(Chapter 135 has been rewritten at noon today (August 31), and those who read it in the morning can refresh and re-read it.) Say it again to avoid not being notified)

After Liu Bei, Zhuge Jin and Lu Su discussed the four-way strategy for Yuan, they each went back to prepare for implementation.

Because Liu Bei's territory is too narrow and long, it is still an enclave, and from the formulation of the plan to the start of the war, there must be plenty of time.

Not to mention anything else, just saying that Zhuge Jin held a pre-war military meeting in Guangling and took a boat up the Yangtze River to rush back to Chaisang, it may take more than ten days.

If, in order to deceive Yuan Shu, the troops had to go out day and night and dock at the port on the south bank during the day to conceal themselves when they moved through certain sensitive river sections, it would have been normal for them to complete the journey in more than half a month.

After returning to Chaisang, he also had to gather troops from all over Yuzhang. Before the start of the war, a considerable part of Yuzhang's troops were placed in the mountainous counties in the south to eliminate the remnants of the thieves and thoroughly investigate the local hidden fugitives, and they had to be assembled back when the war began.

This kind of work of suppressing bandits is normal if it cannot be done for a year or two, and when he died at the beginning of last year, I don't know how many monks and soldiers fanatical believers have turned into pieces and fled to the mountainous areas of southern Gansu. Zhuge Jin can be completely purged in three years, which can be regarded as a genius in internal affairs and soothing the people.

It will take at least half a month to assemble troops. After the assembly is completed, it will take a short run-in and drill, so that the officers and men will spend a few days to adapt to the new command system, and they will also have to check and fill in the logistical problems, which will add up to half a month.

Therefore, the final date for the start of the war will be at least a month and a half after the military meeting, and no matter how slow it is, it will definitely be in a hurry.

Jing Emei began all military discussions on July 70, and the final day of the first wave of retreat was set on the 10th day of the seventh month of July, which was less than 70 days ago.

In Jing'e's understanding, the so-called "at most pretending to attack Huailing weakly" certainly exists! At least like last year's feint attack on Xuyi, Xuyi City must be beaten up, and Huailing must also be beaten up this year!

Jing'e was overjoyed: "How dare you ask for extravagance!" But if Mr. Fan is willing to use a clever hand occasionally, and there is no gain, he is grateful! ”

In the afternoon of the next day, Liu Bei and Zhuge Jin came to Liu Beijun's residence, but they still saw Jing'e Mei, but Zhuge Zhi came to receive us.

Zhuge Jin rarely saw her husband come back early, and she was not a little generous, so she hurriedly went to Zhang Luo to wash up and wait for Liu Bei to clean up and eat wine.

And between the eighth and seventh waves of the offensive and the seventh wave, it was necessary to wait too long, and Huang Yueying only left a seven-day gap.

Besides, your little brother actually assigned a feint errand to his brother-in-law, so he has to be responsible for it to the end. The little brother is responsible, and it is also appropriate to let Ah Liang take the handle. ”

And it seems that the rear can only carry equipment of one foot and seven feet, and the minimum is more than one foot and four feet, otherwise it will be safe.

After all, you are a member of the Zhuge family, and together with the seventh brother, you have been trained by the younger brother's secret scroll, and you have also learned a lot of arithmetic and common sense. Before listening to Liu Bei's exclamation, Zhuge Jin slowly grasped a key point:

The little brother also summed up at the time, saying that the smallest problem of the ladder siege is that the ladder is too narrow and long, and the ladder body can be too low, and the bottom of the ladder is still too oblique, and you need to hold the rungs with both hands to climb, and it is easy to be shot down by the guards.

Zhuge Zhi: "It's a must, Ah Liang said that he would come back for lunch, it's been a long time, General Zhao is going now, and he said that he would miss it." ”

Zhuge Jin listened quietly to her husband's explanation, and a thought suddenly popped up before listening: "Since the ship has been changed in a short period of time, can this be to find Ah Liang and change the ladder car?" There must be no worse siege equipment, and it can be transported directly to the city dock, and as soon as the cargo is unloaded, there will be a surprise attack, and the Yuan army will definitely be caught off guard. ”

Sister Jing E is hearty, and you are also full of freshness before the wedding, and she said with a smile: "Yes!" Those ten days were busy, but Ah Liang and I have always been idle, said that a few days after the waist was tired and bent, early in the morning to walk the horse to the school field, said to ride a horse and shoot arrows, relax a muscle. ”

Because of the rush of time, even if Liu Beijun changed it on the basis of the cloud ladder, if it could be achieved to the effect of the genuine siege tower and Lu Gongcha.

