Broadside warfare can be said to be the oldest form of water warfare, both in China and abroad.

Generals who know a little about water warfare will be no stranger to this kind of tactics of jumping into enemy ships and slashing and killing.

However, since the Qin and Han dynasties, the water war in the east has not deliberately pursued the broadside battle. The warring parties' pursuit of the performance of warships has also been leaning on the indicator of "tall ships".

The higher the ship, the better, the higher the more condescending the advantage of the arrows, waiting for the side of the ship and the lower side of the ship to be shot so low that the party that suffers from the loss is shot so that it can't raise its head, and takes the initiative to lean up like a siege and arch up, and the defending side harvests more heads in vain, isn't it beautiful?

In addition, the ancient Oriental inland river warships were mainly square and flat-headed, in order to stabilize navigation, and it was not easy to install ramming angles. Naturally, no one has developed equipment such as "slapping rods" and "crow beaks" that deliberately tie up enemy ships to engage in broadside combat, and everyone thinks that "when I encounter a ship that is taller than me, I will jump on it and slash it." If you encounter someone with a ship lower than me, there is no need to slash and kill, just wait for the enemy to come and slash and kill."

The tactic of directly smashing and smashing enemy ships with a huge hull and a heavy hammer was not until the early years of the Sui Dynasty and the general Yang Su, who guarded Shu, built the "Wuya Warship" in the upper reaches of the Yangtze River in order to destroy Nan Chen. However, this kind of ship can only be built after crossing the Three Gorges of the Yangtze River and entering the Yiling area, because the center of gravity is too high to drive the Three Gorges of the Yangtze River, and it is easy to overturn when it encounters turbulent places.

When Li Su ordered the establishment of shipyards in Jiameng and Langzhong last winter, he paid attention to "teaching students according to their aptitude" and built some warships suitable for their styles for the generals of naval warfare with different characteristics. Imitating the Roman Raven Warship with a small lever and crow's beak is not very technical, it is completely a layer of window paper, and it is easy for craftsmen to make it after piercing the concept.

The vast majority of the Han warships still do not have such special equipment, and only a small amount is used in today's special battlefield environment.

The status quo of the industry is like this, and Gao Pei is not a great water war general, he was entangled by Gan Ning's madman style of "staring at the broadside battle, no matter who is high or low on both sides, he is stuck with a crow's beak and slashes and kills cleanly", so he was naturally momentarily stunned.

Who let Gan Ning be a pirate, the purpose of pirates is to rob things, and to grab things is to jump on and kill all the people and occupy the ship, since ancient times, the navy has shelled the pirate side, this is natural.

Gan Ning himself also cut down one ship after another, and from the second ship, the flail in his hand began to exert his bravery, he could wrap around the sail cable, or throw out the hook, and continue to jump into the next boat like Tarzan of the apes to continue the battle. Gan Ning himself was only wearing rhino skin armor, not iron armor, in order to improve the degree of lightness and agility, and the defense power was relatively less important.

"Captain, I can't stand it, those water thieves are so brave, the brothers who have already had more than a dozen boats have been cut down to abandon the ships and surrender, and the enemy general wearing the big red Shu brocade alone has already cut down five or six of our boats! Why don't you get out of here! We go against the current and they go downstream, and we can't close the distance at all if we fight like this! ”

A Qu Junhou beside Gao Pei was cut off and captured his boat, jumped into the river and fled to Gao Pei's boat, pointing to Gan Ning, who was like a mad tiger, and shivered.

"Afraid of what? The enemy army looks like there are no more than a thousand people, and our army is more than four or five times more than them, and what about the countercurrent, all of them slowly leaned up and surrounded them! Gao Pei was unwilling to be defeated by Ye Luzi like this, and still insisted on gathering the formation.

He felt that Gan Ning's advantage was only because of the mobility of the upstream, so although there were few troops, they were very effective in being concentrated in an instant, and they could form a temporary concentration of superior forces in the local battlefield.

But as long as the army downstream is given a little time and slowly surrounds it, sooner or later it will still be able to crush Gan Ning.

……

"Hmph, this thief really doesn't know how to die, and he even thinks that he still has hope. If he leaves behind these warships that are entangled by us and turns around and escapes, he can still keep a distance. It's too late now! ”

After Gan Ning used an iron halberd to kill several people and emptied a Liu Yanjun warship, he saw that Gao Pei did not retreat but advanced, and knew that Gao Pei was gone.

Gan Ning's task along the way is to stir up meat with the enemy's front team as soon as possible, so that the enemy army cannot form a position to shoot at each other from a long distance and give full play to the superiority of troops to gather fire. After a while, Zhou Tai will appear with the main force.

