Chapter Forty-Eight: The Battle of Wuchang (II)

"Sun Ce'er, go see your father!" Zhou Yu roared, and the hideous and ugly ghost head knife slashed frantically at Sun Ce, Sun Ce hurriedly rolled to the side, but was blocked by Zhou Yu's own soldiers with guns, and saw that the ghost head knife was about to fall on Sun Ce......

"Boom!" With a loud bang, sawdust and iron riveted flying, Zhou Yu's ship, which can carry more than 700 soldiers, suddenly cracked into two pieces like Buzhou Mountain that was broken by Gonggong, Zhou Yu, Sun Ce and Xu Sheng and others were thrown into the air by a huge force, and fell into the Yangtze River, the behemoth Chang'an, which was as high as more than 30 zhang, smashed Zhou Yu's ship into two pieces, and proudly appeared in front of Sun Quanjun's Wuya warship fleet, and behind Chang'an, there were countless Dong Zhuojun warships.

"Bump again!" Kang Peng coldly ordered, the huge Chang'an took advantage of the north wind to move forward, and collided head-on with another Sun Quanjun Wuya battleship, two loud bangs, the Wuya battleship slapped on the bow of the Chang'an, smashing more than a dozen decks of the Chang'an, but unfortunately for the Chang'an, which is more than 20 chapters wide and more than 100 zhang long, it is just an itch for the Chang'an. In less than a moment, the Wuya battleship was completely plunged into the water with its bow facing down, and the sailors of Sun Quanjun on it either jumped into the river to escape or were caught in the whirlpool and drowned.

"Kill!" The Dong Zhuojun warships behind the Chang'an have stepped forward, Gan Ning, Huang Gai and Cai Mao and other generals will each lead the army to jump on the Sun Quanjun warship, and Sun Quanjun launched a meat game, the sword and gun collision and the shouts of fighting are endless, the north wind blows strongly, the river rises and falls, the ships collide with each other, around the Chang'an, there are arrows and stones breaking through the air, flesh and blood splashing, on one side there are many people, on the other hand, there are skilled in water, in order to fight for the control of each large and small warship and fight to the death.

When the two best naval armies of the Han Dynasty fought bloodily, both armies sent small boats to rescue Zhou Yu and Sun Ce and others respectively, and when Sun Ce was rescued on the Chang'an, Kang Peng slapped him in the face and scolded: "Nonsense! You are the commander of the Wuya battleship fleet, and you actually ran to fight the enemy hand-to-hand, and without command, wouldn't the other Wuya battleships be divided and destroyed by the enemy? ”

Sun Ce's face was full of shame and he didn't dare to fight back, Kang Peng shouted again: "Go down and bandage your wounds, and there will be a chance to take revenge in the future!" Summoned Lu Su and ordered him to board the 'Wu Qi', take over the commander of the Wuya battleship, and encircle and annihilate the enemy's Wuya ship! Sun Ce was quickly helped into the cabin to bandage his wounds, the torches on the command platform of the Chang'an waved the flag, and the Wuwei battleship led by Lu Su quickly approached the nearest Wu Qi, and in a moment, Wu Qi raised the flag and commanded the other Wuya warships to move closer to Wu Qi.

Zhou Yu was also rescued on a five-tooth battleship, after a little bandaging the wound, Zhou Yu immediately covered the handsome face that was bruised and swollen by Sun Ce and ran to the lookout, at a glance, Zhou Yu was shocked, Wu Qi has gathered more than forty Dong Zhuojun Wuya battleships with the strongest combat effectiveness in water battles, and are besieging Sun Quanjun's lone Wuya battleship, in less than a moment, Sun Quanjun's Wuya battleships have been smashed and sunk four, and at least five more are also in danger. And in the hand-to-hand combat near the Chang'an, because of the backing of the Chang'an, Luoyang and Chengdu warships full of soldiers, Dong Zhuo's soldiers can be replenished at any time, and the hand-to-hand combat has completely prevailed, and the flags of more than ten Sun Quan military buildings have been replaced with Dong Zhuojun's battle flags, and in the blink of an eye, another Sun Quan military building ship has a green flag that has been torn off and hung up with Dong Zhuojun's black battle flag! In other places, the situation of Sun Quanjun's army has also completely fallen into disadvantage, Dong Zhuojun, who has the advantage of strength and wind direction, has cut Sun Quanjun's warship fleet into several pieces, and from time to time Sun Quanjun's warships have been sunk or captured, and many Sun Quanjun's warships have hung white flags and surrendered to Dong Zhuojun. And around the flagship of Sun Quanjun, where Sun Quan was riding, the shadows of several Dong Zhuojun warships also appeared, which had threatened the safety of Sun Quanjun's handsome ships.

