"The flag of Yangzhou, the flag of His Highness the King Of Shu of Yangzhou!" The boatmen on the other side shouted loudly, as if they were afraid that others couldn't hear them. The other people also rushed over and seemed to be cheering.
When the ships on the other side were getting closer and closer, everyone's eyes widened and their mouths opened wide because the three warships in the fleet were too big.
Everyone's mouth was wide open, and two fists could be stuffed in it.
No one had ever seen a ship of this size. If the ships of Yangzhou were big enough in the past, then compared to the three warships now, it could only be regarded as a dwarf.
On the Huaxia ship, Gan Ning held the binoculars in his hand and looked at the reaction on the Liaodong port.
"General, look, those Liaodong people over there are quite funny!" Liang Chen also had a binoculars in his hand and said to Gan Ning with a smile.
"What do you mean people from Liaodong? They are all people of the Han Dynasty!" Gan Ning snapped at Liang Chen.
"Yes, yes, yes!"
Yang Chen on the side was not a general, so he didn't have a binoculars. He could only listen to the two people talking on the side. Gan Ning remembered and said, "General Yang, I'll give you a clairvoyance!" Gan Ning handed over the binoculars in his hand. Liu Mang had always said that this thing was a binoculars, but whether it was the army or the navy, they all said that he had a clairvoyance because how could ordinary people see so far? They couldn't change it, so Liu Mang simply shouldn't do it.
"Thank you, General Gan!" Yang Chen didn't argue and took the binoculars in Gan Ning's hand and looked at it. Sure enough, he was familiar with the terrain of Liaodong.
"Give it to me!" Gan Ning stretched out his hand and shouted to Liang Chen on the side.
"En?" Liang Chen was stunned for a moment, then he pretended not to hear and continued to observe the Liaodong port. He was directly slapped in the face by Gan Ning.
"What are you pretending to be stupid for? Do you think I'm stupid? Give it to me! " Gan Ning's slap made Liang Chen unwillingly hand over the binoculars.
They were close to the Liaodong port. "Put down the sails and cruise on the shore!"
"Yes!" Soon, all the sails on the Huaxia warship were lowered.
"Take it!" Gan Ning handed the binoculars to Liang Chen. Liang Chen prepared to continue observing Liaodong. He thought to himself that his boss was quite nice this time. He actually returned the binoculars to him so quickly.
As soon as he looked at his eyes, he received another slap. "Hurry up and get back to your own warship!" Gan Ning scolded Liang Chen.
Liang Chen was the captain of the Hefty Man, a Sovereign class warship. Because he had torn off half of his face and pasted it on the other side, this guy was both thick-skinned and thick-skinned at the same time. That was why he had been able to stay on Gan Ning's flagship until now.
Liang Chen could stay on the flagship Huaxia during the journey, but since the battle was about to begin, he naturally had to return to his own warship.
"Hehe!" Liang Chen got off the Huaxia Ship with a cheeky smile and boarded a small boat, heading toward his own battleship.
"Sir Yang, how should we fight? Should we attack the port directly?" Gan Ning asked Yang Chen who was on the side. Yang Chen was the commander-in-chief this time. Wherever he wanted to attack, Gan Ning would attack there. This Liaodong's port was really the first port to eat cannon balls.
"No, you don't have to attack the port directly. Let's try peaceful means before resorting to force!" Yang Chen stopped Gan Ning.
"Try peaceful means before resorting to force?" Gan Ning didn't understand these principles of the civil officials. In his opinion, they should just attack directly. However, Gan Ning didn't object. Yang Chen let people put down the small boat on the warship and sent a Yangzhou navy soldier directly to the port over there.
On the port of Liaodong, the coolies were all looking up, hoping to get work from the Yangzhou fleet over there.
The bigger the ship, the more goods it could carry, so they naturally had something to do.
"Those Yangzhou ships haven't docked yet!" The coolies over there were puzzled. After these large warships arrived in Liaodong, they cruised in the coastal waters over there, but they didn't dock.
"Do you think it's possible?" Some people were still very worried, because the eldest son Gongsun Kang was not kind to Yangzhou. Could it be that he came to fight?
"How is it possible! Maybe those ships are too big. Our port doesn't have a place for them to dock, so they are waiting for them! To prevent them from being stranded! "Someone shook his head.
"Yes, the ship is big, so they have to think more!" Someone agreed.
