Chapter 836： Qianfan Race

  Chapter 836 A Thousand Sails Race

   On July 31st of the fourth year of Tianxuan, Qu Mao and Kong Ming finished their task of developing industrial lathes in the outlying island reservoir village, and took Liu Qianhui to the Holy Land Reef Chain Naval Military Base.

  When Qu Mao and Kong Ming were obsessed with researching and developing lathes, Liu Qianhui didn't dare to disturb the two of them by speaking, but Liu Qianhui didn't have any taboos on the warship going to the Reef Chain Naval Military Base.

   Along the way, Liu Qianhui was chattering endlessly, desperately attacking Qu Mao and Kong Ming as two out-and-out workaholics and lunatics, but it took only five days and five nights to come up with an original lathe.

  However, Kong Ming and Qu Mao soon leaned against the railing on the warship deck and fell into a deep sleep. During the entire research and development process, both of them forgot to sleep and eat, and suffered from severe sleep deprivation.

After the three arrived at the Reef Chain Naval Military Base, Sylvia Ocean, Fur Swamp and the assembled naval heroes warmly received Qu Mao, Kong Ming and Liu Qianhui. For the crazy naval heroes, everything is good before the expedition.

  In the evening, the naval heroes hosted a dinner in honor of Qu Mao, Kong Ming and Liu Qianhui at the Reef Chain Naval Military Base. Sylvia Oushen took the opportunity to report to Qu Mao the specific plan for the attack on the coastline of the Jilihou Kingdom.

  Naval heroes discussed clearly that the operation to harass the coastline of the Marquis of Jili is essentially a training operation in which different fleets of the navy cooperate to fight together.

Therefore, it will take the form of training in rotation. Within three months, except for the Jier Fleet, the Luanshan Fleet and the Tassel Fleet, the other four fleets will send warships to participate in the battle, each time at the same time. The total number of warships engaged in harassment operations is about a thousand.

  Jilihou Kingdom is a long and narrow landform, with a coastline as long as 200 kilometers, but the horizontal width of the territory is no more than 500 kilometers, and the narrowest point is only more than 200 kilometers.

Qu Mao did not have any information on the Geely Marquis, and Xinping simply reported to Qu Mao some basic information about the Geely Marquis. which country to attack.

  Even though Sylvia Oshen's navy wanted to choose the coastline of the Jilihou country to harass as a training ground for the Yicheng territorial navy, Qu Mao still did not decide to attack the Jilihou country.

The coastline of the Jilihou Kingdom is too long, but the land area is not large. Even if it is taken down, the territory of Yicheng will invest too much energy and cost in defense, unless the neighboring country of the Jilihou Kingdom, the Principality of Feilie, can also be taken down. , but the main continental campaign launched by the Yicheng territory at the end of the year was only aimed at taking down the territory of one or two princely states, and never thought about taking down the territory of another principality.

  Sylvia Oshen and Fuer Swamp reported to Qu Mao the detailed operational plan at the dinner party for Qu Mao, Kong Ming and Liu Qianhui. Qu Mao only nodded frequently and did not express any opinions.

  It has come to this point. There is no essential difference between expressing opinions and not expressing opinions. Qu Mao does not want some of his suggestions to affect the plans that the Navy itself has made.

  The navy only harassed the Marquis of Jili, and did not take into account the territory of the Marquis of Jili. They just fought. There was no need to think too much about it. This was Qu Mao’s most genuine thought.

In the early morning of August 1st in the fourth year of Tianxuan, before dawn, Sylvia Ocean, Fur Swamp and other naval heroes gathered a large number of senior naval officers on the playground of the Reef Chain Naval Military Base, The playground of the narrow reef chain naval military base is full of people.

Qu Mao, Kong Ming, and Liu Qianhui were also invited to board Sylvia Ocean's commanding platform. The entire reef chain naval military base was basically formed with wooden planks on the reef exposed to the sea, and they stepped on it. "Dong Dong" sounded.

  Sylvia Ocean impassionedly published the pre-war mobilization: all naval heroes and senior naval officers are required to take this training seriously, and not to be compared with the army's underground world exploration and raid military operations in the Holy Land.

The naval heroes and high-ranking naval officers suddenly agreed. Qu Mao didn’t mind the benign competition and confrontation between the naval heroes and army heroes in the Yicheng territory, so he didn’t think there was anything wrong with Sylvia Ocean’s pre-war mobilization. .

  The sky gradually brightened, and there were shadowy sails of warships everywhere outside the military port and the port of the Reef Chain Naval Military Base.

  Sylvia Ocean ended the pre-war mobilization and invited Qu Mao to speak to naval heroes and senior naval officers.

  Qu Mao stood on the commanding platform, stunned for about a minute, and then said: "Athletes of the navy, follow your commander boldly and make contributions.

  I, as your lord, am waiting for your triumphant return in the Holy Land!

   Triumph, let's go! "

  All the naval heroes and senior naval officers, including Sylvia Ocean and Fur Swamp, shouted in unison: "Triumph! Go!"

  Following this roar, the sound of "dong dong dong" sounded, hitting Qu Mao's eardrums, and one by one the naval heroes and senior naval officers ran back to their respective warships.

Soon, the sails of the warship were raised, the anchors were pulled up, and countless sails moved to the northwest direction. It was the battle of hundreds of ships and thousands of sails. Qu Mao's blood was surging, and the navy of Yicheng Territory had only one ship. The small warship Qianfan has been active today, but it has not even been used for three years.

  Liu Qianhui shook her head helplessly, and said, "Qu Mao, our military heroes are all war lunatics. If the heroes under my mother had half of this spirit, I would not have been arrested by you."

   Qu Mao said flatly: "Damn! It seems that you are very unconvinced. Could it be that Yicheng territory is not good enough for you?"

  Liu Qianhui said disdainfully: "You let me become the lord's wife of the Yicheng territory, so I believe that half of the Yicheng territory will belong to my mother..."

Kong Ming coughed, and changed the topic and said: "These naval heroes are as if they have been beaten with chicken blood. How many arrows for ship-mounted ballistas did Xuande produce for them in ten days? My subordinates think it should not exceed a hundred. Ten thousand pieces, enough for them to fight for a few days?

  My lord, fighting is fighting for the economy. You still have to restrain the fighting impulse of military heroes. In the future, a lot of wars will be needed to expand the territory. If you don’t have enough war materials, you will be in trouble. "

   Qu Maodao: "After taking down the Tassel Principality and the Six Marquis States, the account of the Yicheng Territory can barely achieve a balance of payments. Fighting a war is fighting the economy. I still agree.

   If it really doesn’t work, we will continue to lay down the territory of a kingdom, and then concentrate on developing the economy.

  Let's go, let's go to Jidao to see Xuande, I don't know how the lathe is used. "

  (end of this chapter)