"General, the Jiangdong Navy has been following us!" On the wide river, the two fleets were chasing one after the other, the front was the Xuzhou Sailor who had just come out of the Huai River, and the back was the Jiangdong Sailor who had just come out of Sanjiang Town. The general of the former was Gan Ning, and the latter was Cheng Pu.

"What are you afraid of, their boat is not as fast as ours, wait until you get to Lujiang Water Village and then clean them up!" Gan Ning looked at the Jiangdong sailor who was chasing after him, wiped his face, and said. After looking at it for a while, Gan Ning said again: "Pass the order, tell the brothers to drive slowly, don't let them lose it!" ”

"Understood!" After the colonel agreed, he hurriedly went to inform the herald to send the order in flag. At this time, the Jiangdong Naval Division was only a few miles away from the Xuzhou Naval Division, but it couldn't catch up. "Old General Cheng, it seems that their ship is very fast!" A naval lieutenant said to Cheng Pudao.

"It doesn't matter, no matter how fast he is, where can he flee to? These small fishing boats in Xuzhou didn't dare to confront us, and blindly escaped, for fear that they wanted to hide in the Lujiang Water Village! "Cheng Pu has been on the battlefield for a long time and has a lot of combat experience, so he has guessed a ** not far from ten.

"Then are we still going to chase it?" This lieutenant looked at the Xuzhou Navy Master who was not far in front of him, and felt a little out of order in his heart. Say that he is far away, and he can still see; Say he's close, don't think about shooting the crossbow.

"Keep chasing! The old man of Lujiang Water Village has been to many times, and the situation there is very familiar, and now the surname Suo will destroy these fishing boats in Xuzhou and their nests together! Cheng Pu is also a master of the arts, and he gave this order, which seems to be a bit reckless. In fact, in Zhao Feng's opinion, this is not only a bit reckless, it is simply reckless that he can't find the north. Relying on 8,000 sailors alone to destroy a water village, bullying rookies is not like this, you must know that there are 100,000 Xuzhou troops in Lujiang City, not to mention that the Xuzhou sailors are not rookies.

In this way, you chased me and fled, and sometimes Gan Ning sent a few small boats to turn around and shoot a few arrows to raid it, and they all left as soon as they were touched, without giving Jiangdong Sailors a chance to fight back. Although this did not cause any major casualties, Cheng Pu was already so angry that he repeatedly ordered a full-speed pursuit. Fortunately, God gave Cheng Pu a lot of face today, and the late autumn season turned out to be a very strong east, and the speed of the Jiangdong Sailor against the water was not slow.

Two groups of people chased and chased about to the Lujiang River, and at night, the Xuzhou sailors in front of them had already turned into a canal. Cheng Pu knew that they wanted to enter the water village, so he immediately ordered to catch up at full speed, so the Jiangdong Sailor also drove into the canal.

"Quack!" With a few such sounds, several large boats of the Jiangdong Navy Division suddenly stopped after walking nearly half a mile or so in the canal, and only those small boats continued to chase forward.

"What's going on?" Cheng Pu was surprised when he saw this, and hurriedly ordered someone to take a look. Several junior colonels looked at it a few times, and the trapped ship exchanged information with each other again, and then replied to Cheng Pu: "General Cheng, it seems that it has hit a rock!" ”

"What, hit the rocks?" Cheng Pu looked incredulous when he heard the news, and then said angrily: "The old man has walked this canal no less than ten times, and the river is two feet deep, how can it hit the reef?" ”

The little school saw that Cheng Pu was furious, and he also said cautiously at the moment: "Maybe it's the autumn and winter communication, and the river is drying up?" ”

"Huh?" Cheng Pu thought about it for a while, but quickly ruled out this possible surname. This year, there has been a big flood, how can the river dry up. Seeing that his three or two large boats had blocked the river, and it was difficult for large and medium-sized boats to move forward, while the rest of the small boats were still chasing after him, getting farther and farther away from the large army, Cheng Pu suddenly had an ominous premonition, and hurriedly said: "Quickly order the ships in front to stop, don't go deep alone." ”

But it was too late, and suddenly a field of torches lit up on both sides of the canal, and then shouts of killing rang out on both sides, and countless infantry rushed to the shore, pushing dozens of ballistas.

This ballista is also Zhao Feng's idea, in fact, it is to install a rack for the ballista, and then install four small wheels underneath, so that it is more convenient to push than to carry it. Nearly 100 ballistas on both sides of the strait were swinging out, but strangely they did not launch immediately, but seemed to be waiting for something.

"Kill!" With another shout of killing, dozens of turtle boats came out of the Lujiang Water Village and fought with the previous Jiangdong Army boats. This water battle is different from land warfare, land warfare can be played slowly with you in formation, and water warfare does depend more on the surname of the warship, as well as the personal ability of the soldier. Now that the two sides are stuck in this not very spacious canal, it is difficult to have any room to move and dodge, so Zhao Feng and Gan Ning both gave up their flexible ships and used crash-resistant turtle boats to deal with the Jiangdong Navy instead.

"Smack!" The bow of a turtle boat and a small boat of the Jiangdong Army collided together, and suddenly the boat of the Jiangdong Army was hit into a big hole, and the river water poured straight into it. This kind of Zhao Feng design, the turtle boat made by Lu Xun, not only is the whole body wrapped in iron leaves, but the bow of the boat is a piece of "**" completely cast by iron, which is specially used to collide with the other party. Unless it's a much larger ship, it's sure to hit a big hole.

