Liaodong Admiral Mo Ran stood on top of the camp at Liaodong Port. Next to Liaodong Port was Changyi County. Although it was a county, it was not as prosperous as a county. Mo Zihui looked at the Yangzhou Navy's warships on the sea. His place was closer to Liaodong Port, so he arrived earlier than Zhou Hai.
"An Yixuan's loss was not unjustified!" Mo Ran shook his head. Mo Ran didn't know how to treat An Yixuan. Because of An Yixuan's arrival, Mo Ran gave up his position as the Commander of the Navy. But now, the 15,000 elite troops in his hands weren't any less than An Yixuan's. In fact, the elite troops held a higher position in Gongsun Du's heart. But just like Gan Ning and the others, Mo Zihui liked the sea more. Only on the sea could he truly feel his own existence.
Originally, Mo Zihui was gloating over An Yixuan's defeat. After all, An Yixuan had lost. Didn't An Yixuan say that he was stronger than him? He replaced him, but the Liaodong Navy was annihilated. Although Dongfang Ming was one of the reasons, it couldn't hide the fact that An Yixuan had lost.
However, when Mo Ran and Mo Zihui saw the Yangzhou Navy's battleship, they shook their heads. Mo Zihui had never seen such a battleship in his entire life. An Yixuan's loss wasn't unjustified.
Mo Zihui immediately had an envious thought. If he could command such a warship, what kind of scene would it be? However, this was just a thought. Mo Zihui shook his head and said to the Vice General beside him, "Pass down my order. Gather all the merchant ships in the port!"
"En?" The Vice General did not understand. Gather the merchant ships? Was the general going to fight the Yangzhou Navy on the sea? Even the main fleet was no match for them. Wasn't it courting death?
Mo Ran quickly answered the Vice General's doubts, "Pull all the merchant ships to the port. Drill through them and sink them!"
"Yes!" The Vice General nodded and quickly went to prepare. There were still many merchant ships in the port. There were at least a hundred of them. All of them were sunk at the port.
"General, our merchant ships are limited. These merchant ships can only be deployed a few hundred meters away from the port!" The Vice General reported to Mo Ran.
"It's enough!" Mo Ran nodded. If they blocked the entire port, although they could prevent the Yangzhou Navy's troop ships from landing, they could only passively defend. Mo Ran didn't want to do this.
"Yue Peng, send me a small boat to the Yangzhou Navy to deliver a letter!" Mo Ran said to his Deputy General. Then, Mo Ran started to write. When the Deputy General saw Mo Ran's letter, he couldn't help but be stunned, "General, are you trying to provoke me?"
"Indeed!" Mo Ran nodded and used the merchant ships to block the port so that the warships from Yangzhou wouldn't be able to enter the port. Mo Ran had heard from the scattered soldiers that the thunder-like weapons on the warships could only hit a distance of 200 meters. Without those thundering things, there were only several thousand Yangzhou footsteps left, nothing to worry about.
He wanted to incite the Yang State Navy to fight.
"General, what if the Yangzhou Navy is not willing to come and not accept the provocation?" Yue Peng asked.
"What does it have to do with us whether they come or not?" Mo Ran smiled. If the other party came, then Mo Ran would be able to defeat them. He had brought 15,000 soldiers and horses, while the other party only had a few thousand soldiers. Moreover, they were about to disembark, he, Mo Ran, was waiting at ease for the exhausted enemy. Naturally, he could attack them halfway across the river, and win.
If the other party didn't come, then Mo Ran would still benefit. This was because this would weaken the morale of the Yangzhou Navy. At the same time, it would also motivate the Liaodong Army. The Liaodong Army could only watch helplessly as their Navy was annihilated. This was a heavy blow to their morale. The people of Changyi County had already begun to flee. Even the defenders would have surrendered if Mo Ran didn't arrive in time.
Therefore, Mo Zihui had to raise the morale of the Yangzhou Navy.
"General is wise!" “
"Go!" Mo Ran waved his hand, and soon a small boat with a white flag flew towards the Yangzhou Navy.
On the sea, the Yangzhou Navy's troop ships slowly turned around.
"Reporting, reporting, reporting to the general, Yangzhou Navy, Yangzhou Navy, they, they are too much!" The troops that Mo Ran had sent out came back very quickly. However, this time, there was a quotation mark on the word 'come back'. This was because they were no longer complete people. They were now crippled with blood. Their tongues were cut off and their hands were chopped off.
Mo Ran was not angry, instead, he smiled and waved his hand: "Go, reward this messenger 100 gold coins and send him home."
"Yes!" With 100 gold coins, the messenger's mood changed. With 100 gold coins, at least his family would not have to worry about food and drink for the rest of their life.
Mo Ran stood up and looked at the sea: "Yangzhou Navy, I am waiting for you!"
Mo Ran placed his 15,000 troops in a formation at the harbor, not bothering to hide it in the slightest. He was telling the Yangzhou troops to come if they had the guts.
