Song Bo wanted to see how strong the Jiangdong Left Army could show when attacking Yangshan Island, but Lin Jian didn't have the heart to fight a dignified battle.

The large and small Yangshan Islands are completely displayed above the sea level in the distance, and the patrol fleet changes formation.

The main warships of the Jiyun-class and Jinhai-class all lowered their sails and slowed down, and several loach ships and Cangshan ships in the middle of the fleet formed a team to go first. The masts and sides of the more than a dozen ships were changed into the battle flags of the East China Sea Invaders with Sea Harrier patterns, and the armor guards and auxiliary soldiers were changed into red East China Sea Kou uniforms. In this way, the patrol fleet was like two fleets that escaped and chased, heading in the direction of Dayangshan Island.

The big and small Yangshan Islands are two islands eight or nine miles apart, the size of the Yangshan Island is similar to that of Changshan Island, and the small Yangshan Island is smaller, but they are all bedrock islands, and the Shengsi Islands form the Shengsi Islands with the Daheng Islands, which are the northern archipelago of the East China Sea island chain. In terms of topographical distribution, Changshan Island also belongs to a part of the Shengsi Islands, but it stands alone in the sea area two or three hundred miles away to the north.

There are about 300 East China Sea Kou entrenched on Yangshan Island, and the patrol fleet appears in the field of vision, and these 300 Kou soldiers are gathered on Dayangshan Island and are waiting outside the dock fort.

Disguised as escaping Kou boats, such as loach boats and Cangshan boats, they rushed directly to the beach on the northeast corner of Dayangshan Island, and the armor soldiers wearing Chu red Kou soldiers' uniforms, holding swords, trekked and landed in the shallow water that they went down with ropes and ladders, and reorganized the formation on the beach a little, and then spread out in a cone-shaped formation, impacting the enemy formation, but shouting loudly: "The Jiangdong Left Army is coming, go back to the stockade quickly......

Although the more than 400 soldiers and auxiliaries who landed first were wearing uniforms stripped from the corpses of the soldiers, they tied sweat scarves around their left arms to mark them.

Seeing this situation, the leader of the Kou soldiers in the stronghold of Dayangshan Island was a little suspicious, and wanted to stop the soldiers from approaching, so he shouted loudly: "Who is coming, the leader comes out to speak......

Taking advantage of the hesitation of the soldiers in the front line of the stronghold, the armor soldiers were mainly in front of the formation, with Mo knives, high shields, spears, and bows and crossbows in front, and the auxiliary soldiers with short knives and light shields scattered behind the flanks, covering the two wings, and rushing to the close of thirty or fifty paces in one go, the crossbowmen fired arrows, and the Mo knife hands, bayonet gunners and pikemen rushed forward bravely under the cover of the high shield and engaged the enemy.

The Kou soldiers who were in front of the stronghold only confirmed at this time that the three or four hundred people who rushed over were really disguised enemies, and looked at the approaching on both sides, the unprepared Kou soldiers scattered and shot arrows, and then looked at the menacing fleet approaching Dayangshan Island in the distance, and did not dare to fight in the field, and retreated into the stronghold in a panic.

The leader of the Kou soldiers retreated into the stronghold, seeing that the enemy was strong, and ignoring the fact that there were still more than 100 people who had not been able to retreat, and shouted: "Close the door, quickly bolt the gate to death; Second dog, you take people up the wall and shoot them back, so that you can save Langzhong and them from coming in. The Jiangdong Left Army wants to earn Yangshan Island, black knife, you go and burn the wolf smoke, several piles of wolf smoke are burned, the Jiangdong Left Army fleet is so large, I am afraid that there are more than 2,000 people. Tell the brothers that as long as they hold for two days, reinforcements can be sent from the south...... Hold Yangshan Island, eat fragrant and drink spicy, day girl, play bitch, be free, can't hold it, wait for the head to land! ”

The Kou soldiers rushed to close the gate of the stronghold, and could not snatch the gate of the fortress in one go, and it was difficult to capture the stronghold by relying on the strong rush of the foot soldiers, and it was difficult to capture the stronghold, looking at the rain of arrows on the wall of the wall, Zhou Tong did not kill all the Kou soldiers outside the wall, so that people blew the horn, and ordered the attacking soldiers to retreat to an arrow outside the formation, so that the crossbowmen hid behind the high shield and shot the Kou soldiers outside the gate of the wall, so that they did not have the opportunity to escape into the stronghold.

The patrol fleet divided several ships and sailed to Xiaoyangshan Island to attack the strongholds there, and the main force of the fleet anchored in the shallow sea in the northeast corner of Dayangshan Island, and the sentinel ships spread out to be on guard; The Jinhai found a deep draft on the east coast of Dayangshan Island and docked, and Lin Tie landed on the island surrounded by the guards of the battalion.

