Anyway, the Han Navy finally came. But the fleet looks really huge!
"Is the Navy pouring in, or only a part?" Yu Bing is now most concerned about this problem: "from a distance, it can be recognized that most of the warships are equipped with bed crossbows."
"Their warships are very different from ours." Yu Yi has been watching since the emergence of the navy of the Han Dynasty: "I haven't seen any building ships. There is basically only one layer above the deck of their warships, and the hull shows a shuttle shape?"
We are all observing the warships of the Han Dynasty. We can really see many problems at a glance. Unfortunately, we can't see the bottom of the ship. People who don't understand the ship estimate that they can distinguish what the structure of flat bottomed ships and sharp bottomed ships means at a glance.
They were all waiting for the Han navy to land. After waiting for a long time, they only saw the Han Navy slowly close to each other on the sea. After gathering together, they put up their sails and seemed to be fixing each other?
"The iron ropes are connected horizontally, and the ships gather to form a land?" Of course, Xie an knows the story of Chibi. It says that ships lean against each other and are fixed with iron cables or wooden piles to form a large plane. He was surprised and said, "don't you go ashore?"
There are still ships that will land. What doesn't come over is a ship that doesn't look like a warship. It's alone.
Although Ji Chang wanted to go ashore to have a look, he put up with it.
Fu Wei was assigned the task of landing and communicating with the officials of the small ~ court ~ court. He took the Kirk sailboat.
There are only a few five Kirk sailboats in the 300 ship fleet, carrying a batch of goods from the Han side. The transport ships produced by other systems also carry materials such as salt, leather, fur and traditional Chinese medicine, so as to trade in the south of the Yangtze River.
To put it bluntly, it is true that the Han ministry came to the small ~ court of the Eastern Jin Dynasty to demonstrate. The escort task is by the way, and opening the trade route is the main goal.
There are also many styles of Kirk sailboats. Liu Yan guided the manufacture of a four mast type. It is 30 meters long, 8 meters wide, 3 meters draft and 280 tons of carrying capacity. It is the second Kirk series sailboat contacted by Han sailors and belongs to the product of the Hanseatic League.
At this moment, the canvas of the four masts of the huge ship body was fully opened, and went through the waves along the southeast wind, and soon rushed into the estuary of the Yangtze River. The powerful posture made the onlookers on the shore shout loudly.
"Four sails?" Yu Yi knew about warships. The Eastern Jin navy was at most a ship with only three masts. Because it was a building ship, it was definitely different from Kirk's sailboat in layout. He whispered, "the bow is square sails, the second mast has two sails, and the two at the stern are triangular sails. What's the special purpose of this layout?"
The triangular canvas at the stern of the ship plays a role of turning wind, just like the rudder of the ship.
"The bow of the ship has a collision angle, and the front is raised as high as a goose's belly, stretching out a pecker like a duck's beak." Yu Yi guessed, "is this layout for collision and collision prevention?"
The warships of the Eastern Jin Navy also had collision angles in front of the ships, but there were only two. In addition, in front of the warships in the Eastern Jin Dynasty, a large area of copper or iron will be fixed, and some designs of fierce animals will be carved. Copper or iron plates are naturally for anti-collision. The problem is that the pattern on the carving increases the focus of impact, which is really strange.
"The bow is smooth with a range..." Xie an was stunned: "it seems to be soaked with a layer of grease?"
So there is absolutely nothing wrong. The most likely place to encounter impact is to be smooth and reduce the force points. It is also inevitable to have an amplitude. After all, the circle will certainly be cut open when it is hit, not like the position of the plane being hit to bear all the impact force.
As for fire attack, ships made of wood are not afraid of fire attack. The difference is that it is easier to burn after soaking oil.
The speed of the ships entering the Haikou of the Changjiang Lake in the Han Dynasty has stabilized, and the boats from the Eastern Jin Dynasty began to lean on it.
Fu Wei was standing in the flagship room, looking out, listening to the shouting with a strong southern accent.
It was the Jin army on the boat that asked the Han ships to follow, saying they wanted to guide them to the ferry or something.
Before entering the estuary of the Yangtze River, Fu Wei was particularly told about one thing, that is, the difference between sea ships and inland ships. Because of the water depth, some inland ships can stop where seagoing ships can't.
