After Li Bin arranged all the affairs of the Grand Governor's Office in Zhennan, early in the morning of December 2, the 19th year of Jianping, he took Fan Kuai, Long Qi and others to the wharf of the Manshui River more than 40 miles east of Guizhou City and boarded a warship with a load of 4,000 materials.

The navy under Li Bin was named Zhennan Navy by Li Bin, and this 4,000-material warship is currently the flagship of Zhennan Navy - the Yangwei.

After Li Bin ascended the Yangwei Huo, Jiang Qin, the head coach of Zhennan Navy, introduced to Li Bin: "Lord, Yangwei Huo was just launched at the beginning of this year. It is about twenty-two meters long and four meters wide. It is not as high as the mast, but also five meters high. It is equipped with sixteen stone throwing cars, eighty crossbows and eight rods. The sailors and warriors have more than nine hundred people."

The rod is operated by a human-powered mechanical boom. It can lift a stone hammer and violently hammer enemy ships to destroy enemy ships.

Li Bin looked at the giant figure in front of him and nodded slightly and asked, "How many large warships like the Yangwei are there now in Zhennan Navy?"

Jiang Qin replied: "Lord, our Zhennan Navy now has more than 1,000 ships, including more than 700 warships. Among the more than 700 warships, there are 238 ships with large ships of more than 3,000 materials, but most of them are transformed by merchant ships. In terms of defense and combat effectiveness, those warships transformed by merchant ships are weaker than professional warships such as the Yangwei. At present, the four thousand warships built in the same batch as the Yangwei. Our Zhennan Navy already has twenty-six warships under construction and plans to build thirty-four ships under construction and are planned. Since the Yangwei was the first to be launched, our Zhennan Navy calls these 60 four thousand warships the Yangwei class."

Li Bin immediately said: "The goal of your Zhennan Navy is to chase the invincible fleet on the sea of ​​Zheng State. I heard that there are hundreds of warships with more than 5,000 materials in Zheng State, including super warships with tens of thousands of materials. Your Zhennan Navy also needs to build more larger warships so that more stone throwing cars and bed crossbows can be installed. If you can use stone throwing cars and bed crossbows to sink a group of enemy ships at a long distance in a naval battle, you can have a greater advantage in the boarding battle."

Zheng State is located across the sea from Fuzhou Prefecture and Junzhou Prefecture under the jurisdiction of Zhennan Grand Governor's Office. The land area of ​​Zheng State is about the same as the size of two former Fuzhou Prefecture countries, with a population of more than 35 million. Its industry, commerce and maritime trade industries are very developed, and it has a very large maritime fleet.

Jiang Qin hesitated for a moment and said, "Our Zhennan Navy will prepare to build a batch of 5,000 warships next, but like super warships with tens of thousands of materials, with the current shipbuilding capabilities of Fuzhou Prefecture and Junzhou Prefecture, it is not possible to build them for the time being."

Li Bin nodded and said, "If you can't build a warship of tens of thousands of materials, then build more warships of four or five thousand materials. I think the comprehensive performance of the Yangwei class is good. It's a little less to build only sixty ships. How much is the cost of one Yangwei class?"

"The lord, including the sixteen stone throwing cars, eighty crossbows and eight poles equipped, the cost of a Yangwei-class warship is about 170,000 taels of silver."

"The Grand Governor's Office of Zhennan will allocate 17 million taels of silver to your Zhennan Navy as soon as possible to build another hundred Yangwei-class warships. By the way, how many 5,000-material warships will be built next?"

"Lord, in order to test the performance of the warship, our Zhennan Navy is preparing to build a 5,000-foot warship first. If the performance in all aspects is possible, we will prepare to build another 29 5,000-foot warships in batches."

"Then let's take a look at the performance of the five thousand-item warship. If it can surpass the level of power, the Grand Governor's Office of Zhennan can allocate another special amount to build some more five thousand-item warships."

The Zhennan Navy is a big family who earns money. Now Li Bin has invested no less than 40 million taels of silver in the Zhennan Navy. The military pay for the navy officers and soldiers and the cost of equipped weapons and armor is only a small amount. The cost of renovating hundreds of merchant ships, expanding the scale of several shipyards in Fuzhou Prefecture and Junzhou Prefecture, building new warships and maintaining ships in daily life is the big amount.

Fortunately, Li Bin, who had emptied Jinluo City, is now at a time of wealth and wealth. When attacking various barbarian tribes, Li Bin's army also seized a lot. The gold seized from more than 150 barbarian tribes alone exceeded 20 million taels and silver was hundreds of millions of taels, which gave Li Bin great confidence to build the Zhennan Navy into an invincible fleet on the sea.

