"This Cheng Zhijie is ......"

Watching the steel battleship slowly moving on the sea, Li Jing smiled and sighed speechlessly.

"Whoever has his own way, aren't you the same?" Li Yuanjing said calmly.

I don't think it's strange at all for Cheng Zhijie's performance in last year's battle.

Does Cheng Zhijie really not have that ability?

Not necessarily!

This has to admire Cheng Zhijie's wisdom and courage.

Li Jing was completely frightened by the scenery of the past few years, so he took the opportunity to be carried away by Li Chengqian and retreated.

Of course, in history, Li Jing retired after destroying the Turks, and was reactivated by Li Shimin when he conquered Guhun in the ninth year of Zhenguan and served as the governor of Xikaido.

It was the one Cheng Zhijie served before, responsible for the entire campaign.

This time, Li Jing had just retired, and some kind of agreement had been reached with Li Shimin, so Li Shimin was not in a hurry to use Li Jing.

On the contrary, he wanted to give Cheng Zhijie a chance, but Cheng Zhijie, who was as smart as a fox, of course would not seize this opportunity.

The wisdom of not knowing the process is far from being comparable to ordinary people.

How can the emperor remove himself without holding a grudge against himself, except for Cheng Zhijie, there is hardly a second person in the world who can do it.

And Cheng Zhijie's choice is to fight first, fight hard, determine the advantage of Datang in a battle, and then make a foolish move.

Anyway, no matter how he delays the fighter in the future, no matter how he makes a stupid move, it will not affect the final outcome.

It seems that Cheng Zhijie is constantly delaying the fighter, but in fact, at the same time, Cheng Zhijie has also prepared everything that should be prepared.

After Li Daozong took over, he simply destroyed Tuyuhun within half a month.

Although Li Daozong's talent cannot be ignored either, if there is no mediocre foreshadowing in front of Cheng Zhijie, this war will not be fought in three or five months.

"Without any other talk, how did you come up with the idea of building a battleship out of steel? Aren't you afraid of sinking? Li Jing looked at the battleship on the sea and couldn't help but be amazed.

At first, no one wanted to believe that the ship could float, but the end result surprised everyone.

"It's very simple, if you throw an iron pot into the water, it will float, so why can't the boat float? Besides, even if it can't float, what does it matter? Is Datang missing this thing? Li Yuanjing said disapprerovingly.

"It's also ......" Li Jing was a little speechless, and secretly said Is this young man's thinking already so advanced? I can't seem to keep up with these old guys.

Looking at the speeding battleship again, the impulse in Li Jing's heart still did not decrease.

Well, the ship seems to be excellent in every way at the moment, except for the unsatisfactory power.

"Uncle Wang!" The two were chatting, but the crown prince Li Chengqian suddenly appeared behind him.

"Why are you here?" Li Yuanjing felt a little surprised.

In my memory, at this time, wasn't the prince presiding over the construction of the official road from Chang'an to Longyou?

The imperial court will start to build the city on the Tuyuhun side next, and the official road is particularly important, otherwise the transportation of materials will be greatly restricted.

And the other reason is because Tuyuhun has fully surrendered, and Tuyuhun no longer exists.

Li Shimin incorporated Tuyuhun's original territory into Longyou Dao, which instantly expanded the scale of Longyou Dao several times, but the increase in population was indeed limited.

"After two constructions of hundreds of miles of official roads, I have a clear understanding of some of the situations, so the Longyou Road side will be handed over to others to be responsible for for the time being, after all, Datang will build more official roads in the future, can't I be responsible for every one, right?" Li Chengqian responded with a smile, and then asked, "Uncle Wang, is this the battleship?" ”

"Hmm!" Li Yuanjing nodded.

Li Jing on the side saw the purpose of Li Chengqian's coming here.

Li Yuanjing disdains to explain those tedious and boring data, but Li Jing can't be the same as him.

"Your Highness, this is the most powerful warship in the Datang Dynasty and all the countries that Datang has explored so far, and it is the only one!" Li Jing said slowly, there was some pride in his tone, after all, this battleship was also built by him with his own eyes.

"Oh? So powerful? Li Chengqian felt a little unconvinced, he had only heard from his father that this battleship was very powerful, but in the same way, it was too resource-intensive, and Datang couldn't afford it.

Therefore, after hearing the news of the launch of this warship, Li Chengqian gave Li Shimin a lesson in the hope that he could come to Haizhou to have a look at it in person.

It's just that I didn't expect even Li Jing to praise this battleship so much, which made Li Chengqian a little surprised.

"It's amazing! The battleship was forty-six paces (70 m) long at the surface, eight and a half paces (13 m) wide, and forty-eight and a half steps (73 m) underwater.

It uses two linkage steam engines as power, which makes the power on both sides more balanced and easier to control.

The captain weighs each component before it is loaded, and so far, the empty weight of this ship has exceeded 90,000 stones, so it may not be too fast.

But if it is a battle, this one ship is enough to annihilate all the ships of the Tang Dynasty, because no ship can withstand such a building, and no ship can sink it! ”

“？？？” Li Chengqian couldn't help but feel a little unlikely: "If you build another ship like this, you can't sink it?" ”

"It's possible in theory, but it's too difficult to do in practice." Li Jing pointed to the wooden boat in the distance and said:

"Underneath the wooden ship is a large warehouse, which is convenient for inspection and loading, and if you hit it with this ship, it will be a large hole a few steps wide, or it will sink in a short time.

The ship adopts a sealed cabin structure under the waterline, that is, there is a separate sealed cabin under the water, and even if it breaks through the outside and causes water to enter, the water can only be trapped in this one cabin.

The speed of the battleship may be affected somewhat, but it will not sink unless you can hit five or six large holes in him to sink him.

However, the steam-powered warship moves relatively fast, and its own attitude moves sporadically, and it is still very difficult for two ships on the sea to sink each other by ramming, unless he has a problem with himself, otherwise, this ship will almost never sink. Li Jing said directly.

He couldn't think of any way to crack it, and he was completely an invincible existence.

Wooden? Seeing that he only had to run for his life, he just ran as fast as he could, and waited for the slow one to be knocked and sunk.

Take a bow and arrows? It's all steel, I'm not afraid of fire, and I'm afraid of your bow and arrows?

The only possibility is to send troops to land and seize ships, but is this possible? Even if you can log in, how many people can you land? People won't move? Just watching you land?

Besides, what do you think of the soldiers on other people's warships? Hundreds of soldiers are playing around with you?

Li Jing's boasting made Li Yuanjing feel a little embarrassed, and subconsciously said: "Actually, it's not that powerful, there are still a lot of problems......