Liu Zunkao breathed a sigh of relief: "Now I understand what you mean by conquering the West. If the two thieves really come, they will really attack Jiangling with all their strength and eliminate us. But if the two thieves are not here,
Even if the enemy has a huge fleet, it will only feint at most and focus on stalemate. The purpose is to scare our army from attacking and seeking battle, to ensure the safety of their logistics channel in Changsha, and to confuse Xi Le.
Brother, lure him to attack, right?"
Liu Daogui nodded: "Yes, so we must fight hard with the enemy when they first come, and then we will know the true strength of the enemy. This is why I must attack, and if we want to win, we can only rely on fire attacks.
Otherwise, we will not be able to defeat the enemy's giant ships on the river."
Cai Lunzhi shook his head: "But is the demon thief really capable of defeating Liu Fujun without a naval fleet, especially without a giant eight-armed ship? Also, the fire attack you mentioned in Zhengxi can't be defeated on the river.
How can it be achieved without the help of wind direction?"
Liu Daogui said sternly: "The demon thieves are very cunning and very good at using tactics such as ambush and luring the enemy. The waterways in Jiangzhou and Yuzhang are crisscrossed, and the terrain is where the river turns. There are many mountains and forests, which are very conducive to ambushes and close combat. And this happens to be the area where demons
The thief's advantage lies in this. Furthermore, Lu Xun, a demon thief who is proficient in magic techniques such as wooden armor mechanisms, may have the support of the big devil like the Tiandao Alliance. If he dares to fight Brother Xile without using the navy, it must be
To be sure, rely on ambushes and agents to gain the upper hand in land battles."
Speaking of this, his expression became more and more serious: "In this battle of Guanggu, it is said that the black robes dispatched armored mecha machines, and our Zhang Gang also made a machine that can fly ten feet high in the air.
Jumping on the mechanism ladder on the Guanggu City Wall, it can be seen that this mechanism technique has been greatly developed in the hands of the demon thieves and the Tiandao Alliance, surpassing our previous knowledge."
"If Brother Xile is greedy for power and rushes forward, and encounters the enemy where our Beifu army cannot form a formation to fight, he may suffer a big loss. Therefore, I must consider the possibility of his defeat, even if it is really too late to save Xile
Brother, we must also do our best to harass the enemy's follow-up troops and not allow the enemy's reinforcements and supplies to be sent to the front line smoothly through Changsha."
Lu Zongzhi frowned deeply: "It sounds very serious indeed. To put it bluntly, our navy cannot defeat the demon thieves and cannot gain control of the river. Otherwise, we would have been able to cross the river and attack Changsha long ago to conquer the west.
Ah, do you think the demon thieves know that we have prepared more than two hundred Yellow Dragon warships and have the strength to cross the river to attack, so they brought the fleet over to ensure that we are suppressed and do not dare to leave the port?"
Liu Daogui nodded: "I think that's what you think. The enemy's attack on Jiangling is actually to ensure that the waterways and water transportation on the river are not threatened. Therefore, we must take the initiative to attack him, otherwise
If so, our more than 200 Huanglong warships will become just decorations, no different from having no fleet at all."
Lu Zongzhi nodded: "According to this analysis, it is appropriate to try a battle. However, how can the fire attack you mentioned Zhengxi be realized?"
Liu Daogui calmly reached into his arms, took out something from the armor, placed it on the case, and said, "Everyone, have you ever seen this thing?"
Everyone looked at it and saw that it was something more than a foot long, similar to the shuttlecock played by children in games. The top was made of colorful feathers and something like linen, and the tail was not like the bottom of a shuttlecock.
It is made of cork, but is an iron tool more than half a foot long. It has a large tail and a pointed head, which looks like a small spearhead. But behind the sharp edge at the top, there are three open barbed tail hooks, which looks upside down.
Like a small ship anchor, it exuded something strange.
Lu Zongzhi's eyes widened and he shook his head: "What is this? Is it a new type of bow and arrow or a crossbow arrow? But something doesn't seem right. This thing has no tail fins and cannot shoot accurately at all. Could it be that these feathers can
Used as a tailplane?"
Liu Zunkao squinted his eyes slightly and said: "I see that there is some oil cloth mixed in the feathers of the tail fin, which seems to be used to ignite fire, and the tip has barbs, which seems to be an arrow similar to a rocket with barbs.
, it can be used for continuous ignition.”
Tan Daoji laughed: "I remembered it. I suddenly remembered that this is not the pheasant tail torch we used during the Western Expedition and the battle in Sangluozhou."
Cai Lunzhi immediately took over the words, a look of fear flashed across his face: "Yes, it is it, it is it, it is this kind of flaming thing, nailed to the side planks of our fleet,
In less than a quarter of an hour, a five-tooth warship turned into a ball of fire. I still remember the heat wave and the breath of death that hit me like hellfire."
Liu Daogui nodded and said seriously: "Yes, this thing was made at the suggestion of Du Huidu, a wealthy family in Jiaozhou who was in our army at that time. They have a big river in Jiaozhou and are also close to the sea. When fighting on the water, if the goal is to destroy enemy ships, then
This is an artifact.”
"When it comes to water-based fire attacks, it is often necessary to use the wind to launch fireballs from rockets or trebuchets to attack enemy ships. The distance is long, and it is difficult to hit the enemy ship when there is a headwind or crosswind. Even if it hits, it is a single arrow.
The firepower carried by the rocket is limited, and it cannot burn continuously, so it is easy to put out, especially if the rocket falls on the deck, it may take more than one or two hundred rockets to ignite the fire."
"But this pheasant tail torch is different. It can be used to fire at close range. It can be fired with a hand crossbow at a distance of twenty or thirty steps, or hammered with an eight-oxen crossbow at a distance of fifty steps. It can accurately hit the enemy.
The sides of the ship have feathers mixed with oilcloth at the tail, and are smeared with kerosene and sulfur. When fired, they are ignited. As long as the nails hit the planks of the enemy ship, it will be difficult for the enemy to destroy them from the deck.
These torches will soon burn to the side of the ship, and as long as a few dozen of them catch fire, it will be enough to make the entire enemy's giant ship burn."
Lu Zongzhi laughed loudly: "There is such a powerful fire starter. Today is an eye-opener. Moreover, this thing has barbs. It is not easy to remove it. The enemy's giant ship is so big and tall.
, It is as difficult for us to attack the deck as it is to reach the sky, but it is even more difficult for them to save the fire on the side of the ship from the deck. This kind of tactics does not depend on the wind direction at all, but..."
At this point, Lu Zongzhi frowned: "It's just that although this thing is powerful, it can only be launched from a distance of thirty to fifty steps and on the side of the enemy ship. In the final analysis, it still has to rush to the side of the giant ship.
Go up and launch at close range, this is too dangerous."
This chapter has been completed!