In ancient times, Yizhou was connected to the mainland.
Then because of the operation of the mainland plate, the Himalayas became higher and higher, while the Yizhou Strait became deeper and deeper, and finally looked across the sea.
It was not until the Ming Dynasty that the Ryukyu Islands and Yizhou were called separately.
The ancients did not have detailed nautical charts, so they often combined the Ryukyu Islands and Yizhou into one place, and then called it "Ryuki", "Dongfan", etc. Until the Ming Dynasty, Ryukyu had an independent regime and did not belong to Japan. It was just that because of the secret output of later Japanese in the game culture, 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 had exceeded 10,000 families.
Of course, because Yizhou did not register households and civilians at this time, no one knows exactly how many people there were at least now. But at least one thing is certain that in history, Sun Quan sent people to Yizhou to "float the sea to seek Yizhou", hoping to expand the army by "recruiting", well, capturing some population.
During the Sui Dynasty, Emperor Yang of Sui sent people to Liuqiu twice. The second time, the number of people exceeded 10,000. He set sail from Chaozhou. After more than a month of sailing, when he arrived at Liuqiu, Liuqiu people thought they had come to a large business trip and went to the army to trade...
This shows that there were caravans in Yizhou at a very early age, and there were even caravans of more than a thousand people. Therefore, when Emperor Yang of Sui sent people to attack Yizhou, it was considered a "large caravan".
"Large Caravan"? The Age of Discovery has clearly told everyone that when they can beat the other side, they will become pirates, and when they can't beat them, they will be honestly become caravans. Just like the Eight-Nation Alliance, it is actually the armed caravan alliance army, and Braida was beaten to pieces by such a group of pirates...
The current fleet that attacked Guan Yu is the caravan belonging to Yizhou, and well, it will also be transferred to a pirate caravan.
People in later generations were familiar with Liu, Guan and Zhang, but to these people in Yizhou, who were Liu, Guan and Zhang?
In addition, when Jiaozhi Shixie escaped, he also took away some ships, which led to the fact that Liu Bei had very few ships under his command now, with only two large ships, and the third one was still under construction, and there were not many small ships.
On the other hand, there are three large ships on the pirate side, and the number of small ships is even twice that of Guan Yu and others. The combat power on paper makes the pirate side of Yizhou feel stable no matter how you look at it.
Since it is stable, it is long live F2A!
"Roar up!"
The pirate in Yizhou roared and was magnificent.
On the pirate ships, many pirates waving various weapons such as short swords, harpoons, spears, hooks, etc. were also shouting and restless.
Yes, they have the advantage in terms of numbers...
The pirates did not want to sink Guan Yu and Zhang Fei's big ships, because the pirates in Yizhou believed that there must be cargo in Guan Yu's fleet, good goods from Jiangdong.
They wanted to kill people and rob goods, and rob large ships by the way. Then, Liu Guanzhang, who had no big ships, naturally had no way to compete with the pirates in Yizhou.
『Shoot the arrow!』
Guan Yu issued an order.
Archers on the large ship stood up from behind the mount and shot arrows at the approaching pirate ship.
Arrows break out of the air...
Then, with endless momentum, plunged into the sea.
No one thinks that all archers can still shoot on the deck like TV movies, and they can still hit the bellwether with every step of the way?
Moreover, training is all about training, and when it is really practical, it often has various problems.
For example, the wind is too strong, the wind is too small, the wind is too wind, the wind is too hot, the rain is too slippery, the light is not good on cloudy days, and the lights are dazzling at night. Anyway, they are all objective factors that affect the "shot" that are not hit.
The pirates in Yizhou laughed and thought that Guan Yu and others were rookies and weak.
The pirates in Yizhou, who were shot by the archers led by Guan Yu, did not suffer much damage except for a few unlucky guys. Until these flexible small boats stabbed Guan Yu's big ship with the impact corners on the bow and were relatively fixed, they were shot many by the bows and arrows. However, the islands on these small boats jumped into the sea, and the Guan Yu Tower ship with a small boat hanging on them inevitably slowed down.
