Seeing that his father stopped him from speaking, Yao Xiang retreated unhappily, but the scene of the father and son happened to be seen by Shi Hu.

"Yao Aiqing, do you have any good construction?" Shi Hu Zhengse asked.

Yao Gezhong was stunned and hurriedly said: "The last general is not familiar with water warfare, so he doesn't dare to offer indiscriminate advice. ”

"Oh, but Ling Gongzi seems to have something to say!" Shi Hu said coldly.

Seeing Shi Hu say this, Yao Gezhong knew that his small movements had been discovered by Shi Hu, and he shook his head and couldn't help but break out in a cold sweat.

Yao Xiang hurriedly stepped forward, hugged his fists and said, "Your Majesty, there will be a Jian yì in the end, I don't know whether to talk about it or not." ”

"Hahaha! But it doesn't hurt to say that you are not guilty. Shi Hu asked magnanimously.

Yao Xiang looked up at Shi Hu and said: "Your Majesty, the reason why our soldiers get seasick is because they are not suitable for the bumps on the river, and there are two ways to solve this problem, the first is to strengthen training, within three or five months, the problem of seasickness will definitely be fully solved, as for the second way, it is to lock the warships together with iron cables to reduce the turbulence of the warships in the river." ”

"It's a good idea to connect the ships with iron cables, and the turbulence will be reduced!" Shi Hu collapsed without thinking.

"Your Majesty, as the saying goes, there is no city on land and no ship on water, in order to guard against fire! If dozens of warships are connected together, in case the Jin army uses fire to attack, our warships will not even have time to hide! I hope the king thinks twice. One of the generals objected.

"Your Majesty, of course, in the Battle of Chibi, Cao Cao's hundreds of thousands of troops locked all the warships together with iron cables, and finally they were burned by Zhou Yu's fire. Another ministry general objected.

"Fire attack, if the Jin army attacks with fire, wouldn't it be troublesome." Shi Hu muttered to himself.

Seeing this, Yao Xiang hurriedly said: "Your Majesty, if the Jin army uses fire to attack, it will be indeed troublesome, so the last general also thought about it and thought about it before making a statement to the king." ”

"Oh, so you have a solution." Shi Hu hurriedly asked.

Yao Xiang immediately replied: "Your Majesty, it is winter at this time, and there is no wind at the ferry every day except for the cold wind from the northwest, and there has never been an east wind. ”

"Well, yes, if you set fire against the wind, you can only burn yourself, so this king is worry-free." Shi Hu suddenly relaxed.

Seeing Yao Xiang raise the question of the direction of the wind, many generals felt that it made sense, you must know that the reason why Zhou Yu was able to burn all Cao Cao's warships with one fire was entirely because Zhuge Liang borrowed the east wind, otherwise, it must be Zhou Yu who failed, and among the Jin army, I have not heard of a stranger who knows the art of Qimen Dunjia.

With the approval of Shi Hu and the generals, Yao Xiang was naturally very proud in his heart, but just in case, he felt the need to say the worries in his heart.

"Your Majesty, there is a sentence that the last general has to say, if there are strangers in the Jin army who can borrow the east wind, the consequences will be unimaginable, so please consider carefully whether the iron cable is connected to the ship." Yao Xiang Zhengse said.

This answer is extremely cunning, if the Zhao army wins the victory in the end, the credit will naturally be Yao Xiang's, in case the ferry suddenly appears in the east wind, and the Zhao army's warship is burned by fire, then the responsibility is also Shi Hu's, because Yao Xiang has already proposed the possibility of borrowing the east wind, if Shi Hu insists on connecting the ship with iron cables, then the main responsibility will naturally fall on Shi Hu.

Hearing the words 'borrowing the east wind', Shi Hu frowned and hesitated for a while, paused, and said loudly: "How can there be such a stranger in the Jin army, this king has made up his mind, and he will start to connect ships with iron cables tomorrow." ”

"The king." Yao Xiang hurriedly complimented.

Shi Hu looked at the generals and said loudly: "If all the warships of our army are connected together with iron cables and move south, the generals think that our army has a chance of winning!" ”

"Your Majesty, if this is the case, our army should have a 10% chance of victory."

"The last general thinks that our army will win."

"Thousands of warships are connected together, like an iron plate, and the Jin army is not an opponent at all."

The generals all felt that if Shi Hu used iron cables to connect the boats, the Zhao army would win.

"Yao Aiqing, what do you think?" Seeing that Yao Gezhong was the only one who didn't speak, Shi Hu asked deliberately.

Yao Gezhong was stunned for a moment, clasped his fists and said: "King Shengming, our army must win." ”

"Hahahaha!" Seeing Yao Gezhong say the same, Shi Hu became excited.

A moment later, Shi Hu ordered that from now on, the iron cable ship must be completed within two days, and then let the soldiers adapt to it for three days, and five days later, the army will go south and set foot on the south of the Yangtze River.

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Two days later, the thousands of main warships of the Zhao army were all connected together with iron cables, with as few as 50 ships and as many as 100 ships.

How could such a spectacular scene escape the eyes of the Jin army scouts, and soon, the news of the Zhao army's iron cable ship spread to the Jin army camp on the south bank.

Knowing that the Zhao army connected a large number of warships together, the generals of the Jin army's navy felt extremely nervous, and they were familiar with the water warfare very well in their hearts, the warships of the Zhao army were connected together, like an iron plate, and could no longer be divided, so that they could be broken individually, and the soldiers of the Zhao army who were not suitable for water warfare would be on the ground on the warships that were connected together, and their combat effectiveness would be greatly improved.

In order to strengthen the strength to confront the chain ships of the Zhao army, the sailors of the ferry asked for help from the defenders of the ferry north of the capital, but the sailors there only had 3,000 men and horses, and they also had to ensure the safety of the Jingbei ferry, which was under the direct jurisdiction of the imperial court, so whether they could get the consent of the imperial court, the naval generals did not have much hope.

Compared with the nervousness of the generals of the navy, Hua'an's Northern Expeditionary Army was quite calm, because the Northern Expeditionary Army, which was good at land warfare, did not understand the essence of water warfare, so naturally it could not see the advantages of Zhao State's warships together.

However, as the chief general of the Northern Expeditionary Army, Hua An, but the Zhao army's ships were deeply worried, he was familiar with the military books, he naturally knew the great power of the chain boats, the Zhao army had a chain boat is like a pontoon bridge on the river, Zhao State's 100,000 troops, can rely on this pontoon bridge to cross the river, so as to further step on the south of the Yangtze River.

"Big brother, there are a thousand reinforcements from the direction of the ferry, and they are from the direction of the Jingbei ferry." Wang San walked into the big tent of the Chinese army and reported to Hua'an.

"Oh, got it." Hua An replied softly, and didn't seem to take this kind of trivial matter to heart.

"Big brother, there is a 'king' written on the flagship of the 1,000 water army, and most of them are this kid with flat heads." Wang San guessed confidently.

"Flathead." Hua An was shocked when he heard this, stood up, and said, "Is it really a flat head, I haven't seen you for many years." ”