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Li Guan smiled when he heard this, "Have you finally set off? How many ships are there in this fleet and how many people are there?"

"More than 30 warships of all sizes, including two fighting ships, ten sea falcons, and four boats, eight ships and twelve yachts." Li Wei carefully reported the latest information to Li Guan, and said with a solemn expression, "Our people also found that a tower ship from Nandao was dispatched, and the sealed flag was stamped on the ship, but it is not clear whether it was Feng Zhang, Feng Xun or other generals with surnames on the ship."

Li Guan couldn't help but be moved. The tower ship had a general in the Western Han Dynasty. In the early Sui Dynasty, the tower ship built by Yang Su was large. "Five floors up the tower, more than a hundred feet high, six poles on the left and right, front and back, and fifty feet high, containing eight hundred soldiers." In the Tang Dynasty, Du You said: "The three-fold building was built on the ship, with women's walls, battle grids, banners, crossbow windows, spear holes, and thrown cars, and stone and iron juice, which looked like a city cradle. Suddenly, when we met a debate, no manpower could control it, and this was not convenient. However, it was necessary for the navy to set up a situation." The tower ship was the most important combat ship in the navy's equipment at this time, with complete weapons.

According to Li Yan's understanding, the tower ship is actually better at fighting in lakes. Only when the water is deep and the waves are small and the places are large, can the battle be launched calmly, and the huge warships, a large number of soldiers on the ship and many powerful weapons to abuse others' boats. But when the estuary of the Yangtze River, there will be a danger of overturning when the waves are strong. Not to mention on the sea, the tower ship can only show its power and show its strength when there is no wind and waves near the sea. According to the Tang people himself, it must be set up, and it plays a completely deterrent role.

Li Guan was moved when he heard that Da Xiezhai was dispatched. It was not because the Tower Ship was the largest warship among the Tang Dynasty naval forces at this time, but because of the information revealed behind the tower ship. Warships like the Tower Ship, which have poor combat performance and deterrence effects exceed combat effectiveness, are rarely equipped in ordinary naval forces. According to what Li Guan knows, there are only two tower ships like Wang Jin, a genuine naval force in Dengzhou naval forces, and Da Xiezhai has more troops than Dengzhou naval forces. It is only three tower ships. Even the joint fleet of Duli Town, the naval forces that were piled up completely with money, are said to have only eight tower ships in total.

This kind of warship that is completely a deterrent function is basically used to show off and will never go to sea easily. If a storm accidentally overturns, anyone will be angrily bleeding. But now, Feng Zhang actually sent a tower ship, which means he is very serious about the suppression of the thieves this time. It also means that Da Xie Village must have sent an important person to sea, otherwise he will not be qualified to drive a tower ship to sea.

Is it Feng Zhang? It is unlikely that an old fox like Feng Zhang would not leave the nest easily. He would be more in command in Daxiezhai City. In addition to Feng Zhang, the most likely one is Feng Xun, the deputy envoy of Daxiezhai.

It seems that Feng Zhang has really invested a lot this time. Li Guan almost drooled when he heard the warships that Feng Zhang dispatched. Feng Zhang dispatched a total of 37 warships, all of which were warships, including the fighting ships, the boats, the sea falcons and the tower ships, and the marches and yachts were auxiliary ships.

The ship is equipped with a female wall on the ship, which can be three feet high, with a lever hole under the wall, and a shed is built in the ship, which is just like the woman wall. The shed is built on the shed, and the enemy is re-arranged. There is no cover on the top, and the tree-tooth flags, banners, and golden drums are in front and back. This is also a warship. The ship is a cascade duplex structure, and the sailors can be arranged in a cascade to meet the enemy. The boater hides in the ship and rows through the cascade hole, which is the main combat ship of the navy at this time. There are dozens of paddle handles on a ship, and the ship can carry up to a hundred sailors except for the paddle handle. The ship is twelve zhang long, three zhang wide, one zhang deep, six to seven feet of water, the tower is eight feet high, and the command platform is eight feet high. There are two sails on the ship!

When walking on the boat, standing on the side of the female wall, setting up boatmen and few fighting soldiers, they all choose those with elite courage, like flying gulls, riding over and over, with golden drums and flags on top, this is also a warship. The speed of the boat is fast, and it is mainly used for surprise attacks and impacts, and is a powerful tool for sea attacks. Compared with the fighting ship, the boat is much smaller, with dozens of hand on the ship, but there are not many sailors, and usually only a dozen or twenty people.

In addition to fighting ships and boats, there is another important type of combat ships. The ship has a low bow and a high tail, with a large tail in front and a small back, like a falcon. Floating plates (boards) are placed on the left and right sides, shaped like falcons, to help the ship. Although the wind and waves rise to the sky, they will not be tilted. The left and right sides of the back are covered with cowhides, and the teeth flags and golden drums are as usual. This is a warship in the river and sea. The floating plates equipped by the sea falcons are a special balance device that can keep the ship stable when encountering strong winds and waves. With this device, the ship can greatly enhance the ship's wind and wave resistance. Under harsh climate conditions, it has great advantages in combating in rivers or seas.

