Prince of Song Dynasty

Chapter 870
However, the Cochin Navy's attack was more than that. They threw eggs filled with kerosene onto the navy ships and fired rockets. Immediately, two naval ships were on fire.

However, these Cochin walking boats were not spared either. The captain of Liu Jinyuan's side, who was hit by this, pulled out his scimitar, and a few crow's mouth boards hooked tightly on the Cochin walking boats. Liu Jinyuan's navy swarmed up, fierce He slashed and killed every enemy he could see.

The fate of the rest of the walkers is even more bleak!
As soon as several warships approached Liu Jinyuan's side, their cabins were directly shot through by giant crossbow guns, sea water entered the cabins, and the ships sank into the sea.The walking "Crow's Mouth" who escaped the deadly attack of the crossbow and the gun boarded the bow, and the cochin soldiers gathered together and lined up to wait for the next hand-to-hand combat, but the first thing they were given was a continuous chain of crossbow arrows. The rain of arrows, the Jiaozhi soldiers have never seen such a dense arrow, amidst howling ghosts and howling wolves, there were heavy casualties, and before they recovered, the soldiers from Liu Jinyuan's side had already rushed onto the boat, and all the Jiaozhi soldiers with weapons would inevitably turn into knives The next ghost.

The chief general of Jiaozhi watched all his warships being burned, sunk, and captured. He felt unbelievable, and wondered where the rebels could find such a powerful sea fleet to help.

Jingquan Saburo was already on board the captain of the Jiaozhi National Navy at this time. He had very good eyesight and was quite witty on the spot, otherwise he would not have followed Liu Jinyuan.As soon as he rolled his eyes, he knew that the Jiaozhi National Navy must have regarded his navy as an enemy, so he sneered and said, "General, we are the helpers your enemy paid a lot of money for. We are the sailors of Da Song. Master, you still have a way out, order to surrender now."

"Surrender? Hahaha" the chief general of Jiaozhi laughed loudly, "As long as I order the siege together, I can still win!"

"Really?" Before Jingquan Saburo finished speaking, he heard the sound of war drums in the distance, and Liu Jinyuan's warship came from the west.When the Cochin soldiers on the deck of the Shenzhou boat heard the sound of the drum, their hearts were already shattered, and they all scrambled to escape back to their battleship.It's just that it is easy to come and difficult to go, and the enemy's horns are louder. Those sailors are so aggressive that they even rushed to the battleship of Jiaozhi!
The Saber of the Cochin Commander fell to the deck with a bang.

"We, let's go back to Hong Kong." His voice was a little trembling, and he no longer had the courage to put the remaining fifteen fighting ships in his hands into battle to fight the enemy.

"General, go back now, I'm afraid Your Majesty..." Everyone was chilled by this water army that came out of nowhere.They have witnessed the whole process of the war. Facing the opponent's huge warship, if the walking boat still has the advantage of fast collision, then the fighting ship that lost the protection of the walking boat can only go up to die.But if they don't continue to fight, the violent and bloodthirsty Emperor Quyue will hold them accountable for the defeat and will definitely kill them!
"General, let's surrender. I heard that the land rebels have already occupied half of the state city. Your Majesty led the army to retreat steadily. Now that the rebels have the support of Song Dynasty, Your Majesty has no chance of winning." Looking at Liu Jinyuan's huge warship from a distance, forming another column, the generals of Jiaozhi's side had no fighting intentions.

"If the general returns to Jiaozhi now, he will be killed by the emperor of Jiaozhi country; if he jumps away, he is just a pirate, not to mention that his subordinates may not listen to the general. If it is the general's plan, he should surrender as soon as possible!" Jingquan Sanlang Said slowly.

"If I surrender, can you guarantee that you won't kill me?" General Jiaozhi asked tremblingly.

Jingquan Saburo said leisurely: "General, if you surrender earlier, I can guarantee that our general will not kill you, so I advise the general to make plans early."

"Come on! Come on!" General Cochin picked up the knife, cut off Izumi Saburo's rope, and said dejectedly: "Surrender the white flag!" He smiled flatteringly at Izumi Saburo: "The last general's wealth and life, please beg Mister."

On the ship of the Cochin Admiral, the Shuai flag slowly lowered, replaced by a white flag slowly rising, all the sails were also retracted at the same time, the orderers began to call gold to withdraw troops, and there was a burst of cheers on Liu Jinyuan's warship …

In the second year of Tianding of the Xiangfu Kingdom, on March 29, Liu Jinyuan led his navy and merchant ships to the waters of the Jiaozhi Kingdom. It happened that Li Huan, the commander of the ten generals of the Great Quyue Kingdom, was in a mutiny. As a result, they were captured by the Great Quyue Kingdom The navy mistook Li Huan for helpers, and the two sides fought, and the navy of the Great Quyue State surrendered miserably.After Liu Jinyuan learned about the domestic situation of Da Quyue from Jiangjun, he sent elite soldiers to escort envoys to Li Huan and reached an agreement with him. Liu Jinyuan was named the commander of the Naval University by Li Huan. The other two naval divisions of Quyue Kingdom.For this reason, Li Huan agreed to Liu Jinyuan's two requests.

