The Maojin knife from the late Jin Dynasty

Chapter 112 Under Construction

"The winner of Youzhou?" Su Jun was stunned when he heard Liu Tai's words and didn't react for a moment.

Liu Tai stretched out his hand and pulled Su Jun over to sit down, and said, "Zigao, in your opinion, who is the enemy of Jizhou?"

"Jizhou has suffered from droughts, locust plagues, and wars in recent years. It seems that the land is thousands of miles away and there is no human habitation. The problem here is not Jizhou itself, but Wang Jun of Youzhou. I also ask the governor to allow me to go out with the army to annihilate Wang Jun. Army to repay the general’s favor!”

"Don't be anxious, don't be anxious!" Liu Tai looked at Su Jun's anxiety and said, "I know you are anxious, but don't be anxious now."

"Wang Jun is in command of Youzhou with a hundred thousand elite soldiers, and he has Xianbei cavalry and red-blooded Qi Hong as his two wings.

If you want to defeat him, you need to attract Wang Jun's troops on the frontal battlefield, and you also need to use surprise troops to attack Wang Jun unprepared. "

"What the governor means is to let me become this rare soldier!" Su Jun couldn't help but feel a little happy when he heard Liu Tai's words.

But Su Jun frowned slightly and said, "Our army has no cavalry, and the army cannot march hundreds of miles a day. How can we use our unique skills!"

"If we can't get there by land, then we'll go by sea!" Liu Tai looked at Su Jun and said, "This is the strategy we decided upon when we established our foothold in Qingzhou."

"Did you decide on such a strategy a year ago?!" Su Jun was shocked when he heard Liu Tai's words.

"Yes!" Liu Tai nodded after hearing Su Jun's words, "After I establish my foothold in Qingzhou, I have only two strategies: going south and going north.

If there is no horse farm, no matter how much land I conquer in the south, I will only make wedding clothes for others.

Therefore, the only way to go north is to obtain the horse farm and build up the cavalry. Then Wang Jun is the enemy I have to face.

Just like this, when I set foot in Qingzhou, I knew that Wang Jun was my enemy, and I began to prepare for a decisive battle with Wang Jun! "

"The governor has great foresight, but he doesn't know what he can do?!" Su Jun was suddenly enlightened when he heard Liu Tai's words.

"It's not about what someone wants you to do, but about what you want to do!" Liu Tai looked at Su Jun and said,
"If you want to serve the army, then take advantage of the opportunity to train your soldiers before fighting Wang Jun, and prepare your troops and horses, waiting for the decisive battle.

After all, Wang Jun and I will be testing carefully in Jizhou in a short period of time. The final battle is still far away. When the decisive battle comes in the future, I will take you with me.

If you want to be in the navy, I will transfer you to the navy. You need to be prepared for a surprise attack on Youzhou. "

Su Jun suddenly began to think after hearing Liu Tai's words. He knew that Liu Tai's infantry was the most elite he had ever seen.

Just like this, he really didn't have the confidence to lead the mob to defeat Liu Tai, so he could only surrender.

Although the military was reorganized, some of Liu Tai's original soldiers were dismantled and dispersed to join his army.

But Su Jun knew that the best soldiers would never get his turn. In addition, he had no impressive record. Being able to become the commander-in-chief of a side was entirely because Liu Tai valued him. In addition, he brought the entire army with him. Only after Ye County surrendered did he take charge of the first army.

Therefore, Su Jun understood that if he develops into the army, it does not mean that he has no development potential, but that it is too complicated.

In contrast, it would be different if I develop into the navy.

First of all, if the Su family can be his helper, he can really bring money into the group. As long as the navy is immortal in the future, he will definitely have a guarantee from his Su family.

So Su Jun thought of this, clasped his fists at Liu Tai and said, "I am willing to serve the navy and become the dagger that pierces Wang Jun's throat!"

"So good, so good!" Liu Tai said happily when he heard Su Jun made the decision to pat Su Jun.

However, Su Jun asked Liu Tai, "Prefect, I have something to ask. I wonder who is in charge of this plan now?"

"You can find out by yourself when you go to Buqi County!" Liu Tai patted Su Jun on the shoulder and said with a smile.

But when Liu Tai said this, he said seriously to Su Jun, "You are familiar with the water temperature and climate in the Bohai Sea, and you know better how the navy should act.

Therefore, I don't care how the ship reaches Youzhou. You just need to remember that if this plan encounters any difficulties and requires money, food and materials, I will definitely help you, but the specific plan, especially the technical plan, is yours.

Problems encountered along the way need to be overcome, and solutions that cannot be solved need to be solved. In short, I leave it all to you! "

"Follow your orders!" Su Jun could feel the heavy responsibility Liu Tai had entrusted to him after hearing Liu Tai's words.

