The Three Kingdoms Voyage

Chapter 287

There was a gentle breeze on the wide sea, and the emperor in military uniform smelled the sea breeze full of fishy smell. His nose was a little itchy, and he wanted to rub it, but he was embarrassed to pick his nose all the time, so he had to borrow Knead it while drinking tea. As the emperor, he knows that he can’t drink too much tea, because if he drinks too much tea, he will relieve his hands. It’s fine in the palace, but now it’s on a boat, with civil and military officials beside him, so he goes alone. Relieve?
Xiao Huangmen, who was in charge of pouring tea for the Son of Heaven, was very strange. How come the cup of tea is still full after His Majesty drank tea so many times today.

Fortunately, everyone didn't pay much attention to the Son of Heaven. Their eyes were all on the nearly a hundred broken ships as imaginary enemies on the sea in the distance. After being killed, the remaining ships played their last remaining heat and acted as the targets of Yue's navy.

The 1000 Yue State Navy came from four fleets, the East China Sea Fleet, the South China Sea Fleet and the West Sea Fleet each had 2000 people, and the Funan Fleet had [-] people. They were divided into four rows, guarding the four-story ship of the Son of Heaven, ready to go.The poles and crossbows on the four large ships were all ready, and the sails were lowered. The soldiers held their weapons tightly and stood firm at their posts, but now they all faced the emperor and saluted.

The emperor was very curious, and asked the Taiwei Zhang Zhao who was with him: "Why do the ships of the Yue State Navy have two floors?"

Zhang Zhao said solemnly: "According to the etiquette, the emperor's ship has four floors, the king has three floors, and ordinary generals can only have two floors."

The Son of Heaven glanced at Zhang Zhao, and said "Oh" half-understood.Sun Quan, who was standing on the other side, rolled his eyes speechlessly, thinking that old Zhang Zhao also opened his eyes and said nonsense. The reason why the Yue Kingdom did not build four floors is because the four floors are easy to overturn, which has something to do with the dignity of the emperor. relation.However, he didn't want to offend Zhang Zhao at this time. First, Zhang Zhao was the teacher of the King of Yue in name, and also the second father of his Sun Quan. Second, Zhang Zhao is now the third prince beside the emperor. What happened, if he took the opportunity to slander him now, he could only endure it.

"Are you sure there is no problem?" Sun Shao looked at Ge Heng and Lu Shan nervously at the bow of the Tianzilou boat: "If you are not sure, it doesn't matter if we don't try it, if the performance fails, it will be a shame. "

Ge Heng clenched his fists, his face was also very nervous, his hands were tightly clenched, hesitating.Facing the sunlight in the east, Lu Shan squinted her eyes and looked at the imaginary enemy in the distance. After two or three breaths of silence, she turned her head and said, "Your Highness, I'm [-]% sure."

"Eighty percent?" Sun Shao asked.

"Well, this is still a conservative estimate. If everything goes well, it can be [-]% to [-]%."

Sun Shao looked at Lu Shan suspiciously. Lu Shan had a calm face and clear eyes.Sun Shao gritted his teeth and stomped lightly: "Okay, let's try. If it works, you are all princes of thousands of households, and you can choose the islands in the South China Sea. If it doesn't work..."

Ge Heng and Lu Shan stared at him in unison.Sun Shao met their eyes, looked at them for a moment, and suddenly smiled: "If it doesn't work, it's not going to happen. Anyway, I'm not afraid of them."

Ge Heng and Lu Shan couldn't help laughing, no one thought that Sun Shao would say such a sentence in the end.They glanced at each other and bowed to Sun Shao: "Your Highness, I'm going to prepare."

"Go." With a wave of Sun Shao's hand, all hesitation and worry disappeared without a trace in a moment, and he looked confident.Seeing them, Ge Lu and the two couldn't help gaining a bit of confidence, saluted again, got off the boat, and headed straight for Guan Feng's ship, Fengyi, to make the final preparations for the weapons at the bottom of the box.

