Chapter 253: The amazing background of the Ye family, and the foreigners launched a revenge action
"Hey!"
"never mind."
Ye Xianggao was very upset. He waved his hand at the grandson whom he had placed high hopes on, and said, "You go down first. I need to think about how to recover the losses caused by this operation as soon as possible."
"Humph! In the past few decades, no one or any force has dared to be so presumptuous and blatantly oppose me!"
"I want to see who those two people are. How dare they be so arrogant!"
He is not bragging, but speaking the truth.
As a veteran of three dynasties, Ye Xianggao is not just extremely powerful. As the leader of the Donglin Party, the most powerful authority in the dynasty, he is really awesome.
In the current Ming Dynasty, it is no exaggeration to say that the Donglin Party holds sway over the government and the country.
The entire government was basically completely controlled by the Donglin Party, and Emperor Chongzhen was just a puppet emperor living in the imperial city.
Everything that Emperor Chongzhen saw and heard was just what the Donglin Party officials wanted him to know.
Emperor Chongzhen was completely kept in the dark about the true situation of the Ming Dynasty.
Ever since the Tumu Incident, when millions of elite soldiers of the Ming Dynasty were killed by the Mongolian Tartars and the civil service group of the Ming court, the civil service group has controlled every aspect of the Ming Dynasty, forming the same pattern of using civil power to control military power as in the Song Dynasty in history.
Since then, the imperial power declined, and the civil service group of the Ming Dynasty ushered in a long-awaited spring, becoming extremely unscrupulous.
Even the emperor, in the eyes of the civil service group headed by the Donglin Party, was nothing more than a puppet tool used to take the blame for the civil service group.
If the emperor is disobedient, an obedient emperor can be replaced at any time.
Therefore, after the Tumu Incident, the number of emperors of the Ming Dynasty who died due to various accidents was the highest in history, far exceeding that of other dynasties.
From this we can see that Ye Xianggao, as the leader of the Donglin Party, was very confident when he said this.
"Whoosh!"
Ye Guodong was about to take his leave when a figure flew over and landed at the door of the meeting hall. Then he walked in respectfully, bowed to Ye Xianggao, and reported, "Old Patriarch, urgent news has come from Haojing!"
"This is the letter I just received via spirit pigeon. Please have a look, old patriarch!"
The visitor was Ye Mansion's chief steward Zhou Leye, who was born into the Ye family. More than a dozen generations of his family had been serving the Ye family wholeheartedly and was deeply trusted by Ye Xianggao.
Zhou Leye was also a martial arts master who was at the middle fifth level. He was very burly with a head full of white hair. He was already over a hundred years old and was a very steady person.
As soon as he finished speaking, he handed a letter to Ye Xianggao with both hands. It was obviously the secret letter he had just received.
"Oh?"
Ye Xianggao's eyes lit up, as if he had thought of something. He took the secret document presented by the butler and began to read it immediately.
After a while, his expression relaxed, and a long-lost smile appeared on his old face. He looked up at his beloved grandson Ye Guodong who was looking at him eagerly and said, "I didn't expect that although you suffered a big loss this time, Guodong, it can be regarded as a blessing in disguise."
"The governor of Trench Territory, who lost a large fleet, is now so anxious that he actually made a stupid move."
"We, the Ye family, have approached him to discuss the matter several times, but he always found excuses to shirk the matter. Now, the situation has taken a turn for the better."
"Governor Moyes of the Trench Territory has already agreed. As long as our Ye family agrees to take action and join forces with the remaining fleet of the Trench Territory to go to Lingshan Island, destroy the enemy, and help him take back the fleet and three million magic cores of various levels, he will agree to use his connections to get two thousand Arabian magic dragon foals from the East India Company and complete this big deal with our Ye family."
"Ha ha……"
Ye Xianggao hadn't been so happy for a long time. He said with a smile, "I didn't expect that Moyes would be so desperate that it would benefit our Ye family."
"As long as we complete this crucial deal, our Ye family will obtain two thousand magic dragon foals, and the three thousand magic dragon guards that the family is forming will be worthy of the name in the future!"
"After a few years, when these dragon foals grow up and can be used, our Ye family's lack of military strength, which has always been a problem among the top forces, will be completely reversed!"
"At that time, it will be just a matter of time before we become the most powerful family in the Ming Dynasty!"
"Guodong!"
He looked at his grandson, whose face was filled with joy, and said solemnly, "This time, the cooperation with the Governor's Office in Haojing will be left to you to negotiate and execute!"
"This is a big matter that affects the rise and fall of our Ye family in the future hundreds of years. You must take it seriously!"
