My Father in Law is Lu Bu

Chapter 740

Life on a warship was boring. Because of this, the shameless Liang Chen went back to the Huaxia to talk nonsense with Gan Ning. Even if he was slapped by Gan Ning, he still continued to talk nonsense and did not return to the Dahan.

“Lord Yang Chen. Do you think that Gongsun Du would kill his son for the sake of justice?” Liang Chen asked.

“He probably wouldn't.” Yang Chen shook his head. Yang Chen had dealt with Gongsun Du before. The man was normally very concerned about his treasured son it was unlikely for him to kill his own son.

“That's good!” Liang Chen said with relief. If Gongsun Kang was just handed over, then Liang Chen would have no opponent to play with.

After some time, Gan Ning simply closed his eyes trying to ignore Liang Chen. On the other hand, Yang Chen was still looking at the port thinking of something. Liang Chen who felt bored from neglect closed his eyes to rest.

“Lord Yang Chen. When do you think Liaodong will give their response?” Gan Ning asked. He was eager to fight.

“I don't know as well.” Yang Chen shook his head. There were still at least four hours left before the promised time. Yang Chen borrowed Gan Ning's telescope to take another look.

“Should we send an envoy to ask?” Liang Chen shamelessly spoke up again.

“No need.” Yang Chen suddenly said as he returned the telescope to Gan Ning. “They have given us their reply.”

“Hmm?” Gan Ning looked through the telescope and saw a fleet carrying Gongsun Kang's banner and a banner with the character An.

“An Yixuan?” Gan Ning had been taking note of Liaodong's naval commanders. After all, they were from the same work and potential enemies.

“Liaodong is prepared to fight with us.” Gan Ning said to the others. Liaodong's fleet was approaching when Gan Ning remembered that Liang Chen was still there. He shouted curses as he turned around, ready to slap Liang Chen when he saw that Liang Chen was no longer there.

“General! General Liang Chen has already left!” One soldier pointed out at the ocean. Gan Ning leaned over to see that Liang Chen was already swimming back to his warship.

“Sooner or later, this brat will drown!” Gan Ning cursed but still watched with concern until Liang Chen was actually back onto the Dahan.

“Lord Yang Chen. Please enter the cabin.” Gan Ning said to Yang Chen.

Yang Chen nodded and obediently entered the cabin. This is because he knew that the battle would start soon and it would be dangerous to stay on the deck.

After that, Gan Ning began to give orders for the fleet to take position. Had he never trade with Liaodong, he would have been inferior to An Yixuan in terms of tactics. But trading with Liaodong had given him much needed experience for sailing at the ocean. He also read a lot of Liu Mang's books about naval battles. Now, An Yixuan was just the right opponent for him to train his troops.

Meanwhile, An Yixuan was also watching in awe of Yangzhou's huge warships. Although he had already heard from Gongsun Kang that Yangzhou's three warships were huge, he still did not expect it to be this huge. But after that, An Yixuan was also full of excitement. If he could defeat the Yangzhou Navy and capture one of the three warships, it could become his flagship.

“Pass down my orders. Raise the flag for surrendering!” An Yixuan had more than one hundred warships while Yangzhou only had three. Even an army of ants could bite an elephant to death. He was so confident he tried to win without fighting.

“Surrender?” Yang Chen was shocked when he saw the flags. Did Liaodong want to surrender right away?

“Lord Yang Chen. They are not surrendering to us. They are telling us to surrender!” Gan Ning explained bitterly. They were being looked down on a little too much. The hot tempered Liang Chen had already raised the battle flag and was ready for war. ṞΑΝŐ𝖇Ê𝙨

“Pass down the order. No one is to move without my orders!” Gan Ning gave the order. They had landing troops with them so they could not mess around.

Soon, Gan Ning and the others formed a T-shaped formation. “Turn the hull sideways, facing Liaodong's port!”

“Why are they facing the port?” Yang Chen was puzzled as he observed the situation.

“Since this An Yixuan dares to look down on the Yangzhou Navy, let us make him famous for it!” Gan Ning was not someone who tolerates insults. Since An Yixuan was openly mocking them, he would make sure An Yixuan gets embarassed for it.

