Off the coast of the Queen, a huge fleet gathered here. In addition to the official main warships of the Tang Dynasty, there were also a large number of transport ships of about 1,200 tons that were currently popular near Guangzhou Port.
On top of this fleet, more than 15,000 soldiers gathered.
"General Li, should we dock directly?" Navy General Qiu Feng asked.
"Is this the largest port in the Queen's Kingdom?" Li Xiaogong asked.
"Yes, this is the largest port of the Queen's Kingdom. Because Zhenwa Kingdom has always had trade with them, and a lot of the food that Zhenwa sells to our country comes from the Queen's Kingdom, so the Queen's Kingdom's port has also been It’s a great development, the scale here is at least three times larger than a few years ago, and our ships can be docked directly.”
"Then prepare to dock." Li Xiaogong took a deep breath and said in a deep voice.
"Should we attack directly, or call for them to surrender?" Qiu Feng hesitated and asked.
Li Xiaogong pondered for a moment. He was thinking about this issue on the way here. It is natural to attack directly, but as long as it is a war, people will definitely die, and once people die, there will be conflicts with the local people.
Although this kind of conflict is not difficult to resolve, after all, it is impossible not to cause any casualties. That is not realistic.
But if we can win the Queen's Kingdom with fewer casualties, that would naturally be better.
This is the constraint of being a big country, especially when you are ready to rule this land, this constraint becomes even more severe. If you don't want to rule, but just want to defeat the enemy, then naturally it doesn't matter.
Now, the territory where Queen Kingdom and Piao Kingdom are located, including Zhenwa, is actually quite important to the Tang Dynasty. Although they are already located in the hinterland of the Tang Dynasty, these places are extremely excellent food production areas, with three crops a year. Rice means to the Tang Dynasty. If the residents here were like the people of the Tang Dynasty and worked hard to cultivate the land, their food production would be at least several times higher than what it is now.
This is not what Li Xiaogong said, but it is calculated based on the trade between Datang and Zhenwa in the past two years. When Datang did not start trade with Zhenwa and other countries, Zhenwa’s annual grain output was not too large. In other words, food is not a problem at all for their population.
Their local people will not grow too much food at all, because growing too much food will require more taxes. For the people, it is enough to eat. Anyway, there is no need to worry about natural disasters, drought and other natural disasters here, and the annual Ripe so they don't even care.
The land is of any kind, and there is no such thing as intensive farming.
However, after trading with the Tang Dynasty, there was a demand for food. The Zhenwa royal family began to force local residents to grow a large amount of food. In the past two years of trade with Zhenwa, the food provided by Zhenwa has doubled compared with the first year. More than three times, and food prices actually fell further.
Therefore, this area is very important to Datang.
"Force the dock. If someone attacks, fight back directly. If no one attacks, send soldiers to quickly occupy the dock, then surround the entire city as quickly as possible and shout to the city to ask them to surrender." Li Xiaogong quickly said A decision was made.
"Yes!" Qiu Feng decisively agreed.
The Queen's Kingdom's port can dock three main warships, so after identifying the three docked ships, Datang's fleet quickly began to approach each other, and soldiers transported by other ships quickly began to board the three ships.
If we do not consider the need for long-term transportation, but only short-distance transportation within a few hours, one ship can accommodate three thousand soldiers without counting the naval soldiers operating the ship!
The three warships were fully loaded with 10,000 soldiers. After they were ready, they filled their sails and began to approach.
Two hours later, everyone in the Queen's Kingdom's port discovered the huge fleet approaching on the sea. People in the entire port didn't take it seriously at first, but when the entire fleet gradually began to approach the port, the crowd in the port finally became commotion. got up.
When the fleet was still more than a thousand meters away from the port terminal, the people on the dock who noticed something was wrong finally informed the officials in charge of the dock.
Buali stared dumbfounded at the already extremely huge ships approaching the pier. Several small boats were already dragging each other's long and thick cables and approaching the pier.
At this moment, the two to three hundred defenders gathered on the dock looked nervous. They still had bows and arrows in their hands, but they didn't know what to do at this moment.
Because on top of these ships, a huge red Tang Dynasty flag was fluttering in the wind!
"County magistrate, shall we attack?" A military general standing next to Buali swallowed his saliva and asked.
"Attack, attack your mother! This is the Tang Dynasty! Do you attack one by one? Have you seen the soldiers on the deck? What attack? Are there hundreds of people around us?" Buali turned around and scolded uttered a local swear word.
attack? You think I didn't die quickly enough, right?
"Then we just do nothing?"
"If you want to attack, you can give the order." Buali turned around and glared at him fiercely.
"This...is." The general hesitated but did not take action because he did not want to die.
The ships approaching the pier had already begun to lower their sails, the main sail had been furled long ago, and the jib on the bow was blowing in the opposite direction to slow down. When the ship was still dozens of meters away from the pier, it had almost stopped, and it was only following the waves. On the small boats that were moving but had already dragged the cables to the shore, dozens of soldiers got off each boat and were fixing some special pulleys on the huge wooden piles near the dock, and then began to pull them quickly.
I don't know if they noticed that they didn't seem to have any intention of taking action, and the other party only reserved a few people to be on guard.
Buali just watched silently as the three huge ships moved almost sideways and leaned against the pier.
After docking, a special iron ladder was lowered directly from the ship, and then countless soldiers swarmed down from the ship.
Looking at these soldiers, Buali knew that they were coming with bad intentions.
But even if you know that the person coming is evil, what can you do?
All the other hard workers on the dock ran away, and some merchants who had shops near the dock and port also closed their shops. No one was a fool, and everyone saw that something was wrong.
What made Buali feel numb was that after these soldiers came down, they only reserved more than a hundred people to supervise them. The remaining soldiers ignored them and quickly began to control the entire dock and port in all directions.
Especially when the neatly arranged teams of fully armed soldiers quickly moved in all directions, it made Buali's scalp numb.
There are so many soldiers, and after they come down, they head inland without any concealment, which already explains a lot of problems.