Now, because Gao Pei was entangled in the front army, he did not immediately turn around and take advantage of the downstream advantage to escape, and sell his teammates to break his arm to survive. I was afraid that my teammates in hand-to-hand combat would not dare to shoot far away, but all of them were slowly piled up for melee combat, which can be said to be Gan Ning's favorite situation.

Several times in a row, it was the enemy ship that surrounded Gan Ning's side, because the speed of the boat against the current was too slow, and it had not yet come closer, and the people on the previous boat had been killed by Gan Ning, and it became a refueling tactic in vain.

Gan Ning continued to hold on to the work of a cup of tea, and held on until Zhou Tai arrived with the main force of the rear army, and the enemy army on the opposite side finally found that the situation was not right, and their morale was completely shaken.

It's a pity that at this time, it was too late to retreat, the warships on both sides were piled up, the channel was seriously blocked, and many of them were entangled in the collision angles and slap rods.

When Gao Pei commanded the left and right guards to surround Gan Ning on the boat, he thought that he could beat two or three of the seven or eight boats to form an absolute advantage, but in the end he found that the ships surrounding Gan Ning's back road were quickly killed by Zhou Tai, who rushed up the river, and the front was also entangled and couldn't run.

More than a dozen large ships collided sideways and vertically, connecting into one piece, forming a bloody slaughterhouse, and the battlefield was so wide that it was no different from land battles.

Gan Ning jumped over the sides of several warships one after another, and finally took the elite of the henchmen and thieves to kill Gao Peiza's ship.

The guards on Gao Pei's side are all equipped with ring-headed knives and round shields, and no one uses spears and standard water battle equipment. Gao Pei himself wore a cast-iron helmet, and the most elite dozen or so pro-soldier colonels were also armored.

Therefore, when he saw Gan Ning leading a group of water thieves with only leather armor or even no armor to kill, Gao Pei still had a little luck in his heart: he didn't even have iron armor, and fighting in array may not have a chance to escape!

The Gan Ning army rushed forward, and very quickly dispersed the formation of Gao Pei's army, and the sword and shield soldiers could not reach far, so the formation was not very difficult to break through.

The iron halberd in Gan Ning's hand stabbed wildly, flying up and down, Gao Pei blocked several times with the ring head knife, retreated again and again, and occasionally counterattacked with a shield strike, but he could also temporarily force back Gan Ning, whose martial arts were much higher than him.

The blades of the iron halberd and the side branches slashed against the shield, and they were slid away one after another. After a few moves, Gan Ning figured out Gao Pei's martial arts path, and no longer relied on the iron halberd to attack, but pretended that a wave of offensive was over, retreated two steps and sold a flaw, so that Gao Pei could counterattack.

Gao Pei thought that Gan Ning had run out of skills, turned over and slashed back, the ring head knife technique was rigorous, covering the upper body with a round shield, and the blade was like a wind to greet the enemy. This is also a common move used by the side with a shield.

Gan Ning was not easy to block, and it seemed that he was almost in danger, but he saw the right time, and fought for the risk of piercing the deck with a halberd and not being able to pull it back for a while. The side branches of the iron halberd just held the saber, and the remaining strength was not weakened into the deck of the ship, and the ring-headed knife was also stuck on the deck, and it could not be withdrawn for a while, and the weapons of the two were stuck on the wooden board at the same time.

Gao Pei secretly said in his heart that he was hesitating whether to fight back, or decisively abandon the knife and jump, or the savage collision of a shield knocked Gan Ning away and turned Gan Ning into a party that lost his weapon.

Between the thoughts and thoughts, Gao Pei didn't have time to think too carefully, he was driven by ruthlessness, and chose the most defeat-lose savage collision.

If you refuse to give up the halberd, you will be brutally collided with people with iron armor and heavy shields weighing two or three hundred catties!

"Drink!" While Gao Pei savagely collided, he shouted loudly, and at the same time, his eyes caught a glimpse of Gan Ning sideways and the flail in his other hand violently.

Gao Pei hurriedly lowered his head, raised the shield higher to protect his face, and slammed the chain pole on the shield, and the meteor hammer head connected by the chain turned along the upper edge of the shield and was thrown out by inertia, hitting the back of Gao Pei's head with a "poof".

Gao Pei was wearing a cast iron helmet, the helmet was not deformed, and even his head was not broken, and the whole person continued to slam according to the inertia before death, knocking Gan Ning away a few steps away and overpowering Gan Ning.

Gan Ning knew that his move was a bit risky, but if he didn't take risks, he couldn't kill the enemy general so quickly.

He rubbed the internal organs that had been knocked out of the blood, forcibly held back the vomiting in his heart, and pushed Gao Pei's body away.

Since more than half a year ago, in the battle with Zhang Fei, because of the misjudgment of the opponent, when the enemy's weapons were chained, but his own chain shackles were shaken off his hands, Gan Ning has been a little psychological shadow of his chain flail technique during his imprisonment.

