"I'm not leaving, I'm with Your Majesty, and I'm a person who has died once, and I've never been afraid of death anymore. But Your Majesty, forgive me for being disrespectful, if Your Majesty loses, won't the empire be leaderless. Nan Dou dared to persuade His Majesty, it is better to hand over the command to Kong Pei, you can sit in Mingzhou. Wen Nan didn't listen to the order, not only did he not listen, but he also gave orders to Hong Tao.

"I, an imperial emperor, stay in the city of the Great Song Dynasty and watch my fleet go on the expedition, do you think it's appropriate? What am I afraid of when I die, and you are still here, as long as you can carry out my ideas, my son and my grandson will become emperors, and they will still have to go to the front. By the way, help me write down this article, in the future, the emperor of the Hong family must join the army and go to the battlefield, otherwise he will not be allowed to ascend the throne, this is my family motto, no need to pass the parliament, it will take effect immediately! "Finally persuaded Kong Pei and them, Wen Nan came out again, it was still like this, and Hong Tao was also anxious. He likes to buzz in other people's ears like a fly, but he definitely can't stand someone doing the same thing in his own ear.

"The ...... of the royal selfless affairs" Wen Nan is much more difficult to fool than Kong Pei, he understands the laws of the empire in more detail than Hong Tao, and his reasoning is also organized.

"Then you go back first and ask the council to remove my naval commander, don't forget, you are on my flagship, do you know how it is stipulated in the naval law?" Hong Tao is not good at stubble, and others who play literature are not a person, this set of things is designed by himself, and he must keep a back door for himself, just in case someone uses his own things to restrain himself in the future.

"You...... You are unreasonable! Wen Nan really couldn't find a suitable reason for a while, as soon as the wartime law was enforced, Hong Tao's rights would be unlimited. Plus he's on a warship. That's not the place to make sense.

"You're going to go on your own. Or do you want Weng Ya to throw you down with her collar? Pick your own! "Wen Nan who plays literature is not a person, and he who plays martial arts is even more hopeless.

"I'll sue you in the council!" stared at Hong Tao for a long time, and when he saw that Hong Tao was really going to open the door and call Weng Ya, Wen Nan still gave in. Let a woman still get off the boat, and still be in front of the prime minister of the Southern Song Dynasty and many sailors, this thing is too embarrassing, and there will be no way to mix it up in the future, so let's go by myself. But when you go back, the scene has to be told in its entirety.

"Uncle, who is this Teacher Wen with?" Weng Ya had taken Wennan's class, and she had always called Wennan teacher, and when she saw that Hong Tao had just blown the two Great Song officials away, Wennan was also blasted out in a few minutes, so she came over curiously to gossip.

"And with whom? And you! Where's my barbecue? What time has it been, you want to starve me to death! I tell you, ah, I will circumvent you once, but the death penalty can be avoided from the living sin. After a while, you bake it for me, and if you don't bake it well, you will be punished for both crimes. Whip three lashes on the tying mast! "How to use the resources in his hands to take advantage is Hong Tao's natural skill, and whoever catches up is unlucky.

"Cut, isn't it just lazy, why do you say it so seriously, if you want to eat barbecue, just say it, I'll roast it for you every day." By the way, uncle, I heard that you have found a smoking herb to cure your illness, why didn't I see any effect? "Weng Ya has long been immune to Hong Tao's little tricks, and if she is fooled once, if she is fooled every day, then this brain will not be the captain.

"Really? I don't think it works, so why don't you try it for me? Seeing that Weng Ya was not fooled, Hong Tao's little eyes rolled, and bad ideas came out again. Weng Ya must have never smoked, and it must be fun to choke her once.

“…… You're not a good person! Ahem...... Just know how to bully! Wait, I'll sprinkle the fire and medicine on the barbecue! In a few moments, Weng Ya rushed out of the captain's room, coughing and shedding tears, and ran down the deck with a curse in his mouth.

"Hey, Huzi, what's wrong with the captain, did you let the emperor bully you? It won't be ...... to make Captain Weng shed tears" Seeing Weng Ya's appearance, all the officers and sailors on the deck were shocked, and some began to mumble in private. Everyone knows the virtue of their emperor, he is not taboo on the issue of women, although Weng Ya is a compassionate daughter-in-law and pregnant, but no one dares to guarantee that this emperor will not be able to do it. He has a heavy taste, even a savage dares to marry, what else is there to dare.

"Anchor! Raise the sails! Whoever dares to chew his tongue, I will tie him to the cannon and taste the taste of barbecue! At this moment, Weng Ya's head suddenly came out of the deck again, and shouted at the sailors who were still talking to each other on the deck, and then there was no one on the deck in an instant.

