Chen Mu really didn't understand why there were such weird people here.
On the battlefield, he was dressed so luxuriously, all in silk and satin. He wanted to tell everyone about his distinguished status because he thought he could not die quickly enough?
A life-and-death war is not suitable for a noble man like you.
You'd better... go back to your mother's womb.
So, Chen Mu calmly said to the soldiers beside him: "Shoot that man to death!"
Then he entered the cabin without looking back.
Immediately afterwards, in Yuan Tan's horrified eyes, thousands of archers stretched out their sharp arrows at the crenellations on the sides of the three tower ships and aimed at him at the same time.
"Sir, be careful!"
Xin Ping, with his quick eyesight and quick hands, quickly pulled Yuan Tan and hid behind a carriage filled with grain and grass.
The next second, countless arrows fell like raindrops, hitting his head and face.
Because grain and grass need to be stored on the Huanshui River bank, a large amount of silt has been used to build a small island of thousands of square meters, with countless sacks of grain and grass placed densely on it, which can provide a shield.
But we need to know how tall the tower ships were in the Han Dynasty. According to the "Historical Records Pingzhunshu" record: "At that time, Yue wanted to fight with the Han Dynasty with ships, so he overhauled Kunming Pool, surveyed the surrounding area, and built tower ships ten meters high.
It is more than ten feet long, and the flag is added to it, so it is very strong."
The building boat that Chen Mu mobilized this time was the smallest building boat because it was difficult to pass through the water canal. It was only two stories high. Including the cabin, it was about seven feet high, which is 16 meters.
This height can only be considered small in the Han Dynasty tower ships, because during the reign of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, Yuzhang tower ships were built, with palaces built on them, which could carry ten thousand people and were comparable to aircraft carriers. At the end of the Western Han Dynasty, Gongsun Shu built the Red Tower
The silk orchid boat is ten stories high and decorated with silk, covering the sky and the sun.
The common Han Dynasty building boats are generally three-story, forty to fifty feet long and more than ten feet high, which is much larger than the ships used for navigation in Qingzhou. However, the sea is too rough and the waves are difficult for the building boats to sail on the sea, so the building boats are difficult to sail on the sea.
The boat cannot be used on sea vessels, but can only be used on rivers and lakes.
Huanshui is a medium-sized river, which is more than enough to accommodate a few flat boats. Three flat boats are lying across the river, each about ten feet away from the left and right banks, which is more than twenty meters, not too far nor too close.
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The highest level, the "Flying House", had an absolute commanding advantage, being higher than the nearby Anyang City. Arrows fell like rain, causing soldiers on both sides of the strait who were transporting grain and grass to flee in panic.
Yuan Tan was thrown to the ground by Xin Ping and lay down behind a grain truck. Countless arrows hit the sacks filled with grain and grass, making a popping sound.
Many horses around were hit by arrows and fled away in pain. Some even panicked and fell into the water.
The soldiers crowded in on the dirt road and couldn't squeeze in, so they jumped into the cold water. At this time, there was no way to deal with the problem of illness. The prerequisite for illness is that a person must at least survive.
There were thousands of auxiliary troops carrying grain and grass on both sides of the strait. Because they did not expect that the Luoyang army would send ships, there were almost no fortifications here, not even archers.
The arrows on the ship seemed to be free of charge, and the blood quickly stained both sides of the strait. This process lasted for a full two-quarters of an hour, and when there was not even a living horse on either side of the strait, let alone a living horse, Luoyang
At this time, the building boat sent out a small boat to row to the shore.
Originally, the boat would be washed downstream by the flood, but fortunately, large islands on the water were built on both sides of the bank. After rowing diagonally across it, it finally came ashore. When the soldiers came to the shore, they immediately began to clean up the battlefield and repair those who were not dead.
Recycle the arrows if you can, and then throw the corpses and grain into the river.
It can be said that Yuan Tan was lucky. After Xin Ping rescued him, he was protected by the surrounding guards and led him to escape. Although many of the guards were shot to death, Yuan Tan managed to save his life.
Others were not so lucky. On both sides of the strait, there were thousands of soldiers from the Yuan Army who were shot dead. There were also those who fell into the water and escaped by hiding behind obstacles, but were shot by the Luoyang Army who came ashore. Nearly two people were killed or injured.
More than a thousand people, and thousands more fled from the water. The biting cold water of the river can freeze people's toes. Even if they escape death, they will inevitably get seriously ill when they return.
On Anyang City, when Yan Liang, Wen Chou and the others saw this scene, their eyes were about to burst out with fire, and they hammered at the city wall angrily. But they had no way to deal with the tower ship, not to mention that the tower ship was higher than the city.
