In this way, the Three Towns Army of the Western Regions ended their journey to save the Central Plains, and then embarked on the road to the west with their glory.

But there's one more thing they need to do before they leave.

In view of the fact that Tubo had begun to attack Shanzhou at this time, the army of the three towns in the Western Regions had to beat the latter by the way when passing by Longyou, which was strongly requested by Bai Xiaode, although he got a festival envoy, but he was very dissatisfied with Yang Feng's abandonment of him, Yang Feng had to give him enough comfort, anyway, it was also a way, not to mention taking back Shibao City, at least they had to be blocked back and give them some color, mainly to win enough time for Lao Bai to reorganize the Longyou army......

This Yang Feng doesn't care.

As long as he does not enter the warning line of 3,000 meters above sea level, simply in the low-altitude area, the elite of the three towns in the Western Regions will crush Tubo.

Although in the Huangshui River Valley, the use of mounted cavalry is not great, but playing heavy infantry in the Western Regions Army is also invincible, the Tubo soldiers are indeed fierce and brave, but they are useless against these heavy infantry in the Western Regions, as far as their swords can't cut the armor of the soldiers in the Western Regions, the Song Army in order to deal with this thing, but the battle axes and heavy knives of Yishui are not guaranteed to be completely suppressed, and they have to rely on a large number of divine arm bows to shoot, even if the Western Regions Army itself is now a can opener, that is, a war hammer, As for the ordinary swords of the Tibetan soldiers and the bows that even Du You described as weak in the general canon, how could they shake these iron cans?

As for the generals, not to mention, they are all famous generals of the late Tang Dynasty against Tubo, Bai Xiaode, Duan Xiushi, Ma Lan, Li Sheng, especially Ma Lan, this is the Optimus Prime of the Daizong Dynasty to resist Tubo.

There is also the deputy marshal of the last battle of Stone Castle City.

Yang Xianzhong participated in this bloody battle as one of Ge Shuhan's deputies at the beginning.

It can be said that no matter the generals, all of them are the most gorgeous configurations, if this can't solve the threat of the Tubo people to Shanzhou, it is pure nonsense, in fact, Yang Feng gave them the task, that is, if possible, even the stone castle city will be taken by the way, otherwise this small castle is controlled by the Tubo people, after all, let them take the initiative.

Actually, it's not that difficult.

Although due to the terrain, it is definitely impossible to set up a counterweight trebuchet in that place, but you can use a Roman sniper ballista! It's not to shoot crossbow arrows, but to shoot stone bullets with that thing, it's impossible to shoot hundreds of catties of stone bullets, dozens of catties of stone bullets are still no problem, dozens of Roman sniper ballistae are set up, and the trajectory is calculated to smash dozens of pounds of stone bullets into it day and night, just a little castle, it is estimated that there will be no living people in it for ten days, and I am afraid that there is no place to put your feet inside, if this set of tactics is tested, before the firearms equipment, Yang Feng is ready to give his mountain troops a large number of this, and use it as the basis for mountain attacks.

In short, he didn't care about Longyou, and completely handed it over to his generals, which could be regarded as giving them a chance to exercise.

And he went straight east to Dengzhou.

Yang Dashuai took his female apprentice and cousin together, and then went to Luoyang, and boarded a ship in Heyang and went straight down to Songzhou, and then transferred from Songzhou to Haizhou, where he boarded the warship sent by Li Gao to pick him up. And Yanyun Cao Yipu Wuzhou has also been set up as a festival envoy, by the battle of Suiyang hero Zhang Xun to serve, it is said that the battle of Suiyang gave birth to two festival envoys, Xu Yuan's Biansong Festival envoy and Zhang Xun's Yanyun Jie envoy, after all, the loyalty of the two of them made Li Heng moved and relieved, such a person is not important is a fool, and they were both named county dukes.

Dengzhou.

"That's what you've achieved over the years?"

On Penglai Danya Mountain, Yang Feng looked at the huge fleet in front of him with great surprise, and then asked Li Gao beside him.

On the blue sea in front of him, a whole fifty large fortune ships were densely arranged, and between these great fortune ships, there were more than a hundred slightly smaller bird ships, one side of the sails formed an endless sail forest, which looked extremely spectacular, and on the stern of these warships, small trebuchets and bed crossbows were also densely arranged, and crossbows could be seen everywhere, and those sailors in paper armor stood neatly and solemnly.

"It's not!"

Li Gao said with a smile.

"That's only a third of that."

Then he said.

"Over the years, I have supervised the construction of a total of 170 Fu ships and 320 bird ships, the largest six Fu ships are 15 zhang long, each of which is 1,000 tons in terms of the displacement used by my brother, and most of the others are more than 6 or 700 tons, and most of the bird ships are 300 to 400 tons, of which the Denglai Naval Division has 100 Fu ships and 200 bird boats, and the Annan Navy Division has 70 Fu ships and 120 bird ships, but if there is enough money and sufficient materials in various ship yards, at least one Annan Navy Division can be rebuilt in a year. The warship here of the younger brother divided half of the southward transportation of food, and it is estimated that it has just left the mouth of the Yangtze River at this time. ”

He said proudly.

