Chapter 82: The Mighty Fleet
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Yan Bei feels like this in his heart now.
Xu Shu and Shi Tao also came prepared, similar to Xun Yue, after expressing their willingness to defect to Yanbei, the two successively presented their prepared strategies to Yanbei.
Xu Shu and Yanbei talked about how to maintain the relationship with Liu Yu, and Shi Tao talked about the education of a county.
Although these two people are young, they also have good opinions and decisions, and they have very clear goals...... The two of them knew that their talents and prestige could not support and help Yanbei plan the overall situation, so the official position they asked for was also captured by Yanbei in words.
Xu Shu wants to be a county leader, and Shi Tao wants to be a county.
Of course, Yanbei readily agreed, but he also added his own additional conditions, and after three rounds of drinking, he smiled and said to Xu Shu and Shi Tao: "Yuanzhi, Guangyuan, I heard that you originally studied in Yingchuan, but you were recruited by me...... In this way, when you return to Liaodong, I recommend you to go to the county school, and continue to study the scriptures and righteousness in the academy after the official retirement, what do you think? ”
This is a surprise for Xu Shu and Shi Tao, now there is no prince who is willing to let his officials and officials study in the academy at the same time, and since the officials must be transferred away, it is inconvenient to come and go...... But this is not a problem for Liaodong County, the academy is just outside Xiangping City, and it can run more than a dozen round trips a day on horseback, not to mention that now Yanbei's subordinates are not so short of talents, but it can give Yanbei enough time to wait for his subordinates to improve themselves.
The dust has settled on two more Yingchuan Confucian students, and Yanbei is happy.
Calculate the time, and the fleet of Liaodong should also arrive.
As June approaches, the weather is getting hotter. When they went south, they went to the battlefield very quickly, so that Yanbei was not worried about the health of the soldiers, but now that they had been in the Central Plains for a whole year, Yanbei began to worry about whether they would feel uncomfortable when they returned to their hometown.
The huge three-story fighting ships were the flagship that split the churning river, followed by six second-story fighting ships and nineteen ships with female wall archers, and the Yanzi banner sailed into the Xiaopingjin ferry with the wind and waves, and the outline of the huge fleet could be seen even at the head of Yanshi City, forty miles away.
The number of ships in this fleet was not large, but it was intimidating enough, because all of them were large ships that could carry 100 people. In this era, especially in the north, people were not good at water warfare, and the so-called water warfare was mostly fought with bows and crossbows, followed by hand-to-hand combat on the water...... That's why Guo Yan led countless battles above Pingjin to break through Cao Cao's corporaries.
But what has changed in Yanbei's fleet, the smallest ones are all thousand-stone warships.
This naval army is proud of the Yellow River!
The ferries that could dock such medium-sized warships in Luoyang had been burned down in the previous wars in recent years, and no one had time to repair them, and when the warships arrived at the shore of Yanbei, which was standing at the head of Luoyang City, they found that they did not have the ability to let the warships dock at all.
However, fortunately, the commander of this Liaodong naval army had obviously already taken this situation into account, and in a moment, each warship put down three or five small boats to go to the Ke, and the sailors were slightly frightened but not unfamiliar with the ropes and dragged down to the Ke, and transported more than 200 people to the shore at a time to set up a defensive formation to guard against possible accidents.
Up to now, although Yanbei found their traces in Luoyang City, they obviously couldn't see Yanbei in Luoyang City.
Even if you see it, you don't know!
Sun Qingli stood beside Yanbei and pointed to the huge fleet docked on the riverside in the distance and exclaimed: "General, general, is that our fleet?" ”
Yan Bei glanced at Sun Qing with a smile, didn't answer, just pointed to the flag fluttering on the boat. In fact, the surprise in his heart didn't have to be Sun Qingshao, if he remembered correctly, as a flagship three-layer fighting ship, he had only seen its keel when he was inspecting the Wenxian Water Village. At that time, the huge warship was only a little rudimentary, and it was impossible to see the power it has now.
Even if he personally summoned the navy army of Liaodong to come, he didn't expect that the water village under his command would be so large a year after the expedition. It was one of their shipwrights, and the main focus was on building the Walker, and the medium-sized warship of the Battleship Stern had only made the silhouette of a dozen or so ships.
What did the boatwright in Wenxian County say at that time?
It seems that the first batch of large ships will not be produced until September last year.
Obviously, the craftsmen of Wenxian Water Village have not stopped building ships, and the scale of the water army will continue to expand in the future.
Such a naval army, if it is said that it is said that it will not be enough to fight a naval battle, but if it is a naval war in the north...... That's invincible!
Yan Bei secretly rejoiced in his heart that he actually forgot to build a ferry, thanks to the person who led the troops knew that he would let the fleet take the boats, otherwise he would definitely be anxious at this time, and he was determined to bring back the main thing to praise and praise the generals who came to the water army this time.
"Ziyi, you lead five hundred warriors to assist the sailors in setting up camp, welcome the general back, and I will pick him up under the city!"
Not to mention anything else, just his horse infantry army, everyone knows that he is strong, and those Central Plains scholars knew that he was good at military power before they defected to him, so even if they entered his camp, they would not have any special feelings in their hearts.
