“…… Suju Yong'an, build a big ship, named Wuya, go up to five floors, more than 100 feet high, put six cypress poles on the left and right, 50 feet high, accommodate 800 soldiers, and add the flag to the top. The second time was called Huanglong, and there were 500 soldiers. There are differences between the self-balance multiplication and the ship. - "The Book of Sui: The Biography of Yang Su"

At the beginning of the Sui Dynasty, Emperor Wen of Sui Emperor Yang Jian in order to destroy Chen, Emperor Kaihuang of Sui in October of the fifth year, Emperor Wen took Yang Su, the Duke of Qinghe, as the governor of Xinzhou, passed through the upper reaches of the Yangtze River, and made military preparations for Chen. Yang Su was stationed in Yong'an, Xinzhou, and supervised the construction of large warships.

The five-tooth ship has a five-story structure and is more than 30 meters high. The lower four floors are equipped with troops, and the top floor is the lookout and command platform. Forty long oars are installed on both sides, which are propelled. The stern of the boat is equipped with two rocking oars for multiple oarists to work together to control the direction of travel. There are women's walls on the decks and tents of the warship, which can be concealed. There are battlements on the female wall for archery. The ship is provided with transverse bulkheads, on which longitudinal beams are set and planks are laid on them. Cabins and combat platforms are set up on top of the wooden planks, and earth and stones are filled under the planks to maintain the stability of the ship. Six slapping rods were set up on the left and right sides of the warship.

What is a "slap rod"?

"The General Essentials of the Martial Arts, the First Collection, Volume 11, and the Water War" contains: "The one who shoots the rod is applied to the big ship." Each ship was made of five floors, a hundred feet high, with six poles and fifty feet high, eight hundred soldiers, and flags on it. Every time the enemy ship is pressing, the shooting rod will be fired, and the ship will be shattered. ”

The so-called slapping rod, shaped like a large mast, with a boulder on it, was operated by a winch set below the deck, and it was a sharp weapon for water warfare at that time. During battle, use a roller to lift a boulder to the top of the pole to release the boulder and use the falling boulder to smash enemy ships that are close to the battleship. This monolith can be used repeatedly, and can be quickly destroyed if it gets close to an enemy ship.

It is no exaggeration to say that the Wuya battleship is the limit of the era of cold weapons, and its combat effectiveness and deterrence are equivalent to the battleships of later generations, and even surpassed! Not to mention the Sui and Tang dynasties, even if this kind of behemoth is put in the Song, Yuan, and Ming dynasties, it is also a super killer in the waters!

As soon as the sailors and soldiers under the command of the king who had changed into the costumes of the water warriors sailed into Niuzhuji, they saw this super battleship docked on the river, and they all gasped!

On the surface of the river, this kind of five-tooth battleship with a draft of seven or eight feet deep is simply an invincible existence! Who is the enemy this time? Since the fall of Xiao Milling and the stability of Jiangnan, the sailors of the Tang Dynasty have been declining and are no longer taken seriously, and this kind of super battleship built by the former Sui Dynasty has never been built, with the erosion of the river, the five tooth warships that have been too old have been abandoned one after another, and they have not been seen for many years!

Is the person who can sail a warship of this level now equal?

The sailor soldiers looked at each other, and their hearts were a little weak, it seemed that people's equipment was more like a sailor than ours......

The king, who stood at the bow of the ship, was also a little bitter in his heart.

Although he was born in the scholar clan, he also worked step by step in the sailor to survive today's official position, and he also followed Li Xiaogong from Kuizhou down the river to break the Xiao Milling Sailor, and he has extremely rich combat experience, so he naturally knows the terrifying combat power of the Wuya battleship.

If it were a different occasion, he would be killed and would not be the enemy of the Wuya battleship!

But now that the arrow is on the bow, where is there any other way to go except to completely defeat Fang Jun here with indomitable progress?

Gritting his teeth at the moment, the king shouted: "Although the enemy ships are majestic and majestic, the soldiers are all lackeys and servants of the wealthy clans in Guanzhong, and they don't know the art of water warfare?" The sons and daughters are the water masters of the imperial court, familiar with water warfare, and the rolling river is our back garden, how can we allow this group of local chickens and dogs to show off their power in front of us? Listen to my order, all the warships rush forward, destroy the enemy boats one by one, and then surround the enemy's Wuya battleships, let's have a broadside battle with the enemy, let them see, who is the sailor, who is invincible on the water! ”

The drums of war rumbled, and dozens of warships rushed wildly!

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Fang Jun took some of the soldiers with him, and the rest were nearly four hundred.

However, the main general is not there, and Fang Jun entrusts the responsibility of control to the family general Wei Ying. Although Wei Ying is young, he is clever, and he is Fang Jun's close guard, no one in the family dares to look down on half a point, and it is more than enough to control these soldiers, and no one will dare to disobey Wei Ying's command without opening his eyes.