Yang Feng's ton is 1,000 catties, which is 0.6 tons in modern times.

At this time, because of the outbreak of the Anshi Rebellion, large-scale shipbuilding had stopped, and even many shipbuilders everywhere were recruited as sailors.

"In addition, our Weiyuan caravan has nearly a hundred merchant ships, all of which are used to running in the South Seas."

He added.

"Where is our fleet furthest?"

Yang Feng looked at this fleet that had been born seven hundred years in advance with interest and said.

"Tianzhu!"

Li Gao said with a smile.

"Tianzhu?"

Yang Feng was stunned.

"Yes, the year before last, our twelve bird ships formed a caravan, according to the chart provided by my brother, through the Dragon's Tooth Gate to Sri Buddha, and then from the death of Sri Buddha along the coast all the way north to the country of Pi, and then from the country of Pi to Bengal, at the mouth of the Ganges River to trade with the local natives, and even a caravan with their permission to reach the city of Qunu, a total of six merchant fleets have been to the states of Tianzhu in these years, and also to Donghui. And there was a battle with pirates at the Dragon's Tooth Gate, but Gao Gong and I suspected that it was the people of Sri Buddha who wanted to prevent us from trading directly with Tianzhu, and deliberately pretended to be pirates, we lost a bird ship, and sank more than a dozen of their warships, and then Gao Gong simply let the sailors go south along the coast and build a port in the west of Borneo, and then sailed to the Annam sailors until the death of Sri Buddha to trade, and no pirates dared to provoke our merchant ships after that. ”

Li Gao said.

Obviously, their results far exceeded Yang Feng's deadlines.

Of course, this is mainly lured by interests, Li Gao, Gao Xianzhi, He Luguang, these guys deposit money in the bank every year is an amazing number.

They have actually completely controlled the trade from the Strait of Malacca to the east, especially the spice trade in the spice islands, and even established a stronghold in modern Brunei, including the route to Java Island, and every year a shipload from the South Seas to the country to transport all kinds of spices, especially in Borneo, they have established three strongholds in a row, all of them buy slaves from the South Seas and send soldiers to watch the nearby spices that are almost all over the mountains, because of their crazy dumping, the price of domestic pepper has fallen by a full third, But they still have no restraint.

For them, not to mention falling by a third, even if it falls by more than half, it is also a huge profit, there is no cost at all, it is not good or bad, it is picked and dried and loaded on the ship, the workers are slaves who buy, and the food is just scattered with rice seeds, even if they shoot monkeys with a bow with a divine arm, it is enough to eat, and the products there are so abundant that they are violent.

That is, the cost of sea freight.

However, the voyage from Champa to Borneo is only more than 1,000 miles, which is a maximum of five days for a bird ship that can run three or four hundred miles a day when the wind direction is suitable, even if the wind direction is unfavorable for a month, it is enough to go back and forth, basically similar to running from Annam to Guangzhou, how can there be any shipping cost at all? Originally, one of their most important gains was to buy spices from Nanyang to sell in the Tang Dynasty, but now this trade is basically controlled by Weiyuan and those Tang merchants who have a way, Gao Xianzhi even sent a fleet to intercept them at sea and forbid them to bring spices over, and confiscated them when they found them, and at most allowed them to purchase goods in Guangzhou, which made those big cannibals full of grief and indignation.

But they were helpless, Gao Xianzhi's warships equipped with trebuchets and bed crossbows, as well as a large number of divine arm bows and repeaters, would easily deal with any big food merchant ship that dared to resist.

Datang is becoming the real hegemon on the sea east of the Strait of Malacca, the warships of the Annam Navy Division are rampant throughout the South China Sea, and have really begun colonization, and relying on coercion and temptation, they have established strongholds in Shuizhenla, Champong, Borneo, the Anbuna Islands, and even Longyamen, although it is currently limited to collecting spices, but relying on the collection of spices is also enough, after all, Datang itself is also a spice market with a population of tens of millions. Li Gao even sold spices to the northern countries such as Wa, Silla, and Bohai, and also made huge profits in these markets, and he and Gao Xianzhi had even reached a division of the sphere of influence.

Of course, they all have Yang Feng's shares in their business names, after all, they can't do without Yang Feng's navigation equipment and technical information.

And all their money is kept in the bank.

The bank has already set up branches as far as Annamto.

It can be said that the colonial era has begun.

"So, would you like to continue to be here as a transport captain? Or would you rather conquer the wider sea? I'm ready to wait for your fleet in Bengal. ”

Yang Feng said with a smile.