The collision of the two fleets did not happen after all. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 Because Gan Ning's side suddenly launched his fleet when Jiang Qin suddenly came only forty paces, and the thirty-two warships were divided into two, turning into two equal parts and breaking off from the center of the Long Snake Formation. The swift battleship circled the flanks of Chiang Chin's fleet in a trajectory that resembled an arc, relinquishing it to its original position.

"Is this luck, or is it ......" Gan Ning really brought Jiang Qin too much shock, so much so that Jiang Qin's surprise seemed a little numb in the eyes of others. Although what Gan Ning is doing now is an extremely incredible thing in the eyes of others, compared to Jiang Qin's surprise at what Gan Ning did, whether it is Lu Meng, who is pale, or Ling Tong, who only has hatred for Gan Ning, he feels that his general is a little too gaffe.

"We should change formations and retreat. General, if you continue to stay in such a position, I am afraid that the crossbow arrows in Changsha City will be shot down. Lu Meng suggested softly to Jiang Qin.

"Hmmm! You're right. Jiang Qin nodded heavily, and quickly returned to his original calm normal. He had already seen through Gan Ning's strategy: he just wanted to use the city defense of Changsha City and the flexibility of the fleet to defeat him. "It's a good idea, but it also depends on who your opponent is. Maybe others will fall for your Gan Ning's strategy, but will I be fooled by Jiang Gongyi? After estimating that there was still about a mile and a half between himself and the enemy city and his love for you, Jiang Qinhuo's frightened heart finally let go, and he quickly gave the order to retreat, so that all the battleships turned around and left the enemy's shore that might be covered with bed crossbows.

The mutation happened at this time. I saw a fleet diagonally passing through the tributaries of Xiangshui, but the straight one was facing the left flank of Jiang Qin's fleet with its own side. This is the First Fleet of the Changsha Navy commanded by Yang Xu. Although there are only twelve ships, which seem to be much worse than Gan Ning's Second Fleet in terms of surface size, these twelve warships are all big ships, all of which can easily destroy a large ship, and they are all wrapped in a thick layer of iron, and their combat power should still be above Gan Ning.

Of course, if this is all that annoys Jiang Qin. Originally, the enemy was more prominent, even if there were more enemies, Jiang Qin didn't think that the other party could defeat him. But right now, this group of supposed fellows actually took advantage of the fact that their team was adjusting their formation, and they were leaning straight towards themselves, and they were still facing the weak ships in their own army. This gave Jiang Qin a headache: Ignore them? Those big guys wrapped in iron sheets can easily break through their own side of the ship, and there will be no loss after breaking it. So evasive? That's also a joke, there are three elements of water warfare, one is the formation, but the bow and crossbow, and the third is the sailor. Due to the backwardness of the means of communication between ships, the formation of water battles is generally not changed after it has been predetermined. Although there are some masters, such as Jiang Qin, who can temporarily promulgate some new changes in wartime, such changes must be arranged at the beginning of the realization and not interfered with by the enemy in the process of changing formations. Jiang Qin's fleet is currently in the process of changing formations, and if it retreats like this, it will definitely disrupt the formation of the entire fleet. It was a terrible disaster for me.

"Give up, or ......" Jiang Qin hesitated: if he gave up, his fleet would lose more than a third of its strength, but if it was to retreat, it was possible to destroy the entire fleet. Where do we go from here? Jiang Qin only thought about it for a moment and quickly gave an order: "The whole army changes formation!" Direction left, prepare for the enemy's battle. Faced with the lesser of two evils, Chiang Chin made the decision to abandon his left wing. Although this is a decision like a strong man's broken wrist, it is not a casual decision.

"In the collision with our army, the other side will definitely not be able to guarantee the smoothness as before. And that's exactly what we're looking forward to. The enemy has no melee capabilities, and as long as we take advantage of the interference caused by the left flank to rush forward, we can board the enemy ship and kill them all. Jiang Qinsenran said with a sneer, his heart was full of anger at the moment, although he could defeat the enemy in the end, but that victory was undoubtedly a miserable victory: "It really should be Gan Ning!" He gritted his teeth.

However, no matter what, it's better than failure. If the world knew that Jiangdong's naval army was defeated by a local Taishou fleet like this, it would be a lot of fun. Jiangdong Army's face will definitely be lost, and there will be no left at all. This is not something that Jiang Qin wants to see. In order not to fail, for the sake of his own face, Jiang Qin suddenly launched a ruthless attack.

