It was precisely because Wu was in the midst of this upward momentum that Lü Bu wisely did not immediately start a war to unify the north and south, but adopted a conservative strategy of encroachment and advancement.

The first is to blockade with an absolutely superior navy, and the huge trade profits brought by the Maritime Silk Road can only be enjoyed by the maritime merchants of the Han Dynasty.

Once Wu's merchant ships were discovered, they were regarded as smuggling and resolutely cracked down.

In September 210, an important event occurred that was enough to change the general trend of the world.

To the south of Jiaozhou, there is a county called Zhuya County, but most of its territory is on a large island in the sea on the opposite side of the peninsula.

This large island in the sea is called Zhuyazhou, and Zhuya County is also named after this island.

However, there are only a handful of Han Chinese on the island, most of whom are indigenous South Vietnamese barbarians, and most of these Han Chinese are exiles who have committed crimes.

After they intermarried with the locals, they multiplied, and little by little the barbarians on the island gradually civilized, but even then they were sparsely populated.

And Zhuyazhou is huge, like a continent.

After the fall of the Wei State, millions of Wei refugees poured into Eastern Wu, and some of them were arranged by Lu Xun, the assassin of Jiaozhou, to be sent to Zhuyazhou for resettlement.

The island has a hot climate, with no distinct four seasons, and even winter is still like summer in the north.

With abundant rainfall, it is suitable for growing food crops such as rice, so it is not difficult to feed yourself.

Moreover, the people of Wu who moved to Zhuyazhou had to implement military cantonment, and in addition to being self-sufficient, they could even hand over a lot of military rations.

However, after all, it is still a remote area, and the population is sparse, and there are not many garrisons in the local area, only a small number of Jiaozhou state troops to maintain law and order.

The new-style navy of Eastern Wu only came once when escorting Wei refugees to the island, and they could not cruise so far in normal times, and they were also afraid of running into the naval fleet of the Han Dynasty.

On this day, the weather is clear, and you can see the distance from the coast.

Zhuyazhou, its administrative level is equivalent to a county, and only a few have been established along the coastline? Lookouts, there are a few state troops on duty.

On the coast of Wenchang, there is a very long, beautiful beach, and the golden sand is even more golden under the sun's rays.

On a clear day, the sea and the sky are the same blue and connected.

How many state troops are leaning into? In the shade of the watchtower, the sea breeze blows, chatting about the new Wei refugees in the village, whose eldest girl is good-looking, whose widow is more coquettish and other unnutritious topics.

Just when a few people were talking nonsense, someone with sharp eyes saw a small black dot on the line of water and sky in the distance, "Look, what is that?" ”

Everyone turned their heads to look, "It should be the fleet, go up and have a look!" The oldest veteran shouted.

The youngest one, quickly came in? After a while, a fleet of ships was heading towards the beach, all full of white sails.

"It's all galleons, I don't know if it's a new sailor in Panyu?" The creep shouted.

When these sailing ships were closer to the coast, several state armies felt that something was wrong, and there were too many sailing ships from the open sea, and many of them were obviously much larger than the warships of the new army of Dongwu, and Dongwu could only build sailing ships of up to 500 tons.

"This can't be the navy of the Great Han, right?" The veteran muttered a little experienced.

"The navy of the Great Han, my God, there are so many ships, how many people do you have to carry? What are they doing in Zhuyazhou? We don't have anything here! ”

"The big lord above, what the generals think, can we figure it out? Let's all look at the flags, see the flags clearly, let's go back to report the news, and the rest of the things are not our worries. The veteran reprimanded.

By the time they could see the shape and flag of the ships, the galleons stopped moving forward and lowered their anchors in the deep water.

The largest galleon, facing the shore, was more than a dozen feet high, and had two layers of black holes, nine in each layer.

Soon, the galleon lowered its dinghy, and some of the people in the dinghy were busy with something.

The flag on the galleon can also be seen clearly, it is an eagle with wings spreading, and under the claws is a rising red sun, which is the new national flag of the Han Empire, which is very similar to the military flag of the Haotian Army.

Someone suggested that Lu Bu use the dragon as the main pattern of the national flag, but Lu Bu thought that this was the same as the flag of a dynasty that lost power and humiliated the country in later generations, and was very disgusted, so he chose the eagle, representing the ambition of fighting Tianyu.

"It's really the fleet of the big man, what are those boats doing?" The young man asked.

"They are measuring the depth of the water, their big boat has a draft, they don't dare to get too close to the shore, for fear of running aground, let's go quickly and go to the county to report the news." Said an experienced veteran.

Several state troops fled from the coast in a hurry and went to the county government of Zhuyazhou to deliver the letter, the distance was quite long, and the two legs could not run, so they had to go back to the village first, where there were pack horses, which could be borrowed.

Besides, I have to inform the villagers, who knows what these Han troops will do after they land?

On the coast, it was really the naval fleet of the Han Dynasty that was measuring the depth of the water, the Yellow Sea Fleet led by Gan Ning and Lu Su plus the transport fleet.

They were ordered to come to Zhuyazhou to establish a naval base and occupy the entire territory of Zhuyazhou by the way.

Zhuyazhou is actually the current Hainan Island, and the purpose of occupying Zhuyazhou is, firstly, to plant a nail in the heart of Soochow to curb Soochow's power in Jiaozhou and the South China Sea.

Second, it is also to ensure the smooth and safe passage of the Maritime Silk Road, and to crack down on the smuggling merchant ships of Wu, because of the huge profits of maritime trade, the smuggling of merchant ships of Wu is repeatedly banned.

In the past, because the navy of the Han Dynasty cruised south from the mouth of the Yangtze River, it would only take place once every few months, and they often exploited loopholes.

Now it is necessary to establish a permanent fleet in Zhuyazhou, not only to blockade the mouth of the Pearl River, but also to protect the smooth flow of the Maritime Silk Road.

This expeditionary fleet brought two first-class divisions of the Marine Corps, and the Marine Corps has now expanded to three divisions, each equipped with two artillery battalions, with the same treatment as the first-class divisions of the Wehrmacht.

The main change was not the Marine Corps, but the transport ships specially designed to transport the Marine Corps, these specially built large ships, each capable of transporting two battalions of personnel and equipment, as well as sleeping places, greatly improved the living conditions on board.

These transport ships are suitable for ocean-going voyages, which is also to prepare for the navy's future overseas operations, and this time the southward trip to Zhuyazhou is also experimental in nature.

A division has 27 battalions, plus the division's direct subordinate units such as a communications battalion, a guard battalion, an artillery battalion, a reconnaissance battalion, an engineer battalion, a logistics battalion, and so on, twenty transport ships are enough.

This time, Ganning's fleet brought a full fifty transport ships, in addition to personnel and equipment, as well as some building materials for the construction of the base, artillery for batteries, as well as a large number of supplies and naval engineers.