Night, Zhuanshui, more than 10 ships are sailing at night, the fleet goes down the river, enters the Yangtze River through Zhukou, and then goes down the river to reach Xiyang, Huangzhou, and the goal is Yuwenwen in Huangzhou, at this time in the cabin to read at night. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 ｉｎfo

From Anlu to Xiyang, the land distance is about 400 miles, and the waterway distance is almost 400 miles.

Even if he is young, his body can't help but toss like this, Yu Wenwen used to travel day and night, rushing back to Anlu in Shannan from Lingbiao Guangzhou, at the cost of serious overdraft of his health, and now he has 'symptoms' of memory loss, slow reaction, and yawning.

If we continue to overdraft like this, it will be finished sooner or later.

Compared with later generations, the traffic conditions in this era are very poor, there are no street lights at night, and there are no car lights, and it is easy to have an accident when riding a horse at night.

Therefore, Yuwenwen chose to take the waterway back to Xiyang, although the risk of night sailing is not small, but there is no rapids and rapids in the river from Anlu to Zhuankou, and because of the prosperity of water transportation, the boatman is very familiar with the various waterways in Zhuanshui, so he can do safe night sailing.

In this way, it is a good choice to go down the river from Anlu to Xiyang by waterway, and it is precisely because of this that the water transportation between Anlu and Xiyang is becoming more and more prosperous.

At this time, on the Zhuanshui River, in addition to Yuwenwen's fleet, there were fleets sailing at night in front and behind, also going downstream, but I don't know if the other party's destination is Xiakou on the other side of the Zhukou, or Xiyang and Wuchang downstream.

Yuwenwen's destination was Xiyang, but he had to stop for a while when passing through Xiakou, which was an important choke point on the Yangtze River as the governor of Ezhou, and he wanted to know how Xiakou's defense was going just in case.

Xiakou is the later Wuhan, specifically the Wuchang of the three towns of Wuhan, of course, the later Wuchang and the Wuchang at this time are not the same place, which involves the westward migration of the name of 'Wuchang', and Xiakou has been an important place for river defense since Sun Quan built the city in the late Eastern Han Dynasty.

Xiakou City is located in the south of the Yangtze River, on the opposite bank is the mouth of the Han River - Hankou, so Xiakou guards the throat of the Yangtze River and the Han River at the same time, if the enemy wants to advance eastward from Jiangling in the upper reaches of the Yangtze River to attack Jiankang downstream, Xiakou must be taken first.

In the same way, if the enemy wants to start from the Xiang and Fan areas in the upper reaches of the Han River and attack Jiankang in the lower reaches of the Yangtze River by water, he must also take Xiakou in order to enter the Yangtze River smoothly.

Since the Wei and Jin dynasties, all the troops attacking Jiankang must break through the Yangtze River defense line, Xiakou is the first to bear the brunt, the Eastern Jin Dynasty, Liu Song, Xiao Qi, Xiao Liang, the local strength faction guarding Jingxiang marched to Jiankang, or the Jiankang court sent troops to crusade against the rebels entrenched in Jingxiang, both sides have to fight for Xiakou.

The importance of Xiakou to the Yangtze River defense line is self-evident, and for Yuwenwen, Huangkou and Xiakou are the east and west barriers of Xiyang, as long as these two places are held, then the enemy army cannot attack Xiyang from the waterway.

According to the current situation, it is Chen Guoshui who can threaten Huangkou, but it is the 'imperial court water army' that can threaten Xiakou.

This imperial court, of course, is the imperial court controlled by Wei Chidun, and the imperial court naval army, of course, is the naval army located in the upper reaches, that is, the naval army of the Xiangxi Road marching under the command of Cui Hongdu, and the other party has captured the key Jin-Jiangjin on the southeast side of Jiangling City.

Baling, which is located in the lower reaches of Jiangjin, is now the Ezhou Thorn History, and Zhou Fashang, the head of the naval army, is still guarding the town, commanding a naval army stationed in Baling, which is not small.

