Three Kingdoms

In ancient times, Yizhou was connected with the mainland.

Then due to the operation of the continental plates, the Himalayas became higher and higher, while the Yizhou Strait became deeper and deeper, and finally faced each other across the sea.

It was not until the Ming Dynasty that the Ryukyu Islands and Yizhou were called separately.

Ancient people did not have detailed nautical charts, so they often combined the Ryukyu Islands and Yizhou into one place, and then called them "Ryukyu", "Eastern Fan", etc. By the time of the Ming Dynasty, Ryukyu had an independent political power and did not belong to Japan. However, because of the secret export of game culture by the Japanese in later generations, many people who did not understand the history of the East mistakenly believed that Ryukyu belonged to Japan.

During the Three Kingdoms period, the permanent population of Yizhou already exceeded 10,000 families.

Of course, because Yizhou had not implemented household registration and population registration at this time, no one knew exactly how many people there were, at least at the moment. But what is at least certain is that in history, Sun Quan sent people to Yizhou, "floating the sea to seek Yizhou", hoping to expand the army by "recruiting", um, capturing some people.

In the Sui Dynasty, Emperor Sui Yang sent people to "Liuqiu" twice. The second time, the number of people exceeded 10,000. They set sail from Chaozhou and after more than a month of sailing, when they arrived at Liuqiu, the people in Liuqiu thought it was a large business trip and started to "trade with the army" one after another...

This shows that there were caravans in Yizhou very early on, and there were even caravans with more than a thousand people. Therefore, when Emperor Yang of the Sui Dynasty sent people to attack Yizhou, it was considered a "large caravan."

"Large caravan"? The Age of Discovery has clearly told everyone that when you can defeat the opponent, you will transform into a pirate, and when you cannot defeat the opponent, you will become a caravan. Just like the Eight-Nation Alliance, it was actually the Armed Caravan Alliance, and Braid Chao was beaten to pieces by such a group of pirates...

The ones currently attacking Guan Yu's fleet are the caravans belonging to Yizhou, well, they will also be converted into pirates.

People of later generations are familiar with Liu Guanzhang, but to these people in Yizhou, who is Liu Guanzhang?

In addition, Shi Xie from Jiaozhi also took some ships with him when he escaped. As a result, Liu Bei now has very few ships. There are only two large ships, the third one is still under construction, and there are also not many small ships.

On the other hand, the pirates had three large ships, and the number of small ships was even more than twice that of Guan Yu and others. The combat effectiveness on paper made the Yizhou pirates feel that they were stable.

Now that it is stable, long live F2A!

"dash forward! 』

The leader of the Yizhou pirates roared with great momentum.

On the pirate ships, many pirates wielding daggers, harpoons, spears, hook knives and other weapons were also shouting and restless.

Yes, they have an advantage in numbers...

The pirates did not want to sink the ships of Guan Yu and Zhang Fei, because the Yizhou pirates believed that there must be goods in Guan Yu's fleet, good goods from Jiangdong.

They wanted to kill people, steal goods, and seize the big ship. Without the big ship, Liu Guanzhang would naturally have no way to compete with the Yizhou pirates for maritime trade.

"Fire the arrow!" 』

Guan Yu issued the order.

The archers on the big ship stood up from behind the vertical boards, and then fired arrows at the approaching pirate ship.

Arrows shot out of the air...

Then with infinite momentum, he plunged into the sea.

Doesn't anyone think that all archers can shoot on the deck and still be able to hit the target with a hundred steps like in TV movies?

Moreover, training is all training. When it comes to actual combat, there are often various problems.

For example, the wind is too strong, the wind is too light, there is a tailwind, there is a headwind, it is too hot on a sunny day, it is too slippery when it rains, the light is not good on a cloudy day, or the lights are dazzling at night, these are all objective factors that affect the miss. .

The Yizhou pirates laughed loudly, thinking more and more that Guan Yu and others were novices and weaklings.

The Yizhou pirates were shot by the archers led by Guan Yu. Except for a few unlucky ones, they did not suffer much damage until these flexible boats used the ramming horns on their bows to pierce Guan Yu's big ship. After the position was relatively fixed, a lot of them were shot by bows and arrows, but then the islands on these small boats jumped into the sea water, and the speed of Guan Yulou's boat with the small boat on it inevitably slowed down.