Li Bin took the Yangwei Huo downstream, drove all the way from the Manshui River into the Yanshui River, and then from the Yanshui River into the sea. In order to return to Yong'an City as soon as possible, Li Bin only stayed ashore in Fuzhen City for one night and had a meal with Xie Cunsi, the coach of the No. 1 Guard of the Junzhou Province.

Xie Cunsi is the second son of Xie Zhitong, the Minister of War. He is only 25 years old this year, only three years older than Li Bin. Because of Xie Yingying, Li Bin and the Xie family have always had a good relationship and have known Xie Cunsi for a long time, so Li Bin handed over Fuzhen City to the First Guard of Junzhou.

Since Li Bin did not bring many people this time, when Fujun City left, the Zhennan Navy sent only 32 warships to escort Li Bin. However, twenty of these 32 warships were Yangwei-class with 4,000 materials, and the other twelve warships were transformed from five,000 materials merchant ships.

Early in the morning on December 14, 19th year of Jianping, Li Bin was still sleeping in the bed in the cabin. Suddenly, he was awakened by the sound of war drums. Then the cabin door was pushed open, and Fan Kuai quickly walked into the cabin, "Lord, you found a fleet of pirates in front of you. Gong Yi asked me to call him to go to the deck quickly!"

Gong Yi is Jiang Qin's face.

"Pirates? Could it be that the pirates dare to attack dozens of warships from the Zhennan Navy! Fan Kuai, please put on my armor and let's go to the deck to see what's going on!"

When Li Bin boarded the deck, he was a little stunned. In the waters more than ten miles away in front of Zhennan Navy, there were a large number of ships, at least two or three hundred.

Li Bin couldn't help asking Jiang Qin: "Are you sure you are a pirate? When did there be such a large pirate in this sea area?"

Jiang Qin said with a serious expression: "Lord, by observing the other party's flag, it has been confirmed that this is a fleet of more than a dozen pirates in the nearby sea. In order to ensure maritime trade, our Zhennan Navy has been spared no effort to eliminate these pirates. Unexpectedly, these more than a dozen pirates came to the door today. However, my subordinates suspected that the dozen pirates joined forces this time, which was likely to be targeted at the lord."

Li Bin's eyes flashed with murderous aura when he heard this, "It seems that many people really want my Li Bin's life, Gong Yi, you will be in charge of the next naval battle, and you will be responsible for me. I want to know who ordered these pirates!"

Jiang Qin took a deep breath and said, "Don't worry, lord, although we only have thirty-two warships, twenty of them are all Yangwei-class. Plus the lord's secret weapons are enough to defeat the combined fleet of more than a dozen pirates!"

At this time, on a pirate warship of three thousand materials, a strong man with a flesh-faced face shouted loudly to the hundreds of pirate minions on the deck: "Brothers, kill one Yan State official army today and reward five taels of silver. If anyone can cut off the head of Li Bin, the governor of Yan State's town, he will reward three thousand taels of gold!"

Hundreds of pirate minions cheered loudly.

A thin middle-aged man whispered to the strong man: "The master of the army, the Zhennan Navy of Yan State has more than 30 warships. After the war begins, we'd better let other pirates go first. There is no need to spend all our black scarf stolen assets for this transaction."

The strong man is Shi Hong, the leader of the Black Trouble, and the thin middle-aged man is Liu Ren, the second leader of the Black Trouble, and is also the think tank of the Black Trouble. The Black Trouble is one of the largest pirates in this sea area, with nearly 10,000 people and 38 sea ships.

Shi Hong hesitated and said, "That boss said, whoever can take Li Bin's head will give him an extra three million taels of silver."

Liu Ren immediately said: "The boss doesn't need to worry. The Zhennan Navy of Yan State is not a soft persimmon, otherwise we would not have fought us pirates to hide from each other. Let other pirates consume some of the troops on the official ship first. We can get the advantage of black scarf robbing."

"Okay! Just follow what the second brother said, and send flag words to other sea ships, so that the sea ships stolen by our black scarf can act with the flagship."

Although there were more pirates than the Zhennan Navy, after the naval battle began, a one-sided situation appeared, and soon dozens of pirate ships ignited a fire.

Most of the pirates' sea ships were stolen merchant ships and were not equipped with large long-range attack weapons. Even if some pirates' sea ships were equipped with some stone throwing cars and bed crossbows, the number was much worse than the stone throwing cars and bed crossbows on the Zhennan Navy warships.

