The wind suddenly rose on the river, and the river wind in winter was fierce, blowing Ma Hong's eyes a little sour. Ma Hong raised his head and looked at the eastern sky, which was in the middle of the day, when the sun was about to rise. Sun Cejun's warship could already be seen in the distance, and the war was about to break out. At this time, Ma Hong thought of the key factor of this battle, and the key factor of this battle is the same as the battle of Chibi, that is, the direction of the wind.

At this time, the wind direction is the northeast wind, and if Sun Cejun releases rockets downwind, it will definitely cause huge damage to the Jingzhou army.

"Taishou, the wind direction is not favorable to our army at this time." Ma Hong said to Huang Zu beside him.

Huang Zu looked at the flag on the ship, nodded and said: "I know this, there are many changes on the river, and I am afraid that it is too late to retreat now, besides, I have a hundred warships, so why not be afraid of Sun Ce'er." ”

Ma Hong also knew that it was obviously impossible to withdraw the army at this time, so he said: "I asked Taishou to change the formation and disperse the warships to meet Sun Cejun." ”

"Why? If the ships are scattered, it is easy for the enemy ships to rush over and tear our fleet out of the gap. Huang Zu said.

"If you don't disperse the warships and the enemy releases rockets downwind, then it will definitely cause heavy damage to our army, and even the things that can be thought of below, Sun Ce can't think of it. If our ships are scattered, the enemy will not dare to rush in easily, or they will be surrounded and killed. At this time, please also ask Taishou to make a decision as soon as possible, this victory or defeat is entirely up to Taishou. Ma Hong explained.

Huang Zu was not stupid, he understood the stakes after a little thought, and then asked the flag soldiers to signal the ships to disperse.

On the right flank of the ship formation opposite, Zhou Yu stood on the deck and looked at the lineup of the Jingzhou army with a smile on his face.

"The wind is stronger, and the enemy's ships are scattered." Zhou Yu muttered to himself.

"General, the lord has ordered, after the drum beats three times, the whole army will march, please get ready." The voice of the messenger reached Zhou Yu's ears.

Zhou Yu didn't look back, just made a gesture behind his back to signal that he had been ordered.

At this time, Sun Ce was in the middle army, and a young man stood on the deck with a leeward wind, and the wind swept his blood-red battle robe. The young general's skin was slightly yellow, the edges and corners of his face were as sharp as a knife and axe, and under his two thick eyebrows, which were raised obliquely upwards like the edge of a sword, were a pair of fiery eyes. He stands, no matter how strong the wind is, the people around him will not feel the cold, he stands, no matter whether the abyss is in front of him or not, the people behind him will not retreat, this is Sun Ce. There was a young man standing next to Sun Ce, and that young man was Sun Quan.

"Brother Quan, in a short time, my brother will definitely take Huang Zu's head and worship at his father's grave." Sun Ce patted Sun Quan on the shoulder as he spoke.

Sun Quan raised his head slightly and looked at his brother's eyes, which were burning with flames.

When the morning sun paved into the Yangtze River, the Jingzhou army and Sun Cejun beat the war drums of the march almost at the same time, and the sunshine from the winter morning sun was also a little resentful, and it seemed that it couldn't bear to see the rolling Yangtze River turn into a Shura hell.

When the war drums of the Jingzhou army were beating, countless voices sounded neatly: "The tiger is in Jingxiang, the sound shocks China, raise my Hanwei, and beg the thief to defend the family." Kill! Kill! Kill! ”

With this neat and consistent marching slogan ringing in his ears, Ma Hong only felt a stream of hot blood rising from his lower abdomen and pouring into his throat, making him involuntarily shout: "Kill!" Kill! Kill! ”

Sun Ce's vanguard fleet of thirteen ships came with a fast speed. These thirteen ships suddenly burst into flames when they were only three hundred paces away from the Jingzhou ship formation.