"Fuck the thief, the pirates lost seventy or eighty people outside, and rushed to close the gate of the wall, but they didn't take the gate of the wall all at once, and now they have to fight." Zhou Tong said hatefully, and peeled off the Haikou military uniform on his body in his hand, revealing the scale armor he was wearing inside, and the cold light was shining. He squatted down and reported to Lin Jian the situation after he led the team to land on the island, the Kou soldiers had already retreated into the stronghold, the stronghold was not large, less than 200 steps around, there was a walled gate, the first to land the armor guards outside the walled gate, and sent a team of scouts to search the island, to prevent the island from hiding Kou soldiers elsewhere to be unprepared, and also set up a lookout guard at the highest place on the island.

Song Bo and Wang Chengfu both followed Lin Tie to the shore, and when they saw Lin Tie, they did not shy away from it, and they also came over to listen to Zhou Tong's introduction to the situation of Dayangshan Island.

Lin Lian frowned slightly, and asked Ao Canghai beside him: "How do you think this battle should be fought?" ”

"First see the reality in the wall, there are high ground in the west and south, you can borrow the high shield to cover, pile the earth platform and the wall in the vicinity, remove the pallet on the ship, directly build the cloud bridge between the earth platform and the wall, and take the cloud bridge to rob the wall...... "Ao Canghai and Lin Tie walked around the bandit village, looked at the surrounding terrain, and had a set of plans to attack the village in their hearts.

"Dismantle a few bed crossbows down, attack the Zhaimen to attract Kou soldiers, and take the cloud bridge to attack more certainly." Zhou Tong added.

"It would be better to dismantle a few more scorpion crossbows and smash the gate of the village directly......" Lin Jian said.

"Kill chickens with a knife?" Ge Cunxiong said, "The scorpion crossbow is also troublesome to dismantle, if the gate is not thick, it can be pierced at close range with the bed crossbow." ”

The several kinds of catapults that existed in the world at that time were all used to pull the tail of the tip violently with manpower or heavy objects, fire stone projectiles, and throw them at the enemy formation, and these kinds of catapults could not be installed on ships.

The catapult launched by manpower needs to have space for people to run and pull the crossbow tip, which is often dozens of steps away, and the front and rear of the Jinhai are only forty steps long, and the maximum length of the main deck is only twenty-six steps, so it is naturally impossible to install a man-fired catapult.

Use the weight to drop and pull the crossbow tip to launch the stone projectile, which is to tie a heavy object at the tail of the crossbow tip, first raise it to a certain height, and at the moment of cutting the rope, the heavy object slams down, pulls the crossbow tip, and throws the stone bullet in the tip scalp bag. In order to be able to throw dozens of pounds of stone projectiles hundreds of steps away, it is enough to drop heavy objects with a weight of thousands or even thousands of pounds, but no matter how strong the deck is, it cannot withstand the smashing of such a heavy object.

The scorpion crossbow is a small trebuchet made of torsion, using cow and horse mane, cow and horse tendon tendons and other things to make a highly elastic crossbow rope, insert the crossbow tip between the crossbow rope, reverse rotation of the crossbow rope, can produce a strong torque on the crossbow tip, once the crossbow tip is released, the crossbow tip will rotate violently, the stone bullet is thrown.

Because the scorpion crossbow is small, and when firing stone projectiles, it does not produce a huge vertical drop force that destroys the deck, so it can be installed on ships for water warfare, and at this time it is still a weapon that the Jiangdong Left Army tried to keep secret.

In addition to the material of the scorpion crossbow, the material of the crossbow is not slightly worse than that of other catapult materials, and the material requirements of the crossbow rope are also extremely demanding, almost hundreds of good bow materials are required to make a scorpion crossbow, the cost is high, and the key is that there is no technology to pass down.

Ge Cunxiong said that he didn't need to use a knife to kill chickens, but in fact, he didn't want Song Bo to have a chance to observe the scorpion crossbow at close range, and return to Jin'an to imitate it, so that the Jiangdong Left Army would lose the sharp weapon that could be relied on in naval warfare.

Ge Cunxiong's thoughts, Lin Jian also understood, and said with a smile: "The way to win is nothing more than to bully the weak with the strong, break the few with the few, and use less to many, and it is also to create as many points as possible to attack them and concentrate on attacking one point." Since there are conditions, and it is not very troublesome, how can there be no reason not to use it? "Let Ge Cunxiong and Ao Canghai assist Zhou Tong in preparing to forcibly attack the bandit village on Dayangshan Island.

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Song Bo didn't know what the scorpion crossbow in Lin Tie and Ge Cunxiong's mouths meant, so he just followed Lin Tie to watch the battle.

The smoke of the beacon lit by the stockade rushed straight to the clouds, almost a hundred zhang high, the wolf smoke gave the sea breeze and gathered but did not disperse, according to the more than 200 Kou soldiers who defended the village, they expected the reinforcements of Daheng Island or Tushan or Daishan Islands to arrive in time.

Song Bo sighed slightly, looking at the fleet of Jiangdong Left Army anchored in the shallow sea in the northeast corner of Dayangshan Island, the sunset at dusk shone on the sea with golden waves, and the tall mast cast shadows on the sea, twisting and turning, intermittent.

