Prosperous Tang Blood Blade

Chapter 209 A Fantastic Invention (Part [-])

"We have been walking along the banks of the Yellow River. There are people living near the Yellow River. Now the elite Turkic soldiers have been dispatched to attack Bingzhou. The rest of the tribe are either slaves or old and weak women and children. Even if there are soldiers, they will not be able to fight. Although our army has It is not dominant, but it is assembled in one place, and it is slightly weak against the entire Turkic enemy, but facing the personnel left behind by the Turkic army alone, our army has an overwhelming advantage, and winning in a fight is certain."

Liu Tong looked at Chen Ying and didn't dislike him for talking too much, especially when Chen Ying looked at him with encouraging eyes. Liu Tong became more and more fluent in his speech: "If the situation is favorable, we will take down Liang Shidu in one fell swoop, which is equivalent to beheading the Turks. An arm of a person. According to our current estimates, there will be no more than 3000 defenders in Suizhou City. Suizhou City is low and poorly defended. Compared with Lingzhou City, it is really a sky and an underground. Yes, if the Turks abandon Bingzhou and ignore it, concentrate their forces, and attack Lingzhou with all their strength, we will definitely be unable to support it at that time, but it doesn't matter, our army is stronger, and the imperial court will not sit idly by. As long as we can send troops in time to support, we will not As for suffering too much!"

Zhang Huaiwei said: "Why can't we attack Suizhou first?"

Chen Ying said with a faint smile: "Although Liang Shidu has no more than tens of thousands of troops and is not well equipped, if we resist the city and defend to the death, even if our army takes Suizhou, the loss will not be light. Liang Shidu's soldiers and horses were lured out from Suizhou City, if we talk about field battles, the Dingyuan Army has no one to be afraid of!"

When Chen Ying said this, he naturally had the confidence.The Lancers of the Dingyuan Army have already proved to the world that they are an absolutely well-deserved iron army by using actual combat.

Xu Jingzong said again: "But now to build the square boat, let alone whether it will be possible in time, the key is that we in Lingzhou don't have so much shade-dried wood!"

Xu Jingzong was born in the south of the Yangtze River, so he is no stranger to shipbuilding.The wood that has just been cut cannot be used to build a ship at all. If the ship is made of wet wood, it will easily be soaked as long as the ship is launched; It is not something that can be done in three or two months.

Usually, when building a ship, the trees are cut down first, put into a well-ventilated warehouse, and slowly dry in the shade.It takes at least three to two years from the time when the wood is felled to completely dry in the shade.

Let alone two or three years, Chen Ying didn't even want to wait for three months, and of course Chen Ying couldn't afford to wait either.

Chen Ying is naturally aware of this problem, and he actually has a way to solve the problem of wood drying in the shade.There is a special drying room in later generations, which can dry wood in a very short time.

However, without waiting for Chen Ying to say this, Yu Guni said: "I thought it was a big deal, but it's actually easy to handle!"

Everyone looked at Yu Guni in unison, Yu Guni said: "We can use leather bags!"

Chen Ying is very unfamiliar with this so-called leather pouch. After Xu Jingzong explained it, Chen Ying finally understood that the so-called leather pouch is actually a sheepskin raft of later generations. , called "Huntuo", but in this era, it is not a complete skin, but a number of tanned leather, stitched together, first seal the pinholes with isinglass, and then use paraffin and tallow for waterproofing .

"puff……"

Everyone burst into laughter when they heard Yu Guni uttering his solution in a serious manner.

Zhang Shigui smiled and said: "Although the leather bag can sail on the Yellow River and carry three or five people, how can it undertake the important task of transporting the luggage of a large army?"

In fact, what Zhang Shigui said was right. When an army of more than [-] went out, especially the highly mobile cavalry, only more than [-] horses were dispatched, and it would cost [-] shi of grain every day, plus more than [-] people per six liters. Food alone requires nearly a thousand stones. , Even with a hundred stone boats, ten boats are needed for a day. As for the leather bag, it is a drop in the bucket to be able to transport it.

While everyone was laughing wildly, Chen Ying nodded solemnly and said, "I think it will work!"

Everyone was dumbfounded, looking at Chen Ying in disbelief.

Naturally, Chen Ying would not tell them that the sheepskin rafts used to ferry the Yellow River in later generations were made of more than [-] sheep and could carry more than [-] tons. .

It feeds on the enemy itself, and feeds war with war.The supplies prepared by the army do not need too much, the food consumed in ten days is enough, and the food that can be carried for a month is only the transport volume of more than [-] large sheepskin rafts.

Chen Ying can also see the kind of giant sheepskin rafts in later generations. A heavy truck can pull cargo, weighing nearly [-] to [-] tons, and it can swing across the river with a giant sheepskin raft.

Xu Jingzong also felt that Chen Ying was a bit too whimsical, but Chen Ying insisted on doing this, so he let it go.If you want Xu Jingzong to follow Wei Zheng's advice, I'm afraid Xu Jingzong will never do this.

Chen Ying learned from Cao Cao's tactics in the Battle of Chibi, connecting several sheepskin rafts together to form a larger sheepskin raft.

Some people will definitely say that this kind of huge sheepskin raft that is inconvenient to move, if the enemy fires.If Chen could not protect his food road with more than 1 cavalry, he could hang himself.

There are many people and strength, Chen Ying took advantage of the fact that it was not busy at this time, and all the girls and daughters-in-law in Lingzhou and the eighteen towns of Lingzhou were gathered together, and the tanned leather was sewn into a barrel-shaped bag. After sealing, blow in air, and then seal the valve.

Chen Ying also mobilized the artisans under Lin Chuanfu's command to work overtime to build the raft. The raft was twelve feet long and six feet wide, and more than [-] sheepskin airbags were installed on the raft.After testing, such a sheepskin raft can carry more than two thousand stones.

Seeing this result, everyone's eyes popped out.

"That's okay too?"

Chen Ying's brain is obviously different from that of people in this era. Whose leather bag can hold a mast?

But Chen Ying dared to pretend. He set up a tripod on the front, middle and back of the raft, fixed the mast to form a mast about four feet high, and wrapped the tent cloth to form a huge soft sail. When the wind is right, this huge sheepskin raft can sail quickly.

With sufficient manpower, Chen Ying's plan can be implemented smoothly.Just like making dumplings, in just three days, 33 huge sheepskin rafts were built.

Chen Ying originally planned that the troops could save horsepower and manpower and travel upstream along the Yellow River on sheepskin rafts. However, contrary to Chen Ying's expectations, these soldiers of the Lingwu Army would rather jolt on horseback than take sheepskin rafts.

Only then did Chen Ying suddenly realize that the Turkic people were all landlubbers.However, Chen Ying didn't force others to make things difficult, he just let him go.

There are also some soldiers of the Dingyuan Army who are not afraid of getting fainted, pulling their blindfolded horses onto the huge sheepskin rafts. They ride on the sheepskin rafts, looking at the soldiers of the Lingwu Army marching slowly on the shore, what do they think? I feel like these soldiers of the Lingwu Army are a bunch of fools with a broken brain
(End of this chapter)