Chapter 240: Glory of Victory
According to Yan Xiang's strategy, Yuan Shu immediately divided his troops into two routes, a small number of soldiers and horses went to fight the water thief army of Gan Ning and Zhou Tai and others with the momentum of blocking, and most of the warships turned their bows and turned around to attack the "main force of the water army in Jinling City" in the hearts of Yuan Shu and others.
As soon as Yuan Shu's navy made this arrangement, he saw Guo Jia, who had been staring at the formation of Yuan Shu's army's fleet, with a happy smile on his face
"Yuan Shu has a plan! …… Fu Jun, send orders to all ships to hold back the main force of Yuan Shujun's large fleet, we don't need to attack, we just need to maintain the formation and guard the gate without losing ...... The rest will be left to Gan Ning and them to do! ”
Yuan Shu and Yan Xiang have been victorious for several days, and they have cracked the "pottery merchant's strategy", unconsciously, they are already impetuous, and unconsciously fell into Guo Jia's arrogant strategy, at this moment they did not look down on Gan Ning and Zhou Tai's naval army at all, but used the main force to meet the pottery merchant, which also buried the final bitter fruit for the defeat of this battle.
Although the ships of Gan Ning and the other water thieves were all small boats, they were moving extremely fast, and most of Yuan Shu's warships were used to attack the main team of pottery merchants, and they ordered the rowers to quickly approach Yuan Shu's former warships.
The rockers and pole bearers of the water thieves are completely different from the half-hangers in Yuan Jun and the Tao Shang Army, and they are all old drivers! On the waterway of the Yangtze River, it was as easy as visiting their own backyard, and controlling the boat was like a leisurely stroll, and before they knew it, they seemed to be slowly approaching the front of Yuan's fleet.
Seeing that Yuan Shu's fleet was already approaching his own range, Zhou Tai waved his hand and shouted, "Shoot the arrow!" ”
The rain of arrows from the army of water thieves flew towards Yuan Shu's warship team in the southern direction.
Compared with the quasi-head of the Jinling Army and Yuan Shujun on the river, the level of the water thieves firing arrows on the river is obviously not a grade.
It was just a rain of arrows, and the water thieves basically blasted away the defensive front line of Yuan Shujun's southern warships.
In Yuan's army, the one responsible for commanding a part of the warships to deal with Gan Ning and others was Li Feng, a powerful general under Yuan Shu.
In Li Feng's heart, he didn't look down on these "weak brigade divisions" in Jinling City, but when a rain of arrows fell, Li Feng obviously felt that something was wrong.
The sailors on these small boats look like weak brigades
It's clearly a pack of tigers and wolves...... No, it's supposed to be killer whales!
At this moment, it was too late to rearrange the defensive formation, and after a round of arrow rain, the brigade of the water thief army had no intention of stopping at all, and the small boat used its flexible hull to quickly border with Yuan Shujun's sailors.
The water thieves' warships did not adopt the means of Tao and Yuan armies hitting each other's bow with each other, that kind of method is completely in the eyes of Gan Ning and other water thieves, it is completely a method that only junior players in water warfare will adopt!
The tactics of water combat masters are generally hard fights!
Although it is also a surface battle, but the water thieves and the pottery merchant army of the weak style of play, they each have a hook in their hands, when they get close to the opponent's warship, the thieves will throw the rope one after another, the iron nail firmly pierced the deck of the enemy ship, and then everyone jumped up, jumped on the enemy ship and engaged in melee combat with the Yuan soldiers.
In the face of these water thieves who dared to jump back and forth on the Yangtze River, Yuan Jun's soldiers were frightened.
The Yangtze River was bumpy, and they sometimes felt uncomfortable and disgusting when they walked back and forth on the boat, but these water thieves were like water monkeys, jumping between the boats almost as easily as walking on the ground and crossing the ditch.
Aren't they afraid of falling into the river?
As soon as they got on the warship of the Yuan army, these water thieves seemed to have come to their own home, brandishing Pu Daoge on the enemy ship to kill the enemy soldiers, and at the same time they called out and shouted.
"Hand over everything of value!"
"Pay the grain and don't kill!"
"No food!"
"Then kill!"
Gan Ning's small boat rushed straight into the inner formation of the enemy fleet.
He aimed at the battlefield where the enemy general Li Feng was, bent his legs slightly, jumped forward, and jumped directly onto the bow of the opponent's ship.
And the sailors and soldiers behind him also followed, jumping on the warships of the Yuan army's navy battle array.
Gan Ning smiled and waved his arms, slashing and killing a group of Yuan Jun who were rushing towards him, almost one by one, effortlessly like chopping melons and vegetables.
He was already brave in martial arts, and in the face of these ordinary Yuan soldiers who were not good at water warfare, it was not a problem to have one in one hand.
Li Feng's face was pale, and he was so frightened that he retreated again and again.
Gan Ning bared his teeth and walked towards him with a hideous face.
"Block him, block him!"
Several more soldiers of the Yuan army rushed towards Gan Ning.
But at this moment, the water thieves under Gan Ning also followed him and boarded the ship one after another, and the water thieves blocked the soldiers of the Yuan army under Li Feng one after another, slashing and slashing, and the blood splashed soaked the ship's board bright red.
Gan Ning squeezed through the crowd, grabbed Li Feng, and said with a smile: "Lingqi"
Li Feng was grabbed by Gan Ning's palm as hard as a vice, and he couldn't even break free.
