After hearing what Lu Su said, everyone looked at Sun Ce, and when Sun Ce saw this, he replied: "At this time, most of our warships on the water are bought by Liu Biao, a total of five fighting ships and 29 ships, if you want to use these ships to train 30,000 people to be familiar with water warfare, I am afraid that you will have to divide into three battalions of soldiers and horses to train in turns, and 10,000 people will train for one day." There are also those three oared warships, if they are not all launched and trained to be familiar with them, I am afraid that the last general will not dare to use them, after all, using unfamiliar warships will still do more harm than good to the overall tactical application. ”

Lu Su listened to Sun Ce's answer and turned to Yuan Yao and said: "In this way, I am afraid that we are not suitable for hiding clumsy strategies, so from now on, we must be prepared to prevent the attack of Liu Xuan's army to avoid being taken advantage of by the other party." ”

"Liu Xuan attacking?" Yuan Yao said with some surprise, "Although our strategic purpose is to attack Liu Xuan, in fact, there has not been any bloodshed between our two sides now, which means that we have not officially started the war, so will Liu Xuan take the initiative to attack us so boldly?" ”

Lu Su bowed to Yuan Yao and said, "My lord, we must not base our hopes on the stupidity of our enemies!" ”

“！！！” Yuan Yao's heart sank when he heard this, and he hurriedly helped Lu Su up and said, "Zijing's words are reasonable, I was careless, so Zijing thinks we should deal with it?" ”

Lu Su got up and said: "If I were Liu Xuan, I would definitely want to find out the location of the enemy's shipbuilding by figuring out the law, and then prepare to attack and burn it at night; Or launch a decisive battle when the navy still has an absolute advantage, and destroy or capture the opponent's naval warship first, so that even if you build a ship faster, it is equivalent to making a wedding dress for others. ”

Hearing what Lu Su said, a shadow suddenly rose in Yuan Yao's heart, and several other people also frowned.

"The general can rest assured, if the Liu Xuan Navy dares to come, the last general will definitely tell him to come and not return!" Sun Ce clenched his fists and said, his tone full of confidence.

Yuan Yao smiled and didn't reply, now that the size of Liu Xuan's army is twice as large as his, the decisive battle on the water at this time is definitely the stupidest choice.

He thought in his heart that as the commander of an army, even if he could not win without a fight, he should try his best to let his side fight the enemy with the greatest advantage, so as to avoid his own losses to the greatest extent. If he always thinks that less is more, it is no different from gambling, and it is too irresponsible for the lives of the soldiers under his command, which is something he cannot accept.

So no matter how brave Sun Ce and his subordinate generals were, Yuan Yao would not let them risk their lives, besides, the soldiers they commanded still belonged to the Yuan family, Sun Ce didn't care about losses, but Yuan Yao cared a lot.

"What do you do?" Yuan Yao couldn't think of a way, so he asked the others.

A few people glanced at Lu Su and bowed their heads in thought, this matter was mentioned by him, before he finished speaking, others would not steal the limelight, Lu Su also knew what he meant, so he continued to say to Yuan Yao politely: "The subordinates think that our navy is now at a disadvantage, it is better not to have a hard confrontation with Liu Xuan, if the other party comes to attack, do not defend the water village and temporarily rely on the defense capability on land to passively defend, after enduring two months, as long as our navy does not have major losses, then the decisive battle with it will be won. Therefore, my subordinates think that we should now mainly enhance the defense capability of the water village, which can help the defense of the water army; Second, it can protect the dock from sneak attacks. ”

Sun Ce heard that Lu Su asked him to hide in the water village, and said unhappily: "Lu Sima should have seen it, our water village can be said to be extremely simple, there was no hostile battle along the Yangtze River before, so the shore defense facilities are almost equal to none, even if the defense is strengthened at this time, it is just to transfer more soldiers and crossbowmen, so how much help can it be for the water army?" ”

The construction of the water village is like a "convex" type of wooden platform standing on the bank of the Yangtze River, the second half of which is on the land on the shore, the first half of the convex piece is built in the water, and the two sides of the protrusion are the docks for mooring warships, the general convex piece is the need to build an arrow tower, the shape of the Tiananmen Square in later generations can be adjusted, but the size or number of layers is adjusted according to the specifications.

This kind of arrow tower is like the gate tower of the city wall can be attacked and defended, and hundreds or thousands of archers can cover the entire large area, just like an unsinkable building ship, which can naturally help the naval warship to defend, and the scale of the water village is to see how many arrow towers there are, that is, how many "protruding" parts there are.

Now there is a "convex" part of the water village where Yuan Yao is located, but there is no arrow tower built on it, just a wooden platform on the water as a dock, there is nothing on it, but you can transfer some bows and arrows to shoot up and shoot at the enemy ships on the water, but standing in this kind of place without any protection and shooting at the enemy, it is conceivable that the archers will definitely suffer heavy casualties.

The main reason why the water village is so simple is that, as Sun Ce said, the world was peaceful before, and there was no demand for shore defense construction, plus the Yuan family took the Lujiang River for more than half a year, and there was no expectation of this war, and there was no large-scale construction at all.

Just when everyone was worried about what Sun Ce said, Liu Ye suddenly said something seemingly irrelevant to Yuan Yao: "Lord, that catapult battleship is about to be built!" ”

Yuan Yao's heart lit up when he heard this, as if he vaguely guessed what Liu Ye said, so he hurriedly asked, "What does Ziyang mean?" ”

Liu Ye also felt the tacit understanding between him and Yuan Yao, so he smiled and nodded and continued: "The new type of ballista on the ship may increase the long-range attack capability of the water village, and it will not be a problem to place ten ballistae on the platform area in front of my water village, and then build a roof on it to block most of the arrows thrown in, and it is more than enough to get some simple female walls around to protect the ballistamen." ”

"You mean build a fort?" Yuan Yao asked with bright eyes.

"Turret?" Liu Ye was stunned when he heard this, but immediately nodded his head, "The name of the lord is very appropriate, that's right, it is to build a fort, maybe not one, because the range of the ballista is two hundred steps, which is much farther than the ordinary bow and crossbow, so you can build a simple fort in many places on the shore to shoot at the enemy ships on the water, and it is not necessary to be on the dock in front." This ballista fills the gap between the trebuchet and the bed crossbow, and although it has no longer a range than the trebuchet, it is much more accurate; It is not as accurate as a bed crossbow, but the destructive power of stone bullets is much higher than that of crossbow arrows, so it is especially suitable for coastal defense weapons. And the subordinates recently found that the more smooth and regular the stone bullets they fire, the easier the accuracy of the shooting will be, so the subordinates are thinking that if they cast the mold first, and then pour the molten iron into a more shapeable iron cannonballa, maybe it is more suitable for ballistas than stone bullets, and now the key is how many ballistae can be made in a short period of time by the craftsmen of the lord, and whether they have time to arrange them in the water village! ”

"As long as the raw materials are sufficient, I can make a hundred ballistas in a day!" Yuan Yao said confidently. He now has 1,000 cloned people, and it won't take long to build a ballista that is not very high-tech, mainly in raw materials.

Liu Ye was relieved when he heard this: "Such subordinates ask for orders to supervise the construction of the Shuizhai Fort, and another soldier is needed to train ballistamen." ”

"Accurate!" Yuan Yao nodded happily, and then said to the others, "It's not enough to have preventive means, we still have to formulate a defense plan, everyone thinks about it separately first, and comes up with a strategy as soon as possible!" ”

"No."

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