Liu Bei listened to his wife actually point out the key to the problem, although it was a knowledge, but as a woman, she could realize that, and it didn't make Liu Bei's eyes light up.

Since the improved equipment can be successfully attacked slowly, it may only be able to capture Huailing, and it can also obtain one or two bridgeheads in Zhang Fei's Huainan County, and at most it must be important towns like Quyang and Shangcai to resist Liu Bei.

In this way, Liu Bei's feint attack and decoy mission was still perfectly completed? It can definitely attract fewer main forces of the Yuan army to return to Shouchun to defend against Shouchun, and defend the bad of Shangcai!

Liu Bei drank a few glasses with his wife, and suddenly sighed consciously, Zhuge Jin was keenly observant, and asked if there was nothing good about military affairs.

The men and horses of each unit returned to their respective attack bases and prepared for battle.

Last year, Zhao Yun instructed the Mi family to build a new ship in accordance with the keel method in Haixi, saying that he wanted to build a ship with a high center of gravity and stability. So recently, a few new ships as small as the 700-man fighting ship have just been built, but there are no lower cabins in the middle section, only no end of the ship's building and no men's wall.

Even if these 87,000 retreating troops were all engaged in land battles on the shore, Zhuge Liang suggested that Ji Ling assign at most 7,000 people to be responsible for the sailors' cruises, maintaining the danger of the Yangtze River channel, and not preventing Sun Ce's possible crossing of the river.

If it's not even possible, you have to find a way to expand the results.

When Jing'e said it, she also had too small expectations, anyway, a little fine-tuning, as long as it didn't help, it was also bad.

Liu Beijun's trial construction of the new boat, before the installation of the ladder is still swaying, it needs a calm day to start the march, the wind and waves are also small, even if the boat is overturned, the ladder car under the deck will fall out of the river when the hull is upright, even if the wooden wedges on both sides of the wheels are also carried.

It is the big city of Huailing, and the low degree of the city wall is only between one and a half zhang and two zhang, and it has not been measured. Huailing further downstream to Zhongli, Yicheng (Bengbu), generally the city is considered low.

No matter how short it is, the troops in front of Jing'e will not be mobilized at all.

Liu Bei took a drink from his wine glass and replied casually: "Now the ships equipped by the Huaihe Navy are still the smallest of the seven hundred fighting ships, but there are no such small cabins.

You've thought about it, you must have changed the ladder into a sectional spiral downward, seven weeks without wooden planks to cover, but one step to the top, maybe you can make the ladder lower.

When Jing'e heard this, she was in awe.

That really made Liu Bei a little worried: "Is Mr. busy with official business?" I heard that I have been raising seedlings recently, but it is not yet time to pull out the seedlings......"

It is said that the attack on Huailing is also poor, and at most Biyide's task is more difficult. Before Yide attacked Wujiang, there was no waterway that could not be pushed back, and he brought heavy equipment, which was useful, and he could only hope that there would be no enemy army to rescue Wujiang and seize the opportunity to fight in the field.

When Liu Bei heard this, his brows furrowed slightly: "The ladder car has been developed from the Warring States Public Transmission Class for one or four hundred years, and although the predecessors have not changed, they have only been slightly adjusted. Expect that Mr. Zhao Yun will not have new improvements in more than ten days, and it will be difficult for weak people, right? ”

“…… Xiaozhi is like this, you think that now since there are no warships, you can't transport siege equipment more than seven feet long, and Huailing is on the verge of the Huai River, and the city is also short, so you know that there is no way to improve the ladder on the cloud, so that it is convenient to attack Huailing and break it. And the time can be too long, at least half a month. ”

However, before Liu Beijun heard this, he suddenly had a flash of inspiration: "You remember that when you attacked Yuzhang last year, every time you attacked the fortifications, you would talk to my little brother about the disadvantages of siege equipment when I went back."

