At the beginning of December in the 23rd winter of Jian'an, an unnamed isolated island at the mouth of the Yangtze River, with sails and shadows, more than 20 warships covered the sea, and the sea breeze made the battle flags hunt and hunt, echoing with the sound of the waves. Countless samurai in white armor stood by the wind with halberds in their heads in their hands and stood by the side of the ship, awe-inspiring and inviolable.

"Please." Kang Tai, who came from Jiaozhou, accompanied the smiling face, and asked a middle-aged man in a bright yellow robe to get on the boat first. The handsome face of the middle-aged man showed a perfect smile, and he stepped on the springboard with his head held high, and Kang Tai immediately held his head high, his hands behind his back, and followed step by step, and walked onto the majestic naval battleship Chang'an.

The middle-aged man went to the deck, glanced at it, and a smile appeared on the corner of his mouth. The Chang'an is the latest imitation of the warship (anti-fortune ship, but the technology is not enough), the navyman's Mingguang armor is also all new, standing at the door of the command cabin is a handsome young man, as soon as he saw the middle-aged man, he immediately raised his right fist.

The bells and drums on the deck suddenly rang in unison, and the Chang'an, which was originally as quiet as no man's land, immediately became lively. The young man rushed forward, bowed down and clasped his fists in salute, and said loudly, "Meet Lord Taiwei." ”

The more than 200 naval officers and men standing guard on the deck turned around and bowed to the middle-aged man: "Meet Lord Captain." ”

The identity of this middle-aged man is self-evident, it is our Taiwei Qiao Ren. The base of the navy is in Jingkou, but at this time, a large number of navies appeared here, and the appearance is suspicious. This nameless island was indeed nameless in the late Han Dynasty, but in later generations it was a big famous --- Chongming Island. However, the current Chongming Island is far less than the size of later generations, just a small sandbar, but it is enough for the garrison of more than 3,000 navies.

"Kang Tai, Wei Wen, over the years, you have the utmost respect, but when you live up to the king's order and do your best, you must not insult my great Han prestige ・・・・・." Qiao Ren, like the speech of the leaders of later generations, was full of encouragement.

"Whoa!" The handsome young man is Wei Wen, the captain of Zhenhai, Wei Wen is not only in the waiting officer, but also has the responsibility of training the sailor, otherwise how can the boat built by the waiting officer go to sea, it is difficult to wait for the Yangtze River sailor to run to the waiting officer from the land, even if he gets the boat, he will not use it.

On this trip, Kang Tai and Wei Wen have a great relationship. When Kang Tai was in Jiaozhou, he often dealt with Southeast Asian countries, and also received a lot of Anxi merchants, Kushan merchants and Daqin merchants, and was a rare diplomatic talent in this era. And Wei Wen had already taken the Qiao family's caravan to the Kushan Empire many times, and he also had some friendship with Kang Tai, after all, Lu Dai was one of Qiao Ren's old subordinates, and he had a good relationship with the old man of the Wei Wen family.

"This time, you will take these 3,000 soldiers and horses to a long journey. Kang Ju is my envoy to Dongwu, and Wei Wen is the captain of the guard, first, to show the prestige of the Great Wu army, and not to lose the face of my Dongwu when I go to a foreign country, and second, to successfully bring back the navigation charts and shipbuilding technology of rest. If it is possible to bring back some fine horses and steel, you can handle these things at your discretion, and trust you, but remember not to pretend to be extravagant, and everything must be pragmatic. "Qiao Ren is afraid that these diplomats of the Han Dynasty will have a fart for them to pretend to be wide with the country's things and promote the national prestige.

"Whoa!"

"Wei Wengu knows that you have sailed many times, but the rest is farther away than Guishan and Liaodong, and the sea is not familiar with Hassans, so don't make your own decisions. But you also have to take the initiative, you must protect Hassans, if you encounter a navy blocking the way, you should fight me, Dongwu is not afraid of enmity with other countries. Qiao Ren specially sent the best admiral Wei Wen with the best admiral 3,000 men to accompany him, just to protect the safety of Hassans, and also to help Hassan deter and calm the rebel forces in the country.

