After living in the Qin Palace in Yongcheng, Zhao Zheng seems to have changed a person, Xianyang still wants to dominate the world, and now he just wants to fight to the death to survive, even so, the Qin State may still perish. After telling Gan Luo sadly, Zhao Zheng didn't go anywhere, and went directly to the Taimiao to stay until dark, until Wei Yi came to see him, he said goodbye to the first monarch and went out of the Taimiao.

"What's the matter?" Zhao Zheng asked as soon as he went to bed, his brows furrowed, knowing that it would not be good news.

"Donghu entered the fortress and escorted Hu Shang to Jingguo." Wei Yu said the news he had just received in the afternoon. "The one who is carried by the Hu merchants is brimstone."

"Brimstone?!" Sulfur is one of the witch medicines, and Zhao Zheng's face suddenly changed.

"Yes, yes." Wei Yu's expression was also very serious. "Hu Shang hurriedly boarded the boat at Liaoshuikou, so a lot of sulfur was scattered. The minister thought that the Jing people would get sulfur, and the witch medicine would no longer be subject to the Westerners, and he would attack me next month. ”

The State of Chu had been looking for sulfur, and through the channel of the Governor's Mansion, Wei Yu also knew that the State of Chu had sent sea boats to look for sulfur on the sea. After the Tiaozhi State and the Chu State became enemies, there were also 10,000 catties of sulfur on the seized sea boats, but fortunately, these sulfur were burned by the Tiaozhi people. After the news from all over the place has been summarized, it has been clearly judged that Chu State lacks sulfur, but unfortunately the State Governor's Mansion does not know the stock of sulfur in Chu State, and cannot judge what kind of impact this will have on the use of witchcraft.

"Really?" Zhao Zheng knew that it was bad news, but he was still a little panicked, and the war was going to start next month.

"I haven't harvested millet in September, so if you attack me at this time, you can eat in Guanzhong." Wei Yu said, this is also the judgment of the National Captain's Mansion.

"However, my soldiers are not yet mature, and they have not yet ......" Everything is in a hurry, and Daqin has never been so hasty in preparing for a war.

"The minister invites the king to leave the city tomorrow, and comfort the generals in Huangshui." Wei Yi said, his eyes full of eagerness.

Constrained by the only remaining grain and time in his hands, the Guowei Mansion did not transfer elites from Wang Jian and Li Xinjun to defend Yongcheng. It's not that the Chu army will immediately die when it enters the Qin State of Sanguan, this is just Zhao Zheng's oath words. After his death or his captivity by the Chu army, his eldest son Fusu was proclaimed the king of Qin by the ministers, and continued to deal with the Chu army until he could no longer support it and had to surrender to the Chu state.

Zhao Zheng's battle of Sanguan was like this, and Wei Yi believed that the Qin army would win this battle, provided that Zhao Zheng accepted his advice. For example, patrolling Yongcheng, and personally going to Huangshui to comfort the generals.

Zhao Zheng set off early the next morning, went out of the west gate of Yongcheng, and boarded the king's boat on the east bank of the river after a walk. Wang Zhou went straight to the upper reaches of the Huangshui River, and entered the Huangshui River Valley, where Zhang Han and King Jing fought that year, and saw the boatmen who were training along the Huangshui.

These hands sit on a temporary wooden platform, and from a distance, they see a person sitting on top of each other, and when you look closely, you can see that the position of the person is staggered, and the height difference can be used to sit so densely. The wooden platform was built in the water on the shore, and rows of long oars stretched out to the middle of the water, and at the command of the boatman, they rowed sometimes fast, sometimes slowly, in a uniform manner.

"Your Majesty, that's how the Romans trained oarsmen." In addition to the envoy Palops, several officers of the Egyptian navy came to Qin, all of whom were Macedonians, whose white skin allowed them to escape the detention of the Huns.

"The people of Rome?" Hearing the translation, Zhao Zheng did not know who the Romans were.

"Yes." It was Clemenides, a man in his forties. According to his self-introduction, he was the son of the commander-in-chief of the Egyptian navy, and had led more than 100 five-oared warships to engage the Seleucid fleet, sinking more than 40 of the opposing ships.

"I think Your Majesty's army is like the Romans, brave, resolute and, above all, outnumbered." Clémenides said very seriously, he did not doubt the strength of Great Qin like Palops, because he himself was in the midst of hundreds of thousands of Qin troops. "I'm sure they'll be the best oarsmen in the whole world, if only they are given enough ships.

When Rome fought the Punics, they did not have a single triremes, but they persevered, and trained countless oarsmen in the way they are now. After they captured the enemy's warships, they began to copy their own warships, and it took them more than twenty years to defeat the Punics.

The Chuni are a lot like the Punics, they have many warships, they are very good at business, and they also like to use mercenaries......"

"Pawn for hire?" Zhao Zheng was a little surprised when he heard this, he never knew that Jing people would use hired pawns.

"King, he's talking about the Chu army that occupies the spice producing area." Wu Ji replied, "It is said that the commander of the Chu people is a hired pawn. ”

Klimeniedes gushed endlessly, praising the Qin army and the Qin state very much, and then began to complain: "Such a great army, it's a pity that they haven't seen real warships yet, I want to know, when will Your Majesty give them warships?" ”

"The widow has sent an envoy to your country again, and if you have a craftsman, you can build a ship." Train your men first, then build your ships. The thinking of the Qin State is indeed the same as that of the Romans, and only people can wait for ships, not ships and people.