Sun Shao turned around, looked at the emperor and the officials on the deck of the noble room (the fourth floor of the building) with a smile on his face, strode up, came to the emperor, bowed and saluted: "Your Majesty, everything is ready , Your Majesty, please order the attack."

The emperor's heart was full of pleasure, although he knew that this navy could not be controlled by himself, but at least at this moment, this navy was the navy of the big man, and he had to give the command.He stood up solemnly, took a command flag from Taiwei Zhang Zhao, and solemnly handed it to Sun Shao: "King Yue, order my Han Navy to attack."

"Wei!" Sun Shao yelled, took the command flag and hugged it in his arms, saluted the emperor and Taiwei Zhang Zhao in turn, then strode to the railing and stood silent.The sailors and soldiers on both sides looked at each other, and their blood was boiling. Su Chuleg, who was on the leading boat on the left, was the first to raise his arms and shouted:
"Long live Your Majesty, Long live King Yue!"

Immediately afterwards, Cui Qian, the leader on the right, shouted not to be outdone:

"The Han army is mighty, and the navy is mighty!"

The five thousand sailors immediately shouted in unison:

"Long live Your Majesty! Long live King Yue!"

"The Han army is mighty! The navy is mighty!"

The roar is neat and powerful, like a person shouting, obviously after a long time of training.The emperor smiled when he heard it. Anyway, at this time, the Yue State Navy can put him in front, and the Han army that has existed in name only, is already very gratifying to him.

"Long live Your Majesty!" Sun Shao turned to face the emperor, raised his arms, and shouted loudly: "The Han army is mighty!"

The Taiwei Zhang Zhao and the Yushi Zhongcheng Gu Yong who had just arrived hurriedly shouted, and the other followers also shouted in unison. Only Shu Wang Liu Bei, Wu Wang Sun Quan, and the new cavalry general Cao Zhang were a little surprised. They did not expect Sun Shao to play this game. With one hand, he hesitated for a moment, and had no choice but to salute the emperor with all the people, shouting in unison:

"Long live Your Majesty, the Han army is mighty!"

The son of heaven, Longyan, is very happy, looking forward to being a hero.

Sun Shao shouted twice and raised the command flag in his hand. The five thousand sailors who were shouting in unison suddenly fell silent. They looked at the building boat, at Sun Shao, and at the battle flag in Sun Shao's hand.

Sun Shao waved the command flag fiercely, then pointed forward.The East China Sea Fleet on the front left immediately burst into a thunderous roar, and several warships guarding the building boat suddenly started and rushed forward quickly.Immediately afterwards, Donghai Dusu's thick-legged boat started, and snow-white waves came out from the back of the boat. The sharp bow plowed a blue wave on the sea, and galloped forward.After a while, Cui Qian, the leading West Sea Fleet on the right, also started, followed by the South Sea Fleet on the left and rear. Only the Funan Fleet on the right and rear remained unmoved, silently watching the three fleets gallop away.

The emperor quickly raised the clairvoyance in his hand, staring intently at the calm sea in the distance.Several ministers remained silent, and with different thoughts, they raised their clairvoyance eyes and watched the finale of King Yue.

In a moment, the frontmost East China Sea Fleet approached the imaginary enemy. With the sound of a drum, a dark cloud flew up from the tall ship with a few black dots in it. Imaginary enemy.As water jets soared into the sky, the outermost two ships were hit first. The emperor clearly saw a warship that was originally calm shake suddenly in his clairvoyant eyes. After a short pause, he suddenly untied , sinking at a speed visible to the naked eye.

The East China Sea Fleet, which was the first to approach the imaginary enemy, had already approached the fleet after firing several rounds of crossbow shots and thunderbolt guns. They did not slow down, but swept past the periphery of the fleet at full speed. The pole flew out with a roar, smashing several ships within the strike range into pieces, and then drove away.

Behind them, the West China Sea Fleet and the South China Sea Fleet came one after another, acting according to the law, ravaging these imaginary enemies one after another. There are only twelve boats in total, but they cooperate tacitly, and the three wolves hesitate to surround a giant beast that is strong but helpless, gnawing off a large piece of meat every time.In the face of the smooth and gorgeous attack, within a quarter of an hour, hundreds of ships fell apart, most of them sank to the bottom of the sea, leaving only a few broken ships floating miserably on the sea surface, with broken ship boards everywhere.

