Through the layers of clouds, the morning light covered the reed pond by the river with a thin golden veil, and a breeze blew through the reeds that were more than one person high, undulating like waves, but only the sound of salsa accompanied by the surging river resounded in the sky. It is said that since the two sailors of Cao and Sun set up camp at the two ferries of Wulin and Chibi, the surrounding people fled with their families and mouths. Nowadays, on both sides of the Yangtze River from Wulin to Chibi, in addition to large reed ponds, only birds and animals are left to inhabit them.

Suddenly, a long horn broke through the silent sky, startling a shoal of gulls and herons in the reed pond. At the same time, the river not far away seems to be a spectacular scene of hundreds of boats competing for the current and thousands of sails competing. On the first day of August in the eighth year of Jian'an, Zhou Yu led 30,000 sailors and Cao Cao's 300,000 troops to fight on the Yangtze River. A big war that attracted worldwide attention also kicked off.

"Governor, ahead is Cao Jun's ship array." Following the direction pointed by Han Dang, Zhou Yu raised his sword and looked into the distance, but saw that nearly 100 Cao Jun warships between the water and the sky were connected into an almost impassable copper wall and iron wall, like a giant dragon stepping on the waves. Although the soldiers of Sun Jun's sailors were born on the river and grew up on the boat since childhood, they have never seen such a huge ship formation. For a while, many soldiers were suppressed by Cao Jun's aggressive momentum, and their hands and feet were weak, and their breathing was short. However, such a huge ship formation was just a bluffing paper dragon in Zhou Yu's eyes. In his opinion, the best way to deal with the paper dragon is to pierce its painting skin with a sharp sword and burn its prototype with a raging fire.

"Drums! Fight! ”

With Zhou Yu's order, Sun Jun's war drums suddenly resounded across the river. It is also by relying on this powerful drum beat and the sophisticated skills of the Jiangdong sailors. Even if there was no iron chain to connect them, the Sun family's warships could still ride the wind in a neat queue to the Cao army ship formation on the opposite side.

If Cao Cao's ship formation is an iron canopy horse with heavy armor, then the Sun family sailor commanded by Zhou Yu is a lightly armed and fearless Mazha long knife team. The former relied on sharp weapons of armor. The latter requires courage and discipline. However, before the Sun family's sailors rushed to the front of Cao's army's formation, a sudden change suddenly disrupted Sun's originally neat battle formation.

"Governor, General Huang is traveling too fast and leaving the military formation!"

As the junior colonel on Feilu shouted a warning, all the generals and colonels on the deck hurriedly followed the sound, and sure enough, they saw a lone group of warships standing out in the northwest direction, throwing the warship behind them far away. The battle flag waving in the wind on the ship clearly shows the identity of the commander - Huang Gai.

"Hurry back to the battle!" "General Huang. Rush through too! ”

Unbeknownst to him, Huang Gai completely ignored the shouts of his colleagues behind him, and still commanded his squadron to go straight to Cao's ship formation like arrows from the string. In the face of such a strange scene, I thought of the hundred military sticks that Zhou Yu beat Huang Gai a few days ago. The same thought came to the minds of many people.

"Huang ...... General Huang didn't want to vote for Cao! ”

"Fart!" Han Dang raised his foot and kicked the little colonel who claimed that Huang Gai had thrown Cao to the deck. followed him and walked quickly to Zhou Yu, knelt down on one knee and said, "Governor Mingjian, the public will never surrender to Cao!" ”

Zhou Yu didn't respond to Han Dang immediately, but the little colonel who had been kicked to the ground earlier was holding his stomach and humming on the side. "Huang Gai doesn't vote for Cao. So why didn't he return? ”

Yes, since Huang Gai is not Cao Cao, why did he break away from the army and forget Cao's side to rush? Even if you want to kill the enemy Mingzhi, you don't need to rush at this time. This question not only lingers in the minds of most people, but also makes it difficult for Han Dang to answer. However, out of trust in Huang Gai, Han Dang still knelt in place and stubbornly repeated his sentence, "The public will never vote for Cao!" ”

In fact, in the face of the Huang Gaibu who came in the wind, Cao Jun on the opposite side was also a second monk who was at a loss. However, before Cao Jun on the warship could release his arrows to test it, Huang Gai had already ordered someone to raise a huge white flag. And led people to shout at the Cao army formation, "Huang Gai is coming!" ”

"Huang Gai is coming down?" Cao Cao, who heard Huang Gai's surrender at first glance on the flagship, frowned suspiciously.

Like Cao Cao, Yang Xiu also felt that Huang Gai's appearance was too strange. But before he could speak. Deng Xi, who was standing on the side, was already one step ahead of him and flattered Cao Cao, "Congratulations to the prime minister." Huang Gongfu must have been annoyed that Zhou's child had humiliated him before, so he would defect before the battle. ”

"Oh? Really? Lone Ke heard that Huang Gongfu was loyal and courageous, not like a person who defected before the battle. Cao Cao glanced at Deng Xi noncommittally.

