhu Yuanzhang as the acting Xuanfu envoy of the Shandong East Road, and although the newly recovered territory did not belong to these vassal kings, they still had the right to temporarily appoint acting local officials, including those at the level of Xuanfu envoy, and the new emperor would appoint and take over the place after the new emperor was elected. Previously, Zhang Shicheng's Northern Expedition only occupied the East and West Shanxi Road, so he only appointed the Xuanfu envoy of the East Shanxi Road, and the East Shandong Road was restored to Zhu Yuanzhang according to their agreement, and in return, Zhu Yuanzhang let go of the entrance of the Guazhou Canal, so that Zhang Shicheng could directly go north to the canal.

Of course, Zhang Shicheng also promised not to engage Zhu Yuanzhang in the lower reaches of the Yangtze River, and neither side would play black hands on each other on the transportation line.

As for Zhu Yuanzhang's cross-sea expedition, it depends on his own ability.

Anyway, the three are all based on their own abilities.

In fact, both Chen Youliang and Zhang Shicheng are very aware of the difficulty of the cross-sea expedition, if it is really that easy, all dynasties and dynasties will not need to do their best to open the canal, the result of the Yuan Dynasty's cross-sea expedition is not far away, their expedition distance is not far from the mouth of the Yangtze River to the mouth of the Haihe River, the fleet from Goryeo is only a few hundred miles across the sea, and it has already ended in failure, not to mention that Zhu Yuanzhang has to cross the sea for more than 2,000 miles. Moreover, the opponents of the Yuan Dynasty, the Wa people, were not worth mentioning, but most of Zhu Yuanzhang's cross-sea expeditions had to face almost the strongest fortresses of this era, as well as the most elite Mongol army, and neither of them thought that he would succeed, and they both regarded this as his dying throes.

After Chang Yuchun led the Wu army to be defeated by Zhang Dingbian, Chen Youliang and Zhang Shicheng had already acquiesced to Zhu Yuanzhang's exit.

"Yes, a single ship docked, are you still afraid of resistance on the shore at this time?"

Liao Yongzhong said.

Well, there really is no resistance.

Just when the warships were separated to sweep away the remnants of the Japanese at sea, Liao Yongzhong's flagship sailed into Penglai Daoyu Village, and on the wharf of the largest naval base in the Northern Song Dynasty, Penglai local officials, gentry and tens of thousands of people had already put on gongs and drums to greet each other, and Zhu Yuanzhang's army officially set foot on the land north of the Yellow River and began its journey into Dadu.