In addition, there is also a secret weapon on the Zhennan Navy warship - a tincture tank. After this tincture tank is ignited, it can be thrown out with a stone throwing chariot. It can be almost 6 or 700 meters. As long as it hits the pirate's sea ship, a sea of ​​fire can be formed immediately. Moreover, the fire ignited by the tincture is difficult to extinguish.

In fact, turmeric oil is made of oil. After Li Bin discovered that there is oil that can be mined on the surface of the land in the territory of Jingzhou Prefecture, he made turmeric oil that became more and more intense with water.

Even the large wooden arrows shot from the crossbow on the Zhennan Navy warship, the linen tied to the back of the arrows were soaked with tinder oil. These linens soaked with tinder oil were ignited when the large wooden arrows were fired, forming rockets.

Under the attack of turbulent oil tanks and rockets, some pirates on pirate ships soon had to abandon the ship and jump into the sea, otherwise they would be engulfed by the fire with the ships.

Of course, there were also some pirate ships, although ignited by tinder oil, but they still successfully approached the Zhennan Navy's warship and launched a cruel battle of platoons.

However, the officers and soldiers on the Zhennan Navy warship were equipped with iron armor and used small battle formations to fight the enemy, which made the pirates not have any advantage in the battle on the shore.

In less than half an hour, some pirate ships turned around and fled, including dozens of sea ships stolen by Black Twisters.

Shi Hong, the leader of the Black Troublemaker, said to the second leader Liu Ren with lingering fear: "Second, thank you for listening to you, otherwise our Black Troublemaker will have a big compensation this time. The oil that can't be watered with water in Yanguo Town is really terrifying."

The second in commander Liu Ren also said in a terrifying mood: "It's really terrifying. Many sea boats were burned by the oil before they got close. This silver is really hard to get!"

Shi Hong, the head of the Black Turban thief, said with some distress: "One sea ship can only give 10,000 taels of silver when fighting, and our thirty-eight sea ships have given 380,000 taels of silver, but now we have been burned to death, plus the hundreds of brothers lost by the five sea ships, we have done it in vain this time. Since we cannot kill Li Bin, the governor of Yanguo Town, I believe that the boss will not give up the subsequent silver."

The second leader Liu Ren said with a wry smile: "Big boss, at least we are not a big scare. There are a few pirates who are almost destroyed by the entire army!"

The combined fleet of more than a dozen pirates organized was not a big deal. When a pirate ship began to escape, the remaining pirate ships followed and fled in all directions.

Jiang Qin, who commanded this naval battle, did not order the pursuit of the escaped pirate ships. After all, protecting Li Bin's safety is the most important thing now.

This naval battle, the Navy of the South of the Town burned out more than 60 pirate ships, and two warships transformed from 5,000 merchant ships were also sunk by the fire after being hit by the burning pirate ships.

As a flagship, the Yamwei has been protected in the middle of the fleet. Not only did it not engage in a platoon battle, it did not even have the opportunity to throw tinder tanks at the pirate ships and fire rockets with bed crossbows.

From the captured pirates, Li Bin learned that the reason why these more than a dozen pirates united was indeed that someone paid money to hire them, hoping to kill Li Bin at sea.

However, for the employer who paid the money, Li Bin asked many pirate leaders, and even a group of pirate bosses, but he did not ask who the employer who paid the money was.

Jiang Qin said to Li Bin in a deep voice: "Lord, although the employer who gave the money was not found out, the employer who gave the money was definitely not simple. According to the instructions of these pirates, if a pirate ship participates in this operation, he will first give 10,000 taels of silver. These more than 200 pirate ships are more than 2 million taels of silver. Moreover, the employer who paid the money also promised to give each pirate ship 30,000 taels of silver after the matter was completed, and the sunken pirate ship would compensate 60,000 taels of silver, which may require tens of millions of silver."

Li Bin snorted coldly, "The origin is indeed not simple. My head alone marks a sky-high price of three million taels of silver. If you can't do it, these dozen pirates were hired by Jinluo Kingdom. Now, Jinluo Kingdom hates me the most."

Jiang Qin nodded and said, "The lord is reasonable. Because our Zhennan Grand Governor's Office attacked those barbarian tribes, the Jinluo Kingdom's hatred for the lord must have become deeper. If you hire pirates to intercept the lord halfway, the Jinluo Kingdom can do it, and the Jinluo Kingdom can also take out tens of millions of taels of silver."
Chapter completed!