Whether it is Zhou Fashang, who is the commander-in-chief, or the vast number of naval soldiers, they all have rich experience in water warfare, if it is common sense, Zhou Fashang will definitely be able to hold Baling and defeat the enemy naval army that invades from upstream.

However, before thinking about victory, Yu Wenwen was thinking that once something went wrong and the Baling Navy was unexpectedly defeated, then Xiakou in the lower reaches of Baling would have to face the menacing enemy army.

Or the land of Xiang and Fan in the upper reaches of the Han River was lost, and a large number of enemy warships went down the river, so Xiakou must be taken first before continuing to advance eastward and attack Xiyang, Wuchang and even Huangkou.

If Baling and Xiangyang are safe, Xiakou will not be in any danger, these two places are now under his control, but Yuwen Wen still has to check and fill in the gaps out of preparedness.

So no matter what the situation in the upstream area is, the defense of Xiakou City must be strengthened, and Shi Zhengtong, the governor of Ezhou who stayed in Xiakou, is a person from Yuwenwen, who has good political ability, but his ability in military affairs does not seem to be high.

Because Zheng Tong had never led troops to fight before, after taking office as the governor of Ezhou, Shi was only catching thieves and clearing water robbers when managing public security, and his ability to lead troops had not been tested, so Yu Wenwen was a little worried.

Xiakou is an important place, it is said that the general who can be in charge of the party alone should be in charge, but Zhou Fashang went out to Baling, and Yuwenwen had no one else available, so he could only trust Zheng Tong to carry the girder and be a good dog to guard the household.

So what if Baling is lost, Xiangyang is lost, and then Xiakou is also lost?

If Xiakou in the west is finished, if Huangkou in the east also falls, and the enemy army breaks through the Dabie Mountains in the north, what should Huangzhou do?

This extreme situation, Yuwen Wen does not think that it will occur, because Yuwen has worked hard to run Shannan for many years, and he has also worked hard to run Huangzhou for many years.

If the soldiers really came to Xiyang City, it meant that everything was over, and the interest groups that gathered around Yuwenwen in the past had to find a way back for themselves, so it would be impossible to prevent sneaking away, or secretly opening the city gate.

Yu Wenwen didn't want to fall into that kind of tragic end, first hacked his female dependents to death, let his sons run away as beggars, and then found a crooked neck tree to hang, in order to prevent this from happening, he was preparing all the time.

The night wind rose, the candlelight in the cabin flickered, and the figures drawn in the booklet in Yu Wenwen's hand were cloudy and sunny under the flickering light, all of which were strange things.

The huge gap in territory, population, troops, and war horses is the reliance on the absolute psychological advantage of the Yuwen clan when the Yuwen clan started a war, and this gap cannot be narrowed in a short time, so the Yuwen clan has to find a way to 'take a shortcut'.

Since the war, the world thinks that this is the end of the Yuwen clan, and since the end is coming, then it is the time when doomsday technology comes in handy.

So, when Yuwen's fangs came out, everything was different.

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At night, on the banks of the Santai River, the heavily guarded workshop is brightly lit, and among the countless busy figures, many installations are arranged, and the waterwheel next to the workshop lifts the river water to the high water tank, and the river water flowing from the water tank pushes the water wheel to rotate constantly.

The rotating water wheel keeps the inflator pump in motion, pumping air from one tank to another, and when the barometer needle turns to the yellow area on the dial, someone removes the gas tank and replaces it with an empty one.

The inflated gas tanks are inspected and put into the wooden box in turn, and at the same time, there are "water beads" in the box.

The first year of Qianxing's Lianzhu gun is improved on the basis of the orthodox seven-year style, and it is also referred to as "Shuilianzhu", and the technical parameters are also the same: replaceable bomb storage tubes, each bomb storage tube has 20 rounds of ammunition, and in combat conditions, each soldier has 200 rounds of ammunition and 10 high-pressure gas tanks.

