Daming Junior Scholar

He Jiaan understood, this clearly meant to let Tang Lin avoid.

He smiled and shook his head: "Don't worry, Mr. Chen, Tang Lin is not an outsider. If you have anything to say, you can just say it."

Since he was not an outsider, Chen Yuanda felt relieved, and suddenly said surprisingly: "Master He, I know that there will be a smuggling caravan returning to Guangzhou in the past few days. .”

Well?What is going on in this world?How did it become so harmonious all of a sudden, so harmonious that it made me feel like I was in a dream.

Just now came a person who abandoned the dark and turned to the light, and now another person came to do the work of a dog and a horse. I almost thought that I was like a Buddha with a halo. After a while, the other person trembled in fright.

"Mr. Chen, what do you mean by all this...? You're not here to deceive me, are you?" He Jiaan looked suspiciously at Chen Yuanda with a vigilant expression on his face.

He Jiaan's suspicion was already in Chen Yuanda's expectation. If he could trust himself only by listening to his own words, then he wouldn't be called He Jiaan anymore, and he was beaten to death by Franji a few years ago.

I hesitated for a while, and finally, as if I had made up my mind, I took the initiative to mention: "Master He, to be honest, I am actually a smuggler."

"Ah?" He Jiaan jumped up from the chair in shock as if he had heard some terrible news, and pointed at Chen Yuanda with a flustered expression.

Chen Yuanda quickly waved his hand, and hurriedly explained: "Master He, listen to me, it was just in the past. Ever since I met Mr. He, I felt that smuggling is a way of no return, so I am willing to donate the money I used to smuggle." All the property I have, I am willing to be a legitimate businessman in the future, and I hope Master He will fulfill it."

"It turned out to be like this." He Jiaan finally breathed a sigh of relief, and the expression on his face was no longer so panicked. He patted Chen Yuanda on the shoulder, and praised with a smile: "Mr. Take me to catch the smuggling fleet, and when I return to the capital, I will definitely tell the whole story in front of His Majesty, and His Majesty will be very happy."

If Wu Ting were to say this, Chen Yuanda would only think that he was farting, but if He Jiaan were to say it, he would have no doubts. Who knows that in the past few years in the court, the fastest promotion is This Lord He Jiaan, there was even a rumor last year that Lord He personally saved the life of the emperor in Datong.

"Thank you, Mr. He, for your support. The news that the old man just said is absolutely true. Even if the old man dares to lie to others, he will not dare to lie to Mr. He. If Mr. He thinks that there are not enough warships, the old man is willing to bring his fleet to join. Take them all."

Good guy, he's not satisfied with just selling his friends, he actually wants to uproot him. It seems that this Chen Yuanda is really ruthless, but behind his smile, there is some unknown secret hidden.

After the two quickly discussed the time and place to send troops, Chen Yuanda finally left. The living room was quiet for a moment. Tang Lin scratched his head in confusion, turned to look at He Jiaan, and asked in puzzlement: "Sir, What did he do here?"

He Jia'an was not too sure. It stands to reason that Chen Yuanda could earn a large sum of money from smuggling every year. Why would he want to allocate part of this money to the court?Among these people, he was the most unwilling to be a serious businessman.

But things were a little different from what he thought. Chen Yuanda actually took the initiative to take refuge in him. Did he feel that the general trend was the trend?Or to whitewash the identities of the children and grandchildren?Or is it just a borrowed knife to kill someone alone?

I am afraid that these problems will have to wait for me to slowly solve them.

There are still three days before departure, and He Jiaan still needs to take advantage of these preparations. Although the broken ships he brought are not the real strength of the Ming Navy, these borrowed ships are all loaded with the elite of the real navy. The ship was temporarily refitted with more than a dozen Franco cannons. If it were to fight, the combat power would be astonishing.

Of course, all battle plans still need to be approved by Wu Ting. On the second day, He Jiaan specially brought Chen Yuanda to see Wu Ting. After the three of them discussed in the secret room for almost an hour, He Jiaan and Chen Yuanda left Haidao Yamen. , from Chen Yuanda's expression of grinning from ear to ear, it can be seen that the effect of this conversation should be very good.

