Chapter 483: A Great Fire Falling from the Sky
On the second day, all the staff in Jiangdong carried out the intensive arrangement.
The navy began to assemble warships, and the army was waiting for the battle, ready to cross the river at any time.
Zhou Yu and Gan Ning, on the other hand, secretly prepared a hundred clippers with their cronies and loaded them with something.
After the ship was fully loaded, it was covered with a curtain, which was very mysterious.
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In the evening, Zhou Yu and Gan Ning, with the fleet, quietly made a detour to a place seven or eight miles upstream of the fleet of the Princes' Alliance.
The obstacle set up by the alliance of princes was probably five miles away from their base camp.
Here, they have patrols day and night.
It's just that during this time, there has been no movement in the Jiangdong Navy.
They also believe that the obstacles they have set up cannot be broken in a short period of time, so the patrols have been lax in recent times.
Zhou Yu and Gan Ning, leading a hundred clippers, were spared without realizing it.
When the sky was bright, Zhou Yu ordered his soldiers to dump all the barrels of liquid loaded on the seventy ships onto the river.
Suddenly, a layer of liquid with a pungent fragrance flowed down the river.
The speed of the river is very fast.
It didn't take long for the liquid to flow into the warship basin where the alliance of princes was located.
At this time, the water army of the alliance of princes smelled a fragrance that filled the air.
"Huh? What does it smell like? It smells so good! β
"yes, why do you think so? Where did this scent come from? β
"Ah, look, look at the river, what is floating on the river?"
"The whole river is full of these things, and it tastes so good! Is this where the scent comes from? What is this? β
Just when the alliance of princes was talking and pointing at the liquid on the river.
Upstream of the river, Zhou Yu and Gan Ning ordered the remaining soldiers to light hundreds of torches and throw them on the river.
Yes, LΓΌ Bu's method was to have them dump the liquid upstream of the river, and then use torches to ignite the liquid.
In this way, the flames can flow down the water, igniting all the ships of the alliance of princes.
It's just that no matter how Zhou Yu thinks, he has a feeling of unreliability.
It's on the water, how can you light it?
If it weren't for Lu Bu's order, it would be difficult to disobey the king's order, and Zhou Yu would not have done such a stupid thing at all.
Such a stupid method, how many times does the head have to clip the door panel before you can think of it?
Some of the torches thrown by the soldiers on the river were annihilated when they were thrown on the river.
But there is also a part of it that is untouched, directly igniting the surface of the river.
Then, clusters of flames spread rapidly, winding downstream at a rapid speed.
Soon, the surface of the river was covered with red flames, and it flowed farther and farther.
From a distance, it looks like a fiery dragon raging on the river.
Zhou Yu, Gan Ning, and the personal soldiers they brought were all stunned by this scene.
I've got a big groove!
Can you really order it?
This, this is incredible!
Could it be that Lord Wen Hou is really a god who can't go down to earth?
Otherwise, who would have been able to light such a big fire on the river?
Only Zhou Yu faintly remembered the knowledge of natural science that he had learned.
I remember that the specific gravity of the liquid was mentioned above, the heavy specific gravity is below, and the light specific gravity is floating on it.
Is this the truth common to the Lord?
Zhou Yu has always believed that natural science is useful, but it can only be applied in people's livelihood.
It was not until this moment that Zhou Yu clearly realized that natural science can not only be applied to people's livelihood, but also to military affairs!
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On the part of the alliance of princes, some soldiers began to see the flames flowing rapidly from the upper class, and they were all dumbfounded?
"Oh my God! Why is the river on fire? How can water catch fire? β
"I rely on your seventh uncle! Can the river still catch fire? This is really a miracle in the world! β
"It's spectacular! It's the first time I've seen this kind of scene in my life! β
"You're paralyzed, run! The fire is burning to the ass! β
Indeed, the flames flowed down the river, and the speed was terrifying.
In the blink of an eye, it had spread to the fleet of the alliance of princes.
This time, the fire burned directly on the river, and the ships of the alliance of princes were all linked together, and there was no way to hide if they wanted to.
Under the bombardment of the river fire, the wooden boat soon burst into flames, and the flames soon turned into a raging fire.
Gradually, the fire grew bigger and bigger, the flames jumped several feet high, and the billowing smoke rose.
Far away, I saw that the entire river was burning, and the upper layer of the river was boiling.
The small fish floating on the upper layer are instantly cooked, and the fish fragrance is overflowing.
The naval army on the warship of the Princes' Alliance only took a few moments from reacting to turning around and running.
But the fire was going too fast, and the ships of the alliance of princes were too big and too big to allow them to run out at all.
Soon, the alliance of princes was engulfed by the raging flames.
The fire resounded with the terrible screams of countless soldiers of the alliance of princes, and the air was filled with the stench of charred corpses.
One by one, the wooden boat was engulfed in flames, shattered and collapsed.
The wreckage of the ship and the charred corpses fell into the river and went down the river.
In the end, the entire river was even blocked by the wreckage of the ship, and the flames on the river were so thick that it could be seen clearly from dozens of miles away.
This tragic scene directly made the princes of Jiangbei and the alliance dumbfounded.
Yuan Shao, Yuan Shu, Cao Cao and Liu Biao, many expressions such as shock, pain, grief and indignation, and unwillingness are intertwined, which is very complicated.
Finished!
It's all over!
That's a whole 200,000 sailors!
Unexpectedly, it was burned down by Lu Bu's fire!
Well, in fact, there are still some people who escaped from the fire.
Those who escaped were on the edge of the fleet, near the shore of the nearest part of the navy.
But the number of people who escaped was too few, not more than a thousand.
Moreover, although these hundreds of people escaped, one by one they seemed to have lost their minds and went crazy, and it is still unknown whether they can go to the battlefield again in the future.
These 200,000 troops are basically equivalent to the annihilation of the entire army!
The alliance of princes had a total of 400,000 troops, and in the previous battle, it lost 70,000 or 80,000 people!
Now another 200,000 army has been burned by a fire.
So far, there are 1230,000 of them left!
In terms of troops, it is already less than the number of Jiangdong troops.
Now don't talk about crusading against Lu Bu, it would be good if Lu Bu didn't attack them in turn!
Of course, their current strength is not all of their strength.
If they were desperate to gather troops, their strength would still be above Lu Bu.
But now their soldiers, completely demoralized, have no strength to fight at all.
This time, the alliance of princes fought against Lu, and it ended in complete defeat!
(End of chapter)