After fighting in the middle of the night, with Guan Cheng being killed, the resistance of the rest of the pirates finally subsided.

In the early morning of the next day, when Tai Shici inspected his fleet through the morning light, he found that although the casualties of the Han army were not large, the material losses were really not small.

"These pirates, as expected, are stubborn people, they are all dead, and they have cut down the cables and sails of our ships, and it seems that they have to dock and spend a day or two repairing the ship before they can collect prisoners of war and go back to their lives."

It turned out that in the final stage of last night's battle, the reason why the Han army was so efficient in killing the enemy with bows and crossbows was all because the ships of the sea were close to each other to give friendly troops a chance to shoot at close range.

At that time, the closest thing between the ships was only about 20 paces, which was equivalent to aiming very kindly before releasing the arrows, and the other party had nowhere to dodge, so they were shot in such a batch.

The helmsman of the sea ship is in the tail tower, and there is a lot of protection, and the pirates who kill the deck of the Han warship cannot control the rudder if they can't kill the tail tower.

After being shot badly, the pirates finally came to their senses and took advantage of the fact that they had control over the deck to frantically slash the masts and sails on the deck, as well as the canopy for the sails. After all the sails and masts were cut down, the Han warships were prevented from continuing to move closer to each other and shoot accurately through the portholes.

That's why there is this scene when Tai Shici inspected the battle damage: not many people died, and the ship's power system was all cut down. Fortunately, Mi Zhu is a rich master, otherwise I am afraid that the loss of naval equipment will make people feel distressed for a while.

The navy's equipment is all made of real money, and it is really difficult to build a navy without money.

Fortunately, Salmon Island is the old nest of the Guancheng, and the docks of Pirate Island are generally stockpiled with some ship repair materials, and after arriving on the island, dozens of ship repair carpenters from good people were captured - all of them were previously captured by pirates from the coast of Donglai.

These are all people who were forced to be thieves, and of course Tai Shici wanted to treat them differently, so he restored these Donglai villagers to their freedom, gave them grain, rice and wine, and asked them to help the officers and soldiers repair the ship.

While inspecting and repairing the ship, Tai Shici deeply observed the people's situation and chatted with those craftsmen for a while. Only then did I know that even the pirates who killed people without blinking an eye were still very polite to the captured shipwrights and carpenters, and usually the pirates would give the carpenters wine and meat when they robbed the property, no wonder these people were not surprised at all when they were rewarded by the officers and soldiers, and they were not particularly grateful to Dade.

In any era, it is a good life to have a handicraft, and you can live a nourishing life in the nest of thieves.

After staying on Salmon Island for a few days to repair ships, the remaining pirates on the islands basically knew about Guan Cheng's death and the imperial court's attitude towards their settlement.

The pirate soldiers were outlaws who had at least a few lives on their back, but they were not punished severely when they heard that they surrendered, but they were exiled to the Han River valley to the east to farm, so they were willing to surrender.

A few small leaders were suspicious, and wanted to ask about the details of the specific conditions before putting down their weapons, so they pleaded: "General Taishi, we are in Shamen, although the knife licks the blood, we can rob some women, and when we go to the land of no one in Sanhan, won't we be cut off from children and grandchildren for the rest of our lives?" ”

Tai Shi Ci sneered: "Waste, you can say such a thing, robbing the wives and daughters of our Donglai people, you can do it, Baekje has a population of hundreds of thousands, and when you get there, you don't dare to get it yourself?" ”

Those little thieves were pardoned: "The woman who robbed Samhan...... The court won't convict us of pirates? That...... What about robbing those Baekje men to come back and become serfs? Let them help us open up wasteland and farm, and the court doesn't care about the law? ”

Tai Shi Ci: "That is the land of Huawai, as long as the court comes forward to take over these lands in the future, you can respect the court - Changshi has an order, anyone who is willing to go to Huawaituntian, with 500 people as a camp, not subordinate to each other, not to infringe on each other, only under the direct jurisdiction of the county guard." If anyone dares to follow suit, then try it. The court can destroy you once, and it can destroy you a second time! ”

The policy read out by Tai Shici was also discussed by Mi Zhu and Li Su, and he was very business-minded.

The reason why Guan Cheng had to be killed was because these thieves were too fierce, and the leader of the immortal leader could not obey the people, so he had to be beaten.

Moreover, in order to prevent them from re-expanding overseas into new countries that cannot be defeated, it is necessary to dismantle them and restrain each other.

According to the scale of prisoners counted in the past few days, plus Mi Zhu's care before the war, Tai Shici felt that these people could be divided into about five battalions, and each battalion would be counted as five hundred people.

