Since Shi Xiu and Yang Lin rescued Xu Ning's family, they have stayed in Bianliang City with more than sixty Liangshan secret agents, and their daily task is to keep an eye on Master Tai, Gao Taiwei's Mansion and the Privy Council of Xifu.

There are also thousands of subordinates of Zhang San and Li Si who always pay attention to the news here, so soon after Cai Jing, Gao Yu and others made the decision to send Hu Yanzhuo and Guan Sheng to Beijing at the same time to obey the order, Lin Chong learned the news from two channels.

"Don't you want to be so spectacular, the two armies at the same time, you really look up to me!"

After Lin Chong received the news, he smiled faintly at this long-expected result, and ordered Mei Jiasheng to say: "Go and convey this news to the whole army, just say that in a month, prepare for a big battle!"

The Zhao and Song Dynasty courts sent us people and equipment to send war horses, everyone paid close attention to training, from today onwards, each person added half a catty of meat, and so on to win the two military horses, the whole army feasted for three days, and the good wine and good food were let go of eating! ”

Lin Chong secretly thought that in the original trajectory, Gao Yu recommended Hu Yanzhuo to come to conquer Liangshanbo, and Hu Yanzhuo recommended Chen and Yingzhou next to Runing Prefecture to train Han Tao and Peng Xi to be his deputies.

Runing Prefecture is more than 800 miles away from Liangshan, and according to the calculation of marching 60 miles a day, it will take 13 days to come to Liangshan, and it will take at least a month for Hu Yanzhuo to lead the army to the vicinity of Liangshanbo.

However, Guan Sheng's group of centaurs may be faster because they don't need a three-way centaur round, and they don't need to build a chain of iron armor weapons and other things.

But since Cai Jing and Gao Yu's strategy was to attack the two troops and horses separately and attack Liangshan Shuibo together, Guan Sheng's army and horses are estimated to set off first, and then wait on the road to call Yanzhuo.

Even Yiguansheng's proud character is likely to drive the military horse to the edge of Liangshanbo first, just like the battle of Liaojin Chuhedian, which gives the Liangshan army a chance.

Mei Jiasheng happily ran to the herald without mentioning it, and said that Lin Chong took Hu Sanniang and Wang Feiyu to the front of Yazui Beach, and it was already a lively scene.

Five days later, the third and fourth battalions of the Liangshan Army will sail to Liao, Jin, Goryeo, and Wa.

At this time, the Yazui Beach was full of people, and everyone was looking at the six new warships of 2,000 materials and six 1,000 materials in front of the Duckbill Beach, and there was a lot of discussion and noise.

The ships of the Song Dynasty used materials to calculate the load, the so-called one material is the displacement that can hold one stone of grain, and the ship of two thousand materials means that the displacement of the ship when it is fully loaded is two thousand stones, which is converted into weight, which is about 120 tons of full load displacement.

The shipbuilding technology of the Song Dynasty was extremely developed, and the ocean-going cargo ships in Zhejiang, Jiangsu, and Fujian were generally more than five or six thousand materials, and there were even super large sea ships with tens of thousands of materials and more than 10,000 materials.

And the Great Song Dynasty also relied on these large ships to continuously transport porcelain, silk and other materials produced in the Great Song Dynasty to all over the world, in exchange for boatloads of gold, silver and spices, etc., creating an incomparably rich Great Song Dynasty.

But despite this, for the people in the north who are forbidden to go to sea, this ship is really too big, and even Ruan Xiaoqi and they can't help but admire: "This ship is so big!" ”

You must know that in places like Zhujiazhuang, Hujiazhuang, and Zengtou City, which do overseas private business, they can only drive a thousand or even hundreds of ships to go to sea secretly.

Therefore, this kind of 2,000-material sea ship, which can carry more than 200 people and carry 1,000 stone of cargo, is already a very large ship in their eyes.

However, what really surprised everyone was not the size of these six 2,000-material ships, but the bed crossbows and catapults that were being assembled on board.

This was specially designed by Lin Chong, in order to deal with the great Song Dengzhou sailors who were very likely to encounter, Lin Chong specially ordered people to build two decks on the general sea ship style, and each deck had a row of windows for bed crossbows.

Just like the sail warships of later generations, this design allows the warship to place as many bed crossbows as possible, with a maximum flat firing range of up to 250 paces, and the firepower is quite terrifying.

Moreover, Lin Chong also installed two large bed crossbows at the bow and stern of the top deck, with a maximum range of 350 paces, which could take the lead in delivering a fatal blow before the enemy ship entered the firing range.

In addition, Lin Chong also installed two small trebuchets behind each of the four bed crossbows, which could fire two-pound stone bullets, gravel bullets, fireball bullets, thunderbolt bombs, and poison smoke bombs to a distance of 200 steps.

By the time Lin Chong arrived, the 36 bed crossbows and four trebuchets of the first 2,000-material war (merchant) ship had been assembled, and a group of high-ranking officials of the Liangshan Army, including Lin Chong, Lu Jiang, Xu Guanzhong, Li Jun, Ruan Xiaoqi, and Ruan Xiaoer, were on board the ship and prepared to test the artillery.

"Spot the enemy, bow to the enemy! Aim—"

After leaving the Yazui Beach, the warship circled the Yangsan Island in a southwesterly direction, and soon came to a pre-set shooting range, which was a dense forest that had not yet been developed, and a row of bright red targets had been hung on the trunks of the hugging trees in advance.

A team of naval artillery crews was beginning to measure the distance with the thumb ranging method that Lin Chong had taught them, and when the target was roughly in range, he shouted: "All in place!" ”

"Put!"

At the sound of an order, the two bed crossbows in the bow of the ship were fired instantly, and six crossbow guns with thick arms came out of the string and flew towards the target with a loud roar.

Everyone pulled their necks to look at the shore, and from time to time someone exclaimed.

"Oh my God! Really shot, a lot of targets were shot......"

"Tsk, I can see clearly, two targets were directly shot off half of the crossbow gun, and they were ...... to pieces."

Lin Chong looked far away and found that he could only see a rough idea with his own eyesight, and he could only use a telescope to see the specific hit rate estimation, but the technology of the telescope Lin Chong was still not lit.

It's not that Lin Chong won't, it's just that it's too troublesome, it is estimated that even if you go to Tokyo City and invite the best polishing mirror (ancient bronze mirrors are also to be sharpened often) craftsmen, it will take at least half a year to grind out a glass lens suitable for a telescope, and Lin Chong will not do it for the time being.

Now that I think about it, Liangshan Shuijun will often go to sea in the future, and it is indeed much more convenient to have a telescope, shouldn't we find a way to put this technology tree on the spot, isn't it just to spend more money?

"Port side against the enemy! Aim—"

Just as Lin Chongdong was thinking about it, the warship was almost two hundred and fifty steps away from the target, and the artillery team was standing in the middle of the upper deck, shouting loudly at the staircase.

The fifty-four crossbowmen of the eighteen bed crossbows on the port side of the upper and lower floors immediately became nervous and began to aim at the target from the windows and the battlements.

"Ready-put!"