"Shoot the arrows, release the arrows!" The sergeant on the small boat of the Koto Army began to shoot arrows at these strange turtle-like boats in a frenzy. But the soldiers cowering in the hull of the ship could barely catch a single arrow out of ten arrows. At the same time, from the holes on both sides of the turtle boat, the Xuzhou army shot out sharp arrows, and many Jiangdong naval troops fell into the water after being hit by arrows.

"Hey!" However, a few Jiangdong sailors saw that the turtle boat was not very flexible, and at that moment, several people worked together to lift a piece of ballast hemp stone, and smashed it to the side of the turtle boat when the two ships were staggered, hoping to knock him over. But the turtle boat, which had a very low center of gravity, only shook after being hit by this, and finally continued to move forward steadily, and they were stunned for a moment.

"Flutter!" Dozens of spears suddenly stretched out from the hole, and these pawns fell into the water one after another.

"Retreat, retreat!" Cheng Pu saw that nearly half of his own small boat had been destroyed, and the other party's hard turtle boat had only destroyed less than five, knowing that today's battle would be a result of victory and undefeated, he hurriedly ordered a retreat, and at the same time ordered the stuck big ship to quickly turn around and leave. However, at this moment, the sergeants in the rear were noisy again. "Fire!" "Fire!" Cheng Pu looked back, but saw more than a dozen small boats that had been ignited, speeding from the mouth of the canal towards the immobile Jiangdong Navy ship.

"It's over!" This thought flashed through Cheng Pu's mind for a moment. But he was not a person who accepted his fate, and immediately pulled out his war knife and said sharply: "Soldiers, now we can't go forward, there is a fire behind us, and there are bows and crossbows on both sides of the strait." The only way to do this is to survive in death, turn around and kill a bloody road, and rush me! After saying that, he ordered his command ship to be the first to turn the bow and kill the opponent's fireship, and the rest of the warships were inspired by his momentum, and immediately followed and fought together.

"Whoosh!" At this time, the ballistas on both sides of the bank began to wield power, how wide could the canal be? The ballistae on both sides suddenly formed a blockade line on the entire surface of the river. The Jiangdong naval army braved the rain of arrows and rushed out against the blazing fire, and hundreds of lives were wiped out with every step.

"Rush me!" Cheng Pu ignored the smoke and fire, and before his ship and a fireship were about to collide, he ordered someone to cut down the mast, and then dozens of sergeants worked together to carry the mast to push the fireboat away, so as to avoid his ship from being ignited. But the rain of arrows arranged by Zhao Feng was also full of weight, and in the end, only a few ships like Cheng Pu broke through the fire blockade and killed this fateful canal.

"Ahh Cheng Pu, who had escaped, looked back and saw that there were only three boats that followed him, and more than half of the soldiers on the boats were also killed or wounded, and he couldn't help crying with sadness. "General, let's go, the Xuzhou army is chasing after you!" A pawn was sharp-eyed, and saw dozens of boats chasing after him, and hurriedly persuaded Cheng Pu.

"Let's go, go to the South Bank!" Cheng Pu also calmed down and hurriedly ordered, and the remaining three boats hurriedly fled to the Hulin Water Village of the Jiangdong Navy on the opposite side. In this battle, there were 8,000 Jiangdong naval divisions, 50 large and small warships, and the last survivors were only a few hundred soldiers with particularly good luck and three warships. The remaining 7,000 people, except for the last less than 2,000 prisoners, all the rest were lost their lives in the small canal.

"General Zhao, it seems that Cheng Pu is on that boat, do you want to chase it?" On a battleship of the Xuzhou Army, Gan Ning asked Zhao Feng, who had just boarded the ship, for instructions.

"It's all far away, don't let the soldiers take risks." Zhao Feng saw that the other party was almost on the south bank, and knew that it was too late. After receiving the news from Gan Ning in the morning, he immediately ordered the several thick iron chains that had been prepared to be placed in the canal. The Xuzhou military ship can spend its time safely in shallow water, but the big ship of the Jiangdong Navy Division is blocked by the iron chain of the Hengjiang River. At the same time, he ordered ten small boats loaded with fire, fire, sulfur, and dry grass to stand by upstream, and then placed the ballistas of the army on both sides of the canal, and when the Jiangdong sailors entered the canal, they were given a complete nightmare.

"That's enough!" Gan Ning looked at a total of three warships that had escaped, and suddenly calmed down a lot. At this time, Zhou Yu, who was in Huiji to quell the rebellion, would never have imagined that the north, where he was most assured, would suffer such a big loss. And this point is also the turning point of the whole campaign.

"General, since the Jiangdong Naval Division has been defeated by us, then we should be able to cross the river and attack next!" In Lujiang City, after the big victory, everyone was suddenly full of confidence. How about the invincible Jiangdong sailor in the world, wasn't he buried by our baptism of fire and arrows? Facing the generals whose self-confidence skyrocketed, Zhao Feng frowned unexpectedly.

"Why didn't the general order to take advantage of the victory to pursue and attack across the Yangtze River?" Seeing that Zhao Feng didn't say a word, the generals who had been discussing enthusiastically suddenly cooled down, and Zhang Liao was the first to ask.

"Today, although our army has won, it has taken advantage of the warship and the change of geographical advantages. If it is really a decisive battle with the Jiangdong Naval Division on the river, my Xuzhou Naval Division may not have a chance of winning. Not to mention crossing the river and occupying the other party's water village. Zhao Feng frowned and said slowly.

"So what's going on now?" This time it was Gan Ning who asked questions, and as an expert in water warfare, he naturally knew that today's victory was a bit of a fluke.

"First explore the truth and truth, and at the same time wait for the arrival of the county soldiers who took over the garrison, and then try to cross the river!" Zhao Feng touched the beard that had just grown on his chin and said slowly.

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