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April 29, 208 B.C., as the predecessor of the Great Qin Empire's naval fleet, that is, the current Liaodong County Lou Boat Soldier Unit, is a very memorable day. Pen fun and pavilion www.biquge.info

Because, on this day, the Lou Chuanshi troops led by Qin Min found a large number of small fishing boats used to transport and land in the sea area northwest of Shikoku Island, that is, about 100 nautical miles east of the landing area.

For these large fishing fleets, which were actually quite scarce even medium-sized boats, Qin Min didn't know if he should give the other party a lesson that they would never forget.

After all, such an opponent, needless to say Qin Min, even many officers and soldiers of the Lou Boat Engineer have such a feeling: bullying the small with the big is not a victory.

However, Qin Min quickly put such thoughts behind him, because he had to lead his troops to complete Zhang Jiashi's orders.

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In fact, after receiving Zhang Jiashi's order, Qin Min was so serious about Zhang Jiashi, thinking in his heart whether there was really a large number of enemy fleets that would fight them?

You must know that since serving as the supreme commander of the Lou Boat Soldier Unit under Zhang Jiashi, he has basically witnessed the Lou Boat Soldier Unit from scratch, and then from small to large, until it has developed into this situation, Qin Min is very clear about one problem, that is, the Lou Boat Soldier Unit has not experienced a single actual combat at all.

Qin Min also knew very well that his Lou Chuanshi troops were not invincible all over the world, but they had not had corresponding contact with comparable opponents, it was as simple as that.

After all, around Liaodong County, the only rival of the Jizi North Korea, in fact, did not have a surface combat fleet used for military purposes, not to mention, the Donghu tribe was basically a landlubber among landlubbers.

The other Lou Boat Warrior troops in other counties that were also subordinate to the Great Qin Empire were either too small in size or too far away from Liaodong County, and in the case of "friendly forces", of course, it was impossible to fight in the same room......

At the very least, before Zhang Jiashi officially broke with Xianyang, such a thing could not happen.

In this case, Qin Min and the Lou Chuanshi troops under his command do have such a sense of "seeking defeat alone".

Of course, Qin Min and the members of the Lou Chuanshi Unit, which is now about 10,000 people, and the members of the Marine Corps attached to it, naturally have no way of knowing who Dugu is defeating. Unless, Zhang Jiashi has the spare time to write a book of the life of the sword demon Dugu seeking defeat.

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In the corresponding records, basically there are only a few words about this naval battle:

At the end of June of the second year of Qin II, when he was the captain of the Liaodong County of the Great Qin Empire, he led the army to fight with the Japanese fleet and Yangqin (the four islands of Japan were then named Yangqin County and Yinqin County, and the two islands of Kyushu and four countries were taken as Yinqin County, and the discovered area of Honshu Island was Yangqin County, and since Zhang Jiashi's life, he did not complete the exploration of Honshu Island) in the northwest region of the inland sea, and the Japanese fleet was broken, and the other side was almost completely annihilated.

From such a brief record, it is naturally impossible to see the whole picture of this large-scale naval battle after the establishment of the Great Qin Empire, and even the first large-scale naval battle in the Eastern historical records.

Of course, this way of recording makes many people think that it is impossible to find fault, after all, many historians are like this, just record some relatively simple things, such as the beginning and the result. And just like the most important processes, they are often only mentioned in passing or even not documented.

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Before this day came, the officers and men of Lou Chuan, including Qin Min, would never have imagined that they would encounter such an enemy.

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In the early morning of April 29, Qin Min led the main force of the Lou Chuanshi army to anchor and sail eastward in the rudimentary port areas built in the Hakata area.

The speed at which the fleet is moving depends largely on the direction of the wind and the ability of the sail man.

Among them, the wind direction is the most important.

On this day, the wind direction was northwesterly, and under the escort of some medium-sized Fubune transport warships that had been refitted, the main force of the Middle Fleet, including the Lou ships, sailed at a narrow angle from northeast to southwest, and used the not too good wind direction to blow the ships westward.

At this time, more than 500 small fishing boats, which had been concentrated by the Japanese on Honshu Island, continued to concentrate westward. The Japanese, who were carrying about 4,000 people and holding various weapons in their hands, were again transporting about 4,000 people, preparing to land on the sea again.

From time to time, Japanese soldiers, unable to get used to the conditions at sea, lay on their stomachs, mainly rowing by manpower, supplemented by the blowing effect of tattered sails, and slowly advanced westward.

No one could have imagined that less than two hours later, the two fleets would have a historic collision.

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Judging from the numbers, the number of ships was much less than that of the Japanese, and the Liaodong Junlou Ship Soldier Corps would not take advantage. And the maneuverability of the boat is correspondingly higher.

But is there only such a small number of medium and large ships in the Lou boat sergeant unit under Zhang Jiashi's command?

The answer, of course, is no. If you have to calculate, a transport-type converted Fu ship warship can put down six small life-saving wooden boats.

