Chapter 533. Red Cliff Red River
The fire burns the red cliffs, there is! But Huang Gai's bitter meat trick is deceitful, no! And later generations watched the night battle of the river fireboat on TV, and there was no one!
Trapped by the epidemic, Cao Cao's army was much weaker than in "Romance of the Three Kingdoms", and in this case, it was always impossible for Cao Cao, who was vigilant by nature, to let a large fleet go straight to the main position of his Chinese army.
Moreover, night fighting is an extremely difficult task for any army in this era, even if it is Wang Hou's Liaodong Army, after all, the command of troops in this era depends on the banner, and in the thick night, all the banners of commanding the operation are submerged in the thick night, and the control of any commander over the troops will be extremely reduced.
However, the time chosen by Wu Jun to attack was also very late, and as the afternoon approached evening, the sky had become dark.
This time is actually very clever, after all, it is not the combat season, Cao Jun only eats two meals a day, this time is just stuck when Cao Jun has been hungry for a day, and he has not had a chance to eat, and the hungry Cao Jun's physical strength is far less than when he is full.
And there is no fog in the middle of the river, if it is fog, it can indeed play a covering role in the sneak attack, but it is also unfavorable to the command of his own troops, Zhou Yu not only wants to be a sneak attack, he wants to command the 50,000 troops of Eastern Wu and Cao Cao to conduct a decisive battle, completely defeat Cao Cao, and completely solve the serious threat of the northerners to the south of the Yangtze River.
In this way, clusters of firelight took advantage of the dusk to rush straight towards the huge Cao Cao fleet across Ullin!
"The southern thief is here! Challenge! Challenge! ”
Cao Jun naturally couldn't stand still, and the bird's nest sentry with Wang's telescope watched the dense Soochow warships pouring out of the nest, and a terrible shout suddenly sounded, and then, the dense snare drum sounded as fiercely as the muffled thunder before the shower.
On the deck, straw sandals stepped on the wood just in time for the crackling of the showers, and with the compound bows of the north, archers from all over the north rushed to the deck of the locked building like ants moving together, and suddenly pulled up their longbows against the river.
The enemy was already in front of him, and he didn't have time to wait for his commander to give the order, and the crackling feathered arrows really rained down like a storm.
But the arrows really didn't have much effect on Wu Jun's boat! He Wanghou had experience in fighting and attacking him, and the front of the boat was full of straw igniters wrapped in the canopy, and the oars were hiding behind the thick straw hut, and the colorful arrows pierced the grass hut on the side, but it could not affect the boat to continue rowing forward.
It wasn't until the arrival of the second echelon of trebuchets that it did a little work, and in the buzzing sound, rows of pebbles were thrown out in a row, and heavy stones hit the ship to bite off a plank, and some of the boats were overturned, and some of them were quickly tilted up with a hole.
But! There are too many boats in Soochow! It took at least a minute to lower the arm of the trebuchet, and in the interval between the rain of arrows and the rain of stones, thousands of small boats were still rushing towards the camp like water fleas.
And just when Cao Cao led the group of generals and staff to board the highest Chinese command ship, Wu Jun was even more than 30 meters in front of him, and he didn't know which boat to start with, Wu Jun lit the straw fire on the boat, he didn't even need binoculars, and his eyes were full of blazing fire.
For the first time, Wang Hou's invention disappointed Cao Cao, the artillery came and went, firing all the time, indeed, as long as it hit, a fireship must be torn apart, but there are too few cannons, a hundred or so cannons are bombarded to death, and they can't stop the surging fireships like madmen, after so many years of fighting, the palpitations and nervous excitement in the heart have not appeared for a long time and sprung up in the chest, and suddenly pulled out the Yitian Sword in his hand, Cao Cao roared and roared.
"Boiling water village, attacking !!"
Knock ~ Knock ~ Knock ~
The loud war drums sounded more intensely, between the two ships, a gate of the water village nailed into a wooden plank was pulled open by the sailors with iron chains, rowing a small boat, the small fleet of Liu Biao who surrendered in Jingzhou was also rowing down and rushing out like a water centipede, in the flash of fire, the two fleets were only about fifteen meters away from the water village and collided together.
