85. Chapter 85 Crossing the river in advance

Author: Magic Prince

Chapter 85 Crossing the river in advance

At the same time, Sun Jian was also actively building ships. Sun Jian was born in Fuchun, Wu County, which belonged to Kuaiji County as early as the Qin Dynasty. Xiang Yu and his uncle Xiang Liang started a rebellion in Kuaiji County.

Qin's, Xiang Yu and Xiang Liang's 8,000 Jiangdong soldiers were basically from this nearby area.

So to say the least, Sun Jian's temperament is quite familiar to Xiang Yu. In fact, the development of Xiang Yu's temper and character in his youth in his previous life was also influenced by some humanities in the Jiangdong area.

Compared to people like Dong Zhuo who were born and raised in the northwest grassland area, Sun Jian has lived and grown up by the water since he was a child. Like a large part of Jiangdong people, his water quality is also very good, and he is young.

It was a common thing for him to go into the water to catch big fish with bare hands, and Sun Jian was also relatively familiar with boat building and sailing.

Therefore, after the shipbuilders arrived, Sun Jian immediately began to arrange command tasks for these shipbuilders. Compared with the shipbuilders on Dong Zhuo's side, the shipbuilders on Sun Jian's side were much more tired. Not only

There was no good food or wine, and I didn't get much rest on the first day. I immediately had to plunge into the intense shipbuilding work.

Moreover, Sun Jian had relatively clear and very high requirements for the style, structure, function, quality, etc. of the ships he built. Several shipbuilders could also see that Sun Jian was a person who knew ships, so it would definitely be difficult for him to work under him.

Having managed to get through the test, I could only devote all my energy to the work of shipbuilding.

In fact, when he was in Ji County before, Sun Jian also built a lot of ships, but at that time he did not find specialized shipbuilders from the Sanfu and Jingshi areas. Instead, he found some local craftsmen in Ji County and then personally guided them.

How they build ships, in the end, judging from the results, the quality of the ships they build is quite good.

This time, Sun Jian did not just leave all the shipbuilding tasks to those few shipbuilders, but also hired some local craftsmen from near Lanzhou to work together on the shipbuilding work.

Under Sun Jian's reasonable and efficient arrangements, his shipbuilding speed has quickly surpassed Xiang Yu's. However, even so, it is still because there is a lack of wood nearby to build large ships, so he can only build some small and medium-sized ones first.

The advantage of these ships is that they are more flexible, but they also have many disadvantages. For example, they do not have the stability of large ships and are very dangerous in some river sections with rapid currents. Of course, this is the low water season of the Yellow River.

Normally, the river surface conditions are relatively stable, so these minor problems are nothing to worry about.

But even if Sun Jian's shipbuilding progress is much faster, it is difficult for him to say that he can build ships that can carry thousands or even tens of thousands of people across the river at the same time in a short period of time. He still doesn't know what Xiang Yu's side is like.

situation, so they sent people to Zhang Wen and Xiang Yu to see how their shipbuilding progress was.

As a result, Sun Jian found that the number of people on Xiang Yu's side was about twice that of his own, and the progress of shipbuilding was far behind his own. He was secretly happy. After all, his competitiveness prevailed. Sun Jian felt that he was finally ahead of Xiang Yu.

, it seems that this time he has to be the vanguard to fight Han Suijun.

As for Dong Zhuo, Sun Jian didn't even bother to deal with it. He didn't care what Dong Zhuo was going to do. Moreover, it could be seen from Dong Zhuo's previous attitude that Dong Zhuo was obviously reluctant to build a ship and cross the river to fight Han Sui.

At this time, he was probably working hard, stalling for time and responding passively as he said before.

But for Sun Jian, these are nothing. What he wants is to seize the opportunity and establish achievements in the process of defeating Han Sui. He has spent a large part of his life on the battlefield.

In the end, although he managed to achieve some success and was indeed a lot stronger than ordinary people, he still fell short of his own life goals. He hoped that he would do it before he was too old to move.

, and can finally obtain more resources for themselves and their descendants.

In fact, there is no problem for Sun Jian to think this way. Although he is old, he still has strong combat and command capabilities. This time to wipe out Han Sui's rebels is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity for him.

Although it was not enough to give him any power in the central government of the Eastern Han Dynasty, it at least allowed him to obtain some resources that were enough to dominate the local area.

It was also because of this mentality of seeking the first move that Sun Jian decided not to wait for a lot of ships to be built before crossing the river, but to find opportunities to cross the river in advance. His own judgment was that Han

Sui probably knew at this time that their army wanted to cross the Yellow River to continue to cause trouble for him, but because Han Sui had taken away or destroyed most of the ships that could cross the Yellow River during his previous retreat, Han Sui's

From his perspective, he must have thought that it was impossible for Zhang Wen and his party to cross the Yellow River in a short time. Even if they did, they would only be able to bring a small part of their troops with them.

So at this time, if Sun Jian's shipbuilding speed can far exceed Han Sui's expectations, then he will have the opportunity to lead a part of his elite troops across the Yellow River when Han Sui underestimates him, and then ride on Han Sui's unresponsive

Before coming over, strike first to catch Han Sui off guard. Although it won't directly lead to victory, a good start will definitely give him a certain advantage.

At this time, Sun Jian's men did not have any particularly powerful generals, so even if Sun Jian's own injuries were not healed, he still had to personally lead the elite troops who crossed the river in advance to attack Han Sui.

It seems that Sun Jian and Xiang Yu have some similar views on this issue. It's just that because Sun Jian can build ships faster, he can bring more elite troops across the river earlier, while Xiang Yu can only

Being able to cross the river later than Sun Jian could only bring fewer elite troops across the river.

Of course, their goals are not exactly the same. Sun Jian hopes that the vanguard force he leads can give Han Sui a blow before Han Sui has time to react, and at the same time win himself the first victory. Xiang Yu's original intention is to use

His own troops attracted Han Sui's attention, and then covered more follow-up troops to cross the Yellow River.

Judging from this situation, if Sun Jian successfully crossed the river in advance, then Xiang Yu would not need to use his troops to attract the attention of Han Sui's troops later, because Han Sui's attention must have been attracted by Sun Jian.
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