Not long after Lin Tie and they withdrew from the boat, a large number of water village boats swarmed from the north, with three Mengchong war boats at the top, followed by more than 30 modified river boats and loach boats, and then a large number of fishing boats instigated and agitated by the water villages.

Lin Jian stood on the deck, frowning. Last night's Shuizhai Jianyong almost no one wore armor, the vast majority of people were shirtless and barefoot with a knife on the trap, at this time the drum waves of the three Mengchong warships stood on the deck of more than 200 Jianyong all put on armor, and their hands were also replaced with guns and spears made of stainless steel, Mo knives and other sharp weapons, the bow Jianyong held a tiger card, and there were dozens of people on both sides of the ship holding a foot bow, the array was more majestic and powerful than last night, at first glance I thought it was an elite water camp from somewhere.

Nearly 700 Wuwei hired by the Qin family with Hu Wuwei and the Qin family from Wufeng Dart Company were killed in Luoyang Lake, except for the armor and crossbow damaged in the fierce battle, the excellent armor and crossbow captured by the Zhujia Shuizhai after the war are not a few, and the Shuizhai Jianyong after the change of clothes has the scale of elite soldiers, and then think of these brave and fearless life and death during the fight last night, Jiangdong County really can't find an elite army that can match it.

Fortunately, the number of such elite warriors in Zhujia Shuizhai is also quite limited, except for the three Mongolian warships, the six or seven hundred people on the modified river boat and loach boat are much more rudimentary, and the large number of fishing boats that are agitated behind are mostly fishermen in Hongzepuli, all wearing straw sandals, bare-chested and bare-breasted, and they cannot hold harpoons, bamboo guns and other homemade and simple weapons in their hands.

A Mengchong warship protruded slightly, three or four hundred steps away from the Dongyang, and there was a person standing in the bow, and his appearance was not real, but he wore a black armor, which set off the surrounding water village generals very dazzlingly.

Cao Ziang stood beside Lin Lian and said in a low voice: "This person is Liu An'er, the chief leader of the twenty-one water villages, who likes to wear black armor and is very easy to ......recognize" Last night, he and Ge Cunxin pretended to be Hongzepu fishermen to fish in the troubled waters of Luoyang Lake, and also learned more about the situation of the water village forces from other Hongzepu fishermen.

"Last night, Hongzepu Water Village should have used all the troops at the bottom of the box, minus the casualties, at this time, it should be able to make up another 3,000 Jianyong, Liu An'er brought less than 1,000 Jianyong, and the other horses were not led by other leaders to turn around and attack Sizhou?" Lin Jian asked.

"After capturing Sizhou City, Zhujia Water Village can stabilize the rear in the Hongzepu situation; Occupying Shanglinli can connect the north and the south, and jointly instigate the displaced forces to raise things together," Cao Ziang sighed slightly, "There are not many garrisons in Sizhou City, and there is very little chance that it can be saved if the Shuizhai forces are suddenly attacked!" This Liu An'er is quite ambitious, and he also has a strategy in his heart, so we have to avoid his edge. ”

"I'm just begging him not to attack me now." Lin Jian shrugged his shoulders and whispered, he would not take the initiative to touch the mildew of the Shuizhai forces at this time, but he would not be afraid to retreat.

At this time, the north wind was westerly, and the wind was conducive to the southward movement of the sailboats, so Lin Jian made the six Wupeng boats of the Xihe Association sail into the Shiliang River south of Shanglindu first, and gathered the fleeing people along the coast.

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At dawn, the people in Shanglin were frightened by horse thieves, but they still imagined that the prefecture and county would send officers and soldiers to rescue them.

After Lin Jian led the crowd to escape onto the boat, Liu Miaozhen waited for the situation in Shanglin to settle down for a while, and immediately sent people to post notices in Shanglin. The notice announced that the government and the squire and the wealthy clan colluded, perverse, so that tens of thousands of fishermen and boat owners in Hongzepu were unable to do anything, and jointly elected Liu An'er as the general of Shuntian, since the general of Shuntian, there are 27 generals, and today they raised the banner of righteousness together to do the right thing for the heavens, kill the rich and help the poor.

Lin Jian had already cut off contact with the north shore at this time, and for the time being, he did not know that Liu Miaozhen had posted a notice in Shanglin to announce that the Shuizhai forces had officially erected the banner of "General Shuntian".

Poor families and broken households are better, and there is nothing to rob at home, and another water village force also plays the banner of killing the rich and helping the poor. In addition, Liu Miaozhen also posted a notice to invite the poor people in Shanglin to participate in the event, but the market in Shanglin was prosperous, and the landless and proletarian poor and broken households could also rely on the wharf to work as coolies to earn a living, and they were also heavily influenced by the idea of loyalty to the monarch and law-abiding, and were not interested in raising the flag to rebel, especially when the situation was unclear, most of them closed their doors. Only a few daring Lai households jumped out first and ran to Liu Miaozhen's horse to fight the vanguard, and take the lead in robbing the rich squires in the forest.

