Liu Fan rode down the shadow galloping on the land of Yizhou, Yizhou is a seaside state in the east of the empire, directly facing the invasion of the sea tribe, the Shanhaiguan here is the first fortress of Yizhou, stationed a large number of troops, most of the army in Yizhou is the navy, and there are few troops stationed in the interior, the most garrisoned city is only the capital of Yizhou, Chengdu, with 50,000 troops, and most of the rest of the big cities are garrisoned from between 20,000 and 10,000, even if the expanded Yizhou army is still occupied by the navy.

Yizhou's mountainous, this is a very strange phenomenon, according to Liu Fan's impression that the place facing the sea should be the most developed place, but unfortunately beyond Liu Fan's imagination is that the terrain of Yizhou restricts his development, it can be said that Yizhou is one of the poorest state capitals in the empire, far less rich than Xuzhou and Yangzhou, but Yizhou also has its own characteristics, that is, the unique sea people, a kind of sea tribe and human race after the combination of the remaining race, the whole world is only Yizhou under the rule of the Marquis of Wenwu to accommodate them, so many years the sea tribe has not been able to capture Yizhou part of the Yizhou is a Yizhou mountain danger, and part of it is also because of the existence of this group of sea people, these people have both the advantages of the sea tribe and the advantages of the human race, it can be said that they are born warriors, and there is a separate army in the navy of Yizhou, which is composed of these people, and it is also the sharp knife army of the Yizhou army.

Liu Fan rode on top of the shadow, it was already the second day of arriving in Yizhou, and Liu Fan was about to rush to Chengdu in two more days, although he was a little anxious, Liu Fan still chose to hurry slowly, first, he was waiting for the information of the blood droplets. The second is to take a look at the navy of Yizhou, the navy can be said to be the army that Liu Fan attaches the most importance to, after all, whoever controls the sea controls Shijie, and there are many continents outside the Tianlong Continent waiting for Liu Fan to conquer with a large army. Of course, all this is still early, after all, Liu Fan does not have any admirals in his hands now, and there are still many enemies waiting for Liu Fan to fight in front of him.

"Childe, it's not early, the front is Nan'an, and the first legion of the Imperial Yizhou Navy stationed in Nan'an City is the First Regiment of the Imperial Yizhou Navy, are we going to Nan'an City to rest or continue on the road?"

Liu Fan looked at the sky and nodded, "Okay, let's go to Nan'an City to rest." We happen to also look at the navy of the Empire. ”

Liu Fan hit his horse and came to Nan'an City, it was just late in the afternoon, Yang Lie, the commander of the First Army Corps of the guards in Nan'an City, got the order early and came out, whether it was the grade or the official position, Yang Lie was much higher than Liu Fan. But Yang Lie is a member of the family of the Marquis of Wenwu, and Yang Lie is lower than Yang Yayue in terms of seniority, and Liu Fan is the son-in-law of the Marquis of Wenwu and King He Ling, the grandson of King Pingxi, and the younger generation of generals that the emperor focuses on cultivating. Yang Lie naturally came out to greet him.

"Childe, this is General Yang Lie, the commander of the First Army of the Imperial Yizhou Navy, General Yang, this is my son-in-law Liu Fan. Liu Fan had already turned over and dismounted. He Jin stepped forward to introduce the two of them.

Liu Fan hurriedly greeted him, and Liu Fan's highest position was only a seven-rank capital. And Yang Lie is indeed the commander of a legion, and his rank and military rank are much different. Liu Fan clasped his hands into fists: "The last general Liu Fan has seen the general, and it is inconvenient to pay full salute in armor, so please atone for the general." ”

Yang Lie's face was vicissitudes, the perennial sea breeze eroded Yang Lie's face and left heavy streaks, his dry skin was full of wrinkles, and his body was not as tall and medium as that of inland people, but his body exuded a heavy murderous aura up and down. Liu Fan saluted according to the army, Yang Lie naturally understood the meaning, Yang Lie was naturally not a stupid person to be able to sit in the position of a regiment commander, of course, he would not really think that his identity was higher than Liu Fan. ...,

"Liu Gongzi is polite, you are the emperor's envoy to the Northern Underworld, don't be so polite, Liu Dutong will come into the city with me, please." "Yang Lie is not the descendant of the Yang family, just because the descendant of the Yang family was lost in the war decades ago, and this time there is Yang Lie, a partial branch.

Liu Fan followed Yang Lie into Nan'an City, Nan'an City is a military town under Shu County in Yizhou, Shu County is directly facing the impact of the Sea Clan, the characteristic buildings in Nan'an City are naturally mostly military buildings, and the place 60 kilometers away from Nan'an City is the garrison of the First Navy of Yizhou, and most of the people walking on the streets of Nan'an City are emperors wearing imperial black uniforms.

Entering the General's Mansion, everyone sat down, Liu Fan sat next to Yang Lie, Liu Fan looked at this low General's Mansion, completely different from the inland architectural style, and there was a topographic map of Yizhou hanging behind the living room of the General's Mansion, which marked in detail the garrison points and troops of each army, and the sea breeze and sea conditions were also marked in detail.

