Tian Fan stayed in Guangling for two days. He had several things to deal with.

First of all, they had a long secret conversation with Chen Dao, Tian Yu, and Zhao Yu in Guangling City, and the content was naturally related to the alliance. Although the three of them were not very happy, once the alliance was reached, the three of them must obey Liu Bei's orders.

Secondly, he rushed to Jiangshui Temple in the afternoon of that day to propose marriage to Wang Zi. Mr. Zhu Zhen had already received Zhu Yuan’s letter, and he also knew Wang Zi’s character. Although he was a little unhappy about the marriage between Zhu and Wang Zi,

But he still agreed.

The next day, Tian Fan and his party rushed to Dongling Pavilion.

Yin Mo, the head of the Yin family, Yin Chao, Tian Fan's friend and now the person in charge of the shipbuilding industry, and Xu Sheng, the navy commander, and others greeted him.

Accompanied by Yin Mo, Yin Chao, Xu Sheng and other generals, Tian Fan first visited the Yin family's shipyard.

In the shipyard, everyone focused on watching the medium-sized building ship currently being manufactured. The building ship is five feet high, twenty feet long, and six feet wide. It can carry one thousand, two hundred soldiers, and is very powerful.

Tian Fan looked at the shipwrights working in full swing, and then at the building ship that was gradually taking shape, and couldn't help but nodded with satisfaction.

He asked: "Uncle Yin, Mo Lin, how many medium-sized ships of this kind have been built now?"

Yin Mo stroked his beard and said with a smile: "Boguang, our navy is now mainly equipped with small-scale ships. Thirty small-scale ships have been delivered for use. In addition, there are twenty spare small-scale ships that have also been delivered to the navy."

The military. These medium-sized building ships have just begun construction. This one is still a test ship. Many problems were discovered during the construction. Therefore, we stopped the rest of the shipyard first and wanted to wait for it to be built and conduct testing before starting mass construction.

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Tian Fan nodded and said: "This is good! Well, uncle, you continue to build small building ships in those docks where the docks are stopped. When our army is equipped with hundreds of small building ships, you can start building medium and large ships.

Large-scale building ships. In addition, for the construction of large-scale building ships, you must communicate with the naval docks and try to build large-scale building ships for the navy. Because... haha, our navy will not need large-scale building ships in the future!"

Everyone was stunned, and Xu Sheng said anxiously: "Sir, how can the Navy do without large ships? Our army's combat power is not as good as the Jiangdong Navy. If the ships are not as good as theirs, how will we fight in the future?"

Tian Fan glanced at everyone and said with a smile: "Don't worry, I will explain it to you when a suitable opportunity comes!"

Xu Sheng, Yin Mo, and Yin Chao looked at each other and said nothing more.

After looking at the shipyard with great interest, Tian Fan took Yin Mo, Yin Chao and Xu Sheng to board the navy ship and sailed towards the river.

Above the river, close to the shipyard, is a large water village. The water village is large in scale, and the camp is extremely strong. With the shipyard at its back and the river in front, a simple wall was built with giant logs driven into the bottom of the river. There are

The female wall, which is like a walkway on a city wall, has lookout holes and shooting holes. There is also a huge village gate, which is connected to the river. Outside the wall, there are many large trees driven into the bottom of the river, only half a foot away from the water. Fighting ships and walking

A rowboat or a light boat can approach the wall without being affected, but a large boat has a deep draft, and as long as it enters, the bottom of the boat will be pierced by a large log on the bottom of the water. As you can imagine, it would be really uncomfortable to attack this stronghold.

In the water village, various ships come and go, making it a spectacular sight. The large ships are docked together in groups of two or three, surrounded by fighting ships and fast boats.

Xu Sheng introduced: "Sir, our navy is now fully manned, with a total of 18,000 soldiers, 30 small ships, 124 fighting ships, and countless walking boats and canoes."

Tian Fan nodded slightly and said, "Didn't you mention the water battle drill you arranged? Come on, let's go take a look!"

Xu Sheng cupped his fists and said: "No!"

Then, he issued a series of orders, and the building boat where everyone was sitting slowly sailed towards the village gate...

After a while, the building boat sailed onto the river. Looking at the vast river in front of him, Tian Fan felt relaxed and happy!

