There is another reason, this time as the pioneer and guide of Wang Maozhang, Zhou Dewei can't suppress Wang Maozhang, to be precise, except for Li Cunhuan, no one can suppress Wang Maozhang.

Thinking of Wang Maozhang, Li Cunhuan couldn't help but suddenly remember that Wang Maozhang seemed to have come yesterday, why didn't he come to see him. Just opened his mouth and asked, "What about Mao Zhang?" Didn't he say he came yesterday at dusk? Could it be that you missed the hour halfway? ”

As soon as Li Cunhuan's words fell, he heard a soldier report outside: "Your Highness, Youyan [***] has commanded Wang Maozhang to ask to see you!" ”

"Huh! Scold! As soon as I said Cao Ying, Cao Ying arrived! When Li Cunhuan heard this, he couldn't help but be happy. Shouting outside, "Come in!" ”

Wang Maozhang did not wear armor to see Li Cunhuan, he wore a thick brocade robe outside, and Wang Maozhang looked like a little fat man. Wearing such a thick brocade robe, Wang Maozhang's movements were inevitably a little stiff, looking a little funny, and he arched his hand to Li Cunhuan and said, "I've seen Your Highness!" ”

"Sit down!" Li Cunhuan signaled, and joked with a smile: "I didn't expect that Maozhang was also afraid of the cold, but I also said that Maozhang was born in a martial artist and is not afraid of the wind and cold!" ”

When Wang Maozhang heard this, he smiled and said: "Maozhang was not afraid of the wind and cold, but he couldn't stay up for two or three days, compared to Huainan, Lulong's winter was even colder, and the wind blew on his face, as if a knife was scraping on meat." It's not as warm as Huainan! ”

Li Cunhuan also knows that the gap between the north and the south is too big, and it is difficult for people to adapt to it for a while, and the human body's ability to withstand the temperature difference is very weak. The simplest, fever. Thirty-seven degrees is normal, by thirty-nine it is already a high fever, and forty degrees is dangerous.

However, Li Cunhuan still quipped: "But the dress is better now, just right for Maozhang to return to your hometown!" Maozhang, you are still wearing a brocade dress now, isn't this just a return to your hometown? ”

When Wang Maozhang heard this, he smiled, and immediately turned straight on his face, and asked: "Your Highness, the last general is here to ask bluntly, is Your Highness too risky?" An army of 50,000 marched across the sea, but it was unprecedented! Why don't you let the last general take its place? ”

"It's not unprecedented, didn't Sun Quan of Eastern Wu send 10,000 soldiers and horses from Jiangdong to Liaodong during the Three Kingdoms period to support Gongsun Yuan! More than 700 years ago, a country with a bias to the south of the Yangtze River was able to do this! Now the shipbuilding industry has developed for more than 700 years, and our Datang is determined to forge ahead, and its national strength is greater than that of Soochow. The distance is shorter than that, can't you go to Huainan? Hearing this, Li Cunhuan shook his head and smiled. But the tone is very appreciative.

When Wang Maozhang heard this, he was stunned and muttered, "How is this possible? Besides, this is true, Your Highness doesn't know anything, the sea is stormy, and the sea is boundless, you have to walk on the coast, so you are not afraid of getting lost. But if you walk along the coast and are discovered by King Wu, Your Highness may return in vain in the end! ”

In fact, if Yang Xingmi knew about it, it would not be in vain, but stealing chickens and rice. It's just that Wang Maozhang was afraid of Li Cunhuan's face, so he picked a word that was not too ugly to describe.

When Li Cunhuan heard this, he smiled confidently and said: "Don't worry about this matter, I naturally know, and I am free to assert it, you will know when the time comes." How about the soldiers and horses you brought this time? ”

When Wang Maozhang heard this, he smiled bitterly and said, "It's difficult! The south ship and the north horse, Your Highness, it is easy for you to find someone who can ride a horse in the north, but it is difficult to find someone who is not afraid of seasickness. It took two months to gather 30,000 men. However, these soldiers and horses were pulled over by the last general, and the cohesion may not be very good. ”

Li Cunhuan took a sip of rice porridge, nodded and said, "This is already okay!" It's just a pity that one horse can hold the space needed for two soldiers, otherwise I would have wanted to take the whole cavalry south. This time, he only brought 3,500 war horses south, and one horse was less. As for the soldiers, it will not take ten or eight days, or even longer, to arrive in Huainan, so that they can train on the deck and adapt to the environment at sea. I can't say that we still have to meet the sailors of the Huainan Army, at that time, they can't just nest, they have to fight on the deck! ”

"This is natural!" Wang Maozhang nodded in response.

Li Cunhuan and the four of them discussed it again, added loopholes, and then dispersed.

The next day, Han Mengyin also rushed back and brought back the last batch of materials. Li Cunhuan immediately ordered all the grain, grass, horses, and soldiers to board the ship. Although the army has not yet set off, it is necessary for these soldiers to adapt earlier, and more people have adapted to seasickness before arriving in Huainan, and they are still like drunk drunkards, and their limbs are weak and staggering off the boat. At that time, let alone a war, I was afraid that someone would have to take care of it.

The second is that the materials are loaded on the ship early, and it is better to set off immediately the next morning, so as not to delay time.

