Chapter Forty-Seven: The Battle of Wuchang (I)
On September 14, the fifth year of the Han Dynasty, when you were in the middle of the Jiangxia Dong Zhuojun Village, Kang Peng laid wine and burned paper, sacrificed the banner of the Chinese army, and stepped up to the flagship Chang'an, with Kang Peng's roar like a broken gong, "Go!" "More than 200 warships composed of the water walled city scattered in turn, eighty-two Wuya warships rushed out of the village, the first one was the Lian Po who made great contributions in the Xiangjiang water battle, followed by Wu Qi, Bai Qi, Sun Wu, Wu Zixu and Li Mu and other Wuya warships named after the famous generals of the Warring States Period, and more than 1,000 lightly armed fast ships formed Dong Zhuojun's vanguard fleet; After the Wuya battleship, there were more than 7,000 building ships, clippers and small boats, and finally the warships full of soldiers, grain and ordnance. On land, Dong Zhuo's 60,000 horse infantry had already set off in advance, and under the leadership of generals Li Dao, Guo Yan, Ma Dai and Lei Tong, they were the first to kill Wuchang.
In the already empty Dong Zhuojun camp, Da Qiao helped Xiao Qiao out of the tent, and watched Dong Zhuojun leave, the two sisters were wet with tears, and after Dong Zhuojun's fleet completely disappeared from view, blood slowly flowed from the corners of Xiao Qiao's chapped and thin mouth......
After driving for nearly two hours, three quarters in the morning, the north wind rose strongly, the speed of Dong Zhuojun's fleet increased suddenly, when the sky was completely dark, the bright moon was in the sky, the waves on the river were turbulent, and the moonlight shone on the river, like ten thousand golden snakes, turning over the waves, and like hundreds of millions of golden scales, splashing on the river. Kang Peng pressed the treasure knife in his hand, his face was expressionless, let the night wind blow and sweep his beard, standing on the top of the Chang'an, staring at the front with sharp eyes!
The time was approaching, the vanguard of Dong Zhuojun's fleet had arrived at the periphery of Wuchang, and a patrol fleet of Sun Quanjun's small boats suddenly appeared in front. The torch shook, hundreds of lightly armed fast boats rushed out of the array, straight to the Sun Quanjun patrol fleet, hundreds of zhang, the Sun Quanjun patrol fleet only found the Xiliang Water Army, hurriedly turned the bow of the boat, intending to return to the camp to issue a warning, but Dong Zhuojun's speedboat was smooth sailing, and the Sun Quanjun patrol fleet had not yet had time to turn around the bow, Dong Zhuojun's speedboat had already pounced in front of him.
Woohoo! The overwhelming rain of arrows rose from Dong Zhuojun's clipper, the arrows did not arrive, the sound came first, but the poor Sun Quanjun patrol fleet was just an ordinary boat, the bow and arrow defense was extremely poor, and it was shot to countless sailors in an instant, after two waves of arrow rain, the ships of the Sun Quanjun patrol fleet have become hedgehog-like, and the blood flowing out of the boat stained a river red, even if some sailors were lucky to be alive, they were all wounded, and they were easily captured alive by Dong Zhuojun's clipper.
Promising the advantage of the telescope, Dong Zhuojun has killed five such Sun Quanjun patrol fleets, Sun Quanjun's water village is already in sight, and Sun Quanjun is still unconscious, Zhou Yu, who decided to burn Dong Zhuojun's warship the next night, thought that he had a plan, and let all the elite soldiers rest early tonight to prepare for the next day's big battle, and only sent newly trained soldiers to patrol on duty, which was easily solved by Dong Zhuojun's most elite sailors. At this moment, Sun Quan and Zhou Yu were still proofreading the route of the next night on the flagship for the last time.
