The red sun rose high, and the water around Daliang City shimmered, and the black armor and Minggao weapons of the Qin army stationed on the cofferdam complemented each other, but it was not that there were birds flying over the water, casting speckled shadows on the water.

Daliang City has been surrounded by water for more than ten days, at this time the water depth has reached one zhang eight feet, some local areas have even reached nearly three zhang, and the lack of cofferdam is basically filled, generally two to three feet higher than the water surface, generally stabilized the cofferdam, and firmly controlled the water potential.

On the third day of flooding Daliang, all kinds of large and medium-sized ships collected by the Qin army also sailed into the waters of Daliang from the chasm river and anchored in the dock built by the Qin army. At this time, the Qin army already had more than 500 large and small ships, more than 3,000 rafts of various kinds, and the offensive forces on the water were basically complete. Because after the previous war, the Dai army and the Qin army had already collected a large number of ships, so now almost all the ships on the Yellow River in the Wei State have been exhausted, and it is difficult to collect ships again. However, Wang Jian still ordered the craftsmen in the army to continue to step up cutting trees and building rafts.

At this time, Qin Jun also gradually calmed down from the excitement of releasing the water at the beginning. After the sky clears, the city of Daliang, which is surrounded by the water, can also be seen very clearly, the flags on the city wall are flying, the guns and halberds are numerous, the soldiers are bright and armored, full of spirit, and they seem to be high-spirited, and they seem to be not affected by the flood at all. This time also disappointed the Qin army, because it turned out that the Qin army had great hopes for the flood, and many Qin soldiers even hoped that as soon as the flood rushed, the Great Liang would collapse immediately, and the Qin army could take advantage of the situation to enter the Great Liang City and destroy the Wei State, and this battle would be over, so that they could go home safely.

Although this battle has only been carried out for more than two months, the Qin army has fought very unsmoothly, by this time, the Qin army has killed nearly 50,000 soldiers, and there are nearly 10,000 wounded soldiers who have not yet fully healed, and more than 1,000 soldiers who have been injured and disabled, and Daliang City is still standing in front of the Qin army as if it was impregnable. Now all the Qin soldiers have realized that as long as there is a plateau to lead the army in the city, the Qin army will not be able to break through the Liang. Therefore, in the Qin army, there were more or less feelings of war.

I thought that after the flood flooded the girder, the girder could be breached, but the girder seemed to have no impact at all, so this also disappointed many Qin soldiers, but the Qin people have always been martial and brave, and the military discipline is extremely strict, so it has not had much impact on the morale of the army for the time being.

The current situation also made Wang Jian a little surprised, although Wang Jian did not think that after releasing the water, he could immediately break through the beam, after all, the beam is not Jinyang, let alone Yancheng, and the plateau must have done a lot of preparation work in the city of the beam, of course, it will not be so easy to be broken by the water. But after the flooding, it will definitely have a big impact on the beams, at least it can also greatly damage the morale of the soldiers in the city, or cause panic among the residents of the city.

But now more than ten days have passed, judging from the mental outlook of the soldiers stationed at the head of Daliang City, the morale of the defenders has not been affected, and if the morale of the army is like this, the people's morale will not be worse there. Therefore, this also made Wang Jian puzzled, it was difficult to face this vast ocean, and the soldiers and residents in the city were not afraid at all?

Of course, what you see now is only the surface of Daliang City, what is the situation in the city, Wang Jian does not know, maybe the city has experienced a great chaos in the army, the layout of the city may be just a bluff, the so-called soldiers are not tired of deceit, but they have not seen it with their own eyes, Wang Jian is not sure. Therefore, Wang Jian thought twice and decided to launch an attack on Daliang City, test the reaction of the defenders in the city, and generally judge the situation in the city.

However, now the city of Daliang has been surrounded by water, attacking Daliang, can only use rafts, although now the Qin army's boat rafts are not small, but Wang Jian is not much sure about water warfare, although Wang Jian has been in battle for a long time, and is proficient in the art of war, but he has never fought a water war, but he is not proficient in water warfare, and it can be said that he knows nothing. Therefore, Wang Jian immediately gathered the generals to discuss how to fight this battle.

At this time, Wang Ben, Yang Duanhe, Han Teng and others had already passed through their respective stations, and now the main generals in the Qin army camp are Li Xin, Xin Sheng, Qiang Qi, Zhang Han and others. After listening to Wang Jian's decision, all the generals also believed that it was indeed necessary to launch an attack on Daliang. Xin Sheng took the initiative to ask for battle and asked for his own army to lead the siege.