First, Catba Island, Hunguo Island, and Champa Island were leased to Liu Jinyuan for ten years after the war.

Second, the maritime merchants under Liu Jinyuan can conduct business with any port in Cochin at will, and will not pay taxes for ten years.

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The most important government offices in Xiangfu Kingdom are all next to the imperial city, which naturally includes the Ministry of Security on the west side of the imperial city.Although the Ministry of Security is mostly associated with power, terror, and mystery in the folklore of Xiangfu Country today, the general office is a rather elegant manor house rebuilt.

The small courtyard at the center of this manor is the heart that controls the whole world, and even tens of thousands of spies and dark men in the whole world.Hu Sanguang usually stays in this small courtyard most of the time, and all the files and materials of Anzi lurking in the Song and Liao countries, as well as the Western Regions and other places are here.The matter is of great importance, so the security and defense strength of this small courtyard is even stricter than that of the military headquarters and Zhongshu province.

The sun in March is the brightest, and it is the most comfortable to bask in, so Hu Sanguang has been sitting on a recliner in the small yard outside his house for the past few days to work.On the stone table next to him was the information that had been screened and judged by the intelligence department in the past seven days.One of them has three blood-red lines drawn on the cover, indicating that special intelligence is placed at the top.

Hu Sanguang first saw on the cover that it was sent by Kou Minglu, the envoy of the Western Regions Branch, and his heart tightened, he became a little more serious, and opened the information to read it.The imperial court's dispatch of troops to the Western Regions has entered the actual preparation stage. At this time, the special intelligence sent from the Western Regions is naturally very important.

"Duanmu Zhongren...the only great Confucian in the Western Regions!" Hu Sanguang murmured to himself, picked up a brush and gave instructions: "Transfer to the Operation Department, so that your department can send out capable personnel, and do your best without exposing yourself as much as possible." Protect Duanmu Zhongren's safety.

Asking someone to transfer the information to the Operations Department, Hu Sanguang thought for a while, then left the government office of the Ministry of Security and entered the imperial city.

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When Duanmu Zhongren entered Shunzhou City, he was full of surprises.

He had visited this city on the west side of the Yellow River five years ago. At that time, it was dilapidated and the people were hungry. It was common for people to die of starvation and freezing on the streets.But now the dilapidated earthen houses and potholed streets are gone, replaced by tall and solid red brick buildings.Originally, there was only one bookstore all over the city, but now he has seen six large-scale bookstores along the way, and the prices of the books at the door and the types of books they have make him, the most famous Confucian in the Western Regions, feel envious .

Walking on the street, you can't see many beggars, there are no corpse-picking carts sent by the government, and you can't see the phenomenon of dandies running rampant on horses hitting people to death.

Everyone is full of a spirit of moving towards new life and cherishes the life in front of them in the depths of their eyes, all of which indicate that all this is hard-won.

Duanmu Zhongren felt unbelievable for everything in front of him.He believed that even the city of Kaifeng in the Song Dynasty was nothing more than that, and the law and order might not be as good as that of Shunzhou city.

And when he followed the sound of reading aloud, he came to a yard covering an area of ​​more than ten acres, surrounded by walls of red bricks and blue tiles, his shock finally reached its peak.

"Shunzhou Middle School! Could it be that it's a private school? It should be a government school, but it seems to be different." Just when Duanmu Zhongren saw the writing on the large plaque at the main entrance of the yard, a crisp bell rang. The courtyard with the intermittent sound of reading in the silence suddenly boiled up. Teenagers ranging from ten years old shouted and jumped, carrying all kinds of schoolbags, and ran out of the school gate with bright smiles on their faces. .

There were not many people, and they ran away from Duanmu Zhongren very quickly. Duanmu Zhongren secretly calculated that the number of people was less than two hundred, but the significance of this event itself, in the eyes of a great Confucian like Duanmu Zhongren, is really It's so touching.

This is the first city Duanmu Zhongren arrived in after entering Xiangfu Kingdom.

In addition, Duanmu Zhongren found that there are many idlers in Shunzhou city, and they always observe every new face from other places as if nothing, so he was already being watched as soon as he entered the city gate.Although Duanmu Zhongren heard that there was a good person list in Xiangfu Kingdom when he was in Guazhou, he didn't think that these idlers wanted to try their luck to see if they could find secret works from Song or Liao, or wanted criminals wanted by the court.

Not only them, those policemen in soap clothes with long knives on their waists also focused most of their attention on outsiders.

Duanmu Zhongren didn't do anything special, took a few entourages to stay in the hotel, had dinner, and then changed the travel documents from Shunzhou City, and left this peaceful and peaceful city that had been 'reborn' in his opinion.

To the west and north of Shunzhou City is the endless Gobi, to the south is a large area of ​​grasslands and sparse forests in the hills, and to the east is a large aqueduct that has only appeared for a few months and looks like a small river.

It is with this large canal that the foundation for Shunzhou City to gradually prosper.

After Duanmu Zhongren left the east gate, he was so shocked by the almost endless farmland that he couldn't speak a word.

(End of this chapter)