At the edge of the Han River, under the willow tree, Wei Ba sat cross-legged, holding a fishing rod in his hand, and became a leisurely angler. Wei Feng sat beside him, muttering without a word. Xiahou Wei took Huan'er and the bell to prepare a picnic not far away, and Dunwu and others were on guard nearby, although this was the control range of the Shu army, but during the war, no one dared to take it lightly. Half a month ago, Wei Jun's meticulous work appeared here.

"Ziyu, I didn't say you, you can't work so hard." Wei Feng nagged like a broken-mouthed woman, "Anyway, this dispatch of troops is also to play a role in containment, now Sima Yi has withdrawn from Shangluo to Wuguan, and Lu Xun has also withdrawn to Xiling, and there is no further march, our task has been completed, why are you in such a hurry?" If nothing else, the prime minister will be able to rush to Yong'an in the middle of next month, and it won't be so easy for Sun Quan to launch an attack again......"

Wei Ba listened quietly, answering from time to time, he knew what Wei Feng said. It can even be said that he knew earlier and more than Wei Feng. However, his thoughts were different from Wei Feng's, and the arrival of the prime minister in Yong'an did not mean that the crisis of the two-front battle between Shu and Han was lifted.

Yes, Cao Rui and Sun Quan have now focused on Xiangyang and temporarily stopped attacking, but this does not mean that it will continue forever. Sun Quan is passive and slacking off and wants to fish in troubled waters, while Cao Rui doesn't want to take a breath and regroup in preparation for another battle. Guanzhong is so important, how can you give up because you can't attack it for a while.

The crisis can only be said to be temporarily resolved, the root cause of the conflict is still there, and there is a possibility that a major war will resume at any time. Only by truly shifting the focus of the war to Xiangyang and letting Wei and Wu be suspicious of each other and contain each other can we relieve the crisis in Guanzhong and Yong'an, and can we relieve the danger of fighting on two fronts in Shu and Han. More importantly, he can play a greater role by turning Xiangyang into a real main battlefield.

Over here. The main general will be Wu Yi, the deputy will be Meng Da, and above him there are Zong Pre and Wei Feng. But it is not any one of them who can really play a decisive role, or rather, the one who can be most comfortable between the various parties, but he Wei Ba. The power of the pass. He can turn the wheel of history with a small army membership, integrate liliang of different factions like Wu Yi and Meng Da, and fight a war that truly belongs to him.

If you talk about the battle of Guanzhong, he is just threading the needle. At best, he played the role of a lieutenant of a baggage battalion, and now, he is really in the army.

Those who join the army, staff officers and military also. He is now the real brain of this army of 30,000 people, and Wu Yi and Meng Da are only deputy brains at best.

How could he easily let go of this opportunity.

However, the difficulties he faced were so great, not only external. There are also internal, not only objective, but also subjective.

Of course, the most important thing is how to maintain the power of the armored ship and increase the speed at the same time, without speed. If you can't play the role of a surprise soldier, you can only fight in an open battle. That was for later, and he didn't have that right now.

"Big brother, young man, what's the point of enduring more hardship. If the young man doesn't work hard, the boss will be sad. ”

"I don't grieve. If you're tired, I'm really sad. Wei Feng put his arm around Wei Ba's shoulders disappreciatively: "Okay, you are already outstanding enough, look at the young generation in the camp, which one doesn't take you as an example, why do you have to work so hard?" It's better to pay attention to your body and give birth to a son as soon as possible. Mother can wait. ”

"What about yourself?" Wei Ba glanced at him: "You are the eldest son, you should work harder." ”

"Of course I tried." Wei Feng smacked his lips, and swallowed the words when they came to his lips. Huan'er is favored by Mrs. Zhang again, after all, she is also a slave, and being a concubine is already the greatest blessing. The child she gave birth to was destined to be a concubine. Xiahou Hui is different, although she is a captive, but her status is noble, she may become a wife at any time, if she gives birth to a child for Wei Ba, it is a sister-in-law - of course, she is only Wei Ba's sister-in-law, not the Wei family's sister-in-law - for Wei Feng, this concept is deep-rooted and cannot be removed. It's just that in the face of such a concubine as Wei Ba, he didn't know how to say it so that Wei Ba wouldn't misunderstand, so he was so anxious that he scratched his ears and cheeks. "Don't you see? Are you walking in a different way these days? ”

Wei Ba rolled his eyes, he was really speechless, and he also had a deeper understanding of the status of the concubine. There are groups of wives and concubines, one wife, plus a group of concubines, but no matter how many concubines there are, they can't lower than one wife. The junior in later generations still has a chance to take the position, but if a concubine wants to become a wife, it is even more difficult.

"Big brother, did you accompany me out to relax today, or did you come to stimulate me on purpose?"

"Of course I'm here to relax with you." Wei Feng laughed and said: "Haha, don't say it, don't say it, fishing, fishing." ”

Wei Ba shook the fishing rod in his hand, and even if there were fish, he was scared away by you.

