Whether it was true or false, when the leading ships of the reef exploration boat sent by Lu Xun had already discovered a landing route, Goguryeo had already gathered about three or four thousand men and horses on the coast. The pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info the sword is already out of the sheath, and the one who uses the bow and arrow is also the arrow buckled on the string. Seeing how they looked like they were facing a great enemy, they were planning to get a little closer to the shore and they would attack.

Sun Shangxiang put down the binoculars at this time, turned his head to Lu Xun beside him and said, "It seems that Goguryeo can only gather these centaurs here in a short period of time." ”

Lu Xun also put down the binoculars, nodded lightly and said: "Goguryeo is not a big country, according to the number of what my brother knew when he traveled in his early years, there are only about 30,000 households, and the number of people is only more than 200,000 at best. The main thing is that it is remote and bitterly cold, and arable land is scarce, which limits the growth of Goguryeo's household registration. Therefore, although the number of household registrations known to my brother was more than 20 years ago, to this day, the number of household registrations in Goguryeo will not differ too much. In such a place, it is actually a rare thing to be able to gather three or four thousand troops in this time. This is also the place we chose to be closer to the royal capital of Goguryeo, and if we want to change to another place, I think we may not even be able to see the soldiers and horses of Goguryeo. ”

Sun Shangxiang looked back at their fleet, smiled and nodded: "Yes, although there are not many ships in our fleet, there are only more than fifty in total, but for these soil buns in remote places, they are already some behemoths that make people feel chilled when they see it, right?" If you want to change to another place where there are no people, those dirt buns have long escaped when they see our ships. ”

Looking at each other and smiling, Lu Xun gave the order to let the reef exploration ships come back, and then the fifteen main gunboats in the fleet slowly drove over, and at the right position, they all crossed the ships and faced the shore with the side of the ships.

The Goguryeo soldiers on the coast were really not wrong at all to say that they were dirt buns, and such a group of guys, where would they understand what those fifteen huge warships meant by fighting like this? In their concepts, where is the reason for sailing like this?

But just when the Goguryeo soldiers were still confused, the fifteen gunboats began to tell them why, and the answer given was naturally a whistling cannonball!

How many shells can these fifteen gunboats blast over the heads of the Goguryeo soldiers with a single salvo?

In fact, although the gunboats under the command of Lu Xun were behemoths in the eyes of the Goguryeo soldiers, they belonged to armed merchant ships in the sequence of ships in Yizhou, and to put it mildly, they were just merchant ships with some additional artillery positions.

It's not that Lu Ren is reluctant to give Lu Xun a better warship, but that the place where Lu Xun is guarding is in Yamatai, Wajimatai, and judging from various factors at that time, Lu Xun really didn't need such a good warship. In addition, because the distance is relatively long, the ship's demand for loading capacity is much higher than the need for armed capacity, so in terms of practicality, it is much better and more convenient to give Lu Xun armed merchant ships than to pure warships.

However, even so, there were still twelve breech guns on one side of each armed merchant ship, and one hundred and eighty guns on one side of fifteen armed merchant ships. And the 180 breech guns fired a salvo at the three or four thousand Goguryeo soldiers on the coast, which was enough to bombard those Goguryeo soldiers into crying fathers and mothers.

But it is said that the Goguryeo soldiers have seen this thing once upon a time? At first, they didn't know what was going on, but the next moment they were horrified to find that their companions were already flying in the tongues of fire that erupted from the ships, the whizzing things, and the loud noises that landed on the ground. The ensuing exclamations and screams spread across the coast almost instantly. In the face of such a scene, there is only one thing that the always fierce Goguryeo soldiers can think of at this time, and that is...... Run!

Running away is such a thing, someone will take the lead and someone will immediately follow up, not to mention that now a large group of people are thinking about running. Therefore, from the gunboat attack to the beginning of the rout of the three or four thousand Goguryeo soldiers, the combined time did not exceed half an hour. Or that sentence, how could the Goguryeo soldiers at this time stand this? What's more, on the way to escape, they have begun to chant superstitious words such as "The monsters of the sea are coming, they are all fire-breathing monsters".