"You want to attack us halfway?" Gan Ning looked at Mo Ran's formation from the warship. Mo Ran didn't even try to hide it. He was looking down on Gan Ning's group.
"Then I will fulfill your wish!" Gan Ning shouted to the chief officer beside him: "Pass down the order, let Ling Chao prepare his troops to disembark. This time, I will give him a chance to atone for his crimes. If he can't take Changyi County, then he can forget about coming to see me!"
Previously, when Ling Chao disobeyed the military order, Gan Ning couldn't wait to chop him up. But in the end, Gan Ning gave up. One of the reasons was that he was afraid that the generals of Jiangdong would cause a conflict.
"Yes!" Soon, the flag was sent out. Ling Chao was on the Garen Warship. His original flagship had sunk, so he changed his warship. Ling Chao blamed himself for his previous mistakes. He thought that he would be punished by Gan Ning, but he didn't expect that Gan Ning would send him a signal to atone for his crimes.
Ling Chao couldn't help but feel grateful to Gan Ning: "Go back to General Gan Ning. If I can't take Changyi County, then I, Ling Chao, will bring my head to see him! Pass down the order, the whole army is going to Liaodong! "
"Yes!" Soon, the warships there were heading towards Liaodong port.
"Come on, come on!" Mo Ran had already readied his troops and was waiting for them to attack halfway.
"General, isn't this Yangzhou Navy's General Gan Ning too impulsive?" The deputy general on the side doubtfully said. He was provoked into this situation. Could it be that the Yangzhou Navy couldn't see that attacking halfway and forcibly landing would be very disadvantageous for them? Or was he too confident in himself?
"Infinite thinking, arrogant soldiers are bound to be defeated. An Yixuan helped them, so they will help us!" Mo Ran was very open-minded. It was not that Mo Ran didn't think about it thoroughly, but he really couldn't think that they would lose.
He had 15,000 troops under his command, and all of them were elites. They were several times more than the enemy. If the enemy wanted to disembark, they could attack halfway. He really couldn't think of any way that they would lose.
Looking at the Yangzhou Navy's troop transport ships getting closer and closer, Mo Ran waved his hand to the rear and said: "Men, get into formation!" Fifteen thousand soldiers and horses lined up at the port of Liaodong, waiting for the arrival of the Yangzhou Navy.
"General, this battle is difficult to fight! Could it be that General Gan is …? " Ling Chao's deputy said to Ling Chao. In fact, his other sentence was asking if this was Gan Ning's way of sending them to their deaths. One must know that the other side had fifteen thousand soldiers and horses waiting in formation, while they only had a few thousand soldiers and horses. Moreover, this was after a long and tiring journey. The other side was indeed waiting at ease for an exhausted enemy.
"Don't talk nonsense!" Although Ling Chao was also frowning, he angrily said to the deputy general. Although Ling Chao's brain was not very good, he also knew that if Gan Ning wanted to kill him, he didn't need to go through so much trouble. He could have directly asked Liang Chen to not save him.
He didn't need to be so despicable.
"General, I'm not talking nonsense, but as the saying goes, 'Don't have the heart to harm others, and don't have the heart to forgive others' …" Before Ling Chao could finish his sentence, Gan Ning's flagship waved a flag and asked Ling Chao to slow down. The three Sovereign Class warships were to be given to the Liaodong Army as a gift.
"Hmm?" Ling Chao looked behind him and saw that the cannons on the three Sovereign Class warships, Huaxia and Yan Huang's ships were all open, and the cannons were all exposed, and their muzzles were aimed at the Liaodong Army.
"Is that the thing that makes thunder on the warships?" On the Liaodong port, Mo Zihui was also looking at the Yangzhou Navy's movements. Looking at the black iron lumps, he couldn't help but panic.
However, he immediately calmed down. This thing only had a range of 200 meters, and the three warships were now a thousand meters away from the port.
"General, is the Yangzhou Navy trying to scare us? Are they trying to tell us that they are going home to collect their clothes? " The deputy general teased. This thing sounded like thunder, and the cannons couldn't hit them. Wasn't this a sign that they were going to collect their clothes?
Mo Zihui also smiled. "Don't talk nonsense, go down and tell the soldiers to get ready! There will be a tough battle! " Mo Zihui wouldn't underestimate the enemy. Thousands of his soldiers were wearing the same thing, and that was Yangzhou's new armor. This thing was made by Yangzhou, and if the people of Yangzhou dared to sell it, they would definitely be wearing it. The scale of these thousands of people couldn't be underestimated.
"Yes!"
"Boom!" The first shot was fired from the Huaxia Airship. This shot fell into the sea before the port, causing the Liaodong Army to laugh at it. "Is it really that bad?"
"Not good!" While the others were mocking him, the commanding general Mo Zihui turned pale with fright. "Quick, pass down the order. Disperse, disperse!"
Unfortunately, Mo Zihui's words were too late, and the three Sovereign Class warships began to fire at him.
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