Now only the ballistae with fixed aiming equipment can ensure shooting accuracy, but what about the firing frequency of the ballistae...

Since the shooting frequency is low, of course it is necessary to find high-value targets.

Immediately, the crossbows on the two large ships began to shoot at the pirate leader in Yizhou, but unfortunately they did not hit directly. On the contrary, several pirates around the pirate leader died, and some were directly hit by the long crossbows. , killed on the spot.

The Yizhou pirate leader screamed in fright, and then he did not dare to continue to distance himself from Guan Yu and others and was shot to death in vain. Instead, he used all his strength to grab Guan Yu's ship with a hook and lock, and carried out a gang-hopping operation.

"Get ready to fight!" 』

Guan Yu roared, raised his shield and sword, and slapped each other.

He did not scold the archers, because the archers on the ships were basically transferred from land, and it would take a certain amount of time to adapt to life on the ship, and then they had to hit the target when shooting at sea. , also requires time to train, and the problem cannot be solved by just scolding or killing two.

At the same time, Guan Yu is not good at archery, but he prefers the opponent to enter the melee stage...

The pirate shouted and set up the springboard, and then rushed along the springboard while shouting randomly.

"Third brother, stay back!" ” Guan Yu shouted to Zhang Fei.

Zhang Fei held a Zhangba spear and glanced sideways at Guan Yu. After many years of tacit understanding on the battlefield, Zhang Fei immediately understood and hid behind the array silently, hunched over and silent.

Guan Yu's training of archers can only be regarded as average, but if the combat effectiveness of his sword and shield wielders ranks second among the Three Kingdoms, there is really no one who can rank first.

Guan Yu stood in the formation, resisting the chaotic and disorderly attacks of the Yizhou pirates, and slowly retreated. It looked like he was suppressed by these pirates, which also stimulated the pirates to become more and more excited, shouting and smashing. The shields of Guan Yu and these swordsmen and shieldmen were noisy and noisy, but they didn't realize that they didn't cause much damage at all, and they were also led little by little to the wide space on the deck...

Just when the pirates were dreaming about breaking through the array and killing them in the next moment, Guan Yu struck back. Even on the deck on the sea, Guan Yu's sword and shield men faced off against the pirates without any effort.

Especially when Zhang Fei waved his Zhangba spear and shouted for everyone to get out of the way and let me come, his desire for war and bloodthirsty ferocity were simply more pirates than pirates, more butchers than butchers, enough to become these barbarians. When they recalled the nightmare of state pirates in the dark night, they hugged themselves and cried as if they had been bullied to the point of losing control of their anus.

"Pfft, pfft!" 』

The sounds of weapons entering flesh were heard one after another.

Zhang Fei rushed out from the back row. His Zhangba spear came first and pierced the pirate's body fiercely. It was probably stuck on the bones of the chest. It did not come out all at once, but He pushed the pirate backwards and flew into the sky. The blood spurted from the pirate's chest spread into a bright red streak in the air.

Guan Yu's sword and shield hand pushed the pirates away, stabbing or slashing with his sword. In the first round of counterattack, he directly cut down seven or eight pirates. Moreover, the seven or eight pirates who were cut down all boasted of their bravery on weekdays. The one who charged in front was now cut down directly to the ground, which immediately caused the surrounding pirates to scream in surprise.

During daily training, Guan Yu's sword and shield hand only needs to repeat the action of cutting five hundred times and stabbing five hundred times, which adds up to more than a thousand times. At the same time, sandbags must be tied to the arms. There is no such action on the battlefield now. These heavy objects impede the sword and shield hand's cutting and stabbing movements, which are flexible and fast. Often, a cloud of blood will come out as soon as the sword is drawn out.

On the other hand, on the pirate side, even if they gather together to fight, they all fight in their own way, and there is basically no formation or coordination. The pirate in front fell down, and the pirate behind would even stumble over the pirate's corpse. Of course, it is not that these pirates have no fighting ability. Some throw darts, some throw sand, some throw lime, and some prick their thighs, calves, and feet. They have everything...

