Late Tang

On the Sirius, the flagship of the Qin Fan Combined Fleet, the Marshal of the Navy Combined Fleet, the Duchess Megan, was watching through her binoculars the fleet that was advancing across the blue sea like a giant sea dragon.

This is a huge fleet, a total of two thousand ships, and they are all big ships.The number of escorting warships alone reached [-], and the number of transport ships carrying soldiers, food, war horses, equipment, etc. was as high as [-].

Megan was also very surprised to be able to command such a huge fleet.But she didn't refuse, she believed in her ability.

The season for the fleet was bad, but their luck was good.After walking on the sea for several days, there was no strong wind, rain or snow.The fleet completely followed the routes they had tried to find out in the past few winters. They moved away from the coast in a winding way, and their speed was slow and not fast.It can only travel about ten miles in an hour, and this speed is equivalent to a little more than two knots in later generations, which can be described as a turtle speed.But in such a period of sea ice, it is a route that is only about three years old, and it is still a large fleet of up to [-] ships. This speed is somewhat unbelievable.

What surprised Meghan even more was that they had been sailing at sea for three days, but they did not encounter any accidents, and no boat was lost. This was seen by many naval officers who believed that this would be a dangerous journey. Come on, it's incredible.

At this speed, it will be able to reach the ice-free port of Dalian this evening, where a fleet and a batch of materials and personnel will join the fleet.After leaving Dalian Port, his fleet will be as high as 20 ships, as well as [-] troops, [-] conscripted civilians, and a large amount of supplies and equipment.

She is very proud of being able to serve as the marshal of this mighty fleet. When she observes them through the telescope, an ambition to lead the fleet to conquer the deep blue ocean arises spontaneously.

In this huge fleet, at the forefront is the forward detection fleet composed of walkers and yachts, 36 ships lined up in a herringbone and far in front.Behind them, there are warships, fighting ships, and sea falcon ships. These main battleships form an escort formation one by one, sailing on both sides of the transport ship. Because the building ship is too high, it is not conducive to oceangoing navigation. Therefore, this time The fleet did not mobilize large ships to go to sea. The largest ship was a transport ship, and the largest battleship was a battleship.

Walkers and warships are frigates, gullies are destroyers, and battleships are battleships.

And the huge number of transport ships are not as fragile as they appear on the surface. The navy has installed a lot of flying mine cannons on them, and the marines they carry, they are not afraid of any enemies at all.

These huge transport ships are slow and cumbersome, carrying thousands of soldiers, horses, ordnance, food, and even chariots.

In Li Jing's eyes, this giant fleet is indeed magnificent.However, this is also an action that Qin Fan has planned for several years. This time, he not only brought all the warships and ocean-going ships in the Qin army, but even requisitioned those sea merchants from various ports almost semi-forcibly. Boat.If it weren't for Li Jing's current power, and the compensation conditions given by Qin Jun were really good, and he promised to return it on time in half a year, and if the ship was damaged, he would double the repayment, even with the development of Qin Jun's navy over the years , and simply cannot afford such a huge fleet.

Two thousand large ships and the scout boats in front of the fleet have already arrived at Lushun Port, but he estimated that the tail of this fleet has just left Qinhuangdao, and there may even be some that haven't left the port yet.

This is very possible. Qinhuangdao Port is only six to seven hundred miles away from Lushun Port, and this huge fleet has [-] ships, and it is impossible to line up together in this freezing season, but it is drawn together. A long line.If one is next to the other, it can be lined up for a length of one or two hundred miles.

That's not all, there are still 10 ships and 20 people in Dalian Port, but those over there are civilians, not soldiers.The transfer of [-] soldiers and horses to the Bohai Sea this time is considered the limit.Although Cheng Dezhen was successfully frightened, Li Jing also had to make preparations.Especially seeing that Huang Chao is about to die, and Yang Fuguang, Li Keyong, Zhu Wen and others have formed a powerful alliance, Li Jing also has to guard against another war in the Central Plains.This is also the reason why he now wants to merge the three Henan towns of Tianping, Yicheng, and Xuanwu into Shandong province.

