My Backyard is the Tang Dynasty Chapter 285

Published at 27th of October 2023 05:45:58 AM

After Li Yin came out, a group of people boarded the yacht. In fact, the reason why Li Yin went to the Diaoyu Islands was because of his patriotic feelings in his heart, and the second was to go to the sea to enjoy the beautiful scenery. In modern times, he can't do whatever he wants on the sea. It's taboo, but it's not a problem here. The whole sea is his back garden, and he can go wherever he wants.

Diaoyu Island is located in the northwest of Ryukyu, about 200 miles away. After Li Ran's identification, they quickly found this small island in the sea. Li Yin took a look and found that the island was exactly the same as the one in the photo, "Dock! "After confirming that this is the Diaoyu Islands, Li Yin issued the order.

Six yachts docked at the Diaoyu Island, and Li Yin led the people onto the island, and then he followed the craftsman behind and said: "Find a smooth stone, and engrave the words that the king told you on the stone. We need to engrave a few more places." For this operation, Li Yin had already paid attention to it, and brought many stonemasons from Ryukyu to leave marks on the rocks on the island.

The stonemasons had to take their tools to find smooth stones. At this time, Sun Dongxu asked strangely: "Your Highness, why do you attach so much importance to this island and reef? Is there anything special about this island and reef?"

Li Yin couldn't tell the few of them that he was purely for a certain psychological satisfaction, so he said: "There are precious resources under this island, and the country of Wa is very close to this island. When they discover the preciousness of this island in the future, they will definitely They insist that this island belongs to them, so this king left a mark here."

"Precious resources?" Zeng Zhida looked around the island for a long time, and said, "This island is so small, what precious resources can there be?"

Li Yin smiled, "You will know soon, it's useless to say more now."

The three of them were silent when they heard the words.

While waiting for the stonemason to engrave the characters, Li Yin and the others walked around the island. The Diaoyu Island itself is composed of three small islands. The size of each island is not very large. It took more than ten minutes to visit one island, and everyone went to other islands for a tour. When a few people were chatting and laughing happily, a yacht in charge of patrolling the periphery suddenly rushed back. .

Everyone was a little surprised, and when they got down from the rocky mountain, the yacht was docked at the shore, and a soldier strode towards Li Yin and said, "Your Highness, a large number of unknown ships have been found in the northeast of the island, and we suspect they are pirates. "

"Northwest direction?" Li Yin read.

"There is the direction of Okinawa Island." Li Ran explained.

Sun Dongxu frowned and said: "These pirates have been hiding for so long and finally can't bear it anymore. I'll go back and mobilize the fleet to wipe them out in one fell swoop."

"Well, first send someone back to inform the fleet to prepare for defense. What are we going to do here to continue monitoring them?" Li Yin pondered for a while, "And with the speed of our yacht and the telescope, we can completely hide it without anyone noticing it." Know all their actions."

Everyone agreed. Sun Dongxu asked Xia Guangyi to go back first in a speedboat, while the others retreated to the yacht. Li Yin's plan on the Diaoyu Islands had to be delayed, after all, the yacht had no firepower. It's not good to be surrounded by their discovery.

Under the guidance of the guards, other yachts also headed towards the sea area where the fleet was discovered. After a while, the dark fleet ahead appeared in Li Yin's field of vision. Picking up his binoculars, Li Yin calmly investigated the fleet of unknown origin, "It's from the Japanese country!" Li Yin put down the binoculars, and he recognized the strangely dressed Japanese people at a glance. When he was in Chang'an, he had seen a lot of Japanese people, "It's either pirates or the navy of the Japanese country. They all carry weapons."

"The Japanese, we haven't troubled them yet, but they have come to trouble us. This time is just right, show them some color and let them understand that our Yizhou navy is powerful." Zeng Zhida said angrily.

Sun Dongxu was still observing the fleet, frowned and said: "Your Highness, this is probably the regular army of the Wa Kingdom. You see, there are several large ships behind, and there are stone catapults on them. It seems that they came prepared."

