Chapter Seventy-Eight: Wu Jun's Advantage

The sky was bright, but at this moment, the river fog had not yet dissipated, and as far as the eye could see, it was only a few hundred meters in radius.

Fang Shaoli raised his eyes on the top deck of the fighting ship and looked upstream, but he did not see Cao Jun's warship and flag.

Looking around, the warships of the Wu army were passing in an orderly manner from both sides, and no other noise could be heard except for the sound of rowing and hitting the current one after another, and the sound of the sailors' trumpets when they exerted their strength.

Those sons of Koto knew that a fierce battle that might be beyond their imagination was about to begin, but their mood was extremely calm, and there was not a trace of nervous noise, as if what was about to start was just a pre-planned exercise.

"The Wu people's military spirit is very stable, it seems that the chances of winning this battle are greater."

Fang Shao's gaze crossed the women's wall, and at the front of the next deck, Liu Bei and Zhuge Liang were talking softly, although their voices were very small, because the surroundings were too quiet, Fang Shao could hear them clearly.

Fang Shao was in no mood to listen to them at this time, his heart was already completely tied to this water war that was about to break out at any time.

As the sun rose in the east, the river fog gradually began to disperse due to the sunlight, and the surrounding vision became more and more open, and the number of warships passing on both sides had expanded from a dozen to hundreds.

Suddenly, the ship fell into darkness, as if a dark cloud had suddenly gathered overhead, obscuring the sun behind it.

Fang Shao instinctively looked back and couldn't help but gasp.

It was not a dark cloud, but a huge fighting ship slowly passing by the ship, to be precise, it should be the most powerful type of fighting ship - the Lou Ship, the legendary contemporary aircraft carrier.

This building ship is more than ten zhang high, with a total of five floors, which is more than twice as high as Liu Bei's ship, no wonder it can block the sunlight from behind.

Fang Shao looked up at the ship, and saw that there were countless female walls and battle grids around it, and there were at least a thousand soldiers lined up on the five-story deck, and there were even war horses galloping back and forth, transmitting information and intelligence.

"Obediently, it used to look like nothing from a distance, but when you get closer, it's like a moving castle on the water, this is much more than the warships in Jingzhou, no wonder Dongwu can cross the Yangtze River, the level of shipbuilding is not covered."

When Fang Shaozheng secretly sighed, he suddenly heard someone on the boat shouting here: "Liu Yuanjun, you can't go into battle too." ”

Everyone looked up and found that the person who spoke was Zhou Yu, and his condescending shouting was even more condescending.

Liu Bei had to raise his neck: "Fang Jin's two armies are in a decisive battle, how can Bei be alone and safe, and fight side by side with the governor." ”

Zhou Yu smiled and said, "It's rare for Liu Yuanjun to have such courage, but your ship is too small to withstand the collision, if you have to go into battle, then follow my flagship closely." ”

Liu Bei also smiled and said: "The governor only cares about the enemy, don't worry about me." ”

Zhou Yu ignored him anymore, and only issued the order, and as the flag on the ship waved, the warships on the left and right arranged to move forward according to the order.

Half an hour later, the sun rose completely, the river fog dissipated, as far as the eye could see, more than 700 warships of the Wu army had been arranged, and at a glance, almost half of the river was covered.

Fang Shao looked into the distance again, only to see that at the end of the Tianshui line in the southwest, Cao's fleet had also appeared, and it occupied the upstream trend, so down the river, its momentum was faster, and it didn't take long for the entire fleet to enter Fang Shao's field of vision.

The formation of Cao's navy was stretched even wider, and more than 1,500 warships crossed the entire river.

Fang Shao couldn't help frowning slightly, and said in his heart: "The battleships of the Cao army are almost twice as large as the Wu army, and if you go down the river like this, you will at least have the upper hand in terms of momentum, and it seems that it is not easy to deal with, it depends on what tactics Zhou Yu uses." ”

The fleets of both sides, coming head-on, and the wind coming from the north, were slightly stronger than the Wu army, but they could not offset the speed of Cao's army.

When they were nearly two or three miles away, they saw that Zhou Yu's flagship in the center of the formation suddenly changed the command flag, so the formation of the Wu army quickly changed into a cone-shaped charging formation, with five "Feiyun" class building ships as the front drive, and seventy or eighty fighting ships on both wings, and later with Zhou Yu's flagship and more than 50 large and small warships. The ships raised their sails with all their sails, and their oars reached their maximum, rushing towards Cao Jun at full speed.

As soon as Fang Shao saw this situation, he immediately raised his warning: "Zhou Lang is going to take the lead, he has to fight hard, lord and be careful!" ”

Liu Bei was also shocked: "This Zhou Yu, how can you use such an aggressive style of play!" ”

Zhuge Liang was calm, and said: "When we meet on a narrow road, the brave should win, and Zhou Lang's tactics are very good." We just need to follow Zhou Yu's flagship and sit back and watch this good show. ”

Liu Bei knew that the big war was about to start, and once he broke away from the main formation, then his lonely ship would be waiting to be slaughtered by Cao's army, so he was busy with Zhuge Liang's plan and ordered the ship to be as close to Zhou Yu's flagship as possible and hide it in the innermost layer of the fleet.

Just when Liu Bei's side was still in a hurry to protect himself, the two armies at the forefront were already engaged.

When the ships of the front team were about to rush into the enemy formation, dozens of small ships that followed behind suddenly accelerated and rushed out from the left and right, heading straight for the enemy's large fighting ships.

Seeing this, dozens of ships of their own side also rushed out, wanting to block the Wu ship.

At this time, the Wu people's building ship began to exert its might, with the advantage of the tall shape of the ship, hundreds of archers condescended, raining arrows towards the enemy ship, killing and injuring the people on the enemy's fighting ship at the same time, completely suppressing the enemy's fighting ship on the arrow counterattack, so that it could not effectively attack the ship of their own charge.

In a moment's effort, the first ship slammed into a large fighting ship of Cao Jun, and the powerful impact force made the whole ship shake violently, and the soldiers on the ship could not stand firm for a while.

At the moment when the enemy fell into a brief panic, when the command Gan Ning shouted, jumped onto the enemy ship with a knife, and took the lead to kill the Cao army who was caught off guard.

When Gan Ning took the lead and seized the opportunity, the entire conical formation was inserted into Cao Jun's tiled formation, like a sharp blade, easily tearing a gap, and then passing by the situation, dividing Cao Jun's naval army into two parts.

Subsequently, the contact battle was in full swing, and the Wu army, led by several giant building ships, comprehensively suppressed the firepower of the Cao army, covering the small ships that rushed to either board the ships to attack, or to take over and set fire.

The morale of the Wu people was high, and the generals who killed them were desperate, such as Gan Ning, Ling Tong and other generals, all rushed to the front line with arrows. And those newly surrendered Jingzhou naval forces were already unstable, if they had the advantage, they would be fine, so if they were slightly frustrated, they immediately panicked, and they couldn't resist the attack of the Wu people at all.

As the formation was disrupted, the ships of the Cao army soon fell into a situation of fighting on their own, and the command system collapsed.

At noon, the river was already full of smoke, and there were nearly 300 Cao military ships that were burned, and the remaining ships of less than 800 were rushing to the north bank, and the rest of the ships were all grabbed by the Wu army.

Seeing such a scene, Fang Shao couldn't help but smile with relief on his face, and shouted loudly below: "Lord, Zhou Lang has won!" ”

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