In the east of Badong City, East Lake, the drums in the water military camp are bursting, and a large number of warships sailing out are commanded in the formation according to the drums. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

Behind him, Yuwen Wen, the governor of Huangzhou, was watching the warships gather around him with great interest, and he came to inspect today's naval drill, in order to understand the situation of the naval army, and also to stimulate morale.

To be honest, he didn't think very much of the warships of this era: the ultimate in sail battleships, which was a first-class sail battleship.

With a three-story gun deck, more than 100 guns, dozens of tons of gunpowder and more than 100 tons of shells, a crew of eight or nine hundred people, and a endurance of at least half a year, a ship is a fortress.

On the vast sea, the fleets of the two sides approached each other and shelled each other, and the thunder was filled with gunsmoke, and the solid bullets, chain bullets, and grape bullets that whistled by, stirring up countless blood mist and wood chips.

Well, now there is no artillery, the weapon of water warfare is the slapstick, and the power is also good, and once the slap hits, the smaller ships will also be stopped and beaten in two.

In the era when there was no artillery, water battles were as bloody as they were, and in addition to the big ship shooting and fire attacks, the main mode of water warfare was broadside battles, in which soldiers on both sides fought hand-to-hand.

The warship turned into a ball of fire, and in the firelight, the figures swayed, and the enemy and us slashed each other with knives, the blood stained the water red, and the floating corpses flowed down the river.

Yuwen Wen thought about it, and was shocked back to reality by the sound of drums, he looked at the fleet on the lake, and was quite happy in his heart: It depends on you to make contributions!

In the Yangtze River Valley, it is impossible to fight without a naval army, and the Huangzhou Governor's Office, as the first line of Zhou's war against Chen, must first solve the main force of Chen's naval army, so that there is room to exert his strength.

Since he is willing to burn money to train his troops, he will naturally not favor one over the other, the treatment of the officers and men of the navy is good, and the combat equipment is also very good.

The word "sophisticated" is not a word of mouth, but is really put in place, and the armament of land warfare depends on all kinds of war equipment such as war horses and armor, swords, spears, bows and arrows, and water warfare looks at warships.

Whether it is a navy or a navy, if you want to win the war, then the role of combat ships is indispensable, so whether the navy is well-equipped or not depends on the warships.

The naval forces of this era, according to the different operational needs, are divided into several types of ships, although they are not as powerful as the sail warships of the Age of Discovery, but they are also very magnificent in formation.

The first type of ship is the building ship, as the name suggests, there is a building on the ship, generally three floors, the column female wall battle grid, the tree flag, the crossbow window spear hole, the throwing car base stone iron juice, the shape is like a city rampart.

At the end of the Three Kingdoms, Jin Longxiang general Wang Jun cut down Wu, built a big ship, the circumference is 200 steps, the eaves pavilion road is placed on it, you can run the car and gallop the horse, you can see how big the body of the building ship is.

But the disadvantages are not nothing, first of all, it is inconvenient to turn around, and the center of gravity of this kind of ship is high, and there are soldiers on each deck, which leads to top-heavy, so it requires heavy stone or iron ingot ballast.

Even so, when driving on the river, if there is a strong cross wind, the building boat at this time is not controllable by man.

On the modern Yangtze River, there are still tragedies of cruise ships capsizing in strong winds, and ancient building ships cannot get rid of this danger.

Even so, there can be no building ships among the naval army, because it is necessary to boost the morale of such a majestic warship and open up the situation.

The second type of ship is the warship, that is, the so-called big ship, the middle wall is set on the side of the ship, the hole is opened under the half-body wall, the side is five feet, and the shed and the female wall are built on the shed, and the female wall is built to rearrange the battle grid, and the front and rear of the ship are left and right.

With the huge hull, you can directly sink the boat, you can also kill the enemy with the slap stick, and you can also crash into the enemy formation, and the soldiers on the ship can start a broadside battle with the enemy, which is to impact the strong ship.

This kind of ship is not confined to one shape, and the name is also very majestic, what "green dragon", "golden wing" and so on, of course, large vehicles and ships are also one of them.

The first two are large capital ships, which are powerful but slow, so they also need the third type of ships as assistance: Mengchong and Dou Ship.

Meng Chong and the fighting ships covered their backs with leather, opening holes in two phases, opening crossbow windows and spear holes in front and back, left and right, the enemy could not easily approach, arrows and stones could not be broken, and their speed and combat effectiveness were very balanced.

Either act as a spearhead and set fire to the enemy fleet after dragging fireboats close to them, or intercept the enemy's fireboats, or fight the opponent's clippers to prevent them from harassing your own fleet.

This kind of ship is fast and can take on a variety of tactical tasks, so it is a common warship of the navy.

