781 The First Battle of the Navy (Part I)
At night, the Goguryeo Navy Division Battalion ended another day of busy and toil, and the soldiers and officers would go to their barracks and begin to check what they had earned today, whether they had lost money, whether they had earned, and how much they had lost. How much do you earn? This is a fixed item at night of the Goguryeo Navy Camp every day.
There are lights in every barracks, and they are the same everywhere, but there is one barracks, although it looks no different from other barracks, but those who are careful will see that this barracks is still a little different from other barracks, for example, there are no soldiers and horses guarding other barracks, but this barracks is obviously very ordinary, but there are ten very strong soldiers with sharp blades guarding outside.
Except for the barracks of generals and some high-ranking officers, how can ordinary barracks be guarded by such soldiers and horses? Not to mention the Goguryeo Naval Division Camp that Yanwu has been in business for many years, of course, the reason for this situation is obviously not that there is anything special about the barracks itself, it must be related to the people or things inside, not to mention the things, the precious goods and the goods that are about to be sold will not be placed in such an ordinary barracks, then it can only be because of people.
Here, there is only one person living here, this should be a barracks of twenty or thirty people, only one person is living in it, this person is not ordinary, but all the sailors of the Goguryeo Navy Battalion basically know that if something happens to you and you need to find someone to adjudicate or help, then it will be useless for you to find the commander of the navy, it is just the supreme commander on the surface, but basically nothing else. It's just about making money.
The real owner of the thousands of sailors in the entire naval battalion lives in this ordinary barracks, and their real master is the owner of this barracks, an old man in his forties and almost fifty, no one knows what his name is, only that his surname is Liu, so the officers and ordinary sailors in the naval battalion, a few people with old qualifications can call Lao Liu, and more than half of the new recruits can only be called "Liu Lao". This point cannot be avoided even by the master of the water master.
But because of the difference in identity on the surface. The master of the water master will be able to call this old man "Lao Liu", but it is limited to this, except for making money, there is no other right. The sailors will find Lao Liu to solve problems when they have problems. Lao Liu is the real owner of this barracks. There was once an arrogant general who spent a lot of effort to come to this military camp and wanted to be the boss, and when he saw Lao Liu for the first time, he said "Lao Liu" very contemptuously, and a month later. The Admiral fell ill and died.
This is the unspoken rule, the unspoken rule of the sailor battalion, the main general and the soldiers underground, if you don't offend me, I won't offend you, you want money, you can, you want power, no.
Why is this old Liu so good? More than 10 years ago, when the Sui Dynasty conquered Goguryeo for the last time, Lao Liu was still a captain in the navy at that time, and he made military exploits and was promoted to an official, and after the Sui army retreated, the disarmament of the navy began, Lao Liu was the centurion of the navy who insisted to the end, in the most declining period of the navy, it was he who opened the international market with the sailors with a knife and a gun, thus saving the dying navy and regaining its brilliance.
Later, after countless changes and crises, Lao Liu took the big guys to break through in order to seize the power to do business with the Baekje people, and fought with the Japanese people at sea, and wiped out a civilian gang fleet of the other party, and won the right to do business with the Baekje people in one fell swoop, which was the beginning of the new life of the naval army camp, which was eight years ago.
After that, Lao Liu took a back seat, but everyone knows that even if Lao Liu no longer presides over the front-line work, his prestige and his power will not shrink in the slightest, Lao Liu himself does not do business, but one percent of the income from each person in the navy is his Lao Liu's, consciously give, obediently give, only one percent out of ten percent, not much! Lao Liu was already a wealthy man, he secretly sneaked back to his hometown, emptied his hometown, burned it down, and then started a family in a city not far from the camp of the sailor, and lived the life of a rich man.
Having said that, Lao Liu usually only goes home once every seven days, usually three days at home, four days in charge of work and daily affairs in the naval barracks, and the place where he lives in the barracks is still the same barracks he lived in more than ten years ago, but the furnishings in it are very different, except for what he wears, the others have basically caught up with the highest level.
Today is a regular meeting every seven days, more than 50 veterans who fought with Lao Liu gathered together to discuss the daily work and long-term analysis of the next seven days of the water division camp, as well as the handling of some problems, since the last time the king of Goguryeo came to inspect, the water division camp has been in no danger for a long time, but these days, this situation seems to be a little not good.
"Lao Liu, these days, the spies in the capital have sent back news, the little cub of the Quan family seems to be restless again, seems to be planning something, you know, we have a lot of problems with the Quan family, a lot of their family's business has been robbed of us, they are also thinking about the law to destroy us, we have to be careful, after all, on the surface, we have no way to fight him." An old man squinted his eyes and said.
"Yes, Lao Liu, I also heard a little rumor, and it is also related to the Quan family, these things seem to be inseparable from the Quan family recently, that little cub is not very old, it was really difficult to deal with at that time, I failed to kill him several times, let him escape, and now the situation is getting more and more unfavorable for us, we have to prepare early!" The other old man said with a sad face.
