Chapter 140: The Bloody Battle of the Yangtze River
The distance between the two fleets rapidly decreased, and when they approached a hundred zhang, the trebuchets on the ships of both sides rained down on each other almost simultaneously, and a bitter battle began on the calm river.
"Ah...... "Between you and me, the first group of the dead let out their deathbed wails, and some people didn't even have time to scream before they were smashed into a puddle of flesh by stones. Dozens of hundreds of pounds of stones are definitely a big killer for soldiers, everyone is short behind the female wall for the first time, but the female wall can prevent crossbow arrows, but it may not be able to prevent the flying boulders, under the bombardment of the boulders, some of the female walls have completed their mission to protect the soldiers behind, and some have been ruthlessly torn apart, whenever this time often the sky will rain with blood. And those stones with high "ballistics" crossed the women's wall and fell almost vertically, not only causing great damage to the soldiers, but also some stones even smashed a large hole in the deck, and the soldiers in the middle and lower classes were not spared. Some people looked at the flying stones, and they jumped into the river with no way out, but they looked at the heavy armor on their bodies, and most of them sank to the bottom of the river as if they were pulled by the river's feet as soon as they entered the water, leaving only countless long strings of bubbles in the water......
The stone projectile of the trebuchet fell into the water and stirred up the water injection as high as several zhang, and it fell like a torrential rain, the rain obstructed the vision of both sides, and through the rain and fog, the other party seemed to be in an ethereal misty, and the blood mixed with the river water poured into the river along the side of the ship, and the clear river water was immediately dyed blood red.
Whether it's a trebuchet or a bed crossbow, it takes a lot of time to reload, so before the second wave of heavy weapons descends on the opponent, both sides are already within range of individual crossbow arrows.
"Let go of the ......" The generals of both sides gave an order, and countless archers loosened the bowstrings that had already been drawn and threw arrows at each other.
The rain of arrows like flying locusts shuttles non-stop on the surface of the river, because both sides are hiding behind the female wall, it is almost impossible for the crossbow arrows to penetrate the female wall and kill and injure the enemy behind them, so both sides have adopted the method of projectile, in the face of the rain of arrows falling from the sky, the soldiers on both sides are almost powerless to resist, and they have suffered heavy casualties.
Lu Su personally waved the order flag (the sound of killing on the river shook the sky, and the sound of the order had lost its effect), and He Qi and the others, who were in the back, immediately shouted: "Brothers, kill ......" Immediately, countless ships rushed out of the gap reserved between the Ge ship and the Lou ship, and rushed towards the enemy ship. These small warships are narrow and long, extremely fast, and have a hard angle in the bow to hit the enemy ship, because the displacement of such ships is extremely small, the bow impact angle is low, and the impact part is often located near the waterline of the enemy ship, once it is broken, a large amount of river water quickly pours in, it is easy to cause the sinking of the enemy ship, and it is used to deal with the enemy's large warship, which can be described as low investment and high return.
The enemy general immediately spotted the Yizhou army's Chong Chong and shouted and ordered the archers to attack the enemy's Chong. For a moment, a dense rain of arrows slanted to the small rush.
The ship was small, and there was no female wall on it, so the Yizhou Navy could only fight back with a rain of arrows under the protection of the ship's side.
Although it has now declined, but the emaciated camel is bigger than a horse, most of the Jingzhou Navy soldiers have their own glory, under the command of the general, there is a clear eye and the Yizhou Navy launched a desperate struggle.
Cai Mao is good at water warfare, he knows very well that once he is hit by these ships, his main building ship will be greatly threatened, and immediately ordered the herald soldiers to wave the order flag, and dozens of ships in the rear of the Jingzhou Navy accelerated and rushed out to meet the Yizhou army's fleet of ships, and dozens of ships in the rear of the ship rushed closely behind, and it seemed that he was preparing to start a broadside battle once the ship Chong forced the opponent to stop.
Relying on the power of the upstream, the Yizhou army was far faster than the enemy ships, and rushed forward without fear.
"Bang...... Chirping...... ......"The two fleets collided, the sturdy heads breaking through each other's hulls, and the small ships disintegrated and capsized with a huge click force. Most of them are Jingzhou ships, of course, there are reasons for this, first, Yizhou is upstream, and the speed is faster and more violent; The second is the decline of the Jingzhou Navy, the military expenditure is insufficient, and most of the ships are old, while the Yizhou Navy's newly built ships are almost all new, and the ships are more solid than the Jingzhou ships.
