Niu Jianhu dragged two boatloads of wood back under the gaze of a group of people to see off the dead! Gu Zhang's fleet followed them all the way out of Taihu Lake, and did not stop until the cow saw the tiger enter the sea!

Niu Jianhu didn't pay attention to the light boat that followed behind, the sails were not deployed, the people inside pushed the water wheel, pulled the iron chain, and behind it was the bundled wooden raft of boat materials, like a rat dragging a big oil bottle, carefully driving on the water!

And Gu Zhang blatantly followed in the back, and he didn't have any scruples at all! At this time, a small guy next to Gu Zhang said, "Gu Ye, don't we really do it?"

Gu Zhang "snapped" a big mouth and staggered the little guy: "Get out!" I said next time, next time! Are you deaf or deaf? Get lost! ”

The little guy ran away with a roll! When he got to the back, he rubbed his face and said, "What kind of cow is it, isn't it like a grandson when you see the Lu family?" What kind of majesty are you shaking with us? ”

The little guy suddenly saw that the people around him were secretly looking at him: "What are you looking at?" Don't you have to do things one by one? Work! A pod of dolphin-like stuff! Hum! The little guy snorted, and then flicked his sleeves and left!

The sailors watched the little guy walk away and discussed: "Sycophant, the little butler who only became a little steward by relying on his own sister, isn't his nose and eyes swollen every day?" It's hard to be able to work with a group of us! Bah! ”

Niu Jianhu leisurely entered the sea, and after pushing the water wheel for a while, the sailor climbed the mast to take a closer look, and saw that there were no ships following behind, and reported to Niu Jianhu!

Niu Jianhu walked for a while and ordered: "Stop the water wheel, open the sails, and move forward at full speed!" When the sailors heard this, they cheered, jammed the wheel, raised the sails, and the north wind immediately filled the sails!

Since the advent of sailboats, everyone in Quanzhou has loved this kind of ship! No more hard work! As long as the sails are raised, no matter what wind is blowing, it can be used by the boat!

No one could have dreamed that the sails would be able to sail against the wind! As long as the angle of the sails and rudder is adjusted, the boat is not slow to sail in a zigzag shape against the wind!

It's just that this battleship has to clean the deck every day, which is a bit tiring! Everyone washes with water, then grinds with a grinding stone, and rinses with water until the deck is smooth and there are no burrs on it!

And this is something that both sailors and sailors must attend! Iron can't be beaten! Every time it comes to this time, the people who polish the Mao-class battleship start to complain that the deck is too big! But seeing that even Cheng Hong was polishing together, they completely lost their temper!

The lookout sits in the watchtower on the mast and looks at the signs around him, looking at the map in his hand from time to time to determine the direction of the ship's travel!

And Niu Jianhu sat on the command platform, the second officer commanded to raise and lower the sails, and the first mate directly held the rudder! There's no way, just a few people can barely make it up!

You never know how hard it is to teach a horseback rider to operate a boat! Just for this, how many bundles of Cheng Hong's bamboo poles have been broken!

But the personnel are still reluctant, it can be said that if the scale of the shipyard is larger, half a year later, Cheng Hong will have a situation where there is no one to drive!

So this also increased Cheng Hong's determination to sweep Jiangnan Dongdao! At least to reach the government decree, right? Like now, when Cheng Hong gave an order, Quanzhou could listen to him, and Quanzhou was not as powerful as a clan elder to speak!

Niu Jianhu finally came back in Cheng Hong's expectant gaze! Tugboat material behind the full sails, I heard the sound of the boat from afar, and floated along the wind!

Cheng Hong was finally relieved! Although Cheng Hong's calculations this time are not very dangerous, after all, there are unforeseen circumstances!

If it is on the sea, don't look at only two boats, open the sails, the Gu family has a hundred and eighty boats that can't stop him at all!

After all, no matter how good your Gu family's water kung fu is, you have to catch up!

If you are not afraid in the river, do you dare to blatantly pursue the officials of the current dynasty when you dock? I'm afraid I'm afraid that I'll be blocked in Taihu Lake, although I see the tiger walking along the shore as planned, but what if the water bandits have a convulsion?

It wasn't until this moment that Cheng Hong breathed a sigh of relief when he saw the two boats coming back!

The two ships drove to the harbor of the shipyard amid the noise of the crowd, and there were already people waiting there at the small dock!

Two ships plus two large floating rows, not to mention anything else, these ships can build at least three Mao-class ships! And for such a long time, Cheng Zhou's craftsmanship has become more and more skilled!

At a glance, you can see that these are all good ship materials! Moreover, the top of the wooden raft is also smeared with a thick layer of pine oil waterproof, as long as the pine oil is scraped off, there is basically no need to dry it twice!

"Good, good! It's all good wood! Cheng Zhou happily straightened his beard! At the sound of an order, the timber was dragged into the shipyard with horses and oxen, ready to be processed! You know, the shipyard is running out of timber soon!

For such a long time, fifty-eight Chen-class battleships have been built, and Niu Jianhu is now driving like this, about thirteen zhang, and it is also the earliest batch!

Then there is the Mao-class, and the Mao-class battleship is twenty-one zhang long, which is four zhang longer than the five-tooth ship! Moreover, the three-story building, although there is no slap pole, but the eight-bull crossbow, and the trebuchets installed on it with explosive-throwing packs have reached a staggering twenty-four each!

There are many shooting holes, and the three-story building is like this! It can be said that even if someone gets on the ship, as long as the sergeants retreat layer by layer and rely on the building to kill the enemy, it is almost impossible for them to capture the ship!

Besides, such a large behemoth, coupled with the bronze ramming angle on the bow of the ship, and this ramming angle was also painted the same color as wood by Cheng Hong's order.

If you really let this behemoth run away, you probably want to stop it, but it depends on how many boats you have enough to hit!

And this kind of Mao-class battleship, just the flexible operation needs one hundred and twenty people, and the full load of seven hundred soldiers! The full load of food and water is enough for the whole ship to eat for two months.

But now the problem is that there are now three Mao-class battleships launched! The three ships under construction are also approaching, and this Guangmao-class battleship will need 4,200 soldiers when fully loaded!

Each of the fifty-eight Chen-class battleships was fully loaded with 300 people, which required 17,400 people! But Cheng Hong's full fight here is only 13,000 people!

If you continue to recruit troops, it is estimated that Quanzhou City should be full of soldiers! As a result, Cheng Hong was tragic, and all the personnel together were not enough to fill all the warships!

And you have to know that this soldier is fighting with the Gu family, and this road is not far! There is no need to load so much grain and grass at all, and there is still a surplus of crossbow arrows in the remaining positions!

In other words, if Cheng Hong wants to recruit at least nearly 10,000 people when all the ships are fully loaded, Quanzhou really can't recruit 10,000 people! If Cheng Hongjiang South Dongdao is in hand, don't say 10,000, it's 100,000, which is a casual matter!

With Cheng Hong's offer, he will definitely let those bitter hahas in Jiangnan Dongdao sharpen their heads and drill into the navy!

But there is no if, Cheng Hong only has one place in Quanzhou, if he wants to make the entire Jiangnan Dongdao government decree accessible, Cheng Hong is still short of prestige!

And this prestige is to step on the head of the Gu family, the overlord of the water! So this battle is inevitable!