Chapter 834

The maritime Silk Road has existed for a long time. Even in the Han Dynasty, maritime trade began to develop gradually.

Although silk was the main trade goods at that time, with the passage of time and the progress of history, in the maritime trade channel at this time, when more foreign goods entered the Tang Dynasty, the silk, porcelain, tea and so on of the Tang Dynasty became the main trade goods, which were very popular and favored by the powerful people of various countries.

In this way, with a large number of trade exchanges, the goods stay in the port, which brings huge profits to the ports of coastal countries.

It was precisely because of this that Li Hong took a fancy to it. In order to push the coastline of the Tang Dynasty along the maritime Silk Road as far as possible, Li Hong tried his best to ensure that the profits of Tang merchants would not be divided and swallowed up by coastal countries.

Therefore, we have to take Qiongzhou and Annam as the rear base, continue to push the coastal ports of Datang to the West and south, and try our best to protect the interests of Tang merchants.

Along the sea voyage, we can see all kinds of merchant ships every day, flying in a big Tang flag, waving in the wind on the sea, sailing westward along the coastline.

Often at this time, when the merchant ships on the sea see two Qinglong and Zhuque, which are also flying the flag of the Tang Dynasty, they will stand in the bow of the ship to cheer, and from time to time jump on the deck to greet the two warships.

As the Lingnan Navy built by Pei Xingjian and Chen Jingzhi traveled in various sea areas, the merchant ships of the Tang Dynasty did not have the slightest fear of the warships of the Tang Dynasty. On the contrary, just as Li Hong met during this period, every time the merchant ships of the Tang Dynasty saw the warships of the Tang Dynasty, they would send out cheers and various greetings.

Because of the long-distance cruise of the Lingnan Navy, this maritime Silk Road derived from the coastline has become more prosperous, but at the same time, it is faced with various dangers of pirates, so that the commercial ships of the Tang Dynasty can cruise freely and explore the further direction of the sea.

Whether they set sail from Guangzhou or Quanzhou, the commercial ships of the Tang Dynasty had to pass through Qiongzhou, Hainan, and then along Zhenla, Mendu, Guda, longyamen, Luoyue, shilifashi, Heling, Guluo, goguruo, shengdeng, Bolu, lion, nantianzhu, Brahman, xinduhe, tirolu, Wula, etc.

Then you can get to the destination of Li Hong's trip. If you continue along the coast, you can continue to arrive in Muruo, sanlan and even Africa.

"Guangzhou Tonghai Yidao" is Pei Xingjian's geographic record on the Qinglong. So when Li Hongfan finished watching the trade of the Tang merchant ship in the open sea, the Qinglong and the Zhuque entered the Red Sea, just like two giant animals.

Entering the Gulf of Aden in the Red Sea, it is inevitable to face the talk of the last generation of merchant ships: Somali pirates, but fortunately, this place has not yet appeared.

As the white food is still in its heyday, there are no descendants of the Hashim family. After the advent of the black food era, they were gradually driven away from the mainland, and then moved across the sea to live here, forming many countries named after Sudan.

After crossing the Gulf of Aden and entering the Red Sea, you can enter the Mediterranean Sea through the narrowest part of the Red Sea, and then reach Europe. However, the Suez Canal has not yet been excavated, and it has come to an end not far from the capital of food.

Standing on the deck, Li Hong wanted to look at both sides of the river like a map or sailing on the Yangtze River and the red river.

However, to his disappointment, standing on the deck, he could still see the boundless sea. The narrowest part of the Red Sea is more than 30 kilometers, and the widest part can reach more than 300 kilometers. Therefore, it is impossible for him to enjoy the scenery like enjoying the Yangtze River Basin.

However, as Li Hong continued to look at it with a telescope, there appeared black shadows like waves in the distance of the calm broad sea, which seemed to be connected with the sky.

"Be on guard, ready to fight." Li Hong put down his telescope and suddenly said to Hua Meng behind him.

At the same time, they found the dark shadows like waves in front of them, and the ships began to reflect into the telescope.

"How could there be so many warships." Wei Tu Qi stood next to Li Hong, raised his telescope and looked into the distance. He had just roughly counted them, and it seemed that they were no less than 50 or 60 warships.

The warships, whose hulls were obviously smaller than those of the Tang Dynasty, were also hung with flags like ghost symbols. From Wei Tuqi's point of view, the handwriting on them was not like words at all.

