Haizhou, Tianya Port.

The southwest wind blew, and the waves were quite small, pushing the warships anchored next to the pier to fluctuate. These are not small sampans of the Pinghai Army stationed in Haizhou, but sailing warships that can engage in water battles on the outside ocean. The shapes are not uniform, including hard sailing boats in the Central Plains style and triangular soft sailing boats in the Dashiguo style. However, they are all built large and sturdy, and various water war weapons are openly placed on the deck, which looks very powerful.

It was still raining today. In the misty rain, there were still many strong men carrying luggage and weapons lined up and boarding the boat in good order through the springboards on the boat gang.

More than twenty merchant ships loaded with craftsmen, city construction materials, food and weapons had already left the port in advance and formed a fleet in Haizhou Bay, waiting for the warships to leave the port and sail together.

The people who were boarding the boat were not sailors, but Baoding mobilized from Baojia, controlled by the Wu family, Ximen family, Murong family, Hua family, and Zhang family (Zhang Xizai) in Xuzhou, Haizhou, Hua family, and Yucheng County, Yingtian Prefecture. They were all tenants from these families, and their personalities were firmly controlled and they had to work hard.

Of course, their lives were not sold to Wu Haogu for nothing. The An family fee and salary were both excellent, and the family could also be taken care of by the landlords (that is, the Wu family, the Ximen family, the Murong family, the Hua family and the Zhang family). If they unfortunately die outside, they could also get generous pensions.

With such good conditions, Wu Haogu would not give it for nothing. The destination of these strong men is Danluo Island, thousands of miles away from Haizhou. They went to Danluo Island to be mercenaries! From now on, they are no longer wives, children, Baoding on the warm kang, but a mercenary who fights for money!

After Wu Haogu learned that he had accidentally had a country, he immediately issued a convening order to the villages of these families. He summoned more than 2,000 people, and also spent money to hire more than 1,000 idle men in Haizhou (Haizhou is a big port, and there are many idle men willing to run to the sea), and gathered more than 3,000 people. Today is the day they boarded the boat and set off.

According to Wu Haogu's plan, these people will receive equipment and training on Danluo Island. Then they will be mixed with the education regiment on Danluo Road and the soldiers convened by Gao Min, the king of the country, to form an army of more than 6,000 people!

This army is not only the main force of the Haidong Educational and Reform Group, but also the main force of the Strait Maritime System in the future!

On the pier, inside an octagonal pavilion used for welcoming and seeing off, Wu Haogu is seeing off Ji Yi, Su Shi, his good apprentice Gao Min, disciple Sun Fan Zhiwen, and Cui Xian, the Danluo Supervisor of Goryeo.

"It's reasonable. There are more than 3,000 people here, and there are more than 2,000 people on the island, and the equipment and food will be sent to you at the same time. With these 6,000 troops, the King of Goryeo will no longer do anything to you! Your Danluo Jiedushi and General of the Conqueror, can be sure to go on the present."

"Student thanked the teacher!"

Gao Min quickly stood up and bowed respectfully. The mentor is still reliable, a army of 6,000! It turns out that he didn't even dare to think about it.

Wu Haogu waved to Gao Min and signaled him to sit down. Then he smiled and said to Cui Xian: "Sir Cui, you have also seen 30 warships, 6,000 infantry cavalry, and there are more than 10,000 sailors and warriors on the ship... These six thousand people are to be placed on the land of Goryeo, and maybe they are not the opponent of Goryeo King. But on the sea and on the island, haha, Goryeo is not my opponent, right?"

You treacherous minister, you have privately accumulated force and launched a border quarrel! Cui Xian sneered in his heart. When his official returns to Goryeo, he will send an envoy to Kaifeng to sue you in front of the Emperor of Song Dynasty, and you will wait to be arrested and imprisoned in the Censorate Prison.

Thinking of this in my heart, I dare not say it. Cui Xian quickly said seriously: "Why did the Wushuo Si say this? I, Gao Li, are friendly to the Song Dynasty, how can I go to war with the Song Dynasty?"

Wu Haogu laughed, "Goryeo is not the Great Liao Dynasty. The peninsula is surrounded by the sea on three sides. If the enemy comes from land, there is a thousand-mile Great Wall to rely on. But if the enemy comes from sea, the Goryeo country will leak winds everywhere and have no danger to defend!

As for Song Li's kindness, it is nothing more than to restrain the Great Liao. But now Goryeo was destroyed by hundreds of Jurchens, can it still restrain the Great Liao? For me, it is better to unite Goryeo than to unite Goryeo! If the thirty sea ships here shipped thousands of Jurchen soldiers landed from behind the Thousand Mile Great Wall, will your Goryeo Kingdom still have it?"

Wu Haogu's words made Cui Xian sweat coldly because he knew that the coastline of Goryeo was too long to be guarded! The cost of deploying defense everywhere was too high, and Goryeo could not bear it at all. As for establishing a powerful navy to confront the warship fleet of the Song Dynasty's coastal Maritime Division, it was also impossible for the Goryeo finance to bear it.

After saying these threatening words, Wu Haogu said to Gao Min and Fan Zhiwen: "It's getting late, so you can accompany Mr. Cui on the boat first."

