readx;?readx; Chapter 696 Zhu Hongjun

"The drawings?" Zhu Lie shook his head in disbelief and said, "Is there something wrong?" He first ordered people to produce ten prototypes with reference to the drawings, and after repeated tests under various conditions, the trial voyage alone was carried out for more than 50,000 miles, and it was believed that its performance was consistent with the warships of the Qin army, and there were no defects, so it began to be imitated on a large scale. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

If there is still a problem with the battleship built in this way, it will be called hell.

"Of course the drawings are fine." Qin Lei said with a smile: "Who doesn't know that Southern Chu founded the country with a naval army, and the level of shipbuilding is far higher than that of our Great Qin. ”

"And what do you mean?" Zhu Lie's face was ugly and said, "Where is the conspiracy of Bo Xiang's separation?" ”

"It's not a conspiracy, it's a conspiracy." Qin Lei smiled freely, spread his hands and said: "Marshal Bo Xian has no reservations, first show you the advantages of the paddle steamer, and then show you all the techniques, and then the wise Shangzhu General took the bait unconsciously, and it is still in the dark to this day." ”

"I don't understand what you mean?" Zhu Lie's eyes widened and said, "Don't sell it anymore!" ”

"What an impatient fellow." Qin Lei was not annoyed, and said with a faint smile: "Do you know how big the gap between Qin and Chu in shipbuilding technology was before the appearance of paddle steamers?" ”

"Thirty or fifty years." Zhu Lie said coldly. He is still very confident in this.

"That's right," Qin Lei said, "What is the main aspect of the gap?" ”

As soon as the words of "Lou Boat ......" fell, Zhu Lie was stunned for a moment, since the fiasco on Dongting Lake, he didn't know how many times he reflected on the cause of the defeat, but he really didn't find the crux of the problem as Qin Lei sarcastically did. It wasn't until this moment that I was completely awakened.

The advantage of the Chu State lies in the huge ships of the building, which the Qin State can not catch up with in any case, even if there are more advanced paddle ships later, but the gap in shipbuilding technology makes the Qin army still dare not fight with the Chu army.

Imagine what would have happened if the people of Chu had not been given the method of making oar-boats? They couldn't keep up with the speed of the Qin warships, so they had to recognize the reality, change the original tactics of taking the initiative to attack, or use iron cables to cross the river, or use segmented encirclement and suppression tactics, and gradually compress the range of activities of the Qin army, until they squeezed to a very small space, their speed advantage was gone, and then the unparalleled giant ship cluster annihilated it.

This is a very conventional, but basically unsolvable method of warfare, if there is no drawing, the Chu people are very likely to take this road, so the Qin people will still not be able to defeat the Chu water division and cross the Yangtze River moat.

However, the top-secret paddle ship drawings appeared, and the proud Chu people at first disdained to pay attention to this kind of Qin warship, but after suffering several big losses in a row, they were shocked to find that this ghost thing was not limited by the current, and the speed when going upriver far exceeded that of the oar-powered warship.

This made the people of Chu, who thought they were the best in the world in shipbuilding technology, very unhappy, and their sensitive self-esteem was deeply hit, and finally began the process of research, testing, and imitation, and incorporated them into the fleet in the fastest time, forming combat effectiveness, and quickly pulling the imbalance back from the situation.

At the fork in the road of either improving tactics or imitating new warships, the Chu people made their choice...... This is almost inevitable, the long-term formation of superiority in the naval army has made the Chu army arrogant and unable to tolerate a trace of humiliation, how can such an arrogant army accept conservative tactics and endure the depression of not being able to catch up with the other party?

If I am stronger than you, I must be stronger in everything, and I cannot be weaker than you at all! This is a very common thinking of the blind and arrogant.

Therefore, they will definitely imitate the paddle ship to prove that they are not slower than their opponents, and they will also completely fall into the trap of the Qin State.

Let's take a look at the period from the beginning of the third year of Tianyou to the end of the seventh year of Tianyou, in the five years there were more than 170 large and small battles between the naval armies of the two countries, and the Chu army lost more than 800 warships, and the Qin army lost more than 700 ships.