Now we can only have a crossbow with fixed aiming equipment to ensure the shooting accuracy, but is the shooting frequency of the crossbow...
Since the shooting frequency is low, of course, you must find a target with high value.
Immediately, the crossbows on the two large ships began to shoot at the pirate leaders in Yizhou, but unfortunately they did not hit directly. Instead, several pirates around the pirate leaders died, and some were killed directly by long crossbow guns.
The pirate leader in Yizhou was so scared that he screamed, and then he did not dare to continue to distance himself from Guan Yu and others and was shot to death. Instead, he pulled Guan Yu's tower ship with all his strength and launched a jumping gang battle.
『Prepare for the fight!』
Guan Yu roared, raised his shield and sword, and slapped each other.
He did not scold those archers, because the archers on the ship basically transferred from land, and it took a certain amount of time to adapt to the sea life of the ship. Then he would shoot archers at sea and hit the target, which also required time to train. It would not be possible to curse a few times or kill two people to solve the problem.
At the same time, Guan Yu is not good at archery, but he hopes that the other party will enter the melee...
The pirate yelled and put up the springboard, then rushed over along the springboard.
"Third brother, step back!" Guan Yu shouted to Zhang Fei.
Zhang Fei held the spear and looked at Guan Yu squintly. The years of tacit understanding on the battlefield made Zhang Fei immediately understand, and he hid silently behind the array, lowered his waist, and said nothing.
Guan Yu can only be considered ordinary when training archers, but if his sword and shield masters rank second in the Three Kingdoms, no one can rank first.
Guan Yu stood in the formation, resisting the chaotic and disorderly attacks of the pirates in Yizhou, slowly retreating, as if they were suppressed by these pirates, which also stimulated the pirates to become more and more excited. He screamed and smashed the shields of Guan Yu and the swords and shields. With the banging sound, he didn't realize that they did not cause much damage at all, and they were also led to the wide area on the deck little by little...
Just as the pirates fantasized about breaking through the array and killing each other in the next moment, Guan Yu fought back. Even on the deck on the sea, Guan Yu's sword and shield hands were still effortless against the pirates and soldiers.
Especially when Zhang Fei waved his spear and shouted and made way out of the way, letting me come, his desire for war and his bloodthirsty cruelty were even more pirates than pirates and butchers than butchers. It was enough to become a nightmare for these pirates in Yizhou. When they recalled in the dark, they hugged themselves and cried and shed tears as if they were bullied so much that they were so arrogant that they were holding themselves and crying.
"Puff, puff!"
The sound of weapons entering the flesh rang one after another.
Zhang Fei rushed out from the back row, and the spear came first, stabbing into the pirate's body hard. It was probably stuck on the bone in his chest and did not penetrate the body at once. Instead, he pushed the pirate backward and flew out. The blood spurted out from the pirate's chest scattered into a bright red in the air.
Guan Yu's sword and shield hand pushed the pirates away, stabbing or slashing the 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 claimed to be brave and rushed in front of them. Now they were directly chopped to the ground, which immediately caused the pirates around to exclaim.
Guan Yu's sword and shield hand, during daily training, just chopping is done by 500 times, and stabbing is done by 500 times, which adds up to more than a thousand times. At the same time, sandbags have to be tied to the arm. There are no such heavy objects on the battlefield to block the slashing movements of the sword and shield hand are flexible and fast, and often the knife is used to bring out a tent of blood.
On the other hand, even if the pirates gather together to fight, they will fight their own battles, and there is basically no question of ranks or cooperation. The pirates in front fall, and the pirates behind will even trip over the pirate's corpses. Of course, not these pirates have no combat power, such as darts, sand, lime, thighs, calves, feet, and everything...
But it was useless. The soldiers who were fascinated were quickly protected by other soldiers. When they retreated, the pirates could not catch anything. The iron fork of the pirate who was trying to greet three routes could not break the soldiers' war skirts, shin-protecting leather boots at once. Although it was inevitable that they would be smashed and swollen, they would not cause much damage. The soldiers' counterattack was enough for these pirates to drink a pot.
