"Parallel! Parallel! Parallel to the goal! It's so simple, why don't you understand! Yuan Yao was in the oars room below deck, pulling a tun commander who commanded the oarsmen and scolded.

Compared to Yuan Yaoxiang, who had just taken over the command two hours ago, he now already had the appearance of a captain, at least like a rude pirate captain! But this can't be blamed on him, anyone who looks at the ballista firing a hundred cannons will scold his mother in a hurry if he doesn't hit the target, at first he missed two hundred steps, then he took a hundred steps, and then he pulled fifty steps closer and still missed, from that moment on, Yuan Yao's small universe began to explode!

No, he had already rushed into the oars room of the warship and directly intervened in the command system at the lowest level.

"You have to direct the oarsman to keep the side of the boat facing the target, which is called parallelism! Do you recognize the word, do you recognize the word 'T'...... do you recognize the word 'D'? I'll draw it for you...... That's it, the horizontal line on the side of the warship forms a straight line with the target, so that the gunners above can aim at the target, they can't turn the direction, and the direction control can only depend on you? Try again! Yuan Yao crackled and shouted, and he didn't know if the other party could understand.

"No."

The commander wiped the sweat and saliva on his face nervously, and then hurriedly leaned down on the oar window to check, and after a while, he issued orders one by one, and the oarsmen acted according to the order, and then the hull of the boat shook violently, and Yuan Yao almost fell......

"I'm grass, can you paddle steadily, how can the gunner aim accurately if the shaking is so powerful! In the future, you don't have to do anything, just practice paddling, be a special oarsman, you must practice fast and steady to maintain balance, practice well rewarded! ”

Yuan Yao, who was held by Chen Wu, shouted loudly again, but no matter how loud he was, he couldn't suppress the swaying warship.

The navy of the Han Dynasty was not full-time, and although she had a coastline of tens of thousands of miles, she did not have a decent maritime enemy, so there was nothing wrong with saying that the Han Dynasty was a landlocked country without a navy.

As for the Yangtze River, no matter how long it is, it is also an inland river, and there is too little room for water warfare, so the Han basically has no need for a professional naval army, and the so-called naval army fighting on the boat is just a change of environment, and there is no fundamental difference from land warfare. Including the oarsmen, they are all collecting knives and rowing, drawing knives and cutting people's goods, unlike the Mediterranean Navy in this period, which already had the rudiments of a profession, oarsmen are oarsmen, and soldiers are soldiers.

So for Yuan Yao, these Han Dynasty oarsmen in front of him are a little too unprofessional and can't meet his needs. It may be possible to let them operate the boat and ram the ship, but it may be a bit beyond the power to control such a technical vessel that requires precision.

Through these two hours of experiments, Yuan Yao came to a conclusion, he decided to take out the crew of the battleship separately and professionalize, otherwise he would not be able to play the ship at all.

"No, no, oh my God!"

Perhaps because he was scolded by Yuan Yao for being nervous, not only did the commander not make any progress after the commander commanded, but instead let the ship start to spin in place.

Yuan Yao pulled up Tun Chang and scolded: "Parallel! Parallel! That's all you have to do now, I haven't taught you anything else, you can't play it, how can we do anything else! You want to kill me! ”

"Little incompetence, please forgive the general!" The chief also knew that he had not done a good job, so he knelt down with a flushed face and pleaded guilty.

"You ......" Yuan Yao was already angry and didn't know what to say.

"Lord, my subordinates want to try, please give me a chance."

"Huh?"

Yuan Yao, who was helpless, suddenly heard someone behind him take the initiative to ask for help, his expression was stunned for a moment, and when he looked back, it was one of his own guards who was holding his fist and asking for his life, although his face was slightly nervous, but his eyes were very persistent.

"You know how to the oars?" Yuan Yao asked.

"My subordinates have studied Wu Zixu's "The Art of Water Warfare", but they haven't had a chance to practice it yet, so please give your subordinates a chance." After that, the guards directly knelt on the ground and asked for their lives, this time it was not just a fist!

"Okay, then you can try it, remember my request, parallel!" Yuan Yao nodded cautiously.

"No!" The guards responded excitedly, got up and went to the porthole to look at it for a while, and then shouted out the commands one by one, and the oarsmen followed suit......

After a while, the ship finally stopped circling in place, and it became more and more stable. Yuan Yao's eyes lit up when he saw this, and then he also chose a porthole to look out, and faintly began to look forward to it in his heart.

"Okay, it's a little interesting......" Yuan Yao didn't speak, but he couldn't help but cheer for this guard in his heart......

"Yes, that's it, it's getting more and more presentable, keep it, come on! Eh, it's over, it's over...... yes, come back, come back, okay, that's it, keep going, hold on, hold on, 1 second, 2 seconds, 3 seconds......"

Yuan Yao calculated in his heart how long the guards kept parallel, until a few cannons sounded, and the five black shadows on his head flew towards the shore. This means that the ballista in the chamber above the head finally has a chance to aim, and the stone projectile that has been loaded for a long time has finally been fired!

"Well done!" Yuan Yao shouted excitedly, because he kept parallel, although the five stone bullets just now did not hit the target, they shot a straddle, that is, flew over the target's head, which was the best result of this afternoon.

"What's your name and what position do you hold in the Guards Battalion?" Yuan Yao happily pulled up the guard and asked.

"His subordinate Yuan Hong, who is good at words, is the commander of the guard camp." The guard's face flushed.

"Oh, but the children of the Yuan family?" Yuan Yao was surprised.

"Exactly." The guard nodded.

"Good, good!"

Yuan Yao didn't ask him whose son he was, because he definitely didn't know him. Although most of the guards are relatives of the same clan, the Yuan family is too big, and they don't know how many clothes to run, and those who are close to the descendants will definitely not come to be a small guard.

Yuan Yao patted Yuan Hong's shoulder and said, "Zishan, you will leave the guard battalion to temporarily command these 60 oarsmen now, and take up the post of tun commander first." In the future, I will set up this kind of warship as a separate army, a full-time naval army, and I will not do anything else. You have to think more about how to use this kind of ship to fight, because no one knows how to do it yet, and whoever learns it first can be in a high position, so I hope you can have a place in this navy. ”

Yuan Hong knelt down on one knee and said: "Thank you for the cultivation of the lord, and the subordinates will definitely live up to expectations." ”

"Get up!"

Yuan Yao picked up Yuan Hong and said: "You have done a good job of parallel in the current, what you have to do next is to balance and ensure that the ballista above shoots in the most stable environment!" ”

Yuan Hong nodded and said, "The subordinates understand, the subordinates want to ask the lord to order the sails to be lowered." ”

"Well, why?" Yuan Yao asked in wonder.

Yuan Hong Zhengse explained: "The subordinates feel that raising the sail at this time is not beneficial to the operation of the ship to maintain parallelism or balance, but it is very hindering, and the subordinates have to spend energy to let the oarsman fight against the power from the sail, so the subordinates feel that for this new type of warship in wartime, the sail is still not used, and it can be used again when sailing in peacetime." ”

Yuan Yao felt that it made sense when he heard this, so he said, "Since that's the case, I'll listen to you." Herald: Lowering the sails. ”

The herald shouted: "Order: Lower the sails!" ”

"Lowering the Sail ......"

"Okay, I'll teach you here." Yuan Yao said kindly to Yuan Hong.

"Please rest assured that your subordinates will never let your lord down." Yuan Hongli said.

Yuan Yao nodded, turned around and walked to the deck......