Three Kingdoms Simulator: This Ma Su is too stable

Chapter 230 Sima Yi: Destiny is mine!

Yang Wanwan led the way, Ma Su and Zhang Xiu followed closely behind, other generals rushed after hearing the news, a large group of people rushed to the spot where the fire was set last night.

The surrounding wells, more than ten feet deep, have dried up, and there are only a few water stains left at the bottom of the wells, which proves that they are water wells, not cellars for storing things.

Seeing this, Ma Di took a deep breath and realized that he had overlooked a very crucial factor.

Wuzhangyuan is a water-deficient landform in spring, autumn and winter!
In a year, only summer is not short of water.

Wuzhangyuan is part of the Loess Terrace at the northern foot of the Qinling Mountains. It is bordered by the Qinling Mountains in the south and the Weishui River in the north.The original height is more than [-] long, and the terrain on the top is flat. It is about four kilometers long from north to south and about two kilometers wide from east to west.

Because of the high terrain and extremely thick soil layer, the four seasons in the original land are distinctly cold, warm, dry and wet.In spring, the temperature difference between day and night is large, and it is prone to cold wave, strong wind, frost and spring drought; summer has the largest precipitation and frequent rainstorms, and this season is also the season with the least water shortage in the year;

Autumn is dry and rainless, with sufficient sunlight, and the water evaporates very quickly, sometimes with autumn drought; in winter, the climate is cold, dry and rainless.

In addition, the groundwater resources in Wuzhangyuan are extremely poor. In later generations, there was a saying that "if you have a girl and don't marry Wuzhangyuan, it is more difficult to eat water than to eat oil".

There are currently more than 100 large wells in the entire Wuzhang Plain, which can be used by 10 people when there is no shortage of water.

Once there is a lack of water, it can be fatal.

Although only one tenth of the wells are short of water for the time being, it is foreseeable that more wells will be short of water as the extraction increases.

The last time Zhuge Liang garrisoned Wuzhangyuan, it was just in time for sufficient rain in summer, so there was no problem of water shortage.

Unfortunately, the Shu army came here at the beginning of September, and the disadvantages of seasonal water shortage in Wuzhangyuan were immediately exposed.

Realizing this, Ma Su felt a little flustered for a moment, settled his mind, and pretended to be calm and said:
"Don't panic, generals. It's just a temporary retreat of water. It is expected that the well will fill up soon."

"General, how fast is it?" Zhang Xiu asked hesitantly, "Our army's [-] soldiers need to drink water when they see the sky."

Ma Di waved his hand: "Seven days, within seven days, the water will be full!"

After finishing speaking, he turned around and strode back to the camp, thinking about countermeasures.

The four generals stayed where they were, and looked at each other, and they all saw the worry on each other's faces.

Although what Ma Di said was decisive and unquestionable, they did not hear the confidence in controlling everything that they had in the past.

This shows that General Ma has nothing to do.

The whole morning passed quickly.

Under Wuzhang Plain, the camp of the Wei army was full of hustle and bustle, soldiers and horses staggered back and forth, as if they couldn't bear the big loss of the failed sneak attack last night, and were preparing for the next attack.

On the Wuzhang Plain, the camp of the Shu army was quiet.

Ordinary soldiers have not yet realized that disaster is coming.

The four generals stayed in place and waited for the well water to flow out again. As a result, there was no movement at the bottom of the well until dark.

Ma Di was walking around in the handsome tent restlessly, brainstorming, thinking about how to solve the problem of water shortage.

He has already checked the weather forecast, and there will be no rain in the next ten days.

Moreover, the results of the simulated battle situation are not optimistic: in the next ten days, the Wei army will stand still, and [-]% of the wells on the Wuzhang Plain will be exhausted.

Ma Su found it difficult to accept the simulation results.

The reason why he deliberately retreated to the Wuzhang Plain to set up camp was that he wanted to rely on the favorable terrain to spend time with Sima Yi, drag down the troops on the west front of Wei State, and burn the war in the territory of Wei State, so as to give Zhuge Liang time and space to gain deep control over the Longyou area and Liangzhou area.

Otherwise, Wei Guo would refocus on Longyou.

Ma Di originally thought that Wuzhangyuan had a steep terrain with a wide and flat top and no shortage of water. It was a good place to garrison that Zhuge Liang had verified—the last time Zhuge Liang was stationed here and dealt with Sima Yi for several months.

Unexpectedly, the well water suddenly dries up now, which leads to the Achilles heel of this perfect strategy of "guarding against danger" and turns into an embarrassing situation of "being caught in a dead end".

After seeking help from the system to no avail, Ma Di wandered around the tent anxiously all day long. Axiu offered good words of comfort, but he was roughly pushed aside, covered her face and left weeping.