Kang Peng stood on the top of the Chang'an, saw with a telescope that the self-army had approached Sun Quanjun's water village, coldly put down the telescope, choked, the sword was unsheathed, Kang Peng raised the knife and pointed at it, and shouted: "Ignition cannon!" The whole army is on the offensive! Three cannon sounds, a total of more than 8,000 Dong Zhuojun warships at the same time resounded in the sky shouting to kill, eighty-two Wuya warships took the lead, straight to Sun Quanjun's water village, countless dull gold and wood collision sounded, the horns of the Wuya battleship smashed through dozens of Sun Quanjun ships in a moment, slapping the rod, thousands of pounds of boulders waved back and forth, Sun Quanjun's warship building was broken, sawdust flew sideways, only a few back and forth, can smash a big ship alive.
"General Sun." At the moment before Kang Peng ordered a full-scale attack, Zhou Yu still found something, and asked Sun Jing, who was in charge of Sun Quanjun's intelligence, on Sun Quanjun's flagship: "Why haven't you seen Jiang Xia report on Dong Zhuojun's situation in detail for the past two days?" These two days are the most critical moments, and we need to know every move of the enemy. β
Sun Jing was also very strange, shook his head and said: "I'm also worried about this matter, since they reported that Dong Thief had chained the entire fleet, no news has been sent, before, they sent intelligence more than ten times a day......"
Sun Jing's words did not fall, Dong Zhuojun's cannon and shouting of killing were already heard in the distance, Sun Quan, Zhou Yu and Sun Jing's faces changed color at the same time, and the faces of the rest of Sun Quanjun's generals were not any better, Sun Quan and Zhou Yu and others rushed out of the building to check, and saw that the self-army water walled city had been rushed out of more than ten openings, and dozens of terrible five-tooth warships and countless small boats had rushed into the self-army water village, and were rushing back and forth in the water wall, and many of their own army's warships had been smashed. In the distance, the lights on the river are as dense as the Milky Way, and I don't know how many warships are coming, and you can hear the shouts of "capture Zhou Yu alive" and "capture Sun Quan alive" everywhere.
"Enemy attack!" Zhou Yu shouted hoarsely: "The whole army is dispatched, immediately meet the battle!" Han Dang, Cheng Pu, Deng Dang and Pan Zhang and other generals of Sun Quan's army rushed back to their warships and commanded their soldiers to fight, and Zhou Yu also took Xu Feng to the imitation of the five-tooth battleship built by Dong Zhuojun, and personally went into battle to deal with Dong Zhuojun's five-tooth battleship, only Zhou Tai stayed on the flagship to protect Sun Quan and Sun Jing. Zhou Yu never dreamed that Kang Peng could actually see through his serial plan, and let himself take it lightly, and preemptively attack Sun Quanjun's camp at night, Sun Quanjun's strength was originally inferior to Dong Zhuojun's, and then he was attacked in a hurry, even if Dong Zhuojun was repulsed, Sun Quanjun's army was bound to suffer heavy casualties.
When Zhou Yu hastily organized more than 20 Wuya warships, the outer ships of Sun Quanjun's water village had been completely broken, and Dong Zhuojun's warships completely rushed into Sun Quanjun's water village, and even Dong Zhuojun's warships used to carry troops also joined the water war, only the warships that transported grain were still in the distance, protected by some warships, and the two armies totaled more than 10,000 large and small warships on the water surface of the Yangtze River. In ancient China's water warfare, because the river and lake are not as wide and boundless as the sea, the water war is mainly based on collision, bow and arrow fire and hand-to-hand combat on board the enemy ship, the requirements for the warship are the bigger and stronger the better, and it is not as flexible as the ancient Greek warship, so Dong Zhuojun's warship has almost become an invincible surface giant in the collision battle, especially the flagship of Kang Peng, Chang'an, which can carry more than 3,000 soldiers, is a super monster in the collision battle, and Sun Quanjun's largest warship came to Chang'an. It can only be turned into a papier-mΓ’chΓ© toy, and it sinks as soon as it is hit by the Chang'an, so that wherever the Chang'an goes, the dense river surface immediately squeezes out a large open space, whether it is Sun Quanjun or Dong Zhuojun's warship, they dare not block the Chang'an slightly.
