"It’s true that it’s great to capture the ship and get their supplies by robbing more craftsmen."
Su Yonglin stared at the map and shook his head.
"The idea is good, but don’t be careless. We are not better than the gold thief. The main purpose is to annihilate the water army. He is the secondary foundation of the gold thief’s water army. We can consider capturing, but we must never capture the target or we will be tied behind our backs."
Su Yonglin woke up Xin Qiji and Tian Xuan, both of whom realized their rash mistakes and made a decisive apology to Su Yonglin.
Of course, this is an excusable mistake.
Chapter 346 Water Army War
Did Su Yonglin taste the huge amount of warships, shipbuilding materials and shipbuilders himself?
His eyes are green without these defects.
The income from soliciting a large number of craftsmen from Shandong and Hebei to hire senior technical talents with high salaries is still very limited.
The best craftsmen and skills are rare in the Jin Kingdom.
All the people can find are ordinary craftsmen, and those who can make the army are controlled by the Jin court, the capital of the revolutionary army.
Su Yonglin has won excellent craftsmen of military equipment all the way. Most of them are important cities. There are almost no official craftsmen scattered in the military equipment department.
However, if you ask a little about the living standards, political status and daily treatment of these craftsmen, you can always get some similar replies and learn that their treatment is very general or even very poor.
This can generally represent the attitude of feudal rulers towards science and technology.
Su Yonglin once naively believed that feudal rulers were all two-minded, frogs at the bottom of the well and mentally handicapped people who didn’t understand what good things science and technology could bring them. Why didn’t they give them strong support?
Later, he discovered that things were not that simple.
Think about it carefully, technological innovation can always bring different changes to the world, and human beings are always more afraid than excited when facing different changes.
If technological innovation is good for you, you are willing to accept it. If it is not good for you, it will be bad. Of course, you will oppose it and hate that you can’t maintain technology in the most favorable situation for yourself forever.
Feudal rulers probably thought so, too.
Rulers pursue stability above all else, and once they get out of chaos, they hope to maintain stability forever, maintain peace and prosperity, and avoid further disputes.
In order to meet this demand and read people’s concepts of three cardinal guides, five permanents and respect and inferiority, they have constructed a blueprint for ultra-stable social structure, which is bound to all aspects of society to make everything stable, and then sold this set to the rulers to make them happy.
And this ultra-stable social structure is not without variables. The biggest variable is the production change caused by the development of science and technology.
The development of science and technology is an extremely uncertain factor and an uncontrollable jumping factor, which keeps the ultra-stable social structure and makes the ruling class naturally hostile to the development of science and technology.
If possible, they hope that that world will neve develop.
Of course, when there is force majeure such as foreign invasion, they still need science and technology to arm their troops, and they will be forced to develop science and technology. However, suppressing the development of science and technology will bring greater uncontrollable, and the social status of technical talents will also be lowered.
It’s not that the ancients didn’t know the benefits of technological development. How can those outstanding people who are one in a million fail to see the benefits brought by technological development?
However, it is because they are so clever that their thinking jumps to a more distant place-
Will people who have mastered these advanced production tools have more thoughts because of their greatly high productivity and richer life?
Will it affect my family’s dynasty?
Everything must stop when it comes to this level, so technological innovation stops here.
The Southern Song Dynasty relied on literature and orthodoxy, claiming that science and technology developed and prospered, but it was surpassed by Mongolia from various dimensions such as economy, military affairs and science and technology, which led to the tragic death of the country.
Su Yonglin recruited craftsmen to build ships on a large scale, and at the same time, he also ensured preferential treatment for craftsmen who mastered all kinds of technologies, thus attracting more outstanding craftsmen to recover from the army.
Let’s not say how good the treatment is. Anyway, it is definitely more than their rule by the Jin State, and their social status is high enough for craftsmen to have a more comfortable experience.
Later, when the money is more abundant, Su Yonglin will also innovate the craftsman system on a large scale, and raise their social status because of their political status, so that they can lead a wave of scientific and technological revolution.
Many technological innovations should not wait until the middle and late dynasties, but now they can be carried out. He is still waiting for science and technology to arm himself to crush the Southern Song Dynasty.
Craftsmen, craftsmen, Su Yonglin wants to shine his hand, and those skilled craftsmen want to be coveted.
Nevertheless, this battle is still the first rule of destroying the Jin navy. Fight as hard as you can with weapons, burn as hard as you can, and try your best to sink them into the sea and never live beyond life!
On June 30, the Sujia water army set sail from the southern bay of Cangzhou and went all the way north along the coastline.
The number of sailors dispatched was 4,000, and there were also 500 elite cavalry from the samurai camp who went ashore with the ship to defeat the enemy camp.
The coastal area of Daxing Mansion, where the water army of the State of Jin built the camp, is probably the coastal area of Tianjin. Of course, at this time, it is still vast and sparsely populated, and it has not yet flourished.
A large company battalion was built in the coastal area of Jin people, and a construction team with more than 30,000 people was placed here, and a large number of timber and other shipbuilding materials were transported here from all over the world, where warships were built and a large-scale water army was built.
