Chapter 575: Escape
Warfare on the water is different from that on land, and the importance of warships is undeniable. No matter how elite your men are, if the ship is broken and thrown overboard, you can basically lie on the water and wait for the battle to end.
After all, Chun Yuqiong was not a pure sailor, although he had been making up for the naval battle for a while, he never thought that his warship would be directly smashed by the other party.
There are few shipwrights in Hebei, and there are even fewer good craftsmen, and it is good to be able to create a general shipwreck, and it is impossible to blame more. Chun Yuqiong didn't expect his warship to be comparable to Jiangdong, and he also didn't think that this would cause much hindrance to his battle with the Jiangdong Navy, after all, the navy in this era mainly relied on broadside warfare. But at this moment, his outlook on life was turned upside down.
Water wars can still be fought like this! Gan Xingba, you're a scoundrel!
Watching his own warships smashed one by one by the powerful ships with the blessing of the opponent's cloud qi, all the soldiers on them fell into the water, and they were helplessly fluttering with nowhere to focus. Chun Yuqiong only felt that her hard work in the past few years was completely a joke.
Finally, a group of landlubbers with poor water quality were trained and formed, and they could have some combat effectiveness on the ship, but the other party directly stopped playing with you and directly began to be stronger than whose ship. What makes sense of this?
The three of them were riding on motorcycles with knives and preparing to cut each other, but one of the other party drove a tank and ran over him, and all the people and cars were crushed to death. Chun Yuqiong feels this way now.
It's too much of a bully! Is there such a cheat?
Seeing Gan Ning's fleet constantly sailing, the warships on his side were crushed without any power to fight back, and Chun Yuqiong's face turned white.
"Withdraw! Spread out, withdraw! Chun Yuqiong roared frantically.
The narrow intersection that wanted to block the other party before has now become a lifeline for his side, and at this narrow entrance, the more Chun Yuqiong's fleet wants to escape, the more crowded it is, and it can't break free at all, and it is directly blocked at the entrance. And the Gan Ning Navy behind him didn't care about them, and ran over at an unabated speed.
Gan Ning has led the naval army for so many years, and he has already waved his arms at the warships under his command, and after a little visual inspection of the size of the entrance in front, Gan Ning directly ordered the entire fleet to change from four columns to six columns, and the outermost two of the eight ships that rushed to the front withdrew backwards, turning from a rectangle to a square. This kind of change of formation is a piece of cake for the Jiangdong Navy Army, and it will be completed quickly if you are familiar with it. Then Gan Ning led the army again to speed up.
At this time, most of the remaining Chunyu Qiong water army was already blocked at the entrance and could not move, seeing the "Grim Reaper" chasing from the rear, some of them fled directly to both sides in panic, and some of the larger warships did not care about the damage of friendly troops at all, and rushed out regardless of hitting their own warships. The situation suddenly became chaotic, and there were shouts of killing and scolding.
Chun Yuqiong didn't bother to command at this time, and he was squeezed in the center, and he also rushed forward frantically regardless of it, ready to escape. At this time, it is a fool who is still thinking about how to turn defeat into victory and fight back, the gap between the quality of the two warships is impossible to fight at all, so let's save my life first.
And Gan Ning, who was chasing after him, laughed loudly at this time: "What's the matter, Da Zhao's Zhenguo General? Why do you keep running away! Don't you even dare to fight? In order to save his life, he even killed his own soldiers, he really deserves to be Yuan Benchu's favorite general! There is a master and there is a servant. ”
Hearing Gan Ning's ridicule, Chun Yuqiong was so angry that he almost vomited blood, and he was powerless to fight back, he could only stare at Gan Ning with hatred as if he was looking at the enemy who killed his father, urging his corporal to hurry up and make up his mind that Yuan Shao must allocate funds for him to gather shipwrights to build a strong enough warship, and the next time he has a vigorous fight with Gan Xingba, he will admit that he is defeated and killed, as long as he is not so powerless and aggrieved now.
And Xu You and Xun Chen, who were in ambush in the dense forests on both sides, were also stunned when they saw this scene.
They had thought of countless possibilities, such as Chun Yuqiong's bloody battle, most of the dead and wounded wiped out the Gan Ning army, and Gan Ning led the army in a bloody battle, and in the end, only more than 100 people broke through and escaped in a hurry, but they never thought that it would be such an ending.
On the Zhangshui outside the entrance, there are still countless warships "ambushing" at this time. Although these warships are not naval forces, the 10,000 soldiers can still be easily eliminated in the face of the "exhausted" Ganning army. This was originally prepared by Xu Yu in order to prevent Gan Ning from being too strong and breaking through Chun Yuqiong's defense line after the bloody battle. Xu Yu thought of almost all the possibilities, but the result...
"Quick, give the order for the warships outside to evacuate, don't engage the other party!" Xu You was stunned for a while before he reacted, and hurriedly shouted at the heralds under his command. Then I felt anger in my heart, and I only felt a pain in my chest, and I almost fainted.
Xun Chen on the other side was also shocked by this scene, and said with a wry smile: "Thousands of calculations, I didn't expect it to be such an ending." ”
An almost unsolvable ambush was solved by Gan Ning in a simple, rough and unexpectedly easy way. This ending is really bittersweet.
Gan Ning led the army to run over easily, and the whole army broke through the entrance of the tributary almost unscathed, and entered the Zhangshui, and then Gan Ning led the army down the river without stopping and fled towards the Bohai Sea.
Don't look at the bravery and invincibility he showed just now, you must know that the ramming angles of the few ships rushing to the forefront are about to break, and the most important thing is that there is not much left of the legion of this army. If they delay any longer, they will become lambs to the slaughter once the clouds run out.
Fortunately, Chun Yuqiong, Xu You and others were frightened by Gan Ning's unexpected performance just now, and they didn't notice this, otherwise there would be some twists and turns if they wanted to escape.
Although he rushed out with the army, Gan Ning had no excitement on his face, full of remorse. Of the 30,000 sailors and hundreds of ships, only more than 30 large ships and more than 4,000 soldiers escaped, and the rest all perished.
Looking at the flaming battlefield in the distance, Gan Ning, who was gradually moving away, stood on the ship's board, picked up an arrow shot at the ship's board, raised his hands flat, and broke it. The hideous face roared in a low voice: "Yuan Benchu, Chun Yuqiong, this revenge will be avenged!" You all wait for me, and I will make you pay with blood! ”
On the other side, the dejected Xu You looked at the wreckage of countless ships floating on the river, and said viciously: "Salvage all the wreckage of these ships and hand them over to the craftsman battalion." ”
Although he knew that he would not be able to figure out how many Jiangdong ship construction techniques could be found with these wreckage, Xu You still had a fluke mentality in his heart.
Of course, fortunately, no matter what, Xu You has basically completed Yuan Shao's task this time, although he did not eliminate Gan Ning's water army, but the remaining more than 4,000 water army can no longer create much threat, which is enough to make Xu You make a difference.
However, Xu You was really aggrieved in his heart, it was originally a perfect ambush, a big victory, but because of the warship, it became a lose-lose. Although Gan Ning's problem was solved, the loss on Yuan Shao's side was not small, which made Xu You, who was full of confidence before, angry.
Everything went well in front, but there was a problem in the last step, and the ducks flew to the beak!