Lord of the House

Not long after Lin Fu and the others evacuated to the boat, a large number of Shuizhai boats swarmed from the north. Three Mengchong battle boats took the lead, followed by more than 30 refitted river boats, loach boats, and then It is a large number of fishing boats that are instigated and instigated to the various water villages.

Lin Bie stood on the deck, frowning deeply. Last night, almost no one in Shuizhai Jianyong wore armor. Most of the people charged into the trap with a knife and a knife. At this time, more than 200 people stood on the deck of the three Mengchong warships from Gulang. Jianyong all put on armor, and his hands were also replaced with spears, swords and other sharp weapons made of stainless steel. Jianyong at the bow held a tiger card, and there were dozens of people on both sides of the ship holding bows. The array was larger than last night. Strong and powerful, at first glance, I thought it was an elite water camp from where.

Nearly 700 soldiers of the Qin family’s entourage Wuwei and the Qin family’s military guards hired from the Wufeng Escort were killed in Luoyang Lake. Except for the armored bows and crossbows that were damaged in the fierce battle, the excellent soldiers and armored bows and crossbows captured by the Zhujia Water Villages after the war were also included in the battle. There are not a few, the Shuizhai Jianyong after changing clothes has the scale of elite soldiers. When I think about the bravery and fearlessness of life and death during the fight last night, there is really no elite army that can match it in Jiangdong County. Come.

Fortunately, the number of elite and brave people in Zhujia Water Village is quite limited. In addition to the three Mongolian warships, the six or seven hundred people on the refitted Pahe boat and the Loach boat are equipped with much simpler weapons. Most of the fishing boats that came were fishermen from Hongzepuli, all wearing straw sandals, bare-chested and bare-breasted, but they could not hold simple homemade weapons such as harpoons and bamboo spears.

A Mengchong warship was slightly ahead, three or four hundred steps away from the Dongyang. There was a person standing on the bow, and his appearance was not real, but he was wearing black armor to set off the surrounding water village generals. Very dazzling.

Cao Zi'ang stood beside Lin Fu and said in a low voice, "This person is Liu An'er, the head of the twenty-one water villages. He likes to wear black armor, which is very recognizable..." He and Ge Cunxin disguised as Hongzepu fishermen in Luoyang Lake last night. Fishing in troubled waters also learned more about the water village forces from other Hongzepu fishermen.

"Last night, the Hongzepu Water Village should have used all the troops at the bottom of the tank. After subtracting the casualties, we should be able to make up 3,000 Jianyong. Liu An'er brought less than 1,000 Jianyong people. Are the other leaders turning around for other leaders? Going to attack Sizhou?" Lin Fu asked.

"By capturing Sizhou City, the water villages of the various families will be able to secure the rear in Hongzepu; occupying Shanglinli, they will be able to connect the north and the south, and jointly instigate the refugee forces to act together," Cao Zi'ang sighed slightly, "It is impossible to station troops in Sizhou City. Too much, there is very little chance of being able to save it if the forces of the water village suddenly attack! This Liu An'er is quite ambitious and has a clever mind, we must avoid his forehead."

"I'm just begging him not to attack me now." Lin Bie shrugged and said in a low voice. At this time, he would not take the initiative to touch the bad head of the Shuizhai forces, but he would not be afraid to back down.

At this time, the north wind was westward, and the wind helped the sailboat to travel south. Lin Fu made the six Wupeng boats of the Xihehui set sail first and entered the Shiliang River south of Shanglindu. The fleeing people were gathered along the bank, and the Dongyang sailed halfway down. With five fast oars guarding at the mouth of the river branch and confronting the water village boats.

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At dawn, they were attacked by horse thieves. Although the people in Shanglin were terrified, they still fantasized that the prefecture and county would send officers and soldiers to rescue them. When a large number of lake thieves and Hongzepu fishermen flocked south, they woke up like a dream.

After Lin Bie led the crowd to escape onto the boat, Liu Miaozhen waited for the situation in Shanglinli to be settled, and immediately sent someone to post a notice in Shanglinli. The notice declares that the government has colluded with the gentry and the wealthy family, and they are doing evil things, so that tens of thousands of fishermen and boaters in Hongzepu have no idea. Together with the water villages of various families, Liu An'er is elected as General Shuntian. Since General Shuntian, there are 27 generals. Today Raise the flag of righteousness together to act for the heavens, kill the rich and help the poor.

Lin Fu had cut off contact with the North Bank at this time, and for the time being, he did not know that Liu Miaozhen had posted a notice in Shanglin announcing that the Shuizhai forces had officially raised the banner of "General Shuntian".

The poor and the poor are better, and there is nothing to loot at home, and another water village force is also playing the banner of killing the rich and helping the poor. In addition, Liu Miaozhen also posted a notice to invite the poor people in Shanglin to participate in the event. However, the market in Shanglinli is prosperous, and the landless and poor people and poor households can also rely on the dock to do hard labor to earn a living. They are also heavily influenced by the idea of ​​being loyal to the emperor and abiding by the law. Raising the flag to rebel is not interested, especially when the situation is unclear, most people are closed. Only a few daring and daring households jumped out first and ran to Liu Miaozhen's horse to take the lead and take the lead in robbing the wealthy squires in Shanglin.

