Chapter 222: The Battleship
Yan Bei didn't care about that bit of armor, the more he got it, the less fun he had, so much so that he completely read Song Jian's letter as a joke. It's strange to be happy, it has to do with the abilities that people have, so much so that the difficulty is conserved. In the past, it was very difficult for Yanbei to get a few horses, so once he got it, he could be happy for several days; It's very difficult to capture a piece of land now, so once you get it, it will keep him entertained for days.
But getting a couple of horses will never make him happy again.
Hungry people get everything they get, and those who have a full stomach only feel swollen even when they see bear's paws.
This kind of mentality makes people lose too much happiness. There are many people in the world who can figure it out, and when it comes to themselves, it is a different situation, and the saints can't control it, let alone ordinary people.
Soon, though, he will be able to reap more joy.
Seriously wounded, Lu Yi was sent to Xiapi, where he was treated by a healer, and although he could not dance a horse or spear, his injuries did not deteriorate. This is the best result, Lu Yi could not command the army, and the power of the land soldiers and horses was handed over to Xu Huang, and then Xu Huang launched a final large-scale attack on the Yuan clan who were guarding Guangling. The vanguard soldiers and horses crossed the Huaishui River and went straight down to Huaiyin, and then the troops attacked Guangling in two ways.
The two roads of soldiers and horses are bounded by Baima Lake, and the left road is Xu Huang personally leading the main army southward to the north of Guangling, aiming at the Ping'an and Dongyang places in the north of Guangling, intending to clear the wilderness and pressing Guangling County step by step to govern Guangling County; On the right side, with Hua Xiong as the commander, the cavalry attacked to the southeast, and the sailors who captured Sheyang and landed on the shore of Yandu could be connected together, so that they could take Gaoyou and Hailing, and finally form a siege of Guangling with Xu Huang's troops and horses.
What's more, there is also the Sun fleet in Yangzhou in the south attacking and harassing Wangdu and other places on the river, which can be described as the division of the Quartet like thunder.
Without leaving the slightest position for the Yuan clan to move and dodge, in fact, the Yuan clan had no chance to move. Yuan's once was small and broad, starting from the Bohai Sea to confront Jizhou, and the powerful forces suppressed Han Fu, and almost obtained the foundation of Jizhou, but unfortunately it was broken by Yanbei, a guy who jumped out of the stone and did not enter the firewood, did not get Jizhou as he wished, and was expelled from Jizhou by Yan.
At that time, Yuan Shao, like many scholars in the past, blindly believed in the power of the court, relied on political prestige and despised the military force, so that Yanbei, who was despised by them, was defeated in a battle, and then defeated again and again, but the battle of Bohai knocked Yuan Shao to the dust.
Shameful!
Yuan Shao was changed in that battle, devoted himself to force, and then challenged Jizhou one after another, and they fought a battle for almost ten years. Yuan Shao has not won in the past ten years, he has snatched back Nanpi and driven Tian Yu, but in the end he lost without exception...... He has been playing up his weaknesses and avoiding his strengths, attacking Yanbei in a way that he is not good at but Yanbei is good at. He has the Bohai Sea and Yanbei has Youji, so Yanbei wins; He has the grass-created Qingzhou, and Yanbei has a long-term seclusion, so it is still Yanbei Sheng; Later, he used the grass-created Xuzhou to compete against the rich Yan family, can he win?
Yuan Shao himself also knows that he has always been on the defensive, on the defensive, and on the defensive, but when he takes a step back, the Yan family takes one more step, and he gets weaker and weaker, and the Yan family gets stronger and stronger, so that it has evolved into the current situation.
Guangling, the five directions are water. White Horse Lake in the north, Hongze in the west, the sea in the east, the Yangtze River in the south, the White Horse Lake is the traffic artery that communicates the north and the south since ancient times, in the past, Wu Wangfu sent to call migrant workers to dig a ditch, some time ago in order to quickly transfer troops, Chen Deng of Guangling also built a horse ditch between the White Horse Lake and the Jin Lake...... After the ditch was repaired, Yuan Shao also retreated into Guangling, who knew that Xu Huang, who was closely following the Yan army, would hold the eastern inlet of Baima Lake, and also transferred two building boats from the Yan army to lock the river.
The two building ships were stationed with two soldiers of the captain's department, and the entire river was sealed with a horizontal bow and stern in the Mase ditch, and the Guangling soldiers were afraid when they saw the two behemoths on the Panqian River from afar, and then lowered their heads to look at the small walker under them, which was quite like a mantis arm as a car.
In the end, it's just a county.
It is still possible to fight a state with a large county, but with a small county against a country? Are you kidding!
Yan built the first building ship ten years ago, and it took more than three years to build half of Youzhou's strength, which was the ship that Yanbei gave to Tian Yu, and it was also the flagship of Yan's naval expedition to Goguryeo. That building ship can carry more than 2,000 soldiers and ride the wind and waves to cross the East China Sea, and it is the largest warship in the whole world ten years ago!
Even so, it seems that Tian Yu's building ship is still too small, because later the Yan clan built a larger warship. Because in this era, in water warfare dominated by collision and gang jumping, the size of the ship and the number of sailors carried directly determined the strength in the water battle.
Today, the largest warship of the Yan clan is called Dinghai, which can carry 5,500 personnel, and is equipped with stone cannons and crossbow machines, which has extraordinary lethality and deterrent power. Because it is used for sea navigation, the warship is divided into three upper decks and three lower decks, although there are six layers, but because the bottom of the ship is nine compartments, there are actually only five layers, and the combat is only used for three layers on the deck, and the two lower decks are used for the boatman's oars. Focusing on carrying people, it can sail long distances and deliver soldiers, and it is a veritable 10,000-stone warship.
In the past, the Yan clan also made a larger, Hanoi Lou ship-shaped warship, carrying 2,000 boatmen during the sea trial, because the five-story shooting platform on the deck was too high, it was overturned by the sea breeze, and it was staggered and blown into the reef waters, and when it was found, only more than 400 boatmen were left to escape.
Later, the craftsmen of the Wenxian Sea Ship Supervision no longer thought about building larger warships, and even building ships did not build more, but only one a year, and the main force was still placed on the fighting ships and ships. The integrated keel makes the sea boat stronger. What's more, in the common sense of sporadic water warfare, the building ships fighting in Hanoi can quickly deter the enemy and seize the advantage, but the ships and fighting ships are the main force of the battle.
Rather than developing larger ships, it is better to think about how to install more powerful stone cannons and long-range and accurate crossbows on ships...... This is the trend of the evolution of warfare. The only art of war is to let the enemy die in the path of attack.
Land battles or water battles, it's all the same.
In the past, savages fought with stones, first with spears and then bows and arrows, and then with crossbows, Qin used strong crossbows to win the world, and now the battlefield is full of bows and crossbows. At the beginning, people took boats to shoot arrows, and then used boats to hit ships, and now the Yan clan is loaded with stone cannons and strong crossbows on warships, even small boats, which are already stronger than others in the world.
Where you raise your eyes to the water, no one can stop the Yan Clan's soldiers!