Martial Arts: Start with 100,000 Xiliang Cavalry

Chapter 189 Killing chickens and monkeys, put on the agenda
Dark, damp, cold...

In the prison, the Xifeng sea soldiers were collectively detained here, with their heads drooping and their bodies trembling.

Each of them had a look of great fear on their faces.In the previous scene, the scene where the dignified captain of the Red Parrot and Captain Albert were bitten to death by hounds was destined to turn into a nightmare of their lives.

After that, all their pride and arrogance were shattered, and now all that is left is boundless panic and a great desire to go back to Xifeng.

Now each of them is silently praying in their hearts, as long as they can leave here and go back to Xifeng Country, even if they give up everything, they are willing!

It's a pity that their prayers were not answered, and there were only the constant inspections of the jailers.

Beside the ferry, Bei'an soldiers were cleaning up the traces of the war.

Su Yuan is still staying here at the moment, and Qi Jiguang is reporting the statistics of the battle damage to him.

"My lord, we had a total of about 20 casualties, and nearly [-] ships were destroyed by the guns of the Xifeng warship."

Su Yuan nodded. He had seen that scene. When the Xifeng battleship was attacked by the masters of the rivers and lakes, it started to fire randomly under the chaos.

At that time, there were many Bei'an ships docked on the shore, and it was too late to withdraw, and many of them were blown up.

"As for the Xifeng marines, 290 and seven were killed and 660 and eight were captured. Except for three of the twenty warships that suffered some damage, the remaining seventeen were intact."

The tone of Qi Jiguang's report was a little excited.

"My lord, we made a lot of money this time."

Even Qi Jiguang, who has always been calm and calm, said such words, which shows that the harvest this time is indeed not small.

Su Yuan smiled: "That's right, we destroyed dozens of ships and exchanged them for warships like Xifeng, so of course we made money."

The Bei'an Army destroyed all wooden pulp boats, which were not expensive to manufacture. On the other hand, the warships of the West Maple Kingdom were all iron boats.In terms of cost alone, the cost of one Xifeng warship is more than dozens of Bei'an wooden pulp boats, not to mention twenty of them were seized.

This is only the cost, not the advanced technology of these warships.There is no doubt that dismantling these warships can carry out some reverse engineering and improve Bei'an's shipbuilding technology.

Qi Jiguang said: "I'm going to let the craftsmen dismantle the damaged Xifeng warship immediately after cleaning it up, and analyze and learn its manufacturing process."

"Well, yes. Don't dismantle those that are intact, and use them as our warships."

"I will understand at the end."

"The road is long and difficult. We can't be complacent just because we won this time." Su Yuan said, these words seemed to spur him, "This time the enemy is arrogant and careless. If they are vigilant enough, the fleet will be farther away from the ferry." Far, then we won't win so easily."

But after all, this easy and complete victory is naturally a good thing, it should be remembered and celebrated.

As for the consequences of this incident, Su Yuan didn't even care.It's nothing more than going to war with Xifeng Kingdom again, so what's the matter.

The Bei'an Army has never had fewer enemies, and to achieve great goals, the number of hostile forces will only increase.But Su Yuan believes that there are many hostile forces, but the number of enemies will only decrease.

Because everyone has eyes and ears, and can hear and see.When the people of other countries find that the people in the areas managed by the Bei'an Army live and work in peace and contentment and live a prosperous life, one can imagine whether they will vote with their feet.

The road may be tortuous, but the future must be bright.

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The news that the Xifeng Kingdom fleet attacked the ferry in the capital for no reason, but was defeated and captured by the Bei'an army, quickly spread in the capital.

Su Yuan did not order to keep it secret, he hoped that the common people would know about it.He didn't want to be like some princes who won the battle but kept it secret, for fear that the people would ask for a share of the pie.

For a while, everyone in the capital, from officials to pawns, was talking about this matter.

Jerry from the Saxon country couldn't believe it when he heard about it, and was shocked when he actually confirmed it.

You know, in terms of naval power, West Maple is comparable to their Saxon flag!Such a powerful force actually lost to the Bei'an regime, which had just started its navy?

Jerry couldn't understand it at all, but he knew that he had to report this matter, lest his country's government act impulsively and end up with the same result.

Although he never told Lu Wuyou, in fact, many officials in the Saxon domestic parliament were very dissatisfied with the business with the Bei'an regime.Tariffs were criticized several times at the meeting, which was considered to be a humiliation of a weak country to a strong country.

There are also parliamentary officials who proposed to show off their muscles and strength to the Bei'an regime and let them know that such tariffs are extremely unreasonable.

