Chapter 3182: Strength mountain climbing comes first
To clear the obstacles in front of the pontoon bridge, there is actually no need to dispatch a dome ship.
The reason why Zhu Zhi sent the Dome Armored Warship forward was firstly to test the endurance of the Dome Armored Warship, and secondly to boost morale.
Strictly speaking, whether it was the catapults and ballistas of Yufu Island City or the mountain city, the number of Jiangdong soldiers killed by direct hits could not be counted, but the casualties caused by such catapults and ballistae would be
A serious blow to morale.
the reason is simple.
Human beings always easily fall into depression or despair when faced with things they cannot resist.
When you are tired, destroy yourself!
Zhu Zhi is a veteran general of Jiangdong, so he understands this.
If you want to launch an effective attack, you must first boost the morale of Jiangdong soldiers.
The dome-shaped armored ship can now resist the attack of the trebuchet. Even though the dome-shaped armored ship is not completely unscathed, it can be said to be a big improvement for the morale of Jiangdong soldiers.
At least let Jiangdong soldiers know that they will not be completely passive and will be beaten, but they are also capable of resisting.
If the Sichuan-Shu army wanted to attack with kerosene bombs, Zhu Zhi wouldn't mind either.
Because at long distances, the hit rate of kerosene bullets is as impressive as that of stone bullets. Stone bullets can be wasted because there are mountains around and gunpowder is mined. It is not too difficult, but what about kerosene bullets?
How many kerosene bombs are cost-effective for a dome-armored battleship?
War is consumption.
The building boat resisted the catapult's stone bullets and slowly approached the obstacle in front of the Yufu pontoon bridge.
In front of the building ship, there were Jiangdong soldiers staring intently at the long bamboo pole stretched out from the bow.
The bamboo pole is submerged underwater, similar to the mine detector of later tanks. Once the bamboo pole resists the underwater obstacle, it will deform, and at the same time, the speed of the building ship will automatically slow down, so that it will not directly hit it head-on.
After a while, the bamboo pole bent and trembled violently, and the entire boat swayed abnormally.
The Jiangdong soldier who was responsible for staring at the bamboo pole pulled his neck and shouted: "We found an obstacle!"
Jiang Dongbing on the deck of the building ship immediately pushed out the wooden stake with the noose from the deck.
There is a thick hemp rope on the wooden stake, which is wrapped around an iron chain with an iron hook on one end.
The water ghost also jumped into the water with a plop.
The stone projectiles from the catapults in the direction of Yufu were still roaring unhurriedly, and most likely they would fall into the water.
A dome-shaped ship like Jiangdong is not flawless from top to bottom.
For example, the side of a building ship, or the external dome that has been smashed.
But the problem is that the stone projectiles thrown by the catapults do not fly horizontally, and the accuracy is not satisfactory.
Without the standard drawings of Huang's workshop and the standard calipers of the craftsman system under Fei Qian's rule, it would not be unusual for the catapult to point east and west and throw elusive stone bullets. Just like today, two or three of the ten shots can hit.
This is already a very impressive probability.
That's right, probability.
On the battlefield, sometimes luck is very important. In the age of cold weapons, you can still stand tall under the fire of thousands of arrows, and no arrows touch you. In the age of hot weapons, you can still survive the hail of bullets and bullets in the fierce battle between the two sides, and still not be able to hurt a single hair.
It is not uncommon for people with strong luck to have one root.
After a while, the water ghost emerged from the edge of the building and waved its arms.
"Reverse paddle!"
Jiangdong Military Academy on the building boat shouted loudly, and then stretched out a lot of wood pulp from both sides of the building boat. Following the flow of the river, he reversed the boat. Under the dual effects of water flow and manpower, the obstacles were removed.
The wooden pile was suddenly pulled and creaked.
The thick hemp rope becomes stronger after being soaked in water, and the iron chain and hook provide stronger pulling force.
The obstacles buried under the water in Sichuan and Shu were pulled out bit by bit.
Seeing that Jiangdong's army was clearing obstacles, Yufu's catapults were fired with all their strength. The stone bullets flew over the river like meteors and smashed into the two Jiangdong ships.
The dome armor on top of Jiangdong's warship was smashed loudly.
The cracking sound of the dome's wood is getting louder and louder, making people tremble with pain.
Amidst the creaking sounds of the tight wooden piles and iron chains, the entire building ship suddenly shook, followed by a stream of turbid river water pouring out from the bottom of the river, and a huge obstacle was nailed to the bottom of the water.
Gradually it surfaced.
"good!"
