[Don't doubt the results of the rebel sailors here, not to mention how the Western powers knocked on the door of China with strong ships and cannons, it shows the mid-term Japanese rebellion, and it can also be seen that when the land regime did not have a strong naval army, there was almost no resistance to the enemy from the sea. 】

The sound of "bells and bells" was endless, but I saw that on the two railroad tracks, the four-wheeled iron van car was full of wood and was sliding all the way down from the kinetic energy converted from the gravitational potential energy of the mountain.

After countless practical battles, countless cars were turned over, and the optimal load capacity was finally calculated, and when the kinetic energy of the iron van was exhausted, it happened to stop in the unloading area of the shipyard, and the most skilled van driver did not even need to pull the brakes once.

When the timber arrives at the unloading area, the driver of the van simply pulls open the gate, and the iron plate on one side of the van falls, and the timber on the cart rolls to the ground.

After unloading, the driver will take the two fast horses from the stables in the unloading area, turn them to the rear of the wagon, put on the ropes, and then set up the horses and pull the empty cart towards the timber construction site in the mountains.

The railroad tracks that Xu Chen had been trying to lay finally appeared on this island far from the mainland. The friction between the rails and the steel wheels is small, and the speed of transporting goods is far from being comparable to that of horse-drawn carriages.

The timber unloading area was not far from the city, and many horse-drawn carriages waited aside, and when the iron vans were finished, they hurried forward and carried the timber one by one onto the wagons under the guidance of the men.

Now the city is in the time of construction, although cement and masonry are mostly used, but there is no shortage of wood.

Each wagon of timber brought down from the mountains was usually distributed to the shipyards for shipbuilding, and was usually pulled back to the city by horse-drawn wagons.

Although the teenagers are all responsible for the house, the decoration of each family still has to pay for people and buy materials at their own expense. After all, what Xu Chen built was not a utopia, and it was impossible to supply all of them on demand.

Lu Hao had just finished inspecting the construction of the wharf and the shipyard, followed by Jiang Liu, the owner of the shipyard, and Mu Chun, who was responsible for supervising the construction of the entire city.

Several people left the shipyard and walked towards the unloading area.

"Lao Jiang, when will the shipyard be put into use, and when will the next batch of warships be launched at the earliest? Now the situation on the other side of the strait is not very stable, and the rebel sailors have begun to attack the southeast coast on a large scale, but the sailors of the imperial court are still being trained and have no strength to resist at all. ”

"Although the eldest brother does not let us do it in a hurry, we can't watch the people being ruined by the rebels, and from time to time sneak attack two under the banner of the official army, it will not hinder the layout of the eldest brother. Besides, it's not a matter for Zheng Tai's kid to be idle on the dock all day, find something for him, and use it as a training soldier!"

Lu Hao has an understanding of the recent situation, after the rebel sailors were dispatched, almost all the dangers caused by the big brother were guessed, and in the face of the bad situation, Lu Hao didn't care about the orders of the eldest brother, he just wanted to send some people out to extinguish the limelight of the rebels.

It has been two months since the rebels took Quanzhou, and the elite rebels who went south to Jianzhou were blocked by the local government army under the city of Jianzhou, and they were unable to advance an inch for several months, and now they have only taken three counties in the north of Jianzhou.

At this time, the rebel army was old, and Li Yi, who had returned to Quanzhou, could only order the front line to stop the offensive. As soon as the high-ranking rebel army returned to Quanzhou City, they began to fight frantically for power and profit, and some hot-headed guys even instigated Yang Tinghe to ascend the throne and claim the throne several times. Fortunately, Yang Tinghe is also an ambitious person, keeping in mind the guidelines formulated by Li Yi, and did not do such stupid things.

It took more than a month for Li Yi, who took full control of Quanzhou City, to have the opportunity to continue to implement the strategy he had formulated before.

The rebel sailors almost poured out, went north along the coastline, plundered the southeast coast all the way, and even entered the Yangtze River and canals, and reappeared under the city of Yangzhou.

The results achieved were so good that they were beyond Li Yi's expectations!

The rebel sailors marched all the way north, and the momentum was like a bamboo, and they did not encounter the slightest obstruction at all. even reappeared outside the east gate of Yangzhou, and taught the Yangzhou defenders a good lesson with the help of the ship's beating rod, and the gate tower in the east of Yangzhou City was even burned clean again by the fire oil canister thrown by the rebel sailors.

If it weren't for the lack of land siege equipment for the rebels, they would not have been a problem to break through the city again and take Yangzhou. After all, Wang Zhongsi never thought that the rebels could rely on the sailors to do this, and all the people who stayed in Yangzhou were old and weak.

In the end, the angry rebel sailors walked away leisurely after enjoying a bonfire party. The cavalry sent out by the officers and soldiers to pursue could only follow the rebel sailors along the river bank, throwing a few weak long arrows, which could not threaten the tall warships of the rebel sailors at all.

Finally, the section of the canal north of Yangzhou was not deep, and the rebels were all huge sea ships, which were impassable at all, so they did not continue north.

The first "Northern Expedition" of the rebel naval division was almost a repetition of the retreat route of more than a month ago. The results achieved were unprecedented! At the cost of almost zero casualties, a large area of land along the southeast coast was scourged, and countless gold and silver treasures were looted.

