Prince of Song Dynasty

Chapter 1088 Descendants of the Sui Dynasty Royal Family
According to the establishment of the Jinyuan Island Navy of Xiangfu Kingdom, there are currently a total of 5 people, and there are ten brigades, each with 5000 people, and each brigade has four battalions, three of which are regular naval battalions, and the other is a professional navy battalion. The marine battalion of land warfare is somewhat similar to the marine corps of later generations of the army.In fact, although the officers and soldiers of the three naval battalions are mainly engaged in water warfare, they have also trained infantry battle formations, and they are infantry on land.

The battalion commander of the Marine Battalion was named Wei Baoqiang. Under his command, dozens of ships were lined up. The paddles in the hands of the soldiers were flying like windmills, desperately paddling the ships forward. This section of the road was the most dangerous.If it weren't for the long-range suppression of the other three battalions behind them, they would often suffer heavy casualties.

Two hundred steps, one hundred steps, fifty steps...

As they got closer to the coast, the officers and soldiers of the marine battalion raised their shields with their right hands. Dozens of shields were spliced ​​together like a giant turtle shell.This is a shield made according to the characteristics of naval battles that was built on Jinyuan Island by the people Kou Zhun brought from Xiangfu Kingdom more than half a year ago.Compared with ordinary shields, this kind of shield has some improvements. Each shield has clasps on both sides. As long as it is needed on the battlefield, the shields can be spliced ​​together through the clasps at any time to form a super large shield. It will not leave any gaps when resisting bows and arrows, and it can also withstand the blows of some heavy long-range weapons. Even when dozens of fighters are using their strength at the same time, more than 100 catties of stone bullets, rolling logs and other heavy attacks hit it. Will not cause much damage to warriors holding shields.

What surprised Qi Haitao, Liu Zhiwei, Wei Baoqiang and others was that at this time, the defense line of the opponent's coastline suddenly threw a stone bomb weighing more than ten kilograms, hitting the large shield made of shields with a burst of thunder. Qi Haitao, who was watching the enemy with a telescope from behind, could clearly see the crackling sound. It was launched by a small trebuchet.But even a small trebuchet represented a very different meaning. At least the pirates they had encountered in the past few months did not have this kind of long-range strike weapon.This further proves that Qi Haitao, Liu Zhiwei, Wei Baoqiang and others had previously guessed that the forces on this island were by no means ordinary pirates, or even pirates.

After two rounds of stone bombs and several rounds of arrow rain, the boat of the Marine Battalion has reached the shallow sea, and the bottom of the boat touched the underwater solid. More than 1000 soldiers of the Marine Battalion shouted "kill" in unison, and then jumped off the boat. With a shield in hand and a knife and gun in one hand, the squad as the assault unit rushed towards the coastline.This time is the most dangerous time, as long as you rush through this section of the road and start a close fight with the enemy.

Behind them, the other three naval battalions have stopped long-range attacks to prevent accidental injury, and are also ready to land.

Although the construction and various arrangements of the coastal defense line of this big island port have traces of regular troops, in the eyes of the Jinyuan Island navy, it is full of various flaws. The various fortifications on the Yuandao Naval Base are not short of 01:30.

Seeing the Xiangfu country's marine battalion rushing up, after the extremely dilapidated low walls and fortifications, a group of people ran out with knives and guns, roaring and rushed up to the invading enemies.

What surprised the Marine Battalion slightly was that these people were actually wearing uniform military uniforms and iron armor.There has never been a pirate force like this, obviously the opponent is also an army.You must know that although the iron armor has been eliminated by the Xiangfu Kingdom, it is impossible to build iron armor without a special team of military craftsmen.

When the soldiers of the Marine Battalion were more than 20 meters before approaching the enemy, following the order of the battalion commander Wei Baoqiang, each of them fired a round of fast crossbows. After shooting a large area, everyone quickly moved closer and formed an infantry battle formation before the enemy rushed up. .

The close combat begins...

Real pirates don't have any battle tactics when fighting. They are all about personal force and bravery. They are extremely powerful when the wind is going smoothly. There are obvious traces of battle formation tactics, and it has not been defeated in a short period of time with heavy casualties.

After a full hour, more than 300 people were killed and injured in the Marine Battalion, and nearly half of the opponent's 2000 people were killed or injured. With the sound of gold ringing from the rear of the island army, they finally retreated.After Wei Baoqiang received the order from Qi Haitao, the brigade commander in the rear, he just asked everyone to quickly shoot another round of crossbows. After shooting and killing the more than 100 enemies who ran to the back, he did not catch up, but occupied the enemy first on the spot In this port position, the other three battalions of sailors quickly landed.At this time, the enemies on the island had retreated and disappeared without a trace.

Wei Guoqiang was interrogating more than a dozen enemy wounded soldiers who hadn't had time to escape. After a while, Wei Guoqiang reported to the brigade commander Qi Haitao with a strange expression: "Brigade commander, according to the interrogation of the subordinates, the origin of the owner of this island is somewhat... ...Special, they claim to be descendants of the Great Sui royal family. And this island is a country, and they call themselves Great Sui."

