Eight hundred and eighty-ninth chapter Zhou Lang navy
There are thick black clouds in the sky, and there is a blue light in the gaps in the clouds. Thunderstorms roll past in the heavy rain. Thunder, rain, and waves merge into one, and the sky and the earth are mixed together.
However, the hard sail can also be deflected to take advantage of the wind, and the wind-pushing array can also supplement it a little.
The long river is so wide that you can't see the edge, with huge waves like the ocean surging. Raindrops form a curtain of water on the ground. The water on the deck is up to your ankles. The surging waves are the same color as the water outside the ship's side. You can't tell where is on the ship and where is.
It's outside the ship.
In this dark water world, giant ships cut diagonally into a tributary on the south side of the Yangtze River.
The astronomical tide is too strong, causing chaos in the magnetism, poor long-distance communication in the Xinpan, and greatly reducing the coverage of the magician regiment's battlefield network.
Navigation guidance lights were lit on the front and rear masts of each ship. The light in the glass penetrated the thick black rain. Dots of stars connected the fleet from front to back into a long dragon, swimming deep into Xiangzhou...except for the wind and rain, there was no obstacle.
"Your Majesty, we crossed the river the day before yesterday. Our navy was in training! It was late, but it took a long time..."
"The storm happened again. Not only was the schedule hindered, but also the inquiry contact was lost..."
"Don't worry, the enemy is strong this time. It won't be possible to wipe them out in a month or two. The main force just drank a little more soup, and there is still a lot of meat..."
"Yes, show off the majesty of our navy."
In the cabin of the tall flagship ship, the glazed lights were white, a young general squinted his eyes and couldn't see his expression clearly, and more than a dozen captains and military captains gathered around, discussing and reporting from time to time.
The young man listened quietly, tapping a few words regularly with his fingers, as if there was a hidden rhythm, and did not interrupt. Seeing the changes in the waterway outside the cabin, he said: "Finally we are out of the main river. Please come and confirm with the guide."
Every year during wind and rain, huge ships capsize on long rivers. There are also cases where one takes the wrong waterway and crashes into a narrow channel - no one wants to be the unlucky guy.
"We have entered the Xiangshui River." A steward guide sent by the Lu family identified the two sides of the strait and said firmly: "I am an old sailing ship, and I can never go wrong."
The runoff of the Xiang River is still very wide, and in the opinion of the Han generals it is not inferior to the Yangtze River in Xiatu, but the waves are not as broad as the main river.
At this time, as we followed the waves, we saw that the river along the way became narrower. Many villages along the coast were dark in the rain, without any movement or popularity, which was very strange.
"There's something wrong." Zhou Yu immediately woke up, his face was somewhat pale, he gritted his teeth and smiled, and said no more, "Let's go out and take a look."
In the wind and rain, I left the captain's room on the bridge and came to the bow of the ship to look around. My consciousness was full of darkness and desolation. This place was completely inconsistent with the prosperity in the intelligence. I pondered for a long time before asking: "Is this Xiangzhou?"
"yes"
I asked the steward to follow me in the rain. He used to lead his family fleet to come here. Now he looked at it and said hesitantly: "Maybe we are avoiding military disasters. There is a smaller tributary of the Xiang River in front of us, the Yishui River. Let's get there.
Look at Yishui Beigang, there is a famous rice market in northern Hunan."
For a moment, Yishui Port, a famous rice market in northern Hunan, flashed past in the field of vision. It also had no lights or popularity. The guide's face changed slightly.
I have a nephew who has been stationed here all year round to provide information on the rice market. He married a wife and had children and settled down here. If not now...
"The Commander-in-Chief, Wangzhang's family in Yishui County, has built a fort ten miles south of Mi City. He may gather the people of Mi City to resist the foreign demon warriors for a while."
When the intelligence personnel sent down from above saw this, they were a little unsure.
"Maybe?"
Zhou Yu did not comment on this vague statement and did not trust the commander's strength. He immediately spread out the waterproof military map. The light of lightning reflected the bright red enemy situation signs on the map: "It must be estimated based on the worst-case scenario.
The county town is not far away, no more than twenty miles away, so we should be able to contact General Guan..."
Turning around near an inlet, a wave of "boom" rolled up the hull of the ship, and the deck under his feet tilted. Zhou Yu's feet were firmly nailed, and his figure did not waver.
"Raise the sail and turn..."
"The magician activates the side jet..."
"Give the rear ship a light signal to prevent collision and chaos..."
The sailors didn't panic much. Zhou Yu couldn't help but secretly feel happy. The lord assigned these two thousand soldiers to station in the south and mixed them into the Jiangdong Navy and Jingzhou Navy. It was obviously to prepare for the establishment of a fleet on the ground. Now they have shown their spirit.
The benefits of familiar water fighting.
"It's a pity that the navy is newly built and can't compete with the infantry. There are fewer people and the boats are worse..." Zhou Yu said to himself, thinking about whether to let an old friend go to the harem route and let Mrs. Shang Xiang give her lord a blow.
Pillow style?
