"Brother Cui, look at the temperature of this tea, is it still suitable?"
"Qian Laosan, you don't have to be like this..."
"It should, it should. I've asked the kids to prepare the dried fish that Brother Cui mentioned yesterday. Someone will deliver it later."
Lao Cui was speechless for a while. After Qian Laosan and Luo Laosi came back, they directly transformed into the tea serving boys on the Taihao ship. Regardless of their rank on the ship, they would call them brother when they met.
Taking the tea from Qian Laosan and the snacks from Luo Laosi, Lao Cui said: "You two, you are following Ping Guo Gong. As long as you work faithfully, Ping Guo Gong will not treat you specially."
When the two of them went back that day, Lao Cui and Lao Du patted them on the back. In fact, they attached a listening device to their bodies.
With such a large fleet, even if Tang Ping was willing to trust them, he still had to be on the safe side and beware of the two of them making small moves at the beginning.
But after the two people returned to their own ship, they highly praised Tang Ping's fleet. After finally convincing all the younger brothers, they obediently returned to the Taihao ship as hostages the next morning, so Lao Cui and the others also For the time being, they regarded the two as one of their own.
The two pirates, Luo Siye and Qian Laosan, are definitely not good people, but they are not the kind of bad, oily villains. They became pirates at a young age because the former Sui Emperor was extorting excessive amounts of money. He got on the boat and went out to sea.
"Brother Cui is right, but my two brothers are the latter after all. Of course, they have to work harder when encountering problems." Qian Laosan asked curiously: "I heard that Brother Cui was the first one to follow Ping. The Duke’s people?”
"That's right!" Lao Cui nodded: "When Ping Guogong first arrived in the Tang Dynasty with his own shop, it was Xiao Luo and I who met him."
A lot of people knew about this, and there was nothing to hide.
"I was a top soldier back then, and it was with Duke Ping that I rose through the ranks to reach where I am today."
"Old Cui, don't tell me that I'm like a close relative." Tang Ping walked out of the cabin: "In the past few years, we have been through thick and thin. When have we not advanced together and retreated together? Do I have to Are the credits I can earn on my own?"
"Hehe!" Lao Cui smiled naively: "Isn't this what my mother-in-law said? I have to be more modest after coming out, hahahaha!"
In one sentence, Lao Cui's true colors were revealed again.
Tang Ping took the tea that Mr. Luo diligently handed over and said, "You really don't have to do this. Just do your own thing. I didn't recruit you two just to serve you tea."
"What Duke Ping Guo taught us is that we will pay attention to it in the future." The two said respectfully.
Tang Ping was too lazy to talk anymore. It was useless to rely on oneself to communicate between people. The more they interacted with each other in the future, the two of them would know what kind of people they were.
Tang Ping took the chart and asked, "How many days do we have before we can reach Shencheng in East Vietnam?"
"At the current speed, we can reach the outside of Shencheng Port in five days at most." Qian Laosan hesitated after finishing speaking.
Tang Ping looked at his expression and patted his shoulder: "If you have anything to say, just say it. We don't have any rules about punishing people for words."
Qian Laosan nodded, and then gritted his teeth and said: "Ping Guo Gong redeems his sins. I'm afraid I may have made a mistake in my judgment. We didn't hide our whereabouts all the way here. We couldn't avoid the caravans around us. Plus the speed. Medium, I think the East Vietnamese Navy should have received news from us long ago."
"They have never relaxed their encirclement and suppression of us in the past few years. After all, maritime trade is the foundation of East Vietnam's founding. But today we have reached this position. East Vietnam has not sent its navy to intercept us. I really can't understand. , what exactly is the mistake?"
You know, he was the one who suggested the plan to lure the snake out of the cave at that time. He was very confident about it. Privately, he also felt that with Tang Ping's Taihao fleet, he could put an end to the East Vietnamese navy that was chasing him out. .
But now we have a few days to reach Shencheng. This place has long been the sphere of influence of the East Vietnam Navy, but they allow such large-scale pirates to run rampant here. It really doesn't make sense.
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Tang Ping was on the phone with Chang'an convenience store at any time every day. Li Jing and others were his remote military advisers. Several people had already warned Tang Ping about this unreasonable situation.
But now Tang Ping doesn't know why.
But as long as he was on the water, Tang Ping did not believe that in this era, besides the unpredictable nature, anything else could pose a sufficient threat to his Taihao fleet.
Then Dongyue wouldn't pray for rain on the shore and summon a typhoon to drown it, right?
Therefore, Tang Ping, Li Jing and others in Chang'an finally discussed and decided to remain unchanged in response to all changes.
Now it is still planned to go straight to Shencheng and block the mouth of the Yangtze River. At that time, the Tang Dynasty army will blitz the entire East Vietnam from Baozi City. Under the offensive of the new airships, the Tang Dynasty does not think that the navy of East Vietnam can defend the inner river. live.