"We must not slack off any more and let the mission fail again!"
"In a word, as long as you can successfully complete this transaction with the Governor's Mansion in Haojing, the position of the next head of the Ye family will be yours!"
"If you fail again, you will leave Fuqing and go to Yunnan Prefecture on the southwestern border to be a shopkeeper. The next head of the family will be your eldest brother Ye Liangzhu."
His two legitimate grandsons, Ye Liangzhu and the second grandson, Ye Guodong, are both extraordinary men of talent and are known as the two unrivaled geniuses of the Ye family.
The Ye family has not experienced such a prosperous situation for hundreds of years.
In order to select the most outstanding one among them, Ye Xianggao worked hard and even consciously let the two compete with each other.
In the hope that one of these two peerless geniuses can stand out and bring the Ye family to a new height in the future.
This test will also be Ye Xianggao's last test of Ye Guodong.
If he succeeds, he will be able to rise to the top overnight and take control of the Ye family.
The losers will be exiled to remote mountainous areas to live out the rest of their lives, away from the core of the family.
"Yes! Grandpa!"
Ye Guodong was overjoyed when he heard this, but he also knew that this was his last and only chance.
With a solemn expression, he respectfully took the secret document handed to him by Ye Xianggao, bowed to him, then turned around and left quickly.
For Ye Guodong, this test is just one step away from heaven and hell.
If you can step over it, you will be rich and glorious and enjoy endless benefits from then on.
If you can't get over it, you will be thrown into hell, away from the core of the family, and your life will be worse than death.
Fortunately, his grandfather Ye Xianggao did not restrict him from using any means, nor did he restrict him from mobilizing the family's manpower and financial resources. It can be said that in this major mission, Ye Guodong can do whatever he wants.
The only requirement is to successfully complete this big deal with the Governor of Trench, Moyes.
Ye Guodong left the meeting hall with cold light flashing in his eyes. He began to mobilize manpower and make full preparations.
Of course, the most urgent task is to personally lead people to the Governor's Mansion in Haojing to negotiate with Moyes and formally finalize the details of this round of big deal and big action before proceeding with the next plan.
He took Ye Xianggao's order and went to the family's death camp first, gathering three thousand elite death warriors, and invited out a hidden master of the family: the second clan elder Ye Liangcai. The Ye family now has two clan masters: the second clan elder Ye Liangcai, who is in the late fifth level of martial arts, and the third clan elder Ye Meir.
As for Ye Zhiyuan, the elder of the powerful family who had the strongest cultivation level and combat power, he had passed away two years ago due to exhaustion of his lifespan.
He was still not reassured, so he went to ask for a pair of white cranes that the family had been worshipping for a hundred years.
This pair of white cranes have strong crane blood and are already level five peak spirit birds.
However, they have been stuck at the peak level of level five spirit birds, unable to make any progress. Now they are old and frail, and usually stay in the spirit beast garden and seldom go out.
But their combat effectiveness is very strong, no worse than that of Saker Falcon of the same level.
They are also one of the Ye family's biggest trump cards, and under normal circumstances, they will never be deployed.
It can be said that Ye Guodong tried his best to complete this task.
An hour later, all preparations were completed, and the large group of people arrived at the large dock outside Fuqing City and boarded the main fleet of the Ye family, which had received the order from Master Ye Xiang and had been waiting for a long time.
This large fleet, consisting of two top-grade treasure ships, six upper-grade treasure ships, and twenty mid-grade treasure ships, is one of the two main fleets of the Ye family.
The 15,000 naval warriors and soldiers on the ship lined up solemnly to greet them.
The Ye family has two regular naval forces, namely the Jiaolong Battalion 1 and the Jiaolong Battalion 2.
These two naval forces were armed to the teeth, and their officers and soldiers were at least at the second peak of martial arts. They were all orphans and boys and girls secretly adopted by the Ye family. They were strictly trained and brainwashed, and were formed at all costs.
Among them, there are more than a hundred generals in the Qi Refining Realm.
It has to be said that although the Ming Dynasty was declining, the hidden strength of various aristocratic families and powerful clans was unfathomable.
The hidden military force of the Ye family alone exceeds that of most border troops, and they are well-equipped with sufficient supplies. There is no possibility of fraud or embezzlement of military pay.
"Dudu..."
After Ye Guodong and his group boarded the ship, the navy's unique horn sounded, and the large fleet started up one by one in an orderly manner, leaving the large dock in an orderly manner, and sailed along the wide river towards the sea in the east.
