"What??"

Listening to Zhou An's words, Zhou Yu couldn't help but be shocked, he looked west on the building ship, and sure enough, he saw a forest of ships in the distance, among the thousands of ships, there was only one building ship, it seemed that the scale of the building ship was smaller than his own, especially those warships, all of them were small ships and the like, if they really fought, they could easily defeat the other party.

However, that was without the interference of Liu He's army, and if they were to be attacked by the enemy on their own back, these ships would undoubtedly pose a deadly threat.

"Damn! Guan Yu, the old man, didn't want to recover the six counties in the south of Yizhou at this critical moment, but instead led the army here to participate in the war, is there something wrong with his head? ”

Zhou Yu looked at the forest-like ships on the upstream river, his eyes were like spitting fire, and he said in a deep voice.

"Hmph, don't think I'm scared of you! Pass the order down, set up a formation, and meet the Shu army, now the Jingzhou army has no bows and crossbows, and we are now on the river, they can't do anything to us at all, this time I want to let the Shu army taste the power of our water war, so that he will never dare to fight with our army in the future! ”

Zhou Yu is now very angry with the Shu army behind him, even more than the Jiangling City he is about to capture, because if they attack Jiangling City, the Shu army can attack them from behind, whether it is on the river or on the ground, it can pose a threat to them, and the Jingzhou army has no long-range weapons to deter, the threat is greatly reduced, or can almost be ignored, but the best opportunity to attack the city will definitely give the other party a respite, so it is impossible to continue the siege, However, at this time, Zhou Yu couldn't care about this, if he could achieve the record of annihilating or defeating the main force of Guan Yu's army today, he could barely offset the losses suffered in the attack on Jiangling City.

Of course, in addition, Zhou Yu also wanted to let the Jingzhou army see the sharpness of his own water warfare, let them know that although they were not opponents on land, they were still alone in the world on the water, and also used this to warn Liu He and let Liu He extinguish his heart to pacify Jiangdong.

Subsequently, the Wu army rearranged its formation to face Guan Yu's water army, and at the same time, it was also doing a show to show the Jingzhou army the strength of their water battle.

Although the Shu army has a lot of warships, most of them are small warships, including the ship, the first to board the most, including some including yachts, red horse boats, etc., and as the main force of the attack there are only more than ten fighting ships, which is compared with the Wu army's hundreds of fighting ships, it is too inferior, plus the water war tactics are not as skilled as the Wu army, so this battle is almost a sure defeat.

However, Guan Yu didn't know that Zhou Yu had made up his mind to fight him at this time, and he was still fishing in troubled waters.

At this time, only the sound of the horn was heard in the distance, and the ships of the Wu army rushed directly towards them, although the number of ships of the Shu army was not a minority, but most of them were small and light ships, these ships were originally known for their fast maneuvering, and they were the best at boarding and fighting, but the opponent's fighting ships were also surrounded by small boat guards, and the small boats and the fighting ships formed a whole, making it difficult for the small boats of the Shu army to approach from both sides, and on the front, these small boats suffered from the impact of the fighting ships, and these small boats were difficult to withstand the impact of the fighting ships, I could only hear the sound of banging and banging, the boats of the Shu army were either broken or overturned, and many soldiers fell into the surging river, struggling pitifully and helplessly.

The battle lasted only half an hour, and the warships of the Shu army suffered heavy losses, and it was estimated that two hundred large and small warships were sunk, and five or six thousand soldiers were lost, of which less than one percent were directly killed, and most of them were forced to jump into the river and drown because of the shipwreck.

"Huh? How so? How dare Zhou Yu'er fight a decisive battle with our army? Seeing that his soldiers had lost a lot, Guan Yu's face was gloomy, his fists were clenched, and he said in a deep voice.

Liao Li, who was accompanying him on the side, said with a smile: "The general doesn't have to worry, although Zhou Yu looks overwhelming, but we should see that many of the ships are seriously understaffed, and there are a lot of corpses floating on the river in front of them, it seems that it should be the corpse of Wu Jun, it is estimated that this time when attacking Jiangling, Zhou Yu must have suffered a big loss, Zhou Yu is confident that the water battle is fierce, and the soldiers of Jingzhou cannot cause effective damage to it on land, so he dares to fight a decisive battle against our army, but he really underestimates Qin Gong, I believe that the other party must be completely prepared, so we only need to try our best to hold off the Wu army, and in a short time, the Jingzhou army will definitely make a move. ”

Guan Yu listened to Liao Li's words and nodded slightly in agreement, so he passed down the generals, and they had to hold on at all costs, and if they dared to retreat, the latter would be killed, and at the same time, he also ordered the front fleet to form a defensive formation and only block the opponent's attack with bows and arrows.

"Alas, it's a pity that the son-in-law Liu Qi died of illness last year, which caused the shipbuilding to have to stop halfway, and even the normal training was delayed a lot, otherwise, the strength of our army's navy is probably definitely not inferior to Zhou Yu."

Seeing that he had no choice but to maintain a defensive formation and be beaten passively, Guan Yu's heart sighed slightly, but he also knew that since Jingzhou was lost, Liu Qi's position had been very embarrassing, especially when the eldest brother Liu Bei decided to attach Liu He, which made Liu Qi completely lose hope of recovering Jingzhou.

It is said that when Liu Qi died of illness in the end, he kept saying that he regretted refusing to go to Chang'an, and Guan Yu didn't know what it meant, and he didn't pay much attention to these things.

It was only now, when he saw that the combat strength of his own naval army was not as good as that of the other party, that Guan Yu inadvertently remembered this melancholy young man.

However, what happened next made Guan Yu unable to think about it anymore, because the enemy broke through the obstacle of the rain of arrows in the front row and launched a frantic attack on the fleet of the Shu army, and in just a moment of incense, dozens of ships were sunk, and four or five thousand people were killed and wounded.

"Zhang Xiu, Zhang Xiu, it's all at this time, why haven't you launched an attack yet? If you don't attack again, I will have to lead the army to retreat, it's not that I don't pay attention to righteousness, it's just that I can't afford such losses. Seeing the heavy casualties on his side, Guan Yu's previous determination was shaken, and he secretly made plans to retreat.

However, at this moment, I saw that the fleet of the Wu army in front of him was scattered, and many ships began to flee the battlefield and evacuate downstream, which made Guan Yu very surprised, and he hurriedly looked into the distance through the lookout, and at this glance, he almost jumped up in surprise.