Although Jin people are not good at water warfare, they are still rich in money, and it is not difficult to pull up a fairly large water army.
It is also possible to be willing to spend money and dare to spend money to build a water army bigger than the Southern Song Dynasty.
Of course, the technical and experienced arms of the water army can not win in large numbers, but we should pay attention to tactical tactics and experience
Tactics and tactics are not in place, and experience is not in place. No matter how many water troops there are, it is equivalent to sending food to the enemy and giving a lot of equipment to the enemy for nothing to make the enemy stronger.
Just as the Jin navy was defeated by the Southern Song navy.
Su Yonglin found out that the main person in charge of the whole Xu Jin Guo construction camp was Shang Su Baoheng from the Ministry of Industry and Xu Wen, the supervisor of the water conservancy, who was in charge of security. Their identity and origin were also touched.
So Su Yonglin learned that his surname Su was originally the father of the Han people in Liao, and that Liao Xijing stayed behind and surrendered to Yan Hong Zonghan Su Baoheng, so he was pulled all the way by Yan Hong Zonghan and now has the status of the Ministry of Industry.
And that Xu Wen is even more interesting
He used to be a Shandong general in Song Dynasty. When Zhao Gou fled all the way to the south, he made great contributions with the escort. Later, he betrayed the Southern Song Dynasty with northerners Kong Yanzhou and Li Cheng to the puppet state, so the Southern Song government began to suspect that Xu Wen was also suspected of betrayal.
Plus, he has always made a lot of contributions to fighting, which caused his colleagues to be jealous. Some people in the court gossiped that he wanted to betray, which made the court send people to attack him. He was disheartened and went across the sea to work for the pseudo-Qi Liu Yu, and then he followed the trend of Xu Guo.
Jin Guohui has repeatedly made contributions to the battlefield in the Southern Song Dynasty, and Jin Guo has done well.
After Yan Hongliang ascended the throne, the Han people also got Yan Hongliang’s letter. This time, Xu Wen, a veteran with experience in water warfare, was appointed to the position of Xu Guo, who was preparing to build a water army in the south.
It is said that he is still happy that he will go to the Southern Song Dynasty.
Su Baoheng is nothing and has no military ability. He is a purely administrative bureaucrat who is always in charge of the water army because of the status of the Ministry of Industry.
Xu Wen is an old hand and has experience in water warfare, but it is not enough for the commander to have experience in water warfare. Not only the commander must have experience, but also the officers of the Ministry must have experience.
Xu Wen obviously does not have this condition.
A few days before Su Yonglin’s water army was dispatched, the frontline troops of Bazhou in Xiongzhou launched a slightly strong attack, threatening Waqiao and Yijin, which attracted Jin Ting’s attention and attracted Wan Yanliang’s attention to Bazhou in Xiongzhou instead of the water army camp.
On the day when the water army was dispatched, the war in Bazhou, Xiongzhou was in full swing.
The whole Jinting who also didn’t expect Su Yonglin to play with one hand to build a path to hide the truth and go directly to the water army.
When Su Yonglin’s navy appeared in the boundless sea, it was just in Lebanon.
Sun Yi counted the time well, and it was Li Shi when the army sailed on the sea at a certain speed and arrived at the periphery of the 8 Jin Army Water Army Camp.
Before arriving at Shuiying, Sun Yi chose a place convenient for landing on the coast, released 500 cavalry, and assigned them a guide to lead them directly from land to Jinjun Shuiying, trying to intercept more craftsmen.
Then the water army moved on and went straight to the 8 Jin Army Water Camp.
On that day, the wind was not strong, and there was no 8 Jin Jun patrol outside the whole water army camp, just like no one in the whole camp.
The watchtower lookout vaguely saw that the water camps were neatly arranged and densely packed, and the number of warships of the Jin Army Water Army was staggering, as if there was no end in sight.
Sun Yi took the flagship semaphore and ordered all warships, big and small, to put their beds on their crossbows and set up rockets to wait for the launch order.
The soldiers of the water army quickly carried out the device and quickly filled it.
Sun Yiduo left a little more time for the crossbowman to better load and aim, and then made the warship approach the Jinjun Water Camp in three teams from different directions.
Sun Yiling’s first team deputy commander Kong Zhende and Zhou Mancheng each led a team. When the fleet approached a certain range outside the water camp, Sun Yiling put three whistling arrow in the air.
That’s an order to attack.
The lead wire of the powder cartridge was ignited, and the crossbow of the water army warship was fired. The hands swung the sledgehammer in their hands and hammered it hard. The thick rocket roared out and cut long and went straight to the water camp warship.
Chapter 347 Successful surprise attack
From the first thunder-like appearance, the whole 8 Jin Army Water Army Camp seemed to wake up like a rude awakening and didn’t know what had happened.
It happened that at this time, hundreds of people hiding in the water army camp happened to ignite the tents, houses and other things in different places, and the barracks burst into flames.
Then they screamed at the top of their voices.
"The thief army is coming! The thief army is coming! ！”
Cry to the heart, cry to the heart, cry as if one of our own died in front of our own eyes and we were capable.