When forming the army of Lou Chuanshi, Zhang Jiashi thought about a problem, that is, it was impossible to easily agree to a war with large ships alone, and it was possible that the enemy would capsize in the gutter because the enemy had quite mobile and relatively large number of small ships.

Zhang Jiashi naturally didn't know anything about the annihilation of the Invincible Armada because of a similar situation, and he did this more because Bai Qi thought that it was necessary to have a more complete system for large ships. This kind of small lifeboat is indeed able to deal with more problems in more situations that the larger ships cannot take care of, and such a small boat is a necessity that Bai Qi thinks Zhang Jiashi needs to be equipped with.

Zhang Jiashi didn't understand this problem, but Bai Qi thought that there was a need for it, and he didn't think there was anything wrong with doing so.

In fact, it's not like there's no better way to deal with some of the problems that Bai Qi has conceived, like a lifebuoy or something. Of course, at this time, how can Zhang Jiashi, who doesn't even have natural rubber on hand, be able to make such a thing as a lifebuoy?

Alternative products cannot be said to be completely absent, but lifebuoys made of waterproof leather are all kinds of unrealistic solutions.

The cost is too expensive, the processing speed is too slow, and the demand is too much, three very fatal factors, so that Zhang Jiashi has to give up this idea.

In the case of retreat, this kind of small lifeboat that can support ten people soon came into being.

It was impossible for Zhang Jiashi to have imagined that after this naval battle, he would have to make an improved arrangement in response to the request of the fleet.

That is, on some large vessels, remove some of the adjacent ten lifeboats and equip one or two assault boats with twenty-seater seats and plenty of room for the appropriate climbing tools.

Of course, more changes were made by Zhang Jiashi that Xiao Jiashi had to order Xiao He to allocate funds to open up a corresponding wilderness near the headquarters of the Lou Chuanshi Base to carry out special training arrangements for climbing operations.

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At about 10 o'clock in the morning on this day, the Qin army's squadron at the front saw that there seemed to be a dense set of sails in the eastern sea.

Under such circumstances, the officers and men of the Qin on the ship quickly entered the corresponding combat posts.

At the stern of the ship, a commander of the Qin army waved a flag and used the corresponding flag to report the encounter with the enemy to other ships.

More and more Qin ships quickly entered the combat state after seeing the situation in front or the flags transmitted by nearby ships one after another.

Suddenly, the first ship spotted the enemy's ship, and the lookout on the bow of the ship noticed a problem, that is, how did the enemy ship look a little small???

Zhang Jiashi has not been able to make relatively pure glass until now, and can only drool over the telescope without a good way to make the finished product.

After two or three minutes, because of the closer distance, more and more lookouts also discovered such a situation, and many people were very puzzled.

However, when they confirmed that the other party was actually all small fishing boats, these lookouts were speechless, and they shouted back: "All fishing boats!!!

No one thought that the words uttered by these lookouts were nonsense, after all, they themselves knew very well, where did the fishing boats come from among the Lou Boat Sergeant troops?

At the very least, the troops of the Lou Boats and Soldiers who are now on the expedition are all medium and large ships.

Many of the captains who heard this were not asked what to do, after all, they were trained more to deal with enemies of their level than to deal with small fishing boats.

Perhaps, the bed crossbows installed on basically every ship can indeed effectively hit these small fishing boats, but it is clear that this number is not something that a few or a dozen bed crossbows on a single ship can easily deal with, these middle- and low-level Qin army officers, after a little discussion, decided to hand over this problem to their boss to find a way to solve it.

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With more and more flags from the ships asking about the situation, as the flagship commander of the middle and rear part of the Lou Ship Sergeant Unit, Qin Min was not able to see the situation in front of him very clearly. And Qin Min, who had been training for a long time, although he was still a little lacking in combat experience, knew very well that it was not a good choice to use a big ship against a small boat, so he quickly thought about how he should deal with this problem.

Suddenly, Qin Min raised his head, looked past the officers who had followed him to the bow of the ship, and stayed on the small lifeboats that were fixed to the sides of the side of the ship with pulleys and ropes for a while, and an idea came to mind.

The idea is that these small boats are clearly capable of solving the problems that may arise in the middle of an engagement.

Subsequently, Qin Min planned to put down these lifeboats, and then let these small boats engage the enemy's fishing boats, and the big boats were to provide support after explaining the battle plan to the officers and staff officers under his command, and many people recognized Qin Min's approach in the absence of a better way.

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The medium and large ships of the Lou Ship Sergeant Corps soon saw the flag models issued from the flagship.

After carefully reading the model of the flag issued several times and confirming that it was correct, the herald near the flag bearer quickly conveyed the order translated by the flag bearer.

After hearing these orders, many captains of the Qin army were more or less surprised in their hearts, but since Qin Min's orders were like this, they all had to follow them, otherwise they couldn't imagine what would happen after the war.

Qin Min's ability to govern the officers and soldiers under his command is quite strong, and many officers and soldiers of the Qin Army's building ship sergeant unit are deeply afraid of Qin Min.

