To clear the obstacles before the pontoon bridge, there is actually no need to dispatch the dome-armored tower ship.
The reason why Zhu Zhi sent the Dome Armored Tower ship to the front was to test the tolerance of the Dome Armored Battleship, and to boost morale.
Strictly speaking, whether it is Yufu Island City or Shancheng's catapults and crossbows, the number of Jiangdong soldiers killed by being directly hit is not considered to be large, but the casualties caused by such catapults and crossbows will seriously damage morale.
The reason is very simple.
Humans are always easily depressed or desperate about things that cannot resist.
Tired, let’s destroy it!
Zhu Zhi was a Jiangdong general, so he understood this.
If you want to launch an effective attack, you must first boost the morale of the soldiers in Jiangdong.
The dome armored tower ship can now withstand the attack of catapults. Even the dome armored tower ship is not completely harmless, but it can be said to be a significant improvement in the morale of the soldiers in Jiangdong.
At least let the soldiers of Jiangdong know that they would not be completely passively beaten, and they also have the ability to resist.
If the Sichuan and Shu army wanted to attack with sulphur bombs, Zhu Zhi wouldn't mind.
Because at a long distance, the hit rate of the sulphur bomb is as touching as that of the stone bomb. Sulphur bombs can be wasted because there are mountains around and gunpowder is not too difficult, but what about the sulphur bomb?
How much does it cost to replace a dome warship with a cost-effective sulphur?
War is consumption.
The boat slowly approached the obstacle in front of the Yufu Floating Bridge, carrying the stone bullets of the catapult car.
In front of the boat, Jiangdong soldiers stared at the long bamboo pole stretching out on the bow of the boat.
The bamboo pole sinks 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 tower ship will automatically slow down and prevent it from directly hitting it.
After a while, the bamboo pole bent and trembled violently, and the entire building boat shook abnormally.
The Jiangdong soldier who was in charge of staring at the bamboo pole pulled his neck and shouted: "Discover the obstacle!"
Jiang Dongbing on the deck of the building ship immediately pushed out the wooden stakes with lasso from the deck.
There are thick hemp ropes on the wooden stakes, wrapped around the iron chain, and one end of the iron chain has an iron hook.
The water ghost also jumped into the water with a thud.
The stone bullets of the catapult cart in the direction of Yufu still roared slowly, and seven out of them fell into the water.
A dome-armored tower ship like Jiangdong is not without any flaws.
For example, the side of the building ship or the outer dome that has been smashed.
But the problem is that the stone bullets thrown by the catapult cart are not flat-flying, and the accuracy is very poor.
If there were no standard drawings of Huang's workshop, no standard calipers for the craftsman system under Fei Qian's rule, it would be a rare thing to throw away the elusive stone bullets. It would be a very amazing probability that it would be possible to score two or three shots in ten shots at the moment.
That's right, probability.
On the battlefield, sometimes luck is very important. In the era of cold weapons, when thousands of arrows are fired at once, they can still stand firm and not touch their bodies. In the era of hot weapons, it is not uncommon for those who are strong lucky to have no hair in the rain of gunfire fighting between the two sides, and still have less than one hair to hurt.
After a moment, the water ghost emerged from the edge of the building and waved his arms.
『Reversing oar!』
The Jiangdong Military Academy on the tower ship shouted loudly, and then a lot of wood pulp stretched out from both sides of the tower ship, and the ship was backward along the river. Under the dual action of water flow and manpower, the wooden piles that eliminated the obstacles were immediately pulled and creaked.
The thick hemp rope becomes tougher after soaking in water, and the iron chains and iron hooks provide stronger pulling force.
The obstacle buried underwater in Sichuan and Sichuan was pulled out bit by bit.
Seeing that the Jiangdong Army was eliminating obstacles, Yu Fuyi's catapult car fired with all his strength, and stone bullets continued to fly over the river like meteors, hitting the two Jiangdong Tower ships.
The dome armor on the top of Jiangdong warship was smashed and roared.
The sound of the cracking of the dome wood is getting louder and louder, making people feel sour and trembling.
Amid the creaking sounds of the tight wooden stakes and iron chains, the entire building ship suddenly shook, and then a turbid river water surged out from the bottom of the river, and a huge obstacle nailed to the bottom of the water gradually surfaced.
"good!"
Zhu Zhi clenched his fists excitedly and shouted loudly.
