When Liu Hou returned to the "Ministry of Industry", he saw that the entire "Ministry of Industry" was boiling. The entire "Ministry of Industry" was brightly lit, and almost everyone took action under the arrangement of the relevant departments, carrying materials for carrying materials, sorting out luggage, and inspecting weapons for weapons. Countless people are carrying out their work in a tense and orderly manner.

They had already planned this expedition scene and rehearsed it a long time ago, so although they were busy, they were all in order.

A winding train runs from the "Ministry of Industry" to the pier by the river. Countless horse-drawn carriages have gathered from warehouses and workshops to join the dragon. At the end of the car dragon is a "super battleship" moored at the dock, which Liu Hou named Jingzhou.

Countless ant-like porters unloaded all sorts of supplies from the wagons and carried them onto the warship from the stern of the ship to three planks between the ship and the dock. Several men dressed as scribes held a ledger in one hand and charcoal in the other, counted the materials brought in, and arranged for the workers to load them in the designated cabins.

The wagon that unloaded the goods immediately turned back and reloaded the goods and pulled them over. A gangplank was also erected at the bow of the ship to the dock. A thousand soldiers had already lined up, and were heading towards the ship with their equipment one by one.

After all, the speed of the army's assembly was the fastest, and in such a short time that Liu Hou went to find Liu Bei, they had already finished reloading and began to board the ship. Liu Hou looked at this scene and felt very relieved, so many years of rigorous training have not been in vain.

After explaining the matter to Jiang Bin, Dong Yun and others who stayed behind, Liu Hou also led his civil and military team to Jingzhou. The person Liu Hou took away this time is naturally indispensable to the super bodyguard and nanny Zhao Yun, who is his number one thug, whether he leads the troops or charges into battle, he is indispensable.

The second is Fei Yi, who is a representative figure among the civil officials, without whom the entire logistics work would not be able to function. Of course, he didn't fight alone, he led a team of scribes.

Then there are the two boys Zhang Bao and Guan Xing, who are 3 or 4 years older than Liu Hou, and 15 or 6 years old are already an age that can go to war in this era. They have played with Liu Hou since they were young (although, Liu Hou's precocious personality actually doesn't have much time to play with them), and of course they have to follow Liu Hou on this expedition. Liu Hou didn't have any generals in his hands, so he could only use them.

Although Liu Bei did not give Pang Tong, he finally sent a person to assist Liu Hou, this person is called Guo Youzhi, the character is long, and he is also a young man, this person is not a dead scholar, he has learned a wide range of things, and pays more attention to practical use, in recent years, he has been famous for his talent and knowledge, therefore, Liu Hou also likes him a lot, so he also took him as a temporary military advisor.

As for Zuo Ci, Ge Xuan, Huang Yueying, and Ma Jun, these scientific researchers will not follow them for the time being, and it is useless for them to go, so it is better to stay and concentrate on research. However, Zhang Zhongjing brought a group of doctors and nurses with the army, and when the war was fought, the role of doctors was self-evident.

Pu Yuan also brought a group of craftsmen with him, after all, the weapons damaged during the war were indispensable for repairing and replenishing them.

Zhang Xingcai and Guan Yinping were arguing to go, but Liu Hou resolutely refused. Just kidding, taking two little Loli to war, isn't this adding to the chaos? Now is the real confrontation between the two countries or even the melee between the three countries, not a military exercise, how can there be extra energy to take care of them under the danger of the war.

Fortunately, now Zhang Xingcai has been transformed, and her personality has become much quieter, without the kind of brutality that doesn't care about 3721, and she didn't entangle much after Liu Hou resolutely refused to take her, and devoted herself to her study and research again. Guan Yinping has a weak personality, so naturally it is impossible to insist more, so he was also left by Liu Hou to watch his family.

This time, Liu Hou took away all the more than 5,000 soldiers belonging to the "Ministry of Industry", and there were no patrols and guards left. Liu Hou was well aware of the importance and hardships of this operation. The importance has already been mentioned above, so there is no longer much cumbersome here, and the hardships are self-evident, fighting with the famous Lu Xun and Lu Meng in history, as well as Cao Wei's army on the sidelines, it is really not easy to deal with a fledgling hairy boy.

