Under the leadership of Xu Sheng, Zhen Yao and others walked into Penglai Water Village. While looking at the surrounding facilities, Zhen Yao asked: "Wen Xiang, how is the training of soldiers in the water village?"
Xu Sheng was a cautious person and immediately bowed and replied: "Replying to my lord, the sailors practice on the boat on weekdays. Sheng does not dare to boast, but he only has some combat power."
"Take Yao to see the big sailing ship first!" Zhen Yao nodded slightly. The navy has always been his weakness. Zhen Yao didn't expect to get better soon. He immediately waved his hand to Xu Sheng not to worry too much. The strength and weakness.
The guards followed from a distance, and a group of people quickly arrived at the front village of the water village, which is also where the dock is close to the sea. Under the broken rock, a huge ship docked on the shore. The ship was divided into two layers, but it had three oars.
"Lord, this is the 'Wuji'." Seeing this warship, Xu Sheng's tone was also mixed with excitement: "For the rest of the month, Sheng and several craftsmen went to sea every day by boat, and finally It can reach hundreds of miles away."
"What a big ship." It was the first time for little Zhen Ang to see a warship on the water. He couldn't help but exclaimed when he saw that the war horses could walk back and forth on the big ship. Zhao Yun on the side also nodded repeatedly. He was born in the north and had never seen him before.
When Zhen Yao walked near the building boat "Wuji", he saw Chen Cheng, who was rolling up his sleeves and talking to other craftsmen. Similarly, Chen Cheng also noticed the movement here. When he saw that Zhen Yao was coming, he quickly ran forward and bowed: "My lord."
"Thank you for your hard work, craftsman." When old friends met, Zhen Yao greeted him with a smile. After helping Chen Cheng up, he pointed to the boat in front of him and said, "Would you like to tell me what wonderful use this boat has?"
Chen Cheng responded quickly and said: "My lord, if you want to know clearly, you might as well go into the ship and take a look. Then we can go out to sea for a long trip tomorrow and you will know."
"Okay, come on board with me!" Zhen Yao shouted softly and walked towards the deck of the building. The deck was connected to the shore, so there was no need for everyone to climb up with bare hands. But when everyone got closer to the inside of the building, they realized how big the warship was.
Above the deck, there are two floors. Although it is built in the shape of a tower, the top floor is not small. The entire hull, from the forward collision angle to the rear stern, is more than 150 steps long. When Zhen Yao walked on the warship, he felt the same as on the flat ground.
"This is the upper oar seat?" Zhen Yao looked carefully and noticed that there was a fixed plate on the edge of the wooden wall of the hull, about as high as the thighs and knees, and there was a groove on the inside of the fixed plate.
"My lord has a keen eye, this is indeed an oar seat." Normally when he doesn't go to sea, the wooden oars are put away. He didn't want his lord to see it with just one word. Chen Cheng responded with a smile: "My lord also saw it just now, the whole ship' Wuji's oar seat is divided into three layers, and this is the upper oar seat. The sunken corner is the middle oar seat."
"Where is the lower oar seat?" It was not Zhen Yao who asked. Zhen Yao would not be so impatient. Little Zhen Ang felt itchy in his heart. It is difficult not to be attracted to things he has never seen before. This sentence was also said by him.
Hearing this, Chen Cheng and Xu Sheng looked at each other and smiled: "Reporting to my young lord, the lower oar seat is inside the warship and cannot be seen from here."
"Lead the way, let's go down and have a look." Zhen Yao was also very curious about this. The Han warships had never been equipped with oar seats inside the hull, and the first warship with oar seats on the lower layer of the plate armor appeared in his hands. , but it is also an exciting thing.
Compared to the deck, the ground floor seemed stuffy. Even though there were ventilation holes, Zhen Yao still felt a little uncomfortable when he just stepped off the deck. And there is no light inside, it is completely refracted by external sunlight, which looks very weak.
After carefully walking around the lower oar seat, Zhen Yao asked: "Soldiers can paddle here for a long time?"
