Although Mr. Hu was an aide to the Chanyu of the Eastern Barbarians, he was from Dakang after all, and the Chanyu of the Eastern Barbarians did not respect the scholars of the Central Plains as much as Danzhu who originally attacked Xichuan, so Mr. Hu's position in the Eastern Barbarians has always been awkward.
He was worried that if he continued talking, Chanyu would feel that he was boosting the ambition of his enemies and destroying his own prestige, so he shut up obediently and said nothing more.
Shanyu looked at the Yuguan City wall for a while, then turned his horse's head, preparing to go back and gather all the tribal leaders and staff to launch a general attack on Yuguan City again. No matter what the cost, Jin Feng must stay.
Jin Feng is the backbone of the new Dakang. As long as Jin Feng dies, Sichuan and Sichuan will immediately become a mess, and he can go to the Central Plains to plunder as before.
The grassland has become colder and colder in the past two years. Many lambs and calves cannot survive the winter. The Chanyu has a hard time. Life is even more difficult for each tribe. They are becoming more and more dissatisfied with the Chanyu. If they continue to be exploited, they may really rebel.
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Going south to plunder the Central Plains was the only solution Shanyu could think of.
Looting the Central Plains can not only directly rob things, but also divert the attention of various tribes and consolidate the prestige of the Chanyu.
As for how people in the Central Plains live their lives, what does it have to do with the grassland?
After thinking about this, Shanyu became more determined. Before he returned to the camp, he asked his personal guards to inform the tribal leaders and staff to hold a meeting in his own camp.
After learning that Shanyu had summoned them, the tribal leaders and staff did not dare to neglect them. When Shanyu returned to the camp, they had already arrived.
Shan Yu sat down on the main seat and was about to speak when he suddenly saw a guard opening the tent curtain and rushing in.
Due to the failure of the Southern Expedition at the beginning of the year and the subsequent rebellion of the captives, Shan Yu's prestige among the Eastern Barbarians had already suffered a lot. Now that his subordinates had recklessly barged in during the meeting, the anger in Shan Yu's heart suddenly emerged.
If this continues, Chanyu will really have no prestige at all.
Although the leaders and staff sitting below are still sitting upright, Shanyu knows that they are all waiting to see how he will deal with it!
In fact, Shan Yu liked this personal guard very much, but at this time he had to say coldly: "Come here, drag him out and chop him up for me!"
"Your Majesty, please forgive me! Your Majesty, please forgive me!"
When the guard heard this, he knelt down with a plop, kowtowed and begged for mercy: "I have important military information to report!"
But Shanyu seemed not to hear and gave the captain of the guard a cold look.
The captain of the personal guard also valued this subordinate very much, but seeing that Shan Yu was really angry, the captain of the personal guard did not dare to plead for mercy, and quickly led his men to drag the man down.
After a while, the guard's head was put on a tray and brought in.
Seeing the look of fear in the eyes of the staff and tribal leaders below, Shan Yu was satisfied and turned to look at the guard captain: "Did he just say that he had important military information?"
"In reply to the king, there is news from the sea that a fast ship from the Zhenyuan Escort Agency is approaching!" the guard captain replied quickly.
"Big ship or small ship?" Shan Yu asked with a frown.
"That kind of fast boat."
"How many ships?"
"Six ships have been discovered!"
"There are only six small boats. I just ordered Hao Lianxiong to surround them and sink them. Is there any need to be so panicked?"
The Eastern Barbarian Chanyu became even more angry when he heard this.
The personal guard just now was too angry. He broke into the coach's tent because of such a trivial matter. He deserved to die.
"Reporting to the king, the enemy's speed is too fast, and they sneaked to the north..." the guard captain explained.
"How did they come to the north?" Dongman Shanyu stood up with a shout.
He finally understood why the bodyguard was panicking.
The raft can only be driven by sails, but the Zhenyuan Escort's speedboat has a steam engine, which can not only move independently, but also very fast. Now it has run upwind, and can hit and run if it wants to. For Dongman's raft
As a group, this is really disadvantageous!
The raft group was the only way Shan Yu's men could restrain the steamship. If it was destroyed by the speedboat, they would completely lose the initiative at sea.
At that time, Jin Feng will be able to continuously transport supplies to Yuguan City through large steamships.
Thinking of this, Shanyu could no longer sit still and hurriedly stood up and walked out of the tent.
He ignored the tribal leaders and staff and ran directly to the east on horseback.
Before reaching the beach, I heard a series of explosions and miserable howls.
Shanyu kicked the horse's belly several times and galloped away towards the seaside.
A few hundred meters away from the seaside, he saw several steam boats lined up on the sea in the misty morning fog.
Each speedboat is equipped with a small catapult at the front and rear ends, which is constantly throwing grenades southward.
The raft was so small that even if it was not hit by the grenade, the waves caused by the explosion of the grenade could easily overturn the raft.
Although the sea water has not yet frozen, in such a cold day, once the Eastern Man soldiers on the raft fell into the water, they would not be able to hold on even half a stick of incense and would freeze to death!
The Eastern Barbarian general in charge of the raft group, named Hao Lianxiong, was standing on the beach and jumping anxiously, but there was nothing he could do!
Although many rafts also carried catapults, those catapults were imitated by Dongman craftsmen based on Jin Feng's ideas. Compared with the catapults equipped on speedboats, they were just like toys.
Regardless of the throwing distance or throwing speed, the two sides are not at the same level.
The speedboat is still upwind, and even if the raft is set up with sails, it cannot surround the speedboat and can only be beaten passively.
Hao Lianxiong was racking his brains to think of a solution when he suddenly noticed a war horse stopping next to him. Bayi Chinese Website
When he turned around and saw that it was Shan Yu, he was so frightened that he quickly knelt down.
"Hao Lianxiong, why did Jin Feng's speedboat suddenly appear here?" Shan Yu asked, riding on his horse, looking down at Hao Lianxiong.
"This subordinate deserves to die!" Hao Lianxiong banged his head on the ground and said bitterly: "My subordinate did not expect that the enemy would go around to the north, so... so no one was arranged to guard the north..."
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"Hao Lianxiong, what did you do to let them touch this place?"
When the Eastern Barbarian Shanyu heard this, he almost lost his temper.
The Bohai Bay is too big, and although there are many Dongman rafts, they are not capable of monitoring such a large sea surface.
Jin Feng's steam ship has to go eastward to avoid their surveillance, which the Eastern Barbarian Chanyu can understand.
What really made him angry was that Hao Lianxiong only deployed raft warnings on the south and east sides, but ignored the north side.
If there were rafts on the north side to provide warning, the speedboat might have been spotted more than ten miles away.
Maybe the alert rafts can't stop the speedboat, but they can also provide early warning and give the raft group more time to react, right?
It was too cold at sea. In order to keep it warm at night, the rafts were crowded together. The catapult from the speedboat smashed into a large area. The damage was too great!
Looking at the rafts that were constantly being overturned, Shan Yu shouted anxiously: "Hao Lianxiong, why are you still standing there, let them disperse!"