Li Jun divided the warship into three teams, the front, the middle and the rear, the front was Zhang Shuntong, and the back was Zhang Hengtong, he sat in the Chinese army, and his flagship was accompanied by the Liqing. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

Sanniang also knew that she was not good at commanding water battles and naval battles, so she ordered Li Jun to command the fleet with full authority. There are more than 700 ships in this fleet, and the front and rear arrays are more than ten miles long. It was not an easy task to command such a large fleet, and I saw that after Li Jun divided the fleet, there were flagships of the detachment in the front, middle and rear, and the flagships of each fleet used five-color signal flags to command all ships in the fleet on high masts, and each ship had lookouts to identify the instructions by looking at the color change of the flag.

The five-color flag is black, white, red, blue, and yellow, Sanniang just mentioned Li Jun, saying that to command a large fleet, you must have your own flag, and the flag language is compiled into a military order through the change of the flag. Li Jun is also a talented person, so he planned with Zhang Shun, Zhang Heng and others, and created this set of five-color flags and flags unique to the Shandong Road Navy to ensure that the information of the fleet is smooth, and the large fleet can be mobilized up and down, like an arm.

In addition, Li Jun also created another set of horn commands, which are to respond to simple instructions through the long and short sounds of the horn, as a supplement to the flag language. If the above two methods cannot transmit military orders, the final way is to manually transmit military orders through the herald clipper boat. The clipper was a small sailing ship, nimble and light, extremely fast, shuttling back and forth, and could pass on military orders.

Therefore, after the flotilla started, the flagship flag flipped over, the horns sounded in unison, and the flying shear small sailing ship in the middle quickly came and went to the whole fleet, transmitting military orders, so that the orders of the whole fleet were unified, and the march and steering were uniform. Gongsun Sheng, Qiao Daoqing and others were all amazed when they saw it, while Sun Erniang, Qiong Ying and other female battalion soldiers were all cheering.

Gongsun Sheng twisted his beard and sighed: "With such a mast like a forest, a sail like a picture, thousands of ships competing for the current, a building ship like a wall, and a flying shear like an ant, who can be an opponent in such a military fleet?" ”

Sanniang smiled and said: "Mr. Gongsun, this fleet can only operate in the near sea, and I still think that in the future, our large fleet will go to the South Sea and the West Sea, which is the land of the extreme east, and we will also go there." It's just that at the moment, we still have sextants that have not been made, and the fleet does not know the direction, and it is difficult to go to the ocean. ”

Gongsun Shengqi said: "What is this sextant?" Sanniang said: "The sextant is a utensil, which can calculate the direction through the angle of the sea, the stars, and the sun. If you go to the vast sea and can't find the direction, it will be extremely dangerous, and the boat will always run out of water, so you must be able to identify the direction before you can travel the four seas. ”

Qiao Daoqing was curious: "How does the sextant identify the direction?" If you want to say sextant, you have to say the latitude and longitude, you have to say the latitude and longitude, you have to say that the earth is round, plus the sextant has to go through complex mathematical and geometric calculations, and there is knowledge of astronomy, optics and other disciplines, it can be said that a sextant determines the course includes astronomy, optics, geography, mathematical geometry and many other disciplines.

At that moment, Sanniang smiled and said: "If Daochang Qiao is interested, you can go to the Baijia Science Hall built by the Jeju Town Shoufu to have a look, they are studying this sextant there, you can ask them, I can't explain it very clearly here." "In fact, Sanniang is lazy, Baijia Science Hall was founded by Sanniang, where many astronomy, geography, mathematics, medicine, firearms professionals are gathered, specializing in the study of astronomy, geography, mathematics, medicine, firearms and other disciplines. With the financial support of Shandong Road, and Sanniang mentioning some points from time to time, the scientific research ability of Baijia Science Hall is showing up by leaps and bounds.

In fact, in many scientific researches, it is just a layer of window paper, and after it is pierced, it will be clear and clear. For example, the arquebus to the flintlock pistol has gone through a lot of long and tortuous roads, but as soon as Sanniang came up, she mentioned some experts in the study of firearms, and let them study the flintlock fire, sometimes it is not that the flintlock is difficult to develop, but no one has thought of it. For example, the paper fixed ammunition of later generations can increase the rate of fire of muskets, which is also explored after repeated use by people, and Sanniang only needs to remind that the dosage can be fixed, and there will be many detours.

A more obvious example is artillery production, Sanniang directly reminded craftsmen that using the clay mold production method to make artillery has advanced the artillery production technology by more than a hundred years. There is also the problem of the formula of gunpowder, the formula of different proportions of black powder can be used for different purposes, which can be divided into push propellants, explosives, etc., Sanniang directly told the craftsmen the proportion of mature gunpowder formulas, and the natural result is that the firearms on Shandong Road are very sharp.

You must know that the gunpowder formula of Sanniang came from later generations, that is, during the first Opium War in later generations, the British army still used black powder, but the black powder formula of the British army was the best formula obtained after countless tests and actual combat. Push propellant can make the thrust function play to the extreme, so the British artillery is farther than the Qing army, and the power of the explosive is also exerted to the extreme, so the British artillery falls to the ground and blossoms, the power is amazing, and the Qing army cannot resist. As a result, black powder was also used, and the Qing army completely defeated the British army in firearms.

