Not long after the Soochow Navy stopped shelling, Guan Gong also ordered the three cement warships to stop firing rocket artillery, after all, rocket shells are also very expensive things, and of course they should not be used as much as possible.

Judging from the reaction of the Dongwu people, it is obvious that their previous purpose of starting to fight ~ artillery in order to cover up the problem of the battleship has been achieved, and the Dongwu people did not think about the problem of the battleship at all.

In this case, there was no need to waste ammunition, and Guan Gong ordered the three warships to stay there and stand by, while the small boats in the Manjiang River stepped up to clear the fishing nets. Of course, the three warships appeared to be quietly on guard, but in fact they were very busy.

Hordes of water spirits took turns to clear the fishing nets that were wrapped around the propellers and floating in the waters near the warship. However, in order to hide people's eyes, these clean-up work can only be carried out secretly~ secretly, and try to work under the water surface to avoid being discovered by the Dongwu people.

The water ghosts launched from the side of the boat with their backs to the Soochow people, then dived to a place where there were fishing nets, and after finding the fishing nets, they cut the connection between the fishing nets and buoys with daggers, and then continued to dive back to the back of the battleship with the fishing nets, and then climbed onto the boat through the rope ladder from the back. Everything is done beneath the surface, which requires a great deal of water to do it.

Of course, these "water ghosts" still rely on some diving tools, otherwise they will not be able to work underwater for a long time. Their diving tool is also very simple, basically a hollow reed rod with one end in the mouth and one end sticking out ~ the water surface.

They inhale through the reed pole with their mouths and exhale through their noses, so that too much carbon dioxide is left in the reed pole and the "water ghosts" are poisoned by carbon dioxide.

Of course, the method of mouth inhalation and nose exhalation is also provided by Liu Hou. The trick of using a reed rod to breathe in the water is a common practice in the "water ghost" industry, and both the water ghosts of the Dongwu Navy and the Jingzhou Navy understand this method.

However, their original practice was to exhale and inhale through the reed pole with their mouths.

The advantage of this is that it will not bubble when lurking underwater, which is more conducive to hiding your whereabouts, and if you want to hide under the water to assassinate someone, or launch an attack by surprise, you can basically use this trick.

However, anyone who has ever been a "water ghost" knows that you can't hold on for too long with this trick. Although it is true that using this method can last a little longer than simply holding your breath in the water, it should not be much longer. Breathing in this way, after a long time, people will experience symptoms such as dizziness, nausea and vomiting, so this method can only be used for a short period of incubation.

Of course, the people of the Three Kingdoms era didn't know what the reason was, they just thought that the soldiers' physique was too weak, so they desperately trained those soldiers. Not to mention, the time that the soldiers could stay underwater was indeed extended after training.

The people of the Three Kingdoms era didn't know the principle, but Liu Hou did. He knows that the reason why those "water ghosts" breathe with reed rods and get dizzy and nauseous after a long time is because a large part of the carbon dioxide they exhale is left in the reed rods, and the next time they inhale, this carbon dioxide will be inhaled again.

Once, after seeing the training of the "water ghost team", Liu Hou discovered this problem and proposed a solution to this problem, which was to let them inhale with their mouths and exhale through their noses, so that there would be no problem of carbon dioxide retention.

However, the generals of the "water ghost team" are not very interested in this method, the reason is very simple, although this method can make people stay in the water for a long time, but because the gas exhaled from the nose will form bubbles and roll to the water, which is not conducive to the hiding of the troops.

If the enemy sees bubbles constantly coming out of the water, even if he is a fool ~ a fool knows that there are people hidden under the water, and when the time comes, a rain of arrows will shoot down, and how many people will not be enough to die. Therefore, the generals of the "water ghost team" felt that the method provided by the emperor was only suitable for those who were working underwater, because they did not need to hide their whereabouts, as long as they could stay underwater for a longer time. As for the underwater special operation, they still have to use their old methods.

In this regard, Liu Hou didn't have any good way, and it did make sense if he thought about it carefully, so he let them go. Although the generals of the "Water Ghost Team" did not intend to use the method provided by Liu Hou during the battle, this method still spread among the "Water Ghost Team", and in some cases where there was no need to conceal their whereabouts, the "Water Ghosts" were happy to use this method.

This is the case with fishing nets now, and the Soochow people are still far away, even if they have a telescope, it is impossible to see the bubbles emerging from the sparkling river, so they can use this diving breathing method at this time.

In the vicinity of the three concrete warships, the "water ghosts" only retrieved the nets, because the nets caused damage to the propellers, while the buoys, chains, and anchors were abandoned by them, allowing them to float downstream or sink to the bottom of the river.

Although this is a bit wasteful, but there is no way, these three things are relatively difficult to do, it is difficult to recycle under the water, once the river is exposed, it is inevitable that the Dongwu people will be discovered, and then they will have doubts: why don't they use the three giant ships to break those fishing nets, but take such a difficult way to dismantle it?

Once there is doubt, there will be wise people to think about the reason, some things cannot stand up to thinking, if the wise people of the Eastern Wu Army continue to think in this direction, it is very likely that they will discover the weakness of the propeller.

In order to avoid this situation, Guan Gong decisively ordered this painstaking method to dismantle the fishing nets near the three large cement ships, while the nets elsewhere continued to be recovered by those small boats.

Today's action of the Jingzhou Navy Army started vigorously and vigorously, but then it became very dull. In fact, the shelling of each other by the two sides only lasted for a short time, and then everyone stopped, and then, for most of the day, the Jingzhou Navy was buried in cleaning the fishing nets, and the Dongwu Navy did not move at all.

The first day of the Jingzhou naval army's offensive passed in this way. In fact, the current situation is similar to the siege of the city, the defense line built by Dongwu with the strength of the country is the city wall, the armies of both sides are equal to attacking each other on both sides of the city wall, the fishing net array can be regarded as a moat, and now the Jingzhou naval army is dismantling the fishing net array, which is equivalent to filling the moat.

The difference is that the Soochow naval army did not have the condescending advantage of standing on the city wall to defend itself. If you are transposed and replaced by Liu Hou is the defensive side, Liu Hou will definitely cast an ultra-long-range fire ~ cannon, so that you can shoot at the opponent from a distance across the defense line, which can create a kind of advantage as condescending on the city wall.

It's a pity that Soochow's fire~cannon casting technology was stolen back, and it can't be compared with the Han, which is constantly improving with each passing day, and their comprehensive national strength is far less than that of the Han, so they can't cast a fire~cannon with a longer range than the Han cannon, and they wasted the advantages created by this "Maginot Line".