Chapter 772: The End of the Sail (2)
The west clouds burned, in the red sunset light, the stone cannon flew over a distance, occasionally there were flying arrows colliding with it, weakly pushed away and fell, rowing through a long trajectory, below was dozens of ships sailing rapidly, and then smashed down according to a big ship in front, on the fighting ship with a high gate, the grating plate broke suddenly, and the whole hull also overturned and fell under inertia, dozens of Jiangdong soldiers were thrown into the water, and there was a bang, the stone cannon fell into the water, splashed countless splashes, and then sank into the river, There was crimson blood in the bubbles that rolled up the water.
The field of vision was pushed away, and several of these stone bullets flew in the sky mixed with the rain of arrows, and then fell. The battle in the lower reaches of the Yangtze River lasted from morning to dusk, Zhou Yu and Sun Ce stood at the highest point of the gate ship, and there were several stone-throwing trucks beside them that kept stirring and throwing, and the big yellow crossbow on the lower floor shot at the Jiangdong warships that swam around from time to time, and if they were lucky, they directly pierced a hole in the hull, but more of them were shot into the water.
"Order the three pavilions on the left flank, and send twenty ships to attack Ling Tong to prevent the other party from rescuing Gan Ning!" Zhou Yu gave an order, and his eyes kept staring at the middle of the Jiangdong water array. The building ship of the Gan' flag, as well as the war situation on the surrounding river, more than a year to rush to produce more than 300 warships, has exhausted all the strength of Xuzhou, compared to the Jiangdong naval army opposite, the number is still too weak, from the time he left Jiangdong to go west, it is very clear how many warships in Jiangdong at that time, and now many years have passed, and the ships have reached more than 3,000, if it were not for His Majesty in Jingzhou to share part of the main force, only his current strength can not fight with the other party on the river.
After all, water warfare and land warfare are different realms.
As the sun sets, looking at the past from the height of the gate ship, thousands of warships cover the lower reaches of the Yangtze River, and the arrows with fire in the sky keep coming and going on the river, some fall into the ship and are extinguished by the soldiers, some are directly nailed to the white sails, and the fires are ignited.
Stretching left and right, the vast river surface of the narrow and long stern as the main force on both sides, has been interspersed with the battlefield dog-tooth fighting, when they collide together, dozens of spears poke out of the hatches on both sides and stab the opposite side frantically, and there are also soldiers who ignite rockets rush out of the hatch, stand on the side of the ship and launch close fire at the other side, nailed to the hull, cowhide, or human body, and ignite the flames in the terrible screams.
Occasionally, the wind blew and the flames burned, and the whole ship began to sink, revealing countless corpses half on the water, and as the river undulated, the ships that sailed pushed away the corpses.
"If the stalemate continues, it will be difficult to separate." Sun Ce said a little impatiently, and then got up and took the big gun.
Zhou Yu, who had just issued an order over there, turned his head to look at him, and looked at the battlefield for a while, the tacit understanding between the two had already surpassed ordinary people, and nodded: "Yu asked Yu Ban and Le Jin to help the elder brother." "It is to let the heralds play the flag.
Sun Ce didn't respond, picked up the big gun in his hand, and shouted: "Sons! Come with me—"
Hundreds of silent figures stood up on the deck below, these people were the Jiangdong cavalry who went north with Sun Ce, maybe they couldn't compare to Xiliang, Bingzhou, White Wolf, and Black Mountain on horseback, but on the water, they were more suitable, and they were all warriors, hearing Wu Hou's roar, they abandoned the spear and iron spear one by one, dragged off the armor inlaid with iron sheets outside, only wore clothes and pants, bare feet, and jumped off dozens of ships on both sides of the gate ship with a ring-headed knife.
Ride the wind and waves.
…….
Under the word 'Gan', Gan Ning only wore leather armor, a pair of steps, standing on the deck and watching the entire battle situation, his body was trembling slightly, he was the first time to command hundreds of warships, many times he was just charging into battle as a fierce general, but now he finally commanded like a real general in the middle, but unfortunately Ling Tong and Ding Feng did not belong to themselves, and the three of them could only rely on the strategies formulated in advance to cooperate with each other.
As a former Jinfan thief, now, he is actually very satisfied, of course, if he can make greater contributions, it will naturally be the best, but that Ding Feng was originally a young general under his command, but now he is on an equal footing with him, which is really a little unhappy. When the blood in his veins seemed to be burning, he swept his eyes across the battlefield and noticed dozens of ships suddenly appearing on the opposite side, passing through the entangled battlefield and rushing towards this side riding the wind and waves.