“Transport ships! Follow behind the warships!” Gan Ning ordered.

“Three warships!” An Yixuan was a veteran. He did not underestimate the enemy just because they have three warships. “Pass down my orders. First, take the enemy transports before surrounding the three warships!”

“Understood!” An Yixuan had thirty swift warships. These ships tried to go directly towards the transport ships.

“General. The artillery officer ask if we should fire.” One person asked. Each deck had their own artillery officer responsible for the cannonfire.

“Do not fire without my command!” Gan Ning waved his hand.

“Understood!”

“General Gan Ning. Are you just going to let them pass?” Yang Chen frowned. If the Monarch-class warships did nothing, the enemy can get to the transport ships. It would be a huge catastrophe if the transport ships get sunk.

“Sink the transport ships? Hahaha. It will be the other way around.” An nearby soldier answered with a laugh.

“Huh?” Yang Chen was confused but he would soon find out why this soldier was laughing.

Meanwhile, An Yixuan's deputy general could not help but feel excited when the swift warships got pass the huge warships. He began to flatter An Yixuan since the both of them would benefit from this achievement. “General. The battle has been decided. It would be a huge achievement to sink Yangzhou's transport ships!”

“Maybe.” An Yixuan flet uneasy. Things were proceeding too smoothly. The three huge warships did not even attempt to stop them. There were only two possibilities as to why.

The first was that Yangzhou's naval officers were all idiots. This is unlikely as idiots would sink their ship long before they reach Liaodong.

The only other possibility is that this was a trap. An Yixuan's eyes grew wide.

“Not good! Signal the ships to pull back!”

“Withdraw? Why?” The deputy general did not understand.

“There is no time to explain! Hurry!”

“Understood!” The deputy general rushed to give the order. But whether the swift warship listened to orders was another matter.

Gongsun Yu, was Gongsun Du's nephew. He commanded the swift warships and their specialty was boarding enemy ships. On top of that, the swift warships also had ballista.

Normally, swift warships had to worry about being blocked by the enemies. If this were to happen, the swift warships would suffer great losses. But because Yangzhou did not bother stopping them for some reason, Gongsun Yu believed that he would gain huge merits.

It was at this time when he saw the signal to retreat. Gongsun Yu was shocked. Although Gongsun Yu's deputy general advised Gongsun Yu to follow the order, Gongsun Yu was blinded by greed. Many commanders of the other swift warships were also blinded by greed. They continued to advance towards Yangzhou's transport ships.

At the same time, troops on Yangzhou's transport ships were not anxious at all. “Hmph. Instead of going to General Gan's warships, you come straight to us. Do you think we are easy to bully?” Ling Cao said angrily.

“Well. If I were the general, I also would not attack General Gan's warships. Wouldn't it be courting death?” The deputy general replied to Ling Cao.

“Hmph! Monarch-class warship…” Ling Cao said disdainfully but he was actually very envious. When will he be able to have such a warship?

After getting conquered by Yangzhou, Ling Cao learned what the navy was. Those water troops in the past were like children playing house. Even Zhuge Liang's iron chain tactic was nothing to Ling Cao now that Ling Cao has seen the ocean.

Ling Cao initially felt proud of himself now that he is part of Yangzhou's navy. But then the moment he saw the Monarch-class warship, he could only chuckle helplessly.

“General. I heard Jiangdong's shipyards are building more of these Monarch-class warships.” The deputy general said to Ling Cao.

“How did you find out about this?” Ling Cao asked the deputy general. As he had just surrendered, he did not get along well with the original navy. Due to this, Ling Cao doesn't leave camp unless there is a meeting.

“How did I what? The whole navy have already heard of this!” The deputy general replied. Liu Mang's intentions to equip the entire navy with warships had already been made public. There were eight Monarch-class warships in total. Six were built in Xuzhou and Yangzhou while the remaining two would be build in Jiangdong. However, these Monarch-class warship take a long time to build to only three ships had been completed. The remaining five were still under construction.

“General. Will we have a chance once those five ships come out?” The deputy general asked.

“Stop dreaming. We are ground troops, not sailors. We are not the ones operating the warship!” A 1000-men general interrupted.