The Jinhai-class and Jiyun-class warships were all built by the Longjiang Shipyard under the Jiangning Ministry of Industry, and Ge Siyu, the director of the Jiangning Ministry of Industry, was responsible for supervising the construction.

With such a huge warship, the cost of one is 20,000 taels of silver, which is almost six or seven times higher than the large wooden ship in eastern Sichuan with the same level of load, and it is hard to imagine that Lin Tie is four ships; The luxury family prefers to build hundreds or more loach boats for the same amount of silver.

The four Jinhai-class warships can only make up more than 1,000 sailors, and the overstaffing is only 2,000 people; And a hundred loach ships can make up a naval army of nearly 10,000 people - for the resource-strapped luxury family, this account is clear, and the luxury family is reluctant to build large warships, not just because of the lack of keel wood to make large warships.

Wang Chengfu didn't complain about Song Bo for concealing his family background, so he put Lin Jian under house arrest together, he watched the wolf smoke in the village burn, and asked Song Bo in a low voice: "How many ships and reinforcements do you think Donghai Kou will have to send to compete with the Jiangdong Left Army on the sea?" ”

Song Bo looked at Lin Tie, who was carefully observing the enemy's situation in the distance, and then looked at the patrol fleet on the sea in the distance, a huge fleet with two Jinhai-class warships, four Jiyun-class warships, and more than 20 loach ships, Cangshan ships, and ship fighting ships as auxiliary warships, and couldn't help but speculate in his heart: How many ships and reinforcements does Extravagant Flying Bear have to send to compete with it on the sea?

Lin Jian turned his head and looked at Song Bo and Wang Chengfu. Wang Chengfu was able to ask such a question, it should be the naval battle just now that made him feel something, but he didn't expect him to be so sensitive to the matter of using troops in naval warfare, and asked with a smile: "Wang Qitou also knows about military affairs?" ”

"I don't dare to smile and be generous with shallow words," Wang Chengfu bowed slightly, and said with a humble attitude, "I am fortunate to watch the Jiangdong Left Army go to sea to suppress the Kou, and I have a little shallow feeling, but Chengfu has never seen a naval battle before, and I can't say it well, for fear of making jokes to adults." ”

"Who is born to know?" Lin Lian asked with a smile, "This official listens to you. ”

"Land field warfare, according to the number of troops to distinguish the strength and weakness," Wang Chengfu seemed to be able to see a broad and open life path in front of him, and said boldly, "Ran Chengfu was fortunate to watch the naval battle, and he felt that the naval battle was very different from the infantry battle. Depending on the strength of the boat division, in addition to the number of troops, the sturdy and tall warships are to the navy as the walled city is to the defenders. Although it cannot resist ten times the enemy of the defending army, it seems that it is possible that the warship can be stronger than the enemy ship, taller than the enemy ship, and more complete than the enemy ship, and it is possible to resist two or three times the enemy! ”

"Haha," Lin Lian laughed and said, "Wang Qitou really has good eyesight, it seems that I want to invite you to watch a few more battles, and you can know each other more deeply, no wonder Brother Song has a long way to go to Jiangmen to visit the grassland." ”

At this time, Song Bo could somewhat realize that Lin Jian wanted to rely on the advantages of warships to make up for the lack of strength of the Jiangdong Left Army in the naval battle, which was nothing, and the Jiangdong Left Army was able to create miracles in Yannan, that is, to use the fleet to organize grain and grass in the back, so that the Jiangdong Left Army could move to Yannan, without the worry of grain and grass, and without the hardship of traveling far away.

What made Song Bo strange was that Wang Chengfu was still timid yesterday, but today he was quite open, and he also intended to show his talent in front of Lin Bin, how could he confirm that Lin Tie forced him to invite him on the boat because he was eager to be virtuous?

It's really a creation to make people, Song Bo met Wang Chengfu in Hecheng Division, and he had the intention of inviting him to Jin'an, this year, thirty or fifty exiles who were assassinated with the army disappeared, and no one would investigate the bottom of it, and he never expected that he would meet Lin Tie in Jiangmen Pavilion.

Lin Tie is also a person who knows people, when he was in Jiangmen Duting, he implied that Jiangmen was doing well, and it was not difficult to find Wang Chengfu's talent, and Wang Chengfu also intended to show his intention at this time, and his intention to invite Wang Chengfu to Jin'an became a bubble.

Xiaoyangshan Island in the distance also ignited the flames of war, and the sunset on the horizon almost integrated, Song Bo and Wang Chengfu found a high ground with Lin Bin, looking at the past from a distance, eight or nine miles away, the light was abundant at dusk, and they also vaguely saw a rough.

The Kou soldiers were mainly concentrated on Dayangshan Island, and only twenty or thirty Kou soldiers were left to defend the stockade on Xiaoyangshan Island. There was no suspense at all, and after the soldiers on the island forcibly broke open the gate of the village, the soldiers abandoned their weapons and surrendered, and walked out of the village to tie up and board the ship.

Wait for more than 20 captives to be escorted to the side of Dayangshan Island, and this side is also ready to forcibly attack the village.