When water drips from stone, does the water win or the stone?
No, it’s the people who win.
Water and stones, in most cases, have no sense of winning or losing. They are like agitated people. Are their words and deeds really a reflection of their true wishes?
Cui Hou was sweating, and hurriedly approached Cui Jun's hall. Then he saw Chen Rui, the prefect of Daijun, beside Cui Jun. He couldn't help being stunned, and immediately raised his hands and saluted, indicating that he was reckless.
Chen Rui, the prefect of Daijun, smiled, stood up and said that he still had some unfinished business and would come back to visit Cui Jun in two days. Cui Jun also stood up quickly, apologizing profusely, saying that he was rude today, and asked Chen to send Jun Haihan to him personally.
Send Chen Rui outside the gate...
Cui Hou also accompanied him, bending down to apologize all the way.
Now under the rule of Fei Qian, the original Wuyuan Shuofang and other counties were merged into Yinshan County, which was governed by Yinshan Shou, while Dai County was merged with Changshan County Shanggu County and others, and became the area under the Northern Territory Protectorate. Of course, in Da
Most of the areas that are connected with Cao Cao may have two prefects. For example, Cao Cao also has a prefect of Changshan County, or a prefect of Shanggu County.
Chen Rui has now become the governor of Dai County. Although he is also called the prefect, the population of Dai County is actually thin. Compared with other large counties, it is more like a county with a larger territory.
And Dai County alone is obviously unable to carry out large-scale development. It must rely on the support and cooperation of surrounding counties. Therefore, Chen Rui came to Taiyuan County, mainly to discuss borrowing some labor from Taiyuan.
…
When it was big, Dai County was very big, and even included part of the northern part of Jizhou. But when it was small, it was very small, with only a few counties around Dai County.
The shortcomings of the administrative system in the Han Dynasty are also reflected in the fact that the boundaries between counties and counties are basically not fixed and can be cut and divided at will. This gives local officials many opportunities to take advantage of the imperfect administrative system to influence them. Even in the later generations of Nichinan
In this land, there are still local officials who are openly jumping and shouting. I don’t believe that they can’t find faults and fine them. What’s more, in the Han Dynasty when communication and information were even more limited?
As the acting governor, Chen Rui, at least until now, has no qualifications to make money. There is no way. The acting governor is short of manpower. Even if he wants to repair roads, dig canals, remove silt, etc., he will be stretched thin.
In addition, Daijun is also responsible for the transportation of grain and all kinds of baggage for the Northern Territory Protector. The requirements for roads are also relatively high. If it is not corrected for a long time, transportation will be delayed. Once or twice is not bad, but it may be
The grain transportation officer has his own problems, but if there are too many problems on the Daijun road section, Chen Rui will inevitably need to go to Chang'an to report on his work.
Winter leisure time is naturally the best time to repair, so he came to Taiyuan specially to discuss with Cui Jun.
To be honest, Cui Jun is not very happy about this matter.
Not all people in the Han Dynasty were Lei or others!
It was just a direct refusal, and it was a bit out of favor, so when he was considering his words, Cui Hou barged in, which saved Cui Jun a lot of effort, but this might make Chen Rui feel that it was Cui Jun.
Intentionally arranged...
After sending Chen Rui away, Cui Jun frowned slightly. After returning to the hall and sitting down, he looked at Cui Hou, "Why are you so alarmed?"
Cui Hou swallowed his saliva, took a breath, and then glanced at the servants in the hall.
"Everyone, please stand down!" Cui Jun shook his sleeves.
The attendants pouted their assholes and retreated.
Cui Hou gritted his teeth, "Shangdang General Zhang was assassinated!"
Cui Jun twitched his eyebrows, but his expression remained calm, "Is this happening? But are there casualties?"
"It is said that the injury was serious and he was recalled to the pot..." Cui Hou said, sweating uncontrollably on his forehead, he took out a towel and wiped it again and again.
Cui Jun looked at it and gradually felt that something was wrong. He glared at Cui Hou and said, "At this time, what are you still thinking about? Just say what you have!"
Cui Hou shivered and rolled to the ground, "Brother! Save me! This assassin... this assassin..."
Cui Jun felt as if a thunderbolt had exploded in front of him, causing his calm aura to suddenly collapse. Veins could not help but appear on his forehead. He gritted his teeth and said, "Don't tell me that this assassin... is you."
Sent!』
Cui Hou waved his hands repeatedly, "No! The assassin was not sent by me!"
