Chapter 368: Yue Tuo, the revenge-seeking man, and the vulnerable Tartar navy
"The armies of Yuetuo and Manggurtai arrived at Lingshanwei City and took it down in one battle."
"Their speed of action was too fast. In just over three months, they fought their way through most of northern Zhili and Qilu from outside the Great Wall and rushed here."
"They had easily captured this Lingshan City and headed straight to the big dock outside the East City without taking a break."
Wang Dengku was waiting for the news anxiously, walking back and forth in the back garden of the Wang family villa in Lingshanwei City. When he heard the housekeeper coming in a hurry to report, he immediately said with great joy.
Among the top ten Shanxi merchants, the Wang family, to which Wang Dengku belongs, is the one that likes to buy real estate and land the most, and is the largest Shanxi merchant with the most real estate and land.
Even in the towns in Jiaozhou Bay, there are a large number of shops and real estate purchased by the Wang family.
This exquisite and luxurious royal villa is one of them.
Especially in recent months, the formerly richest Kang and Tian families, whose heads were Kang Baiwan and Tian Shenglan, were confirmed to have met with major disasters and were likely to have been killed. The rest of the big Shanxi merchants started a round of revelry, unscrupulously dividing up each other's industries.
The Wang family, where Wang Dengku belongs, is the one that eats the most.
Today, there are only eight of the top ten Shanxi merchants left, and the Kang and Tian families have been removed from the list.
But Wang Dengku's Wang family also had some troubles.
They discovered that their large spiritual land deep in the Qinling Mountains, which contained several ancient spiritual plant gardens, was suddenly inaccessible to them.
The protective formation there has been completely changed, and any tribesman who enters the range of the formation will never return.
This is what worries Wang Dengku the most recently.
He planned to wait until the Later Jin army was done entering the pass, then summon the family's elite guards to go to the great spiritual land deep in the Qinling Mountains, forcibly break through the mutated guardian formation, and see what exactly happened there.
The ancient spiritual plant garden in that great spiritual land is too important to the Wang family and must not be lost.
More than 80% of the Wang family’s various spiritual foods, spiritual fruits and other spiritual plants come from that great spiritual land.
Once the great sacred land is lost, the Wang family will suffer extremely serious losses and unimaginable consequences.
Any large force, if it does not have enough spiritual plants to be self-sufficient, will quickly decline and become powerless.
Wang Dengku walked out of the gate quickly and found that the Tatar army, which had just captured the Lingshan City, was marching out of the city on their magical war horses.
Countless Later Jin Tartars and Mongolian Tartars rode on their magical war horses, held their heads high and marched in formation towards the outside of the city.
A leader of the household guards came hurriedly to report, and Wang Dengku figured out the situation.
It turned out that Yuetuo, the commander of this Tartar army, could not wait to take revenge.
After capturing the Lingshan Fortress and gaining a place to stay, he immediately ordered the army to set out immediately and line up at the large dock outside the city, waiting for the arrival of the Later Jin navy, which had contacted him.
Then he immediately led a large army and boarded a large treasure ship to head straight for Lingshan Island, hoping to destroy the navy founded by Li Dingguo in one battle.
Yuetuo knew that Li Dingguo was not on the southeast coast, but in the northern border area of Qin, fighting a million-strong army led by his own Khan, and had no time to come to Lingshan Island.
Even if he couldn't kill Li Dingguo personally, destroying the navy he had worked so hard to create would be a good thing.
If he could seize all the enemy's treasure ships, Yuetuo would have made a great contribution.
It's not just a matter of revenge.
With this great achievement, it is not impossible for Yuetuo to be conferred the title of prince after the Later Jin clan officially establishes its country next year.
During this period, Huang Taiji from the northwest had just entered the pass a few days ago and was attacking Hougou Fort by both land and sea, but had not yet started a major battle with Li Dingguo.
Yuetuo simply could not believe that the million-strong army led by his own Khan would be defeated by Li Dingguo, and he suffered heavy losses and fled for his life.
"The large fleet assembled by our Shanxi merchants is about to arrive at the big dock of Lingshanwei City."
"I have to rush to the big dock immediately and explain the situation to Yuetuo."
Wang Dengku became a little anxious after hearing this, and quickly gave orders to the butler beside him, and took a team of elite servants and guards, riding on spirit beasts and war horses to rush out of the city.
At this time, the streets were full of Tatar cavalry, so Wang Dengku and his team had to give way, so they did not march very fast.
The reason why Wang Dengku was so anxious was naturally because the eight major Shanxi merchants had already discussed the distribution of interests with the Later Jin Tartars.