Li Yin looked again, and it was as Sun Dongxu said, but these people were all wearing messy clothes, and they didn't look like a regular army at all.

"Your Highness, what should we do now?" Sun Dongxu asked, "I really didn't expect that His Highness would encounter such a thing when he first came here. It used to be a small fight, but I didn't expect to encounter such a big battle this time." The size of the fleet is huge, more than 500 ships at least, and the total number of warships in the naval base does not exceed 30, including the newly added small warships.

Li Yin understood what Sun Dongxu meant. Even if so many ships were lined up for them to bombard, they would have to bombard them for a long time. They must not be allowed to approach the port, otherwise a boarding battle would be unavoidable.

"Let the fleet go out while hanging in the lonely sea, swimming and fighting, constantly consuming their ships." Li Ran said at this time.

Li Yin nodded, and he also meant this, and said: "Now notify the fleet to dispatch, and at the same time let the soldiers in the port get ready, let the people enter the fort, just in case."

"Yes." Sun Dongxu replied. This time he and Zeng Zhida both went back to deploy the defense of the port. Fortunately, Li Yin asked to visit this island this time, otherwise it would be too late when they discovered such a huge fleet.

After Sun Dongxu left, Jin Daqian said: "Your Highness, they are probably here for the artillery."

"Why do you say that?" Li Yin looked at Jin Daqian.

Jin Daqian recalled, "Not long after the old slave came here, a group of people attacked the port and tried to steal the naval gun, but they underestimated the weight of the naval gun and could not carry it away. Later, the soldiers found this group of people. They killed more than a dozen people, but a few escaped, and then some similar incidents happened intermittently. Captain Sun noticed this, so he strengthened the guards on the artillery and weapon depots, and this kind of incidents decreased a lot. And most of these people are Japanese, and there are even Turkic people.”

"Turkic?" Li Min's face changed, "Turkic people are thousands of miles away, how could they come here and become pirates."

Jin Daqian shook his head, "Your Highness doesn't know. It is said that after the fleet wiped out Wang Shijie with artillery, rumors of this weapon leaked out. After all, so many people saw it with their own eyes, and the soldiers would inevitably slip up when they were drinking and chatting in the tavern. A lot of people now know about artillery, and that it's fired with gunpowder."

Li Yin was speechless. He actually understood that as long as he used this weapon, it would be impossible not to let it out. Paper can't hold fire, and there is no impenetrable wall in the world. It's just that knowing is one thing, making it is another. The thing is, even if they know the principle, what if they don't have a corresponding industrial foundation, what they build is nothing more than a soil gun.

"Moreover, it is said that the price of cannons in the black market opened by pirates has been fired up to 100,000 yuan. Many bold and reckless people have the idea of ​​setting up cannons. As for this old Turkic slave, he also wonders why it appears in Among the pirates, and these Turkic people are still very difficult to deal with, all of them are accurate in archery and have injured many of our soldiers." Jin Daqian added.

"These pirates are really smart. As long as they get the artillery, they can really run amok in the sea, but the price of 100,000 guan is not bad. This king is a little tempted, why don't you just sell them a few." Li Jin laughed strangely.

Jin Daqian was shocked, "Your Highness, absolutely not, with such a sharp weapon, these pirates are still at ease, and let other forces get it and go there."

Li Yin said: "This king was just joking."

Jin Daqian breathed a sigh of relief when he heard the words, otherwise their life would be difficult once the artillery spread.

Seeing Jin Daqian's appearance, Li Yin fell into deep thought. In his opinion, it would be a matter of time before this artillery appeared in other places. After all, after Genghis Khan used artillery to fight all the way to Europe, firearms were quickly mastered by Europeans. The truth is that he has used artillery now, so the most primitive artillery will inevitably appear, because many people will start to focus on the use of gunpowder, and artillery, which has a simple structure, can easily be relied on. The gourd painted ladle was manufactured, but he was not worried. Without a suitable industrial foundation, they would not be able to produce powerful artillery at all. (To be continued..)

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