Chapter 1827 Old Silver Coin

There are few actual historical records of the navy of the Liao Kingdom, but there are records of the Jin Army general Xie Mao Ali suppressing the Khitans in Suzhou and fighting against the sea people in the sea:

"Khitan, the Xi people gathered more than a thousand boats and were about to enter the sea. Ali invited them with twenty-seven boats,...the enemy ships had entered Wangjia Island, and they pursued them by sea at night,...but they broke them and captured all the boats.

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The Liao people also developed maritime power and intended to invade the Zhanglu Islands. However, Zhang San, who was still a pirate at the time, beat them up in Haikou, Jinzhou, and built two "sea capitals".

Since then, for more than 20 years, Liao ships have not paid enough protection fees and have not flown the Song Dynasty merchant flag, so they dare not go into the sea.

Yelufeng was the leader of the Liao navy at that time and the son of Dahai merchant Yelu Mingshan.

The Liao Kingdom did not attach much importance to the navy. Yelv Mingshan established a navy at that time, which was more of a personal act than a national act.

Its purpose is to plunder the wealth of the extremely wealthy country on Zhanglu Island.

After Yelv Mingshan died at sea, his son Yelufeng withdrew to the interior and lobbied the senior officials of the Liao Kingdom to form a navy to defend Nanjing.

The people who stayed behind in Nanjing in the past dynasties sneered at him, thinking that this guy was crazy for wanting to be an official.

The entire Liao Kingdom was deceived by the Song Dynasty Situ's slogan of "controlling the land with the sea" and established a "reverse thinking". They really thought that they could "control the sea with the land."

When the new troops on all roads in Hebei were in place and watchtowers and barbed wire fences were erected, the Liao people realized that the possibilities they thought they were righteous before were actually in vain.

When the Ma people saw that Ren Nanjing was staying behind, they agreed to Yelveng's plan, organized the fishermen and boats along Yanfangdian and Sanggan River, and built a navy team.

However, Ma Renwang could not generate extra money and food. The Nanjing Road and Land Defense responsibilities were already heavy enough, so he only gave Yelufeng a name and recruited the personnel and food by himself.

These thoughts flashed through Yelufeng's mind in just a moment. Seeing the enemy ships in front of him quickly disperse in a chaotic manner, Yelufeng knew that this was not because the Song people were panicked and confused, but because they were confident.

Drawing out his long sword, Yelveng gritted his teeth and stared at the iron-hulled ship in the distance with the long red Yazhang flag flying above and the black signal flag of the decisive battle flying below: "Fight to the death!"

"Bah, bang, bang, bang..." When the wooden ship entered the shooting range, dense smoke and fire appeared on the Song Dynasty's ships.

The sergeants on the Liao wooden boats fell into the water one after another like flowers struck by hail.

The effect that bows and arrows can achieve is very weak. The sergeants hide behind the steel plates and cross-shoot through the gaps to the side, front and side. Even if a lucky bow and arrow occasionally reaches the shooting range through long-range projection and shoots into the gap, it can hardly hurt them.

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"Boom, boom, boom..." On several gunboats that were significantly higher than the troop carrier, the even more terrifying roar of short-barreled rapid-fire cannons began to sound.

In the airspace several meters above the Liao Navy ships, small clouds burst out one after another.

The emergence of every small cloud is accompanied by a heavy rain of steel.

This kind of terrifying attack from top to bottom makes it impossible for the Liao army on the water to escape. Under every small cloud, there is a dense concentration of Liao army ships. On the ships within a radius of ten meters, there will immediately be pools of blood and blood.

Wail.

The Liao fleet also immediately lost its order, and several arrows turned into scattered ovals.

These ovals merged and intertwined with the ellipses of the Song army. On the water surface with a radius of more than ten miles, a big melee, ah no, the massacre began.

It's not that the Liao people didn't want to escape, but due to the influence of the current, with more and more wounded people, they had no choice but to drift towards the scattered formation of the Song army.

The terrifying gunboats of the Song Dynasty nimbly sailed upstream and continued to use the terrifying weapons that exploded in the air to brutally harvest the wheat on the water.

Yelufeng's main ship still had some protection. Seeing how vulnerable his hard work was on the lake, his eyes were already red. He pushed away the frightened helmsman and changed the course with the rudder, heading towards

It collided with the mighty iron ship ahead.

The two iron pipes on the bow and top platform of the iron ship ahead flashed with fire. A 70mm and a 40mm caliber cannon shell passed through the wooden hull of the ship and exploded suddenly in the cabin.

"Boom -" "Boom -" Countless steel balls and metal fragments raged in the cabin along with the air waves, turning the cabin into the most miserable hell. The fragile flesh was hit by the hail of flying bullets, and the residual limbs and

A rain of blood filled the cabin.

The bulkhead that had been ravaged beyond recognition could not withstand the violent blast waves. Countless debris, human bodies, and residual limbs were sprayed out from various arrow windows on the ship, followed by several shipboards torn apart, and the explosion destroyed the ship.

The tall and beautiful ship had several large holes torn from the middle.

The building boat took its broken owner and sat down hard, and in a blink of an eye there was only the remnant of a watchtower left on the water.

The sludge rolled up, turning the surrounding lake water that was already dyed red into black again.

Taking this as a sign, the only navy of the Liao Kingdom began the countdown to its destruction.

On Wuwu, the entire navy of the Sanggan River in Xijin Prefecture was wiped out, and the navy commander Yelufeng was killed in the battle. Cao Nan destroyed more than 7,000 enemies in this battle, took 3,000 prisoners, sank more than 300 enemy ships, and captured 700 ships.

More than thirty people in the Song army were injured by bows and arrows.

This was a complete victory without any moral ethics.

