Great Song Super Scholar

Chapter 591
The sky was overcast during the day, the sea was windy and rough, and at night, the sea was pitch black. At the edge of a long and narrow promontory, a small boat sailed silently towards the harbor under the cover of wind and waves.

This is a small sampan, and there are only two people on board. Except for the two soldiers rowing one end and the other, the other four have made all preparations. They wear tight-fitting water tanks made of black sharkskin, and each carries a black Big skins, even if they are close at hand in the dark, it is difficult to find them.

The four of them are Fanning's four bodyguards, Zhu Long, Zhu Hu, Zhu Bao, and Zhu Ying. The reason why they were chosen is that they are extremely skilled in martial arts, they run as fast as the wind in the dark night, and each of them has His unique skills are like Zhu Long's flying knife, Zhu Hu's strength, Zhu Bao's speed and Zhu Ying's lightness kung fu.

Over the years, they often go out to sea with Fan Ning, and they have also developed a strong water quality. As long as they can slide into the water, they will basically be safe and sound.

The four of them are not young anymore, the oldest Zhu Long is 42 years old, and the youngest Zhu Ying is 35 years old. They are all orphans and have no family members. Fan Ning thought that after the war is over, they will be rewarded for their meritorious service. Then go to Wucheng on Ganjiang Island, marry a wife and have children there, and settle down.

The sampan had already entered the harbor, and there were many lanterns hung in the harbor. It was these lanterns that allowed them to see some outlines dimly. Below Qianshi, there may be garrisons on the docks, but there are none on the sea, and the small sampans mixed into the ships of the Liao army.

The two rowing soldiers were in charge of burning the boats, while the four of Zhu Long were going to the shipyard one mile away, where the security was heavily guarded, and there might be patrols on the sea.

The four of them immediately blew up the lambskin raft. This kind of lambskin raft is as big as a lifebuoy of later generations. They are not used to carry people, but to carry objects. After all, everyone is carrying a kerosene bag weighing thirty kilograms. , can't swim in the water, so it can only be put on a lambskin raft and pushed forward in the water.

The four of them got into the water silently, and pushed the sheepskin rafts to swim. The sea water was very cold. Each of the four lambskin rafts was equipped with a fierce oil fire bag, which was an individual weapon invented by the Military Inspection Department. A one-meter-long thin tube is connected to the mouth of the fire bag, which can spray kerosene over a distance of more than ten feet. If the front end of the thin tube is ignited, it can even directly spray flames two meters away. It is a relatively primitive fire-breathing weapon.

Zhu Long and the others don't need to breathe fire, but the fire bag is not afraid of water, and the fire oil can be sprayed more than ten feet away, which is very important.

After swimming in the water for nearly a quarter of an hour, they entered the range of the shipbuilding workshop. As expected, there were patrol boats on the sea surface. After the patrol boat went to the other side, they quickly swam to the shore, using an unfinished The three thousand stone boat covered it and quickly went ashore.

Zhu Long whispered, "Wait a minute!"

Everyone stopped in their tracks, only to see Zhu Long connect the nozzle, rush to the three unfinished [-]-stone ships, and spray the fire oil on them. matter.

After spraying half a bag of kerosene, he waved his hand, and everyone rushed to a big house hundreds of steps away.

The shipbuilding workshop is relatively simple, with only two kinds of houses, one is a few rows of small houses, probably used as a military barracks, and the other is a huge warehouse, which is their goal. There is also a stockyard for shipbuilding timber. And ship planks piled up like a mountain, just next to the warehouse. In fact, the warehouse area is composed of a large warehouse and an open-air stockyard.

The warehouse was built of bluestone, the roof was made of wood, and the door was closed tightly. There were more than a dozen soldiers standing at the door, and four of them touched the back. There was a ventilation window two feet high, and one person could get in.

Zhu Long whispered to the other three people: "Divide the troops into two groups. The second and third are responsible for burning the wood in the yard. The fourth and I will go into the warehouse. Now count the time and start after a stick of incense."

Zhu Hu and Zhu Bao rushed towards the stockyard, Zhu Ying took out his flying claws, shot into the transom window, accurately threw it into the transom window, hooked the edge of the window, he pulled the string hard, and looked back at Zhu Long .

Zhu Long nodded, Zhu Ying jumped up, pulled the thin rope and quickly climbed towards the air window, climbed up the air window two or three times, and then hoisted the fierce oil fire bag up, Zhu Long immediately disappeared into the darkness , with a throwing knife buckled in each of his left and right hands, he was responsible for supporting the three brothers.

