After two major battles and countless small battles, Li Yanqing already has rich combat experience. He knows the truth that "if you want to do things well, you must first sharpen your tools." If you want to eliminate this bandit, you must not only pay attention to the other party in tactical terms, but also make full preparations for combat preparations, including soldiers' training, material preparation, military morale, and people's morale.

Li Yanqing has been particularly busy these days. Zhou Ping came back and helped him do a lot of things. He threw many civil dispute cases to Zhou Ping to handle. Zhou Ping was more experienced in handling various disputes. Yang Ju's scholarly anger was a little bit more serious. Li Yanqing continued to ask him to handle internal affairs of the county government, including various reports to the state, as well as urging taxes, managing county schools, and establishing charity. Li Yanqing himself focused most of his energy on suppressing bandits and preparing for war.

That afternoon, fifty medium-sized warships arrived in Jiayu County. Warships of all sizes were parked all over the Jiayu County wharf, blocking the wharf tightly. There were all kinds of warships, such as vehicles, multiple paddle boats, double paddle boats, pine fish boats, etc., with mottled colors, old and new. However, all the ships were not new ships, but the Song Dynasty navy, which was participating in the encirclement and suppression of Fang La's remnants, picked up some old ships to local village soldiers.

Of course, for the Song Dynasty Navy, the small river thieves like the Black-hearted Dragon King were disdainful of attacks. That was the matter of the local government. The court allowed local governments to form rural soldiers in order to eliminate a small group of mountain bandits and water thieves. Only those like Fang La, who often fought hundreds of thousands of people and captured most of the rebellious forces in Jiangnan, were the enemies that the imperial guards and the Song Dynasty Navy dealt with.

Therefore, the warships given to Ezhou by the Navy of the Song Dynasty were all small warships, with only one thousand stone warship of 50% new, and an old ship built twenty years ago. The other warships were small and medium warships between 300 and 500 stones, which also seemed very old, at least ten years old.

Although the warship was not strong, Li Yanqing still boarded the old Thousand Stone ship with great enthusiasm. It was a three-story boat. Although it was twenty years old, it was still much stronger than ordinary civilian ships. It was not afraid of collisions. The deck was wide and flat, with fine seams. There were small windows on both sides of the three-story building, which was conducive to shooting with crossbow arrows.

At this time, a boatman walked out of the cabin below, and Li Yanqing asked, "How about this ship?"

The boatman smiled and said, "There is no trace of fighting in this ship. It is probably because it has been soaked in the water for twenty years and has been overhauled twice. The most recent overhaul should have been one or two years ago. The overall quality of the ship is very good, just apply a layer of paint."

At this time, the boatman added: "Maybe the county lord hasn't seen it yet, this is a car and a ship!"

Li Yanqing was shocked and happy. He also said why there was only one single daoxing flagpole, which turned out to be a car and a boat. "Where can you tell it?"

"The county lord will tell you when you go to both sides. There are rotating paddles on both sides."

Li Yanqing walked quickly to the side of the boat. He was blocked by the ship beside him. He was not seen on the shore. He looked down from the side of the boat and saw that there was a row of windmill-like rotors below, with a diameter of about 1.5 meters, and there were twelve rotors in total. There should be corresponding twelve rotors on the other side. The two rotors on the left and right are in a group, called a car. This is the twelve car and ship. Twenty-four people need to step on the bottom, and the boat will walk very fast on the river surface.

Vehicles and ships were new types of power warships that appeared in large numbers since the Northern Song Dynasty, ranging from small boats to super large ships. Among the fifty ships sent this time, at least fifteen were Vehicles and ships, mainly four medium-sized warships.

Li Yanqing suddenly remembered an important question and turned around to ask Liu Fang, "How did these ships just come?"

"It was the boat that Magistrate Wang sent more than 200 boatmen to Jiangning to pick up!"

"Where are these boatmen?"

"They arranged for them to have dinner in the county. If the county lord wants them to stay, the prince can talk to them."