Under normal circumstances, the treasure ship would basically not activate the magic array on board, but would only rely on the power of wind to travel.
After all, any spiritual crystal, including magic cores from overseas, is a treasure and cannot be wasted at will.
A moment later, this huge fleet gradually went farther and farther away and disappeared at the end of the vast Fuqing River...
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"Change!"
"Arrange in battle formation, march in three rows!"
In Lingshan Bay, treasure ships of all sizes, under the command of the command flags, were speeding on the sea, changing various formations, looking very smooth.
A month has passed since Li Dingguo ordered the establishment of a navy.
Afterwards, this group of newly recruited naval officers and soldiers began intensive training, starting from scratch, and carrying out various basic trainings every day in full swing.
Among these warriors selected to join the Restoration Army Navy, there were more than a thousand soldiers who were originally family members of the Denglai Navy.
Most of the soldiers of the Denglai Navy who were abducted by the rebels of Kong Youde and Geng Zhongming and taken to Liaodong to join the Later Jin Tartars did not do so voluntarily.
They fled in such a hurry that they didn't even have time to notify their families.
The result was not surprising: the families of these abandoned naval officers and soldiers, fearing that they would be purged by the imperial court, began to flee collectively overnight.
Among them, tens of thousands of people, after many twists and turns, fled to Lingshan Island and lived in hiding under different names.
Among them were tens of thousands of young boys and girls who had often played on the various treasure ships of the Denglai Navy since childhood. They were often taught by their parents and were familiar with operating treasure ships.
Therefore, the more than a thousand people who were lucky enough to become warriors, after joining the Renaissance Army, were selected into this newly formed navy.
As a result, their talents were able to be fully utilized, and they stood out one after another and successfully served as generals at all levels on the treasure ships.
This meant that this newly formed navy was already functioning properly after only about a month of training.
At the very least, there will be no problem for this large fleet to conduct normal navigation and engage in normal naval battles.
In addition, the various magic arrays on these treasure ships have been upgraded and modified by Li Dingguo, and their performance is far better than before. Both the speed and flexibility have been improved by at least one level.
Even the psychic cannons on these treasure ships were upgraded and transformed by Li Dingguo into magic weapon-level cannons, and those spiritual crossbow carts were also upgraded and transformed into magic weapon-level spiritual crossbow carts.
Li Dingguo even used the Human Emperor Cauldron to mass-produce a number of small and medium-sized psychic cannons and spiritual crossbow carts, and armed all the mid-grade treasure ships.
This resulted in a subversive change in the original naval warfare mode, in which medium-quality treasure ships, which were not equipped with these large weapons of war, could only be used to engage in boarding battles with the enemy.
From now on, the naval warfare mode of the Restoration Army will be very different from that of other maritime forces, and the probability of boarding battles will be greatly reduced.
joke!
I can use cannons and crossbows to carry out long-range attacks. Am I stupid or what? I will fight a boarding battle with you with heavy casualties?
Wouldn't it be great to just use two large-scale weapons of war: the psychic cannon and the crossbow cart to destroy you from a distance?
Li Dingguo, who came from the 21st century on Earth, certainly knew how backward a tactic boarding battle, which was the favorite tactic of all maritime forces today, was.
With the artifact refining artifact Human Emperor Cauldron and the inheritance of the primary alchemy and weapon refining skills from the Human Emperor Cauldron, Li Dingguo has now become a master-level primary weapon refiner. It is extremely easy for him to change this backward naval warfare mode.
In any boarding battle mode, no matter how great the advantage one side has, it is inevitable to suffer huge casualties among naval officers and soldiers.
This is the cruelty of naval warfare.
Li Dingguo, who had a vision far beyond his time, was able to change all this and prevent unnecessary casualties among his soldiers. So of course he had to make fundamental changes to his new navy.
To this end, Li Dingguo even spent two days and two nights to personally formulate a complete set of military regulations for naval training and combat, strictly requiring his own naval officers and soldiers to complete training tasks and combat modes in accordance with the regulations, and not allowing any changes to be made without authorization.
Only through repeated victories in naval battles can a truly powerful navy be built.
There is no other way.
Try to reduce the chance of casualties among your own soldiers in naval battles as much as possible. Those naval soldiers who survive in one naval battle after another are undoubtedly good candidates for elite troops.
This process is repeated over and over again. After experiencing one naval battle after another, more and more elite soldiers survive, and an elite navy can be quickly formed.
Only in this way can the newly formed navy of the Renaissance Army quickly catch up with those major maritime forces and surpass them in one fell swoop.
(End of this chapter)
