Johime Three Kingdoms

Chapter 219
"My lord, Sun Ce's army has crossed the battle line again! This time, this time..." There was a messenger soldier at Miankou, who hurriedly reported to Huang Zu.

Because Sun Ce had harassed him several times in recent days, almost blocking the exploration from upstream, and seemed to be actively preparing for war, Huang Zu also stayed in Miangkou.

"What's the rush? The Sun family's son is here, just ask Zixiang to fight him back!" Huang Zu remained unmoved.

Although Huang Zu was sitting in Miangkou at this time, the commander of the navy in the water village was "Zixiang", whose nickname was unknown, but his name was very domineering - Su Fei.

Su Fei was Huang Zu's general. Regardless of whether he was a general out of thin air, Huang Zu did often entrust his navy to Su Fei.

In the history without the white rabbit effect, Gan Ning felt that being a water thief was not interesting, and when he returned to Shu County to become an official, he felt that there was no development. After leaving Shu again, it was Su Fei who recommended Gan Ning to Huang Zu, but the latter was not allowed to reuse him. But when he couldn't escape, Su Fei let him go, and this gave rise to Gan Xingba, Jiang Biao's tiger minister in the future.

Later, when Sun Quan destroyed Huang Zu, he wanted to execute Su Fei, but Gan Ning begged to stop him...

But now that Gan Ning has directly joined the General's Mansion, his relationship with Su Fei is limited to "having a familiar officer in Jingzhou", or having dealt with him when he was a water thief.

Huang Zu did not take the report of enemies coming seriously. After all, this was not Sun Ce's first attack.

Therefore, Huang Zucai drew a battle line along the river. When Sun Ce's warships passed by, Jiangxia's navy prepared for battle.

"Lord... the situation is different this time. It's so big... a big cockroach is coming... No, it's not a cockroach, it's a building ship!" the messenger said quickly.

Huang Zu frowned when he heard this. He noticed the panic of the messenger, so he was ready to go out and see for himself.

Building boats existed in the pre-Qin period, but because the center of gravity of the boat was too high after the high boat building was built, it was easy to lose balance. With the craftsmanship at that time, building boats were often used even if they were on the river and not in the sea It will capsize in the wind and water. It is not only weak in resistance to abnormal weather, but also weak in fierce battles.

Therefore, nowadays they are mostly used as luxury passenger ships - Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty built a huge building ship that could accommodate ten thousand people.

Common warships include sterns, battleships, sea falcons and walking boats.

After the Battle of Chibi, when Soochow relied on the Yangtze River to maintain peace, it gradually developed many stronger warships, which were truly improved compared to the pre-Qin period.

Otherwise, in Chibi, these basic warships were used which were not much developed compared to the pre-Qin period.

Among them, the warship and the fighting ship are more "luxury" capital ships. They both have cabins on board, arrow holes in the cabin, and cowhide outer coverings. The arrow is difficult to kill, but it can shoot arrows from the arrow hole itself.

The difference is that the stern is larger and longer, with a heavy ramming angle on the bow, a large cabin and a small deck, and is better at ramming in close combat; while a fighting ship is much smaller, has more oar positions, is lighter and has a smaller deck area. It is larger, which means it is more suitable for boarding battles.

The warship and fighting ship can be said to be the basic ship types of ancient warships. When the Southern Song Dynasty fought against the Kingdom of Jin, the warship was still used, but there were many improvements, such as being equipped with different oars to make it more flexible...

Even a building boat can be regarded as a stern with multiple levels of cabins, but it has a lot to say in terms of balance.

In addition, the walking boat and the sea falcon are the supplements of the sailing boat and the fighting ship. They are both small boats. The former is only light and generally needs to be forcibly approached and then engage in boarding combat to pose a threat to the enemy. The latter has a special shape, with a low head and a high tail. There are floating boards on the side of the ship, which look like seabirds. Its main advantage is that it can maintain balance in bad weather and strong currents, and can be used for surprise attacks.

They are all small ships that can be controlled by only one general and his own soldiers.

The flat boat among the first batch of warships in White Picture is the advanced version of the Sea Falcon. The fast paddle boat is more flexible than the walking boat, but it also requires more manpower.

