Approaching the winter moon, Xue Zhou, who was transferred from the south to the Bohai Sea in the north, and then went ashore in the palace of Zhao Wang and received a few seals, led his army to set sail and arrived at Wenxian County, Liaodong, on the opposite bank. Wenxian and Qiqi are the earliest shipbuilding divisions built by Yan, and they are also the beginning of geographically changing the direction of shipbuilding technology development in Zhao.

Because the water battles that will take place in Liaodong are all directly facing the sea, this determines that all the warships of the Yan clan are sea ships. So much so that under normal circumstances, the ships built in Wenxian would not be sent to other battlefields to participate in the war between the princes. Even if they participated, the battles they engaged in were such as the battles of Yuan Shao and Jiangdong Sun in the East China Sea, attacking and harassing the coast. The ships that actually participated in the inland river war were all made of Bohai County.

Sea ships for the Yan clan to stabilize the rule in Youzhou, since the beginning of Sun Qingzhang Wen County, the Yan clan has a coastal sea army, just one year to add dozens of large and small warships, become the most powerful maritime force in the Bohai Sea, deterring the coast of Youji, but to the world disputes gradually clear, the sea ships in the Yan clan no longer have such an important position.

Shock, what should be shocked is all the shock, how to deter?

Cao would rather go to Jiaozhou than enter Yangzhou, which is the reason. Who would dare to go to the coast? Even the fleet of the Jiangdong Sun clan, which was the most proficient in water warfare among the princes, could not stop the Yan clan on the river, and who dared to flee to the coast.

If Cao Cao goes to Yangzhou, let alone overseas, no matter which river he enters, he can be blocked by the Yan's river boat from the Bohai Sea.

Xue Zhou added forty-eight fighting ships and more than 200 ships to his fleet in Wenxian County, and was ordered to recruit sailors in the coastal counties of Liaodong and Lelang. The recruitment of the Yan clan is very easy, especially in the land where Yanbei started, and the recruitment tradition of more than ten years has made the people here accustomed to being hired by the Yan clan to fight, yes, it is a hire.

The relationship between Yanbei and Youzhou Xiangyong was more like employment, and the unbroken baggage, the clear amount of pensions, the clear rewards for military exploits, and the military cantonment that allowed them to disband and return to their hometowns after crossing the Yellow River determined that the Youzhou people were accustomed to being recruited by the Yan clan to fight and subsidize their families.

In the war, although Yanbei was a Youzhou native, more of the soldiers under the Yan clan were Jizhou warriors. The roads of Jizhou extend in all directions, and they are not too far from the states, and the people of Jizhou are also affected by the convenience of transportation, and most of them can speak a lot of other languages such as Youzhou, Qing, Yan, Henan, Si, and the prefectures, so that they can fight in these lands, while the scope of activities of the Youzhou warriors is limited to the eastern Xianbei, Goguryeo Buyeo hometown and Jizhou outside the border fortress, once they cross the Yellow River, their combat power will drop significantly, and at the same time, the homesickness will also be difficult for them to continue to play their due combat ability.

Therefore, the Youzhou Army played a pivotal role in the early stage of Yan's conquest of the world, and in the later stage, it gradually became a local force that was no different from other states.

This is a good thing for the people of Youzhou, less participation in the war means fewer casualties, although the opportunity to be rewarded for the relative war exploits is reduced, but in the early stage, in order to supply the war needs, Yanbei reclaimed a huge area of 'own fields' and ordered the four counties of Youdong to build the 'Fugong Canal' extending in all directions to ensure adequate irrigation of these lands. There is no doubt that more than ten years after Xun Yue implemented the Tiance reform, all these Yan's 'self-reserved land' were distributed to the people in the state in the form of rent and purchase by the state government.

The Tiance reform here is mainly grasped by Xun Yue, and naturally there are not many problems of one kind or another in Jizhou and Guanzhong, and Youdong is no longer as poor as before, and no longer needs to be rewarded for military achievements to support his family...... So this is a good thing for the people of Youzhou.

But no one resisted the recruitment of the Yan family, on the contrary, as the starting place of the Yan army, but also as the place where the world's longest-term training of the village brave, the young people who grew up in this land all have martial hearts, in the late autumn of the fifth year of Xinghe, more than 7,000 Youzhou sons who lived on the coast boarded the warship of Xuezhou, and sailed to the place called Yingzhou with more than 6,000 warriors who had participated in more than one war.

Gan Ning hung the brocade banner on the fighting ship that belonged to him again, and I have to say that his move brought him considerable benefits. Xue Zhou recruited troops in Youzhou this time, and the soldiers all chose coastal sailors, probably all counties can recruit eight or nine hundred or even thousand, two or three hundred sailors, only Gan Ning is recruiting troops in the warship.

Ganning recruited more than 3,000 young people.

A horse of Shu brocade in Liaodong sold for more than 4,000 yuan, and the brocade sail used on the Ganning boat should be measured at least ten zhang, before the Ganning warship appeared in the water, the most gorgeous warship that these children who grew up by the sea saw was Tian Yu's colorful building ship, but it was just a five-color silk scarf pulled up on the side of the boat, where can it be more visually impactful than Ganning's brocade flag.

In order to board this ship, people did not hesitate to work for Gan Ning.

Today's Gan Ning is no longer the captain in Jingzhou who is not treated by Liu Biao, nor is he a general who was quickly promoted before the difficult war, he is just a lieutenant under the general of Yingzhou Xue Zhou, but this captain has the authority to lead a fleet of forty-two warships without limiting the number of soldiers and horses, which Xue Zhou personally asked for from Yanbei.

is also begging for a living on the water, Xue Zhou, who was born as a pirate, does not think that he has the talent to command such a large fleet, and his subordinate Gan Ning, he happens to know the glorious achievements of this Jinfan thief leader in the past, whether it is the fierce resistance to the huge number of Yan's naval army in the water or the Liangzhou cavalry with the defeat of the same strength on the shore, this Shu County man is a rare good hand.

Xue Zhou needs such a person to share the pressure for him, and there is no doubt that Gan Ning is the best choice. Not to mention, there was also a man named Su Fei under Gan Ning, who was also a general of the Jingzhou Army in the past, and they all had enough talent to help him fight against the Sun clan if possible.

Approaching the end of autumn, the coasts of Youzhou have frozen, and the winter is earlier than in previous years, which brings people a very bad feeling, but this does not delay the coast of Wenxian and Yudi will never freeze. Xue Zhou led a huge fleet of many ships to Yingzhou, and the new soldiers of Youzhou wearing thick clothes and armor on board were gearing up, looking forward to a war worthy of their ten years of hard training when the ships reached the opposite shore.

However, they will be disappointed in the end, and when the fleet arrives in Yingzhou in winter, it is clearly not war that greets them.

Sun Quan smiled and led his subordinates to greet them at the port, and with a kind face, after a bland ceremony, Sun Quan became the real Yingzhou Mu of Zhao State.

No one knew that this blue-eyed young man had the heart to kill whenever he looked at the Yan clan's huge fleet in the port.

I just hate that he can't jump.