Li Yi's prestige also reached an unprecedented height within the rebels through this offensive! Fortunately, the clever Li Yi pushed all this qiē on Yang Tinghe, and the ambitious Yang Tinghe naturally knew what to do at such a time.

With the gold and silver treasures looted from this plunder, the rebels greatly expanded their forces, and the elite soldiers once grew to more than 100,000 people, plus other miscellaneous soldiers, a group of 500,000 troops. Across the vast land of Fujian, the momentum is unparalleled for a while!

"This ......" Jiang Liu naturally has some understanding of the current situation on the mainland, but Xu Chen gave orders in front of everyone at the beginning, and now Lu Hao wants to do something, which really makes Jiang Liu a little embarrassed.

"Second owner, the first batch of five docks has just been built, and now we have enough manpower, it is estimated that it will only take half a month to have a warship launched, but we have just arrived here, although the wood on the mountain is sufficient, but we have not stocked in advance, even if there is a drying room available, the first batch of warships to launch is estimated to be only two or three small ......"

Jiang Liu didn't want to refuse directly, so he took a detour, but what Jiang Liu said was also true.

At first, the boys' warships were those turtle boats, but now that they are at sea, these turtle ships seem a little smaller. Even if the current shipbuilding level of the Tang Dynasty is hundreds of years earlier, it is much higher than that of the later dynasties. Nowadays, the sailors under the command of the rebels are generally warships that are more than 30 zhang long, and turtle boats that are no more than 10 zhang long are not very powerful at all.

At the original Shengzhou Shipyard, all the sailing ships built were for the purpose of transporting grain to the South Seas. And the flying scissor sailboat provided by Xu Chen at the beginning, although it is fast and has a large cargo capacity, it is not very suitable for use as a warship. Later, Jiang Liu transformed the corresponding warships, and successfully built a few, but they were used by Xu Chen to deal with a few people in Yuntianhe, and finally shattered on the sea.

Later, Xu Chen was busy moving the shipyard and farm, and the Shengzhou shipyard had entered the stage of suspension of production.

The materials used in sea ships usually need to be dried naturally for half a year or even more than a year, and even if Xu Chen builds a drying room, it can only shorten the world to about half a month, and then it will affect the quality of wood.

Now that the shipyard has been transferred to the Ryukyus, it has been busy with construction for more than a month, so how can I have time to deal with the wood?

Nowadays, the timber used in the shipyard is still specially transported from Shengzhou, but the quantity is not much, and it is really only enough to build two or three small warships.

"Well...... this," Lu Hao lowered his head and muttered.

Jiang Liu peeked at Lu Hao, only to see that his face was sinking like water, as if he was unhappy, so he continued: "There are still two small warships left that were originally used to implement Yàn, and they are fully equipped with weapons, so they can still be used." ”

"Two ......" Lu Hao's face improved when he heard this, then he turned his head to look at Jiang Liu, and said: "I want you to transfer all the manpower now and make every effort to build a medium-sized warship, and it must be launched within ten days, can you do it?"

Faced with Lu Hao's almost harsh order, Jiang Liu dared to refuse, so he had to nod and say, "I'll do my best......"

Seeing that Jiang Liu said this, Lu Hao didn't care about him, and it was enough to hit this step.

Immediately, Lu Hao turned to Mu Chun again and asked, "How are things going in the city?"

"If you go back to the second owner's house, everything in the city is good, but there are still some deficiencies in people......"

Now the number of people in this city is almost more than 10,000, and if Xu Chen's army returns, the number will be doubled. Cities are not as large as farms, not only are they several times larger, but all the infrastructure of the city needs to be built in advance, otherwise it will be more troublesome if they are renovated in the future.

When the farm outside Shengzhou City was built, Xu Chen spent money to recruit many workers in Shengzhou City. The number of people involved in the construction is tens of thousands!

However, the total number of people who have migrated to the Ryukyus is less than 10,000, and many people have to be divided into docks, shipyards, and mountains at the same time, and the number of people who are actually used for the construction of the city is not even 3,000! Not counting women and children......

Today, the people who have migrated to the Ryukyus say that they work in various workshops, but in fact, most of them are directly or indirectly involved in the construction. Fortunately, the wages are affordable, and everyone is used to hardships, so they don't care what they do.

"There are not enough people to help, you know the reason why we have crossed the ocean to get here...... The people here today are people who are inextricably linked to us, and it is impossible to recruit people at will. ”

"If there are not enough people, then build the house first! You can't let the big guys crowd on the chase shop again, and as for the other projects, you can subdivide them after you go back and take them out in order." ”

Lu Hao said this, and Mu Chun could only nod yes.

The three of them walked like this, but they heard a loud shout from the railroad tracks not far away.

"Yo hehehe, the people in front of me get out of the way!

said it was loud, but in fact it was just a child's voice from a half-grown boy, but this guy was born with a loud voice, so it spread far and wide.

"This little stone that is undersmoked is playing again!"

Looking at the iron van that was rushing towards here on the railroad tracks, Lu Hao said with a straight face and gritted his teeth.