Zhu Zhi clenched his fists excitedly and shouted loudly.
The Jiangdong soldiers also cheered.
After having successful experience, Jiangdong soldiers continued their efforts and successively cleared two wooden piles buried under the water. However, almost all the dome armor on the top of the building was smashed, and even a huge crack was smashed on the top.
Crack, then reluctantly dragged the pulled out underwater wooden pile and drove out of the range of the catapult on Yufu Mountain in Sichuan.
Zhu Zhi waved his hand and ordered the craftsmen to carry out emergency repairs on the damaged building and ship domes.
As Jiangdong's warships withdrew, the whole river was filled with cheers from Jiangdong's soldiers...
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Gan Ning found Zhuge Liang angrily.
"Engage! Why don't you let me attack?" Gan Ning was very unhappy when he saw Jiangdong's army showing off its power, "I can kill those two ships with just one charge!"
Zhuge Liang heard Gan Ning's words, but he did not answer immediately, but still lowered his head and drew something.
After a while, Zhuge Liang seemed to have finished the painting. He put down his pen and waved to Gan Ning to move forward. "Look, is this structure the same as the one on the Jiangdong Tower?"
Gan Ning was stunned for a moment, then stepped forward and saw the pattern on the table, which was the dome armor structure of Jiangdong Tower Ship.
"The deck of Jiangdong is quite ingenious..." Zhuge Liang said with a smile, "It seems that the style is mainly made of bamboo and wood, but it can also be made from local materials... Not bad, not bad..."
Zhuge Liang pointed to the drawings and asked Gan Ning some detailed questions.
Gan Ning looked at it and found that it was indeed somewhat similar to the dome armor structure of the Jiangdong tower ship that he had observed at a closer distance, so he also said the same thing. But what he was even more curious about was why Zhuge Liang had to pull out the armor in the river in Jiangdong.
Obstacle and not angry?
Zhuge Liang smiled and didn't answer, just asking Gan Ning to calm down.
Gan Ning was helpless and had no choice but to withdraw.
Faping walked up to Zhuge Liang and asked in a low voice: "Engagement, you..."
Zhuge Liang glanced at Fa Ping and said, "The energy of soldiers should be accumulated and nourished."
Fa Ping was stunned, "So, you did this... intentionally?"
"Xing Ba...more rough, less refined..." Zhuge Liang whispered, "The problem is, Xing Ba may be... deliberately rough, but as time goes by, he just forgets to be refined... It should be noted that the success or failure of everything depends on everything. It depends on the details. If you don't pay attention, disaster will occur. The ancients said, "A slight difference can make a thousand miles difference."
Zhuge Liang felt that Gan Ning actually had a subtle side.
Just like Zhuge Liang asked Gan Ning to look at the drawings, Gan Ning could also tell the details.
If Gan Ning is really a careless person, then when faced with Zhuge Liang's drawing of the Jiangdong Tower ship dome armor, he probably couldn't tell any details.
Zhuge Liang knew that Gan Ning was not hiding anything on purpose. It might be because of certain things that led Gan Ning to feel that pretending to be a rough person could protect him better and reassure his boss. But the problem is that a person can pretend to be a certain character for a long time. If you wear a mask on your face for a long time, it will probably affect your own personality, just like wearing a mask on your face for a long time, and you will think that the mask is you.
"This is even more true in the battle formation. My Lord's great cause has not yet been accomplished. We should pay attention to the vast and minute details, and we can understand the big picture by observing the small details." Zhuge Liang said slowly, "It is like fine iron becoming steel. It should be tempered. It should be judged. Be careful, think carefully, avoid roughness and strive for refinement. Only in this way can you hope for a great road. If you lose Jiangdong, you should pursue it. If you don't fight with refinement, how can you be worthy of a great mission?"
If it's really rough, it's okay, but if it's just pretending and then it becomes a habit, that's not a very good thing.
Zhuge Liang glanced at Fa Ping and said, "Gan Xingba must realize this on his own, and don't try to encourage it."
Fa Ping was stunned for a moment, and then he handed over his hand and said, "Please keep this in mind, my subordinates."
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Seeing that the Qiongjialou boats were effective, Jiangdong's army tried to speed up the removal of obstacles in the river.
But the problem is that the Jiangdong Army's dome armor structure is only made of bamboo and wood. It only absorbs the destructive power of stone bullets through interlayers, and cannot truly completely resist stone bullets. Under the strike of the trebuchet, most of the dome armor The structure will be damaged, and the damaged dome armor of the damaged building ship must be removed and a new layer of dome armor added. This leads to the extension of the preparation time of the Jiangdong building ship.
