Chapter 649: Reversal
The generals continued to look at the river with suspicion.
On the Yangtze River, the Wei warships were still being pressed and beaten, and the Jiangdong people still had the upper hand.
Zhou Yu relied on the advantage of many ships, and did not take the Wei army in his eyes at all, urging the battleships to accelerate and approach, and the sharp arrows were overwhelming.
Lu Meng stood tall, letting the dense arrows hit the shield in front of him, making a terrifying sound.
The warships of the two armies are eighty paces apart!
Lu Meng's eyes suddenly gathered, and he shouted: "Wave the flag, call Gan Xingba to attack!" β
Under the order, the flag-bearer on the mast immediately quickly rotated the flag.
Gan Ning, who was hiding behind the building ship, saw Lu Meng's order, and immediately urged the overseer to speed up the rowing, and drove the ship to go around the back of the building ship and roar towards the enemy fleet.
Immediately afterwards, nearly 30 ships rushed out from behind the building ships one after another, like huge swordfish, and flew up towards the huge building ships of the Jiangdong Army.
This is Lu Meng's tactic!
deliberately showed weakness, let Zhou Yu approach aggressively, and then suddenly killed the fast ship hidden behind the building ship, sticking to Zhou Yu's big ship, and launched hand-to-hand combat on boarding.
"Lu Meng, it turns out that you still have this trick hidden!"
Zhou Yu's face changed, he gritted his teeth secretly, and there was a hint of surprise in his eyes, obviously he didn't expect that Lu Meng would come up with such a plan.
He didn't have time to think about it, and shouted anxiously: "Crossbowmen, aim at the enemy's stern and rush me with arrows, don't let them stick to it!" β
When the order was passed, the Jiangdong crossbowmen who were originally aiming at the big ship of the Wei army immediately changed their direction and condescendingly rushed at Gan Ning's small ship.
With such a close distance and such a condescending advantage, under normal circumstances, the strong bows and crossbows of the Jiangdong people were enough to shoot through the weak armor of the ship.
As soon as the armor is broken, the sailors inside are shot, and the speed of the ship rushes to slow down, and it will become a living target, at the mercy of the crossbowmen of the Jiangdong Army.
After a wild shot, Zhou Yu was surprised to find that his strong bow and crossbow failed to shoot through Wei Junchong's armor.
On the boat, the corners of Lu Meng's mouth raised a sneer like a successful conspiracy.
The thirty ships rushed because he asked Su Zhe for his order overnight, and thickened the wall of the ship with a triple cowhide wrap, and no strong bow or crossbow could shoot through.
You must know that a cowhide has to kill a ploughing ox, a stern chong adds up, it has more than a dozen ploughing heads, and more than 30 warps have to consume hundreds of ploughing cattle, but this simple reinforcement and transformation has to be worth tens of millions of dollars.
Su Zhe was not stingy at all, Lu Meng could do whatever he wanted, and now it finally came in handy.
The commander of Gan Ning rushed forward, relying on the strength of the armor, against the enemy's arrow rain like a pine, and rushed straight to the enemy formation.
Gan Ning's ship Chong went straight to the flagship of Zhou Yu's building.
He wants to shoot people and horses first, as long as he slaughters Zhou Yu, he is not afraid of the collapse of the Jiangdong Army on the whole line.
"Block that brocade thief, block that brocade thief for meβ" Zhou Yu saw Lu Meng's intentions, and roared hoarsely.
On the Jiangdong battleships, countless sharp arrows were overwhelming, shooting towards Gan Ning's ship in all directions, and in the blink of an eye, his battleship was nailed like a hedgehog.
Gan Ning was not afraid, and even jumped directly on the bow of the boat, waving the halberd in his hand to block the incoming arrows, while shouting: "Keep going, let Lao Tzu continue to move forward!" β
Inspired by him, the sailors in the ship rocked desperately, driving the hedgehog-like ship to rush all the way up the waves.
A few seconds later, a dull crash sounded, and Ann's angular ram slammed into the enemy ship.
Accompanied by the sound of the collision, there was a violent shaking, the whole ship shook from side to side, several enemy soldiers who had no time to hold on to it even fell directly into the water, and the rest of the people were also staggered and panicked.
On the top deck, Zhou Yu didn't stand firmly, and sat directly on the ground, and Mei Zhoulang's calm and elegant demeanor also fell to the ground.
"Kill Lao Tzu!"
Gan Ning roared like a tiger out of the cage, and jumped onto the enemy's ship.
In the positive direction, several Jiangdong pawns who reacted waved the big knives in their hands, rushed up, and slashed towards Gan Ning.
"Looking for deathβ"
Gan Ning let out a disdainful roar, and the halberd in his hand swept out like a wheel.
Click!
The dull cracking sound was accompanied by a scream, and the three enemy soldiers who pounced on them were directly cut in two by the company with weapons and flew upside down.
Gan Ning jumped onto the enemy ship with a blood-stained halberd like a killing god, and the tiger pounced on the panicked enemy bush like a flock.
The soldiers of the Wei army behind them, seeing that their generals were so powerful, their spirits and fighting spirit were greatly encouraged, and they all pounced on the enemy like tigers and wolves out of the cage.
At the same time, one after another, the Wei army's clash squads collided with the enemy ships, and thousands of soldiers grabbed the enemy ships and killed them wantonly.
Once you enter the boarding melee combat, the advantage of the tall ship is gone, and the key to determining the victory or defeat is only the bravery of the soldiers.
The water battle turned into a foot battle, and the weakness of the Jiang soldiers was immediately revealed, and they were soon killed by the Wei soldiers.
One by one, the enemy's battle flags were cut to the ground, one after another enemy ships fell, and the defeated enemy soldiers either grabbed the boat and fled for their lives, or they were driven down the Yangtze River to feed Wang Ba.
Soon, the seven or eight large ships that the Jiangdong Army rushed to the front fell one after another.
Water warfare, like infantry warfare, pays attention to the neatness of the formation lineup, and once there is a flaw in the formation, it will inevitably affect the overall situation.
The head of the Jiangdong fleet was stunned, and a gap was torn out of the formation, and as soon as the flaw appeared, it immediately moved the whole body, causing the entire fleet to fall into a state of near chaos.
The corners of Lu Meng's mouth in the rear raised a sneer, he drew his sword and pointed at it, and shouted: "The enemy army has been torn open by us, what are you waiting for, give me a blow to defeat the enemy army!" β
Woowoo woo β
The horn of the counterattack sounded, and the officers and men of the ships of the Wei army were in great spirits, and they showed their heads one after another, counterattacked with arrows back to the enemy ships, followed the direction of the assault team all the way, and pierced into the gap of the enemy army.
The surrounding Jiangdong ships were torn apart in their eyes, and when they saw that the flagship was also boarded by the Wei army, they didn't know Zhou Yu's life and death, and they all fell into a panic.
The crash begins.
Recently, one of Zhou Yu's flagship warships began to turn around and retreat downstream, and the defeat was like a plague, quickly spreading to the periphery, one to ten, one to hundred, and in a blink of an eye, nearly thirty percent of the fleet fled without a fight.
This miraculous reversal, the infantry soldiers on the shore saw it clearly, and a big stone in their hearts fell to the ground, and they were all so excited that they shouted wildly.
"Lu Ziming, this king really didn't mistake you......"
Su Zhe also exhaled secretly, with a relieved smile on his face.