Therefore, Sanniang opened a hundred science halls in order to teach what she knows as much as possible, so as to speed up the climbing of the science and technology tree and let Shandong Road maintain its advantage in science and technology.

The fleet drove in mightily, Sanniang and others were in the cabin of the building, which was really arranged as if Jeju's own residence was still in the hall, carved window lattices, yellow curtains, Persian carpets, wool felt pads are all available, and the furniture inside is all high-quality pineapple wood, which is magnificent, and everything you need, food and wine are readily available.

The Liqing ship was very comfortable because it was placed, and it was not very hard to sail within a few days, but on the third day, the north wind was strong, the weather was cold, and the stove on the ship was not so cold, but the wind and waves were great, and it was slightly bumpy.

On the fifth day, the fleet was close to the sea off Yanjing, at this time several rivers in Yanjing had been frozen, and the coast was full of tidal flats and reeds, which was not suitable for the landing of the army, but fortunately, Li Jun sent icebreakers to break through the ice along the coast, and found a tidal flat suitable for the landing of the army on the south bank of the Haihe River, so the fleet went ashore in batches.

After spending two days of hard work, the cavalry troops were first sent ashore, including the cavalry's war horses and other equipment, and the cavalry quickly drove out of the landing site and cruised around the perimeter to protect the landing ground from attack. In fact, there is no danger, there is almost no Jin army and Liao army here, only some fishing and hunting people in the north are here, and they are all stunned to see such a huge fleet landing.

After the cavalry landed on the shore, they treated the people of the north quite politely, and spent money to buy grain and fresh vegetables and fruits from the people of the north, and the people of the north gradually eliminated their vigilance, and heard that this army horse was the Song army of Shandong Road, and came to rescue Yanjing, and the people of Liao in the north were even more happy, not only took the initiative to lead the way, but also took out their own reserves of grain, vegetables and fruits to sell to the army and horses of Shandong Road.

On the fifth day after the landing, most of the infantry troops had already landed on the shore, so they first built camps and trenches, and built barracks within five miles of the periphery of the landing ground, and rescued people later.

On the sixth day, the cavalry troops roaming around the periphery finally met the Jurchen ranger sentinels of the Jin Kingdom, and there were lightly armed cavalry troops on both sides, and the number of Liangshan troops was larger. After seeing the banner of the Liangshan Song army, the Jurchen Jin army was still a little stunned, and when they were about to step forward to question, the Liangshan Song army greeted them with bows and arrows.

The Jurchen Jin army was caught off guard, and a group of more than 20 horsemen were suddenly shot over by five or seven. Suddenly attacked, these Jurchen Jin troops were also really fierce, and immediately charged with horses, charging while returning fire with horned bows. The cavalry of the Song army in Liangshan here was not polite, and the general horseback charged and shot at each other, and the two armies rushed straight at each other. When they were about to reach the front, both armies abandoned their bows and arrows at the same time, and drew their melee blades one after another.

The Jurchen Jin army all used a four-foot scimitar, and did not use the mace, sledgehammer, axe and other heavy blades used by heavy cavalry such as Tiefutu, and the Liangshan cavalry also generally used a scimitar, but they used a four-foot dog-legged scimitar, which was the cavalry standard scimitar designed by Sanniang according to the famous Gurk scimitar in later generations. This kind of knife conforms to the principle of mechanics, and it is said to be able to cut off the head of a bull with a single sword, which is quite sharp.

The cavalry soldiers on both sides shouted and neighed, staggered, blood flew, stumps were all over the sky, after a photo, the Jurchen cavalry was left with only five or six horsemen, and the leading Jurchen Mouke was also killed on the spot, and the remaining Jurchen cavalry saw that the enemy was strong, and hurriedly scattered and fled.

I have to say that the Jurchen cavalry is really superb in horsemanship, and they are all hunting in the white mountains and black waters, very cunning, they scattered and fled, and the Liangshang cavalry chased separately, and in the end only chased and killed three people, and the remaining two fled without a trace. When the captain of Liangshan saw this, he slowly gathered the sentry cavalry, ordered someone to report back to the camp, and led the sentry cavalry to continue to the outpost.

At this moment, Lin Chong and other generals had already landed, so they camped separately, held the camp and landed on the temporary wharf, connecting the land camp and the water camp together. In the cold weather, the soldiers in the camp lived in cowhide tents and cut down the surrounding trees to build warmer wooden huts to live in.

After Lin Chong received the report in the camp, he ordered the whole army to be on guard, and sent additional sentry cavalry to the sentry to investigate, so as to find out the movement of the Jin army first, and then make a decision.

After the other Jurchen sentinel fled back, the two of them returned to the Jurchen camp on the outskirts of Yanjing to report the news. The commander of the Jurchen Jin army was the great enemy of Sanniang, Sticky Han, who was taken aback when he heard that a large number of Song troops had been found on the south bank of the Haihe River near the sea, and exclaimed: "Song Liao is a country of the alliance, could it be that the Song army came to the rescue of Liao?" (To be continued.) )