(The second watch, ask for a red ticket.) Brothers, the New Year is coming, and the red ticket is very weak)

Jinhai is the seat of the forest bound, not used as the main attack ship, there is a bed crossbow on the aft deck, but there is no scorpion crossbow, Song Bo and Wang Chengfu were invited to board the ship, and boarded the aft deck with Lin Tie to watch the naval battle, but did not see the scorpion crossbow of the Jiangdong Left Army as a secret weapon, and the scorpion crossbow was not used in the naval battle at noon.

At this time, on the high ground south of the stronghold of Dayangshan Island, six scorpion crossbows were erected.

Song Bo saw the auxiliary soldiers loading loose stone bullets into the scalp pouch of the crossbow, and he could guess that this strangely shaped instrument with a crossbow tip raised high like a scorpion tail was a kind of catapult, but he was familiar with military affairs and war equipment, and he had never seen it in fact, nor did he record it in any of the military affairs.

"My lord is really skilled and skillful," Wang Chengfu has seen the scorpion crossbow shoot stone bullets at close range, after three or five rounds, he will accurately hit the wall, twenty or thirty pounds of round stone bullets, thrown at a distance of three hundred steps away, smashed the wall shaking, the soldiers on the wall hit two people, immediately the flesh was bleeding, seeing that their lives were not guaranteed, other soldiers were forced to retreat from the wall, Wang Cheng sighed with emotion, "This kind of crossbow is really a sharp weapon, used in naval warfare, but it is sharper than a bed crossbow......

Scorpion crossbows are expensive to manufacture, and Lin Jian is only willing to make small scorpion crossbows to be mounted on the deck for water warfare. Land warfare to capture the city, using a scorpion crossbow, is far less cost-effective than an ordinary catapult, after all, the crossbow tip and the crossbow rope and some devices will be scrapped after many times of use, and need to be replaced.

Wang Chengfu saw the scorpion crossbow for the first time, and he could see that the scorpion crossbow was more conducive to naval warfare, and he was indeed a discerning figure, Lin Jian thought: It is also worth Song Bo to make a special trip to Jiangmen for him.

After Wang Chengfu said that, he regretted it a little, glanced at Song Bo, explained the purpose of the scorpion crossbow, and reminded Song Bo, worried that it would make Lin Jian unhappy.

Song Bo smiled slightly and asked Lin Bin: "Lord Lin really thinks that there is a brilliant avenue to follow in the world?" ”

"Those who gain have much help, and those who lose have little help, the ancients said," Lin Jian asked with a smile, "With a trick, this scorpion crossbow is also a technique." Equal emphasis on the way of art, and it is impossible to lose one. The extravagant family is retrograde and wantonly slaughtered, what about the technique? I think I have a plan, but I lose the road, how can it be a big thing? Although the Jiangdong Left Army is weak, I have the confidence to fight with the luxury family, and the success or failure is only a matter of three or five years, Brother Song will look at it. Seeing that Wang Chengfu wanted to understand, the corners of his mouth also showed a smile, thinking that Wang Chengfu also wanted to understand the hesitation of the Song family to protect himself and wait and see the situation.

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Lin Jian didn't mind showing Song Bo the reality of the Jiangdong Left Army, even if the Song family was determined to go all the way to the dark with the luxury family, even if the secret of the scorpion crossbow was not leaked by Song Bo, as long as the scorpion crossbow was used in naval warfare and played a role, it was impossible to keep it completely secret.

The structure of the scorpion crossbow is not complicated, and craftsmen who are good at making tools can easily guess that the key to the torque of the scorpion crossbow is the crossbow rope located in the middle of the crossbow frame.

As long as the strategic focus of the luxury family is not on the sea, even if the luxury family knows the secret of the scorpion crossbow, it is impossible for the luxury family to invest resources on a large scale to build large sea ships and install scorpion crossbows on the sea ships.

Attacking cities on land, due to the high manufacturing cost of scorpion crossbows, they are not as practical as ordinary catapults, and there is no need to imitate them.

