Small Landlords of the Three Kingdoms

Chapter 84 112. Battleship Going to Sea
In the Battle of Danyang, although Gao Shun claimed to have captured Danyang County, many of his soldiers were injured and were unable to march eastward to Jianye without training for ten days and a half.

After Wang Hao captured Huang Gai, he returned to Yuzhang County with Zhao Yun. As for Chen Pu's water army, Wang Hao didn't need to worry, because Guo Jia had already received a tip that Gan Ning had successfully robbed the camp, and Chen Pu had no backup food and grass.

Even if Guo Jia didn't make a move, Chen Pu's [-] sailors would have retreated due to lack of supplies. The late-night ambush of the fire warship had used up more than half of the military resources. Chen Pu's fleet had only four levels of combat power left, so it was impossible to be Guo Jia's opponent. .

"I was the one who harmed the public...poof..."

At the north gate outside Danyang City, Sun Quan led two thousand remnant soldiers and a group of generals, looking at the Jingzhou military flag on the tower, Zhou Yu was so angry that he vomited blood.

"Gongjin, you have to keep your health, Dongwu cannot lack you..."

Gu Yong, Zhang Zhao and others all spoke to comfort Zhou Yu. This time the bitter plan failed, and instead, Gan Ning attacked and robbed the camp at night. Who could have imagined such an unexpected ending?

"Danyang has a [-]-strong army stationed there, and Danyang's elite are even veterans of hundreds of battles. No matter how powerful Gao Shun is under Wang Hao's command, it is impossible to capture Danyang City in just half a month. Could it be that something unexpected happened?"

Until now, Sun Quan was unwilling to believe that Danyang City, which was as stable as gold, was just occupied by Gao Shun.

"The only plan for now is to send Ling Tong to fight, and then let..."

After Zhou Yu vomited blood, he regained his strength, and after looking at Zhuge Jin, he began to plot against Wang Hao again. This time they wanted to borrow a knife to kill people, but this knife is not easy to borrow!
"Why didn't the general chase after him?"

After Gan Ning led his soldiers to chase for several miles, he suddenly stopped. The lieutenant under his command didn't know why Gan Ning stopped chasing him suddenly. This was a good opportunity to capture Sun Quan.

"Danyang County has an elite division. I don't know if General Gao will take Danyang County now. Even if he takes it, it will take time to rectify it. There must be soldiers from the Eastern Wu who fled outside the city. Now we are going deep alone..."

Gan Ning was not sure whether Danyang County had been captured by Gao Shun, and just as Gan Ning expected, Sun Quan recovered the fleeing soldiers along the way, and there were nearly [-] soldiers under his command, so it would be useless for Gan Ning to catch up.

Chen Pu and Lu Su were the most depressed. When they encountered fire warships in an ambush before, half of them were wasted for no reason. Quick arrows and stones and other one-time ordnance could not exert their five-level strength when they encountered Guo Jiadong's army.

Hastily retreated back to the camp in the Danyang waters, the Yuhuang warship was still in the camp, and there were dozens of Mengchong and landing ships, the Soochow navy, who was desperately fleeing for their lives, fell into Gan Ning's trap again.

After the fleet entered the camp, it was raided by Gan Ning, and one-third of the warships were burned on the spot. Nearly 2 soldiers were captured by Gan Ning, thousands of soldiers disappeared during the war, and only more than [-] soldiers fled back to Jianye.

After dawn, Guo Jia led the navy to the east, and after a round with Gan Ning, the navy camp was rebuilt. The Yuzhang camp was burned down by Huang Gai, but Sun Quan left a half-disabled camp for them.

When Gao Shun captured Danyang County, he not only captured Lu Meng and Lu Gongji, but also Zhou Tai's two sons. They were responsible for transporting supplies to Sun Quan's navy. They happened to be in the city when Gao Shun broke the city.

Talking about Zhou Tai, let’s talk about Yizhou. Sun Quan saw Wang Hao’s efforts to develop farms and pastures in Jingzhou, and he followed Wang Hao’s lead in opening up farms and pastures. But the ranch started to see improvement.

