Summary of the previous chapter: Cai Mao's pursuit and victory made Cao Cao's ambitions immediately swell, and Cao Cao immediately changed his original plan, intending to take the Sun-Liu coalition army in Chibi in one fell swoop

++++++++++++++++++ Ma Xiaoquan understood what Zhou Yu meant.

Although the two are coalition forces, this is only a temporary alliance with the same interests, in other words, if Sun Quan is a little stronger and can have 60,000 elite soldiers, Sun Quan may abandon Liu Bei and lead his own troops to lead the army against Cao Cao alone

Although Liu Beijun was a little entangled in taking the lead, under the mediation of Ma Xiaoquan and the persuasion of Zhuge Liang, Liu Bei still agreed. However, in view of the fact that his own troops were less than Sun Quan's army, Liu Bei remained conservative while agreeing.

Ma Xiaoquan understood Liu Bei's thoughts, after all, just having such a small number of troops to face such a powerful offensive of the enemy, no matter what, it is very depressing, one is not careful, not to mention his own 20,000 troops, it is possible that the 50,000 troops of the Sun-Liu coalition army will be eaten by Cao Cao.

Liu Bei sent a messenger to secretly bring a message to Ma Xiaoquan, solemnly explaining his worries.

Ma Xiaoquan's messenger told Liu Bei had only one sentence: the coalition forces will not lose, they will only win.

The messenger passed the words of Lord Shangxian to Liu Bei, although in Liu Bei's ears, the emptiness of this sentence is so big, but it is better than nothing, and furthermore, judging by Liu Bei's character of Ma Xiaoquan, Lord Shangxian is also a very cautious immortal, so after a while, Liu Bei actually slowly calmed down.

Zhuge Liang was also very happy to see that the lord had calmed down, so he immediately asked the lord for instructions to deploy the battle.

Liu Bei has a strength, that is, for the people he trusts, he will unreservedly entrust him with important tasks, Zhuge Liang's current position in Liu Bei's army is the military advisor's sacrificial wine, in general, Zhuge Liang's current responsibilities are more inclined to deployment, therefore, as soon as Zhuge Liang proposed, Liu Bei immediately agreed to order Zhuge Liang to deploy the whole army.

Liu Beijun's water warfare troops were much worse than Zhou Yu's, firstly, because when Liu Cong surrendered to Cao Cao, except for Jiangxia's troops, all the rest were taken by Cao Cao, and secondly, it was also because Zhou Yu had a difference in the deployment of the entire army of Sun and Liu's coalition army.

Although Zhou Yu arranged Liu Bei's troops in the position of the forward line, in fact, there were not too many people directly involved in the battle, and Liu Bei's naval troops were still in a marginalized role in general.

Ma Xiaoquan, Zhuge Liang and others have long seen this kind of deployment, but Liu Beijun did not argue much about this, first of all, whether this battle can be won is still unknown, and secondly, Liu Bei also understands that Zhou Yu's purpose in doing this is to snatch the fruits of victory.

War, from ancient times to the present, there is a principle, that is, on meritorious deeds, if this battle is won by the Sun-Liu coalition army, it also depends on who contributes more, that is, the so-called more work and more rewards.

Therefore, in response to Zhou Yu's deployment, after Zhuge Liang and Ma Xiaoquan secretly met, Jian yì Liu Bei used the "Lai Pi tactic".

What is the Reippi Tactic? That is, if you can resist Cao Cao successfully, or have seen the dawn of victory, you must first strike to snatch the fruits of victory

On Sun Quanjun's side, Zhou Yu looked calm on the surface, but he was actually a little surprised in his heart. Zhou Yu was selfish when deploying the army, and Zhou Yu did have the mentality of working more and getting more, of course, such a mentality is very risky if it is judged according to today's standards, if Sun Quan's troops in the Sun-Liu coalition army are first repelled or defeated by Cao Cao, then Liu Beijun will definitely become a little lamb to be slaughtered.

It's just that Zhou Yu believes in Lord Shangxian, and Sun Quan also believes in Lord Shangxian. If the first battle of Chibi is really won as Lord Shangxian said, then the dominance of the next war will rightfully fall into the hands of Sun Quanjun. Although there was never a "if" in the war, this time, both Sun Quan and Zhou Yu decided to take a gamble, and the bet was Jiangdong's.

Gently patting the board of the ship, Zhou Yu muttered: "Risks and opportunities coexist."

In the evening, Cao's army had already left the mouth of the river.

According to Cao Cao's deployment, the large army immediately divided into two routes, one to Chibi and the other to Wulin camp.

Cao Cao's consideration was not actually because of his blind self-confidence, but in fact, the unfamiliarity of the officers and men of the whole army with water warfare, and the continuous illness of people since he got on the ship.

In view of this, Cao Cao specially ordered someone to connect the warships of the Wulin Department and pull the sick soldiers back, as for the Chibi Department, Cao Cao also made some arrangements, but compared to the chain of ships in Wulin, Chibi only has a small part.

As soon as Cao Cao came out of the estuary, the coalition army immediately got the news that Zhou Yu appointed himself the governor of the left and Cheng Pu as the governor of the right, each leading 10,000 people, and Liu Bei went into battle to defend against the enemy.

At night, the coalition forces and Cao Cao's army finally met at Chibi.

It was supposed to be a pitch-black river, but under the light of the torches on the warship, almost the entire Chibi was within the range of light.

