"Although I am not good at water fighting or crossing rivers, sometimes my character determines my behavior." Guo Jia said proudly.
Then without waiting for Guan Yu to ask, Guo Jia slipped back to the camp and ordered his soldiers to start cutting down trees to set up the camp. However, no matter how you looked at it, the number of trees cut down was a bit beyond imagination.
In the next few days, the five ships that Zhou Yu sent to the upper reaches of the river to observe Guo Jia could only see Liu Beijun endlessly cutting down trees, and there were more and more trebuchets on the shore north of the Huai River. However, this
It doesn't make any sense.
To put it simply, Zhou Yu made it very clear when he sent Dong Xi to investigate upstream. Only pay attention to the situation on the other side of the river and don't get close. Even if the opposite side is full of trebuchets and ships are still wandering more than 300 steps away,
Basically no hope of hitting.
In addition, Dong Xi was a calm man and had clear orders from Zhou Yu, so Dong Xi had no intention of provoking and just wandered out of the range of the trebuchet, leaving Guan Yu's soldiers to glare in response.
"Yuan Jian, what do you think the military advisor is doing? Why did he suddenly start logging and building ships, and they were all craftsmen recruited at will." When Guan Cheng and Liao Hua were inspecting the riverside, Guan Cheng looked at the river from a distance and was still there.
Sun Cejun, who was wandering around, asked with a confused look on his face.
"I don't know either." Liao Hua said with a wry smile. He came to Guan Yu to sign up with the documents for the second in the military department. Guan Yu also handed over the prepared 1,000 people to Liao Hua, the commander of another department. Regarding Liao Hua's loss,
, Guan Yu didn't have any good ideas, his opponent was really too strong.
"Do you think this method of shipbuilding is useful?" Guan Cheng asked.
"You know ships better than me, how do I know?" Liao Hua sighed and said, "Of course, although I don't know how to build ships, I know for a fact that this is not how ships are built."
"Yes, that's not how ships are built." Guan Cheng nodded and said, no matter which shipbuilding craftsmen are, they don't directly rivet the logs together, but now Guo Jia is directly using the wood that can be used as beams to build ships.
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The method is very simple, just like tying up bamboo rafts, riveting these giant woods together, and enclosing the outer frame like a box, that's it...
All in all, this is a very crazy-looking way of building ships, and Guan Cheng has never thought that such a large ship, which was started without the need to warm up the materials, can withstand a legion's attack...
Therefore, Guan Cheng didn't dare to look directly at the big ship built by Guo Jia's method of shipbuilding, and the size of the ship was a little larger than that of the ship, but the ship had complete protection, and Guo Jia's ship, ahem, cough, cough,
There's not even a place to paddle.
This is the most tricky part. This boat looks like an enlarged flat-bottomed boat used by sailors from both sides of the Taiwan Strait. It has no protection at all. If this boat enters the Huai River, it will definitely be tricked by Zhou Yu on the opposite side.
Guo Jia naturally knew about the rumors in the camp, but he didn't take it to heart at all and continued to enjoy building his own big ship.
"Reporting to Military Advisor Guo, we have finished making the chains you asked us to make." The craftsmen in the camp made a large number of chains according to Guo Jia's requirements. After the completion, they hurriedly came to report. After all, Guo Jia's request was that the faster the better.
good.
"Okay, ordinary craftsmen will receive a reward of one thousand yuan, and the rewards for others will increase according to their level." Guo Jia waved his hand, the chains were ready, and the big ship was being built. All that was left was to conduct another experiment.
"Yun Chang, help me cut this thing into such long and thin silk." Guo Jia took out a piece of wood, gestured with his hair, and then cut it into a length of about half an inch and said to Guan Yu.
Guan Yu, who had squinted his eyes, took the piece of wood from Guo Jia and stretched out his hand to pat it. The entire table was covered with a pile of extremely fine wood fibers.
"Zhou Cang went outside and carried a bucket of water from the big bucket I prepared." Guo Jia swept away all the wood and silk, and then took out a prop he had prepared. As for Zhou Cang, he carried the big bucket.
A big bucket of water.
"Pour a little bit in here first." Guo Jia glanced at the vat that was taller than himself and was being held by Zhou Cang, so he pointed at the props and said.
Zhou Cang poured the river water into the prop smoothly. When it was almost full, Guo Jia asked Zhou Cang to stop.
After that, Guo Jia opened the back channel of the prop, and the water quickly flowed out, and the land in Guan Yu's tent was quickly soaked.
"It's almost equivalent to this flow rate. Let's add another prop to the front." Guo Jia took out a long list of props from the side and connected them in front.
"When you see if the amount of water is gone, just keep pouring it in. Fill it up first. After a while, I will open the gate and you start pouring the water." Guo Jia said to Zhou Cang, who looked confused at the side.
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Zhou Cang looked at Guan Yu awkwardly, as he was trying to flood Guan Yu's main account. However, when Guan Yu saw Zhou Cang's gaze, he just turned his head casually and continued to look at his spring and autumn.
After filling the prop with water, Guo Jia took out the pile of wood wool, estimated the quantity, and placed it neatly on the side near the edge of the prop.
"Get ready to pour the water..." Guo Jia turned to Zhou Cang and said, and Zhou Cang quickly picked up the bucket, always ready to start pouring water at Guo Jia's order.
The moment Guo Jia pulled the prop downstream, the water in the prop quickly flowed out, and Zhou Cang quickly poured the same amount of river water into it. The wood filaments originally on the edge of the prop began to move slowly with the water flow.
Then, with the emergence of the pass, the water flow speed naturally accelerated and quickly stretched, and gradually began to swing sideways due to the constant collisions.
Soon the wood silk came to the water flow pass. At first, there was still wood silk that could flow through. However, with the influx of large piles of wood silk, the pass was gradually blocked, and the wood silk that continued to come down from behind made the wood silk in the pass even more difficult.
The thread becomes tighter and tighter.
In the end, they were tightly packed into a ball and blocked at the pass, and no more wood strands could float down.
"It's true, okay, no need to pour the water." Seeing the wooden wire blocked there and the water still flowing through, Guo Jia, who was squatting on the ground, was completely relieved, but soon Guo Jia found that he was already squatting in the water.
, quickly ordered Zhou Cang to stop.
Zhou Cang quickly stopped, but Guan Yu's main tent was already covered in mud and water, while Guan Yu sat calmly and read quietly, as if nothing had happened.
"Yun Chang, in a few days, we will go to the other side of the Huaihe River to deal with Sun Ce!" Guo Jia was very angry, but he felt much relieved when he saw the wooden threads clumped up among the props.
"Okay!" After waiting for so long, Guan Yu finally received Guo Jia's accurate reply. He immediately opened his eyes and said proudly. He had thought about killing Sun Ce many times! (To be continued.)
