"General Zhao, the last general has to remind you," when the army tent was only marching Sima and the lieutenant, Jin Changtai called Zhao Xingde, which was a bit joking, which was also caused by the pleasure brought by the Han army's recognition of the ownership of the Xia State Camp in Baozhou. "The supply of 3,000 stones of grain and grass in the Han army was almost half of the grain stored in our army. We also faced the problem of insufficient food and grass. The military ration was only enough for three months." When Jin Changtai joked, he usually had a way to deal with it.

Zhao Xingde naturally knew this and smiled and said, "What about Jin Sima's countermeasures?"

"It will take three months to harvest wheat and four months to harvest Chiliang." Jin Changtai spread his hands, "If you want to avoid eating tree bark and grass roots, you have to buy grain from the Central Plains. This time, three thousand stones of military ration will be spent, and the future battle of Kaizhou will still be consumed. At least five thousand stones of grain will be purchased." He smiled, "The money for buying grain?"

"Dongmuxing will pay 5,000 guan first. If there is still a shortage, I will find a way."

"This is easy to deal with!" Dongmuxing is the joint venture between soldiers of the 8th Battalion of Chengying. It has not yet been registered in the statistics. All the more than 7,000 stagnant of shares are stored in Jin Changtai, but the military expenses of the 8th Battalion are kept separately from the military expenses of the 8th Battalion. Jin Changtai nodded and said, "Because of these 5,000 stones of grain and grass, the Han army was willing to mortgage the Baozhou tax. If the important matters in the future do not admit their accounts, will this tax be collected by Dongmuxing?" The tax on this land will be collected by Dongmuxing or by the tax collector of the Prime Minister's Office. The meaning will be completely different. If Dongmuxing enjoys the right to collect taxes, it is equivalent to the de facto rupture of the land.

Zhao Xingde shook his head and said, "The Guguo Mansion is not that stupid." He paused and said in a deep voice: "Call the Centurion and discuss the army again before going to war."

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This is the wind blowing over the river. Li Sihai greedily smelled the unique smell of the land. People who float on the sea all year round have this problem. The Yalu River is not wide, and the river water is green and clear, and it is enough for sea ships carrying two thousand materials to sail on the main channel. There is a city wall standing on the river banks on the east and west sides, as if guarding the two gates of the Yalu River. The west coast of Laiyuan County and the east coast of Baozhou City are all in the hands of the Goryeo people, and within the range of the cannons on the ship.

Laiyuan County and Baozhou City were built by the Liao people, and they were slightly different from the city in the Central Plains. There were not many people in the city. The largest city was on the hills on the river bank, and then there were small camps that were stationed in the river, like a string of pearls scattered to the edge of the river, and finally the dock water village. The two walls built on the north and south sides of the camp also extended from the large village high on the hill to the dock, where the dragon was gathered, and the wooden city towers stood on the docks on both sides. On the docks on both sides, dozens of wooden boats of all sizes were moored, of which more than a dozen were warships with arrowheads on both sides, and two or three particularly large ones built arrow towers on the bows and sterns of the boat.

The Goryeo people blocked the estuary of the Yalu River and wanted to seize all the goods upstream, which undoubtedly gave Li Sihai the opportunity to show his navy's strength. He immediately returned to Yueyang Island in a fast ship, summoned all the troops of Chengying's Fourth Battalion, and rushed to Baozhou almost excitedly. As for the land, from the knowledge of getting along with each other these days, Li Sihai believed that he no longer needed to discuss with Zhao De. He firmly believed that Zhao De, like him, was a person who could not tolerate sand in his eyes. Since the Eighth Battalion of Chengying was determined to spread its power in the Yalu River in Taibai Mountain, he would never tolerate the provocation of Goryeo. People like them, who only had an arrow in their hands, would immediately shoot into the enemy's formation.

The Goryeo ships on the docks on both sides discovered the uninvited guest, but did not pay much attention to it. Although the sea ship in Chengying Camp looked a bit strange, it did not look particularly scattered compared to ordinary ships. Although there were not many sea ships of two thousand materials in Liaodong, they could be seen frequently in the Goryeo port. Among the sea ships between Song and Goryeo, the hull could only be considered medium and smaller. Therefore, the Goryeo navy anchored at the Bozhou pier was only a little turbulent for a moment and sent a small boat over, as if he was treating the warships of the Fourth Battalion as ordinary merchant ships, and wanted to come up to blackmail some benefits or collect taxes.

"Person Li, should I issue a letter of war first? Then wait for the troops from the Eighth Battalion."

"Fire the cannon and destroy the Goryeo Navy Tower ship first." Li Sihai said expressionlessly, "This is the book of war."

There are ten gun doors on both sides of the ship. The gun windows have already been opened, and the soldiers are guarding the deck with weapons. No one dares to disobey Li Sihai's military order in the Fourth Battalion of Chengying. Even Zhao Xingde trained himself, the gunners who were newly incorporated into the Fourth Battalion did not dare to. The marching Sima Wu Mai sent the military order, and the gunman dragged his voice and said: "Prepare--". The gunners who had already been waiting on both sides of the four-inch cannons tried to grab the cables that tied the cannon chariots and pulled the cannon chariots backwards.