At this time, Deng Xi seemed to have formed a faction with Zhang Yun and others. Seeing that Deng Xi was questioned, Zhang Yun, who was standing behind him, hurriedly came out to explain for Deng Xi, "Water warfare is not as good as land warfare, Huang Gongfu only has more than ten ships around him now, if he surrenders, he will not fall into the net." ”

Cao Cao felt right when he heard it, the water battle was a competition of the size of the ships and the number of ships. Huang Gai only had more than a dozen ships, and he obviously couldn't help his own ship array. But at this time, where did Cao Cao expect it, just when he was discussing with his subordinates whether Huang Gai was really surrendering or fraudulently surrendering, the more than ten ships had already sailed to a position that was only a little distance away from Cao Jun's ship array, and continued to shout at Cao Jun while secretly pouring grease on the river. Riding on the windy current, the oil soon surrounded Cao's warship silently.

Huang Gai saw that he was ready, and when he ordered someone to set fire to the ship under his feet. It turned out that the dozen or so ships brought by Huang Gai were filled with flammable grass anointing oil, and the red mantle was used as a camouflage. At this moment, as soon as they were ignited, these modified ships instantly turned into scorching fireballs, and slammed into the nearest warship in a daze under the help of strong winds. And those falling sparks even used grease to bring up several golden fire dragons on the surface of the river, and they surrounded Cao Jun's ship array in an instant. At the same time, Huang Gai had already jumped into the river with a group of cronies and escaped.

Because this qiē happened so suddenly, the Cao soldiers couldn't figure out whether the ship caught fire first or the river was natural, and the scorching tongue of fire had already climbed onto their warship. In a panic, the general on the ship hurriedly commanded the soldiers to fight the river to put out the fire, but he never thought that the river was already stained with oil, but the result was that the fire became more and more prosperous.

Not long after, a small boat that was still burning with a little spark carried Cao Xiu, whose face was blackened by smoke, to Cao Cao's flagship, "Prime Minister." Huang Gai burned my warship with a fire boat, and now the fire in front is monstrous, and I ask the prime minister to quickly break the chain and retreat to Ulin! ”

In fact, Cao Cao and the others had already noticed the billowing smoke rising in front of them early on. At this moment, I heard that there were only a few fireships, and I destroyed the ship array I had carefully built. Cao Cao's face was even darker than Cao Xiu in front of him. Annoyed and angry, he grabbed Cao Xiu and asked sharply, "How can this be!" Why don't you stop Huang Gai! ”

"The warship is stumbling over iron chains, and it cannot avoid the fire boat!" Cao Xiu swallowed his saliva and replied with a sad face. In fact, not long after the warship was ignited, some generals wanted to untie the iron cables connecting the ship's formation in order to avoid the spread of the fire, but the chains connecting the warship were too strong, and in the panic, it didn't matter whether Cao Bing was slashing with a knife. No matter how good it is, you can't break the chain. As a result, the soldiers of Cao Ying could only watch as the fire ignited from one warship to another. If it weren't for this, Cao Xiu would not have left his subordinates and rushed to the flagship to persuade Cao Cao to abandon the battle.

Cao Cao never imagined that the iron cable that he had always been proud of would become the most fatal weakness in the entire ship array. Looking at the monstrous fire that is gradually spreading in front of you, you can feel the undulating waves under your feet. For the first time in his life, this conceited hero had a sense of powerlessness at a loss - the so-called cocoon is nothing more than that.

However, for Cao Jun, the real nightmare has only just begun. Seeing the raging fire on the Cao Army's warship, Zhou Yu, who had been waiting for a long time, suddenly lifted his spirits, and couldn't help but stroke his palms and laugh, "General Gongfu really lives up to the trust!" Cao thief will die this time! ”

Han Dang, who was kneeling on the side, looked at the flames burning in the distance. glanced at Zhou Yu who looked flying in front of him again. I couldn't help but ask with some hindsight, "What do you mean?" ”

Zhou Yu turned around and helped Han Dang up, and solemnly bowed his head to him, "As the general said, General Gongfu has never surrendered to Cao, and everything before was a bitter plan set up by Yu and others. ”

"Bitter Meat Scheme?!" The generals on the ship realized that the fifty military sticks that Zhou Yu had beaten Huang Gai before, together with Huang Gai's previous departure from the military formation and "surrendered to Cao". It was all a plan set up by the two of them in advance, in order to find an opportunity to burn the Cao army's ship array. And judging from the increasingly burning fire on the opposite side, it is obvious that Huang Gai has succeeded in success. Thinking of this, Sun Yingzhong was gearing up and planning to do a big job.