"There are no other countries except Dashi. Both sides of the sea are their territory. The Red Sea is like the pond of their big eaters. It's not surprising that there are so many water masters." Li Hong put down his telescope and watched the parallel rosefinch gradually distance from him, showing a fighting posture. In his heart, he was extremely satisfied with the determination of lawlessness."What do they want to do From time to time, Wei Tu Qi heard squeaks in his ears. Needless to say, this is the beginning of the Tang Navy's battle. At the moment, some powerful bows and crossbows are being wound up to ensure that they can launch at any time to respond to an emergency.

Li Hong's mouth blowing the sea breeze showed a disdainful smile. He looked at the whole Qinglong and quickly entered the fighting state. He said faintly: "when Saleh entered Chang'an of Tang Dynasty, he was frightened by the drum sound of Drum Tower which I and Li Lingyue played tricks on. Now we are in their territory. Naturally, people uphold the friendly etiquette of reciprocity I'm prepared to retaliate with a tooth for a tooth, and I'm going to give it to me. "

After listening to Li Hong's explanation, Wei Tu Qi's mouth began to show a grim smile. At the beginning of the Tang Dynasty Navy's expedition to Japan, whether it was the Qinglong or the Zhuque, they were able to beat the Japanese Navy to pieces with one enemy and ten, without any ability to fight back.

Now, these improved Qinglong and Zhuque are more than twice as powerful as they were when they were ready to be an army.

If faced with the Dashi warships that looked similar to the Japanese warships in the distance, Wei Tu Qi believed that Dashi's navy would have to cry at that time.

Thinking of this, Wei Tu Qi could not help but emerge in front of him. For a while, the miserable appearance of the cannibal struggling in the sea and calling for help, as well as the chaotic situation of Dashi's warship being dismembered by the powerful fire bows and crossbows of Qinglong and Zhuque, the deck pieces scattered on the sea.

"I don't know if Saleh is also on the warship? At this time, will he be in their capital city, or will he appear on one of these warships for the sake of reciprocity Li Hong's mouth still continued to play the taste of the smile, in the face of the sea breeze murmured to guess whether Saleh had come.

"But How do they know we'll be here today? " Wei Tu Qi looked at the sudden increase of several tubes of dark things on the deck. Some of them were frightened and touched. These guys were secret weapons. Every black iron tube could launch powerful crossbows. With the sound of the tsunami, these crossbows could ignite the sky thunder and a crossbow arrow on the deck of the enemy's warship in a short time It's enough to blow up a big food ship.

Li Hong held up his telescope and looked at the Dashi warship which was getting closer and closer to them. He answered Wei Tu Qi's question: "since I left Songping, and I have given you the approximate time in my secret letter to the night moon. If you look at the loose formation of their warships, you can be sure that they have been wandering on the sea for several days, waiting for me all the time Now. "

Just as Li Hong's words were heard by the commander of the Dashi Navy, just after Li Hong's voice fell behind, he could already see the commander of Dashi navy of each other's warships with the naked eye. It was unbelievable that only two warships had arrived in the Tang Dynasty.

Although the two warships looked much larger than their big eaters, they looked like moving fortresses from a distance, and they looked fierce and cold in momentum.

But the more so, the more difficult it is for him to understand that such a large ship should be extremely inconvenient after it moves. Even if their masts and sails are as big as clouds, they should not be as effective as their own warships?

What's more, even if the combat effectiveness of a single warship is stronger than that of itself, at least it has an absolute overwhelming advantage in number. A full 50 warships, I'm afraid, will be able to wipe out the warships of the Tang Dynasty in the sea in a blink of an eye.

If you add in the fact that you are still cruising behind you, you can not even see the ten warships led by Prince Saleh, and the entire 60 warships will be able to encircle and surrender their ships of the Tang Dynasty, even if they do not attack but just besiege them.

Buser looked at the two parallel warships in the Tang Dynasty from a distance. The gap between them was enough to fill their entire fleet of warships. In his heart, he was convinced that the people of the Tang Dynasty were not familiar with water warfare, and were not despised by their opponents.

"We don't have to line up our troops, just drive our warships into the middle of their two warships and cut off their mutual echo. What we have to do is to make them unable to help each other. After waiting for the prince's Royal Highness to lead ten warships to come over, we can teach them a lesson personally." As a famous Navy General of Dashi, Buser looked at the only two warships in the Tang Dynasty at this moment, but did not know that his first defeat in this life was getting closer and closer to him.

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