Chapter 101: Sun Quan's Ambition for the Sea
"Fishing boats?" Ling Cao was slightly stunned, a little incomprehensible.
"Yes, in order to stimulate the morale of the Huiji soldiers, Wang Lang followed the example of Xiang Yu, the overlord of Western Chu, and sank all the warships of the Huiji Naval Army, some of the small boats sank in the moat, and the other warships sank in Taihu Lake."
Sun Quan nodded, and said in a deep voice: "The warships of the Huiji Navy are all good warships, even if he is scuttled, the damage level is not big in a hurry, and it can be repaired, you dispatch five hundred soldiers, immediately salvage all the warships, and then send them to ...... I remember that there was a dock in the western part of Wu County that belonged to the name of the county guard, and I sent it there to prepare for repairs. ”
There is a shipyard built next to Taihu Lake in Wujun, which is used to make warships, and the scale is not small, after all, when the world is not chaotic, the navy of Wujun is not worse than the Huiji navy.
However, in recent years, Wu County has been a little chaotic, Sheng Xian, the county guard, has no jurisdiction, and Du Wei Xu Gong only cares about the thousands of county soldiers under his command, and there is no development of the Wu County Naval Army at all, and no one has allocated funds for this dock, so it is naturally abandoned.
"Okay, it, let's do it now!" Ling Cao immediately understood, nodded, walked out, and began to dispatch soldiers to salvage the sunken ship.
After the battle of Wu County, Sun Quan profoundly understood one thing, in Jiangdong, without an elite naval army, there would be no relative mobility.
"It's enough to fight this battle in Wu County once, and if you come again, I can't stay up, this time it's a big loss for the draught army to move troops quickly, but after suffering a loss, it seems that the Jiangdong Navy must develop rapidly."
There are many rivers and lakes in Jiangdong, and the waterways extend in all directions, and the navy is much more important than the cavalry.
Now Sun Quan has completely understood that there can be no elite cavalry in Jiangdong, but there must be an elite naval army.
The Jiangdong Army, not counting the county soldiers in various places, had 50,000 before the expedition, and all of them were elite soldiers, Sun Jian supported 50,000 elite Jiangdong Army with the land of Wu County and one county, relatively speaking, it was not rich, and even some of them were diligent and militaristic.
Of course, the premise of this diligent military force is also to pave the way for the capture of Danyang and Huiji, and the Sun family is determined to Danyang County and Huiji County, so it can only be regarded as an advance in advance.
An army, weapons, armor, food, and money are all astronomical, especially cavalry, and the establishment of the overlord iron cavalry under Sun Ce cost Jiangdong too much money relatively speaking.
In addition to the foot soldiers, it was the main force that captured the city, and Sun Jian naturally attached great importance to it, so if the military expenditure was insufficient, he could only throttle, and the throttling was saved on the head of the Jiangdong naval army.
Since the establishment of the navy, not a single new ship has been built, which shows that the Sun family does not pay enough attention to the navy.
The naval army led by Jiang Qin now is basically from the warships captured by Sun Ce and Sun Quan's brothers from the Danyang naval army, and some are left by the original Wujun naval army, and then they are captured from the Taihu Lake Water Village.
"Shipbuilding, shipbuilding must be built!"
Above the lobby of the county guard's mansion, Sun Quan sat on the top seat, gritted his teeth, his eyes burst with a touch of essence, and he muttered firmly: "Lao Tzu has traveled over for too long, he is confused, he is focused on the land, and he almost forgot about it, I am now in Jiangdong, Jiangdong is not only facing the inland river, but also a large sea under the blue sky and white clouds outside." ”
"This sea is the most important thing, I want to conquer the sea of 1,800 years ago!"
Sun Quan's expression became more and more excited, his eyes became more and more shining, he really wanted to see the Pacific Ocean more than 1,800 years ago, and he also wanted to cross the Pacific Ocean and go to Europe in this era.
At this time, Europe was still under the control of the Roman Empire, right?
If the Jiangdong Army could land in Europe one day, Sun Quan would make himself feel that he had contributed to this era.
"Although the current warships in Jiangdong are not able to sail in the sea at all, as long as we pay attention to it, concentrate the craftsmen of private shipbuilding, and are willing to vigorously develop it, I don't believe that it is impossible to study the warships of the navy?"
There was a confident smile on the corner of Sun Quan's mouth, he really didn't understand shipbuilding, and he didn't even know how the keel was laid, but he believed that the wisdom of the common people was invincible, as long as the craftsmen of Jiangdong shipbuilding were gathered to develop a research institute and vigorously support it.
He really didn't believe that human wisdom could overcome this sea.
Sometimes technology is not the key, the spirit of scientific research in the 21st century, dare to think, dare to do, in order to discover what you don't know, in order to take the most critical step.
Of course, the establishment of a navy is just an unrealizable ambition of Sun Quan now, the most important thing is to create a naval army that is strong enough to suppress the entire Jiangdong, but he remembers that the naval army of Jingzhou is not bad, if the Jiangdong naval army is not as good as the Jingzhou naval army, he should be killed by a head.