The tendency to like the lord is not a secret among the Han officials. In the harem of Xiatu, it is shown that they are closer to Qianqian, Hengyun, Xiaoqiao and Shangxiang.
As if to compensate for my heavy thoughts, I prefer girls with bright eyes, bright teeth, lively and cute girls to nourish my body and mind.
Zhou Yu thought for a while and then gave up the thought. It was better not to trouble Sun Ce. The whole Sun family had been implicated by Yu Fan. It was rare for him to get rid of suspicion through the marriage of his sister and get re-employment. There was no need for him to let Mrs. Shang Xiang lose points in front of the lord - who said
Pillow style doesn’t make you less sentimental?
"Captain Zhou, our boat is not bad..."
Manager Lu looked down at the general's expression, so he didn't like the ship and couldn't help but defend himself. He heard that the head of the family, Lu Ming, had generously funded ten ships, and Yun Bangxue had funded seven ships. The Hanhou Mansion got these for free.
, all are third-class large merchant ships
"These are giant ships used for trade with the island chains along the coast of Dongzhou and Qingzhou."
"I made a mistake, and I meant that it is not suitable for a battleship." Zhou Yu smiled slightly, his eyes were easy-going, and the Han style has its own measure. Zhou Lang would not be angry at a barbarian's rebuttal.
These words were gentle and clear. Manager Lu was speechless. He only coughed slightly in embarrassment, thinking that the Governor was really tolerant this week.
The old man who relies on water navigation for his livelihood has rich experience and knows very well that there is a very big difference between merchant ships and warships. Although these seventeen ships are physically huge ships, they are not built for war and are inherently deficient.
The Lu family's shipbuilding industry is well-known in the North. The ship's keel spares no expense on materials. The inner layer lacks reserved space for magic arrays, and the bulwarks are several times thinner than those of battleships.
In the first two months, it was hurriedly thickened at the three major shipyards of the Lu family. As soon as it was completed half a month ago, it was handed over to the newly formed naval force of the Hanhou Mansion. It only had time for training at Taiping Lake and initial adaptation to form a team.
It was pulled out because of the need to cross the river - you can imagine the level of combat power. It is not so much a battleship as a large armed merchant ship.
Zhou Yu, the first commander of the Navy, knew this. Before leaving the home port of Jinsha County, he added more than a dozen small platforms covered with raincloths on the decks of each ship. Soldiers are now on duty to guard them at all times.
The Lu family guide who was piloting the ship couldn't see what these were under the veil, but the navy's top brass knew clearly - these were thunder ballistae.
This kind of leaf fire mine thrower installed on the side of the ship is not a land combat trebuchet structure, but a steel spring-arm crossbow structure.
Ye Huolei's own power has reached the upper limit of a single bundle of crystals. If it is stacked any higher, it will explode. It cannot be enlarged. Ye Qing's previous attempt to stack it into a strategic nuclear weapon failed.
In this life, I saw that Li Huaji also took a small detour and did not expose it. It was not until he admitted that the experiment failed that he ordered the research direction to be changed.
Therefore, it was downsized, and after simple experiments with the grenadier's "offensive grenade" and "defensive grenade" at medium distances, we sought a small leaf fire mine attack technology that far exceeded the leaf fire mine catapult.
Regarding ultra-long-range attacks, research points to two paths.
One is to use the driving force of crystals to form a miniature propelling array of fire tail arrows, increasing the pure physical kinetic energy and range of the arrows. This was a great success in Zhuge Liang's repeated crossbows.
The second is to maintain the explosive effect of the spar beam, seek to innovate the range of the projectile equipment, and form a new type of steel-arm ballistae's thunderbolt - an upgraded version of the Han Dynasty's forty-stone bed crossbow-type Dahuang crossbow, based on the Huoling steam engine
And the steel production of new blast furnaces has increased, causing the cost of high-quality special steel to drop significantly.
The range of the Thunderbolt has been doubled to eight miles, and the long-range advantage is very strong. The disadvantage is that the cost is extremely high, and the most annoying thing is that it is not suitable for field combat - this thing was originally developed to make up for the shortcomings of the catapult's wooden arms, which resulted in a lack of momentum.
The direct fire is too powerful and is not suitable for field bombardment. There are too many man-made or natural barriers on the ground battlefield, and it is difficult for direct fire to suppress the magician group behind the enemy.
But it is suitable for use in siege battlefields with higher targets and empty and smooth water battlefields.
This set of ship's main weapons has had actual combat experience in the field, and the soldiers are familiar with the side-fire attack. If the ship was better and the soldiers were more, Zhou Yu would dare to fight against the Xiangzhou Navy with the same number of ships.
...Forget it now, the number of people is too small and it will be a disadvantage.
The standard configuration of the Cai Dynasty navy's regular battleships was to have at least 200 troops per ship. His 2,000 men were divided into 20 ships, and each ship only had more than 100 people, so he could only sail the ship.
Even if the sailors from the Lu Yun family share the cables, oars, and emergency repairs, and liberate the Dao soldiers into combat positions, the fleet will still have to rely on the Dao soldiers during battles. If the number of soldiers is not enough, they will suffer in the battle of magic formations, and in the battle of magic arrows.
