The cold river breeze blew on his face, Sun Ce stood at the stern of the boat, feeling the oncoming river breeze, his eyes flashed with excitement, this battle, he wanted to cripple the Jingzhou sailors first, so that the entire river would be completely controlled by him, the four counties of Jingnan, Jiangling, Jiangxia, Jiangdong Naval Army can be unimpeded, when the time comes, he can fight wherever he wants, don't say Liu Biao, even if it is Lu Bu, when he comes to the river, Sun Ce is confident that it will be easily defeated.

"Youping, where are you?" Sun Ce turned his head and shouted in the direction of the bow of the boat.

"Lord, we have arrived in Shaxian, if the wind blows like this, before dawn, we can rush to Jiangling, why don't we ......" Zhou Tai said a little excitedly: "By the way, how about knocking Jiangling down?" ”

"If it's really so easy, don't talk about Jiangling, Jingzhou is already in my pocket!" Sun Ce couldn't help but laugh when he heard this, the speed of the Jingzhou army's beacon fire to transmit the news was much faster than the speed of their ships, Sun Ce had seen Jiangling City, the city was high and the walls were thick, if you want to break through Jiangling, you need at least 50,000 soldiers and horses, and in the case of isolating Jiangling, it will take a month or even longer to break through, and now there are no such conditions, it is better to take Jiangxia first, and then directly attack Xiangyang.

"Besides, it will be difficult for this east wind to last until tomorrow and tomorrow, so I will send an order to all ships to dock on the shore and order people to quickly set fire to the dead grass and other things around the perimeter." Sun Ce turned his head and looked at Zhou Taidao.

His goal is the Jingzhou Sailor, naturally he will not really run too far, and the next step is to wipe out the Jingzhou Sailor in one go, and then Jiangxia is what he has in his pocket, but this is not the most important thing, the most important thing is that if this battle is won, Sun Ce will control the entire Yangtze River, and Jingzhou will no longer have a water army to fight against him, Sun Ce can calmly take the four counties of Jingnan, and then Tunan County.

"Whoa!" Zhou Tai didn't ask much, he immediately agreed, and ordered people to start sending signals to the ships, and the fleet slowly docked near Shaxian, and the soldiers began to land to collect dead grass and other things that ignited fire, and then Sun Ce used fifty ships to store these dead grass.

"The lord wants to attack by fire?" Zhou Tai and Jiang Qin approached Sun Ce, and watched the soldiers pour the fire oil stored in the cabin on the dry grass in the boat under Sun Ce's command, and probably understood Sun Ce's thoughts.

"Hmm." Sun Ce nodded and said: "If I wait for such a big fanfare to leave, then Cai Mao will definitely take the opportunity to cut off my retreat, and when it is dawn, I will see how I come to burn the river!" ”

In fact, with the east wind, you can directly burn Xiakou Water Village, but not much, Cai Mao is often in Jingzhou, and he is also well versed in the method of water warfare, in normal times, even if there is an east wind, he can defeat Cai Mao at most, but what Sun Ce wants is not only to defeat Cai Mao, what he wants is to obtain the hegemony of the Yangtze River, completely rule the Yangtze River, and the Jiangdong Navy must be destroyed!

When the generals heard this, they were naturally excited, and they were ready to go back to the division, and when they came, they needed to use the power of the east wind, but when they went back, they did not necessarily need the west wind, and when they went back, they went down the river, and the wind could borrow the best nature, but even if there was no wind, they would go down the river, and the speed would not be slow, of course, the wind was the best, and the fire borrowed the wind to maximize the effect of the fire attack.

In order to avoid missing the fighter, everyone only let the soldiers take turns to rest in the cabin, and special people pay attention to the wind direction, as long as the wind direction changes, they will immediately pull the anchor back to the division, and they will be able to completely exterminate the Jingzhou naval army in one fell swoop.

The east wind blew for most of the night, and until the fifth watch, a soldier in charge of watching suddenly jumped down and shouted: "Lord, the wind direction has changed!" ”

Sun Ce, who had not slept all night, suddenly got up, pulled out his sword, and said loudly: "Pull out the anchor and set sail!" ”

At that moment, the fleet, which had already turned its direction, began to slowly leave the river bank, and went down the river in a mighty way, heading straight for Xiakou.

An hour later, the sky was already lit up, and from afar, you could see a large number of ships flying the Jingzhou flag across the river through the rising sun.

Seeing this, Sun Ce's eyes lit up: "God help me!" ”

He didn't expect that in order to cut off his retreat, Cai Mao not only pulled out all the boats in his hands, even used the boats, but also connected the boats with ropes.

And what's even better is that the west wind has already blown, although the direction is not quite right, but it is not bad, turning his head to Zhou Tai and shouting: "Order, on the fire!" ”

"Whoa!" Zhou Tai roared, climbed into the cabin, held high the command flag and waved it continuously, the withered grass on the boats was ignited, and began to move towards the Jingzhou fleet that blocked the river downstream, and the water battle began!