Although the luxury family gave up the strategy of taking Xianxia Pass to the north and entering western Zhejiang and Jiangxi, abandoned the land and the sea, and turned to infiltrate and control the forces of the East China Sea Kou, and directly attacked and plundered the rich eastern Zhejiang and Jiangdong regions from the sea, so as to achieve the purpose of not only dealing a heavy blow to the rule of the Yuan clan in the two Zhejiang and Jiangdong regions, but also nourishing the war with war and quickly recovering its vitality, the focus of the luxury family after controlling the East China Sea Kou was to develop a foot soldier that was conducive to attacking the city and defending the fortress and conducive to land field warfare.

From the capture of Xiangshan City in mid-June, as well as the many actions of Mingzhou Mansion and Jiahang Mansion, it can be seen that the strategy of the luxury family to abandon the land and go to the sea is to achieve the goal of capturing the city and encroaching on eastern Zhejiang.

Even if the luxury family will continue to strengthen the power of the East China Sea Bandit, as long as the fundamental strategy of the luxury family is not adjusted, it is impossible for the luxury family to use its limited resources to develop large warships that are conducive to maritime hegemony.

The concept of sea supremacy has not yet formally appeared in the military thinking of the world.

In the mainstream thinking of using troops in the world, although some people began to realize the existence of naval warfare as a form of warfare, the imperial court also prepared three regular boat divisions in the town army system: Dengzhou Water Division, Ninghai Town Water Camp and Jiangning Water Battalion, and coastal areas also prepared to build water battalion boat divisions to guard against pirates, but the sea journey was difficult and unpredictable, and almost all the water battalion boat divisions tried their best to avoid going to sea to fight. Even if the sailor division occasionally goes out to sea to patrol the sea, it will try its best to avoid fighting directly on the sea, and will take landing and clearing the island and land strongholds as the main combat form

In the form of warfare, in which naval warfare occasionally appeared in the world, warships were a means of crossing the sea, not a weapon of war.

Four loach ships that can resist wind and waves can make more than 300 armor soldiers and oarsmen, and under normal circumstances, the Jinhai-class warships can only make more than 300 armor auxiliary soldiers, and the two Jiyun-class warships can even have more than 200 auxiliary soldiers, but the cost of one Jinhai-class warship can build twenty or thirty strong loach ships, and the cost of two Jiyun-class warships can build twelve or thirteen strong loach ships.

Under the influence of the contemporary naval warfare ideology with landing operations as the main body, the forces of the East China Sea Bandits controlled by the luxury family naturally focused on developing low-cost and easy-to-form landing scale loach ships.

A thousand years later, the idea of sea supremacy has been deeply ingrained in the minds of ordinary military enthusiasts, and Lin Bin's main intention in developing the Jinghai Sea Battalion is to compete for sea supremacy and take into account the development of elite infantry battalions.

After Li Zhuo deliberately strengthened the Jinhai and Dengzhou divisions in Pingyuce, and planned to attack the Dongyu flank by sea with the Jinhai and Dengzhou divisions in the Pingguo policy, the idea of sea control was actually budding.

After having sea supremacy, they chose the initiative on the land battlefield.

In fact, it is also the embodiment of the inaction of the water camp in Ninghai Town, the Donghai Kou's grasp of sea control, and the arbitrary choice of land battlefields, but the luxury family behind Donghai Kou has not yet realized the concept and importance of sea control.

If during the Eastern Fujian War, Li Zhuo suppressed the luxury family on land, and the water camp in Ninghai Town launched an offensive from the sea to directly attack the hinterland stronghold controlled by the luxury family, it would be difficult for the luxury family to have a chance to tear the soil and seal the marquis.

People in the world say that Chongzhou has no danger of defending the land, but they don't know that Chongzhou is based on the river and the sea, and with Chongzhou as the foundation, there is a sharp boat division, and the force can enter the east of Sichuan in the west, attack the capture in the north, and reach the South Ocean in the south, and the radiation range is far broader and far-reaching than an elite cavalry.

However, the importance of sea supremacy has not been fully discovered until the Age of Discovery, and the rise and fall of the Central Plains Dynasty and the frequent wars of the millennium have always been dominated by land hegemony, and it is inevitable that the traditional military thinking will ignore or even ignore the sea supremacy. In addition, the weak ability to navigate the oceans is also an important reason.

