Wire drawing is not a new technology.

In the past, the craftsmen were able to make the Zozi Armor, which belonged to the same category of high-grade armor as the scale armor.

Zozi armor is to use iron into wire, and then cut the wire to make rings into chain clothes to prevent knives and bows.

It's just that the zozi armor is very good at preventing arrow shooting and knife cutting, but it is weaker in preventing sharp blade stabs, so it is not as popular with generals as scale armor, but the inheritance of technology has not been broken. Huaidong generals also like to wear light and trivial armor in addition to the armor, and the protection of the battle is especially high.

It is easy to draw iron into wire, and craftsmen also have technical accumulation for the quenching annealing of fine iron wire, but it is not an easy thing to pull out hundreds of zhang or even thousands of meters of fine iron wire, and then make the thin iron wire strand twisted into a rope.

Since the advent of Huaidong's super-large sea vessels of the Lin Zhengjun class and with a carrying capacity of more than 20,000 Shijia, higher and more demanding requirements have been put forward for the strength and toughness of the ropes, especially the ropes tied to the sail mast cannot be indefinitely thick.

Compared with traditional hemp rope, iron wire and wire rope are undoubtedly a better choice. Only Huaidong has a strong demand in this regard, so that Huaidong craftsmen can continue to toss for several years and invest a lot of resources to improve the technology of wire rope.

The dozens of bundles of wire ropes stored in the Huanglongtan camp today are far from perfect, but compared with the traditional hemp rope and iron rope, they have obvious advantages. In fact, as early as two years ago, the wire rope was applied to Lin Zhengjun-class sea vessels, but no other forces can understand it.

A wire rope with a length of 500 steps can withstand tens of thousands of catties of tension, but the total weight is not more than 400 catties; And the iron cable of considerable strength even has thousands of catties or tens of thousands of catties.

Even if there are fixed objects on both sides of the strait that can withstand tens of thousands of catties of tensile force, the difficulty of putting a 400-pound wire rope and a tens of thousands of catties of iron cable on top of the turbulence is definitely not the same level. Although it is not absolutely impossible to destroy the wire rope suspended above the water, it is definitely much more difficult than raising fire to burn a section of hemp rope or bamboo rope.

When Luo Wenhu first arrived at the wire rope and the bundles of thin wires that were only a few centimeters thick, he thought to himself how fucking exciting it would be to make a tripping horse and pull a few lanes on the battlefield before the enemy cavalry sprinted! However, he didn't put it forward, this kind of thing can only be a new trick, and the generals of the Huaidong Army should have considered it a long time ago, and it can only be used once, which is far less widely used than other fields.

At dusk, Chen Yan and Huang Zuyu rushed to the camp, and the few workers in the camp who usually wore civilian clothes and mixed with craftsmen also changed into standard official uniforms at this time.

Can they successfully pull up the suspension rope between Longclaw Rock and Shanmen Rock tonight, and decide whether they can deal a fatal blow to the more than 80,000 enemy soldiers who are still stranded on the south bank of the Han River, how can Chen Yan and Huang Zuyu take it lightly?

In order to better keep up with the pace of the generals of the Huaidong Army, he and Chen Yan asked to cross the river with the front to participate in the battle. Only in this way can it be possible to have a deeper understanding of the many unpredictable tactics of the Huaidong Army.

After Yan Hu heard the alarm, he would inevitably frantically counterattack the beachhead on the south bank. On the bloody battlefield, it is also necessary for generals to take the lead in resisting the enemy to boost morale, and it is inevitable that middle and senior generals will die in front of the battle. To avoid the collapse of the command system due to the casualties of generals, send more generals over to replace them.

Luo Wenhu wants to go to the south bank with the front first, Chen Yan will naturally not object, but will admire his courage and distinguish him from other generals.

Of course, if Luo Wenhu wants to go to the South Bank first, he must first train on the zipline.

Since only two or three suspended ziplines could be erected to connect the two banks at the fastest time in the early stage, the elite of the first battalion that rushed to the south bank to organize the early defense could only cross the river with rigging ziplines.

