Li You's Tang Dynasty

Chapter 413
"Jiu Zhe, can this boat be launched? You know, the young master will arrive soon."

At the Hanshui Ferry, Liu Dageng found Li Jiuzhe at this time. Now Li Jiuzhe's identity is the master shipbuilder of this shipyard. If you say that Li Youye is an eclectic talent.

Li Jiuzhe was only 21 years old, but Li You did not hesitate to use him as a shipbuilder.

You know, in ancient times, the older you were, the better you were, especially shipbuilding. However, Li You was interested in the ability. Li You posed some problems for those shipwrights. These problems are not inherent, but need some ideas.

To be honest, the ideas of those old shipwrights had solidified, but Li Jiuzhe stood out.

Seeing Li Jiuzhe's answer, Li You chose him without hesitation to become the master shipbuilder of his own shipyard, and Li Jiuzhe, a master shipbuilder, also received the most difficult task on his first day in office.

That is to use the fastest speed to make a five-tooth warship and two cargo ships.

The five-tooth warship is the largest main warship in the Sui Dynasty, which can accommodate 900 soldiers.

"Five teeth" actually means that the warship has a five-story structure and is more than a hundred feet high.There are six paddle poles on the left, right, front, back, and fifty feet high.Each wooden mast is tied with a boulder, and there is a potter's wheel under it. When an enemy ship is approaching during a battle, the boulder can be quickly put down with the potter's wheel to smash the enemy ship.If you miss a hit, you can quickly put it away and put it back.

If the enemy ships are surrounded on all sides, they can still "six-pronged approach", which can be seen from its strong combat effectiveness.

More than 1000 years ago, a large ship with a total length of 55 meters was also a giant. It played an important role in the war of unifying the country in the Sui Dynasty, and the war also promoted the development of the shipbuilding industry in a more perfect direction.

You must know that the current Datang basically does not build such huge warships. The current Datang agrees that the warship is called the Sea Falcon.

Floating boards are arranged on the left and right sides of the ship, which can stabilize the ship in wind and waves, and can also block side waves and reduce the lateral sway of the hull. It is a warship that is not afraid of wind and waves.The sea falcon ship can carry 108 soldiers and 42 sailors. It is a new type of warship with a solid structure, strong combat effectiveness, and the ability to attack enemy ships.

Such a change has actually shown that Datang has basically given up on the conquest of the ocean, and Li Shimin believes that the ocean is not worth his time to plan.

However, Li You didn't think so.

And it takes too much time to build a five-tooth warship, but Li You must complete it as soon as possible, because this is a test for the great shipbuilder Li Jiuzhe, and everyone thinks that this test is too harsh. When no one should finish.

However, Li Jiuzhe found Li You and asked him if he could spend money.

Li You was taken aback for a moment, and then Li You thought about it and wanted to tell Li Jiuzhe that as long as he could build the five-tooth warship in the shortest time, Li You would be willing to spend as much as he wanted, but what Li You didn't expect was that this Li Jiuzhe was real Dare.

He directly spent all of Li You's money, and spent all the 50 coins he got from Yin Hongzhi.

Some people will definitely ask, how did this guy spend it? The 50 guan money is like a small mountain, how can it be spent? It turned out that in the Tang Dynasty, although the Tang court had given up large ships.

However, there are still many large ships among the people. In Chang'an City, a businesswoman named Sangu is a famous big ship merchant. Li Jiuzhe doesn't know how to find this big ship merchant.

He directly spent about 20 yuan to acquire a ship as big as the five-tooth battleship, and then bought two smaller ships, and followed Li Jiuzhe to start the transformation of the three ships.

It has to be said that after the money was spent, the three ships that would have taken at least a year to complete were concocted by Li Jiuzhe in just over a month. This is the imagination Li You needed.

If those old shipwrights must have made it slowly, such a five-tooth warship would have to wait until the year of the monkey, but now, although the money was spent, Li You already had a fleet of his own, although there were only three ship, but it is already very powerful.

"Don't worry, Uncle Liu, everything is ready...!" Li Jiuzhe smiled confidently.

"kill!"

In Hongxian County, Jinzhou, the sun has just set in the west, and the fortified battle below Hongxian County has begun again. In ancient times, the city was generally attacked during the day, because night battles and night vision capabilities are limited, which is not conducive to finding out the defenses on the city, and nothing can be seen. Why? hide?
And the soldiers below the city were frightened by the bright torches that burned, and they didn't know how long they would have to fight to end this war of attrition.

Another reason is that in ancient wars, the needs of soldiers were arranged according to the degree of urgency. Before going to bed, they were tired after a day. Who wouldn’t want to sleep well?

Therefore, it is not suitable to attack the city at night, but Guo Xinke has several times the strength of Hong County, and Guo Xinke is ashamed that he did not capture Hong County during the day, so he resolutely prepared for the night attack.

A large number of torches appeared under the city of Hong County, and wave after wave of vanguards rushed under the city wall, like ants, unyieldingly crawling towards the supporting wall.