Although Huang Zu had already taken precautions, after he saw the speed of this fireboat traveling in the wind, he couldn't help but gasp, and secretly said in his heart: This Sun Ce is afraid that it was premeditated, he prepared such a light wooden boat in advance, these rowing soldiers must be one in a hundred water masters, and they must have undergone strict training to row the boat so fast.

The left flotilla of the Jingzhou army was led by Su Fei, and the right flotilla was led by Huang Jie. Gan Ning was proposed by Ma Hong and jointly recommended by Huang Jie and Su Fei to serve as the pioneer.

Gan Ning had already seen the northeast wind blowing and knew that the battle situation would be unfavorable, and had already ordered to adjust the angle of the main sail of the sailboat, and at the same time had already listed more than 30 clippers in front of the formation, at this moment he did not hesitate to order: "All the soldiers listen to my orders, and the front clippers will sprint quickly and sink the enemy fireboats." ”

With Gan Ning's order, the soldiers on more than 30 clippers turned their rudders and approached the approaching fleet of fireships in a zigzag line against the direction of the wind. Dozens of warships soon collided together, according to the wind of the fireship impact force is huge, when the fireship and Jingzhou warship collided, the fire was full of light, soon the fireboat will Jingzhou wooden ship ignited, for a time dozens of warships were destroyed, the soldiers cried and jumped into the icy river.

Gan Ning commanded expressionlessly, although he knew that he had blocked the enemy's first wave of attacks, but the enemy's next attack would be even more ferocious, and at this time, Sun Ce's fleet left, center, and right fleets sailed towards the Jingzhou fleet.

Because the Jingzhou army is fighting against the wind, the bow and arrow that can shoot one hundred and twenty steps can shoot up to sixty steps under the block of the wind, if you use a rocket attack, you are afraid that you can only shoot a maximum of thirty steps, and at the same time, you have to be careful that the wind blows the rocket into your own warship. However, in the battle on the river, most of the attacks were caused by bows and arrows and stone throwings, and now the northeast wind has seriously affected the combat strength of the Jingzhou naval army.

Sun Ce's army set fire to the arrows, and the rockets could shoot sixty steps under the wind, while most of the bows and arrows shot by the Jingzhou navy fell into the river, and if they wanted to fight the enemy, they had to close the distance between the two sides. Gan Ning gritted his teeth and shouted at the rockets in the sky: "The whole army is impacted, and there is no room for retreat." ”

When the fleets of the two sides were slowly approaching, more than fifty Jingzhou warships had already been ignited by the fire, and at this time, Gan Ning ordered to throw fireballs, and the throwing distance of the fireballs was between thirty and forty paces. The fireball is filled with oil inside, and the outside is wrapped with five layers of linen, and each fireball weighs between five and eight catties. These fireballs are ejected by the bullet plates installed on the warship, and due to the elastic force limitation of the bullet plates and the weight of the fireballs, the projectile fireballs can only be used for short- and medium-distance river combat. The fireballs were proposed by Ma Hong, and due to time and raw material constraints, only 3,000 fireballs were made, and all of them were placed in the Ganning fleet.

With Gan Ning's order, more than a hundred fireballs were thrown at the same time, and one-third of the fireballs hit the enemy warship, once the fireball hit the enemy warship, it cracked, and the fire oil roasted by the flames was poured on the wooden ship and burned violently, far more than the damage caused by the rocket. Once the fireball hits the enemy's body, the fire oil will soak the enemy's armor, and it is difficult to extinguish the clothes soaked with the fire oil, and for a time the soldiers who were hit by the fire ball cried and jumped into the river. As Gan Ning continued to give orders, the fireball was thrown more than ten times in a row, and the warships of Sun Ce's army had already ignited a large area under the attack of the fireball tactics.

In Sun Ce's vanguard fleet, Huang Gai's armor on the front line was also drenched with fire oil, and Huang Gai could only take off his battle armor with the help of the soldiers to continue fighting, but the fire oil still scorched a large part of his chest and arms. Huang Gai's entire face was distorted by the intense pain, and he roared loudly to direct the battle.

