King of Liao at the end of Han Dynasty

Chapter 961
"Shi Yuan don't want to comfort me anymore!" Shaking his head with a wry smile, Li Lin sighed helplessly: "Yuan Zhi is right, let a fleet go out quietly, save trouble and effort! This is my oversight, I don't have time to think about it So I ordered that Shi Yuan don’t have to defend me!” As he spoke, Li Lin scolded himself, “You’re so stupid, you think you’ve got your way, and you’re so confident that you ordered the rocket launch………

"Let's go!" Shaking his head, Li Lin waved his hand. Xia Houba immediately pushed Li Lin back, and Pang Tong, Xu Shu, and Zhao Yun followed immediately. Although Li Lin was a little disappointed, he didn't seem to succeed when he thought of Zhuge Liang. It's a little bit better.As he was walking, Li Lin seemed to have thought of something. Under Pang Tong's suspicious eyes, he suddenly stopped, turned his head and stared at the river, his eyes were flickering. Could it be that Zhuge Liang didn't borrow the arrow this time with a straw boat? ?

Instead, when Li Lin was in doubt, Zhuge Liang and Lu Su had just escaped. I am afraid this time, Zhuge Liang was in the most embarrassing time in his life. It was stained with dust everywhere, but in contrast to Lu Su, he was also drenched all over.Not only was the crown lost, but his face was also blackened by the fire, giving him a dejected look.

"Haha!" Looking at each other's embarrassed appearance, the two looked at each other and smiled.Facts have proved that Li Lin's tens of thousands of rockets almost killed Zhuge Liang and Lu Su. Right now, they are sitting in a small boat and heading towards Xiakou.I have to say that Lu Su deserves to be a gentleman of sincerity. Even though he was so embarrassed by Zhuge Liang, he still looked calm and looked back at the place where the boat stopped just now.Looking at the faint light on that side, Lu Su shook his head and smiled wryly, "I almost lost my life, it's dangerous, I didn't expect the rockets to be so dense!"

"Hehe! That's right!" Zhuge Liang nodded in agreement. There was no look of distress on his face, which was in stark contrast to Lu Su beside him. The kerosene in the Liao camp is almost exhausted right now, but Zijing and I have suffered a lot..."

Recalling what happened just now, just watching Zhuge Liang discovering thousands of rockets fired from the Liao camp, he still had the leisure to joke with Lu Su, we can see that he did not expect to be seen through in the middle of the trip, Zhuge Liang was a little bit like Li Lin It is very similar, there is thinking about victory before thinking about defeat, that is to say, Zhuge Liang dared to go to the Liao camp to borrow arrows so boldly, of course he also thought that his strategy would be seen by his old friends Pang Tong or Xu Shu , but Zhuge Liang never thought that it was Li Lin who reacted first and not others. Zhuge Liang had already thought of such a thing when he set off the rocket. The soldiers under Liu Qi's command, who were preparing for this matter, took water and drenched all the straw figures on the forty warships, and then took water to the sides of the ship's sides. It's addictive.As for the rest of the ship, Zhuge Liang also asked Liu Qi to send someone to repeatedly smear it with mud and water, in order to guard against the Liao army. He was too persistent, and actually released nearly [-] to [-] rockets, [-] to [-] rockets, the heat of which was enough to blow the drenched straw figures, and then the sails, and the warship itself...

In just the second round of salvo, Zhuge Liang's forty warships had already been ignited by the rockets. Seeing this, he had no choice but to order to abandon the ship, and asked the soldiers on board to board the Zoke hung by ropes behind the warship. He was very cautious. He saw that it was not easy for the big ships to turn around. He was afraid that things would change suddenly, so he purposely hung a reel with ropes behind each big ship. After all, there were only three or forty soldiers on the big ships. Still able to sit down, so, of the forty big ships, more than twenty ships were broken in the blink of an eye, and the remaining ten ships were also smoked. When they were forced to abandon the big ships, in fact Zhuge Liang , Lu Su, and the rest of the soldiers did not leave by boat, but deliberately pretended to scream, so as not to let Li Lin see the flaw.