"Huh..." Cui Jun let out a long breath, and then felt something was wrong, "You haven't said it yet?! What is the connection?!"
If there was no relationship, Cui Hou wouldn't be so panicked.
Cui Hou lowered his head and hesitated, "Yeah... but... that person... came to Jinyang before, before..."
Cui Jun's eyes turned cold, "What's going on!"
Only then did Cui Hou explain the reason intermittently.
After Cui Hou was caught by Fei Qian and beaten hard, Cui Hou naturally restrained himself somewhat, but after all, dogs can't change eating... Or cats can't change eating fishy food? That's probably what it means.
. Just like a gambler swearing that he will never gamble, or an alcoholic cutting off his finger to indicate that he will never drink again, etc., the secretion of dopamine on certain nerves can make people addicted and difficult to stop.
As time goes by, the vows gradually fade away, and then I feel that those who follow the rules are just antiques, they just know how to open a pawn shop and cannot keep up with the trend of the times... ahem...
So Cui Hou figured out a new method.
If we don’t allow “export”, let’s switch to “domestic sales”!
Without approval, he openly led a caravan to smuggle to Shandong again. This would undoubtedly mean he would jump up and slap Fei Qian in the face. No matter how courageous Cui Hou was, he would not dare to do this, but...
What if it’s just “domestic sales”?
Just selling it within Fei Qian's rule, can it be considered "smuggling" to the outside world?
What's more, what's for sale is not first-class ordnance from the military workshop, but defective products and imitations from Cui Hou's own second-level workshop, just under the guise of "Hussar Supervisor"...
Does this count?
Never mind!
So, now we are in trouble.
Hu Chi'er is naturally Cui Hou's distributor for internal sales.
Moreover, the Shangdang Huguan Gukou military stronghold was destroyed. It is said that someone leaked the specific location of the military stronghold...
With such a connection, Cui Hou naturally felt that a disaster was imminent and hurriedly came to Cui Jun for discussion.
Cui Jun didn't care about stabilizing his aura, and stepped forward to grab Cui Hou. He originally wanted to lift Cui Hou up, but Cui Hou was too fat and couldn't lift it at all. He could only lift him and said in a low voice: "It's not early."
I told you to restrain yourself! restrain yourself! How did you promise me? How did you promise me?!"
Cui Hou cried sadly, "I really didn't know this would happen... If I had known earlier..."
"What's the use of talking about this now?!" Cui Jun pushed Cui Hou, then walked around the hall with his hands behind his back. After walking two circles, he said, "Who else knows about this now? I mean, there is also
Who knows about you and this assassin...damn it! Who knows?!』
Cui Hou cried, "There are so many people..."
"How come so many people know about such a thing?" Hearing this, Cui Jun couldn't stand still, and felt like the world was spinning, "You...could it be you, you..."
Are you alive, eating, drinking and having fun? Since Hu Chi'er is a Hu, of course he can also get some Hu girls. When he presented them to Cui Hou, how could Cui Hou think of any other problems? He just knew that this Hu girl was so white.
, so big, so thin, so long, naturally everything is going well.
"Brother! You have to save me!" Cui Hou cried bitterly, "If this matter is known to the Qiaoqi, I... I will definitely lose my life!"
"Don't worry, there is something fishy about this matter..." Cui Jun sat down, "How do you know... General Zhang was assassinated?"
Cui Jun felt a little strange. After all, he hadn't received any official notification yet, but Cui Hou got the news before him?
Cui Hou wiped his face and muttered: "Someone came here to report..."
"Come here with a message?" Cui Jun asked, "Where is that person now?"
"Already gone..." Cui Hou raised his head, "Uh...brother means..."
Cui Jun suddenly trembled and his face changed drastically, "No! There's going to be chaos!"
As soon as Cui Jun finished speaking, he heard someone rushing from the corridor. When he arrived at the hall, he suddenly saw Cui Hou still in the hall. He was stunned for a moment, and then hesitated.
"What's the matter? Report it quickly!"
Cui Jun asked. He knew that since he had just ordered the servants to retreat, if it was not an important matter, no one would come to disturb it. Now...
"Report to the envoy!" The man saluted, "I don't know when, rumors spread everywhere in the city! In the post office, the envoy of the county, Chen, sent people to inquire around, it seems..."
The aura that Cui Jun tried to maintain finally collapsed...
