Font
Large
Medium
Small
Night
Prev Index    Favorite Next

Chapter seven hundred and seventeen the man should ride the wind and waves

After sweeping away the Jianghuai army on the shore, the Zhao army fleet immediately entered the vicinity of Qushan Port.

The Zhao army's seaship was about to land, but it encountered difficulties. The first reason was the ebb and the second reason was the inappropriate warship.

More than half of the warships in the Zhao army's fleet are imitating Silla warships, and have just recently built large seaships with sharp bottoms and wide heads. These seaships with sharp bottoms and wide heads are all new ships built by the Zhao army in the past two years, and have changed the past flat bottom square head sand ships.

Such a new sea warship is more than the square head and pins accepted by the original Zhao army from the old ships of the Sui army. The flat-bottomed sand ships are faster at sea and more suitable for ocean navigation. You should know that flat-bottomed seaships not only have slow sailing at sea, but also have poor wind and wave resistance. In order to go to sea, they must sacrifice their loading capacity and install water plates and flat baskets to maintain the stability of the hull.

Therefore, in terms of ocean voyage capabilities, the spire-bottom ships are far higher than that of more than one level in terms of speed and load.

As for why the Han people have always used sand boats in the Sui and Tang Dynasties, instead of using sharp-bottom sea boats, it is not because we cannot build them, but the market determines the demand. Because sand boats have an advantage, they can be parked everywhere, even if they are beaches. Sand boats can be sailed on the sea and sailed on rivers, and one boat can be used for both use. At that time, for the Han people, canals, inland river shipping and near-sea shipping were the top priority.

For the Sui and Tang dynasties, sand ships were enough for the Sui and Tang dynasties, but by the Song and Yuan dynasties, ocean trade surged, and only then did the wide ships with wide bottoms with sharp bottoms began to be promoted.

However, in this time and space, China's shipbuilding history changed because of Li Chongjiu's decision. The emperor said that I wanted to intimidate Goguryeo, Silla, Baekje and Japan. The small foreign countries were disobedient, so I would send a fleet to teach him a lesson. So the Dazhao ship was a craftsman. In order to meet the emperor's needs, I imitated the Silla ship. Last year, thirty new warships were built, another thirty this year, and fifty next year.

This time, Li Chongjiu received a secret report, saying that Du Fuwei wanted to break the agreement with him and launch a large number of troops to attack the Zhao State Shandong.

Li Chongjiu was furious at the moment. He had already ordered Cheng Mingzhen to lead the Inner River Naval Division to reinforce Luoyang along Yongji Canal. At the same time, he also released smoke bombs, saying that he had led the main army south, but in fact he led the army to station in Youjing and remained unmoved.

Li Chongjiu's original plan was to deal with the Turks. According to the Turks' habits, once he heard that Li Chongjiu's army had left Youjing, he would definitely come to harass and attack the people behind him. This time, Li Chongjiu would keep his main force in Youjing, and combine the northern army to give the Turks a "surprise" at any time.

However, this time the Turks did not come. Li Chongjiu never expected that there would be news that Shu Luo was seriously ill from the grassland.

Now the Turks are in chaos, because every time the Turkic Khan's position changes, they contain blood and killing. This is also the law of the jungle on the grassland. The strong are respected, while the weak can only be eliminated. This time, the special soldiers who have the hope of inheriting the Turkic Khan will not want to become losers, so they are also secretly accumulating their strength. Do they prepare their own people? They will fight for the Khan's position in the future.

So Li Chongjiu did not wait for the Turkic army that came to the door with a knife. Instead, Chuluo's younger brother, two sons, Princess Yicheng, sent envoys to Youjing, and even the little Khan Tuli came to Youjing in person, and became brothers with Li Chongjiu with great enthusiasm.

After going over and over again, it is just that sentence. After I become a Khan in the future, how will it be... If Zhao State can express his attitude to support me, how will it be...

Well, Li Chongjiu also felt that the people of the grassland people are not as straightforward as the legendary ones. For the sake of interests, the change is too fast.

For these Turkic people who came to visit, Li Chongjiu certainly wanted to use his own way to do it. Back then, the Turkic people took advantage of the war at the end of the Sui Dynasty, and didn’t they adopt the strategy of getting rid of the strong and getting along with the weak against the Han people? Well, I am the same.

As long as I am the successor whom I, Da Zhao, do not agree with, and we will all support other Turkic forces who come to Zhao State to seek support. Anyway, I, Li Chongjiu, have this attitude, you can do it slowly within yourself.

As a result, the Turkic enemy left, the Zhao army was in peace in the northern border, and Li Chongjiu felt at ease. At this time, the news that the main force of the Tang army crossed Pujin and attacked Hanoi came. To be honest, although Li Yuan's strange plan was quite unexpected, he was not too surprised by Li Chongjiu who knew about the news of the Tang army's dispatch of troops in advance.

At that time, Zhang Xuansu, Ji Chuan and Yu Shinan, the three ministers of the Secretariat, had countless military chess performances with Li Chongjiu, which included the occurrence of this situation.

According to the original deduction, if Li Jiancheng led the main army to attack Hanoi, Li Chongjiu pretended to be the one who reinforced Luoyang from the Yongji Canal through the waterway. In fact, he led the main army and secretly took Taiyuan. After meeting with Yuchi Gong's Xiaogu Army, he attacked the important area of ​​the Tang army in Hedong, cut off the retreat of Li Jiancheng's army, and threatened Guanzhong.