Firstly, Zhuge Liang was even more worried about Li Lin's encirclement and suppression at this moment, so he asked the soldiers to scream on purpose, in order to appease Li Lin; Military supplies, that's good too!Of course, this was Lu Su's idea, and Zhuge Liang naturally didn't think so.Lowering his head and straightening his clothes, Lu Su sat upright on the boat, looked behind him, remembered the thrill just now, and finally heaved a sigh of relief. When he turned around, he saw Zhuge Liang looking at the river in a daze, sighed in his heart, and hesitantly advised : "Kong Ming, under such circumstances, it is not easy to save one's life. Don't think too much about it. I will tell Gongjin the truth about this matter and excuse Kong Ming!"

"Excuse me?" Zhuge Liang turned around and asked in surprise, "Why are you excused?"

"Ah?" Feeling a bit inexplicable, Lu Su said in surprise: "Of course it's about the arrows. Although Kong Ming's plan is ingenious, it's a pity that the people in the Liao camp saw through it. There are only three and a half days left in the seven-day agreement. Kong Ming And how to make [-] arrows in a hurry? Cough cough, sorry, this plan is very ingenious, but unfortunately it failed, maybe it was God's will, Kong Ming don't think too much!"

"Failed?" Seeing Lu Su's words, Zhuge Liang had a little smile on his face, and Ye Yu said, "That's not necessarily true!"

"Huh?" Lu Su was puzzled, but Zhuge Liang turned around and glanced at the river, suddenly stretched out his hand to explore in the water, and when he took it back.There is an extra arrow in his hand.

Suddenly, Lu Su's face was startled, and he leaned over to look at the river for a while, and then looked at the arrows floating on the river in disbelief, and murmured: "Could it be..."

"Ah!" Zhuge Liang smiled slightly, stood up and looked downstream, and murmured, "It's almost there, Zijing should be able to see it!"

"What do you see?" Lu Su subconsciously said, following Zhuge Liang's eyes, he saw dozens of small boats parked in the downstream direction, and as the distance gradually approached, Lu Su's eyes gradually widened.

As the sun rose slowly from the east, the fog on the river gradually dissipated. Dozens of warships in the downstream direction lined up in two rows and stopped in the middle of the river, as if connected by something in the middle.

"That's..." Seeming to see through Lu Su's doubts, Zhuge Liang said seriously: "Sew the canvas together and put more holes in it, so as not to cause the river to flow through the holes through the four corners of the curtain. Tie ropes and hang them separately. On the four big boats, let two of the four big boats be in front and two behind. A big stone was tied to the screen of the two big boats in front, and then the rope was slowly loosened so that the screen was immersed in the water. The weight of the boulders tied, the whole curtain is inclined. It is easy to salvage the arrows rushing down from the upstream!"

"This..." Even Lu Su, who was extremely resourceful, obviously didn't understand, but Zhuge Liang continued to talk while looking at the river.

"The arrows used by the Liao Army, except for the arrow clusters made of bronze and iron, the arrow shafts are made of bamboo and wood. In order for the arrows to shoot farther, the arrow shafts have been exposed to sunlight to remove the water, which is very light; and Arrow feathers are made of bird feathers, and can also float on water; more importantly, the arrow clusters. The Liao Army arrow clusters also follow the method of the Qin State, but they are manufactured in large quantities. Compared with the Qin State arrow clusters, the Liao Army arrow clusters are smaller. Speaking of which, although these arrows cannot completely float on the water surface within a certain period of time, they will not even sink in the river. We have to wait for them to sink. I am afraid that they will not sink until the arrow shafts and arrow feathers are immersed in the water for a long time. And this place is only three to five miles away from the place where the arrow fell into the river, and it has not been soaked in the water for many hours. If it is salvaged in time..."

While listening to Zhuge Liang's words in awe, Lu Su was amazed at the many Xiakou soldiers sitting and busying here...