The elite of the battalion that planned to cross the river first, led by the brigade commander Liang Shou, with a thin face, called Luo Wenhu It is hard to imagine that Liang Shou was just a butcher in Dengzhou City before joining the army, and they were transferred two days ago for zipline training.

Entering the secret training camp deep in the mountain pass, Luo Wenhu learned that the Huaidong Army's rush to cross the Han River this time was not a temporary idea, but one of the plans formulated before the occupation of Fancheng - in the secret training camp, two high pillars are connected to a suspension cable, and the zipline is not complicated to say, but it also needs to be repeatedly trained in advance to ensure that when crossing the river, it will not be stuck there because of individual problems.

In the camp, Luo Wenhu also saw hundreds of fine iron bed crossbows and scorpion crossbows that were ready to be used to block the river, and at this time, he tore off the rainproof paint cloth and pulled out of the camp, revealing his hideous face in the open space, and the soldiers and horses in the front base were also ready, ready to make up for the dragon claw rock at any time.

Luo Wenhu tried two ziplines, wearing armor, he slipped over a distance of more than 100 meters, and it was not too difficult, so he and Liang Shou and the generals of the camp further studied the terrain around Shanmen Rock and Miaotan Ridge on the opposite bank and various emergency operation plans.

There were more than a dozen craftsmen who crossed the river with them first, and they were responsible for the erection of the suspension bridge in the later stage.

This operation was not to send 500 or 600 people over with a zipline, but to use a wire rope to build a suspension bridge between Longzhuo Rock and Shanmen Rock that could be used for people and horses to pass through on a large scale, and transport 35,000 or even more elite soldiers and horses across the river in a day or two, cutting off the Xianggu passage at the southern foot of Miaotan Ling in one fell swoop, and completely destroying the enemy's plan to flee north on the south bank.

This kind of combat method was something Luo Wenhu had never thought of before, and he couldn't help but think about the Battle of Xuzhou, Chen Hansan was probably defeated to this day......

Luo Wenhu has always been puzzled by Chen Hansan's Xuzhou rout, how could the big river, which was frozen hard after winter, suddenly fall apart? But as soon as the engineer of the Huaidong Army explained, Luo Wenhu didn't think that the truth here was so simple, and no knowledge was really deadly.

After nightfall, Luo Wenhu and Liang Shou led their troops to assemble behind the Dragon Claw Rock; At this time, the wind rose, looking at the hazy night sky, Luo Wenhu asked worriedly: "Will there be rain and snow?" "The rain and snow will undoubtedly make it more difficult to cross the river.

"It's good to have a hard snow...... Liang Shou looked up at the sky, it is not difficult to cross the river, there are so many bed crossbows and scorpion crossbows to block the narrow river surface, and he is not afraid that the enemy ships can attack the iron-textured ropeway from the water, but the enemy army heard the news and rushed to Shanmen Rock from the southeast foot of Miaotanling Valley Pass is only less than forty miles. If it snows heavily, it can greatly delay the speed of the enemy's arrival and interception.

Rain and snow are not good for anyone, but good for everyone.

The preparations of the Huaidong Army were well done, and the worse the weather, relatively speaking, it would only be more unfavorable to the unprepared and unprepared enemy troops on the south bank.

Chen Yan and Huang Zuyu walked over and said: "There is no abnormality on the south bank, it is estimated that it will snow this day, you should be careful of slippery feet in the past; Are you ready? ”

Liang Shou nodded, Chen Yan, Huang Zuyu and the second batch of Li Baidao, who led his troops to cross the river, said: "Then push the bed crossbow ashore first...... Although the enemy sentry ship passes through this section of the river every two hours after nightfall, it is guaranteed that the enemy naval warships upstream will come faster, and the armor soldiers zipline across the river, and there is no power to fight back in the face of the bows and arrows shot by the enemy ships in the air, and it is necessary to use bed crossbows and scorpion crossbows on the shore to blockade and attack the enemy ships coming from the upstream......

