Chapter 218: Water War

"The lord and Sun Cejun have crossed the battle readiness line again! This time, this time, ......" There was a messenger at the mouth, and he hurriedly reported to Huang Zu.

Because Sun Ce has harassed several times in recent days, almost blocking the probe from the upstream, and looks like he is actively preparing for war, so Huang Zu has also stayed at the mouth.

"What's the hurry! The children of the Sun family are here, let Zixiang call back! Huang Zu was unmoved.

Although Huang Zu was in charge of the mouth at this time, the commander of the water army in the water village was "Zixiang", whose words were unknown, but his name was very domineering - Su Fei.

Su Fei is a general under Huang Zu, not to mention whether he is a general pulled out of the, but Huang Zu does often entrust the naval army to Su Fei.

In the history of the absence of the White Rabbit effect, Gan Ning felt that it was not interesting to be a water thief, and he felt that there was no development when he returned to Shu County as an official, and after he went out of Shu again, it was Su Fei who recommended Gan Ning to Huang Zu, and when the latter was not reused, but he could not get out, Su Fei let him go, which led to Gan Xingba, the future Jiangbiao Huchen of Eastern Wu.

Later, when Sun Quan killed Huang Zu, he was going to execute Su Fei, but he was stopped by Gan Ning's intercession......

It's just that now Gan Ning has directly joined the General's Mansion, and his relationship with Su Fei is limited to "having a familiar officer in Jingzhou", or dealing with him when he was a water thief.

Huang Zu didn't take the report of the enemy coming seriously, after all, Sun Ce was not the first time to attack.

Therefore, Huang Zucai drew a line of preparation along the river, and Sun Ce's warship passed here, and the Jiangxia water was armed.

"Lord...... This time the situation is different, so big...... It's a big ship...... No, it's not a ship, it's a ship! The messenger hurriedly said.

Huang Zu frowned when he heard this, sensing the panic of the messenger, so he prepared to go out and have a look in person.

The building ship was there in the pre-Qin period, but because after the high ship building was built, the center of gravity of the ship was too high, and it was easy to lose its balance.

Therefore, it is now used as a luxury passenger ship at most - Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty built a huge building ship that can accommodate 10,000 people.

The common warships are still ships, fighting ships, sea falcons and boats.

After the Battle of Chibi, when Eastern Wu relied on the Yangtze River to be safe, it gradually developed many stronger warships, which were really better than those in the pre-Qin period.

Otherwise, when he was in Chibi, he used these basic warships that did not develop much compared to the pre-Qin.

Among them, the ship and the fighting ship are the more "luxurious" capital ships, all of which have cabins on board, cabins with arrow holes, and cowhide on the outside, and the female wall around the ship is used as a shield, and the oars stretch out from the oars on the female wall, and ordinary arrows are difficult to kill, and they can shoot arrows from the arrow holes

The difference is that the ship is larger and longer, the bow has heavy ramming angles, the cabin is large, the deck is small, and it is better at ramming in close combat; The fighting ship is much smaller, and at the same time has more oars, is lighter, and has a larger deck area, which means that it is more suitable for broadside combat.

It can be said that the ship and the fighting ship can be said to be the basic type of ancient warship, and when the Southern Song Dynasty fought against the Jin Kingdom, it was still used, but with many improvements, such as being equipped with different oars to make it more flexible......

Even the building ship can be seen as a multi-layered shipwreck, but in terms of balance, there is a big deal.

In addition, the boat and the sea falcon are the supplement to the ship and the fighting ship, both are small boats, the former is only light, generally to force close to the rear of the broadside battle to pose a threat to the enemy, the latter is a special shape, the head is low and the tail is high, there are floating plates on the side of the ship, like a seabird, the main advantage is that it can maintain balance when the weather is bad and the water is turbulent, and can be used for surprise attacks.

They are all small boats that only need one general and can control with their own subordinates.

The flat boat in the first batch of Baitu's warships is the advanced body of the sea falcon, and the fast paddle ship is more agile than the boat, but it also requires more manpower.

Huang Zu came to the cliff by the river, and when he just approached, he already felt bad...... It's really big.

