The building ship was no longer a ship at the moment, and the fire on the starboard side of the Jinhe alone made it crumble, and the six armed cargo ships that followed it did not hesitate, even if there were only a few broken logs left on the sea before Hong Tao gave the order for a ceasefire, they still had to shoot. This beating was too solid, and when the main fleet had all opened fire and began to turn, only the building ship was left on the water, the ship was gone, and the three-story wooden building was also in tatters.

"Tell them that I will give them half an hour, and those who do not drop the sails and surrender will be sunk, and no one will be saved, and the timer will be counted from now on! Let the attacking fleet lower the dinghy and replenish the ammunition first. Looking at the wrecks of the ships on the sea and the officers and soldiers who fell into the water, Hong Tao issued another order that made Weng Ya grin when he heard it, he wanted to drown these people alive and not save any of them. In front of these officers and soldiers of the Southern Song Dynasty Naval Division, they had to drown their compatriots, siblings, to see if they had the courage to fight for their lives.

The result made Hong Tao very disappointed, more than 30 Southern Song Dynasty naval division warships, among thousands of people, none of them dared to stand up and resist, all of them fell sail and quietly stopped in place waiting for God's arrangement, and there was no intention of protesting at all. This kind of army has been said by Kong Pei to be quite good in combat effectiveness, but one can imagine what kind of virtue the Southern Song Army is that is even less combative. An army must first have discipline, then the quality of training, and finally blood. Without blood, is it still human? The Walking Dead is just that.

In the face of this kind of person, Hong Tao couldn't even raise the emotion of continuing to scare and torture them, so he simply let them all get out, but those people in the water were still not allowed to be rescued, and whoever dared to save a person should be prepared to be shelled. The remaining officers and soldiers of the Southern Song Dynasty Navy Division were indeed obedient. I'm afraid they've scared their hearts. I still see my colleagues struggling in the water. They all moved their boats to the south, for fear that someone would swim over and pick up their own boats and burden them.

"Compared to these people, uncle, you are much kinder...... They're not human at all, and it's annoying to look at them or drown! Weng Ya didn't say Hong Tao's cold-blooded anymore this time, she was even more disgusted with those Southern Song Dynasty officers and soldiers who didn't dare to say a word when they saw death and didn't even dare to say a word.

"Don't play dead, you two, it's your responsibility to do this 100 percent. You can't run away from being whipped. But don't smoke it now, don't explain it to me, no excuse can convince me, even if your own father is on the other party's boat, you are not allowed to let the other party get so close, this is iron discipline, there are no exceptions. Now is not the time for punishment, go and finish the work that needs to be done, the supply must be completed in two hours, and the officers who are not well manned will go to help. ”

Hong Tao didn't have time to listen to Weng Ya's praise. Kong Pei and Bo Jiao climbed onto the deck one after another, standing with their heads bowed and waiting to be dealt with. This time, neither of them found an objective reason. If Hong Tao hadn't rushed back in time, they would probably have to take the sailors to hand-to-hand combat, and the chances of winning were still very small. The Royal Navy's ship configuration is not designed for broadside combat, so there are few men and there are not many melee weapons, and as long as the opponent has enough people, control of the ship will be lost sooner or later.

"Uncle, then should we continue to fight the Mongols, or should we go to fight the Southern Song Dynasty sailors?" Hong Tao spoke with a serious expression in front of him, and Weng Ya stood behind him with a fox and a tiger, sticking out his tongue and squeezing his eyes at the two of them back and forth. This kind of action seems to be a joke, but it is actually a signal to Bo Jiao and Kong Pei, telling them how serious Hong Tao is angry. Bo Jiao and Kong Pei also correctly interpreted Weng Ya's signal, and the heart that they were originally carrying was relaxed. As long as you don't deal with it on the spot, the sin is not big, which proves that Hong Tao is not really angry, and there is still a delay. As long as he behaves better later, maybe Hong Tao will pretend to forget about this when he goes back, and there have been such precedents before.