To be honest, there weren't many Goguryeo soldiers killed, and under a few rounds of volleys, there were probably three or four hundred deaths at most, right? After all, these breech guns are not mountain artillery howitzers of later generations, and their lethality to skirmishers is still relatively limited, and more damage comes from the shock and blow to the spirit.

Although such a result was not unexpected by Lu Xun and Sun Shangxiang, it still made Sun Shangxiang feel a little bored at this time. However, at this time, Sun Shangxiang's deputy ran to Sun Shangxiang's side in a hurry and asked urgently: "County Lord, can I attack at this time?" ”

Sun Shangxiang looked at the deputy, first inquired about Lu Xun's meaning, and after getting Lu Xun's approval, he nodded to the deputy a little boringly: "Go!" Remember to stick to your plan and don't make your own decisions. If anyone disobeys military orders, behead! ”

"No!"

The deputy went in high spirits. In the next moment, more than a dozen ships in Lu Xun's fleet sailed out of the ship formation and began a landing operation towards the coast. And the more than ten ships carried by these ships are basically all Jiangdong soldiers brought by Sun Shangxiang to Wajima.

Lu Xun looked at Sun Shangxiang curiously at this time, and asked, "Isn't the county lord going out in person this time?" ”

Sun Shangxiang looked at the coast over there, shrugged his shoulders and said, "It's all been bombarded like this by your gunboat, and it's not interesting for me to go." It's rare for these Jiangdong children under my command to have the opportunity to earn some military merits and earn some benefits, and Boyan will not be stingy with this credit, right? ”

Lu Xun smiled and was noncommittal after hearing this, but it could be regarded as acquiescing to the current actions of those Jiangdong soldiers.

Then why didn't the soldiers and horses under Lu Xun's command move now, but Sun Shangxiang's Jiangdong soldiers moved first?

It's a bit of a long story. In the early years, when Lu Ren arranged for Sun Shangxiang to go to Wadao, Sun Shangxiang returned to Jiangdong to seconded some soldiers and horses to Sun Quan, and Sun Quan only gave Sun Shangxiang 3,000 very ordinary Jiangdong soldiers in order to deal with Sun Shangxiang. But later, it was these 3,000 Jiangdong soldiers who brought back a large amount of silver to Sun Quan, which was produced in the mountains of the Japanese island.

And what is the fundamental purpose of war? To put it bluntly, isn't it just for the word "profit"? Sun Quan saw that the 3,000 people he had just sent out to deal with Sun Shangxiang could bring him back such benefits, so he naturally wanted to follow up and make a little more.

On the other hand, Lu Ren's manpower on hand is actually relatively tight, so he is secretly trying to make Sun Quan's side have more manpower, of course, Lu Ren will not show it on the bright side. So after a lot of bargaining between the two sides, the final figure was that Sun Quan would send 5,000 Jiangdong soldiers to Sun Shangxiang every year, which would be under Sun Shangxiang's command, but Sun Shangxiang would need to obey the command of Lu Ren and Lu Xun.

And Lu Ren paid ten taels of silver to each Jiangdong soldier every year, or paid the corresponding property according to the price of Yizhou as the salary of the Jiangdong soldiers. Lu Ren is not stupid, giving a pound in the first two years is spending money on "job advertisements", of course, he has to give more blood. Since the fish is hooked, there is no need to spend any more money, and of course you have to pick what you can pick. Besides, silver is a mineral resource, not a renewable resource, so how can it withstand excessive tossing?

In addition, by the way, the Han Jin system is 16 taels, and a Han Liang in the Eastern Han Dynasty is only 13.8 grams, not a modern one or 50 grams, Lu Ren did not change in this regard, because it is necessary to follow the trend at that time, otherwise it will be very inconvenient to do business with those places in China.

In short, after negotiating with Sun Quan, Sun Shangxiang had 5,000 Jiangdong soldiers by his side. And these 5,000 Jiangdong soldiers usually follow Sun Shangxiang in Wadao, and they are mainly responsible for the people's livelihood and security in Lu Ren's "occupied area" on Wadao, except for maintaining public order, there is basically no war to fight.

Although it is a good thing that there is no war to fight, for these 5,000 Jiangdong soldiers, it basically means that they can only get a dead salary every year, and they have no war merits or military merits, which means that they cannot earn a "bonus".

