Xiao Tianjian dealt with the affairs of the people in Xingzhou, he immediately went to the river to inspect the newly formed naval army here, at this time on the river, all kinds of ships have been replaced with the military flag of the Xingtian Army, and at the same time, the sailors have cleaned the blood stains on the boats, so that the boats are all new, and after eliminating some of the fishing boats that have been put together temporarily, there are still more than 400 boats left.

Among these ships, there are more than 40 large warships that can carry more than 100 people, and more than 200 warships that can carry dozens of people, and the rest are some fast boats that can carry more than a dozen people.

At the same time, there are hundreds of large cargo ships on the Yangtze River on the riverside, these ships have hundreds of materials, can load dozens of tons of goods, very suitable for transporting troops and materials, these ships alone are enough to carry Xiao Tianjian's main force at present.

When these sailors saw Xiao Tianjian coming to inspect the riverside, they all thundered with joy and shouted loudly, among which the new soldiers knelt on the bow of the boat one after another, kowtowing to Xiao Tianjian, and the old soldiers stood as straight as javelins on the boat, beating their chests with their right hands to salute Xiao Tianjian.

After Xiao Tianjian saw it, he raised his hand again and again to return the salute to these water camp soldiers, and Liu Jiang changed into a military uniform of the Xingtian Army, and followed Xiao Tianjian with a shy chest, quite a bit of high-spirited posture, now the water camp has just been established, temporarily with the battalion as a unit, but the strength is more than 3,000 people, belonging to the super-battalion battalion, and Liu Jiang this time because of the merit of plotting against Zuo Liangyu's water army, Xiao Tianjian was promoted to the deputy general of the water battalion, and continued to obey orders under Yang Kunshan.

And Yang Kunshan because of this battle, was promoted to the commander of the water battalion of the Xingtian Army, and stepped into the ranks of the senior generals of the Xingtian Army, temporarily commanding the Yangtze River Water Army, and each ship arranged the officers and soldiers transferred from the Yellow River Water Battalion of the Xingtian Army, as a trainee officer, leading the new pawns on each ship, and some of the original officers of the water battalion who took refuge in the Xingtian Army were retained on the spot and temporarily returned to the old commanders of the Xingtian Army, so it can be said that this new army is very happy, so the morale of the water battalion soldiers is very strong these days, There is a posture of contempt for the world.

Xiao Tianjian boarded a large warship, after inspecting, saw that although these ships are very new, but the armament is relatively poor, each big war ship, at most two or three old guns such as bowls, individual ships are equipped with one or two medium-caliber Furlong cannons, which is relatively good, most of the ships are not equipped with artillery, but are equipped with more hooks, spears and bows and crossbows and rockets, so he frowned slightly.

The quality of such equipment, although there are many ships and personnel, but the combat effectiveness is not strong, and more often it is necessary to rely on jumping gangs to fight with enemy ships, and although the morale of the Xingtian Army Water Battalion is high, after all, there are many new soldiers and few old soldiers, although Yang Kunshan, a relatively mature sailor general, is leading, but it is not easy to exert much combat effectiveness.

"What is the specific number of guns equipped on each ship now, have you checked them all? In addition, is the ammunition complete? Do I need to add more? Xiao Tianjian held the side of the boat and asked Yang Kunshan and the others.

Yang Kunshan replied calmly: "Lord Qiqi, these ships are newly captured ships, although Zuo Liangyu is equipped with some artillery, but because of the Jingzhou defense of the city, most of the artillery has been transferred to the city, the number of artillery equipped by each ship is limited, the last general has already checked, the water camp now only has three large Furlong cannons, twelve medium-sized Furlong cannons, forty-three small Furlong guns, thirty tassel cannons, twenty copper and iron bowl guns, mainly equipped with rockets, some ships are equipped with fire cans, Knives and guns are not counted for the time being! ”

Liu Jiang replied with a big grin: "Lord Qiqi, although the ships are generally armed, but the official and military warships on the river are only like this, we have so many ships, how can we be afraid of them?" ”

Xiao Tianjian shook his head and said, "This is bad! You remember, our Xingtian Army has always done things without doing them, and if we do, we must do them well! With such armaments, Wuchang will definitely not work!

And we have to pass through Yuezhou, there are still many official and military warships on Dongting Lake, and we can't fight hard enough! Therefore, the armament of each ship must be strengthened as much as possible!

Especially artillery, now Jingzhou City has been defeated, there are not so many artillery here, there are not many officers and soldiers nearby who can fight, so the defensive pressure of Jingzhou City is not great, here is not easy to use heavy artillery on the ship to defend the city, the rest of the artillery you take my token, go to the city to find Liu Yaoben to collect all of them, and equip them on the ships.

If the number is not enough, it will be directly called from the artillery teams directly under each battalion, and all the artillery teams directly under the battalion can temporarily board the ship and temporarily obey your orders! Within 10 days, the armament must be completed!

In addition, I will give you ten days, while completing the armament of the warship, while stepping up the repair of the ship, some of the ships I think are a bit shoddy, I am afraid that the cannon will fall apart as soon as the cannon is fired, we must recruit shipwrights as soon as possible to strengthen, and use the existing ships and generals, within these ten days, on the river to conduct joint training, I do not require you to become a strong army now, but at least you must be able to use, know to obey orders, will form a formation to resist the enemy!

After all, once we wave our troops down the river, we will have to carry a large number of foot soldiers and cavalry on the ship, and their lives are in your hands on the river, and there is no room for loss! Do you understand? ”

Yang Kunshan immediately straightened his chest and said loudly: "The last general understands, and the last general will start to do these things immediately after a while!" After 10 days, you are guaranteed to be able to anchor down the river at any time! ”

Liu Jiang was accustomed to kneeling down to receive the order at first, but after seeing Yang Kunshan's movements, he quickly straightened his chest and saluted like a cat and a tiger: "Don't worry, the little ones will do it immediately!" ”

Liu Yaoben was a little slanderous about Xiao Tianjian's order for the battalion's artillery team to be temporarily used by the naval army, but after thinking about it for a while, Xiao Tianjian said that it was only temporarily for them to be dispatched and used, but he did not say that these artillery and three-pounder guns would be returned to the water battalion in the future, so he immediately agreed, after all, once the preparation was completed, they would also set off by boat, and when it was time to land on the shore, these cannons would still be unloaded for their infantry use.

So soon the artillery of the various departments began to load all types of artillery on the warship, the gunner was not enough, so the gunner of each gun was dispatched and used separately to meet the personnel of the gunners on each ship, in addition, Xiangyang also transported a batch of supplies from Henan, including a large number of gunpowder and thunderbolts, which greatly supplemented the consumption in the army, and in these battles, the Xingtian Army also captured a lot of gunpowder stored by the left army, after distribution, it can basically meet the next action of the Xingtian Army.

(There was something wrong last night, I delayed the time, this chapter has a small number of words, everyone forgive me, and it's okay to scold if you want to scold!) In addition, thank you for the tips of Dream Watch and Feng41501 brothers! ）