To the west of Shanhaixiong Pass, the Red Turban Song Army soldiers who had arrived in advance had sailed for more than twenty miles west along the official road, and lined up from Dashi River to Datang River!

Countless soldiers lined up to meet each other, each of whom was wearing a cold-forged armor in Luoyang or a cheaper Cizhou hot-forged armor. He was carrying an iron or copper-cast helmet behind him, and was wrapped in red scarves on his head, but he looked west. Yue Fei, Li Shifu, Huang Wuji, Xiang Ke and other senior generals passed the newly completed Tanghe Stone Bridge early, and outside a hall on the west bank of the Tanghe River, he led his subordinates' aides to welcome the arrival of His Majesty the Emperor of the Song Dynasty.

In the eyes of countless soldiers, a team of cavalry rushed into the distance. Each of them had a very majestic Qinghai Camp under their crotch, and they ran on the official road leading to Shanhaiguan like flying. First, a soldier was holding a flag waving in the wind, and a dragon with teeth and claws on it!

This is the new flag-recognized designed by Zhao Kai for himself. The blue dragon with its fangs and claws was drawn by him!

The soldiers already knew that their emperor had changed his flag to recognize him, so a shocking cheer suddenly broke out on both sides of the Tang River!

The arrival of the emperor means that the attack on the Jin thieves is about to begin!

Everyone knows that this battle to destroy the Jin Dynasty, which was directly attacking Huanglong, will be the final battle of Zhao Kai reopening the Song Dynasty. After this battle, I don’t know when there will be a conquest of millions of people? At least it will be difficult for them to see such a war again in their lifetimes.

The battle to destroy the country by millions of people also means unprecedentedly huge military achievements! And military achievements mean heavy rewards!

The soldiers who were lucky enough to get through it are now all boiling and cheering loudly.

"Long live! Long live! Long live"

The roar went from near to far, swept across the plains in Shanhaiguan, and spread all the way to the nearby Bohai Sea. It reached countless sea boats anchored on the sea surface, alarming the officers and sailors on the ship. Most of them were southerners, either the former officers and soldiers of the Southern Song Dynasty or the sailors of the Southeast Maritime Merchants. Now they are all lucky to participate in this largest conquest since the "first opening" of the Song Dynasty. They are really excited and complicated!

The thief who harmed the Song Dynasty for more than ten years and turned the prosperous era into a chaotic era in the Warring States Period is finally over and they can participate in this battle to destroy the Jin Dynasty! Well, there is no risk of being beaten to death by the Jin thief!

The mood is complicated because the emperor who commanded this epic battle was not their Emperor Jinling, but the Emperor Luoyang.

The Emperor of Jinling worked hard to govern, worked diligently and loved the people, and governed the Southeast so prosperously. How could the Emperor of Luoyang, who was powerful and powerful, take over the country?

Is it true that in this world, Is it true that bridges and roads are built without burial, and that I kill and set fire to a golden belt?

These sea ships covered with the sea near Shanhaiguan are all under the jurisdiction of the Naval Division of the Song Dynasty - some are just the property of the Naval Division, while others are rented.

It attached great importance to the navy (naval army) and was placed alongside the army, and was under the jurisdiction of the left and right Privy Council of the Privy Council. Zhao Kai's Northern Song Dynasty did not attach so much importance to the navy, and the status of the navy was only paralleled with the five military departments of the army, infantry, artillery, baggage, and labor, and was a "branch" rather than a "branch". Moreover, Zhao Kai's navy scale was far inferior to the previous Southern Song navy, and even worse than the navy scale of the Southern Emperor Zhao Chen.

Now Zhao Chen's navy still has 60,000 to 70,000 officers and soldiers and thousands of warships of all sizes and sizes, and is still the world's number one navy that dominates the ocean.

Zhao Kai's navy only had 15,600 officers and soldiers, and the 65 warships it owned could not be compared with Zhao Chen's navy.

However, Zhao Kai's navy has four advantages that the "Nandi Navy" does not have in the world's first shipbuilding capabilities, the world's largest maritime business scale, the world's first gunpowder production and quality, and the world's first copper production and artillery casting capabilities.

With these four world firsts, it doesn't take many years for Zhao Kai to build a navy that dominates the world from scratch.

Before he owned this navy, he could still rely on the "private fleet" to maintain maritime rights.

Yes, it is the "private fleet". There is actually not much difference between maritime merchants, pirates, and navy these days.

And at some times, private maritime merchants and pirates often have better navigation and naval combat technology than state-owned naval forces.

For example, most of the warships that helped the English and the Dutch fight against the Spanish Invincible Fleet in history were actually the maritime profiteers in England and the Netherlands.

In order to use the power of Southeast Maritime Merchants to help transport the army and food, Zhao Kai has implemented a plan to "change cannons for ships" since last year - that is, to use light-weight cannons such as "eight liang cannons", "one jin cannons" and "two jin cannons", plus a certain number of cannons, as well as artillery use training, in exchange for merchant ship leases by Han maritime merchants.

Yes, only merchant ships owned by Han maritime merchants and driven by all Han sailors can exchange leases for artillery.

