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Chapter 40 The Great Water

Xun Ge flew south, and the five-oat warship that disappeared on the lake rose and fell, and headed forward quickly. Three-oat, four-oat, five-oat... and even to forty-oat (most researchers think that the forty-oat warship that has never been activated is a catamaran), they are all about the number of oars rather than the number of oars.

The five-oar battleship is longer, wider, heavier than the three-oar battleship, and is a heavy battleship. This type of warship is a common ship type in the Mediterranean. There are ninety oars on one side, each row of thirty oars, and one side of the oars have 150 people. The entire ship does not include spare oars, and there are a total of 300 oars. There are about one hundred soldiers responsible for the battle of the platoon, and at most, it reaches 120 people.

There are only eighty-one oars on one side of the three-oar battleship, with twenty-seven oars in each row, with one hundred and sixty-two oars in the whole ship, and the soldiers on the board are generally thirty-seven meters long and five meters wide, with a drainage of forty-five tons. Compared with the three-oar battleship, the four-oar battleship not only has a row of oars left and right, but the width of the ship has increased by 0.6 meters. Each row of oars has also increased by three, reaching thirty oars in the five-oars; the soldiers have increased to 75 people, with a drainage of sixty tons. Both are light warships and are generally used in conjunction with the five-oars battleship.

The Chu army's single-row oar warships, that is, the old-style large wings are similar to the Mediterranean single-row oar warships, but the new-style large wings, paw-wing warships, and strengthened paw-wing warships are very different from the Mediterranean warships.

The new large wing is a three-oar battleship. Considering that there are many rivers in the south, some rivers are relatively narrow and inconvenient to turn, and the keels are insignificant, the new large wings have only twenty oars per row, three rows on both sides, and the entire ship has one hundred and twenty oars and a length of twenty seven meters;

The wing warship is actually a five-oat warship. Although the number of oars per row is five more than the new large wing, it only returns to the old large wings per row of twenty-five. The entire ship can accommodate 25 oarsmen and 60 soldiers. In order to accommodate the oars, the warship has been widened, but its length is still not long, only thirty-two meters;

The enhanced pawn-wing warship increased the number of oars per row to twenty-seven oars, eighty-one on each side, one hundred and sixty-two oars in the entire ship, and two hundred and seventy oarsmen. The ship was thirty-seven meters long, six meters wide, and drained 60 tons. The deck could be loaded with horses or armored soldiers, and armored soldiers were generally less than a hundred.

In short, Mediterranean warships mainly operate in the ocean, and their specific function is combat; the Chu army's warships mainly operate in rivers. In addition to combat, the warships also have a transportation function to quickly gather and mobilize military forces. This is also the reason why the Chu army's warships will not be built too long, and the longest is 37 meters of enhanced wings.

As the opponent of the Chu army, the Qin army naturally knew the Chu army's warships very well, but they made it clear that the specific configuration of the Chu army's warships was not a spy, but Tian Pu, the son of Tian Wie, the general of the Qi State's Zhou army.

Two years ago, in order to transport the Zhao people from fishing boats out of the port, Chu Qi fought a naval battle outside Zhifu Port. Tian Wu died in battle and his body was gone. From that day on, Tian Pu was determined to avenge his father. His understanding of the Chu army's warships was much deeper than that of the Guowei Mansion, Zhao Ying and others. Due to the additional transportation requirements of the Chu army's warships, the heaviest reinforced wing warships were drained only 60 tons, and the newly built five-oat large-wing warships reached 100 tons, and the number of oars was eighteen more than the reinforced wing warships.

In order to transport the troops of one pawn, the Chu army did not build more reinforced large wings. The main force was ordinary wings, which had thirty fewer oars than five-oar large wings; while the earliest new-type large wings of the Chu army had 60 fewer oars than five-oar large wings, and it was one oar for one person. One person and one oar was naturally not as powerful as two people and one oar for one oar, and the sprint was not as long as two people.

Tian Pu, who defected to Qin and hoped to take revenge on Qin, learned that Qin had also built a large wing warship. This month he entered the penalty area and saw Qin's five oars and wings. In addition to seeing the warship, he also saw that the upstream of the Mian River turned into a lake.

Since the winter of the previous year, the Qin State has built a dam upstream of the Mian River. The dam was built in a place called Shimenguan in a later generation. The dam was only more than fifty meters long, more than twenty meters wide, and fifteen meters high. The Mian River flows through here and windingly. The dam is built here not east-west, but north-south. The surging Mian River impacts the stone wall on the side of the dam, rather than the dam body of the dam.

As soon as Shimen Pass was built, the river nearly a hundred miles upstream of the Mian River was immediately piled up and the water level was raised. Another ship lock was built on the Qinling Mountains. The Mian River, which originally flowed south, actually flowed northward into the Wei River. In this era, the Qin State's water management was beyond the reach of the world's infrastructure. Such a grand project was announced to be completed in less than two years.

The five-oar battleship that crossed the Qinling Mountains took about three hours to reach the Shimenguan Dam. With the stars and lights on the water, the battleships rowed very quickly, but twenty miles away from the dam, in order to avoid the warships moored here, the entire ship could only slow down. Except for Zhao Ying, the general of the boat division, no one knew how many warships were in the dam area. When the warship passed by, no one dared to count the number of warships.

The warship was docked, and the boatman hurried to the tent where Zhao Ying was, and soon the shogunate sounded drums.

