Chapter 385 How to fight?
After Li Ke said that, he raised his neck and drank all the wine in his glass. The generals also drank the first glass of wine with his neck and said nothing and everything was in the wine.
Next, Li Ke led all the generals to eat meat and drink wine, and parted with joy.
During the Tang Dynasty, Guangzhou City was in today's Panyu area. The wide Pearl River flowed through the northeast of Guangzhou City, and turned south in the northeast of Guangzhou City, half-enclosed Guangzhou City.
After passing Guangzhou City, the Pearl River flows southeast for more than 30 miles and enters Guangzhou Bay. To the west of Guangzhou Bay is Zhongshan’s territory now Zhongshan City, and to the east of Guangzhou Bay is Bao'an’s territory now Bao'an District, Shenzhen.
The Ministry of Bao'an was established as Bao'an County in the late Tang Dynasty, until the establishment of Shenzhen Special Zone in the reform and opening up of New China, and Bao'an County was changed to Shenzhen Bao'an District.
When Li Ke's fleet came, these two groups were only two small fishing villages. The Bao'an Ministry near the South China Sea was relatively large. There was a market on the beach. When people who went to the South China Sea fishing could exchange some of their needs here when they came back.
Li Ke ordered the fleet to stop near Bao'an and the fleet broke down outside Bao'an, and ordered the deputy general Zhang Shujin to take out some goods to exchange them here.
He asked locals to lead the way to Guangzhou to deliver letters to Feng Ang by land. At the same time, he personally took six large ships and five thousand cavalry to sail north along Guangzhou Bay, and went to Guangzhou to collect grain in person.
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The Feng brothers made preparations in advance. As soon as the Tang Dynasty fleet stopped at Guangzhou Bay, someone rushed back to report the news.
At this time, Feng Zhiyu was hiding on Guanlong Island at the mouth of the Pearl River.
Guanlong Island is only more than 20 miles away from Guangzhou City, just as the estuary of the Pearl River. Although it is late autumn now, the Pearl River is still very turbulent. The ships going backwards from the relatively calm Guangzhou Bay into the turbulent river road will inevitably cause great difficulties for the people at the helm.
So Feng Zhiyu is preparing to ambush the Tang Fleet here.
On the lush Guanlong Island, surrounded by shacks made of local materials are hidden by rocks and trees. The shacks are hidden in the five liangs of Jiling, Bin'an, Nanshan, Longyuan, and Geliang.
A sunny hillside is full of lychee trees. The lush lychee trees block the sunshine on the hillside, so the soil and rocks on the hillside appear wet all year round.
Several squares of thick sheepskin were covered with thick sheepskin behind a large rock under the litchi tree. Feng Zhiyu and several elders with broken hair tattoos were sitting on the sheepskin, drinking while waiting for Li Ke's ship to arrive.
Everyone was talking as a barefoot man led a thin, black and thin young man up, and walked around the stone and came to Feng Zhiyu to kneel down on his knees.
When Feng Zhiyu saw the barefoot man tightening his face, he hurriedly asked, "Afang, is there any news before?"
The barefoot man was Feng Zhiyu's confidant and stayed by the river to wait for news ahead.
The others also looked at the barefoot man and the thin black young man.
When the barefoot man asked, he raised his hand and pointed to the young man beside him and said, "Go back to the fourth young master, A Shui who was sent to Bao'anji is back."
"Ashui?" Feng Zhiyu looked at Ashui and asked, "What have you seen in Bao'anji."
"When I go back to the fourth young master, the villain saw many Tang troops in Bao'anji, and then ran to the beach and saw many big ships. There were many Tang troops on the big ship, and many Tang troops came down from the ship..."
"what else?"
Feng Zhiyu was impatient and interrupted him with annoyance when he heard A Shui say repeatedly about Chuanda and Tang Junduo.
"Ah!" A Shui was startled and continued: "Go back to the fourth young master, when the villain saw Tang Jun coming, he would come to report the news first..."