Boatman is a must, and Jiayu County can also recruit some, but the number of people is not enough, so he really needs to keep some of the boatman down.

Li Yanqing nodded, "If they are willing to stay, I can promise to spend 15 jin of money every month, and I will use it for three months first."

"Nei Yi will talk to them now!"

Li Yanqing hurriedly told him again, "Let them go back and let them drive the boat to the naval camp, and stop at the dock is unconventional."

"I understand the humble position!" Liu Fang hurried to the city with two yamen runners.

Li Yanqing visited the ship for an hour before turning around to the naval army camp. Today he squeezed out half a day to understand the combat readiness situation. In addition to the ship, of course, he also had to understand the training situation of the naval army.

The Navy Camp is a temporary simple navy camp, located about two miles east of the pier. It is built using a semicircular small water bay. The water bay is very common along the Yangtze River. It is usually formed by a riverside lake and the Yangtze River. Like Dongting Lake and Poyang Lake are two giant water bays.

There are three water bays in Jiayu County. The location of the water army camp is the smallest. It turned out to be Shayang Lake. Due to the continuous cofferdam construction of fields, Shayang Lake has become smaller and smaller. Now the water surface area is only more than 700 acres, which is integrated with the Yangtze River. For ordinary naval camps, it is still too small. Hundreds of ships are crowded, but for local naval troops with only fifty warships, it is almost enough.

The Hukou that enters the Yangtze River is about one mile long. In recent days, hundreds of civilians have built two rows of thousands of wooden stakes at the entrance of the lake, and left a gate for ships to enter and exit the water bay. A wooden high-footed whistle tower was built on both sides of the gate to monitor the river surface.

The wooden stakes were very densely driven, and even a small sampan was difficult to get in through the gap, but the water ghost could sneak in. Li Yanqing specially ordered two fishing nets to be wrapped around the wooden stakes. If you were not careful, the water ghost would be entangled by the fishing net and die.

Not only that, there are also sentry boats patrolling back and forth day and night in the water bay. Even if the enemy water ghosts sneak into the water camp by chance, they will be discovered by the sentry boats in time.

The navy military camp was set up on the shore, and 120 large tents were built, surrounded by camps and bars. Although the military camp was very small, it was exactly the same as the normal military camp deployment, without cutting corners at all. The so-called "sparrows are small and have all the internal organs."

Of course, the ships have just arrived in Jiayu County, and the navy has not been fully launched. Only the five hundred navy troops recruited have settled in. Once the ships enter the water camp, the training on the river surface will also begin.

Li Yanqing entered the barracks from the shore camp gate. The barracks were very large and there were two open spaces to be trained in the east and west. At this time, Zhang Hu was bringing five hundred newly recruited naval soldiers in a formation to practice gunfire. Li Yanqing, the two hundred township soldiers in the city, asked Zhang Bao to command the commander. Yang Guang was too lazy and was not suitable to be the commander soldier.

In fact, Zhang Hu is not suitable for being a navy leader. He hardly knows how to water. However, Zhang Hu is not good at training soldiers, and is very well organized. He can train an army that can fight in a very short time.

The most suitable general to be the leader of the navy was Zhang Shun, but the time is not yet ripe, so he could only find a replacement for the time being. Unfortunately, there was no suitable candidate for the time being. See if he could choose two prestigious and capable soldiers from the 500 navy troops to serve as the governors of the left and right.

"kill!"

Five hundred soldiers made neat shouts and shouted at the same time, and a piece of dust stomped under their feet, which was very spectacular.

Seeing that Zhang Hu and the soldiers were in full training, Li Yanqing did not disturb him, but came to a large tent at the edge of the military camp.

This is a large tent, twice as big as other tents. When you walk into the tent, you will see that it is filled with various utensils, wooden barrels, clay pots and large wooden basins, filled with raw materials for making gunpowder, saltpeter, sulfur and wood powder. This is a temporary gunpowder workshop. The thunder that Li Yanqing needs to use to suppress bandits was produced here.
Chapter completed!