Chapter Seventy-Eight: Capture the Thief and Capture the King

Zhang Ying, who was commanding the defensive battle, suddenly found that his pressure was relaxed, and when he looked out, he found that a bunch of Jingzhou naval warships were leaving the battlefield and sailing towards the rear of the building ships in the distance.

"Could it be...... Did Yuan Jun really come to help? ”

Zhang Ying's heart moved, and he hurriedly looked into the distance, and sure enough, he saw that the warships of the Lujiang River were attacking the flagship of Jingzhou, and he ordered with great joy: "Inform the whole army, reinforcements have arrived, and the whole army will counterattack!" ”

"Woo woo woo...... On Zhang Ying's flagship, there was a sound of horns, and everyone was attracted to attention......

"Reinforcements have arrived, the whole army is counterattacking! Reinforcements have arrived, and the whole army is counterattacking! ”

As soon as the soldiers of Liu Xuanjun felt that the pressure had dropped sharply, they heard that reinforcements were coming, and naturally they were all excited, and their morale immediately rose a lot!

Ordinary soldiers can't see where the so-called reinforcements are on the battlefield, but some generals can see it clearly, and the so-called reinforcements are actually Yuan Jun who fought and died before!

However, they saw that these Yuan troops were indeed killing Liu Biaojun, so although it was inexplicable, since it was an order from the flagship, they immediately ordered the headquarters to start a counterattack.

The Jingzhou naval army, which had just withdrawn nearly half of its combat strength, suddenly felt a huge pressure, and it was no longer as easy to suppress the other party as before.

In order to block the Lujiang Navy down the river, Zhang Yun pulled out 10 fighting ships, 50 ships, and a bunch of small boats carrying soldiers, and quickly assembled upstream.

Among them, the fastest is the ship, so they have to go to the front first to set up a defensive line; The fighting ship is slower and follows slowly behind; As for the small boats, they can only wait until the big ships successfully block the opponent before they can rush up to support, and now they can only obediently follow behind and hide, otherwise a wave of the opponent's big boat can overturn them completely.

The anxious Zhang Yun looked at the speed of his own warship's formation, and his expression began to show worry, because he found that even the fastest warship was already good if it could rush to the designated position before the opponent rushed over, and as for wanting to set up the formation, I was afraid that it would be too late, let alone the slower fighting ship.

"Governor, let's retreat!" The scribe also saw that the situation was unfavorable to him, so he spoke to Zhang Yun again.

Zhang Yun swallowed nervously, and said recklessly: "Don't be afraid, we are ...... the ship."

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Under Zhang Yun's nervous gaze, Sun Ce led the thirty ships of the navy to ram into the Jingzhou ships that had just rushed over to block them at a speed two or three times faster than the other party......

"Bang bang bang...... Crunch...... Crunch ......"

Dozens of ships clashed, dozens of collisions were heard, and the wooden hull made a burst of overwhelmed sounds, which made people suddenly get goosebumps.

In the naval collision battle, whoever is fast will naturally have the advantage, and Sun Ce is still going downstream, so many ships of the Jingzhou Navy were directly hit by the Lujiang Navy, and they couldn't resist the opponent's momentum at all, and they were broken through in an instant, and then crashed into the second ship, and even some of the ships were directly hit and overturned at a large angle, and because the center of gravity was too high, they slowly fell to the water, and after a while, they fell into the water, and a battleship nearly ten zhang long was scrapped all at once.

But this is not the end, eight fighting ships led by Sun Ce, Cheng Pu, Huang Gai, Han Dang, Zhou Tai, Jiang Qin, Zhu Zhi and others, each picked an out-of-control warship and collided with it, they are the main force of this assault battle, the previous task of the warp is to open the way for them, and their current goal is to break through the obstruction of these enemies in front of them, and then besiege Zhang Yun's flagship.

Eight fighting ships are loaded with nearly 4,000 men and horses, and besieging a building ship with about 1,000 people has a great chance of success, no matter how you look at it, the premise is to break through the blockade, but now the form is very good.

In an instant, the fighting ship went down the river, and with lightning speed, it collided with the warship that had lost control, and the fighting ship was more than twice the size of the warship, and the weaker side suffered a second round of impact, so the consequences can be imagined......

The fighting ship controlled by Sun Ce directly collided with a ship that had already hit horizontally, and instantly knocked the opponent into a 180-degree heel in the water, and buckled upside down in the water, and the soldiers on the boat were unprepared and crushed underneath, and it depended on luck whether they could get out, especially the oarsmen in the cabin.

The eight fighting ships rushed out of the interception formation arranged by Jingzhou Ship almost without hindrance, and headed straight for Zhang Yun's building ship......

"Impossible, how can this be!"

Zhang Yun was startled when he saw this, and he couldn't care about his demeanor anymore, and hurriedly ordered, "Two building boats will go up for me to stop them; The flagship retreated, in the direction of the incoming fighting ships. ”

In fact, if it is a simple battle between the two armies, and the third-floor ship against the eight fighting ships, the building ship will have an advantage, but now the other party is obviously playing the idea of encircling and destroying the flagship and killing the boss, which is no wonder Zhang Yun will be afraid, this is not only as simple as a danger to his life, any commander who is killed in the army is a joke, enough to stain the history of the name, so Zhang Yun is ready to run away without saying a word.

In fact, the three building ships in Jingzhou were almost in a state of stalling before, and it was almost impossible to restart and intercept the fighting ships going downstream, Zhang Yun naturally knew about this situation, but he was not counting on the building ships, but the ten fighting ships that were rushing here before, and the speed had risen, Zhang Yun was also retreating in their direction, as long as these fighting ships could get in front of him, then everything would be fine, as for the two building ships, it was good to be in the way.

Sun Ce frowned when he saw the two building ships that appeared in front of him, and hurriedly ordered to go around, and then he suffered a round of arrow rain, and a wail suddenly sounded on the fighting ship!

The rain of arrows on the building ship was too dense.

"Watch out for the arrows and speed up!"

Sun Ce gritted his teeth and rushed forward with a rain of arrows, and when he finally dodged the huge body of the building boat, ten fighting ships appeared in front of him again......

"Well, hit me!" Sun Ce scolded and ordered.

Zhang Yun's strategy allowed him to successfully hide behind the fighting ship, but in order to avoid accidents, he continued to retreat. If Sun Ce and the others wanted to encircle and annihilate him again, they had to break through the attack again, and this time the opponent was a fighting ship of comparable size, which was much more difficult, but Sun Ce and the others had no choice but to grit their teeth and rush forward......

"Bumper ......"

There was another heart-wrenching crash, and the two sides inevitably collided together.

Although the fighting ships of the Jingzhou Navy were still beaten into a mess in this round, it did make Sun Ce's fighting ships lose their speed, and if they wanted to break through and pursue Zhang Yun, they could only squeeze through, which left Zhang Yun enough time to dodge, and even organize another wave of defense, so it was almost impossible to catch him, Sun Ce had already begun to think about the way back when he saw this......

Zhang Yun laughed when he saw this from a distance: "Hahaha! If you want to besiege me, you still want to capture the thief and capture the king first...... Bah, how can this Metropolitan Governor be so easy to deal with, even if dozens of warships deal with me? It's not like I've been dodged one by one, hahaha......"

"Bumper ......"

Zhang Yun, who was proud, suddenly felt a vibration from the building boat under his feet, and was immediately startled, and even the laughter was choked back.

"What's going on?" Zhang Yun asked in surprise.

"Newspaper, there's a ship throwing stones at us!"

"What, throwing stones?" Zhang Yun wondered, I don't know why......