In addition, in order to pull out these obstacles from the river, these Jiangdong building boats must operate in the river while carrying stone bombs, so only a small number of building boats can take turns to move forward, otherwise large-scale building boats will be gathered together, which will increase the number of buildings. The hit rate of Yufu Sichuan and Shu Army's trebuchets.
At the same time, even if there is a dome armor structure, some lucky stone bullets will inevitably avoid the dome armor of the Jiangdong ship and directly hit the weak points of the ship, such as the side plates, or the bow and stern of the ship. This kind of Once the position is hit, you can only exit the battle sequence immediately and rush to the rear for repairs.
Fortunately, Jiangdong's army brought a large amount of repair supplies and tools, and a semi-dry dock was temporarily set up behind Jiangdong's navy to repair the ship.
Zhu Zhi was obviously not willing to use all the built boats to cover these underwater obstacles in the river, so he would only dispatch four built boats at most, taking turns to salvage each boat for half an hour, regardless of the harvest.
No matter what, it must return for repairs.
The advantage of this is naturally that it is safer and safer, it will not be too aggressive, and there will not be too many casualties.
But what followed was that the progress in removing the obstacles was not fast...
Zhu Zhi was dragging the obstacles under the river little by little, while Gan Ning was dragging his claws a little bit.
Gan Ning did not have armored warships. He first tried to use small warships to drive forward the Jiangdong warships. However, Jiangdong's opponent also had small warships to escort him, and the key was that Jiangdong still had many warships arrayed outside the attack range of the Sichuan-Shu trebuchets.
, the catapults on the mountain of Yufu Mountain City cannot hit these Jiangdong ships in the rear formation, but these Jiangdong ships can hit the Ganning warships that come to harass.
Even if the accuracy of Jiangdong's ships cannot match that of Yufu's catapults and crossbows, if there are more of them, they will always hit a few hits, leaving Gan Ning's men helpless. Even weapons with large yellow crossbows and grenades cannot compare with Jiangdong's.
The battleship's catapults and ballistae have a long range.
Unless they send out building ships or water ghosts to fight the opponent head-on.
But Zhuge Liang disagreed.
After a busy day, it was not possible to completely prevent Jiangdong from clearing underwater obstacles. Instead, several ships and dozens of soldiers were brought in.
This made Gan Ning very depressed.
Gan Ning rushed to Yufu City again, but this time he did not see Zhuge Liang, only Faping.
After listening to Gan Ning's complaints, Faping smiled and said, "General Gan, you don't have to be like this. Jiangdong's army was busy for a day, but they just removed some underwater obstacles..."
"But once the underwater obstacles are cleared, Jiangdong's army can directly attack the pontoon!" Gan Ning almost gestured to Faping with chicken claws. "At today's speed, Jiangdong's army will be able to clear most of the underwater obstacles tomorrow."
There’s an obstacle! Where’s our kerosene?!』
Faping nodded, "What then?"
"Then Jiangdong's army will attack the pontoon!" Gan Ning was a little confused about what Fa Ping meant.
Fa Ping thought in his mind that he also wanted to explain something to Gan Ning, but Zhuge Liang had no choice but to give him the order, so Fa Ping could only smile and say, "General Gan, please be patient... think more, think more."
Think about it... I still have things to do here, and I need to take inventory over there in the logistics department. Say goodbye, say goodbye..."
"You..." Gan Ning watched Fa Ping walk away, scratching the back of his head helplessly, with his hands on his hips depressed, staring at the pontoon and the Jiangdong Navy boats in the distance.
Why was Zhuge not in a hurry when he was engaged?
why is that?
Could it be that...
With no one to give him any hints, Gan Ning's own mind finally started to change.
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Jiangdong's army achieved some results on the water, but there were no advantages on land.
Zhu Ran, who was trapped in a situation where there were soldiers in front and pursuers behind, had no other choice but to attack forward.
The reason why he chose to move forward instead of turning backward was because he found that the array in front seemed to have some loopholes...
At this moment, I can only make decisions based on instinct.
Zhu Ran was mixed in the array of Jiangdong soldiers, and his position was slightly behind. He reached out and took out an armor-piercing arrow from the quiver, clamped the tail of the arrow in the tiger's mouth, and put it on the bow.
He did not fire his bow immediately, but followed the guard shield in front and waited for the opportunity.
In Mr. Luo's writing, Zhu Ran was an experience package sent to Zhao Yun. He was directly stabbed to death by Zhao Yun with a single shot when they met. He didn't even have two more lines, but in fact Zhu Ran's martial arts skills were not bad.