In addition to the Lin Tie to pick up the boat, the other squires and wealthy households and small industrial households in the forest immediately panicked, the thieves are very numerous, and it is not a way to close the door and stick to it, thinking of leaving the green mountains and not afraid of no firewood, dragging the family with gold and silver and soft things to leave the forest to escape, only to find that there is no way to escape from the north bank of Shanglindu.

Although the six Wupeng boats of the Xihe Society were crowded together and could take seven or eight hundred people to take refuge in Jiangning, Liu Miaozhen led his troops to guard the north bank, and thousands of Shuizhai Jianyong and Hongzepu fishermen could also land on the north bank quickly.

There are dozens of families in Shanglinli because of Hexing City, in addition to the Lin people, there are seventy or eighty families who are rich because of businessmen, and these seventy or eighty families form a large area of deep house compound on the north bank of Shanglindu, even Shiliang County is not so prosperous. In addition to strategically instigating the displaced people on both sides of the Shiliang River, the occupation of Shanglinli alone can make these seventy or eighty wealthy households obtain a large amount of money for recruiting troops and horses.

Lin Tie covered the Lin family's withdrawal from the Lin family's mansion, and only used a wheelbarrow to transport more than 5,000 taels of gold from the Lin family's silver cellar to the ship, and more than 90,000 taels of silver cakes that were privately raised to make the mark of the Lin family. The Lin family also has a few houses in Shanglin, each house is built with a silver cellar, although the silver is not as good as the big house, but the total number is also considerable, Lin Jian was not able to divide the manpower to move the silver in other houses, so he could only cheapen the Hongzepu Water Village.

In addition to accepting the people on the south bank of Shanglindu to take refuge in Jiangning, Lin Jian also had to take as many Gu family members to Jiangning as possible, on the one hand, to take care of Gu Yingsleeve's emotions, and on the other hand, Lin Lian wanted to give Gu Wuchen an explanation.

No one thought that the war disaster would spread so quickly and tragically, Lin Jian sent people to the lake in the early morning when he went ashore in the forest, and informed the Gu family to flee south to avoid the military disaster. Besides, Lin Tingli did not send a message from Shiliang County, if Lin Tingli dared to lead the nearly 1,000 elite Dongyang horse infantry assembled in Shiliang County to rush to Shanglinli, Lin Tie did not want Shanglin to fall into the hands of the Shuizhai forces. After all, cutting off the connection between the Shuizhai forces and the displaced people on both sides of the Shiliang River will make it possible to limit the influence of the Shuizhai forces to the greatest extent in the area around Hongzepu and prevent the entire Jianghuai land from being involved in a tragic military disaster.

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Liu Miaozhen sat quietly on horseback, staring at the water in the direction of Dongyang.

The three Mengchong warships and other Shuizhai ships were anchored on the west bank of Shiheliang, and a veteran with a black and white beard went ashore on a small boat, and surrounded more than ten armor soldiers to meet Liu Miaozhen at the ferry, frowning and looking at the Dongyang, without saying a word.

Lin Jian seconded more than a dozen sailors from the Xihe Society to operate the Dongyang, and this trip brought more than 50 elites in the upper forest, all of whom were wearing armor and holding blades. In addition, the Dongyang still has the combat power to defeat Zhao Neng's camp last night, and the more than 50 villagers who have been collected today are temporarily restrained by Zhao Hu, and the others, including the Qin family and the Lin family, are hidden in the cabin and cannot see their traces on the deck.

Lin Jiyuan, Zhao Qingshan, Chen Shouyan and others led 300 integrated five teams of Xiang Yong were divided into five fast oars, and these five fast oars also had more than 120 oarsmen to row and control the boat.

On the top deck of the stern cabin of the Dongyang, the lighthouse has been removed, and a wooden shelf is fixed at this time, and a long wooden pole passes through the middle of the thick rope, and the tail end points obliquely to the southern sky, like the stinger of a scorpion, and the tail end of the stinger is also tied to a leather pocket hanging down, and the winch is also installed on both sides of the wooden shelf where it is connected with the thick rope.

The veteran also has a lot of experience in this life, although the wooden shelf on the aft deck of the Dongyang is very different from the catapult he has seen before, but there are many stone bullets piled next to the wooden shelf, so he can be sure that this is a small catapult.

The veteran felt strange when he looked at it from a distance just now, and only then did he come to the ferry to see that it was more real, but he didn't expect that Lin Tie would actually install the catapult on the Dongyang.

"Uncle," Liu Miaozhen asked, "Lin Jian will not retreat for a day, should we allow him to do this for a day?" ”

The veteran is Yang Quan, the uncle of Liu An'er and Liu Miaozhen's brothers and sisters, although he is not the most powerful among the leaders of Hongzepu Water Village, but he is also the most prestigious, he frowned and said: "Have you fought with him, how do you feel about his foot fighting?" ”

"The defense is very strict," Liu Miaozhen said, "the forty or fifty armor-piercing soldiers on his ship should be careful, and the village warriors are also ......."