Zhang Xiu came to report the situation, but because he didn't report the payment, he was held on the shelf by the soldiers and beat him with [-] army sticks until his skin was torn to pieces.

At this moment, all the generals knew that Ma Di was on fire today, and all kept away from him, for fear of offending him and suffering innocent flesh and blood.

Immediately afterwards, the news of the water cutoff spread in the camp, and the soldiers talked about it in private, and the morale of the army fluctuated.

Compared with Ma Di's anxiety, Sima Yi's state of mind is much more relaxed.

Last night, the annihilation of Han Ying and [-] soldiers did not dampen his self-confidence.

Sima has a high degree of confidence in his military capabilities, and knows that such "sneak attack failure" accidents are inevitable.

There are winners and losers in wars.

Originally, Sima Yi hadn't considered a sneak attack. The Shu army was stationed on a high ground and defended against danger.

Based on two considerations, he finally chose to sneak attack.

The first is to test, to test whether Ma Di has real talents and learning, whether he is invincible as in the legend, and everything is expected.

The second is to dismount.He wanted to use such a military action to shock the Shu army's morale, frustrate the Shu army's spirit, and then wait for an opportunity to attack, so that it can get twice the result with half the effort.

However, Ma Su's military capabilities were far beyond his expectations. After realizing the Wei army's attack, the Shu army actually followed suit and set up a trick to lure the enemy, which caused the Wei army to lose another 2000 people.

Sima Yi thought about it all night, and finally figured it out, Ma Su did have two skills, and he couldn't let go.

Then there is only a long-term plan.

After daybreak, Sima Yi immediately sent several teams of cavalry to start a regular patrol around the Wuzhang Plain. At the same time, he sent soldiers with better eyesight to the Qinling Mountains in the south to look at the movement of the Shu camp.

Sima Yi knew about the seasonal water shortage in Wuzhangyuan.

This is why he only placed [-] soldiers and horses in Wuzhangyuan after Zhuge Liang retreated.

There are too many soldiers and horses, but not enough water.

The soldiers in charge of investigating the movement of the Shu army soon discovered the abnormality. The soldiers in the Shu camp walked around, looking restless, which seemed to be a precursor to the imminent mutiny.

"It seems that they have already encountered the problem of water shortage." Sima Yi stroked his beard and nodded, smiling like an old fox.

"Heh heh heh, my destiny is indeed mine!"

"Ma Su, what do you use to fight this old man?"

Sima Yi called Sima Zhao and ordered him to instruct the Wei troops not to move rashly and strictly guard their positions. Then he took off his armor and lay down on a wooden bed with his eyes closed.

At this moment, the Wei army no longer needs to attack, just wait for the Shu army to mess up.

The situation was just as Sima Yi expected. At the end of the day, more than a dozen wells on the Wuzhang Plain dried up, and a pessimistic atmosphere permeated the camp of the Shu army.

Ma Di became more irritable, and his eyes became aggressive, which made the three generals and Yang Wanwan not dare to approach him.

Even, whenever someone mentioned the word "water" in the camp, Ma Di would rush to the other party excitedly, staring at him as if he was going to eat people, until he stared at the other party until he had a nervous breakdown, knelt down and admitted his mistake, and then walked away. .

White terror instantly filled the entire barracks.

Everyone carefully paid attention to their words, trying to avoid saying words related to "water".

the next day.

When the sun rose, Ma Di calmed down a little, and came to the North Cliff of Wuzhangyuan alone, looking at the Weishui River flowing not far below the mountain, groaning silently.

Anger doesn't solve the problem, it only complicates it.

Now, only by solving the water shortage dilemma can the unfavorable situation be reversed quickly.

While pondering, Ma Di thought of the scene when he stationed troops in Jieting Nanshan last time.

At that time, we were faced with a situation where we were outnumbered and lacked water.Ma Di used the method of "relay carrying water" by soldiers, and it took only ten hours to fill up the Tianchi on the top of the mountain.

But this method is not applicable now.

At that time, there were only [-] Shu soldiers stationed at Jieting Nanshan, and the amount of water needed was not much, and the north of Nanshan was a gentle slope, so it was not difficult to transfer the buckets by relay.

At this time, [-] troops were stationed on the Wuzhang Plain, which required a huge amount of water, and the slope at the northern end of the Wuzhang Plain was almost vertical, so it was impossible to transfer it manually. Even the method of hanging water by hanging a bucket with a sling did not work because the slope was not enough. Vertically, the bucket will tip over during the lift.

Of course, it's not completely impossible.

While looking at the topography of Wuzhangyuan, Ma Su thought over and over again the solution he had just come up with - on the side close to the Wei River, look for a place with a slightly lower terrain, and dig deep down, as long as the depth of the well is equal to the water surface of the Wei River, there will be no water shortage. The crisis will inevitably resolve itself.