"After the king's order, our army will attack the Jing people immediately!" Zhao Ying's armor was all over his body. The order to fight was exactly what he requested.

"I will accept the order!" He announced the king's order, and the generals present shouted excitedly.

"Good! The Jing people will be defeated in this battle, and our army will win!" There is no need for any military discussion at all. The military discussion has been discussed countless times. Zhao Ying was satisfied with the morale of the generals, and he said again: "Before the dimma is over, I will quickly order the old Daoyi to pull up the sinking boat. If the enemy is in the morning, the soldiers must board the boat, and our army will go down the water."

"The generals were ordered!" The generals shouted again, as if they were about to break through the shogunate.

After gathering the generals, the generals returned to the camp in small boats. At this time, a large fire had already lit up on the mountains on both sides of Shimen Pass. Therefore, Daoyi was more than ten miles ahead. Not long after the fire on the mountain started, Meng Tian, ​​who had been sleeping in the city, was immediately woken up.

"Big fire?" The Chu army would attack the city at any time. Meng Tian was worried about how to defend, but forgot what the fire meant.

He didn't know, but Meng Gong knew. After hearing the news, he came to wake Meng Tian up in person. "The general should be the master of the boat..."

"Ah!" The word "Zhu Shi" quickly woke Meng Tian up. He said anxiously, "Change the sinking boat quickly! Change the sinking boat quickly..."

Unlike the sunken boat in Lingguan Gorge, the sunken boat in Daoyi can be pulled open, and Meng Tian immediately ordered the sunken boat to be pulled open.

"Report to the general, I have ordered people to pull out the sinking boat." Qi He and Meng Gong entered the tent together, and he didn't know what to do next.

"Then it's nothing. I'm telling the battalions will have floods tonight, so there's no need to panic." Meng Tian moaned, and he fell down again without waking up.

"Will the Zhou army attack the Jing people tonight? What should our army do?" Qi He asked uneasy.

"The Zhou army attacked the Qin people, and our army could just sit and watch." Meng Tian yawned. The National Wei Mansion gave him these tasks and did not want him to participate in the water battle. Seeing Qi Xi standing and not wanting to leave in a hazy state, he said again: "If General Qi wants to be promoted, he can conquer thirty miles downstream..."

Meng Tian snored before he finished speaking. The so-called thirty miles downstream was the Chu army that went east after attacking Yuanwu Mountain. Tonight, the sinking boat was opened by the ancient Daoyi waterway, and the Shimen Pass broke through the dam to discharge the flood. After dawn, the Ark Army would go down the water and attack the Chu army. Once the Chu army was completely defeated, the Chu army, which could not advance or retreat, would be the fish that was slaughtered by the sacrificial case.

Meng Tian fell asleep, and Qi Qing withdrew from the tent with a suspicion. His level was not as high as Meng Tian and he did not know how his Ark Army would fight. Thinking that the number of Chu troops in the thirty miles downstream was not large, he returned to his tent and summoned his generals to lead the army to discuss.

In the lower reaches of Daoyi, the Chu camp was thirty miles downstream of Daoyi. In the evening, Lu Gao was sleeping with the generals of Yue. He hugged Ba Nu and was sleeping peacefully. In recent days, he had found a place to use his skills. Under his planning, the Chu army successfully attacked Yuanwu Mountain, and successfully found the way to the mountain to Mianshui. He departed to the rear of the Qin army, and also got a beautiful concubine.

The people of Langzhong are not really barbarians, but they are not just doing the Zhou rituals. Once a woman recognizes a man, she will never get married like a Yue girl. She has been grinding her ears for almost half a month, and he is becoming more and more satisfied with this concubine, and even wonders if she should not marry a princess. The daughter of the chief is also very good.

Happy during the day, and sweet in the sleep. In the sleeping dream, Lu Gao dreamed that Ba Nu was pregnant with his child, and his belly grew bigger day by day. But for some reason, Ba Nu, who was pregnant with his child, suddenly ran away. He chased him over mountains and rivers, and finally chased him to the edge of the water. Ba Nu jumped into the water, and he jumped into the water, and then... When he opened his eyes, he found that he was really in the water.

"Shui! Water..., Guru..." Everything in the military tent floated up. When Lu Gao shouted, the water poured into his throat. Nothing could be seen in the darkness, and only the surging sound of water and the cry for help from Chu Yu outside the tent. He closed his mouth tightly and was about to get out of the curtain, only then did he realize that his woman was missing.

He crawled under the water for a while and groped, but didn't touch anything. He couldn't hold back his breath and could only float up. When he wanted to crawl into the water, Lu Chuang's voice came from outside the tent, "Save the false king, save the false king..."

"Why is it flood?" Lu Gao was quickly pulled out of his tent. Under the moonlight, countless Chu soldiers were swaying in the water, and the sound of water was filled with sound. The neat military tent had long disappeared. Fortunately, the Yue soldiers who were stationed here were used to sleeping on warships. Now these warships are catching people on the vast water surface.

"How do I know why it's flooding?" Lu Qi's voice was very aggrieved, "The camp has been standing on a high place."

"Not good!" Near October, the river water was already very cold. Lu Gao, who was soaked in the water, shook his teeth, but his thinking was not slow. "This is the Qin people built a dam upstream, and now they broke the dam and attacked me with water."

"What about it?" Lu Qi was not drunk and there was no beautiful concubine in the tent. When Hongshui came, he woke up.
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