Chapter 395: The Battle of Pingwu
Zhou Yu's fleet is all driven by wind and manpower, and when the wind is calm and calm, the wind cannon cannot be used, and the speed is much slower by relying on manpower alone.
Soon surrounded by Gan Ning's fleet, artillery fire was in full swing, and an asymmetrical naval battle was in full swing outside the mouth of the Yangtze River.
The pro-soldier guards escorted Zhou Yu onto a Mengchong, and then rowed desperately and fled to the bank of the Songjiang River.
Gan Ning had the intention to chase and kill Zhou Yu, but he was already very entangled with Wu Shuijun, and it was difficult to get out.
In this naval battle, Jiang Sheng's military order to Gan Ning was to completely annihilate the Eastern Wu Naval Army, and now the task was almost completed, but the main general still ran away, Gan Ning was unwilling, and after solving the Wu army remaining at sea, he directly led the army to attack Songjiang.
Songjiang is the gateway of Eastern Wu, is the Yangtze River to the sea and the sea into the river must pass through, Zhou Yu did a good job of defense, before Tai Shici led the army to try to enter the Yangtze River, he suffered a loss.
Gan Ning didn't believe in evil, and the command ship took the lead in rushing into the mouth of the Yangtze River, and Zhou Yu just fled back not long ago, and before he could take a breath, Gan Ning came over.
The first battle at sea broke Jiang Qin, and the main force of the naval army was also annihilated, so he could only attack with weapons from the shore.
Gan Ning has been mixed in the Yangtze River for many years, and the defense along the coast has long been clear, which is also where he dares to attack the shore from the water.
When it was about to enter the range of the Wu army, Gan Ning ordered the fleet to disperse and attack freely, but not too far apart.
Zhou Tai, who was in charge of the defense of the riverbank, saw Zhou Yu come back in embarrassment, knowing that the Jin army was strong, so he ate and lived in the position for several days, and when he saw the Jin army swaggering into his defense area, he did not dare to take it lightly, first kept quiet, and waited for the vast majority of the ships in Ganning to enter the firing range, Zhou Tai ordered the attack.
Thousands of stone bullets rained down like a torrential rain, and more than a dozen frigates that could not evade were hit, and the rudder and deck were seriously damaged, and many people were killed and wounded.
Gan Ning used the flag to order the ships to maintain a scattered formation and attack from an angle of their own.
The captains of the Navy are all graduates of military academies, have received systematic naval warfare education, and the calculation of artillery parameters is very in place, which is the first time in the world, especially the parabolic theory of trigonometric functions, which is far ahead of the world.
The trebuchets in the defensive positions are all fixed and cannot change their positions, the Jin army has long calculated the position of the trebuchets, adjusted the shooting parameters, and in a round of artillery fire, those trebuchets with greater lethality were smashed to pieces.
Without the threat of trebuchets, the Ganning fleet began to retract and began to land on the shallows of the river bank in Dantu County.
Lu Xun, who had been transferred back to Wu County for a long time, had been preparing for this day for a long time, and when he saw the Jin army landing, Lu Xun's infantry, archers, and ballistae soldiers came on the field one after another, and the Jin army, which had just landed on the beachhead, suffered heavy casualties.
Gan Ning saw the truth with a telescope on the command ship, and was furious, so he ordered all the ships to adjust their combat positions and bombard them with artillery.
The Marines, who were landing and charging, saw the sign of halting their advance and knew that the fleet was about to exert its might, so they formed a defensive line on the spot.
The dense artillery roared and projected shells, saturating Lu Xun's defensive position, in the face of this kind of hot weapon that surpassed the times, Lu Xun could not avoid the fate of defeat even if he had great ability.
Seven or eight out of ten Wu troops were killed, and after the artillery fire covered them, the Jin marines rushed forward and destroyed the fortifications along the Dantu River section.
Lu Xun retreated a hundred miles with the remnants of the army, and only then did he stabilize his position.
The successive defeats of Zhou Yu and Lu Xun gave the Eastern Wu the absolute upper hand in surrender.
Sun Quan had nothing to do, but he was still hesitating, he asked Zhou Yu, Zhou Yu shook his head, saying that there was really no way.
