27. Stuffed thunderbolt
Looking out of the window on the third floor of the "Pingyu" ship, on the river bank in front of the left, the soldiers who pulled the fiber walked forward silently, and no one laughed. All of them were strung together by a rope that was fastened to the mast of the ship, so that even if they fell overboard, they would not rush to the north shore.
Looking at the north shore again, the carriage with the skeleton of the vegetable insect has been parallel to Liu Yu's handsome boat, and it is rushing forward unhurriedly.
A flock of crows were gathering on the cart, pecking at the heads of the people hanging from the cart.
Liu Yu looked at it for a while, and then turned around to face the generals who were pressing a room in the dark.
Everyone has a fire in their eyes.
That's it when the blood is on the spot.
In the past few days, the soldiers have not been damaged, but five or six boats have been destroyed.
As soon as the boat drifted to the north shore, the Xianbei people immediately grabbed them with their claws and hooks, and then fired a dense stream of rockets at them.
The people on the big boat watched as the fire took advantage of the wind and quickly engulfed the entire small boat. The brothers, who were covered in flames, jumped into the Yellow River with their armor and disappeared without a trace in an instant.
The heart-rending screams woke some of the recruits from their sleep.
Liu Yu ordered all armies to fix the small boat cable on the big boat, and the boat was not allowed to walk until it was absolutely necessary. However, a huge fleet of ships, sending orders, delivering food, taking medicine, and transporting people all have to rely on small boats, and it is impossible to nest up and not move, and if you move, you may have an accident.
The southeast wind is blowing strongly.
If there really is such a god as Fengbo, he has always stood on the enemy's side. The northwest wind makes the Xianbei people's arrows more fierce; The southeast wind allows the river to push the boat towards the enemy.
Liu Yu originally wanted to do the well water without infringing on the river water, and did his best to pass this section, but now it seems that the water situation, the customs, and the enemy situation are all thwarting his plan.
There is nothing to be done by the wind and water, and now I can only try to remove the obstacle of the Xianbei people. If you endure it, the army will not arrive on the battlefield, and the morale will leak first.
After the second boat was burned, the Jin army prepared an attack fleet. Several medium-sized ships were filled with dead men, and several large ships were filled with archers, ready to strike.
The third boat was trapped on the north shore for a split second, and the attacking fleet immediately rushed up. The ship was full of strong men who had fought a hundred battles, all wrote suicide notes, drank Zhuangxing wine, and everyone was ready to fight with the Xianbei cavalry and cut off the enemy's territory.
But when they shouted and jumped onto the north shore, the Xianbei people shouted a bull's horn and all withdrew.
Obviously, he didn't plan to fight hard with the Jin army.
The dead men looked at each other, dazed.
They could not catch up, and once they were out of the cover of the archers on the ship, they would surely be encircled, and they would be reduced to a puddle of blood and mud on the ground.
Bloody attack, retreating in vain, the boat could not be saved, and there was no way to vent hatred.
After that, the scene was repeated.
Ah Bo Gan has changed his play. What he wanted was not just to kill a few small soldiers in a small fight, but to use this cat-and-mouse game to stick to the Jin army and drain Liu Yu's concentration until he was furious.
At this moment, Liu Yu gritted his teeth silently, walked to Hu's bed and sat down, took a sip of tea, raised his eyes and glanced at all his subordinates:
"So you all think you should have a big fight with the rope head and break their guts?"
No one responded, but the fire in everyone's eyes had already explained it.
"Well, in that case, let's give Ah Bogan a hard beating. Come on, hang the picture! ”
The two personal soldiers of the Baizhi team opened the curtain on the bulkhead, and a map painted on the white cloth was suddenly spread out in front of the generals.
Unlike ordinary maps, which are densely marked with place names, this map is full of symbols. From left to right in the center of the picture, the Yellow River winds eastward, and a series of rectangular squares with cuts at the end are marked on the surface of the river, and the pointed ends point to the west, which is obviously the fleet of the Jin army.
Above the Yellow River, that is, the actual north bank, several squares are connected into an arc, and both ends of the arc are connected to the Yellow River, forming a bow with the Yellow River as a string. Small circles were drawn on both sides of each square, and it took a long time for many people to realize that it was a column of chariots.
Liu Yu fought against the northern Hu people, and he was the best at playing two things. Transporting troops and food depended on ships, and cavalry relied on chariots.
As long as there is a ship, the Jin army will go on a thousand-mile expedition deep into the enemy's territory, the men and horses will not be tired, and the military food will continue to cook.
As long as you have a car, even on the plains, you can instantly form a city.