"Quick! Flag! The five-tooth ship is close to the flagship of our army, and the flagship must not be lost! Zhou Yu, who is familiar with water warfare, understands the consequences of the end of the flagship, and knows that the Wuya battleship is loaded with the elite of Sun Quanjun's navy, which is the only capital for Sun Quanjun to turn the tables, and losing the Wuya battleship is equivalent to cutting off Sun Quanjun's backbone. As for Sun Quanjun's other warships, they were all cannon fodder brought by Sun Quan and Zhou Yu, and they were sacrificed to consume Dong Zhuojun's strength, so Zhou Yu would not worry about their fate.

Seeing Zhou Yu commanding the elite of Sun Quan's army to approach Sun Quan's ship, Kang Peng immediately shouted: "Concentrate your forces to annihilate the enemy's Wuya battleship, no matter what ship you want, Lao Tzu's capital is thick, three ships can be exchanged for one!" "Long before the start of the war, the pervasive Dong Zhuojun spies had already found out that Zhou Yu mainly concentrated the 50,000 soldiers with the most combat effectiveness in Sun Quan's army on the Wuya battleship, and the other building ships were basically newly recruited soldiers and forcibly brought in old and weak soldiers, which were used to confuse and consume Dong Zhuojun's cannon fodder. Because these cannon fodder contained Dong Zhuojun's troops, it was difficult for Dong Zhuojun to completely annihilate Sun Quan's army in tonight's raid, so Kang Peng formulated a plan to force Sun Quan's army into the encirclement and annihilation of Poyang Lake.

As soon as Kang Peng's order was given, Sun Quanjun's elite troops immediately fell into a big mold, and next to each lone Sun Quanjun Wuya battleship, there were more than 20 Dong Zhuojun's large and small ships to chase and intercept it, and Dong Zhuojun's big ship risked being smashed and sunk to block the waterway where Sun Quanjun's Wuya battleship and the large army rendezvous, and the small boat used its own flexibility to go. The zigzag waterway approached, or sniped Sun Quanjun's sailors with arrows, or climbed directly onto the enemy ship to fight hand-to-hand, collided and smashed, arrows flew like locusts, blood stained the deck, and the tigers could not stand the crowd, no matter how elite Sun Quanjun's sailors were, they could not withstand the siege of Dong Zhuojun, two pillars of incense time, Dong Zhuojun paid the price of eight ordinary building ships being smashed and sunk, successively sank a Sun Quanjun Wuya battleship, seized control of two Wuya warships, and dragged four Sun Quanjun Wuya battleships until Dong Zhuojun's Wuya battleships surrounded them. The Sun Quanjun Wuya battleships surrounded by Dong Zhuojun's Wuya battleships ended up even worse, often because they hit Dong Zhuojun's battleships once they hit them, and they themselves were also shot five or six times, and they were completely sunk in a short time, and most of the sailors who fell into the water were eliminated or captured by Dong Zhuojun, and only a small number of them could escape back.

Zhou Yu reluctantly gathered more than 30 elite warships and fled back to Sun Quan's flagship, and quickly organized troops to slaughter Dong Zhuojun's warship that ventured to Sun Quan's flagship, before stumbling onto Sun Quan's warship, when he got on the ship, Zhou Yu was almost cut off by Zhou Tai's head - because there was already a Dong Zhuojun clipper sailor who had killed Sun Quanjun's flagship, although Zhou Tai quickly organized superior forces to counterattack and all of them were killed heroically, but it also greatly hit Sun Quanjun's morale, so that Zhou Tai, a general who had experienced a hundred battles, became a frightened bird.

"Lord, where is Lord?" Zhou Yu leaned on Zhou Tai and gasped and asked, Zhou Tai pointed to the shipbuilding, Zhou Yu immediately ran over, and as soon as he rushed to the cabin, Zhou Yu saw that Sun Quan, Sun Jing and Sun Quan's biological mother who came with the army had changed into ordinary soldiers' military uniforms, Zhou Yu threw himself in front of Sun Quan and cried: "My lord, the last general is incompetent, and he mistakenly fell into Dong Thief's treacherous scheme, which caused our army to lose soldiers and generals, and the lord was frightened, and the last general deserved to die." ”

Sun Jingzao was so angry that his face turned pale, but Sun Quan waved his hand to stop his uncle from speaking, and helped Zhou Yu to comfort: "Victory or defeat is a common thing in soldiers, and the public must not blame himself too much, although our army is defeated, but the nine counties of Jiangdong are still in hand, hurry up, organize the troops to break through, and go to Jianye to revitalize the people, in order to make a comeback!" ”

"My lord." Zhou Yu hurriedly admonished: "Dong thief raided our army late at night, but he did not exert all his strength, it is impossible to completely annihilate our army, there must be a follow-up move, and the strength of our army is not much different from Dong thief at the moment, there are still troops to reinforce in the dry village on land, and Liu Bei's reinforcements are also coming quickly, we should shrink the troops, replenish the troops to the warships, just hold on until Liu Bei's reinforcements arrive, we still have a chance to reverse the victory or defeat." If you retreat now, you can only fall for the tricks of Dong thieves. ”

Before Zhou Yu's words fell, the sound of killing suddenly shook the sky in the dry village of Sun Quan's army on land, Sun Quan and others were shocked, and hurriedly rushed out of the boat to check, only to see that the fire in the land village was all around, and more than ten fires had risen, and in the firelight, I don't know how many Dong Zhuo's horse infantry had already entered the dry village of Sun Quan's army. Sun Quan's face was as pale as earth, and he immediately shouted, "Retreat!" Fall back! Retreat to Jianye! This time Zhou Yu didn't stop it, in the dark night, Zhou Yu couldn't see how many Dong Zhuojun's army was coming, and mistakenly thought that this was the back move of the rival in love, trying to enter his own army by land and water.

