Chapter 492: Cao Cao's performance
Time passed slowly, and in the blink of an eye, a few days passed.
On the Yangtze River, the fleet that has always been huge is amazing, killing towards the east, this is Cao Cao's newly formed fleet.
When passing by Wulin on the way, there was a pause, and this pause was a day, and the scouts of the Sun-Liu Alliance came quickly, hoping to inquire about Cao Cao's news, but no matter how they inquired, they could not find any useful news.
I only know that many of Ullin's equipment are loaded onto the ship, and some of the soldiers are also on the ship, and the others don't know anything.
Then Cao Cao's fleet continued to move forward, killing Zhou Yu's place.
Millions of miles away on the Yangtze River, Zhou Yu's thousands of ships were ready to go, although compared to the number and scale, far inferior to Cao Cao's fleet, but Zhou Yu was very confident, he was confident that he could easily defeat Cao Cao's fleet, at most it would only consume a little time.
In the center of thousands of building ships, a huge building ship showed his extraordinary, it was Zhou Yu's car, a high-end building ship.
At this moment, on the huge ship, there was a dense flow of people, and countless figures moved, bringing the news of the enemy in turn.
"Report to the Grand Governor, the enemy is still two hours away."
"Report to the Grand Governor, the enemy vanguard is still an hour away."
"Report to the Grand Governor, the enemy water ghost has been found nearby."
Zhou Yu stood on the side of the ship, listening to the news from his subordinates, and in his mind, a map was spread out, with information about two armies, one of which was himself, and the other was Cao Cao's.
He is familiar with the terrain along the Yangtze River, and he has long memorized the map in his mind, and he knows the location without looking at the map.
Now that he has received definite news and knows Cao Cao's movements, Zhou Yu is ready to take the lead in attacking.
"Pass my order, the army will attack, target the enemy scout, and take it in one battle." Zhou Yu clenched his fists and gave the order to fight.
After receiving Zhou Yu's orders, thousands of building ships began to move towards the enemy vanguard in the west.
Although there is a large difference in numbers, command is no more important in water battles than on land, and a wrong command will lose the opportunity for victory.
Zhou Yu's attack unexpectedly overwhelmed the vanguard of the Cao army, and in the face of Zhou Yu on the water, they didn't even know how to attack, and they didn't react until the enemy began to attack.
"Catapult, attack, attack.".
"Wait for the enemy to approach, the archers shoot, shoot." Noisy orders began to sound, making Cao Jun on the ship very flustered.
This gave Zhou Yu greater confidence, and ordered the building ship to aim at the enemy and crash it directly.
Zhou Yu's building ship, compared to the enemy's ship, is even larger, and the front is equipped with a ramming angle, which can be directly collided with in the face of a ship smaller than himself.
The impact of the building boat made Cao Jun completely dumbfounded, and even Xiahou Yuan, the general of the unified army, didn't know what to do, in the final analysis, he had never fought a water battle, and he didn't know how to deal with it.
Most of the thousands of ships were sunk by Zhou Yu's impact in this way, and the rest were also shaken violently, so that the soldiers above had no intention of fighting.
This made Xiahou Yuan unhappy, although he came to send him to death, but as long as he had to kill and injure the enemy, otherwise it would be too embarrassing.
"Archer, shoot me." Looking at the enemy ship that was close at hand, Xiahou Yuan decisively gave the order to fight.
Even if I die, let the enemy eat my arrow.
On the ship's flagship, Xiahou Yuan held a bow and arrow, aimed at the largest of the building ships, and directly began to shoot, he is now a red-grade general, as long as he is given time, it will be easy to destroy the enemy's building ship.
It's a pity that in response to Xiahou Yuan's attack, he was blocked by a red figure, seeing that his arrow was stopped, Xiahou Yuan could only shake his head, he recognized that figure, it was Gan Ning Gan Xingba.
Originally, he was not Gan Ning's opponent before, but now he is also a red grade, and the time is about the same, he wants to fight with Gan Ning to see who is stronger.
"General, let's retreat, if we don't retreat, we will destroy the whole army." At this time, Xiahou Yuan's lieutenant came to his side and asked Xiahou Yuan to give the order to retreat.
If it was on land, Xiahou Yuan would directly kill this lieutenant general, but at the moment it was on the water, and the lieutenant general was concerned about the forward army, and Xiahou Yuan had no reason to kill him.
Listening to the lieutenant general's words, Xiahou Yuan could only sigh, he wanted to tell the lieutenant general the purpose of this battle, but he couldn't say it.
"That's it, give me the order, move quickly towards the shore, and escape as much as you can." In the end, Xiahou Yuan gave the order to retreat.
As soon as this order was issued, the remaining ships began to split apart and scatter and flee.
Cao Jun's actions made Zhou Yu laugh, and he didn't care about anything else, he directly separated the army, and wanted to strangle the enemy's ships one by one, and he chased after Xiahou Yuan's ship flagship to kill them.
For a moment, the entire river was full of fleeing ships and the building ships chasing behind them.
Half an hour later, Zhou Yu gathered his army and began to kill the enemy's main formation.
The joy of solving the enemy's vanguard made the morale of the army high, but Zhou Yu was a little puzzled, why the enemy's combat effectiveness was so weak, and he was defeated as soon as he met, this is not like Cao Cao's style, and Cai Mao's water battle is not weak, and he will not tell Cao Cao how to fight, which seems a little too strange.
