Gan Ning became the commander of the navy, and spent a month familiarizing himself with the performance of the ship and the operation of weapons, and also took time to make up for the nautical charts and navigation knowledge, after all, the Yangtze River and the sea are completely different concepts, if you are not familiar with the sea conditions, it is likely to bury the entire fleet.

Jiang Sheng was also worried that Gan Ning would not be able to effectively command the entire naval fleet, so he specially summoned Gan Ning to study at the Royal Military Academy (formerly the Dahan Military Academy).

Many of the textbooks of the Military Academy were compiled by Jiang Sheng directly, and there are many modern military ideas, which are no less than the traditional martial arts and the Art of War.

On the Shu side, because Zhuge Liang directly commanded the Fuling defensive battle, Ma Chao did not get any benefits, but lost a few battles, and Wei Yan's battle against Jiangzhou also stalled because of Yan Yan's desperate resistance.

On the side of Wu State, Xu Huang commanded an army of 200,000 to attack Danyang and Huiji, even if Zhou Yu had the talent to go through the heavens and latitudes, it was only difficult for a clever woman to cook without rice, and the combat effectiveness of the army was indeed a little worse.

Xu Huang reported good news all the way, and the Wu army retreated again and again, only keeping Wu County and the northern part of Huiji, and the southern part of Huiji was taken by Huang Zhong's partial army all the way to the Shanyue tribe, and Jiang Sheng only promised the Shanyue leader the title of Shanyue King.

The strongest thing in Wu is the navy, and the army can't do it, so he has to rely on the navy, but when Sun Quan learned about the composition of the fleet led by Gan Ning, his heart was half cold.

The news reported by Shu said that Jiang Sheng had an extremely strong ironclad ship, and ordinary catapult arrows were useless to it at all, and the thing called artillery was even more incredible.

When the Ganning fleet was killed outside the mouth of the Yangtze River, the state of Wu was in chaos, and the nobles and heroes of Jiangdong could not sit still, and they all advised Sun Quan to surrender, and even the court officials of the state of Wu had words of fear of war and begging for surrender.

Zhou Yu didn't speak, and Sun Quan said: "Let's discuss and discuss, and the lonely king will go and change clothes." ”

Changing clothes is an elegant way of going to the toilet, Sun Quan is looking for an excuse to go out, and Zhou Yu followed.

"Gongjin, what do you think?"

Zhou Yu was silent for a while, and said: "Jiangdong's foundation is in jeopardy, Jiang Sheng's power is great, and the concept of passive surrender within my Wu State has prevailed. ”

"Do you want to give it up?"

"Jiang Sheng's naval strength is probably based on false rumors, how powerful our Wu State Naval Army is, Yizhou and Yazhou are all included in the territory of our Wu Kingdom, and they can't destroy their own prestige and grow the ambition of others. The army only needs to hold the front, the navy still has a chance to win, as long as we defeat Jiang Sheng's navy, we can keep the foundation of the Wu state. ”

After Sun Quan and Zhou Yu discussed and understood, they returned to the main hall.

The ministers were all discussing how to surrender, Sun Quan drew his sword, cut off a corner of the table, and said: "My Wu State Navy is strong, why are you afraid of Jiang Sheng?" Resolute has been decided, who will say begging words again, disturbing the hearts of our army, this case is an example! ”

Everyone didn't dare to make a sound, the hall was surprisingly quiet, and Sun Quan said: "At the moment of the great enemy, we and other monarchs and ministers should work together." As long as we are united, even if Jiang Sheng is strong, what can I do? ordered Gongjin to be the governor of the navy and was fully responsible for the water war; Lü Meng was the governor of the left road, blocking the enemy's Xiahou Yuan, Li Dian, and Xu Chubu; Lu Xun was the governor of the right road, blocking the enemy's Xu Huang, Lu Bu, and Dian Wei Department. All civil and military forces must cooperate with each other, and there must be no mistakes! ”

Everyone received the order and expressed their attitude to Sun Quan.

Zhou Yu commanded the navy to sail in a zigzag shape, facing the Jin fleet from three sides, forming a corner of each other, which can be regarded as a relatively horizontal naval battle formation.