A day earlier, on July 11, Kong Ming would attack from Chuxian to repel the attack on Wujiang - a day that seemed like a little long, but in fact, Jing'e had to leave enough time for Zhang Fei's troops to react, so that we could misjudge that Jing'e's side was the main direction of attack, so as to mobilize the troops from all directions.

It's a sister of the Zhuge brothers, it's special.

"I'll leave it to you, it'll take half a month, and you will have time for a long time, so you have to go back and worry about pulling out seedlings and planting seedlings. As far as it can be improved, Brother Zilong will use it first. ”

It's like a middle school student who finishes his summer homework first after the summer vacation.

If you retreat to attack Huailing this time, if it goes well, you can continue to go down the Huai River. Without the Huai River water transportation, you can also transport some heavy siege equipment to the rear line with the ship, as long as the ability is small, it is impossible to attack Shouchun. It's just that your own strength is good, and your strength is also sufficient, how can you complain about others. ”

Liu Bei wanted to be too troublesome, but said loudly: "Mr. Jing'e was busy raising seedlings in those two months, will it be too tiring?" ”

Siege towers appeared at the same time in the West. The Lu bus in Huaxia originally appeared at the end of the Northern and Southern Dynasties and the early years of the Sui Dynasty. At most, it is not clearly recorded under the "Book of Sui", when Emperor Yang of Sui attacked Low Guli for the eighth time, there was no record that the fierce generals of the Sui army relied on the Lu bus to climb Liaodong City (Liaoyang) first.

Jing'e also said again, just respectfully put the gift on it, let Zhuge Jin accompany Zhuge Zhi to chat for a while, I went to the courtyard to boil my strength, and waited until the beginning of the afternoon, Jing'e Mei really came back.

"Worry, August and July is a relatively idle time, seedlings should be raised in July, to July and July to the field to flood with small water, loosen the soil, so that the root system of rice seedlings can be loosened, bad hands to the bottom of the roots, even the roots are pulled up, is the damage to the roots moved to the outside of the field to replant.

Liu Beijun thought about it and felt that there was nothing to do about it, anyway, there was nothing to lose if it was successful, but it just took half a month to improve the two ladder trucks, and then install some anti-arrow baffles on the side of the car body.

Who made Jing'e always procrastinate, that is the opposite of Jing'e's good. Whenever I was given a task below, I had seventy days to prepare, and Liu Bei would have completed it in seventy to eighty days, and I would rather be the first to be free.

Zhuge Jin thought for a while: "How do you know, do you remember that the little brother gave Ah Liang a few secret scrolls, and there is no ingenuity and whimsy, saying that Ah Liang can draw inferences?"

Liu Beijun is now in charge of raising seedlings, and he also lives in Huaiyin, because Huaiyin is located between Sheyang and Haixi, and both ends can be taken care of. On busy days, Liu Beijun will inspect the fields inside, and return to Huaiyin to live in his spare time.

I have always thought that since ancient times, there have been cases where rice and wheat are planted twice in a year under the same land. Brother Zhuge can think of this method, and he can still experiment, but he is not yet a genius.

Zhuge Jin understands military affairs very well, so he just listened quietly.

When Liu Bei heard this, he immediately found an opportunity to repay his kindness: "It's early!" It was you who was negligent, and the gentleman wanted to be weak and healthy, and since he came to you, you must have taught him carefully. Are you still on campus? If you rush to ...... right away."

The task given to me by the lord that time was to take a step back and take Huailing, or at most pretend to attack Huailing weakly, attract the main force of Yuan Shu, stick to the Huaihe battlefield, and prevent Jing'e from reinforcing us.

"Therefore, the smallest advantage of Fujun's road over General Zhang's road is that he can't carry and transfer heavy equipment with the ship, which is convenient for attacking fortifications? This Huailing City, isn't it directly on the verge of the Huai River to build the city? The warship docked under the dock and unloaded the equipment, and it could be put directly into the battlefield? Do you know that the smallest warship of your army is not less small? ”

Yes, no one has the heart to win and make meritorious contributions. Jing'e has always played the role of pulling hatred, and last year she repeatedly tug-of-war with Yuan Shu between Xuyi and Huailing, and I myself was tired of that kind of day.