"It's ...... Coming at me? Gan Ning touched the beard under his chin, and when the other party got closer and closer, he could vaguely see a man in red and armor on the side of the ship headed by him. The corners of his lips hooked, and he gave an order: "Stop that fleet, and ask General Ling and Ding Feng to send some people to assist and intersperse the other party's flanks." ”
The flag was waving, and when he turned his gaze, there was a soft sigh in his mouth......
The waves cracked under the fast-moving boat, and on the bumpy and undulating ship, Sun Ce stepped on the bow with one foot, his eyes were majestic, his helmet fluttered backwards in the wind, and when he held the big gun and bowed his body slightly, the whole thing seemed to be filled with a violent aura in an instant.
There were several Jiangdong ships nearby to intercept them, and the corners of Sun Ce's mouth also turned into a palpitating smile, and in a moment, he said, "Crash over-"
On the opposite side, the soldiers in the cabin ran out, the moment the spears were erected like a forest, the opposite side was full of wind, and the manpower of the Guangling Pavilion ships collided with their bow with a bang, and under the violent shaking, the spear array formed by Kankan shook.
In the shaking sight of one of them, in the light of the setting sun, a figure jumped high, and the heavy iron spear fell down on them, smashing one of them through the head at the same time, the heavy spear swung horizontally, and the spear array fell to the sides of the hull like raindrops, Sun Ce stepped on the deck and rushed into the cabin, only listening to the sound of ping-pong, in the holes on both sides of the cabin, the figures were chaotic, and some directly hit the hatch and hung outside, or broke through the bulkhead and fell into the water.
"Get out—"
The hatch shattered, and a large gun struck the stern of the ship, and the last soldier turned and jumped straight into the water without waiting for the other to come over. On the stern, Sun Ce leaned on the stern of the boat, looked at the building boat that was not far away, and roared angrily: "Gan Ning, I am Jiangdong Sun Bofu, you can know me!! "The cloak tore a few holes and spread in the wind.
"I'm Gan Ning who killed you, an impostor thief, and paid for General Huang's life!"
Gan Ning clenched his long knife, carried a double halberd, and had an iron chain wrapped around his waist to go downstairs to compete with the other party, but was dissuaded by the soldiers beside him. And the dozens of ships rushing over there, several of them were separated to entangle each other, and the rest continued to sprint forward, Sun Ce heard the other party's words, snorted, drew his gun and jumped, and landed on the bow of the ship coming from the side, and in the next second, several cold arrows swished, nailed to the wooden board where he had just stood.
"Shameless junior." Sun Ce glanced at the slightly trembling feather arrows, causing the soldiers paddling in the cabin to speed up.
Time moved back a little, Ding Feng and Ling Tong on the left and right sides divided more than ten ships to rush towards this side, and the support of Yu Ban and Le Jin also sailed quickly nearby, and when they were parallel to each other, the two sides launched fierce shooting, covering the cowhide on the cabin, densely filled with arrows, just when Ling Tong was about to avoid it, there was a voice from there: "I am Jiangdong Sun Ce's ......", this voice was heard many times at the official banquet that he attended with his father Ling Cao when he was still young, even though he was young at that time, But more or less familiar.
"Don't get tangled with them!"
"Speed up, head over there, hurry-"
Ling Tong waved his spear to deflect the arrow that flew from the side, but his eyes kept searching for the direction of the sound, and after a while, he saw the figure that jumped up from the stern of a stern ship and jumped onto another ship, and when he saw the other party's side face clearly, he shouted out: "It's really Wu Hou-" The next moment, he took a deep breath and gave the last order to the ship behind him.
"-Yi Qi!"
…….
The sudden change caused a huge gap in the middle of the entire Jiangdong fleet, and the Guangling Pavilion Naval Army, which was originally entangled and fighting, found a breakthrough and inserted it into it, and Gan Ning, who was fixed on the front, was dumbfounded by this sudden change, Ling Tong often fought with him on the battlefield, even if there was a grudge between the two of them, but they never retaliated in private, but this time, the other party's sudden change of flag made the entire fleet capsize.
"Ling Gongji—"
"I'm going to kill you!!"
When his eyes were bloodshot and he shouted, more than thirty Guangling Pavilion ships had already entered his second array's fleet, and flames were burning on the ship.