In addition to connecting Lin Fu to the boat, the other squires and wealthy households and small industrial households in Shanglin immediately panicked. There were many thieves. , dragged his family and his mouth with gold and silver and wanted to escape from Shanglinli, only to find that there was no way to escape on the north bank of Shanglindu.

Although the six Wu Peng boats of the Xihe Society were crowded together and could pick up seven or eight hundred people to take refuge in Jiangning, but Liu Miaozhen led his troops to guard the north bank, and thousands of water village Jianyong and Hongzepu fishermen could also quickly When they landed on the north bank, Lin Fu only dared to send six Wupeng boats from the Xihehui to the south of Shanglindu to receive the fleeing people.

In Shanglin, there are dozens of families in the city because of the river. In addition to the Lin people, there are 70 or 80 families who are rich because of businessmen. These 70 or 80 families form a large deep house compound on the north bank of Shanglindu, even in Shiliang County. have not been so prosperous. In addition to strategically instigating the displaced people on both sides of the Shiliang River, the occupation of Shanglinli alone can loot the seventy or eighty rich households, and the water villages of these families can obtain a large amount of money for recruiting troops.

Lin Bie covered the Lin family to evacuate the Lin family's mansion. There were more than 5,000 taels of gold shipped from the Lin family's silver cellar on a wheelbarrow, and more than 90,000 taels of silver cakes that were privately raised and stamped with the Jialin mark. The Lin family still has several houses in Shanglin, and each house has a silver cellar. Although the hidden silver is not as good as that of the big house, the total amount is quite considerable. Can only be cheaper Hongzepu Water Village.

In addition to taking people from the south bank of Shanglindu to Jiangning for refuge, Lin Fu also wants to bring as many Gu family members to Jiangning as possible. On the one hand, he takes care of Gu Yingxiu's emotions.

No one thought that the disaster of war would spread so quickly and tragically. When Lin Fu went ashore in the forest in the early morning, he sent people to Hutang in a roundabout way to inform the Gu family to flee south to avoid the disaster. At this time, the Gu family had not come to meet. , Lin Fu can't withdraw from Shanglin immediately. Besides, Lin Tingli didn't send a message from Shiliang County. If Lin Tingli dared to lead the nearly 1,000 Dongyang Ma infantry elites assembled in Shiliang County to attack Shanglinli, Lin Fu didn't want Shanglinli to fall into the hands of the Shuizhai forces. After all, cutting off the connection between the water village forces and the refugee forces on both sides of the Shiliang River will limit the influence of the water village forces to the maximum extent in the area around Hongzepu, and prevent the entire Jianghuai land from being involved in the tragic military disaster.

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Liu Miaozhen sat quietly on the horseback, staring at the water in the direction of Dongyang.

The three Mengchong warships and other boats in the water villages were moored on the west bank of Shiheliang. An old general with a black and white beard came ashore on a small boat, and was surrounded by more than ten soldiers to the ferry to join Liu Miaozhen. Mei looked at Dongyang and said nothing.

Lin Fu seconded more than a dozen sailors from the Xihe Club to control the Dongyang. The more than 50 elites brought to the forest on this trip were all pierced with armor and armed with blades. In addition, the remaining combat power of the Dongyang was defeated by Zhao Neng's stealing camp last night, and more than 50 rural braves that were successively collected today were temporarily restrained by Zhao Hu, and the others, including the Qin family and the Lin family, were hidden in the There was no sign of them on the deck in the cabin.

Lin Jiyuan, Zhao Qingshan, Chen Shouyan and others led the three hundred reorganized five teams of Xiangyong to board five fast oar boats, and these five fast oar boats also had more than 120 oars to control the boats.

On the top deck of the stern cabin of the Dongyang, the lighthouse has been withdrawn, and a wooden frame is fixed at this time. The wooden frame is tied with a bundle of thick ropes. The sky is like a scorpion's stinger. A leather pocket hangs from the end of the stinger, and a winch is installed on both sides of the wooden shelf where the thick rope is connected.

The veteran has a lot of experience in this life. Although the wooden rack on the deck of Dongyang's stern is very different from the catapult he has seen before, there are many stone bombs stacked next to the wooden rack, so he can be sure of this. Just a small catapult.

The veteran looked at it from a distance and thought it was strange, and then he went to the ferry to see it more realistically. I didn't expect this son of Lin Fu to install the catapult on the Dongyang.

"Uncle," Liu Miaozhen asked, "Lin Bie won't retreat for a day, do we want to tolerate him like this for a day?"

The veteran is Liu An'er and Liu Miaozhen's brother and sister's uncle Yang Quan. Although he is not the most powerful among the leaders of Hongzepu Water Village, he is also the most prestigious. He frowned and said, "Have you fought with him before, how do you feel about him fighting?"