"But who will be the commander of the navy?" If you want to rapidly develop Jiangdong's navy, you must have a leader who is familiar with the navy and has outstanding ability, otherwise it will be a plate of loose sand.
Sun Quan squinted his eyes and began to think about this problem, although the navy is now led by Jiang Qin, Jiang Qin obviously does not have the ability to land in the position of the commander of the navy.
"Zhou Yu? Yes, I forgot about Zhou Yu like this, the first strategist in Jiangdong, the future governor of the naval army of Eastern Wu, familiar with water warfare, burned the serial boats, and killed the Jingzhou naval army with one fire, the great hero who won the battle of Chibi, how could I forget you. ”
Sun Quan had a flash of inspiration, remembered it, and immediately burst out laughing, and the laughter echoed in the empty hall: "This naval commander was originally yours, and now only you are responsible, and after the battle of Danyang is over, this son will pull you out of the eldest brother's side." ”
The commander of the navy army had a candidate, and Sun Quan began to transfer out the files of the county guard's mansion, and inquired about some of the people's shipbuilding skills, and the big carpenters who could build warships.
With Zhang Zhao here, Wu County cleaned up the battlefield and built the city wall...... Sun Quan doesn't need to pay too much attention to these aftermath matters, Zhang Zhao's ability can definitely handle things properly, and within three days, Wu County will be able to restore peace.
So now Sun Quan began to focus on the establishment of a research institute for shipbuilding technicians, and he must develop Jiangdong's naval army, then develop the navy, and then conquer this sea that is still dangerous.
"Liu You, this is good, I have experience in independently manufacturing fighting ships!"
"Xu Shui, this is even better, he actually participated in the construction of the Huiji Lou ship, so he must be familiar with the Lou ship and can't miss it."
After being busy for almost two or three days, Sun Quan read almost all the files of the county guard's mansion, and only then did he find a few capable shipbuilders, and he wanted to visit them one by one.
However, at this time, Zhu Zhi came to him, and he remembered that in this war, there was still a small tail that had not been dealt with properly, and the shipbuilding matter had to be put aside first.
"Childe, the hundreds of county soldiers we have survived, shouldn't we also let them come back, the county soldiers who maintain order now are all newly recruited, not enough!" Zhu Zhi hurriedly came to the county guard's mansion, met Sun Quan, and said directly.
Four or five days have passed since the battle, and although hundreds of county soldiers are somewhat injured, they are not seriously injured, but Sun Quan still does not let them return to the county office.
Zhu Zhi still wants to rely on this batch of county soldiers as a basis to train the county soldiers in Wu County to a higher level, of course, he will not let Sun Quan swallow it in one bite.
"Hehehe...... Zhu County Order, from now on, they will not be county soldiers. "Sun Quan is unwilling to let go of this group of soldiers and horses from the bloody battle, those who have experienced such bloody battles and survived, as long as they are trained, they are the most elite soldiers and horses.
This batch of soldiers and horses is too extravagant to keep as county soldiers.
"Sure enough!" Zhu Zhi shook his head, and knew that Sun Quan had eaten this batch of troops, so he had to say pitifully: "Son, if you leave me a hundred people, you also know that the county soldiers of Wu County are all newly recruited now, and the threat is not enough, so they can't maintain order in Wu County." ”
"No way!" Sun Quan shook his head, was silent for a while, and said: "I have a lot of use for this batch of soldiers, so I can't give it to you, but you can go to Ling Cao and transfer a batch of troops from the army to rebuild the skeleton of the county soldiers of Wu County." ”
Zhu Zhi had no choice but to go to Ling Cao to find someone.
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In Wu County, in the east of the city, a military camp is established here, covering a wide area, this was originally the military camp of Wu County soldiers, established for more than ten years, can accommodate 5,000 soldiers at the same time to practice a large military camp, the periphery is erected with wooden stakes to erect a two-meter-high wall, there are a lot of defensive military inside, it is a small fortress.
After the bloody battle in Wu County, more than 1,800 Jiangdong soldiers and soldiers who survived the Jiangdong soldiers, county soldiers, young and strong, and prisoner soldiers were resting here.
Sun Quan took his little follower Han Tao and walked in, although Han Tao is not strong in martial arts, but he is smart, bold enough, and courageous, he can handle simple government affairs for Sun Quan, and he can also go to the battlefield with Sun Quan fearlessly.
Even a ten-year-old boy, in the face of the bloody battle in Wu County, his mentality recovered in only one day, and Sun Yi was not good, after the bloody battle in Wu County, although he also killed several enemies, he has not recovered his spirit until now.
"Gongzi Quan!"
As soon as Sun Quan walked in, several guards guarding the front door immediately saluted loudly, and the sound shook the entire camp, and a kind of soldiers came out of the barracks one after another.
"Childe."
"Gongzi Quan!"
"Brothers, Childe is here, come out quickly!"
After experiencing this battle, every soldier who can survive is the main general who can take the lead in a critical moment and never hide behind them.
They admitted it from the bottom of their hearts, as soon as they saw Sun Quan walk in, they greeted respectfully one by one, and many people ran out of the barracks with injuries, and the entire barracks suddenly became lively.