Yuan Shao, the father of Fanghua in the Three Kingdoms

Chapter 825 Beyond the Times

Now Yuan Xi's navy has occupied the coast of Donglai. Lu Xun's navy and Tian Yu's navy have joined forces. Lu Xun blocked the Qingzhou coast and attacked Yuan Tan's ships. Yuan Xi himself temporarily garrisoned at Dongwu in Donglai County, while attacking landlords to divide their fields. , while mobilizing troops to harass the main roads of Qingzhou counties and harass Yuan Tan.

He was not worried about Yuan Tan coming to fight. If the other party did this, the soldiers would be exhausted, but Yuan Xi fought whenever he wanted, and left by boat if he didn't want to fight, leaving Yuan Tan's army in vain.

So now, even if Yuan Tan knows that Yuan Xi is in the East China Sea, he can only endure it for fear of trying to lure the tiger away from the mountain. His biggest goal is to find Yuan Xi's main force for a decisive battle.

Now the confrontation between the two sides has become the weirdest war in the past few years. Both sides have done a lot of things, but they just haven't started fighting.

Yuan Xi also had his own predicament. When he learned that the main force of Cao's army was still confronting the Jizhou army in Dongjun, and only sent cavalry into Jizhou and Xuzhou to harass, he said to Zhuge Liang: "Things have indeed turned out like this."

"If we really let the opponent break into the hinterland of Xuzhou and Jianghuai, it will definitely cause many casualties."

Zhuge Liang said: "Indeed, at the beginning of the Han Dynasty, the Xiongnu repeatedly looted, which made it difficult for the Han court to deal with it."

"After all, the cavalry is fast and can cause a lot of damage in a very short period of time. It can also evacuate quickly, making it impossible to defend against."

"So if you want to stop this method of warfare, you must find the whereabouts of the cavalry, and you must send troops to stop it before it moves, or intercept it before it escapes. Only then can it be considered an effective response."

"But this condition is really difficult to achieve, because to find the enemy, we can only rely on sight and convey messages, and we also use horses like cavalry. At most, we can only stay even, so how can we get ahead of them?"

"So the most feasible way at that time was to predict the target that the enemy cavalry wanted to plunder and set up an ambush in advance."

"But this can only be said to be a matter of resignation. After all, if the opponent's thoughts are so easy to guess, there won't be so many uncertain surprises on the battlefield."

Yuan Xi sighed: "That's true. Can the military advisor do it?"

Zhuge Liang asked: "Liang dare to ask my lord, can my lord's stargazing technique be able to achieve this?"

Yuan Xi answered honestly: "It can't be done."

"All I can see are big things that have been transformed into small incidents that are scattered and scattered, and can only be dealt with by the art of war and strategy."

Zhuge Liang smiled and said: "That's it, I am the same."

"However, those seemingly impossible conditions I mentioned earlier, with the conditions in the hands of the Lord, can solve quite a few of them to some extent."

"If combined with enemy situation prediction, the range of choices can be narrowed and enemy aircraft can be predicted first."

"Liang didn't expect it at first, but my lord actually likes craftsmanship. For example, the flying lamp coincides with Liang."

"Liang was reading at night with a candle, and accidentally saw a feather on the fan falling off, but rising half an inch above the candle flame. At that time, the door was closed and there was no wind. He meditated hard and realized that the heat rises and moves light things. principle."

"Although Liang later tried to make a prototype of the fire lantern, it was not as complete and effective as the fire lantern that you used when you attacked the city."

Yuan Xi sweated profusely. Of course what Kong Ming was talking about was the Kongming lantern that Yuan Xi used when he attacked the city at night. The key is that this lantern was actually named after Zhuge Liang in later generations. He was plagiarizing it to his face.

He could only laugh and said: "The truth is that different paths lead to the same goal. After seeing the telescope, the military advisor was able to come up with a way to use it in conjunction with a fire lantern, which really amazed me."

Zhuge Liang shook his head and said: "The idea is not yet mature, it may not be effective, and it may also be a failed idea."

"Currently we can only try to change it from two aspects, but Liang is not confident that it will succeed."

What Yuan Xi said was that after Zhuge Liang saw the telescope and the Kongming Lantern before, he said that if the two could be combined, and the Kongming Lantern would be flown into the sky with a telescope, the scope of the telescope would be greatly increased. If it could be transmitted back to the eyes of people on the ground Here, the situation on the vast battlefield will be clearly visible.

If the Youzhou Army can grasp the situation on the battlefield at any time and dispatch troops and generals in a timely manner, who else in the world can be their opponent?

When Yuan Xi heard this, he was very surprised. Isn't this the drone of later generations?

However, he did not hold out hope for this method at first, because Yuan Xi understood that there was an insurmountable difficulty in the process.

How to transmit telescope images to the ground.

If there are cameras in later generations, or lines for transmitting models, this problem will certainly be easy to solve, but this technology requires too much front-end technology, which is almost impossible to achieve in this era.

Zhuge Liang once thought of adding a mirror behind the telescope to reflect it. This was inspired by the periscope mentioned by Yuan Xi, but obviously at this time, the hand-polished bronze mirror could not do it.

Moreover, it is dozens of feet high from the ground, and the requirements for such a long pipe for placing a bronze mirror are also very high, so in the end Zhuge Lai temporarily gave up on this idea and turned to the second solution.

Since the scenery from the telescope cannot be passed down, let people go up and see it!

What Zhuge Liang is trying now is to make the Kongming Lantern big enough to take people up and use telescopes to see the enemy's situation in person!

Yuan Xi was even more shocked after hearing this. Zhuge Liang even had ideas for future hot air balloon investigations!

