Chapter 231: Water Master
In the morning, Gao Huaiyuan still followed his habit, woke up early before dawn, first fluted, reached out and touched the bear skin under his body, and then laughed dumbly, he remembered what happened last night, listened attentively to the slight breathing sound coming from the inner tent, shook off the cloak wrapped around his body, got up and put on his boots, and strode out of the tent. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info
Li Ruohu may have not slept all night, just wandering outside the tent, as soon as he saw Gao Huaiyuan coming out, he was first overjoyed and wanted to come forward to greet Gao Huaiyuan, but as soon as he changed his mind, he immediately wanted to pull his legs and run away.
Hold it! Come here! Look what good things you've found for me! You still dare to hide it from me, isn't it looking for a fight? As soon as Gao Huaiyuan saw Li Ruohu, he immediately stopped him, walked over and pointed at Li Ruohu and taught him a lesson.
Li Ruohu lowered his head with a bitter face and replied in a low voice, as if he had eaten a bitter gourd, but there was really no way to do it! The day before yesterday, Madame called the little one and asked me to bring the adult's junior sister into the army, and the little one didn't dare to disobey! And the lady has to hide it from the adult, and the little one wanted to report to the adult yesterday!
But the one she provoked the little one, saying that if the little one competed with her, she could win her, and she wouldn't follow, and if I lost, I would listen to her, so when I said this, Li Ruohu began to stutter.
So you were beaten by her? So you had to listen to her? Isn't it? That's why you brought her into the army, didn't you? Gao Huaiyuan couldn't help but laugh and then asked him about Li Ruohu's words.
Be! Please punish you! Li Ruohu was also honest, and immediately nodded yes.
Go and get thirty sticks for yourself! Gao Huaiyuan scared Li Ruohu.
Li Ruohu knocked his feet and immediately replied: Yes! The little ones are gone! Saying that, Li Ruohu was about to turn around and receive the military stick, this guy is really a little dead sometimes !
Come back! I'll make a note for you first, and it's not too late to fight after I come back this time, and if you go to lead the army now, won't I also go with me to lead the leader? Don't let me learn to be smarter! Tell you, I can't drive her away this time, I can only keep her in the army, you take care of this girl for me, don't let her cause trouble, let alone let people know, otherwise I will get fifty military sticks, and you will suffer all for me! Find me another quilt, and then set up camp for me to have a marching bed in the outer tent, it's too uncomfortable to sleep on the ground! Hum! It's all a good thing you found for me! Gao Huaiyuan looked at no one around, and smashed Li Ruohu's head twice with his fingers to teach him a lesson.
Li Ruohu was relieved now, knowing that the military stick didn't have to be taken now, so he hurriedly knocked his feet again and said: Obey the order, my lord!
After the army ate breakfast in the morning, they immediately pulled out the camp again and continued to drive towards the north, but not far from Gao Huaiyuan's side, there was a small guard, who followed him inch by his side, and those who didn't know just thought he was a guard of Gao Huaiyuan, but no one paid too much attention to Qiu Tong.
When the army marched to the shore of Taihu Lake, there was a naval warship here, the warships were all newly built warships of various colors, both the unique vehicles and boats of the Southern Song Dynasty naval army, and the fast boats with sharp shapes, the number of ships of various colors added together was roughly dozens, and they had already gathered by the lake, just waiting for the army to come.
When he saw the army appear on the shore of Taihu Lake, a small group of people immediately rode towards the army, and soon saw Gao Huaiyuan on the horse, the leader turned over and jumped off the horse, knelt on one knee and shouted to Gao Huaiyuan: Wang Quan, the commander of the water army in front of the palace, has seen Lord Gao! A total of 65 warships under his command, 3,500 soldiers are waiting for your lordship here!
Gao Huaiyuan also turned over and jumped off the horse, stepped forward to help this Wang Quanyou from the side of the road, and said with a smile: There is King Lao in charge, but I don't know if your navy is ready?
This Wang Quanyou immediately bowed down and replied: "Lord Qiqi! Since receiving the order, he did not dare to slack off, led the navy to practice on the water day and night, and received a batch of new warships, and was fully prepared, ready to be ordered by the lord at any time to go and slam the rebel army! I must let them see the power of our sailors!
Gao Huaiyuan set up a pergola and looked at the warships of different sizes neatly arranged on the lake, only to see the flags on the boats, and the people with armor were neatly arranged on both sides of the ship, but they did not lose their might, this navy this time was also a soldier and horse that he personally ordered to go out, this Huaidong battle due to the waterway, had to rely on the support of the navy, and the palace in front of the division of the navy was mainly stationed in Qingyuan Mansion in the past, for this expedition, Gao Huaiyuan asked for an order a year ago, and transferred this navy to Taihu Lake for training, Always ready to accompany him to Zhenjiang Mansion to participate in the war.