The Kirk sailboat is a kind of sea going ship with a water depth of three meters, which is why the Kirk sailboat was chosen to enter the Yangtze River. If it was entered by other ships with a water depth of more than six meters, it would be almost every minute to run aground.
In the Eastern Jin Dynasty, there were widely distributed ferries on the South Bank of the Yangtze River, especially near Jingkou. After all, Jingkou was the main naval base in the Eastern Jin Dynasty.
As more and more boats entered, more and more boats followed Kirk's sailboat, and the boats became larger and larger.
Fu Wei looked out. There were a dense circle of boats and boats. He could see that the boats and boats were all soldiers of the Jin Dynasty. Looking at them one by one, they also looked capable.
On both sides. There are dense crowds standing on the south bank. Look at the clothes. Should some civilians around come to watch? There are also people watching on the north bank, but the people on the north bank look sparse. It looks like the shore defense force of Shijie Zhao army or something?
"The Jin people asked to board the ship."
"No!"
Fu Wei refused without even thinking about it, and even ignored his aristocratic status.
The river course in the Yangtze River is different from the sea. Although the inland river will have waves, the waves above the sea are basically two levels. The Kirk sailboat sailed steadily on the Yangtze River, because the wind was good and the speed was not slow. After opening all the sails, it threw away the Jin army ships originally surrounded on both sides.
"What do they want to do?" Yu Bing's face has begun to look bad: "refuse to board the ship and speed up to leave. Do you want to challenge our 100000 Navy with a ship?"
Kirk's sailboat was really accelerating all the time. He ignored the cries of the Jin army around him until there were a large number of Jin army water military ships in front of him. A large number of ships lined up in a straight line to block the way. Fu Wei narrowed his eyes and didn't order to slow down.
It's not negotiable to let the Jin army board the ship. God knows if there are any mentally ill guys in the Eastern Jin Dynasty who will seize the ship. Even if you don't seize the ship, the navy has a saying that "where the ship is, it is the territory". Can your territory be easily stepped on?
"There are too many ships around!"
"Yes, it's as dense as locusts!"
The 100000 water troops in the Eastern Jin Dynasty are definitely not fake. They account for the general number of troops in the Eastern Jin Dynasty. There are thousands of warships, and I'm afraid there are more small boats and boats.
In front of them, the water army of the Eastern Jin Dynasty lined up in a straight line to block the way. Under normal circumstances, Fu Wei should have ordered the ships to stop, but this time they sent 300 large ships south, not to show their obedience.
"Go straight up."
"Promise!"
Then the whole ship shouted to remind all the crew to prepare for the collision.
The speed of the ship seems to be very fast, which is actually the speed of four to five knots, but don't underestimate the speed of five knots at this time.
To be clear, the ideal speed of the relatively fast flying shear ship in the sail age is 12 to 14 knots. The speed of inland ships can't compare with that of the sea. It's actually fast to run to five knots. For example, if the building ships in the Eastern Jin Dynasty can have a speed of about three knots, it's already "flying speed".
"How fast!"
"Yes, so fast!"
"If you don't slow down, you'll hit it!"
The commander of the water army in the Eastern Jin Dynasty was a general. His official title was general Hengjiang. He looked at the fast coming ship and his face was a little iron blue.
General Hengjiang was an official of Soochow during the Three Kingdoms period. The first general Hengjiang was Lu su. General Hengjiang wanted to sweep away the invading enemy. He also had this official position in the Eastern Jin Dynasty, but his rank was not high.
Fu Wei grasped the place where he could use his strength and looked very calm. As for what he thought in his heart, it didn't matter. Anyway, the enemy ship was bound to hit it if it didn't move away.
"Anti collision preparation!"
The general Hengjiang of the Eastern Jin Dynasty really did not intend to give way to the waterway. The Yangtze River was their territory, and their number occupied an absolute advantage. In his view, Zhang Heng, the Han Dynasty is just a local separatist force. No matter how big the fleet is and how fierce the ships are, it is also a local separatist force. How can it easily bow its head?
"Keep all routes unchanged!"
Zhang Heng doesn't believe it. A separatist force has gone against the sky and dares to collide with the "invincible water army of Jin" in the Yangtze River?
Fu Wei's face began to turn blue. If he could, he really didn't want to be on this ship, especially a collision.
