Xiang Yu fights the Three Kingdoms

Chapter 85
At the same time, Sun Jian is also actively building ships. Sun Jian was born in Fuchun, Wu County. This place belonged to Kuaiji County as early as the Qin Dynasty. At the beginning, Xiang Yu and his uncle Xiang Liang rebelled in Kuaiji County. The eight thousand soldiers from Jiangdong brought by Qin, Xiang Yu and Xiang Liang when they raised their troops basically came from this nearby area.

So what I want to say is that Sun Jian's temper is quite familiar to Xiang Yu. In fact, Xiang Yu's temperament and character in his youth in his previous life were also influenced by some of the humanities in the Jiangdong area.

Compared with people like Dong Zhuo who were born and raised in the northwest grasslands, Sun Jian lived and grew up by the water since he was a child, just like a large part of Jiangdong people, his water skills are also very good, young It was common for him to go into the water to catch big fish with bare hands, and Sun Jian was quite familiar with shipbuilding and sailing.

Therefore, after the shipbuilders arrived, Sun Jian immediately began to arrange command tasks for these shipbuilders. Compared with the shipbuilders on Dong Zhuo's side, the shipbuilders on Sun Jian's side were much more tired. There was no good wine and meat to entertain, and there was no rest on the first day, so I had to devote myself to the intense shipbuilding work immediately.

Moreover, Sun Jian has relatively clear and high requirements for the style, structure, function, quality, etc. of the ships he builds. Several shipbuilders can also tell that Sun Jian is a person who knows ships, so it must be difficult for him to work. Those who muddled through, so they could only devote themselves to the shipbuilding work with all their strength.

In fact, when he was in Ji County, Sun Jian also built a lot of ships, but at that time he did not find special shipbuilders from the Sanfu and Jingshi areas, but found some local craftsmen in Ji County, and then personally guided them. How they build the ship, in the end, judging from the results, the quality of the ship is still quite good.

This time, Sun Jian did not just hand over all the shipbuilding tasks to those few shipbuilders, but also recruited some local craftsmen from near Lanzhou to carry out shipbuilding work together.

Under Sun Jian's reasonable and efficient arrangement, the shipbuilding speed on his side has quickly surpassed Xiang Yu's side, but even so, it is still because there is a lack of timber for building large ships nearby, so only some small and medium-sized ships can be built first. The advantage of these ships is that they are relatively flexible, but they also have many disadvantages. For example, they do not have the stability of large ships, and they are very dangerous in some sections of the river with relatively fast currents. Usually the situation on the river is relatively stable, so these small problems are not a problem.

But even if Sun Jian's shipbuilding progress is much faster, it is still difficult for him to build a boat that is enough for thousands or even tens of thousands of people to cross the river at the same time in a short period of time. He still doesn't know what kind of boat Xiang Yu is like The situation, so they sent people to Zhang Wenwen and Xiang Yu to see how their shipbuilding progress was.

In the end, Sun Jian found that Xiang Yu had about twice the number of people on his side, but the progress of the shipbuilding was far behind his own, but he was secretly happy in his heart. In the end, his competitive spirit prevailed, and Sun Jian felt that he was finally ahead of Xiang Yu once. , it seems that this time he has to be the vanguard to fight Han Suijun.

As for Dong Zhuo, Sun Jian didn't even bother to talk about it. He didn't care what Dong Zhuo was going to do, and from Dong Zhuo's previous attitude, it could be seen that Dong Zhuo was obviously reluctant to build a boat and cross the river to fight Han Sui. Yes, at this time, he is probably doing foreign work, procrastinating and responding passively as he said before.

But for Sun Jian, these are nothing. What he wants is to seize the opportunity and build up his achievements in the process of defeating Han Sui. He has spent a large part of his life on the battlefield. In the end, although he has made some famous names, he is indeed a lot better than ordinary people, but he is still a lot worse for his own life goals. He hopes that before he is too old to move , and can finally win more resources for themselves and for their future generations.

In fact, it is not a problem for Sun Jian to think so. Although he is old, he still has strong combat and command capabilities. This time to wipe out Han Sui's rebels is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity for him. Although it is not enough for him to have any power in the central government of the Eastern Han Dynasty, at least it can give him some resources enough to dominate the place.

It is also because of the existence of this mentality of seeking first, that Sun Jian decided not to wait for the ship to be fully built before crossing the river even when the shipbuilding speed was greatly ahead, but to look for opportunities to cross the river in advance. His own judgment is that Han Sui probably knew at this time that their army wanted to cross the Yellow River to continue to trouble him, but because Han Sui took away or destroyed most of the ships that could cross the Yellow River during the previous retreat, so Han Sui's From his perspective, he must have thought that it would be impossible for Zhang Wen and the others to cross the Yellow River in a short period of time.

So at this time, if Sun Jian's shipbuilding speed can far exceed Han Sui's expectations, then he will have the opportunity to lead some elite troops across the Yellow River under the situation that Han Sui underestimated him, and then ride Han Sui without any response. Before coming over, Han Sui was caught off guard by attacking first. Although it would not be possible to win the game directly, a good start would definitely bring him a certain advantage.

At this time, Sun Jian's men did not have any particularly capable generals, so even if Sun Jian's own injuries were not healed, he still had to personally lead the elite troops that crossed the river ahead of time to attack Han Sui.

It seems that Sun Jian and Xiang Yu seem to have the same views on this issue, but because Sun Jian built the ship faster, he was able to bring more elite troops to cross the river earlier, while Xiang Yu only Being able to cross the river with fewer elite troops when it was later than Sun Jian.

Of course, their goals are not exactly the same. Sun Jian hopes that the vanguard he leads can give Han Sui a blow before Han Sui has time to react, and at the same time win the first victory for himself. His own troops attracted Han Sui's attention, and then covered more follow-up troops to cross the Yellow River.

Judging from this situation, if Sun Jian succeeded in crossing the river ahead of time, then there would be no need for Xiang Yu to use his troops to attract the attention of Han Sui's troops, because Han Sui's attention must have been attracted by Sun Jian.

(End of this chapter)