"Assault! Assault! This is Jiang Qin's cry and his order. Under such an order, the entire fleet of the Jiangdong Army was like a "V" that was rampant on the river, and quickly approached Yang Xu and them. The collision with each other was created between violent vibrations.

"Boom!" It's the sound of a ship hitting each other. Under such a sound, blood flowers, human bodies, and broken wood were tossed high like fountain water that soared into the sky, and then scattered and fell in all directions. As Jiang Qin saw, Yang Xu's battleship was wrapped in black iron armor on the outside of the sturdy wooden hull, although the iron armor only wrapped the bow and stern and some important parts of the hull, and also made the speed of the entire battleship slightly reduced, but the powerful defense replaced at such a price made the Jiangdong Army's warship as thin as paper.

In just one collision, the Jiangdong Army suffered a devastating blow from nine ships and two ships. Although the defense of the Lou ship was much higher than that of the warship, so that they did not only break into pieces in the blink of an eye like the weak warship, but the collision with the opponent's warship and the heavy blow to their bodies still made them lose the strength to fight in an instant. The icy water of the lake continued to pour through the hole, which was the size of several people, and the warship with no partition was extremely heavy. It seems that they sank only in a few moments.

The strong impact made the fleets of both sides involuntarily pause. However, the first to react was the fleet of the Changsha Navy Army. The huge bodies, as if they had not been affected by the earth-shattering impact just now, only slowed down slightly, and then quickly retreated. The speed of retreat is not much slower than that of the forward charge, and the flexibility between advance and retreat does not seem to be much different from the stern of the small ship of the Jiangdong Army.

"Powerful long-range attack power, fast advance and retreat speed, surprising dexterity, frightening impact power, except for the lack of fighting power, Changsha's Li Taishou has really created something amazing." Jiang Qin sighed and said, "They seem to have gathered a bit of the three of them, the building ship and the water turbine. As a capable naval general, he seemed to see through the characteristics of the Changsha naval warship in an instant.

However, sighing and sighing, Jiang Qin still thought in his heart that the victory of this battle would belong to him after all. For he saw the sacrifice of the remaining warships on his left flank, and the scene of the weak ships smashing the enemy ships with the sharp slamming of their bows after turning their heads. Although Yang Xu's retreat was swift, the Jiangdong Army's reaction was not very slow, and they took the lead in launching a counteroffensive before the arrival of Jiang Qin's Chinese army and Ling Tong's left flank under the commander of the left flank, Lü Meng.

"Use entanglement to slow down the opponent, use the tactics of brawler boarding the ship to fight the enemy, and make your ship stick to the opponent's ship, so that the enemy's long-range attack will be ineffective. In this way, we can give full play to the strengths of our army in order to achieve victory in the battle. "As a general who is brave and calm, the strategies of the young Lü Meng and the general Jiang Qin are surprisingly consistent. As a result, in the case of not being too clear to each other, the left and right wings of the Jiangdong Army actually coordinated perfectly. Yang Xu's fleet slowed down completely, and was soon forced to stop there by Lu Meng.

Countless hooks and locks were thrown from the ships and ships, and they swept a short distance of several zhang and landed on the huge body of the Changsha military warship. It was as if the besieging soldiers were climbing the city walls, and countless people pulled ropes and shouted and waved their ice blades. At this moment, their morale is very high, and the long time of holding their breath makes their hearts full of pride and indignation. How could the powerful Jiangdong naval army be defeated by an unknown force. Although the power displayed by this force is indeed somewhat powerful, no matter how strong it is, it will collapse in front of the Jiangdong Army fleet - this is what all the Jiangdong Navy forces believe in, and it is also where their real strength supports.

Bows and arrows rained down, like a real siege, one side desperately trying to climb up, while the other side tried to prevent it from happening. Although the Jiangdong Army had more warships than the Changsha Army, when Li Sheng attached importance to long-range attacks, the archers on the side of the Changsha Army relied on their numerical superiority to suppress the enemy. For various reasons, the Jiangdong Army's ships could not get close to the Changsha Army's warships, and naturally they could not exert their own support, so they could only swim and surround their enemies from the periphery from afar, until they ...... The final end.

The fight began, and the dense patch of succession was almost no different from the siege on land. The Jiangdong Army's ships also stopped swimming, and they lowered the cables on the ships, allowing the soldiers to descend to the smaller ships through the cables, and then through the board between the ships, they rushed towards the twelve besieged warships in groups. Although the twelve warships continued to stop their progress with their arrows and crossbows, they still had to let one enemy after another board the battleship under their fierce assault.