The wire rope has not yet been unfolded, and a bundle is placed in front of the "work" shaped iron pile, but one end of the wire rope is buckled on the iron pile with an iron buckle made of fine iron, and the suspension cable is ready to be erected; Under the cover of night, a crossbow was also pushed from the camp to the shore cliff, and the troughed giant crossbow arrows were in place and aimed at the waterways upstream and downstream of Dragonclaw Rock.

Just after the end of the day, two enemy patrol ships went down the river, and because they were afraid of the strong crossbows of the Huaidong Army on the north bank, the two enemy patrol ships almost stuck to the south bank, which made people worry that the men and horses lurking on the south bank at this time would be exposed.

The north wind is howling, the sky is overcast, the night is like ink, the enemy patrol ships have passed, and the lurking men and horses on the south bank have used the lights as their signals to set up four giant bed crossbows on the dragon claw rock to indicate the firing direction!

These four bed crossbows made of fine iron were obviously larger than the bed crossbows commonly used in the army, with crossbow arrows slotted and ropes tied to the tail of the arrows. Luo Wenhu was also nervous in his heart, although the string tension of the giant crossbow was stronger than that of an ordinary bed crossbow, but he was not sure whether he could shoot the giant arrow with the tail end of the lanyard to the opposite bank, and he had not seen the repeated experiments carried out by the soldiers before, and he always felt unsafe.

On the opposite shore with a light marked in the direction of the shooting, Chen Yan waved his hand to give the commander, listening to the crossbow arrows breaking through the air, caught in the whistling north wind, I don't know if there is a shot on the opposite bank, only to see the soldier who controls the bed crossbow pulling the arrow tail rope, seeing that the rope is straight, excitedly said: "Shoot to the other side!" After a while, the other side also sent a message with lights to show success.

Looking at Chen Yan, Huang Zuyu, and Tang Xitai looking at the night under the river with a calm expression, Luo Wenhu felt that the sweat in his palms was a little redundant.

Soon after tying three bundles of wire ropes to the ropes, Luo Wenhu watched as these wire ropes were slowly pulled down the river; After about half an hour, the three wire ropes were stretched straight on top of the Dragonclaw Rock, sloping downward at a very small angle......

Luo Wenhu was the first to slide down the platform with a rigging on the suspension rope, and the stepping stones with both feet slid into the air, listening to the cold wind roaring in his ears, the sound of waves surging under his feet, and the stirred water foam hit his face, a cold, he didn't make him think about it, the castration was approaching, but he also saw the situation on the other side more clearly.

Several lanterns illuminated a natural footing stone platform under the Shanmen Rock, and more than a dozen people who had lurked out earlier stood on the stone platform, and at this time stretched out a long pole, hooked Luo Wenhu's body, who was about to castrate, and pulled him to the stone platform to untie him; There are three rope ladders hanging down on the left side of the stone platform for people to climb up, and four fine iron giant crossbows are nailed to the position slightly below the stone platform, breathing the wind and waves, not moving at all, and shooting into the stone is afraid of being half a foot deep......

What a strong bed crossbow!

Just as Luo Wenhu was stunned, "Huhuhu", three more people slid from the opposite bank at the same time behind him......

There was a person here who came over with a lantern, and he couldn't recognize Luo Wenhu: "Why didn't Liang Tou come over?" Who is this general? ”

"This is the commander of Rowan Huluo of the Military Intelligence Department; Dong Biao, is there anything abnormal here? Liang Shou's voice sounded beside Luo Wenhu, asking the man who came over with the lantern.

"It turned out to be Commander Luo," Dong Biao, the sentinel who was in charge of the first lurking outlet, came over, saluted Luo Wenhu, and said to Liang Shou, "The enemy army in the front valley of Miaotanling is still in a dream; However, the two lookoutposts at Dongling and Huya Beach were each guarded by fifteen or sixteen soldiers. When we approached before nightfall, we ran into three enemy sentinels in Shannan, killed two, and told one to flee, but it should not alarm the enemy too much. There are 3,000 enemy soldiers stationed in Cao Chongzhai in the upper reaches of the Nanhe River, and they plan to continue to Gucheng tomorrow after being alarmed......"