This war is inherently unequal, it is completely a great showdown between two eras thousands of years apart, and no matter how good the military generals are, they can't resist science and technology.
The civil and military forces under Jiang Sheng's command also understood that under Jiang Sheng's command, individual ability no longer played a major role in the war, and the coordination of weapons, the coordination of troops, and the command of the campaign were the core.
As for those famous generals, they have only cultivated the ability to organize and command and plan battles in many years of fighting, and their personal martial arts are no longer important.
Just when Sun Quan was still hesitating, Huang Gai was put back by Jiang Sheng.
Huang Gai brought Jiang Sheng's handwritten "Persuading Eastern Wu to Return to the Jin Edict", Sun Quan was furious, this time he really didn't care about it, let the warriors pick up the stick, and the skin of Huang Gai was opened, and the ministers were all shocked.
The bad news came one after another, Lü Meng was defeated by Xu Huang's army in Danyang County, Lü Meng was captured, and the 100,000 soldiers of the Wu army fled alive and less than 20,000.
Half a month later, Xu Huang completely controlled Danyang County, and only half of Wu County and Yizhou (Taiwan Province) and Zhuyazhou (Hainan Province) remained in the entire Eastern Wu Foundation.
Gu Yong, an important minister of Eastern Wu, fled Jianye and defected to Xu Huang, Sun Quan was angry, and asked Gu Yong's family to take Gu Yong's family and give Gu Yong a five-day period to return to Jianye, otherwise he would be sentenced to death.
The more Sun Quan was like this, the more the civil and military forces of Eastern Wu were separated from Germany, and there was a riot in Jianye City, and the captain of the city gate took the lead in the rebellion, and kidnapped Zhang Zhao, Lu Su and other important ministers.
Zhou Yu saw that the general trend had gone, and felt ashamed of Sun Ce, and faced Da Qiao Xiao Qiao without shame, vomiting blood three liters in the middle of the night, and Xiao Qiao found that Zhou Yu had already lost his breath at dawn.
Pity a generation of famous ministers, met Jiang Sheng after the crossing, and passed away so plainly.
Zhou Yu was dead, and Sun Quan knew that Eastern Wu was really finished, and Lu Xun and Lu Meng were also all-rounders in civil and military affairs, but they were unable to reverse the defeat of Eastern Wu.
Jiang Sheng's ultimatum to Sun Quan had come to time, and Sun Quan still did not make any response.
As a result, the six-route army of Gan Ning, Xu Huang, Xiahou Yuan, Dian Wei, Lü Bu, and Xu Chu totaled 400,000 troops to attack Wu County.
The defenders of Wu County either surrendered without a fight, or fled in despair, and within a few days, Wu County was full of Jiang Sheng's three-color golden dragon flags.
A month later, the gate of Jianye City was opened, the civil and military officials of Eastern Wu surrendered en masse, and Xu Huang received the surrender letter of Eastern Wu, but only Sun Quan's family went to Huiji.
Xiahou Yuan led his army to search all the way and learned that Sun Quan had sailed out of Qiantang five days earlier.
After Gan Ning got the news, he said to Xu Huang: "Sun Quan's going to sea is nothing more than fleeing to Yizhou or Yazhou, and our navy will ask for war and take back these two overseas places by the way." ”
Xu Huang ordered Dian Wei to select elite soldiers to be incorporated into the Marine Corps to ensure a complete victory in the overseas war.
After the Ganning Navy was fully replenished, he went to sea, and when he arrived at the Ryukyu Islands, he met the returning ocean-going fleet, Gan Ning boarded the command ship of Tai Shi Ci and was amazed, Tai Shi Ci's command ship was like a helicopter carrier in later generations, a behemoth, and Gan Ning's command ship was just a little larger than a destroyer.
Tai Shi Ci smiled: "In a few years, the emperor's navy will be invincible in the world." ”
After passing the Ryukyus, there was basically no danger, so Tai Shici led the escort formation and the Ganning Navy to pacify Diaoyu Dao, Yizhou, and Zhuyazhou in one fell swoop.
Sun Quan was killed by his personal guards before he landed on the land of Yizhou, and Ling Tong, who escorted Sun Quan, committed suicide, and thus the Eastern Wu was destroyed!