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Before nightfall, the Jiangdong Left Army landed more than 1,000 soldiers and auxiliaries, which was five times as many as the soldiers guarding the wall, a total of 12 scorpion crossbows and 16 bed crossbows, respectively from the east side of the gate and the south side of the high ground to attack the wall of the wall. The earthen platform on the west side of the high ground is also erected with a zhang high, five zhang long, the earthen platform is twenty steps away from the west side wall, take the pallet and put it up, it will form a cloud bridge that can directly attack the wall, two hundred soldiers take advantage of the cover of the earth platform to prepare for the attack, and also concentrate dozens of strong crossbows, so as to suppress the soldiers on the walled wall during the strong attack, at this time, wait for the south and east to attract more soldiers, so as to reduce the offensive pressure here.

The wind and rain season has passed, the twilight is four-colored, a white moon floats between the sea and the sky, and Venus on the horizon is also pale and lightless, and when the night really comes, the stars and the moon can become bright and illuminate the sky.

Although the walled wall is strong, after all, it is far from being comparable with the brick-laying rammed earth city wall that is three or four zhang thick, and the height is only more than one zhang. Even if it is a city wall as thick as three or four zhang, under the continuous blow of a large catapult, there is a possibility of collapse, and the south side of the walled wall is under the precise blow of hundreds of stone bullets, not only can no one stand on the wall, the whole wall has formed a branch-shaped crack.

Lin Jian saw that the wall on the south side of the wall could collapse directly, and said to Ao Canghai: "The moonlight is still good, it is convenient to attack the village at night, is it more patient?" ”

"Okay," Ao Canghai said, "I'll send someone to consult with Zhou Tong and ask them to wait a little longer." Then transfer four scorpion crossbows from the east, and prepare a rushing car in the east, if you can successfully collapse this wall, the east may use the rushing car to attack the gate first, and after attracting enough soldiers on both sides, Zhou Tong will take the cloud bridge to capture the village......"

There is no suspense in annihilating the more than 200 soldiers who are defending the fortress, but what is the significance of the battle of "destroying 200 enemies and losing 18 self-inflicted losses"?

The Jiangdong Left Army had just gained a foothold in Chongzhou, and the large-scale resettlement of displaced people by means of clearing public land and dredging and transporting the salt river had just begun. In the war with the East China Sea Kouzhong, the consumption of combat power was too great, and the Jiangdong Left Army would not only not grow, but would be weakened.

A total of ten scorpion crossbows, six crossbows bed crossbows, continued to attack the south side of the wall, to the middle of the moon in the middle of the night, up to eight feet thick, the wall made of bricks and stone finally could not support, collapsed violently, breaking a large hole five or six feet wide.

The Kou soldiers, who had not yet given up the defense, mainly with large shields, poured into the gap, trying to prevent the Jiangdong Left Army from attacking the village from the south.

After the collapse of the walled wall on the south side, the current Jiangdong Left Army soldiers on the east side of the walled gate also used bed crossbows and bows to suppress the soldiers on the wall, and used high shields to cover the rushing car and directly hit the walled gate.

The shape of the car is simple, it is a solid giant wood on the two-wheeled frame, the pointed end is wrapped in iron, increasing the impact force, and more than a dozen auxiliary soldiers pushed and slammed into the gate of the village. The previous direct blow to the gate has accumulated to a very powerful extent, and the gate shook with one blow, and the masonry on the forehead of the door fell off.

Of course, the soldiers in the village will not wait for the gate to collapse and then gather, seeing that the gate is crumbling, they will gather sixty or seventy people, desperately fill in the bricks, stones, wood and soil behind the gate, to completely block the gate.

At this time, there was a loud uproar in the west, and the crossbow arrows were like rain, and more than 20 soldiers on the wall were suppressed so that they could not raise their heads, and several trestles of ten zhang long were put on the head of the wall, forming a trestle bridge that was more than one zhang wide. The soldiers of the first team took advantage of this temporary trestle bridge to rush to the wall, killed all the soldiers guarding the west wall, covered the crossbowmen to climb the wall, and after gaining a firm foothold, they continuously entered the wall for street fighting. After that, the southern armor soldiers forced their way through the gap in the collapsed wall to attack the soldiers; The eastern armor also gave up attacking the walled gate, and directly climbed the walled wall with a ladder, attacked the wall, and attacked the village together in three ways.