The twilight is deep, it is the last moment of the sun and the moon, and there is darkness between heaven and earth.
The torches on both sides of the bow were swaying in the sea breeze, and Gongsun Du's expressionless face was reflected in the flickering light.
Seeing this scene, Liu Yi retracted the foot that stepped out of the cabin door. He wanted to step forward to comfort Gongsun Du, but he didn't know what to say. He seemed to have lost all his strength and just leaned on him slumped.
Standing on the door frame, I felt sad and helpless, and there was also an uncontrollable anger that filled my chest, as if it would burst at any time.
Worrying about his ministers' labor and humiliating their deaths, Liu Yi, who always adheres to the standard scholar-bureaucrat standards, saw his lord chasing after him from Xiangping in panic and realized that the situation was over, so he made an unprecedented concession, compromise, and even
It could be said that it was a gesture of supplication, but all he felt was an unbearable pain.
He hated himself, hated himself for not being able to control the situation, making it impossible for the lord to calmly negotiate with the other party;
He hated Yang Yi even more. If this guy hadn't gone crazy, as if he was going to commit suicide and dragged everyone to be buried with him. He was desperate and had his own way, and the situation wouldn't have become so ugly.
However, what he hates most is Wang Yu and the Qingzhou generals.
Liu Yi didn't understand what Wang Yu was thinking. The matter in Liaodong was obviously very simple. It was not enough to calm people's hearts with the reward of border closure and to secure the northern border in name. Why must Liaodong be so hard pressed? Even if it was not enough.
Regardless of the friendship that formed an alliance and helped each other over the past few years, you should still leave some room for a stranger!
The Lord must not know the answer to this question, right? So in the past few days after embarking on the road to seeking peace, his mood has been extremely low, which is really unacceptable.
"General Liu..." His thoughts were so surging that Liu Yi didn't notice anyone approaching at all. It wasn't until the person's hand gently patted his shoulder that he suddenly jumped up, looked over as if he was startled, and called him in turn.
people were shocked.
Liu Yi recognized the person as Chen Han, a deputy general of the Qingzhou Navy.
The naval battle only started and ended. After Gongsun Du arrived in time, the two sides naturally called it quits and made peace. It was agreed that the Qingzhou navy would escort Gongsun Du's ship to Piaoyujin, and then disembark from there to Jixian.
Meet Wang Yu.
Everyone knows that it is called an escort, but it is actually the same as an escort. Gongsun Du went there this time to surrender and ask for mercy. If nothing happens, after this trip, the Liaodong forces will become history and their future will be bleak.
Everyone in the army also understood this fact. With the conscious kindness and solicitude of the Qingzhou Navy officers and men, many people were tempted and thought about changing their families in advance so as to gain a better background.
They had only been on the road for two days in total. Among the five hundred guards who accompanied them, more than two hundred had defected to the past semi-openly. Most of the remaining people were thinking about old friendships while looking forward to the future.
Indecision.
Taishi Ci and Wei Yan were of higher status and could not come forward. In Qingzhou's poaching operation, the most active person was the naval captain Chen Han, who was a fisherman. Liu Yi would not look good when he saw this person approaching.
"If General Chen is not in the cabin chatting with people and building relationships, why would he have time to come to the deck to blow the cold wind?" Liu Yi's face was cold, and his tone was as cold as ice.
"Haha, aren't General Gongsun and the general here?" Chen Han's name is a bit domineering and fierce, but he is actually a very easy-going person. With a bit of laziness of a small man in the market, he scratched his head and did not feel dissatisfied.
He smiled and replied: "The general just wanted to remind me that the fleet has just passed the mouth of the Feng Dashui River. At this speed, if nothing happens, we will be able to reach Piaoyujin tomorrow morning."
"It will arrive tomorrow?" Even though Liu Yi was in a complicated mood and had no intention of being perfunctory with Chen Han, he still couldn't help but exclaimed: "Besides, how do you know where the fleet is now?"
What surprised Liu Yi was the speed of the fleet.
Feng Dashui is the Tangshan Dou River in later generations. It flows from north to south through Lulongsai and Tuyin, the seat of Youbeiping County, and enters the sea about a hundred miles due south of Tuyin City. The location where the naval battle took place was Tang Dynasty
It is between the mouths of the two rivers Shuishui and Bailangshui, almost due south of Changli City.
In other words, the Qingzhou Navy took less than two days to complete the journey from Liaoxi to Youzhou, which was more than a thousand miles!
An ordinary person might just be amazed at the speed of a ship sailing on the sea, which is much faster than a carriage and a horse on land. And Liu Yi is an old seaman, how could he not know that ordinary ships cannot reach such speed at all?
?If it were the Liaodong fleet, it would be smooth sailing all the way. It would be a blessing to be able to complete this journey in four or five days.
Liu Yi had known for a long time that the performance of Qingzhou's sea-going ships was so good that his lord was tempted. When doing business with Qingzhou, he tried every means to put people on board. When he came back, he gathered people and started to imitate them - Gongsun Du got Liaoxi's
After the battle report, the ship we were on when we caught up was the most successful of the imitations.