After explaining something, he boarded the big ship with Lu Su, and Zhuge Liang ordered the soldiers on the warship to hang up the four corners of the curtain. Sure enough, there were countless arrows and dozens of warships. …………

Afterwards, when Lu Su told Zhou Yu about this matter, Zhou Yu's expression was a little weird, frowning and thinking for a while, but he took out a letter from the case and handed it to Lu Su, and said calmly: "I don't have time to worry about other things, you And I sent someone to send this letter to Cai Mao in the Liao camp. In addition, I deliberately asked Li Lin to know the soldiers who were sent! His family will have my Duke Zhou take care of him in the future, and he will definitely not treat him badly!" He took Zhou Yu's hand in amazement. When the letter came, the joy on Lu Su's face had long since disappeared, and his eyes were gloomy. Looking at the letter in his hand, he sighed secretly...

sometimes.Because of being too attached to something.Thus ignoring the others.It was a pity that what was originally a surefire thing turned out to be a waste of opportunity, like a duck that was on the verge of its mouth, and it flew away.Taking Xu Shu's words as an example, he really didn't understand why Li Lin still followed the original steps when he knew that the other party was playing tricks.Wouldn't it be faster to send a fleet?Li Lin was speechless. In fact, he was quite confused after the incident. Why did he seem to be possessed by an evil spirit at the beginning and seek far away?After thinking about it, he still couldn't come up with an idea. 20 arrows, for Li Lin, who is now rich and powerful, is really a drop in the bucket, not worth mentioning. Even for the consumption of fire oil in the camp, Li Lin just ordered to go to Jiangling to transfer some.

Later, Li Lin heard that Zhuge Liang had a canvas downstream to salvage all the arrows that he shot into the water. There were no less than 10,000+ arrows. Li Lin felt even more depressed. He originally wanted to give Zhuge Liang a big loss. , I didn’t expect Zhuge Liang to pick up the borrowed arrows from the grass boat, and he was fully aware of it. Of course, Li Lin didn’t see Zhuge Liang and Lu Su climbing up from the river. If Li Lin saw it, it would probably be enough for Li Lin to be happy for a while.

On August 24th of the sixth year of Chengye, Cheng Yu arrived in Hanyang from Jizhou and met with everyone. At this time, Li Lin's top counselors were almost assembled, Pang Tong and Xu Shu were the main ones, Cheng Yu, Guo Tu, and Kuai Yue were Auxiliary, and these veterans who fought on the battlefield, plus Li Lin, who has a brain that has surpassed a thousand years, it can be said that Li Lin's lineup is definitely much stronger than Cao Cao who went south back then.

Li Lin immediately summoned his advisers to discuss the matter of marching troops. During the period, Guo Tu briefly described the recent events. Li Lin took the lead in asking Cheng Yu who had just arrived. After thinking deeply, he said with a smile: "I'm afraid, Jiang Dong and Liu Bei should be more worried now, why should my lord be anxious?"

While Li Lin was stunned, Pang Tong also cupped his hands and said, "Master Cheng's words are very true, I second my opinion!" After listening to Li Lin, he thought about it carefully and understood the meaning of the two, just as Pang Tong mentioned earlier. In the past, Li Lin's force to drive the north and lead the crowd to take Jiangdong has far surpassed that of Jiangdong. Now Sun Quan and Liu Bei's troops are all facing the Liao army across the river, and the battle is in a stalemate.Compared with the powerful Li Lin, Jiang Dong and Liu Bei can't afford it.

First of all, regarding food and grass, although the Liao army is also worried about food and grass, don't forget that Sun and Liu have more than 40 soldiers and horses, but the food and grass are far less than the Liao army.On this point, the two sides are almost the same.Secondly, is the military strength. The Liao army has hundreds of thousands of people, [-] are stationed in Hanyang, Wulin and other places, and [-] are stationed in Shiyang. He could only shrink back to defend and was tired of coping. Again, it was the strength of the soldiers. Li Lin was stronger than the army and weaker than the navy. In other words, the strength of the Jingzhou navy is catching up with the Jiangdong navy. In other words, Jiangdong's superiority in the navy is being approached by the Liao army little by little. , given time.Jiangdong may be defeated without a fight.