The sea falcon ship has strong resistance to wind and waves. By the late Tang Dynasty, the sea falcon ship had new changes. For example, the sea falcon in Daxiezhai installed iron plates on both sides of the ship to enhance its protection ability; sharp iron tips were installed on the bow of the ship to impact the enemy ship, so it was called the "iron-wall plow-shaped sea falcon warship". This kind of warship has a load capacity of 1,000 stones, ten feet long, eight feet wide, five feet deep, four feet wide, and divided into 11 watertight compartments, with 5 oars on both sides, which can carry 108 soldiers and 42 sailors. It is a new type of warship with a solid structure, strong combat power, and able to impact the enemy ships.

This time, Daxie Village dispatched ten sea falcons, four of which were newly modified new "iron armored warships".

In addition to four ships dedicated to combat, such as tower ships, boats, fighting ships, and sea falcons, Feng Zhang also dispatched eight ships and twenty yachts this time.

Mengchong, the ship was covered with raw cowhide, and the two sides opened the lever holes, and there were crossbow windows and spear holes on the left and right front and back. The enemy could not approach it, and the arrows and stones could not attack. This was not a big ship, and it was not a ship of war. Liu Xi of the Eastern Han Dynasty said in "Shiming Shi Shi Shi Shi": "Narrow and long is called a siege, which is used to conflict with the enemy ship." This shows that the siege adopts a closed structure, equipped with armor (raw cowhide), which is small and flexible in shape and fast, and is mainly used for raids, reconnaissance, and communication.

It is narrow and long, with few soldiers on the raid ship, which is a very fast raid ship. And yachts are equivalent to scramblers, and are mostly used for contact and reconnaissance.

The tower ship and the battleship are both super-large warships, with the tower ship as high as ten feet high, while the battleship is twelve feet long. The tower ship has five floors above and below, and there is no slurry for sails, but the battleship is used with sails and sauce, with two sails and saucers hidden in the deck. In terms of performance, the battleship is more suitable for sea combat, and the biggest function of the tower ship is its deterrence, as well as the heavy and large equipment on the deck of the huge ship.

A tower ship can carry about 800 soldiers, a bucket ship carries about 500 soldiers, a boat car takes about 50, a sea falcon, a ship 100, a ship 50, a ship yacht, and ten yachts. Li Guan calculated in his mind that if these warships were full, there would be 3,500 sailors alone. If the crew of the pulp hand was added, then there would be 6,000.

This result made Li Yan's eyelids twitch slightly. The number of soldiers in Daxie Village was only 3,000. But now Feng Zhang sent a fleet to sweep the pirates, and dispatched 37 large and small warships, with 6,000 soldiers. If Feng Zhang could send so many people out, it would definitely not be the whole of Daxie Village. His Daxie Village City must still have a lot of soldiers and horses left, and even the other five forts and seven garrisons must have troops stationed in various islands.

If he calculated this way, he could have roughly calculated the number of soldiers in Daxie Village, at least over 10,000. If he had boldly calculated, he would have had already exceeded 10,000. If he had counted all the crew members and servants, it would have been impossible to calculate 20,000 to a larger scale.

Thinking of this, Li Yan suddenly felt a little scared. He held his anger and plucked up his courage to get four thousand troops, more than ten times his troops. Unexpectedly, Feng Zhang was not showing off the mountain and not showing off his waters. He was in charge of Daxie Village for ten years, but in fact he had more troops in private.

"Where are these warships and soldiers mobilized? Are they there in Daxie Island or other islands?" Li Guan said with a serious expression.

"There are all islands, including five forts and seven guards. Except for our Shamen Town, we refused to send troops, all other islands sent troops. Three hundred horses and warships were from Daxie Village, but in fact they were soldiers from each island. According to our estimates, Feng Zhang gathered 37 warships this time, with about two thousand sailors and about one thousand sailors, totaling three thousand horses. We learned from the eyeliner on Daxie Village that it was almost the same number." Li Wei replied.

"Three thousand?" Li Guan frowned. The number of this soldier was obviously inconsistent with the number of crew members.

"None of the thirty-seven warships were full, only half of them. Especially the tower ship was said to have only one hundred people, and there were not many people on the fighting ship."

Hearing this result, Li Yan's expression was obviously relieved. It was not six thousand but three thousand, and this number made him feel relieved.

"The ship we sent to Qingnipu has almost arrived!" Li Guan asked suddenly.

"It should be here. The sailors were the most experienced old pirates who came out of the sea in the middle of the night. The ones who accompanied us were also the deputy general of our reconnaissance capital, and there would be no trouble. I heard that Li Lingfu originally did not believe in gods and Buddhas, but his wife later married was a Buddhist tutor, and he even believed in the Buddha. Xuancheng under the banner of Shaolin monks, and this matter would be very smooth this time." Li Wei chuckled and sent Xuancheng as the envoy to Qingnipu, and this proposal was made by him.

Li Guan nodded, "That's good, Zijun, I have a letter here that I'm going to write to Feng Zhang. You can send a brother to Daxie Village later."

Seeing the letter handed to him, Li Wei was stunned for a moment. This was the letter that was written by Feng and sealed with hot paint. But he chose the army from Daxie Village to give it to Feng Zhang after going to sea. Is there any special significance in this?
Chapter completed!