Zhou Yu was really puzzled, he had stayed in Jiujiang and Lujiang. Lujiang Shu County is his hometown, Jiujiang he was an official in Liyang, and when Sun Ce crossed the river, he gave up his official position in Liyang and followed Sun Ce together.

Therefore, he is very familiar with the shipbuilders in Jiujiang and Lujiang counties. But he had never heard of a shipbuilder who could build a big ship, and if he knew that he would not leave it to Zhang Yi at all, he would have recruited him a long time ago.

If you can recruit craftsmen who build big ships, do you still need to be bullied by Gan Ning with big boats?

Although wars are generally fought by people, the naval army fights completely with science and technology. One is to look at the ship's laughter and protection capabilities; The second is to look at the attack capability of the ship.

This shield and spear are the foundation of the naval army. Before the invention of the cannon, the attack of the navy was nothing more than bows and arrows, ballistas, and fireships.

Bows and arrows are a conventional means, and the technological content of ballistas is still relatively high, and there are no ballistas enough to sink ships in this era, only slightly smaller ballistas. But it is not yet equipped by the navy, because the crossbow arrows on the ballista are cumbersome, and it is difficult to load the ballista with crossbow arrows if the ship is shaky.

So until the proposed device for attaching bolts to ballistae was created, the ballista was not a conventional weapon of water warfare.

And the bow and crossbow and the fireboat, both sides can use it, so in terms of spears, the two sides are actually equal.

Since the spears are equal, it's better to raise the shield. So whoever has a big ship and a strong ship has the upper hand.

Because Zhang Yi summoned Meng Kang, he was able to build a ship far beyond this era. This gives Zhang Yi an advantage in water warfare, but Li Hongzhang was very conservative in water warfare before, which may be related to his money-keeping side.

Now Gan Ning has become the governor of the eastern part of the navy, and his personality is tough and adventurous, so when facing the navy led by Zhou Yu, he is always on the attacking side.

After a few contacts, Zhou Yu and the others also figured out Gan Ning's personality and began to prepare for a plan.

Zhou Yu summoned Jiang Qin, Huang Gai, Chen Wu and other naval generals and said: "Gan Ning is reckless and easy to take risks. I intend to lure the enemy deeper, and then his fireships will burn his warships and annihilate the Ganning naval army in one fell swoop. ”

Huang Gai is also irritable, but he is quite scheming, very similar to Zhang Fei, "Dudu, leave the matter of luring the enemy to me!" ”

Zhou Yu nodded and said, "Old General Huang, this time to lure the enemy, the stakes are very high, please leave everything to me." ”

The relationship between Zhou Yu and Sun Jian's veterans is not very good, mainly because Zhou Yu is young, and he is only twenty-six years old now. Judging from his qualifications, it is not his turn to be the main general at all, but whether it is Sun Ce or Sun Quan, they trust Zhou Yu very much and let him supervise the party.

Regarding this matter, Cheng Pu, Huang Gai and others were not very convinced. Cheng Pu was the most unconvinced, so Sun Quan took advantage of the defeat in Jiangbei and sent him to Chungu County to recruit troops to fight the enemy with Tai Shici.

Huang Gai, a veteran with general knowledge, was sent to Zhou Yu to assist him in managing the navy. And Han Dang stayed by his side to calm himself.

And Zhou Yu is a person with elegance, he respects several veteran generals very much, and when he speaks, he takes care of the veterans' face everywhere.

Zhou Yu gave Huang Gai face, and Huang Gai naturally gave Zhou Yu face, he arched his hand and said: "I will live up to the order of the governor!" ”

The warship selected by Zhou Yu was at the bend of the river, and the river flowed northeast when it passed through the mouth of the river, but when it reached Moling County, it flowed eastward instead.

Since ancient times, the river has rarely changed its flow, so the waterway is wide, several miles or even tens of miles wide. Therefore, as long as it is ambushed in the reeds by the river, it is difficult to be discovered.

Therefore, Zhou Yu asked Jiang Qin and Chen Wu to prepare fireboats in the reeds around Moling, the more the better, as long as Gan Ning was lured over, he would use fireboats to intercept Gan Ning's retreat, and the fireboats would go down the river, and they would definitely wipe out Ganning's navy.

After Huang Gai received the order, he immediately sought battle with Gan Ning.

When Gan Ning heard that Huang Gai was coming to attack him, he immediately became suspicious. The Jiangdong Navy was already in a weak position, and these days, it has always been itself in the initiative, and Zhou Yu can be said to be losing and retreating.

If it weren't for the lord not letting himself go deep alone, he would have beaten the Dantu a long time ago. Although he didn't know what the lord's intentions were, Gan Ning still found some clues from the recent military reports.

The lord has now hit Wanling, and after passing Wanling, he can go straight to Wu County and cut off Sun Quan's way south. As long as Sun Quan was left by the river, it would definitely be necessary for the navy to block the river and prevent Sun Quan from escaping to Guangling.

The north and south are unable to go, and Sun Quan will become a caged beast, and sooner or later he will be captured.

In such a situation, it is not difficult to understand Huang Gai's purpose. Gan Ning is not a stupid person, on the contrary, he is still a very smart person.

Huang Gai's move must have wanted to fight him in advance, and even made a trap and waited for him to drill.

Gan Ning immediately asked Li Jun to drive Huang Gai away with ten great battlefields and did not fight against him.

Seeing Li Jun's ship coming, Huang Gai was very disappointed, because the ten warships were less than one-fifth of the water army. Luring this warship back is not worth the loss at all. But if you don't quote, what do you do?

Huang Gai pondered for a while, and decided to eat the ten boats. Otherwise, Gan Ning would definitely not be fully mobilized, but how to eat it?

The big ship is strong, and Huang Gai also sent water ghosts to scuttle the boat, but it can't be chiseled at all? The big ships are tall and use bows and arrows to shoot at each other, and they do not take advantage of them. The only weakness of the big ship is that it is very slow, but it is also much faster than a fireship. If it weren't for the huddles, the fireboat wouldn't have burned him at all.

Huang Gai tried various methods, but there was no way to take Li's ten boats, but the loss was not small.

Seeing that this was not the way to go, Huang Gai had no choice but to retreat first. After going back, he reported this matter to Zhou Yu, and Zhou Yu also frowned, Gan Ning didn't fight at all, and the strategy of luring the enemy couldn't be implemented at all!

What's the problem? Zhou Yu was puzzled.

It wasn't until a few days later that he received Sun Quan's order, Zhang Yi's soldiers came to Wanling, and Sun Quan asked him to lead his troops to the rescue. Otherwise, as soon as Wanling is broken, Jiangdong will be gone.

After Zhou Yu received the order, he was also stunned. Zhang Yi actually hit Wanling? What about Cheng Pu and Tai Shi Ci in Spring Valley? Where are they?

Zhou Yu immediately handed over the naval army to Huang Gai, and then took Chen Wu to quickly go ashore, and then went to see Sun Quan.

"Lord, can there be a spring valley battle report?"

Sun Quan handed Zhou Yu a copy of the battle report on several cases, and Zhou Yu was shocked and angry after reading it. It was written that Zhang Yi was tired of attacking the city, and Tai Shici was hit by a stone thrower and fell unconscious. Zhang Yi took advantage of the situation to break the city, and Cheng Pu escaped through the tunnel. was pursued, Cheng Pu's old injuries recurred and he has not woken up yet, while Tai Shici was obtained by Zhang Yi, and he does not know whether he is alive or dead.