“We can apply for transfer. I believe with the General's talents, he will definitely be able to captain a ship above the Monarch-class warship!”

Ling Cao also had the same idea. He could not help but look at the Monarch-class warship in a daze. But soon, the others reminded him that the enemy was approaching.

“What should we do? Haha! Do I still need to teach them this? Are those guys on the ship just for show? Shoot them down!” Ling Cao shouted

“Understood!” The transport ships all raised signals to attack.

“They aren't surrendering?” Gongsun Yu was shocked. He and his deputy general fully expected the enemy to surrender. Of course, he did not have any intentions of accepting surrender. He would sink them all the same. But what he did not expect is for Yangzhou's transport ships to send out the signal to attack. Wasn't this a joke? These were unarmed transport ships.

“Pass down my orders! Sink two ships first! Show them who is the butcher and who is the fish!” Gongsun Yu ordered with a laugh.

“Understood!”

Gongsun Yu closed his eyes as his warships fired the ballista. He then listened to the sound of ships sinking with great satisfaction.

“Haha! How is that? Are they ready to surrender yet?” Gongsun Yu asked, his eyes still closed.

His deputy general did not respond. Gongsun Yu was starting to get annoyed.

At this moment, the deputy general began to stutter. “General! General!”

“What's wrong? Aren't those transport ships scared yet?” Gongsun Yu asked.

“No! No! Take a look!” The deputy general tried to get Gongsun Yu to open his eyes.

The moment Gongsun Yu looked at the scene in front of him, he was dumbfounded. His ships did fire the ballista. Ships had indeed sink into the ocean. There were even people still struggling to stay afloat.

But no matter how he looked at it, the sinking ship were all his. The people swimming in the ocean were also his men.

He then raised his head to look at the transport ships. There were twenty ballista on each transport ship while his fleet had a grand total of thirty ballista.

This isn't right! Where are the defenseless transport ships? How did they turn from delicate little girls to burly men?

Even now, the transport ships and the swift warships were approaching each other. Gongsun Yu's eyes widened. He could see the enemy general's face. The enemy general waved his hand, and many more ballista arrows pierced through the sky. By the time he realized what happened, he could no longer move. One ballista arrow already pinned him to the deck of the warship.

The moment the command ship of the swift warships was torn to pieces, the other swift warships immediately realized that the situation was bad and began to flee. But the transport ships would not allow them to escape. Countless ballista arrows covered the sky. In the end, only two swift warships manage to escape. One of which fell apart halfway back to their fleet.

“Hmph! What a joke!” Ling Cao snorted. Although Yangzhou only had three warships. These ‘transport ships' were simply the Monarch-class' predecessor. They were the galleons that defeated the Jingzhou and Jiangdong Navy. It is just that the galleons were outdated due to the appearance of the Monarch-class and is simply refitted into transport ships and merchant ships. Naturally, this would mean half of the ballista were dismantled. But that still leaves over a dozen ballista on each transport ship.

If An Yixuan had known about this, he never would have sent out the swift warships.

“This…” Yang Chen watched in shock as he wiped the cold sweat from his head. No wonder Gan Ning allowed the swift warships to go pass them. They were not afraid at all.

This Ling Cao was also quite mean to pretend to be weak.

“Is General Gongsun dead?” An Yixuan's deputy general wiped his eyes with disbelief. All those swift warships were gone in an instant.

An Yixuan closed his eyes and took a deep breath. He then looked up to the huge warships. “This Gan Ning lives up to his reputation.” Although An Yixuan had more than a hundred warships, he was still distressed to lose thirty of them at once.

An Yixuan had not been idle while Gongsun Yu was being slaughtered. He had been taking note of Yangzhou's firepower. Yangzhou has twelve warships with ballista and another three huge warships whose strength are still unknown.

Meanwhile, An Yixuan still has forty main warships, a hundred ramming ships, turtle ships, tower ships and more. They could still win this battle.

“Gan Ning Gan Xingba. There can only be one ruler on this ocean. It is either you or me!” An Yixuan glared at the Huaxia.

“An Yixuan? This guy is not bad.” Gan Ning also muttered to himself.

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