In the late autumn of the third year of the Chen Dynasty of the Han Empire, a small city quietly appeared in the mountains and forests between the southern foot of Guishan Mountain and the Han River on the opposite bank of Wuchang City, at the mouth of the Han River.
The name of this city is Queyue City, because during the Three Kingdoms period at the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, Liu Biao's general Huang Zu built a city here, named Queyue.
Now, it is of course Chen Li's new system city in this time and space.
Various facilities in the city have been upgraded to the advanced level of the Enlightenment Age.
This means that Chen Li can produce quite sophisticated machinery and early industrial products.
There are also various sail warships suitable for artillery operations, transoceanic sailing expeditions, including Clark sailing ships.
Now, those small and medium-sized galley warships and Viking warships may still be useful in some specific situations, but in the future, for the Han State, normal water warfare attacks will mainly rely on artillery, and they cannot be used as a combat platform for heavy artillery.
At present, Han State has no outlet to the sea, and sail warships are not suitable for sailing upstream from the Yangtze River when there is no wind.
Therefore, the high-end shipyards in the city now mainly produce large galley warships.
It is said to be a large ship, but its size is still far behind those giant warships built by the Han Dynasty that were several battles tall and even flush with the city walls.
Chen Li believed that the latter served as a mobile water fortress and was fine for attacking the city near the water, but it was not suitable for use in water battles.
Especially in this era of artillery.
In fact, the Battle of Poyang Lake has already illustrated the problem.
The types of troops generated in this era in the military camp include the King's Guards, Fusiliers, Pistol Cavalry, Artillery, and Battleship Sailors.
All arms use thermal weapons as their main combat weapons.
Among them, the soldiers who were equipped with long and short flintlocks as rewards to Chen Li by the system were Guardsmen.
In the early winter of the fourth year of the Chen Dynasty of the Han Dynasty, a giant building ship sailed up the river from Hanyang City surrounded by many Han warships.
Not long after, a fortress suddenly appeared in front of everyone on the fleet.
This is the Chuankou where the Chaos River enters the river.
However, this camp is not the camp of the Han army, but belongs to the Wu army.
Many years ago, Chen Youliang defeated Yingtian.
Zhu Yuanzhang took advantage of the situation and captured Jiangzhou in Jiujiang.
After the prefectures and counties in Jiangxi, he sent a fleet to sail up the river to Chuankou, where he stationed troops and planted a nail in the hinterland of Han Dynasty.
Until Chen Youliang was defeated and died in Poyang Lake, he was still not removed.
The daily supplies of this camp depended on the plundering of surrounding villages and towns and the supplies of grain and grass transported by the Wu army from the river.
It can also be seen from this incident that in order to promote Zhu Yuanzhang, the Han Navy, which was boasted by Yuan Shi as the strongest water division at the same time, was actually unable to control the water surface of the Yangtze River near its capital.
Those super giant ships built by Chen Youliang can really only be used as super troop transport ships or mobile camps for the Air Force.
They simply cannot be relied upon to gain control of the river.
Now, of course, Chen Li personally led his troops here to pull out this thorn in the flesh and the thorn in the side.
There is no new Centipede gunboat built by Xuanyue City Shipyard in the fleet.
Six centipede gunboats were sent to the rivers of Hanyang and Wuchang to guard against the Wu navy's reinforcements.
Originally, Chen Li planned to send them to the Guangji River to guard the river.
However, considering that the construction of Guangji Fortress and forts had just begun, and the Guangji River was too narrow for artillery operations, he gave up this plan.
Although there is no assistance from the new Centipede gunboats, these traditional warships led by Chen Li are temporarily loaded with sharp cannons built by Xuanyue City Factory.
These sharp cannons are divided into two types: the eagle cannon, which fires extremely fast, and the cannon, which is extremely powerful and has an extremely long range.
The person guarding the Zhuankou military camp is Wu Liang, the general of the Wu army.
He has been in this camp for more than three years.
In the beginning, he could only visit relatives in Yingtian once every Spring Festival.
In the past two years, he saw that the military camp at Zhuankou was becoming more and more impregnable and there was no possibility of being breached, so he simply took his family from Yingtian to Zhuankou.
On this day, as soon as he returned to the mansion after inspecting the soldiers' drills in the military camp, his personal guards chased him from behind: "Report to the general, a large number of enemy ships have been spotted on the Yangtze River."
Wu Liang was not surprised when he heard this, but was overjoyed.
He laughed loudly and said: "Chen Youliang is dead, and Wuchang City will be captured by the Lord next year.
I thought that all the effort in building this military stronghold over the past few years would be in vain.
Unexpectedly, now the Han army itself If they come to us, they will give you their lives and give them credit.
This time I will have to make them lose a tooth.
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Please hurry up and notify the troops to prepare for war."
Soon, horns and war drums sounded in the Chuankou camp.
The more than 10,000 Wu soldiers in the camp lined up skillfully and rushed to various positions.
It was obvious that they had practiced these daily routines.
The wall of the village, which is five battles high and two battles wide, is dotted with a row of trumpet-mouthed cannons with a caliber of about five inches, made of bronze and called Wankou gun.
There are also four high platforms nearly ten meters high at the four corners of the wall, on which two giant counterweighted trebuchets are placed.
The gunners worked in groups of more than a dozen to turn the winch and mount the machine arm.
There are piles of projectiles ready to be fired next to the cannon.
There are fire jars filled with bags of gunpowder and fire oil for igniting fires.
There are iron balls specially used to smash wooden ship sides.
There are also pockets of gravel to attack the crowd, and there are also delayed explosions after being thrown.
Shocking thunder.
The individual crossbowmen marched to the top of the city in formation at the order, lined up along the city wall and crouched under the wall stacks.
A large number of individual gunmen and spearmen lined up into the trenches surrounding the fort to snipe the enemy troops who landed or approached the city wall.
They held a large-caliber fire gate called a zhankou gun. gun.
Its shape is a smaller version of a bowl-mouth gun.
Inside the camp, horse and deer antlers were arranged all over the ground.
The base of the wall was filled with Wu soldiers armed with swords, guns and weapons.
If any Han army could charge up the wall, they would rush to the top of the city to fight with them.
Wu Liang watched all this with satisfaction, already looking forward to the sight of Han army corpses strewn in the fields.
The fleet on the river followed a semaphore on the ship in the center building.
Four troop transport ships sailed out of the fleet and docked three miles upstream of Zhuankou.
Put down one thousand fusiliers and four thousand ordinary Han soldiers.
On the flagship ship, Chen Li used his telescope to see that the soldiers had landed safely, and asked to the left and right: "Are the warships in their respective positions?"
"Your Majesty, all the warships have sent back semaphores and reported that they have anchored and anchored in the pre-designated positions."
"Okay, pass on my military order.
First use cannons and heavy artillery to knock down the four turrets on the Wu army camp."
Wu Liang, who was observing from the watchtower, already knew that Han troops were landing from the upper reaches of the camp, but he was not worried about this.
The gunmen in the ditch, the crossbowmen on the wall, and the bowl-mouth guns will kill them all under the wall.
What he was concerned about was when the enemy ships would approach the camp head-on
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