"Here!"

"Students say goodbye to mentor!"

"The disciples bid farewell to the master!"

Seeing the three of them leaving, Wu Haogu said to Ji Yi and Su Shi again: "I'm Yizhi, Zhongnan, our dynasty has had the power to dominate the eastern seas since its establishment. Unfortunately, I didn't know how to use them in the past, so I was bullied by the Liao people and played by Goryeo and Japan. Fortunately, the current official family is very talented and has ordered us to set up the coastal market system to open up the seas of thousands of miles! The two of them led the warships to the mission to Goryeo this time, which is the first battle of our dynasty on the Weihai Sea. We must tame the small country of Goryeo."

In fact, the Song Dynasty court had no power at sea, and the court's navy could only wander near the sea and could not leave the far sea at all. Even the Wu Haogu's coastal maritime warship fleet was not worth mentioning in the eyes of old maritime merchants such as the Wu family, Ji family, Xie family, Chen family, and Bai family.

A hundred-year-old navy!

Even if it doesn’t really take a hundred years, ten years are always needed. But Wu Haogu has only been working in the navy for a few years, so how could he come up with a large fleet that can fight?

But he took a naval development route of "combining troops with the people"!

In fact, many Western maritime power countries also played like this in the early days. The cost of raising a large-scale standing navy was not something that those profiteering countries could afford.

At this time, it would be even more unnecessary to use the country's financial resources to support a large navy at the sea. Because the Song Dynasty had no enemies at the sea, the Goryeo was a pauper country, the Japanese was closed down, and the Khitan was a landslide country. Although the Tianfang Cult's maritime merchants had some strength, they still dared not fight with the Song Dynasty court. Moreover, they were maritime merchants after all, and it was okay to fight group fights at the sea. If they really met a well-trained and well-equipped naval hand-to-hand combat soldier, they would die.

Wu Haogu then pointed to the sturdy men who were boarding the ship and said, "These sturdy men and fortunes are there, and the two warships of Jinbao, will stay on Danluo Island for training. When you complete your mission, you will be able to take the water battle infantry among them who can board the ship to fight south!"

Unlike the time travelers who liked to play high-end bronze cannons in later generations who were equipped with naval time travelers, Wu Haogu cannot create useful bronze cannons now, and he did not think that he needed to use cannons to deal with the Arabs like the five scoundrels.

The Arab father, Seljuk Turks, met the down-and-out Yelu Dashi, was beaten to annihilate. It is easy to imagine how bad the Arabs were in this era. They also used cannons to deal with them? They used a crossbow to shoot a spear with a rope tied to hook their ships, and then the infantry went up to fight hand-to-hand combat. Isn't it good to even take down the people and ships?

You should know that the water battle infantry of the Coastal Maritime Control Department must be trained according to the standards of the regular army, and there will also be naval combat students graduated from the Shipbuilding School to serve as commanders. They should not lose to a group of Arab tyrants in the water battle.

...

Just when Ji Yi and Su Shi came to Goryeo with a fleet in a fierce manner to convince people, Goryeo King Wang Yong was on his way to Xijing.

Xijing, Goryeo is Pyongyang, located in the northwest of Kaijing, so it is called Xijing. Because it is close to the Thousand Miles Great Wall, it has become a major national defense center for Goryeo. Last time when Lin Gan and Yin Guan led their troops to the battle of Helandian, they used Pyongyang, Xijing as the backbone camp.

The new army of the Bewu squad, Yin Guan, the confidant minister of Wang Yong and Wu Yanchong, are now stationed in Pyongyang, Xijing.

So the purpose of Wang Yong's inspection of Xijing this time was to see how the new army of the Bianwu squad, which had almost exhausted the wealth of Goryeo, was trained? Can he launch a large-scale Northern Expedition next year?

This Goryeo King was very ambitious, and he was quite capable and talented in the history of Goryeo. He first usurped the throne with his ability, then plundered merchants, rectified military power, minted coins, and built Nanjing (Seoul). He did a lot of big things. However, he lost and lost in the two Battles of Helanidian, and even made Wang Yong export his inner demons.

If the Jurchens were born a little more serious and sent an army of 10,000 to defeat him, he would admit it. Yelu Abaoji had said that the Jurchens were invincible.

However, the Jurchens only sent 500 troops twice! 500 people beat the Goryeo's tens of thousands of troops. And they all won a big score. When they first fought Lin Gan, the Goryeo received zero beheadings! The second time, they made a little progress and killed thirty Jurchens... But their losses were tens of thousands.

The good-looking Da Goryeo suddenly became a laughing stock. Not only did the Da Liao Kingdom jump out and bully Goryeo, but he took a small island in Busan Pu to establish the Raush Market, but even the Da Song Dynasty followed the Da Liao Kingdom to bully the Jueying Market in Busan Pu. It is said that the Song Dynasty Coastal Maritime Control Department was the one who had the Da Song Dynasty!

The most hateful thing is that the Danluo Kingdom didn’t know what happened, and the decree to abolish the vassal state was issued last winter. Gao Min, that boy, should have come with Cui Xian, with Danluo’s version.
Chapter completed!