Established a thousand-year family from the end of Qin Dynasty

Chapter 595 The Final Battle ([-])
The summer of the four hundred and second year of the Yan Kingdom (612)
June
Yanhai (Yellow Sea)
The fleet of the Sui Empire finally sailed away from the coastline, departed from the Donglai Everbright City, and sailed to the vast sea.

A sea merchant from the Central Plains became the guide of the Sui Empire's navy, guiding the direction of the empire's navy.

However, the empire only knew that the new capital of Yan State was in the southeast of the Shandong Peninsula, but the empire did not know exactly where it was.

In the vast sea, the probability of getting lost is much higher than on the grassland.

Back then, Li Guang, a famous general of the generation, got lost every day in the grassland. If it were an ordinary person who went to the sea, the possibility of getting lost would only be greater.

in a few days

During the voyage, a ship from the State of Yan came to provoke them, and the imperial navy gradually deviated from the direction. In order to chase and kill the ships from the State of Yan, they plunged into the wider East China Sea.

When they were about to arrive at Penglai Island, fate made a joke with them. A little deviation in the course made them sail to the Ryukyu Islands with huge wind and waves.

There are many hidden reefs here, and if you are not familiar with the sea, it is easy to run aground.

At the beginning, Yan Guo used this method to deal with Sima Zhao's navy, and now it is repeating the same trick.

The invincible fleet composed of tens of thousands of imperial ships got lost in the sea.

The ships of the Yan State who provoked them had already carefully passed through the reef area, but the imperial armada that was chasing them crashed headlong into the reef.

Whoa! ——

The first ship to hit the reef began to leak water at the bottom, and the whole ship began to tilt forward.

"Not good! Get out of here!"

Yang Xuan, the chief of the navy, was shocked. He had fought in water battles, but he had never fought in sea battles. He did not expect that there was such a big difference between sea battles and water battles.

Only two warships and eleven troop carriers were lost.

"what!"

"Wow! Gollum—"

The soldiers on the troop carrier fell into the sea, the soldiers wearing armor had sunk to the bottom of the sea, and the soldiers without armor were floating on the sea surface holding planks, waiting for the rescue of their comrades-in-arms.

After rescuing the soldiers on the sea, Yang Xuangan decided to return to the original route and go to sea after confirming the route next time.

It's not that he doesn't want to go to Xindu, it's that he really doesn't know where Xindu is. He doesn't even know which direction he is in Xindu, and he doesn't know how far he is from the Central Plains, so he can only follow his memory and walk along the road. If you keep sailing in the original direction, you will be able to return to the city that never sleeps.

Nightless City is the city of Yan State in Gwangju. It was occupied by the Yan State family as early as the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, but it has not been built much.

In fact, Yan State has never built the territory it occupies in the Central Plains, because Yan State can't guarantee that the territory it occupies in the Central Plains can be maintained for a long time.

If it can't be kept, and it will be taken away by the Central Plains Dynasty one day in the future, won't all the investment of Yan State in the construction of the Central Plains be in vain?

Therefore, in order to prevent the situation of being in vain, Yan State never carried out construction in the occupied areas of the Central Plains. After the looting was over, it supported the puppet regime in the local area and let the local local snakes govern themselves.

As a result, the city that never sleeps is one of the oldest cities in the country of Yan, but its economic construction is not as good as that of the overseas colonies of the country of Yan.

Lao Shi went on an expedition, but in order to chase and kill a mobile warship of Yan State, the navy lost its way. Before the battle started, thirteen ships ran aground and sank into the sea.

Yang Xuangan didn't dare to report this matter to the emperor for the time being. He planned to hide the battle report, and when he won the next sea expedition, he would report the battle report of his complete victory. Be careful about the small loss of thirteen ships. In this way, with the great contribution of attacking Yandu, His Majesty will not blame him for the small crime of stranded thirteen ships.

No one knows how to fight a sea battle. Although many people on board participated in the war against Chen, there is still a difference between a water battle and a sea battle.

In Yang Xuangan's cognition, naval battles are nothing more than using ships to transport soldiers to the opponent's land, and then destroy the opponent. In my mind, there is only this concept of naval warfare.

This is not because he is stupid, but because he has not experienced it, so he naturally does not understand.

When Yang Xuangan, the chief of the navy, brought the Armada back the same way.

Linyu Pass

"Your Majesty ordered to attack immediately, if the Shanhai Pass cannot be attacked, military law will be followed!"

The eunuch came to convey the emperor's order and asked the generals for money by the way.

That little money doesn't matter, most of the generals are from the nobles of Guanlong, so it's not bad for this little money, the key is to attack this order immediately, that's really fatal.

"The sea has not yet ebbed, there is no road ahead, and the ships are all in the navy. How can we attack immediately? Let the soldiers swim over?"

General Mai Tiezhan yelled at the eunuch.

Yu Wenshu also said to the eunuch: "Please also explain the situation here to Your Majesty. If you want to attack, you must wait until the sea tide ebbs, and you can't act too hastily."

"Hehe!" The eunuch laughed nonchalantly, and said in a strange tone, "You generals are all dragons and phoenixes among men, the pride of heaven, can't they think of a solution?"

"No boats? Won't you requisition the boats of the fishermen in the vicinity? I, an eunuch, can think of a way, can't the generals think of it?"

"Please, generals, don't hesitate any longer. Your Majesty hates generals who are greedy for life and afraid of death."

After all, the eunuch didn't give the generals a chance to explain, put the imperial decree on the table, and then left straight away in the carriage, going back to the imperial capital Luoyang to report the situation here.

boom!
When the imperial eunuchs left, General Mai Tiezhang clenched his fists and slammed down on the table where the imperial decree was placed, smashing Yang Guang's imperial decree into the broken wood and tearing it apart.

"Dog eunuch! Deceitful too much!"

The rest of the generals also shook their heads and complained:
"Requisitioning the fishermen's boats? It's easy to say, how many boats are there for the nearby fishermen? Then the number of boats is not enough, and the fishermen's boats are small and fragile. Let our soldiers attack by fishing boats, isn't it sending them to death? ?”

"And the soldiers didn't get a good rest. The guards of the Yan Kingdom in Shanhaiguan, relying on their superiority in controlling the sea, would cross the sea from time to time to harass us, and even smashed our pier with flint, destroying the pier we just built."

"In any case, His Majesty has issued an attack order. The monarch, the minister, the minister, father and son, we are ministers, we must obey the monarch's order, no matter how absurd the order is, we must obey it!"

"This... ugh!"

"Okay, okay, don't talk about it, we are courtiers, just do our duty, don't make troubles, since His Majesty wants us to attack, then we will attack, and now immediately go to requisition the boats of the nearby fishermen and order the soldiers to go Make the plank bridge, and tomorrow morning, or the day after tomorrow at the latest, we will attack."

Afterwards, the soldiers of the Sui Army began to act. Some were building wooden bridges, some rode horses to fishermen's houses to requisition fishing boats, and some went to nearby villages to kidnap young girls.

But most of the soldiers of the Sui army, with dark circles under their eyes, didn't want to do anything, they just wanted to go to the inland area far away from the ocean, and have a good sleep.

(End of this chapter)