The soldiers from Jiangdong also cheered.
After gaining successful experience, the soldiers of Jiangdong continued to work hard and cleaned two wooden stakes buried at the bottom of the water. However, the dome armor on the top of the building was almost smashed, and even a huge crack was smashed on the top. Then, he reluctantly dragged the pulled underwater wooden stakes and drove out of the range of the catapult car on Yufu Mountain in Sichuan.
Zhu Zhi waved his hand to order the craftsmen to carry out emergency repairs to the damaged dome armor of the building ship.
As the Jiangdong warships retreated, the river was filled with cheers from Jiangdong soldiers...
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Gan Ning found Zhuge Liang angrily.
"Entertainment! Why don't I attack?" Gan Ning was very upset when he saw Jiangdong Army showing off so much power. "I can kill those two ships with just one charge!"
Zhuge Liang heard Gan Ning's words, but did not answer immediately, but still lowered his head and was drawing something.
After a while, Zhuge Liang seemed to have finished painting, put down his pen, waved his hand, and asked Gan Ning to move forward, "Look, is this structure the same as the structure on the Jiangdong Tower ship?"
Gan Ning was stunned for a moment, then stepped forward and saw the pattern on the table, which was the dome structure of the Jiangdong Tower Boat.
"The deck on Jiangdong is a bit clever..." Zhuge Liang said with a smile, "It seems that the style is mainly bamboo and wood, but you can also use local materials... Not bad, not bad..."
Zhuge Liang pointed to the drawings and asked Gan Ning some details.
Gan Ning looked at it and it was indeed somewhat similar to the dome structure of the Jiangdong Tower ship that he observed close to, so he said so, but what he was even more strange was why Zhuge Liang was not angry about Jiangdong removing the obstacles in the river?
Zhuge Liang smiled but refused to answer, just to let Gan Ning stay calm.
Gan Ning was also helpless and had to withdraw in the end.
Faping walked to Zhuge Liang and asked in a low voice: "Entertainment, you..."
Zhuge Liang glanced at Faping, "The aura of soldiers should be accumulated and nourished."
Faping was stunned, "So, is it...what you meant to do this?"
"Xingba... is more rough, less fine..." Zhuge Liang whispered, "The problem is that Xingba may be... intentionally rough, but over time, he forgets the fine... You must know that the success or failure of everything depends on the subtle. If you don't pay attention, you will suffer a disaster. The ancients said, "A slight difference can lead to a thousand miles of error."
Zhuge Liang felt that Gan Ning actually had a delicate side.
Just like Zhuge Liang asked Gan Ning to view the drawings, Gan Ning could also tell the details.
If Gan Ning is really a rough person, then when facing the drawings of the Jiangdong Tower Dome Armor depicted by Zhuge Liang, he would probably not be able to say any details.
Zhuge Liang knew that Gan Ning didn't mean to hide something. It might be because of some things that Gan Ning felt that pretending to be a rough person can protect himself more and reassure his boss. But the problem is that if a person pretends to be a certain personality for a long time, it will probably affect his own personality. Just like if a mask is worn on his face for a long time, he thinks that the mask is himself.
"This should be even more true in the battle formation. Before the lord's great cause was achieved, we should be more broad and subtle, and observe the details to know the general." Zhuge Liang said slowly, "It is like a fine iron making steel, and it should be tempered. Examine it with caution, consider it with secrets, and avoid roughness and fineness. Only in this way can we expect. If we defeat Jiangdong, we should pursue it. If we do not fight with fineness, how can we bear the great responsibility?"
If it is really rough, it's nothing, but if it's pretending and then pretending to be accustomed to it, this is a bad thing.
Zhuge Liang glanced at Faping, "Gan Xingba should understand this matter alone, and he should not help him grow."
Fa Ping was stunned for a moment, then bowed his hand, "I will remember it."
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Seeing that the dome-armored tower ship was effective, the Jiangdong Army tried to speed up the removal of obstacles in the river.
But the problem is that the dome armor structure of the Jiangdong Army is only made of bamboo and wood, and it only absorbs the destructive power of the stone bomb through interlayers, and cannot truly resist the stone bomb completely. Under the attack of the catapult, most dome armor structures will be damaged. After the damage, the tower ship must be demolished and a new dome armor is added to it, which leads to the extension of the preparation time of the Jiangdong tower ship.