In the early morning of the fourth day, the fleet moored at the pier had already pulled up the anchor, slowly left the berth, and sailed towards the blue sea.

As soon as the fleet passed Tuen Mun Island, they saw another fleet of nearly fifty ships coming from the other side. The two sides merged together and sailed mightily towards the deep sea.

"Sir, the Chen family's capital is strong enough. There should not be many people who can casually take out so many fleets."

Compared with other people's fleet, his own fleet looked extremely shabby, no wonder before departure, Chen Yuanda said that he would send a boat to support him, and he had already figured out his own strength.

"It's not that many." He Jia'an slowly shook his head: "I'm afraid it's only the Chen family. In other words, as long as the Chen family is settled, you don't have to worry about the Shibo Department."

"Then what should we do?" Tang Lin blinked, a ruthless expression suddenly appeared on his face, and he said in a low voice, "Why don't we fire the cannon now and sink them?"

"Idiot." He Jia'an gave him an annoyed look, and reprimanded him with hatred: "How do you know that these are the entire property of the Chen family? If we do something now, maybe Chen Yuanda will dare to go to Beijing to sue him." Yu Zhuang, it will not be your husband who will be unlucky at that time."

"Oh." Tang Lin also realized that his thoughts were a little reckless. He lowered his head embarrassingly, looked at the Chen family's fleet, and sighed softly: "If these are all our fleets How great, then you won’t have to worry about having no money.”

Chapter 1307

Chapter 1307

Regarding the upcoming battle, He Jiaan was not so stupid as to take risks to run to the vast sea to find the enemy, but stayed on the offshore. According to the information given by Chen Yuanda, as long as he restrained the opponent's landing channel, he would definitely able to meet them.

But before that, an invisible war had already begun.

All the Franco cannons have already taken off their gun coats, and the black muzzles are staring at the huge fleet beside him. What he is afraid of is that Chen Yuanda has no good intentions, and after he deceives himself, his fleet will disappear. .

With these Franco cannons, He Jia'an can feel much more at ease. He has observed Chen Yuanda's fleet, and the weapons in the fleet are still of the oldest model, including rams and trebuchets, and perhaps some of them Infantry, when the two ships approached, they would jump over and slash wildly with their knives.

It's really naive, it's such an age, and it's still playing such an outdated trick.

Although the trick is small, it is not useless, like a sudden attack at close range, it really makes me overwhelmed.

So He Jiaan asked Chen Yuanda's fleet to go further on the excuse that the distance was too short. In this way, if he suddenly turned his back on him, he would be able to bombard and sink his fleet in time with the Frang machine gun.

Perhaps He Jiaan thought too much, the fleet close at hand has been silent, the two fleets are slowly drifting on the sea, one day, two days... At the moment when the morning of the third day came, the fleet on the mast The watchman finally found out that there was a fleet of ships coming from the south at high speed in this direction.

finally come.

All in all, this is probably the first naval battle that He Jiaan participated in. Although he does not have his own giant warships, but with his current strength, he is not the kind of merchant ship that can match. After the two parties contacted, they They rushed towards the opposing team together.

The other party is driving at high speed, so it is so easy to change direction. If a ship turns its head, it will turn around, but if more than a dozen ships gather together, if the leading ship slows down and turns, the ships behind will definitely turn. No matter how you say it, it is not feasible to slow down, so there is only one way left now, and that is to hit it head-on, and see whose ship is stronger.

He Jiaan would not do such a thing as a collision with a ship. He intentionally slowed down his fleet and let Chen Yuanda's fleet move forward. After such a tooth-piercing sound, the two huge The ships collided with each other with a bang.

The ram on the bow protected the giant ship from much damage, but narrowed the distance between each other, and then the archers on the deck appeared one after another, fighting against the opponent's rain of arrows desperately. He shot back, and occasionally there were a few shots of firecrackers, and it was unknown how many people could be injured.