Zhu Ying rolled into the warehouse, and suddenly exclaimed, in front of his eyes were hundreds of huge keel bones, like the backbones of ancient monsters, standing on both sides of the transom. Sails, masts, tung oil, ropes, and other state parts, there is a strong smell of tung oil in the air.

Zhu Ying climbed a keel and slid down to the place where tung oil is piled up. There are hundreds of barrels of tung oil piled up here. Tung oil is a flammable and dangerous substance. It is absolutely impossible to see tung oil and other materials put together in the Dasong Shipbuilding Factory In the current situation, the management of the Liao State Shipbuilding Factory is still relatively rough.

Zhu Ying pulled out the water thorns from his boots, and stabbed fiercely at the tung oil barrels. He stabbed dozens of wooden barrels in a row, and dozens of tung oil sprayed out from the wooden barrels. Zhu Ying began to spray fire oil in all directions, focusing on the keel area After a while, he climbed up the transom, sprayed down half of Zhu Long's kerosene bag, took out a torch from the waterproof tube, and flicked it in the wind, the torch immediately ignited, and he threw the torch down. 'boom! 'The flames burned and began to spread rapidly around.

He took out another torch, tossed it, and threw it far away. It happened to land on a piece of tung oil, and the tung oil was also ignited, and the fire burned rapidly.

Zhu Ying didn't even need a string, and jumped directly from the transom. Just as he landed, a flying knife swished past him, and there was a scream from behind. Patrol soldiers, each with a throwing knife stuck in their foreheads.

Zhu Long came out of the darkness and said, "They found the string and wanted to come over to check it out, but I killed it. How is it in the warehouse?"

Zhu Ying looked up at the billowing smoke from the transom, nodded and said: "Start from the keel, and the tung oil is also ignited."

At this time, the alarm bell rang loudly outside, and I saw thick smoke billowing from the yard and the flames soaring into the sky, and the soldiers stationed at the shipyard were alarmed.

Zhu Hu and Zhu Bao rushed over, Zhu Long waved, "Let's go!"

The four quickly rushed into the darkness, the shipyard was in chaos, the warehouse area was ablaze, and thick smoke billowed. Chance for Zhu Long and the others to escape.

Zhu Long pulled out the last four fire sticks and threw them into three large ships that had not yet been built. When the fire was lit, the four immediately jumped into the sea and disappeared on the dark sea.

Two miles away, a small sampan was waiting for the four of them on the sea, and soon, four black shadows swam up one after another, boarded the sampan, and the sampan then sailed to the sea outside the port.

Looking at the flames soaring into the sky, the four of Zhu Long sighed at the same time. This fire brought a glorious end to their lives in the Great Song Dynasty. The next step is that they will leave the Great Song Dynasty and go to the remote Ganjiang Island to start a new life. Life.

Outside the harbour, a big ship of Wanshi was quietly waiting for the return of the small boat on the sea.

The destruction of the sea expeditionary force and the burning of the shipbuilding workshops dealt a heavy blow to Liao's naval plan. It can be said to be a devastating blow, which shattered the Liao's dream of a first-line navy. This incident had a profound impact on Liao.

At this time, Emperor Yelu Hongji of the Liao Kingdom had been in power for 14 years. He had just experienced the Chongyuan Rebellion a few years ago. Famous minister.

Yelu Yixin, a treacherous prime minister who has been heavily used by Yelu Hongji, took the opportunity to kill hundreds of dissidents under the pretext of killing Chongyuan's remaining party, which led to internal chaos and political instability in the Liao Kingdom.

But what led to the decline of the Liao Kingdom was Yelu Hongji's profligacy. The whole country worshiped the Buddha, overhauled the monasteries, and rewarded the monks so much that the treasury was empty.

It is precisely because of the extreme financial strain and political instability that in order to seize the wealth of the Song Dynasty and divert domestic conflicts, Yelu Hongji turned his attention to the Song Dynasty. On the one hand, he concentrated his financial resources to build a naval force in an attempt to seize Kunzhou, an important source of wealth overseas for the Song Dynasty.

But at the last moment, the Song army destroyed his fleet and shipbuilding workshop, and the investment of tens of thousands of taels of silver in shipbuilding was in vain.

Angry and angry, Yelu Hongji took advantage of the shipyard incident and ordered General Yelu Shenchi to attack Dingzhou with [-] troops. Hebei Xuanfu envoy Han Qi, who was patrolling the city defense in Dingzhou, led [-] troops to Tang County to support and strictly guard Tang County. In the county seat, a fierce siege battle broke out between the two sides for Tang County.

The contradiction between Song and Liao began to escalate further.

(End of this chapter)