After living in the Qin Palace in Yongcheng, Zhao Zheng seemed to have changed. He was in Xianyang and wanted to unify the world. Now he just wanted to fight to survive. Even so, Qin might still be destroyed. After giving Gan Luo a sad instructions on the funeral, Zhao Zheng did not go anywhere. He went directly to Taimiao until dark. It was not until Wei Liao came to see him that he bid farewell to the ancestor of the gods and left the Taimiao.

"What's the matter?" Zhao Zheng asked as soon as he entered the bed, and he frowned, knowing that it would be no good news.

"Donghu entered the Great Wall and escorted the Hu merchants to Jingguo." Wei Liao said the news he had just received in the afternoon. "The one transported by the Hu merchants was sulfur."

"Sulphur?!" Sulfur is a stigma among witch medicine, and Zhao Zheng's face suddenly changed.

"Yes." Wei Liao's expression was also very serious. "Hu Shang rushed to the boat at the Liaoshuikou, so there was a lot of sulfur scattered. I think the Jing people get sulfur, and the witch medicine is no longer controlled by the Westerners, so they will attack me next month."

The State of Chu has been looking for sulfur. Through the channels of the Guowei Mansion, Wei Liao also knew that the State of Chu sent sea boats to search for sulfur on the sea. After the State of Tiaozhi and Chu had a feud, there were also tens of thousands of kilograms of sulfur on the sea boats seized. Fortunately, these sulfur was burned by the people of Tiaozhi. After the information was summarized everywhere, it was possible to clearly judge that the State of Chu was short of sulfur. Unfortunately, the State of Chu did not know the amount of sulfur in Chu, and could not judge what impact this would have on the use of witchcraft.

"That's true?" Zhao Zheng knew it was bad news, but he was still a little panicked. The war was about to start next month.

"I haven't harvested grain in September yet. At this time, I can only eat Guanzhong." Wei Liao said, this is also the judgment of the Guowei Mansion.

"But my soldiers are not yet mature, and they are not yet, yet..." Everything is in a hurry, and the Qin Dynasty has never prepared for a war so hasty.

"I ask the king to leave the city tomorrow and comfort the soldiers at the Lishui River." Wei Liao said with enthusiasm in his eyes.

Due to the remaining food and time in his hand, the National Weifu did not draw elite troops from Wang Jian and Li Xin's army to defend Yongcheng. It was not that the Chu army would immediately destroy the country when it attacked Sanguan. This was just Zhao Zheng's oath. After his death or after he was captured by the Chu army, his eldest son Fusu would be supported by his ministers as King of Qin and continue to deal with the Chu army until he could not support him in the end and had to surrender to the Chu State.

This is the battle of Sanguan in Zhao Zheng's mind. Wei Liao believed that the Qin army would win in this battle, provided that Zhao Zheng accepted his advice. For example, patrol the Yongcheng, or personally go to the Lishui River to comfort the generals.

Zhao Zheng set out early the next morning and left the west gate of Yongcheng. After a walk, he boarded Wang Zhou on the east bank of the Lishui River. Wang Zhou went straight to the upper reaches of the Lishui River and entered the Lishui River Valley where Zhang Han fought with King Jing. He saw the boat master who was training along the Lishui River.

These hands sat on the temporary wooden platform. From a distance, they looked one person sitting cross-legged. Only when they looked close did they realize that the person's position was staggered, and they could sit so densely by taking advantage of the difference in height. The wooden platform was built in the water on the shore, and rows of long oars reached into the center of the water. Following the orders of the boat officials, they sometimes paddled quickly and sometimes paddled slowly, and their movements were neat and uniform.

"Your Majesty, the Romans also trained paddlers like this back then." In addition to the envoy Paropus, there were several officers from the Egyptian Navy who came to Qin. They were all Macedonians, and their white skin allowed them to escape the detention of the Huns.

"The Romans?" After hearing Wu Ji's translation, Zhao Zheng didn't know who the Romans were.

"Yes." The speaker was Crimenides, a Baidi man in his forties. According to his self-introduction, he was the son of the commander-in-chief of the Egyptian Navy. He led more than 100 five-altitude battleships to fight the Seleucid fleet and sink more than 40 warships from the other side.

"I think His Majesty's army is like the Romans, brave and persevering, and most importantly, it is its huge number." Crimenides said seriously. He did not doubt the strength of the Qin Dynasty like Palops, because he himself was among hundreds of thousands of Qin troops. "I believe they would be the best paddlers in the world, just give them enough warships.

When Rome fought against the Punics, they did not have a three-row paddle warship, but they persisted and trained countless paddlemen with this method. When they seized the enemy's warships, they began to imitate their own warships and spent more than twenty years to defeat the Punics.

The Chuni people are very similar to the Punic people. They have many warships, they are very good at doing business, and they also like to use mercenaries..."

"Haired soldiers?" Zhao Zheng was a little surprised when he heard this. He never knew that the Jing people would use the hiring soldiers.