Although the siege at night is beneficial to the defenders, the soldiers and civilians of Hong County, which are short of troops, have now reached their physical limits.

Quan Wanji's originally neat white beard had burned most of it, holding a long sword in his hand and still insisting on the top of the city, shouting non-stop: "Stone. Golden juice!"

It's a pity that the number of stones and golden branches is getting less and less. At this time, the people in Hong County began to tear down their houses by themselves, and then sent stones and wood to the city wall to defend against the enemy.

Therefore, in a siege battle, in addition to the strength of the army, it is necessary to predict the enemy and know the general, to determine the victory, to adapt to the situation, to support the people in the rear, to support the people's support, the reality, the terrain, the march, the army, the reward and punishment, the military strategy, the golden drum, and the death sacrifice. wait for everything.

All are factors that must be considered.

Guo Xinke just didn't consider the determination of the people of Hong County. Quan Wanji is like a banner of Hong County at this time. As long as Quan Wanji does not fall, then Hong County will be as strong as gold.

He was repelled by Hong County again, and more than 1000 casualties were added. Guo Xinke couldn't stand such casualties. In fact, if he wanted to capture a county like Hong County, the best way was to be trapped.

Surrounded on three sides, and then cut off water and food, soon such a small county will be unable to defend because of insufficient food and water sources, lack of defensive equipment and supplies, lack of popular support or lack of belief in victory.

It's just that if this is the case, it will take at least a week, and Guo Xinke can't wait.

Another mistake of Guo Xinke is that his army is dominated by cavalry battles, and the siege is not good, and the siege equipment is lacking and simple. You must know that in the real siege, the ladders, watchtowers, and artillery vehicles (throwing stones and fireballs) The behemoth), wooden ox carts and stacked bridges. None of them are missing.

Especially the cloud ladder, Guo Xinke's cloud ladder is a simple ladder, the kind that can be pushed down with a wooden stick.

The real ladder is a stacked ladder with rolling wheels, the front is covered with animal skin protection, and it is pushed against the city wall and erected. Soldiers flock up, which is a platform for movement.

There is a flying ladder hidden in the cloud ladder. The flying ladder is a single bamboo and wood ladder with a metal grappling hook on the front. Everyone supports them to climb steadily on the city pool, braving the rolling wood and stones on it to fight and climb.

The wooden ox cart can hide people from attacking the city gate, and there should also be a ram to break the door, a leather bag cart that splashes oil and burns, a wooden curtain for protection and shelter, a dust cart to fill a trench, a cart to hit a car with a sky hook, and an iron chi cart, etc. It's a pity that Guo Xinke has everything No, it can only be filled with human life.

Now he ran into another person who didn't want to guard his life, which made Guo Xinke bitter.

"Stop for a while!" Guo Xinke's military adviser said: "Now our soldiers are exhausted, rest for one night, and tomorrow morning, we will finish our attack with one battle!"

After looking at his military adviser and at the tired people, Guo Xinke still agreed, and then Ming Jin withdrew his troops.

And on the city wall of Hong County where Guo Xinke called Jin to withdraw the troops, a group of soldiers and civilians also fell down on the city wall, because at this time the soldiers and civilians of Hong County were already at the end of their battles.

"Master Quan, our team has exhausted more than half of our people. The opponent will definitely attack tomorrow. At that time, we really can't do it. You have been guarding in Hong County for a day and a night. It is enough. I will send someone to escort you later." Go out through the north gate..."

The person who spoke was Zhang Wuzhuo, magistrate of Hong County!

"Hey." Quan Wanji smiled and said: "Magistrate Zhang, I have no way out, Hong County is now a family matter, and those people are demolishing houses and offering stones at this time. official?
Death is not terrible, what is terrible is that we are greedy for life and afraid of death! "Suddenly, Quan Wanji said: "You also reminded me, I think Guo Xinke's rebels will not come again tonight, we can send out all the children under the age of 14 in Hong County.

In this way, some seeds can be left for the future Hong County! "

"Good servant, we will obey you!" Zhang Wuzhuo nodded vigorously.

"See you son.!"

At around 20 o'clock in the evening, Li You's Huben group finally arrived at Hanshui Ferry. When Li You came, everyone bowed and saluted.

"Excuse me!" Li You walked in front of Liu Dageng in armor, "Uncle Liu, is my king's big ship ready?"

Liu Dageng quickly smiled and said: "Don't worry, my lord, the five-tooth warship has been launched, and there are two cargo ships behind the five-tooth warship, which have also been prepared, and we have prepared a hundred boatmen, and Li Jiuzhe will also Follow the son to go!"

"And me!" Liu Yuning came out of nowhere.

"Yuning, what are you doing, a girl from every family!" Liu Dageng scolded angrily.

However, Li You smiled and said: "It's okay, but, Yuning, you can't go. This time, this king is going to save people, not for fun. It's not good for you to go. Wait for the next time, when you are on a boat on this website, you must I'll take you there again."

"Be obedient!" Liu Dageng glared at his daughter, and then hurriedly said, "My lord, let's get on the boat now!"

(End of this chapter)