According to Mi Zhu's understanding of the situation in Lelang County, the 500 outlaws who licked blood and killed people without blinking an eye were enough to gain a firm foothold in the wild area south of the Han River, and would not be wiped out by the Sanhan savages.

Because today's Sanhan savages are also very loose small tribal organizations. There were at least fifty tribes in Baekje, and there were probably hundreds in the Silla area, and those Dongyi themselves were not affiliated with each other and did not establish a strong central group, so it was not afraid of a single tribe clashing with these pirates.

Of course, the weapons of these pirates must be collected at the moment, so as to ensure the safety of the reorganization and exile.

When they reach their exile destination, the Han River Valley, they can return their guns, leather armor, and bows and arrows, while the iron armor and crossbows are completely confiscated.

A few of the small leaders were afraid that the head of the Guan Cheng was still inserted on a wooden stake to show the public, and they felt that the small boats they usually used as pirates could at most go to the coast of Dongnae or the Tsushi Clan, and could not drive to the land of the Three Koreas—from Salmon Island to Ongjin in the protrusion of the Korean Peninsula in the later generations, the distance was at least seven times that of Dongrae and five times that of the Tsushi, and the sea conditions were also worse.

Now that the imperial court is willing to exile them, it can be regarded as giving them a ticket that they themselves could not open, and there is no law there, as long as they have a hard fist, they can open up the wasteland, which is acceptable.

They don't have the ability to farm, but since there is no law, it would be good to catch Baekje serfs and teach them to plant.

And from the perspective of the imperial court, even if these pirates and the Baekje people kill each other, it doesn't matter. Before they are destroyed, they will definitely leave behind some houses, docks, roads that have been stepped on, and ripe fields that have been cultivated. When the environment gets better, it would be better to send new immigrants there.

In the first few groups of exiles sent to Charleston in history, few of them survived, and the pirates should be punished as pioneers.

And so it stumbled and carried out.

……

Ten days later, everything was closed, Mi Zhu and Li Su, who were in Xiangping, also made a final opinion on the matter, and Xu Rong also seconded the proposal, and attributed all the credit to Tai Shici in the document reporting the military situation.

"Ziyi's contribution is not small, come on, send the head of the management to Jixian County, and show merit in the envoy's office, and by the way, Ziyi will be the Sima of other departments in the report document!"

It is indeed not too much to exterminate 3,000 pirates and kill the head of the thieves, and give it to individual subordinates.

However, when I saw the loss bill, Rao had a lot of money, but it was still a little painful, so many warships had broken masts and destroyed sail booms, and it was indeed a lot of money to repair.

Li Su took advantage of the last bit of time before leaving Liaodong, and felt that it would be better to help Mi Zhu open a little bit in terms of navigation technology and warship design, after all, naval technology is the most fundamental thing to ensure the separation of Liaodong and Donglai.

There will be no news in the next few years, and it will be necessary to open the technical generation gap between the warship and other princes before leaving.

However, Li Su is not blindly blind and brainless, thinking that "the ships that appeared later in history must be more advanced than the ships that appeared earlier".

For example, if we really compare the Clark ship of the Age of Discovery with the Galen ship, the later and larger Galen ship must be better than the Clark ship? Not necessarily, because the Galen ship you have to be in the mode of battle line artillery battle is better, without artillery to fight bows and crossbows or even hand-to-hand combat, how can there be an advantage.

Therefore, before the reform, Li Su did not have a fixed law in his heart, but proceeded from the actual battle situation very realistically, and asked Tai Shici to report in detail the process of the battle in front of him and Mi Zhu, and let Tai Shici analyze and summarize the reasons for the losses at each stage.

You can't do it behind closed doors.

Even when explaining, Mi Zhu didn't understand, so Li Su asked Tai Shici to take them on the warship and compare the real scene.

Tai Shici also felt that it was very fresh, he had never seen a civilian official so pragmatic, and he reviewed the details of the battle with Wufu on the spot, and talked very energetically, describing the details of how he used the warship to cover each other's firepower, rushed to the deck, and even climbed on the side of the ship.

In this way, Li Su has a lot of intuitive gains, and he can also see the disadvantages of the existing warships.

After listening to this, Li Su nodded frequently and communicated with Mi Zhu: "Zizhong, I see Ziyi's battle in this battle, and the harvest is not small." The elimination of pirates is a small matter, the key is to learn the truth in actual combat, and try out several defects that are not easy to use today's warships. If there are changes in the world in the future, it will take a long time to control Liaodong, and the money for improving warships cannot be spared. ”

Mi Zhu is also very open: "This is for the sake of local stability, and it should be." Mr. Fei Boya even knows how to change the warship? As I was told, I let the craftsman dispose of it. In the future, the construction of new ships will also be explained by Mr. ”

Li Su pointed to the current sand boat-type sea ship and said a few points: "The most important thing in sailing at sea is to be stable when encountering cross waves, so I asked you to add lateral stabilizing fins below the water surface. Now it seems that the stabilizing fin effect is good, and it can continue to be widened, and at the same time, there is no need to use a square boat in the bow, which can be narrowed and sharpened, reducing drag and speeding up the boat.