Li Lin led the leader lightly, and he lowered his head to think carefully. In fact, in terms of battles, he tends to use troops early and succeed early, and he dislikes procrastinating the battle. On this point, he has roughly the same meaning as everyone else.

Xu Miao, who was in charge of food supplies, suddenly appeared and said, "Zhong De is right, but if we continue to fight, our army's supplies and supplies may not be enough!"

"This..." Cheng Yu has no doubts about him. Of course, what Xu Miao said is definitely not false. Moreover, Xu Miao has been helping Li Lin master the army's food and grass for many years. There will be no mistakes in the calculations. In fact, he is proud of himself. Since the large amount of food in Jingzhou has been stored, the Liao army has rarely been in a situation of being full of food, grass and military pay. Well, although it is full, it has only reached the end of this year, so that's it.It's not like Xu Miao was talking nonsense.

Looking at Cheng Yu, Pang Tong sighed slightly, shook his head and said: "If the food and grass are not enough, we can only fight quickly!"

"That's right!" Li Lin clapped his hands and said, "Even if Sun and Liu joined hands, it would only be a mere 50 soldiers, while our army has as many as [-] soldiers. Wouldn't it be a joke to the world if we stopped moving forward? Today The reason why I invite you to discuss is to come up with a clever strategy so as to capture Jiangdong!"

After everyone listened, they looked at each other and remained silent. After all, the reason why a good strategy is a good strategy is not something that can be easily obtained.

"What does Shi Yuan mean?" Li Lin asked Pang Tong with a smile.

Pang Tong understood that Li Lin still cared a little about Zhuge Liang's success the day before yesterday. Hearing Li Lin's words, Pang Tong thought, "I'm an old friend who makes my lord angry a little bit!"

Immediately Pang Tong could only cup his hands and said: "This subject thinks that...the battle should be resolved quickly!"

"En!" Li Lin nodded, and said to Pang Tong: "It seems that Shi Yuan thinks so!"

It is a pity that in Li Lin's mind, Guo Tu and Kuai Yue are not as important as Pang Tong, Cheng Yu, Xu Shu and others. It is only Li Lin, Pang Tong, and Xu Shu who really decide the war. Li Lin is impatient, of course he wanted to fight the Sun Liu coalition army quickly.

The next day, Zhou Yu wrote a letter of war to Li Lin, which contained many sarcasm, which aroused Li Lin's fury, and immediately asked Cai Mao to prepare the warship.An hour later, Li Lin personally boarded the ship to supervise the battle this time. Of course, Xia Houba pushed the wheelchair up, and Hua Tuo followed him all the time.

Now that Li Lin was there, Cai Mao did not dare to slack off. He drove more than [-] warships to the Red Cliff. On the way, he saw the Jiangdong fleet in the distance.

"Hehe!" When he saw the big flag of the Jiangdong Fleet in the distance, Li Lin chuckled and shouted angrily: "What do you mean that the river is calm and the waves are good for your army recently! That Zhou Yu kid is so arrogant, even Our army is not afraid of strong winds and waves!" What Li Lin said, of course, was what Zhou Yu said in his letter of war to Li Lin. He deliberately set the day for today to take care of Li Lin. If he is so annoying, how can he Can you tell Li Lin not to be angry?

"Zhou Yu's move is just to provoke the lord to fight!" Cheng Yu said with a smile beside him.

"Don't I know?" Li Lin laughed loudly, patted the armrest of the wheelchair, and said with a sneer: "The Jingzhou navy under my command is not the soft persimmon of the past. When I defeat Zhou Yu's son... Humph! Cai Mao! "

Following the sound of footsteps, Cai Mao hurriedly came from not far away, clasped his fists in response and said, "The end is here!"