For Shu Sujun, who was just trying to express himself, it was even more undesirable to have such a huge responsibility, entrusting it to him.

Liu Tai watched Su Jun leave and breathed a sigh of relief.

Su Jun is willing to take on this heavy responsibility, which is really great no matter what.

After all, rather than ordering Su Jun to do something, it is better to let Su Jun do it on his own initiative.

Liu Tai will not care how difficult this plan is. Liu Tai needs Tian Tian and Su Jun to complete all the preparations for the entire plan in two or three years.

Don't talk about the sea water freezing, the ship encountering rocks, or the direction being unclear...

These are not things that Liu Tai needs to consider. What Liu Tai needs to consider is that if you encounter difficulties, let me find a way to solve the difficulties. If you need resources, use them yourself. If you need technology, give me the technology.

I don’t have that much time to listen to you saying that this plan doesn’t work and that plan doesn’t work.

As a military strategist, you have to create the impossible into the possible. Otherwise, how can you defeat your opponent? Do you really think that others will fall into the trap?
Don't think about it. Only in places that others don't think of can you fall into the trap.

When Liu Tai was discussing with Tian Tian, ​​he told Tian Tian that the worst situation might arise, which would require you to drive a boat to an unfamiliar waterway full of ice to raid Youzhou in the middle of winter.

You said yourself what problems need to be solved and overcome when encountering this situation, just think of ways to solve the problem.

Anyway, the time is here. Before the decisive battle with Wang Jun, you just need to resolve this matter!
Liu Tai believes that Tian Tian will solve these problems one by one. After all, a person has responsibility and faith in his heart. If he encounters any problem and is pressed for help, he will definitely try any method except mathematics.

In particular, Liu Tai said that he would give him all the details and open up resources for him to try out one plan after another, but he would not be able to research anything!

This is not the gap between handicraft workshops and the industrial revolution, this is still just a generational gap in the feudal era.

Even if we can't get there through invention, we might still be able to find old technology in some nook and cranny through archeology.

Needless to say, the keel sounds mysterious and looks high-end and classy, ​​but in fact it is just a longitudinal member located at the bottom of the ship and connecting the bow pillar and the stern pillar in the center of the base of the hull.

But whoever has lived in the south has never seen a dragon boat? Just look at the dragon boats casually placed on the river bank, and then compare them with the ships of this era. Although you don’t know how to make the keel, you can tell the general direction. can do it.Another example is the sealed cabin, which essentially uses bulkheads to divide the cabin into separate compartments. Even if there is any damage, at least the entire ship will not sink.

Instead, by blocking the cabin and discarding materials, the weight of the ship is reduced, giving the ship the opportunity and possibility to rescue it.

After the emergence of sealed cabin technology, it can also become a damage control force specialized in rescuing and repairing ships.

Otherwise, if there is a water leak in one place, all the boats will be flooded. You will not even know where the water comes from, how to rescue them, and you will have no time to rescue them.

But now that there is a sealed cabin, wherever the ship is damaged and isolated, the damage control team can immediately go there for repairs.

Even if emergency repairs are not possible, at least all the cabins will not be destroyed. We can wait until the war is over and slowly repair it after docking.

Another example is that in winter, the wind direction is wrong and the ocean currents are wrong, causing the problem of sailing against the wind and current.

In fact, it is easy to solve. Liu Tai directly told Tian Tian that relying on the difference between the angle of the bow and the angle of the sail can guide the direction of the wind, so that the sail and the wind direction are at a certain angle, so that the boat can sail into the crosswind or crosswind; If you encounter a headwind, you can turn the bow of the boat so that the headwind becomes the front crosswind and you can still sail the boat.

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To be honest, the navigation technology of ancient China was more just a gap in thinking. The gap in structure really did not reach the point of competing for materials and power. In this case, from the Han Dynasty to the Ming Dynasty, the overall technological gap was not considered technology at all. The gap can only be regarded as the gap between thinking and scale.

It's not like building a battleship, which really requires tens of thousands of tons of steel, steam power, and the support of the entire country.

But now Liu Tai only hopes that they will apply the technologies he proposed on these ships.

It’s not like I want them to produce it right away, but I just want them to get it ready before the decisive battle with Wang Jun!

is it hard?

"It's too difficult!" Tian Tian couldn't help but press his brow. He had never thought that training a navy was so difficult.

Even though he seized various shipyards and accessories dealers from Gou Xi and recruited various craftsmen, it took Tian Tian a long time to integrate the entire shipyard's technology and allow them to actually build an experimental ship. Quite a lot of effort.