"It depends on whether the Southern Song Dynasty sailors have the courage to come to us for revenge, if they dare to come, I don't mind fighting the Mongols after beating them!" Hong Tao was not too angry with Bo Jiao and Kong Pei, and he blamed himself for negligence in this matter, he didn't expect that there were such people in the Southern Song Dynasty officials who didn't care about the overall situation, so he should have thought of it. Now that the ship has sunk and people have been killed, it is the turn of the Southern Song Dynasty court to take action, do they dare to come to take revenge? It's hard to say, and Hong Tao didn't know the answer for sure.

This time, the response of the Southern Song Dynasty court was still so slow as usual, and the commander of the sailor was killed by others, but after waiting for three hours, the sailor of the Southern Song Dynasty did not make any movement, but sailed from the south. According to the lookout's report, the number of these ships is about fifty, and there are all kinds of them, including simplified Jiao Shark class, as well as Guangchuan and Fu Chuan, and the flag is still unclear.

"We don't wait, love is who is who, let's get rid of the threat from the north first!" The other party still has a distance of more than ten nautical miles, and it will take at least more than an hour to see the flag clearly, and now the time is not in favor of Hong Tao. The Mongol sailors are still moving south, and they must be disrupted north of the Yangtze River, and they must be eliminated as much as they can. Just after seeing the success of the Southern Song Dynasty sailors, Hong Tao felt that leaving them 300 Mongolian sailor warships was enough to stop them, so it was better to work more for those who could do it.

"Chairman Luo, how did Your Majesty's ship go?" At this time, the flagship of the southern fleet was not standing on top of anyone else, but Luo Youde, an old handsome man in the Southern Song Dynasty and chairman of the Strait Company. The ships behind him were all spontaneously formed by merchants from Guangzhou, Quanzhou, Qiongzhou, and Fuzhou, and the banner said that the Great Song Dynasty merchant group volunteers, and it was the Southern Song Dynasty merchants who voluntarily took out their family's private ships and the sailors in their families, brought their own grain, grass and weapons, and came north to help the imperial court resist the Mongol sailors.

Hong Tao really didn't know about this matter, because the initiator was very marginal and had nothing to do with Hong Tao at all. This person's name is Wen Hao! Wen Hao, the editor-in-chief of the bosom friend newspaper, is Wen Nan's cousin.

This guy has been very happy in Guangzhou City for many years, from the very beginning of talking about the affairs of the imperial court, it has slowly developed into all kinds of criticism, appeals and discussions, and a large group of like-minded Southern Song Dynasty literati and officials have gathered around him, and organized a group called the Bosom Friend Society. With the support of many southern businessmen and officials, they continued to put forward their ideas, and their momentum has spread all over Guangzhou and Quanzhou, and there is a tendency to spark the prairie and develop rapidly.

Although Hong Tao had asked Cixi to cut off direct contact with the bosom friend newspaper and try to remove his traces, Wen Nan's cousin still used Hong Tao's name as a cover. He didn't swagger. But he turned his theory into his own set of statecraft. In addition to his own thing. Together, it sounds tempting, at least for many young literati with a passion for it.

When he heard that Hong Tao led the fleet north to fight against the Mongol sailors, he immediately had the idea of making himself famous. Why? To incite the maritime merchants in the vicinity of Guangzhou, Quanzhou, and Fuzhou, especially the maritime merchants of the Straits Company, to spontaneously organize militia groups. There is money to pay, someone to send people, and there are ships to go out, and then follow Hong Tao's fleet to the north to fight against the Mongol sailors.

In his inscription published in the Zhiyin newspaper, the Great Song Dynasty was the homeland of all people, and if the people in the southern coastal areas were indifferent to the fact that the Yangtze River region was attacked by the Mongols, they would soon become slaves of foreign races, just like those people. If you want your family to prosper forever. It is necessary to unite and resist the invaders together, regardless of whether they are north or south. Even if you can't go directly to the front line to fight, you will always be able to transport food and grass and take care of the wounded, right? It is really not a big ship to ram the enemy, it is equivalent to contributing to the country and the court.