There is plenty of fresh water on Yizhou, and there are many wild animals. Sun Quan needs a lot of wood to build a ship. Naturally, the forests on the island cannot be spared. Several hills on the island have become bald. Over a dozen of Sun Quan's nautical warships, and thousands of Mengchong ships, Haochong ships, and landing ships!

This time Wang Hao defeated Sun Quan and cooperated with Gao Shun to win Danyang County. Although the Soochow Navy was defeated, there were still a number of warships overseas that were not deployed. It is not easy to keep Danyang County.

This big defeat taught Sun Quan a lesson. Since Wang Hao likes to use fire warships, then let Wang Hao use them as much as possible. Let's go to the sea to fight a battle and see what waves the fire warships can make in the sea. !
The newly built Wuhuang battleship has a draft of nearly five feet deep, and together with hundreds of seven-story ships, it comes south from Yizhou to Jian'an County.

Long before Huang Zhong's expedition, Tai Shici's fleet left Zhu Yalang and went straight to Jian'an County along the South China Sea. It wasn't that Tai Shici was not sure about defeating Zhou Tai's navy, but that it was useless for him to reach Kuaiji.

The navy landing battle can only assist in combat. If you really want to implement naval warfare, the current fleet does not have that strength. Because of technical understanding and many conditions, Wang Hao's navy can sail up to [-] nautical miles at the moment. long distance.

And the Soochow navy is not as good as Wang Hao's navy, and their technology and equipment levels are too different.

Many people can't understand that [-] nautical miles is only [-] kilometers. It is almost [-] nautical miles from Zhu Yalang to Jian'an County, and it is nearly [-] nautical miles to Sun Quan's hometown in Wu County. Is Wang Hao's navy too weak? .

In fact, all ships that go to sea have a very serious problem, that is, fresh water is a supply problem, which cannot be solved, and it is useless to give you an aircraft carrier.

A seven-storey five garden sailboat is nearly ten meters wide, about 40 meters long, and has a draft of eight meters. It can withstand the impact of huge waves below ten meters and will not capsize within 15 meters.

Except that the storage warehouse on the ground floor cannot accommodate people, such a giant warship can accommodate 5000 people. The warships like Soochow rely on ancient human power, and at least 500 people are needed to operate the warship.

The warship on Wang Hao's side only needs 80 to [-] people, and the role of the steam engine is reflected, but it also has a disadvantage, that is, it needs powerful materials as the driving energy, and the materials will occupy half of the ship's draft.

After that, fresh water is stored. Anyone who has been to the sea knows that sea water is not drinkable, even if it is distilled water from a steam engine, it cannot be drunk without several distillations.

Another problem is food. It is very troublesome for Wang Hao to store meat. It is not impossible to eat sea fish every day. He needs to have vegetables and rice grains. After going out, these are strategic materials.

The six catapults of a warship require boulders, and a search of a warship requires no less than [-] tons of boulders (one boulder/more than [-] kg), which takes up a very large load.

There are also 5000 weapons and armor, many fast arrows used by crossbowmen, javelin arrows used for heavy crossbows, and kerosene torches.

A battle can easily digest fifteen tons of boulders, 20 javelin arrows, [-] ordinary fast arrows, and [-] rockets and other fast arrows.

The Wuzhi warship looks huge on the surface, but half of the space is actually reserved materials. During the battle, the soldiers lie side by side and squeeze together. Because the space is really limited, and it is also because of the problem of food and fresh water supply, so ancient naval battles are extremely difficult. Countable, and they are all coastal battles close to the inland.

Taishici's ten warships sailed out of Zhu Yalang, and they needed to stop at the shore twice for supplies all the way north to Jian'an County, and they could only choose to fight along the coast.
You won’t lose it if you run far away, but you won’t be able to find it if you turn around a corner. If you want to find a few warships in the vast sea, it’s really like finding a needle in a haystack, even if you have a compass and Wang Hao’s simple world map. Before you know it, bubbling out to sea is asking for death!
(End of this chapter)