It suffers from shooting, but it still suffers from close combat.
The Lord confirmed from the Dragon Palace and knew that Xiangzhou Navy Admiral Sun Xinbo's two thousand battleships had gone to Xiaozhou's backup water stronghold and had a conflict with the Dragon Clan. Otherwise, Zhou Yu would not have dared to enter Xiangzhou like this.
"Sun Xinbo...tsk tsk, when will you see me?"
Zhou Yu returned to the bridge and continued to listen to the discussion of the captain. He opened the hydrographic map to see if there were any rocks or dangerous shoals in the river. He actually felt a little disdain for the naval admiral.
"But it doesn't matter, this person was ordered by the Cai Dynasty to control the navy of the ten states in the lower reaches of the Yangtze River. Just when he was fighting against the immortal ships, he was frightened by Lord Long on the way and he was so scared that he did not dare to return to Xiangzhou. This is not good.
Did you fulfill your lord’s wishes?”
"Now the navy's mission is simple. In the short term, there is no need to worry about the threat of Cai Chao's surface power. It only needs to deal with the ground soldiers and warriors and provide fire support to General Guan from the water. This cannot be easier."
"The fleet's main weapon, the thunderbolt, has a range of eight miles, and Xiangzhou is located in a dense water network. Many battlefields can be supported, and no matter how powerful the army of terracotta warriors is, they can't defeat the fleet on the river."
Listening to the discussion of his subordinates, Zhou Yu smiled and nodded. When the Taoist soldiers were swimming, they became the target of the fleet's condescending crossfire. Unless the enemy generals and casual cultivators were upgraded to real ones, they would pose a certain threat.
"While the Cai Dynasty and the foreign demons had no power on the water in Xiangzhou, it was an excellent period for the Han navy to hone and develop. The warriors and warriors killed by the fleet still had the same benefits as the battle of Jizhou.
…”
In the deep night, Zhou Yu thought about it. He didn't know why, but there was a kind of emptiness in his heart. This was not just now, but existed a long time ago.
It seems that the person around me who should have been there is no longer there.
In the dark water world, the fleet successfully passed the Yishui Bend and was fifteen miles away from the county town. The magician monitoring on the observation deck sent a message: "The position of the enemy ship has been sensed, but our main force has not been detected nearby.
Knowledge Network, it may be that the spiritual energy is disordered in the interference range, please request the fleet array to increase its power."
"Allow" Zhou Yu stood up, and when the lights on the fleet's ships lit up, he also connected to the battlefield consciousness network and expanded his exploration.
Lightning flashed on the horizon, cutting through the thick darkness and falling somewhere deep into the rain curtain.
Because the distance was very close, a "boom" of thunder was heard as soon as the light arrived. The air seemed tight, and the thunder light overwhelmed all directions. As soon as Zhou Yu's spiritual consciousness revealed a ray of spiritual consciousness, he retracted and calmed down in the spiritual pool.
It only calms down after moving.
A smile appeared on his face: "There is no need to look for it. In the direction where the enemy's immortal thunder is projected, the lord must be there."
"Avoid the enemy ship for ten miles. Its range is much farther than ours. We can't deal with it. We can only deal with the surrounding soldiers and figurines."
As soon as he finished speaking, a hostile gaze penetrated the void and locked on the fleet. Many sailors who looked strong and fierce fell to their knees on the spot.
But the Taoist soldiers had experienced the battle in Jizhou, Xiatu, and subsequently killed sporadic immortals from the outer regions. They immediately ordered: "Come forward and take your place."
"Yes" A large number of Taoist soldiers took the place of sailors.
The fleet moved forward despite the wind and rain for a minute. When the lightning flashed again in front of them, they saw the huge enemy ship. The generals were horrified and couldn't help but look back.
Zhou Yu narrowed his eyes and calculated, and said calmly: "Lower half of the sail, slow down, and continue to move forward. We can still be three miles closer...Contact the lord and ask about the location of the enemy's warriors."
"Boom", the electric light fell on the river three miles ahead, cooking half of the fish in the river, and floated up one by one with their bellies turned upward, flashing light.
Everyone was sweating, but they still bravely steered the ship against the wind. After a while, they stopped some distance in front of the enemy's fairy ship's range. A familiar female voice connected to the network: "This is the main formation of the Han army. I am Qianqian.
Please verify your identity when coming to the ship."
"Roger, this is the Navy, I'm Zhou Yu, do you need fire support?"
"Captain Zhou, you're just in time," the female voice said with a bit of joy. Zhou Yu raised his head and looked over. At this time, he could see the faint battlefield without the need for spiritual consciousness.
Black clouds are rolling in the sky, and from time to time there is the sound of heavy thunder, and sometimes there is the light of fire, and faint shouts of killing are heard intermittently like a tide. Sometimes there is a flash of lightning, and you see the army on your side, nervously and skillfully pouring down the crossbows with fire and thunder.
, drowning the surging warriors.
It can be seen that the lord's formation does not move at all, standing solemnly, and a straight murderous aura rushes into the sky.