The wheelman quickly spun the wooden wheel, and the blades of the wooden wheel hit the water, propelling the armored boat forward. The crossbowman pulled the crossbow machine, released the bowstring, and the sharp arrow roared through the shooting hole and shot at Wu Jun's body not far away. At such a close distance, the arrows easily pierced the leather armor on Wu Jun's body and shot through their bodies.

The spearman stabbed out the spear with all his might, and dozens of spears suddenly stabbed out, and the Wu Jun who was close at hand was stabbed before he had time to react, and one of them stood on tiptoe and was about to look inside, Wu Jun was stabbed in the face at once, screaming and falling into the water.

The incident happened suddenly, and by the time Wu Jun reacted, the soldiers on the two small boats that were approaching had already suffered heavy casualties, and the small boats had also lost control, swaying under the impact of the waves brought by the armored boats, and could capsize at any time. Several warships that were being monitored more than ten paces away were also shot crookedly by a burst of fire, and one by one the soldiers who were hit by the arrows turned over and fell into the water, and the sound of splashing was endless, and the water splashed everywhere, just like Wu Jun's panicked mood at the moment.

Just when the Wu army was attacked and panicked, Feng Jin commanded the armored ship to rush forward at full speed, using his own size to slam into it. The patrol warships are all small warships, slender and long, and there are only about a dozen people on each ship, no more than these thirty or forty people. Everywhere the armored ships went, the warships of the Wu army capsized.

The tactics of water warfare are not complicated, shooting with bows and crossbows from a distance, striking the opponent's belly with the bow of the ship when they get close, or hitting each other, or the soldiers jumping over the ship to meet each other in close proximity. The difference is only in the battle on the water, whether the soldiers can stand firm on the rocking warship, and whether they can make the warship smooth. When a warship strikes, it is the bow of the ship that hits the enemy's belly with the most lethality, so how can you hit the enemy without being hit by the enemy, and whether you can catch up with the enemy without being caught up by the enemy. It has become a major factor in testing the capability of water warfare. How to accuse the warship of pursuing and adjusting the direction has also become the basic quality of a naval general.

The armored boat was covered with thick planks. It is also embedded with iron armor, whether it is the bow and arrow shot by the Wu army, or the spear that pierces it, it has no lethality to the Shu soldiers in the armored ship. Unless they can shoot arrows into the shooting hole, it will have a real effect. To do this in the heat of battle, I'm afraid not even a single one of a hundred crossbowmen will be able to pick out. Even if it was close to the armored ship. Standing on a rickety warship, it was not easy for them to pierce their spears into the holes.

Although several warships of the Wu army surrounded the armored ship and shot and slashed, they could not hurt the Shu soldiers in the armored boat. In the face of the huge size of the armored boats, they were powerless, and one after another they were knocked over and sunk by the armored ships.

In front of this strange adversary. The Wu soldiers, who were dominant in water warfare, had no way to start, and they were extremely passive. In a hopeless battle, they began to flee.

Feng Jin commanded the warship to catch up, and some of the spearmen put down their spears and temporarily acted as wheelmen. More than 200 people turned the wooden wheel and drove the warship fast, which was not inferior to those small boats of the Wu army. Once they get within range of the crossbow, the crossbowmen will shoot the Wu sailors with all their might. As long as a few more sailors are shot to death, the speed of the Wu army's warships will be affected, and they will be overtaken. And once it is overtaken, it will be difficult to escape the fate of the capsized boat and falling overboard.

The first battle was successful, all the Shu soldiers were excited, they drove the warship, chased the Wu army into the desert and fled, rampaged, knocked over seven or eight Wu army warships all the way, and saw that the Wu army water village was in front of them, so they turned the bow of the ship, swaggered away, and by the way, they abused the Wu army who was saving themselves.

When Wu Jun received the news, a large number of warships rushed out of the water village, and Feng Jin and others had disappeared into the vast night. Wu Jun was afraid of an ambush and did not dare to pursue, so he had to strengthen his defenses and report the battle situation to Zhu Ran, the general of Zhengbei.

When Zhu Ran heard the report, he was furious. He has always been known for his ability to manage the army rigorously, and it is really a great shame that he was killed by the enemy today. He immediately had the soldiers in charge of finding out the news called in to inquire about the enemy's situation. As soon as he learned about it, he couldn't help but be surprised.

From beginning to end, the enemy only had a strange-shaped warship, but its combat effectiveness was very strong, not only beating the scout ship he arranged in front of the water village to be responsible for early warning, but also pursuing it for more than ten miles, until it was forced to stop advancing in front of the battalion. According to the reactions of all the soldiers who participated in the battle, this ship was unguarded, it was a lonely ship, with a strange appearance, but the tactics were fierce and domineering, whether it was an arrow or a spear, it could not be injured.

After listening to the report of his subordinates, Zhu Ran's heart moved. He remembered the situation that Sun Quan had sent someone to inform. The reason why he rushed here from Jiangxia was because Sun Quan heard that the Wei army was building warships and there was a possibility of attacking Wu. Could it be that the Wei army built these warships? If this is the case, a warship has such combat effectiveness, then the strength of the Wei army in water warfare will probably surpass that of the Wu army. This ship came alone, could it be the effect of the Wei army's new warship in Shiyan?

