Three Kingdoms

  Chapter 2592 Guan Yu's Naval Battle

  In ancient times, Yizhou was connected with the mainland.

  Then due to the operation of the continental plate, the Himalayas are getting higher and higher, and the Yizhou Strait is getting deeper and deeper, and finally they face each other across the sea.

   It was not until the Ming Dynasty that the Ryukyu Islands and Yizhou were called separately.

  The ancients did not have detailed sea charts, so they often combined the Ryukyu Islands and Yizhou into one place, and then called it "Ryukyu", "Dongfan" and so on. Until the Ming Dynasty, Ryukyu had an independent political power and did not belong to Japan, but because of the sneaky export of game culture by later generations of Japan, many people who did not understand the history of the East mistakenly believed that Ryukyu belonged to Japan.

  During the period of the Three Kingdoms, the permanent population of Yizhou already exceeded 10,000 families.

  Of course, because at this time Yizhou did not register household registration as Qimin, so no one knows exactly how many people there are, at least at the moment. But at least one thing is certain is that in history, Sun Quan sent people to Yizhou, "floating the sea to seek Yizhou", hoping to expand the army by "recruiting", um, capturing some people.

  During the Sui Dynasty, Emperor Sui Yang sent people to Liuqiu twice. The second time, the number of people exceeded 10,000 people. After sailing from Chaozhou for more than a month, when they arrived in Liuqiu, people in Liuqiu thought it was a large-scale business trip, and they all "traded in the army"...

   This shows that in the early days, there were caravans in Yizhou, and there were even caravans with more than a thousand people. Therefore, when Emperor Sui Yang sent people to attack Yizhou, it was considered a "large caravan".

   "Large caravan", the Age of Discovery has clearly told everyone that when they can beat the opponent, they will turn into pirates, and when they can't beat them, they will honestly become a caravan. It's like the Eight-Nation Allied Forces, but it's actually an armed caravan alliance army, and Braid Chao was beaten to the **** by such a group of pirates...

  The fleet that is currently attacking Guan Yu is the caravan belonging to Yizhou, um, it will also be transferred to a pirate caravan.

   People of later generations are familiar with Liu Guanzhang, but for these people in Yizhou, who is Liu Guanzhang?

  In addition, Shi Xie of Cochin also took some ships with him when he fled, so Liu Bei now has very few ships. There are only two big ships, the third one is still under construction, and there are not many small ships.

   On the other hand, on the pirate side, there were three large ships, and the number of small boats even exceeded twice that of Guan Yu and others. The combat effectiveness on paper made the Yizhou pirates feel safe no matter how they looked at it.

  Since it is stable, it is F2A long live!

"dash forward! 』

  The pirate leader of Yizhou roared with majestic momentum.

  On the pirate ship, many pirates wielding knives, harpoons, spears, hook knives and other various weapons also shouted and became restless.

  Yes, they have the advantage in numbers...

  The pirates did not want to sink Guan Yu and Zhang Fei's big ship, because the Yizhou pirates believed that there must be goods in Guan Yu's fleet, good goods from Jiangdong.

  They want to kill people and steal goods, and **** the big ship by the way, and without the big ship, Liu Guanzhang naturally has no way to compete with the Yizhou pirates for maritime commerce.

  『Shoot the arrow! 』

   Guan Yu gave the order.

  The archers on the big ship stood up from behind the vertical board, and then shot arrows at the approaching pirate ship.

  The arrow pierced through the air...

   Then with infinite momentum, he plunged into the sea.

  Will no one think that all archers can shoot on the deck like a TV movie, and they can still shoot through Yang with a hundred steps and a hundred shots?

   Moreover, training is all training. In actual combat, there are often various problems.

For example, the wind is too strong, the wind is too weak, the wind is down, the wind is headed, the weather is too hot, the rain is too slippery, the light is not good on cloudy days, and the lights are dazzling at night. Anyway, they are all objective factors that affect the "shooting" of the target. .

  The Yizhou pirates laughed loudly, thinking more and more that Guan Yu and others were rookies and weak chickens.

