In October, a full-scale war broke out between the Zhou and Sui countries, and the Zhou State claimed to have assembled a million troops to launch a large-scale attack on the Sui State from the thousand-mile front of Taihang Mountain in the north to Daba Mountain in the south. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

More than six years have passed since the second year of the elephant, and the all-out attack of the Zhou State this time has the momentum of never giving up until Guanlong is recovered.

Whether the use of troops wins or loses this time, it will have a huge impact on the situation in the world, Zhou Guo wins, and Sui Guo only has half a life left if he does not die; The state of Zhou was not victorious, and either it died down from then on, or it collapsed and was constantly encroached upon by the state of Sui and Chen.

Just when the thousand-mile front was full of smoke, Yu Wenwen, the governor of Huangzhou, who had always wanted to become a tiger, stayed in Xiyang City, the seat of Huangzhou, and had nothing to do.

The Huangzhou Governor's Mansion is the eastern gate of Shannan, and in order to prevent the Chen army from sneaking attack, the gate must be guarded.

Therefore, the Huangzhou army had to defend against the Chen Guojiang garrison in the southeast, the Chen army in Bazhou and Xiangzhou in the southwest, and the Huainan Chen army on the north bank of the Yangtze River in the east.

During the Three Kingdoms, Guan Yun carelessly lost Jingzhou, ruining Ji Han's hope of resurrection, if Yuwen Wen carelessly lost Huangzhou, then the situation in Zhou, especially Shannan, would take a sharp turn for the worse, and Yuwen's hope of turning the tables would be completely gone.

Yu Wenwen can only sit quietly in Huangzhou now, inspect the defense affairs in various places, and constantly cheer up the garrison, so that everyone can be vigilant and beware of the sneak attack of the Chen army.

As the mastermind behind the border smuggling trade between Zhou and Chen, Yuwenwen also prevents being "crossed the river in white" while doing business, why is the white clothes? That is, the attire of a merchant, which means the plain clothes of the common people.

Lu Meng of the Three Kingdoms sent soldiers to pretend to be merchants, set off by boat from the border of Jiangzhou in today's Chen State, deceived the defenders of Jingzhou all the way and pulled out the beacon by the way, and finally reached the Jiangling upstream to make a surprise attack, Yuwenwen certainly can't let this happen again.

Therefore, all the merchants from Chen Guo had to "smuggle" ashore before Qikou and come to Huangzhou by land.

Wuzhou, the heart of the Yangtze River, is an important place to hold the Yangtze River, and it is also the last important line of defense for Huangzhou to resist the sneak attack of the Chen army in Jiangzhou, so Yuwenwen is now patrolling in Wuzhoushu to see how the situation in the water village is.

After several years of construction, Wuzhou Shu has been "fortified", the north and south forts are reinforced with bricks and stones, and the water village on the north side of Wuzhou is also quite spectacular, and the warships of the Huangzhou Navy are moored in the north side of the river.

At Shuizhai Wharf, Yuwen Wen was looking at a newly built warship, this ship has a somewhat special shape, different from ordinary big ships, it is a pointed head and a warped tail, and the hard sail is made of cloth, not a common reed mat made of reeds.

Zhang Yu got off the boat, he has been staying on this boat during this time, driving the boat from Huangzhou to Xiakou, experiencing the effect of the sail, as a sailor Zhang Yu, who was born in the navy, is very familiar with life on the water.

"How? Is there a big difference between cloth sail and mat sail? ”

Listening to Lord Lang's question, Zhang Yu said briefly when he heard the words: It's all the same, there is not much difference, if you want to say that there is, that is, the cost of cloth sails is expensive, Yuwen Wen nodded when he heard this.

The cloth used for the sails of this ship is very thick and heavy, not lighter than the reed mats, because it is used as sails, so it is called canvas, and the cloth sails made of canvas are more expensive than the sails made of reeds and bamboo.

