Chu Tianxiu and Li Yu rode their horses and brought a team of thousands of guards to the riverside.

But there were hundreds of large warships and hundreds of small and medium-sized warships parked by the river, with as many as 30,000 elite sailors on the ship.

A middle-aged navy general in his forties and fifties, who was rough and generous, got off from a large warship and bowed to the two, "The last general Zhou Lu, kowtowed to General Cavalry and General Guard!

The generals, on the order of the court, came to assist General Cavalry to cross the river. The enemy was on the other side of the river, and General Shumo could not stay away from the fleet and went to Danyang City to see the two generals."

Zhou Lu is also a veteran general, and has been in the Great Chu army for more than 20 years.

However, I didn't dare to show off in front of Chu Tianxiu.

Military achievements are discussed in the army.

The Battle of Danyang had long shocked the Great Chu Dynasty and could defeat King Xiang Bi of Wu in one fell swoop. Xiaohunhou is now a new generation of war gods in the Great Chu military circle, with prestige directly striking King Li Rong.

For a navy general like Zhou Lu who usually wiped out hundreds or thousands of water bandits, such military achievements were beyond the reach of the world.

There are probably no three generals who dare to boast about their military achievements in front of Chu Tianxiu again. Only Emperor Xiang Yanran and King Ping Li Rong dare to regard themselves as their predecessors.

"General Zhou please get up!"

Chu Tianxiu smiled and said, "General Zhou has come from afar, thank you for your hard work. Does General Zhou have a way to send our army to cross the river safely?"

"Disaster!

Finally, I will take a closer look at the other side along the way here.

The camps of princes in the Wujiang area are densely packed, stretching for seventy or eighty miles. They also have thousands of ships of all sizes and countless rafts. They are closely guarded in any place.

It is almost impossible to cross the river here!

Once our army launches crossing the river, I am afraid that the princes will definitely use a large number of rafts to burn our warships!

Even if we were lucky enough to not burn the warships, our army would be surrounded by numerous encirclements when we arrived on the other side. Looking at the camp on the other side, there were at least 500,000 soldiers.

I will fight on the water for the rest of my life, and have never fought such a large-scale battle."

Zhou Lu shook his head in a little difficulty.

There were also many warships on the side of the coalition of princes, and he didn't dare to get too close to him to watch.

Chu Tianxiu stood by the river and looked at the other side, but it was hazy and ten miles away, and it was impossible to see clearly.

You don't have to think about it and know it.

The boundary of Wujiang County opposite must be a large camp of princes, with endless endless views.

Chu Tianxiu couldn't help but fall into hesitation.

Since ancient times, the natural danger of the river has been the most difficult threshold to overcome.

The ten-mile river is a natural danger, a natural barrier that is even more insurmountable than the walls of the imperial capital Jinling. There are countless famous generals who have failed to return by the river.

Cao Cao's 800,000 troops in the Battle of Red Cliff and returned to the north was a typical example.

I knew that the other party would definitely use fire to attack, but it was still difficult to withstand it.

In order to prevent the princes from attacking at night, the imperial warships were burned with fire.

Zhou Lu took the naval warships and entered the inland river in Caishiji near Danyang and moored in safe waters.

...

Half a month passed in a flash.

The court did not think of a safe way to cross the river and head north, and the princes did not dare to cross the river and head south. The situation was in a stalemate.

In Danyang County.

The blacksmiths in the city were not idle either, so they rushed to build gunpowder guns, small steel cannons, and bronze cannons.

The Wu army farmers and soldiers who were arrested before, and the tens of thousands of the most powerful farmers, were left in Danyang to mine and make irons.

The labor force suddenly increased by tens of thousands, causing Danyang City's steel production capacity to explode again.

Chu Tianxiu had no good way to cross the river safely. He was so fierce that he ordered the creation of various styles of bronze cannons.

This bronze cannon can be used as a land cannon... But in fact, the most suitable place for them is to make naval cannons.

Because they are too heavy, they are often five hundred kilograms or more, and they are difficult to transfer on land. Even if they have wooden carriages, it is quite troublesome.

The load capacity of large warships is tens of thousands of kilograms or even more than 100,000 kilograms, which can easily carry these heavy cannons.

A thousand pounds weighed just a ten more people. Of course, it is not a big problem for large warships that can carry hundreds of armored soldiers and a large amount of food and food, and carry ten bronze cannons at the same time.

If it is a small steel cannon weighing 50 kilograms, it can be fired directly on the warship, which is naturally even simpler. The range is not far enough, and there is nothing wrong with it.

The large warships of the Great Chu Dynasty were all tower ships.

They are usually upper, middle, lower, and under deck cabins, four-layer structures.

The upper level of the podium, the middle level are archers and long-range soldiers.

The lower level are swordsmanship, spearmen, hook soldiers and other melee soldiers.

Inside the cabin below the deck is a sailor who is responsible for rowing.

The space inside the large warship is very large. Just convert the lower layer into a turret of bronze artillery and fix it to upgrade ordinary building ships to bronze artillery warships.

This kind of transformed warship is of course very simple and cannot be compared with the fleets of later generations. If you redesign a bronze artillery warship, it will definitely not be too late.

However, the warships of the enemy's princes did not have bronze cannons at all. There were only archers on the ship... In front of the cannons, the archers had no meaning.

Such a roughly modified gunship is enough to walk across the river!

During this period, Chu Tianxiu was in Danyang City, desperately increasing the production of various artillery, and at the same time transforming the 300 large warships brought by Zhou Lu.

Test how effective it will be when firing a gun on a large warship, how long the range, how accurate and powerful it will be, and whether it will capsize.

At first, Zhou Lu was very suspicious of the power and range of the bronze cannon, and how effective it is on the battlefield.

But after seeing it with his own eyes, he simply doubted life.

"boom!"

On a large building ship, a one-thousand-pound bronze main gun opened fire, and directly bombarded three miles away, making a big hole in a dilapidated old ship.

What is Sanli? It is almost one-third of the width of the river surface here.

A tower ship was placed in the middle of the river and could be attacked within six miles of left and right. The enemy warship was still far away and was hit.

If it is replaced with a small bronze cannon, it can hit a mile or two.

The lightest small cannon can hit a mile away.

Calculated by one mile and five hundred steps, the archer can only shoot a hundred steps, only one-fifth of the range of the small steel cannon.

Even if you just install the lightest small cannon, you only need to keep a certain distance from the local warships and fight against the enemy warships.

After the modification of a large building ship, a bronze main gun was installed on the front, and ten bronze guns or twenty small steel guns on both sides, which were like a hedgehog.

Dozens of shells hit, and it was impossible for the enemy warships to approach, and they would be smashed into pieces and sank into the river to feed the fish.

"This is...the legendary...artillery?"

Zhou Lu was on the warship, and his ears were almost stunned by the sound of the bronze cannon, and his legs were trembling.

He had fought a lifelong water battle, and after shooting arrows from each other, he jumped onto the opposite boat and fought desperately.

I never thought that I could sink such a huge enemy ship a few miles away.

There is no need for close contact between warships.

This era is about to change!
Chapter completed!