Chapter 253 is like a god's yellow narrative

The first wave of Huang Xu's attack was chosen at the intersection of several tributaries of the Yanghan River, which was actually a suburb of Nanchang City. (The direction of rivers in ancient times is slightly different from that of modern times, so please don't get entangled in the geography party.) The meeting place is relatively wide, which is very suitable for ambushes.

You may have doubts, but whenever you engage in sneak attacks and ambushes, you like to choose a steep and narrow place to make it easier to start. Like a canyon, there are high mountains on both sides, **** low, or a basin surrounded by mountains on three or even four sides, and the terrain of a low basin in the middle is the best place to engage in ambushes. But why did Huang Xu choose an open place?

The reason is that Huang Xu wants to put as many enemy ships as possible to gather together, so that they can gather and annihilate them. When the fleet traveled along the river, it was lined up in a long snake formation, and when the river was wide, three or four ships would travel side by side, and when they encountered a narrow section of the river, they had to pass one after another. In this case, in the event of a sneak attack on the fleet, only the ships at the head of the flotilla can be eliminated.

When the other ships saw an attack in front of them, they immediately reacted and responded accordingly, such a sneak attack was pointless. In order to achieve greater results in a sneak attack, it is necessary to gather as many ships as possible together to gather and annihilate them.

Huang Xu guessed that the place where several tributaries converged was the place where the Soochow fleet temporarily converged and gathered. As expected, after the Soochow fleet sailed out of one of the tributaries, the front team stopped advancing and stopped for a moment in the wide area of the river, where they had to wait for all the ships in the rear team to sail out of the tributary, and began to set up a naval barracks.

This location is actually the most suitable for building a naval barracks, first of all, the river here is open enough, and if you build a naval barracks here, you can accommodate enough warships; Secondly, it is very close to the destination Nanchang City, and from here you can quickly advance to Nanchang City, as a support army, the distance from the main battlefield is suitable; Last but not least, this is the confluence of several tributaries, and if you lose a battle, you can run away at any time.

Moreover, there are multiple escape routes to choose from, which will greatly increase the difficulty of the pursuit of the pursuing force, which will also increase the probability of your own escape. It seems that the naval army general of Eastern Wu is a cautious person, who can do it before thinking about victory and defeat, and has reserved many ways to retreat. The main commander of this Eastern Wu reinforcement army is Xu Sheng, who is indeed an experienced, brave and resourceful veteran of the battlefield.

The last time Guan Suo came to attack, he took the initiative to ask Ying to lead the troops to fight, but was intercepted by Zhuge Ke, this time he met Huang Xu to send troops, he took the initiative to ask to lead the troops, this time no one robbed him, Lu Xun could not find a more weighty and qualified general than him as the chief general of the support army, so he approved his request and asked him to lead the support army to rescue Nanchang City.

While fighting Liu Hou, he ate ho

A big loss for the G army, which made him know that the Shu army was strong, and he also learned from the intelligence that one of the troops of the Huang Xu Department that came this time used to be HO

The main firearms unit of the G Army, which forced him to pay attention, was careful even during the march.

However, his caution did not bring him good fortune, and the Soochow navy suffered its first attack since the expedition in this open river, suitable for the establishment of a naval camp, and the most unsuitable for a sneak attack.

At this time, Huang Xu was on a speedboat upstream, holding a monocular to observe the Soochow Navy from afar, and the corners of his mouth were cracked, revealing a bright smile. Behind his speedboat were hundreds of ships of all kinds.

These vessels are all miscellaneous civilian vessels, most of them are fishing boats, and some are used for transportation, and without exception they all have a common characteristic, that is, they are small. Compared to the giant warships of the Soochow Navy, these ships can only be regarded as small grasshoppers next to the big rhinoceros. There is no doubt that these boats were all civilian ships temporarily requisitioned by Huang Xu.

If the Shu army took these ships to fight against the Dongwu naval army, they didn't have to fight at all, as long as the Dongwu warships forcibly collided with them, their thick-skinned and thick-skinned warships could instantly smash all these thin-skinned and well-stuffed civilian ships.

These ships were originally parked on both sides of the river, but when the scout ships sent by the Soochow Navy passed through this waterway, they did not find anything unusual. Because they could see at a glance that these were civilian ships, and it seemed impossible for such a small ship to pose a threat to the powerful Soochow naval army.

Along the way, they had seen many of these civilian boats docked on the shore, and they knew that most of them were fishing boats and transport ships, and some were even the dwellings of people on the water, so the scouts were not surprised to see these boats docked on the shore. However, a few scouts felt that there were too many boats parked here, but after thinking about it, they were relieved, this is outside the city of Nanchang, and it is the place where five or six tributaries converge, and it is not surprising that the water transportation is developed.

These ships were all set off after the scout ships of the Soochow Navy had passed, and gradually gathered in the center of the river. Huang Xu grasped the timing well, just to avoid being discovered by the Soochow scout ship. This safe time is very short, and after a while, there will be scout ships returning to the Soochow Navy to report the situation ahead, so that they will be discovered, but this short interval is enough for the Shu army to finish what needs to be done.

"Sure enough, as the general expected, the Dongwu Navy really chose this place as a gathering place, and it is estimated that the place where they built the water village is also here. Well, more than three hundred ships have already been seen sailing out of the tributary, and it's almost time to attack. Huang Xu said.

The Soochow Navy dispatched small and medium-sized warships this time, and did not dispatch the kind of giant building ships, although the building ships were large, they were also bulky and inflexible, and they were suitable for fighting on the big river. This operation is a long-distance rescue, the building boat is inconvenient to walk, and the water conditions on the road are complicated, it is very likely to enter some narrow, shallow rivers, and even encounter reefs, all these factors have limited the application of the building boat.

There are not many building ships in Dongwu, and each of them can be called a Zhenguo artifact, which is really unaffordable, so this time Lu Xun did not send a building ship to fight with Xu Sheng. Although there are no building ships, the 50,000 Dongwu naval army is still very strong, several of which are medium-sized warships with a crew of nearly 1,000 people, of course, there are also the smallest speedboats with only about a dozen people, on average, the crew of each ship is about 100 people, and the army of 50,000 people has about 500 warships.

Huang Xu estimated from the telescope that the Soochow fleet had come out with more than 300 ships, and immediately issued an order to start attacking. Because there is no power, it will take some time to float along the current to the Soochow fleet, and when they arrive, the Soochow Navy should also come out almost.

"The general is really like a god." A lieutenant next to him gave a well-timed slap.

"Hehe, it's just the substitutional thinking that Zuo Xian Weng once said, as long as you think from the perspective of the enemy's commander, it is easy to think that this place is the best place for them to temporarily gather and establish a naval camp." Huang Xudao.