The last three kingdoms

Chapter 1279

Recruiting Japanese was quickly put on the agenda. Although some generals put forward different opinions, Liu Yin still resisted all opinions and insisted on recruiting Japanese.

But fighting across the sea is different from fighting on land. First of all, ships. Although Sanhan and the Japanese Kingdom have contacts, the ships used are relatively small and cannot be used as warships at all. If the Han army wants to conquer the Japanese, it must first solve the problem. It's a question of warships.

Although the Tsushima Strait is not too wide, the climate is complex and changeable, and the ocean currents are unpredictable. When it is calm, the water waves are calm and the sea is calm, but once there is a change, there will be strong winds, huge waves, or thick fog. The flow is turbulent.

Ordinary small boats crossing the river are actually all about luck. When the weather conditions are good, they can cross the river smoothly, but once they encounter typhoons and bad weather, they can only resign themselves to fate.

However, in the long-term process of crossing the sea, those business travelers who travel between the two sides of the strait can still find out some experience. Relatively speaking, there are often strong winds in winter, and typhoons in summer and autumn. Only in March and April in spring, the climate Relatively stable, is the best time to cross the sea.

It is already late autumn, and there is only about half a year before the transition period next year. From the perspective of time, it is still quite urgent.

Liu Yin immediately ordered shipbuilding craftsmen from Youzhou and Qingzhou to go to Busan Port in Sanhan.

In terms of the level of the boats, Ji Han is definitely not as good as Wu Guo, but Qingzhou and Youzhou are near the sea, and fishermen often go fishing in the sea. These fishing boats are very suitable for sailing in the sea.

There are still different methods of building river boats and sea boats. The five-storey large building boats built by Soochow cannot be used at sea at all. When a strong wind blows, they will capsize immediately.Sea-going ships generally have a wide bottom, low sides and high sails, so that they can sail unimpeded on the sea.

The shipbuilders summoned from Qingzhou this time did not go by land. They boarded the boat directly from Qingzhou Jiaodong Chengshan, crossed the Yellow Sea, and arrived at Sanhan.Going by sea will save at least two-thirds of the time compared to going by land, and it also proves that the current level of shipbuilding can fully meet the needs of crossing the sea.

The Sanhan area is mountainous and has a large area of ​​virgin forest, which obviously provides convenience for shipbuilding. Limited to the inconvenience of transportation, ancient shipbuilding generally used local materials and selected the best. The climate conditions in Sanhan and Liaodong are similar, and the tree species are roughly the same. Similarly, there is no shortage of pine, cypress, elm, and fir trees, which also provide convenience for shipbuilding.

A large number of people is naturally easy to handle. Liu Yin currently has more than 5 troops from the Han army, 5 troops from the Puyu Kingdom, and [-] soldiers from Goguryeo. The labor force is absolutely affluent. They go to the mountains to cut wood all winter, and the wood piled up on the port of Busan is as majestic as a hill.

And thousands of craftsmen mobilized from Youzhou and Qingzhou are building ships day and night. According to Liu Yin's request, the ships built this time are of the third class, large, medium and small. The large ship is three feet wide and more than ten feet long. Used to transport horses and large equipment, medium warships are about one foot wide and five or six feet long, and small warships are seven feet wide and three or four feet long, all of which are used to carry troops.

In terms of overall quantity, Liu Yin did not ask for more, but built according to demand. According to Liu Yin's request, a crossing of the sea only needs to be able to carry 500 people, like a large warship that can carry 60 people at a time, and a medium-sized warship. It can carry a hundred people, and a small warship can carry five or sixty people.Therefore, only more than ten large warships were built, fifty medium-sized warships and eighty small warships were built respectively. These warships can basically meet the needs of the Han army to cross the sea.

More important than warships are logistical supplies. For cross-sea operations, the requirements for logistical supplies are unprecedented.The expedition to the Wa Kingdom itself has already created the record for the longest distance of logistics supplies, and crossing the Tsushima Strait is like a bottleneck for logistics transportation. Just imagine that after an army of 10,000+ or ​​even 10,000+ crosses the sea and lands, all the food, grass and supplies Supplies will need to be carried out through the Tsushima Strait. It would be better if it catches up with the calm season, but once the war drags on and enters the typhoon-prone season, if you want to transport supplies through the Tsushima Strait, it will be a challenge. A very difficult thing.

The soldiers and horses have not moved, and the food and grass go first. This is the prerequisite for any military operation. Therefore, while building the warship, Liu Yin puts his main energy into raising food and grass materials and ensuring the logistics supply.

With the full support of the imperial court, the grain, grass and material resources allocated from Jizhou, Bingzhou, Qingzhou and Youzhou continued to flow towards the Sanhan area.Fuyu State not only sent [-] troops to accompany Liu Yin on the expedition this time, but also funded a large amount of food, grass and supplies.Liu Yin also raised a lot of food and grass in Lelang County, Daifang County and Sanhan area. After a winter's preparation, the food and grass materials delivered to the front line can already meet the needs of all the troops for half a year.

With the passing of the cold winter, the sea breeze that has been raging for a whole winter has finally weakened. The final preparations for the Han army's expedition to the Japanese kingdom are coming to an end. At the port of Busan, the warships that have been built have also been grounded one after another, and they have begun to take shape. .

Since Liu Yin's infantry and cavalry troops and the rest of the Goguryeo army are basically landlubbers, it is not generally difficult to train these troops into navy troops, so Liu Yin did not bother in this regard, but started from Qingzhou recruited thousands of fishermen to serve as sailors.

These fishermen have a lot of experience in going to sea. Even if the warships built by the Han army are slightly larger than the fishing boats they usually use, the principles are similar. After a winter of training, these newly recruited sailors Already proficient in manipulating various types of warships of the Han army.

These warships are actually landing-type transport ships. They only need to transport the infantry and cavalry of the Han army to Kyushu Island in the opposite Japanese country for landing. There is no need for naval battles at all, which invisibly reduces the training requirements of the navy.As long as these sailors have mastered how to control the ships, the rest of the things basically have nothing to do with them.

The army for this landing operation was also screened in advance. After all, the seasickness is relatively strong, and those seasick soldiers will not appear in the first round of attack waves.

The first attack echelon is to select soldiers who are familiar with water as much as possible, and they are fully capable of amphibious attack missions. The first wave of attack must seize the beachhead and provide a landing channel for the continuous troops, so it is the most elite of the Han army. The infantry came to serve.

(End of this chapter)