Therefore, Liu Hou mobilized all his forces and took away all the people and materials he could take away, just to ensure the success of this battle. He is not worried about the safety of the "Ministry of Industry", this is the hinterland of Shu, and with his father taking care of him, there should be no chaos.

What's more, after they left, Dong Yun would immediately recruit troops again, reorganize and train a reserve team, firstly to protect the safety of the "Ministry of Industry", and secondly, to replenish the attrition of the "Hong Army" in the future.

This time, Liu Hou acted very quickly, and on the second day after receiving the news, he led 1,000 soldiers to set off on the "super battleship" Jingzhou. Follow-up troops and logistical supplies were carried by merchant ships of various sizes and departed one after another in the next few days.

Liu Hou stood on the deck of the third layer of the bow of the ship, looking at the rolling river and the beautiful scenery on both sides, and couldn't help but sigh. Are you finally going to get out of your peaceful life and go to the hot-blooded and treacherous battlefield of the Three Kingdoms?

The Jingzhou was a three-masted galleon with a spinnaker at the tail to help steer, and now the three masts were full of sails, so bulging that the sails were sliding forward with the ship through the wind and waves.

In this era, the building ship of Soochow still uses oars as the power, and this Jingzhou mainly uses sails as the power, which alone is already epoch-making progress. In fact, in addition to the sails, this boat has another kind of power.

If you dive to the stern, you can see that underwater, the ship has a propeller in addition to a rudder to control the direction of the boat. And the propeller is driven by a huge turntable mounted in one of the cabins in the stern.

The turntable has six radial arms, each arm can accommodate 5 people to push, a total of 30 people can push the turntable, drive the propeller to rotate, and thus propel the boat forward. Of course, it is also possible to pull with one or two cows or horses on each jump arm, which allows for more power.

The ship is actually a dual-powered ship, which guarantees that it will surpass most ships of this era. This is also the result of the mechanical research institute led by Ma Jun, of course, Liu Hou is indispensable to participate in the design. With these devices, it will be much simpler to develop mechanically powered ships when the time comes.

As soon as the power engine (such as the steam engine) was invented, it was installed here, and the power engine replaced the human and animal power to drive the turntable, and it was possible to enter the era of mechanically powered ships.

With a speed rarely seen in this era, the Jingzhou quickly passed through the Hejiang Pavilion to the east, and then went south through Jiazhou (now Leshan) and Yandao (now Yibin) into the Yangtze River.

When passing through the White Emperor City, Liu Hou saw the rapid flow of the water and the situation of the boat flying, Liu Hou felt and couldn't help but read the first "Early White Emperor City":

Between the white emperor and the clouds, thousands of miles of Jiangling will be returned in one day.

The apes on both sides of the strait could not stop crying, and the light boat had already crossed the ten thousand mountains.

The scribes around him were greatly admired, and they were full of praise for Liu Hou's writing, and some scribes took out pen and paper to record it, and it seemed that they planned to compile and print it into a collection of poems for publication in the future. Liu Hou, who plagiarized Li Bai's famous sentences, was not in the mood to talk to them about poetry and arguments, and he had no intention of appreciating the beautiful scenery of the mountains on both sides of the strait, slightly without a que, heavy rocks stacked obstacles, hidden from the sky, and the endless crying of apes on both sides of the strait.

Fortunately, the speed of this ship is very fast, after passing the White Emperor City, it goes down the river, from the White Emperor City to Jiangling for about 1,200 miles, including 700 miles of the Three Gorges, and it actually starts at night.

Liu Hou and the others traveled day and night, and they arrived in Jingzhou in less than 3 days. Of course, other ships don't have dual power, so they don't have that much speed, and they will arrive at least 1 or 2 days late.