While the two were talking, the bell came over, looked down at the bucket containing the fish, and pouted: "Two young masters, where are the fish?" We're boiling the water and waiting for the fish to come out of the pot. ”

Wei Feng couldn't hold his face a little, and shouted: "The water here is so urgent, how can there be any fish." Why don't you give it a try? ”

The bell glanced at him, didn't answer the fishing rod handed over by Wei Feng, threw the boots on his feet, rolled up his trouser legs, strode up to a martial artist, and stretched out his hand: "The spear is used by me." ”

The martial guard was inexplicable, and he didn't react for a while. The bell snatched the spear from his hand, and went down the river with a pout, and flowed into the thigh-deep water, holding the spear upside down, and looking at it carefully.

Wei Ba was taken aback, it was still the first month, the water was very cold, this girl was actually barefoot in the water? It's fierce enough. Before he could finish his sigh, the bell suddenly struck, and the spear pierced into the water like lightning, and when it came to the surface again, a big red fish was pierced on the tip of the spear, struggling desperately, and the water splashed.

"Damn!" Wei Ba and Wei Feng glanced at each other and felt a little embarrassed.

In a short time, the bell pierced three or four large fish, each two or three feet long. She hurried back to the table, threw her spear, held down the fish, disemboweled, removed the scales, threw them into the pot and boiled them, and her hands and feet were so sharp that everyone on the lookers was amazed.

"Hey, the Xiahou family is really the Xiahou family, and even a slave is hidden." Wei Feng said loudly.

"Hmph, it's really a hidden master." Wei Ba also nodded, but the smile on his face was a little fake. Xiahou Hui peeked at it, and couldn't help but tense up, and his heart was beating uncontrollably.

After the bell finished cleaning up the fish, he sat on an upside-down tree by the river, his two feet in the circle in his hands, his head held high, although he didn't look at Wei Ba and them, he was clearly a little proud. Wei Feng was a little embarrassed, and wanted to scold her twice, shaking the majesty of the master, but because this was Xiahou Hui's maidservant, not his own, he had to endure it, and laughed at himself: "Look at what you can endure, can it be that your two feet can still be used as oars?" ”

Wei Ba heard the embarrassment of Wei Feng's voice, and couldn't help laughing: "She is an oar, the oar is up and down, she is circling in a circle, even if it is compared, it can only be compared to a propeller." ”

"Propellers? What kind of paddle is that? Wei Feng asked in surprise.

"Uh......" Wei Ba was speechless for a while, he didn't know how to explain, he thought for a long time, and had to say: "The propeller is a kind of rotating oar, not up and down, but back and forth...... So...... turned. ”

Wei Ba said as he gestured, but a flash of inspiration suddenly flashed in his mind, and he thought of a way to solve the speed of the armored ship.

At the beginning, the boat was driven by a penny, which was the least efficient and the slowest with a brace, and later switched to an oar, which was more efficient than the penny, but not as good as the oar used later. The oars have changed from the intermittent movement of the oars to the continuous movement, and the efficiency has been improved. However, oars were usually used only on small ships, and only at the back of the boat, and large ships were still driven by oars, and the oarsmen on a ship usually made up one-third to one-half of the crew, or even more.

Although the oar is a continuous movement, the oar is not the tail of a fish after all, and the efficiency is not very high, and the propeller used by the later boat is the real continuous circular movement, which is also the most efficient. However, in this era, it is impossible to drive the propeller with manpower, so Wei Ba has not found a better way to solve the speed problem of armored ships.

Now, he suddenly found that he had a misunderstanding, or habitual thinking, that he wanted to jump to the propeller at once, but forgot that there was a transitional drive between the oar and the propeller.

Steamship.

This steamer is not a motorized ship as it is called in the later world, but a real steamer, that is, driven by a wooden wheel, in a similar way to a water mill, except that the water mill is loaded on the ship.

This kind of wheeled warship has appeared many times in later generations, but they are all used for warships, the Song Dynasty's Dongting Lake water thief Yang Qi used this kind of warship to resist the encirclement and suppression of officers and soldiers, and defeated the officers and soldiers many times, until the famous general Yue Fei came up with a way to crack it, and then subdued this group of water thieves.

Wheel drive is a continuous movement, and it is a real circular motion, which is more labor-saving and more efficient than the oar. What's more, these wheels can be mounted not only on the stern of the boat, but also on the sides of the ship, so there are no space constraints.

This is the wonderful use of the circle, it is said that the earliest invention of the steamship is the pi accurate to seven decimal places after the Zu Chongzhi, his invention of the steamship is called a thousand miles of ship, that is to say, can travel thousands of miles a day, even if there is an exaggerated element in this, but the ship is faster than the paddle boat, but it is a fact.

"Ziyu, what's wrong with you, you like her feet?" Wei Feng saw Wei Ba's eyes demented looking at the two legs of the bell, he was surprised, his heart was so haode Xiahou Hui didn't need it, how could he see the two legs of a maid but his eyes were like this, could it be that he liked women's feet? Ziyu's hobbies are really weird. Besides, this woman has a pair of thigh boards, what's so good about it?

"Oh, nothing, nothing." Wei Ba came back to his senses, and he didn't care about saying anything, so he left when he was busy. He was now anxious to go to Shiyan to make his discovery, and if it could be realized, the problem of the speed of the armored ship might be satisfactorily solved.

Wei Feng saw Wei Ba leaving in a hurry, thinking that he had broken Wei Ba's mind, Wei Ba was embarrassed, he couldn't help but sigh and shook his head, clenched his fists again, and said secretly: "Ziyu, don't worry, I won't say it." ”

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