When many historians of later generations read this historical material, they will sigh: 'The era of the oar-ship has come!' ’

But there are also people who are as clever as Fan Wenzheng, who pointed out sharply, 'This is the plan of the Qin army!' He studied the tactics adopted by the Zhennan Navy at that time, which was to open up the distance, run while fighting, and never get close to the Chu army, let alone engage in broadside battles with it.

However, in the decisive battle of Dongting Lake later, the Qin army went against the norm and took the initiative to approach the Chu army and engage in the most brutal hand-to-hand combat. Looking at the next 50 years, when fighting against South Asia, North Africa, the Middle East, and Western countries, the glorious history of naval warfare was still dominated by artillery battles and broadside battles, and there was no situation of 'opening up the distance and running while fighting'.

In this regard, many historians believe that this is because the Qin State Navy is strong, and only others can run. However, Fan Wenzhenggong believed that judging from the level of water warfare in this era, if you want to damage or even destroy enemy ships, you must get infinitely closer, and the closer you are, the greater the lethality.

So why did the Qin State adopt this tactic? Fan Wenzheng believed that in addition to giving full play to the speed of the warships, there was also a more important intention hidden -- to exclude other warships other than the oars and steamers of the Chu State, especially the terrifying building ships and giant ships, from the battlefield, so as to achieve two goals.

First, it gave the Chu army the illusion that 'the era of paddle ships has come, and the rest of the warships will be obsolete and obsolete', so that they pay more attention to paddle ships and ignore other warships. In fact, the state of Chu only regarded the paddle ship as a special kind of warship at the beginning, and did not plan to stop building other warships because of this. However, the reality is that other warships are not able to intervene at all, which forces them to increase the proportion of paddle ships in the navy.

Second, since it is a battle between paddle ships, the loss is naturally the paddle ships. In the frequent battles, the loss of paddle ships in the Chu State was huge, forcing their three major shipyards with average production capacity to spend two-thirds of their production capacity to produce paddle ships for use on the front line; The remaining one-third of the force was concentrated on the development of larger and stronger paddle ships, so that from the fifth year of Tianyou, no oars were launched in the Chu State, and all of them were changed to paddle ships.

As the Chu army completely eliminated the rowing warships, a serious problem came, they had to rebuild the entire naval army, including those once proud of the huge ships, all had to retire from active service, and all the officers and men on the ships were transferred to serve on the paddle ships.

In this regard, Fan Wenzheng has a spicy irony, called 'self-deprecating martial arts'. In his opinion, the state of Chu gave up its original advantages and followed the ass of the people of Qin, and as a result, he lowered himself to the same level as the Qin army, and took the initiative to turn the fifty-year advantage into nothing.

Even because of the early start of the Qin State, it was once ahead of the Chu State, but the experienced Chu people were not worried, they caught up at a very fast speed, completely digested the 'paddle wheel drive' technology, and developed the 'Giant Spirit Divine Ship' that combines the advantages of the building ship and the paddle steamer, and in three years at most, the advantage can be restored back to fifty years.

But just when this old force was gone and the new force was not born, the Qin State brazenly launched a great war to destroy the Qi State. The state of Chu had no choice but to form an alliance with Qi and declare war on Qin. However, Zhu Lie was deeply depressed about the war at this juncture...... His giant spirit god ship has just been launched, and it has not yet been formed! Therefore, in the early days of the war, the passive procrastination shown by the Chu army is easy to understand - the people are not ready......

However, the deterioration of the situation was unexpected, and with the efforts of the people of Chu to grind foreign workers, the Qin army had already conquered the Tiger Pass and completely grasped the initiative. Faced with the precarious situation, Zhu Lie had no choice but to delay any longer, hastily attacking Qin by water, and sending 200,000 troops to support Qi by land.

The results that followed are well known and go without saying.

After pondering for a long time, Zhu Lie finally understood where he had lost, and said with a bitter smile: "Just because the Qin army is fast, it is easy to give up the advantages accumulated over the years, and turn to the east to follow the example, Handan toddler, blindly pursue to overwhelm the opponent in speed, but forget that in the real decisive moment, the competition is still who is stronger and stronger." From the very beginning, I was led by the nose, and I was really unjust......"

