Chapter 362 Eyeing the Water Thief's Warship

Huangfu Chaobo and the others are going to the equipment center now, mainly to find out about the production of arrows. Huangfu Chaobo does not have a fixed source of raw materials in Luoyang now, all he can do is rely on some things traded by players who are active around Luoyang City, but fortunately, the purchased ore is not enough to make armor, but it is used to There is no problem in producing arrows. As for other weapons and equipment, only those things that the original princes did not take away and gave to Huangfu Chaobo when they returned to their territory were used.

After coming out of the equipment center, Huangfu Chaobo and Lou Gui went to inspect the warehouse in the imperial city. After all, all the weapons, equipment and food are stored there. I'm a little worried. After turning around on both sides, I went to check the construction of the four barracks on Zaoyi's side. At this time, Zaoyi has almost built all four barracks. Also, each barracks is being built with the most craftsmen and labor. Can you be unhappy? A few people watched from the sidelines as the craftsmen completed the construction. In less than a moment, four barracks were completed one after another. Now there are eight barracks in the entire Luoyang City, including one in each of the four corners of the inner city and four in the imperial city. They can be recruited every day. The troop strength has reached 8,000, but it will not be until after twelve o'clock in the evening that the recruitable soldiers in the barracks will reach full value. At this moment, Huang Zhong sent people to report that the scouts he had sent out had returned to the city, and Huang Zhong was waiting in the Taishou's mansion with his people. Without saying a word, several people hurried to the Taishou's mansion.

When Huangfu Chaobo and his party returned to the prefect's mansion, Huang Zhong had already figured out everything about the situation. Not only a few of them, but also the three Dugu brothers and Zheng Feng who had withdrawn from Luobei Town were captured by Huangfu Chaobo. The recruiting came in, after all, it was a meeting arranged before the battle, and the generals who could make a move would definitely go to the battle, maybe Lou Gui would have arrangements. After everyone had arrived, Huangfu Chaobo asked Huang Zhong to introduce the news from the scout. The enemies who invaded this time were mainly the rebels in several counties around Luoyang, and the bandits in the surrounding areas. Er Zhishi quickly occupied the three counties around Luoyang, which made the rebel leaders in several other counties feel afraid, so under the impetus of several rebel leaders, the rebels and bandits formed this coalition army, Prepare to drive Huangfu Chaobo's army out of Luoyang in one fell swoop.

The rebels who came from the southwest were mainly the counties of Henan, Xincheng and Luhun, plus some bandits and rogues in the surrounding area, a total of more than 50,000 people. However, according to scout observations, basically Mostly infantry, there are only a hundred or so horses in the middle, and there are no organized cavalry at all. Then there are all kinds of weapons and equipment. The ones who are really fully equipped should be about 30,000 soldiers, and the rest are old and weak. The enemy army from the north was even worse. Although there were more than 50,000 people, they were mainly bandits around Beimang Mountain. The weapons and equipment are even more unbearable, and there are all kinds of things. The rebellious army in the east is relatively smaller, only about 20,000 people, with more than 10,000 soldiers capable of fighting.

There are more than 10,000 water thieves traveling up the Luoshui River, and there are not many warships. The most eye-catching thing is a red horse boat, which is the main ship of the naval army in close combat in this era. At that time, it was also used as the flagship of the general, which could carry a hundred soldiers. The hull was generally red, and it was as fast as a galloping horse. It is a high-speed combat cabin. Sun Quan's name is "Ma Ge", which means the state of galloping like a horse galloping across the land. There are also 5 Jichong ships, which are also the main ship type of the navy. The hulls are narrow and long, and they are highly maneuverable, making it easy to collide with enemy ships. This ship is "covered with a raw cowhide cover, the two compartments have openings, and there are crossbow windows and spear holes on the left and right, so that the enemy cannot enter, and arrows and stones cannot be defeated." Sun Quan conquered Huang Zu, and Huang Zu "horrified two Meng Chong" to defend Xiakou. Liu Biao built the navy and built "Rangchong". As for the others, there are a few walking boats, which are used to detect the enemy's situation around the navy and escort the main ships, and there are dozens of nearly hundreds of various fishing boats and cargo ships.

Used to transport pirate soldiers. As for the siege equipment, none of the armies saw any large siege equipment. Seeing these boats of water thieves, Huangfu Chaobo only felt drooling. Although he had sent Zhou Ping to Yunmengze to recruit Zhou Tai and Jiang Qin, it was still nothing to do. The army is not enough to have soldiers and generals. If there are no warships, it is still a ride. In Huangfu Chaobo's impression, he seems to have no blueprints for warships in his hand, but now there are several warships here. In front of me, although they are all old ships, they are still battleships, aren't they?

Rubbing his hands, Huangfu Chaobo said to several people with a shy face: "Sir, brother, do you think there is any way to keep these warships? We will build a navy sooner or later, but now they are the shadow of warships." Not yet!"

Lou Gui hugged his beard, thought for a moment and said: "It is not impossible to keep a few ships, but it is impossible to keep all the main warships..."

"The Chima boat must be taken down. How many other boats can be taken down by the other boats. If you can't take the boat and other boats, then give up!" After hearing Lou Gui's words, Huangfu Chao Bo thought about it for a long time, and then said with distress; in his opinion, these ships are a dish in front of him, and now let him give up, it is all money, like those cargo ships cost tens of gold One, not to mention a fifty-gold boat, which is now hard to buy even if you have money. So no matter what, the 500 gold red horse ship must be in your hands. If you can win a few more ships, it will be more perfect. Basically, the equipment for a small fleet has already come out. up.

Huang Zhong and Zaoyi both expressed their support after hearing this, but Huang Zhong said: "Even so, we don't have any navy generals at all now, and now the only navy general, Zhou Yi, is no longer in Luoyang, let alone the navy generals. The soldiers are dead."

Lou Gui said: "It's okay, let's arrange the defense of Luoyang first and then talk about this matter separately. Judging from the intelligence of the scouts, our battle is not too difficult. The main defense direction is the rebels in the west. As for the north and east There is basically no pressure in the situation above. In this way, according to our original thinking, it is no longer suitable to use the outer city to block the situation and then retreat to the inner city. Now the entire enemy army has less than 80,000 soldiers. And we have 20,000 infantry and 5,000 cavalry, we can use the walls of the outer city to wipe them out."