However, the bow of the ship is usually wide, not only for stability, but also to reduce the dead space of arrows from the ship to the sides. After the bow becomes sharper, this problem is not as good as solving it with 'volleying bow and stern buildings that are wider than the hull'.

For example, the middle of the hull is two feet wide and the sides are eight feet above the water, so the bow and stern buildings can be made from above the deck and then to the two sides of the ship, one foot and five feet high, and the front and rear portholes can be opened. In wartime, if an enemy soldier wants to jump ship, he can shoot from the side of the arrow window of the bow and tail of the ship to the enemy soldier who is scratching the hook and climbing the boat.

This kind of shooting, which is mostly within a dozen paces, is much more accurate than firing at each other, and can almost ensure that the enemy who jumps from the side of the ship will never be able to board the ship, and the effect is comparable to that of defending the city. ”

Mi Zhu was a little confused when he heard this, and he thought about it for a long time before he imagined this shape.

This means that the hull of the ship may be only two feet wide at the bow and stern, while the superstructure will be three or four feet wide on each side, and the total width may be two feet seven or eight feet.

Isn't that ship top-heavy?

"Since ancient times, I have never heard of a ship that is wide at the top and narrow at the bottom...... Won't it overturn? Mi Zhu asked a little uncertainly.

Li Su: "That's why I want you to further widen the stabilizing fins, in addition, the ships of the imperial court navy are all inland river voyages, and their buildings are tall and majestic, generally living in the middle of the hull. Didn't those buildings capsize either?

Really calculate the weight, my plan, the total weight of the superstructure must be much lighter than that of the building ship, and the center of gravity will only be lower than that of the building ship. The weight of the superstructure should be used on the cutting edge, and only the bow and stern buildings should be added in the future, but the middle part of the deck should be made as low as possible, saving weight and saving the bow and stern. ”

The superstructure of the warship has been changed from a large castle tower in the middle to two small buildings that are wide at the beginning and tail but not long in overall length, which can also be regarded as the progress of shipbuilding technology.

Historically, the building ship of China, the ironclad ship of my own house, and the Clark ship after the Western voyage of the same era, the scientific gap in the cabin layout is here, which is similar to the cleaning of the dead corners of various protrusions when defending the city.

For Li Su, he is not very professional, but after all, he has played a lot of games such as the "Age of Discovery" in later generations, and a little caution is enough for the Han Dynasty people to ponder for a long time.

It's better to focus on defense, design the firing range efficiency, and get two small 360-degree firing ships.

It took Mi Zhu a long time, combined with the common sense of defending the city, to realize the beauty of Li Su's design.

"This is a brilliant plan, so that there is no fear of the enemy soldiers boarding the ship and hand-to-hand combat, even if they want to jump ship, in the case of the sailors on both sides are almost elite, they will have to pay at least three or five times the casualties." Mi Zhu couldn't help but sigh.

Li Su also argued the truth more and more clearly, and suddenly thought of a bad move: "We can also generalize it - don't all sailors like to build buildings and ships with whole city towers, and feel that the more condescending and the more arrows are released, the more advantageous it is to shoot."

In the future, we can also mislead other ill-intentioned people to make a kind of hollow-shaped shipbuilding, and make their shipyard higher while the weight remains the same. If anyone learns this kind of shipbuilding technique, in the water battle in the Yellow River and the Yangtze River, the condescending advantage will definitely be more obvious, but if they dare to come to the sea, a gust of wind can blow these ships over, so Liaodong will become more and more worry-free. ”

Li Su's bad trick was also a flash of inspiration, thinking of the luxury cruise ships that he had taken in later generations, why the superstructure could be built so high - such as the "Diamond Princess", everyone who has really been on the ship knows that the rooms that look like more than ten floors are actually U-shaped or even hollow-shaped, with a hollow courtyard in the middle.

In this way, the displacement saved can make the floor higher, but at the cost of a higher overall center of gravity of the ship.

Later generations of large cruise ships often had a displacement of more than 100,000 tons, so the high point of the center of gravity was not afraid of the sea breeze capsizing. However, the building ships of the Han Dynasty could not go to sea in the first place, and then they were misled to further pursue the advantage of the height of the arrow and raise the center of gravity, and they did not kill themselves in a minute after going to sea.

Anyway, the people of the Han Dynasty basically did not move Newton's laws, and they did not know how to use the physical principle of the "center of gravity", and dedicated this erroneous drawing of "being stronger in the river and going to the sea to find death" to Yuan Shao, Tao Qian, and Sun Jian, and the Liaodong Navy would never have to worry about it.