The first ship built only got a little farther before it was completely flooded.

Fortunately, he escaped quickly enough and was close to the river bank, so he was not drowned in the end, but the boat could only watch it sink.

There is nothing Tian Tian can do to solve the problem of the ship. In order to make the craftsmen work more overtime, what is nine-nine-six, the only thing is zero-zero-seven. If you don't solve these problems, don't you feel guilty when you go back to sleep every day?

Tian Zhen could only focus on training the navy. He didn't have to talk about anything else. After all, he had to know how to swim.

After arriving on the ship, the sound command system like suona was too inconvenient, and I had to scratch my head and come up with a special set of semaphores.

And how many people are needed for each ship, how many people are needed to fight, and how many people are needed to drive the ship.

Of course, there is also the damage control force that Liu Tai mentioned, which needs to be tightened even more.

For Tian Zhen, he is not familiar with the waters of Youzhou, so when he really needs to attack Youzhou by force in the future, he plans to embed the front of the ship with thick iron sheets and ram it without thinking about anything.

Even if your own ship runs aground, you can rely on the damage control team to forcefully repair it and push it all the way through.

This plan was a plan that Tian Tian came up with after he found that his own ship technology updates were too slow.

Even the plan of connecting boats with iron cables has been proposed, just to increase the stability of ships sailing on the ocean.

Then Liu Tai approved it and expressed it as one of the alternative plans.

In short, if there is really no other plan, no matter how unreliable this plan is, we must give it a try when the time comes.

Of course, Tian Tian also knew that this plan was purely to test the lives of the soldiers. If he really wanted the navy to play a surprise role, he still needed craftsmen who were good at ship modification to hone in and sort out the techniques Liu Tai mentioned!

After all, Liu Tai proposed the direction, but the demonstration generation, the research and development generation, the running-in generation, and the maturity generation, let alone trying to come up with a truly mature and reasonable solution, just develop all the technologies that Liu Tai mentioned are still not enough. There are all kinds of problems!
Just when Tian Tian was going crazy, Su Jun came over with Liu Tai's transfer order.

Tian Zhen looked at Su Jun with a little surprise, "Su Jun from the Su family in Ye County? I am Tian Zhen, just call me General Tian!"

"Tian Zhen? General, who are you? You are!" Su Jun looked at Tian Zhen and suddenly remembered the commander of the beggar army who led the beggar army to cause cholera in Qingzhou last year.

Didn't it mean that this guy had been executed by Liu Tai? !

Tian Tian looked at the surprise on Su Jun's face, smiled helplessly and said, "Only if you are dead will you not attract attention!"

Su Jun nodded repeatedly when he heard Tian Tian's words. Facing Tian Tian, ​​Su Jun bowed his head decisively.

It's just that as a Qingzhou native, my feelings towards Tian Tian are quite complicated, especially now that I am working under him.

But Tian Tian didn't care about this. He read the letter from Liu Tai and introduced Su Jun. He knew that Su Jun's Su family was the best in shipping manufacturing in Qingzhou, and his eyes lit up.

Obviously Liu Tai also knew that it was unrealistic for him to build a corresponding entire fleet of warships from beginning to end, so he sent Su Jun over to him. After all, General Liu Tai was still so reliable.

Therefore, Tian Zhen was not polite at all and said to Su Jun, "Come and take a look at these things!"

Su Jun looked at the series of technologies that Tian Chen had given him, such as the keel structure, the sealed cabin structure, the structure of a ship sailing against the wind... It was completely different from Tian Chen, a guy who had entered the industry halfway. Su Jun, who was born in the Su family, immediately looked at it. Show the revolutionary changes these technologies have brought to shipping.

If Liu Tai's original plan to cross the Bohai Sea to attack Youzhou was, in Su Jun's opinion, it was more of a gamble similar to Huo Qubing's attack on the Huns' royal court, but armed with these navigation skills, it would be considered a real surprise force. .

At least in Su Jun's opinion, as long as he mastered all these techniques, the success rate of a surprise attack would be as high as nine levels or more.

The rest is up to God. If a typhoon comes at that time, there is really nothing anyone can do.

"General, did you come up with these facilities?" Su Jun looked at Tian Tian with admiration and asked.

"It's the governor's plan. I just implemented it. Now it still needs a lot of improvements!" Tian Tian sighed.

"General, please rest assured. I have brought many specialized ship craftsmen with me this time. In addition, the wood that still exists in my family can also be used to verify these technologies. Now that we have a direction, we must build this ship!" Su Jun said seriously.

"It's great to have you here!" Tian Tian showed a satisfied smile. At least this plan no longer seemed so vague.

(End of this chapter)