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Chapter 1278:Preparation for the Japan Expedition

The conscription was soon put on the agenda, although some generals put forward different opinions, but Liu Xian still forcefully arranged and insisted on conscription.

But cross-sea operations are different from land operations, first of all, ships, although the three Koreas and the Geno countries have exchanges, but the ships used are relatively small, can not be used as warships, the Han army wants to recruit, the first must be resolved is the problem of the warship.

Although the Strait of Malaysia is not too wide, but the climate is complex and changeable, the ocean currents are unpredictable, calm, the water wave is not happy, the wind is calm, and once there is a change, it is a strong wind, the waves are huge, or the fog is foggy, and the turbulence is turbulent.

Ordinary small boats crossing the river, in fact, all by luck, when the climate conditions are good, you can smoothly cross, and once you encounter typhoons and bad weather, it is only fateful.

However, in the long-term process of crossing the sea, those business travelers between the two sides can still explore some experience, relatively speaking, winter often wind, and summer and autumn often typhoon, only spring three or April, the climate is relatively stable, is the best time to cross the sea.

It is now late autumn, and the suitable period for next year is only about half a year, and in terms of time, it is still quite urgent.

Liu Xian immediately ordered shipbuilding craftsmen to be summoned from the Yuzhou and Qingzhou areas to the port of Sanhan Busan.

According to the level of the ship, Jihan is certainly not as good as Wu Guo, but Qingzhou and Youzhou are close to the sea, and fishermen often go fishing in the sea, and these fishing boats are very suitable for sailing in the sea.

The construction of river boats and sea vessels still has different methods, such as the kind of large five-story building ships built by Dongwu, which cannot be used at sea at sea, and a strong wind blows and immediately capsized.Sea ships are generally low-sail high on the bottom, so that they can sail unimpeded at sea.

This time, the shipbuilding craftsmen gathered from Qingzhou did not take the land road, directly from Qingzhou Jiaodong into a mountain boat, across the Yellow Sea, directly to Sanhan.Walking by sea means at least two-thirds of the time saved by taking the land route, and at the same time, it also proved that the current level of shipbuilding can fully meet the needs of sea crossing operations.

San Han region is mountainous, there are a large area of primitive forest, which obviously provides convenience for shipbuilding, limited to the inconvenience of transportation, ancient shipbuilding is generally in place, the best choice, Sanhan and Liaodong climate conditions are similar, the tree species are generally the same, pine trees, cypress trees, elm, fir trees samples are not lacking, which also provides convenience for shipbuilding.

More people are naturally good to do business, Liu Xian currently has more than 100,000 horses in the Han army, with 50,000 troops from the husband and the country, 50,000 people in the army of Gaoyuli, plus the three Koreans who can be mobilized at any time, the labor force is absolutely rich, a whole winter into the mountains to log down, the wood piled up in the port of Busan is simply a small mountain is majestic.

And from the Yuzhou Qingzhou mobilized thousands of craftsmen, is day and night to build ships, according to Liu Xian's requirements, the construction of the ship for the size of the third class, the width of the ship three feet, up to more than ten feet, can be used to transport horses and large equipment, the medium warship width of about one, the length of five or six feet, small warship width of seven feet, three or four feet, are used to carry soldiers.

In terms of the overall number, Liu Xian did not ask for more and more good, but according to the demand of Liu Xian, according to Liu Xian's requirements, a crossing of the sea, only need to carry 10,000 people, such as a large warship can carry three or five hundred people at a time, a medium-sized warship can carry 100 people, a small warship can carry 50 or 60 people.Therefore, only a dozen large warships were built, and 50 and 80 small warships were built, respectively, and these ships were basically able to meet the needs of the Chinese army to cross the sea.

More important than the warship is logistics supply, cross-sea operations, and the high demand for logistics and supply is unprecedented.The expedition itself is already to create a record of the longest distance of logistics supply, and crossing the Strait of Malaysia, for logistics transport is like a bottleneck, imagine a hundred thousand or even 200,000 large army crossing the sea after the landing, all grain and grass will need to be through the Strait of Malaysia to carry out, if catch up with the calm season is still good, but once the war is delayed, into the typhoon season, and then want to transport materials through the Strait of Malaysia.

The soldiers and horses did not move, grain and grass first, which is the prerequisite that any military action must be carried out first, so while building a warship, Liu Xian put the main energy into the raising of grain and grass materials to ensure the logistics supply.

With the full support of the court, the grain and grass and material resources allocated from the state of Jizhou and Qingzhou in Qingzhou continued to flow to the three Korean regions.This time, Fu Yuguo not only sent 50,000 troops with Liu Xian, but also funded a large amount of grain, grass and materials.Liu Xun also raised a lot of grain and grass in Lelang County and the Sanhan District, and after a winter of preparation, the grain and grass materials delivered to the front line can already meet the half-year support of all the army.

With the passing of the cold winter, the sea breeze that ravaged a winter has finally weakened, and the final preparations for the Han army's expedition to the country are nearing the end, and in the port of Busan, the battleships that have been built have been completed are already groundwater, beginning to take up the scale of the navy.

Since Liu Xian's foot riding army and Gao Yili's military husband Yujun are basically dry ducks, the difficulty of training these armies into the navy is not generally large, so Liu Xian did not work hard in this regard, but recruited thousands of fishermen from Qingzhou to act as sailors.

These fishermen have a lot of experience in going to sea, even if the battleship built by the Chinese army is slightly larger than the fishing boats they usually use, but the principles are similar, after a winter of practice, these newly raised sailors can already skillfully manipulate the various types of war ships of the Chinese army.

These ships are actually landing transport ships, only need to transport the Chinese trooper to the opposite of Kyushu Island for landing, there is no need to carry out naval warfare, which invisibly reduces the training requirements of the navy.As long as these sailors have a good grasp of how to control the ship, the rest of the matter is basically nothing to do with them.

The troops of this landing were also screened in advance, after all, the sea was large, and the soldiers who were seasick would not appear in the first wave of attack.

The first attack echelon is as far as possible to choose the familiar with the water nature of the soldiers, can be fully qualified for the amphibious attack task, the first wave of attack to seize the beach head, for the continuation of the troops to provide a landing channel, so it is the most elite infantry in the Han army to serve.

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