At the beginning, they withdrew from the states of Song and Cao and handed them over to Yu Yuxin and the others because Li Jing didn't want to fight Huang Chao to the death, and at that time they occupied half of Henan at once, and the expansion was too fast, and no one really occupied those places.That's why they were handed over to Yu Yu and others. Once Yu Yu and others controlled them, they were actually on his side.Secondly, there is also a buffer zone between him and Huang Chao, so that the two sides will not be at war with each other, and their guns will go off.But the situation is different now. After these years of peaceful development, Qin Fan's control of the Shandong Huanghuai area has been stabilized.The defeat of Huang Chao turned the Henan area west of the canal into the territory of Zhu Wen, Li Ke, and Qin Zongquan. Target.But now that the lands in Henan on the west bank of the canal have changed owners, the situation has changed again.

Li Jing can not invade each other with Huang Chao, but it is difficult for Yang Fuguang and his father and son not to invade each other. This is due to interests.

Having made plans early, Li Jing merged these six states into Shandong Province at this time, which is also a one-piece defense.At the beginning, Li Jing was mentally prepared to let these six states act as a buffer zone, even if Huang Chao snatched them away.But it can't be done now, and now there is no room for an inch of land between the towns.The canal line is the first line of defense.For this reason, Li Jing not only merged the six states into the Shandong Province, but also began to send more troops to the Huanghuai area.

The total number of troops of the Qin Army is so large, and there are not many who can be sent to Bohai Sea, and they dare not send more.But in the end, Li Jing still transferred [-] civilian husbands and went to fight five thousand miles away. Li Jing was also careful.

On the second day of February, this huge fleet arrived in Dalian, where [-] new ships joined the fleet, increasing the fleet by another [-] ships.After docking in Dalian for three days, the fleet continued to move eastward after another good weather.

Four days later, they arrived at the sea near Pyongyang on the north side of the Samhan Peninsula in the Yalu River. This time the fleet did not stop, but went directly southward. Seven days later, it arrived near Silla Hanseong. .After traveling for another five days, the fleet arrived at the waters controlled by Zhang Yingying, then entered Qinghai Town, rested there for five days, and then set off again.

Next, it was a long sea voyage. After sailing for 23 days, the ice on the sea had begun to melt. It was the most dangerous sailing period. The fleet of the Qin Army arrived at the final destination, Tokyo Dragon of Bohai Yanzhou, the original prefecture, landed in the largest ice-free port in the north, which is later known as Vladivostok.

Bohai Tokyo is located on the coast of the East China Sea.To its south is Nanjing on the Bohai Sea, and to its southwest is Xijing on the Bohai Sea.To the west is Zhongjing in the Bohai Sea, and it is also the place where the Qin Bo Allied Forces and the Tribal Allied Forces are currently confronting each other.In the northwest of him is Tongzhou, and to the north of Tongzhou is Shangjing Longquan Mansion, which has been occupied by the coalition forces.To the north of Tokyo is Suibin Mansion, and to the northeast is Tingli Mansion. These places and the Bohai Prefecture and counties further north of them are now occupied by the coalition forces.

Hundreds of thousands of soldiers and civilians of the Qin army have never heard of the place they are about to land in front of them.

This is the most northeastern tip of Tokyo. In fact, this natural ice-free port, Deep Water Bay, does not belong to Bohai Tokyo. They originally belonged to the small Amur peninsula in the south of Huazhou in Salbin Prefecture.However, in recent years, influenced by the prosperity of the sea trade of the Qin Fan, many nobles in Bohai Sea have also begun to join in the extremely hot business of ocean trade.The original small fishing village at the southern end of the Amur Peninsula immediately brought great convenience to the berthing of ocean-going ships because of their natural deep-water port and natural ice-free port conditions. Gradually, it became an important sea trade terminal. , gradually flourished.In the end, the port, together with the small peninsula, was transferred from Subin Mansion to Tokyo Ryuhara Mansion.

The soldiers of the Qin army knew nothing about this port, but the generals were already familiar with it, especially the generals of the navy. In the past few years, they sent officers and soldiers of the navy to pretend to be merchants. , came here again and again by boat, scouting the terrain and inquiring about the surrounding situation.Especially after the confrontation between the Allied Forces and the Allied Forces in Beijing, the Staff Council once proposed a bold plan, that is, to abandon the long land transportation line and directly mobilize a huge naval fleet to load a large army and food, Bypassing the Sanhan Peninsula from the sea and landing directly in Tokyo or Shibinfu, the magic soldiers descended from the sky and appeared on the left flank of the tribal coalition forces with weak defenses, defeating them in one fell swoop.