Under Gan Ning's fierce gaze, Li Feng pointed to the cabin behind him tremblingly, and said timidly: "In, in the cabin at the back." ”
"Oh!" Gan Ning nodded suddenly, then flew up and kicked Li Feng directly into the Yangtze River.
Poor Yuan Shu's generals, in the face of Gan Ning, he didn't even swing his knife, he was kicked in the air and drowned in the river.
"Kill all the Yuan troops on the ship and take the command flag!" Gan Ning shouted loudly at his soldiers.
At this time, the water thieves had already forcibly occupied many warships, and they turned the bow of Yuan Jun's building ship and viciously plunged into it towards the interior of Yuan Jun's fleet.
And Li Feng's command flag was also taken to the battlefield by Gan Ning's subordinates to shake blindly, giving the enemy fleet the wrong information, and for a while, Yuan's fleet was in chaos.
Yuan Shu had just joined the potters at the moment, and before he could fight, a huge change had already taken place in the rear of the fleet.
However, the potter was not in a hurry, and ordered the navy to guard the gate steadily, not to compete with Yuan Shu's fleet, but to wait and see the changes.
Le was sweating profusely, rushed straight to Yuan Shu, and reported to him: "General! It's not good, the fleet in our rear has been defeated by those weak troops in Jinling City! ”
Yuan Shu's face couldn't help but turn pale when he heard this, and he hurriedly led Yan Xiang, Ji Ling and others to the bow of the boat, and looked towards the rear.
But seeing that the fleet in the rear was already in chaos, countless soldiers on their side were either hacked to death or overboard, and many ships had been turned by the enemy and viciously pierced into the center of Yuan's fleet, causing a piece of chaos and ups and downs, and the water on the Yangtze River was faintly red as if it was infected with blood, and there were floating planks, wreckage of ships, and the corpses of soldiers everywhere.
Yuan Shu's eyes were almost popping out.
His lips trembled, and he trembled and roared at Yan Xiang: "What's going on, shouldn't the defenders of Jinling City be the division of the weak brigade, how can they be so fierce...... And it seems that he is also extremely proficient in water warfare! ”
Yan Xiang also didn't react, stupid.
He watched in a daze as his soldiers were slaughtered by a group of water bandits, and more and more warships were captured, and chaos gradually spread among his fleet.
Things were completely beyond the scope of Yan Xiang's thoughts.
The smooth sailing of the past few days was replayed again in Yan Xiang's mind at this moment...... The events of the past few days, when you think about it, seem to have turned into an ever-expanding conspiracy.
I seem to have been calculated!
Thinking of this, the sweat on Yan Xiang's head began to flow down his cheeks and slowly descended.
He has always prided himself on being wise, but now he has unwittingly fallen for the arrogant tactics of the potter.
Is it the potter who calculates himself or someone else
In the Jinling Army, is there really such a master......
At this time, Le suddenly shouted loudly!
"Fire! Fire! It's fire! ”
Yuan Shu and Yan Xiang suddenly looked up.
After Zhou Tai and other sailors forcibly occupied many of Yuan Jun's ships and ships, they set fire to some of the small boats they had been riding on, and drove the boats towards the middle of Yuan Shu with the help of the water and wind direction.
These small fireboats are in the middle of the river, and they will not deal any devastating blow to Yuan Jun, but they can do a key thing!
That is to disperse Yuan Shu's fleet!
Sure enough, in order to avoid the fireships that had penetrated into the Chinese army, Yuan Shu's fleet began to roar and rush around, fleeing in panic.
On the river, the fleet is the most taboo to separate, once the ships have no formation, they will be cut off by the enemy's naval army!
The fleet was cut off, the ships could not see the command flag, and the individual warships could only operate in their own way, without effective unified command.
What Zhou Tai and others have to do is this.
And at this moment, the Jinling army of the potters also began to exert their strength.
Under the attack of the two phases, Yuan Shu's warship troops were cut into several sections as desired, and the soldiers of each ship could not be unified in command, so they could only go their own way, attacking indiscriminately, and were broken one by one by the naval army of Jinling City and the naval army of Ganning.
Under the rapid turn of the situation, many Yuan soldiers had no choice but to shout surrender.
If a sailor is cut into several pieces above the river, there is no doubt that it represents a complete failure.
Yuan Shu is like this right now.
A small number of boats, protecting Yuan Shu's main ship, hurried towards the waterway next to it.
Xu Rong ordered the various naval forces of Jinling City to concentrate on cleaning up the warships on the river, and at the same time sent the soldiers of the small boat to the main ship to ask the potters if they still wanted to pursue Yuan Shu at this moment.
The potter and Guo Jia discussed for a while, and then sent someone to inform Xu Rong that there was no need to pursue Yuan Shu himself for the time being, but it was just necessary to clear the Yuan Shu naval army on the river, and try to appease those who could be appeased, and execute those who could not be appeased on the spot, so as to weaken Yuan Shu's strength to the greatest extent and collect the captured warships.
For Yuan Shu himself, he only needs to send some fleets and symbolically attack him slightly.
The so-called self-respect.
The strength in the hands of the potters is not enough, and now they can't eat so much territory of Yuan Shu, if they really cook Yuan Shu here, the cheapest person in the first place is afraid that Liu Biao.
Although they are allies, after Liu Biaoquan takes Jingzhou, if he annexes Yuan Shu's territory, he will really become a tyrant in Nantian.
The potter is a pacifist, for an ally of the level of Nantian Yiba...... The potter felt that it was better not to exist.