Chapter 354

On the beach, looking around, there are dense slipways, one by one, with no end in sight.

Countless craftsmen are building straw huts for these slipways, but more people in the distance are transporting wood. Although there is a light rain, more than 10000 carpenters and 20000 ordinary workers are still working in full swing.

In the past two months, a total of two warships have been built, which are still used to disassemble and make templates. All other time, they are making preparations.

Until then, Qin Yu realized how ridiculous it was to build 200 warships in half a year.

The first is the manufacture of the slipway. Although it is OK to lay a simple shelf next to the river, if there is no straw shed on it, it will be impossible to work when it rains. In spring in Wuchang area, it rains almost ten days a month.

Another is wood. Dry wood must be used for shipbuilding. Raw wood is not enough. Therefore, almost all the trees nearby have been cut down and countless houses have been demolished.

Qin Huan's standard of wood also dropped again and again. Finally, he even wanted tables, chairs and benches.

Solid wood must be used for the main frame and substructure of the ship. It doesn't matter what kind of solid wood. The two-story buildings on the deck are optional, including room columns and beams.

Looking at the thatched roof on the top of a hundred slipways, Qin Huan was relieved that it was almost finished, and there were piles of dry wood in the thatched shed behind. At last, Qin Huan could start work.

In the past two months, although he has been building slipways and sheds and collecting wood, he believes that once he starts, he will get twice the result with half the effort.

For two months, he was working with more than 200 old ships to decompose two sample ships.

There are more than 10000 pieces of wood pieces of large warships. These more than 10000 pieces of wood pieces are divided into more than 2000 pieces, each of which has a numerical serial number.

When making, ordinary carpenters are responsible for processing more than 10000 wood pieces, and then assembling them into 2000 large wood pieces.

This simple first assembly process can be completed by a strong man who does not understand carpentry. The large wood pieces are divided into five groups and the small three groups. Finally, these secondary wood pieces are transported to the slipway and assembled by the old master.

In order to save assembly time, more than 2000 secondary blocks with serial numbers are marked according to the assembly sequence, which is similar to Lego blocks.

As long as it is assembled step by step according to the serial number, even a carpenter who has not built a ship can be competent. Of course, there is a premise that you have to know the numbers.

But the fact was that none of the hundreds of old boatmans could read. Therefore, Qin Huan had to appoint some literate people who knew numbers to be their deputy. One person from each slipway was responsible for scheduling wood parts for these old boatmans

Qin Huan had planned to get a drawing of the assembly process, but the amount of work was so large that he had to give up at last.

It can be said that if Qin Huan, a modern man, had not participated in it, the ancients would never have been able to do this modular shipbuilding method assembled by serial number.

Qin Huan believed that the speed of shipbuilding was absolutely terrible once this method could be mature and applied.

The key is that it doesn't need many old craftsmen. More than 70% of the work can be completed by ordinary carpenters or even farmers.

Qin Huan spent so much energy, mainly trying to test this model to prepare for the large-scale construction of seagoing ships in the future.

When a group of old boatmans began to lay keels and ordinary carpenters began to process spare parts, Qin Yu planned to leave here and go back to Xiangyang.

Although the 300000 troops who broke into the king were just a mob, as the saying goes, ants eat dead elephants more and don't command in person. They can't sleep at night.

"Qin tie, you are fully responsible here after I leave. You know how to train the 20000 sailors recruited. You must pay close attention to me and never slack off. In addition, although Lu Xiangsheng has a small chance of sneak attack across the river, he can't help it."

"Yes, your majesty, the end will strictly supervise, strictly prevent and defend, and never give Lu Xiangsheng a chance."

Qin tie hurriedly replied. After that, he thought for a while. After all, he still couldn't resist and said carefully: "king, since we have insiders in the city, why don't we take a detour to cross the river secretly and go down to Wuchang City at one fell swoop?"

"Yes, king, as long as the brothers can cross the river, let alone there are insiders in the city. Even if there are no insiders, they may not be unwilling to go to Wuchang City."

"As long as we take Wuchang, the other side's navy is the rootless Ping, and will surely retreat to the south of the Yangtze River."

Several senior captains also looked straight at Qin Huan. They had been suffocating them for two months. In addition to beating bandits, they were patrolling and training.

In their view, there is no need to spend time and effort to build warships. The Yangtze River is so long that only a few hundred warships can be seen? It's a big deal. Take a detour.

Qin Huan looked at them and sighed. He had planned to choose one of them as the commander of the Navy, but now he gave up completely.

However, he didn't scold them, but said in a deep voice: "although he secretly bypassed to transport troops across the river, with the cooperation of the Xiao family, the chance of winning Wuchang is really great, but have you ever thought that if he fails, tens of thousands of troops will be buried at the bottom of the river."

"This... King, isn't it?" The crowd opened their mouths.

"Hum, do you think Lu Xiangsheng eats dry food? No matter where tens of thousands of troops are hiding their tracks, it is impossible for them to be imperceptible. Once the whereabouts are leaked, when we are halfway across the river, the other party's Navy suddenly kills us. Think about the consequences yourself! "

Qin Huan snorted coldly. Now Lu Xiangsheng was staring at him. He would never cross the river on a large scale without the cover of warships.

Wuchang City will be his sooner or later. There is no need to take such a big risk.

Everyone was not stupid. Qin Huan knew the power of it as soon as he said it. Everyone hung his head.

At this time, Qin Feng hurried to the door. Qin Huan was also surprised. He thought something had happened to the Xiao family in Wuchang City, so he quickly called him in.

"What's the matter? Are you in secret contact with the Xiao family, and Lu Xiangsheng noticed the clue? "

Qin Huan was not nervous. Once the Xiao family was copied and destroyed, he really didn't know how to explain to Xiao Xinru.

"Your Majesty, Lu Xiangsheng didn't notice what happened between us and the Xiao family. It's Yuezhou and Changsha. There's just news. Three days ago, the Chu troops in Changsha and Changde were marching towards Yuezhou. The total number of troops is about 120000. I'm afraid there's a big move." Qin Feng replied quickly.

"Oh, one hundred and twenty thousand, plus the original soldiers and horses in Yuezhou, isn't it a whole 180000 troops? What does the eight kings want? Don't you also want to insert chopsticks? "

Qin Huan frowned. Li Dingguo had searched for merchant ships in Yuezhou a while ago. But those merchant ships, besides blocking the Dongting Lake mouth at the critical time, dared to sail into the Yangtze River to Wuchang to fight?

"Get the map."

Not long after, the map was taken and spread on the table. Several people quickly gathered around.

"Your Majesty, Yuezhou is only two or three hundred miles away from Wuchang by land. There is still officialdom available. Do the eight kings want us to attack Wuchang first?" Qin tie looked at the map and said.

"This possibility is very great. Of course, it doesn't rule out that they took the opportunity to sneak up the river and attack Jiangling. After all, Lu Xiangsheng's Navy warships are staring at us near Wuchang."

Qin Huan touched his chin, nodded first, and then pointed to Jingzhou mansion.

"Your Majesty, how should we deal with it?"

Several people were a little nervous. They all came out of Gucheng. Naturally, they knew that the eighth king had something to do with their gratitude and resentment.

Once the Chu troops really cross the river and sneak into Jingzhou, plus 300000 troops in the north, they will really be attacked by the north and the south, and one will be the enemy of three.