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Chapter 128

On the waves of the big river, at this moment, there are three big boats riding the waves upstream, and the flags hanging on the boats have the word Tiannan written on them.

The person who came was the Tiannan Chu family.

In fact, in this big river, there are quite a lot of boats passing by every day. The more common ones are the Jiang family in Bashu, the Cui family in Anxi, the Song family in Jiangnan, the Wang family in Ningcheng, the Zhang family in Weicheng, and even before the Lucheng Lu family was destroyed. The ships of the family also often appear, and there are often ships of several other families.

But these ships, without exception, are merchant ships.

And the scale is definitely not so huge, not to mention, the ships of Tiannan Chu's rarely appear in the inland river.

According to the information collected by Li Si, there are only two places where the Tiannan Chu family trades with various powerful families, one is at the mouth of the great river, named Dengzhou.

One is more southerly, and the other is the mouth of a big river called Haizhou.

It seems that this is also the result of the compromise of the big families, because they don't want all the water transportation to be controlled by the Tiannan Chu family.

But today, these three large ships of the Tiannan Chu Clan went upstream in a rare way, and were immediately discovered by the scouts deployed by Li Si in the Woniuling area, and they immediately returned with flying horses.

After learning about this, Li Si suddenly felt that it was very unusual, so he led his people to Zhulu Pass in a hurry.

It’s just that for some reason, the closer he got to the Zhulu Pass, the more strange feeling he felt in his heart, as if there was an indescribable force leading him to a path that had already been drawn.

Li Si probably knew what was going on. The reason why he felt this way should be related to the fact that in the past two days, his total number of people's hearts finally exceeded 30 points, and the total number of national luck reached 14 points.

"Destiny is messing around again, but I don't seem to have a choice."

Li Si didn't stop his horse, and still galloped along the newly widened road.

The Chidao project is considered to be a relatively important project in Xishan County recently.

At first, it was for harvesting rice and wheat and transporting crops, and later it was to expand Zhulu Pass and Yanmen Pass, so Li Si ordered it to be built.

The road is 30 meters wide, and the middle 20 meters is paved with fine sand. Only military-related vehicles and personnel are allowed to walk, and the two sides are [-] meters apart.

It can be said that this kind of road is equipped with a new type of carriage, and the speed of transporting goods and personnel can even run at a speed of [-] kilometers per hour.

Of course, the actual running time is less than an hour, but the time to support Zhulu Pass or Yanmen Pass from Xishan County has been greatly reduced.

When Li Si arrived at Zhulu Pass, there were still no shadows of the three big boats on the big river.But the news has been received here, and it has already entered a state of combat readiness.

Zhao Shan, deputy guard Jiang Yun, and deputy guard Cheng Daniu of Zhulu Pass who have already been built are waiting here.

"I will pay my respects to Your Highness."

"Don't be too polite, tell me about the situation."

"Reporting to Your Highness, the front line of the river defense at Zhuluguan is all on standby. We followed His Highness's instructions. The trebuchets and eight-ox crossbows on the front line of the river defense have all been concealed. At present, our army has controlled all the river defenses of fifty miles and set them up at suitable locations. Catapult positions."

"Currently, there are 1500 small trebuchets on this line of defense, and the final plan is to reach 3000."

"There are also 100 medium-sized catapults and 20 large-scale catapults, which are deployed in five important river defense locations."

"In the end, there were eight oxen crossbows and one hundred sets. Each crossbow gun was wrapped with grease and could ignite the ship."

"But so far, our army has not conducted test firing on targets in the river due to concealment requirements."

"Very good, are there enough shooters for the trebuchet?" Li Si asked again at this time.

"Reporting to Your Highness, the small trebuchets have not changed at present. We use a group of flying stone shooters equipped with ten trebuchets. After receiving the warning, all the trebuchets will immediately enter the ready-to-project state to ensure that it can be done in the shortest time. Large-scale throwing within."

"The biggest change is the medium-sized trebuchet and the large-scale trebuchet. The former can project [-]-jin stone bullets, while the latter can project [-]-jin stone bullets. It used to be quite labor-intensive, but since the Craftsman Division took out the gears and bearings, this matter It simplifies a lot.”

Cheng Daniu explained to Li Si while walking that he is now considered the chief expert in the field of trebuchets, and is currently a level 1 craftsman. The so-called craftsman is the teacher of craftsmen, and it also means master.

Craftsman level 5 is the end, but if you can't break through the skills and study the principles in depth, you won't be able to break through in your life.

This is the difference between a craftsman and a craftsman.

A craftsman can make an item even better.

But a craftsman can make an industry better.

For example, Cheng Daniu led the medium-sized trebuchets and large-scale trebuchets in the front line of the Luguan River Defense.

At this moment, Li Si climbed to the top of a mountain with everyone. At first glance, there are no trebuchets or eight-ox crossbows here, but in fact they are all in the tunnels, which are covered with vegetation camouflage. Remove the camouflage, or Just push it out of the tunnel.

