There were tanks in the Northern Song Dynasty

Chapter 436 East China Sea Fleet
Wang Delin is a smart person, but also a sensible person.

This is a sensible person, and he naturally knows what Li Chu said.

Before the fight against Danyang, Wang Delin had already tested each other with this matter, and Wang Delin also saw Li Chu's intentions. He didn't veto or refuse at the beginning, and he also helped Li Chu fool the higher-ups. Now that Li Chu asked him, he naturally knew Li Chu What did you want to say at first.

At the beginning, I sent someone to write to the Huainan East Road Transshipment Envoy requesting to send troops over because there were insufficient troops at that time, and there was no way to attack Danyang for the time being.

This battlefield opportunity is fleeting.

No one expected that in just two days, Danyang had not only been defeated by the Qilin Army, but even the bandit soldiers who besieged Jiangning had all become captives under the city of Danyang, and Fang La was also beheaded under the banner of Danyang. .

It's all like this now, so it would be a little bad to send officers and soldiers from Huainan West Road.

Everything has two sides.

It's not bad, but when the officers and soldiers arrive, how should we deal with it?

How could he not know the Qilin Army's intentions?

This is not to let these officers and soldiers participate in the management of these counties, but now these officers and soldiers are temporarily needed to guard the safety of these cities.

Dantu and Danyang are easy to say, as long as Changzhou and Jintan counties are held down, the bandit soldiers will not be able to threaten these two counties for the time being, mainly Changzhou and Jiangyin, and now Wuxi is still in the hands of the Fangla bandit army.

Although Fang La is dead, his power is still there.

Today's Wuxi, Suzhou, Changshu and other places are still within the control of Fang La's forces, and maybe these people will re-elect a new leader to stand up and shout, so before the arrival of the Qilin army, These counties are still in a very dangerous state.

Li Chu asked Wang Delin to be in charge of the garrison of Changzhou and Jiangyin. This is to hope that Wang Delin can take the opportunity to occupy the garrison of these two counties. After all, he is the envoy of the Tongzhou system. It was the officers and soldiers from Huainan East Road, so I am afraid that he can only be the main one.

"It is Wang Delin's duty to protect the safety of the people in the two counties. The general has orders, and Wang Delin naturally obeys them."

Wang Delin agreed.

Although this incident seems to have helped the Qilin army, it is actually very beneficial to Wang Delin himself. At that time, the credit here will naturally be to remember his name. Is it possible to remember the name of the general who came to assist the garrison? ?
Of the 1000 troops Wang Delin brought, excluding some who died in battle, [-] were left to garrison Jiangyin, while the remaining [-] people and Wang Delin himself stayed in Changzhou.

Li Chu handed over the security of Danyang area to Yang Zhi to take care of it.

At the same time, let Ding Wu stay as Yang Zhi's deputy.

But Li Chu returned to Changzhou with several people and followed Wang Delin to Jiangyin.

Then he rushed to Jiangyin and returned to Tongzhou by boat.

Then in Jiangkou Town, Tongzhou, I met Li Jun's navy going down the river, so I went eastward with Li Jun's navy warship and entered Haimen County, then turned north along the coast and turned into the naval base.

After knowing that Li Chu had established a harbor base for the navy here, Li Jun was very moved and curious, and he was eager to see the appearance of this naval base.

The moment he appeared here, Li Jun's expression was very exaggerated, his mouth opened into a huge O shape, and his two eyes were fixed on the Zheng He treasure ship that was off the air at the port.

Zheng He's treasure ship, 146.67 meters long and 50.94 meters wide.

It is the largest warship in this naval base!

Li Jun was attracted by this huge body at first glance.

Not only Li Jun.

There are Zhang Heng, Zhang Shun, Tong Wei Tong Meng, Ruan brothers and so on.

As well as the navy soldiers who came along this way, when they approached, their eyes were attracted by the huge body of Zheng He's treasure ship for the first time, and they stared at the ship without moving.

Totally dumbfounded!
I can't help them not being confused.

