Chapter 1608: Attack of the Tiger and the Tail of the Snake
Dozens of small boats swam out of the water village and marched quickly towards the Jiangdong naval army.
The Jiangdong Navy, which came up against Zhou Yu's sailors, rowed the boat and aimed at the opposite Zhou Yu's sailors with arrows.
Zhou Yu's sailors on the small boat were holding shields in their hands, and some of them had even lit torches, and when the two sides were close enough, they set the small boat on fire.
The two armies of sailors, who did not have ships to take care of each other, marched in the opposite direction.
Seeing that the Jiangdong army that was within the range of the bow and arrow, the Jiangdong army that held the arrow on the string let go of the hand holding the bowstring and shot a puff of arrows at Zhou Yu's sailors on the opposite boat.
Pieces of feather arrows faced the river wind and flew towards the small boat of Zhou Yu's navy.
Zhou Yujun on the small boat held a shield and hid his body behind the shield to dodge the oncoming arrows.
The arrows fired by the Jiangdong Army did not ignite the flames.
The actions of Zhou Yu's navy had already shown their purpose, and they left the water village in order to set fire to the small boats and launch a fire attack on the Jiangdong army.
The direction of the wind on the river happened to be blowing towards the Jiangdong Army, and although there was still some distance between the two sides, the ignited small boats could still catch up with the Jiangdong Army's small boats along the wind.
Pieces of arrows flew towards Zhou Yujun on the small boat, and landed on the small boat piled up with withered grass.
The arrows were shot on the shield and the small boat, making a "crackling" sound, because the arrows were too dense, from time to time Zhou Yujun who was shot by the feather arrow fell on the small boat or simply fell into the water.
The two sides were getting closer and closer, and Zhou Yu's sailors, armed with torches, fended off the oncoming arrows while throwing the torches on the dead grass in the small boat.
The withered grass had already dried, and a lot of tung oil was poured on it, and the flames on the small boat burst into flames in an instant.
The withered grass was burning, and puffs of smoke came out, and Zhou Yujun, who had lit the flames, jumped into the river one after another, and swam towards the water village with the help of the cover of the river.
The Jiangdong Army, which was still some distance from them, hurriedly shot arrows at the soldiers who jumped into the water.
The arrows obscured a small piece of the sky, and when they fell, it happened to be Zhou Yu's sailor flying towards the water.
Some of Zhou Yu's sailors, who were not very lucky, were shot by falling arrows, and sank into the Yangtze River with streams of red blood in the river waves.
More sailors, while struggling to paddle the water, avoided arrows falling from above.
The small boat, which was burning with raging flames, was pushed by the wind and crashed towards the Jiangdong naval army.
The Jiangdong Navy who rowed up to meet them was also a little flustered in their hearts when they saw that the oncoming boats were burned into fireballs and were rushing towards them.
The order given by Lu Xun was to ask them to intercept the small boats of Zhou Yu's navy, so as not to burn the flames to the ship.
Panicked in their hearts, but they didn't dare to retreat, the soldiers of the Jiangdong Army had to open their longbows and shoot arrows at Zhou Yujun, who was swimming hard, to relieve the pressure in their hearts.
Pieces of arrows flew towards Zhou Yujun, who was swimming and evacuating, but they couldn't stop the small boat that was burning with flames.
"Peng!" With a dull loud bang, the small boat burning with flames in the front collided with a small boat of the Jiangdong Army.
The two boats collided, and due to the action of inertia, the flames on the small boats that burned the flames instantly scattered, and the fireballs fell on the small boats of the Jiangdong Army.
The Jiangdong Army on the small boat was hit by the fire, and the bodies of several people immediately burned with flames.
The flames were jumping on their bodies, and those Jiangdong soldiers shouted, fluttering the flames on their bodies in a panic, and some even jumped into the water altogether.
Jiang Dongjun, who was burning with flames on his body, jumped into the water, and the flames were swallowed by the river and extinguished in an instant.
A Jiangdong soldier jumped into the river from a burning boat, the flames on his body were extinguished, and he also felt a lot more comfortable with his body.
As soon as his head popped out of the river, two small boats squeezed up at him, one left and one right.
The speed of the small boat was extremely fast, and he wanted to sink into the water to dodge, but it was too late, so he could only be squeezed by the two small boats that were not slow.
The bows of the two small boats collided with the Jiangdong Army, and the Jiangdong Army only felt a pain all over his body, and his head was like a bubble filled with water, and it was shattered with a "pop" sound.
The huge impact force made the Jiangdong Army's brains burst in an instant, and it sank into the river in a cloud of red on the surface of the river.
One after another, the small boats collided with the Jiangdong Naval Army, but in an instant, the water was full of flames, screaming again and again.
Lu Xun, who was standing on the bow of the building ship and watching the battle, looked solemn.
In this battle, the losses of the Jiangdong Navy were not very heavy, although Zhou Yu's Navy did not send many small boats, but their warships were scarce after all, according to the proportion, the losses of Zhou Yu's Navy were much larger.
But Lu Xun couldn't relax, he always felt that there was something strange in this matter.
The purpose of Zhou Yu's navy was too obvious, and it was clear to them that Zhou Yu's navy would launch a fire attack on them.