Looking at the twelve huge prey surrounded by his own fleet of ships, Jiang Qin's heart was excited, but more fearful. Although the other party has been stopped, although his battle plan is being carried out by his own soldiers, but the hidden changes of the enemy make him salivate and feared - the soldiers who boarded it were not all smooth sailing, they were attacked, and from the cabin came out of the cabin the group of soldiers with large swords and spears and slaughtered the warriors who boarded the ship, and killed them one by one. The Changsha Navy warship, which had not moved, was actually equipped with such a large number of fighting soldiers, which was much beyond Jiang Qin's expectations.

"It's not like these ships don't have brawlers." It was only at this time that Jiang Qin discovered this.

What to do? This is something that Jiang Qin needs to consider after being taken aback. As the enemy turns over another hole card, it seems that the arrival of victory is getting farther and farther away from him. The performance of a large ballista battleship that even has a fighting soldier can be said to have completely suppressed the building ships of the Jiangdong Army. In the face of such an advantage of the enemy, perhaps in the end, he could not even win a crushing victory, and could only retreat in disgrace.

"Perhaps, it would be best to retreat like this? At least he can keep most of his men. A thought suddenly appeared in Jiang Qin's mind, but then he shook his head and shook it away: "What are you kidding, I actually have such a thought." Abandon my own soldiers, and I, the general, will not become a despicable person? I don't want that! For a moment, Jiang Qin's gaze became sharp, "Rush up, rush up!" Brothers, it depends on whether we live or die. He shouted.

"Oh!" The soldiers of the Jiangdong Army rushed forward with a shout. Although they did not know why the Lord said that life and death were between this moment, it was necessary to destroy the enemy in front of them. Their hearts ached as they watched their comrades fall one after another under the attack of the enemy. These are all comrades-in-arms who have been training together for many years, and they are all people who are familiar with each other and already have a relationship similar to that of brothers. For such a close person to die in front of their eyes, they are sad, but more are angry. They struggled to move forward, and they really didn't want to die.

Lu Meng rushed with the soldiers beside him. Things have come to this point, the fleet is already uncontrollable, and in such a melee situation, a general of great courage is much more useful than a calm commander. When Lu Meng knew this, he naturally became excited. He knows his own business: the so-called calm and witty is not what he is, he really likes hot blood and impulsiveness.

The bright sword light in his hand swirled continuously, and everyone who approached him was drenched in blood. Like most of the generals in Jiangdong, Lü Meng was also a complete general of water warfare, and his kung fu was also a small and nimble kung fu that was completely suitable for walking. His lower plate was very heavy and steady, and even when he stood on this rickety boat, he did not look like he was swaying at all. His hands were so nimble that they seemed to outsiders to be a blurry afterimage, and he was extremely powerful. With the two means, although he has not yet reached the level of a first-class master, there is not much difference in this water boat.

If no one resists him, then he may continue to be arrogant like this. But a feathered arrow that broke through the air stopped his arrogance. The small arrow hit his ring knife, splashing a few sparks with "dang", and "swish" made him involuntarily take a few steps back.

"Who is it?" Lu Meng raised his eyes and looked in the direction where the arrow was fired, only to see a white-haired veteran on the built platform holding a big bow and looking at him coldly. Obviously, the arrow was fired by him.

"What a powerful force." Lu Meng was secretly speechless, he shook his hand holding the knife, which was still very sour and numb: "It seems that this old man is a master, and I will definitely not be able to resist the master." And such a master, there is only that person in this Changsha City. Lu Meng assessed the other party, and a clear knowledge suddenly appeared in his mind: "Huang Zhong, the general of Changsha, is said to have the courage of ten thousand people, and is a powerful person who is good at using bows and arrows and broadswords. Thanks to the meticulous intelligence work of the Jiangdong Army in Jingzhou, Lu Meng quickly recalled the information about this veteran.

Such a character is not something that he can resist, and Lu Meng understands this very well. So he was going to retreat. Although this is a bit of a wretch, there is no way to do it. After all, knowing that there is an enemy in front of you that you can't resist, but you still rush forward stupidly, that is not brave, but stupid.

However, is it also that easy to retreat?

Maybe Lu Meng's idea is very easy to realize in others, but in front of Huang Zhong, such an idea is extremely naïve.

