Lu Xun said to the left and right with great confidence: "If Li Yi wants to take my Dongwu, he needs a large-scale landing. Over the years www.biquge.info Pontus destroyed various ferries along the river and deployed trebuchet troops. Only this cow can't be filled because the water is so large. Only with this Niu Zhu can Li Yi send his troops to land. We should work together to guard Niuzhu and ensure that our defense line on the Yangtze River in Dongwu is not lost, then Li Yikong has a million male soldiers, and he can only look at the river and sigh! ”

"May the Governor give orders to protect my Yangtze River defense line!" The generals said together. In the past few years, Lu Xun has shown a talent that is not inferior to Zhou Yu, and his prestige in the Eastern Wu army is also increasing day by day.

Lu Xun nodded with satisfaction when he heard this, in fact, in his heart, he especially wanted to win a big victory.

At this time, the veteran Huang Gai came out and said: "Governor, the Tang warships are not to be feared, but the three battleships are very large, and this Niuzhu has an extremely wide water surface, which is just right for it to use, and it must be guarded against." ”

Lu Xun was also very troubled, Soochow tried all his methods, and did not make a battleship.

The battleships of the Tang Dynasty were wrapped in iron sheets, and in the battle of the ships, Soochow had no force capable of harming it at all. The huge ballistas on the battleship were able to penetrate the largest building ship in Soochow at will.

Due to the existence of battleships, even if the Tang army only had battleships, in a water battle, Soochow would be completely defeated.

Lu Xun couldn't think of a way to deal with Datang's battleships, so he also temporarily gave up the possibility of victory, and said: "Although the battleships are huge, they can't face the trebuchets of our army's coastal defense. Our army temporarily held on to the water village and waited for the changes. ”

Speaking of this, Lu Xun sneered: "If Li Yi is stationed in the army for ten or eight years, the governor of this capital will also accompany him......"

The million-strong army has been stationed for ten years, and the materials consumed can drag Datang to death. The generals of Dongwu laughed, and they were also confident that they would defend Niuzhu Water Village.

After another while, Lu Xun led the generals back to the station on the shore, and after entering the big tent, Lu Xun ordered everyone to do their duty to do a good job in the security of their defense area.

In the end, he stressed: "There must be no hidden danger left, and the Tang army must not be given the slightest chance to sneak attack." ”

At this moment, a captain who was looking at the enemy rushed in from outside and reported in surprise: "The governor of the capital is not good. On the opposite side, the Tang Army's naval division was dispatched, and there were nearly a thousand large and small ships! ”

Lu Xun was taken aback and asked urgently, "Is there a battleship?" ”

"All three ships are dispatched!" The lieutenant said in a panic.

The generals' faces changed dramatically.

Lu Xun is not an ordinary person after all, he calmed down first and said: "You don't need to panic, I have a water village platform, full of trebuchets, and I can defeat the giant ships of the Tang Army." Jiang Qin and Huang Gai were the pioneers of the front. A small boat with only 30 men from the headquarters went out to lure the enemy. Ling Tong and Zhou Tai led the second team of the headquarters in the west of the water village, and Lu Meng and Liuzan led the headquarters as the third team in the east of the water village. Dong Xi, Lü Fan, Ding Feng, and Zhu Heng commanded the Quartet trebuchet position. The generals carefully read the orders of the Metropolitan Governor and the Central Army, and ...... to the situation."

"Whoa!" The generals took the orders and left.

Lu Xun took the rest of the generals and went to the attic of the central water village to monitor the enemy's dispatch.

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Li Yi had been hearing in the report that the land-based defensive positions of Soochow were very strong, and that Sun Quan had cut down the forests south of the Yangtze River and built tens of thousands of trebuchets to control the water surface near the river on the side of Soochow. Now that the two armies are fighting a decisive battle against Niu Zhu, Li Yi reminded himself on the one hand that he must not follow in the footsteps of Cao Cao. On the other hand, he also needs to listen to the truth and reality.

So, after discussing with the military advisors, Li Yi planned to make a feint.

On this day, Li Yi ordered Gan Ning and Zhang Shijie to be the vanguard, and he personally sat in the Chinese army, supervising more than 1,000 large and small warships to approach the Dongwu Water Village.

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Lu Xun first came to the top of the ten-zhang watchtower to look at the enemy, and when he raised his eyes, he found that the north side of the river was densely packed with Tang army warships. Among them, three battleships fifty zhang long and more than ten zhang wide were particularly eye-catching, glowing with metallic luster in the sun.

In the bow of the middle one, there are many bright yellow canopies shining with golden light, obviously, it should be the Yanjing, the flagship of Emperor Wude Li Yi.

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Li Yi discharged three circular formations, three battleships in the formation, the first and second class battleships on both sides, and the third and fourth class battleships and other small boats cruising around continuously.

Li Yi watched from the Yanjing in the central circular formation, and after passing through the center of the water, he could clearly see the enemy's water village.

The water village of Dongwu stretches out for more than ten miles, and the flat beachhead ferry in the rear is blocked tightly, and the left and right edges are connected with the protruding highlands. At a glance, the layout is rigorous and flawless. In the mist, you can faintly see that behind the wooden water fence, there are many water platforms, arranged with large trebuchets several meters high. Each platform was surrounded by ships, many of which were laden with huge rocks.