In the agreement reached by both parties, as long as the eight Shanxi merchants guaranteed the supply of food and fodder for the Tartar army during its invasion of the pass and did their best to explore the way and deliver messages, they could purchase all kinds of spoils obtained by the Tartar at a low price.
That is a really low price, not even 10% of the normal price.
This time, with two million Tartar troops entering the pass, one can imagine how much spoils they were able to plunder.
Not to mention anything else, once Lingshan Island is captured and the Fuxing Army entrenched there is eliminated, a huge amount of money, food and supplies will be obtained.
As long as the price is right, it is not impossible to buy even a top-quality treasure ship from the Tartars at a low price.
These big Shanxi merchants have never had any top-notch treasure ships.
If anyone could buy one from the Tartars, that would be a great achievement.
Of course, this requires that the million-strong army led by Yuetuo can capture Lingshan Island as desired.
When Wang Dengku and his men arrived at the big dock outside the East City Gate, they saw that the persons in charge of this operation from the other seven major Shanxi merchants had already brought their men to the scene.
Unlike Wang Dengku who came in person this time, the representatives of the other seven major Shanxi merchants who arrived at the Lingshan Weicheng Wharf were the heads of the Southern Trading Company.
After exchanging greetings for a while, everyone waited at the big dock for the arrival of the Later Jin navy soldiers together with the 800,000 Tatar army.
Three hours ago, Yuetuo received a letter via a spirit pigeon from Dahai, the commander of the Later Jin navy, saying that he had passed Laoshan Bay with naval commanders including Kong Youde and 200,000 naval soldiers, and was heading towards Jiaozhou Bay smoothly.
Calculating the time, in about another hour, the large fleet traveling at full speed will arrive at Lingshan City and join up with Yuetuo's army.
Although Dahai was not the leader of any banner of the Later Jin Dynasty, he was Huang Taiji's most trusted and trusted general.
In terms of status in the Later Jin clan, Dahai is even higher than Yuetuo.
Yuetuo did not dare to neglect the arrival of the navy led by Dahai. In addition, he was eager for revenge, so he immediately led his troops to greet them after they captured Lingshan City.
Over the past two years, Yuetuo had been deeply impressed by the defeat he suffered at the hands of Li Dingguo in a surprise attack, and had long been thinking about coming here to take revenge.
Amidst everyone's eager anticipation, they waited and waited, but after a full hour, they still did not see the naval fleet led by Da Hai arrive.
Everyone couldn't help but feel anxious and stood still.
……
At the open sea entrance of Lingshan Bay, the large fleet of the Later Jin Tartars had been firmly surrounded by five large fleets led by Wan'er herself.
With a late level five Da Meng and two peak level five Goshawks, it would be very easy for Wan'er to control the whereabouts of the Later Jin Tartar's large fleet.
A few days ago, she led her 300,000 soldiers and quietly captured the nearby Fushanqian and hid all the large fleets in Fushan Bay.
After Da Meng and the two big goshawks returned, it indicated that the large fleet of the Later Jin Tartars had arrived. Wan'er immediately ordered her five large fleets to set off from Fushan Bay. Finally, they successfully encircled the enemy before they entered Lingshan Bay.
Lingshan Bay is not small, covering an area of thousands of miles.
Even if we were fighting fiercely with the Tartar navy fleet here, we would not have to worry about being discovered by Yuetuo's army at the Lingshanwei City Wharf.
Mo Xiaoyong, the head of the military intelligence department of Lingshan Island, personally rode a level 5 peak goshawk and was responsible for patrolling the battlefield and monitoring the situation in the sea area of a thousand miles in radius. He did not have to worry about other large fleets breaking in without his knowledge.
"The enemy ship has entered within thirty miles. Order all squadrons to launch a concentrated fire attack immediately!"
Looking at the large fleet of the Later Jin Dynasty that was surrounded by their side, Wan'er's face flushed with excitement, and she shouted loudly to the messengers around her.
"Yes!"……
After receiving the order, several messengers quickly ignited the special rockets in their hands and fired them quickly into the sky!
"Boom!"... As several colorful fireworks exploded and flashed in the sky, the soldiers of each fleet of the Renaissance Army, with the psychic cannons on the ship that had been aimed long ago, launched a volley at the surrounded enemy treasure ship!
"Boom!"...
Thousands of psychic cannons fired one ray of scorching psychic shells after another, covering more than 200 large treasure ships of the Later Jin Navy fleet and shooting onto the protective light shields of the enemy ships' magic arrays.
