Chapter 366

"My lord, Jinyi Wei has come to report that Lu Liuming has successfully arrived in Qu'a, and has already launched an operation against Wu County and other places. Sun Shao has already taken action and began to recruit a large number of doormen in the local area...... "On this day, Huang Quan reported to Liu Cong the detailed information that Lu Liuming had collected by Jinyiwei, including the scene in the tavern.

"Good, good! You have to instruct all the brocade guards to keep him safe. In addition, although the form of storytelling is not followed, the form should be diversified. It is necessary to let more people in Wu County and even Jiangdong know. Liu Cong was obviously very satisfied with Huang Quan's report.

The army has sharpened its knives, and Lu Liuming has lived up to expectations and has begun to act in Jiangdong. Then the next action to divide the other families in Jiangdong will also speed up! It's not that Liu Cong is timid, the Jiangdong Sun clan has gone through three generations, especially in the period of Sun Ce and Zhou Yu, and the prosperity of the army has made many princes fearful.

Sun Ce's ability to quickly gain a foothold in Jiangdong as an 'outsider' and pacify other princes is definitely outstanding, among which the Jiangdong Navy is the biggest reliance of the Sun clan. Presumably other Yangzhou princes of the same period. Sun's naval army has absolute superiority in equipment, technology and scale!

According to Liu Cong's own understanding of the Xiangyang, Jiangxia and Jiangling naval armies and the intelligence of Jinyiwei, he compared them with the Jiangdong naval army. During this period, there were three main types of Jiangdong naval warships: fighting ships, building ships, and shipwhelms.

Fighting ship defensive warship, powered by oars, with flags and golden drums for directing advance and retreat on the bow, holes for inserting oars on both sides of the hull, and a female wall with arrow holes on the ship, and soldiers arranged in the wall to shoot at enemy ships. The height of the women's wall can cover half of the soldiers. Mainly defensive. The fighting ship is mainly used for command and is the flagship of the entire fleet.

The size of the building ship is extremely large, and the Wu and Yue countries in the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period have been able to build the building ship, and the "Yu Huang" that Wu Wang Lu took is the building ship. The building ships built during the Han Wu Emperor's expedition to Nanyue can already carry 1,000 people, and the height is more than 20 steps (28-30 meters), which is as high as several floors today.

Sun Ce's building ships for combat were even larger, with the ability to build five floors and carry up to 3,000 people, making them the main force of water warfare. The usual tactics are to ram an enemy ship or directly board an enemy ship for hand-to-hand combat. Therefore, the size of the ship directly affects the number of soldiers on board, which in turn directly affects the outcome of the battle.

In addition to the high-rise buildings, there are also defensive women's walls on each floor, and there are sword holes and spear holes on the first floor women's walls, which can be attacked from a distance and can be defended at close range, and there are also defensive weapons such as stones and iron thorns. The Taiping Yulan records that the famous ships of Eastern Wu include: Feiyun, Gaihai, Chang'an, Red Dragon, Chima, Qinglong Battleship, Chenyu and so on.

The status of this ship is equivalent to that of an aircraft carrier in later generations!

Mainly used for assault warships, the ship is slender in size, covered with raw cowhide, good defense, and the hull is equipped with arrow windows and spear holes, which can attack the enemy at close range. However, the main feature of the stern is that it has a hard, spiked-shaped protrusion in the bow, which is used to ram enemy ships.

Due to its long and narrow size, it travels extremely fast, and this high-impact battleship usually inflicts a surprise blow on enemy troops. When Sun Quan attacked Jiangxia Shaxian that year, Liu Qi suffered the loss of this kind of ship.

In addition to the advanced equipment, the Jiangdong Navy also has obvious technical advantages, the most important feature of which is the appearance of the stern rudder at this time.

This device allows for good control of the direction of the ship's travel, allowing for extremely precise agility, while stern rudders did not appear until the early 13th century in the West. This technical advantage of the Jiangdong Navy makes it less affected by bad weather, and even if the wind direction on the water surface is unfavorable, the direction of travel can be controlled to the maximum extent through the rudder.

Another technical advantage was the appearance of brigs. When the wind direction is favorable to one's side, the two-masted battleship can increase the speed of travel, in the water battle with ship collision as the main mode of combat, fast speed means strong impact, coupled with the powerful warships of the Jiangdong naval army, it is completely possible to make the enemy ship incapacitated with a wave of attack.

Fortunately, the Jingzhou Navy is not bad, and Liu Cong is a military talent from the future generations, after several years of catching up, at least in terms of technology and equipment, the gap with the Jiangdong Navy is not very large. But when it comes to scale, Liu Cong is ashamed of himself.

It is no wonder that Liu Cong's main energy in these years has been spent on dealing with Cao Cao in the north and attacking Yizhou. Therefore, the infantry was vigorously developed and equipped. The navy was only used as a defense against Sun Quan and Cao Cao's attacks. There are not many opportunities to take the initiative, and Liu Cong is not rich enough to pay attention to both land and water!

At present, Liu Cong has nearly 1,000 warships of various types, and if calculated according to the average of 100 soldiers per warship, it can arm nearly 100,000 people. As for the intelligence reality, Sun Quan's current warships have reached 2,000. Of course, based on the population of Yangzhou and Jiaozhou, it is impossible for Sun Quan to recruit 200,000 sailors. Although the navy army was his foothold in Jiangdong, he relied on the greatest support to defend against the two strong enemies of Cao Cao and Liu Cong.