"Put down the rockets, use the bow and arrow instead, and give me the thrower to kill the enemy." Huang Gai's distorted face was full of anger, and the warship he was in was hit by dozens of fireballs, and at this time, the warship was in flames, and it was only a matter of time before it sank.

"The brothers stepped forward to cover the throwers."

"Hold it off for me, throw a fireball."

"Shoot, shoot, shoot hard."

Gan Ning waved the command flag and kept ordering, more and more warships gathered together, and for a while he choked on tears from the smoke from the burning flames, but he still stared at the soldiers and commanded the soldiers to attack. Gan Ning's side fell at his feet, the soldiers blocked the general's arrows, the spearmen blocked the arrows for the crossbowmen and throwers, and more and more soldiers fell, and the screams became louder and louder. When the fleet led by Gan Ning threw all the fireballs, Gan Ning's main ship also collided with Huang Gai's main ship.

Huang Gai held a round shield in his left hand, grabbed an iron whip in his right hand, and shouted: "Brothers, kill! ”

As soon as the words fell, Huang Gai took the lead in leading the soldiers to board Gan Ning's warship, Gan Ning took out the double halberd on his waist and brandished the double halberd to meet Huang Gai who rushed onto the boat with the soldiers. Half of Huang Gai's body was scorched by the fire, but his courage remained, he whipped all the way to kill more than a dozen soldiers rushed to Gan Ning's side, Gan Ning's halberd just cut off the head of an enemy soldier, when the head fell to the ship's board, Gan Ning flew up and kicked the head at Huang Gai. Huang Gai slammed his whip at the head and smashed the brain out, and Gan Ning shouted loudly and stabbed Huang Gai with his double halberd. Huang Gai held the shield in his left hand and waved the whip in his right hand, the iron whip knocked on Gan Ning's double halberd, and the tiger mouth of Gan Ning was numb, Gan Ning's right halberd defended, and the left halberd attacked, and Huang Gai fought more than 20 times in the chaos. Twenty days later, all the soldiers Huang Gai brought on the Ganning warship had been killed, and the warship that Huang Gai was riding on had been burned. Huang Gai looked around, dozens of spearmen with spears surrounded him in the middle, and Huang Gai shouted to break out of the encirclement.

"Thorn." Gan Ning ordered.

More than a dozen pikemen stepped forward at the same time and stabbed Huang Gai with their spears. Huang Gai faced this dense spear head, there was nowhere to avoid it, he clearly heard the sound of the iron spear tearing his sternum, and his blood spurted out.

"Receive." Gan Ning ordered.

The pikemen put away their guns and retreated, and the next wave of pikemen surrounded them, and the dense spears continued to stab Huang Gai's whole body, and when the second wave of pikemen retreated and the third wave of pikemen came up, Huang Gai's upper body had already been stabbed.

"Pick." Gan Ning gave another order.

More than a dozen pikemen picked up Huang Gai, who was about to die, and threw it into the icy river.

[Because kerosene has not been excavated at the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, it is said that there is surface oil in Sichuan and Shu. At the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, most of the fire oil was animal oil and vegetable oil, and it was obviously impossible for these oils to be used on the battlefield on a large scale.

Finally, I would like to invite you to listen to a funeral song.

General, general, please don't step on my head

Your armor is heavier than mine

Please let me get out of the way first

Red Flame, Red Flame, please don't wrap around my sleeves

You will remind me of my lady's wedding dress

It reminds me of the tenderness of my wedding night

River water, river water, please don't fill my body

If you have diluted the smell of my body

I couldn't find my way home

This river is the milk of hell

There is the tenderness of death

Fish, fish, please bite my flesh slowly

If I float into the river of my hometown

When the lady goes to the river to wash her clothes

I can still hold her hand