The rate of fire is 20 rounds a minute, and for lightly armored targets, the effective killing range is 75 steps; For heavily armored targets, the effective killing range is twenty paces.

Five hundred soldiers with water beads in their hands can use up all the ten ammunition storage tubes they carry with them in half an hour, and fire a total of 100,000 projectiles, and no one can survive such a projectile storm unless the enemy guards in front of them.

The technical parameters of the old and new water beads are the same, but the failure rate is different, the failure rate of the new beads is much lower than that of the old water beads, of course, the cost is more expensive.

But no matter how expensive it is, it's worth it, the 1,000 water beads prepared by Lin Youdi can guarantee that the gas gun soldiers will participate in three major battles, as for how many water beads can be used in his hands when he participates in the fourth battle...

Then you can only burn incense and pray.

At this time, Lin Youdi was not concerned about this problem, he and a group of people gathered around the corner of the workshop, looking at a strange device in front of him, which was a work that had taken several years to complete with a lot of their hard work, and now it was about to be shipped out for use.

"Steward, do you really want to use this thing?"

"Of course, otherwise I would have made this thing for ornamentation?"

"But... But if you don't do it properly, it will kill a lot of people! ”

"So it's necessary to standardize the operation, fangs are used to bite things, otherwise what's the use of growing out?" Lin Youdi smiled, and then ordered: "Start testing now!" ”

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In the afternoon, the sky is clear, the breeze is gentle, Jingzhou (Jiangnan) Prefecture is surrounded by water at this time, and trebuchets are erected outside the city, which is the march of Jiangnan West Road in preparation for the siege of the city.

The main force of the Xiangxi Road march had been transferred by Marshal Cui Hongdu to attack Jiangling upstream, while the remaining part was guarded by the public security and wanted to delay the westward march of the Jiangnan West Road as much as possible.

The two armies, which had been friendly not long ago, are now facing each other with one attack and one defense, and there is no point in arguing about right and wrong, and only the victor can draw conclusions about right and wrong.

Zhou Fashang, the head of the navy and the assassin of Quanba Prefecture, was looking at the public security city on the riverside with a clairvoyant mirror on the ship, and this time he led the army from Baling, and attacked the public security by water, in order to remove the threat of Baling, and also to relieve the siege of Jiangling by the way.

As the head of the march on the Jiangnan West Road, Zhou Fashang was controlled by the marching marshal Yu Wenming, and when Yu Wenming left Baling and rushed to Anlu, he had entrusted the safety of Bazhou to Zhou Fashang.

Zhou Fashang had been on the battlefield for a long time and knew that the safety of Baling was of great importance, and once it was lost, it would not only lead to the opening of the gate of Xiangzhou on the south side, but also mean that Xiakou downstream would have to face the enemy's offensive.

Therefore, in order to ensure the safety of Baling and even Bazhou, Zhou Fashang decided to take the initiative.

Xiyang Wang Yuwen Wen often said that the best defense is to attack, Zhou Fashang deeply agreed with this, he wants to defend Baling, can not be satisfied with being a dog guarding the household, as long as the upstream public security is overcome, the offensive and defensive situation will change.

The march of Xiangxi Road suddenly attacked, attacked Jiangjin of Liang State, and then attacked its capital Jiangling, and it was not able to capture it for a while and a half, so as long as the march of Jiangnan West Road attacked its flank, the other side could only divide its troops, effectively relieving the pressure of the defenders of Jiangling City.

This is a positive tactic, better than stupidly guarding Baling and watching the enemy army in Shu continue to increase troops to Jiangling, so Zhou Fashang and his subordinates planned properly, while sending people to Anlu to report the military situation, and on the other hand, directly sent troops to the west.

