Zhang Bao is different from his son Zhang Fei, because he has studied with Liu Chan since he was a child, his personality is much calmer than Zhang Fei, although his talent in using soldiers is not as good as Deng Ai, but it is not worse than Huang Xu, he is a good general, with him going with Zhang Fei, Liu Chan is not worried.

The next day, Liu Chan handed over 10,000 cavalry to Zhang Fei and Zhang Bao, and ordered the two of them to go north to Wancheng, harass the Wei army in Wancheng, and prevented them from casting walls with cement.

Now it has been five or six days since the flood occurred, and the flood is about to recede, and the ground will be dried in two days, and then Guan Ping can lead the army to join Liu Chan.

Therefore, Liu Chan planned to lead the army back to Deng County first, and after converging Guan Ping's soldiers and horses, he would attack Wancheng in the north.

However, Liu Chan did not take all the soldiers and horses with him, because the terrain of Nanyang County was like a convex shape, and Liu Chan went south from Wuguan and took the western part of Nanyang, that is, the left side of the embossed shape.

Next, even if Liu Chan converged with Guan Ping and wanted to collect the entire territory of Nanyang, he had to divide his troops, one army and horses went directly to the north, and the other army and horses went east to collect the eastern part of Nanyang.

Now the city where Liu Chan is located is Caiyang, which is located in the eastern city, if he leads all the soldiers and horses back, and after converging with Guanping, he divides his troops to the east, which is a stupid act.

Therefore, Liu Chan only took 3,000 soldiers and horses to Deng County, and the remaining 7,000 soldiers and horses were handed over to Zhang Ren, so that he could collect the city from Caiyang to the east, and after Liu Chan joined Guanping at that time, he only needed to directly lead his troops north to Wancheng, and there was no need to divide his troops to the east.

After Liu Chan led his troops back to Deng County, the flood had receded, but because the flood had just receded, the ground had been soaked by the flood, and it was still very muddy, and it was impossible to walk, so it had to be dried in the sun for two or three days, and the ground could only walk after it was dry.

In the blink of an eye, three days have passed, and the sky has been clear for the past three days, and after three days of exposure to the sun, the ground has been dry, and it is the same as before the flood.

Only small ponds in some low-lying areas, and floating corpses of animals drowned by floods on the roadside, prove that this place was once a vast ocean some time ago.

On this day, on the surface of the Hanshui River, hundreds of ships competed for the stream, and warships, transporting soldiers, drove towards Fancheng from Xiangyang on the opposite side.

After the ground dried yesterday, Liu Chan led the soldiers and horses from Deng County to Fancheng.

On the head of the city south of Fancheng, Liu Chan and the generals stood on it, facing south and looking at the warships on the Hanshui River.

At the forefront, there are five huge ships.

The building ship, because the ship is high and wide, the shape is like a building, so it is named the building ship.

The building ship is the Three Kingdoms period, the largest type of warship, the general building ship has three floors high, the first floor is the Lu, is the place where ordinary soldiers live, the second floor is the flying house, the general lives here, the top floor is the lord's room, is the residence of the main general.

Each floor of the building is equipped with a protective female wall to defend against bows and arrows fired by the enemy, and there are arrow holes on the female wall to fire bows and crossbows. In order to defend against enemy fire, the ship was covered with leather to insulate the heat, and various equipment such as ropes, oars, sails and poles were used to improve its function.

The model of the building ship is large and small, but even the most ordinary building ship, can accommodate more than 1,000 soldiers, among the Three Kingdoms, Jiangdong is an expert in shipbuilding, there are two giant warships, named Feiyun and Gaihai, these two building ships, with five floors high, can accommodate more than 3,000 soldiers, which can be called the most in the world.

At present, Dahan is still inferior to Jiangdong in the shipbuilding industry, at least it is still difficult to build a building ship like Feiyun and Gaihai.

At present, the five building ships on the river are the largest building ships in Jingzhou, with four floors high, which can accommodate 2,000 soldiers, and the five warships together carry more than 10,000 soldiers.

The warships of this era are mainly divided into four middles, namely the Walker, the Hazy Rush, the Fighting Ship, and the Building Ship.

Although the building ship is large and powerful, it also needs a large number of soldiers to operate, if the soldiers are insufficient, it is a bit overkill to drive such a large warship.

Therefore, the building ship is generally used for the rest of the main general of the naval army, and to put it bluntly, it is used for pretending to be forced, and it is rarely used to use the building ship to rush directly into the enemy warship to fight.

The main warships used by the navy are the Hazy Chong and the fighting ships.

Among them, the hazy rush has a narrow and narrow shape, some good assault performance, and can generally carry about 20 to 50 people, so it is often used to assault enemy ships.

As for the fighting ship, it is a weakened version of the building ship, as mentioned earlier, a search building ship can carry at least 1,000 soldiers, if there is a small group of water bandits to deal with, sending more than 1,000 soldiers and horses can almost solve it.

If you use hazy rushing, the limitations are too great, this is a warship specially used for assault, if you use a building boat to fight, all the soldiers are crowded in one boat, if the enemy scatters and escapes, I am afraid that it will be difficult to destroy all the enemies, if you send a few more building boats, it will be a bit overkill.

So at this time, it is necessary to fight ships. The fighting ship is a small version of the building ship, the defensive facilities and offensive facilities are relatively complete, a warship can accommodate about 100 soldiers, and in the larger ones, it can accommodate two or three hundred people.

As for the boat, it is a small boat with fast speed, a boat can accommodate up to a dozen soldiers, and generally select hardcover soldiers to row, like flying gulls, and break through the gaps in the big boat.

Another function of the boat is to escape. Although the boat is large, if it is sunk by the enemy, thousands of people on a boat have to go to the river to feed the fish, so when the navy fights, the back of the boat will be tied with a rope to tie a few boats, if something goes wrong with the boat, you can take the boat to escape.

For example, in the Battle of Chibi, Huang Gai led his troops to pretend to surrender to Cao Cao, and set fire to Cao Cao's army with a hazy fighting ship.

Because Guan Ping led his troops to cross the river not for battle, but for transporting troops, so after these five building ships, there were more than 300 fighting ships, all of which were large models in Jingzhou's naval army, and one could accommodate about 150 or 60 soldiers.

Guan Yu stood at the head of the city, looking at the Jingzhou Navy driving on the river, stroked his white beard, and said with a smile: "I haven't been in Jingzhou for a few years, my Jingzhou Navy is a little stronger than in previous years." ”

A partial general complimented: "Yes, if this naval army goes down the river, I am afraid that Jiangdong can be conquered." ”

Listening to the words of this general, Liu Chan just smiled and didn't say anything, the Jiangdong Navy is powerful all over the world, just like the cavalry of the Han Dynasty, no one can compete, although the strength of Jingzhou's Navy is already very good, but if you want to fight with the Jiangdong Navy Army, I'm afraid it's still a little bit worse.

Not to mention the soldiers, generals, just talking about the warship, people can stabilize the Han warship, if you want to lead the army to attack Jiangdong, you have to wait until Yizhou Li Hui successfully develops the warship.