The Dengzhou Naval Division was established in early March of the fourth year of Yifeng (679), with an initial establishment of 8,000 sailors and 5,000 marines. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

It was then increased to 10,000 sailors and 12,000 marines.

The 10,000 sailors refer to the combat troops on board, excluding the auxiliary forces at the helm and paddling the oars.

Mainly from the coastal people, all of them are water-based, well-trained and well-equipped after joining the army, and it is the world's first-class strong army!

There are two main types of warships, one is the giant ship, which has a raw cowhide and a covered back, and has good defensive performance; Open the crossbow window spear hole, powered by oars, can sail quickly.

Used for combat, it is divided into two tiers, one is the deck, which serves as a melee combat, and the second can be used for archery.

In front of it, there is a "angle of attack", which is made of metal and used to ram enemy ships.

There are three more masts, which are used to use the wind to cross the sea.

The most powerful thing to fight is the building ship, the five-story building ship is full of power, there is a slap rod to smash the enemy ship, the middle layer shoots arrows, and the lower layer engages, but the center of gravity of the building ship is too high, it is not conducive to crossing the sea and fighting, it is easy to be blown by the wind and waves, and it can only fight in the river and near the sea, so it is not used.

There is also a sea falcon boat, the head is low and the tail is high, the front is large and the back is small, and the shape of the boat imitates a seabird that is good at passing through the wind and waves, which is suitable for rowing waves. The floating plates are set on the left and right sides of the ship, which has the function of stabilizing the ship in the wind and waves, and can block the side waves and reduce the lateral swing of the hull, which is a kind of warship that is not afraid of wind and waves.

There are two main types of warships, the large Sea Falcon in Wei Xi's fleet, which is used for transportation, and carries small boats, which can transport marines.

Today they went out to read and let Wei Xi see the results of their training.

In the bay, warships came from covering the sea, and then the huge ships formed two columns, showing a formation, drawing a trajectory like a butterfly, showing a good fleet attack ability and single-ship maneuvering ability.

They fired powerful arrows and rockets, and they could see several beams of red light, shooting straight out more than two hundred paces!

This was a pre-loaded winch crossbow on board, which was no small feat in those days!

The winch crossbow is made of a giant crossbow of twelve stones set on the winch (Wei Xi uses two stones and three bucket bows), which can fire seven arrows at the same time, which is powerful and has a long range!

There were also several large falcons, with long armbars on them, which were trebuchet devices, and threw fire bombs more than 300 steps in one go!

At this time, they were all equipped with counterweight trebuchets, which had strong attack power, but the accuracy in naval combat was not good, and they could only kill in the face, and it was difficult to do point attacks.

When it falls on the water, it is a raging fire, as Wei Xi said, this is the true fire of samadhi, and the water cannot be extinguished.

Wei Xi's entourage was stationed on a hill by the sea, watching the warship exercise from a high vantage point, and expressed his satisfaction with this.

The highlight of the Marine Corps was their beach-grabbing landing battle, where the sergeants worked hard to row small boats and bravely rushed to the beachhead to conduct charging drills.

Speaking of which, the Marine Corps' maneuver that day was much worse than that of the fleet, because the wind and waves were too strong, and the dinghy was washed all over the place, some of the dinghy actually ran a mile away from the landing site, and some of the dinghy simply overturned by the wind and waves, but fortunately, the soldiers were well-trained and there were no casualties, but only half of the men and horses of the attack went ashore as planned.

The senior officers of the Marine Corps were all bluffed and terrified.

Unexpectedly, the noble man nodded and said yes!

This noble man is the founder of the Marine Corps, and he said that satisfaction is satisfaction!

At that time, there was no anti-landing war, the place where the country of the rising sun was located was full of wind leaks, as long as the Tang army drove the ship to them, it would definitely be able to go ashore, and the beach landing battle was just a pretext.

After the naval and marine exercises were completed, Wei Xi summoned the senior officers for a lecture.