This is the difference between professional soldiers and ordinary pirates.
Zhang Fei howled and rushed to the front. He first shocked with a huge roar, and then waved the spear. When swept across, it looked like dumplings. When piercing, it was often blood gourds. When it was so beaten up, he even smashed the spear on the deck with a spear...
"Third brother..."
Guan Yu in the array called out.
The deck you smashed is Hedong, not from the pirate ship...
Zhang Fei laughed loudly, forgot about the discomfort of seasickness, forgot about the depression before, and only battle, fighting and fighting were left in his mind!
Not long after, when Zhang Fei screamed and pierced the pirate leader's head with a spear, the remaining pirates tried to jump into the sea and return to the ship to escape.
But they were very disappointed to find that they were afraid that Guan Yu and the others would run away before, so they used a lot of hook ropes, and the springboard with hooks could not be taken off in a short while...
Can't be solved!
Some clever pirates quickly fled in a boat.
Because the big ship was connected with Guan Yu's ship, it became Guan Yu's spoils.
"Ah..." Zhang Fei suddenly felt that the soles of his feet were shaking up and down sharply. He escaped from his combat consciousness and finally realized that he was still on the sea. He quickly used a spear to lean on the deck like a crutch, "Uh uh? Then who would come and help me... Why did he shake so hard..."
Guan Yu ignored Zhang Fei and ordered, "Check the losses! Report the situation of each ship!"
"Reported, ten people were injured, three people were seriously injured, and two others fell into the sea and were searching!"
『The cabin is intact and there is no water leakage!』
"Three damaged decks can be repaired."
『…』 Guan Yu looked at the damaged parts on the deck of Hedong, and remembered that there seemed to be two places where Zhang Fei was so excited that he smashed them with a spear just now?
Forget it, I won’t bother with my third brother.
Overall, the loss was not very big, but I obtained two large ships from each other. Although it looked a little old, the tonnage was there, so it should be fine to use it for three or two years for transportation.
『Salvage prisoners!』
Guan Yu looked at the abandoned pirates on the sea and stroked his beard. He just asked Zhang Fei to keep it a little bit, but Zhang Fei seemed to have never heard of it. He stabbed the pirate leader to death with a spear. So he could only count the specific situation when these ordinary pirates could know some of the specific situations, but most of the time, these ordinary pirates may not even count how many fingers they have, just like the natives of Jiaozhi, it is difficult to communicate.
A total of fifteen prisoners were caught from the sea, and the injured and unable to climb onto the side of the boat were let to fend for themselves. What other people who had the backbone that refused to be salvaged and had to be prepared to swim across the Yizhou Strait by swimming skills, Guan Yu did not stop him.
This may not be the only naval battle between the Han Dynasty in three or four hundred years, but it must be the first sea battle between Liu Bei and others, or even the first naval battle after the Guangwu Revival.
This naval battle broke out without Guan Yu's preparations. The entire battle lasted less than an hour. The speed of the pirates' raid left a deep impression on Guan Yu. What was also impressive was that the combat skills of these pirates were so weak that they were as weak as those of the Jiaozhi natives.
In the era of cold weapons, better equipment and better training of professional soldiers will always be a nightmare for miscellaneous soldiers.
After further searching, Guan Yu also found seven or eight other prisoners in the pirate ship. These guys hid in the gaps in the deck cabin of the pirate ship. Their thin and dark skin were the source of the courage these guys played hide-and-seek with Guan Yu, but they didn't know that they were not meeting another group of Madaha pirates, but scouts who could survive on the battlefield, so these guys were caught without surprise, tied up with other prisoners, and threw them into the cabin.
After identification by the craftsmen on the navy's ship, the pirates in Yizhou were almost the same as those in the Han Dynasty, and they were even suspected to be ships produced in the Han Dynasty's Jiangdong...
