Chapter 54: The First Command
Ten days later, Gan Ning led the navy to Laojiao Bay. */.//* The people of the village trembled with fear. Some have lived here all their lives and have never seen so many troops. On the contrary, some young people and children kept wandering around the troops, looking at these spirited soldiers, there was a kind of yearning and longing.
Ganning's navy cannot be called a navy in the full sense of the word, and they don't even have a decent warship. The soldiers themselves joked that they were all landlubbers, and apart from learning some theoretical water warfare on land, most of them had seen such a wide water surface (sea) for the first time!
The people soon discovered that these soldiers were different from the soldiers who had come to demand money and taxes, not only did they not walk around casually, but they met them on the road, and they were also polite to them. Usually, whatever you buy, you take out copper coins one by one according to the price.
Just south of the village, near the sea, hundreds of tents were erected overnight, and the sound of trumpets could be heard early every morning. The people they met got used to living as they should, and they lived peacefully with these soldiers.
Li Hui crouched on top of several cases, his head drooping, not knowing what he was thinking. Xu Shu, Guo Jia, Zhao Yun, and Gan Ning also lowered their heads and sighed one by one. Suddenly, Li Hui slapped the table: You bcYP you, what kind of navy is this, you don't even have a warship, how do you usually train, when you really start a water war, can you still be counted on?
It was the first time for everyone to see Li Hui so angry. Gan Ning blushed and stood there for Li Hui to scold. After a long time, Xu Shucai: Second brother don't 'agitate', this can't be blamed on General Gan alone, the north is dominated by war horses, and it is nothing if you don't pay attention to the navy, although General Gan has not trained a decent navy over the years, it is not easy to ensure that these sailors are not scattered!
Zhao Yunye: Yes! Second brother, this matter has something to do with my eldest brother and the military advisors, and we don't have a place to train the navy in bcYP, is it okay now? Give you half a year, and I believe that General Gan will be able to bring out a team of extremely powerful sailors!
Li Hui deflated his breath a little and motioned for Gan Ning to sit down. Xu Shu: For today's plan, we must quickly find a way to solve the matter of the warship, without a ship, it is not a navy!
Li Hui let out a long sigh: It is a well-known thing that northerners can't build ships, even if they build it, how can they withstand the sea, you have also seen it, the storm a few days ago almost swept the whole village into the sea, how big can this ship withstand?
The crowd fell silent again. Guo Jia: Doesn't Sister-in-law Huang have a treasure book? Why not take a look at it and see if there is a way to build a ship?
Yes! How did I forget this! Xu Shu immediately stood up: I'll go now, I must look for it carefully!
Li Hui: We can only hope for this, we have to be prepared with both hands, Mi Fang immediately rushed back, let Zhao Yan send more carpenters to come, and by the way, see if any of the refugees who fled from the south can build ships, the more the merrier!
Promise! Governor Mi Fang is very important, and she keeps going out of the 'door' for a moment.
That night, Xu Shu held a leaf of Caihou paper like a treasure, and rushed into Li Hui's big tent. Happy: Second brother, good news, sure enough! Sure enough, there is!
Xu Shu put the piece of paper under the lamp, and several people looked at it together. The zigzag graphics on it, the large and small parts, Li Hui and a few laymen are like reading a book from the sky, but the appearance of the complete ship at the end makes them 'excited'.
Syllable! Gan Ning slapped on the big 'thigh': It's really a good thing, the boats I've seen before don't look like this, if you follow this construction method, no matter how big the boat is, it can be built! Treasures, sure enough, treasures!
Several people looked up at Gan Ning. Gan Ning pointed to the box in the middle of the figure that extends from the bow to the stern: this is the keel of the ship, the size and strength of the ship, completely relying on this keel, our general ship is limited by wood, can not be built too big, you are seeing, this method of construction, can be connected several keels together, no matter how big it is, it is no longer a problem!
Well! Not bad, not bad! Of the few people, only Xu Shu has been in the south for a period of time and knows a little, and the rest are laymen who don't know anything.
In that case, when the craftsman comes, start work immediately! Li Hui saw that Gan Ning bcYP was full of confidence, and immediately ordered: Gan Ning will supervise the work, and within half a year, enough warships must be built!
Promise! Gan Ning took the order.
Li Hui was furious, and the officials of the entire Youzhou, from the military advisor Jia Xu, to every common person, were all heartbroken. With the efforts of many parties, 3,000 carpenters and 300 people who had built boats in Jiangnan were urgently requisitioned and transferred to Laojiao Bay. Giant trees cut down from the primeval forests of western Liaoning are continuously transported here.
The whole old turtle bay is boiling, busy from morning to night, and some places have not even turned off the lights all night. The boat boss who sold fish to Li Hui heard that bcYP personally grilled fish for Li Hui, and since then he has become a celebrity in Lao Turtle Bay, and no matter who sees it, he must be called a big brother.
The boat boss is a smart man, and then he opened a grilled fish restaurant in his own home, named General Fish, and the business is extremely hot. Seeing that the sailors of Lao Turtle Bay were already on the right track, Li Hui finally breathed a sigh of relief. found Gan Ning, Han Dang, and Jiang Qin, and invited these people to a banquet at General Yu's house.
Li Hui picked up his wine glass and looked at a few people: the three of them are all generals of water warfare, it is my Li Hui who has been negligent over the years, so that you have buried your talents, from today on, have you seen it, the vast sea is your battlefield, our Youzhou Army is a force that does not win the battle and does not look back, when will your warship sail to the end of the sea, and it will be allowed to turn around!
Promise! Gan Ning and the three of them are full of righteousness, since they followed Li Hui to Changshan, they have never been on the battlefield, and even the usual safety vigilance is not the part of the navy, sometimes they feel that they have come to the wrong place, until today, they can finally breathe a sigh of relief. A few people drank late and drank a lot. On the way back to the barracks, they supported each other and shouted Li Hui's military song loudly.
Li Huiyou transferred Zhang He and led an army of 30,000 troops to garrison Laojiao Bay, specializing in the 'gate' to defend the naval army Dazhai and the shipyard. Li Hui gave the first order to the navy: within one year, all those monkeys that disturbed the border of Youzhou would be eliminated!
Since then, Li Hui's navy has been much higher than Cao Cao' from the initial stage, and even higher than Liu Biao of Jingzhou and Sun Quan of Jiangdong, who are proud of their navy. It also opens up a phase of war that is not only aimed at land! 'Forced' the Linhai princes to choose their own goals anew. Especially Sun Quan, he suddenly felt that he had become a pawn in Li Hui's calculations!