"There are sixty blades in the bottom oar. If the oarsman is not changed midway, the speed can only be maintained for an hour at most." Chen Cheng's eyes lit up, as if he was surprised that his lord could see the shortcomings of the hull so quickly, and he immediately said: "So in addition to the 180 oarsmen of the 'Wanji', there are also 80 auxiliary oarsmen for deployment."
"Oarer." Zhen Yao touched the wood inside the hull and knocked it with the sword on his waist before continuing to ask: "How many soldiers can the entire warship carry? Eighty oarsmen can do this. influential?"
This time it was Xu Sheng's turn to explain: "My lord, even an oarsman can be deployed temporarily as a sailor. What's more, the entire 'Wanji' can carry two thousand soldiers without much hindrance."
Hearing this, Zhen Yao paused, turned around and asked: "Two thousand? I remember that it was a three-story ship in Jiangdong, and it could only carry this number of soldiers. This war ship has two floors, how can it hold so many soldiers? Able to fight freely?ˇ±
When asked about this by the lord, not only Chen Cheng, but also Xu Sheng also looked bright. The former took Zhen Yao and his companions out of the bottom cabin and started.He said: "My lord, although the Jiangdong warship is three stories high, its bottom is not very wide. The base of the 'Wanji' is wide enough, and it has nearly a hundred more oarsmen than the Jiangdong warship, although it is only two stories high." building, but it is enough to compare with JiangdongˇŻs three-story building ship.ˇ±
Listening to Chen Cheng comparing the warships built by his side with Jiangdong's ships, Zhen Yao was very satisfied in his heart. Although the 'Wanji' is not necessarily more advanced than the Jiangdong warship, at least it is not built exactly like the Jiangdong warship. It takes its strengths and integrates them into its own. This is an important factor for the Qingzhou navy to stand out from the Han Dynasty.
Having seen the bottom floor, Zhen Yao went to the inside of the floor. The hull floors were built up by wooden walls. There were many arrow holes in the wooden walls to facilitate shooting by crossbowmen. According to Zhen Yao's visual inspection, the entire middle-level inner room could indeed accommodate more than a thousand soldiers.
Walking up the stairs, although the top floor is smaller, it is still enough for eight hundred soldiers to move around freely, and it will not hinder the movement of soldiers. At the same time, Zhen Yao also noticed that the openings in the wooden wall on the top floor were much larger than those on the lower floor.
Xu Sheng's sharp eyes saw Zhen Yao looking at the hole in the wall, and he immediately said: "My lord, the soldiers in the middle level mainly use arrows to attack from a distance, while the soldiers in the top level mainly throw short spears and short spears."
"But it is used for hand-to-hand combat between warships?" Zhen Yao didn't understand water combat, but he could still imagine the general situation. Even if it is a short spear, the throwing distance is not long. With a turn of the head, it is clear that this attack method is to gain the upper hand when warships are close to each other and hand-to-hand exchanges are made.
"I don't think my lord is so proficient in water warfare." Compared with Zhen Yao, Xu Sheng, an out-and-out late Han Dynasty man, did not have enough imagination. He only thought that Zhen Yao was familiar with water warfare, so he said this, but he didn't know that Zhen Yao didn't know anything about it.
After cruising around the ˇ®WujiˇŻ for a long time, Zhen Yao was not in a hurry to evaluate it. Without the experience of going to sea, no matter how gorgeous this warship was built, it would be in vain. After getting off the deck, Zhen Yao said, "Take me to see where you usually practice."
"Lord, please." The place where soldiers train is obviously some distance from the dock, because the water waves in the area chosen by the dock are relatively stable, which is convenient for docking warships, but it is not conducive to soldier training.
"Swish, swish, swish" Walking on the sand at the beach, you can hear the wind blowing in your ears, and you can also hear the sound of the bowstring loosening. Looking up, Zhen Yao, who had left the dock, could see soldiers practicing archery on rows of small boats floating up and down on the beach.