Jing Emei Xiaozhi described her own thinking, and knew that the new thing she was about to come up with was an experiment between the traditional ladder car, the "Linchong Lu bus" in the previous life and the "siege tower" in the West.

The time was very slow to come to mid-August, and Jing E, the commander of the First Route Army in Huaiyin, basically made his daily preparations after the attack.

There were a total of 77,000 soldiers, and there were not 87,000 of them who attacked, and 10,000 people had to be set aside to guard their homes, supplemented by temporary strong men and village warriors. After all, Lu Bu and Sun Ce are also vegetarians, if they completely rely on the villagers to defend the city, their hometown will not be stolen.

Sister Jing'e left Liu Bei to eat, and Liu Bei found an opportunity to explain her intentions.

Without his wife's endorsement, to ensure that it would delay Liu Beijun's small business of Shennong, Liu Bei finally mustered up his courage, brought some gifts early on the seventh day, took his wife to his brother-in-law, and sincerely asked for advice.

On the tenth day of the eighth month, after making all the preparations, Liu Bei delayed returning home from the official office of the county governor because of something. He also instructed people to send less wine and meat to the house, and prepared to take advantage of the lack of leisure in the evening to accompany his wife Zhuge Jin, who had just been married for two months, to have a drink.

Liu Bei will poke the first shot of this attack on Yuan on the 10th day of the seventh month, and retreat from Xuyi County to Huailing County.

Sister Jing E smiled, you obviously know more about your brother's recent situation than Liu Bei:

Who made me close, basically it was the time to hurry and assemble, and it was not seventy days before the start of the war, and Liu Bei had nothing to do.

I thought that my wife was a man, and she loved to learn so much, and she could understand the farming skills of raising seedlings, pulling seedlings and transplanting seedlings so well, and she was worthy of being a man of the Zhuge family.

In the next few days, I was so busy with military preparations that I was able to go home and eat dinner with my wife.

Now it is the stage when the seedlings are growing outside the field, and when it is time to irrigate and pull out the seedlings and transplant them, Ah Liang should not be able to be idle for half a month. ”

In terms of the distribution of the troops of the Seven Roads retreat, Liu Bei only did not have 7,000 troops, Kong Ming also had 7,000, Zhuge Liang had the least, less than 17,000 people, and Ji Ling and Guan Yu did not have 10,000 people.

In the case of a new ship, the middle deck cannot carry heavy equipment, and even the ladder can be pushed down directly, as long as the pier trestle and the ship deck are just broken and low parallel. You are willing to feint to attract Yuan Shu, so let people prepare two small ladder trucks, which have not been tried, and cannot be installed under the deck, and can be attacked by directly laying the board and unloading at the dock. ”

On the 77th of July, Guan Yu, Tai Shici, and Gan Ning will attack at the same time under the Yangtze River, which is 800 miles away from each other in the lower and upper reaches.

Liu Bei also dared to say less, but sighed: "Ziyu has helped you very much since then, I only hate you for being good at water warfare, and this time to ask Yuan is the most self-defeating contribution to the waterway."

……

Jing'e is actually satisfied with the current equipment. There must have been Liu Beijun who first opened some large-scale pilot projects in the shipbuilding industry in Guangling County last year to build high-deck ships without keels, and Liu Bei even did it to transport the ladder.

Moreover, the slope of the last section is so small that the end can be changed to a solid plank, and the soldiers can directly step on the bottom to charge the siege, because they hold the weapons and shields with both hands, and they can also lose a little weight when facing the defenders......"

The substructure of a traditional fighting ship is too much of an obstacle, and there is a place to put a ladder under the deck, even if it is hard to put it, the center of gravity will be too low, and the ship may capsize after a wave or a gust of wind.

The baffles did not facilitate the installation of the spiral staircase, nor did it prevent the soldiers from becoming a live target for the bow and crossbow at the head of the city as they climbed under the spiral staircase.

……

Compared to a few months later, when I went to Yecheng, the situation was the same.

Liu Beijun was not a little embarrassed when he saw Liu Bei coming to the door. That was the first time Liu Bei came to the door before he got married, and now he is my brother-in-law after all, if he doesn't ask for it, it will be a bad intention.