The Yizhou pirates were shot by the archers led by Guan Yu, except for a few unlucky ones, and did not suffer much damage, until these nimble boats used the ram on the bow to hit Guan Yu's big ship, After the position was relatively fixed, many people were shot and killed by bows and arrows, but then the islands on these small boats jumped into the sea water, and the speed of the Guan Yulou boat with the boat hanging on it inevitably slowed down.

   Now only the ballista with fixed aiming equipment can ensure the shooting accuracy, but the shooting frequency of the ballista...

  Since the shooting frequency is low, of course we must find high-value targets.

Immediately, the ballistas on the two big ships began to shoot at the pirate leader in Yizhou, but unfortunately none of them hit directly. Instead, several pirates around the pirate leader died, and some were directly hit by the long crossbow. , was killed on the spot.

  The leader of the Yizhou pirates yelled in fright, and then he didn't dare to continue to distance himself from Guan Yu and others and was shot to death in vain.

  『Get ready to fight! 』

   Guan Yu roared, raised his shield and saber, and slapped each other.

He didn't scold those archers, because those archers on the ship were basically transferred from land. It took a certain amount of time to adapt to life on the ship, and then they had to hit the target with bows and arrows at sea. , It also takes time to train, not a few curses, or killing two can solve the problem.

  At the same time, Guan Yu is not good at archery either, but he prefers the opponent to enter the hand-to-hand combat...

  The pirate yelled and set up the springboard, and then yelled wildly and rushed along the springboard.

  『Third brother, back off! Guan Yu shouted at Zhang Fei.

   Zhang Fei held a Zhangba spear and squinted at Guan Yu. The tacit understanding on the battlefield for many years made Zhang Fei immediately understand, and he quietly hid behind the array, bowed his waist, and said nothing.

  Guan Yu's training of archers can only be regarded as average, but if his sword and shield hand is said to rank second in the combat effectiveness of the Three Kingdoms, there is really no one who can rank first.

Standing in the formation, Guan Yu resisted the chaotic and disorderly attacks of the Yizhou pirates, and retreated slowly, as if he was suppressed by these pirates, which also stimulated the excitement of these pirates, shouting and smashing The shields of Guan Yu's sword and shield hands were rattling, and they didn't realize that they didn't cause much damage at all, and they were also led to the wide part of the deck little by little...

   Just when the pirates were imagining that they would be able to break through the array in the next moment and kill them all, Guan Yu fought back. Even on the deck above the sea, Guan Yu's swords and shields still had no difficulty facing the pirates and miscellaneous soldiers.

Especially when Zhang Fei waved his Zhangba spear and yelled to get out of the way and let Lao Tzu come, that kind of desire for war and bloodthirsty ferocity were more pirates than pirates and butchers than butchers. When they recalled the nightmare of the state pirates in the dark, they hugged themselves and wept as if they were bullied to death.

  『Poof, poof! 』

  The sound of weapons piercing into flesh sounded one after another.

Zhang Fei rushed out directly from the back row. Zhang Ba's spear came first and pierced the pirate's body fiercely. It was probably stuck on the bone in the chest. It didn't come out all at once, but Pushing the pirate back into the sky, the blood sprayed from the pirate's chest scattered into a bright red streak in the air.

Guan Yu pushed the pirates with his sword and shield hand, stabbed or slashed with his sword, and the first round of counterattack directly cut down seven or eight pirates, and the seven or eight pirates who were cut down were all self-proclaimed brave on weekdays. Those who charged ahead were now directly cut down to the ground, causing the surrounding pirates to exclaim.

Guan Yu's sword and shield hand, when training on weekdays, just need to repeat the action of cutting 500 times, and stabbing 500 times, adding up to more than 1,000 times. At the same time, sandbags must be tied to the arm. Obstructed by these heavy objects, the knife and shield hand's slashing and stabbing movements are flexible and fast, often bringing out a cloud of blood as soon as the knife is pulled out.

   On the other hand, on the pirate side, even if they gathered together to fight, they would each fight in their own way. There was basically no formation and coordination. The pirates in front fell down, and the pirates in the back even tripped over the corpses of pirates. Of course, it's not that these pirates have no fighting power. They throw darts, sand, and lime, and they have thighs, calves, feet, everything...