It's just that Fang Jun was careless......

Li Ke's warning made Fang Jun very convinced, so he brought almost all the main forces, although the number was only a minority, but they were all fierce people. Even if the Shanyue people really gathered a group of rebels to attack, they could abandon the iron factory and quickly retreat to the riverside, and then board the Wuya battleship, which could be attacked and defended, and they could be invincible.

But he didn't expect that the number of Shanyue people was so large, and they were so brave under the leadership of Zong Shuai Wu Duohai. Unexpectedly, there would be a naval commander of the imperial court to respond to the Shanyue people, to wipe out all his fleets and cut off the way to retreat......

The top of the Wuya battleship is the lookout, the river is mighty, except for the cow Zhu Rock standing in front of it, the sea and the sky are wide. The soldiers in charge of the lookout saw dozens of warships rushing towards them on the river like arrows from a string from a distance, and they were shocked and immediately sounded gongs and drums to warn them.

Wei Ying hurriedly came to the porthole and looked into the distance, and was suddenly startled.

Soon after the establishment of the fleet, most of the soldiers on board were not accustomed to water warfare, although they sailed all the way down the river and never stopped training, but so many landlubbers could not even stand on their feet in battle, and the training effect can be imagined.

Seeing that the other party was menacing, Wei Ying was anxious, and then made a decision that proved to be very wise afterwards - to order all the soldiers to abandon their ships and gather on the Wuya battleship.

When the soldiers saw the enemy ships speeding towards them under the pressure of the river, they had already panicked and were in a mess. If this is rested on land, this group of extraordinary and brave "mercenaries" will definitely be not afraid even in the face of an enemy several times their size, and even dare to howl and carry out a counter-charge with their horizontal swords.

But on the water......

All of them have become soft-footed shrimp.

Hearing the sound of gongs and drums coming from the flagship, these landlubbers finally remembered what this meant, and hurriedly shouted and pulled the small boat towards the Wuya battleship, and abandoned the small boat one after another and boarded the big ship. As soon as they stepped on the Wuya battleship, these landlubbers suddenly had a bottom in their hearts and a solid foot! The bigger the boat and the deeper the draft, the more stable it became, and the soldiers who were swaying in the small boat were finally rooted under their feet and their spirits were uplifted.

The custom of the Wuya battleship was to have a full crew of 800 people, and these soldiers got on board, which immediately made the whole ship look a little bigger, and the soldiers running on the deck seemed to be full of combat effectiveness. Wei Ying hurriedly instructed the soldiers to take their positions according to the tactics of training.

Dozens of oars in the lower part of the hull stretched out, reaching into the river in a uniform manner, paddling vigorously. The huge hull of the ship moved slowly, crossing the river, and the bow of the ship was facing the invading enemy ship, ready to meet the enemy.

Wang Shang originally wanted to ignore the most powerful Wuya battleship first, and concentrate his forces to clear the surrounding boats, which would discourage the enemy's army and demoralize them, and weaken the enemy's numbers.

But before the battle was engaged, the commander of the enemy ship gave up all the small boats, and all the troops were gathered on the Wuya battleship, making a posture of "I am timid, everyone leans together to strengthen the courage".

That's too timid!

Wang Shang gritted his teeth with hatred, although he didn't know whether this was the enemy's clever tactics or a decision made by a cowardly and afraid of death, but he had to admit that the current situation was the last thing he wanted to see - the power of the five-tooth battleship was too great!

But the matter has come to this point, and the king can only give an order - to attack the Wuya battleship with all his might!

For a while, the warships under his command gave up their original goals, sat on the river and adjusted their bows slightly, and rushed to the Wuya battleship with high buildings and wide ships.

"Boom"

A small boat close to the Wuya battleship was hit on the side by the hard strike angle of the bow of the enemy ship, and it broke into two at once, and sank rapidly whirling on the river.

The "rookies" of the water battle on the Wuya battleship swallowed their saliva in unison, if they still guarded these small boats to fight the enemy, I am afraid that they would have sunk to the bottom of the river to feed the fish at this moment...... Compared to the enemy's maneuvering skills for warships, they are scum!

However, now guarding the Wuya battleship has offset the gap in water combat experience and technology to the greatest extent, as long as the big guy stubbornly guards the Wuya battleship and does not let the enemy board, then relying on the power of the Wuya battleship, it can be invincible!

These soldiers were unstable in their feet on the small boat, but standing on the steady Wuya battleship, the information skyrocketed, the people responsible for controlling the slapping rod were in their positions, the people in charge of the long-range attack were standing on the side of the ship with bows and arrows, and the rest were holding shields in one hand and horizontal knives in the other, covering the archers.

The news of the enemy ship is like lightning, menacing, and the broadside battle is about to break out!

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