The distance from Anyang City to the river is half a mile, which is more than 200 meters. If you are still in the middle of the river, it is even further.
At such a long distance, unless Yan Liangwen Chou can get a cannon, even the bed crossbow with the longest attack range at the moment can only hit, but it is not as lethal.
Because in the Han Dynasty, there were defensive parapets on the decks of ships and above flying houses, which could be used to avoid arrows.
Seeing that the other party was so arrogant, Yan Liang couldn't hold back and said in a deep voice: "Send the order, summon five hundred dead men, and come with me to take back the port!"
Min Chun hurriedly advised: "General, they have a boat, so we just went there, and they left in the boat. When a hail of arrows rained down, we couldn't even confront them head-on. Don't be reckless."
"Then just watch them destroy all our food and grass?"
Yan Liang was furious.
There is not much food and grass in the city now. In the past, we ate as much as we could transport. Only some time ago we became rich and could save some food. But the total is only 50,000 to 60,000 dan. Even if we save some food, it is only enough for the soldiers to eat half of it.
moon.
Min Chun persuaded hard: "Now we can only find another way, the general can't go out."
"Go away!"
Yan Liang waved his hand, pushed Min Chun away, and got off the tower to prepare to leave the city.
After a while, the north city gate opened, and Yan Liang led five hundred dead men to kill towards the port made of mud on the far shore.
A road for transporting grain and grass was built on both sides of the river. It was built with stones and covered with sand. Anyang City was only more than 200 meters away from the river bank, and the Luoyang army also saw them there.
At that moment, everyone immediately dropped what they were doing, yelled and ran to the shore one after another, untied the boat that was tied up, and hurriedly jumped on the boat and started paddling toward the center of the river.
These small boats were all towed by larger boats and pulled with ropes to prevent them from being washed away by the water. By the time Yan Liang killed them, everyone had already run away.
The next moment, arrows rained down, killing many dead soldiers and fleeing, leaving behind hundreds of corpses and running towards the city gate in panic.
Yan Liang returned to the city in embarrassment, and Min Chun rushed up to greet him: "General, I told you not to be reckless."
"Then what should we do? When the food and grass are exhausted, all the soldiers in the city will starve to death?"
Yan Liang shook his helmet, furious.
Min Chun thought for a moment and said: "I have a way. The general can expand the road, and then make stone-shooting carts, wooden curtains and other equipment in the city, use wooden curtains to block arrows, and use stone-shooting carts to destroy large ships!"
"A stone car?"
"Yes, let's send a stone cart."
Min Chun nodded.
If there is any way to deal with building ships, this is it.
Yan Liang thought for a moment, and of course there was a large amount of wood and stone in the city as strategic material reserves.
The wood was used to make wood, and the stones were used as rolling stones. They were all conventional tools for defending the city, and there were a lot of them. It was not difficult for the military craftsmen to build stone carts and wooden curtains.
What is difficult is expanding roads.
When the road was built before, in order to facilitate the carriages transporting grain and grass, a two-way two-carriage passage was adopted.
During the Qin and Han Dynasties, the distance between the left and right wheels of a carriage was six feet. Therefore, the normal width of the ancient official road was about 1.8 feet, or four meters, to facilitate the carriage traveling from south to north.
The road outside Anyang City is only temporarily used by horse-drawn carriages. It is not that wide, only 1.4 feet, or 3.2 meters.
Large siege equipment such as catapults and wooden curtains were more than 3.2 meters wide, especially catapults. At that time, there were many types of catapults, but even the smallest catapult was several times the size of an ordinary carriage.
This means that even to build the smallest catapult, that is, a small gun cart that can only project 20-30 kilograms of stones, the existing road must be expanded at least twice.
With such a large amount of work, coupled with enemy harassment, it is unknown how many people would have to die before the project could be completed.
but.......
This is the only way. If you don't do it, there is only a dead end.
After much thought, Yan Liang had to agree to Min Chun's plan.
At that moment, Anyang City also urgently started a self-rescue operation. While building a large number of catapults, wooden curtains and other equipment, they began to build roads to the river bank.
Soon the situation here was detected by the soldiers on the ship and reported to Chen Mu.
Chen Mu came out to take a look, and his guard Ada noticed that large-scale earth-moving and stone-laying operations were being carried out on the other side of the river, and he wondered: "What are they doing?"
"Roads are being built!"
Chen Mu said calmly.
"Building roads?"
Ah Da asked in confusion: "We are still building roads now?"
Chen Mu smiled and said, "Do you know how to deal with Lou Chuan?"
Ada thought for a while, shook his head and said, "I don't know."
"Only catapults."
Chen Mu replied firmly.
Just like in the late Qing Dynasty, you could only use cannons to deal with armored battleships.