But it was of no use, the **** who was fascinated was quickly protected by other pawns, and the pirates could not get anything if they stepped back, and the pirate's iron fork that was trying to greet three ways down could not be stopped all at once. Piercing the front of the soldier's battle skirt and shin guard boots, although it is inevitable to smash the green and swollen, but it will not cause too much damage, and the soldier's casual counterattack is enough for these pirates to drink a pot.

   This is the difference between professional soldiers and ordinary pirates.

Howling, Zhang Fei rushed to the front. First he let out a huge roar, and then swung his Zhangba spear. When he swept across, it was like dumpling. And smashed it down on the deck with a long spear...

  『Third Brother…』

   Guan Yu, who was in the formation, called out.

   The deck you smashed is the East River, not a pirate ship...

   Zhang Fei laughed loudly, forgetting the discomfort of seasickness, forgetting the previous depression, and only fighting, fighting!

   Not long after, when Zhang Fei yelled and pierced a hole in the head of the pirate leader with a long spear, the remaining pirates tried to jump into the sea and return to the ship to escape.

  But they were very disappointed to find that they used a lot of hook ropes because they were afraid that Guan Yu and the others would run away, and the springboard with hooks could not be taken down in a short while...

   Can't solve it!

  Some clever pirates quickly escaped in a small boat.

   And because the big ship was connected with Guan Yu's ship, it became Guan Yu's spoils of war instead.

"Hey..." Zhang Fei suddenly felt that the soles of his feet were shaking violently up and down again. After breaking away from his fighting consciousness, he finally realized that he was still on the surface of the sea, and quickly leaned on the deck with a long spear like a walking stick. ,"Uh uh uh? Then someone, come and help me...why is this shaking so badly...』

  Guan Yu ignored Zhang Fei and ordered directly, "Check the damage!" Report the status of the ships! 』

  『Report, ten people were injured, three were seriously injured, and two others fell into the sea. Search is underway! 』

  『The cabin is intact and there is no water leakage! 』

  『The deck is damaged in three places and can be repaired. 』

  『…』 Guan Yu looked at the damage on the deck of the Hedong, and remembered that there seemed to be two places where Zhang Fei hit it with a Zhangba spear just now?

   Forget it, don't bother with the third brother.

   Overall, the loss is not very big, but two large ships of the other side have been obtained. Although it looks a little old, but after all, the tonnage is there, and it should be no problem to use it for three or two years for transshipment.

  『Salvage the captives! 』

  Guan Yu looked at the abandoned pirates on the sea and stroked his beard. Just now he told Zhang Fei to put it away, but Zhang Fei didn't seem to hear it at all, and directly stabbed the pirate leader to death with a spear. So I can only hope that these ordinary pirates can still know some specific situations, but most of the time these ordinary pirates can't even count how many fingers they have, just like the natives of Cochin, it is difficult to communicate.

  A total of fifteen captives were picked up from the sea, and those who were injured and unable to climb the side of the ship were left to fend for themselves. Guan Yu didn't stop those who had backbone, refused to be salvaged, and were going to swim back across the Yizhou Strait by relying on their swimming skills.

   This may not be the only naval battle between the Han Dynasty for three or four hundred years, but it must be the first sea battle of Liu Bei and others, and it may even be the first naval battle after Guangwu Zhongxing.

This time the sea battle broke out when Guan Yu was unprepared. The whole battle lasted less than an hour. The skills are so weak that they can compete with the Cochin natives.

  In the era of cold weapons, better equipment and better training for professional soldiers will always be a nightmare for miscellaneous soldiers.

After further searching, Guan Yu also found another seven or eight captives among the pirate ships. These guys were hiding in the crevices of the deck cabins of the pirate ships. Their thin and dark complexion was the source of courage for these guys to play hide-and-seek with Guan Yu. , but they didn't know that what they encountered was not another group of Ma Daha's pirates, but scouts who could survive the battlefield, so these guys were caught out without any surprise, **** with other captives, and thrown into the into the cabin.

   After being identified by the boat craftsmen of the navy, the ship structure of the Yizhou pirates is almost the same as that of the Han Dynasty, and it is even suspected that it is the ship produced by the Han Jiangdong...