"When you come, do you want to leave like this? It's not so easy in the world! Huang Zhong laughed, his silver hair moving in the wind. He lifted the giant bow in his hand, mounted three long arrows, pointed in the direction where Lu Meng was, and narrowed his eyes slightly. Stretch the bow, release the strings, and shoot the arrow. Three long arrows shining with stars burst through the air with a sharp whistling sound, cutting through an incomparably mysterious trajectory, either up, down, left, or right, sealing the space where Lu Meng was. For a while, Lu Meng felt the existence of fear, he wanted to move, but he couldn't, he didn't look back, but he already knew that his life was in danger.

"Such a strong bow and arrow, is this the combat power of a first-class general?" Lu Meng sighed, his heart was already desperate. Faced with such a powerful bow and arrow, he knew that there was no chance of survival.

Of course, it was when he faced the bow and arrow alone, and if someone came out to help him, everything would be different-just when Lu Meng was about to despair, a spear interspersed from the side was heavily pointed on the top of the arrow, and an armored arm suddenly stretched out from the side, but it grabbed Lu Meng and let him get out of the three arrows.

"Poof...... Poof...... "This is the sound of an arrow entering the body." Bright red blood splashed up, and the three feather arrows, even if Lu Meng escaped the desperate situation of death with the help of someone, only one completely avoided one, and the other two still hit him fiercely, one passed through his shoulder, and one was inserted into his left thigh. Although it didn't hurt his bones, it also made his painful face pale and cold sweat, but he was still stiff and didn't say anything.

"General Jiang, thank you so much." Taking a heavy breath, Lu Meng said with a wry smile to Jiang Qin, who saved his life at the critical moment. Although he was still lying on the ground and unable to move, and could not see the face of the person who saved him, he deduced the identity of the person who came from the black spear and the heavily armored arm, and in the fleet he was in, the only person who used the spear as a weapon and was qualified to wear silver heavy armor was the general of this fleet, Jiang Qin and Jiang Gongyi.

"You're welcome, you and I are comrades, just like brothers." Jiang Qin shook his numb arms and said with a calm face. He then asked Jiang Qin: "Who is the veteran on the other side?" In addition to Gan Ning, how can there be such a powerful figure in Changsha's naval army? ”

"He is Huang Zhong and Huang Hansheng, not from the navy, but he is good at using longbows and broadswords, and his force is probably above General Tai Shici and General Zhou Tai. Zhou Dudu asked us to come to Changsha The people who need to pay the most attention are Gan Ning on the water, and Huang Zhong on the land, but I don't know how he, a character on the land, also ran to this water. Lu Meng said bitterly, "We have come up with a hard idea." I'm afraid the Jiangdong Army will have a hard time in the future. ”

"Sad? That's true. Jiang Qin smiled bitterly, he only felt a sweet throat, and then he felt a thick blood permeating his mouth, and he knew that he was already seriously injured. Just one arrow has so much power! It's really horrible. However, what is even more terrifying than this is that the warships of the Changsha Army, although they only have twenty or thirty warships at the moment, but after all, they have surpassed the warships in Jiangdong in terms of performance, as long as there is time for them to develop, I am not afraid that these twenty ships will be organized into forty, one hundred, and ten thousand. That's what really scares people. Jiang Qin knew very well what Jiangdong's strength was built on, and he knew more clearly how Jiangdong would be vulnerable once such a strength advantage was lost.

"It can't go on like this." He looked around the battlefield and saw that although the battle on all sides was still going on, there was not a single warship that had been captured by his own side, and it was foreseeable how strong the opponent's defense was. Jiang Qin knew that the Ganning fleet behind him had already launched an attack on him, and in this situation of facing the enemy on both sides, there was still no breakthrough on his side, which proved that he had lost this battle. Now it's not a question of winning or losing, it's time to think about how to minimize the losses on your side.

Jiang Qin quickly asked his guards to carry the wounded Lü Meng back to his ship, and then gave the order to retreat.

Retreat is also a science. Like any elite army in the world, the retreat of the Jiangdong Army was also orderly, and they did not appear in the situation of a mountain of collapse, but marched back in waves in turn, ready to counterattack at any time.

Seeing the caution of the Jiangdong Army's retreat, Huang Zhong did not pursue. In the battle just now, although the First Fleet he was in blocked the enemy's attack, it also suffered "heavy losses". Under the impact of so many ships, many warships were inevitably damaged, which needed to be repaired immediately. Fortunately, it was right on the doorstep of the enemy to engage the enemy, which was not a big problem, but it was not a matter of pursuit.