As early as when they came here, everyone already had expectations in their hearts. They knew that there would be new warships for them when they arrived here. At that time, everyone's first thought was, is this our warship?
[-] meters is already the limit, look at this size...

The Zheng He treasure ship was so big that these people almost ignored the nearby Dingyuan, Yangwei, Express and other ships.

After a long time, when the navy was about to dock, it was only at this time that Li Jun looked away from Zheng He's treasure ship and looked at the other warships in the port.

Don't worry if you don't look at it, you immediately exclaimed after seeing it.

Even breathing became short of breath.

He raised his arm, pointed at Dingyuan and wanted to say something, wanted everyone to see it, but he was so excited that he couldn't say a word.

In the end, when everyone saw Li Jun's abnormality and followed the direction of his finger, they saw the Dingyuan.

Time seemed to freeze at this moment.

Everyone was silent.

Just like Wang Delin was shocked and shocked when he saw the Dingyuan for the first time.

Iron, armor, boat!
Someone who reacted faster than Li Jun was Zhang Shun.

Zhang Shun is a white strip in the waves.

He jumped directly into the sea, and then swam towards the Dingyuan, he couldn't wait to touch the Dingyuan.

This one by Zhang Shun seemed to give everyone a signal, Tong Wei and Tong Meng also jumped down into the sea one by one, and swam up to the Dingyuan, and several sailors also jumped down and swam together. past.

On the Dingyuan, several guarding soldiers saw them swimming over, and immediately threw down the rope on the boat, and Zhang Shun grabbed the rope and climbed up the Dingyuan.

It was only after he boarded the Dingyuan that he discovered that not only the hull was covered with iron sheets, but even the frame of the ship was made of iron...

He was very happy.

……

On the flat square of the naval base.

Li Jun, Mu Hong, Tong Wei and Tong Meng, Zhang Shun and Zhang Heng, Ruan Sanxiong, Liu Min, Fang Xing, and the main generals of the Qilin Army and Navy all gathered in front of Li Chu, all of them were still full of excitement.Just now Li Chu had led them to visit all the warships and warships in the naval base, and also told them the functions and functions of these warships. After hearing that these are the ships they will fight in the future, they will be happy.

Deng Shichang, the heroic soul drawn by lottery, stood beside Li Chu, and everyone looked curiously at this newcomer to the Qilin Army.

Liu Min was originally Wang Qing's Nanyang general. After he voted for Li Chu, Li Chu temporarily appointed Liu Min as the commander of the Shunyang navy. There were no other arrangements after that. As a result, Liu Min stayed with the navy.Fang Xing was the former commander of the Shunyang Navy of Wang Qing. After Liu Min surrendered, he also joined the Qilin Army and became the commander of the navy.

In front of everyone, Li Chu announced the appointment that had been confirmed before.

The Qilin Navy and Yingshui Navy were combined into one army, and the army was reorganized and rebuilt into: the Kirin Army East China Sea Fleet.

Li Jun served as the commander-in-chief of the East China Sea Fleet.

The fleet consists of one deputy captain, three chiefs of staff, and ten commanders.

Deng Shichang served as the deputy commander-in-chief of the East China Sea Fleet and concurrently served as the chief of staff of the East China Sea Fleet.

Ruan Xiaoer served as chief of staff and commander of the East China Sea Fleet.

Zhang Heng served as the chief of staff and commander of the East China Sea Fleet.

Mu Hong was appointed as the commander of the East China Sea Fleet, Zhang Shun was appointed as the commander of the East China Sea Fleet, Tong Wei was appointed as the commander of the East China Sea Fleet, Tong Meng was appointed as the commander of the East China Sea Fleet, Ruan Xiaowu was appointed as the commander of the East China Sea Fleet, Ruan Xiaoqi was appointed as the commander of the East China Sea Fleet, Liu Min was appointed as the commander of the East China Sea Fleet Fleet commander, Fang Xing served as commander of the East China Sea Fleet.

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