Jerry thought in his heart that after this incident, the lords in the council probably wouldn't have such thoughts.

However, he personally wanted to say something about how to deal with those Xi Feng captives.

On the second day after the battle, Jerry went to Lu Wuyou to discuss the matter with him.

Lu Wuyou was quite surprised when he heard about Xi Feng's captives: "Manager Jerry is from Saxon, right? Why should he care about Xi Feng's captives?"

"This... After all, our two countries have established diplomatic relations and have embassies in their respective territories. I want to ask Master Lu, how does Prince Su Yuan plan to deal with them?"

Lu Wuyou said indifferently: "Of course it will be punished according to the laws of Bei'an."

"The law? Yes, it should be. So what will happen to them according to Bei'an law?"

"Or beheaded for public display, or sent to the frontier, and so on."

Jerry's face changed greatly when he heard this: "God, this is absolutely impossible."

Lu Wuyou frowned and said, "Manager Jerry is trying to meddle in the internal affairs of our Bei'an Army?"

After hearing this, Jerry shook his head quickly.

After staying in the capital for so many days, he also learned about the laws of the capital.Knowing that these Bei'an people will not have any preferential treatment for their Westerners.

Previously, a subordinate of his company smashed a shop on the street because of drinking, and even yelled and beat the people. After he was arrested by the Bei'an Army, he, the manager, pleaded for mercy, but it was useless.

Even if he used words such as affecting the unity of the two regimes, the Bei'an Army was not moved.He even warned him that if he continued to entangle, even he would be imprisoned in prison.

Jerry couldn't believe it.

In the eyes of Jerry, the nearly [-] captives in Xifeng Kingdom are not life, but money!
Jerry said anxiously: "Lord Lu, you misunderstood me. I mean, with these captives, we can get back a lot of benefits from Xifeng Kingdom! These sailors are not easy to train, and each one is very valuable. Xifeng Kingdom will definitely not Give up and redeem them."

"If Master Lu is willing, I am willing to act as a middleman to mediate this matter. The final price is guaranteed to satisfy you, Master Lu. Of course, I will also collect a mediation fee from Zhongxiao..."

As Jerry was talking, he realized that something was wrong.

Lu Wuyou stared at him for a while, then said in a deep voice, "Manager Jerry, this is a war, not a business."

Jerry was stunned for a moment: "The redemption of the prisoners is part of the war itself, and it is an international practice. Although they caused some damage, but..."

"I'm sorry, but the convention you mentioned doesn't apply here." After Lu Wuyou finished speaking, he issued an order to evict the guest, "I still have business to do, Manager Jerry, please come back."

"But..." Seeing that Lu Wuyou didn't pay attention to him anymore, Jerry still didn't give up, "If this happens, Xifeng Kingdom will definitely declare war! This is very detrimental to the safety of our trade routes!"

All he said was money, so Lu Wuyou asked someone to send him out.

Unlike Jerry, although Lu Wuyou also likes to make money, he is very clear about which money can be earned and which cannot.Otherwise, he would not have chosen to give up his family business and wander the market.

Later, he was loyal to Su Yuan because he valued Su Yuan's lofty ideals. For this reason, he also urged himself every day to ensure that his original intention would not change.

As for the disposal of these captives now, he naturally would not consider using them to make money.He knew that Su Yuan would definitely not think about it that way.

"Based on what I know about the lord..." Lu Wuyou speculated alone, "I'm afraid the lord will choose to make an example of others."

Wangfu.

There are some documents on the table in front of Su Yuan, which are documents searched from the Red Parrot.Many of these are classified, including fleet intelligence, combat missions, personnel assignments, and more.

The people in the translation office translated these things overnight, and handed them over to Su Yuan's mansion during the day for inspection.

Su Yuan has seen some of them now.

He knew that these twenty ships were the third fleet of the West Maple Navy.The third fleet is a fleet dedicated to overseas activities.

The main task of the third fleet is to protect the cross-sea trade lanes of Xifeng country, as well as attack and teach the naval forces of some other countries.

This time, more than half of the ships from this fleet made a special trip to the East China Sea to provoke the Bei'an Army.As long as the Bei'an army can't hold back and chooses to fight back, they will open their boats and completely defeat the Bei'an army's sea power.

Why do you want to do this, according to the information from Jiangnan, it is naturally related to the trade agreement between Xifeng and the Southern Zhou court.