Taking a deep look at Cai Mao, Li Lin said in a deep voice, "I place high hopes on you, don't ask Zhou Yu to show off in front of me!"

"The last general obeys orders!" Cai Mao clasped his fists in response, waved his flag, and lined up on the river.What is different from the past is that it is not Zhang Yun, Cai Zhong, Cai He and others who are supervising the battle in the navy, but Li Lin's generals Tai Shici, Ma Chao, Zhang Nan, Guo Huai and other generals. They are not used to water warfare, but in terms of force, they are far superior to their opponents. Of course, these few warships who are used to riding war horses have a lot to complain about, especially for Northwesterners like Ma Chao, they have suffered a lot... ...

But this is Li Lin's meaning. The generals of the Jingzhou navy are good at water warfare, but they are not as brave as the Jiangdong generals.However, although Li Lin's generals are brave, they are not skilled in water warfare. Therefore, Li Lin mixed up his generals, using Jingzhou navy generals to command ships, and Liao army generals to fight. These brothers, but we can do this first, and we can only persuade them to serve as customer service. That is to say, people like Cai Mao and others only need to command the ships with one line, and hand over the affairs of the enemy to the generals of the Northern Army under Li Lin's command. That's right, in this way, all the generals will perform their duties, and the chances of winning will naturally be greatly improved.

"Zhou Yu can't help being impatient!" Pang Tong said to Li Lin hesitantly.

"En!" Li Lin nodded. It's not that he didn't understand what Pang Tong meant. Like Li Lin, he hoped for a quick victory.

Looking intently at the Jiangdong warship in the distance, he found something strange and murmured, "My lord, this Jiangdong warship seems a little weird!"

"Weird?" Li Lin looked around, his face full of astonishment.In the distance, Jiangdong warships were connected together with iron cables and covered with wooden planks, and all the ships advanced side by side.There are many archers on board, drawing arrows and ready to go...

"Serial ship?" Li Lin suddenly screamed, staring at the distance, his eyes flashed brightly, as if he understood something...

"What's wrong with Zhou Yu this time..." Obviously, Cai Mao also saw the unusual features of the Jiangdong warship, and he was very puzzled.In the eyes of Cai Mao, who is proficient in water warfare, Zhou Yu's actions at this moment are obviously very stupid.The water battle on the river focuses on mobility. If the generals are connected by iron cables, they will obviously lose their mobility!
But in any case, with only one face-to-face time, the Liao army was still at a disadvantage, much faster than ever before.With more than [-] warships as a team, the Jiangdong navy sailed forward. The first to confront it was the front of the navy led by Zhang Yun. As Cai Mao's deputy, Zhang Yun was naturally also a person who was proficient in water warfare. Wait until he sees Jiangdong ships coming.Immediately command the ships to fight, the strategy used is to make the two-wing fleet resist the two wings of the Jiangdong warships, put the front army of the Jiangdong ships in, and attack from three sides.In terms of strategy, Zhang Yun made no mistakes, but the situation was far beyond his expectations.Unlike previous battles.The Jiangdong two-wing fleet did not slow down after approaching the Liao army warship.Instead, he ordered the crossbowmen on the ship to release arrows, and at the same time, they rammed straight at them.As Zhang Yun's eyes became more and more shocked.The two-wing warships of the Liao army were knocked into chaos by the two-wing warships of Jiangdong. In the blink of an eye, dozens of warships were knocked into pieces of wood, and the Liao army on board panicked.They all fell into the water.

"This..." Zhang Yun couldn't help being a little panicked. He waved his flag and shouted loudly, "Block it! Stop it!" Even so, the Jiangdong warships connected by iron cables are not the Liao army. Comparable warships?Almost without any strategy, the Jiangdong fleet advanced all the way, but the Liao army's ships were smashed to pieces one after another by it.The Liao army on the ship screamed one after another.

