three kings

Chapter 249 Entering the Central Plains Jianghuai Navy (End)

The other is Li Zhi, a shipbuilder, who came from a family of shipbuilders.

More than 400 years ago, Qin Shihuang unified the six countries, but he was obsessed with ghosts and wanted the medicine of immortality, so he established an extremely large navy in the Jiangdong area.

The leader of the first naval army was General Ren Xiao of the Qin Dynasty. Ever since Ren Xiao became the captain of the South China Sea, he decided to include Baiyue into the Great Qin with the horoscope of Dingman.Later, Qin Shihuang valued his talents and transferred him to Kuaiji to build a navy.

Ren Xiao immediately set up three major naval divisions with Kuaiji as the center.They are Donghai Navy, Hainan Navy and Kuaiji Navy.And Li Zhi's ancestor Li Wei was the chief shipbuilder under Ren Xiao's command.

He supervised the construction of all the warships of the Daqin Navy. The world's first sea-going ship was built by Li Wei himself.It is also the ship that Qin Shihuang sent Xu Fu to lead [-] virgins to the sea to seek the fountain of youth.

The shipbuilding skills of the Li family have been passed down from generation to generation, until Li Zhi mastered them.

Li Zhi is an honest man, his words are clumsy, and he is not good at communicating with others, but he is obsessed with shipbuilding, and his spirit of assiduous study is even inferior to Zhou Yu, who is good at studying hard.

Just seven years ago, before Li Zhi joined Sun Canjun, he rebuilt a large cargo ship.The bow and stern of the ship were boldly improved, and the new ship built was very strong and very fast, and it was famous far and wide.With the same wood, if someone else builds two boats, he can build three.

However, due to an unexpected mistake, the hull of the large cargo ship burst unexpectedly, more than ten crew members on board died unexpectedly, and the entire cargo of the ship sank into the water.

The owner of the ship shifted all responsibility to Li Zhi.

Li Zhi was speechless and was thrown into prison.The prefect of Wujun convicted the case of murder and planned to behead him for public display at [-]:[-] noon.

Zhou Yu, who was eager to seek talents for the navy, got the news. He believed that Li Zhi did have extremely high shipbuilding skills, and that the accident was just a mistake. If he was allowed to continue the experiment, it would probably be a success.

So, he told Liu Hua his idea of ​​saving Li Zhi.

As a person of later generations, Liu Hua knows that technology is priceless, and a highly skilled talent is enough to beat tens of thousands of soldiers.Without any hesitation at the moment, they launched the "Secret Camp" to infiltrate into Wu County, inciting the people first, and then taking advantage of the chaos to intercept Li Zhi and bring his whole family to Shouchun.

Li Zhi was grateful for Liu Hua and Zhou Yu's life-saving grace. He stayed in the shipyard day and night, eating and living with the boatmen, often experimenting with newly developed ships by himself, and researching shipbuilding technology with other technicians.

Liu Hua is not interested in ships, so he can't help.However, his opinion benefited Li Zhi and others a lot.

Li Zhi and other shipbuilders believe that a good ship lies in its comprehensive performance, such as sturdiness, durability, speed, combat and capacity, so they are all studying a comprehensive performance warship.

In this regard, Liu Hua reported an opposing attitude.

Although he doesn't understand boats, he has never eaten pork, so he hasn't seen a pig fail to run.Even in the later generations with extremely advanced technology, it is impossible to build a ship with all-round performance.The national defense navy is also divided into different types such as ocean-going ships, cruisers, destroyers, transport ships, submarines, etc., and learn from each other to achieve the best results.

Things that cannot even be done by later generations were even more impossible to build in ancient times when technology was underdeveloped.

At that time, Liu Hua proposed to divide the ships into several types for construction, regardless of how much money was spent.

Liu Hua's proposal gave Li Zhi a lot of inspiration, and it also made him discover the real reason why the hull burst last time.The ship he built was strong, fast, and capable of carrying both goods and people.The performance was good and messy, but the wood of the ship itself couldn't bear such performance, which caused the hull to burst.

Simply put, it is powerless.A mouse with iron courage can't defeat a timid tiger.Because, the middle-aged mouse is only the size of a palm, even if it has iron guts, it won't help.

In the same way, your ship's performance is good, but it's useless without the corresponding conditions.Because, there is no all-purpose wood in the world that is strong, light, fireproof, non-absorbent and resistant to chopping and arrow shooting.

After understanding this truth, Li Zhi immediately changed his thinking again. He used different types of wood to build ships such as building boats, iron-hull boats, assault boats, emergency repair boats, troop carriers, and grain carriers.

These different types of ships are very specialized, so they are very powerful.

The building boat is the main warship of the Jianghuai Navy. There are several sealed high-rise buildings on the ship. Each window has only two rows of small holes. The upper row is used to watch the enemy's situation, and the lower row is used to shoot sharp arrows.Sun Canjun's unique crossbowman can be hidden inside, which is very safe and has quite powerful attack power.