"Generally speaking, it is better than the manpower of Shuizhai," Yang Quan said, "You said that he was very well defended on foot, and in the early morning at Luoyang Lake, we did not dare to force him on the water." Shen Rongzhi is very talented, he wants to rectify the Dongyang Mansion Army, and he has not settled the local wealthy clan in two years, and Lin Rong's son may be three points more tricky than Shen Rong - Wu Dangjia has taken people to fight Sizhou, and there is no sure news there, so he can't fight a tough battle here. ”

"Lin Tingli can gather nearly a thousand Dongyang horse infantry in Shiliang County; What if Lin Tingli leads the crowd to come to the forest for too long? Liu Miaozhen asked.

"The Dongyang Horse Infantry is a soldier and horse that Shen Rong has trained with great difficulty, and Lin Tingli, who has contradictions with him, will never be allowed to interfere in peacetime; Shen Rong didn't know whether he was alive or dead at this time, and it was difficult for Lin Tingli to master this army and horses, besides, do you really think Lin Tingli really had the courage to save Lin Li? Yang Quan smiled and asked, "Even if he has the guts, how many troops do you say he can divide to save the forest?" ”

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Many Gu people thought that Lin Lian's dispatch of the news was just alarmist, and only some Gu people took a car to the west bank of the Shiliang River to wait for Lin Lian to pick them up, and boarded the Wupeng Cao boat of the Xihe Society in time. Lin Jian can only do this step, and he can also explain the past to Gu Wuchen, he can't use a knife on the neck of other Gu family members to force them to get on the boat and go to Jiangning to avoid trouble, strong enemies are around, and he can't distinguish so many people.

The situation here is really tense, the water village has twice as many troops, and most of them are elite, in addition to the fact that they also have a large number of Hongzepu fishermen to help, Lin Jian is not even allowed to install a scorpion crossbow on the stern deck.

The scorpion crossbow is also a type of catapult.

At that time, most of the catapults were launched by manpower or animal power, that is, a large number of soldiers or war horses suddenly pulled the cable tied to one end of the force arm in one direction at the same time, and pulled up the power arm to shoot the stone projectile at the other end of the force arm to the enemy in a parabola. The selection of the crossbow back is extremely important, otherwise the stone projectile will not be projected, and the crossbow back will first be broken by the great force.

There is also a kind of heavy object launch type catapult, that is, the heavy object is used to replace manpower, the soldier first uses the winch to lift the heavy object tied to one end of the crossbow back, and the other end of the crossbow back is loaded with a stone projectile, and the heavy object is suddenly released, and the stone projectile can be launched.

The weight-fired catapult was already quite advanced and practical in the world, saving manpower and space needed to deliver stone projectiles, and greatly improving the projection accuracy, but this kind of catapult was not suitable for installation on warships. The deck of a warship could not withstand the free fall of thousands or even thousands of pounds of weight, and there was not enough space to launch a human-fired throwing crossbow.

In addition, there is a torsion-fired catapult, which is to insert the long-rod crossbow back in the middle of the elastic crossbow string, twist the crossbow string to the extreme with a winch, and use the torque to tighten the crossbow back, and when the crossbow back is suddenly released, the stone projectile in the leather pocket at one end of the crossbow can be projected.

This torsional catapult is also known as a scorpion crossbow because it is shaped like a scorpion.

Although the structure of the scorpion crossbow is simple, in addition to the material of the crossbow back, it is also difficult to find a suitable material for the crossbow string, which is rarely seen in the world. However, the Scorpion Crossbow has many advantages, especially the small Scorpion Crossbow that can be installed directly on the top deck of a warship.

Later generations of water warfare were accustomed to using cannons to bombard, but there were not many opportunities for broadside battles, Lin Bin's perception of water warfare was naturally affected by the tactics of water warfare in later generations, and he tried every means to install several heavy long-range weapons for Dongyang as "cannons", and at present, he could only choose a few kinds of equipment such as scorpion crossbows and bed crossbows.

In water warfare, the direct destruction power of the bed crossbow to the hull can not be compared with the scorpion crossbow, and the structure is more complex, the most critical thing, this dynasty strictly prohibits private armed ships from carrying heavy equipment, with the three-bow bed crossbow as the first ban, but the scorpion crossbow is not listed in it, perhaps it is not considered that someone will load the scorpion crossbow on the warship.

Lin Jian privately built two scorpion crossbows, and the high-quality materials consumed were enough to make dozens of good bows.

The situation was tense for a long time, and after the Gu family withdrew from the boat at noon, Lin Jian made the Dongyang and five fast oars slowly withdraw south from the mouth of the Shanglin River, and the tense strings were relaxed, and no fierce water battle broke out. After all, there is no practical benefit to both sides in Shanglindu.

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