340 Burning Chibi
Yu Ban learned from Cao Cao that Gan Ning was innocently beaten and had betrayed Zhou Yu, which was the internal response of his own side, and now he saw Gan Ning coming with Zhou Yu's head, and immediately laughed.
"Victory or defeat is decided!"
Yu Ban drank and ordered the warship to get out of the way, he wanted to see for himself, how miserable Zhou Yu's death was, and whether it would be a blind death? Just when Gan Ning's big boat was less than 100 meters away from him, Gan Ning put the cloth bag in his hand up, and then threw it hard, and the cloth bag landed on the bow of the forbidden ship with a beautiful parabola.
There was a bang, with a bit of brittleness, but Yu Ban frowned, feeling that this voice was wrong, didn't Zhou Yu's head grow out of flesh?
Yu Ban couldn't help but step forward quickly and open the bag, just glanced at it, and then tilted his nose angrily, where is Zhou Yu's head, it is clearly a wooden lump in the shape of a human head!
"Gan Ning, what do you mean by this?" Yu Ban was furious, and immediately understood that Gan Ning was in charge.
Gan Ning sneered, did not answer, but quickly manipulated the bow and crossbow behind him, and shot at Yu Ban is arrow, Gan Ning is an archer, Yu Ban saw this and hurriedly dodged, but he was still shot in the left arm, and the blood immediately did not stop.
"You must not let go of Gan Ning!" Yu Ban was annoyed and ashamed, shouted loudly, and was so angry that he kicked the fake Zhou Yu's head into the river.
Gan Ning had already prepared, and the big ship retreated at a very fast speed, and then, the drums on the Jiangdong warship suddenly became urgent, and countless archers came out of the big ship, lit the cloth stained with grease on the arrows, and shot towards the big ship of Cao Jun.
In an instant, countless arrows that were on fire fell on Cao Jun's warship, and Cao Bing suddenly fell into chaos, hurriedly dealing with these flames, but it gave Gan Ning a chance to retreat while fighting backwards.
This is exactly the backup method that Zhou Yu took to worry that Zhuge Liang would not be able to borrow the east wind, and used rockets to carry out a melee attack in the name of Gan Ning pretending to surrender.
Although these burning arrows caused some trouble to Cao's army, they were not enough to make him retreat, and he could pick them up or kick them to throw them into the river. During this period, although some soldiers were hit by arrows, they were not killed immediately, and there were also cases where the sail deck was burning, which was nothing more than a spark, and of course the fire spread as described in the book did not occur, but only delayed some progress.
Yu Ban, who had always been conceited, was hindered several times, and his indignation in his heart could be imagined, so he immediately ordered to divide his troops and horses to attack Gan Ning's warships with all his might, and the rest of the warships rushed to land on the beach with all their might.
However, just as the ban had just given the order, the Kong Ming lanterns floating high above their heads suddenly fell down one after another like kites with broken strings, and in the process of falling, they turned into burning fireballs one after another.
A rain of fire fell from the sky, like a star falling, the momentum was very amazing, the injured Yu Ban had never seen this phenomenon, he was so frightened that he almost went out of his body, he hurriedly ordered the big ship to dodge the fire rain, where is there still time, there are quite a lot of ships, there are only a few fists between them, and it is impossible to evacuate in a short time.
The rain of fire still fell, and at least a quarter of the fireball still fell on most of the warships or Cao soldiers. This is an improved version of the large Kong Ming lantern, full of firepower, it is still burning after falling, and it feels scorching when you get closer, and you can only use weapons to pick it into the river.
Although the soldiers of the Cao army tried their best to extinguish the fire, there were still many warships burning, the fire borrowed the wind, the more it burned, the more it burned, the warship soon became a fireboat, the soldiers could not dodge, and finally could only jump into the icy river, the fireboat was full of smoke, and the soldiers who fell into the water were not allowed to approach the hull, and then went to find safety in the panic, the scene was very chaotic.
Gan Ning's warship was far away, and he calculated the direction in advance, but he did not receive any attack, seeing that Cao's soldiers were in chaos, Gan Ning led the warship to perch on it again, and continued to set fire to Cao Bing who fell into the water.
Zhou Yu looked at it from the high platform, and the river below had become a sea of fire, and he couldn't help but secretly admire that Zhuge Liang and Wang Baoyu were really geniuses.
Seeing that half of the warships were burned, although Yu Ban was extremely unwilling, in order to preserve his strength, he completely gave up the idea of attacking Jiangdong, and hurriedly ordered the gong to be sounded loudly, and at the same time gave the order, "Withdraw the troops quickly!" ”
The remaining big ships that were not on fire or burned poorly hurriedly turned their bows and fled in a hurry towards the way they came, but it was too late at all, only to hear the sound of drums, accompanied by the sound of shouting and killing, the Jiangdong fleet that had been ambushed in advance, all the warships were dispatched, and the soldiers were divided into four routes, and they chased and killed the Cao soldiers warship together.
In the battle between the two armies, in addition to the factor of the number of troops, there is a more important factor, that is, bravery. Today's Cao soldiers have been frightened by the fire, and they only care about escaping one by one, and they have no intention of fighting at all, and the Jiangdong soldiers are at the time of high morale, and their combat effectiveness at this time is the most powerful.
Hundreds of clippers raised their sails and chased Cao Bing's warship with the wind, and at the same time, more burning arrows shot at Cao Bing's warship, and many soldiers' clothes were on fire, jumping into the river regardless of it, most of them did not know the nature of water, and the weather was cold, the armor was bulky, and countless drowned and froze to death.
Subsequently, large warships in Jiangdong came one after another, all of them were Mengchong ships, and they were even more crazy to shoot arrows at Cao Bing, and there were also the kind of warships wrapped in iron sheets, which directly collided with Cao Jun's warships.
Seeing that he could not escape, Yu Ban hurriedly ordered the bow of the ship to turn around and fight back with all his might, and on the Yangtze River, an unprecedented war began.
The sound of arrows whizzing through the air, the sound of fire spreading, the screams of soldiers in pain, the crashing of warships, all kinds of sounds come together, so huge that people are frightened, and people feel as if they are not careful, they will be shocked out of their bodies by the sound.
After the ban was burned, there were still more than 100,000 troops left, but the army's morale was weakened, and it was beaten by tens of thousands of troops in Jiangdong and retreated, with countless casualties.
Just when the Jiangdong army was about to achieve a complete victory, Cao Yingzhong suddenly sounded the marching drum, but it turned out that Cai Mao Zhang Yun led the remaining 50,000 sailors to rush out of Dazhai and come to meet Yu Ban.
Cai Mao and Zhang Yun did not support such a reckless march, but they were soft-spoken, and because they had lost the battle, their opinions were not adopted by Yu Ban at all, and now they saw that there was a fire on the river, and Yu Ban's army was frantically evacuating, knowing that the situation was not good, they hurriedly brought the water army guarding the village to respond.
Zhou Yu, who was standing on a high platform to watch the battle, did not expect that Cai Mao Zhang Yun, who he had never looked down on, would have such a backhand, and he was suddenly shocked and hurriedly ordered the withdrawal of the whole line.