"Okay, it's them who are waiting, immediately raise the iron cable, just one foot above the water, enough to stop the fighting ship and the building ship."

"Get too close to the water, don't be blown up by your own trebuchets and mortars, order the trebuchet and artillery battalions to pay attention, as long as the enemy ships stop advancing, immediately start attacking according to the original plan, and give priority to attacking the building ships."

"They also have trebuchets on them, although they may not be able to throw them on the shore, so be careful. Strictly order our army not to emit any light, just hide in the dark and attack, anyway, the enemy is brightly lit and the goal is obvious! ”

The Soochow Navy was very experienced, and although it was a night march, it was not affected in the slightest.

The scout came to report that Meng Chong and the boat of the vanguard of the navy army had passed through the public security waters, and they were safe and sound!

When Huang Gai heard the news, he laughed heartily, and even disregarded military discipline, picked up a bowl of wine, and drank it all.

He glanced at Lu Meng next to him, "Ziming, look, where is there any ambush?" As far as Liu Bei's broken boat is concerned, I'm afraid he has already hidden in the Three Gorges, what are you afraid of him doing? ”

After all, Lu Meng is young and has little qualifications, so he can't argue with Huang Gai's words.

Suddenly, there was a loud rumbling in front of him, and soon Huang Gai's boat stopped.

Huang Gai frowned, and was about to scold, when his subordinates reported, "General, there is a barrage in the water ahead, and the ship of the "Jiasan" building has been stopped, the wall of the ship is damaged, it is entering the water, and the craftsmen are rushing to repair it. “

"In addition, several fighting ships and building ships collided together because the anchor was too urgent, and the damage is unknown."

"What? Barrage? Cunning Liu Bei, when was it installed? Command the ships with the furnace to go to the front and burn the iron cables, and the other ships to be on guard. Carry a few hundred people ashore in a dinghy and find out where their winches are! ”

"Yes!"

After all, Huang Gai is a general, he has never seen any scenes, although he was surprised, he was not flustered, and the orders he gave were still in order.

Although Lu Meng hated Huang Gai for not listening to his advice, he still admired Huang Gai's unruly bearing.

He took a few steps forward, "General, do you want the fleet to spread out in formation, don't be too dense, I'm afraid that the enemy will have a follow-up move!" ”

"Well, what Ziming said is reasonable," Huang Gai already regretted not listening to Lu Meng's advice at this time, marched overnight, and paid attention to Lu Meng's suggestion. "Order, let the fighting ship and the building ship distance away, beware of the enemy's fire attack!"

At this moment, there was a sudden shrill whistling sound all around, and something was coming from a distance.

Lu Meng reacted very quickly, "Trebuchet, there is a trebuchet on the shore, retreat quickly, don't care about the iron cable, retreat, this is a trap!" ”

It's a pity that as soon as his words fell, dozens of stone bullets fell from the sky.

In the area around the barrage iron cable, the trebuchet of the Central Army has already been calibrated, and the coordinates are calibrated with extremely high accuracy!

Sixty pounds of stone bullets smashed through the deck, smashed the bulkhead, smashed the mast, and smashed everything that stood in front of it.

The building ships of the Soochow Navy are not laid with keels, nor do they have so many watertight compartments, and once they enter the water, they sink quickly.

After the first wave of stone bombs, the second wave came not stone bullets, but bulging jars.

When it was shattered, the liquid in the altar was sprayed everywhere, on the boat, in the water, and the smell was pungent.

"It's kerosene!" Lu Meng shouted in despair.

Lu Meng ordered someone to summon the dinghy, put the yellow cover on the dinghy, and evacuated the flagship ship as quickly as possible.

The bulkhead of the flagship is shattered, and the river is rushing in.

The third wave came with a blazing fire bomb, which fell and immediately ignited the oil and fire in the river and on the warship.

More and more people abandoned the boats and fled, and the lucky ones grabbed the dinghy, and the unlucky ones were burned to death in the river.

The entire waterway of the Yangtze River is burning, bright as day, and there is no problem with the aiming of the stone thrower.

Forty mortars from the artillery battalion also began to fire shells, as if in training, firing at the fighting ships that had not yet caught fire or sunk.

On the order of Huang Gai, he rushed to both sides of the strait, and the elite of Eastern Wu, who was about to destroy the winch, met the soldiers of the Jingzhou army who were waiting for the battle.

The one who split his head and covered his face was shot wildly by the crossbow. Because Li Yan's army joined the Central Army, many crossbows were distributed, and they were temporarily organized into local garrison brigades.

However, Wei Yan's army received 2,000 repeater crossbows that Zhang Liao gave to his allies.

Anyway, the two of them equipped the crossbows to protect the winch and the stone thrower, and the Jingzhou army, which had superior firepower, quickly wiped out the Eastern Wu army that came ashore.

At dawn, Liu Qi's navy, led by Wu Ju, came from upstream to launch a final attack on the surviving Eastern Wu navy.

The big ships of the Soochow Navy, such as the building ships and fighting ships, were basically smashed and burned.

There were also a few mortar bombs that sank them, and the range of the mortars was only 250 zhang, but it was enough to shoot at the enemy ships in the center of the river.

Wooden warships are vulnerable to shells, and a single mortar shell can blow out the boss's hole.

There are only a few Meng Chong and walking boats left in the waterway that have not yet sunk and are saving people.

Therefore, the building ships and fighting ships of the Jingzhou Navy had a great advantage, and the surviving ships of the Soochow Navy were either captured or sunk.

Only a few dinghys saw the opportunity early, ran fast, and escaped with their lives, and Huang Gai and Lu Meng were on top of these dinghies.

The final result of the public security water battle was the defeat of the Soochow naval army, with most of the 20,000 casualties and captures of the 20,000 Soochow naval troops, and all the large warships destroyed, and none of them escaped the net.

As a result, the Eastern Wu Navy lost half of its strength, and naturally it did not dare to covet Jiangling anymore.

The coalition side celebrated with great gusto, and then Li Yan and Wu Ju continued to defend the barrage.

The new army formed by 30,000 Jingnan mountain people replaced the 30,000 elite Jingzhou army.

These elites, led by Wei Yan and Kuai Yue, rushed to Yuxian together to prepare for the next phase of the operation.

The news of the defeat of the Eastern Wu Navy also spread back to Xiangyang City, and Cao Cao and Guo Jia also looked at each other when they heard it.

Of course, in their hearts, they were very happy to see Zhou Yu deflated, and the biggest threat to the other princes of Eastern Wu, and the biggest barrier to Jiangdong, was their naval army.

This time, the losses caused by Huang Gai halved the strength of the Eastern Wu Naval Army, and more than 10,000 elites died.

The soldiers of the navy are no better than the soldiers of the army, and they can only be tempered by years of water life, and the warships of the navy cannot be built in a few days or dozens of days.

After the vitality was greatly injured, the Dongwu Navy was only one line higher than Cai Mao's Cao Army.

Zhou Yu reprimanded Huang Gai fiercely, demoted him three levels in a row, and sent him to the bottom of the navy.

However, after all, Cao Cao and Jiangdong Sun Quan are now in the state of alliance, and the defeat of the Eastern Wu Navy has also greatly affected the next strategy of both sides.

Cao Jun could only wholeheartedly prepare for a land battle with the Central Army, although he had never defeated the Central Army in a land battle.

(End of chapter)