Chapter 385. Northern Navy VS Southern Naval Division
It's really fun to fight with a high-intelligence businessman, this time under the premise that Zhou Yu knows, Wang Hou put him again, this way back in a small boat, he is so happy, if the tail is not degenerated, maybe his tail will have to shake up.
Dong Zhuo, Yuan Shao, Liu Bei, Tao Qian, Gongsun Zhan, Lu Bu!
These troubled heroes are either good or evil, rampant or cunning, but they have a common characteristic!
Assertive!
If you don't even believe in yourself, you don't need to talk about the strategists and generals who led their subordinates with different minds in this troubled world, thousands of soldiers cut through thorns and thorns, and forged a hegemony of their own! To change the analogy of the two people, that is Zang Ba and Zhang Yan, they have no ambition in the world, so they have to be under Wang Hou's tent now, listening to Wang Hou's grinning.
Forehead......, although Wang Hou himself is also a virtuous person, and he is also listening to Mr. Cao's grinning under Mr. Cao's account, but now he is also a local warlord, and in the confrontation with Zhou Yu just now, what Wang Hou hit hard was Zhou Yu's self-confidence!
Originally, the sailor was Jiangdong's trump card, and even more powerful than Danyang soldiers! In the Chibi War, Mr. Cao was so anxious that he couldn't cross the river, it was the water division of Dongwu, but under Wang Hou's arrogant attitude and subtle warning just now, Zhou Yu, who originally regarded the water master as a trump card, was not confident anymore, and began to doubt whether the trump card in his hand could stand!
And even if Zhou Yu knew that Wang Hou was Weiling's plan, he still had to fall for the trick, and there was no trick! His troops are in a weak position, the battle of Piling lost the main force of 8,000, Hui Jianye replenished the troops, plus a part of Han Dang's troops, at most his troops were only 212,000, but he had already tried, 20,000 Wu troops were not the opponent of the 10,000 Qingzhou army, at this time Wang Hou also got an increase, the strength reached more than 13,000, and he could not stand on land.
And the water war in this era, in fact, is to move the army to the ship to fight, with the ability to be water-based and accustomed to bumps, the combat effectiveness of the Wu army has been strengthened on the ship, and the Qingzhou army that is not accustomed to water warfare will be weakened, and Wang Hou is attacking against the current, against the water and semi-against the wind, the impact of the ship is definitely not as good as his own, and the disadvantage is on Wang Hou.
But disadvantages are sometimes advantages! As he just said, in the Spring and Autumn Period, Wu and Chu competed for the Yangtze River, and if the Chu Navy Division wins, it will win a small victory, and if it loses, it will be a big defeat! For the hair? All because Wu was located in the lower reaches of the Yangtze River, and if he won the war, the Chu army sailors could not run upstream, and if they lost, the Wu army sailors went down the river and ran away with the boat.
If everything goes well, it's okay to let the boat go all the way to beat Wang Hou and Chen Deng's old boy debut combination, in case the whole army is defeated in the battle, and the navy lets Wang Hou eat, Dongwu will not be a problem of seizing the granary of Biling, and it is likely to be wiped out by the regiment, and Wang Hou can support the water division against the current and directly attack his old nest of Jianye.
But even if the risk is so great, this battle has to be fought! After losing the two million stone military rations in Biling, what did the Sun ministers of Jianye eat? What did the more than 40,000 Chaisan troops fighting on the front line eat? Just relying on the little inventory in Stone Town, it will not be able to support next year's autumn harvest, and without food, the huge Soochow will be in chaos.
Moreover, it was Wang Hou who took the initiative to attack, and the initiative of the war was not yet with him!
In Zhou Gongjin's entanglement, the Northern Army Naval Division, which had just anchored shortly after going upstream, roared with fierce war drums.
Wang Hou, who returned to his fleet, stood at the bow of the flagship Island City, arrogantly pulled out his command knife and swung it forward, baring his teeth and shouting.
"Beat the drums, march into the army!"
With the sound of paddling, more than 20 oars stretched out from the side of the boat on both sides, and with the fierce snare drum at the bow, the pointed Qingzhou boat rushed forward like a centipede.