But Yuwenwen doesn't care, canvas is not only used to make sails, canvas bags, canvas belts, canvas shoes, canvas other uses are not a lot at all, and when the output comes up, the price will slowly fall.

However, at that time, there were still not many people using cloth sails, and they still used mat sails, it didn't matter, Yuwen Wen's purpose was not here, he continued to ask questions.

How stable the ship is, how well it behaves when it encounters high waves, whether the roll and pitch are large, whether the whole ship is flexible to operate, etc.

Zhang Yu replied, in fact, it was very simple: it was no different from other ships, that is, you should be careful when crossing the shallows, because this ship has a pointed bottom, and once it runs aground, it will tilt to one side.

"Well done, park the boat back and write down the details."

Yu Wenwen explained the relevant matters, led his entourage to board the land on the north shore in a small boat, galloped along the official road to Bakou in the west, and returned to Xiyang by boat from Wuzhou against the water and the wind.

In fact, the steeple-bottomed boat is not suitable for use in the river, because the river beach is gentle, and it is more troublesome to run aground once docked, and this kind of pointed bottom boat with the bow and stern upturned is more suitable for use in the sea with high winds and rough waves.

According to the "routine", he began to point the nautical technology tree, added soft sails made of canvas, evolved into clippers, crossed the Pacific Ocean to discover the New World, established a colony on the West Coast, and immigrated 3 million households to occupy the territory in the past.

Bring back corn, sweet potatoes, peppers, tobacco, coffee, rubber, American silver, and the mythical beast grass mud horse.

Gather the thirteen crystal skulls of the Mayans, drop blood to recognize the Lord, awaken the power of the wilderness, and walk to the pinnacle of life?

Yu Wenwen didn't think about it so much, so he thought about the Ming and Qing dynasties of the sea ship type "old lock boat" cottage, which is the Portuguese in Macao combined Chinese and Western navigation technology, according to the coastal sea conditions to blend the sea ship type.

Coastal winds are variable, with the stiff sails of the east allowing for eight-sided winds, while the lean hull of the west has better fluid performance, and this type of old lock ship was later adopted by various coastal parts and was the main type of sea vessel between Ningbo and Japan.

However, he didn't know what the specific internal structure of this thing was, but he had only seen the exterior pictures, so he could only rely on his imagination to copy the experimental object, this experimental ship, the seafaring ability is not as good as the current coastal sea ships.

The only thing that has a thought is that a few years later, the old lock boat from the middle reaches of the Yangtze River went directly down the river into the sea, carrying a full of Buddhist scriptures and Buddha statues and monks, to the port of Hakata.

It saves the trouble of going to the Yellow River Basin by land and taking a boat to the East China Sea port; It saves the trouble of taking a boat to the mouth of the Yangtze River and then changing to a sea boat, which can add a force to the cause of promoting Buddhism in the Japanese country faster and better.

As for further applications, if there is a future, it can only be said later.

Thinking diverged here and turned back to reality, Zhou and Sui went to war, claiming that more than a million troops were cutting each other, but Yuwenwen wanted to fish by the Yangtze River, the more he thought about it, the more unhappy he became.

What a million-strong army, it's all a routine!

Follow the routine... It is customary for all countries to exaggerate the size of their troops when they send troops, so as to achieve the effect of inspiring the morale of the army and scaring the enemy.

10,000 soldiers, plus a one-to-one number of miscellaneous soldiers, the actual combat personnel are about 20,000, plus the craftsmen and miscellaneous servants who accompany the army, and also include all the young and strong people who transport grain and grass, about 50,000 people, and then the water injection is doubled several times, and it is claimed to be 150,000 to the outside world.

The same is true of the navy, which is known as having 10,000 warships, more than half of which are civilian ships that are requisitioned, basically cargo ships that transport goods and fishing boats on weekdays, and more than half of the soldiers in the navy are fishermen and boatmen.

It's all routines, but Yu Wenwen doesn't plan to play cards according to the routine, don't make a big news, how to be worthy of the hard-trained soldiers! (To be continued.) )