Qunxiong's manufacturing of heavy weapons at any cost did give Lin Bei more and more headaches.

The catapult is mainly to throw large stones into the city, smash the buildings in the city, and hit morale, and the role of the strong in the early stage is more for the soldiers defending the city on the city wall.

The appearance of the strong horse is probably the Warring States period, as soon as it appears, the chariot of the Warring States period is useless, because the strong horse on this huge target is quite large, the chariot declined, the strong horse rises, up to now, the role of the strong horse in addition to suppressing the enemy sergeant on the city wall, there is also a role is to nail the arrow to the city wall, for the sergeant to climb, so that the sergeant can quickly attack the city.

At the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, with the development of science and technology, the level of war is getting higher and higher, at this time the strong horse has been able to do a burst of five strong arrows, the use of trampling and the power of the winch, once shot, Mo said that the sergeant wears leather armor, even the armor worn by the general will be shot through, which can be called the most lethal weapon in this era.

However, the strong horse is so powerful, but it also has great shortcomings, that is, it is heavy and the launch speed is extremely slow, and the heaviness is naturally needless to say, each strong horse has hundreds of pounds, if you add the need for the sergeant to step on it, the weight reaches more than 1,000 pounds, so it is generally necessary to use the strong horse on the battlefield, you need a special car, this kind of car is generally called a car, but even if there is a car, there are also shortcomings such as slow transfer direction, not good to aim at the target, etc., and again, although the strong horse can shoot five strong arrows when fired once, However, if you want to fire again, it will take a long time to reload the arrows.

It is precisely because of these advantages and disadvantages of the strong boat that in this era, in fact, the most used place for the strong horse is on the river battle, and the big ship is fixed on the big ship, and the big ship is used as a car. It is ideal to strike at enemy ships, if they can shoot through them, after all, in river battles, once the ships enter the water, they will almost certainly be defeated, on the contrary, land warfare is not used much.

But. Now that Manshuai and others are using Qiang Yu to deal with Lin Bei, I have to say that this way of fighting is really the right one.

Lin Bei is huge, the scale protection is extremely strong, it is difficult for ordinary bows and arrows to shoot through, it can be said that no matter how much the bow and arrow shoot, the effect is quite small, although the strong horse can only shoot five arrows at a time, and the mobility is extremely poor, but it is very lethal to Lin Bei's huge target. As long as hundreds or thousands of strong horses are built, and then only one salvo is needed, even if only a dozen of them are shot on Lin Bei's body, it is enough to make Lin Bei die, because strong horses can really shoot through Lin Bei's body.

As the coalition forces created more and more strong horses, Lin Bei became more and more painful, and now the number of strong horses of the coalition army has exceeded 500, distributed around the camp. There are sergeants on duty at all times, as long as Lin Bei dares to rush forward. You'll have to face thousands of huge arrows, and the arrows are poisonous.

In the face of these strong horses, in fact, the most effective way is to fill in with the lives of the sergeants, let the soldiers attack first, and force the strong horses to shoot a round first, and then it is best for Lin Bei to step forward again. Don't look at the great lethality caused by Qiang Yu to Lin Bei, in fact, Qiang Yu is not accurate, and it is generally not easy to shoot the sergeants in the battlefield, Pang Tong and the others probably calculated that if they send 10,000 river god troops. A salvo of 500 strong horses can only cause about two or three thousand casualties at most, which is actually acceptable for Pang Tong and others.

But Lin Bei couldn't accept it, he couldn't accept this way of fighting.

If the River God Army and the enemy were killed in a short battle, Lin Bei naturally couldn't say anything, but letting the River God Army be used as bait and losing their lives in vain would violate Lin Bei's bottom limit.

Hearing Lin Bei's veto of this proposal, Pang Tong and the others were not only not disappointed, but felt very happy in their hearts, because this is the real benevolence.

However, although he couldn't attack, it didn't mean that Lin Bei couldn't do anything, so he asked the craftsmen in the city to create a helmet for him.

The blacksmith of Xiangyang City does not know how to pour iron, he can only use a hammer to hammer slowly, the speed is very slow, Lin Bei wants to get another Dawei Dragon King armor out, but now his body has skyrocketed, the original Dawei Dragon King Armor is no longer suitable for him, and he didn't think that he would capture Xiangyang before he came out this time, so of course he didn't expect to let the craftsman get another one, and besides, with his current body length and thickness, it is really not easy to create a pair of armor that can resist strong giant arrows.

"A helmet and you're done." Lin Bei secretly said.

The helmet that Lin Bei ordered the craftsman to build this time is half a foot thick, which can definitely resist the shooting of powerful giant arrows, but because the head of the snake is different from that of a person, and the way of observation is not the same as that of a person, Lin Bei needs the snake to expand and contract from time to time to observe the surroundings, so this helmet is not easy to build.

The clock ticked by, March passed and April arrived, and then, by mid-April, the weather began to heat up.

The coalition army is getting stronger and stronger, Yangzhou Mu Liu Miao also joined the camp of the coalition army, Liu Biao also came, and then Yizhou Liu Yan arrived, and what Lin Bei didn't expect was that Dong Zhuo also came, in addition to these people, many guys who Lin Bei didn't know their names at all actually came to join in the fun.

Now the morale of the coalition army is very strong, the use of strong piers, lime powder, cement piers let them see the dawn of eradicating the demon snake, they have begun to slowly move from Fangling City to Xiangyang City, every time the camp is moved, the coalition forces are cautious, first send sergeants to the front to sprinkle lime powder, and then drag the cement pier to the front, and finally set up a strong pier, extremely cautious.

