The panicked Shao Er Dongshang and the calm Genji did not leave the deck of the ship, Zhen Qian saw that they were unwilling to enter the cabin to hide, and did not continue to persuade them, at this time there was basically nothing Zhen Qian to do, commanding the battle was not his specialty, Zhen Jiu was methodically directing the ship to quickly want the pirate ship to approach.

Light smoke continued to cook his tea, Zhen Qian's eyes were fixed on the pirates of the Japanese Kingdom who were approaching in front of him, Shao Er Dongshang looked around nervously, and Genji looked at Zhen Jiu who was busy on the ship with interest.

"Ten launchers ready! Fire oil bomb ready! String up the crossbow and prepare the arrows! ”

The sailor on the mast shouted the movement of the target at any time, and there was no trace of panic in his words, but a trace of excitement, "The pirate ship in front is about one and a half miles away, and the target is rapidly approaching the middle ......." ”

The pirate ship of the Wa Kingdom is getting closer and closer, and after a stick of incense, when the two ships are less than four hundred paces apart, Zhen Jiu suddenly ordered: "Lower all the sails, the flywheel is approaching the pirate ship at full speed, pay attention to the course, the target is due east and north, and it is expected to enter the firing position in half an hour?" ”

Whenever Zhen Qian heard the words "pirate ship" shouted out of Zhen Jiu's mouth, he always had the urge to laugh out loud, who is a pirate, and only Zhen Jiu can say it righteously and awe-inspiring if he treats his prey as a pirate!

Genji followed the light smoke to learn the new tea ceremony, handed the cup of tea that had just been cooked to Zhen Qian very solemnly with both hands, turned a deaf ear to the upcoming war, and said with a smile: "Zhen Ying's envoy?" Your ship is so strange, it's different from all the ships that the concubine has ever seen, can you tell the concubine about this ship? ”

Zhen Qian looked up at the pirate ship that was about to approach, and explained very patiently: "This is a kind of improved sea ship, it is still experimenting, it is driven by sails and flywheels, and it can be driven by manpower to drive flywheels when there is no wind, and the speed is more than twice that of ordinary ships, but this structure occupies most of the cabins, and it is no longer suitable for use as a merchant ship, so it is okay to use it as a passenger ship in ordinary times?" ”

"I see, it's really a whimsical idea, I wonder who designed this kind of ship?"

"This is created by Li Gao, the king of Cao of the Tang Dynasty, called the car and boat, originally driven in the inland river, it is the first time to drive on the sea, and the effect is not convenient and ......fast in the inland river", Zhen Qian did not hide the advantages and disadvantages of the car and ship at all, there is no secret law in this era, even if you don't say it, others will say it, and even take out a whole set of drawings to show off your invention in front of others, but the small workshop secret of the family heirloom has been preserved and has not been lost, so as long as it does not involve its own secrets, Zhen Qian usually knows everything, and he says everything.

"This thing was invented by a prince of the Tang Dynasty, I don't know how much such a car and ship cost?"

"This?" Zhen Qian was a little confused, and said with a haha: "The cost of an ordinary thousand-stone sea ship is more than three or four thousand, and this car and ship seems to cost tens of thousands!" In fact, this ship is an experimental product, and I don't know the specific cost? How? Madame interested in this ship? ”

Genji covered half of his face with a fan and said: "The concubine body is actually interested in the clairvoyance in the hands of Zhen Ying's envoy, if Zhen Ying's envoy is willing to cut his love, the concubine is willing to pay a thousand gold rewards!" ”

Zhen Qian's face was gloomy and he said: "This matter must not be done, this is my most beloved thing, it was exchanged for three night pearls from the hands of Hu Shang in the Western Regions, how can it be measured by value?" ”

Genji said with sadness and sentimentality in his tone: "Zhen Ying will return to Datang in the future, and after returning to Datang, he can still exchange three night pearls from Hu Shang in the Western Regions, and the Wa Kingdom is far away from Datang, and the concubine is afraid that she will never have a chance in this life, is Zhen Ying really unwilling to part with love?" ”

"Two thousand taels of gold?"

Zhen Qian put the clairvoyance on the low table in front of him, Genji reached out and took it, stroked the clairvoyant made of bronze with his hand and said, "As Zhen Ying wishes!" ”

Qingyan took out a handful of zither from the cabin, watching the transaction between the two be completed in a few words, I didn't understand why Zhen Qian bought such a good thing to Genji, and wanted to stop it, but suddenly saw the corners of Zhen Qian's mouth curled up with an intriguing arc, such a smile is very familiar to me, think about this man always smiling at himself like this every night, and then .......

Light smoke forcibly suppressed the heat under him, knelt beside Zhen Qian, and said softly: "The concubine played a song "General Order" with Lang Jun's heroic demeanor, thinking that Zhou Gongjin, who was heroic and sassy back then, was still talking and laughing in the face of Cao Cao's millions of people, and the canopy disappeared between talking and laughing, and the concubine thought that Lang Jun had the demeanor of Zhou Gongjin today, and cheered for Lang Jun! ”

The sound of the piano flows from the light smoke fingers, jumping on the zither, with the sound of the wind and the sound of the waves floating in the air, the trance to see the exaggerated chanting, sliding techniques to outline the image of the general of wisdom and courage will appear in front of people's eyes, the scene of the soldiers marching in formation, the two armies facing each other, fighting on the battlefield, the horn is the same, and the scene of returning to the camp in victory, the sense of urgency makes people feel the blood boiling.

The sound of light smoke infected Zhen Qian, affecting Shao Erdong Shang and Genji, but it could not have the slightest impact on Zhen Jiu, who was commanding at the bow of the ship, as if he was already in another world, and his face was even more murderous, with a long knife on his waist in one hand, a bright pennant in the other, a strong crossbow behind his back had been wound on the bowstring, and his two eyes seemed to have been nailed to the pirate ship opposite.

"Test bomb ready, one hundred and fifty steps in front of the target, ready to launch?"

As Zhen Jiu stopped, the two strong sailors were wearing only a pair of calf nose pants all over their bodies, and their steel-cast iron bodies seemed to have been nailed to the deck of the ship, and the two muscular arms struggled to pull the winch, making a "squeak" sound, and a porcelain jar the size of a watermelon was placed on the launch stand, waiting for Zhen Jiu to give an order, and he would use a wooden hammer to hit the crossbow machine on the frame of the machine.

Zhen Jiu was not in a hurry to launch the test bomb for ranging, at this time, as long as the eyes were a little sharper, they could clearly see the faces of the ships on the opposite side, if such a distance was placed on land, the two armies would already be considered short-handed, but the distance on the sea was still a bit far.

For a long time, the main form of naval warfare was to start firing at each other within the range of crossbow arrows, which was not very lethal to the sailors on both ships, because both sides did not hide behind the planks to find cover, and the biggest purpose of the shooting was not to kill and injure each other, but to get as close as possible to each other's ships when shooting at each other.

If it is a real battleship, there will be weapons such as slap rods and ramming horns on the battleship, or a powerful long-range killing weapon with a crossbow, but unfortunately the role of these weapons in real naval battles is not very obvious, a wooden ship collides with another wooden ship, as long as the opponent's battleship is not muddy, or the volume difference is huge, such a collision is obviously not beneficial to both sides.

As for weapons such as slapsticks, they can only play a certain deterrent role, as long as the opponent's ships are close, the real naval battle begins, and this springboard face-to-face physical combat is the scene of primitive naval battles.

(End of chapter)