And there are boats, like warships, with heavy walls on their sides. Most of the crew members are husbands, usually choose elite to play, and the speed of the boat is faster than that of Meng Chong and the fighting ship, and the back and forth is like flying, stealing chickens and dogs and setting fire to the enemy, or making up for the leakage of their own ship formation.

The fourth type is the small boat, which is the fastest ship in the fleet, and is usually used to give orders or act as a scout, and to go out of the fleet as a sentry during battle.

Thanks to Xinwang's forestry and iron-smelting industries, the Huangzhou Governor's Office has no shortage of timber, iron nails, and even raw cowhides used to block rockets are replaced by low-cost pig skins.

Coupled with the processing capacity of various hydraulic wood workshops and the various types of ships required for the naval army's operations, Yuwenwen has saved a lot for the Huangzhou naval army, without cutting corners and not falsely reporting the number of ships.

With warships, there must be elite sailors, so at this time, the sailors who are trained in East Lake are rotationally trained, of course, most of them are recruits.

The Zhou army has invaded Shu, and the Sui State will not live for a few days, and in the next battle of Pingchen, Yuwenwen will rely on the powerful naval army in his hand to break through the moat.

From ancient times to the present, the Yangtze River has been worthy of the name of the moat, without a strong naval army, do not want to take control of the river, the army crossing the river sooner or later will have to run out of food and surrender.

Zhou only has a foothold in Ezhou on the south bank of the Yangtze River, and if you want to go further, the size of the navy can not be small, in order to win the battle in the future, so the navy of the Huangzhou Governor's Mansion has been practicing diligently all year round.

The water area of the drill is also exquisite, and it is more convenient to practice in the big lake, especially to practice arranging various formations, which need to be practiced in the waters with gentle currents, and after the soldiers are familiar with it, they will practice on the river.

Although the navy has been in the army for many years, due to various considerations, the daily drills of the navy are carried out in the lake, and it is easy to fish on weekdays, and the problem of food is solved by the way.

The south side of the East Lake is close to the Yangtze River, and the land distance is very close, when the Zhou and Chen navigaries fought in Zhengrongzhou, the water channel has been dug in the area where the land boats travel, so that all kinds of ships can travel between the East Lake and the Yangtze River.

Even huge building boats can also enter and exit from the canal, of course, in order to avoid congestion, the canal is divided into east and west, both wide and deep enough.

The two canals of the Yangtze River in the East Lake are shielded by the sandbar in the river - Wuzhou, and Wuzhoushu also has a water military camp, which is an important place for river defense.

Therefore, the East Lake-Wuzhou Water Village is an important stronghold of the Huangzhou Navy Army, which undertakes the training responsibilities of recruits, and can reinforce friendly troops in the upper and lower reaches of the Yangtze River at any time with supporting shipyards.

Upstream, once Chen's Ba and Hunan naval forces went down the river to invade Xiakou in Ezhou, then the fleet moored at Donghu-Wuzhou in Huangzhou could go upstream to reinforce and coordinate with the Ezhou naval forces stationed in Parrot Island.

Downstream, if Chen Guojiangzhou's naval army invades Qikou, then these naval fleets in Huangzhou can go down the river and join the naval warships stationed in Xisaishan to fight a decisive battle with Chen's naval army.

It is precisely because of this layout that the main force of the naval army of the Huangzhou Governor's Office is stationed and trained in three places: Xiakou Parrot Island in Ezhou, Donghu-Wuzhou in Badong County, Huangzhou, and Cehu Lake on the other side of Xisai Mountain in Ezhou.

Parrot Island is a sandbar in the Yangtze River, and the naval army is stationed and practiced here in order to be able to fight at any time and avoid the sneak attack of the upstream Chen Guoshui army, when the naval army is still practicing in a certain lake, and it cannot come out for a while.

Xisai Mountain is an important place for river defense since ancient times, located on the south bank of the Yangtze River, and the big lake on the north bank of it, it is said that Sun Ce, the little overlord of Jiangdong during the Three Kingdoms, trained the navy here, so it was named Ce Lake.

Qikou is downstream, and Chen Guojiangzhou is nearly 200 miles away from its downstream, Chen Guo's navy wants to enter the waters of Xisai Mountain to go upstream, and its time is long enough for the Zhou navy warships in the lake to enter the Yangtze River to prepare for war.

With these three important places guarding the middle reaches of the Yangtze River, Yu Wenwen felt that Jiangfang was "everything under control", and looking at the huge fleet in front of him, he was even more complacent.

What do you mean by that? Steady as a dog!

Yu Wenwen looked around with a clairvoyant mirror, and froze when he turned to the waters of Wuzhou on the south side.

In his clairvoyant vision, he saw three boats on the river, wanderers who had left home and had finally returned after a long journey.