Among these large treasure ships of the Tartar navy, a small number came from the Denglai navy, 40% were built by the Tartars at great expense, and the remaining 40% were treasure ships captured from the Goguryeo navy.
This newly built Tartar navy fleet had only nine high-quality treasure ships, and no top-quality treasure ships.
The rest were all medium-quality treasure ships, but the styles were somewhat messy.
These medium-quality treasure ships of the Tartars were not equipped with any spiritual cannons, but only with some spiritual crossbow carts.
All of the fleet’s more than 200 psychic cannons were installed on those nine large treasure ships.
Like those major forces in this world, the longest effective range of their psychic cannon is only fifteen miles, which is far inferior to the thirty-mile effective range of the Renaissance Army's new psychic cannon.
As Wan'er gave the order to her own fleet, a concentrated fire attack began more than 20 miles away. The naval officers and soldiers of the Later Jin Tartar watched helplessly as they were being beaten.
They could only speed up madly and approach the enemy's large fleet under the hail of bullets.
Unfortunately, under such circumstances, they simply couldn't get close to the Restoration Army's large fleet.
After enduring only three rounds of concentrated fire, almost all of those medium-quality treasure ships had their formation protection shields blown up.
Then, after the fourth round of salvos launched by the Restoration Army, more than half of the mid-grade treasure ships were sunk on the spot, and the remaining mid-grade treasure ships were also seriously damaged.
More than half of the soldiers of the Later Jin navy and the firearms battalion of the three flags of the Han army on these medium-quality treasure ships were killed on the spot.
Wan'er was relentless and ordered her soldiers to launch another round of volleys. The nine Tartar treasure ships had endured five rounds of concentrated fire from psychic cannons. Finally, the protective light shields of the magic arrays on the ships could not withstand it and shattered, turning into stars and disappearing.
At this time, the distance between the enemy and our fleets, which were sailing towards each other, was less than ten miles, and they were within the range of the spirit crossbow cart.
The soldiers on both sides had red eyes and almost simultaneously launched bombardment of psychic cannons and crossbow carts!
"Woooo..."
Compared with the sporadic cannons and crossbows fired by the Later Jin navy fleet, the crossbow arrows fired by the thousands of crossbow carts of the Fusion Army naval officers and soldiers were so overwhelming that they could not be described as overwhelming!
The tens of thousands of crossbow arrows whistled in densely, wave after wave, like a rainstorm, covering the less than a hundred remaining treasure ships of the Tartars, especially the nine top-grade treasure ships, which bore the greatest number of spiritual weapon crossbow arrows!
"what……"
"No!"……
Swept away by ten waves of arrow rain, the soldiers on the treasure ships of the Later Jin Tartars were in such a miserable state that it was unbearable to watch because they had no protection from the treasure ship's guarding formation!
Almost all the soldiers in the Body Refining Realm on the ship were either shot away by crossbow arrows or nailed to the deck. Some of the unlucky Tartar soldiers were even shot all over their bodies like a hornet's nest!
After ten consecutive rounds of arrow rain and shooting, nearly half of the Tatar Qi-refining realm generals who had lost the protection of the formation on the ship were shot dead.
These generals were all at level four. Because they were hit by too many arrows, their protective Qi was shot out and they died tragically on the spot.
As practitioners in the Qi Refining Realm, they could never have imagined that one day they would be shot to death by a crossbow arrow!
Although the fourth-level Qi Refining Realm practitioners are very powerful, with the protection of their body Qi, strong body skills and quick reactions, it is usually difficult for them to be killed by arrows shot from spirit crossbows.
But the battlefield here is too special now. They were surrounded on the treasure ship. Before they could jump off the ship to escape, they were shot to death by the crossbow arrows that were flying in their faces. There was no escape!
After this round of attacks, the number of surviving soldiers in the Tartar fleet was less than a thousand, and almost all of them were killed!
"Pfft!"
This guy Kong Youde reacted incredibly quickly. Relying on his own mid-level fifth-level cultivation, he survived the continuous critical attacks from the psychic cannons and spiritual crossbow carts of the Renaissance Army. Seeing this situation, how could he dare to stay and wait for death?
He activated the internal energy, kicked out his legs, and leaped off the treasure ship like lightning, disappearing into the sea.
“Plop!”…
Kong Youde's timely response immediately reminded all the survivors on the ship. They were not stupid, so they would follow suit.
One by one, they jumped into the sea, dived into the deep water, and escaped for their lives!