Seeing the three fleets "returning in a big victory", the emperor breathed a sigh of relief, put down his clairvoyance, shook his sore arm, and praised: "The navy of the Yue Kingdom is really sharp, and they cooperate tacitly. .”

"Your Majesty, this is the Great Han Navy." Zhang Zhao reminded.

"Oh?" The emperor was stunned for a moment, and then smiled happily: "Yes, it's my big Han navy. Watching the cavalry drill yesterday has already made me ambitious. Seeing the navy show off today, my heart is even more Mighty and majestic."

"The Han army is mighty! The sailors are mighty!" Everyone chattered about the occasion.

"His Royal Highness, why is your boat not moving?" Cao Zhang, who was not convinced, shouted loudly.

Sun Shao, who was full of smiles, shook his head and signaled Cao Zhang to be safe and not to worry: "The front is just an aperitif, and the back is a big dish. I just didn't expect those guys to be so happy that they killed all the imaginary enemies. I'm arranging for people to repair the ship. You see a good show."

"I will wait and see with His Majesty." Cao Zhangyin said with a smile.However, although he tried his best to make himself appear more sinister, his thick eyebrows and big eyes in Chinese characters didn't look like a bad guy anyway.

"Don't worry, you will be satisfied."

"Why, there are more powerful ones?" The emperor was taken aback, the smooth and sharp attack just now had opened his eyes, how could it be an aperitif, and the big dishes haven't been served yet?

"Please wait a moment, Your Majesty." Sun Shao said respectfully, he glanced back, and said with a smile: "Please look, Your Majesty, the additional imaginary enemy is here."

The Son of Heaven quickly raised his clairvoyance and looked into the distance, only to see a dozen or so building boats slowly approaching and stopping on the sea, but this time they did not stop together, but one to the east and one to the west. , divided into four.The emperor was a little surprised, and was about to ask, but he saw Sun Shao raised his arm, gestured to the Fengyi on the right, waved the command flag in his hand, then turned around and said: "Your Majesty, please look at the latest weapon of my Han navy. "

The emperor didn't care about the soreness of his arms, and quickly turned Qianli to the Fengyi ship on the right.I saw a puff of black smoke suddenly spewed out from a tall pipe at the rear of the Fengyi building ship, straight into the sky, and then the building ship began to accelerate at an unimaginable speed, faster than the three building ships just now After a few minutes, in a short period of time, the building boat galloped away like a galloping horse, and the churning waves plowed a triangular water surface behind the boat.

"This..." The emperor was dumbfounded. When he saw the three large ships just now, he already felt that they were very fast. He had always heard that Sun Shao's warships were amazingly fast. This time he finally saw it with his own eyes, and he was really surprised. Unexpectedly, when this Fengyi ship moved together, the original three building ships paled in comparison, and were suddenly compared.

Not only the emperor was surprised, but other people were also surprised, and Sun Quan was the most surprised. He put down the clairvoyant, rubbed his eyes vigorously, and quickly put the clairvoyant on his eyes. Because of the excessive force, the clairvoyant almost squeezed out his eyeballs.He opened his mouth, and although he couldn't see his eyes, the shocked expression was still clearly visible.

The chattering and laughing buildings on the building were suddenly quiet, only exclamations and gasps were left, only Zhang Zhao was calm, although he didn't look sideways, the slightly raised corners of his mouth couldn't conceal his inner satisfaction.Compared with his complacency, although Sun Shao was also very calm, the corners of his eyes twitched from time to time. He didn't look clairvoyant, but he held the railing tightly with both hands.If someone stood beside him, he would definitely be able to hear his heavy breathing.

He is very nervous.