It's just that the third person didn't know about the money, so he was always worried. After all, it was the first time he paid attention to Tang Ping. If he messed up like this, he might not be able to get ahead in the future.
So Tang Ping comforted him and said: "The situation of the East Vietnam Navy is indeed not very clear now. After the Battle of Baozi City, they gave up many cities and then shrunk to a generation from Fuyang to the coast. Even the Zhen family and his son did not stay here. Fuyang. The information that Tang Dynasty's spies can return from the navy is relatively limited. Now we only need to go to Shencheng to find out."
In the next few days, the entire fleet began to become tense, but there was still no sign of the East Vietnam Navy.
Qian Lao San and Luo Si Ye were bitter in their mouths, but they knew they were suffering.
If such a situation occurs now, the most likely possibility is that someone in their fleet has snitched.
But Qian Laosan and Luo Siye felt that these subordinates were old people who had been with them for many years. If they wanted to inform, their old nest would have been raided by Dongyue or Hou Junji. How could they have been at sea for so many years?
This doesn't make sense, and that doesn't make sense. Instead, the two of them became the two most nervous people on the Taihao ship.
When they were still more than a day away from Shanghai, the East Vietnamese navy finally appeared in front of them, but strangely, there were only two ordinary sailing ships.
Hanging the flag of East Vietnam, when I saw this fleet, I quickly wanted to run away.
"Tell your ships to get out of the way, Donghai No. 1 and No. 2, catch up and block them. If they resist... sink them directly!"
The East Vietnamese flag on the ship reminded Tang Ping of the Battle of Baozicheng, and he directly ordered Donghai No. 1 and No. 2 to attack.
Through the semaphore, the pirate ships surrounding them quickly moved out of the way, and Donghai No. 1 and No. 2 showed their full speed in front of these pirates for the first time.
It roared through the waves, leaving a huge white line behind the ship. Qian Laosan and Luo Siye looked at each other. They were far away at that time, and they felt that the two ships surrounding their pirate group were very fast. Now that I look closer, I realize how fast it is.
Even if my pirate ship goes smoothly, its speed is not even half as fast as others.
"Others, follow too!"
Then the other ten battleships of the Taihao fleet also began to accelerate, and soon the large force of the pirate group was left behind.
But for more than half an hour, Tang Ping and the others heard the sound of shelling in the distance. It seemed that Donghai No. 1 and No. 2 were fighting with two East Vietnamese sailing ships.
After more than twenty minutes, when Tang Ping and the others caught up, they saw the two East Vietnam Navy sailboats, one of which was blocked at sea.
There is another ship, half of which has sunk into the sea. Only the bow is still raised high, and some sailors are flapping on the sea.
"Hey... let's save people first!" Tang Ping really couldn't watch so many people sinking into the sea in front of him indifferently. He should be fished out by others first, and then he could decide how to deal with them later.
In half a day, everyone in the sea and on the surviving East Vietnam Navy sailboat were tied up and brought to the largest Donghai No. 3.
On the huge deck, there were densely packed kneeling sailors wearing East Vietnamese military uniforms.
"Who is the leader?" Tang Ping stood at the bow of the boat and asked.
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The prisoners looked numb, and some looked shocked, while some of those who were rescued after falling into the water looked at the middle-aged man lying in the middle.
Only then did Tang Ping notice that the color of this person's clothes was different from the others, but because he was also fished out of the water, he didn't notice it at first.
"Go check on him."
Lao Cui nodded and kicked away the prisoners surrounding the middle-aged man one by one. Several of the kicked prisoners tried to struggle forward to stop them, but were directly pinned to the ground by other Datang naval forces. .
Lao Cui tried the man's pulse. It was a little weak, but it was still beating.
This East Vietnamese navy is still a leader, so it is impossible for him to know how to swim, but he is still unconscious at this moment, probably because of the artillery battle that started.
Lao Cui was a rough guy to begin with. He was familiar with killing people, but when it came to saving people, he only needed one move.
He went up and slapped her twice on the face, but the other person didn't react at all, and then he changed to pinching her.
Hey, I never thought that he would be covered up. The middle-aged man actually woke up amidst a cough.
"You guys..." He looked up weakly and looked at the situation on the ship. When the battle started, he was just surprised by the speed of the opponent's ship, but the opponent's ship didn't put up a flag at the time, so he didn't know where it was at first. A battleship from one side.
It wasn't until Donghai No. 1 and No. 2 were attacked by bows and arrows that they directly used the artillery on the ship to fight back, that he understood where this warship came from.
Datang!
The Tang Dynasty was the only one in the world with such artillery, but he never thought why he would encounter so many Tang warships at his doorstep on the East China Sea.
"You Tang people, what do you want to do?"
"As you can see!" Tang Ping looked at each other and said word by word: "Bring war."
"In the battle of Baozi City, it was you, East Vietnam, who started the war."
"This has always been the case in the Tang Dynasty. It is up to you to decide when the war will begin, but when it will end..."
"It's up to me, the Tang Dynasty, to decide!"
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