Qin Lei nodded and said softly: "You have to admit that my old brother is better than you." ”

"Isn't it clear at a glance who is strong and who is weak?" Zhu Lie said calmly.

"Shangzhu Country does have the style of a general." Hearing that Zhu Lie finally gave Marshal Bo Xian the evaluation he deserved, Qin Lei seemed to have fulfilled a wish, and said with a long sigh of relief: "Actually, after fighting for half a year, Gu admires you very much, you are indeed worthy of the title of a famous general." ”

"It's not like it's a footnote to you." Zhu Lie laughed and said: "The back waves of the Yangtze River push the front waves, one generation is stronger than the next, with you Qin Yutian here, my Huaxia will restore the majesty of the Han and Tang Dynasties, and it will no longer be a dream." ”

"It's not a good road." Qin Lei shook his head and said: "Reunification is easy to govern the country, and it is even more difficult to change people's deep-rooted concepts. ”

"There is no one who can hardly stop you Qin Yutian." Zhu Lie shook his head slowly, and said in a deep voice: "Now the Qi State should be finished, but if you want to complete the great cause of reunification, there is a more difficult problem waiting for you." ”

"What's the problem?" Qin Lei said quietly: "If you want to sow discord like Zhao Wuyi, forget it." ”

"What I'm going to say is exactly what Zhao Wuji told me at the beginning." Zhu Lie said lightly: "Believe it or not, but I still decided to tell you." ”

Qin Lei nodded and did not speak.

"Do you know where your father is? Do you know who Yin is? Zhu Lie asked in a dark voice.

"I don't know the first question." Qin Lei shook his head and said, "As for the second question, I know half of it." ”

"Then I'll answer it for you." Zhu Lie said in a deep voice.

"Wait." Qin Lei waved his hand and said, "Tell me your conditions." ”

"There are no conditions." Zhu Lie looked at him a little unpleasantly, as if to say, 'Underestimate me, right?' ’

Qin Lei stopped making a sound, and listened to him continue: "Your father is in the hands of Yin Wuyi, Yin Wuyi is the nephew of your imperial grandmother, and he once made meritorious contributions to her to bring down the Li family, but he has another identity, do you know?" ”

"Zhao Wuyi's spy," Qin Lei said in a deep voice, "This can be deduced, but now that the army is in chaos, Lone can't find him." ”

"According to Zhao Wuji, he didn't leave Zhongdu," Zhu Lie broke the news, "but hid in your sixth brother's mansion and colluded with him......"

"What?" Qin Lei Huo stood up, his face changed rapidly, he didn't know how many thoughts went through his mind, his fists clenched tightly and released, and finally settled down and asked, "What else do you know?" ”

"They seem to have a handwritten edict from your father, the emperor, which says to pass the throne to your sixth brother." Zhu Lie said in a deep voice.

"When will it be launched?" Qin Lei asked softly.

"I don't know." Zhu Lie shook his head and said, "But I guess they will definitely create a fait accompli before your class teacher returns to the dynasty, as long as they do it seamlessly, even if you go back, you won't find a reason to deal with them!" ”

"Dream on!" Qin Lei's face turned pale, and he couldn't help but sneer: "Just with a piece of broken paper, you want to ascend to the Ninth Five-Year Honor, it's too stupid and naïve, right?" ”

"But they can reset Emperor Zhaowu first." Zhu Lie said coldly: "The throne was originally your father's emperor, and now that he is sitting back, what can you do as a son?" In the future, if you coerce the Son of Heaven to order the princes, you don't want to do what you want? ”

Qin Lei closed his eyes and pondered for a long time, before he nodded slowly: "Why are you telling me this?" ”

"Because I want you to be the winner in the end, so that those of us who lose at your hands won't be too embarrassed." Zhu Lie laughed and said, "As long as you can treat the people of Southern Chu well and carry forward my Huaxia Navy, don't think so much." ”

Qin Lei nodded again, turned around and walked out of the tent, and when he arrived at the door, he turned around and said, "Do you need amnesty?" ”

"One woman does not marry two husbands." Zhu Lie shook his head and chuckled: "I have this name festival left, do you still want to deprive it?" ”