Hearing that the Qin State was going to send another envoy to Egypt, Clemides shook his head repeatedly, "It will take at least two years, and I heard that the Chuni will attack next month......

"What do you think of this boat?" Zhao Zheng could not answer the question of Clemenides, the craftsman was detained by the Huns, and the only solution was to send someone to hire the craftsman again. In order to respond to emergencies, Shaofu also designed a kind of warship, which is the one behind Wang Zhou.

Climenides glanced at the ships and shook his head again. "Your Majesty, it doesn't have ramming angles, and ramming tactics can't be used."

"Your Majesty, you should know that in our seas, the navy has two tactics." Another white man beside Clemendodes saluted and began to speak, and he was Armenias. "The old tactic was that the two ships were close together and the soldiers on the battleships engaged each other; Later, a new tactic appeared, that is, the ramming tactic. The galloping battleship rammed the weak points of the enemy ship, and this impact could be either by hitting the enemy ship itself, or passing by the enemy ship, breaking their wood pulp ......"

Armenas was an excellent naval tactician, he tried to use the simplest language to make Zhao Zheng understand what old tactics were and what were new tactics, and strongly recommended the Romans' approach, combining old and new tactics, for which a crow crane should be added to the battleship. That is, the onboard drawbridge, so that both new and old tactics can be used.

"This boat is not available?" Zhao Zheng didn't fully understand, but felt that Armenas was better at fighting than the older Climeniedes.

"Your Majesty, this battleship has no ramming angles, and the bow is not sharp, so you can't shave off all the oars on the opponent's side like a razor......"

The string of warships behind Wang Zhou was the triremes of the triremes newly built by the craftsmen of Shaofu according to the description of the Bai Di people. In fact, it only draws on the staggered arrangement of the three rows of oarsmen, but there is still no keel (and therefore no bronze bumper bow), and the bow is not sharp, as Armenas said, and cannot shave the oars of the opponent very neatly.

"Please get on board and give it a try." The Qin army also had a boat division, and Zhao Ying, the general of the boat division, stood beside Zhao Zheng, and when he heard Bai Diren's accusations, Zhao Ying's face was a little unbearable.

"This is the commander-in-chief of the navy of the Qin State." Zhao Ying was the general of the Qin State Boat Division, and in order to make it easier to understand, it was not taboo to translate him as the commander-in-chief of the navy. "He once led a column of oared warships to fight the Chuni until his own ship was sunk by Chuni artillery."

Zhao Ying's brave battle of Weinan is obvious to all, and there is also a sense of smell among the soldiers, although Clemides and others despise the oared warships of the Qin State. After several people boarded the Qin-style triremes battleship, they found that the internal structure was no different from the training wooden platform on the bank of the Huangshui, but the two training wooden platforms were combined together, one on the left and one on the right.

Below the battle deck, the left and right rows of oarsmen sat in a staggered position, and these people, like the oarsmen in training, did not have a left foot. They could only paddle with a prosthetic leg attached to the severed foot, fixed somewhere in the seat. At the front of the oarsmen, near the stairs, sits a navigator with a mallet, who directs the speed of the oarsmen's paddles.

When Clemonides entered, the navigator shouted something, probably an oar, and the navigator's gavel slowly struck the wooden post in front of him, and the oarsmen began to paddle, and the battleship sailed forward. When they reached the center of the water, the navigator immediately increased his speed, from the speed of battle to the speed of attack, and from the speed of attack to the speed of impact, and the battleship sped up on the water.

Zhao Ying seemed to be trying to show that the trained Qinni soldiers were excellent oarsmen who could row at the fastest speed, but Amenas, who was standing next to him, said, "It's not strong." ”

Shake! Trembling shaking, the faster the speed, the more severe this shaking becomes. Clemendes nodded, indicating that he had also discovered this, "This battleship doesn't have a keel, and I can't imagine what it will be like if it's hit." ”

"General, it will break into two sections at once." Amenas was sure. "I don't think the Qinni people are willing to fight with such warships, who let the barbarians of the steppe detain those craftsmen?"

The Romans were able to capture the Punic warships, but the Chennis had nothing but the usual rows of oared warships. Thinking of this, Klimendodes couldn't help but be a little worried: "With this kind of battleship to engage the Chuni, they will definitely lose." ”

Admirals such as Clemides and Armenias came to Qin with a purpose, and helping Qin defeat Chu was part of Egypt's military plan to reclaim the spice lands. Beyond that, try to get all the secrets of artillery, loot, craftsmen, etc., etc. Climeniedes, who thought of the possible defeat of Chinny, was worried, and he did not want to be captured by the Chuni.

"The king, its speed is even faster than the Jingren warship." Clemonides was worried on the battleship, and Wang Zhou looked at the three-oared warship speeding by, and Wei Yi said happily. He doesn't care about impact and sharpness, he thinks the most important thing is speed. As long as the speed of the war boat can surpass that of the Jing people, it will definitely be the victory of the Qin army.

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