In addition, in order to pull out these obstacles from the river, these Jiangdong tower ships must operate in the river with stone bombs, so a small number of tower ships can only take turns to move forward. Otherwise, large-scale tower ships will gather together, which will increase the hit rate of the Yufuchuan and Shu army's catapults.
At the same time, even if there is a dome armor structure, some lucky stone bullets will avoid the dome armor of the Jiangdong Tower Ship and directly hit the weak positions of the tower ship, such as the ship's shore plate, or the bow and stern. Once this position is hit, it can only exit the battle sequence immediately and rush to the rear for repair.
Fortunately, the Jiangdong army brought a large amount of repair supplies and tools, and temporarily set up a semi-dry dock behind the Jiangdong Navy to repair the ships.
Zhu Zhi was obviously unwilling to fill all the tower ships in one breath with the underwater obstacles in the river, so he dispatched at most four tower ships and attacked one after another, each of which was salvaged for half an hour. No matter what the harvest was, he had to return for maintenance.
This benefit is naturally more secure and safer, not too aggressive, and not too much casualties.
But what follows is that the progress of removing obstacles is not fast...
Zhu Zhi dragged the obstacles under the river little by little, while Gan Ning had some numb claws.
Gan Ning did not have armored warships. He first tried to drive Jiangdong warships forward with small warships, but Jiangdong also had small warships guarding them. The key was that Jiangdong still had many warships arrayed outside the attack range of Sichuan and Shu catapults. The catapult cars on Yufushanchengshan could not hit these Jiangdong ships in the back formation, but these Jiangdong ships could hit Ganning warships that came to harass.
Even if the accuracy of Jiangdong ships cannot be comparable to that of Yu Fu's catapult carriages, they will always hit a few shots when there are too many, which makes Ganning's men helpless. Even if they have weapons such as yellow crossbows and grenades, they cannot match the range of the catapult carriages and crossbow cars of Jiangdong warships.
Unless you are dispatching a building boat or a water ghost, you are fighting with the other party.
But Zhuge Liang disagreed.
After a busy day, I failed to completely stop Jiangdong from clearing the underwater obstacles. Instead, I caught several ships and dozens of soldiers.
This made Gan Ning very depressed.
Gan Ning rushed to Yufu City again, but this time he did not see Zhuge Liang, but only Faping.
After hearing Gan Ning's complaint, Faping smiled and said, "General Gan doesn't have to be like this. The Jiangdong Army has been busy for a day and has just removed some underwater obstacles..."
『But once the underwater obstacle is cleared, the Jiangdong Army can directly attack the floating bridge!』 Gan Ning almost gestured to Faping's claws.『At this speed today, the Jiangdong Army will be able to remove most of the underwater obstacles tomorrow! Where is our tincture oil?』
Faping nodded, "What's the matter?"
"Then the Jiangdong Army will attack the floating bridge!" Gan Ning didn't understand the meaning of Faping.
Faping thought in his heart that he wanted to explain something to Gan Ning, but he had no choice but to have Zhuge Liang's orders, so Faping could only smile, "General Gan, don't be impatient... Think more, think more... I have something to do here, and the logistics side needs to go and count it, say goodbye, say goodbye...
"You..." Gan Ning watched Faping walk away, grabbed the back of his head helplessly, and stared at the floating bridge with his waist depressedly, as well as the Jiangdong naval boats far away from the floating bridge.
Why is Zhuge not in a hurry to engage in?
why is that?
Could it be that...
When no one could give him any tips, Gan Ning's own mind finally started to spin.
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The Jiangdong Army achieved some results on the water, but there was no cheaper on land.
Zhu Ran, who was trapped in a situation where soldiers were in front and pursuers were in the back, had no more choice, so he could only attack forward.
The reason I chose to move forward rather than backward was because he found that the array ahead seemed to have some loopholes...
At this moment, we can only make decisions based on instinct.
Zhu Ran was mixed in the array of soldiers in Jiangdong, and the position was slightly backward. He reached out and took out an armor-breaking arrow from the arrow bag, clamped the tail of the arrow at the tiger's mouth, and placed it on the bow.
Instead of drawing the bow immediately, he followed the guard shield in front of him and waited for the opportunity.