If he lets Hong Tao hear this, he can directly give him a big mouth! A guy who has never even seen a war dares to talk about how to fight a war, and dares to organize a militia to go to the front line without permission. This kind of person is no kinder than Zhao Fan and others, and even more vicious. Any means to achieve their own ends. can do anything, Hong Tao hates this kind of person the most.

The problem is that these maritime merchants and ordinary people do not have Hong Tao's perspective and knowledge. Coupled with the inexplicable relationship between the bosom friend newspaper and the strait company, everyone thinks that this is what Hong Tao meant. Now that the big bosses in the background have spoken, this matter really sounds like defending the family and the country, so what are you waiting for, hurry up and Zhang Luo. Those who were timid and didn't dare to go to the front line paid money and went out on the boat, and those who were bold were fanned by Wen Hao's blood boiling even the people took it together.

This snowball is getting bigger and bigger, and people are blindly obedient, especially in ancient times when information was blocked and information was blocked, and many civil uprisings rolled like this. At the beginning, it was a hundred and ten people who started an incident, and after gaining a little prestige, they went all the way and flickered all the way, and the more people they coerced, the greater the energy, and the result was that you couldn't help but go. If you dare to say no, you are a traitor! Your family's reputation stinks in the local area, and no one buys your family's goods for nothing, and no one discriminates against you.

If you want to ask Cixi and Luo Youde why they went, these two were also confused at the time. Hong Tao has always been out of the ordinary, and they can't figure out whether the volunteer army that Wen Hao fanned was Hong Tao's idea, and Hong Tao had already left Jinhe City at that time and went north with the fleet, and even the communication ship didn't know where Hong Tao went, which was a military secret.

In desperation, the two brothers discussed, feeling that if this matter is forcibly stopped, it will hurt everyone's hearts, and more importantly, it will ruin Hong Tao's reputation, so it is better to add fuel to the fire. Anyway, this matter is not harmful to Hong Tao, to the Jinhe Empire, and to the Great Song Dynasty, one more person means more strength, so Luo Youde became the actual organizer of the Volunteer Army, preparing for the formation of the Shang Tuan Volunteer Army on the surface, and using his official channels in Guangzhou and Quanzhou to persuade those local officials first, lest they be suspicious all day long, thinking that everyone wants cavalry to cause chaos. Cixi was secretly helping, while reviewing the situation of the people who participated in the merchant group volunteers one by one to avoid mixing in with any lawbreakers, and at the same time placing people from the imperial intelligence department around several main plotters, and investigating in detail why these people were fanning everyone to gradually this merchant group volunteers, support is supported, and the necessary vigilance must be there.

With the participation of the two of them, this matter was much easier, and one guy gathered more than 200 ships and tens of thousands of militia groups. Because there are too many of them, Luo Youde doesn't have the ability to bring them all over, the quality of these ships is uneven, and some are fast and some are slow, and they can't go together. Don't look at Cixi who can't sail, but he has a smart head, he gave Luo Youde an idea, let Luo Youde pick out the fast ships, and take them to leave Fuzhou first to find Hong Tao in the waters near Mingzhou. Even if Hong Tao's fleet could not be found, it would be possible to find Wennan or Xu Liangzhi, and the remaining ships and personnel would be divided into two groups and set off separately.

No, Luo Youde came with the advance fleet, and also found Xu Liangzhi, and knew the location of the supply station of the royal fleet, but he passed by Hong Tao, and there was a gap of more than an hour in the middle. But in this hour, Hong Tao, the Jinhe Empire, the Great Song Dynasty, and the Mongol Empire have all undergone earth-shaking changes, and even directly affected the whole world. Some things in the world are so weird, often you have worked hard for half a lifetime, and the achievements are not as big as an accidental event.

(To be continued.) )