Chapter 1979 ordinary can no longer be ordinary
Cao Liang never got off the ship on the Lingyun, so when the Lingyun went to the battle with the main fleet of the Wei army to fight in the middle of the lake, Cao Liang also went there.
But this made Wang Jun very anxious. Cao Liang is no longer the same as before. He was the emperor and a man of a thousand gold. How could he experience the battlefield personally? If something happens, Wang Jun will not be redeemed for death. Therefore, Wang Jun advised Cao Liang to get off the boat and stay in the water camp or cavalry camp, and never go to the island in the middle of the lake to take risks.
But Cao Liang disagreed. Over the past decade, he has been through life and death. Have he participated in few battles? The only thing Cao Liang has never fought is the water battle. Therefore, in this battle of Pengze Lake, Cao Liang deliberately led the army to fight in person to relieve the regret in his heart.
What's more, Wang Jun didn't know the function of the battleship. Cao Liang needed to command this battle himself. How could he do it without him? So Cao Liang refused to listen to the advice and insisted on going to the island in the middle of the lake.
Wang Jun had no choice but to fulfill Cao Liang's intention, but he arranged a lot of guard ships around the Lingyun to ensure Cao Liang's absolute safety.
Despite this, Wang Jun was also uneasy. After all, he was not sure that he could win this water battle. Water is different from land. Once the war fails, all warships may be attacked by enemy ships. Once the warship is damaged, almost all the people on the entire ship will die. Therefore, the risk of staying on the warship is far higher than on land. This is also the reason why Wang Jun tried hard to advise Cao Liang not to go to the battlefield in person.
But Cao Liang's idea was not changed, so Wang Jun proposed a compromise plan, which was to ask Cao Liang to take his flagship Yangwei Tower ship. The Yangwei Tower ship is the largest and most sturdy battleship of the Wei Navy, and the safety factor is also the highest. Wang Jun asked Cao Liang to take the Yangwei Tower to take the Yangwei Tower for safety reasons.
But Cao Liang was very stubborn and insisted on not leaving the Lingyun, and also asked Wang Jun to take the Lingyun together. This made Wang Jun very surprised. Could it be that the role of a supply ship on the battlefield is more important than his flagship Yangwei?
Facing Wang Jun's suspicious face, Cao Liang did not explain anything, but just smiled slightly. Before leaving the voyage, he ordered the excess supplies from the Lingyun and the other four battleships to be removed from the ship. The deck suddenly seemed much empty, and there were only ten things wrapped in green curtains on each warship standing there, which looked particularly mysterious and abrupt.
Wang Jun looked at these things with confusion. If these things were also supplies, they would naturally be discharged into the water camp. However, Cao Liang wanted to take them to the war, so these things must be unusual. Looking at Cao Liang's confident smile, Wang Jun soon understood that the key to breaking the enemy should be these mysterious things.
Although he still doesn't know what is behind these blue curtains, using Cao Liang's usual means of turning decay into magic is probably a novel weapon.
After leaving the voyage, Cao Liang did not hide Wang Jun from the way to the lake island and said to him: "This is something that is not ordinary. Over the years, I believe you have already seen it."
Wang Jun was a little surprised. Since it was an ordinary thing, why did Cao Liang still wrap it so tightly and conceal it so tightly? This seemed to be very contrary to Cao Liang's statement.
Cao Liang smiled and ordered people to lift a corner of the curtain and let Wang Jun verify it in person.
Wang Jun walked forward with suspicion and saw that he was stunned. Isn’t this a catapult? No, this is much smaller than the catapults commonly used by the Wei army, and a rotating device has been added, which should be a chain flying stone car.
Because of its low destruction, the chain flying stone cart did not have a large number of equipment in the Wei army, but there was still a certain number of them. When Wang Jun was General Changshui, the Changshui Camp was equipped with chain flying stone carts, so he was no stranger to this thing.
It was really what Cao Liang said. This is something that is ordinary and cannot be more ordinary. It is common, but Cao Liang moved them to the warship. With the help of the largest platform at the bottom of the tower, ten catapults can be installed at one time. Could it be that Cao Liang wants to use the catapults to destroy the Wu army's fleet?
Before this, Cao Liang did use his giant catapult to block the entire Yangtze River surface. The covering-like strike almost destroyed the entire Jianye Navy of the Wu army and created a brilliant record.
But can serial catapults be compared with giant catapults?
Wang Jun knew that the main reason why the chain-spreading car was not used on a large scale in the Wei army was that the stone bombs used in the chain-spreading car were smaller, and the damage power was naturally much smaller. Now Cao Liang equipped it on a warship. Can the stone bombs that were only the size of fists really destroy the fleet of Wu?
Moreover, using catapults on land and using catapults on ships are completely different concepts. The land is solid and stable, and the aiming of catapults is used. When it comes to the water, there is still three-foot wave without wind, and there is almost no possibility of stability in the warship. Under such conditions, the aiming of catapults will be a big problem. If you cannot aim accurately, how can you ensure the hit rate?
Except for people like Cao Liang who are very smart, most people would not imagine moving a catapult to a warship.
However, Wang Jun knew that even if Cao Liang had any crazy ideas, as long as he put them into practice, he would not succeed. So this time, how could Wang Jun dare to assert that he would not succeed? So Wang Jun was shocked and still secretly looked forward to it.
Cao Liang just let Wang Jun see the catapult cart, but he did not explain too much about how the catapult carts operated, because while they were talking, the warship had already sailed to the waters of the island in the middle of the lake.
Cao Liang ordered all warships to berth, which was a place he specially selected based on intelligence in advance.
The terrain of the lake is towering, just like a small hill rising from the bottom of the lake. The island is lush with vegetation. The Wei army's fleet can just hide behind the island in the middle of the lake. Otherwise, the water surface of Pengze Lake will be completely visible and easily reconnaissed by the Wu army.
The island in the middle of the lake became the only blind spot for observation in Pengze Lake. Only when the Wu army's fleet sailed nearer would it be possible to discover the existence of the Wei army fleet.
So this location is a very ideal ambush location, the best choice.
When the main fleet of the Wei army was anchored at the island of the lake, the Sun Yi fleet that set out in advance had already arrived in front of the Wu army's water camp, and led the Wu army fleet out of the water camp with almost no effort and led it to the water area of the island of the lake.
Chapter completed!