The best navy in Soochow was not the Jingkou Naval Division, Huang Gai, Gan Ning and Zhou Tai were all naval generals who had been crisscrossing the Yangtze River for a long time, but at sea they could only walk along the coastline, and the 20,000 naval troops of the Jingkou Naval Division were almost only at this level. And the best navy in Eastern Wu is actually the escort of the Qiao family's caravan, the Qiao family has been carrying out overseas trade for seven or eight years, and these guards have also been drifting on the sea for seven or eight years, and their experience is not comparable to that of Gan Ning and others. And the guards of the Qiao family are not simple, they are all men in the Minyue region, and the ones sent to Qiao Ren when Fei Mu pacified Shanyue are all warriors who have undergone formal military training, and they are also fighting with pirates when they are overseas, and they are all fierce.

For this expedition, Qiao Ren also specially asked Sun Ce for 3,000 sets of Mingguang armor that was originally used to equip the Fourth Army, which was the result of Jianye's workshop supervision in the first half of last year, fortunately, Sun Ce also knew that this expedition was of great significance, and he was not afraid that Qiao Ren would take these 3,000 armor to equip private songs. Because this technology is provided by Qiao Ren, if Qiao Ren has bad intentions and secretly builds it by himself with the strength of the Qiao family, do you still need to borrow it?

"Lord Lieutenant, Mr. Hassan's merchant ship has arrived." Wei Wen said suddenly.

The sea and the sky were colorful, Qiao Ren looked to the east, and more than a dozen merchant ships that were very different from the warships of Dongwu appeared. China is not without a navy, and the earliest recorded naval battle in China took place in 485 BC, when the Wu [***] ship attacked the Qi state on the Shandong Peninsula from the sea, and the fleets of the two sides met in the Yellow Sea and a fierce battle ensued. As a result, the state of Wu was defeated by the state of Qi. But at this time, Soochow's navy could only do offshore operations, and warships could not sail far. There were rumors in later generations: one year for the army, ten years for the air force, and a hundred years for the navy. The shipbuilding level of Dongwu is not low, compared to the rest and the Roman Empire, but the Roman Empire and the rest of the navy for many years, the experience is not comparable to the Dongwu, shipbuilding technology in this era is good to say that a few years can be made, but the ocean navigation chart can not be drawn without a hundred years of precipitation, here the ocean navigation chart is not a map of later generations, but a star map, is a tool for the merchants of the rest empire to watch the stars in the long-term voyage to confirm the location, plus the Han Empire has a compass, the ocean route is not a problem. And shipbuilding technology, the stone of the mountain can be used to attack jade, don't be in vain.

The east wind is up, and the wind is moving. Qiao Ren's hair fluttered to the southwest obviously, fortunately, this year's northeast monsoon came and played for two months than in previous years, otherwise Qiao Ren would really have to wait a year before he could set sail.

"Oh my God!" As he spoke, Hassan and the others, like a mountain man, boarded the flagship Chang'an, and as soon as he boarded the ship, he was stunned by the round bed crossbows and ballistas on both wings. The Chang'an is only three stories high, which is much smaller than the building ship, but there are six round bed crossbows on the sides of each wing, and two ballistas on the bow deck.

Hassan's ship had a bed crossbow sent by Qiao Ren, and of course he knew how far the bed crossbow was, which was three hundred steps (about 570 meters) in the Han Dynasty. At that time, the Roman navy and the rest navy still only relied on bows and arrows to shoot, and then engaged in broadside battles (in the past, Soochow also did this). If the Soochow Navy fought against their Rest Navy, it is estimated that the Rest Navy would be shot into a sieve by the Wu Army before it got close to its own range.

At this moment, Hassan was even more excited, as long as he had a bed crossbow, let alone defend the city, the rest of the navy could even destroy the Roman navy, occupy the sea dominance of the Persian Gulf, and even enter the Red Sea to cut off the supply of the Roman army's western legions, and incite the Egyptians against the Roman Empire.

"Your Excellency, wake up, saliva is pouring out." Qiao Ren looked at Hassan's appearance and knew that this guy was in a reverie.

"Oh, that's rude, my lord."

"It's okay, Wei Wen, when you come back, you come back with your things first, Kang Tai, you go to the Kushan Empire, it would be better if you could bring back the envoys." Both the Yue clan and Anxi have a good relationship with the Han Empire, so if you go to visit, there may be some surprises.

"Whoa!"

After saying this, Qiao Ren got off the ship under the escort of his personal guards, and in order to keep it secret, Sun Ce deliberately did not let the navy set sail directly from Jingkou, but on Chongming Island, even the supplies in the Dongwu Sea area were not docked as much as possible, and it was best to go to Yizhou to replenish, which was Qiao Ren's territory.

"Set sail, go to sea! Great Wu is mighty! ”

"Roar!"

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