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Section 339: The Battle of Quyue at Sea

A ship of five hundred ducts is 3,500 stag.
One hundred ships are 350,000 stags.
For the Caoguo alone, Chameng can obtain nearly one million chunks of equivalent materials from Wuqing Wharf every year.
But too much materials are not needed for Chameng, so they need to be exchanged for money and then buy suitable materials from the Song Dynasty to transport them to Chameng.
After seeing it, Lu Meng sighed a little: "This is just a fruit."
"Yes, this is just a grass fruit. More than ten times the profit. Even if pepper is cheaper now, it can be more than thirty times the profit in Wuqing. High-quality spices, fragrant wood, lacquer, dyeing, and some of them are fifty times the profit. The navy in the Sansi of Water is extremely tight, and there are not many people in Bianliang City except us."
Kou Zhun pointed to the piece of paper and burned it directly.
Some things cannot be kept.
The huge profits of Chameng are not suitable for officials in Bianliang City to know. Once they are spread to Liao Kingdom, it will be of no benefit to Guanshi in Youzhou.
Lu Mengzheng asked: "Have you worked hard in Chameng?"
"It seems a bit bitter. The Qu Yue people have always wanted to attack Cham City, but the Korean Duke is also a famous general, and he can defend it. I have already ordered the ship to come back this time and load thirty ships of weapons and send it to them. There are many things that can make huge profits in Cham City. The latest one is cold-pressed coconut oil. I heard that the Liao people rushed to buy it and the ship arrived and the cargo was empty."
After hearing this, Lu Mengzheng said, "Then we will deduct the profits from Chameng. We will write a letter to the Korean government in a joint name, and he must be able to understand."
Xiang Minzhong asked: "I'm afraid this button will be worth tens of millions of dollars a year. Do you want to report it to the official?"
Kou Zhun thought about it and said, "I will write a letter to the Korean Duke and ask him to give it to him. This is also a great achievement."
Lu Mengzheng also said: "There are still 50,000 Liao army prisoners of war, so it is better to send them to Chameng."
Kou Zhun nodded: "Yes."
At this time, Xiang Minzhong felt a little hesitant and his voice became much lower: "There are already many soldiers in Champa."
Kou Zhun and Lu Mengzheng looked at each other, and they both smiled at the same time.
Lu Mengzheng shook his head gently, and he didn't want to say something, but Kou Zhun was straightforward: "There are not only soldiers and horses north of the Yellow River, but also population. The Liao Kingdom is immortal, and the soldiers and horses north of the Yellow River cannot be missing. If Qu Yue does not surrender, the soldiers and horses in Champa will not be missing. However, I am a little worried about Guangnan West Road."
If a young Jinshi is here, I am afraid I won’t understand it.
Xiang Minzhong is also an old man in the officialdom, he understands.
If the soldiers and horses north of the Yellow River really choose one of them to follow, the result may not be.
Facing the pressure from Qu Yue, can the soldiers and horses be as good as those north of the Yellow River?
The soldiers and horses of the Song Dynasty north of the Yellow River accounted for more than 70% of all soldiers and horses, and the only biggest enemy of the Song Dynasty was the Liao people.
However, Kou Zhun's concerns about Guangnan West Road are not unreasonable.
If Qu Yue failed in the attack on Cham City, he would inevitably find a way to the north. There were not many soldiers and horses on the Guangnan West Road, nor any of the imperial guards, and Song Xiang's troops were less than 50,000, which was entirely supported by local soldiers.
Pan Weixi is a good general.
He had long thought about what Kou Zhun was worried about, but he could contact the Guangzhou Navy and even ask for help from Guangzhou Prefecture, but he did not dare to contact too much on Guangnan East Road.
It’s okay for Guangzhou Prefecture to say that the government affairs here are powered by the Three Waters Departments and are also one of the three major foreign trade ports.
With Liu An's order and the power in Liu An's hands, Pan Weixi can intervene.
It is not possible to intervene in Guangnan East Road, let alone Guangnan West Road.
But Pan Weixi had his own way, and learned this trick from Liu An. When Kou Zhun, Lu Mengzheng and Xiang Minzhong were discussing whether Guangnan West Road was safe, Pan Weixi transferred nearly 300 warships and 400 transport ships, claiming that thousands of ships were attacking Qu Yue's Tushan Wharf.
On the sea, Pan Weixi held a telescope and watched from afar as Qu Yue's warships sank.
Just north of the sea, several small warships, at most two hundred materials, were watching the battle from a distance. They were the official ships at Qinzhou Wharf on Guangnan West Road, Dasong.
There are only five third-rank officials on this small warship from Qinzhou, and more than ten fourth-rank officials.
It can be said that all the officials who can be ranked on Guangnan West Road have arrived.
A military officer on the ship suddenly spoke: "It's been five days, and it's been five days. Qu Yue has brought four reinforcements, and the sea power is almost exhausted here. The Korean Duke is going to cut off Qu Yue's waterway."
Lu Bingyuan, the transfer commander of Guangnan West Road, turned around and asked: "How many days will it take for Qu Yue to send reinforcements to come here in Anping City."
The military officer was a little puzzled: "Isn't Qu Yue's royal city called Daluo City?"
"Anping City." Lu Bingyuan emphasized again.
Anping was the name of this city during the Tang Dynasty. At that time, the Annan Protectorate was located, and Qu Yue changed his name to Daluo City.
This title is something Lu Bingyuan cares about very much.
Suddenly, the situation suddenly changed, and a ship that had not yet been completed drove out of Qu Yue's wharf. The ship was ten feet long, and it was completely styled in the late Tang Dynasty, which was somewhat different from the current Song ship.
He said he had not finished the construction because it was a building ship, and the top two floors of the building were still empty, and the whole ship was not painted and still had a wood color. It was obviously a rush to make it possible to sail, and he finished the unnecessary things and drove the ship out.
The military officer from Qinzhou exclaimed: "If this ship is completed, it will be at least 4,000 warships."
At this time, Pan Weixi's side had the largest warship and the largest two thousand materials on the transport ship.
The opponent's ship went to fight, but did not leave the bay, but just wandered less than a mile from the sea outlet. A large number of catapults appeared on the shore. These catapults only looked at the height of Pan Weixi, which could throw stones or turtle barrels at least four miles away.
A strong attack?
Pan Weixi stood at the bow of the boat and thought.
With his current military strength and the morale of soldiers, it is not difficult to attack the beachhead position, but he added a semi-finished ship.
Now Pan Weixi is thinking about who will fight.
Is it the Chameng Navy, the Guangzhou Navy, or the newly joined Yue Navy from Quanzhou.
"Report."
A soldier rushed to Pan Weixi: "Report, Grandmaster. There was a flag slogan coming from the back team. A fleet rushed towards us from the direction of Qiongya Strait. The flagship was hanging the two words Anping."
"Anping, my son Liu An?" Pan Weixi laughed: "My son is here, and I'm sending the entire army to retreat ten miles and rest for the preparations for war."
The largest ship of this fleet is 800 materials and the smallest is 500 materials. The ship is not big, but it is the crystallization of the peak craftsmanship after the Song Dynasty absorbed the craftsmanship of the two countries of Sassanid countries. The speed is three times faster than that of the ships in Qinzhou at sea, and the full-sail-style slender ship-shaped warship.
This is the first soft sailing fleet in the Song Dynasty.
“So fast.”
Countless people expressed this feeling.
The ship really did the four words of riding the wind and breaking the waves, rushed through the waves on the sea, jumped high on the bow, and then split the sea and ran at high speed.
Chapter completed!
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