The sharp bow cut through the river, and more than 100 Qingzhou battleships came as violently as if they were crossing the river, at this time, Zhou Yu had also turned back to his own ship, looking at the armor formation on the deck of the Qingzhou Army, while looking at it, Zhou Gongjin's handsome face was full of grimness.
On the deck beside him, the back of the hand of the Jiangdong archer holding the bow and arrow with a bamboo bow was also violent, and his breathing began to become short.
However, going upstream, driving to a distance of more than 100 meters away from the Jiangdong ship formation, suddenly, a plopping sound was a heavy sound, but it was the Qingzhou army that broke anchor, and then the front triangle array advanced more than a dozen Qingzhou capital ships actually turned their sails and rudder, flexibly turned the hull, and faced the Wu army with the side side, and then in the whistling sound, the stone formation that crackled like raindrops flew up, and hit the Ma Wu army fleet with a head and face.
In the swaying sound, the specially sharpened angular stone bullets fell on the deck, and immediately the deck wall was smashed open in the crisp click, and the flying pieces of wood crackled and splashed out, and the sharp wooden bark just pierced into the calf of a Wu army, covering the leg, and the Wu army screamed desperately.
On the other side, in the roar of an angry arrow shot by a strong crossbow, it suddenly entered the wooden wall, and the first string of Wu army archers behind the wall was pierced with a sugar gourd, like grasshoppers worn on the strings, howling and spitting blood.
Rows of neat leather shields were raised, heavy flying stones hit them, and the shields were like lotus leaves on a rainy day, shaking one after another under the heavy blows, and suddenly a heavy stone threw over, and with a click, a pro-soldier who raised the shield was stunned that his arm was discounted, and he screamed and fell down.
However, through the gap of the fallen soldiers, Zhou Yu's face was full of astonishment.
Not only was he stunned, but Sun Shangxiang was also stunned, looking at the Qingzhou Army battleship that was coming over, and was dumbfounded for a moment, this girl suddenly screamed with great excitement.
"So these landlubbers don't know how to fight water wars! Brother Gongjin was worried for a long time! Ling Tong, you lead the fireboat fleet first, Lu Xun, you kid leads the warship later, let's also beat the drum and attack! ”
"Hey! Miss! ”
panicked, Zhou Yu hurriedly wanted to reach out to stop Sun Shangxiang, but before the words were finished, this girl had already flexibly flipped down from the three-story building ship like a little monkey.
"The Grand Duke!"
Looking at the direction of Sun Shangxiang's departure, Ling Tong, who was named by her, turned his head helplessly to look at his father, while Ling Cao helplessly hugged his fist and asked Zhou Yu, glanced at the Qingzhou sailor who was pulling the trebuchet and twisting the ship's ballista, and groaned for a while, Zhou Yu gritted his teeth and nodded fiercely.
"Do as the eldest lady instructs!"
"The last general obeys!"
In the blow of Qingzhou's long-range weapons, the heavy war drums sounded fiercely in the Dongwu naval army town, which was like a city in the city, just like the cavalry in Kaicheng, countless flat and long boats with only a few meters or more than ten meters pulled the hard sails, like arrows off the side of the gunwale.
Jiang Gan's bitter meat plan is fake, but the fire attack of the Chibi Battle should be real, seeing the large and small warships rushing towards him, the Qingzhou ships that came over seemed to panic, a large number of archers gathered on the deck, and the arrows made by the rain crackled and shot at those small boats, and at the same time, those ballistas and trebuchets also turned around and rushed towards the attacking Dongwu boats.
However, arrows like locusts could only kill and injure the crew, but could not destroy the ships, and the shooting accuracy of trebuchets and ballistae was too low, and two rounds of fire out of thin air only overturned a dozen or so Wu ships, less than one-fifth of the Wu warships attacked.
And it seems that the Qingzhou army is not destroyed fast enough, and in the sound of whirring, the soldiers of the Wu army actually ignited the boat by themselves, and immediately turned over and jumped off the boat.
In the whistling sound, hundreds of small boats burned into big fireballs, and the wood burned crackling, and went straight to the Qingzhou boats that were pulled into a horizontal row, looking at these huge fireballs, it was obvious that the sailors on the Qingzhou boat were also panicked, and the huge shouts of fear were heard clearly even by Zhou Yu, who was more than a hundred meters away.
Wang Hou really doesn't understand water warfare?