Hearing this, Qi Haitao was stunned for a while, looked at the deputy brigade commander Liu Zhiwei next to him, and said: "The descendants of the Sui royal family, this matter is serious."

Wei Guoqiang said: "The subordinates also felt that the matter was special. They interrogated each person separately and confirmed each other, especially one of the generals knew more. So the subordinates think that this is probably true."

The light in Qi Haitao's eyes flickered. Although he didn't read many books, he also knew the general history of China. It was taken from the hands of the Yang family. When the Yang family of the Sui Dynasty was broken, a group of people led an army to flee overseas and settled here. It is not impossible to subdue the pirates or natives on the island and establish a small country.

"Did you find out how many people they have? How many troops?" Qi Haitao asked after pondering for a while.

Wei Guoqiang said solemnly: "There are more than 30 people and [-] regular troops."

Qi Haitao looked concentrating, and said: "Since they are descendants of the royal family of the Sui Dynasty and established a small country, we can't treat them like ordinary pirates, and they have more than 2 troops, and there are more than 30 people behind them, it's not us The strength of this brigade can take it."

"Deputy brigade commander, quickly bring a company of sailors back to Jinyuan Island, and report the situation here to General Liu and Master Kou. Whether to send troops to help conquer this so-called small Sui country by force, or withdraw troops, will be left to the two. Your Excellency will decide." Qi Haitao said.

Deputy brigade commander Liu Zhiwei saluted and said yes, and then quickly set sail and left with a company of sailors.

After Liu Zhiwei left, Qi Haitao summoned officers above the company commander, and after briefly explaining the situation, he did not continue to march into the depths of the island country. Instead, he sent a large number of spies to infiltrate the island to find out the situation, and at the same time began to repair himself on the basis of the original enemy's fortifications. The defensive position is ready to hold the coastal port position before the reinforcements come.

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Xia Jing.

Ye Chen finished his inspection tour and returned to Xia Jing. On the day he returned to Xia Jing, he read in detail Shangguan Bingyun’s investigation report on the assassination of Hu Sanguang and Zheng Bao led by the Ministry of Security in the Imperial Study Room, and listened to his reports on Mu Sanguang and Zheng Bao’s assassinations in Huayang County and Taozhou. The results of the investigation when he was assassinated during the Buddhist festival.All the physical evidence, as well as the results of the torture of the captured six officials and more than 20 spies point to Song Prime Minister Li Mingxuan.

In fact, this result is quite convincing.First of all, Li Mingxuan has such means and resourcefulness.Secondly, Li Mingxuan is now the Prime Minister of the Song Dynasty, and he has such a motive. He is worried that the Xiangfu Congress will invade the Song Dynasty when the Song Kingdom is divided into three parts, so he vainly tried to use these three assassinations to disrupt the Xiangfu Kingdom and make Ye Chen and the Xiangfu Kingdom's court lose energy. Or he didn't have the energy to send troops to invade Song State in a short period of time.In the end, Li Mingxuan, as the second elder who controls half of the power in the holy hall, has a lot of latent power in his hands. In addition, he is now the number two figure in the Song Dynasty, who is under one person and above tens of millions. Have the strength to complete these three assassinations.

Ye Chen frowned, pondered for a while, accepted the result of the investigation, thought of another matter, and said, "Have you found out why Bai Zixuan suddenly joined Qian Zhiyin? How did his Tianji Mansion become Wu Yue?" The country's secret mansion."

Shangguan Bingyun said: "Your Majesty, the reason why Bai Zixuan suddenly surrendered to Qian Zhiyin is because of the mysterious owner of Iron Sword Villa."

Ye Chen's eyes flickered, and he said: "The owner of Iron Sword Villa really stabbed Lou Yanming with a sword, is he a half-step congenital powerhouse?"

Shangguan Bingyun said: "Your Majesty, the servant was in a coma at that time. According to General Bai Zixuan, he saw this with his own eyes. Therefore, the owner of this Iron Sword Villa is probably a half-step innate powerhouse."

Ye Chen frowned tightly. In this world, half-step innate powerhouses are rarer than emperors. Now that Lou Yanming is dead, the only known one is Zhang Wumeng from the Northern Taiping Sect.Unexpectedly, this mysterious and strange owner of Iron Sword Villa is also a half-step innate powerhouse.But it is absolutely impossible for a half-step innate power to appear out of thin air, but the previous life story cannot be found out.

"This person has been wearing a mask all the time, obviously he doesn't want to show his true face to others, and this person helped Qian Zhiyin restore the country, and obviously has a very close relationship with the Qian family of the royal family of Wuyue Kingdom, if it wasn't for the female sword emperor Qian Yuechan who entered the mysterious cave He was already dying when he was born, and he was definitely not cured by any good medicine or medical skills in the world, I really doubt that this person is disguised by Qian Yuechan." Ye Chen said slowly.

Shangguan Bingyun said: "Could it be another master swordsman of the Qian family who lives in seclusion in a certain place, suddenly promoted to a half-step innate power in the past two years, and then came out of the world to help King Wuyue restore the country."

(End of this chapter)