"Look, look, there is a small boat coming down from that big ship! This small boat is heading towards us! "Some of the citizens with sharp eyes saw the small boat that was slowly heading towards them. "We must let our officials find a suitable place for them to dock!" The people were all in the brothel.
The small boat slowly came towards the port. When it reached the shore, it was immediately surrounded by the people. "This little brother, what did His Highness the King Of Shu of Yangzhou bring this time? Do you need coolies? I have great strength, one person can pick several guts, you choose me!"
"Wang Erniu, what are you talking about? I am the one with the greatest strength, how can it be your turn?"
"Go, go, go!" One by one, they surrounded the messenger of Yangzhou.
Fortunately, a yamen runner quickly came forward and helped the Yangzhou messenger to clear the crowd.
"I am the messenger of His Highness the King Of Shu of Yangzhou!" The civil servant went forward and said to the county lieutenant of Liaodong.
"The messenger of His Highness the King Of Shu of Yangzhou?" Was Yangzhou still trading with Liaodong? The eyes of the county lieutenant of Liaodong flashed. As long as Liaodong and Yangzhou kept trading, then they would naturally get a commission, so why not?
"Messenger, please take a seat! Come with me, I will go and inform the officials of the county, and then the officials of the county will inform the governor! "The county lieutenant of Liaodong was very respectful to the messenger of Yangzhou.
However, the messenger of Liaodong did not buy it. He shook his head and said, "There is no need to go to the government office! I am not here to be a guest, I am here on the order of His Highness the King Of Shu to announce a decree to Liaodong! "
"Announce a decree?" The county lieutenant of Liaodong was stunned.
"Yes!" The emissary didn't care whether Liaodong was willing to accept it or not. He directly took out the case and read it aloud, "The Great Han Dynasty's Sage Wang Qi said: Liaodong's Gongsun Du, the Governor of Liaodong, defended the border for the Great Han Dynasty as a hero. However, he had a tiger father and a dog son. His son, Gongsun Kang, refused to obey the Emperor's will and brought disaster to Liaodong. He was the shame of Liaodong, and even used business as his life to rob others. When I heard this, I was shocked. I specially ordered Liaodong's Wuwei General, Gongsun Du, to put righteousness before family, tie up his son, Gongsun Kang, and send him to Yangzhou's Ministry of Justice for trial.
"This, this, this!" The county lieutenant of Liaodong was about to cry. What was going on? This was definitely a hot potato. Who was Gongsun Kang? He was the young master of Liaodong, the future successor of Liaodong. How could Gongsun Du teach Gongsun Kang? He believed that if he took this back, Gongsun Kang would be furious. But if he did not accept it, he did not dare to do so. If he did not accept it, it would be bad if he became the scapegoat.
Therefore, the county lieutenant of Liaodong could only tremble and put away the shell. He subconsciously asked, "What if my lord doesn't send the young master to Yangzhou?"
"Haha, if you don't send him, then we will catch him ourselves! We will give you a day to reply. If you don't reply by tomorrow, then don't blame us! "The messenger of Yangzhou cupped his fist and smiled at the county lieutenant of Liaodong." We won't send you off! "Then he got on a small boat and went towards the warship.
"Catch him personally? What does that mean?" The people around heard the words of the messenger of Yangzhou. Some of them did not understand and asked the people around them.
"What else can it mean by coming here personally? There's going to be a war!" Someone with a quick brain reacted quickly.
"War? Those ships are not merchant ships, they are warships! "The entire port of Liaodong was in an uproar.
There was going to be a war. Liaodong's Gongsun Du was really something. The people near the port had not heard of war for many years. Now that they heard that there was going to be a war, they all jumped up.
"I already said that young master Gongsun Kang is looking for trouble! There is going to be a war again! " The people rushed to tell the news. They all dragged their families and prepared to leave the port.
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"What!" In Liaodong's Wuwei General Mansion, Gongsun Kang was just teasing a maidservant and was about to get on with her. Suddenly, there was such a thing. Gongsun Kang immediately lost interest.
"The messenger of Yangzhou really said that!" Gongsun Kang angrily asked.
"That's right, Eldest Young Master. The messengers from Yangzhou said that if the governor doesn't arrest you and send you to the Ministry of Justice in Yangzhou, they will personally come to Liaodong to take your head!" Since Gongsun Kang was going to be angry, he might as well add fuel to the fire. In this way, Gongsun Kang would only think about how to deal with the Yangzhou Army. He would not vent his anger on a small county magistrate like him.