Among them, the large trebuchet is the most important. Li Si was quite surprised when he saw it, because this thing is no longer what was on the original drawing.

If the blueprint Lu Ban drew for him was Trebuchet 1.0, then this is at least Trebuchet 3.0.
The base and main components have been completely replaced by steel, and a large number of gears and bearings are used in it. The most amazing thing is that it can slowly adjust the projection direction. Although the maximum angle can only be adjusted by 60 degrees, this is already epoch-making. .

Of course, considering the accuracy of this thing, Li Si was a little frustrated. Compared with artillery, this thing really has no advantage at all.

Li Si waited at Zhulu Pass for more than half an hour before he saw the three big boats coming slowly. They are really big. Now that the big river is about to enter the dry season, the width of the river in this area has dropped a lot. Watching from the top of the mountain, there is almost a feeling that a dozen more ships will block the big river.

"Is this a sea ship? It's not like that."

Li Si probably knows that sea ships cannot enter inland rivers, especially sea ships of this era, so why does the other party build such a large ship?
For a while, Li Si also hesitated, whether to attack or not. According to the information he got from Qin Qiong, it would take four or five days for the Song Dynasty army to go north.

At this time, he didn't want to be the first to provoke trouble, and it would be good if he could develop for a few more days.

But the strange feeling lingering in his heart made him a little bit guilty.

"Order to go on, all the staff should be concealed, and no one should appear on the river defense."

Li Si chose to keep a low profile in the end, and the group of them also entered a hidden tunnel, watching the three big ships slowly approaching.

At this moment, on top of that big boat, a man in white was holding a cylinder more than one meter long, which was placed on a support, and he was looking at the mountains on the north bank in his spare time.

Through this cylinder, he could see the details of the mountains on the north bank clearly.

"Interesting, unexpectedly I caught a big fish during this trip."

There was a smile on the corner of the man's mouth. Although the distance was more than four or five miles away, he still noticed Li Si and his party and couldn't see their faces clearly. It should be an important figure under him.

"Come on, measure the distance, in that direction, and send an order to the other two ships in a while to send this young master a volley of guns."

"promise."

"The scenery in the north is quite interesting, but it's a pity that the Dayan Palace has been completely killed by those barbarians, otherwise, wouldn't it be a great thing in life to snatch a few queens and princesses for fun? Painful, sad! "

Next, the man in white found the most comfortable position, surrounded by beauties, eating grapes, waiting for the show to begin.

In a short time, the boat arrived at the mountain where Li Si and the others were. On the outer sides of the three large ships, black muzzles protruded one by one. In the next second, it was like a thunder from the sky, and the flames burst out, and a hundred cannons were fired. covering the entire mountain.

The black iron pellets rammed on the top of the mountain, breaking the big trees, and the rocks collapsed, and occasionally fell into the tunnel, causing heavy casualties inside.

The incident happened suddenly, Li Si was stunned, and it was his captain of the personal guard who threw him down. Fortunately, no shells fell here.

"I'm stupid, artillery?"

Li Si only had this thought in his mind, while on the other side, Zhao Shan, Cheng Daniu, Jiang Yun and others had already roared and ordered to fight back.

What the hell, treat us like persimmons.

In fact, there is no need to order. After being stunned, the flying stone shooters on the front line of the river defense launched spontaneously. These days, they have been guarding here every day, watching the boats in the river come and go. I can't test shoot, it's really frustrating.

Catapults, big and small, and eight-ox crossbows on the front line of the river defense launched a crazy counterattack.

For a moment, the entire sky seemed to be enveloped by stone bullets.

Although most of them are random.

But the overwhelmed total is more than enough.

Under favorable terrain, small trebuchets can be projected a mile away, and in this key area, there are at least [-] small trebuchets.

Even if the hit rate was only one-tenth, thirty stone bullets fell on the ship.

Of course, this only adds to the laughter.

The small trebuchet can only throw ten catties of stone bullets, except that it can hit some unlucky eggs, and it will do zero damage to the big ship.

However, when the twenty flaming crossbow guns were fired quickly, they all hit a large ship in an instant, because the accuracy of the eight-ox crossbow was higher, and the burning fat on it quickly ignited the hull of the ship.

If there is only one spot, it's fine, but if all twenty hits, the effect will be different. When twenty spots are fired together, the people on the boat will be in chaos.

At this moment, the medium-sized trebuchets on the hill also launched their projections. Their adjustment speed was a bit slow, but they were slightly more accurate than the small trebuchets.

And just a little bit higher at this point will be different immediately, especially those three big ships are so huge.

In an instant, twenty stone bombs weighing fifty catties rose into the air and fell heavily.

Also at this moment, Li Si felt that strange feeling again, a disturbing force was dispatched quickly, and then the trajectory of a stone bullet was suddenly slightly adjusted.

It fell in an instant, and smashed the man in white who was sitting on the bow, hugging left and right to eat grapes, into a meat paste.

(End of this chapter)