Chapter Twenty-One: Fighting in a Single Boat

As mentioned last time, Guo Youzhi asked Liu Hou who was Ouyang Feng, but Liu Hou had no choice but to explain:

"Well, this, this Ouyang Feng, is a martial arts master known to Master Zuo, his martial arts are extremely high, he can be said to be the number one master in the world, and what is even more terrifying is that he is good at poison. Again, he poisoned a shark, and the poison could turn the body into a new poison, and the other sharks ate the dead shark and then poisoned it into a new poison, and so on, and so on, and all the sharks in the sea were poisoned.

On another occasion, he poisoned a crow, and as a result, the crow also became poison, and after the other crows ate the dead crow, they also became poisoned and turned into a new poison, and as a result, all the crows in the vicinity were poisoned. ”

After Fei Yi and Guo Youzhi heard this, they couldn't help but feel terrified, there are such strange people in the world! It's really unheard of, Zuo Xian Weng is really not an idle person, and he actually knows such strange people.

"I don't know if Zuo Xian Weng can invite this person to go out of the mountain to assist the little boy, if he can get this person's help, the little boy will be tantamount to adding wings to the tiger, and it will be easier to deal with Dongwu and Cao Thief when the time comes." Guo Youzhi heard Liu Hou say in such detail, and he didn't doubt whether this character was a fictional character at all, he immediately thought of the key point and immediately suggested.

Liu Hou pursed his lips and thought to himself, if there was really an old poison like Ouyang Feng in the world, I would definitely have hid as far as I could in the first place, and asked him to help, did I think my life was too long?

"No, this person is arrogant and arrogant, and it is impossible for him to be controlled by anyone. And this person is vicious, and if he is not careful, he will betray and backlash. So when you see this person, you can only hide as far as you can, and you can't think about getting close to him, let alone who you want him to work for. Liu Hou hurriedly excused.

"Oh, that's a shame." Guo Youzhi.

"Forget it, don't talk about the topic, hurry up and think of countermeasures." Liu Houdao.

Fei Yi and Guo Youzhi glanced at each other, and finally Guo Youzhi said:

"Actually, we have already discussed it on the way to find Shizi."

"Oh, do you already have a solution? Great, come on. Liu Hou said happily.

"Please hand over the power of guarding the prince to me, I will guard this city for the prince, and swear to live and die with Jingzhou City."

"No problem, I will hand over the command of the troops to you, and you will be fully responsible for this defensive mission. Well, but why don't you tell me about your plans first, so I can have a good idea? Liu Hou obviously didn't understand Guo Youzhi's overtone, and excitedly agreed to hand over the command to him.

"Please Shizi and Wen Wei take the first step and immediately take the 'Jingzhou' back to Yizhou." Guo Youzhi continued.

"Uh, what? What do you mean? Liu Hou couldn't react for a while, just now he was thinking excitedly about how to defend the city, how to give a heavy blow to the enemy who came from Eastern Wu, why did Guo Yuzhi let him and Fei Yi go back in a blink of an eye? I've only been here for a few days, and I haven't played enough, besides, isn't the purpose of my coming to Jingzhou to try to keep Jingzhou from losing and save Guan Gong's life? Now that Jingzhou is facing a large army, how can he just leave.

"Please Shizi and Wen Wei go back to Yizhou first, and I wish to stay and live and die with the city." Guo Youzhi said it again.

This time Liu Hou understood what he meant, it must have been discussed between Guo Youzhi and Fei Yi, thinking that this time the danger factor of Jingzhou City was too great, the possibility of being breached was too great, and it was too dangerous for him to stay in Jingzhou City, so he wanted to send himself away first, and then Guo Youzhi, who was more good at military affairs, stayed in the city, and Fei Yi, who was good at internal affairs, accompanied Liu Hou back to Chengdu.

