Water Margin farming to become powerful

Chapter 393

Although the climate is warming and the temperature in winter is lower, it is the average temperature of the year that has decreased. The cold time in winter has increased for a long time in this era, which makes farmers who grow grain in this era very sad, but it does not reduce the coldest temperature in winter much.

Liangshanbo, located in the south-central part of Shandong Province, will not freeze in winter. In the coldest season, there will only be a thin layer of ice on the lake. Such thin ice cannot stop ships from passing, nor can people walk on the ice. Just take a bamboo pole and stir it in the water to break the ice.

In the water village at the North Gate, what Ruan Xiaoer and Ruan Xiaowu faced every day was the shipbuilding operation of the guards on the opposite side. At first they could send people to stop it, but soon the guards were on the way. Next to the shipbuilding workshop, musket protection was erected.

The range of the bullet gun on Liangshan was not as far as that of the Minie rifle, and a volley of guns came before they got close to the opposite side, so Ruan Xiaoer and the others couldn't even go up to harass them. They could only row the boat closer and watch the shipbuilding What is going on in the workshop.

In the past few days, the shipbuilding workshop has been brightly lit all night while rushing to work, and it is very clear to see the bright place from the dark.

Hearing Ruan Xiaoer's question, Ruan Xiaowu, who had just climbed up from the water, shivered from the cold all over his body, and couldn't help shivering. He took the fur fur that Xiao Luoluo handed over and put it on, while breathing white. Wu said: "They are still making the kind of boats that wrap the bottom of the bed with iron sheets. I see that they have already made seven of them, and they are all placed on the dock on the shore. They should be launched in the water for a trial in the next few days."

Hearing Wu Geer's words, Ruan Xiaoer couldn't help feeling a little worried.

The guards were building a boat with iron sheets on the bottom. When they first heard the news, they were very surprised. It was conceivable that a wooden boat could sail on the water, but what kind of operation is it to wrap the bottom of the bed with iron sheets?
The iron is so heavy, put it on the bottom of the boat, how can such a boat sink?

The three brothers can build and repair ships themselves, but they have never seen such a ship.

In this day and age, ships were built according to the style left by their ancestors. It is a very complicated job to improve the ship by themselves, and the investment cost is also high. For people born in fishermen, they really don’t know this kind of work. What are the benefits of behavior, even if some strange ships are used in front of the battle during combat, it is necessary to do everything possible to search for pre-made ship designs and then imitate them.

As for creating a new design by yourself, most craftsmen don't have this level, let alone users in this day and age.

The two of them have also reported to the cottage that the escort army is building ships, but the cottage doesn't care at all.

Now in the cottage, they are hurriedly training the martial arts of the defensive soldiers and resting the city walls.

As a hero who came to Liangshan from Huazhou, Zhu Wu, the military master of Shenji, had already been branded as the faction of Song Jiang's brother. Song Jiang still believed in him very much. Now that Wu Yong is dead, Zhu Wu took over Liangshan's house. The proposed method for repelling the protection army is to stick to the stronghold.

Everyone has seen the ability of the Protecting Army in defending the city and in field battles before. Liang Shan has almost no confidence in confronting the enemy in field battles. But according to Zhu Wu, the Protecting Army only comes when they use firearms. Great, facing the high-strength and strong city, they can't use muskets to break through the city wall, can they?

When they really wanted to attack the city, they would fight face to face with swords and guns. In the hearts of Liangshan people, the guards were naturally not their opponents in terms of swordsmanship and martial arts. The heroes who put them on the city wall to fight Liangshan were still very confident.

Because he was killed so ruthlessly, the defenders on Liangshan are now full of resentment towards the protection army, so naturally they began to spread various rumors to boost their morale, saying that the protection army relied entirely on the strength of rifled guns , if the musket is removed, the hero of Liangshan can kill three on the opposite side by himself.

But Ruan Xiaoer and Ruan Xiaowu are not very optimistic about this.

As Chao Gai's former troops who were excluded by Song Jiang, they had received a contact from the spies of the Protectorate Army in Liangshan. When they received the contact, the two of them were also very surprised. penetrated.

The contrast between the enemy and the enemy is so great, the two of them naturally feel that the behavior of the guards is very lawful, and it is very difficult for their own Liangshan to win this battle.

Both of them had some opinions on Song Jiang, but neither of them really wanted to say that they had turned their backs on Liangshan. They are not the characters who love to live an ordinary life, and they have to make troubles if they have nothing to do. Otherwise, the three brothers would not be alone All of them got nicknames related to Yan Luo.

After finally coming to Liangshan, they drank heavily and ate meat. Subconsciously, they felt that if their Liangshan was broken, they would have to be obedient citizens of the court again in the future.

It's not easy for the court's obedient people, the west of the city has already transferred the tax to the edge of Liangshan Po, and even their fishing guests have to be annoyed by exorbitant taxes.

In addition, the protection army has not started the propaganda work on Liangshan. They don't even know that the protection army has the ability to protect the Liangshan people who surrendered. They think that once their Liangshan is broken, the protection army will definitely send them Give credit to the court.

From the point of view of Ruan Xiaoer and the Ruan family brothers, although Wu Song repeatedly assured them, once he really surrendered to the protection army, he would keep his cronies at most, which was tantamount to betraying his brothers. None are willing to do so.

But what happened next? The two of them had no other choice. Song Jiang and Zhu Wu made great efforts to ensure that the protection army would not be able to successfully land on the Liangshan slope. It's hard to get around, even if they blow it too hard inside, they also know that Liangshan is a dead place in a lonely lake, and they can't expect bandits from three mountains like water to come up from every corner of Liangshanpo and come to the island to rescue them. .

The reason why they haven't started to escape yet is that it is difficult to throw down the effusion built on Liangshan, and the second is that they have great expectations for Liangshan's water warfare capabilities.

They have fought against officers and soldiers many times before, and they have all won great victories on the water.There are many fisherman's children in Liang Shanbo, all of them are good men who came to Liangshan because they could not bear the oppression of the court cliff around the lake.

These people are all very good at swimming, and although Dengzhou Erlang of the Protectorate Army is used to sailing in the sea, the skills required to fight on the small boat in the inner lake are different from sailing in the sea. Swimming is fine, but fighting in the inner lake requires physical dexterity, can jump sideways neatly, shakes the small oar so that the fishing boats can gather quickly, and put them in the water to destroy the opponent's boats. All the children can touch underwater for an hour or two without being discovered.

But Ruan Xiaowu also shook his head at this time: "I think Brother Song Jiang is thinking too well, the boat of the escorting army is chiseling..."

(End of this chapter)