Cao Jun's camp, Cao Cao stood on the highest boat, and shouted at the coalition camp: "Sun Quan Xiao'er, Liu Bei's big-eared thief, Benxiang has been stocking you for many days, but I didn't expect that the two of you didn't know what to do, and wanted to fight against Benxiang with the emperor's holy decree, and I came to crusade against Valer and so on!" ”

In the coalition formation, Zhou Yu took a step forward and shouted: "Cao Cao, old thief, don't say much, if you want to fight, what nonsense!" After saying that, Zhou Yu nodded slightly, and several flag officers around him quickly waved the order flag in their hands.

Command flags, whether in land or water warfare, are widely used, with obvious targets, and are more suitable for remote deployment assistance. The chief commander issues orders, and the branch also has a special command officer who is responsible for receiving orders, and then translates the orders and hands them over to the branch generals to carry out the commander-in-chief's orders.

The order was delivered very quickly, and almost at the same moment, the coalition forces launched an attack on Cao's army.

Han Dang and Zhou Tai were under the command of Zhou Yu, and Jiang Qin and Chen Wu were under the command of Cheng Pu.

After the four generals received the order, they immediately launched an attack.

As soon as Cao Jun saw that the coalition army began to move, he was not ambiguous, and immediately took Cai Mao's department as the general vanguard of the naval army and quickly deployed.

Cao Cao is good at encirclement battles, so in the deployment of battle formations, Cao Cao tends to be more inclined to large battle formations.

It's a pity that the water area of Chibi is not very large, and if you blindly adopt a large battle formation, not only will it not be able to carry it out smoothly, but it may also be crowded.

For this reason, Cai Mao immediately asked Cao Cao to turn the large battle formations into small battle formations, which looked a bit like the Yuli formation on land warfare.

Seeing Cai Mao's deployment like this, Zhou Yu couldn't help but feel nervous, and immediately ordered Han Dang Zhou Tai to retreat urgently.

Cheng Pu also gave the same order.

Cao Cao saw the response speed of the coalition forces, and couldn't help but admire: "This Zhou Yu, how good it would be if it was my subordinate general!" ”

Ma Xiaoquan asked Zhou Yu: "Gong Jin, it seems that in this water battle, your opponent does not seem to be weak." ”

Zhou Yu smiled: "It's not up to them to decide whether they are weak or not, Lord Shangxian, don't forget it, my Jiangdong Navy has a special training force!" ”

Ma Xiaoquan smiled: "Mmmm, this immortal has heard of it a little, and this immortal also specially named your special unit, um~~ How about the 'frogman troops'?" ”

When Zhou Yu heard this, he laughed and said: "Frogman troops, not bad, it's called frogman troops!" ”

After laughing, Zhou Yu immediately ordered the frogman troops to enter the teams of large warships.

With the addition of the frogman troops, the coalition battle formation immediately underwent a qualitative change.

The battle formations of each fleet changed to a conical shape from the previous phalanx, with Meng Chong fighting in the vanguard, followed by the fighting ships, and the exposed red horses on both sides, pointing directly to the belly of the local ships.

Among the ships, in addition to the building ship, the speed of the fighting ship Meng Chong Lu Hua Chima is faster than the other, and the combined attack power is also getting bigger and bigger. The Meng Chong ship was the first to be among them, rushing into the local ship formation and disrupting the enemy ship formation.

Immediately afterwards, the fighting ship Luhua Red Horse followed up, cooperated with the harassment, and smashed Huanglong.

As the Luhua boat entered, the frogman troops immediately jumped into the water, some of them swam and climbed onto the enemy ship to fight with the people on the enemy boat, and the other part dived underwater, holding a sharp chisel and carving knife, to destroy the enemy ships.

Zhou Yu's trick Cai Mao had already noticed it, and when he saw the coalition frogman troops, Cai Mao immediately deployed a corresponding strategy, and as the two sides narrowed the distance, the war gradually entered a white heat.

The Cao army battleship was attacked, and immediately turned around to implement a garrison position, at this time, the coalition fighting ship and another part of the soldiers on the Lu Hua drew their swords and guns, and started hand-to-hand combat with the Cao army.

Hand-to-hand combat is about speed, accuracy and ruthlessness, as well as the amount of physical fitness, the coalition army has many southerners, and water warfare is naturally not a problem, while the Cao army soldiers are mostly northerners, the boat shakes, the mentality is shaken, and it doesn't take long to fight, and immediately shows fatigue and discomfort.

Some of the Cao soldiers were not attacked, but the boat swayed, these soldiers were uncomfortable, and some did not hold steady, and fell into the water with a pop, plus they did not know the nature of the water, and they could only be drowned.

The coalition soldiers are different, falling into the water? It doesn't matter, we can swim, climb on the boat and continue to fight, even if we can't climb up, we have to secretly pull a few Cao soldiers into the water and drown them.

With the advance of the war, the war fell into a stalemate, and the coalition forces seemed to win one after another, but the helpless thing was that there were too many Cao soldiers, and there was a feeling that they could not finish killing.

At this time, Zhou Yu Chengpu personally jumped on the fighting ship and rushed to the front line to fight the Cao army.

As soon as the coalition army saw that the governor of the capital had come, their morale immediately rose abnormally, and they were still in a stalemate in the battle, but gradually showed an incredible tilt

Ma Xiaoquan was very helpless, since Zhou Yu jumped on the fighting ship, so far, he has been hit by more than 80 cold arrows, if he didn't promise Zhou Yu to protect his safety, or to maintain the smooth progress of history, Ma Xiaoquan really wanted to sleep beautifully.

"Damn~~" Ma Xiaoquan spat at the mouth and pulled out the cold arrow on his arm.