Tower ships can be said to be invincible in the world on rivers. The main combat power of the navy in the Han Dynasty was basically based on tower ships.
Although there are some incidents like the Battle of Chibi where people burned all the ships. But in itself, that was Cao Cao's own mistake, and it does not mean that the combat effectiveness of the building ships was not good.
Therefore, except for special circumstances like the Battle of Chibi, under normal circumstances, the only way for soldiers on land to deal with building ships is to use catapults.
Originally, the use of catapults was not much in the Han Dynasty, but the Qingzhou Army promoted this trend. In the Battle of Hulao Pass, catapults became very powerful. Therefore, various princes also began to research and develop them, and they were in a kind of arms race.
As the largest prince in the world, Yuan Shao naturally developed a catapult. He once observed the appearance of the Qingzhou catapult and asked craftsmen to imitate it. Although he could not completely imitate it, it was already 70 to 80% of the quality of the Qingzhou catapult.
, the strength cannot be underestimated.
When Chen Mu said it was a catapult, Ah Da said, "Four generals, do you want us to attack them immediately and harass them?"
"Need not."
"Need not?"
"Let them fix it."
Chen Mu smiled and said, "It's their time that's wasted anyway."
"But if we don't care..."
Ah Da hesitated for a moment.
There are not many sailors in Luoyang, and it is not easy to gather 2,000 sailors, so the sailors on this main ship are served by black armored heavy cavalry who take off their heavy armor and jump off their horses.
Most of them are from Youzhou, and it is really difficult for them to be sailors.
But fortunately, Chen Mu traveled between Sanhan and Qingzhou many times, taking them bumpy on the sea. He grew up with constant vomiting and dizziness. He was used to seeing strong winds and waves in the sea, and rivers and lakes were nothing to worry about.
Being a sailor this time is just like catching a duck. It's okay to stand firm on the boat and shoot arrows outside. But if a water battle breaks out or the building is destroyed by a catapult, they will all be buried under the water. The most important thing is that as a
Chen Mu must not make any mistakes when it comes to the protected object.
However, Chen Mu laughed and patted Ah Da on the shoulder and said, "Do you know why I bring so many Molotov cocktails when I go out?"
"Burn the catapult?"
Ada blurted out.
"Ha ha ha ha."
Chen Mu turned around and returned to the cabin.
This time he was fully prepared, and the ship was fully equipped with incendiary bottles, granaries, and arrows.
Even if it is all used up, they can still go down the river to Huangze Lake in Neihuang County, then go upstream from Huangze into Sticky Water, replenish their luggage, and finally continue back to the outside of Anyang City.
With the digging of the canals of Zhanshui and Huanshui, and the fact that the lower reaches of Huanshui and the lower reaches of Zhanshui are also connected to Huangze, the two rivers have formed a closed loop that can be run in circles.
Since Yuan Jun wants to compete with him in a battle of wits and courage, he should accompany him at any time. Anyway, for Chen Mu, this time will be spent in Anyang.
Time passed quickly and another seven or eight days passed. The supply of food and grass in Anyang City was dwindling day by day, and Yan Liang was worried.
But there is no way. It is not a simple matter to build a road more than 200 meters long from five feet of water. Especially when it is next to a river, the water flow moves very fast. Even if it is filled with sand, it is easy to throw it in.
was washed away.
Linen was a very common piece of cloth in the Han Dynasty and was widely used in daily life, such as clothes, shoes, bags, etc. However, according to unearthed documents, the price of a piece of linen at that time was 250-600 yuan.
If linen was used to make sacks to hold sand and gravel for filling, even Yuan Shao, who was just getting angry, couldn't afford it. What's more, linen was also a strategic material and there were not many reserves in the city. Therefore, nearly a thousand soldiers in Anyang City were busy for seven or eight days.
Using bricks and stones, a road was finally laid.
On the ninth day, the North City Gate of Anyang opened with great force. More than ten catapults were pushed out, and they took to the road one after another. With the soldiers shouting hard, they slowly approached the river bank, and the food and grass bottomed out.
Soldiers also have to work hard to survive.
As for the building and ship, a large number of bombardiers had been sent there a long time ago. There were originally many carriage wrecks left on the shore, which became obstructions. People in the city did not dare to come over to clean up, and they were immediately greeted with arrows when they came over. Therefore, these
The wreckage of the carriage naturally became their bunker.
When the catapults slowly approached and were about to reach the islands on the west coast, they were lined up and ready to shoot.
I heard someone give an order.
"Throw!"
Immediately afterwards, when Yuan Jun's eyes widened and he looked up dumbfounded, dozens of lit Molotov cocktails drew a brilliant arc in the air and fell into the group of catapults...