But it was of no use. The dazzled soldiers were quickly protected by other soldiers and retreated. The pirates could not catch anything, and the iron forks of the pirates who tried to greet them three ways down could not be removed at once. If the soldiers' skirts and leather boots were pierced in the front, bruises and swelling would inevitably occur, but the damage would not be too great. The soldiers' casual counterattacks were enough for these pirates to drink.

This is the difference between professional soldiers and ordinary pirates.

Zhang Fei roared and rushed to the front. He first let out a huge roar to shock him, and then waved his Zhangba spear. When it swept across, it was like dropping a dumpling. When it was pierced, it was often a gourd of blood. When the fight was aroused, it was even He even used a Zhangba spear to smash it down on the deck...

"Third brother..."

Guan Yu, who was in the middle of the array, shouted.

The deck you smashed belongs to the Hedong, not a pirate ship...

Zhang Fei laughed loudly, forgetting the discomfort of seasickness and the previous depression. All that was left in his mind was fight, fight!

Not long after, when Zhang Fei screamed and pierced a hole in the pirate leader's head with a eight-foot-long spear, the remaining pirates tried desperately to jump into the sea and return to the ship to escape.

But they were disappointed to find that because they were afraid that Guan Yu and the others would run away, they used a lot of hook ropes, and the springboard with hooks couldn't be taken down in a short while...

I can’t untie it!

Some clever pirates quickly escaped in small boats.

Because the big ship was connected with Guan Yu's ship, it became Guan Yu's trophy.

"Hey..." Zhang Fei suddenly felt that the soles of his feet were shaking up and down again. He was separated from the consciousness of fighting and finally realized that he was still on the sea. He quickly used his Zhangba spear to lean on the deck like a walking stick. Go, "Uh uh uh?" Then someone, come over and help me... Why is this shaking so much..."

Guan Yu ignored Zhang Fei and directly ordered, "Check the damage!" Report the status of each ship! 』

"Report, ten people were injured, three were seriously injured, and two others fell into the sea. Search is ongoing! 』

"The cabin is in good condition and there is no leakage!" 』

"The deck is damaged in three places and can be repaired. 』

"..." Guan Yu looked at the damaged areas on the deck of the Hedong. He remembered that there seemed to be two areas where Zhang Fei had just hit him hard and hit them directly with a Zhangba spear?

Forget it, I won’t argue with my third brother.

Overall the loss was not great, but two large ships of the other side were gained. Although it looks a bit old, the tonnage is there after all, and it should be fine for three or two years if it is used for transshipment or something.

"Salvage the prisoners!" 』

Guan Yu looked at the abandoned pirates on the sea and stroked his beard. Just now he told Zhang Fei to hold back, but Zhang Fei didn't seem to hear him at all and stabbed the pirate leader to death with a spear. So we can only hope that these ordinary pirates can still know some specific situations. But most of the time, these ordinary pirates may not even be able to count how many fingers they have. Just like the natives of Jiaozhi, it is difficult to communicate.

A total of fifteen prisoners were fished out of the sea, and those who were injured and unable to climb onto the side of the ship were left to fend for themselves. Guan Yu did not stop those who had the guts to refuse to be salvaged and were prepared to rely on their swimming skills to swim back across the Yizhou Strait.

This may not be the only naval battle in the Han Dynasty for three to four hundred years, but it must be the first sea battle for Liu Bei and others, and it may even be the first naval battle after Guangwu Zhongxing.

This time, the naval battle broke out without Guan Yu being prepared. The entire battle lasted less than an hour. Guan Yu was deeply impressed by the speed of the pirates' raid. What was equally impressive was the battle of these pirates. His skills are extremely weak, comparable to those of the Jiaozhi natives.

In the era of cold weapons, better equipment and better training for professional soldiers will always be a nightmare for casual soldiers.

After further searching, Guan Yu also found seven or eight other prisoners in the pirate ship. These guys were hiding in the gaps in the deck and cabin of the pirate ship. Their thinness and dark complexion were the source of the courage for these guys to play hide and seek with Guan Yu. , but they didn’t know that what they encountered was not another group of Madaha pirates, but scouts who could survive on the battlefield, so these guys were captured without any surprise, tied together with other prisoners, and thrown into the Into the cabin.