He was holding the unpunched medicine in both hands and waiting there. The position of the cannon loading was calculated long ago, and it was not bad at all. Soon, the medicine bag was sent into the barrel bore, and the push rod made it close to the bottom of the barrel bore. The gunner in the front loaded a round cast iron shell, and the gunner in the rear quickly inserted the sharp awl through the fire door, bandaged a hole in the medicine, and then inserted the gunpowder lead. After all this, the gunners hurriedly pushed the cannon car back to its original position.

Just as the gunner was busy loading ammunition, under the command of Li Sihai, the warship was slowly turning. It ignored the small boat that was rowing towards this side with weak energy, aiming its port side at the Baozhou Pier, where the largest tower ships of the Koryo Navy were moored. In the cabin on the lower floor, some other gunners walked along the narrow stairs, transporting the open medicine bags and heavy shells to the upper deck where the artillery was located. In order to prevent being attacked by the enemy

The fire attack detonated, and the cabin of the medicine bag was carefully placed in several separate isolated cabins on the bottom floor. In case of a fire, the gunners waiting there could also pull out the plug and put the sea water in to soak the gunpowder. However, this also caused trouble for carrying the medicine bag in the battle. After the two 100-man teams of gunners boarded the ship, half of the time was to train the loading of ammunition, restore the gun position and aim, and the other half was to train the rapid transport of ammunition in the narrow sea boat.

Now the gunner and the sailor are still two different systems. Therefore, after the marching of the Fourth Battalion, Sima Wu Mai, issued a military order to fire the artillery, the gunner's centurion and the gun captain are responsible for how to aim. Unlike on land, the narrow gun door of the sea ship limits the freedom of aiming each gun, and the sea ship itself is constantly shaking, so it is a very test of the gun captain's skills.

"Fire!" The centurion, the gunner in charge of the port gun position, ordered. From the bow to the stern, the gunners issued orders to open fire, and the gunners carefully ignited the medicine with fire sticks. Since Zhao Xingde trained the artillery battalion, the speed and length of these medicine sticks were tested according to specifications. The artillery that was ignited with two breaths in front and back must have been ignited into the medicine bag in turn, without firing at the same time.

This was the first time that the gunners were actually fighting on the ship. In the cabin, all the gunners looked grim. The gunner on the starboard side placed his hands on the cables that tied the cannon trucks, as if they didn't do this, the cables would suddenly break off. The gunner who carried the medicine bag stood between the medicine bag and the port side gun position, for fear that a little spark would splash here. At this moment, the deck of the gun installed was quiet, and only the sound of water could be heard, and the sound of the medicine leads burning. Soon, the medicine leads at the closest to the bow of the boat burned to the end, and the gunman almost saw a wisp of blue smoke coming out of the fire door.

After the military order was taken down, Li Sihai secretly calculated the firing time. He put his hands on the side of the ship. Although the power of the cannon was amazing, the damage to the hull at the moment of firing was huge. In the test report to the Ordnance Department, Li Sihai suggested that all the wooden boards be thickened, the keel bones were thickened, and the ribs of the ship were doubled, and then the horizontal ribs were added to prevent the ship from being shaken away by the cannon. With his keen eyes, Li Sihai also suggested to the Ordnance Department that if artillery is used as the main weapon of the sea ship, the larger the hull, the better. The large ship's cannon position is more than the small boat, and it can provide the most stable firing platform. It is strong, which can withstand the waves and the tossing of artillery. The only disadvantage is that it is costly.

The Goryeo boat was getting closer and closer, and the appearance of the Goryeo soldiers on the boat could be clearly seen. Li Sihai even saw the other party's surprised eyes. Needless to say, they had just discovered the sergeant waiting on the deck.

Just when the Koreans were not too late to warn the village, there was a loud "boom" sound, and a flame blew out from the port port gun window with smoke. The black shells flew out almost in a visible arc, with a strong momentum, and hit the city wall of the Baozhou Wharf. Then, "boom", "boom", "boom", "boom", and "boom" sounded nine times in a row. With huge recoil, the shells fell around the Baozhou Water Village. Two hit the side of the Goryeo Tower Boat, and immediately penetrated the thin boards. This round of artillery bombardment was like the sudden rain in summer, which scared the Goryeo ship, which had already approached, and actually hit the water. The four or five sailors above looked at this side in a daze. Not only did they dare not stop them from coming forward, they could not even remember the fact that they ran away.

Li Sihai enjoyed the wooden chips flying around the boat upstairs on the pier: "The first shelling was not bad." He was still a little regretful. After all, these gunners were not trained by him. After all, when the tenth gun on the port side opened fire, the sailors immediately turned sail and aimed the starboard side of the sea boat at the direction of the Baozhou pier.
Chapter completed!