Lao Liu, who was sitting at the top, raised his glass and took a sip of wine, put down the wine glass, and said slowly: "You can't be in a hurry, you think about it, how many people have we killed in the past ten years?" How many people tried to attack us, but they didn't succeed, didn't they? The amount of money we usually spend is not in vain, although the Quan family is powerful, but our power is not small, they have people in the court, and we have no one?
But that little cub is really difficult to deal with, but he also has too many shortcomings. Young and easy to make enemies, do you see how many people in the court have enmity with him? Catch up with Ming'er, I asked the people in the court to think of a way, first abolish their official titles and titles, and then wait for those enemies to come to the door, we can't clean up that little cub, there is always someone who can clean up that little cub, otherwise he will be the king, and the current king will not be high.
We can't be in a hurry, so many years. Aren't we coming here too? Those who tried to destroy us were destroyed by us. If it weren't for the fact that the Quan family and the royal family were a little bit related, then we wouldn't be so passive, but when it comes to the royal family, what about Gao Wenxing? Where is he. Call him over. We talked to him. After discussion, he is also a royal family, and he will help us. We're going to have a lot easier for sure. ”
Hearing Lao Liu say this, an old man immediately said: "Lao Liu, Gao Wenxing went back to see his family early this morning, it is said that his daughter was sick, he hurriedly went back, and he couldn't come back for a while, I see, this matter still has to start from the people we prepared before, this Gao Wenxing, I always feel that he is unreliable, after a while, we should also drive him away, he has been the main general for three years, and I don't know how many people spend money to replace him." ”
When Lao Liu heard this, his brows furrowed slightly, but it didn't take long for his brows to stretch out again: "I think it's the same, many people's bids are very high, since we are doing business, it is the one with the highest price, it's a very simple matter, then, let's do it, let those people come to discuss and discuss, you guys will contact each other separately to see who has the highest price and high status, so be it!" ”
The big guy was about to disperse, but suddenly, he heard a violent commotion outside, as well as screams, crashes, very dull sounds, and loud noises, and suddenly these dozens of old men felt that something was wrong, Lao Liu immediately rushed out of the house, that skill did not look like an old man in his fifties at all, as soon as he came out of the house, the fire in the sky and the appearance of fire everywhere made Lao Liu stunned, there was fire everywhere, fire on the ground, fire in the sky, and fire on the water......
No, it's normal for there to be fire on the ground, but where does the fire come from in the heavens and on the water? A ball of fire flew in the sky, and then fell on the boat on the ground and on the water, Lao Liu looked at the place in the port, a firelight, and the figures coming and going, Lao Liu knew, probably something big, and most of it was a big thing that he couldn't deal with, so many fires, there were fires everywhere, they were all people on fire, and there were strangely dressed soldiers who chased and killed their sailor brothers with weapons, Lao Liu completely lost his ability to understand and adapt.
For this night attack, Zhang Shigui is very sure of victory, before coming, the spies sent to find out the situation here almost understood, the boats are parked well, except for the occasional small boat swinging around on the water, it looks like a patrol but not very like, almost no defense, and during the day it is very lively, but it doesn't look like it's preparing for war, but it seems to be doing business, everything is loaded on the ship, and then transported to I don't know where to go.
Suning understood at that time that the sailors of Goguryeo were doing business with other people, selling things in the army to other people who needed them, and then making a profit, and this was not sneaky, this was above board, this was simply rotten from above, and the sailors of Goguryeo had basically been abolished!
Can such a sailor still fight with the Tang Navy eight years later? Tease me? However, there are still eight years, and it is understandable what happened in this, and it seems that something must have happened, otherwise such a sailor, what will he do to fight with the Tang Navy? Anyway, there is no way to fight with the Datang Navy now, and they have all arrived at the doorstep, and they have not found the Datang warships.
There was no moon tonight, it was pitch black, but the location of the naval camp was brightly lit, judging from the number and scale, Suning and Zhang Shigui quickly determined the location of the naval battalion of the Goguryeo people, and then let the soldiers who could swim dive to the shore within a certain distance to prepare to attack the naval battalion of Goguryeo, while the naval fleet was ready with important weapons such as incendiary canisters and trebuchets.
As long as a target is determined, a group of incendiary canisters are smashed over, as soon as they catch fire, everything can be seen, the first round of incendiary canisters is illuminated, the trebuchet and the second round of the eight-ox crossbow, and now the whole ship is extinguished, but as soon as an order is given, immediately ignite and attack the enemy!
Doing business with other countries or merchants generally do not use large warships, only small ships are needed, so it is estimated that the ports are parked with small boats, and large ships are parked in specially placed places, and the previous spies have found out that the naval warships of Goguryeo are mainly concentrated in a canyon, surrounded by mountains on three sides, and there is only one way to go to sea, which is really a good place to place ships, and it is also a good place to burn ships.
After getting ready, Zhang Shigui pulled out the battle knife in his waist and shouted: "Ignite the fire!" Offensive! (To be continued......)