After being identified by craftsmen on board the navy, it was found that the structure of the Yizhou pirates' ships was almost the same as that of the Han Dynasty. It was even suspected that they were ships produced by the Han Dynasty Jiangdong...

The structure of most floor ships in the Han Dynasty did not have any obvious changes, and offshore ships were actually similar to inland river ships. These two captured pirate ships also gave Liu Bei and others a window into Yizhou.

This window gave Liu Bei and others the opportunity to have a glimpse of the pirates who once roamed the southeastern coast from the Han Dynasty to the late Ming Dynasty and were famous throughout Southeast Asia.

The ships that were forcibly linked together were untied, and Guan Yu sent some men to the pirate ship to control the ship. They sailed unsteadily on the sea for another three days, and then arrived at Jiaozhi with Zhang Fei mumbling that his second brother was lying.

As soon as the ship docked, Zhang Fei jumped out of the ship, then swayed and danced on the ground, as if celebrating his new life.

Liu Bei took some craftsmen and boarded the pirate ship with great interest, and once again conducted a detailed survey of the pirate ship. After discussion, the craftsmen once again confirmed that the two pirate ships indeed belonged to the earlier construction techniques of the Han Dynasty, and from their In terms of the technology used, it is indeed likely that it was produced by Jiangdong...

It is not known who sold the ship to the pirates.

Corsairs are also broad-bellied, and their decks are made of very hard wood.

The craftsman said it might be lychee wood from Lingnan, which is quite hard and insect-proof. It is a very good shipbuilding wood.

Compared with the deck wood of pirate ships, the weapons used by pirates are very "rich", some of which even Liu Bei has never seen.

The most common ones are bamboo spears. Some have iron spear points, and some even have bamboo spear points. The lengths vary greatly, and the longest one is even more than two feet. It was also the largest in number, not only the captured parts, but also many such bamboo spears were found in the cabin.

According to the pirates, these spears were made in Yizhou. The long ones were used to stab across the ship, while the short ones were used as spears. Anyway, bamboo is cheap to make, so if you miss the target, throw it into the sea. I won't feel bad either...

Of course, there are also wooden spears, but the number is much less than bamboo spears.

The close combat knives used by pirates are somewhat like wood chopping knives. It has a thick back and a straight handle, but the iron quality doesn't seem to be very good, and it can easily break under hard contact. The craftsmen said this was because the forging technology was not up to par, or the iron ore raw materials were not good enough and good steel could not be smelted.

There are also a large number of harpoons on the ship, two-ended and three-ended, as well as fishing nets, buoys, etc. Apparently this pirate also works part-time as a fisherman...

In addition, some fragmentary weapons, such as meteor hammers and darts, are basically difficult to distinguish. There are relatively few bows and arrows, and there are two or three crossbows, but the crossbow machines are all rusty and I can't even cock them. The craftsman said that the crossbow machine had not been maintained at all and was already scrapped.

During the inspection, Liu Bei also found some utensils and kerosene that might have been used to set fires. However, the Yizhou pirate leader may have thought that he had a great chance of winning and did not need to use the kerosene to avoid damaging the goods...

Liu Bei asked his soldiers and craftsmen to clean and repair the pirate ship, and then got off the ship with some thought.

"Brother, do you want to capture Yizhou?" ” Guan Yu looked at Liu Bei’s expression and asked.

They have been together for such a long time that they can tell whether the other person's pussy is red or yellow by sticking out their buttocks.

Sun Quan could think of going to Yizhou to "recruit" manpower. Liu Bei couldn't have thought of it. He didn't have any plans in this regard before because Liu Bei didn't come across it. Now that he knows about it, of course he has started to make plans in his mind.

"Second and third brothers, what do you think?" Liu Bei asked.

Zhang Fei waved his hands, "I can't go. I feel like the ground is still soft and shaky... Brother, let me stay on the ground!" 』

Guan Yu narrowed his eyes and said, "Maybe you can give it a try." However, our navy is still too small and our training is insufficient..."

Guan Yu talked about how the archers were badly out of touch during the battle.

Liu Bei also nodded, "Yes, there is no rush." 』

However, that is Yizhou...

That was the place that Qin Shihuang talked about back then. Even if there is no panacea, it seems worth visiting and taking a look around.

After all, what if?

Right?

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