"Ready! Ready!"
The roar was not only from the Han Army, but also from the Jin army. The shouts of both sides mixed into one, but I don't know how many pairs of eyes were looking at this side.
[really not?] Fu Wei has subconsciously stood on the horse step; [the tonnage difference between the two sides is too large. Should there be nothing wrong with the ship under my feet?]
In fact, the Navy quality of the Jin army doesn't have to say. They have begun to make relevant collision preparations, and even ships are preparing iron cables. It seems that even if the fleet in front is knocked away, the ships behind will use iron cables to stop the huge ship in the Han Dynasty.
"That's good!" Yu Bing took a deep breath: "the Han side asked for it. In this way, we have enough reason to get a sea ship!"
It said that the ship would be damaged after the collision, and then it was stopped with an iron rope. The Han side can't talk about it. They really longed for a ship that could sail at sea, studied it carefully, and developed their own maritime navigation ship system in the Eastern Jin Dynasty.
The collision is about to happen. Zhao Jun in Shijie on the north bank began to make a noise. Why is it like waiting to see a joke?
On the south bank, the non military Jin people are a little confused. They learned that the Han ministry came to pay tribute, but it doesn't look like it?
The noise is getting louder and louder. Whether it's Fu Wei or Zhang Heng, their face is getting more and more ugly. If they can have a choice, ghosts are willing to play a bumper boat!
There is only one ship in the Han Dynasty. Looking at the huge and ferocious hull, the Kirk sailboat during the Hanseatic League can really be used for both commerce and military, that is, the so-called armed merchant ship.
There are many ships in the water army of the Eastern Jin Dynasty. The tonnage should be dozens of tons. Of course, this is related to the location of the river channel. Secondly, due to the limitations of technology, the larger the ship in the Eastern Jin Dynasty, the more difficult it is to control, and the larger it is, the more difficult it is to dispatch.
It was really getting closer and closer, and yelling began to be sent out in the fleet of the water army of the Eastern Jin Dynasty. You could hear the sound more obviously "steady! Steady!" Command.
Fu Wei began to squat down. In his ears was the sound of the crew yelling "prepare for collision avoidance", which confused his mind, shook his legs and looked sad, thinking: [why, you won't do anything if you get out of the way?]
In fact, it's too late for Zhang Heng to order to get out of the way. That's because the navy is lined up in a straight line and in a moving state. If you want to get out of the way, you need complete coordination and cooperation. If you are so close, any mistake is definitely the end of collision with each other.
Everyone was staring. Under their gaze, the lonely ship on the river seemed to speed up?
"Are they going to war?" Guo Xiang was gloating on his face. He was the supreme commander of the residual Xuzhou army. When he got the news, he came to see the excitement. If there was any excitement to see: "I heard that the spies of the Jin people were constantly destroying Qingzhou, I think those Han people would be very angry."
The Guo family is a big family in the state of Zhao in Shijie. It is a queue that has been suppressed by Shi Hu recently. Life is quite difficult.
The Xuzhou army has long known that a large fleet is coming. It just doesn't know what the Han fleet is going to do. Now it has found something interesting.
On the other side, a "roar" first appeared, followed by the "creak" of wood. Under the eyes of everyone on both sides of the Strait, the collision angle of Kirk sailboat didn't hit anything at all, because the ships of the Eastern Jin Navy blocking the way were too short. It was the belly of the Kirk sailboat that directly collided with the ship blocking the way. In a moment, the broken wood flew sideways. After a sudden meal, the collided ship sank to the surface of the water.
At the moment of the collision, Fu Wei felt as if he had been pushed by something. In a moment, he knelt directly and then rolled on the ground.
When there was a real collision, everyone was a little stunned. They just didn't understand why they had to.
Not an ally? Talk well and have a pleasant scene, isn't it good?
The collision was more than just a moment. The collided boat was pushed across by the Kirk sailboat for a short distance and moved to the side due to the hydraulic pressure. It floated for a short time and hit the friendly army. There was another "creak" sound of toothache.
Almost at the moment when Fu Wei's ship collided with the ships of the naval forces of the Eastern Jin Dynasty, the Han fleet, which had been close to each other, was slowly pushed forward again. The real war drums and horns did not appear suddenly. Then about 30 warships began to approach the position of the estuary of the Yangtze River.