"I didn't expect Zhou Yu to have such a wonderful technique?" Pang Tong, who didn't understand water warfare, murmured.

"Really?" Li Lin said lightly.

"Eh?" Pang Tong glanced at Li Lin suspiciously, but saw that his brows were furrowed, obviously thinking about something.

Naturally, Cai Mao also saw the tragic situation on the two wings.Glancing secretly at Li Lin, he saw him staring intently into the distance. Li Lin got angry, and hurriedly waved his flag and shouted: "Order Cai Zhong and Cai He, the Chinese army, to rescue the two wings!"

After several passes, the order finally reached Cai Zhong and Cai He. They discussed with Guo Huai and Zhang Nan on their respective ships, and hurriedly changed their formation to rescue the two-wing fleet of the Liao Army. Later, the situation of the Liao army was even more critical.It's nothing more than today's Jiangdong warships, which have changed their previous strategy of retreating at the touch of a button, and even fought head-on with the Liao army. The Jiangdong warships formed a team of more than [-] ships and marched forward. The momentum, even when encountering a Liao army warship, did not turn around, but went straight forward. Under such circumstances, the Liao army warship retreated steadily.The Liao army on board was knocked into the water one after another, what's more, even the warship was smashed and sank in the river.

"This...how is this possible!" Looking intently at the battle situation in the distance, everyone around Li Lin was extremely surprised. Although they were not familiar with water battles, they had been fighting Jiangdong here for so many days after all. He also understood the process of water warfare, and Guo Tu was surprised and puzzled: "Why did our army capsize when it was hit, but the soldiers on the Jiangdong warship were not damaged at all? The soldiers are naturally turned on their backs!"

"Balance!" Li Lin said with a dark face, "Jiangdong warships use iron cables to connect dozens of warships in one place and cross the river. In terms of balance, it is naturally more than one ship. What's more , I am afraid that the Jiangdong battleship has strengthened the front side, otherwise, even if it is balanced, it will not be able to smash our ship!"

"Oh? Your lord still understands such a principle?" Kuai Yue asked in surprise after hearing Li Lin's explanation. As a native of Jingzhou, Kuai Yue didn't even understand the principle of balance.

Kuai Yue murmured a few words, wondering: "Looking at the situation here, if the warships are joined together in this way, even in the face of strong winds and waves, the soldiers on board will still be walking on flat ground?"

Pang Tong suddenly interjected and said, "Yes, even in strong winds and waves, as long as there are enough ships connected, the soldiers on board will be able to walk on flat ground!"

"Huh?" Turning his head in astonishment, Li Lin looked at Pang Tong suspiciously, and said in surprise, "What Guan Shiyuan said, seems that Shiyuan knew this method a long time ago?"

"Exactly!" Pang Tong nodded, and said solemnly: "This method is called serial ship!"

After looking at Pang Tong in confusion for a while, Li Lin hesitated and said, "You are..."

As if seeing Li Lin's doubts, Pang Tong said in a low voice: "My lord! There are advantages and disadvantages in everything! This method is not based on dispatching troops and horses, rehearsing formations, and more importantly..."

Glancing at Li Lin, Pang Tong suddenly felt that Li Lin's eyes seemed to have been known for a long time, so he stopped his mouth. Li Lin smiled lightly, and then Pang Tong said: "The most important thing is that if you use this method, you can pull a hair But move the whole body, if the opponent uses fire, wouldn't our army's more than a thousand warships be destroyed in the blink of an eye?"

Pang Tongtong heard that Li Lin not only understood this method, but also seemed to understand the principle of this method very well, and immediately bowed to Li Lin and said, "My lord is wise!" Is it because Pang Tong will know the principle of this serial ship?Even Li Lin on the side was a little puzzled that it was normal for him to cross over, but this Pang Tong is not, oh...that's right, isn't the strategy of serial boats in history just because of Pang Tong's fooling around, of course Pang Tong knows this method The pros and cons, actually Li Lin doesn't know, there is also a great man named Liao Li......

(End of this chapter)