You are not beating me, Luoyang, I will fight you, Chang'an, one city will change to another, if you don't agree, I will make a plan to surround Wei and save Zhao, and force the Tang army to return to the army to fight with me.

However, the plan still did not catch up with the changes. At this time, Ying Hefu led the cavalry to rob the Tang army's food and grass. Li Jiancheng's main army was in a dilemma. On the other hand, Fu Wei wanted to break the agreement with him and launch a large number of troops to attack Shandong, Zhao.

Li Chongjiu knew that Li Jiancheng, who had no military rations, did not dare to rashly fight with him at this time, and he would inevitably retreat to defend. Instead of fighting with Li Tang at this time, it would be better to fight Du Fuwei first, this evil dog that wanted to bite him at any time!

First defeat Du Fuwei, get the money and food of Jianghuai, and then advance westward to compete with Li Tang for power! This is a greater chance of winning, and as long as the Zhao army keeps Luoyang, even if it loses a few cities, there will be no problem.

But this is a two-front battle, and two fists hit people, which also has certain risks, depending on whether Luoyang will fall earlier or Du Fuwei will be destroyed first.

However, Li Chongjiu had already decided to change his plan. The civil strife of the Turks gave Da Zhao a good opportunity. In this way, the heavy troops stationed in Huaihuang and Yuyi Town were liberated. Li Chongjiu had already ordered Wang Jungu and Ertu to lead another 30,000 Iron Cavalry of the Grassland from Huaihuang Town to Bingzhou to meet with Yinghefu.

Try to drag Li Jiancheng's main force of the Tang army north of the Yellow River, and do not allow him to cross the Yellow River from Heyang and attack Luoyang.

Guo Xiaoke led 20,000 troops from Songmo Protectorate to cross the Huangshui north from Bailang Mountain, and hunted only three or four hundred miles away from the Turkic Khan Court. In this way, as a strategic partner of the Turkic people, Zhao State expressed a deep concern for the internal affairs of the Turkic State in this way.

Finally, Li Chongjiu personally led the elite Zhao army to take a boat from Youjing to Sancha River, and then transferred to sea boats at Sancha River, passing through Dengzhou to replenish grain and tamsui, and then headed south to Qushan Port.

This new type of warship is indeed much faster at sea than a sand ship. At this time, it was moving along the ocean currents. The warships were not stopped all the way, and they arrived much faster than expected. They arrived outside Qushan Port.

Although this new ship is good, the problem is that the new warship is not as good as the sand ship and it is difficult to dock. At this time, Qushan Port was far from reaching the domineering throughput loading ability of Lianyungang in later generations. At this time, the Yellow River had not yet captured the Huai River and the silt and sand had not yet accumulated, so most areas of Lianyungang are still sunk in the sea today.

Therefore, Zhao's new sea warships drove outside Qushan Port. Because they did not know the water conditions, they did not dare to dock, and it would be bad if they ran aground.

So Zhao army generals Wang Mahan, Xue Wanche and Wugunai led their troops to transfer from the large ships in turn on small boats and landed on Qushan Port.

Even Li Chongjiu went ashore immediately. He refused Ji Chuan's suggestion and landed on a sand ship in the fleet. Instead, he and Ji Chuan, Yu Shinan, Zhang Xuansu and other advisers took a firewood ship affiliated to the flagship and drove towards the port.

This is equivalent to the diesel boat of a modern lifeboat, which is only about a quarter of the size of a flagship. In order to quickly drive to the port, Li Chongjiu's close servants all took action and picked up the oars to row.

Li Chongjiu stood alone at the bow of the boat, looking into the distance, the breeze blew, the sea water splashed, and the corners of his mouth were full of saltiness.

The waves on the sea were rolling, and Li Chongjiu also had his heart tides as the waves, and he couldn't help but hit the edge of the boat with the hilt of his sword. At this time, clouds rolled over the sky, looking at a good scene of wind and clouds. On the sea covered by the sky, the waves rolled and waves chased each other. Li Chongjiu rode on the boat, his body fell with the waves, one high and one low floating on the waves.

"The wind is rising! The waves are chasing! I believe that Zu Ti was like this, and he was striking the oars in the middle of the river!" Li Chongjiu said while fencing the ship.

Zhang Xuansu said on the side: "Zhu Ti worked hard to conquer the Central Plains but failed, and finally failed. How could his achievements be compared with His Majesty today?"

Li Chongjiu turned around and said with a smile: "Are you worried that this time I went to the battle, and my words came true? I have never worried that this is the case. A real man should walk on the sea like a boat and break through the waves. How can he be distracted by other things? I respect Zushi because he admired his ambition for rushing oars in the past, rather than winning or defeating others."

Zhang Xuansu heard this and said, "Your Majesty is so heroic that I am talking too much."

After Li Chongjiu finished speaking, the living room servant on the boat immediately wrote down on the boat.

In March of the second year of the reform, Du Fuwei attacked Shandong and his soldiers were sent to Langya. The emperor led a hundred large ships and more than 30,000 soldiers to fight over the sea. On the ship, the emperor told the story of the ancestors' attacks on the oars in the middle of the dynasty.

Zhang Xuansu, the Minister of the Secretariat, advised the emperor that during the war, why did he say something unlucky?
Chapter completed!
Prev Index    Favorite Next