Lu Xun didn't believe that Zhou Yu would be so brainless when he used strategy, and clearly told him that he was going to use fire attack, which undoubtedly allowed him to respond in a very short time.
For Zhou Yu, who was also engaged in front of the Sun family in Jiangdong, Lu Xun had already studied it.
Zhou Yu's strategy will definitely not be as simple as this.
He must have a back hand......
Lu Xun expected that Zhou Yu would send a navy with good water quality, taking advantage of the small battle between the two sides, to come to the Jiangdong military building ship, and use an iron chisel to chisel the building ship.
To his surprise, Zhou Yu's navy army did not do that, but only sent Xiaoge to launch a wave of fierce attacks against them, and then there was no other movement.
The abnormal phenomenon made Lu Xun always feel a little uneasy in his heart.
Looking at the flaming river, the expression on his face was more solemn than before.
"The Grand Duke!" Just looking at the battlefield, Huang Gai quickly came behind Lu Xun, arched his fist at him and said: "Our army is safe, five hundred soldiers have already been prepared, but no one from Zhou Yu's navy has come to sneak attack!" ”
"I know!" Nodding, Lu Xun's face was solemn and did not lose half a point, and said to Huang Gai: "Inform the five hundred soldiers and ask them not to slack off at any time." Although Zhou Yu's navy did not attack the building ship this time, it is difficult to guarantee that he will not come back next time! ”
Huang Gai answered, and glanced at the river that was rushing to the sky, and there was a trace of doubt in his eyes.
Lu Xun said that Zhou Yu's navy would definitely come to raid the ship, but the flames on the battlefield were soaring, and even if Zhou Yu's navy was familiar with water, it would be difficult for it to pass through the battlefield burning with raging flames.
didn't see Zhou Yu's navy raiding the ship, Lu Xun and Huang Gai were full of doubts, and Zhao Yun was also puzzled.
Looking at the burning river, Zhao Yun asked Zhou Yu, who was standing beside him, "General, the two hundred warriors are ready, why don't you attack the enemy's ship?" ”
"The enemy army met the enemy with small boats, which obviously dealt with our army's fire attack!" Also looking at the raging river in the distance, Zhou Yu said: "Our army attacked the enemy with half of the small boats, if a certain is the main general of the enemy army, he must have expected that our army will have a backhand. Where's the back hand? ”
Turning his head to look at Zhao Yun, Zhou Yu smiled slightly and said: "The enemy commander must have expected that our purpose is in their building ship, if we send soldiers at this time, the enemy army should have a sergeant into the water!" We have few soldiers, and even fewer soldiers who are familiar with water, if we fail to strike a blow, we will have to attack again in the future, and I am afraid that there will be no one to go! So he ordered the soldiers to be on standby, waiting for nothing more than the best time to attack! ”
Zhao Yun didn't expect so much at all, looking at the flaming river, his brows were already tightly furrowed.
The attack launched by Zhou Yu's naval army used almost half of the small boats in the army, and the strength of the naval army was already less than half.
The fire on the river was soaring, screaming again and again, and every moment the Jiangdong army was burning with flames jumping into the water.
Such a noisy scene was a suitable pass for a surprise attack by two hundred sailors, but Zhou Yu was able to hold his ground, and never gave the order to fight to those sailors who were tasked with destroying the enemy's ships.
Fifty small boats burning with flames crashed into the small boats of the Jiangdong Army, and there were more than 100 small boats of the Jiangdong Army that were implicated, to say the least.
The Jiangdong Army on the small boat jumped into the water one after another, desperately pulling the surface of the water and swimming towards the boat formation.
There are also some Jiangdong soldiers, the flames burning on their bodies are too strong, after jumping into the water, the hot flames are extinguished by the cold river water, under the combination of cold and heat, the eyes are dark, and they sink into the river.
In the main formation of the Jiangdong Army, Xiaoge and Lou Boat did not advance again, and the Jiangdong Army, which faced the burning flames of Zhou Yu's sailors, stepped forward with Xiaoge, and when they arrived in the center of the river, they threw a large stone tied with ropes into the water to stabilize Xiaoge.
Zhou Yujun's small boat, which was burning with flames, although he set all these boats on fire, could not continue to take half a step forward, but burned them together with the boats that came up against them.
The rushing river passed by the raging flames, as if it had been burned to a boil, rolling the waves and flowing downstream.
Pieces of wood charred and blackened by burning drifted away along the current, and there were also some corpses of Jiangdong Army, mixed with these wooden blocks, drifting down.
As the flames died down, the battle finally drew to a close.
Until the end, Lu Xun still didn't wait for Zhou Yujun's surprise attack, and the expression on his face was even more solemn than before.
Zhou Yu sent half of the small boats to attack, but it did not cause any effective damage to the Jiangdong Army at all, not only did it not make Lu Xun feel relieved, but it made him feel that the battle to besiege Zhou Yu's water village would not be as simple as he expected earlier.
In the water village, more than 200 soldiers who already knew what task they were going to perform looked at the flames that were gradually extinguishing, and their faces were also confused.
Nearly half of the navy army went out of the village and launched this attack on the Jiangdong Army, but in the end it ended in such a hurry, even they felt that Zhou Yu's attack was a little unwise.
"Did you pick up a life?" The flames on the surface of the river became smaller and smaller, and a sentence came out of the mouth of a water army.