There are mainly naval captains, marine corps captains, and staff officers, most of them are unknown, people are afraid of water, and there are really few children of big families who dare to go to the water, Wei Xi lacks talents, and appeals to various families, asking them to send their children to join the navy, and there are few responders, so there are only a few people who respond, and only the Jingzhao Wei family, Liu Fu's family, and Yingzhou Li (Jinxing) family sent a few children to help him, which just means.

When the sons of Princess Xiang's Mansion were sent to the Marine Corps, they were all scared and cried when they heard that they were going to get on the ship, and of course they also withstood the training afterwards (otherwise they would be sent to dig sand).

Wei Xi first expressed his gratitude to them for training the soldiers so well in a short period of time, and the officers have worked hard every day to train the soldiers!

Then he issued a pre-war mobilization: raise troops for a thousand days, use them for a while, everyone is ready, and the war is about to start!

All the officers are in high spirits, it is not easy to be in the navy, standing on the ship, illuminated by the double sun---- the sun in the sky, the sea water is reflective, miserable than Wei Xi on the plateau, who has been in the navy, everyone is African black, and the price will be asked when you go to Luoyang (you Kunlun Nu is in good spirits, how much is it worth?) Soak in water and remove a layer of skin from the salt water!

What can you do without fighting when you suffer such a sin?

Wei Xi only said that he was preparing for war, but he didn't say where to fight, so others naturally didn't dare to ask him, but he was just ready to prepare for war according to the instructions.

Instant rewards, a lot of money, everyone has it, not only for this exercise, but also for the settling-in fee!

The general was in high spirits and ordered: "The four treasures of the study are waiting." ”

Ha, this is the general who wants to give Mobao, this is the first time he has given the troops to the water division, so everyone is full of interest, only to see Wei Xi write:

"The sun rises from the water sky, the infinite light shines on the sky, the blue waves and silver light reflect the golden ball, and the silver waves go straight up!"

He forgot to write the name of the poem, but no one dared to say it.

After he left Dengzhou, a tragedy occurred immediately, and the sailors and marines first quarreled over the ownership of the poem, and then fought fiercely!

Although the words of this poem are not very well written (Wei Xi's words have always been written ugly), the poetry is not very good, and there is not even a poem title, after all, it is the current general, the first poem written by the later emperor to the navy, which is of great significance, Dengzhou Navy Division (later upgraded to the Imperial Navy) and Marine Corps (later upgraded to the Imperial Marine Corps) for the belonging of this poem and dog-eat-dog badly, which made the adults of the Imperial Military Department very sad! (Some conspiracy theorists believe that the emperor deliberately created discord between the two services)

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"See the General!" Headed by Jing Dongling, the general of the Right Guard, the officers of the General Staff paid tribute to Wei Xi one after another.

Although Jing Dongling was one of the sixteen guards of the imperial court, he only followed Wei Xi, received money and did not do anything (the right guard officers were very happy), he was busy preparing Wei Xi's strategic direction, and when the war was about to be fought, he had to tell his generals what they had done.

"We have already occupied Jeju Island, which the general talked about, and built a harbor, a wharf, a warehouse, a house, and a water supply point there, and invited (this is a polite statement, the fact is that the old Tang farmers took the lead, they were free men, and the rest of the workers were slaves) and some people cultivated there!"

“good！” Wei Xi couldn't help Webster's nonsense, it was really good news.

Formed by volcanic activity 1.2 million years ago, Jeju Island is a typical volcanic island with a landscape of mostly plains, hills, and lava rocks, and dense forests.

In ancient times---- during the Three Kingdoms period of China, there was a Tamna country on Jeju Island (this is the saying of the stick sticks and gold in later generations), but in fact, there were some Tibetan tribes, and there were not many hairs.

After the Tang army came ashore, 2,000 people conquered the so-called Tamna country, got more than 10,000 natives (and rejoiced), and used their people to establish the necessary base for crossing the sea to conquer the east. (To be continued.) )