Yuan Hong's battleship formation was defeated and defeated by the battleships of the Jingzhou Navy Army!

When Yuan Yao received this battle report, he was taken aback......

After occupying the entire territory of Yuzhang, Yuan Yao retreated from the front line and did not continue to participate in the battle, because the remaining strategic task was to attack the three counties on the south bank of Jiangxia, and the main enemy was only Wenpin and 20,000 Jingzhou soldiers, and because the Yangtze River was blocked, the task was not very difficult, and there was no need for Yuan Yao to personally co-ordinate, so he handed over the battle to Tai Shici and other generals, and he himself stayed with Lu Su and other civil servants to deal with more difficult internal affairs issues.

These include the follow-up to the Danyang reforms; the rights of Xinde Yuzhang County, and whether it is suitable to copy the Danyang reform plan; And the question of the prisoners captured in this war, and so on......

The issue of captives is imminent and must be resolved immediately.

Most of the captives belonging to Zhuge Xuan and Zhenrong are Yuzhang people, at this time Yuzhang has been controlled by Yuan Yao, and these surrendered troops have become his subjects, so they can be reorganized at will, whether they continue to be retained or sent home, there is no problem, the problem is the surrender of Jingzhou!

In this battle, Yuan Yao captured 25,000 Jingzhou soldiers, plus nearly 50,000 of the previous 20,000 people, and half of the so-called 100,000 sailors in Jingzhou were captured by Yuan Yao.

The easiest way is to kill it once and for all. However, for Yuan Yao, neither rationality nor emotion is acceptable.

Unlike the Central Plains, where displaced people can be found everywhere, Jiangdong has a small population, and if you want to develop agriculture, you have to carefully grab people from the family, and now it is difficult to get tens of thousands of human resources, and you can't bury them all because you are afraid of trouble.

After some discussion, Yuan Yao finally decided to adopt the method of labor reform, and sentenced these newly subordinated soldiers to serve two years of hard labor in the name of invasion and then let them free.

The reason why it is only two years is to give them hope so that they will work honestly and not have to risk their lives to run away or riot.

As for the use of these free laborers, they were naturally handed over to Nong Cao to take to Danyang to open up the wasteland, and the newly formed militia was responsible for taking care of them, so that the problem of surrendering troops in Jingzhou would be temporarily alleviated.

After the decision is made, it is the specific implementation, these are not under the control of Yuan Yao, he began to deal with the reform issues, these belong to internal affairs, they are slow work, it takes time.

But at this moment, bad news came from the front - the battleship turned out to be defeated!

This time, the battleship was defeated not by the Red Horse Clipper, but by the Jingzhou battleship that suddenly appeared, and was defeated in a dignified long-range confrontation, which was what surprised Yuan Yao.

Jingzhou actually imitated a battleship, and its firepower was fiercer than its own battleship!

Since the soldiers of the Eastern Expeditionary Army were all transferred to the land to attack Wenpin, and Liu Xun's army also returned to the mainland to prevent Huang Zugou from jumping over the wall to invade the Lujiang River, so there is no one available for the naval army now, so the task of blocking the Yangtze River will be handed over to Yuan Hong's battleship formation, and according to the current strength of the Jingzhou naval army, there is no problem for him to block this section of the waters of Jiangxia. Moreover, Sun Lu also transformed the ship into a modified ship in Lujiang, and then supplemented it to Yuan Hong, so that it would be foolproof.

As a result, I never thought that Jingzhou would also get a battleship.

When the Jingzhou Navy sent fifty warships, Yuan Hong didn't think much about it, and directly led thirty battleships to rush up to prepare to set fire and oil bombs, but was hit by fierce stone bullets a hundred steps away, Yuan Hong was caught off guard, and then he knew that the other party was also a battleship.

When he rushed to a distance of sixty or seventy paces under the rain of bullets, the Jingzhou battleship fired fire oil bombs before Yuan Hong, and the accuracy was even higher than that of ballistas, but the number was slightly less.

Yuan Hong was not prepared for such a symmetrical battle, so he was repulsed. The Jingzhou battleship did not seem to be ready for victory, so it did not pursue, and the two sides stopped fighting.

Yuan Hong's losses were not significant.

After some repairs, Yuan Hong set off with thirty battleships and forty modified ships, and as a result, there were more than ten more battleships in Jingzhou; When Sun Lu had converted all the ships, Yuan Hong had eighty ships to be refitted, but he never thought that the number of battleships in Jingzhou would also reach one hundred.

Yuan Hong knew that this was not a problem that he could solve, so he reported the information he had collected to Yuan Yao, and made an objective judgment - there was no certainty of victory.

The Jingzhou battleship was converted into a shipwreck, and the modification was more simple and crude, directly dismantling all the superstructures, and then installing six bed crossbows on the deck, so Yuan Hong could see its structure clearly.

They didn't need a bow and arrow to defend against the Lu, as the Yuan battleships had no archers.

The bed crossbow covers a large area, and the number is not as large as the ballista, but in the confrontation between the two sides, the range, hit, and destructive power of the Jingzhou bed crossbow are all higher than the ballista, so Yuan Hong was repulsed!

Yuan Yao found out that he had lost to the Jingzhou Navy in terms of technology! He knew that the bed crossbow was more powerful than the ballista, but he couldn't make the bed crossbow hit the stone bullet, and there was no such bed crossbow in the system, but the Jingzhou people actually made it......

"Huh!" Yuan Yao was happy, and he was very happy.

"Lord, how can you be happy if we lose?" Lu Meng's face was puzzled.

"This ...... You don't understand it! Yuan Yao couldn't explain to Lu Meng, because he was genuinely happy. He was also surpassed by the ancient Chinese, which gave him a sense of civilization pride, even if it was he who was trampled on.

However, this joy cannot be shared with the people of this era, because they are still small and cannot understand this.

However, when Yuan Yao's pattern withdrew from the perspective of civilization, he couldn't laugh, because unless he made an artillery battleship, he didn't know how to defeat Jingzhou's bed crossbow version of the battleship now.

He needed to figure out how the people of Jingzhou had made the bed version of the ballista. And why did the Jingzhou Navy suddenly jump out of so many warships.

The information was quickly placed in front of Yuan Yao, because with the victory of the battleship in Jingzhou, this information was already known to everyone in Jingzhou.

In order to keep his rights, Cai Mao is buying the leader of the water thieves on a large scale, which can be said to be asking for money for money, officials for officials, and even paying his own property.

With the water thieves being recruited in large numbers, the so-called cunning rabbit three kilns are no longer a secret, they have nowhere to escape, and they are suffering from the catastrophe of annihilation, it can be said that Shunchang is rebellious, the reason is that they have a ship in their hands.

Cai Mao was ruthless for these warships.

As for the bed crossbow version of the ballista, it was even more bizarre, it was invented by two children, one was a fourteen-year-old boy named Zhuge Liang, and the other was a girl named Huang Yueying, who had just turned ten.

These two children are already well known in Jingzhou at this time.

Yuan Yao was dumbfounded when he saw this information......