Zhou Yu's side, Gan Ning held a water dividing knife, guarding his side at all times, when chasing Xiahou Yuan, Zhou Yu was almost hit by an arrow, fortunately he was stopped, otherwise Zhou Yu would have been injured or even killed.
"Governor, what's wrong with you?" Seeing that Zhou Yu's face was wrong, Gan Ning asked directly.
"Xingba, isn't the enemy too weak?" Zhou Yu asked the doubts in his heart, hoping to get an answer from Gan Ning.
"It's nothing, this is the proper command of the Grand Governor, the other party simply treats the naval army as the command of the land army, how can there be a reason to be undefeated." Gan Ning said truthfully.
"Even so, I think there's something wrong, but it's a strange feeling that I can't notice it for a while." Zhou Yu muttered.
Just as Gan Ning wanted to continue asking, the shouts of the soldiers in the distance woke them up.
"The enemy has been found, the enemy has been found."
It turned out that he was about to encounter the enemy, and he was about to collide with Cao Cao's main formation, and the huge fleet made Zhou Yu dumbfounded, because there were too many enemies.
But after a while, Zhou Yu laughed excitedly, not only him, but also Gan Ning.
Because Cao Cao's fleet was too regular, it was like laying out a formation on the Yangtze River, slowly advancing, and if someone flew in the sky, he would find that the fleet that had been huge was presenting a phalanx, heading forward.
Once one side is attacked, other ships will surround the enemy, encircling and encroaching on the enemy, this is Cao Cao's style of play.
In the face of Cao Cao's style of play, Zhou Yu finally let go of his hanging heart, and didn't even think about the doubts he had before, as long as he eliminated the enemy, everything else was nothing.
"Xingba, it's time for you to perform, don't play too long, and act according to the plan." Zhou Yu patted Gan Ning on the shoulder and handed over the next battle to Gan Ning.
When Gan Ning heard this, he was very excited, and swore to Zhou Yu with his fists that he would definitely complete the task.
At the same time that Zhou Yu saw Cao Cao, Cao Cao's army also saw Zhou Yu's army of building boats, and looking at the state of being completely crushed in numbers, the morale of Cao Cao's army was high.
On the flagship of Cao Cao's ship, a super huge ship appeared there, it was a super ship built by Cao Cao, ten times the size of an ordinary ship, three times the size of a high-grade ship, even Zhou Yu's building ship was like a toy in front of him, it was too huge.
At this time, Cao Cao stood at the highest level, looking at the distant scene, at the limit of the line of sight, countless blurred scenes were slowly magnifying, they were Zhou Yu's army of buildings.
"Report, the enemy is still three hundred miles away from here." The scout's message made Cao Cao nod.
Thinking back to the news from the scout just now, he knew that Xiahou Yuan was safe, but the vanguard army was wiped out, which made Xiahou Yuan's state a little bad, and the deputy general who had followed him for a long time died in battle, which was a bit of a big blow to him.
"Lord, give the order, as long as you slowly surround the enemy, you can take down Zhou Yu, with an absolute number, no matter how strong Zhou Yu is, he is not our opponent, it just needs to consume some." Cai Mao's words surprised Cao Cao a little.
At the same time as Xiahou Yuan was defeated, he also knew the scale of Zhou Yulou's ship, in terms of numbers, he had an absolute advantage, even if he was not familiar with water warfare, if he handed over the command to Cai Mao, he would be able to win.
But what he wanted was not victory, but defeat, and a big defeat.
"Oh, how?" Cao Cao asked deliberately.
Hearing Cao Cao's words, Cai Mao thought that Cao Cao had listened to it, and said the attention of the water battle one by one, and then waited for Cao Cao's decision.
He didn't dare to say anything at will, in Cao Cao's camp, his status was not high, he had no way of knowing some confidential information, and he didn't know the nature of this battle.
After listening to Cai Mao's words, Cao Cao had some understanding of water warfare, unlike battles on land, be careful of the enemies under and on the water, and also be careful of the enemy's fireships, and the rest is similar to the battle on land.
"I see, can our water ghosts hold back the enemy?" Cao Cao asked again.
"Well, it should work." Cai Mao uttered an ambiguous word.
Listening to Cai Mao's words, Cao Cao was a little disappointed, if Cai Mao was sure and could do it, he would be able to enter his core and officially become his subordinate, but looking at his cautious appearance, he was a little disappointed.
"Oh, in that case, you go and stop the enemy's water ghosts, and don't worry about the rest." After finishing speaking, Cao Cao turned around directly, leaving the stunned Cai Mao.
Subsequently, Cai Mao reacted, this is Cao Cao gave him an order, if he can do it well, it will be a great joy, if he can't do it well, it is estimated that he will not have tomorrow.
Gritting his teeth, Cai Mao sent all the water ghosts he had recently trained to fight to the death with Gan Ning, in terms of quality, I am not your opponent, then I will use the quantity to make up for it.
When Cai Mao began to act, all his movements were reported to Cao Cao, and when Cao Cao learned about it, he ordered the whole army to storm and crush Zhou Yu's building ship at once.
Of course, when everyone left, Cao Cao sat alone in the room, muttering to himself.
"The show is about to begin."