"The defense is very strict," Liu Miaozhen said. "The forty or fifty people on his ship should be careful with the armor-piercing soldiers, and the Xiang Yong is average..."

"Generally, he is stronger than the people in Shuizhai," Yang Quan said. "You said that he was very defensive. In Luoyang Lake in the early morning, we didn't dare to stop him on the water. Shen Rongzhi was talented and wanted to rectify Dongyang Mansion. Army, the local nobles have not been settled in two years, and Lin Fu may be three points more difficult than Shen Rong - Wu Dang's family has brought people to fight Sizhou, and there is no definite news from there, so we can't fight hard here."

"Lin Tingli can assemble nearly a thousand Dongyang horse infantry in Shiliang County; what if Lin Tingli leads the crowd back to Linli to help him if he persists here for too long?" Liu Miaozhen asked.

"The Dongyang Horse Infantry is a soldier and horse that Shen Rong finally trained, and Lin Tingli, who has a conflict with him, is never allowed to intervene; Shen Rong's life or death is unknown at this time, and it is difficult for Lin Tingli to master this army. Besides, you really think Lin Tingli Do you have the guts to rescue Linli?" Yang Quan asked with a smile, "Even if he has the guts, how many troops do you think he can send to rescue Linli?"

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Many Gu people thought that Lin Fu's message was just alarmist. Only some Gu people took the car to the west bank of Shiliang River to wait for Lin Fu to pick him up, and boarded the Wu Peng boat of Xihehui in time. Lin Fu can only do this step, and he can explain to Gu Wuchen. He can't put a knife on the necks of other Gu family members and force them to get on the boat to Jiangning to avoid disaster. Strong enemies are around, and he can't tell the difference. out so many people.

The situation here is really tense. The water village is twice as strong as them, and most of them are elites. In addition, they have a large number of Hongzepu fishermen to help out, and Lin Bie can't even install a scorpion crossbow in his possession on the tail deck. .

The scorpion crossbow is also a type of catapult.

At present, catapults are mostly of human or animal power-launching type, that is, a large number of soldiers or war horses suddenly pull the cable attached to one end of the lever arm in one direction at the same time, pull up the lever arm and shoot the stone projectile at the other end of the lever arm towards the enemy in a parabola. square. The choice of material for the force arm, the back of the crossbow, is extremely important, otherwise the back of the crossbow would have to be broken by Juli if the bullets were not thrown out.

There is also a heavy-object-launching catapult, which replaces manpower with heavy objects. First, the soldier uses a winch to lift the heavy object attached to one end of the crossbow’s back, and then the other end of the crossbow’s back is loaded with stone bullets, and the heavy object is suddenly released. , you can launch the stone bomb.

Heavy-object-launching catapults are quite advanced and practical in the world, saving manpower and space required for projecting stone bullets, and greatly improving the projection/accuracy, but this catapult is not suitable for installation on warships. The deck of the warship could not withstand the free fall of heavy objects weighing several kilograms or even several kilograms, and there was not enough space to launch a human-fired throwing crossbow. UU reading www.uukanshu.com

In addition, there is also a torsion-fired catapult, which is to insert the long-rod crossbow back in the middle of the elastic crossbow string, twist the crossbow string to the extreme with the winch, use the torque to tighten the crossbow back, and suddenly release the crossbow When it is on the back, the stone bullets in the leather pocket at one end of the back of the crossbow can be thrown out.

This torsion catapult is also called a scorpion crossbow because of its shape like a scorpion.

Although the structure of the scorpion crossbow is simple, in addition to the material of the crossbow back, it is difficult to find suitable materials for the crossbow string, which is rarely seen in the world. But the scorpion crossbow has many advantages, especially the small scorpion crossbow can be installed directly on the top deck of the warship.

In later water battles, cannons were used to bombard, and there were not many opportunities for side-to-side battles. Lin Bing's understanding of water battles was naturally affected by the tactics of later water battles. He tried every means to install several heavy long-range weapons on the Dongyang as "cannons" "Uh, at present, he can only use several kinds of equipment such as the scorpion crossbow and the bed crossbow.

In the water battle, the direct damage of the bed crossbow to the hull cannot be compared with that of the scorpion crossbow, and the structure is more complicated. The most important thing is that the three-bow bed crossbow is the first prohibition among the private armed ships to carry heavy equipment. The scorpion crossbow is listed, perhaps without considering that someone will put the scorpion crossbow on the warship.

Lin Bie built two scorpion crossbows privately, and the high-quality materials consumed are enough to make dozens of good bows.

The situation was tense like a bowstring for a long time. After the Gu family was evacuated to the boat at noon, Lin Bie made the Dongyang and five fast oar boats slowly withdraw southward from the mouth of Shanglin crossing the river. The tight string was loosened. No fierce water battle broke out. After all, losing both sides in Shanglindu has no practical benefit to either side.

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