In Mr. Luo's writing, Zhu Ran gave Zhao Yun an experience package. When he met, he was stabbed to death by Zhao Yun without even a few lines. However, in fact, Zhu Ran's martial arts are not bad.
If it is arranged with normal battles, it will not solve the dilemma of being surrounded before and after.
Zhu Ran needs to quickly break the encirclement of troops ahead and fight for a bloody path.
Zhu Ran felt that the soldiers blocking the way forward did not have time to arrange some traps or rocks, but just arranged an array at the entrance of the valley. At the entrance of the valley, you could clearly see some traces of cutting down trees. Obviously, they were preparing to do something, but unfortunately they were interrupted by Zhu Ran's arrival.
It turns out that the small troops were harassing them before to delay their pace and create time for these soldiers to ambush and build?
Zhu Ran couldn't help but feel a little lucky. He was not too entangled by those small troops at that time.
Otherwise, what will you face if you come one day later?
Zhu Ran dared not imagine.
Arrows flying out of the array ahead were like huge swarms of bees flying by, falling densely from the sky.
Zhu Ran lowered his head and hurried under the guard's shield.
The sound of tuk-kong-dang sounded.
There were screams, screams, and heavy breathing.
Closer.
Zhu Ran's formation was moving forward with arrows from the Sichuan and Shu soldiers in front.
The intersection is small and difficult to expand.
Most of the Ba people who came with Zhu Ran had no armor, and a small number of them had leather armor, but they could not resist the attacks of arrows, so they could only be the Jiangdong soldiers wearing iron armor to take the lead.
Zhu Ran must create a breakthrough opportunity as soon as possible, otherwise...
The rain of arrows puffs down.
There were a few arrows, and the guards were leaked and fell on Zhu Ran.
Zhu Ran's armor was quite strong in quality. When the arrow fell, there was an angle between the iron piece of the armor. Then most of them jumped. Only one was stuck in the gap between the armor piece on Zhu Ran's shoulder, shaking proudly in the wind.
Zhu Ran secretly moved for a while and found that it was not too much of a problem.
The guard wanted to step forward to help Zhu Ran take down the arrow, but Zhu Ran stopped him with his eyes.
The most important thing about the shield array is integrity. Now, if a shield has a gap because a guard leaves the position, it may become the target of the opponent's archer's fire in a blink of an eye...
Closer!
Zhu Ran listened and counted. The archers of the Sichuan-Shu Army Group shot continuously, and their strength began to decrease, and the interval seemed to have become longer.
The troops from both sides are getting closer and closer...
That's now!
Zhu Ran shouted loudly, stood up from behind the shield, and pulled the bowstring suddenly.
The bow string sounds, and the energy accumulated on the back of the bow is instantly released at the tail of the arrow.
The arrow flew out quickly, and the birch-made arrow shaft was slightly twisted in the early stage of the air due to the huge pressure, just like a tea-type man and woman who saw money, swung twice in a fake way. The arrow body quickly became stable under the balance of the tail feathers, and then rushed straight to the target.
Zhu Ran's arrows mixed with the arrows of other Jiangdong soldiers, cutting through the air and gathering into a strong wind, rushing straight to the archers in the Sichuan and Shu army formation.
The Jiangdong soldiers were good at water warfare.
In the water battle, bows and arrows are the first.
Therefore, most of the Jiangdong Army have passed the shooting level.
Zhu Ran kept shooting more than ten arrows in a blink of an eye.
The Jiangdong soldiers beside him also shot quickly under the cover of the shield.
The arrow flew past the distance between the two sides' formations in a blink of an eye, and then landed on the archers behind the Sichuan-Shu formation!
That's right, Zhu Ran did not target the Sichuan and Shu soldiers who were blocking the intersection with shields, but instead targeted the first wave of counterattacks to the Sichuan and Shu archers who were farther away!
This sudden counterattack caught these Sichuan and Shu archers who were leaning against the back side by caught off guard.
Those who react faster would quickly hide their bodies behind trees or rocks. If they move a little slower, they would be shot by arrows and screams would sound. Whether they were shot into the vital points, or hands and feet, they would 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 shot by the Jiangdong soldiers, the Sichuan and Shu archers in a hurry to avoid them interrupted the rhythm of these Sichuan and Shu archers, which gave the Jiangdong soldiers a short gap, allowing the Ba people without armor or less armor to directly attack and fight with the Sichuan and Shu soldiers lined up at the intersection...