The iron-hulled boat is wrapped in iron armor, which is fireproof, radiation-proof and anti-collision. Although the speed is slow, the defense is extremely strong. There is an erected iron shield at the stern of the iron-hulled boat. People with good water skills can hide behind the boat and swim.It can effectively resist the attacks of bows and arrows and catapults, and it can play a miraculous effect in road warfare for beach exploration.

Assault boats are small and light, extremely fast, and the bow is made of sharp iron, which can often knock a big hole into an enemy ship at once, which is very useful for surprise attacks.

The repair ship is a small and convenient ship that can only accommodate three people. Each large warship has three boats, which are convenient for temporary repairs and can reduce unnecessary losses on the battlefield.

Both troop carriers and grain carriers are large transport ships, which are specially responsible for transporting troops and grain.

These different types of warships, after reasonable matching and mutual cooperation, launched targeted attacks, which greatly increased their combat effectiveness compared with the original warships handed down from the Great Qin and the Great Han.

At this time, Zhou Yu whispered beside Sun Can.

Sun Can nodded, and immediately gave Hong Dabeard and Li Zhi the official positions, and forgave Hong Dabeard, and did not regard them as craftsmen, but as subordinates.

Immediately, Sun Can and Liu Hua, accompanied by Zhou Yu, visited this new type of warship.Zhou Yu explained how to use it, and everyone was very excited. Sun Can also praised Li Zhiwei for raising his official position to a higher level, and gave them a mansion in Xiangyang, fifty gold, and a hundred silks and satins.

Then, Sun Can inspected the base where they were training. One by one, naked soldiers jumped up and down in the water, like dragons on the water.

"It's amazing! Everyone is a dragon in the water!" Sun Cangao praised.

Zhou Yu smiled proudly: "My lord, what is this? The [-] sailors are all fishermen from nearby. This kind of swimming and rolling is just for fun in the water."

Zhou Yu's words aroused Sun Can's interest, and asked: "Then what is the real ability?"

Zhou Yu said: "Although this lake is so deep that it doesn't look too low, there is no wind or waves. Landlubbers can be planed by dogs if they fall into it. How can they show their true skills? Since they are a navy, they should go to fight in the big waves. Only Only those who swim in the waves can be called dragons in the water."

"Then these sailors?"

Zhou Yu said confidently: "Except for winter, our army goes against the waves in the lower reaches of the Yangtze River ten days a month. Only by fighting against the waves can we calmly deal with them on the battlefield in the future."

"Yangtze River" Hearing these two words, a scene appeared in Sun Can's mind. On the endless river, the turbid river roared rumblingly. on the rocks beside the shore.A loud noise like thunder seemed to crush the reef into powder.

"There will be no problem?" Sun Can thought about the momentum of the Yangtze River and felt a little scared, so he asked worriedly.

"It's okay!" Zhou Yu said with a smile: "We are practicing in the lower reaches of the Yangtze River. There are no rocks at the mouth of the sea, and there are ships behind to rescue them at any time. When they lose their strength, they just need to float on the water. The medical staff on standby They will be rescued as soon as possible and inspected.”

Sun Can nodded in satisfaction after hearing this.

Then, Zhou Yu walked up to the school platform and issued orders to the battleships on the lake.

On the same day, Zhou Yu demonstrated several tactics.

First of all, he demonstrated the water confrontation between the two armies. The assault boats were like fishing nets, criss-crossing and rushing across the lake, and the large-scale boats were behind to assist them, and finally the iron-hulled boats followed.

Seeing this scene, Sun Can seemed to see a group of enemy ships, hit a big hole by the flexible assault boat, and then shot by the building boat as a target, and finally fought hand-to-hand with the iron-hulled boat.

Then, with different coordination, Zhou Yu gave full play to his commanding ability on the imaginary battlefield. The [-] sailors were in his hands as easily as using his own arms.

"There is such a navy, who can stop the Yangtze River and the Yellow River!" Sun Can praised Zhou Yu's outstanding performance with great joy.

Zhou Yu, who stepped off the school platform, heard Sun Can's words, and said with great pride: "My lord, don't worry. As long as there are Jianghuai navy, any place in the world with water will be my lord's territory."

"Okay! Sun is looking forward to that day." After hearing Zhou Yu's words, Sun Can also felt very proud, as if the world was in his chest.

"By the way, why don't you see Xingba!" Sun Can suddenly thought that Gan Ning was gone, and he only saw him when he came here, so he didn't know where he went now.

Zhou Yu replied: "It must be training his brothers, my lord, please follow me."

Zhou Yu led Sun Can to the other side of Laoshan Mountain, and saw more than 200 small boats on the lake, each boat was one foot apart, and Gan Ning was leading a group of people jumping on the small boats.

Although each of the hundred people is a fierce and vicious man, everyone is lighter than a monkey, and during the trip, none of them fell into the water.

This kind of training method is not at the same level as the training method of the soldiers outside.

(End of this chapter)