Chapter 212: The Serial Ship (17th Update) That day, only half a day after Li Zhen received Xue Rengui's flying pigeon message, the team came to the side of a turbulent river.
Looking at the churning river, Li Zhen's brows furrowed deeply: "It seems that this heavy rain still has a great impact on this river, it was marked on the map before that it was just an ordinary river, less than one zhang deep, only ten zhang wide, the water flow is gentle, there is no reef, and you can go directly by elephant."
But now the river is at least twice as deep, and the width has reached 30 zhang, and the river surface is churning like this, and the undercurrent at the bottom of the river is only afraid that it will be more terrifying. ” Fang Yiai nodded and said: "Yes, Your Highness, please see, there is a description on this map, this river is the last section of a river called the Chaojiang River, although the Chaojiang River is not long, but the tributaries are dense, and this is the last section of the river that flows into the sea, what needs to be undertaken is all the water flowing downstream, it rained so heavily a few days ago, and a lot of water must have accumulated in the upstream, that is to say, it is the entire upstream section of the river that undertakes all the precipitation, and the water flow is turbulent and turbulent.
What's more, this situation will continue for a long time, and if it rains again during this time, it will be even worse, and we will be stuck here for an unknown amount of time. ” "How's that going to work?
We're in a hurry to meet Rengui and them.
Li Zhen frowned and said, "Everyone wants to find a way, how can a living person suffocate urine?"
Since you can't pass here, let's spread it out and see if there is anything too narrow upstream and downstream.
In addition, Du Qiuran. ” "Your subordinates are here, Your Highness, what do you command?"
Du Qiuran was a weak young man, fair-skinned, thin, like a scholar and more like a soldier.
But Li Zhen knew that this Du Qiuran was actually the captain of the first brigade of the Shenji Battalion, a ruthless character who killed people without blinking, and that day he faced off with Lin Yi's jumping camp, and when he finally collected the body, he was the only one who did not spit it out, and his mind was firm, even if he was not worse than Fang Yi's love Xue Rengui and others.
"If you are like this, your Shenji Battalion will not explore the upstream and downstream, your task is to build a ship......"
Du Qiuran said strangely: "Your Highness, with such a large amount of water, even if you use a boat, it's not safe, right?"
A big boat needs time, and a small boat is not as safe as a pontoon bridge, maybe the waves have already hit down, and the whole boat will be gone. ” "Who told you you had to use a boat to cross the river?"
Li Zhen asked rhetorically.
"Huh?"
Du Qiuran is even more blindsided, what do you mean?
Build a boat but don't use it to cross the river?
So what are you building boats for?
Why not build big ships?
Li Zhen had no choice but to explain patiently: "Do you know the Battle of Chibi?
” "Of course I know that."
Although Du Qiuran wondered why Li Zhen asked this, he still replied truthfully: "In order to unify the whole country, Cao Cao waved 200,000 troops, claiming to attack Jiangdong with 800,000.
In the face of Cao Cao's strength, Sun Quan and Liu Bei boasted that they could hardly be Cao Cao's opponents when they fought alone, so they joined forces to resist Cao Cao.
Finally, on the Yangtze River, the two sides set up positions, and the Wushu coalition army took advantage of the southeast wind and used the strategy of fire attack to burn Cao Cao's 200,000 army clean with a fire - Your Highness, as long as you have been to school, you should know about this, why does Your Highness ask this?
” "Then do you know why Cao Cao failed?"
"Yes."
Du Qiuran nodded and said: "There are three reasons for Cao Cao's failure: the first is that Cao Cao is arrogant and complacent, and he is too contemptuous of the enemy.
Because he had eliminated Yuan Shao and Liu Biao along the way, he became complacent, and he did not take the Wushu coalition army in his eyes at all, and did not suspect it when Huang Gai came to surrender, which provided a prerequisite for the future fire attack of the Wushu coalition army; The second is that Cao Cao's army is chaotic and not good at water warfare.
Cao Jun was mostly northerners, and he was not used to water warfare, and the soldiers were seriously seasick, so they finally surrendered the Jingzhou army, but they fell into Zhou Yu's counter-plot and killed the Jingzhou general Cai Mao and Zhang Yun, which led to the instability of the Jingzhou naval army and could not be used.
It happened that at this time, Pang Tong offered the serial ship plan, but he didn't know that it was this serial ship that ultimately led to his failure; The third is that Cao Cao's army also had the same problem as ours, and there was an outbreak of plague in the army, which is historically proven: "Three Kingdoms: The Biography of Zhou Yu" cloud: "Quan Sui sent Yu and Cheng Pu and others to oppose Cao Gong and met in Chibi.
When the Cao Gong army was already sick, the first day of the battle, the public army was defeated and retreated, leading to Jiangbei. ’ It is recorded in the "Chronicles of the Three Kingdoms: Emperor Wu Ji": "Gong to Chibi is not conducive to preparing for war.
So there was a great plague, and many of the officials died, but they led the army back. ’ These all prove that there was an outbreak of plague in Cao Cao's army at that time.
It was precisely because of the outbreak of the plague that the combat power of the army declined, and many people died, which eventually led to this defeat. ” "It sums it up very well.
It seems that you read the book well.
Li Zhen nodded approvingly: "You also said just now, one of the reasons why Cao Cao failed was the serial boat, so can you tell me about the advantages and disadvantages of this serial ship?"
” "The disadvantage of the chain ships is obvious, that is, the ships are too concentrated to disperse, and as long as the enemy attacks with fire, it is almost certain to die.
But this does not mean that the chain boat has no advantages, the advantage of the chain ship is that it is stable and has a strong ability to resist wind and waves, after all, it is made up of so many boats, and walking on it is basically the same as on flat ground......
I understand, Your Highness, you mean to use a serial boat to ......"
Du Qiuran is not a fool, Li Zhen has already said this, why doesn't he understand what Li Zhen means?
"Your Highness, you are going to follow the composition of the chain boat, and use small boats to form a big boat to enhance the boat's ability to pit wind and waves......"
Speaking of this, Du Qiuran slapped his thigh: "Yes, why didn't I think of it?"
Anyway, we're just using it to cross the river, not to have a water fight, so what's the point?
As long as we can cross this river, it won't be over. ” Li Zhen bowed his head and said: "That's what I mean, when do you think you can finish it?"
” "It's simple, one day is enough."
Du Qiuran said proudly: "As long as we give our subordinates a day, we can build hundreds of small boats, if we can have brothers from other battalions to help, then this time will be shorter, connect these small boats, no matter how big the wind and waves, we can definitely escort the brothers across the river safely." ” "That's good, then you go and get busy, I'll send some people over to help you."
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"Yes, thank you, Your Highness."