Zhou Yu guessed that the Chang'an was the flagship of the rival in love, but Zhou Yu didn't have the courage to lead the Wuya battleship to besiege the Chang'an, not to mention that there were countless Dong Zhuojun warships next to the Chang'an to protect it, but there was no protection, and the slapping rod of the toothless battleship could not smash the Chang'an for a while, and the Chang'an could knock the Wuya battleship into the sky with a single collision. Zhou Yu is eyeing the Lian Po, from the beginning of the fierce battle, the Lian Po that Sun Ce rode is the blade of Dong Zhuojun's war knife! Sun Ce, who wanted to avenge his father, was particularly brave in this battle, and personally commanded the Lian Po to smash and sink more than ten large and small warships of Sun Quanjun, where the Sun Quanjun warships were dense, Sun Ce commanded Lian Po to rush there and kill, and he was invincible.
Zhou Yu saw the opportunity and shouted, "Six miles to the left, the enemy's five-tooth battleship commands the ship, surround it!" Kill! "The torches swayed, more than 20 Sun Quanjun Wuya battleships Zhang Fan turned the rudder, and rushed out of a way in the melee, rushing to Lian Po, and Sun Ce, who was red-eyed, did not hide or escape, saw Zhou Yu's battleship commanding the battle with torches, and also knew that this was the flagship of Sun Quanjun's Wuya battleship, not only did not flash, but came up, wanting to fight with Zhou Yu's battleship alone! Kang Peng in the distance has been paying attention to Sun Ce, worried that his future son-in-law's revenge is too impulsive, and he is even more worried that his son-in-law will join the enemy because of his brotherly affection. β
When the behemoth Chang'an was still clumsily turning its head on the water, Zhou Yu's battleship and Sun Ce's battleship had collided together, and there was a loud bang, Zhou Yu didn't expect that Lian Po dared to take risks alone, and he couldn't dodge, Lian Po and Zhou Yu's underwater angle of attack broke through the bottom of the opponent's ship at the same time, and Sun Ce shouted despite the fact that the bottom of the ship had entered the water, and shouted: "Crash into it again, prepare for hand-to-hand combat!" There was another loud bang, the Lian Po and Zhou Yu's ship collided and broke one after another, and the two ships were close together, Sun Ce lifted the ancient ingot knife left by his father, and shouted, "Kill!" "The first to jump Zhou Yu's warship, Lian Po sailors have followed-not to jump, Sun Quanjun's Wuya battleship has completely surrounded Lian Po, the slap rod fell, after a few loud noises, the Lian Po, who had built a glorious feat, sank completely, and Dong Zhuojun's sailors, who had not had time to jump Zhou Yu's warship, except for a few swims to escape, the rest were martyred.
Sun Ce, who was carried away by hatred, didn't care about his command mistakes, but just rushed back and forth on Zhou Yu's warship that had entered the water and tilted with an ancient ingot knife, slashing Sun Quanjun's sailors indiscriminately, and roaring with each slash, "Zhou Yu'er!" It was as if the sailors were all Zhou Yu's doppelgangers, and Sun Quanjun's sailors were busy jumping ship to escape for their lives, and they only dodged Sun Ce, and did not fight with Sun Ce. Sun Ce was rushing to kill, and suddenly saw a team of Sun Quanjun hurriedly running on the ship, one of them was very similar to Zhou Yu, Sun Ce was overjoyed, and he didn't care about organizing sailors, so he rushed over single-handedly.
Zhou Yu saw Sun Ce early on the ship's floor, Zhou Yu had a ghost in his heart, and he didn't dare to confront Sun Ce head-on, and wanted to escape to another warship and continue to command the battle, but he was unexpectedly seen by Sun Ce, and after Sun Ce cut down several Zhou Yu's personal soldiers in a row, he finally stopped in front of Zhou Yu.