The structure of most building ships in the Han Dynasty did not change much, and the offshore ships were actually similar to those of inland river ships. These two captured pirate ships also gave Liu Bei and others a window to understand Yizhou.
This window gave Liu Bei and others the opportunity to get a glimpse of the style of pirates who once traverseed the southeast coast and were famous in Southeast Asia from the Han Dynasty to the late Ming Dynasty.
The ship that was forcibly hooked up was untied. Guan Yu sent some people to the pirate ship to control the ship, staggered and sailed on the sea for another three days, and then arrived at Jiaozhi amid Zhang Fei's muttering of his second brother's lie.
The first time the boat was on the shore, Zhang Fei jumped off the boat, and then staggered on the ground, as if celebrating a new life.
Liu Bei took some craftsmen to board the pirate ship with interest and conducted a detailed survey of the pirate ship again. After discussion, the craftsmen confirmed again that these two pirate ships were indeed constructed in the early Han Dynasty, and judging from the craftsmanship they used, it is indeed very likely that they were produced by Jiangdong...
As for who sold the ship to the pirates, it is unknown.
The pirate ship also has a wide belly and uses very hard wood on the deck.
The craftsman said that it might be the lychee wood from Lingnan, which is quite hard and is also insect-proof, and is a very good shipbuilding wood.
Compared with the deck wood of the pirate ship, the weapons used by pirates are very "rich", and there are some things that Liu Bei has never seen before.
The most common ones are bamboo spears. Some have iron spear tips, and some even have bamboo spear tips. The lengths are much different, with the longest being even more than two meters long. The number is also the largest. Not only the seized part, but many such bamboo spears have also been found in the cabin.
According to the pirates, these spears were made in Yizhou. The long ones were used to poke through the boat, and the short ones were used as guns. Anyway, the bamboo was cheap, so it wouldn't hurt if it couldn't be hit and threw it into the sea...
Of course, there are also wooden spears, which are much smaller than bamboo spears.
The close-fitting swords used by pirates are some of them like chopping hatchets. They have thick backs and straight handles, but the iron quality seems to be very good, and they can easily collapse when they are head-on. The craftsmen say this is because the forging technology is not up to standard, or the iron ore raw materials may be poor and the good steel cannot be smelted.
There are also a large number of harpoons on the boat, two-end, three-end, fishing nets, buoys, etc. It is obvious that the pirate usually works as part-time fishermen...
In addition, some fragmented weapons, such as meteor hammers and slings, are basically difficult to distinguish. There are fewer bows and arrows, and there are two or three crossbows, but the crossbows are all rusted and they don’t understand the rifle. The craftsman said that the crossbows had not been maintained at all and were already scrapped.
During the inspection, Liu Bei also discovered some utensils and tincture oil that might be used for arson. However, at that time, the pirate leader in Yizhou might think that he had a great victory and did not need to use these tincture oils to avoid breaking the goods...
Liu Bei asked the soldiers and craftsmen to clean and repair the pirate's ships, and then got off the ship with a little thought.
"Does your brother want to take down Yizhou?" Guan Yu looked at Liu Bei's expression and asked.
They are all brothers who have been together for so long, and they know whether the other person is red or yellow when he sticks his butt.
Sun Quan could have thought of "recruiting" people in Yizhou. As Liu Bei, he naturally couldn't have imagined that he had no plans in this regard before, because Liu Bei didn't meet him. Now that he knew about it, he began to think about it in his heart.
"Second brother and third brother, what do you think?" Liu Bei asked.
Zhang Fei waved his hand, "I can't go. I still feel that the ground is still soft and shaking... My brother would just let me be on the ground!"
Guan Yu narrowed his eyes, "Maybe he can try it out. However, now our navy is still too few and there is not enough training..."
Guan Yu talked about the archers who lost their standards during the battle.
Liu Bei also nodded, "Yes, don't rush for a moment."
However, that's Yizhou...
That was the place where Qin Shihuang was talking about back then. Even if there was no magic pill, it seemed worth a look and a walk around.
What if?
Right?
Chapter completed!