If it has been this situation where there is no battle to fight and no merit to be gained, it would be fine, but now they are following Sun Shangxiang to attack Goguryeo, and the current situation knows at a glance that this is an opportunity to easily reap the merits of war, where can the many Jiangdong soldiers sit still?

In addition, there is another article that the Jiangdong soldiers in Wajima are in the nature of "coordinated forces". Let's put it this way, if the Yizhou soldiers under the command of Lu Xun are the main force on the first line, then the 5,000 Jiangdong soldiers brought by Sun Shangxiang belong to the second-line general troops. And there will inevitably be a comparison in people's hearts, and the Jiangdong soldiers, who have the nature of second-line troops, always have the feeling that they are a head shorter than the Yizhou soldiers. So if they really seize the opportunity, they also want to pretend to be 13 in front of the Yizhou soldiers, and raise their eyebrows and puff up. To put it bluntly, if you are a man, you have to have the arrogance and blood of a man.

So at this moment, after getting Sun Shangxiang's permission, the Jiangdong soldiers roared and launched a beach-grabbing landing battle on the coast of Goguryeo (uh, the bottle reminds me of a classic game), and almost rushed to the beachhead in a swarm...... To be honest, the Goguryeo beachhead at this time was not difficult to grab at all. There were only three or four thousand Goguryeo soldiers, and they were all scared away by Lu Xun's gunboats, and the Jiangdong soldiers rushed up at this time to grab military merit and beat the water dogs.

After beating the water dogs and driving those Goguryeo soldiers to flee in all directions, the Jiangdong soldiers did not make too much trouble, but chose to shrink their forces in time and began to look for favorable terrain and build defensive positions on the beachhead. Jiangdong soldiers themselves are good at water warfare, and when they were idle on Wajima, they were trained by Sun Shangxiang fiercely......

Just kidding, if things don't do a little more beautifully, not to mention that they will be despised by the Yizhou soldiers, if you really lose Sun Shangxiang's face, are you really joking when you are the lord of Sun Dajun? Many generals in Jiangdong had a headache when they saw Sun Shangxiang, where could ordinary soldiers provoke Sun Shangxiang? Behind the scenes, Jiang Dongbing was secretly talking about Sun Shangxiang being almost thirty years old but not being able to get married, and he was already a little bit of that in terms of temperament. Uh-huh, everybody understands what that means.

I won't talk about this, just say that when the Jiangdong soldiers had built a defensive position on the beachhead, Ling Yuan, the commander of the Yizhou fleet, was called over by Lu Xun and pulled aside to explain the matter. By the way, the navy on Lu Xun's side is mainly under the command of Ling Yuan, and Lu Xun is equivalent to the commander-in-chief of the corps. On the army side, because it was mainly handed over to Sun Shangxiang's Jiangdong soldiers, Sun Shangxiang can be regarded as the commander of the army...... But there are only a few thousand of them.

At this time, Ling Yuan (just a certain trick, he hasn't appeared for a long time) was really dissatisfied with Jiangdong Bing's seizure of military merits, after all, he belonged to Lu Xun's side, and it was rare to have this kind of opportunity to make credit, so he would naturally feel a little unhappy in his heart. At this moment, seeing Lu Xun calling him over, he guessed that Lu Xun had some task to give him, and he was a little eager to try.

After Lu Xun called Ling Yuan over, he first took a big bag from the hands of his entourage, and then handed this big bag into Ling Yuan's hands, and advised: "You take people up and show such a big flag everywhere!" ”

"Flag?"

Ling Yuan was a little puzzled and unwrapped the big bag and shook off the flag weave wrapped inside. On closer inspection, this is a huge "Han" flag.

"Brother Boyan, this flag ......"