……Σ(oдo)……
Going west from Zigui is Xiling Gorge.
After Xiling Gorge is Wu Gorge.
Gorge, narrow.
After Huang Gai suffered a heavy loss in Zigui, he became more and more calm.
No matter how Gan Ning tried to tempt him, he refused to enter the dangerous areas with mountains and rivers, which made Gan Ning very depressed.
In the Xiling Gorge and Wu Gorge area, there are almost towering peaks on both sides. Once a large-scale ship enters, it is easy to form a long snake formation. If nothing happens, that's fine, but if something happens...
Therefore, Huang Gai is naturally cautious and cautious.
But for Gan Ning, it was depressing and depressing.
Fake defeat, continue to cheat, continue to cheat.
Gan Ning lowered his body and was so seductive, Huang Gai seemed to have emptied his ammunition, his heart was still, and he was indifferent.
Different from the previous high-spirited battle, Gan Ning also gradually realized the difference between large-scale water battles and the water bandit mode in his early years. The larger the number of people, the more emphasis was placed on mutual cooperation, and the scheduling ability gradually exceeded individual martial prowess.
Even if Gan Ning could capsize a ship by himself, Huang Gai could mobilize other ships to capsize Gan Ning's ships...
Gan Ning came to harass him again.
Huang Gailu successively added bricks and tiles to the old Zigui city and cleared away the debris, as if he wanted to build Zigui city into a steel water village and a permanent stronghold.
There are some small boats outside the water stronghold. The boats are connected together like a soft door to block the enemy. However, the connection can also be untied at any time and the warships inside can be dispatched.
In the previous harassments, Gan Ning did not try to break through the outer defense line of the water village. He just wandered and harassed, but Huang Gai ignored him at all. Even though Gan Ning took advantage of him, he did not send anyone to pursue or intercept him. So this time, Gan Ning
Ning felt that he could go deeper. He raised his finger and pointed in the direction of Huanggai Water Village, shouting: "Come closer! Shoot me with the bed crossbow! Shoot inside!"
This order was actually somewhat dangerous, but Gan Ning and his men didn't think there was any problem at the moment.
Gan Ning's ships were mainly medium-sized and small. The advantage was flexible steering, but the disadvantage was lack of power. Therefore, additional bed crossbows were set up in the middle of the ship to enhance firepower.
If they rush into the water stronghold with just these ships and manpower, they will undoubtedly be seeking death, so the focus will naturally fall on these additional bed crossbows.
Huang's Workshop, military quality bed crossbow.
Gan Ning's men responded loudly, then began to approach Huang Gai's water village and started shooting with crossbows.
The bed crossbow's shooting speed is not fast, but the crossbow gun bundled with kerosene can easily cause damage to the opponent's hull, and also ignite some sails or other things. If it happens to hit some unlucky people, that is also
It is full of lethality. Moreover, the range of the bed crossbow is far beyond that of ordinary bows and arrows. If you want to hit ships such as Gan Ning, you must also use the bed crossbow.
But here comes the problem, Jiangdong's bed crossbow has a slightly shorter range than Gan Ning's.
That's right, just a little bit close.
Although the effective killing range and the maximum range of the bed crossbow are obviously different, Gan Ning's bed crossbow can still retain more kinetic energy when it hits Jiangdong's hull, while Jiangdong's bed crossbow often only
It could be shot, but the lethality was much lower. So Gan Ning would always be out of Jiangdong's killing range, madly mocking Huang Gai, and expressing his contempt for Jiangdong's navy...
Huang Gai knew that this was a manufacturing difference in military equipment and a technical insufficiency. He just knew that he knew it. It didn't mean that if he wanted to improve it, he could just slap his head on it and then improve it. If he wanted to attack Gan Ning's long-range weapons, he could do it.
It's not that there are none, such as catapults, but the problem is that compared to the crossbow, the catapult is more like a random warfare method. It is efficient against large fixed targets, but if you want to deal with small and medium-sized warships that can move and run,
It would be a bit thankless.
"Whoosh!"
"Whizzing!"
Gan Ning's crossbows seemed to be free of charge, and they fired wildly at Huang Gai's water stronghold.
The crossbows were wrapped with linen cloth soaked in kerosene. Before shooting, soldiers would light it. Although the ignited kerosene cloth might go out in the air, most of them could still maintain a little flame and then land on the ground.
, or pierce the hull of Jiangdong's ship, and then burn with revenge.