After four years of uninterrupted research by Ge Heng and others, thirteen model machines were abolished, and the first batch of finalized steam engines were finally produced.Is this the same as the original steam engine in history? Sun Shao doesn’t know. He only knows that even now, the operation of these steam engines is not stable. less than.But it is such an immature product, but it has demonstrated great power. Four steam engines can keep the Fengyi sailing at a constant speed, and eight steam engines can exert the sprint speed when rowing with six hundred sailors. , installed sixteen units of the first batch of products together, and used propellers that have been improved many times. It can be said that the current Fengyi has reached the fastest speed that the hull design can achieve.

The effect of this is obvious. The speed revealed by the Fengyi is a speed that warships, especially warships as large as Louchuan, have never had before, but the risk is also very high. It is difficult to guarantee how long it will run at full speed. , Maybe at the next moment, a certain steam engine will lie down, or even two or three, and in the most extreme case, it may even exceed half. In that case, this exercise will become a joke.

Even if Sixteen can give Sun Shao face and keep it running normally, that is only half the battle. There is a more important link below.

Ge Xuan and Wei Boyang studied Zhentianlei for three years.

The two studied gunpowder very quickly. Under the guidance of the prescription given by Sun Shao, they only took one year to turn black powder into a product that can be mass-produced. , they were in great trouble.Sun Shao didn't know much about this, and the help he gave them was very limited. They could only explore by themselves. After countless experiments, they finally figured out the way, and made a bronze and brass matching gun barrel. It was just a drill. Very complicated, far from reaching the practical stage.It happened that Sun Shao sent Qin Lun from Funan to Zhuya. Ge Heng and Ma Jun were greatly inspired after hearing what Qin Lun said about the Great Qin People's Torsion Ballista. On the improved Torsion Ballista.

This attempt had an unexpected effect.The torsion ballista has the strengths of both the powerful crossbow and the thunderbolt cannon, with a long range and high accuracy. After using the thunderbolt with a greatly reduced weight, the range and accuracy are also guaranteed.However, the power of black powder is actually limited. If an iron shell is used, it will usually explode in half, with limited lethality, that is, the sound is scary.But whoever said it well, the power of the people is infinite, and the gang of technicians who are full every day and have no work to do with the ball came up with various ideas to increase the lethality, some stuffed nails inside, some Some put poison in it, and some took pains to grind out a few grooves in the iron shell in order to make the iron shell explode a few more pieces.

Today, in order to make the effect very majestic, the iron shell is filled with kerosene,

Sun Shao held his breath and listened attentively. He didn't heave a long sigh of relief until the sound that could no longer be called a loud noise came, and a raging fire ignited on an imaginary enemy warship.

Listening to the explosions one after another, watching the fiercely burning enemy ships one after another, the emperor and others held their breath until the Fengyi made a circle and returned to the emperor's ship. There were bursts of violent explosions, and more than a dozen building ships were blown into pieces one after another amidst the explosions, flying all over the sky, accompanied by billowing smoke, it was truly astonishing.

Of course, these explosions were all caused by the explosion of the explosives installed on the large ships in advance. With just a dozen thunderstorms, it was okay to set fire to them, but it was impossible to blow up these ships.

But except for Sun Shao, no one on this ship knew the truth. What they saw was Fengyi riding Juechen, going out at an astonishing speed to single out more than a dozen buildings, and retreating before the enemy could react. , and then smashed the enemy into pieces with a burst of loud noise.

In an instant, Liu Bei was the only one on the building who thought of Guan Yu's intriguing scene when he beheaded Yan Liang among thousands of troops at Baimapo. Unexpectedly, 20 years later, Guan Yu's daughter staged an even more intriguing scene.Liu Bei suddenly regretted it. He found that he had become Sun Shao again. Pushing Guan Yu to Luoyang as a trouble was tantamount to pushing away a powerful ally. I can also do a little bit of this kind of thunder and go back.

Sun Shao, who had been completely relaxed, was standing on the side of the boat with a smile on his face, watching Guan Feng, who was beaming with joy, striding up with his saber in hand, and stretched out a hand in a gentlemanly manner, leading Guan Feng to the emperor, the couple both Salute: "The navy exercise is over, please comment on it, Your Majesty."