Gan Ning's fleet is directly an inverted conical array, the command ship is in the center of the end, and the frigate and destroyer are divided into two oblique columns, left and right in front of the command ship, as if they want to open their big mouths and want to swallow the Wu State Navy.

Zhou Yu saw that Gan Ning only had a few dozen ships, and suspected that this was a suspicious soldier, and the larger fleet must be not far away.

He used his troops cautiously, and he would not attack easily until he found out the details of the enemy's hands, so he stopped far away, and the three-way fleet was still distributed in a zigzag.

Zhou Yu observed that the weather should not change drastically, so he sent more than a dozen Mengchong ships to search for traces of the Jin army in the surrounding waters.

Wu's Mengchong ship is smaller than the Jin army's frigates, and its maneuverability is okay, but compared with the steam-powered Jin army frigates, it is far worse.

Wu had experience in navigating large ships, so he was not too afraid of sailing, and searched for the Jin army's fleet within a radius of fifty miles, but found nothing.

Zhou Yu estimated that this was the vanguard of the Jin army, and since there was no large fleet activity around, he would simply eat it, so the Wu Shui army began to surround it.

Gan Ning saw that Wu Jun waited for a few days before starting to attack, and knew that Zhou Yu had seen through his fleet with only a few ships, and no one answered, so he struck first.

Gan Ning issued an order, and the whole fleet adjusted its position and prepared for battle.

After Zhou Yu's fleet entered the range of artillery, Gan Ning issued a flag, and the gun protective covers on the sides of each ship were opened, and the muzzles of the black holes were aimed at Zhou Yu's fleet.

Jiang Sheng was born in a special forces, and he still knows the flag language, so the Jin Navy stipulates the rules for the flag language, which Dongwu can't understand.

Zhou Yu didn't have a telescope and couldn't see it really, but Gan Ning could clearly see the movements of Zhou Yu's fleet, and even the activities of the deck crew could see clearly, so he grasped the opportunity.

Zhou Yu's fleet was getting closer and closer, and Zhou Yu found that there was no such thing as trebuchets on the ships of the Jin army, did they want to board the ship for melee combat? When he saw that the Jin warships were all ironclad ships, he "suddenly realized" that they wanted to defeat the enemy ships by ramming.

Thinking of this, Zhou Yu ordered the fleet to stop advancing, adjust the angle and position, and use trebuchets to deal with the Jin fleet, never letting the Jin fleet rush over.

Before Zhou Yujun could adjust his combat position, the "boom-boom-boom" artillery roared angrily.

Zhou Yu only saw a fire coming out of the side of the Jin army's ship, and then a row of ships in front of the Wu army was shattered, and the sound of explosion sounded again, and the entire Wu army fleet was hit, and the smoke mixed with wood chips, broken arms and stumps drifted everywhere.

Zhou Yu's deck was also hit by an iron bullet, revealing a large hole, and the sailors in the cabin screamed.

Several Mengchong ships sped up, and they saw that the Jin army was also heavy on long-range strikes, so they wanted to bully them closer, but they heard the sound of "whooshing" breaking through the air.

The fire dragon arrow launchers on the deck of the Jin army were already aimed at the Mengchong ships, and the dense fire dragon arrows completely covered the Mengchong fleet, and it didn't take long for these Mengchong ships to sink into the sea.

Zhou Yu saw that things were not good, and hurriedly issued an order to retreat, the main fleet retreated quickly and escaped by chance, but the ships in the front row could not escape, because Gan Ning's frigate had already rushed over, and the speed was extremely fast.

A loud "rumbling" sound came from far and near, and it was the movement of the steam engine, and black smoke and white steam came out of the large chimney on the top of the ship.

Jiang Qin saw that he couldn't escape, so he organized several boats around him to ram the Jin frigate, and it was smashed in an instant before it got close, but the Jin frigate was unharmed.

Zhou Yu was also suppressed, knowing that Dongwu could no longer be saved, so he fled with the remnants of the fleet in embarrassment, and Gan Ning issued a flag message, be sure to annihilate the Wu army!