The next morning, when the sky was bright, the expeditionary fleet of more than ninety percent of Lu Long's naval warships spread its sails and set off from Dengzhou to the south. Fortunately, although it was already winter, there were still some not too strong north winds, and the fleet had saved a lot of effort.

At the beginning, the fleet walked along the coastline in a decent way, but after passing the mountains at the eastern end of Dengzhou, they went to the sea. Wang Maozhang was so frightened that he hurriedly ran into Li Cunhuan's cabin.

The cabin where Li Cunhuan lives is not too big, after all, 30,000 soldiers and more than 10,000 sailors are crammed into more than 170 ships, and when it is divided, everyone can imagine how much space they can get. Although Li Cunhuan's status is different from ordinary people, there are also reasons why Li Cunhuan specially asked Han Mengyin to tell him not to be too 'special', so although Li Cunhuan's cabin is a few points better than ordinary soldiers, it is only a cabin of about 145 square meters. Put down a bed, a coffee table, and two stools, and there is only one 'sheep intestine path' left in the room, which is already too narrow to be narrow.

Wang Maozhang, who was in a hurry, was almost crutched by a stool and fell to the ground looking for teeth, so he hurriedly held on to the coffee table on the side, so as to stabilize his figure. For this reason, the soldiers stationed outside the door were also attracted to probe their brains to see what was going on.

"Miscellaneous?" Li Cunhuan was looking at the "Book of Han" intently, and he didn't want to hear the sound of Wang Maozhang mixing with the stool, so he frowned, raised his head, and saw that it was Wang Maozhang, and couldn't help but ask with some doubts. I don't know what happened to make Wang Maozhang so flustered.

"The sailors are all out to sea! Your Highness quickly order to go along the coast, or you will be in trouble! Wang Maozhang said urgently.

When Li Cunhuan heard this, he was slightly stunned, and said with a smile: "This king naturally knows!" ”

When Wang Maozhang heard this, his face was stunned at first, and then his face became strange, and he asked, "Your Highness, don't you know that the sea is dangerous?" ”

Li Cunhuan took a bookmark made of bamboo chips, sandwiched it in the "Book of Han", closed the "Book of Han", and put it away, and then said: "You sit down, this matter is not in a hurry, this king will tell you slowly, but you don't know that this is so shocked." Actually, it's just very simple! ”

Wang Maozhang saw that Li Cunhuan looked like an old god, and he probably knew what was going on. I even know that Li Cunhuan is not the kind of person who likes the birthday boy to hang his neck and hates his long life. Then sit down with peace of mind.

"The Compass knows, right?" Li Cunhuan asked.

Wang Maozhang nodded, and said secretly in his heart: Your Highness, how is this? The guide is still His Royal Highness personally based on Sinan and improved. Ping said that the march was in the army, and the generals were one person and one hand, and when they used it, it was longer than the time they used to eat, so I don't know.

Li Cunhuan said with a smile: "Then have you noticed that every hour, there are also people standing at the bow of the ship, scattering sawdust." ”

Wang Maozhang nodded and said: "This last general knows that it is to visually measure the speed of each hour, and if it encounters a strong wind or the wind speed slows down, it will also scatter sawdust and visually measure the new speed." ”

Li Cunhuan nodded with satisfaction and said: "In fact, after each visual inspection, they will also register this time period, how fast the voyage is, and how much distance they have traveled. Although this distance is not very accurate, and there will be an error of seven or eight miles every day, or even a distance of eleven or twelve miles, but as this king said before, our destination is Huainan, so even if there is an error, it is not a big problem. ”

When Wang Maozhang heard this, he patted his head and said, "Oh! The last general understood, and His Highness used the map as the standard, and then corrected the direction with a compass, plus the approximate distance. Although the fleet walks on the sea, as long as it goes southwest, you can't go wrong! Even if you go wrong, at most, you will only go to the area of Fujian. ”

Li Cunhuan smiled and waved his hand and said: "At most, it is just to go to eastern Zhejiang, where is it possible to go so far to Fujian." The distance from Dengzhou Chengshan to the mouth of the Yangtze River has been measured. That's why people were specially asked to measure the distance traveled on the sea, for example, it was 300 miles from Chengshan to the mouth of the Yangtze River, and after walking 300 miles, they had not seen the land. The fleet will immediately sail in a straight line to the west, and at most you can see the land in half a day, but at that time it is estimated that it will also be in the eastern part of Zhejiang! ”

When Wang Maozhang heard this, he was convinced: "Your Highness is wise! All at once I thought of a way to sail the sea unhindered! Mao Zhang knew that this sea was ruthless, and how many maritime merchants who went to Ben, Goryeo, Persia, and Tianzhu lived happily for five or six years at most, and then they had to be buried in the belly of the Sea Dragon King! With His Royal Highness's method, walking on the sea can shorten a lot of time! And don't be afraid! ”

Li Cunhuan said with a smile: "This is just the beginning, there will be more innovations in navigation technology in the future, but since Mao Zhang has solved his doubts, he will play a game of chess with this king, otherwise it will be too boring at sea!" ”

Li Cunhuan took out a wooden chess and chessboard. After Wang Maozhang saw it, he was amazed. Just now, he was still wondering how to play chess when the sea is bumpy, but Li Cunhuan's chess has a hard iron needle under the chess piece, and there is a small hole on the chessboard that is specially turned, so that the iron needle under the chess piece can be pierced, so that he is not afraid of the sea bumps and displaces the chess piece.

(To be continued)