System prompt: Gain control of Poyang County, Yuzhang County, +1 for the number of county towns in the territory, and +1 for clone recruitment per day.

In the past few days, the county seat of Yuzhang originally belonged to Huaxin has been determined by three consecutive rumors, and the remaining ten cities may still be looking at the direction of the wind, but it is expected.

But what's going on in Poyang? This is the county town controlled by Zhenrong!

Yuan Yao looked at the newly obtained prompts from the system, a little inexplicable......

The "Shanghai Port" needed 300 clones to build for a month to complete, so Yuan Yao would not wait in the Dantu all the time, and after the final location was chosen to start construction, he hurriedly led the fleet back to Lujiang, preparing to recruit Chen Heng as planned, and then fight a decisive battle with the Jingzhou naval army.

As for the newly activated salt drying plant, because there is no suitable place to build it, it will be put aside for the time being.

The coastline that Yuan Yao now controls is closer to the mouth of the Yangtze River, and the sea water has been desalined by the river, so it is not suitable for salt.

The place that is close and suitable for drying salt should be Wu County, and there is a county town called Haiyan County in Hangzhou Bay under its jurisdiction, which is named after the salt production.

To this end, Yuan Yao sent a letter to Sun Ce to speed up the progress of Wu County's strategy.

The Sun family is a native of Fuchun, Wu County, and letting him go to take Wu County has a local advantage, which will help to take Jiangdong as soon as possible.

As for what is boring, Yuan Yao doesn't care, it's a big deal to govern it after the occupation. As far as he is concerned, there is one more clone recruited in multiple counties, so no matter what, let's get the territory first.

And the key to whether Sun Ce is obedient or not lies in Yuan Yao's control over Jiangdong, and the key node now is the battle of Yuzhang with Jingzhou!

As long as Yuan Yao wins, Sun Ce will not dare to mess around; Or that no one dares to follow Sun Ce.

As for Xu Gong, Wang Lang, Yan Baihu and the like, Yuan Yao has never paid attention to them, because they are not at the same level as the Yuan family, and even if they are defeated in a hundred battles, they can be dragged down.

Even including the previous Liu Xuan, if there was no Yangtze River natural insurance, he would not be able to enter the eyes of the Yuan family at all.

In Jiangdong, Yuan Yao's enemy was always only one, and that was Jingzhou.

……

After two days of sailing, Yuan Yao and others returned to Lujiang, and as soon as they came ashore, they got new news from Liu Ye-

Tai Shici, who was surrounded by a sneak attack, not only did nothing, but also turned around and grabbed Poyang, the territory of Zhenrong, and prepared to defend the city. However, the troops around him sacrificed a lot, and there were still more than 5,000 soldiers and horses left in the 15,000 soldiers and horses, and they were no longer able to carry out the task of occupying Yuzhang, but they contained the 40,000 allied forces of Zhuge Xuan and Zhenrong in Poyang, so that they could not fight other places for the time being.

Hearing this report, Yuan Yao breathed a sigh of relief, and finally knew the situation of Tai Shici's army.

Although he had a rough guess according to the previous system prompts, he could only be regarded as really down-to-earth after getting the exact information, but at the same time, he also understood that he had to fight a decisive battle with the Jingzhou Navy as soon as possible!

Five thousand Danyang soldiers were trapped in the lonely city, facing an enemy almost ten times their size, and they were still in the enemy's territory...... In this case, it is better to support as soon as possible, otherwise no one will be surprised if Poyang is attacked at any time.

And now the fastest way to support Tai Shici is to defeat the Jingzhou Navy and land Yuzhang from the water......

"How's the ship ready?" Yuan Yao began to ask Liu Ye about his preparations in the past few days.

Liu Yeyu reported: "The ten battleships built by Sun Lu have been delivered, and the number of our battleships has now reached thirty, led by Yuan Hong!" ”

Yuan Yao breathed a sigh of relief when he heard this, Sun Lu finally lived up to his hopes and finished building the battleship when he returned.

After several battle tests, the battleship has no doubt about its combat power, and the reason why it has not been able to become the main force is because the number is too small, if there are one or two hundred, Yuan Yao will dare to rush up directly and push the Jingzhou Navy now.

"Where's the modified ship?" Yuan Yao asked again.

"Twenty ships have been refurbished." Liu Ye replied.

"Oh? So fast? Yuan Yao was surprised by Liu Ye's happy answer......

Since the last time he was chased by more than 200 red horses in Jingzhou, Yuan Yao has been discussing with Liu Ye and Sun Lu how to transform the warship to deal with this tactic, and finally decided not to move the battleship for the time being, first on the basis of the traditional warship, to transform a warship that can not only install ballistas, but also carry soldiers; It can strike from a distance, and it is not afraid to engage a warship in close combat.

To put it bluntly, it is a compromise model between a warship and a battleship, and its melee combat ability is not as good as that of a warship; Long-range strikes are inferior to battleships. Although the capabilities are not outstanding, they can become a panacea warship that no one is afraid of.

At the beginning, Sun Lu was in charge of experimenting with this kind of ship, and he directly took a ready-made ship and made small changes to increase the width of the original chamber so that it could place ballistas in it.

However, due to the layout problem, in the end, it could only barely fit 4 ballistas, and the single-string output was only 2 ballistas, which was three-fifths less than that of battleships of the same level. But on the other hand, it is to carry sailors in three-fifths more positions than battleships, so that they can attack from a distance and are not afraid of close combat.

If you want to put a few more ballistas, you can't do it with a small change, you have to make a big change, which is almost equal to the amount of work to build half a battleship.

If Yuan Yao wanted to convert all the ships into battleships, this would be a feasible plan, but it would require a large number of mature craftsmen.

The number of oarsmen on the converted ship has also been increased to 60 according to the size of the battleship, and although it is not as fast as the battleship, it is faster than the original ship.

Together with 20 ballistae, several sail operators, helmsmen, and the like, the entire ship was fully loaded with no more than 200 people, which was a third less than the full load of 300 people.

After confirming that this kind of modified ship could be used, Yuan Yao asked Liu Ye to take out 20 ships to be renovated, which was much faster than building it directly.

But Yuan Yao made another request, that is, to add some camouflage to make it look like a battleship - Yuan Yao planned to use these 20 converted ships that were not afraid of close combat to disguise themselves as battleships, and find an opportunity to shade the Red Horse Clipper in Jingzhou and avenge Deng Dang.

The task of transforming and refitting the ship was given to Liu Ye by Yuan Yao before going to Dantu, and it has only been 7 days so far, so it stands to reason that it should not be completed so quickly, but Liu Ye said that the transformation has been completed, so Yuan Yao was surprised......

Seeing that Yuan Yao was surprised, Liu Ye explained: "The subordinates persuaded Liu Fujun to temporarily put down the construction of the building ship and borrow the craftsmen to use it to transform the warship. ”

"I see." Yuan Yao suddenly said, "In this way, we should have almost everything to prepare, integrate the training tomorrow, and start the plan to recruit Chen Heng without any problem." ”

"No." Liu Yeli said.