Author: Magic Prince

Chapter 84 Building a Ship to Cross the River

Zhang Wen finally accepted Xiang Yu's suggestion and decided to divide the army into three parts. Because Sun Jian and Dong Zhuo were at odds, Zhang Wen asked Dong Zhuo to lead an army in Jingyuan City, which was farther to the east, while Sun Jian led an army in the far west.

On the side of Lanzhou City, Xiang Yu led his army in Yuzhong City on the east side of Lanzhou City. At the same time, Zhang Wen himself also stayed in Yuzhong City, but the main command of the army was delegated to Xiang Yu.

The numbers of the three armies were not exactly the same. Sun Jian and Dong Zhuo each led a quarter of the total force, while Xiang Yu led the remaining one-half. This meant that Xiang Yu had temporarily

Obtaining the main command of this counter-insurgency team also means that he has gained the full trust of coach Zhang Wen.

Of course, this kind of trust is more based on trust in Xiang Yu's ability, or because Zhang Wen gradually lost trust in Sun Jian and Dong Zhuo. In the following period, Zhang Wen often talked to Xiang Yu.

, and exchanged with him some personal opinions and experiences on leading troops in war, and Zhang Wen also discovered in the process that the young man named Xiang Ji in front of him had an extraordinary insight into the battlefield situation.

Some of the judgments made are profound and accurate, and are very forward-looking.

There is no doubt that these abilities are what an outstanding general or even a coach needs to possess, but not all outstanding generals and coaches can possess these abilities like Xiang Yu, and Zhang Wen feels that Xiang Yu is still very young after all.

, the future potential is huge.

So Zhang Wen decided to reuse Xiang Yu and train him well, trying to win Xiang Yu to become his side in the future. Of course, Xiang Yu himself is not stupid. Through this period of contact, he gradually understood Zhang Wen's temperament and abilities.

, it was obvious that Zhang Wen himself was not capable of personally leading troops to fight, but some of his personal thoughts on leading troops to fight still had some positive touches on Xiang Yu.

In fact, Zhang Wen himself has studied many books on the art of war. It can even be said that he is much better than Xiang Yu in the theory of art of war. However, Zhang Wen's problem is that he lacks the ability to apply these art of war, and many of his ideas are just theory.

Above all, compared with Xiang Yu's ability to combine the contents of many military books with actual warfare, there is still a big gap.

Ship construction is slower than expected. It is difficult to find enough suitable wood along the Yellow River to build large ships. Therefore, either suitable wood must be obtained from further away, or only small and medium-sized ships can be built.

, but it is difficult for small and medium-sized ships to meet the needs of a large number of soldiers crossing the river at the same time, and the manpower and material resources required to make small and medium-sized ships are not much less than that of making large ships.

On the issue of making ships, Xiang Yu himself had no say. In fact, they could not find particularly good shipbuilders in the army. The only ones they had were temporarily deployed from the Sanfu area or even the capital. But because of this

People of the era did not have great demand for shipbuilding, so the personal abilities of these shipbuilding craftsmen were actually not outstanding.

Obviously, if this progress is followed, it will take a lot of time to transport the entire army, including soldiers, horses, logistics troops, weapons and equipment, and logistics supplies, across the Yellow River.

There is actually a very critical issue here, that is, they cannot send soldiers across the Yellow River in small numbers, because after all, the opposite side is the area controlled by Han Sui's rebels. If only a small number of soldiers were sent across the Yellow River,

If some of the troops pass by, they will alert Han Sui and let Han Sui know that they have begun to cross the river, which may lead to Han Sui's attack.

Han Sui obviously did not want Zhang Wen to cross the river smoothly, and would launch a fierce attack on Zhang Wen's troops when they were crossing the river in small numbers. In this case, he would basically send a group of them to die.

A group of troops is completely meaningless.

After Xiang Yu raised this point, Zhang Wen quickly recognized it. Therefore, in this case, at least a certain number of ships need to be built to ensure that troops with a certain combat effectiveness can be transported to the other side of the Yellow River in a relatively short period of time.

, at least this force can have certain self-protection capabilities, allowing them to avoid being wiped out immediately after being discovered by Han Sui.

, So Xiang Yu said, either wait slowly until enough ships are built, but this may take at least one or two months, or even longer, or build a certain number of ships first,

Let Xiang Yu take some elite troops to cross the river first, and then rely on Xiang Yu's excellent command ability to use these elite troops to contain Han Sui's troops on the other side of the river, thereby gaining enough time and space for more troops in the rear to cross the river.

Zhang Wen was a little hesitant about Xiang Yu's proposal at first, because listening to Xiang Yu's tone, he was obviously more inclined to the latter option. However, he briefly thought about Xiang Yu's previous combat performance, and finally chose to believe that Xiang Yu could complete it.

I won’t say anything more about this task, just let Xiang Yu make his own decision.

On the other hand, Dong Zhuo naturally adopted a relatively passive strategy. When the shipbuilders from the Sanfu and Jingshi areas came to the army, Dong Zhuo only served them with good wine and food all day long, without mentioning anything about shipbuilding.

At the beginning, these shipbuilders thought Dong Zhuo was a very nice person and took great care of them, but soon they felt something was not right.

After all, they were brought here for the purpose of building ships to cross the Yellow River for the army. Logically speaking, they should be in a hurry, but now they don't mention this at all. Instead, they are just allowed to come here to eat, drink and spend time. It feels really good.

Quite weird.

Soon some of them couldn't help it anymore and ran to Dong Zhuo to ask. However, Dong Zhuo said that the matter was not urgent. Since he wanted to build a ship to cross the river, he had to make a big ship so that it was stable and could carry more soldiers. However,

It's hard to get the wood for building big ships, so let a few shipbuilders wait patiently. Don't be anxious. When the wood arrives, they will naturally start building the ship.

Obviously Dong Zhuo's statement was not satisfactory to several shipbuilders. They felt that they were idle here all day and were very uncomfortable. Although Dong Zhuo was polite on the surface, he always felt that something was not right, so he said to Dong Zhuo

If you can't take the photo with a big ship, you can build some smaller ships first.

Unexpectedly, Dong Zhuo immediately fell out after hearing this, and yelled at several shipbuilders loudly, saying that they were ignorant of good and evil. He said that if he wanted to build a big ship, he would build a big ship, and it was not their turn to make irresponsible remarks.

If they dare to talk too much, pluck out all their tongues. After all, their craftsmen use their hands to build ships, and tongues are superfluous to them.

Several shipbuilders had never seen this formation, and they were immediately frightened by Dong Zhuo and kowtowed like garlic. They immediately did not dare to say anything more, so Dong Zhuo ordered several shipbuilders to be locked up to prevent them from interacting with the outside world.

No chance of contact.
Chapter completed!