Zhu Ran didn't dare to slack off, and immediately sent scouts to inquire about the news.

The scout ships that had been dispatched at the beginning quickly sent back the news, but it was not the news of the Wei warship, but the news of the attack. When they went to the vicinity of Xiangyang to inquire about the news, they were all attacked by the strange warship. In the face of such a formidable opponent, the small warships on the scout mission were powerless at all, and only a few warships escaped before it approached, and once they entered its attack range, they basically could not survive.

In just a few days, Wu's army lost more than a dozen small warships, and hundreds of casualties and missing people were killed. This strange-shaped warship immediately caused panic among the Wu army, because it often appeared in the evening or early morning, and more often at night, so the Wu army gave this warship a scary name: Ghost Ship.

As soon as this name came out, Wu Jun talked about ghosts.

Zhu Ran didn't dare to be careless, and on the one hand ordered the army to ban rumors, and on the other hand, he sent more and larger warships to search. They encountered the ghost ship again without accident, but the ghost ship was very fierce, and ordinary medium-sized warships were also not its opponents, as long as there were no building ships in Wu Jun's fleet, it would dare to rush up and fight. In the face of this heavily armed ghost ship, the Wu army had no way to control the enemy at all, and was tired of coping, so they could only scatter and flee.

Fortunately, the ghost ship also has the weakness of the ghost ship, its speed seems to be his shortness, and it is not very easy to pursue, and he will give up at most one or two miles at a time. However, its attack and defensive capabilities are too strong, and in the face of such an opponent, Wu Jun seems to have no more way than to escape.

A ghost ship blocked Wu Jun's path to death, which made Wu Jun panic and made Zhu Ran very annoyed. He had to send a ship to carry out a scout mission. Only a building ship of the same size can make a ghost ship fearful, and it must be more than two building ships. Once the building ship is left alone, this ghost ship still dares to come up and attack.

However, when two or even more building ships travel, it is not to inquire about information, but to carry out combat missions. This momentum was too loud and soon attracted the attention of the Wei army, who reacted immediately. There was a skirmish between the two sides, so Wu Jun was horrified to find that the Wei army had more than just one ghost ship.

Getting the news, Zhu Ran couldn't help but be shocked. He immediately reported the news to Sun Quan in Jiangling as quickly as possible, and at the same time was ready to respond.

Seeing the confrontation between the two armies of Wei and Wu, Feng Jin successfully completed the task, quietly withdrew to Weishui, and used the same method to transfer the warship to Danshui and returned smoothly.

Neither Wu nor Wei knew that such a warship of the Shu army had once appeared between them, and they were all attracted by the tense situation. If the monarchs of both sides are nearby, everyone is still in an alliance relationship, but I am afraid that there will already be a big fight. Even so, Zhu Ran hated the previous losses and had already decided that Wei Jun was taking the initiative to provoke, but he was not sure of victory and did not dare to take the initiative to attack.

Sun Quan received Zhu Ran's report, he was shocked and angry, and immediately ordered to prepare for battle, and sent someone to question Cao Rui, what do you mean by negotiating with me, building warships, and sneaking up on our army? Cao Rui was also inexplicable and ordered a thorough investigation, but the Wei generals did not admit any of them. This result naturally could not satisfy Sun Quan, and the already fragile trust suddenly collapsed, if it weren't for the fact that the monarchs of both sides still had a little rationality, I was afraid that they would have already made a big fight.

Despite this, the situation has become extremely tense.

Sun Quan urgently summoned Zhu Ran and inquired in detail about the battle between the two sides, and was extremely worried about the new warships of the Wei army. Water warfare is the foundation of Jiangdong's statehood, and Cao Wei has always looked at Jiang and sighed, because in water warfare, they can't compete with Wu. Now that Wei has a more powerful warship, is it possible for Wu to exist next? Still called the emperor? It's just a daxiao dialect, and it's not bad if you don't die in the country.

Sun Quan felt a strong crisis, and once again regarded Wei as his strongest opponent, he summoned Lu Xun, Zhu Ran and others to Jiangling to discuss how to deal with it.

Zhu Huan originally didn't have a good impression of Wei, but when he heard the news, he immediately jumped up and asked to immediately ally with Shu and attack Wei together. Kill him before their navy forms a battle to avoid raising a tiger. Zhu Ran personally felt the pressure brought by the Wei army's new warships, and naturally supported Zhu Ran's suggestion. Although Lu Xun felt that this was not appropriate, he did not dare to be careless, the increase in the strength of the Wei State in the water war directly threatened the survival of the Wu State, which could not be taken lightly.

The discussion quickly took a one-sided turn. Sun Quan decided to abandon Wei and form an alliance with Shu again. He urgently summoned Fei Yi and euphemistically put forward his ideas. Fei Yi knew it in his heart, of course, he readily agreed, and then "inadvertently" revealed a secret: in fact, the jishu of the Wei army's new warship was stolen from my Han, and the real inventor was the youngest prime minister's mansion in my Han Dynasty, Wei Ba.

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Although the sixth classification is gradually moving away, the monthly pass is still required. If you have a commuter pass, you will get two! (To be continued.) )