"General! They...... They even raised the banner of bloody battle! ”

On the flagship of Liu Xuan's army, a lieutenant general was startled when he saw the bloody battle flag raised by Yuan Jun's water village. The main general he faced was named Zhang Ying, who was the general of Liu Xuan's subordinates, who was stationed as a ferry port and was in charge of the naval warships.

"Hahaha......"

Zhang Ying was not only not afraid when he saw the Blood Battle Flag, but sneered with a smile on his face: "Such a dilapidated water village, you actually dare to raise the Blood Battle Flag, it is simply looking for death." ”

When the deputy general heard this, he immediately changed his face and complimented: "The general is wise, they only have such a small number of warships, and they can hold 10,000 people at most, and they dare to fight with us to the end, they really don't know whether they are alive or dead!" ”

Zhang Ying said proudly: "That Yuan Yao Xiao'er is just a second ancestor, I heard that he is a cowardly and incompetent person, Yuan Shu actually let him lead the army, this is simply a sheep sending a tiger's mouth, a ruin!" Thanks to the lord, what kind of plan is he bothering to plan, if you want me to see, just attack it directly, why do you have to work so hard and waste so much time! ”

"The general is very right." The deputy will continue to pat the horse and say, "If the lord had sent the general earlier, maybe we would have taken Lujiang by now!" ”

"Hahaha!!" Zhang Ying laughed proudly when she heard this.

The deputy will continue: "Since they have raised the blood battle flag, then we don't need to wait for him for an hour, please give the general an order, the last general is willing to capture this village for the general, capture the Yuan Yao child alive, and let him beg us obediently, otherwise he will cut off his children and grandchildren, hahaha......"

"Hahaha......"

Zhang Ying also laughed for a while before saying: "Don't be in a hurry to attack first, don't forget our mission, first send a fighting ship to make an appointment to fight, and see what kind of goods their navy is." ”

"The general is wise! The end will be ordered. ”

……

Knock knock knock......

A drum sounded, and under Zhang Ying's order, a fighting ship drove out of the newly arranged naval battle formation, single-handedly approached the Yuan army's naval army, and when it was a stone's throw away, it began to stop and scolded: "Yuan Yao'er, cowardly and incompetent, don't come out and die quickly!" ”

“……”

The enemy warship scolded happily, but Yuan Yao, who was scolded, looked puzzled, turned his head and asked Lu Su: "What is he doing here, scolding the war?" ”

Lu Su explained with a smile: "They are going to fight with us, that is, to fight alone." Like the fighting generals on the road, the water warships will also send a ship to fight the opponent before the decisive battle, which can hit the morale of the opponent, and can also check the opponent's water combat level, so as to have a psychological preparation. That's how the name of the ship comes from, as it is the most suitable ship for heads-up. The building boat is a bit too big and has limited mobility, so it is not suitable for this kind of thing. The ship is small and small, and it can't fight the ship alone. ”

Yuan Yao was surprised when he heard this: "There is such a thing!" I know about the fighting general, but this is the first time I've heard of the fighting ship. So what are we going to do, to fight? ”

Lu Su shook his head and said: "In our plan, we don't plan to fight a water war with them, so there is no need to fight any more ships, just scare them away!" ”

Yuan Yao nodded and said, "Zijing is in charge." ”

Lu Su bowed, then turned his head and ordered: "The whole army of the navy is attacking." ”

“……”

"All the troops?" Sun Ce was slightly stunned when he saw Shuaitai Lingqi, and then suddenly. Turning his head to look at the enemy fighting ship that was still scolding, he sneered, and then gave the order.

Liu Jun, who was scolding, saw that all the warships on the opposite side were rushing towards him, he screamed in fright, and hurriedly let his fighting ships retreat, and also scolded Yuan Jun for being shameless......

"Shameless things, really cowardly and incompetent, they don't even dare to go it alone!"

Zhang Ying, who was on the flagship in the back, scolded when he saw this, and then turned around and ordered: "How can this be reasonable, you don't pay attention to the rules!" Thus send all our ships of fire and burn them first. ”

Sun Ce, who was pretending to pursue, ordered the whole army to stop advancing after seeing hundreds of fireships rushing out of the naval battle array on the opposite side.

The fireboat is easily recognizable because it has a large pile of fire-starters on it, which can be recognized at a glance from a long distance.

In conventional water battles, when the warships of both sides are in a neat formation, sending fireships to attack the enemy's position is also a common tactic, because whether it is successful or not, it can put the opponent in tactical passivity, which is a combat plan to break the stalemate.

However, the best environment for the fireboat plan should be to go downstream, but now the two sides are on both sides of the Yangtze River, north and south opposite, there is no downstream and countercurrent, so if the fireboat wants to rush into the Yuan army's ship array, it can only rely on sail power, and there are many ways to crack such a fireboat plan......

"Rocket preparation." Sun Ce ordered.

Rockets are one of the ways to crack a fireship, because fireships are full of fireworks, and igniting them in advance is the best way to crack it. When a fireship is ignited early, the sails can easily be burned, and the hull loses power and direction, and as a result, it can only drift down the river, not knowing where it has gone.