Xu Sheng said: "Sir, across from us, at the Jingkou along the river, is a naval base in Jiangdong. The current people in charge there are General Cheng Pu and Taishi Ci. Among them, Cheng Pu is the naval commander, in charge of eight thousand naval forces, and Taishi Ci

We are in charge of an army of 10,000 people. We have a tacit understanding with each other and will never reach the center of the river to avoid misunderstandings on the other side."

Tian Fan nodded and said: "Well, okay, let's just not go to the center of the river!"

It didn't take long for everyone to arrive at a location on the river. They saw two large ships, several fighting ships and more than a dozen walking boats divided into two groups and quietly confronting each other on the river.

Xu Sheng said: "Send the order, start!"

A junior high school student on the watchtower shouted: "No!"

Then, he waved the command flag in his hand a few times, and drums sounded simultaneously from the boats facing each other on both sides, and the two teams of people and horses came towards each other!

After a while, the two teams of ships approached, followed by arrows flying and stones raining down.

Xu Sheng explained: "Sir, when fighting on the river, feathered arrows come first. We are doing a drill, so we don't use rockets, and even the feathered arrows don't carry arrows. Therefore, we can't see the cruelty of the water battle now.

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Tian Fan nodded slightly and stared at the two groups of soldiers who were fighting desperately.

I saw the soldiers on the two square ships firing arrows vigorously, while some of the soldiers on the boats or fighting ships fought back, while others held their shields high and held swords in their hands, trying to climb onto the other side's ships.

Xu Sheng said: "Sir, the building ships are tall. When fighting against fighting ships and walking boats, you can choose to hit them and directly knock them over or smash them into pieces. At the same time, the large number of archers on the building ships can shoot arrows from high up and attack them.

The opponent suffered a large number of casualties. Therefore, the building ship is the main ship type in the navy."

Tian Fan chuckled and said: "You still want a large building ship! After a while, after watching this exercise, I will give you a satisfactory explanation!"

Xu Sheng couldn't help but smile awkwardly and said no more.

In order to distinguish the two sides, one group had red flags and the other group had blue flags. A fighting ship protruded from the blue flag array and quickly came to the side of the red flag square ship.

The building ship tried to push it over, but the fighting ship was fast and could always avoid it easily. The arrows fired by the soldiers on the building ship were also blocked by the soldiers on the fighting ship with their shields. Immediately afterwards, the fighting ship was thrown up

Countless claw hooks are placed on the walls of the building.

The height of the small building ship was only about three feet, which was not too high. The soldiers on the fighting ship tightened the rope to bring the two ships closer, and at the same time fired arrows to kill the soldiers on the building ship who tried to cut off the rope. Two soldiers on the fighting ship tried to cut off the rope.

Fang fought fiercely, and for a while some people fell into the water or fell to the ground after being hit by arrows.

Tian Fan was frightened when he saw it, and his fists couldn't help but clenched!

When the two ships, one large and one small, were locked in a stalemate, a figure suddenly flew out from under the shield on the fighting ship. He was seen holding a horizontal knife in his mouth, climbed up the ship along the rope in twos and twos, and then slashed horizontally with the wooden knife.

, several soldiers on the building ship were knocked to the ground by him.

This man was very skilled and could dance like a tiger with a big sword. The officers and soldiers on the building boat had no enemy of him. He occupied a place on the building boat by himself, protecting the countless companions who were following him and climbing along the rope. After a while,

, dozens of people had climbed aboard the upper boat. They gathered into a group, holding swords and shields in hand, and rushed left and right on the upper boat, killing the soldiers on the upper boat to death.

Seeing that the red square building boat had no power to resist, Xu Sheng said: "It's over!"

"Dang, dang, dang," the golden sound sounded, and the soldiers from both sides immediately stopped fighting. Two ships sailed towards Xu Sheng's boat, while the fighting ships and boats went to different locations to rescue the soldiers who fell into the water.

After a while, the two tower boats stopped one after another, and the ropes were lowered from the tower boats. The captain on the tower boats took a walking boat to Xu Sheng's place...

There were three people who came, three big men, they were all eight feet tall, broad-shouldered and round-waisted!

Xu Sheng pointed at Tian Fan and said: "This is Mr. Tian, ​​the White Tiger General!"