After three hours of fierce fighting, the flagship of Sun Quan's army played the banner of retreat under the protection of more than 30 Wuya warships, and fled downstream. Under the command of Kang Peng, Dong Zhuojun's warships divided and surrounded Sun Quan's ships while chasing and killing Sun Quan's flagship, and the initiative in the battle on the river was completely in Dong Zhuojun's hands.

Sun Quanjun was defeated and fled, Han Dangzuo's ship was surrounded by Cai Mao's fleet, Han Dang's several charges were blocked, the hull was seriously damaged, the hull was almost half-sunk, the loyal Han Dang did not want to be captured and humiliated, and led the last 20 or so personal soldiers to kill Cai Mao's ship, surrounded by Cai Mao's ship sailors, Han Dang's personal soldiers were all killed in battle, and Han Dang, who had not healed from his back injury, cut down more than ten Dong Zhuojun sailors and lost his strength, and was nailed to the deck alive by more than 20 spears.

Sun Quanjun's general Pan Zhang died even more miserably, more than ten large and small warships led by him were blocked by Dong Zhuojun's warships Luoyang and Xianyang, Pan Zhang's ship was crushed by two behemoths together, Pan Zhang was unwilling to jump into the water to escape, and drove all the sailors into the water and sat on the ship's building, was squeezed into meat sauce, and died on the ship, and the rest of the warships of Pan Zhang's army had no way out, so they had to hang up the white flag and surrender.

In Sun Quan's dying struggle, the most injured is the next generation of Jiangnan, long before Sun Quan ordered the retreat, the general Deng Dang's ship and Dong Zhuojun's general Gan Ning's ship have started hand-to-hand combat, the soldiers on both sides come and go, killing each other on each other's ships to the death. After bankrupting and building more than 60 Wuya warships, Sun Quanjun was no longer able to build a large warship with a huge number of troops, and no matter how brave the soldiers of Deng Dangza's ship were, there were only 400 people, and they fell in a pool of blood in front of the thousands of sailors on the Ganning warship, who were also brave enough to be Ganning. When Sun Quan gave the order to retreat, there was only one fifteen or sixteen-year-old half-old soldier left by Deng Dang's side, and when the last half-old child was cut down on the deck by dozens of Dong Zhuojun soldiers, Deng Dang let out a heart-rending scream, "Amon! "Brandishing the big knife that was already full of gaps, he rushed at the enemy, until he was also cut down, and the child was the only brother of Deng Dang's beloved wife, whose name was Lu Meng, and he was less than sixteen years old this year......

Blood stained the water of the Yangtze River, dense corpses and warship wreckage floated on the river for more than ten miles, Lu Meng, Ding Feng, Zhu Ran, Li Yi, Xie Yan, Tan Xiong, Quan Yi, Zhou Shan......, and the former Ling Tong, the pillars of the middle and late Eastern Wu Dynasty in history, died on the night of September 14 in the fifth year of the first peace, when they were not as tall as the rough wooden guns in their hands, and the reserve talents in Jiangnan were almost empty, leaving only one Lu Xun, who relied on his grandfather to sacrifice his life for Sun Quan and risked his life, and was lucky not to be forcibly conscripted into the army, It has become the only seedling in Jiangdong, which is at the peak of talents in history, after this war.

The bloody night gradually passed, when the sky was light, Sun Quan's 200,000 army had broken eight stops, and only more than 30,000 people were still fleeing for their lives, because it was dark and fighting on the water, after Sun Quan's warship was hit and sunk, it was very difficult for Dong Zhuojun to rescue the sailors who were willing to surrender, and the mortality rate was extremely high, nearly half of the soldiers were killed or injured and drowned, very few went ashore to flee for their lives, and the remaining half surrendered to Dong Zhuojun. The wounded soldiers were treated, and the old and weak soldiers were given food and travel expenses to let them go home.

Kang Peng didn't know that he had teamed up with Sun Quan and Zhou Yu to kill Junjie in the next generation of Jiangnan, and was personally leading the army to hunt down Kang Peng, who was chasing Sun Quan and Zhou Yu, and now he only cared about whether Lu Bu's division of troops blocked Liu Bei's reinforcements? Did you join forces with Zhang Xiu to block the Yangtze River? Ma Chao: Have they completed the task of encircling Poyang Lake?