Lu Xun nodded: "This is what my brother meant, he wants us to be in a foreign country and raise the prestige of my Han country." Go ahead! ”

Ling Yuan was stunned, and then took the order and left. When Lu Xun walked back to the bow of the boat, Sun Shangxiang couldn't help but ask curiously: "Bo Yan, what are you asking him to do?" ”

Lu Xun smiled faintly and responded, "You'll know in a while." ”

It didn't take long for the big banners of the Chinese character to flutter high in various places along the coast and beachhead of Goguryeo. Lu Xun watched this scene from the binoculars, but the expression on his face suddenly became very serious, and his voice became a little low: "I suddenly understand why my brother insisted on doing this." ”

Sun Shangxiang, who was beside him, was silent for a moment, and then nodded: "I seem to understand something." For some reason, watching these flags flying in the wind made my heart feel a little agitated. I feel that even if I am in the cold wind, I will not feel cold. ”

Just as Sun Shangxiang said, at this moment on the coastal beachhead, whether it is the Yizhou soldiers or the Jiangdong soldiers, when they look at the "Han" banner raised high, an indescribable feeling swells up in their hearts. In the end, I don't know who took the lead, and the soldiers cheered in unison. And if Lu Ren is here, maybe Lu Ren will say to Lu Xun and Sun Shangxiang:

"What I let you raise is not just a flag, but a soul, a faith, and our national pride."

Of course, even if Lu Ren really said such things to Lu Xun and Sun Shangxiang, whether these two goods could fully understand it was still two words. It is only said that at this moment, in the fluttering of the flag weaving, in the cheers of the soldiers, Sun Shangxiang's heart was stirred, and even with it, Sun Shangxiang unconsciously relaxed some of his thoughts.

Affected by this mood, Sun Shangxiang's body was slightly crooked, and he leaned on Lu Xun's body. Lu Xun was leaned on by Sun Shangxiang like this, and he was stunned at first and was about to speak, but Sun Shangxiang took a step ahead of Lu Xun and said: "Don't move, let me lean on...... Uh, any idea why I didn't go into battle myself? Actually, I sprained my ankle when I fell just now, and it's a bit hard to do it at this point.

Is that really the case? God knows! However, for Lu Xun at this moment, he also hopes that Sun Shangxiang can lean on himself like now, anyway, there is a reasonable excuse, right? It's just that if it were replaced by some people, the trick would laugh at Lu Xun for covering his ears and stealing the bell, and he wanted to cover up. Of course, at this time, no one would be so uninteresting to provoke these two.

And the next moment, Sun Shangxiang suddenly pulled Lu Xun's cloak and surrounded him. Without waiting for Lu Xun to speak, Sun Shangxiang explained: "It's a little cold, borrow me to surround ...... first"

“……”

Sun Shangxiang also realized that he seemed to have done something excessive at this time, and after his face turned red slightly, he shouted behind him: "Mei Lan Juzhu, help me pick up some thick clothes, and by the way, bring two more bags of hot wine." ”

These four of Sun Shangxiang's maids were ordered to take their things. It's just that Sun Shangxiang's seemingly reasonable explanation just now, how can he stop the fire of gossip that has been burning in the hearts of these four maids? So I believe that it won't be long before the incident between Lu Xun and Sun Shangxiang today will be transmitted back to Yizhou, and in the process of spreading, I don't know how many abnormal versions will be made by boring people of good deeds......

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The gaze turned back to Liaodong.

At this time, in Xiangping City, Gongsun Yuan was jumping like thunder there. For nothing else, on the Goguryeo side, Baqi was furious because he was unable to send reinforcements to help Gongsun Yuan. Not only was he unable to send reinforcements, but he also hoped that Gongsun Yuan would send troops to Goguryeo, and Gongsun Yuan almost fainted when he heard such news.

What kind of ungrateful, crossing the river and demolishing the bridge and the like are naturally scolded, but they are just scolding, so as to vent the resentment in their hearts. Gongsun Yuan is not a stupid person, not to mention that he knows that the relationship between him and Baqi is to use each other, and more importantly, after listening to the description of the attack on the coast of Goguryeo sent by Baqi, Gongsun Yuan immediately understood that this was a ghost done by Lu Ren on Goguryeo's side, and the purpose was to contain Goguryeo's possible reinforcements to Gongsun Yuan.

At this time, Gongsun Yuan was really afraid. He had already been choked enough by Lu Ren, and he had suffered a lot, and now he heard that the reinforcements he could have seconded had actually been calculated by Lu Ren, and Gongsun Yuan's heart suddenly felt a deep sense of powerlessness......