"Ah? Ah!" The Son of Heaven put down his clairvoyance and looked at the sky billowing in thick smoke. It took him a long time to close his mouth. Only then did he feel that his arms were so sore that he couldn't lift them, and even his jaws couldn't close. He took a step forward, pulled Sun Shao impatiently, raised his hand vigorously, and pointed to the sea in the distance: "Sun... Sun Qing, what kind of weapon is that, so powerful?"

"Return to Your Majesty, it's thunder." Sun Shaoqiang held back his smug smile and said, "When this thing is powerful, it's like thunder from the sky, but your Majesty is far away today, so it doesn't sound that big, and it can be far away next time." Come closer……"

"No, no, no..." The emperor shook his head again and again, and said with a wry smile, "Not too big? You can hear clearly from such a distance, but if you get close, wouldn't your ears be deafened? Shocking thunder, shaking sky Lei, it really lives up to its name."

As the Son of Heaven spoke, he suddenly felt a little strange. It’s not a good name for this thing, but it’s called Zhentianlei.He subconsciously glanced at Sun Shao, and Sun Shao smiled harmlessly to humans and animals.The emperor thought about it, and felt that he might be a little allergic.Among the four kings, Sun Shao is the most loyal, so he should not have such an idea.

"By the way, why is Guan Qing's warship so fast? It is faster than other warships, and it is similar to a galloping horse?" The emperor asked enthusiastically, "Guan Qing, both your father and daughter It's a hero."

"Your Majesty compliments me, but my concubine is ashamed." Guan Feng blushed, took a step back shyly, and half-hidden behind Sun Shao.

"Your Majesty, what is used in this boat is not manpower, but material resources." Sun Shao said with a smile: "It uses the power of steam, so I call it a steam engine."

"Steam?" The emperor thought for a while, and then asked, "But it's the same as the steam when making steamed cakes?"

Sun Shao praised secretly, who said that the emperor is stupid but smart.He nodded quickly and said, "Your Majesty is wise."

The emperor was very happy, and smiled on his back: "Sun Qing, I have nothing to do in Luoyang, and I have read a lot of articles from Zhuya Academy. Who... Who wrote the article that water is heated and has steam, and I also read the article that is powerful in steam. I just didn’t expect that this insignificant steam could actually drive a building ship.”

"Your Majesty, there is a Dao in the world, and the Dao is in all things. Your Majesty is very wise. If you pay a little attention, you will surely discover more ways of heaven. I have heard two poems, and I dare to share them with Your Majesty."

"Oh, what poem, come and listen to it." The emperor urged repeatedly with great interest.

"Everything is content to watch quietly, and the four seasons are the same as people."

The emperor chanted a few sentences, and then sighed: "good poem, I don't know who wrote it. It's a pity in my life that I don't have the chance to see it."

"What do you hear, you wrote it yourself, right?" Cao Zhang squeezed forward, winked at Sun Shao, and then bowed to the emperor: "Your Majesty does not know that His Highness King Yue also wrote poems back then. , there are many good lines in it, my father and Wang disciple Jian are full of praise. For example, "The stars are flat and the wild is wide, the moon is surging and the river is flowing", even a rough man like Chen knows it well. According to me Look, these two sentences may also be the masterpieces of His Highness King Yue, but he came across some wonderful sentences occasionally, and he was busy with government affairs, so he didn't have time to make up for it, so he just heard it."

Sun Shao was speechless.

The emperor looked at Sun Shao, who was a little embarrassed, and then looked at him with a guilty conscience. He rushed to show his kindness to Sun Shao, Cao Zhang, smiled, turned to the ministers and said with a smile: "My dear family, look at the Yueguo navy... no, How powerful is my Han Navy?"

"I congratulate Your Majesty, with such a navy guarding the sea for His Majesty, I will be invincible." Liu Bei, King of Shu rushed to congratulate him, and then bowed his hands to Sun Shao: "Nephew, you are always unexpected. Compared with the navy, our infantry is nothing to mention."

(End of this chapter)