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At the cost of dozens of lives, the siege team of the official army finally rushed through the third and final wall of fire.

Under Hu Yanzhuo's instructions, the rear battalion of the Chenzhou infantry replaced the front battalion of Chenzhou, which had nearly half of the dead and wounded.

At the same time, under the command of Guanghui, a battalion of soldiers and people began to throw rolling logs and stones under the pass!

The first pass is a very steep slope.

As soon as the rolling wood and stone fell on the slope, it greatly increased the rolling speed by the slope, and then smashed straight towards the siege troops, and its power was no less than that of the boulder thrown by the catapult.

What's even more terrifying is that rolling wood and stone can destroy siege equipment such as chariots, ladder cars, and wooden curtain cars, and people who are hit by them are even more lifeless, and sometimes a rolling log may be able to kill 157 people!

In addition, the stopped rolling wood stones also became a roadblock, greatly hindering the speed of the siege team's advance!

In the face of this situation, even if Han Xin is reincarnated, he can only strive to break through to the bottom of the pass as soon as possible, and then launch a general attack!

In the end, the rear battalion of the Chenzhou infantry army paid the price of more than 100 casualties, four wooden curtain carts, one ladder car, and three chariots, and finally advanced to the bottom of the pass, and then the left battalion of the Chenzhou infantry army pushed up several wooden mantle carts, ladder carts, and chariots, and replaced the rear camp of the Chenzhou infantry army.

The siege battle has officially begun!

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In the reeds.

Nguyen's three heroes, Zhang Shun, Li Jun, Tong Wei, Tong Meng, and the leaders of the water army gathered in one episode.

Look at the ships around them, the rows of arrows on the bow of the ship are hard to hurt, and the cabins are filled with dry reeds, and the firewood is filled with sulfur flame and nitrate.

Ruan Xiaoer said: "Gongsun Daochang has concluded that it is the east wind tonight, so we can do it whenever we want, but I want to wait until the second half of the night to do it, what do you think?" ”

Zhang Shun said: "The second half of the night is the best, when they are on the ground, they will have to sleep, we can catch them off guard." ”

Ruan Xiaoer said: "I think the same way, but everyone be careful, that Hu Yanqing should be a person who understands water warfare, on this way, he would rather detour than drill the reeds, thinking that it is to prevent us from burning the reeds." ”

Li Jun said: "And he only connects three or five boats together, and the distance between the front and back is very large, even if we learn from Zhuge Liang and Zhou Yu to burn the boats, it will not help, this is not an easy opponent to deal with." ”

In fact, there was no matter of Li Jun, Tong Wei and Tong Meng in this battle, and Li Yan's order to the three of them was to make every effort to develop the Chengkou Salt Farm, and there was no need to participate in this battle.

But Li Jun soon wrote a handwritten letter to Li Yan, which roughly meant: He asked for war on behalf of Tong Wei, Tong Meng, and Ma Lin, and the four of them were willing to be a small soldier, and they also wanted to live and die with Shuibo Liangshan.

Feeling Li Jun's sincerity, Li Yan asked Li Jun to lead Tong Wei and Tong Meng back to participate in the battle, leaving only Ma Lin and his Dubu army to guard the Chengkou Salt Farm.

After Li Jun, Tong Wei, and Tong Meng returned, Li Yan sent the three of them together with Ruan Xiaoqi to the navy to strengthen the strength of the navy.

Ruan Xiaoqi said disdainfully: "What if we prevent us from burning the reeds, can he still prevent the wooden crows and underwater dragon king cannons of our Liangshan Water Army?" ”

Wood Crow.

A water warfare weapon developed by Liu Huiniang.

Of course, the idea was provided by Li Yan to Liu Huiniang.

The principle is actually very simple, to put it bluntly, it is an underwater explosive package, as long as the problem of waterproofing and ignition is solved.

If these two problems are solved, and then the master diver hangs it on the bottom of the ship and detonates it, he can blow up and sink the enemy ship.

In addition to the wooden crow, the Liangshan Water Army also has a large underwater killer - the underwater dragon king cannon.

The structure of the underwater dragon king cannon is to use the cow's urine bubble as a thunder shell to keep the water tight, the inside is filled with black powder, with incense as a fuse, the cow urine bubble is connected to the wooden board and the goose wings captured on the water surface, and the goose wing tube and sheep intestines are used for aeration, the wooden board goes up and down with the waves, and the water cannot be poured into it to ensure that the incense can burn normally, and the cow urine bubble falls under the stone, so that it has a downward force. to keep the drifting smooth.

The fuse of the underwater dragon king cannon is based on the distance to the enemy ship and the speed of the water flow to determine the burning time of the incense, it uses the water flow as a driving force, when close to the bottom of the ship, "the incense to the fire, the cannon from the bottom of the city", unexpectedly bombarded the enemy ship from the water.