Huang Zhong and Yang Xu gave up here, and Gan Ning's side naturally pursued them. Although they did still have the ability to pursue, Gan Ning knew that now was not the time to fight with the Jiangdong Army. The so-called total annihilation of the enemy is only what was said before the start of the war, and whether this goal can be achieved during and after the battle requires the double guarantee of a great tactical victory and strategic permission, and it is obviously not the time to have both of these at present.

After staying under Li Sheng's account for so many years, he also knows some of Li Sheng's strategic intentions. He knew that Li Sheng's strategic goal in the future was to fight against Cao Lianwu, so he understood that his battle against Soochow was to show his strength as much as possible while letting Dongwu go.

The battle is over. The sinking waters of the Xiangjiang River and the rippling Dongting Lake have regained their former tranquility, leaving only pieces of broken wooden planks and corpses floating on the water, illustrating what had happened here.

"Victorious." Gan Ning stood on the bow of his ship, looking up at the direction of Jiang Qin's retreat. Thousands of enemies were broken, only a few hundred were damaged, and the Jiangdong naval army, which was invincible, fled in despair, which should be regarded as an exciting thing. However, looking at this ruined battlefield and the mess, Gan Ning couldn't mention a trace of excitement. "War is bitter after all." He sighed, and then gave an order that stunned everyone: "Try to save the injured who fell into the water as much as possible." It doesn't matter if it's friend or foe. ”

"Even the enemy to be saved? Is this okay? Hearing the commander's order, a very young soldier asked puzzled.

"Why not. On the battlefield, we are enemies who fight each other, but when we go down the battlefield, do we still need to do that kind of thing to drive people away? We are warriors, not butchers. The real butchers, people like Cao Cao and Dong Zhuo, although they can dominate for a while, they will not end well in the end. Another soldier, who seemed to be much older, said quietly: "The general and the lord are very kind, and it is our honor to serve as a soldier under such a merciful lord." Although we are weak now, I believe that we can grow stronger and make the whole world a place of kindness. As he spoke, the soldier's eyes shone with great piety, as if he were a true believer, and he unreservedly trusted those who led him forward.

"......" saw the piety of the veteran, and the young soldier was completely speechless. He knew that since he was transferred to this team, this veteran who had always cared for him was good at everything, but when he talked about such things, it became a little wordy. "By the way, I know you're from Xuzhou......" Because he didn't want to listen to the old soldier's nagging anymore, Xiao Bing took the opportunity to put aside the topic.

"Yes, I'm from Xuzhou, and I'm still from Xiaqiu." The veteran smiled as he spoke, "Xiaqiu, that's a good place." He was caught up in the memories of the past, and a sweet smile appeared on his face. After all, in the depths of everyone's heart, the impression of hometown is the best.

"Natsuqiu? Then you're not a fellow of the lord's father-in-law? You can't be lying to me, right? If you are a fellow of the lord, then why have you stayed in the army for so many years and are still a mere military commander? The young soldier was puzzled, and there was a slight suspicion in his words.

"You can't say that." Although the lord is young, he is very fair. I'm just a useless soldier, I don't have much strength, I can't get military achievements, and naturally I can't be promoted. The veteran said with a faint smile, and there was no dissatisfaction in his peaceful words.

"Oh......" the young soldier replied, and then asked, "...... You seem to be very dissatisfied with Prime Minister Cao? Don't you think he's the strongest? Much more powerful than our lord. ”

"What's the use of that? No matter how strong he is, he is just a butcher. The veteran shook his head solemnly, and there was a fire of hatred flashing in the depths of his eyes.

"Uh...... How do you say that? "The young soldier did not understand.

"How so? As long as you really experience it, you will understand. No one will have a good opinion of someone who kills their relatives or friends. The old soldier fell silent as he spoke: "...... Back then, my family was ......"

"Ah......h He felt the sadness and anger in the veteran's heart.

"Perhaps, until this sorrow is appeased, this anger is not vented, the hatred in this world cannot disappear." The little soldier stared at the red-dyed lake in a daze, and a phrase he had heard before came to his mind. He was also a smart person, so he naturally had his own thoughts: "I have killed so many enemies now, has it also caused new hatred?" Realizing this, he fell into confusion for a while.

It's just an inconsequential episode.