"Zhou Yu, it's really you!" Sun Ce's eyes almost burst into flames, and he clenched the ancient ingot knife and shouted: "I treat you closer than my own brother, my father pulled you by hand, where is my Sun family sorry for you?" Why did you kill my father? β
Zhou Yu took a step back, and also tightened his grip on the ghost head knife that Kang Peng snatched from Maicheng, and argued forcefully: "Nonsense, when will I kill the lord?" The lord died at the hands of Dong Thief, it is clear that you covet the beauty of Dong Thief's daughter, act for the tiger, and unite with Dong Thief to slander me! When Zhou Yu and Sun Ce answered, Xu Sheng had already taken Zhou Yu's personal soldiers to completely surround Sun Ce.
Sun Ce was under siege, but he was still fearless, and said sharply: "Shameless! What do you say about General Huang? Why did you send people to Jiangxia to hunt down General Huang? If you are not a thief, why bother to treat you like a son, General Huang, who is like a son, to kill you? β
Zhou Yu was about to quibble again, but Sun Ce, who was red-eyed, had already slashed with a knife, "Zhou Yu'er, return my father's life!" Zhou Yu knew that Sun Ce was powerful, and hurriedly raised the knife to meet him, the ancient ingot knife and the ghost head knife are both treasure knives, and no one can cut whom, the two knives collided, sparks splashed, the sound of gold and stone pierced the eardrums, Sun Ce missed a blow, and he was even more furious, the ancient ingot knife swung again, Zhou Yu was busy and parried, at this time Xu Sheng and others also pounced, more than ten knives and guns or cut or stab, and directly took Sun Ce, Sun Ce shouted, his body turned sharply like a spinning top, only to hear the sound of gold and iron impact, Xu Sheng and others' knives and guns were instantly cut off by the ancient ingot knife.
"Zhou Yu, is it worth selling your soul for the sake of a woman?" Sun Ce scolded and swung his knife to behead Zhou Yu, mentioning Xiao Qiao, Zhou Yu, who was still guilty just now, suddenly became angry and scolded: "Sun Ce Xiaoer, you are not for a woman!" In a fit of rage, Zhou Yu's ghost head knife not only set up Sun Ce's ancient ingot knife, but also stabbed Sun Ce with a backlash, and fought for his life with his friend who was once like a brother!
After Sun Ce was cut on his left arm by Xu Sheng's broken knife, he was furious, and he slashed Zhou Yu with all his might, Zhou Yu didn't have time to dodge and raise the knife to meet each other, Sun Ce took the opportunity to throw away the treasure knife, hugged Zhou Yu with his body, punched and kicked, Zhou Yu was not to be outdone, and also threw down the ghost head knife, grabbed Sun Ce's hair with his backhand, opened his mouth and bit Sun Ce's left cheek, and the two actually scuffled on the deck.
Sun Ce and Zhou Yu rolled over and over in a scuffle, Xu Sheng and others were afraid of accidentally injuring Zhou Yu, and did not dare to use a knife to cut again, Sun Ce's strength was far superior to Zhou Yu, and he gained the upper hand after a while, pressing Zhou Yu to death on the deck, and punching Zhou Yu's handsome face, so that Zhou Yu's skin was open, teeth and blood spurted out of his mouth, and when he was about to beat Zhou Yu to death, Sun Ce screamed, and blood splashed in his vest, it turned out that Xu Sheng saw the opportunity and attacked Sun Ce in the back of the heart, but fortunately, Xu Sheng's knife had been cut off by the ancient ingot knife first, This knife failed to kill Sun Ce, and Sun Ce's back ribs were cut off at least twice.
Zhou Yu took the opportunity to lift Sun Ce, grabbed the ghost head knife and aimed it at Sun Ce's neck, and slashed it with a knife, "Sun Ce'er, go see your father!" β
If you want to know how Sun Ce lived and died, and who won and who lost Dong Zhuojun and Sun Quanjun, please see the next chapter.