  Most of the buildings in the Han Dynasty did not have any obvious changes in structure, and the offshore ships were actually similar to the inland river ships. The two captured pirate ships also gave Liu Bei and others a window to understand Yizhou.

  This window gave Liu Bei and others the opportunity to have a glimpse of the pirates who once roamed the southeast coast from the Han Dynasty to the end of the Ming Dynasty, and whose reputation spread far and wide in Southeast Asia.

  The ships that were forcibly hooked together were untied, and Guan Yu sent some men to the pirate ship to control the ship. They sailed on the sea for another three days, and then arrived at Jiaozhi while Zhang Fei muttered that his second brother was lying.

  As soon as the boat touched the shore, Zhang Fei jumped off the boat, and then wobbled and danced on the ground, as if celebrating a new life.

Liu Bei took some craftsmen and boarded the pirate ship with great interest, and conducted a detailed survey of the pirate ship again. After discussion, the craftsmen reconfirmed that the two pirate ships belonged to the earlier construction methods of the Han Dynasty, and from their In terms of the craftsmanship used, it is indeed very likely that it was produced by Jiangdong...

   As for who sold the ship to the pirates, this is unknown.

  The pirate ship is also a wide belly, and the deck is made of very hard wood.

  The craftsman said that it may be lychee wood from Lingnan, which is quite hard and insect-resistant. It is a very good shipbuilding wood.

  Compared to the deck wood of a pirate ship, the weapons used by pirates are very "abundant", some of which even Liu Bei has never seen.

  The most common spears are bamboo spears. Some have iron spear points, and some even have bamboo spear points. The lengths also vary a lot, and the longest one is even more than two feet. It is also the largest in number, not only the seized parts, but also many such bamboo spears were found in the cabin.

According to the pirates, these spears were all made in Yizhou. The long ones were used to stab across the boat, and the short ones were used as throwing spears. Anyway, bamboo is cheap to make, so they were thrown into the sea if they failed to hit the target. I won't feel bad...

   Of course, there are also wooden spears, but the number is much less than that of bamboo spears.

  The melee combat knives used by pirates are somewhat like hatchets. It has a thick back and a straight handle, but the quality of the iron seems to be not very good, and it is easy to crack under hard contact. The craftsmen said that it was because the forging technology was not up to standard, or maybe the raw material of iron ore was not good enough to smelt good steel.

  There are also a large number of harpoons on board, two-headed, three-headed, fishing nets, buoys, etc. Obviously this pirate is also a part-time fisherman...

   Other fragmentary weapons, such as meteor hammers and throwing darts, are basically difficult to distinguish. There are relatively few bows and arrows, and there are two or three crossbows, but the crossbows are all rusted, and I don't even know how to pull them. The craftsman said that the ballista had not been maintained at all, and it was already scrapped.

  During the inspection process, Liu Bei also found some utensils and kerosene that might be used for arson, but at that time the pirate leader in Yizhou probably thought that he had a great chance of winning and didn't need to use the kerosene to avoid damaging the goods...

  Liu Bei asked soldiers and craftsmen to clean and repair the pirate's ship, and then disembarked thoughtfully.

  『Big brother wants to win Yizhou? Guan Yu looked at Liu Bei's expression and asked aloud.

  Brothers who have been together for such a long time, you can tell whether the other party is pulling red or yellow.

  Sun Quan could think of going to Yizhou to "recruit" manpower. As Liu Bei, it is naturally impossible for Liu Bei to not have thought of it. He didn't have any plans in this regard before because Liu Bei didn't meet him. Now that he knows it, of course he started to think about it in his heart.

  『Second brother and third brother, what do you think? ’ Liu Bei asked.

  Zhang Fei waved his hands, "I can't go, I feel that the ground is still soft and shaking...Brother let me be on the ground!" 』

  Guan Yu narrowed his eyes, "Maybe you can give it a try. However, our navy is still too small, and our training is insufficient...』

  Guan Yu talked about the fact that those archers were out of standard during the battle.

  Liu Bei also nodded, "That's right, there is no rush. 』

  However, that is Yizhou...

   That was the place Qin Shihuang talked about back then. Even if there is no panacea, it seems worth visiting and taking a look around.

   What if?

Right?

  (end of this chapter)