Recovering the cables is a big project, and Ma Jun and his team will have to work here for at least a month. For such a long time, of course Guan Xing would not wait for him, the soldiers were fast, and after Guan Xing captured this military fort, he attacked all the way to the east non-stop.

Originally, before ho

When the divisions of the G Army swept and took over the territory of Wei, the territory north of the Yangtze River had basically been in the hands of the Han Dynasty, but due to the existence of the two super large lakes Yunmengze and Peng Lize, the north bank of the Yangtze River not only had complex terrain, but also had a complicated situation.

Dongwu was not willing to be compressed on their territory, they did not dare to go to Jingzhou and Guan Gong to call for the board, but they continued to send ~ water troops into these two super large lakes to make small moves, and even landed on the north bank to attack the defenders of the Han Dynasty and fight for territory. Guan Xing's mission was to purge the enemy on the north bank, not only on the north bank of the Yangtze River, but also on the shores of these two super lakes.

With such a large territory, the strength of a division is far from enough, especially the Soochow Navy has a high degree of mobility, they can come and go freely in these lakes by boat, and if there is not enough garrison in the occupied place, it is easy to be attacked by the Soochow Army hidden in the lake, so a large number of troops are needed here.

Fortunately, now the war in the Central Plains has completely ended, ho

All the forces of the G Army were liberated, and Liu Hou had enough troops to fight this general battle. The Eastern Route Army, which had previously besieged Wei, and the troops that remained to accept Wei's homeland, were almost all engaged in this war.

That is to say, now the second, third, and fourth divisions have been put into the battlefield on the north bank of the Yangtze River, responsible for clearing the Yangtze River and the enemy along Yunmengze and Peng Lize. Of course, they are still powerless against the enemy in Zezhong for the time being, because they have no ships, and they have to wait for the naval army led by Guan Gong to break through the iron line and advance eastward in an all-round way before it is possible to plot the enemy hiding inside.

The iron cable has already been broken, why break through the iron cable defense? As mentioned earlier, the so-called chain defense does not refer only to the giant cable, but to the many obstacles built on the cable, plus other structures built near the chain to prevent ships from navigating.

In fact, the main obstacle to the passage of warships is the numerous artificial reefs under the surface. Everyone knows the terrible consequences of a ship hitting the reef, even if it is a cement ship of the Han army, which is known to be extremely hard, but if it hits the reef, the consequences are unimaginable, please refer to "Titanic" for details.

The iron cable and its appendages can be seen on the surface of the river, so this line of defense is named the iron line of defense, in fact, what is seen on the surface is the easiest to solve. Indeed, the iron rope was completed by the teachers and students of the academy in just a few minutes.

The worst of all are the dangers that cannot be seen, those devils that hide underwater. The Soochow people used shipwrecks to build dense reefs at the bottom of a section of the river. These reef groups are not much of a problem for small boats to pass, because the draft of small boats is very shallow, as long as you are careful, but it is very dangerous for large and medium-sized ships to pass.

Especially for ships of the level of large warships and building ships, their draft is ~ very ~ deep, and the bottom of the ship is very easy to hit the traps made by the Soochow people. Guan Gong's naval army wanted to attack Soochow in an all-out way, and the first thing to do was to cut the iron cables, and the second thing was to eliminate these reefs.

Now that the iron rope has been broken, Guan Gong begins the second step of the plan - to blow up the reef. If you want to attack the reef, you must first clear the defensive forces of the Soochow naval army here. The Soochow people attached great importance to this line of defense and put a lot of defensive troops here.

Needless to say, the Soochow people built a military fort on each side of the bank to protect the iron cable, in fact, in Dajiang, a naval army of not small scale was stationed. This navy army had a total of 300 boats, large and small, and the number of people reached 30,000.

You must know that this is only a defense line, not the main force, which shows the importance that Soochow attaches to this line of defense. In fact, the main force of the Soochow naval army is not far from here, just in Xiakou.

Their plan was that once this line of defense was attacked, the naval army battalion in Xiakou could send a large force as soon as possible to rush to the front line. As long as the defenders of the defensive line hold out for a while, reinforcements will arrive.

Originally, on the west side of the defense line, there were many small ships of Eastern Wu cruising, but at this time, seeing Guan Gong leading the naval army to press over with thunder, they knew that they were invincible, and quickly ran back to the east side of the defense line.

It's not that they are greedy for life and afraid of death, but it's extremely unwise to rush to death when they know that they are invincible. Using small ships to go head-to-head with the enemy's large warships, even the most incompetent general would not give such a stupid order, let alone the experienced Soochow people in water warfare.

Guan Gong was not surprised at all by the retreat of the Eastern Wu naval army, and it was one of the basic principles of warfare to avoid the real and make up for the false. Moreover, these Dongwu people know the specific ~ location of the underwater reef, they must have a road map for retreat, and they know how to avoid the reef.

So for them, they come when they want and go when they want. They will definitely feel that even if they withdraw, the Jingzhou Navy will not dare to chase them, and when they want to come back, they can achieve it at any time, so the withdrawal is only temporary, and sooner or later they will have to come back.

However, Guan Gong would not let them get their wish, he sat on the flagship, and saw through the telescope that the small warships of the Soochow Navy had all retreated to the east of the defense line, and he did not look back:

"Order the 103rd, 104th, and 105th ships to go forward and destroy the fishing nets laid by the enemy. Note that the advance is stopped before reaching the reef range, and then the enemy ships are suppressed by artillery fire. The 5100-5110 ships were ordered to follow and continue to destroy the fishing nets in the reef area. ”

Naturally, a staff officer recorded his order, and after showing him the signature, he trotted to issue the order.

The Dongwu people set up a lot of fishing nets in this water, and the range of these fishing net arrays far exceeded the scope of the reef area, and the purpose was naturally to intercept the ** coming down from the upstream. Breaking ** with fishing nets can be said to be a successful example of breaking high-tech weapons at low cost.

Although Guan Gong had a powerful cement boat army, he had to break the fishing net array of Soochow first, so as not to be hindered by these fishing nets at a critical moment.

At present, many of the fishing nets of the Dongwu people are anchored on those artificial reefs, and some are simply anchored directly at the bottom of the river, and the river surface is made into a buoy, and the fishing net is pulled into the water through the force of the buoy and the anchor.

So, after the Soochow boats were retired, these nets still existed, because now these nets have become permanent buildings. However, all this is no different from a piece of rice paper before the warship of the Jingzhou Navy Army.

The 103 ships, 104 ships, and 105 warships are the three large cement warships of the Jingzhou Navy Army, in fact, their full names are 103 Runan, 104 Nanyang, and 105 Shouchun. Large warships are named after a combination of numbers and county names.

The first number, 1, represents a large warship. If the first digits are 2 and 3, they represent medium-sized ships, and 4 to 9 represent small ships, depending on the purpose of the ship.

However, due to the large number of small and medium-sized warships, their numbers are not three-digit but four-digit, otherwise the number will not be enough. And they don't follow the name of the city after the number, it's just a purely numeric number.