"Hahahaha...... You're letting me go? You're not kidding, in order to rescue Jingzhou City and my second uncle Guan, I have been preparing for many years, and you let me just leave it alone? Liu Hou was angry for a while, and was laughed at by Guo Youzhi.

"Shizi, as the so-called gentleman does not erect a dangerous wall, the 100,000 troops of Eastern Wu will attack, and when the time comes, the soldiers will be in danger, and any accident may happen. The prince of the world is concerned about the safety of tens of millions of people in Xishu, how can he be so willful. Moreover, when the Eastern Wu nest attacked, a few thousand people could resist it, and asked the prince to move in to rescue the troops and relieve the siege of Jingzhou as soon as possible. Fei Yi also persuaded.

"You can move the rescuers, why do you need me to go out in person. Also, you must not underestimate my 5,000 Hong army, although they are small in number, they are well-equipped, and they are already an all-firearms army, and they may not have a chance to defend against 100,000 cold weapons of the Eastern Wu soldiers. You are not familiar with firearms units, and it is easy to lose their power if you don't command them properly, so I have to defend the city. Liu Houdao.

Although Guo Youzhi is familiar with military books and proficient in the art of war, he has just come from Liu Bei's side, although he has also heard of muskets, artillery and thunderbolts, but because Liu Hou has done a good job of secrecy and has been deeply hiding these things at the bottom of the box, his understanding of firearms units is only superficial, and he is completely blind to how to command an all-firearms unit to fight.

Fei Yi has always been by Liu Hou's side, and he knows much more about the firearms unit than Guo You, but he has always been in charge of internal affairs, and he does not know much about the affairs of the army. Although he has seen the power of various firearms, he is a civilian official after all, and he is also at the level of half a bucket of water on how to command the army in battle.

"The two gentlemen may not know the combat effectiveness of my Hong army, as long as there is sufficient ammunition, it is not a problem for these 5,000 people to resist 100,000 Eastern Wu soldiers. Now the point is that they came in a hurry and didn't carry much ammunition. However, ships with large quantities of ammunition and artillery could arrive in a day or two. Liu Houdao.

If there is enough ammunition, Liu Hou is really not afraid of these 100,000 people, there is a high city wall, and his musketeers only need to condescend to shoot targets on it, and it is not as many kills as they come. 100,000 people, but the average number of people killed per person is only 20, and in ancient times, a siege was often a few days and dozens of days, so on average, there were not many people who needed to be killed in a day.

If the morale factor is taken into account, if the casualties reach a certain number, the morale of the Eastern Wu army will be low, and Sun Quan will have to retreat. In this way, the average person shoots one person per day, which is about the same.

How hard is it? Let these well-trained musketeers shoot at the target of the dense camp of Soochow soldiers in an unobstructed open field, no matter how bad the shooting performance is, you can always get a shot for every 10 shots. At the end of the day, how many people can he hit with 100 shots? Provided that they have enough ammunition and enough spare barrels to be replaced in time.

Of course, real war is not a real-time strategy game, and the results can not be deduced by numerical deduction, and there will always be all kinds of accidents on the battlefield, leading to all kinds of unpredictable results. There are also some dramatic results due to various strategies, weather, psychology, food, morale, and countless other factors, and even some reasons that you can't imagine.

"It's just that I'm afraid the people of Dongwu won't give us this or two days." Guo Youzhi.

"In this way, I still go up to the Jingzhou, there are more than 90 cannons on it, and the gunpowder is also sufficient, I see if I can intimidate the fleet of Eastern Wu, delay their offensive, and gain enough time, so that the transport fleet behind can send the cannons and ammunition to Jingzhou City."

Guo Youzhi and Fei Yi were relieved when they first heard Liu Hou say that they wanted to go to Jingzhou, but then they couldn't help but feel nervous again when they heard that Liu Hou meant to block the Eastern Wu fleet.