Huang Zu came to the cliff by the river. As soon as he approached, he already felt something bad... It was really big.

In front of the three huge building ships, let alone wanting to fight on board, they couldn't get close at all. The arrows shot from the building were comparable to the firepower of the city wall defending the city!
Water warfare is different from land warfare. The military formation instructions are simpler - the ships at this time cannot cooperate with too detailed formation changes.

Compared with land warfare, water warfare relies more on strong ships and long-range bows and arrows.

This is why most of the Pian'an dynasty relied on the navy to maintain it-no matter how strong the enemy's army is, they still have to use boats, bows and arrows to speak on the water!
Coupled with the differences in the physical strength of the troops, the Pian'an Dynasty was able to protect itself for a while even if its overall strength was weak.

Huang Zu was in Jiangxia. Although he was incompetent in literature and military affairs, he was backed by Liu Biao, a "big money master" who pursued a land-defending strategy. He himself also represented the local gentry, and his naval hardware was excellent. He was not afraid of Sun Ce at all. It was just Hundreds of people walking on the river can already make many famous generals look at the river and sigh.

When facing Jiangdong, although the opponent is also dominated by water warfare, after all, Jingzhou is more upstream. Although it can be reversed with oars, it still has the advantage of water flow, especially in the Miankou and Xiakou areas, where there are cliffs on both sides of the river...

The demise of Soochow and the later Chen State were all caused by battleships built from Yizhou and sailed down the river from the upper reaches.

But now, Huang Zu could only watch helplessly as his side of the boat was completely unable to get close to the ship, and the soldiers on the ship were shot and killed mercilessly.

However, Su Fei is quite experienced. Judging from the situation on the river, it seems that he is going to command the fighting ship to intercept and fight hard!
The entire family of Jiangxia and Huangzu only had six ships and dozens of battleships.

After all, whether it was Huang Zu or Liu Biao, the resources in Jingzhou that could be dispatched were very limited. Even during the Battle of Chibi, Zhou Yu only had "dozens" of stern warships used to set fire.

After Chibi, Sun Quan wanted to expand the results of the war to Huainan but failed. At the same time, the interior of Soochow was finally much more harmonious because of this big victory.

When Huang Zu saw the boat rushing towards the huge building, he couldn't help holding on to the railing in front of him - after this battle, even if he blocked the opponent's attack, he would be seriously injured!

Then plead with Liu Biao for more resources?

No...if the losses are excessive, maybe Liu Biao will burn bridges.

However, Huang Zu also understood that he had no room for reservation now, so he pretended to be calm and said: "Hahaha, Zixiang is really smart in the face of battle. Does Bai Tu think that the bigger the ship, the stronger? For such a high-rise ship, it only needs a stern. A collision will cause it to shake and become unstable at the slightest level, and..."

Duang——

Hearing a loud noise, even Huang Zu who was on the cliff by the bank heard some of it, and hurriedly looked over, but... he didn't see the capsized boat he was expecting.

Instead, it was a stern ship. At this time, the cabin was broken, and the officers and soldiers on the ship were wailing.

But on the broken cabin, a huge boulder rose again, and the boulder was connected to the long and thin "mast". The attack that hit the boat before was sent out by it!

Shooting poles, especially popular around large warships from the Southern and Northern Dynasties to the Sui and Tang Dynasties, are equipped with a wooden pole with a stone hammer on the top, and a rotatable pulley at the bottom of the wooden pole. It replaced the bumping horn. It was not until the Song Dynasty that heavy crossbow firearms began to be equipped, and the racket pole gradually disappeared from the stage of history.

The cowhide of a cockroach can block arrows, but...how can it be used as a giant hammer falling dozens of feet?
And after smashing it, the racket pole rose quickly!
The racket pole of the General's version of the Five-Toothed Ship has also been optimized to a certain extent. Not only is the pole arm made of iron-clad wood, but the pulley is equipped with a fairy gourd, which can withstand heavier stone hammers.

The cockroach, which is good at collision, looks very fragile in front of the "shooting pole", the ruler of close combat on the water surface...

(End of this chapter)