However, in a sense, this is also because Qin Min was implicated because of his family's crimes, and Zhang Jiashi had to choose to execute him at the Great Dynasty Meeting, which has a causal connection. After all, if Qin Min was directly arrested in Qin Min's base camp, Qin Min, who was already the first person in the Great Qin Empire's navy at that time, what kind of big mess would occur and what huge problems would be caused, Zhang Jiashi himself could not imagine.

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Under the command of their corresponding officers, the Qin troops successively boarded the lifeboats that had been lowered into the sea, and in addition to some sword troops who needed to row, there were two infantry with shields in the bow, four crossbowmen with crossbows or crossbows in the middle, and the remaining four oarsmen who needed to row the boats.

It didn't take too long, and on both sides of many medium and large ships, there were a large number of lifeboats carrying ships of Qin officers and soldiers to escort the battle.

As for why no ship dares to be in front of the big ship?

I'm afraid no one dares to block the channel, after all, this kind of death is indeed too much.

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At about 10:30 a.m., the flotilla in front began to enter the battle with the Japanese fishing boat troops.

Many of the Qin army's crossbowmen set fire to bronze crossbows or hardwood crossbows tied to oilcloths, and a large number of sparks continued to fly into the Japanese fishing boats.

Many Japanese on Japanese fishing boats have never seen such long-range strikes beyond their understanding.

Many Japanese who were gearing up didn't even have time to react when they were shot directly by the crossbow that had already burned with tarpaulin, howling and falling into the sea or being nailed directly to the ship.

According to another combat method of the Lou Ship Soldiers, the catapults on the Lou Ship can throw bags of fire oil in the opponent's sea area, and only need to use sparks to ignite, and the enemy can directly burn them into roast pigs.

But Qin Min didn't choose this plan in the end, because the current wind direction is not too conducive to fire attack, if the wind direction suddenly changes and the wind speed is accelerated, then they will have a lot of fun.

Over time, many of the Japanese on the boats were killed or wounded, and more and more were set on fire. Fishing boats that burn because their sails are burned or not operated tend to collide with Japanese fishing boats, mainly in the southeast, in the direction of the waves.

However, more and more Japanese fishing boats continued to rush at the helm of rockets like raindrops, roaring at words that the Qin officers and soldiers did not understand at all.

Seeing this, the officer of the Qin army on the big ship roared loudly: "Fix the ship as much as possible!!"

They did not give this order to have the crew anchor the ship in this shallow water. In fact, under human control, the anchor cannot be too long, after all, where is the difference in weight.

The only way to change the speed of the ship with the sails or to slow down the forward speed as much as possible is the only way.

And at this time, more and more lifeboats rushed to this front-line combat area.

The sparks in the sky shot like raindrops of rain into the sea where the Japanese were located.

Many of the Japanese fishing boats that had not yet burned were stuck with at least a dozen still burning crossbows in their hulls, and the Japanese on board were almost completely killed or wounded.

However, the Japanese still show no signs of retreating.

Soon, the crossbowmen on the Qin army's lifeboat discovered a problem, that is, the crossbows they carried with them had been used up!

In this case, the lifeboat that could not return to the mother ship again could not be replenished, and naturally the crossbow could not be replenished.

As the commander of the Qin army, he gave an order to the oarsmen behind him: "Don't move, watch the advance of the big ship, if we are knocked over, I will drag you bastards together!!"

The Qin Army oarsmen who heard this sentence didn't know what they should say.

After all, if that were the case, they would be the first to die. After all, they were in the stern of the ship, not in the front......

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A large number of arrows were consumed at all times, especially more and more Qin army lifeboats, and the crossbowmen on the ships simply did not have extra crossbows to consume.

Many of the lifeboats slowed down, but they did not go too far from the first line of defense formed by the first large ship at the front, but "leisurely" in the vicinity, after all, their mission was also to protect the large ship. Without a crossbow, you will have to fight the enemy if necessary.

The more than 20 ships on the first line of defense, with an average interval of more than 30 meters, were side by side almost in a straight line, and the crossbowmen on board gave them almost uninterrupted rocket fire from the nearest enemy in the midst of "condescending" fire.

The closer the Japanese fishing boat unit got to the position of the ships in the first direction of the Lou Bun Soldier Unit, the more ships were gradually burned.

In less than an hour, to the east of the fighting zone, the flames reflected a large area of the sea red.

But the Japanese seem to have found a way to solve the shooting of the crossbowmen of the Qin Army's buildings and reduce the crossbows they fired.

Many Japanese on the ship have shields directly in front of them to reduce the chance of being shot directly, but when some crossbowmen found out about this situation and replaced them with crossbows made of iron arrows, many Japanese watched in disbelief as their shields were shot through directly, and the crossbows that pierced through their bodies fell on the boat or fell directly into the sea.

And the things that made these Qin army crossbowmen helpless finally appeared.

Many Japanese struck together clothes that were tattered in the eyes of the Qin army, hooked them with weapons, and then blocked shields or hulls to prevent the ships from burning slowly.

The battle grew more and more intense as time passed......