In fact, this kind of trick has no skills at all, it all depends on who has the most strength on both sides, and now, he has finally regained his confidence in Gao Pei.

Liu Yanjunjun will be headshot by a meteor hammer, and the subsequent fight will be even more one-sided. Gan Ning finally officially achieved his eight-ship flying achievement, accumulating more than 100 kills.

In less than a quarter of an hour, Liu Yan's army, which was more than twice as large as the Han army, was completely killed, dozens of grain ships were captured, and one or two thousand sailors also surrendered, and the rest of the people hurriedly turned around and fled.

But Gan Ning and Zhou Tai still refused to let go, and divided their troops to chase and kill. Among Liu Yanjun's deserters, only those warships fled back to Jiangzhou because of their speed and the pursuers, but the grain ships were caught up and captured because of their heavy draft and slow speed.

The Han army won a great victory in this battle, but it basically ended here. Previously, Liu Bi underestimated the enemy and supported Diaoyu City by land and was defeated by Guan Yu. This time, the land route did not dare to change the water route, but still took advantage of Guan Yu's absence, and was defeated by Zhou Taiganning again.

From then on, the defenders of Jiangzhou should not dare to support Diaoyu City by water and land, and there will be no chance to besiege the city and send reinforcements.

From this point of view, if it is just to kill the enemy and capture, Zhou Taiganning will not earn much, after all, he has used up a valuable strategic opportunity that cannot be replicated.

……

In the afternoon of the same day, Li Su rode a horse and took Dian Wei and other bodyguards to the temporary camp on the west bank of the Jialing River, twenty miles south of Diaoyu City, to check the results of Zhou Tai and Gan Ning's battle - the reason why he wanted to set up a temporary camp here was also because of the existence of Diaoyu City, which blocked the passage of the sailors back upstream through the city, and might sink the passing ships, so he simply did not go back.

Zhou Tai's face was full of excitement, and when this group of fresh prisoners reported directly to Li Su: "Zhonglang, a total of more than 2,000 prisoners of war have been captured, 100 ships have been captured, and 30,000 stone of military rations have been captured!" Now it's okay, all the grain transported to Liu Mao belongs to us, and our army can transport a lot less grain. ”

Li Su glanced at the captives next to him, and waved his hand very arrogantly: "Killing the enemy and capturing are all worth rejoicing, with a mere 30,000 stone army grain transportation capacity, what is there to be happy about?" Do we lack that food? Are we short of ships to carry grain?

Keep shipping! Captured and captured, all of them will be rewarded to the soldiers who participated in the war and distributed to the families of the soldiers who died in the war as bereavement benefits. Send them all out! ”

Otherwise, the captives will see it and think we can't afford it!

Li Su wants this effect: let the enemy fully realize that Liu Beijun is not short of food, and defeat the opponent's psychological expectation of "I must be able to consume more energy than Liu Bei"!

Zhou Tai was slightly stunned, for some reason, he actually captured the enemy's military rations, but he couldn't make the commander happy, but he didn't care, just follow it.

Li Su continued to ask: "Have you captured enemy generals?" Before going to war, I told you to capture as many civil and military generals as possible. ”

Gan Ning came over and reported: "I wanted to smash Gao Peisheng and capture, the weight of the meteor hammer is not easy to handle, and the back of the head will be killed." However, he caught Zhao Wei, the civil official who supervised the grain, and he also claimed to be the Taishou of Ba County. ”

As he spoke, Gan Ning pointed to a thirty or forty-year-old civil official in the pile of captives, pulled it out and threw it in front of Li Su. I still regret that Gao Pei's blood volume is too small.

Li Su couldn't help laughing: "What kind of pseudo-Taishou is he, Liu Yan is self-proclaimed, my mentor Cai Gong is the Taishou of Bajun!" That's it, presumably this person is useless, that is, Liu Yan sees him as a means of gaining people's hearts and qualifications.

If he had had the final say, he wouldn't have been sent to oversee the grain himself. Untie him first, entertain him, and put him back in Diaoyu City. Of course, you can't take weapons and armor with you, just go back naked. ”

Zhao Wei was taken aback: "You finally arrested us, and you actually let us go back to Diaoyu City?" ”

Li Su contemptuously despised it: "As far as you waste, I am not afraid of no matter how much there is in the field, let you go back, of course, not to go elsewhere, but to enter Diaoyu City - I am still waiting for your thousands of waste mouths to speed up the eating of Liu Mao, and you will use this for this purpose." ”

Of course, this is not Li Su's real plan, but only a part of it, but only in this way can the spirit of "Liu Bei is not afraid of consuming food" be thoroughly instilled into the other party's mind and pave the way for the follow-up plan.

Zhao Wei was really shocked, and he also had a very intuitive understanding of the inflated confidence of the Han army.

Then he was taken down to entertain him.