In addition to replacing the fire ~ cannon with rocket artillery to reduce the weight of the cement ship, the researchers of the Ship Research Institute also thought of many ways to reduce the weight of the cement ship, and in the end, although the speed of the cement ship was still not very fast, it was at least acceptable.

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After the construction of these two large cement warships, Shu Han's previous inventory of steel has been exhausted, however, Liu Hou had already made a decision to increase the production of steel when he arrived in Jingzhou, and by this time, the newly invested iron ore and the newly established steel mill had begun to be put into operation, and a steady stream of steel wires was produced from the newly built steel mill, and then sent to the Jingzhou shipyard as quickly as possible.

In addition, the end of the war in Guanzhong, the loss of the barrel and the consumption of shells, bullets, and thunderbolts were greatly reduced, and a lot of steel was saved, which was also sent to Jingzhou for the construction of cement ships.

Now about enough steel to build a semi-large cement warship is pulled to Jingzhou every month, and this amount has been increasing.

Sima Yi still built only one large warship every month, and the rest of the steel and cement were used to build some small and medium-sized warships.

You know, the materials for building a large warship are enough to build several medium warships or a dozen small warships.

Therefore, separating part of the materials to build small and medium-sized warships can quickly increase the number of ships, and can also make the proportion of ships more reasonable.

Large warships cannot conquer the world, some tasks are more suitable for small and medium-sized warships to perform, and some tasks can be completed by large, medium and small warships, but when they can be completed by dispatching small and medium-sized warships, it is a wasteful behavior to dispatch large warships.

To fight a war is to fight the economy, so a famous general must be able to allocate the resources at his disposal reasonably, otherwise it is likely that the battle that he must win will also be lost, or even if he wins, he will pay a huge price, which will greatly reduce the meaning of victory.

Liu Hou accepted his suggestion and allocated a part of the resources to the construction of small and medium-sized warships, so that the proportion of ships in the fleet tended to be more rational.

The number of naval vessels in Jingzhou increased rapidly.

In May, the fourth year of Jianxing (227 AD), the north had been completely pacified, and social order and production had been restored.

The negotiations with Soochow were still inconclusive, and the two sides were pulling each other's strings, threatening or bargaining, and the talks lasted for more than a year, and it is not an exaggeration to say that this was a protracted negotiation.

The reason why this negotiation lasted so long was that, on the one hand, the distance between Jingzhou and Jianye was very long, and the ministers sent to negotiate many things could not make decisions, so they could only send people back to ask for instructions, and a lot of time was wasted on the road between this back and forth.

And the second and most important reason is that this is deliberately done by the principals on both sides.

Because everyone is buying time to build up their strengths.

Needless to say, Eastern Wu was half-crippled by the Hong army before, and the army suffered very severe losses, and it took a long time to recover.

Their idea was to take advantage of the opportunity of Shu Han to send people to negotiate, and they slowly negotiated with the other party, and they did not explicitly refuse Shu Han's request for their surrender, nor did they readily agree, but put forward many conditions, and then continued to bargain, trying to drag the negotiations indefinitely.

On the one hand, they were pretending to talk to Shu Han about surrendering, but on the other hand, they were frantically recruiting troops and expanding their military strength.

The Eastern Wu court devoted almost all of their resources to military construction, desperately trying to restore its previous military strength.

But they don't want to think about what they can do even if their strength is restored to the level they used to be.

With the strength of the Hong army when Liu Hou was still the crown prince before, they could be disabled, and now the strength of the Hong army is more than twice as strong as it was at that time, can't they still take care of them?

They are trying their best to delay time, but as everyone knows, Liu Hou also wants to delay time.

If it weren't for the fact that the scale of the Jingzhou naval army was too small, and Liu Hou was afraid that the Eastern Wu people would flee into Yunmengze or Yizhou with the powerful naval army, where would Liu Hou spend so much tongue, so he would patiently negotiate with them.

These days, Soochow is frantically recruiting troops, and Liu Hou is also going all out to storm troops and equipment.

Now, Liu Hou feels that it is almost time to clean up Soochow and complete the unification of the whole country.

After such a long period of violent soldiers, the Jingzhou Navy now has twenty large cement ships, and the combined number of small and medium-sized warships exceeds a thousand.

The reason why the army can storm so quickly is mainly due to Liu Hou's considerable investment of manpower and material resources in the steel industry and the cement industry, so that shipbuilding materials can be fully supplied.

The number of these warships is not comparable to that of the Soochows, in fact, now there are more than 2,000 warships of various types in Soochow, and the number of building ships has also reached an astonishing ten, but the two sides are not comparable at all in the quality and combat effectiveness of the warships.

Most of the Jingzhou naval forces are cement ships, any cement ship against the same tonnage of Dongwu warships can be one against ten, these cement ships can even fight beyond the level, such as using small warships to fight with the medium-sized warships of the Dongwu people, and using medium-sized warships to deal with the large warships of Dongwu and even building ships, which is not impossible.

Of course, if the tonnage difference between the two sides is too great, even if the cement ship is against the wooden warship, there is no way.

For example, if a small cement ship encounters a building ship in Soochow, the end will be miserable.

Although the cement ship is very hard and can knock the enemy ship into a large hole, a giant like the Lou ship can easily knock over a small cement ship.

If the ship capsizes, only one will sink, and even if the building ship wears a big hole, it will not have much impact, after all, the battleship generally has a water trap, and local damage will not lead to the sinking of the ship.

Therefore, cement ships are invincible among ships of the same tonnage, and at most they can fight beyond one level, and it is not possible to fight beyond two levels.

Now the number of Jingzhou naval forces has reached half of the Dongwu naval army, but the combat effectiveness is far greater than that of the Eastern Wu naval army, and it can completely crush the Eastern Wu naval army, Liu Hou decided not to wait any longer and prepare to launch a full-scale war against Eastern Wu.

On an auspicious day on the zodiac in mid-May, the sky is cloudless and the sun is shining, and such a good day is suitable for hunting.

Liu Hou sent a letter to Sun Deng, the king of Eastern Wu, saying that he would hunt in Wu with him.

Then 100,000 Jingzhou sailors swore an oath and set off to attack Wu.

In addition to the 100,000 Jingzhou naval troops sailing on the Yangtze River, there are also land forces on the shore to cooperate with the operation.

The army is divided into the north and south banks, and the army on the south bank is relatively weak, that is, the troops of Guansuo.

However, after the end of the War, the demand for firearms was greatly reduced, and Liu Hou finally had a surplus of firearms to supply to Guansuo's troops.

Therefore, he sent the troops and staff officers stationed in Guansuo, reorganized this cold-weapon unit into a firearms unit, and gave them an official name: "Tenth Division"

, this unit can be regarded as officially included in the sequence of the Hong Army.

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