But the navy is different, the huge warships are put into the river, if it is a small river like Luoshui, which is not more than three or four hundred steps wide, five boats can seal the entire river, not to mention looking down at the top of the city, you can see those behemoths at a glance from a distance...... This brings a different sense of shock to the people of the Central Plains.
Guo Jia, Xu Shu and others shone brightly, and Xun Yue and Lu Zhi, who were standing beside Yanbei, also nodded secretly.
With such a sailor and such a ship, the navy of Liaodong has a lot to do!
And this scene fell in Han Dang's eyes, and he was also shocked. People say that southerners are not good at riding horses, and northerners are not good at boats, but even if Han Dang has seen many good men who are good at riding and shooting in the south over the years, he has not seen anyone in the north who is good at riding and shooting.
But now, a fleet of huge warships from Liaodong told Han Dang that even in a place like Jiangdong, a fleet of this size had never been seen!
If this kind of ship is placed in Jiangdong, it shows a huge amount of wealth, from wood to skin, from iron to canvas, all of which are piled up with money, but in Liaodong it is very different...... Forests and minerals are abundant, and all that is needed is craftsmen, as long as those craftsmen are alive, the field guards from all over the country will send the giant trees in the southeast of Liaodong, the iron ore of Qianshan, and the leather outside the plug to Wenxian County in a steady stream.
Yanbei's warship, all it needs is time.
In the final analysis, it is because no one in the former Han Dynasty Taishou dared to be as bold as Yanbei, wantonly opened up the wasteland in the territory, took forest trees and ores without authorization, and took all the things of the imperial court as his own...... Although it is said that in the near future, even now, there are many signs of it, and the Taishou Prefecture pastors everywhere will get such an awareness.
But I have to admit that in this matter, Yanbei seized enough opportunities.
Yan Bei was a little fond of these warships, and just looking at the outline of that huge fleet from a distance, it seemed that he could think of the scene of the future Yangtze River breaking the waves and crushing all the ships that were enemies with him into powder.
Luoyang City is not far from the ferry, and after a while, they saw Tai Shici and others riding towards the city on horseback, Yan Bei reluctantly looked at the distant warship again, and then beckoned everyone to go down to the city to greet them.
At the same time, he secretly decided in his heart that when the supplies were carried later, he must go on the ship to see it in person and touch the warship that belonged to him!
If it weren't for the fact that Yanbei felt that it might not be safe enough to return the land and water to Liaodong, and he would have to pass through too many princes' spheres of influence, he would even want to return north by boat. Repeatedly restraining himself from this somewhat dangerous thought, Yan Bei silently thought in his heart...... Wait, wait, wait until Liaodong sits on a warship for a few days!
When Tai Shi Ci walked closer and closer, Yan Bei found that it was none other than Tian Yu, who should be the Taishou in Xuansu County, and hurriedly stepped forward and shouted: "Guorang, why are you!" ”
Tian Yu saw Yanbei, immediately turned over and dismounted and bowed down on the spot, and was held up by Yanbei before he said with a smile: "Dealing with a county and a thousand miles of land, it is really hard and heavy for his subordinates, so he listened to the recommendation of others, and appointed Tian Chou, a native of Youbeiping, as the county leader, and the general leader of the county's affairs. ”
"Hahaha, how can I blame you, you stabbed Gongsun Du to death with a sword and relieved the siege of Liaodong County, it's too late for me to praise you!" Yan Bei grabbed Tian Yu's arm and walked towards the camp in the city, while introducing him to the new soldiers, he found that Tian Yu's legs were a little weak as he walked, and asked, "What's wrong with you, are you injured in Xuansu County?" ”
Tian Yu smiled lightly and explained: "The road is far away and the water surface is bumpy, and the subordinates of other people's territories are not at ease, so they just dock at Donglai to make up for their baggage, and they don't stop the boat along the way, and they are not used to stepping on the ground." ”
Yanbei had never been on a big boat in his life, and naturally he didn't know what it was like to sail for more than a month, so he immediately held Tian Yu's arm and sighed: "It's not easy to sail, the country is hard, let's go, let's go to pick up the wind and wash the dust for you!" ”
"General, war?" Tian Yu originally thought that Yanbei ordered the Liaodong ships to come in order to participate in the war, so the ships were equipped with all Liaodong's newly replaced Zilong crossbows and other weapons, and even on the flagship, they even groped for the Wuhan Iron and Steel crossbow made by the four counties, although the accuracy was very far away, but the range was strong enough, and only three crossbows could hit the target if they were sent out of ten crossbows at fifty paces, but once they hit, the eight-foot thick spear and heavy arrows could pierce the Ke through a big hole, and the power was incomparable!
But when he came to Luoyang, he found that the situation facing Yanbei did not seem to be so tense that it was necessary to transfer a fleet from Liaodong.
Yan Bei smiled with a cunning meaning, shook his head slightly, and smiled at Tian Yu: "The battle is over, I called you here to transport things back to Liaodong." I'll talk about this later, let's go, let's go and pick you up first! ”