It is normal for the Huaidong army to have scouts infiltrating on the south bank and Yanhu to have scouts on the north bank, and both sides will search for each other's scouts every once in a while, but as long as they do not infiltrate the core area, they will rarely mobilize the army and send a large force of troops and horses to search and arrest them overnight - Liang Shou is not worried about how much vigilance the enemy will be caused by Dong Biao's killing and wounding of the patrol posts......

Liang Shou and Luo Wenhu did not delay, and climbed up the mountain gate rock from the rope ladder.

Shanmen Rock is slightly smaller than the dragon claw rock on the north bank, the rock head is only forty or fifty steps deep, in the past it is the dense forest that can be seen everywhere in the Miaotan Ridge, the people are inaccessible, the trees are towering, it is a slope to the south and to the west; The two wire ropes were fastened to the root of the giant tree with an iron buckle, stretched very tightly, the bark was broken, and even if someone was ziplining on the river, it was not moving, and it was very firm.

The whole plan seems very simple, but such a simple and practical background hides Huaidong's strength to make people peek to the end, and such a simple and practical strategy is also difficult for the enemy to see; Luo Wenhu prides himself on being both civil and military, and he is also very ashamed at this time, almost a battalion general and sentry general in the Huaidong Army will not be too bad than him - it is difficult for the Huaidong Army to plan a lot for this......

Soon twenty or thirty more people came zip-lining, and several of them had bundles of thin iron wires less than a cent (ten inches) thick tied to their bodies. There were already more than 40 people lurking in the dense forest behind Shanmen Rock, except for seven or eight craftsmen who had lurked in advance, other vigilant guards, and even took the wire and used the trees on the periphery as piles to quickly enclose a temporary defensive camp.

Although it is rudimentary, it is much faster than logging for camping.

Even if you can cut these wires with a knife and axe, the wires are tightly enclosed in a net, which can slow down the enemy's army and not be fired; It is more effective when used with tribulus terrestris. The Huaidong Army's bows and crossbows were deployed behind the iron line, and they could effectively and intensively shoot the enemy troops blocked by obstacles such as iron wire nets, thistles and horse rejection.

When it comes to fighting, the elite of the Huaidong Army is not short of blood and courage at all, and the key is to suppress and not let the enemy army pour in from all directions.

Although Shanmen Rock is in the Miaotan Ridge, it is not far from the mountain, after all, it is necessary to take into account that the elite soldiers and horses can quickly attack from the Miaotan Ridge across the river and cut off the passage between Xiangyang and Gucheng, so at the same time, after the enemy discovers it, the attack on Shanmen Rock will also be very fast, and there are not many obstacles on the terrain.

Liang Shou led the front to cross the river, that is, to establish a defense on the periphery of Shanmen Rock first, so as to be able to erect a suspension bridge over the Han River, so that more soldiers and horses could quickly cross the river......

After almost 400 people, there were only two enemy patrol posts, and then they sailed upstream.

Although the night is like ink, the three suspension cables are suspended on the water surface for fourteen or fifteen zhang, and so many people have been laid on both sides of the Dragon Claw Rock and Shanmen Rock, so that the surrounding birds and beasts are gone, so naturally they will not call the enemy sentry ship not alert at all.

When the enemy sentinel ships marching along the south cliff raised their flames to illuminate the night sky, they were naturally greeted by a rain of arrows like flying locusts; More than half of the more than a dozen soldiers on the enemy sentry ship suffered casualties in an instant, but the remaining enemy soldiers also lit the beacon fire at the stern of the ship in time to warn the south shore!

Luo Wenhu stood on the mountain rock, and when he saw the enemy's lookouts in Dongling and Huya Beach, he quickly lit a beacon fire to warn; Only then did it be discovered that the enemy's two lookouts on the left and right were so close that if they were not separated by a ridge, they would have been four or five miles away from Shanmen Rock in a straight line.