It is very difficult to practice archery at sea, even close to the beach. On the one hand, one has to stand firm on one's feet and maintain body balance, and on the other hand, one has to draw the bow and draw the arrow, aiming at the arrow stack in the distance in a dynamic manner.
A row of flying arrows whizzes past, and often only a few of them can be accurately inserted into the arrow stack, while the other arrows all penetrate into the sea water, causing a splash of water, and then disappear before everyone's eyes.
The soldiers under his command only had this ability, which made Xu Sheng blush: "The general is ashamed. Although he has been training for nearly a year, he has not achieved much results."
"It's more difficult to shoot an arrow on a warship than on a horseback. Wen Xiang doesn't have to underestimate himself." The only thing Zhen Yao could do was his archery skills. Naturally, he knew how difficult it was for the sailors in front of him to shoot arrows. He immediately waved his hands and said with a smile: "There are thousands of people on the river. How can the enemy evade when thousands of flying arrows are fired? Although accuracy is important, strength and distance should be paid more attention to."
"Sheng, I've learned a lesson." Xu Sheng clasped his hands and replied respectfully.
Of course, in such a large Penglai water village, the soldiers cannot only train bows and arrows. Apart from the crossbowmen, there is another training place that attracts Zhen Yao's attention, which is a drill for hand-to-hand combat on a warship.
The stability of the small boat is extremely poor, and the hull is constantly bumping, but the sailors in front of them can still twitch their weapons steadily and attack each other. Although these are routine sparring exercises, it must be said that Xu Sheng is indeed very good at commanding the sailors.
??Zhen Yao has no shortage of water-savvy soldiers in Palm Qing and Xu. In the past, no one could provide a reasonable and systematic training model. As a result, Zhen Yao's water soldiers were all foot soldiers who knew how to use water. The water warfare techniques and combat power are both very low. Now under the leadership of Xu Sheng, although they are not as good as those masters of water play in Jiangdong, the gap between them is slowly closing.
"Father, Ang'er also wants to go up." Zhen Ang has never seen war at sea, and even the number of times he has taken a boat is only a handful. Now that I have the opportunity to see it all, I naturally donˇŻt want to miss it.
"Go." Zhen Yao raised his eyebrows slightly but did not say anything to stop him. Xu Sheng wanted to say something on the side, but was blocked by Zhen Yao's eyes. He could only take a half step back, thinking in his heart that the young master would be fine.
People who have never experienced the turbulence of the sea cannot be said to be not afraid of water, even if they have extremely strong physical fitness and extremely high martial arts skills. Zhao Yun, who followed Zhen Ang to the beach and stepped onto the boat along the shore deck, noticed something different as soon as he landed.
With increased strength in his legs, Zhao Yun could barely stabilize his figure, but Zhen Ang jumped into the boat one step ahead of him, but he just rolled on the boat and couldn't get up for a while.
"Young master, don't use brute force. Control the weight of your legs and stand up slowly." Zhao Yun is a good teacher, because he will never directly help Zhen Ang complete certain actions. He will only give advice and give advice. Take good care of.
After being reminded by Zhao Yun, Zhen Ang lay motionless on the boat, rising and falling along the waves for a moment, then slowly put his feet together and turned over to squat.
But Zhen AngˇŻs success ended here. Just when he was about to stand up, the boat suddenly rose and fell again. With a ˇ®bangˇŻ sound, he was in close contact with the surface of the boat again.
"Haha~~" This scene was seen by many soldiers training around, and it immediately caused a burst of laughter.
"What these water soldiers like most is to watch other people's jokes, but they have been in the water village for a long time. If they are not careless occasionally, it is rare for someone to make a fool of themselves like this. Today Zhen Ang took the initiative to 'show off his ugliness', which was a feast for their eyes.
"This kid should be allowed to hit the wall!" Zhen Yao quietly watched his son's poor performance on the bank, but he was not too dissatisfied. The corners of his mouth were slightly raised, as if he was very satisfied with it.