After unloading ammunition and reloading, the three fleets left the desert island anchorage, and the Jinhe led the main fleet in front, sailing north along the coastline five nautical miles apart. When the Jinhe sailed past the mouth of the Yangtze River, the battle flag was raised on the mast, the whole fleet was put into a state of readiness, all the guns began to be charged, the sail crew was fully manned, and the lights of the whole ship were controlled except for the stern navigation lights. The number of lookouts has also increased to three, each holding a large telescope, each responsible for a 90-degree angle, staring at the movement on the sea day and night, and a sea battle is about to break out!

Compared to the stumbling alliance between the Jinhe Empire and the Great Song Dynasty, the Mongol Empire was not very calm at this time. Since the prince set out to conquer Xiangyang, only to return with serious injuries and lose the general Tath and thousands of elite soldiers, the pace of the empire's southward march has become more and more difficult day by day. The Southern Song Dynasty soldiers, who were originally defeated in the first battle, seemed to have suddenly been shot in the arm, and they were more and more able to fight. What is hateful is those galleons that run around the rivers, and they can effortlessly transfer troops, grain and grass around in less than one-tenth of the usual time. And no matter how fast the Mongol cavalry was, it could not catch up with the speed of the ship.

What's even more infuriating is that these ships are still heavily armed, not to mention plundering them, they are lucky to be able to pass honestly. When there were Mongol troops camping and passing by the river, those boats would surely come with a cannonball, and they would not kill people but also frighten them to death, so that the Mongol troops would not dare to go to the river. This kind of taste that can only fight others by oneself and others cannot fight back was tasted by the enemies of the Mongol Empire before, but now it is their turn to taste it, and Jinnyima is not the taste!

In this way, all areas close to the great rivers became the home of the Southern Song army, and no matter what methods and strategies the Mongol army adopted, it could not make up for the inconvenience caused by these ships in the end. Having lost the initiative on the battlefield and unable to carry out large-scale cavalry roundabouts, even Ögedai Khan himself could not think of any good way to continue the southward invasion.

However, the proud Mongolian nobles will not be willing to fail, let alone fail, and they will not succeed if they are frustrated! From the original hundred and ten people on horseback to the current empire that spans thousands of miles, what did the Mongols rely on? It's not the famous Mongolian cavalry and archery, nor the nomadic habits, but learning! The Mongols are better at learning than those who stick to the rules.

In these decades of southern conquest and northern war, it is by continuous learning and progress that the army of the Mongol Empire has changed from not being able to attack cities to becoming a master of siege. Whether it is the city of the Great Song Dynasty, the city of the Jin Kingdom, the city of the Rus' people, or the city of the Great Cannibals, there is no impregnable situation in front of the Mongol Empire army.

Now it was the turn of the Mongols to continue their studies, this time how to build ships and how to fight water battles! Although it was too quick for the Mongol soldiers, accustomed to the steppes and horseback life, to fight in the sea, Ögedei Khan insisted that the Mongols could do anything, and that if the southerners could learn it, the Mongols would certainly be able to learn it. Besides, not all of the soldiers of the Mongol Empire were Mongols, and most of them were not even Mongols. They came from all the lands occupied by the Mongol Empire, both the nomads who were good at land warfare, and the soldiers of the coastal countries who were good at water warfare, and the great cannibals and the surrendered Jin Guoshui were the best masters of the Mongols.

There was also considerable disagreement among the Mongol nobility on this issue. Some people insisted that there was no need to learn shipbuilding and naval warfare, as long as some veterans who were accustomed to fighting were transferred from the westward army, and they could break through the defense line of the Southern Song Dynasty by land. Then he fought along the west until he reached Dali, and then copied the rear road of the Southern Song Dynasty army from the flank.

Others believe that shipbuilding and water warfare must be learned, even if the Southern Song Dynasty can be conquered by land, there are more countries in the south that are separated by the sea. And these people are very envious of the kind of sea ships that can gallop at will on the sea, if the Mongol Empire also has such an army, not only the steppes, mountains, and forests belong to Mongolia, but also the sea in the future belongs to Mongolia!

It was not the opinion of the Mongol aristocracy that finally made Ögedei Khan decide to learn shipbuilding and water warfare, but a book, a book co-written by a man named Hong Tao and a man named Wen Nan, entitled "The Theory of Sea Power". This book was recommended to Ögedai Khan by Yelu Chucai, a Khitan literati who assisted Genghis Khan and was also the right-hand man of Ögedai Khan. The Mongols were nomadic peoples, and they had an innate talent for how to fight, but they had an inherent deficiency in how to govern the country.

Yelu Chucai, a former Jin nobleman, happened to be a talent in this area, and he did live up to the expectations of the two generations of Great Khans, and had gradually managed the Mongol occupation area north of the Huai River, not only dividing the ten roads, appointing many former Jin officials to effectively manage the local area, but also establishing a rough tax policy. The practice of the Mongol aristocracy taking Han Chinese as slaves was abolished, and the Han Chinese here were encouraged to return to their homeland to live and work in peace and contentment. This greatly increased the revenue of the empire and reduced all kinds of potential dangers.

(To be continued.) )