"No!" Fei Yi and Guo Youzhi said in unison. The two glanced at each other, reached a tacit understanding, and Guo Youzhi said:

"The prince must not act rashly, the other side has thousands of large and small warships, and we only have one Jingzhou, the so-called, the so-called ......"

"Is it the so-called praying arm blocking the car and the grasshopper shaking the tree?" Liu Hou helped him say what he was embarrassed to say. However, Guo Youzhi didn't dare to admit it, so he had to divert the topic:

"Soochow not only has a larger and stronger ship than the Jingzhou, but also a ship with extremely fast speed, once they are assaulted in front of them and set fire to the ship, the consequences are unimaginable. In the Battle of Chibi that year, Zhou Yu used dozens of fighting ships, filled with firewood, grass and oil, and burst into the Cao army's ship array after ignition, burning the Cao army's fleet in one fell swoop. The prince of the world must prevent the Soochow people from repeating their old tricks. Guo Youzhi continued to persuade.

"Hehe, Mr. Guo, don't worry, you also took the Jingzhou when you came, and you know that the speed of the Jingzhou will not be worse than these warships, besides, we have muskets and artillery, and just a warship can't be relied on." Liu Houdao

"The prince must not be taken lightly, the ship of the Eastern Wu is covered with cowhide, which plays a role in fire prevention, and there are crossbow windows on all sides of each cabin, and the spear holes can be used to attack the enemy in all directions.

On the other hand, there is a women's wall on the side of the ship, and there are holes in the side of the ship under the wall, and there is a shed on the deck, and there is a women's wall on the shed, and there are heavy soldiers hiding behind the women's wall to shoot at the enemy.

If they can't sink them in a short period of time, once they get close, they will crash the iron nails in the bow into the enemy ship, nail the ship tightly to the enemy ship, and then ignite the oil and firewood on the ship, and die with the enemy ship. Guo Youzhi continued to analyze to Liu Hou.

Liu Hou also felt a little headache when he heard this. Of course, one or two of these warships are not afraid, and they have the means to deal with them. The problem is that they are never fighting with one ship, they pay attention to winning by numbers, adopting the tactics of wolf packs, and a dozen or even dozens of ships are rushing up at every turn. It's really hard for me to cope with such a situation.

Let's bombard it with artillery, these things are small in size and spread out on the wide surface of the river, and it feels like hitting mosquitoes with cannons. Shoot with a musket, and people will hide behind the women's wall or behind the crossbow window to fire back at you, and you may not be able to shoot anyone else. Besides, they were covered in cowhide, and the protection was super strong, and the lead bullets of the muskets obviously could not cause much damage to the hull.

Liu Houneng thought of a way to deal with them is a thunderbolt, a thunderbolt is equivalent to a flowering bomb, and the flying shrapnel is estimated to have a certain lethal effect on the Dongwu soldiers hiding in the bunker, the problem is that this thing is thrown manually, which means that it can only be used when the other party is very close, which also means that it takes a lot of risk. If they are not careful, these ships will crash into their own ships and burn their own ships.

Liu Hou was secretly glad, fortunately, Guo Youzhi analyzed the characteristics of these warships for himself in advance, if he didn't understand the situation, he rushed up in a daze and wanted to sink them, then it would be a cup. With an understanding of the other party, you can prepare accordingly.

"Mr. Guo, don't worry, I'll go over to see the situation first, if the situation is not good, I'll turn around and leave, if the other party dispatches the warship, I will turn around and leave immediately." Liu Hou's way of Guo You.

"It's so good, and I also ask the prince to focus on the overall situation, and if you can't do anything, you will do your best to turn to Chengdu. Today, Sun Quan has many people and bullies few people, and he will reorganize his army and make a comeback in the future, and he may not be able to avenge today's one-arrow revenge. Guo Youzhi was also a lot relieved to see that Liu Hou did not insist on fighting with the Eastern Wu Army to the end, he knew the speed of the Jingzhou, if he was bent on escaping, there might not be a ship in the world that could catch up with it.