Although Xin Sheng's courage was commendable, Wang Jian was not at ease, and said: "General Xin, now that Daliang City has been flooded, you can only attack by boat, and our Qin army has never fought a water battle, do you have any good way to attack Daliang City?" ”

Xin Sheng said: "General rest assured, in fact, the last general has been thinking about how to attack the girder with a raft in the past few days, and now the girder city wall is less than three zhang above the water, and the last general has seen that the height of the top of our big ship is close to two zhang, so as long as the big ship is close to the city wall, and then put on the wooden plank, it is enough to attack the girder city wall." ”

Wang Jian nodded and said, "Although General Xin's words are reasonable, most of our current rafts are mainly small boats and rafts, and there are only dozens of large ships. ”

Xin Sheng said: "The general can rest assured, the last general has already thought about it, you can make a bracket at the bottom of the siege ladder, and then set it on the raft, as long as you are close to the city wall, you can attack the city, and you can also put some bed crossbows and trebuchets on the raft to strike at Daliang City." ”

After Wang Jian heard this, he also thought about it carefully, because when making the raft, the Qin army did also consider putting the bed crossbow and trebuchet on the raft to attack Daliang City, so the raft made by the Qin army has two specifications, the small raft is about the same size as the raft made by the defenders, which is used to transport soldiers, and the side of the big raft is five feet and four feet long, and the width is three feet and six feet, and two bed crossbows or a trebuchet can be placed side by side. If it works, you can attack the girder according to the law, and if it doesn't, then think of other ways.

So Wang Jian nodded and said, "Okay, General Xin, you go and prepare and attack Daliang tomorrow." ”

Xin Sheng immediately said: "The last general will be honored." ”

That night, Xin Sheng immediately recruited the craftsmen in the army to step up the transformation of ships, rafts and siege ladders, because now the cofferdam, the fortress has been completed, craftsmen, civil servants do not have much to do, so after Xin Sheng ordered, everyone worked together, overnight, more than 100 siege rafts were transformed, each raft side by side with four siege ladders, all of which were fixed on the raft with tripod support, the siege ladder was about three zhang high, divided into two levels of structure, the raft was close to the city wall, Another siege ladder can be laid flat at the top and erected on the wall, allowing soldiers to climb the wall along the wooden ladder.

In addition, twenty large ships were remodeled, all of which were two stories high, with openings on the roofs and siege ladders, similar to siege rafts, but only a little more than a foot high.

Early the next morning, Xin Sheng led fifteen large ships, twenty medium-sized ships, and one hundred small ships. Sixty siege rafts, a hundred small rafts, and sixty rafts with bed crossbows or trebuchets were also carried. The total number of troops dispatched was about 15,000 men. Although it was only a tentative attack, such a force was not small.

The docks of the Qin army were built on the east and north sides, and this attack was also launched from the docks in the north, Xin Sheng boarded a two-story large war ship and personally commanded the battle, while Wang Jian still led the generals of the Qin army to watch the battle from the high post.

After Xin Sheng gave the order, the Qin soldiers boarded the warships one after another, and some carried rafts into the water, and then sailed out of the dock.

Although the dock built by the Qin army is very large, it can accommodate hundreds of large and small ships, but the entrance is only more than ten zhang wide, if it is a personnel vehicle in and out, of course, there is no problem, but the ships in and out are not enough, by which several ships sail out side by side, because the water is not land, you can stop when you want, you can move if you want, in the emergency, the Qin army can not recruit enough skilled boat personnel, just rely on some soldiers or civilian servants with a little similar experience to operate the raft, the result is naturally conceivable.

The three or four ships in front were fine, but soon two large ships collided when they sailed out of the dock, one ship crossed in the water and stopped at the dock entrance, while the following several ships could not contain the momentum, and immediately collided head-on, with the result that a series of more than ten ships collided with each other at the dock entrance, blocking the dock mouth tightly.

And then the ship stopped urgently, but because the strength of the stop was too great, the reverse side made the ship go backwards, and hit the ship behind, although the force of this impact was not large, and it would not cause any damage to the hull, but it caused the ship to shake left and right, and some Qin soldiers standing on the side of the ship stood unsteadily and fell into the water.

The Qin soldiers on the boat were in a hurry to save people, while the soldiers who operated the boat were sweating with rowing rods and were separated from the other boats, but because each boat was doing its own thing, in order to separate the colliding boats, they collided with other ships again, and the Qin soldiers who were about to save people on the boat were shaken by the hull of the ship and fell into the river.

The whole dockyard was also in chaos at this time.

Xin Sheng stood on the ship's floor, holding on to the railing tightly to stabilize his body, and now he was also sweating profusely. Although before sending out the troops, Xin Sheng thought very well, rushing forward with a large ship and a siege raft, approaching the city wall to attack the city, and other small boats and rafts followed suit, while the raft equipped with bed crossbows or trebuchets took cover in the back, and carried out a long-range attack on Daliang City, advancing layer by layer, and being in order, but this qiē was all a plan on paper, and once it was in the water, it was all messed up.