But it is really unfair, the plague of the Cao army in the north of the river is rampant, and the epidemic is not in the south of the river, standing at the bow of the boat, Cao Cao clearly saw that the same sailors, in the staggered two boats, the short Wu Jun Danyang soldiers mantis wielded a big knife like that, but it was fierce and rushed onto his own boat, and easily cut down his own team of Xiangyang soldiers into the water.
Cao Jun didn't have a single left, and Wu Jun didn't die either.
In particular, a scene clearly caught Cao Cao's eyes, one of his captains roared and slashed down, but the knife that could be used with all his strength was easily beaten by Wu Junsaber, and then kicked him in the stomach, and before he could stand up, he stabbed him through the chest again.
This kind of plague typhoid fever really affects the combat effectiveness of the troops! Weakened soldiers could not even hold their knives steadily.
With a bang, the bow of the ship collided together, and the hull was full of straw firewood that had been burned high and fell on the Cao army's boat, and soon, the Cao boat was quickly burned into a raging fire, and the two armies were fighting, and the ghosts and wolves kept coming out.
However, under Cao Cao's watchful eyes, most of the overturned boats were the Xiangyang boats under his command, and even some of the boats had already collapsed in morale before they even reached the enemy's face, rowing the boat and crying and running to the water village and escaping back.
"Close the gate of the water village, and those who dare to retreat will be shot!"
Angry that his cheeks were straightened and furious, Cao Cao roared loudly with great anger, and his eyes were red and he issued this nirvana order to try to save the collapsed morale.
The power of the dictatorship was also evident here, and in his roar, the gate of the water village that had just been opened quickly closed again, locking out all the panicked Xiangyang sailors, and at the same time the archers who had been firing into the river lowered their bows.
The boat hit the thick water village gate, these Xiangyang soldiers wept bitterly and cried the door, screaming for help, but they were greeted by a rain of arrows, fluttering and fluttering sounds, the bodies of the deserters who were hit by the arrows fell into the water, and patches of bright red appeared in the already turbid river water.
But even so, it couldn't stop the rout of the Cao army's small fleet, next to the Xiangyang fleet that was densely piled up outside the water village, the sailors jumped into the water one after another to escape, some dived in from under the water village, some fluttered and swam to the river not far away, and the slow ones were cut into the water by the Dongwu Navy with a knife
The red blood began to stain the Yangtze River red.
When preventing the fire attack of the boat, Wang Hou had a three-ship iron cable to block the river to resolve, this one he also wrote on Ping Wu Ce, but unfortunately, a few pages full of his refined Ping Wu Ce with Jia Poison Shi tore up, easily sank to the bottom of the sea, Cao Cao did lock the building ship with chains, but unfortunately, it was not the bottom, but the top!
Breaking through the interception fleet sent by the Cao army, the Dongwu fireships, which had lost more than half of them, still hit the heavy buildings and ships that formed the Cao army's water village with the fierce collision of the defeated soldiers.
In the tooth-souring sound, the sharp nails in front of the boat were directly nailed to the bottom of the splint, and the firewood that had been completely burned reached at least six or seven hundred degrees, and the raging flames scorched the dry plank, and soon spread rapidly to the ship, and the flying fire climbed to the splints, licking the sails.
In the face of such a ferocious enemy, the elite of the Cao army has the ambition to fight with it, but this is a fire! The water and fire were ruthless, even the bows and arrows in hand were squeaky and creaking, Cao Jun, who was burned on his body, cried and fluttered, and some people even hugged their teammates in panic, and the two burned together into burning people.
Those ferocious trebuchets were also lit, and in the crackling and burning sound, thousands of Cao troops fled back in panic.
There was a muffled sound, and the door of the water village was also burned into the water, and behind the wooden door, a small boat of the Wu army immediately came in fiercely, and the sailors under his command rowed, and the veteran of the Wu army, whose beard was gray, roared vigorously.
"The old man Huang Gai Huang Gong is here! Which rat dares to fight the old man? ”