Feng Zhiyu suddenly stood up when he heard this, looking at A Shui with a pale face and said, "You are back after you find out these things?"
“I, I…”
Seeing this, A Shui was so scared that he didn't dare to speak.
Feng Zhiyu disdained to pay attention to A Shui and turned his head and looked at A Fang coldly.
"Fourth Young Master, he is only the first to report the message to someone else. He will definitely be able to figure out the situation of Tang Jun and report it again."
"snort!"
Feng Zhiyu shook his sleeves when he heard this and ignored him.
Afang stood up carefully. When he was about to leave, he saw A Shui still kneeling there and still didn't move. He carefully kicked him and asked him to get up and leave.
"Return to the fourth young master, when the villain came back, he saw several large Tang army ships coming here on the water..."
Before Feng Zhiyu could react, he heard Long Yuan's chieftain Long Gubiao ask, "Did you see clearly that it is the Tang army's ship?"
The other people also took a step forward when they heard this and looked at A Shui nervously. They had been hearing that the Tang Dynasty ships were very large, many, and many Tang soldiers were feeling a little stressed.
"The villain saw it clearly. It was definitely a big ship of the Tang army. Except for the big ship of the Tang army, the villain had never seen such a big ship..."
"Why are there only a few large ships? Where are the other ships?" Chief Geliang asked in confusion.
"Now we need to figure out who is sitting on this boat? Can we rob it?" Chief Long Yuan turned around and said to everyone.
The chiefs of the other three ministries looked at Feng Zhiyu when they heard this. The so-called criterion for whether they could rob was whether Feng Zhitai was on the ship.
Feng Zhiyu looked at the people who knew what they were thinking, and smiled indifferently, "Since we are here, we must accept it with a smile. We will first rob these two Tang ships, and then lead our troops to Bao'an to catch all the remaining ships in one fell swoop."
Jiling, Bin Xun, and Nanshan tribes hurriedly said, "Everything depends on the fourth son."
"We will also follow the instructions of the fourth prince." The two chiefs Long Yuan and Geliang also expressed their opinions.
"Ha ha ha ha……"
Feng Zhiyu saw that everything was in control, and laughed. After laughing, he looked at the fanged chiefs and said with a slightly cold face: "Do you know that the things in these two ships should be rewarded by the Tang Dynasty to our Feng family."
The chief of Jiling tribe was a half-bian. He stepped forward and smiled a few steps, "The Fourth Master said so much. After that, we naturally did not move when we got these two ships of things. When the matter was over, we would hand them back to the Fourth Master."
Everyone else would be surprised when they saw this and hurriedly called for guarantees, saying, "These two goods should naturally belong to the four young masters."
Seeing this, Feng Zhiyu became more and more proud and laughed: "Don't worry, after robbing this batch of ships, the Tang Dynasty still needs us to quell the rebellion. We will also send weapons and rewards at that time."
"Hahaha, the Tang Dynasty actually wanted to collect grain from Lingnan. This time, let them know how powerful we are."
"Don't even think of taking away a grain of rice!"
"After the big ships and ordnances from the Tang Dynasty, we will use these big ships and ordnances to go to Annan for a walk."
Everyone laughed loudly when they heard this, as if they had already obtained the Tang Dynasty fleet.
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The waves rolled in Guangzhou Bay, and Li Ke stood on the boat and looked at the green rocks on both sides with a monocular telescope.
I sighed in my heart. According to time, it was almost winter in Chang'an City, but it was still as warm as spring, which made people feel a little incredible.
Li Ke was watching Feng Zhidai, wearing armor, slowly walking out of the ship warehouse. He first looked into the distance, and then came behind Li Ke and bowed to salute.
"See Your Highness the King of Wu."
Li Ke turned around and handed the telescope to the eunuch Yu Biao, reached out and helped Feng Zhidai up and smiled: "General, don't be too polite."