"Sir, it's time for us to take action." Tang Lin was already impatient, the shells of Franji had already been loaded, and with a wave of his hand, most of the opponent's fleet could be knocked into the sea. Not in a hurry, but watching this rare drama with great interest.

"What's the rush? If Chen Yuanda really wants to surrender, he should put in some effort." He Jiaan's calm demeanor was full of cruelty.

Compared with the land battle, the battle on the deck is much more cruel. The two sides are fighting non-stop at a distance of several meters. As long as they catch the moment when the two ships are approaching, someone will jump over violently. Steel knives can often have extraordinary effects against these archers.

But often such a barbarian is also the moment when he dies the fastest.

The blood gradually stained the blue sea surface red. At this moment, the ambushed party seemed to recognize who the besieging party was, and a look of extreme indignation suddenly appeared on his face. The counterattack suddenly became much stronger. The people under him were suppressed below the deck and could not lift their heads.

"It doesn't feel good to be betrayed." He Jia'an suddenly said slowly, and then waved his hand: "Tang Lin, concentrate all the artillery fire and sink the lead ship first."

"Yes." Tang Lin went down immediately, and the order was quickly spread to all the ships. The black gunfire was directed at the first ship, and then Tang Lin waved his hand, and the world seemed to be shaken, and even the voice seemed to be shaking. It seemed to be swallowed, and then the deck under his feet shook violently, and dozens of huge fireballs soared into the sky, rushing towards the opponent's leading ship.

The hull that can withstand the strong winds and waves cannot resist the attack of the shells. The fragments of the wood of the hull suddenly shot up into the sky, and after the shells penetrated into the hull, there was a huge explosion. It began to sink rapidly, and disappeared after a while.

Even if he had witnessed the firing of the Fran's boat with his own eyes, it was not as shocking as it was at such a close distance this time. Chen Yuanda felt a wave of fear in his heart, thanks to the fact that he did not dare to take the risk to challenge He Jiaan's fleet. It was much bigger than the shock that the Franji people had caused to him back then. No wonder He Jiaan dared to go to Guangzhou to play wild with such a few broken boats. He really has full capital.

As the ship sank to the bottom of the sea, there was a rare silence on the battlefield. The two fleets of nearly a hundred warships, facing the much weaker warships, were as quiet as a mouse seeing a kitten. After a while, white flags were hoisted on those boats, and it was more important to save one's own life than those outside the body.

"It's really boring. I surrendered after only one round of cannon fire." Tang Lin's eyes showed a trace of disappointment, perhaps still feeling the awe-inspiring look when he just fired the cannon.

"Stupid, these ships are loaded with valuable goods. If one sinks, you will pay tens of thousands of taels of silver. If all of them are sunk, then you have to cry to death. Why don't you press these ships back to the port and float on the sea?" After so many days, I really have had enough."

Naturally, Chen Yuanda's fleet did not dare to openly appear on the waters of Guangzhou Mansion. Don't look at him fighting side by side with He Jiaan today, but if he fails to reach an agreement with the imperial court, he will not hand over all his strength for a day, but today He Jiaan The performance of the fleet also made him deeply disturbed. After returning, maybe he can change his previous thinking.

When the fleet was escorted to Guangzhou Fu Wharf and stopped, the people at the whole wharf were startled. It looked like the warships of the imperial court were in tatters, but they had some skills. They went out to sea without saying a word and came back. So many ships have been escorted back, and I don't know which company the fleet belongs to. This is bad luck.

Wu Ting, who soon heard the news, rushed over with his troops. The sailors on the ship had already been driven to the pier by He Jiaan. He looked timidly at the soldiers around him. After meeting He Jiaan, the two immediately led After getting on these smuggling boats, Wu Ting frowned and glanced at He Jiaan suspiciously: "Master He, why is there something wrong with the cargo on this boat? There are still many empty spaces in each cabin." Woolen cloth."

He Jiaan replied without changing his face: "Maybe it's because there are not many goods in Western Ocean, and they can't be filled."

There is also this possibility, Wu Ting nodded, and waved his hand: "Move all the goods off the ship."