This is the price that Xifeng Kingdom paid for trade and concessions... Perhaps in the eyes of Xifeng Kingdom at first, this price was insignificant.Sending the Third Fleet to destroy the Bei'an Army's sea power was as easy as pie, earning a few concessions and a large amount of cargo profits for nothing.

And the result...was quite different from the plan.

Su Yuan thought to himself, when Xifeng Kingdom received the news, the naval commander would probably vomit blood in anger, right?The value of these warships is not generally high, and the nearly thousand sailors are even higher.

I don't know how much time and money it took to train them. Now it's all in the hands of the Bei'an Army, and it's impossible not to shed blood.

This is what Su Yuan wanted.

He wants to make any force that attacks him feel severe pain, and this pain will last for a long time until it is replaced by the next stronger severe pain.

Just like Dongwa attacked him, and he wanted to attack back.In this Xifeng country, Su Yuan will let them experience the feeling of being bombed sooner or later.

"grown ups."

Shen Lian came here at this time.

He handed over a statement to Su Yuan: "This is the information obtained from the interrogation of those sailors from Xifeng Kingdom last night. Please have a look."

Su Yuan took it and looked at it, and it was roughly the same as the information found on the ship.

"My lord, those sailors from Xifeng Kingdom want to know when they can return to their country. They implore your lord to contact the military and parliament of Xifeng Kingdom. They said that the council will definitely pay enough ransom to redeem them."

"Go back?" Su Yuan said, "Is it that easy to come to someone else's house to make trouble, and want to slap your ass and leave after all the trouble?"

"What does your lord mean... do you want your subordinates..."

Shen Lian put his palm across his neck and made a gesture of cutting his throat.

Su Yuan shook his head: "It doesn't have to be like this now. I need to let the sailors among them spit out all the methods of using those warships, and teach our sailors by hand."

"Also. Construction is going on everywhere in the capital, and a lot of work needs to be done by people. Aren't they all energetic, so let them contribute to the construction of the capital."

"The subordinates understand." Shen Lian said, "The subordinates will make arrangements one by one and send someone to watch over them."

"One more thing, my lord. Miss Shenqianle, I want to say goodbye to my lord."

"Oh? She's only been here for two or three days...you let her come to see me."

"Yes."

After Shen Lian left, he quickly sent someone to bring Shenqianle Lingmeng over.

When the two met again after a few days, Su Yuan asked her: "Since you want to say goodbye, it means that you have made a decision."

"Yes, Lord Su." Shenqianle Lingmeng said solemnly, "I want to ask Lord Su to send troops to Dongwa to help the people get rid of the Shanggong Shogunate and the Orochi clan. And establish an order like here."

"You don't think I'm an aggressor anymore?"

"If Prince Su doesn't enslave ordinary people, he can let ordinary Eastern Japanese people live a life as safe and self-sufficient as the people in the capital. Then this is not considered aggression." Shenqianle Lingmeng replied.

In the past few days, she has thought clearly that the most important thing is for the people to live well, and this is probably what Su Yuan called "liberation".

When the two met for the first time, Su Yuan told her that aggression and liberation are different.She didn't understand at the time, but after staying in the capital for a few days, she understood.

Aggression is a kind of evil. It is reflected in the fact that soldiers from one country will burn, kill and loot ordinary people after entering another country. This is aggression.

But Liberation is different. Liberation means that after soldiers from one country enter another country, they will help ordinary people deal with evil people who oppress good people.

Shenqianle Lingmeng asked the old Baicheng in the capital, and Su Yuan did not talk big. His Bei'an army has been attacking the city since the northern Xinjiang uprising, and has not committed any evil deeds to the common people since the capture.

This accumulated behavior made Su Yuan's words credible, otherwise Shenqianle Lingmeng would not believe it easily.

She said: "I believe that Lord Su will bring a stable life to the people of Eastern Japan. On behalf of the Shenqianle clan, I will do my best to assist Lord Su."

After listening to her words, Su Yuan looked at her for a while, then nodded slightly.

"If everyone in Eastern Japan is like you Shenqianle, I don't need to liberate. It's a pity."

"..."

"Go back."

"Prince Su, when will you..." There was a trace of longing and anticipation in Shen Qianle's eyes.

Since she had decided to help Su Yuan, she naturally hoped that he would send troops as soon as possible.The longer it drags on, the more dangerous the Shenqianle clan will be, and the probability of the big snake's recovery will also increase.

"Don't worry, it will be soon." Su Yuan smiled.

Sleepy came to send the pillow, and he would also like to thank Xifeng Guocai.With the nearly twenty iron ships of the third fleet, many of his plans can be scheduled in advance.

(End of this chapter)