Thinking about it more carefully, Liu Yi felt even brighter.
The speed is so fast. On the one hand, the performance of the Qingzhou ships is good. On the other hand, there is also a problem with the route they take. Ships from Liaodong basically travel along the land when they go to sea, because they are afraid of losing their way. The only exception is the route to Qingzhou.
, but on that route, there are also a series of islands where you can stop for shelter and serve as road signs.
However, the ships in Qingzhou don't need to be so cautious, because they seem to have a way to identify their position at sea. Even if they are far away from the coastline, they can still grasp the approximate position of themselves at all times.
Just like now, surrounded by the vast sea, Chen Han seemed to remind him casually, telling the current location of the fleet and the time to reach the end, as if he had a piece of paper in his hand that could measure time and space.
The corona is general.
Chen Han was probably showing off, showing off that Qingzhou's overall strength surpassed that of Liaodong.
Liu Yi was helpless and curious about this.
Among Wang Yu's previous inventions, there are still traces of paper armor, bed crossbows, and plate armor. Sea ships with excellent performance do not appear out of thin air, but this kind of maritime positioning technology is unheard of. This is called seeing.
How can Liu Yi, who is knowledgeable and knowledgeable, not be curious?
Chen Han laughed and replied: "Haha, General Liu doesn't know something. My lord invented an instrument. Well, lord, that's what he called it. It's called a sextant. With this thing and a map, you can navigate the sea."
Places without markers such as grasslands and grasslands must be accurately positioned..."
"This... sextant is so magical. I wonder where it comes from? How does it look like? And what kind of principles of heaven and earth does it operate according to?" Driven by curiosity, Liu Yi forgot about the gap between the two armies and the feelings in his heart.
Angry, he kept asking questions.
"I don't know what the reason is or what principles it follows. I actually don't know how to use it..." Chen Han smiled sheepishly, touched the back of his head and said in a naive voice: "I'm not afraid that the two generals will laugh. That baby
It sounds simple to say, but troublesome to use. If you haven't studied mathematics in an academy, you won't be able to learn it no matter how hard you learn it."
Hearing what he said, Liu Yi suddenly realized that at some point, Gongsun Du had also walked over. Although his face was still expressionless, his thoughtful eyes showed that he was listening and thinking.
"It's not difficult for the two generals to see it. That thing is in General Ziyi's captain's room. It's just that it's dark now and there's no way to demonstrate how to use it..." Chen Han looked at Gongsun Du and said with a questioning look.
Invitation: "Do you two want to go and have a look?"
As Liu Yi guessed, Chen Han's mission on the road was to try to eliminate the barriers between the two armies and ensure that the negotiations in Jixian could be conducted in a relatively peaceful atmosphere.
As for his actions that looked like poaching, it was actually purely accidental. Chen Han did not expect that the Liaodong people were accustomed to relying on the strong. When the large number of Liaodong navy was easily suppressed by the Qingzhou army with crossbows, Gongsun Du
When he appeared in a submissive manner, the navy officers and soldiers were inevitably shaken.
When Chen Han and others appeared in front of the Liaodong guards with a very cordial attitude, it was obvious what the latter would choose.
This is also related to the relatively close relationship between the two armies, as well as the activities of ambassador Zhang Fang in Xiangping before and after the launch of the Eastern Expedition.
Of course, the most important thing is that the people of Liaodong still remember their Chinese blood and have never regarded themselves as barbarians. In their eyes, Qingzhou, which dominates Hebei and kills barbarians without mercy, can be said to be the well-deserved royal palace of China.
That's why Chen Han made an unintentional mistake.
The Liaodong Navy was 80% likely to be integrated in the future, so it was helpful to do some conciliation work in advance. However, Chen Han had no intention of angering Gongsun Du, Liu Yi and other Liaodong senior officials. He came here with the intention of making amends.
If the sextant can be used as an introduction to attract Liu Yi or even Gongsun Du to have a formal dialogue with Taishi Ci and Wei Yan, it will undoubtedly give a good start to future negotiations.
Chen Han has high expectations for this.
"Hmm." Gongsun Du said a noncommittal 'Hmm', as if in response, but his footsteps did not stop at all. He walked directly past Chen Han. Looking in that direction, he seemed to be going back to his cabin.
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Chen Han blinked and looked confused. When he turned to look at Liu Yi, he actually looked a little pitiful: "General Liu, this..."
"General Chen is very kind, but Yi is disrespectful." Liu Yisurong replied, but it was funny in his heart. He knew Gongsun Du very well, so of course he could understand his lord's mood.
The Lord is very interested in sextants, or Qingzhou's new technologies and new things, and understands the gap between the two sides, so after hearing the battle report in Liaoxi, he immediately set off to Liaoxi to prevent the upcoming naval battle.
The head is doomed to be lowered, but to what extent you have to give in in the end, you have to understand the opponent's foundation and how big the gap between the two sides is.
It seems that Qingzhou is also prepared. It has changed its secretive and mysterious style and plans to open it up and let them see it again. In this case, what is there to be polite about? From this magical six points
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