Ships that are not Han merchants are prohibited from being equipped with artillery!

What does possessing artillery mean for maritime merchants with "integrity and legal operation" mean? It goes without saying that above the ocean today, it is a "free world" that no matter the sky or the earth, nor the king or the law can't control!

It would be fine if everyone had no guns, but if some ships had guns and some ships had no guns, under the temptation of artillery, thousands of "private warships" were gathered under the command of Li Bao, the commander of the Song Dynasty's naval commander, gathered thousands of "private warships".

Of course, most of these "private warships" have not yet obtained artillery and gunpowder. Only dozens of merchant ships that arrived earlier have been equipped with artillery and have become armed merchant ships.

These armed merchant ships are now following Li Bao's flagship "Luoyang" and patrolling the sea outside the Dashi River port to prevent the Jin Navy's warships from sneak attacking more than a thousand sea ships loaded with food and supplies on the sea berth west of the Dashi River mouth.

The cheers on the land had already cut through the sea breeze and waves and reached the "Luoyang" where Li Bao was riding.

This naval commander who is almost considered a veteran under Zhao Kai's command, but has no great achievements to play with. Now it is hard to suppress the excitement in his heart. He really has no chance!

He, a general of the navy, can he use his skills in an inland country? But this time he finally waited!

In this battle to destroy Jin, the Song Dynasty navy can show its skills!

They not only have to take on the task of landing in Fuzhou, occupying Pi Island and landing on the west coast of Goryeo, but also have to be responsible for the logistics transportation of the "million-million army"!

The millions of troops went to Liaodong to expedition, and it was impossible to rely on large trucks pulled by civilians and livestock to solve logistics transfers. The Jinzhou front line alone was more than 800 miles from Tianjin Commercial City.

Tianjin is just a port commercial port and does not produce grain itself. If the Northern Expedition lasts for several years, the food and grass required will be calculated in tens of millions of stones!

It is impossible to support the land transportation that consumes a lot. Because mules, horses and people both have to eat (eat back and forth). Therefore, the longer the distance on land transportation and the more time it takes, the more food and grass it will be eaten by mules, horses and people, and the less food and grass it can be delivered to the front line.

The consumption of sea freight is much less. Sailors have to eat, but boats do not eat, and sea freight mainly relies on "blowing". Chinese hard sailing boats do not require many sailors. It is enough to have twenty or thirty sailors on a wooden boat carrying a load of one thousand stones. Their consumption is simply insignificant compared to the transportation volume of one thousand stones.

If the battlefields for the Jin and Song dynasties were limited to western Liaoning, Liaodong, and the coastal areas of Goryeo, the amount of food and grass consumed by hundreds of thousands of Song troops from afar may be less than the amount of food and grass consumed by the Jin army fighting locally, it would be unreasonable!

How can Li Bao be granted a marquis for the transfer of food and grass for the "million-million army"?

Thinking of the good thing about being a marquis, Li Bao smiled and looked around, and found that everyone around him looked like he was smiling from ear to ear, so he laughed and said, "When the official family comes, let's set off a salute and welcome the official family!"

The "Luoyang" is a real gunship, which belongs to the "Little Shenzhou" type, which is a reduced version of the Shenzhou-class, the first generation of the Southern Song Navy's Navy. When Zhao Kai pacified the southeast, the ship was still outfitted at the port of the Southern Song Navy shipyard in Shanghai. So the ship directly belonged to Zhao Kai's navy and became Li Bao's flagship.

However, this "Luoyang" was not the largest warship obtained by the Northern Song Dynasty Navy from the Shanghai Shipyard. It also fell into the hands of the Northern Song Dynasty Navy at the same time as the "Luoyang" and two other "Shenzhou D-type" battleships, named "Liaoning" and "Shandong" by Zhao Kai!

When the roar of the 3-jin cannon on the Luoyang "Luoyang" reached Tanghe Bridge, Zhao Kai was greeting and joking with Yue Fei, Li Shifu, Huang Wuji, Xiang Ke and others!

When Zhao Kai heard the sound of cannons coming from the direction of the sea, he knew that his warship was fired the cannons - the cannon system was "invented" by him. Of course, the salute to welcome Zhao Kai was the highest-standard 21 (there are only 21 3-jin cannons on the Luoyang ship in total)!

Hearing the roar, Zhao Kai asked Yue Fei, Li Shifu, Huang Wuji, Xiang Ke and others who came to greet him, "Is it my Liaoning and Shandong who are firing fire?"

Yue Fei smiled and replied, "Officials, the ones who fired the Luoyang Liaoning and Shandong were not on the sea outside Shanhaiguan."

"Not here?" Zhao Kai asked, "Where are my Liaoning and Shandong?"

Yue Fei replied, "It should have been a westerly wind in the past two days when we arrived in Fuzhou, so they were led by Zhao Buqiu to escort Dong Jingang's troops to land on Fuzhou and Pi Island!"

Zhao Kai nodded, "Okay! King Kong has probably already captured the land outside Fuzhou, right? I will go to Shanhaiguan to wait for his good news!"

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Chapter completed!