Vol 4 Chapter 4000: The pheasant tail torch is an artifact

【Eastern Jin Dynasty Beifu One Hill Eight】【】
Liu Zunkao breathed a sigh of relief: "Now I understand what you mean by conquering the west. If the two chief thieves really come, they will really attack Jiangling with all their strength and destroy us. If the two chief thieves are not here, Even if the enemy army has a huge fleet, at most it is just a feint, mainly in a stalemate. The purpose is to scare our army from attacking for battle, to ensure the safety of their logistics channel in Changsha, and to confuse Xile Brother, lure him to attack, right?"
Liu Daogui nodded: "Yes, that's why we had to fight fiercely with the enemy army when they first came to know the enemy's reality. That's why I had to attack, and if we want to win, we must rely on fire attack or else On the great river, we cannot defeat the enemy's giant ships."
Cai Lunzhi shook his head: "But are the demons really capable of defeating Liu Fu's army without a navy fleet, especially the eight giant ships? Also, Zhengxi, you said that the fire attack is on the river , how can it be realized without the help of the wind direction?"
Liu Daogui said seriously: "The monster is full of tricks, and is very good at using tactics such as ambushes and luring the enemy. The waterways in Yuzhang, Jiangzhou, are full of waterways, and the terrain is where the river turns. There are many mountains and forests, which are very conducive to ambushes and close combat. What's more, Lu Xun, a demon thief, is proficient in strange arts such as wooden armor mechanisms, and may have the support of the big devil, the Tiandao League, if he dares to fight Brother Xi Le without using the navy, it must be Be sure to rely on ambushes, relying on machine man to gain an advantage in land battles."
Speaking of this, his expression became more and more serious: "During the battle of Guanggu this time, it is said that the black robe dispatched the armored mechanism man, and our Zhang Gang also created a weapon that can leap ten feet in the air. Jumping up the mechanism ladder on the Guanggu City Wall, it can be seen that this mechanism technique has been greatly developed in the hands of the demon thief and Tiandaomeng, surpassing our previous cognition."
"Brother Xi Le, if he is greedy for merit, and encounters the enemy in a place where our Beifu army can't fight, he may suffer a big loss. Therefore, I must consider the possibility of his defeat, even if it is really too late to save Xi Le Brother, we must do our best to harass the enemy's follow-up, so that the enemy's reinforcements and supplies cannot be sent to the front line through Changsha smoothly."
Lu Zongzhi's brows were deeply furrowed: "It sounds really serious. To put it bluntly, it's because our navy can't beat the monsters and get the right to control the river. Otherwise, we would have been able to fight the river and attack Changsha long ago. Ah, do you think the demon thief knows that we have prepared more than 200 yellow dragon warships, which are capable of crossing the river and attacking, so they brought the fleet here to ensure that we are suppressed from leaving the port?"
Liu Daogui nodded: "I think that's what you think. The enemy's attack on Jiangling is actually to ensure that the waterway and water transportation on the river are not threatened. Therefore, we must take the initiative to attack him, otherwise Otherwise, our more than 200 Huanglong warships will become decorations, which is no different from having no fleet."
Lu Zongzhi nodded: "According to this analysis, it is appropriate to try a battle, but how can the fire attack you mentioned in Zhengxi be realized?"
Liu Daogui calmly reached into his arms, took out something from the large armor, put it on the big case, and said, "Everyone, have you seen this thing before?"
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【Eastern Jin Dynasty Beifu One Hill Eight】【】
Everyone looked at it together, and saw that it was more than one foot long, similar to the shuttlecock that children play in games, with colorful feathers and sackcloth on the top, and the tail was not like the shuttlecock bottom. It is made of cork, but a piece of iron more than half a foot long, with a big tail and a pointed head, which looks like a small spearhead, but behind the sharp edge on the top, there are three barbed tail hooks that open up, which looks inverted. Like a small ship's anchor, it reveals a strangeness.
Lu Zongzhi widened his eyes and shook his head: "Hey, what is this? Is it a new type of bow and arrow or a crossbow? But it doesn't seem right. This thing has no tail fins, so it can't be shot at all. Could it be that these feathers can When the tail is used?"
Liu Zunkao narrowed his eyes slightly, and said: "I see, there is some tarpaulin mixed in the feathers of the tail, which seems to be used to catch fire, and the pointed end has barbs, which seem to be barbs added to the arrow of a rocket." , it can be used for continuous ignition."
Tan Daoji laughed: "I remembered it, I remembered it all at once, isn't this the pheasant tail torch that we used during the Western Expedition and the battle in Sangluo Prefecture?"
Cai Lunzhi immediately took over the conversation, and a look of fear flashed across his face: "Yes, it is it, it is it, this kind of thing with fire, nailed to the sideboard of our fleet, In less than a quarter of an hour, a five-tooth warship turned into a ball of torches. I still remember the heat wave and the hellfire-like death breath~EbookFREE.me~Liu Daogui nodded , Said sternly: "That's right, this thing was made by Du Huidu, a noble family in Jiaozhou who was in our army at that time. They have big rivers in Jiaozhou and they are also close to the sea. When fighting on water, if the goal is to destroy enemy ships, then this is a magic weapon. "
"Any fire attack on water often requires the help of the wind to launch fireballs with rockets or trebuchets to attack the enemy ship. The distance is far, and it is difficult to hit the enemy ship when the wind is headwind or crosswind. If it hits, a single arrow The firepower of the belt is limited, and it cannot continue to burn, so it is easy to extinguish, especially for the rockets that fall on the deck, it may take more than one or two hundred sticks to ignite the fire."
"But this pheasant tail torch is different. It can be used to fire at close range. It can be fired with a hand crossbow at a distance of twenty or thirty steps, or at a distance of fifty steps. It can be hammered with an eight-ox crossbow. It can accurately nail the enemy. The side of the ship's side, because the tail has feathers mixed with tarpaulin and smeared with kerosene and sulfur, if it is ignited when it is launched, it will be difficult for the enemy to destroy the nails on the ship's side from the deck as long as it hits the ship's plank. These torches will soon burn to the side of the ship, as long as dozens of them are on fire, it is enough to set the entire enemy ship on fire."
Lu Zongzhi laughed loudly: "There is such a powerful fire starter, today is an eye-opener, and this thing has barbs, it is not easy to take it off, the enemy's giant ship is so big and so high It is as difficult for us to attack the deck, but it is even more difficult for them to save the fire on the side of the ship from the deck. This kind of warfare does not depend on the wind direction at all, just"
Speaking of this, Lu Zongzhi frowned: "It's just that although this thing is powerful, it can only be launched from the side of the enemy ship at a distance of 30 to 50 steps. In the final analysis, it has to rush to the side of the giant ship." Come on, get close to launch, this is too dangerous."