"Damn it! Damn it!" Gongsun Kang was really annoyed by the messenger of Yangzhou.
"Liu Mang, you little bastard, I will definitely kill you. You have gone too far!" Gongsun Kang's eyes were filled with killing intent.
"Who do you want to kill?" A majestic voice sounded. Gongsun Kang raised his head and saw his father, Gongsun Du.
The former King of Liaodong was really majestic.
"I want to kill Yangzhou's Liu Mang!" Gongsun Kang saw that although the killing intent in his father's eyes disappeared a little, the hatred did not decrease at all.
"Kill the King Of Shu, Liu Mang? Haha, with just you? " Gongsun Du sneered at his son and said, "Let's not talk about the distance between Yangzhou and Liaodong. Let's talk about His Highness Prince of Shu fighting against Sun Ce of Jiangdong in the Battle of Wancheng City. In the Battle of Jingzhou, Liu Bei's tens of thousands of troops were defeated and fled. With just you? " Yangzhou's King Of Shu, Liu Mang, was not an ordinary person now. He was very famous because the King Of Shu, Liu Mang, had never lost a battle.
"I also defeated the Fu Yu Army!" Gongsun Kang was not convinced.
"Haha, Fu Yu Army?" Gongsun Du sneered and poured cold water on his son. At that time, the Fu Yu Army did not even have 20 thousand people. In order to increase his son's prestige, Gongsun Du gave him 50 thousand troops and Goguryeo's help. It was 80 thousand troops against 20 thousand troops. Even so, his precious son still lost 1: 1.
It was simply embarrassing. Although he won, Gongsun Du was too embarrassed to talk about it. He did not expect Gongsun Kang to treat it as a treasure.
"80 thousand troops against 20 thousand?" Gongsun Du was not polite at all to his son.
"So what? Didn't we win in the end? Fu Yu gave us 13 cities!" Gongsun Kang was not convinced.
"Yangzhou's King Of Shu, Liu Mang, is a monkey in a mountain without a tiger. If I, Liaodong, rely on Yangzhou, I will let Liu Mang know what is the art of war, what is war." Gongsun Kang was about the same age as Liu Mang, so he was already dissatisfied with Liu Mang's achievements.
"Humph!" Gongsun Du snorted and did not argue with his son. "I told you to leave Yang Chen behind, but now there is a disaster! The Yangzhou Navy is similar! "Gongsun Du's spy had already sent him news that the warships that appeared on the sea were Yangzhou Navy.
"Father, isn't it just the Yangzhou Navy? See how I break it! " Gongsun Kang saw what was written in the report. There were forty-two warships in Yangzhou, three huge ships and thirty-nine small ships. Considering the waterline, thirty-nine of them were troop carriers, and half of them were empty.
There were a total of forty-two warships, thirty-nine of which were transport ships, and three warships. These three warships were not enough, as half of the transport ships were empty. Based on the number of soldiers and horses on each ship, there were about three hundred soldiers on each ship. In other words, Yangzhou had sent six thousand soldiers.
Three warships, 6,000 soldiers, and there were no ballistae on these three warships.
"It's like the heavens are helping me!" Gongsun Kang laughed proudly. Although the three warships were big, how much could they protect? Liaodong also had a fleet with forty warships equipped with ballistae. Even if your warships were strong, they could fight ten warships at once. As for the auxiliary warships, they had nearly a hundred. Gongsun Kang laughed proudly. Such a fleet against a fleet protected by three warships, wasn't this a merit delivered to his door?
"Father, don't worry, I will definitely let the Yangzhou Navy fall into the sea and feed them to the sharks!" Gongsun Kang was full of confidence. He was the commander of the navy. "Pass my order, let the navy An Zaixu immediately send troops to Liaodong Port. We must make the Yangzhou Navy stay! If anyone escapes, hold them accountable! "Gongsun Kang was full of confidence.
"Yes!" Soon, someone rushed towards the Liaodong Navy camp. The commander of the Liaodong Navy camp was An Zaixu. This person was not Han, but Goguryeon. However, when he was in his country, he was framed and his wife and daughter were killed. After Gongsun Kang took revenge for him, he stayed in Liaodong and trained the navy for Gongsun Kang.
"Pass my order, the army set out, the target is Liaodong Port!"
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