The so-called "Guan Yu's carelessness in Jingzhou" is not the entire Jingzhou, but the three counties of Jingzhou: Nanjun, Wuling, and Lingling. At present, among the nine counties of Jingzhou, only these three counties are controlled by Liu Bei's forces, and the other six counties are divided between Cao Cao and Sun Quan: Jiangxia, Guiyang, and Changsha belong to Sun Quan, and Nanyang, Xiangyang, and Nanxiang (also known as Zhangling County) belong to Cao Cao.

The strategic location of Jingzhou can be seen, and the three are doing everything possible to compete for the ownership of Jingzhou, which can be described as a real place of four wars. What's more, the Nanjun occupied by Guan Yu was in the upper reaches of the Yangtze River, and as long as it went down the river, it could threaten Sun Wu's territory. This is like a sword of Damocles, hanging over Soochow's head at all times, making it difficult for them to sleep.

This is the internal reason why the heart of the Sun Wu Group seeking the three counties of Jingzhou has never died. It's a pity that whether it is Zhuge Liang, who is known as unparalleled in wisdom, Liu Bei, who has been fighting for half his life, and Guan Yu, who is extremely proud, have insufficient understanding of this issue, and they have not paid enough attention to Sun Wu. They were all stupid and naïve to think that Sun Wu would not dare to make a move against the three counties of Jingzhou.

However, in the original history, when Guan Yu went to attack Cao Wei's Xiangfan area, Sun Quan sent Lu Meng and Lu Xun to attack Jingzhou successfully, plotting to seize the three counties of Jingzhou, and by the way, Guan Yu was killed and his head was cut off and sent to Cao Cao.

It is said that after Liu Hou got off the boat, he led 1,000 elite musketeers to the outside of Nanjun City, and couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief when he saw that the Great Han Dragon Flag was still floating on the top of the city. Fortunately, Jingzhou hasn't lost it yet, and it can catch up.

The general who defended the city was called Pan Jun, this person was a straw bag, and he was jealous and profitable in his life, but Guan Gong did not know people, leaving this person and a small number of soldiers and horses to garrison Nanjun, and it was strange that Jingzhou was not lost.

Fei Yi stepped forward to identify himself and called to open the city gate, Pan Jun saw that it was the prince who arrived in person, so he didn't dare to slack off, so he hurriedly opened the city gate and came to greet him in person. Liu Hou was also not polite, and led his team into the Taishou Mansion in the city, and the 1,000 soldiers and horses were naturally led to settle in the barracks in the city.

After showing Liu Bei's warrant and token tiger talismans, Liu Hou demanded that Pan Jun immediately hand over power to himself. Although Pan Jun was reluctant, but in front of the prince, he didn't dare to make any small moves, so he had to obediently hand over power.

After Liu Hou quickly obtained the control of Jingzhou, the first thing he did was not to arrange the city defenses, but to order Zhao Yun to lead 500 musketeers and 1,000 original Jingzhou defenders to form a mixed force of 1* to go to Maicheng to rescue Guan Gong.

The reason why he did this was because he knew that Guan Gong's defeat and departure from Maicheng was imminent, and in his mind, Guan Gong's life was much more important than that of Nanjun City. It's a pity that his current troops are too small to divide more troops to save him, and now he can only hope that Zhao Yun still has the level of Changbanpo back then, and he can save Guan Gong in the midst of thousands of troops.

(Note: Jingzhou is a state, the scope is very large, larger than the current province, "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" about Jingzhou City, that is, Jingzhou's place of governance is very confusing, sometimes said in Xiangyang, sometimes said in Nanjun, sometimes seems to refer to Jiangling, and sometimes it means that there is another Jingzhou City, located in Yidu, that is, Xiazhou at the end of the Yuan Dynasty, Yiling Prefecture in the early Ming Dynasty, and Yichang in modern times.)

At present, the popular view is that Luo Guanzhong's geographical knowledge is confused, and there are zài geographical bugs. In the later Ming and Qing dynasties, Jingzhou City referred to Jiangling, that is, Nanjun. The geography of later generations was adopted here, and another Jingzhou city was no longer established, and Nanjun was directly regarded as the seat of Jingzhou. Therefore, the following text is such as Jingzhou City = Nanjun City. ）