The three of them knelt down on one knee, clasped their fists and said, "General, I will see Mr. Tian!"

Tian Fan said: "Please get up quickly, haha, let me take a good look at the warriors of our navy!"

The three of them stood up and looked at Tian Fan with bright eyes.

Xu Sheng introduced: "Sir, this is the commander of the blue side, Navy Colonel Zhang Xin, this is the commander of the red side, Navy Colonel Ma Shun, and this is the military commander who just boarded the red side's command ship.

The bravest man is Du Bo Liu Quan!"

Tian Fan smiled and said: "Okay, haha, the three of you are warriors of our Navy! Our Xuzhou Navy has you, so why worry about not being able to defeat the Jiangdong Navy?"

The three of them couldn't help but blush. They really didn't have much confidence in defeating the Jiangdong Navy!

Tian Fan clearly saw their unnaturalness and said: "Wen Xiang, come on, let's go to the bow of the ship! And you, the three warriors, Uncle Yin, Mo Lin, you are coming too!"

After speaking, he walked towards the bow first. Liu Quan looked at Xu Sheng and whispered: "Brother, what do you want Mr. Tian to do?"

Xu Sheng shook his head and said, "I don't know either! You, please be more careful in future battles. Don't just charge into battle."

Liu Quan chuckled, scratched his head, and stopped talking.

Xu Sheng arranged for all the soldiers on the ship to take their positions, and no one was allowed within five feet of the bow. Then he led several navy generals to the bow.

Tian Fan smiled at Xu Sheng and said, "Wen Xiang, is Liu Quan your sworn brother?"

Xu Sheng was stunned. He didn't expect that the quiet conversation between the two reached Tian Fan's ears. He chuckled and said: "Sir, Liu Quan and I are fellow villagers. We are both from the same village. We have played together since we were young.

But then the world was in chaos and we got separated. I came to Guangling, and he went to the military camp. Later I came to the navy, and he happened to meet Yuanzhi Military Advisor and General Zilong, and accompanied them to the military camp.

Came to Xiapi. Later he signed up to join the Navy and happened to meet me. He was very good at water, brave in battle, and had extraordinary strength on the water, so I made an exception and promoted him!"

Tian Fan nodded slightly and said: "Well, that's very good! I just saw Liu Quan flying onto the red square ship alone, which shows his extraordinary courage! We need such talents in our navy!"

Xu Sheng breathed a sigh of relief. He was really afraid that Tian Fan would be dissatisfied with him for promoting his cronies based on connections, but now it seems that he is overly concerned!

Tian Fan looked at Da Jiang and said: "Uncle Yin, I want to ask you, how big is the difference in the cost of small-sized building ships and medium-sized building ships?"

Yin Mo chuckled and said: "Bo Guang, the building ships we use are warships. In order to be more sturdy and durable, they naturally have to be built at a higher cost. The cost of building a small building ship is about one million yuan, while the cost of a medium-sized building ship

The cost is around 6 million. If it is a large building ship, the cost will be nearly 20 million, or even more!"

Tian Fan nodded slightly and said: "It's very expensive! In Xuzhou, one million yuan is enough to buy 20,000 shi of food! So, sinking a ship is very painful!"

He turned to face everyone and said: "In the Craftsman Camp, a new type of weapon has just been developed, called a ballista. It can project fire cans, stones, and crossbow arrows. The range is about two hundred and fifty steps! I know the capabilities of small building ships.

The speed is faster, and the speed of the fighting ship is of course faster. Haha, if the ship is equipped with this kind of weapon, then... the enemy's ship is our living target. In this case, why do we still use large-scale ships? When encountering the opponent's large-scale

When attacking a large ship, we surround it with fighting ships or small large ships and throw a large number of fire jars. Their ship will immediately catch fire, so is there any need to ram or close combat?"

After a slight pause, he said: "So, as long as we have the speed advantage, why do we need such a big ship? Small-sized building ships have a shallow draft and can sail in shallower waters. They have strong applicability, and with the addition of ballistae,

Hehe, who are we afraid of?"….

Xu Sheng and others were taken aback. He asked anxiously: "Sir, are you serious?"

Tian Fan said: "Is that still false? A small ship is equipped with ten or eight ballistas. Even if it is surrounded by three or five large ships, we don't have to be afraid!"
To be continued...