However, the lowest place on the Wuzhang Plain is more than ten feet (about 23 meters) above the ground, that is, the surface of the Wei River. Even if the water is dug out, how will the water be pumped up?
It is definitely not possible to pump water up buckets of water from the roller well. First, it is too slow, and second, it is laborious.

Wait, draw?
A flash of lightning suddenly flashed in Ma Di's mind.

Limited by technology, it is very difficult to get water from deep wells to high places in this era, and there is no other good way except to use a wheel.

Even people in this era would never dig a well more than one foot deep.

But in later generations, the wells were usually more than one foot deep, and some wells even exceeded ten feet, because people at that time had already solved the problem of taking water from a low place-only a piston-type manual suction pump was enough.

The structure of the manual water pump is very simple. It consists of a long enough water pipe and a piston cylinder. The principle is that when the handle outside the piston is reciprocated by hand, the piston is reciprocated up and down through transmission mechanisms such as shafts, rocker arms, and connecting rods. sports.

When the piston moves upward, a vacuum is formed, and the liquid is sucked into the flow path from the suction pipe, and the suction valve is opened to enter the cylinder body.At the same time, the piston falls back, and the cylinder is compressed by the piston to return the water suction valve, so that the sucked water will not return from the pipe, and gradually fill the entire piston cylinder, and then flow out from the highest drain pipe.

So back and forth without rest, the water will flow out continuously.

The principle of the entire water pump is similar to a cylinder syringe, and it is also similar to a hand-pulled bellows for cooking in rural areas, which is very simple.

However, limited by the material, the water-absorbing pipe is somewhat difficult to manufacture in this era, and it can only be replaced by spliced ​​and sealed bamboo for the time being.

And there happened to be a ready-made bamboo forest on Wuzhang Plain, and the bamboo was long, thick and straight.

As for the piston cylinder, it is relatively easy to make.

After making up his mind, Ma Di drew the schematic diagram of the manual water pump, and asked craftsmen to hollow out the cut-off large log from the middle, smooth it, and make the piston cylinder and related components.

At the same time, the soldiers were ordered to dig down in the low-lying place of Wuzhangyuan.

Thanks to the full-level "Infrastructure Maniac" attribute bonus, when Ma Su gave an order, the soldiers on the other side threw off their arms and went crazy.

The dust was flying in the air, and the digging speed was fast.

Three large pits not far apart sank at a speed visible to the naked eye.

In less than two hours, the soldiers had dug three large wells with a diameter of one foot and a depth of ten feet. One of the wells dug directly through the surface of the underground river. inside the well.

If it weren't for Ma Di's quick stop and shouting, this group of soldiers who dug wells and dug their climax would have waved their shovels and marched towards the core of the earth.

In the afternoon, according to the drawings and Ma Di's instructions, the craftsmen finally produced the first wooden version of the "water pump" after scrapping several piston cylinders in succession.

When the water from the three wells was pumped out at the same time by three lever-type hand-operated water pumps and flowed on the ground, dozens of Shu soldiers cheered and jumped up and down, holding each other's arms.

The worry of water shortage is solved!
The soldiers were full of admiration, looking at Ma Su with great anticipation, all of them were filled with intense joy.

Facing everyone's fiery eyes, Ma Di smiled calmly, and pressed his hands down: "Everyone has worked hard! Everyone who digs a well will be rewarded, and the officer will be promoted to a higher level!"

"Thank you, General!" The crowd cheered back.

Ma Di looked around and said seriously: "The water shortage crisis is over now, I hope everyone will keep this secret for the time being, and have a showdown with Sima Yi in the future!"

"Yes, General!" Everyone lowered their voices and answered with their throats squeezed.

Compared with Ma Di's calmness like water, the soldiers were really happy from the bottom of their hearts.Since the well has dried up, although the daily meal is still delicious dry meatloaf.

But since there was no water, they suddenly felt that the meatloaf was so hard to swallow.

Yesterday morning, each of them was given a small ladle of water to quench their thirst, but in the afternoon, soldiers under ten captains would have no water at all.Most of the soldiers in the entire barracks fell into a state of depression.

In fact, Ma Di knew very well that just not drinking water for half a day did not make the soldiers so depressed. They were more psychologically anxious when faced with the result of "no water".

That's why Ma Di took the first step to attack, and blew himself up before the soldiers' emotions erupted.

Later, he felt that this level of outburst was not enough, so he found a random excuse and beat Zhang Xiu up.

Tell the soldiers about their suffering, so that the soldiers have nothing to complain about.

Fortunately, the crisis is over now.

When returning to the camp to visit Zhang Xiu, Ma Su heaved a sigh of relief like the rest of his life.

It's dangerous.

The collapse of the whole army is an instant thing.

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(End of this chapter)