Three Kingdoms: Stealing the Tiger Talisman and forcing Yuan Shao to become a monk

Chapter 592 Paddle Steamer

At the same time that Yuan Tan took back Xiangyang City, the war in the north also broke out suddenly. The army led by Zhang He was invincible, and with the assistance of Xuzhou's surprise soldiers arranged by Pang Tong, Chen Liu was quickly conquered. Fighting towards Luoyang, he managed to overcome the natural danger of Hulao Pass in three days.

Once the tiger prison is broken, Luoyang is close at hand, and it may not take a few days to take it.

Therefore, Yuan Tan no longer pays attention to the northern battlefield. His father is not good at fighting tough battles, but this kind of thing that beats the dog in the water is still very capable, not to mention that Zhang Xi, the four pillars of Hebei, is leading the army at this time.

Yuan Tan is still very relieved, but the only thing he is worried about now is the navy issue.

In this land of Jingxiang, there are many lakes and rivers, and fighting on foot and cavalry alone is no longer sufficient for this battlefield.

The only way to solve this situation is to train a strong naval force.

Cao Cao also trained the navy before, in order to deal with the battle in the south of the Yangtze River.

Even if Soochow didn't want to go to war with it at this moment, it couldn't worry about this matter. That's why Yuan Tan valued Cai Mao so much.

Although Cai Hao is a bit of a fool, he does have two talents in training sailors. Although he can't compare with Zhou Yu of Soochow, he has fought against Zhou Yu and others on the water many times, and he has rich experience in water warfare.

This is what Yuan Tan valued, so he gave Cai Mao great merit before, so that he could be promoted to the commander of the navy.

But how could Yuan Tan be so at ease with this [-]-year-old boy?

Yuan Tan had thought of this problem a long time ago, which is why he only gave Cai Mao this great contribution to the city, while ignoring the other hero, Zhang Yun.

The dedication of the city was jointly planned and executed by Zhang Yun and Cai Mao.

However, Yuan Tan only rewarded Cai Mao and ignored Zhang Yun.

This is what separates Zhang Yun and Cai Mao.

It is convenient to check and balance Cai Mao when training the navy, but Zhang Yun will definitely report to himself early if Cai Mao has any misconduct, so that he can get Yuan Tan's attention.

However, the two of them did exactly as Yuan Tan had expected.

Zhang Yun has been staring at Cai Mao every day since that day, and sometimes Cai Mao feels a little uncomfortable, so he asks, Zhang Yun doesn't say anything, it's just a humanoid monitor.

In this way, the Jingzhou navy is also in the process of training in an orderly manner.

Moreover, most of the surrounding counties and counties have been recovered, but four of them have fallen into the hands of Sun Quan, who is taking advantage of it. Jiangxia, Lingling, Guiyang, Changsha and other four counties.

Yuan Tan was eating meat in the front, and Sun Quan also drank some soup downstairs.

On the other hand, he is also his uncle, so he can't lick his face and ask people for these four counties, it seems a bit petty.

Speaking of this, I want to mention Sun Ren. Ever since he was brought back to Jianye by Zhou Yu, he has never let him out. He has been locked in the mansion all day long, guarded by soldiers every day, let alone going out of the city. Leaving the house was also blocked by everyone in every possible way.

Angry Sun Ren could only cry to Wu Guotai, but Wu Guotai had no choice but to find Sun Quan to yell at him, but Sun Quan just couldn't resist, and he still wouldn't let Sun Ren run around after being scolded.

As for Xuzhou, when they found out that Sun Ren was missing, they inquired many times. Later, they found out from the merchants that Sun Ren had gone to Jianye. This was when he returned to his mother's house. They didn't tell Yuan Tan, for fear that Yuan Tan would care about him on the front line. Then chaos, what happened.

Yuan Tan has been worrying about the water battle for the past few days, and Deng Ai assisted in other things, and the other things were handed over to the old ministers left behind in Jingzhou.

However, on this day, there was a joyous scream from Yuan Tan's room, which startled Deng Ai who was outside, and hurried to Yuan Tan's place.

When he called the door of the house, he saw Yuan Tan's face was full of joy, but he was holding several blueprints in his hand. When Yuan Tan saw Deng Ai, he asked him to quickly pass the letter to Xuzhou, and asked Ma Jun to rush to Xiangyang. There was something urgent. arrange for it to be done.

Deng Ai didn't dare to delay, so he hurried to the post envoy to let him pass the order.

Why is Yuan Tan so excited.

It turns out that Yuan Tan has been paying attention to his system in the past few days, and has not used it much recently. Instead, he has accumulated a lot of experience inexplicably, so he conducted a lottery.

After trying many times, I still couldn't draw the items I liked, and the garbage piled up in a warehouse.

The high frequency of lottery draws also made the armory workshop upgrade a lot, until after the last draw, ten ancient warship construction blueprints were drawn out.

The complexity of the ship structure has surpassed the current plan that people can realize, and I thought it was a chicken rib.

But when Yuan Tan saw the last picture, paddle steamer, he couldn't help exclaiming.

Present big ships are all paddled by manpower, even big ships also need a lot of manpower to paddle manually at the bottom of the ship to ensure the power source of the ship.

However, the paddle steamer relies on stepping on the wheels to drive the gears to drive the oars, thus greatly improving the power of the ship and reducing the demand for manpower.

This reduced manpower can be converted into combat power.

If a large ship can carry 500 people, 200 of them need to row the boat, but if an improved paddle steamer is used, a large ship only needs 100 people, which is more than a hundred people.

Moreover, the side of this paddle steamer is made of thick wooden boards, which can be opened if it is facing the enemy, and if it is long-distance, let the crossbowmen release arrows.

If it is close, you can throw fire oil and iron plants to damage the opposite hull.

When defending, the partition can be lowered to block the enemy's attack.

Greatly improved the output and defense of ships.

And Yuan Tan didn't want to reproduce it completely, otherwise he wouldn't have summoned Ma Jun all the way.

Yuan Tan wanted to add the optimized function of this paddle steamer to the current battleship, so as to improve the mobility and offensive and defensive capabilities of the current battleship.

However, how to transform it specifically requires a master craftsman to operate it, and the first person Yuan Tan thought of was Ma Jun.

But Ma Jun is in Xuzhou at the moment.

Ever since Ma Jun was appreciated and valued by Yuan Tan, as a craftsman of the era, he never dreamed that he could achieve such a status.

Now anyone who sees him has to salute, call him Master Ma, and respect him, no one dares to offend him.

This also made Ma Jun work extremely hard, for fear of disappointing Yuan Tan's attention.

However, when he received Yuan Tan's letter, he immediately put down all the work in his hands and rushed to Xiangyang, because he knew that everything he got now was bestowed by Yuan Tan.

For this Bole who appreciates me, I will be loyal to him throughout my life.

(End of this chapter)