After the fireboat rushed towards Yuan's army, the rest of Liu's warships also followed neatly and slowly pressed on, so that when the other party was interfered with by the fireboat, they could shoot at will and take advantage of it.

Under the current assault tactic, the people on the fireboat will fix the direction of the impact after the speed is raised, and then move to the ship next to them, let the fireboat move freely, and then stop care, otherwise it is easy to put themselves in it.

When Sun Ce saw Liu Jun's plan, he just smiled coldly, and then continued to order as if he hadn't seen it: "Rocket aim." ”

Soon, the fireship entered the range of Yuan Jun, and under Sun Ce's order, thousands of rockets crossed a perfect arc in the air and accurately fell into the rows of fireships-

Suddenly, there were dozens of fireboats slowly raised open flames, and after a while, they turned into raging fires, and the only sail on the ship was burned in the blink of an eye, and the speed of the fireboats immediately decreased, and then it was slowly rushed downstream by the current.

Some of the washed away fireships also hit other fireships that were not ignited, and several more were burned in a row.

This wave of thousands of rockets in the rain of arrows almost took away more than 1/10 of the fireboats, and this result made Yuan Yao, who was watching the battle on the stage, very satisfied.

"Three rounds of rapid fire, fast!"

Under Sun Ce's continuous orders, waves of arrows rained down on the enemy ships as if they didn't want money, and pieces of fire kept burning on the river, but as the fireships lost more and more, the density became smaller and smaller, and the hit rate naturally became lower and lower, but there were still many remaining fireships, and they had rushed into the dozens of steps in front of their own warship array.

The range of the bow and arrow is only about one hundred and eighty steps, so the plan to crack the fireship with rockets alone will definitely not be able to solve it all, in addition to speeding up the pace of the attack, there must be other ways, otherwise it is really possible to be taken advantage of by the enemy.

"Get on the chain and intercept it."

Under Sun Ce's order, a long iron cable was connected between the ten ships, and then they sailed out of the ship formation and intercepted the fireships rushing forward. The height of the iron cable was just enough to stop the sails of the fireship, and it was almost impossible to cross it again, and all of them were protected at once, and the remaining fireships were swept by the iron cable, and all of them were disrupted, and finally drifted eastward along the current, and the fireboat meter completely lost its effect.

Seeing this, the warship that Liu Jun followed hurriedly shot a rain of arrows, in a vain attempt to protect the fireship, but it was the warship that intercepted the fireship, and there were chambers on the deck, which were used to protect against bows and arrows, so there were almost no losses.

……

"General, they have been prepared for a long time, our fireships are all scrapped!" On Liu Jun's flagship, the adjutant general said in surprise.

"Damn, I'm not blind, why are you talking nonsense?"

Zhang Ying scolded in his heart with a-eating expression, and then opened his mouth and scolded angrily: "What are you afraid of, we still have so many warships, can we still lose?" ”

"That's what the general said!" Seeing that Zhang Ying's face was unhappy, the deputy general hurriedly replied.

……

At this moment, most of Liu Jun's ships were within two hundred steps of the water wall, which was not enough to reach the range of ordinary soldiers' bows and arrows. As for the military crossbow, this thing was a military control product before, so there are not many people who will make it, and it is not a one-time thing to establish a new production system, so in the early days of the division of the heroes, the military crossbow is still rarely popularized on a large scale, and the long-range strike is still dominated by bows and arrows.

Liu Jun's warship was still moving forward with a big grin, completely unaware that it had just crossed a strike line, a long-range front consisting of a new type of weapon, a kind of trebuchet that could shoot flat.

On the shoreline of Shuizhai, which is several miles long, during this time, with the efforts of Liu Ye and Lu Fan, a total of ten forts were built, each with ten ballistas, and a salvo of just one hundred stone shells was fired. Coupled with the 64 trebuchets of the Thunderbolt Array behind him, it was enough for the uninformed Liu Xuanshui Army to drink a pot. Therefore, when facing the enemy warships that were getting closer and closer, Sun Ce, who was in a weak position, not only did not worry, but showed a look full of expectation. However, the current commander of the fort is Lu Fan and Lu Ziheng, so Sun Ce has to wait slowly even if he is in a hurry.

Liu Ye had already adjusted the shooting of the thunderbolt array, and waited for the moment when Lu Fan's ballista fired, and then he followed up to shoot to avoid startling the snake.

On the main fort of Shuizhai where Lu Fan was, the command flag representing the order to open the cannon finally waved down under the expectation of the public, and all the gunners of the fort moved the trigger together under the order of the commander next to them, and a hundred stone bullets flew neatly towards Liu Xuan's sailors, carrying out the sound of breaking the air to make the entire battlefield quiet, and those who were not mentally prepared were even startled, even if they were mentally prepared, their hearts were instantly lifted up as if they were falling from a high altitude.

In this scene, Yuan Jun had already trained several times, but he had not fought the real enemy, so now everyone was staring intently at the enemy warship, to see how powerful this weapon that appeared on the eastern battlefield for the first time could be, and whether it could really accurately sink such a huge warship!

In everyone's eyes, a hundred clearly visible stone bullets drew out phantom shadows and smashed into the battle formation of Liu Xuan's water army......