As for Zhou Yu, who is a strategist, he is even more energetic at this time. Drawing his sword, he pointed directly at the Cao army's ship formation that was caught in the sea of fire on the opposite side, and shouted, "Order! Assault of the whole army! Swear to kill the thief! ”

"Assault of the whole army! Swear to kill the thief! ”

In the earth-shattering shouts of killing, the Sun family's warship was fully sailed, and under the push of the strong wind, it was like a carp crossing the river breaking the waves. Not long after, the Sun family's warship had already rushed into front of Cao's army. At this time, the Cao Junshui Division had already become a pot of porridge, and in the face of the Sun Family's Water Division, who came to cover up, he couldn't organize a decent counterattack.

Bang! Bang! Bang! Several slab bridges were on the ships of the Cao army, and Han Dang took the lead in leading a group of armor soldiers to jump onto the deck, drawing his sword and looking for traces of the enemy. On another warship not far away, another tiger general of Sun Ying, Gan Ning, was attacking left and right with two swords in his hand. He was followed by a servant. Whenever the knife in Gan Ning's hand became sluggish due to the blur of flesh and blood, the pawn would immediately send a new knife so that Gan Ning could continue to slash people with great courage.

Han Dang didn't have Gan Ning's penchant for chopping meat, and after breaking the nose and front teeth of an intruding enemy with his shield, he quickly locked on to the target he really needed to hunt. It was a military general on the deck with a big sword and shouting at the soldiers. There were no greetings, no names exchanged, and both sides saw killing intent in their respective eyes. The collision of swords and swords struck scattered sparks in the air, and after more than a dozen rounds of moves, Han Dang deftly dodged the opponent's hard blow, turned around and stabbed his sword above Cao Jiang's left collarbone, and then pulled the sword out. With a low roar, General Cao fell from the warship and made a large splash in the river. Without the commander to suppress the formation, Cao's soldiers suddenly lost their fighting spirit, some jumped into the sea in despair, and some abandoned their swords and surrendered. Han Dang took a deep breath and jumped on the next enemy ship with his sword raised, although he did not know Huang Gai's whereabouts so far, he firmly believed that only by fighting bravely to kill the enemy could he live up to Huang Gongfu's painstaking efforts.

Because the flagship's iron cable was too strong to unravel, Cao Cao finally had to evacuate the ship formation in a small boat with Yang Xiu, Cao Xiu and others. Seeing the ship array in the fire all around and the corpses, wood chips, and military flags floating on the river, and then looking at Deng Xi and Zhang Yun beside him, who were originally talking eloquently, but now trembling with fright and sweating, Cao Cao, who was remorseful and angry in his heart, couldn't wait to kick the two ministers in front of him off the boat.

However, when everyone was huddled in the boat and panicked, Yang Xiu was surprisingly calm. In his opinion, although Cao Cao was defeated and defeated miserably, he was not completely defeated. At least Cao Cao was superior to Sun Ce in terms of military strength. Therefore, the more at this time, the more he could not be discouraged, so the next moment Yang Xiu lost no time in reassuring Cao Cao, "Don't worry, Prime Minister, although the sailor is destroyed, the army is still there." ”

Yang Xiu's persuasion brought Cao Cao back to reality. It is said that the essence of the Battle of Chibi is actually that Cao Cao wants to use a boat to transport his soldiers and horses across the Yangtze River, as a response to Zhou Yu leading the Sun family sailors to prevent Cao's army from crossing the river. Although Cao Cao's sailors were burned by Huang Gai, half of Cao's army remained in Wulin relatively intact. Of course, before Cao Cao rebuilt the new naval division, Cao's army could no longer pose a substantial threat to Eastern Wu for a long time.

Indomitable can be said to be a necessary qualification for every traitor. Even if they lose completely, even if they fall into the eighteenth layer of hell, as long as there is still one breath left, the traitors will not give up easily, even if they climb, they will climb out of hell and fight again. Just as Liu Bei still does not change his will after repeated defeats and battles, Cai Ji is still concerned about the world when he is trapped by the white wolf. At this moment, thinking that today's defeat did not hurt his muscles and bones, Cao Cao's slender Danfeng eyes once again ignited a raging fighting spirit.

The First Battle of Chibi lasted from Mao Shi to Shen Shi of the same day, and the Cao army lost more than 800 large and small warships, nearly 30,000 people killed and drowned, countless war horses, and more than 3,000 people were captured. After this battle, the once invincible Cao Jun's naval division was completely wiped out, and the flames on the warship continued to burn for four days and four nights. As a result, Sun's army, which had achieved a great victory, could not cross the sea of fire to pursue the victory, and it was not until four days later that Zhou Yu cleaned up the wreckage on the river and personally led 20,000 soldiers and horses to land in Wulin. At this time, Cao Cao had already burned the Wulin Water Village cleanly, and instead led his troops to withdraw in the direction of Nanjun. (To be continued......)