Two hundred miles, one hundred and seventy miles, one hundred and fifty miles, because of Lin Bei's inaction, the coalition forces finally approached the thirty-mile range of Xiangyang City, blocking the west and south of Xiangyang City.

Standing at the head of Xiangyang City, looking to the west or south, you can see countless continuous camp tents, the surrounding of the camp tents are erected with military flags of various names, if you go through the camp tents of the coalition army, you can see at least hundreds of military flags with different names, in addition to the previous barbarian Yuan Shao and others and Liu Yan and others who joined later, many small forces also took the opportunity to make waves, such as a place called Shanshan County, it is said to be in Yizhou, Yizhou Liu Yan is here, there are a few small forces also dare to erect military flags, what Yizhou Shanwang and Yizhou Shanwen, Yizhou Shanmo made Lin Bei really speechless, but it also reflected from the side that Lin Bei is now really popular with the majority of people in the Central Plains to eradicate the demon snake. That's a joy to see.

However, with the arrival of these small forces, the coalition finally began to diverge, and it was these small forces that were the most fierce.

These small forces didn't have so much information, and they didn't know how powerful Lin Bei was, and these people were eager to make a name for themselves, so they urged the coalition forces to quickly attack Xiangyang City. Where will the barbarian and Yuan Shao and the others pay attention to them, and they have not restrained these people, so they have to go to death.

In mid-April, an army shouted outside Xiangyang City, the military flag was the Badong Xu family, Lin Bei didn't know which onion it was, but the Xu family only had more than 4,000 people, and there were actually 1,000 cavalry among them, and Lin Bei, who had long been depressed, fought alone. First use the technique of deterring horses to subdue all those military horses, and then rush to the army alone, killing the head of the Xu family, more than 4,000 people finally fled back only more than 1,000, and suddenly, the small forces of the coalition army immediately became honest, because they all saw Lin Bei's power, Lin Bei is not a soft persimmon. It's not something that anyone can pinch if they want to.

As the weather gradually became hotter, Xu Shu and Kong Ming noticed that something was wrong with Fan Jiang.

"Your Excellency. These days, there is a lot of foul smell in the Fan River, and after we sent a military ship to inspect the upper reaches, we found that the coalition forces had dumped all the filth into the Fan River. ”

Fan Jiang was involved in the drinking water problem of 400,000 ordinary people in Xiangyang City, and Lin Bei did not dare to ignore it. So he asked the fleet to patrol the upper reaches of the Fan River day and night, and really found that the coalition forces poured countless filth into the river every day.

The coalition forces are now known as a million people, and the number must be exaggerated, but if you add the number of logistics, there must be 500,000 people. The filth of 500,000 people is dumped every day, and even if the Fan River is very large, it will definitely have a certain impact.

Xiangyang City's drinking water mainly comes from the Fan River, even the wells in the city are mostly connected to the Fan River, and now the coalition forces are dumping filth, which really does not leave a little way for Xiangyang City to live.

After Lin Bei got the news, he was really furious, and these guys just made a strong puppet, and they actually wanted to make the people of Xiangyang die of thirst?

"Guys, what should we do now?" Lin Bei summoned people to discuss the matter and asked a little tiredly.

During this time, although the coalition army did not attack, but the people of Xiangyang could not go out of the city, the fertile fields outside the city were all controlled by the coalition army, and they only lived by fishing.

"Now I am short of food in Xiangyang, but the coalition army is not the same, at this time the coalition army is just creating momentum, but the real attack must not dare, what if the adults cut off their food routes?"

"What is the cutting off of its food channel?"

"Now Zhancheng and Fangling are separated from the Fanjiang River, and if the coalition forces want to transport grain to Fangling, they must pass through the Fanjiang River.

Lin Bei was overjoyed, and then, Lin Bei was stationed at the head of the city during the day, but at night he went up the river, and really saw that there were more than 100 grain ships in the Fan River between Zhancheng and Fangling, Lin Bei killed his sergeants and put the grain boats down the river.

Getting this news, Yuan Shao and the others were shocked, because the demon snake finally made a move, and it also showed the demon snake's strong Jiang Zhan strength, but the handsome laughed: "The demon snake's skills are poor." ”

The barbarian explained carefully, Yuan Shao and the others immediately knew that the demon snake was indeed helpless, because they did not dare to attack the coalition army, so they would have this one.

Although Lin Bei cut off the grain and grass of Yuan Shao and others, the grain and grass of the barbarian army could be transported from Changsha, Baling, Xiaoling, Jiangling, Yidao and other cities.

But then, Lin Bei attacked Fancheng again, first broke the city closest to Xiangyang, Gaoran was defeated, and on the third day of Fancheng was broken, the downstream of Xiangyang was also broken by Lin Bei.

In these two battles, Lin Bei gave full play to the advantage of fast speed on the water, stationed in Xiangyang City during the day, but secretly attacked the city at night, catching the defenders of the two cities off guard, well, in fact, even if there is defense? Lin Bei is now famous, although Fancheng's Gao Ran is a famous general, he can't help Lin Bei at all, and Canyang Tai'an is a rice bucket.

In this way, the military ships of Xiangyang City completely incorporated the nearly 2,000-mile section of the Fanjiang River basin under their rule, and no ships from other cities dared to sail into the Fanjiang River.

Liu Biao was extremely sad, he himself only had Jiangling and Chuyang, and now that Chuyang was broken, only Jiangling City remained, no matter whether this battle was won or not, Liu Biao withered anyway, and Jingzhou Mu existed in name only. (To be continued......)

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