Feng Zhidai stood up and looked forward, and said excitedly: "I'm at the estuary of the Pearl River, and I'll reach Guangzhou City in another twenty or thirty miles!"
"How many years have General Feng not been back?" Li Ke asked after hearing this.
Feng Zhidai showed a look of emotion when he heard this, and looked at the distance and took a deep breath.
After a while, I said leisurely: "When I was twelve years old, I followed my father to go east to go to Goguryeo. Later, my father returned and stayed in Yangzhou to protect Emperor Yang of Sui.
In Yangzhou for more than a year, Emperor Yang of Sui was killed. Yangzhou was in chaos. My ministers were in danger of peace in Yangzhou and had to lead 200 generals to flee thousands of miles back to Guangzhou.
I lived here for a few more years and went north to Chang'an to serve His Majesty. In a blink of an eye, more than ten years have passed, and I have passed my forties..."
Feng Zhidi said, his voice gradually lowered.
Li Ke was also mixed with feelings when he heard this, and he didn't know when he would be able to return to Chang'an.
Just as soon as I saw the surging river water, the one that mixed into the sea became a magnificent trend, I suddenly felt aura in my heart and shouted at the turbulent Pearl River Estuary: "A good man should be born between heaven and earth, and he should be everywhere, and there is no need to be so touched."
Feng Zhidai bowed again after hearing this, Li Ke said, "The prince is broad-minded and cannot be compared with his ministers. Moreover, his father is in poor health in the past two years, and his younger brothers are not good..."
Li Ke turned around and supported Feng Zhidai and said, "General Feng, don't worry. When he came, the crown prince gave an explanation to let the general stay in Guangzhou to take charge of the government, because he was worried that the general would not be able to use it together for many years. He also ordered some children from aristocratic families to stay and help you!"
"Your Highness the Crown Prince has such an order?" Feng Zhidi asked excitedly by grabbing Li Ke's hand.
Feng Zhidi has been in Chang'an for many years and knows that Li Shimin and the court have long made up their minds to wait for Feng Ang to die, so they sent people to take over Guangzhou again, and the Feng family will never be allowed to stay in Guangzhou for generations.
Therefore, everyone knows that Feng Ang was very sick, but he never let Feng Zhidai come back to replace him.
Seeing this, Li Ke smiled and said, "Don't worry, this is really the order of His Royal Highness of the Crown Prince. You must know that with these big ships in the Crown Prince, you are not afraid of Guangzhou losing control."
Feng Zhidai was stunned when he heard this, and then he realized that Li Chengqian was extremely ambitious. He wanted to establish a country on the sea and sent warships to collect taxes everywhere. How could he see the small Guangzhou City?
Thinking of this, I can only feel ashamed of myself.
In fact, Li Ke and Feng Zhidai didn't know that Li Chengqian knew that Feng Ann had a good life in a few days, and Feng Zhidai would not have lived for a few years. Now he asked Feng Zhidai to take charge of Guangzhou, and his colleagues sent children from a noble family to assist him, just to facilitate subsequent immigration to Guangdong.
This prevents Feng Ang from losing his life in Guangzhou. Han officials sent by the court were unable to effectively govern Lingnan, which led to the unfavorable situation of handing over Lingnan to the local barbarian chiefs in fact.
Feng Zhidai was in a good mood when he knew Li Chengqian's order. He stood at the bow and kept introducing the scenery on both sides of the strait to Li Ke.
When Li Ke heard Feng Zhidai's introduction, he looked around with a telescope.
"The prince is Guanlong Island at the mouth of the Pearl River. After passing Guanlong Island, you will enter the Pearl River."
"Guanlong Island?"
Li Ke hurriedly held up his telescope and looked at Guanlong Island.
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Feng Zhiyu and others on Guanlong Island also saw Li Ke's big ship. Looking at the two big ships that were thirty or forty meters long and fifteen or sixteen meters wide, the people on the island were so shocked that they opened their mouths wide and couldn't speak.
"This! How to fight this?"
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Chapter completed!