Spears and lances stretched out from the city walls, and strong bows and crossbows were drawn but not fired, which was enough to make the strongest Hu people think twice.
It was by relying on this kind of moving wild city that the Jin army fought all the way to the city of Guanggu, escorted Murong Chao, the lord of the Southern Yan State who was poor in the twilight, back to Jiankang for execution, and hung the head of the Great Chief of Hu on the pillar of the Vermilion Bird Bridge for the first time in a hundred years.
Guo Xu watched it for a while before he realized that Liu Yu was going to use the car to form a formation and have a decisive battle with Suotou on the north bank, so that they would no longer be harassed.
This chariot formation, behind is the Yellow River, there are warships on the river, the Xianbei people can not outflank the back road, can only fight head-on, the cavalry left and right, front and back of the freedom is useless.
However, with this method, self-protection is okay, and it is impossible to kill and injure the enemy fiercely, so it will not achieve the effect of deterring the rope head.
Liu Yu seemed to see through the thoughts of his subordinates, smiled slightly, and glanced at Ding Yi. Ding Yi walked to the door of the cabin and beckoned, and two soldiers walked in with a small cart.
Liu Yu motioned for everyone to come around and take a look.
It was a wooden wheelbarrow. When walking, only the wheels hit the ground; When stopped, there are two standing hoes on the wheels and fall to the ground, and the three points are fixed, which is stable. The car was equipped with a crossbow machine, but the number of bamboo and mulberry chips on the crossbow arm was almost two or three times that of an ordinary portable crossbow machine, and it was more than twice as heavy as a "stumbling crossbow" that could be opened by foot. The crossbow string is made of thin steel wire, human hair and cowhide rope, and it is also one or two times thicker than an ordinary crossbow machine. It can be seen from visual inspection that such a crossbow machine cannot be pulled by manpower at all.
Ding Yi squatted on the side of the wheelbarrow, shook a small handwheel, and with a series of squeaks and twists, a small piece of iron fixed to the crossbow string stepped back very lightly, pulling the crossbow string to expand the crossbow arm until this strong hard guy was like a full moon.
Four taels can really dial a thousand catties, and the generals are amazed.
Ding Yi gently pressed one of the handles on the car, the crossbow arm rebounded in an instant, and the crossbow string was suddenly released, making a huge popping sound, like a thunderclap exploding in a confined space.
The onlookers were frightened, Qi Shushu took a step back, and the person facing the crossbow machine even subconsciously raised his hand to block his face, as if a crossbow arrow really shot over.
There was a burst of laughter.
It's been a long time since I've laughed like this.
Liu Yu motioned for everyone to go back and sit down, paced back and forth a few steps by himself, and stood still next to the car:
"This crossbow machine is a weapon handed down by Ding Yi's family, and he used this guy that day to free our brother and save him from many sins. This crossbow machine can shoot 600 steps with ordinary long arrows, shoot short lances, fly more than 200 steps, and shoot through 5 pine arrow targets within 100 steps. ”
Speaking of this, Liu Yu paused, as if he knew that these words would cause a small commotion among the generals.
Sure enough, everyone exchanged words for a while.
100 steps** through 5 pine targets, which means that at this distance, the armor is about equal to zero.
"As you can see, I'm going to form a chariot formation against the ropehead cavalry. If you have a car, you are not afraid of the hooves and arrows of the rope head; If we had one of these crossbows in every car, we would be able to kill them at close range as long as we could induce them to attack, but"
The generals' faces froze there with a little excitement just now.
"We only have three of these crossbows on our ship. Jiankang and Jingkou are being manufactured in large quantities, but I can't catch up. The only way now is to immediately transform the existing Tension Crossbow and put two crossbows into one. I tried it, and there was no problem with it, and I could install the short lance, but then the crossbow string was too tight, and the hanging knife of the ordinary crossbow would lock up as soon as it was hung up, and the fingers could not be pulled at all. Let's all take a look. ”
After speaking, he glanced at Ding Yi again, the latter went out to say hello, and two soldiers came in again, each holding a crossbow, the crossbow string had been stretched in place, and it was locked by the hanging knife.
Warlords don't have to try. If the younger and more powerful team leaders can't handle it, they don't have to worry about it. The team owners tried them one by one, and they all shook their heads. No matter how powerful you are, if you want to pull the hanging knife, you can only rely on your fingers. But in front of the fingers of man, the hanging knife is unusually stubborn, it is like a wolf's tooth embedded in the prey, determined to win, and will not let go.
Guo Xu got the crossbow machine, looked at it over and over for a while, tried it with his fingers, his eyes lit up, handed it back to the soldier, and bowed to Liu Yuyi:
"Captain, there will be a way in the end."