It is almost certain that Soochow will not fight on the water. Soochow wanted to use cannon-like trebuchets to cooperate with his own warship Omi to block his own fleet. They couldn't land and send out the infantry, so naturally Soochow had nothing to do.

Before entering the age of steam, water warfare was very simple, that is, hitting each other, shooting at each other, and finally colliding into each other. So, hundreds of years ago, in the 2nd century, it was roughly the same.

Li Yi stood on the bow of the boat, the river breeze blew cool, and when he raised his eyes, he saw hundreds of small boats rushing out of the Dongwu Water Village. That is, it is a little wider than a dragon boat, extremely fast and very flexible.

After these hundreds of small boats appeared, they immediately covered the water surface of Jiangnan and rushed towards Li Yi's fleet at a very fast speed.

In the water war, there are naturally naval generals to dispatch, and Li Yi will never blindly command.

He saw that Dongwu did not use the big ship, and said with a smile: "It seems that Lu Xun's kid really wants to defend it." ”

Before the words fell, the circular formation led by Gan Ning, who was on Li Yi's left, suddenly increased its speed and faced the enemy's warship.

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On the side of Soochow, three hundred small boats discharged a conical formation. Jiang Qin and Huang Gai led ten small boats in the front, thirty in the back row, and forty in the back row, and arranged them in a staggered and increasing manner.

This position is the most conducive to the speed and maneuverability of the ship. Of course, the technical requirements for the navy are also very high.

However, the generals of the Datang Navy are also extremely good at water warfare, and the soldiers are also well-trained, after all, the Datang Navy has been in force for 20 years.

On the river, Gan Ning's flagship was like a beehive, and the warships of all sizes around it were like bee soldiers, constantly cruising around. When they got close to the Soochow ships, they gave full play to the advantage of strong flank firepower, and fired a salvo of 10,000 crossbows with fire at the Soochow ships. It is like a wheel, and each tooth turns over, and it is a thousand arrows at once.

And because of the constant rotation, the sharp arrows reflected by the Soochow ships often shot into the air.

At this time, Zhang Shijie's fleet came at high speed from the side, wanting to cut the ship formation of Soochow into two sections.

Huang Gai and Jiang Qinzhi were luring the enemy deeper, and although the Tang warships were extremely combative, they were not completely helpless to counterattack.

They immediately ordered the fleet to retreat.

At this time, the advantages of the Dongwu boat were brought into play, and the sailors who were responsible for rowing out only needed to row the oars in reverse, and the boat could quickly retreat.

As a result, although the Tang army was a large ship, it could not get close. The two sides fired at each other, but instead the battleships of the Tang Army caught fire in many places.

Li Yi on the general flagship Yanjing was a little anxious.

Guo Jia, who was on the side, said: "The rockets fired by our army often fail because the enemy retreats. And the rockets fired by Soochow, our army is ...... It's going up. ”

Jia Xu said with relief: "The emperor doesn't have to worry, the two generals Gan Ning and Zhang Shijie know the essentials of water warfare......"

Sure enough, as he spoke, green smoke rose from the Tang battleship, which had apparently extinguished the fire.

The two sides exchanged fires, and the Soochow ships retreated sharply for a mile.

Just when it was less than a mile away from the enemy's water village, I saw the flagship of Gan Ning, the deputy governor of the Tang Navy, shaking the flag, and all the big ships stopped.

At this time, a hundred small boats with canopies came up in the rear, and the Tang Army sent ten second-class battleships with a displacement of 1,000 tons to continue to approach the enemy's water village with these hundred small boats.

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In the Dongwu Water Village, Lu Xun in the attic saw the Tang Army ship stop, and immediately sighed. The enemy general was really cautious, and his plan to lure the enemy clearly failed.

Sun Yu on the side said: "Look, the Governor of the Metropolis doesn't see too many soldiers on the enemy's boat, but the draft is very deep, and he must have brought something to ignite the fire, and he must not let them approach." ”

Since the Dongwu battleship could not shrink, the Tang army's small boat came down the water, the speed was very fast, and it was impossible to stop, Lu Xun had to order: "Order the trebuchet to reload the scattered bombs and sink these boats!" ”

After Jiang Qin and Huang Gai's fleet quickly retreated, they stuck in front of the outer wall of their own water village.

At this time, in the Dongwu Water Village, the roar of the machine was heard all over the place.

This time, Li Yi opened his eyes. After seeing a sound of the machine, in the water village of Dongwu, stones flew out to cover the sky and the sun. The big ones were as big as a washbasin, and the small ones were as big as two fists together. In an instant, a situation of covering the sky and the sun was formed, with shadows and roars, smashing into the Tang convoy all over the sky.

The ten second-class battleships hurriedly retreated, and the small ships traveling at high speed were hit by the covering attack, and the stones that fell from the sky were the size of fists, and they were also full of power under the acceleration of gravity. In the sound of "knock knock", the boats were either overturned, or smashed out of many holes, and soon sank.

"Buzz ......"

"Woo Woo ......"

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Another wave of boulders was thrown, the sun was obscured, and the waters below were suddenly dark. Tens of thousands of stones fell, and the darkness became heavier and heavier, as high as the top of Mount Tai, and the entire water surface suddenly burst into waves no less than the explosion of cannonballs.

In just two attacks, a hundred Tang Army boats were all wiped out, and the bow of the two second-class battleships that retreated slowly was also smashed.