But Yuan Xi, who had studied junior high school physics, knew that hydrogen could not be produced. Using hot air alone to drive a hot air balloon and the human body required extremely high requirements for the size and strength of the balloon.

But he didn't want to pour cold water on Zhuge Liang. After all, new inventions are made step by step, breaking through the critical point of unusability. Sometimes the invention of technology is important, but the improvement of existing technology can also solve many problems.

What Zhuge Liang is currently experimenting with is how to make a large and lightweight hot air balloon. The strength of silk is low and the linen is too heavy. He also has to work hard to reduce the weight of the load, which makes Zhuge Liang quite troublesome.

He said aloud: "My lord, the telescope is what really changes the battlefield. However, Yuan Qingzhou also has it, so we can only try our best to maintain our advantage over him."

Yuan Xi said with shame: "It's all my fault. We were still allies at the time, so I gave it to him as a gift."

Zhuge Liang replied: "It doesn't matter, there is only one." "You can't make it if you don't know the method and principle. Unless the master explains the principle clearly, there are only a few people who can imitate it."

"And if we can figure out a solution to the problem of telescopes and fire lanterns, it will be a great achievement, because if the fire lanterns can carry people, we can detect the enemy's situation in a large territory."

"This can not only be used in battles, but can also prevent foreign invasions. Wherever they come from in the future, they can be blocked within the pass. Foreign invasion of the rear will no longer be an impossible problem to solve!"

What Zhuge Liang mentioned are all very real problems. They are a major problem faced by the frontier fortress now, and they are also the number one foreign problem that Yuan Xi wants to solve.

The Great Wall in the North experienced wars and was mostly damaged. Although Yuan Xi sent people to repair it, to be honest, most of the Great Wall in this world was not high and could only block a small group of foreign bandits.

How did they cross the Great Wall when foreigners invaded in large numbers?

The most effective method has happened many times in history.

Dig the city wall directly.

With the tools, a few thousand men could dig out a gap in the Great Wall in just half a day for the cavalry to charge into.

The Great Wall was unable to cope without enough soldiers to garrison it. By the time the beacon tower sent a message and reinforcements arrived, the nomads had already robbed the pass.

Therefore, if you want to stop the foreign army, you must find out the enemy's situation in advance and block it outside the pass. Foreign invasion will gradually become a very real problem as the climate becomes colder in the next ten years. That's why Zhuge Liang is so anxious to solve it. Problems with high-altitude balloon telescopes.

Yuan Xi was moved in his heart and said: "It's hard for the military advisor to think so long-term. We don't need to be in a hurry. Let's go step by step in a down-to-earth manner."

Zhuge Liang smiled and said: "My lord, this kind of demeanor that is neither arrogant nor impetuous is what Liang admires."

Zhuge Liang discussed the military situation with Yuan Xi again, and then returned to the small courtyard next to the official residence. This was a small courtyard with several rooms, where only he, Huang Yueying and a few children lived.

As soon as he returned to the house, he saw Huang Yueying with a flushed face, sitting angrily in front of the window and sulking, so he said, "What's wrong, madam?"

Huang Yueying gritted her teeth and said, "I was taken advantage of!"

Zhuge Liang understood it as soon as he guessed it, and said helplessly: "Mrs. Lu?"

"I warned you not to run around. I am also involved in military affairs. What are you going to do to fill in the trouble?"

"And I guess Mrs. Lu won't take the initiative to invite you. You went to provoke her first, right?"

"If you keep thinking nonsense, it's time for someone to treat you."

Huang Yueying said bitterly: "How do I know she is like that?"

"I just think about it, she really dares to do it!"

Zhuge Liang shook his head helplessly, "It's a war now, so restrain yourself."

"And I also heard something about Mrs. Lu from my lord. Although Marquis Wen's behavior is very controversial, some people even despise his behavior."

"But Madam Lu, as the daughter of Marquis Wen, has been fighting with the lord since she got married. She has been injured many times. She still suffers from tinnitus. Her life span is shortened at such a young age. Her behavior is not bad. You can at least show a minimum of respect. ."

Huang Yueying is depressed. Of course she understands this, but her husband doesn't know that Mrs. Lu is cunning and cunning. The key is that she can't resist!

She was touched all over by accident, and now she had to admit that she was unlucky and said: "My husband is too busy recently. I don't want to disturb him, so I just want to relax."

"Speaking of which, I saw the inventions that my husband and the envoy were talking about on the table. I didn't expect that there are nobles in the world who like these inventions as much as my husband does."

Zhuge nodded and said: "My lord is a very special person. The things he thinks about are far beyond what he can consider at his age."

"But what surprises me the most is his views on the people of the world."

Huang Yueying wondered: "Where can I see it?"

Zhuge briefly talked about Yuan Xi's harassment tactics and Yuan Tan Cao Cao's cavalry robbery tactics. Huang Yueying didn't react for a while and asked: "There seems to be no difference between these two tactics?"

Zhuge Liang said solemnly: "No, there is one fundamental difference."

"Yuan Tan and Cao Cao are targeting the common people. Even if there are many people in the world in the future, they will poison their own people and will be infamy for thousands of years."

"And the lord's troops are all aimed at the enemy, with the premise of protecting the local people, even if those people are not in the territory."

"Although this seemed a bit merciful on the battlefield, unexpectedly, the people of Qingzhou began to spontaneously move closer to the lord, helping to convey the message and help stop Yuan Tan and Cao Cao's army."

"Although it is said that kindness does not lead to soldiers, this kind of kindness makes the people spontaneously become soldiers."

(End of this chapter)