"Why is General Yang discussing the military situation?" Liu Fan walked to the military map and looked at it, and asked curiously, the top secret on the map, Yang Lie actually hung in this living room, which made Liu Fan a little surprised.

Yang Lie laughed embarrassedly twice, stood up and walked to the side of the map and said: "Let Liu Gongzi laugh, the nearest place not far from Yizhou is now infested by people from the rivers and lakes, Wenwu Hou asked me to strengthen vigilance to prevent the Sea Clan from fishing in troubled waters, and at this time the sea has just de-iced, it is the time when the Sea Clan invades, I am not afraid that Liu Gongzi will laugh at me for the past few days, I am afraid that the Sea Clan will suddenly come like this." ”

"General Yang is really loyal to the country, and I am much inferior to General Yang. I don't know if General Yang can tell me about the situation of this navy, the navy and land forces of the empire still don't know anything about the navy now, I don't know if General Yang can give me the navy?"

Yang Lie glanced at Liu Fan thoughtfully, and said with a smile: "Since Liu Gongzi is so interested in my navy, I will also talk to Liu Gongzi." Yang Lie waved his hand, and the two guards took out a map again and hung it up, and walked to the side of the place, Liu Fan also followed, and soon only Liu Fan, Yang Lie, He Jin and a few personal soldiers were left in the living room.

"Liu Gongzi, please see, this is the navy of my dynasty, our establishment and the army is basically the same, but we are divided by warships, this is the main type of warships in my dynasty, the most important of which is this kind of five-story and three-story building ships, this is the main force of my navy, the general building ship is about 200 zhang long, about 50 zhang wide, more than 20 zhang high can accommodate more than 10,000 soldiers, this kind of three-story building ship is a little smaller, but it can still accommodate more than 6,000 soldiers, the rest are conventional warships such as warships, as well as walking Ke, fast horses, scout boats are responsible for the connection between our ships, and there is one of the most important warships that may have been heard of by Gongzi。 Yang Lie pointed to the model on a table that the guards brought over and said to Liu Fan, Liu Fan looked at the huge model on the table, and couldn't help but sigh in his heart, the battleship of the imperial navy was actually so big.

Liu Fan, another ultimate battleship, has also heard of it, the steel building ship, after all, this battleship can only be built by saint-level shipbuilders in the empire, and it takes a long time, some building ships even take decades to build, and the more powerful seven-story steel building ship even takes hundreds of years, and hundreds of saint-level shipbuilders work together to build.

"General Yang is talking about the steel building ship?"

Yang Lie nodded, and the two guards walked out carrying a model of a steel building ship, Liu Fan was immediately attracted by this model, all made of iron, the deck of the building ship was full of trebuchets and bed crossbows, and the seventh floor was also covered with bed crossbows and spiritual energy cannons, Liu Fan looked at the model in front of him and sighed, I am afraid that this thing may not be able to be made on the earth, and I can't help but admire the craftsmanship of these people. ...,

Yang Lie walked up to the model and began to explain it to Liu Fan in detail: " Liu Gongzi, please see, this kind of steel building ship is generally the main liliang of our army to deal with the sea clan, its heavy tonnage can even resist the impact of the sea clan's sea king, and this kind of steel exposed drive is also all driven by aura, every time you go out, you need hundreds of sergeants who break through the realm to provide it with aura, the bottom and hull of this kind of building ship are swords made of meteorites, all of which are sharp weapons to deal with the sea clan, there are a total of 800 bed crossbows, 500 trebuchets, 300 aura cannons, which can accommodate more than 50,000 soldiers, and generally there is only one such warship in a legion, which is used as the flagship of the army。 ”

"So the Yizhou Navy only has three such ships?" "The Yizhou Navy was the strongest, and there were only five legions at that time, and the empire has been declining over the years, and the legions have been reduced to two legions, so the Hai Clan was able to force the whole family of the Marquis of Wenwu to dispatch in the previous wave of landings, and his grandfather, Prince Li, was also the first to pacify the Hai Clan, and the army of Yizhou was too weak.

Yang Lie shook his head and said: "In the heyday, the Yizhou Navy had five such building ships, and now there are only two such building ships in the Imperial Navy, one is stationed in the garrison of the Second Legion of the Navy, and one is in our First Legion, two of which were captured by the Sea Clan, and the remaining one has been sunk." ”

"How could it be? Isn't this kind of battleship known as an unsinkable battleship? How could it be sunk?" Liu Fan looked at Yang Lie with some surprise, it is understandable that the Sea Clan captured it, after all, the Sea Clan occupied most of Yizhou decades ago, and it is normal to capture two ships, but the sunken one surprised Liu Fan, this kind of battleship is the greatest weapon in the history of the emperor, and there is nothing to sink it.

Yang Lie shook his head and said: "When the Sea Clan invaded, the former Navy General Shengwu led people to fight against the Sea Clan, and the whole army was wiped out because there was no backup Liliang, and finally General Shengwu was martyred in battle, and before he died, he let people destroy the key Haimen valve of the Lou ship, and the battleship sank. (Your support is my biggest motivation.) )