"Last General...Last General...obey the order!"
Admiral Guo Zhen looked at Tang Ping and his heart was shocked.
It turned out that he had also seen Tang Ping at the Qiongzhou Naval Base, but he had never seen Tang Ping like this.
He even doubted whether Tang Ping would kill him if he didn't give the order.
And he also knew that what Tang Ping was talking about was urgent.
But he still said: "It's just that there is only one fast battleship in the military port now!"
The implication is that there is only one battleship that can rush over immediately.
"One ship at a time, send the most elite combatants to me, and the other warships will follow."
Tang Ping loosened his collar: "I'm sorry, I know this is against the rules, but the situation is really urgent. I will ask the military department to make a supplementary order after the incident."
Guo Zhen saluted and went to make arrangements.
Several years after the establishment of Qiongzhou Port, various drills have been held every now and then.
It is natural for all fleets to set off.
Within an hour, Tang Ping boarded the "Nanhai 052", which is currently the fastest warship in Qiongzhou Port. At full speed, it can reach the port closest to the jade mine in two days.
Other ships will follow at full speed.
After boarding the ship, Tang Pingcai returned to Chang'an. Not only did he get the transfer order from the Ministry of War, but also the imperial edict from Li Shimin, and then returned to Nanhai 052 with Xue Rengui and others.
"General Guo, this is a transfer order from the Ministry of War, and this is His Majesty's imperial edict." Tang Ping handed both things to Guo Zhen: "I'm sorry for today."
An apology was necessary. Tang Ping knew that for the sake of stability, in fact, except for Li Shimin, no one should have the privilege of deploying troops like this, which would be the most stable.
But in the situation just now, if he had gone to Chang'an City first to ask the Ministry of War to issue dispatch orders, it would have taken at least two or three hours.
Saving people is like putting out fires. Not to mention two or three hours, but even two or three minutes may have different results.
"General, I understand!" Guo Zhen asked with some worry: "In order to pursue speed, our battleship only has two bow guns and three hundred combatants."
"I wonder how many enemy troops there are?"
Tang Ping looked at the direction he was going and said, "It can range from fifty thousand to four hundred thousand!"
"Gudong!" Guo Zhen
Swallowing a mouthful of saliva, he was not a person who was afraid of death, but was the gap between 300 sailors and more than 50,000 enemy troops too big?
He had equipped these 300 sailors with firecrackers, armor, swords and guns of the best quality. If they wanted to defend, it would not be a big problem to block thousands of people depending on the terrain.
But fifty thousand! What is that concept?
"We are not going to confront them head-on. We are going to save people now!" Tang Ping patted him on the shoulder: "My brothers and I should have a good rest and recharge our batteries. We may enter the battle at any time after we get off the ship."
Tang Ping also wanted to rest, but he couldn't sleep thinking about the people in the Jade Mine.
He knows Tang Gui, because this surname is after his. He was originally a refugee from Yanbei. He followed him back to Chang'an and settled in his special economic zone.
Later, he was very diligent in studying literature and martial arts, and he learned well. Gradually, he was reused by Tang's Trading Company.
Tang Ping still remembered that day Tang Gui told him that he was just a pariah and had no name, and hoped that Tang Ping would give him one.
Tang Ping told him that no one should ever be a pariah, and you will be called Tang Gui from now on.
Later, Tang Gui gave himself a gift when he got married. His wife was in the same caravan with him.
Tang Ping did not prohibit such a situation, because once the caravan leaves, it may not be able to return home for three to five months, or for one or two years.
The couple is in the same caravan, and it's good to take care of each other when they go out together.
But judging from the letter received, only Tang Gui is left in their caravan, so that means his new wife should also...
Thinking of this, Tang Ping punched the table.
I was careless, I just wanted Tianzhu to gradually settle down, and no one in Tianzhu dared to touch my own people, so I approved the Tianzhu trade route.
But I forgot that there was a powerful Arab Empire in the west.
But I didn't expect that unlike in history, they defeated Tianzhu decades in advance.
When Tang Ping rushed to the jade mine, the Arab army finally discovered the traces of Raja Sri and his group's retreat.
"Commander, they should be hiding in this mountain."
Outside the destroyed city of Ratan, a scout pointed at a map and said.
"Hmph!" Amr, the commander-in-chief of the Arab Empire, snorted coldly: "Let me see who is so powerful that he can repel my 50,000 vanguard army!"
Under his command were the most elite Khorasan cavalry in the Arab Empire. Last year, he led these cavalry to defeat the Byzantine army and capture the Byzantine Emperor in the battle of the Yarmouk Valley.
Even when attacking Egypt, he used 10,000 cavalry to kill the opponent's 100,000-strong army and was defeated.
So even if it was a night attack, his 50,000-strong army was actually repelled by a few thousand Tianzhu troops, which made him very unhappy.
I heard reports from my subordinates that the weapons used by the other side were actually more sophisticated than their Damascus knives. In the confrontation of weapons, my side was actually at a disadvantage.
And the same sophisticated weapon, I saw it in the hands of a caravan guard of the Tang Dynasty.
So he wanted to know where these weapons came from. If his Khorasan cavalry could have such sophisticated equipment, then the Arab Empire would unify the world faster.
He gathered the remnants of the army that had been defeated by Raja Sri and brought his main force, which numbered almost 200,000 people. It only took half a day to break through Ratan City defended by Ratan Tata.
However, during the siege, there was no Tianzhu army that used sophisticated weapons that night.
In addition, there were almost no civilians in the city, so Amru judged that these civilians must have fled Latan City with the Tianzhu army.
So he immediately sent out scouts, and now he finally found the other party's traces.
"Lord Commander, we are just some civilians and a few thousand remnants of the army, so let your subordinates go down!"
Jafar saluted and said, "I will definitely bring back the most slaves and their weapons."
"Okay!" Amru also felt that there was no need to use a knife to kill the chicken, so he gave this task to Jafar.
Jafar led an army of 50,000 people towards the emerald mines.
At the same time, Tang Ping and the others also entered the Wulong River, an inland river in Myanmar.
The jade mine was located in the Pagan mining area in later generations, and the Wulong River happened to cross the entire Pagan mining area.
Now, as long as we go upstream several dozen kilometers northward, we can reach the dock of the mining area.
The two sides, one north and one south, headed towards the emerald mine almost at the same time, it was up to them to see who was faster.
