After the ugly time, the tide had reached its climax, and Zhao Yu gave the order to attack, but he could only watch the battle from behind. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info One is that because the hull of the Sheji is too large and the draft is deep, even after the high tide, it cannot get close to the front of the city, otherwise there is a danger of running aground; Second, since Taizu, although there are two emperors Taizong and Renzong, they have never been to the battlefield in person, and often only stop driving dozens of miles after the battlefield, and now it is good to let him watch the battle as far as his eyes can see, and he has also become the closest emperor to the battlefield since Taizu, which can be regarded as a real personal battlefield.

Although the battlefield is the best place to show manhood, Zhao Yu is afraid of death, and he does not have the addiction to killing people with a knife. But he knew that as an emperor, he was still a rookie in every aspect, and if he wanted to gain a foothold in the court, grasp power, and govern the country, he must not only rely on cleverness. And there is a good saying - practice brings true knowledge, if he wants to enter the role of a good emperor who can govern the country and secure the world as soon as possible, of course he can not only listen to the teachings of his masters, but also go to the battlefield and accumulate combat experience.

The flat-bottomed boats that had now been converted set off first, some of which had stepped platforms above the height of the city walls to carry as many ballistae as possible in order to provide more intense fire support. This is very reminiscent of the artillery ships that once dominated the sea in modern times, and they were equipped with a large number of guns to make up for the weakness of the slow rate of fire of the guns at that time, and it was difficult to form strong firepower per unit of time, so the only way to suppress the enemy's counterattack or quickly destroy the target was by increasing the number.

Other vessels were converted into attack vessels, covered corridors and cantonment points were built, and extended drawbridges were installed in the bow. These ships were used to carry attacking forces and as platforms for attack, and if they were connected in tandem, they could establish a route for transporting troops. In order to prevent the attack of the enemy catapults, the roof was reinforced, and the surface was also coated with wet mud to prevent the enemy from setting fire to flammable materials such as rockets and fire oil, but they were not the protagonists of today's attack.

The reason why Zhao Hao worked hard to renovate these ships and did not use ready-made warships was also out of helplessness. He knew that it would be difficult to break the city as quickly as possible using the traditional siege mode, and at the same time, the Hao River that surrounded the city in Quanzhou was much wider than ordinary moats because of its large volume of water and many streams. If this moat is crossed, the traditional method is to block the water inlet and drain the water from the moat. Or use firewood, grass and soil to fill it into a road, but it is difficult to implement in Quanzhou, which is one of the reasons why Zhang Shijie has been difficult to break the city in the first place.

But only these two kinds of equipment is not enough, Quanzhou City has moats, outer moats as many as seven, and five river branch ditches in the city, forming a dense spider web to get the drainage and traffic system. In order to facilitate the passage, the people of Quanzhou are therefore keen to repair the bridge, many rich people and monks also come to join in the fun, and build no less than 100 large and small bridges inside and outside the city, which also becomes an obstacle to the passage of ships, which is like a piece of reef blocking the passage of the warship, making it difficult for the big ship to pass through the city wall during the period, and the small boat carries few troops, the hull is low, and it is impossible to go directly to the city with the help of the height of the ship.

In order to attack the city, Zhao Yu also humbly consulted Zhang Shijie, Liu Shiyong, Zhao Mengjin and other generals with actual combat experience, and their opinions were relatively unified. In order to break through the city, several conditions must be met:

First, there must be tools that can quickly climb the city, and goose carts, ladders, etc. belong to this kind of things. This is easy to understand, people are not immortals, and they will not all be martial arts masters who fly on the eaves and walk the wall, and they cannot climb the steep city wall by relying on their own ability. And this tool must not only be able to help people get up to the wall, but also be able to effectively protect soldiers from harm. In addition, long-range weapons are needed to strike at enemy archers, crossbowmen, and catapults to suppress the enemy forces defending the city, so that the besieging soldiers can approach and climb the walls.

The second is to be able to transport enough soldiers at one time, so that they can quickly seize a foothold, establish a bridgehead, and cover the follow-up soldiers to enter the city. Zhao Hao pondered that it was not bad, even if there were one or two people with strong martial arts who rushed to the city first, but there were hundreds of enemy soldiers in the city, and a good tiger could not stand the wolves! Ten thousand enemies and thousands of people are all nonsense, and the so-called ones are counted separately, but it is estimated that they will be chopped into meat sauce in a while, so there must be no fewer people who go to the city at a time, at least they must be able to hold on for a while, and buy time for the people behind to go to the city.

Third, it is necessary to have a channel for rapid increase in troops, so that reinforcements can quickly go up to the city to fight the enemy. Zhao Yu felt reasonable, after all, the city is people's territory, there are countless soldiers in it, even if a few people successfully build a bridgehead on the wall, but people can continue to increase troops, you kill one, people come up ten, tired and tired to death. Therefore, the only way to do this was to gradually expand the bridgehead by increasing the number of troops, and to occupy and control the city by transporting a large and overwhelming number of living forces to the enemy, and then to advance into the city.

Zhang Shijie was quite honest, and told Zhao Yu that he failed to attack the city again and again because he could not meet these three necessary conditions at the same time, and he could only use the most stupid and common way to force the enemy to surrender by besieging the city and exhausting the grain and grass in the city. However, he failed to stop the reinforcements from the capital, and when he arrived, the besieging army collapsed in an instant, and he had to withdraw his troops back to the court, killing and wounding many people, and there was no gain.

After learning from Zhang Shijie's defeat experience, Zhao Yu analyzed the situation and the strength in his own hands, and decided to use the south gate as a breakthrough. Because the most powerful force in their hands is the navy, but after arriving in Quanzhou, in addition to the first battle of the Quanzhou Naval Division, they took on the task of controlling the Jinjiang waterway and blocking the port. And the soldiers of the navy have received the training of jumping over the boat and fighting with the enemy in a small area, so it should be no problem for them to serve as sharp knives to break the city.

By transforming the warship, Zhao Hao successfully solved two problems, but how to quickly send enough soldiers to the city still stumped him. Even the flat-bottomed boats could not move directly to the city, and although this distance could be solved by erecting a drawbridge, in the case of not gaining a foothold, the fragile drawbridge was also very easy to be damaged by the enemy, and it was impossible to go to the city without paying a heavy price, and once it was damaged too much, it affected the transportation of reinforcements from behind. This forced him to think of a different way to solve the problem...... (To be continued.) )