my wonderful zoo

Chapter 219 First Test
Yue Fei has been marching northeast along the east side of the Taihang Mountains for more than ten days.

"Ahead is Yizhou City. After passing Yizhou City, and traveling two hundred miles northeast is Wanping, Nanjing in the former Liao Dynasty." The spies sent by the military government to the Kingdom of Jin are now responsible for leading Yue Fei's army.

"These are the sixteen states of Yanyun that the Song Dynasty thought about day and night." Yue Fei sighed.

The North China Plain on the east side of the Taihang Mountains is indeed a treasure land, especially the Haihe Plain in the north. The concentration of river channels is comparable to that in the south of the Yangtze River. The Baiyangdian Lake in later anti-Japanese TV dramas is located here. In this era, most of it was still in a primitive wetland state and had to be slightly developed. Millions of acres of fertile land can be cultivated.

However, the Khitans of the Liao Kingdom and the Jurchens of the Jin Kingdom only used this precious land for grazing, which was a waste.

"Soldiers, please take a short rest and replenish your strength. We will rest in Yizhou City tonight." Yue Fei ordered the troops behind him.

There are still 5000 cavalry following Yue Fei, but these [-] cavalry are completely different from before. Since leaving Kaifeng, it can be said that the cavalry following Yue Fei spend half of the day on horseback, and with the addition of strengthened war horses With the cooperation, the riding tactics are no longer different from those of the nomads.

The marching stove was quickly set up, filled with water, cooked with dry food and bacon, and the delicious broth and rice were ready in no time.

"General Yue!!" A man on horseback suddenly came running up from the front. He looked a bit angry.

"He's a spy from Yizhou City." The spy next to him introduced.

"General Yue, an urgent order from the Governor." Tan Ma quickly approached and handed over a bamboo tube.

Yue Fei opened it and looked a little embarrassed.

"It's so confusing!!"

As he continued to read, his face gradually became helpless: "Hey, why is it like this..."

It turned out that this letter contained news of the alliance between Zhao Gou and the Jin people. Chen Xun ordered Yue Fei to abandon his harassment tactics of going north to Wanping and turn to the southeast to block Wanyan Zongbi's northward retreat route. If he could arrive before the war, he could go from Attack the golden soldiers from the side and cut off the golden soldiers' food path.

The letter was circulated among the generals without discussion. Even if Yue Fei didn't want to participate in the siege of Zhao Gou, the officers and soldiers under Chen Xun's orders would not agree.

……

On July [-]th, the navy of the Chen Jiajun successfully entered Laizhou Bay without seeing a single warship from the Song or Jin Kingdoms along the way.

"There should be a large gold mine in Laizhou. After we solve Zhao Gou, we can successfully capture Jingdong East Road. Then we can send people to prospect for gold." Chen Xun looked at the Laizhou coast in the south of the bay, thinking of future generations The famous Zhaoyuan Gold Mine.

"Is this gold mine as big as the gold mine in Daliuqiu Island?" Ke Lei asked.

"Probably not." Chen Xun didn't know either, but considering the gold reserves on Taiwan Island, the gold mine on the island should be larger.

"Too much gold is worthless." Ke Lei's words actually made Chen Xun feel a little worried.

In future generations, it will definitely be commented as "Versailles" by netizens.

"No, with the development of science and technology, social productivity will be greatly improved. If metal currencies are still used, there will only be a money shortage, and precious metals such as gold and silver will not depreciate in value." Chen Xun replied.

After entering the 21st century, various industries have overproduction, and countries around the world are printing money, but inflation is still controlled within a certain range.

This shows that whether money is valuable mainly depends on whether it matches the productivity of the entire society, rather than simply looking at how much money there is.

"Are we still going forward?" Corey asked.Going forward, you can see Qingzhou, and the clippers from the navy can already see the warships of the Song army gathered in the sea off Qingzhou.

"No, let's stop here and give the warships of Song, Jin, and Goryeo time to gather, so that we can annihilate them all in one fell swoop." Chen Xun replied.

Soon, the order was passed on, and the entire huge fleet stopped off the coast of Haicang Town in the northwest corner of Laizhou.

Presumably, the news of the arrival of Chen Jiajun's navy will soon reach Zhao Gou's ears.

"Captain, I will lead people to capture the town of Haicang so that the damaged ships in the fleet can be docked for repairs." Wang Yuan rushed over from another flagship.

"Okay. I'll give you just one hundred king squids and try them out to see how effective they are in a naval battle."

Chen Xun stood on the bow of the ship and watched as Wang Yuan led thirty warships and a hundred king squids into the Haicang Town port. Three or four king squids would immediately climb on any ship that dared to move at the port. , the sailor above was caught by a ten-meter-long tentacle and pulled into the sea.

Some small boats several meters long were caught directly by the giant squid and turned over.

The battle ended very quickly, and Wang Yuan almost occupied the port without engaging the enemy.

The scattered defenders on the port shouted "The monster is coming!" and "There is a sea monster!" and ran away. No one dared to resist with arms.

"It's really... easy!" Ke Lei was stunned and couldn't find the right words to describe the situation in front of him.

"Easy is good. I hope that the naval battle with the Three Kingdoms Alliance will be so easy in the future." Chen Xun also had a smile on his face.

In fact, the fighting power of the giant squid is much smaller on the boat than in the water. He can fight against the whale underwater.But if you get on the boat and encounter a brave person who resists with a knife, you can cut off its tentacles.

However, the huge size of the king squid and the terrifying image of its tentacles covered with suckers are really scary.

Most people would be frightened to the point of peeing when they see this kind of monster, and their limbs would become uncontrollable.Even if they are braver, they can only dodge and run away at most, and few people dare to resist, because in ordinary people's concept, such a huge monster of six to seven feet long is definitely not something that can be fought with a sword of two or three feet long.

Just look at this small battle in front of us. Out of a hundred giant squids, only three met resistance from humans. Of these three, only two were injured by swords, and only one had a short tentacle cut off by someone. wrist.

It can almost be said to be a complete victory.

Soon, Wang Yuan returned to the flagship: "Captain, it's so cool. Those people were crying for their fathers and mothers on the ship. When we passed by, it was like we saw a savior, hahahahaha!"

"As long as it's easy to use," Chen Xun said.

"Captain, after this naval battle, you can give us more king squids, which are like war horses for the cavalry army. With the king squids, we can also become the 'horse army' on the sea." Wang Yuan demanded.

"That's right, Commander, you can't be partial." Ke Lei followed.

"No problem, as long as you can afford it, you can take as many as you want." Chen Xun nodded and smiled.

The king squid has a very high fertility rate and a short growth time of only two years, so the Wonder Zoo has a particularly strong ability to produce this animal.

The only restriction on the navy's large-scale use of king squid is food. Although there are endless fish in the ocean, if the king squid moves with the fleet, its hunting time will inevitably be reduced to the extreme, and it will require human assistance. Fed.

(End of this chapter)