It is precisely because of the two big killer weapons of the wooden crow and the underwater dragon king cannon and the diving masters such as Zhang Shun and the Ruan family brothers that Li Yan, Liu Huiniang, Wen Huanzhang and others decided to let the official army go to Liangshan and then use the terrain of Liangshan to fight the city defense battle with the official army, because only in this way will the official ship be stationary, and then give full play to the destructive power of the two big killers of the wooden crow and the underwater dragon king cannon and the advantages of diving masters such as Zhang Shun and the Ruan family brothers, and finally it will be possible to completely annihilate the official army.

In fact, there is another very important reason why Li Yan and others set this general policy - to seize the ship.

Since Li Yan built a salt factory in Chengkou and opened up the rear of Jeju Island, there was a serious shortage of ships in Shuibo Yangsan, especially large ships.

Although Meng Kang and Ye Chun were able to build it, after such a long time, they only built four more large sea ships with a load of 50,000 stones, which was far from enough for the fleet of Liangshan.

This time, Hu Yanzhuo brought ten large ships with a load of 50,000 stones and two hundred large ships with a load of 10,000 stones, if he can take them, even if he only captures half of them, it will be enough to use the water to anchor Liangshan in a short period of time, and the strength of the Liangshan Water Army will more than double.

After the war, as long as the ships that were sunk by the bombing were towed to the shipyard in Shuibo Liangshan for simple repairs, those ships could serve Shuibo Liangshan.

It can be said that in order to make Shuibo Liangshan stronger, Li Yan and others racked their brains.

Of course, it still has to be burned.

Whether it is the wooden crow or the underwater dragon king cannon, they are not yet fully mature, so it is inevitable that there will be fish that slip through the net.

At this time, you can't feel sorry for those fish that slipped through the net, you have to burn them, after all, no matter how important the boat is, it is not as important as victory.

This is the reason why Li Yan and others arranged hundreds of fireboats.

Now everything is in place, even the east wind, and there is only one suitable time left......

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PS：

After reading the comments, some people questioned the big bird, why he didn't burn the ship, but instead engaged in a battle to defend the city, here I will explain a few words to you.

First of all, if the official army does not have a water army, Liangshan will naturally have an advantage in fighting water battles with it, after all, Liangshan has diving masters such as Zhang Shun and the Ruan family brothers.

But this time, the official army brought 2,500 water troops, regular water army, and Liangshan water army really had an advantage? Even if there is, if you hit it hard, you will have to hurt the enemy by 1,000 and lose 800, which is very fatal in the initial stage.

Someone suggested burning the reeds, and that was a good idea, and I thought so.

But after thinking about it, I didn't write it that way.

The reason is that I don't want to write the official army too idiot, I don't even know that I can't hide from being burned by the enemy, and I want to call Yanqing a person, let alone make him an idiot.

As for fighting a defensive war with the officers and soldiers, it is to meet the strengths of the other with one's own shortcomings, and I dare not agree with this.

Although there are many leaders of Shuibo Liangshan at present, the overall strength is still very weak, and it can be said that there is no strength.

The Liangshan army must go through a brutal battle before it can slowly transform into a regular army, otherwise they can only be a group of bandits, and the safest and most brutal battle should be the battle to defend the city, and other battles should not be easy to fight in defending the city, especially in the case of Liangshan.

So, after all the considerations, I designed this fight.

In addition, let me explain that this idea is not all mine, I wrote this paragraph with reference to the paragraph of "The Complete Biography of the Water Margin" where Gao Yu was defeated three times.

In "The Complete Biography of the Water Margin", because Gao Yu brought Liu Menglong, Niu Bangxi and other healthy water armies, Song Jiang and others did not dare to fight a water war with them, so they first put the official army on Liangshan to fight, and then forcibly reduced the strength of the official army and forcibly used spells to burn the official ship.

I don't have any spells here, I can only cheat on technology.

Actually, it's not cheating.

The wooden crow was invented a few years later by the water thieves of Dongting Lake in the Southern Song Dynasty.

The underwater dragon king cannon was invented during the Yuan Dynasty.

Well...... Actually, this chapter was not originally written like this, but after seeing many readers' comments, I thought about it and rewrote everything I originally wrote, so as not to cause misunderstanding.

That one...... Let's be honest, today on June 1st, I went to see my girl perform, and took her to play all afternoon, today I was going to give myself a day off, accompany the child to have a good June Day, and overturn the two chapters I wrote in advance, but I saw a lot of people questioning my thinking, I had to push down the two chapters and rewrite, and when I came back, it was almost eight o'clock (evening), and the time was only enough to write this chapter.

I'm sorry!