Geng Shen and Li Chunyuan left Fan Longshan and Zhong Shidao behind and led the Tianxiong and Guide armies to Liangxiang.

The two armies were less than a hundred miles away from Xijin Prefecture in Nanjing, Liao Kingdom.

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The timeline goes back to the first day of the first lunar month again, further north to the mouth of the Luanhe River.

The Luanhe River is relatively deep, so the Song army's large fleet was led by a Kuizhou-type sail and steam dual-purpose ship, the Xuzhou.

There are also three Meishan-type escort ships around.

These four warships can escort the troops to Luanzhou.

Behind them are a row of small gunboats and small steamer troop carriers.

Zhe Keda did not stay in his own team. His subordinates, Yao Gu, Tian Yu, and Wang Hou, were all powerful men who had served in the military for many years.

He is now on the bridge of the Xuzhou, bragging and spanking with Captain Zhang Ding.

Zhang Ding is the son of Zhang San. His mother Taira Shinso repeatedly asked him to go to Japan to inherit the family business and assist his uncle Taira Masamori, but Zhang Ding disagreed. After graduating from the Naval Academy, he worked his way up to the rank of captain.

Japan now also has iron ships, but it is an iron box placed on top of the wooden ship. Ping Zhengsheng used it to conquer many small Tibetan tribes and small islands in the country and was invincible. The steel plate was approved by Shao Bowen, the new governor of Songcheng.

Where can I have the pleasure of driving the Song Dynasty's giant ship?

Zhang Ding's goal is to one day cross the ocean like Brother Bian Guo. But he must drive an iron-clad steamship instead of a sailing ship!

To be promoted to pilot an ironclad ship, you must first perform meritorious service, so Zhang Ding was unwilling to leave the navy even if he died.

Both of them are the second generation ancestors of high-level generals. They know a lot of inside information. They don't talk about cooperation on land and water. They talk more about news from the Military Aircraft Department.

Zhe Keda is a conspiracy theorist. He feels that there must be an invisible hand controlling the chaos in the Liao Kingdom.

Various signs indicate that the hand was in the Song Dynasty, in the Military Aircraft Department, in Hebei, in the Fourth Road Transport Department and the Capital Economics Department.

Didn't run!

I asked the elders in my family to inquire, but all of them were tight-lipped and couldn't get to the bottom of it.

But Li Kui and Su Lishe appeared in the west and east of the Liao Kingdom. Two emperors of the Liao Kingdom were killed in the grassland. Concubine Wen and the young prince escaped to Beijing. Wang Jing invited troops to the Song Dynasty. Brother Bian Gu flew to conquer Liaodong...

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All in all, if there is no overall arrangement here, the possibility is smaller than winning the first ten thousand yuan from the charity fund in the first day of the year.

How could the Song Dynasty, with its hundred years of bad luck in gambling, be blessed with such a good thing?

Still in a bunch?!

So this is definitely a conspiracy, a complete conspiracy!

Zhang Ding understood this.

Soldiers who, deception also.

Situ has an advantage, that is, he has a sure chance of winning. When conditions improve, not only does he not give up on his "deceitful ways", but he becomes even more enthusiastic about it.

This is compared to the previous princes in the court, who have obviously been beaten to the point of being hairless ducks, but they still have to pay attention to the high-sounding appearance of the enemy.

Even if the duck dies, will it still have a tough mouth?

Old man Situ Ta is different. On the surface he is high-sounding, but underneath he is a coward.

There are endless little tricks to the outside world. Otherwise, those guys from the Jiyi Division, whose yin energy outweighs their yang energy, would not have become the most arrogant group of people in the Military Aircraft Department.

How arrogant is it? So arrogant that the Jiyi Department has independent financial accounting, the emperor personally approves expenses, and internal funds are allocated privately!

At this point, the two of them suddenly shared the same hatred. Now there is an old Yin man in the army who has a background in the military aircraft department - Wang Hou and Wang Chudao.

This old boy has always been familiar with Wang Shao's true heritage and Situ's true heritage. He has both Wang Shao's scheming and Situ's traits of pretending to be a pig and eating a tiger. Trying to get secrets out of him is a blind man's attempt to light a lamp - in vain.

Zhe Ke tried it hard, but got nothing. Instead, this old boy took out a lot of the trouble in the Zhe family.

However, having Wang Hou in the army is really useful. Wang Hou is a living map of the geographical waterways in the Luanping area.

For example, Yanfang Lake looks like a large lake, but the water channel below it is also deep and shallow.

Being able to figure out the water channels next to the Liao people's palace was Lao Wang's skill.

Although Lao Wang did not admit this account, in these years in Hebei, Wang Hou seemed to be the co-leader of the Zhaode Army, but in fact he reported and gave the most instructions on his private dealings with Situ.

Both Zhe Keda and Zhang Ding believed that Wang Hou must have another mission, but they didn't know whether it was to monitor the generals internally or to collect intelligence from the outside.

No matter what, it's not a good bird!

While the two were chatting animatedly, the first mate reported that the road ahead was only fifteen miles away from Macheng, the former town of Luanzhou.

Zhang Ding put on his military cap: "Remove the gun jacket, open the magazine, and put the entire ship on alert!"

At this moment, a small boat appeared on the river ahead, crossing the middle of the river. It was like one man blocking the way and ten thousand others unable to get rid of it.

Zhang Ding admired the other party very much: "Get on a gunboat and clear the water channel!"

However, after a while, another messenger ran in: "Report! The other party said that he is Zhao Heshou, the training envoy of the Macheng Regiment of the Liao Dynasty. On the orders of Guo Shuai, the commander of Changsheng Army, he came to negotiate with Wang Tongzhi about his return!"

Zhang Ding and Zhe Ke looked at each other, they were really stupid and said whatever they wanted.
Chapter completed!