Jiangdong's soldiers in the water village in the distance began to run, either busy dismantling the crossbows stuck in the hull, or using sand to extinguish the flames.
The bed crossbow that is strung by a winch has a longer range and a more stable rate of fire. However, Jiangdong's bed crossbow is a little different, causing most of the counterattack bed crossbows to miss and fall on the water. Only Gan Ning and his men got the result.
jeers.
Jiangdong Water Village, which was under attack, did not untie the surrounding boats.
"General! This time, Jiangdong is acting like a coward again!"
"Hahaha!" Gan Ning laughed and said, "Jiangdong is not good at anything else, but he is pretty good at being a turtle!"
"Ah ha ha……"
Gan Ning's words triggered another burst of laughter.
Gan Ning waved his arm, "Shoot! Shoot Jiangdong's turtle shell!"
"Oooo!"
The Jiangdong soldiers in the water village seemed to be running around in a hurry, but if you look more carefully, you will find that these running soldiers are all soldiers from the periphery of Jiangdong, while the central building where Huang Gai is located and the surrounding areas are quiet.
Quietly, there was no movement.
If you are beaten passively, your morale will naturally drop.
Everyone knows this.
Gan Ning and others were traveling on small and medium-sized boats, which turned quickly and had fast explosive power. If a large force was sent out to encircle and suppress them, the small boats might be able to catch up, but the big boats would definitely not be able to catch up...
Unless there are special circumstances.
Whether it's a bed crossbow or a trebuchet, Jiangdong's range and accuracy are worse than those of the Hussars, and everyone knows that.
However, there will always be problems, and the people who can solve them are the most critical factor.
Huang Gai stood on the building boat and watched Gan Ning's boat circling around the outside coldly, assessing the distance.
Generals on the battlefield must have extremely strong distance estimation skills. At a glance, the approximate distance is almost the same. If the estimation is wrong, then it is possible that the soldiers sent by one of the parties will be there.
It fell into the void.
"Now!" Huang Gai suddenly shouted in a deep voice, "Raise the flag! Beat the drum!"
On top of the Huanggailou ship, Jiangdong soldiers erected a red flying tiger flag with yellow edges. Immediately, a rush of drums sounded in the Jiangdong water village...
When he heard the sound of drums, Gan Ning thought that Huang Gai was about to attack, and immediately became a little excited, because since there were linens stained with kerosene on their ships, of course they also had kerosene cans, and they would find an opportunity to burn Jiangdong again.
One wave, although it may not really burn the yellow lid, but it can be regarded as letting out the bad breath for oneself, and at least it can make you feel comfortable for a few days.
But soon, Gan Ning discovered that Jiangdong did not send out soldiers and boats, but instead sent out trebuchets first!
One after another, stone bullets came from different places in the Jiangdong water village, drawing arcs full of death in the air, and then smashed down in the direction of Gan Ning's ship!
"Buzz! Buzz!"
A stone bullet roared and hit a small boat under Gan Ning's command. It smashed into the hull of the ship and effortlessly drilled a hole of flesh and blood. Almost all the soldiers who were hit died on the spot, and several others were injured.
His arm or arm was broken, or he was hit by flying sawdust, and he screamed miserably, not knowing whether it was luck or misfortune!
"Wow!"
Gan Ning saw a stone bullet hit the water only about ten feet away from his boat, and it immediately splashed water all over the sky!
"Spread out! Avoid! Get out of here!"
Gan Ning shouted.
When did Jiangdong master this skill?!
This is a range attack!
Everyone knows about range attacks, but it is not easy to play them well.
The people of Jiangdong did not aim at a certain ship at all, but attacked with trebuchets indiscriminately. This not only required the trebuchet to measure the distance and direction in advance, but also calculated the time when the stone bombs would fall! This is different from hitting the river at a fixed point.
Different from the fixed target, Gan Ning's fleet was constantly cruising up and down!
As long as there is a slight difference in coordination and a slight delay in time, the range attack may be either a drop in the air or a splash behind the cruising Gan Ning fleet. At the moment, the Jiangdong navy can
To achieve accurate coverage of the area where Gan Ning's fleet is advancing, the most critical thing is undoubtedly the navy veteran's accumulated experience over the years in the dispatch...
Just as Gan Ning was shouting and his ships began to disperse, the Jiangdong navy opened the boats connected to the outside. Then in the water village, some pointed boats with long oars covered their hulls, as if they were crazy.