It was a bold plan, first proposed by a young staff officer.Li Jing accidentally saw this plan, which was just a fantasy at the time, and then he mobilized people and set up a complete planning room, allowing them to enrich the whole plan and make the plan feasible.

Now, facing that beautiful ice-free port, Li Jing is smiling.

Although it took them 51 days to get here from Qinhuangdao, they succeeded.They set off on the 28th of the first month and arrived at their destination on the 300th of March.Although there were some accidents along the way, they lost more than a dozen boats and more than [-] people, but this loss was nothing compared to their success.

If they go by land, 30 people, and the food they need on the road, they need at least twice as many people to deliver the supplies, food and grass, and the distance is more than five thousand miles, they even need to walk for a longer time, the fastest It must be more than double the current time.Another one, walking by land, the severe cold, rain, snow and diseases along the way will take away the lives of more soldiers and civilians.The most important thing is that if they walk from land, their plan to attack the coalition forces by surprise will be difficult to realize.

Looking at the port on the peninsula, Li Jing and Megan couldn't help but embrace each other tightly.

It was a miracle, they performed a miracle, they did it, they really did it.

The port, together with the Amur Peninsula, was occupied by the coalition forces last year. The bustling and lively port in the past is now empty and silent.The ships in the port had already withdrawn to Longhe Port in Tokyo before the tribal coalition forces arrived, and even more directly withdrew to Qinghai Town, to Dengzhou, Qingdao, Dalian, and Lushun.

At this time, only a thousand-man Mohe cavalry was stationed at the port to prevent the Allied forces from Tokyo from coming to harass them by sea.However, the Allied forces seemed to have given up on this plan to harass them long ago. Since the first snow fell a year ago, until now, the Allied Forces have never seen a single member of the [-]-man team stationed at the port.

In the early morning, the fog shrouds the harbor like a veil.Ge Li, the captain of Mohe Baiqi, gambled money with the officers all night, but lost all night. The money he grabbed when he first came here was almost lost.Seeing that it was time to change the guard again, he grabbed his iron helmet with antlers and came out of the warm room, yawning all the way, cursing the damn bad luck, walked to the tower of the port, kicked Woke up the sentinel who had fallen asleep while standing holding the scimitar.

The sentinel opened his eyes and saw that it was the commander of the hundred cavalry who was coming. He was startled, and waited to be scolded in fear, but he didn't hear a sound for a long time.He carefully raised his head to look at the centurion, only to see Ge Li with his mouth open, his eyes wide open, his face full of horror, looking at the sea in the distance, his lips were still trembling.

The sentinel followed his gaze, but saw a little bit of light suddenly appearing on the sea of ​​the port pier under the white mist, and those little lights were half hidden and half hidden in the fog, and some dark Shadow, he was stunned all of a sudden.

"What's that?" His teeth chattered.

"Sea monster!" Centurion Ge Li didn't know what it was. Although the Mohe people of the Blackwater tribe also lived by the sea, they mostly lived between Baishan and Blackwater, and they didn't know the sea. familiar.What's more, I suddenly saw such a group of things emerging from the sea fog in the port.

Those dots of light are getting closer and more, and each one is as big as a lantern, looking like the glowing eyeballs of a huge monster.

It's getting closer and closer.

At this time, Ge Li's legs trembled more and more, and he couldn't even walk.He secretly screamed that he would die at the mouth of the monster today, suddenly, he blinked his eyes, because he saw that the monster that was getting closer had a mast.

And furled sails.

It was a ship, not a monster. Those bright monster eyes were obviously lanterns.

He was just happy that it wasn't a monster, but he was stunned for a moment. Ships, so many ships, no, the Allied forces from Tokyo are here.

He just wanted to open his throat to shout, but he heard a sudden thunder in the air, rumbling, so loud.

The next moment, screams came from the sky, with clouds of fire and smoke... (To be continued.)