"King, he is talking about the Chu army that occupied the place of spice production." Wu Ji replied, "It is reported that the soldiers led by the Chu people were hired."

Crimenides talked endlessly, praised the Qin army and the Qin State very much, and then began to complain: "As such a great army, it's a pity that they have not seen a real warship. I really want to know when His Majesty will give them warships?"

"I have sent envoys to your country again. If I get craftsmen, I can build a ship." First train the wizards, and then build a warship. The Qin Dynasty's ideas are indeed the same as the Romans' ideas. People can only wait for ships, not ships.

When he heard that Qin was going to send envoys to Egypt, Crimenides shook his head repeatedly, "It will take at least two years, and I heard that the Chunis will launch an attack next month..."

"What do you think of this boat?" Zhao Zheng could not answer Crimenides' question. The craftsmen were detained by the Huns. The only solution was to send people to invite the craftsmen again. For emergency response, the Shaofu also designed a kind of warship, which was the one behind Wang Zhou.

For those warships, Crimenides glanced at them and shook his head again. "Your Majesty, it has no impact angles and cannot use impact tactics."

"Your Majesty, you should know that in our sea, the navy has two tactics." Another Baidi man next to Crimenides began to speak after saluting. He was Armenias. "The old tactic was that two ships were close together and fought by soldiers on the warships; later a new tactic emerged, that is, the impact tactics. The galloping warships hit the weak parts of the enemy ship. This impact could be to impact the enemy ship itself, or pass by the enemy ship, breaking their wooden pulp..."

Armenias was an excellent naval tactician. He tried to use the simplest language to let Zhao Zheng understand what old tactics are and what new tactics are, and strongly recommended the Romans' methods to combine new and old tactics. For this reason, a crow hanging was installed on the battleship, that is, a sideways suspension bridge, so that both new and old tactics can be used.

"Is this boat not available?" Zhao Zheng did not fully understand, but felt that Armenias was better than the older Crimenides.

"Your Majesty, this warship has no corners and its bow is not sharp. You cannot shave off all the oars outboard like a razor..."

The series of warships behind Wang Zhou were newly built by the craftsmen of Shaofu in accordance with the description of Bai Diren. In fact, it only absorbed the design of the three rows of oarsmen arranged in a staggered manner, but there was no keel (that would be no bronze banging bow). The bow of the ship was as Armenias said, not sharp at all, and could not shave off the other party's oars very neatly.

"Please try the boat." The Qin army also had a boat army. Zhao Ying, the general of the boat army, stood beside Zhao Zheng. Hearing the accusations of the Baidi people, Zhao Ying was a little overwhelmed.

"This is the commander-in-chief of the Qin State's naval." Zhao Ying was the general of the Qin State's boat army. In order to facilitate understanding, Wu Ji simply translated him into the commander-in-chief of the naval. "He once led a row of oar warships to fight the Chuni people until his ship was sunk by Chuni artillery."

Zhao Ying's brave battle in Weinan is obvious to all, and there is also a sense of smell among the soldiers. Although Crimenides and others despised a row of oar warships from Qin. After several people boarded the Qin-style three-row oar warships, they found that the internal structure was no different from the training wooden platform on the shore of the Lishui River. They just put the two training wooden platforms together, one left and one right.

Under the battle deck, three rows of paddlers on the left and right were sitting in a staggered manner. These people, like those paddlers in training, had no left foot. They could only install a prosthetic leg on the broken foot and fixed it somewhere in the seat to paddle. At the front of the paddler, near the stairs, was a navigator holding a mallet in his hand, who was responsible for directing the paddler's speed of paddler paddling.

When Crimenides came in, the navigator shouted something, probably to hit the oars. The navigator's hammer slowly hit the wooden post in front of him. The oars began to paddle and the warship sailed forward. When they arrived at the center of the water, the navigator immediately accelerated, from the combat speed to the attack speed, and from the attack speed to the impact speed, the warship speed sped on the water.

Zhao Ying seemed to mean that the trained Qinni soldiers were excellent paddlers, and they could row at the fastest speed, but Armenias, who was standing beside him, said: "It's very unsolid."

Shake! The faster the trembling shaking, the more severe the shaking. Crimenides nodded and said that he also discovered this, "This warship has no keel, and I can't imagine what it will be like after it is hit."

"General, it will be broken into two immediately." Armenias said with certainty. "I don't think the Qinnis are willing to fight with such warships. Who told the barbarians on the grassland to seize the craftsmen?"

The Romans could seize the Punic warships, but the Cinenes had nothing, only a row of paddle warships they used. Thinking of this, Crymenides couldn't help but worry: "Working with the Chunics with this kind of warship, they will definitely fail."

Crimenides and Armenias came to Qin for purpose. Helping Qin defeat Chu was part of Egypt's military plan to regain the spice land. In addition, it was to try to obtain all the secrets of artillery, spoils, craftsmen, etc. Crimenides, who thought that Qinni might be defeated, could not help but worry. He did not want to be captured by the Chuni.
Chapter completed!