But with so many warships, so long means that Sun Quan can organize 200,000 resistance troops in a short period of time, including at least some of them similar to reserves or military cantonments. As long as there is a need for war, this part of the population can immediately take up arms and participate in the war, without the need for temporary conscription and training.

At present, Liu Cong has about 50,000 in Jingzhou, and Sun Quan should not be less than 100,000. If both sides are fully mobilized, at least in terms of the number of warships, Liu Cong will still tend to be inferior.

Although there are many factors that affect the war, these hard indicators still play a crucial role, and coupled with the excellent experience of the Jiangdong Navy in water combat, it really takes some luck to defeat such an elite force in a water battle.

Fortunately, Liu Cong has a strong army. And most of the infantry are equipped with powerful Zhuge repeaters! Of course, it would be best if the Sun Quan group could be divided to the greatest extent before starting a war!

After detailed intelligence and careful consideration, Liu Cong aimed the first key target at Zhang Zhao. In later sources, it is said that Zhang Zhao was a capitulation faction, but it is actually a misunderstanding of him. Zhang Zhao is actually a unification faction! He is a staunch supporter of Sun Ce!

Zhang Zhaozi Zibu, a native of Pengcheng (now Xuzhou), has been studious since childhood, well-read, especially "Zuo's Spring and Autumn", and can write a superb official book. Before he was a minor, he was promoted by the villagers as filial piety, and became close friends with the famous scholars Wang Lang (Cao Wei Shiguan to Situ), Zhao Yu, etc., and was praised by Chen Lin, a talented son of Pengcheng (who wrote a discussion for Yuan Shao).

Zhang Zhao is an intellectual who attaches great importance to honor. Xuzhou Shi Tao Qian cited it as the reuse of Maocai, but Zhang Zhao categorically refused because of the loss of the other party's official reputation, and the cloth cloth man fired the squid of the feudal official! In a fit of rage, Tao Qian sent him to prison, but thanks to his friend Zhao Yu, he survived.

After Zhang Zhao crossed the Yangtze River to avoid disaster in Yangzhou, Sun Ce respected Zhang Zhao's moral character, treated him as a mentor and friend, and appointed him as a long history, the general of the army, and the political and military affairs of Eastern Wu were all handed over to him to deal with, and Sun Ce became the owner of the hand.

After Zhang Zhao was in charge, the northern scholar wrote to Dongwu, not mentioning the master Sun Ce, but attributing all the credit and honor to him. Zhang Zhao was caught in a dilemma: tell Sun Ce, for fear of causing a misunderstanding that is difficult to justify; Don't tell it, concealment itself is a grave sin.

In his dilemma, Sun Ce knew it from the side, and smiled generously: "In the Spring and Autumn Period, Guan Zhong Xiangqi, this one only said the middle father (Qi Huan Gong called him the middle father), and that only said the middle father, and Qi Huan Gong (who didn't do anything) was still the overlord grandmaster of the Zhou Dynasty."

Today, Zibud has both talents, I can use them, can your credit not be in my name? (See "Three Kingdoms: The Biography of Zhang Zhao") It seems that Sun Ce's knowledge and open-mindedness are also incomparable to others.

Unfortunately, Sun Ce, who opposed the separatism and reunification of China, died young. On the occasion of his death, he summoned Zhang Zhao to the sickbed and admonished: "If my younger brother Sun Quan is not the person who succeeds, you will replace him." If you can't succeed in the chaos, you can calmly attach yourself to Cao Cao, and don't have such or such concerns. It can be seen that Sun Ce relies on Zhang Zhao.

When Sun Ce died, Sun Quan was only seventeen years old, he was still a child, and he was still very willful and rebellious.

Sun Ce's main affairs are getting shallow and the people's hearts have not yet been attached, and civil strife may occur in the six southeastern counties at any time. After Sun Quan's younger brother succeeded his brother Ye as the general of the chariot cavalry, thanks to Zhang Zhao's assistance, he appeased the people of Li Shu internally and surrounded the warlord envoys outside, so that the situation in Jiangdong gradually stabilized.

After Sun Quan grew older, every time he led the army to go out, Zhang Zhao sat in the rear and was responsible for government affairs and support. Zhang Zhao is still a military commander, when Sun Quan went to Hefei, Zhang Zhao led the generals to conquer the rebellious Kuang Qi, until the breakthrough of Yuzhang, and annihilated Kuang Qi's general Zhou Feng in the southern city of Yuzhang. Yuzhang fought the first battle of Zhang Zhao's prestige, and since then, he has led his troops many times, often following Sun Quan's side, becoming a model for his ministers.

But Zhang Zhao's philosophy is completely different from that of Zhou Yu and Lu Su. In Zhang Zhao's view, this Zhou Yu and Lu Su are completely instigating Sun Quan to cede the land and become dominant. Zhang Zhao, like Sun Ce, was a supporter of the Han family and advocated the unification of China!

Under the auspices of Zhang Zhao, the southeast arrived, the people gradually lived and worked in peace and contentment, and Sun Quan's ambitions also swelled. When Lu Su instigated Sun Quan to cede the land and claim the throne, Zhang Zhao was very disgusted by this. He said to Sun Quan: "Lu Su is young, his thoughts are shallow and there are too many mistakes, so he can't use it.

But Sun Quan already harbored a thief's heart, and because Zhou Yu once told him: "Lu Su's talent can help the current politics, and his opinions should be widely listened to, so as to achieve the merit of separating the territory as the king, we must not be hired." It was only then that Lu Su found a platform to split China. has become a real power figure who gradually succeeded Zhang Zhao in charge of Jiangdong!