In front of the three huge building ships, not to mention that they want to engage in battle, they can't get close at all, and the arrows shot from the building are comparable to the firepower of the city wall defending the city!

Water warfare is different from land warfare, and the command of the military formation is simpler - the ships at this time cannot cooperate with too fine formation changes.

Compared to land warfare, naval warfare relies more on strong ships and long-range bows and arrows.

This is also why the vast majority of the Bian Dynasty is maintained by naval forces - no matter how strong the enemy's military appearance is, he still has to use boats and bows and arrows to speak on the water!

Coupled with the difference in the physique of the soldiers, even if the comprehensive strength of the Bi'an Dynasty is weak, it can protect itself for a while.

Huang Zu is in Jiangxia, although he is not able to write and martial arts, but he is backed by Liu Biao, the "big money lord" who pursues the strategy of defending the territory, and he himself is also a representative of the local warrior clan, and the hardware of the navy is excellent, and he is not afraid of Sun Ce at all.

When facing Jiangdong, although the other party also dominates the water battle, after all, Jingzhou is more upstream, although it can also be retrograde with oars, but after all, it has the advantage of water flow, especially in the area of Chukou and Xiakou, and there are cliffs on both sides of the riverbank......

The demise of Eastern Wu and later Chen was defeated by warships built from Yizhou and down the river from upstream.

However, now, Huang Zu could only watch as his own side of the boat could not approach the building ship at all, and the soldiers on the ship were shot mercilessly.

However, Su Fei is also quite experienced, judging from the situation on the river, it seems that he wants to command the fighting ship to intercept and fight hard!

The entire Jiangxia and Huang Zu's family background is only six ships and dozens of fighting ships.

After all, whether it is Huang Zu or Liu Biao, the resources that can be dispatched in Jingzhou are very limited, even during the Battle of Chibi, the ships that Zhou Yu used to set fire were only "dozens".

After Chibi, Sun Quan wanted to expand the results of the war to Huainan but could not, and at the same time, the internal harmony of Eastern Wu was finally much more harmonious because of this great victory, so he began to vigorously develop the naval army and plot to divide the territory.

Huang Zu saw the warp rushing towards the huge building ship, and couldn't help but hold the railing in front of him - after this battle, even if he blocked the opponent's attack, he was afraid that he would be greatly injured!

After that, he pleaded with Liu Biao for more resources?

No...... If the loss is excessive, maybe Liu Biao will cross the river and tear down the bridge.

However, Huang Zu also understood that he had no room for reservations now, but pretended to be calm and said: "Hahaha, Zixiang is really smart in battle, does Bai Tu Xiao'er think that the bigger the boat, the stronger?" As long as the ship hits such a high building, it will shake unsteadily at light and ...... at worst."

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I only heard a loud noise, and even Huang Zu, who was on the cliff on the shore, heard some of it, and hurriedly looked over, but ...... But he didn't see the boat he was expecting to capsize.

Instead, it was a shipwreck, and the cabin was broken, and the soldiers on board wailed.

But on the cracked cabin, a boulder rose again, and the boulder was connected to the long and thin "mast", and it was from it that the attack that smashed into the ship was sent out!

The clap rod, the Northern and Southern Dynasties to the Sui and Tang dynasties were particularly popular around large warships, the wooden pole with the top is a stone hammer, the bottom of the wooden pole is a roller that can be rotated, and it can be pulled back after the shot, as a melee weapon for water warfare, it soon replaced the ramming angle, until the Song Dynasty, the heavy crossbow firearm began to be equipped, and the pole gradually withdrew from the historical stage.

The cowhide of the ship can block the arrows, but ...... How could it be possible to get a giant hammer that fell dozens of feet?

And after a smash, the lever rises quickly!

The lever of the General's Mansion version of the five-tooth ship has also been optimized to a certain extent, not only the rod arm of iron-clad wood is used in the material, but also the fairy gourd is equipped on the wheel, which can withstand heavier stone hammers.

The stern, which is good at ramming, is very vulnerable in front of the ruler of the melee on the water, "slapping the pole......