……

Li Su spent the last few days of his stay in Liaodong like this, and spent Mi Zhu helping him try to strengthen the navy.

It was not until the beginning of December that all the ships were repaired, and the first one or two model ships with modified superstructures were also refurbished, and the results were very good after the secret trial.

In addition, Tai Shici's appointment of Sima from other departments was also approved by Liu Yu and was officially promoted.

However, along with the messenger who appointed Tai Shici as Sima of the other ministries, there was also a new order from the imperial court, which was addressed to Li Su.

"Captain Li! The imperial court was urgently transferred, removed from the post of captain of Wuhuan Guard, and reappointed as the general of the Xiongnu Zhonglang, and ordered you to set off to Hedong on the same day to restrain Guan Yu, the commander of Hedong, and Yu Yu, the Southern Xiongnu. ”

Li Su was shocked when he heard the report: "What? Yun Chang is in trouble? When he was stationed in Hedong to defend against the White Wave Thieves, he still fought with the Southern Huns? I...... I am the captain of Wuhuan, how can He De be directly promoted to the general of the Huns? ”

He was also embarrassed to ask in the second half of the sentence, that is, "The court needs to do more."

The captain of the Wuhuan is more than 2,000 stones, so that the Xiongnu Zhonglang will be 2,000 stones. Although they are all in charge of the foreign affairs of the Han court against a certain barbarian, they are at a higher level.

Could it be that it was really a very major trouble, causing Emperor Han Ling to give you another half rank without letting you add money?

Fortunately, the messenger from the imperial court was also knowledgeable and did not pretend to others, and after Li Su received the order, he told him in a generous and generous whisper:

"Don't worry, the trouble caused by Guan Duwei in Hedong is not very big, and in the process of suppressing Baibo, there was friction with friendly troops, but both sides restrained it. The imperial court also disliked that there were too many forces in Hedong, so many troops were too close to Luoyang, and His Majesty also needed someone to share his worries and transfer some foreign troops away.

It is also Zongzheng Shaoqing Xuande Gong for His Majesty to share worries, recently Zhang Lu colluded with his clan relatives to intercept and kill the Han envoy The case is almost investigated, it is Xuande Gong who took the initiative to ask His Majesty for his life, saying that Li Zhonglang is familiar with Hu affairs, good at appeasing foreign Yi, and recommended His Majesty to promote Li Zhonglang to make the Xiongnu Zhonglang general. ”

Li Su understood in seconds: Liu Bei, who is now a Beijing official, must have taken the initiative to give the emperor money!

He, the general of the Huns, should be the last official to be promoted with money before Emperor Ling's death, and since His Majesty's edict shows that "Li Su took office because of his talent" and did not ask for money to repair the palace, then the truth must be that Liu Bei actually secretly spent more money than the original price! In exchange for buying an official without damaging your reputation!

However, this edict is still very credible, because now all the ministers of the Manchu Dynasty know that Li Su's talent is indeed the first diplomat of the Han Dynasty, and the emperor said that he did not take the money to repair the palace, but only wanted to do things well, and everyone must believe it.

will also feel more and more that Li Su's envoy eloquence is awesome, and he is worthy of the emperor's extrajudicial favor.

A genuine Xiongnu Zhonglang general, how can he get more than 20 million, maybe Liu Bei paid 30 million for him!

From Liu Bei's point of view, he was also afraid that after Li Su was handed over in Liaodong, he would be transferred away by the emperor on another errand.

After all, Liu Bei and Li Su are both Hanchen, although Li Su has always partnered with Liu Bei and his official position is half a level lower than Liu Bei, but the emperor has no obligation to let Li Su follow Liu Bei all the time, and it is only natural that he wants to transfer Li Su away.

Therefore, Liu Bei was afraid that this kind of great sage in the world would be dragged to follow other lords when he came to the door, so he was willing to give up this 30 million blood plan to feel at ease, and only asked Li Su to continue to work with him.

Perhaps, Liu Bei has already been appointed as the Taishou of Hanzhong, and is about to be sent by the imperial court to suppress bandits, at this time, Li Su will be taken to Guan Yu's colleague and deal with the conflict between Guan Yu and Yu Fuluo.

Maybe the conflict between Guan Yu and Yu Fuluo was instigated by Liu Bei!

Maybe this strategy was thought up by Lu Su, who went to Luoyang to defect to Liu Bei more than a month earlier!

"Okay, anyway, Liaodong's side has also been settled, since the imperial court has urgent military affairs, it is my duty to go to Hedong to take up my post." Li Suxin comprehended and took Dian Wei and the others to set off.