Cai Mao, who was resting on the boat, was suddenly woken up: "General, the big thing is not good, Sun Ce is back!" ”

"Huh? How can it be so fast!? When Cai Mao heard this, she woke up instantly from sleep, and hurriedly got up, shouting while putting on her armor: "It's not good, I've been tricked, pass on my military order, and immediately withdraw to Xiakou!" ”

After all, he was the person in charge of the military power in Jingzhou, and Cai Mao quickly understood Sun Ce's plan, the other party's attack on Jiangling was fake, and luring himself out of Xiakou Water Village, and wanting to destroy his own naval army on the river was what Sun Ce really wanted to do.

Cai Mao knew very well that if he really fought, he might not be Sun Ce's opponent, and he had to return to Shuizhai immediately.

It's just that the ships of the navy were all ordered by Cai Mao to be connected together with ropes, and those ropes were soaked in oil, and the texture was tough, even if they wanted to cut it, it would be difficult for so many ships to cut it at one time.

Just as Cai Mao was anxiously ordering the disconnection of the boats and the retreat to the water village, a general suddenly pointed to the river and shouted: "General, look! ”

Hearing this, Cai Mao subconsciously looked in the direction of Sun Ce's navy, and saw dozens of smoking ships breaking away from Sun Ce's fleet and rushing towards this side at a very fast speed.

Cai Mao didn't react for a while, I'm afraid that these dozens of ships can carry less than 100 soldiers, what can this person do?

But soon, on the dozens of smoky boats, the light gradually became clear.

Cai Mao's complexion changed, and the complexions of the Jingzhou sailors on each ship also changed.

"Quick, break the ropes, avoid those fireships, and retreat!" The next moment, Cai Mao roared madly.

In fact, there is no need for him to say that even soldiers who don't understand water warfare know what to do at this time, once those fire ships are allowed to approach, these Jingzhou warships will probably be burned down immediately.

But it was too late, a group of Jingxiang sailors watched those unmanned, braving the thick flames rushing into the ship formation, in order to cut off the Jiangdong navy, the distance between the ships was quite close, at this time, it was this decision that cut off the retreat of the Jingxiang sailor.

"Bang~"

The boat slammed into the ship across the river, and the piercing spikes pierced the plank of the ship with the blessing of speed, and firmly fixed it with the ship, and the flames on the ship quickly ignited the ship by the wind, and the sailors on the ship kept splashing it with water, or slapping it with clothes to extinguish the fire.

But at this time, the ships were made of wood, not only not fireproof, but quite flammable, once the fire started, it was difficult to extinguish, the fire quickly spread, many soldiers saw that there was no hope of fighting the fire, and they jumped ship to escape.

But now it's winter, that is, the water of the Yangtze River is not frozen, but the water temperature is definitely not high.

Many of the boats began to rush into the formation through the gaps between the ships, and as the wind gradually increased, the fire began to spread rapidly to the entire fleet.

Cai Mao's building boat finally got rid of the shackles of the rope, and his building boat leaned to the rear, under the command of Cai Mao, directly down the river, out of the fleet, when looking back, I saw that most of the fleet had been shrouded in flames, countless Jingzhou soldiers have jumped into the water to survive, only a small number of warships broke away from the fleet, towards the direction of Xiakou, the entire river surface, the fire soared into the sky, in the morning sun, it looked quite spectacular.

It's just this spectacular scene, Cai Mao really has no intention of appreciating it, and he can't appreciate it, the Jingzhou Navy lost most of it in just one battle, and the price paid by the enemy was only dozens of ships.

The fire is getting bigger and bigger, but because of this, it blocked Sun Ce's pursuit, which is probably a great luck in misfortune, right?

Cai Mao can only comfort himself now, command the army to collect the fleeing fleet, and quickly retreat to Xiakou, once this battle is lost, Sun Ce will inevitably wait for the opportunity to capture Jiangxia, he must hold Xiakou, otherwise his prestige in Jingzhou will be greatly reduced.

Even if he loses, he can't be defeated too thoroughly, so that after he goes back, he still has some confidence to suppress those who are dissatisfied with him, such as Liu Bei.

It's just that although the fire stopped Sun Ce, but it failed to stop Zhou Yu, when Cai Mao quickly rushed back to Xiakou, he saw a Jiangdong naval army coming from downstream, and broke into Xiakou one step ahead of him, Xiakou's resistance was not too fierce, the fire on the river not only burned the ships of the Jingzhou naval army, but also burned the morale of the Jingzhou army, the fire stood on the river bank, unobstructed, at this time, suddenly killed a Jiangdong naval army, with Xiakou's already small soldiers, morale is still low, How can they block the attack of these morale-boosting Jiangdong naval forces, and at the same time there are three ships and dozens of ships approaching this side.

"Withdraw~" Cai Mao looked at this scene, had no intention of fighting, and immediately ordered the remaining ships to withdraw, and at the same time ordered the archers to throw clusters of arrows at the other party to suppress the opponent's ships from approaching.

"Cai Mao, if you don't descend at this time, when will you wait!?" Just when Cai Mao withdrew from the vicinity of Xiakou, on the other side, Sun Ce had already led the fleet to bypass the fire and surrounded this side.

Looking at the Jiangdong warships that quickly surrounded him from all directions, Cai Mao's hand holding the sword was trembling, and at this moment, he knew that he was finished.

silently raised the sword, crossed it around his neck, hesitated for a moment, and finally did not give up his heart, and was stopped by his subordinates......