The Yizhou army was not willing to resist the enemy's ship, their target was the Jingzhou army's building ship troops, in the collision just now, nearly half of the ships in accordance with the prior plan, relying on the speed, maneuver and flexibility to avoid the Jingzhou army's ship fleet, shuttle between the ship rush and the first board, after passing through the interception of the enemy ship, the helmsman pointed the collision head tightly to the Jingzhou military building ship.
With the sharp increase in the threat to the Jingzhou building ship, the blow they faced became more and more violent, the arrows did not stop at all, wave after wave descended on the warboard rush, all the ships were filled with arrows shot by the Jingzhou army, one by one live out of the huge hedgehog, the dense arrow rain also caused great casualties to the Yizhou soldiers on the ship, most of the ships have been reduced by more than half, and some even wiped out, the ship lost its control, but still rushed to the Jingzhou army according to the old route.
"Bang...... Bang...... Bang ...... "The so-called ship turned around in chaos, the Jingzhou military tower ship was too big, and in the face of the rapidly advancing Yizhou warp, it didn't have time to dodge before it was hit by the hard head and broke the hull, and the river immediately poured into the cabin along the rupture.
Cai Mao and Huang Zu instructed the soldiers to plug the rupture, and on the other hand, they ordered the archers on the upper floors of the building to pour out the rain of arrows on the soldiers rushing towards the immobile Yizhou ship.
The Yizhou naval army, which was completely exposed to the Jingzhou army, had nowhere to hide, and the ship was tightly stuck because the bow of the ship broke into the enemy ship, and there was no way to move at all, so it could only be slaughtered by others......
The Jingzhou army's Ge boat and Mao Tu also pressed up, and Yizhou Chong was in danger of being annihilated. They had long known that this was a life of nine deaths, but they did not hesitate for a moment, they stood up impassionedly, their attack sank three Jingzhou military ships, the river was full of Jingzhou soldiers who fell into the water, they struggled, cried, and sank helplessly into the water, and some people were in danger, threw away their weapons, took off their heavy armor, and swam towards their own ships. The results of the Yizhou army not only sank three Jingzhou ships, but they also caused two Jingzhou ships to be seriously flooded and their hulls tilted seriously, so they had to withdraw from the battlefield to save themselves.
Lu Su watched the Yizhou soldiers fall in the rain of arrows of the Jingzhou army, his heart was like a knife, he was also proud that he had such brave soldiers, they had completed their tasks, and now it was his turn. Lu Su waved the order flag again, and the Yizhou army fleet, led by Lou Chuan, rushed towards the Jingzhou army without reservation.
Cai Mao and Huang Zu, who were on top of the building ship not far away, immediately found that the Yizhou army was lined up in several columns, forcing the Jingzhou army to approach with a rain of arrows, and the route they were on was located in several safe passages deliberately left by the main force of the Yizhou army. The two of them understood the plan of the Yizhou army, they wanted to take advantage of the large hull of the ship to sink their own ship on the river, how poisonous their hearts were! At this time, the Jingzhou army and Xiandeng Chong in front of the sudden attack were greatly reduced in speed due to the fight with the Yizhou army, and the queue was already in chaos, and the heads of the collision were even more in all directions, all of which showed that the threat of the warboard to the enemy ships was almost zero. Losing the opportunity, it was insignificant in the face of the giant ship. The two of them loudly ordered the herald to retreat immediately, but it was too late, and many Jingzhou ships were knocked over and sunk without seeing the retreat flag.
Although their own troops have suffered heavy losses, Cai Mao and Huang Zu are not worried about sadness, in battle, the dead are indiscriminate, no matter whether they are enemies or enemies, you don't see that there are few living people in Yizhou who hit their own ship! They even began to rejoice, because the Yizhou naval army had all been dispatched, and they still had a huge reserve in the rear that had not yet been in battle, as soon as the time came, they could order the reserve to attack and annihilate the enemy army in one fell swoop.
The ships of the two sides soon got into a scuffle, the Lou ship and the Ge ship had lost their mobility, the sides of the ship were close together, the archers on the ship were harvesting each other's lives, and the middle soldiers picked up their weapons and engaged in hand-to-hand combat with the enemy, and from time to time some soldiers jumped on each other's decks......