In the blink of an eye, before the treasure ship of the Restoration Army approached the remaining dozens of enemy treasure ships, all the Tartar survivors on the enemy ships who were able to move freely had jumped into the water and fled.
Only nearly 10,000 severely wounded and incapacitated Tartar soldiers were left, screaming and wailing.
“Swoosh!”…
The soldiers of the Renaissance Army, who were extremely proficient in this mode of combat, immediately formed military formations and, led by Qi Refining Realm generals, leaped over the waves.
After they quickly boarded the enemy's large treasure ships, they began a thorough and bloody purge of all the Tartar soldiers without hesitation.
Any Tartar soldiers who were still breathing were mercilessly beheaded on the spot by the soldiers of the Fuxing Army, and their bodies were thrown over the treasure ship.
Even the bodies of the Tatars who were killed by psychic cannons and crossbows on the ship had their heads chopped off by the soldiers and thrown into the sea along with their bodies.
The surface of the sea was immediately dyed red with blood. After a wave swept through, the corpses of the Tartars that were floating in the sea sank into the sea one after another.
The soldiers of the Fusion Army have always adhered to the principle of eradicating all evil and will not allow any enemy to get away with it by pretending to be dead.
The soldiers boarded the enemy's treasure ships one by one, quickly cleaned the ships, and soon took control of the dozens of captured treasure ships.
"Chirp!"
At this time, Da Meng flew over from the sky in the distance, landed in front of Wan'er, and used his divine sense to convey real-time military intelligence to her.
"Humph!"
"Sister Liang Liping, Da Meng finally found the trace of the Shanxi merchant fleet."
After receiving this information, Wan'er said to Liang Liping beside her, "Their large fleet is sailing in the southern waters of Lingshan Bay, heading rapidly towards the large dock of Lingshan Weicheng."
"It seems that we are going to join up with Yuetuo's army so that we can act together with the Tartar navy that we just destroyed."
"Sister Liang Liping, take the large fleet of the First Battalion of the Navy and go intercept them immediately. Try to completely wipe out this large fleet raised by the Shanxi merchants!"
The military situation was urgent, and Wan'er immediately gave an order, "I will lead the remaining four battalions of naval officers and soldiers to head directly to the large dock of Lingshanwei City and launch a surprise attack on the 800,000 Tatar army!"
"I will remember my elder brother's instructions and will not take my soldiers ashore to engage in close combat with the Tartars."
"We can just use the long-range attack mode of our psychic cannons and psychic crossbow carts to defeat the enemy."
"I will not let the soldiers wait on the sea for the Tartar soldiers to launch a counterattack using the military killing formation, nor will I stop the large fleet and just leave as soon as the attack is launched."
“Although the Tatars’ military killing array is moving very fast, our treasure ships are also sailing at full speed. Even if they rush into the sea, they cannot catch up with us.
Wan'er kept Li Dingguo's previous instructions in mind and would not be confused.
In terms of the actual combat effectiveness of our side and the Tatars, in the event of a head-on battle, this navy with only 300,000 soldiers could not be a match for the 800,000-strong Tatar army.
Now as the commander-in-chief of the army, Wan'er will of course act according to the plan so as not to ruin the current good situation.
After the Tatar army suffered heavy losses in a round of surprise attacks, the Fuxing Army would then deploy the guerrilla tactics that they were most familiar with, and slowly erode the Tatar army.
In short, it is impossible for the army led by Yuetuo to escape unscathed.
Before this trip south, Li Dingguo told Wan'er that if the battle on his side went smoothly and after ending the battle with Huang Taiji's Western Army, he would ride on the Great Jin and quickly go south to meet Wan'er.
With Da Jin's current sixth-level cultivation, if he exerted his full strength, it would only take a few days to get here from the northern part of Qin.
Wan'er leads 300,000 naval soldiers and they only need to hold back the Tatar army led by Yuetuo within a few days.
A quarter of an hour later, the large fleet commanded by the 300,000 reorganized soldiers of the Restoration Army was divided into two.
The soldiers of the First Battalion of the Navy led by Liang Liping, a squadron consisting of sixty large treasure ships of various levels, sped towards the entrance on the other side of Lingshan Bay in the south.
Wan'er personally led a large fleet consisting of four battalions of naval officers and soldiers, sailing rapidly towards the Lingshanwei City Pier.
If nothing unexpected happens, the two large fleets will arrive at their destinations in an hour and launch a new round of raids on the targets locked on by their two level five peak goshawks.
Wan'er and the soldiers all knew that the previous battle was just an appetizer and the real feast was about to begin.
(End of this chapter)