After taking the public security, the soldiers and horses on the road can directly attack the Matouan in the northwest, and the Matouan is facing Jiangjin in the north of the Yangtze River, and the enemy naval army entrenched in Jiangjin will either retreat upstream, or will have to fight a decisive battle with the naval army marching on the west road south of the Yangtze River.

As long as Cui Hongdu's navy is defeated, the situation in Gangneung will naturally turn into a safe one, and how to let the opponent's navy fight a decisive battle instead of fleeing?

Then you have to attack it and save it, that is, attack the public security city.

Public security is the place of decisive battle, Zhou Fa Shangshui and Lu attacked the public security, just to attract Cui Hongdu's water army and then solve it, and of course the other party also wanted to solve his water army, so the enemy army really came.

The general of the Ministry of Economics informed that Zhou Fashang looked to the northwest direction, which was the upper reaches of the river where his fleet was located, and at this moment the mast on the river was like a forest, and Cui Hongdu's army had already killed from Jiangjin.

It was summer and autumn, the wind direction was changeable, and the enemy's naval fleet was located upstream, and it had the upper hand before it was launched, but Zhou Fashang did not think so, because the doorway of water warfare was not so simple.

When the enemy attacked, he ordered his own warships to line up in formation and take the initiative to meet the battle, and the enemy and our fleet slowly approached, rushing to the forefront of the natural Mengchong fighting ships and other clippers, the shape of the warships on both sides was roughly the same, but among the clippers on Zhou Fashang's side, some ships were a little special.

These ships were long, narrow, like ordinary clippers, but they had no oars or sails, and their decks were ridge-like and sloping on both sides, covered with pigskins.

There was a constant roll of waves under the stern water, as if something was spinning.

Under the cover of other clippers, these oarless boats met the enemy clippers coming upstream, forcibly broke through the interception, and continued to advance towards the enemy ships, many of which were hit by rockets but were unscathed.

The soldiers marching on Xiangxi Road couldn't help but be surprised when they saw such a strange boat, and they couldn't figure out how this kind of boat, with no oars and no sails, could gallop like a fly on the water.

But in any case, the other side is already approaching, maybe with fire, maybe with thunder, so the batters on each warship are ready, waiting for the other side to get close to the side of the ship and immediately start shooting.

However, these oarless boats were facing the bows of the big ships, and when they were close to the range of the bow and arrows, a long rod suddenly poked out from the bow of each of them, and a huge wrap-like object was 'strung together' at the end of the long pole, and at the same time, the speed of the ship increased instantly.

One of the fangs of Yuwen's clan, a striker lightning strike ship, human pedaling drive, propeller propulsion \ backwards, there is an oil-sealed shaft sleeve at the water entrance of the transmission shaft for sealing and waterproofing, with 50 members, a tactical range of 5 miles, and a sprint range of 100 steps.

There is a large shield in the bow compartment of the ship, and a striker boom thunderbolt is placed outside the shield, with a charge of 1,000 catties, and the impact \ pull the double fuse is ignited, and the bow of the enemy is attacked head-on, and a single hit can directly sink the large building ship.

The lightning strike ships 'locked' their respective targets and sprinted forward at full speed, and the water column rose into the sky with a loud bang, stirring up countless scarlet water mist, and the bows of more than ten large buildings and vehicles were blown away, and the hull of the ship capsized rapidly due to a large amount of water.

The lightning strike ship that completed the attack cut off the stern balance counterweight, and the crew members of the ship stepped on the pedals in reverse to let the ship move backwards, and after retreating dozens of steps, the second wave of lightning strike ship attack queue broke forward.

The long-practiced lightning strike tactics were successfully implemented, and in just a few moments, the fleet of the marching troops on the Xiangxi Road suffered heavy losses, the flagship turned into wreckage, and the handsome flag had long since disappeared.

Zhou Fashang put down the clairvoyant mirror and calmly ordered: "Beat the drums, the whole army will attack the warships!" ”