If it were arranged in a normal battle, it would not be able to solve the dilemma of being surrounded before and after.
Zhu Ran needed to quickly break through the encircling army formation in front and fight his way out.
Zhu Ran felt that the soldiers blocking the way in front did not have time to set up some traps or rockfalls, but just formed an array at the entrance of the valley. There were also obvious traces of felling trees at the entrance of the valley.
Apparently he was preparing to do something, but unfortunately he was interrupted by Zhu Ran's arrival.
It turns out that the harassment of those small troops before was just to delay their own pace and create time for these soldiers to ambush and build up?
Zhu Ran couldn't help but feel a little lucky that he was not too entangled by those small troops at that time.
Otherwise, what will happen if we arrive one day late?
Zhu Ran couldn't imagine it.
The arrows flying out from the front array were like huge swarms of bees flying past, falling from the sky in dense numbers.
Zhu Ran lowered his head and huddled under the guard's shield.
A beeping sound sounded.
Mixed with screams, exclamations, and heavy breathing.
Closer.
Zhu Ran's queue moved forward against the arrows from the Sichuan-Sichuan military formation in front.
The entrance is narrow and difficult to unfold.
Most of the Ba people who came with Zhu Ran did not have armor, and a few had leather armor, but they could not withstand arrow attacks, so Jiangdong soldiers wearing iron armor could only take the lead.
Zhu Ran must create a breakthrough opportunity as quickly as possible, otherwise...
Arrows rained down.
A few arrows missed the protection of the guards and landed on Zhu Ran.
The quality of the armor on Zhu Ran's body was relatively high. When the arrow fell, there was an angle between it and the iron plates of the armor. Then most of them ricocheted, and only one of them stuck in the gap between the armor plates on Zhu Ran's shoulder.
Inside, it was swaying in the wind with its tail feathers proudly held out.
Zhu Ran moved around secretly and found that it was not too much of a problem.
The guard wanted to step forward to help Zhu Ran remove the arrow, but Zhu Ran stopped him with his eyes.
The most important thing about a shield array is its integrity. Now if a guard leaves his position and a gap appears in the shield, it may become a target for the opponent's archers to focus their fire in an instant...
Closer!
Zhu Ran listened and counted. The archers in the Sichuan-Sichuan formation fired continuously, and the intensity began to decrease, and the intervals seemed to become longer.
The military formations of both sides are getting closer...
It's now!
Zhu Ran shouted loudly, stood up from behind the shield, and suddenly pulled out the bowstring.
The bowstring vibrates, and the energy accumulated on the bow's back is instantly released at the tail of the arrow.
The arrow flew out rapidly, and the arrow shaft made of birch wood was slightly twisted in the air due to the huge force. It was like a tea-type man and woman seeing money, pretending to swing twice, and the arrow body was balanced on the tail feathers.
Down, it quickly became stable, and then it went straight to the target.
Zhu Ran's arrows mixed with the arrows of other Jiangdong soldiers, cut through the air, and formed a strong wind, hitting the archers in the Sichuan-Shu army formation.
Jiangdong soldiers are good at water warfare.
In water battles, bows and arrows come first.
Therefore, most of the Jiangdong Army's shooting skills are passable.
Zhu Ran kept using his hands and fired more than ten arrows in a blink of an eye.
The Jiangdong soldiers beside him also fired rapidly under the cover of shields.
The arrow flew across the distance between the two sides' formations in the blink of an eye, and then landed on the archers behind the Sichuan-Sichuan formation!
That's right, Zhu Ran did not target the Sichuan and Shu soldiers holding shields blocking the crossing, but instead aimed the first wave of counterattacks at the Sichuan and Shu archers who were further away!
This sudden counterattack caught the Sichuan and Sichuan archers who were leaning to the rear a little unprepared.
Those who reacted faster hurriedly hid their bodies behind trees or rocks, while those who moved a little slower were hit by arrows and screamed, regardless of whether they were hit in the vitals or whether they were injured.
Non-vital injuries such as hands and feet will make it difficult for these Sichuan and Shu archers to pose any long-range threat to the Jiangdong soldiers in the future.
Even if they were not hit by the arrows of Jiangdong soldiers, those Sichuan and Shu archers hurriedly avoided, interrupting the rhythm of these Sichuan and Shu archers, which gave Jiangdong soldiers a short gap to allow those Sichuan and Shu archers to attack.
The Ba people with no armor or less armor pounced directly on them, fighting together with the Sichuan and Shu soldiers arrayed at the entrance...