Now it seems that the naval army of the palace front division should be roughly ready to go on the expedition, at least in terms of momentum, compared to last year's attack on Huzhou, it is much stronger.
Last year, he also transferred this naval army to Huzhou by waterway to help in the war, but unfortunately this naval army has not yet arrived at the battlefield, Huzhou has been conquered by him, and they are not used, but the training level of this naval army at that time is very average, and the ships are also quite old, the military appearance is not in order, and the military discipline is chaotic, which makes Gao Huaiyuan feel unhappy.
Therefore, after he took over the front division of the palace, he immediately replaced the original commander of the navy with the current Wang Quanyou, and ordered Wang Quanyou to vigorously rectify this navy, and also won some money to build new river warships for Wang Quan's navy for them to use.
Therefore, after Wang Quan's rectification for nearly a year, this naval army is no longer as weak as it was back then, at least it still looks quite combative.
Gao Huaiyuan let the army continue to move forward, and took Hua Yue and others to the naval ship to check in detail, after boarding the ship, he saw that the mental outlook of the naval officers and soldiers was still quite good, and all of them were dark-skinned, and they looked very strong.
This also shows that Wang Quan is not a mediocre general, Gao Huaiyuan only heard that this person is very capable, but because of his upright personality, he has been very uneasy in the navy, so that he was later excluded from the navy, and became a janitor in Beijing, Gao Huaiyuan did not know him very well, when he took over the front division of the palace, he was eager to reorganize the front division of the palace, so he accepted Hua Yue's recommendation, met this Wang Quan, after a brief conversation, he thought that this person was useful, and immediately awarded him as the commander of the navy.
At the moment, it seems that the person recommended by Hua Yue is still quite good, and the water army can have such a big change under Wang Quan's training, Gao Huaiyuan is relieved!
Wang Quan is a straight temper, he doesn't pay much attention to etiquette, and he is a little arrogant, he used to be very unsolicited by his boss, so he mixed very badly, and it was precisely because of Gao Huaiyuan that he got what he wanted and became the commander of the navy, so that his talent could be shown, so Wang Quan was grateful to Gao Huaiyuan, and it happened that Gao Huaiyuan was not the kind of person who cared about etiquette, so he was very interested in Wang Quan's temper and worked hard to do things.
After seeing the appearance of the navy, Gao Huaiyuan inspected the ships again, these boats are all the money he earned, the new boats were built on the shores of Taihu Lake, and the wood used was also taken from the best local wood, and the key parts were built at the expense of transporting strong wood from the south, and the shipbuilding technology of the Song Dynasty was quite developed, and there were a lot of skilled craftsmen, so under the supervision of the military, these various warships included both twenty large vehicles and ships, as well as lighter two-car small vehicles and boats. There are also some light and narrow ten-length ships like centipedes, these ships cooperate with each other, can play a very strong combat effectiveness in water warfare, which is also an important reason why the Mongol army has been attacking the Southern Song Dynasty for a long time in history, and the Southern Song Dynasty naval army can be said to have played the most important role in defending against the Mongol invasion.
And the order of these ships was also customized according to Wang Quan's requirements, and after they were delivered to the navy, they immediately raised the combat effectiveness of the palace division navy to a very high level.
Gao Huaiyuan stood on a car boat that was more than 20 zhang long, with a total of 24 cars on both sides, and couldn't help but sigh greatly, this kind of boat was a giant ship even if it was placed in the rivers and rivers in later generations, driving such a big boat, driving on the wide water, it was really invincible, but this car and boat was different from the car and ship used in the past, under the request of Wang Quan, this boat not only had 24 cars, but also installed three thick masts on the ship, and hung sails, On both wings of the ship is erected three hanging boulders of the pole, before the artillery was not introduced into the water war, this kind of pole is probably the sharpest weapon in the water war, the vehicle and ship rely on its tall hull, as long as it is close to the enemy ship, the pole can fall immediately, with the boulder hammer head at the front end of the pole will smash the enemy ship to pieces, such a big ship, the power is very great in the water war, so it has also become Wang Quan's boat, to put it bluntly, it is equivalent to the flagship of the fleet in later generations.
Lord Qiyu, this ship is a specially built Flying Tiger warship, and the previous car ship is different, this ship can sail with the help of the wind to move forward, so that the sailor saves some effort, once there is no wind or during the battle, the sailor steps on the wing wheel at the same time, this ship is walking on the water like the wind, so that the opponent can not cope, it is really a weapon of water warfare! I wonder if adults can be satisfied? Wang Quan was a little complacent and introduced his special warship to Gao Huaiyuan.