As mentioned last time, the guns on both sides of the Jingzhou fired at the same time, sinking two medium-sized battleships of Soochow that were outflanked from both sides. The sailors on the Soochow ship jumped into the water one after another to escape, Liu Hou could not see these Soochow sailors floating and sinking on the surface of the water like dumplings, because after the Jingzhou was scattered by all the guns of the ship, the observer confirmed that the two enemy ships were in the water, and Liu Hou ordered to speed up the departure from this water.

Fortunately, Liu Hou ordered the Jingzhou to rush out of the encirclement of these two medium-sized warships of Soochow at full power, otherwise they would fall into a larger encirclement. It turned out that two medium-sized warships had already circled in front of the Jingzhou and were preparing to close over.

If the Jingzhou could not quickly resolve the battle just now, or had hesitated in place after the battle and did not flee immediately, it would now be surrounded by 4 medium-sized warships and more than 20 stern fighters behind it. At that time, even if the Jingzhou is strong again, it is estimated that it will be killed by the wolf tactics of Soochow.

Liu Hou broke out in a cold sweat, and thought, I really can't underestimate the Dongwu Navy, after all, people have many years of experience in water warfare, and even Cao Cao was deflated in the hands of the Dongwu Navy, so he must be careful and careful.

The Jingzhou narrowly broke out of the encirclement before the two Soochow warships in front of it closed up. The two Soochow warships were able to get close to the Jingzhou, and the soldiers on the ship had already grabbed the weapons in their hands and were ready to jump to the Jingzhou for hand-to-hand combat. Unexpectedly, the Jingzhou passed through the middle of the two ships with a "whoosh" like a spirit snake, and the distance was widened in a blink of an eye.

Just when the people of Dongwu looked at the ocean and sighed, the Jingzhou, which had reached 200 meters away, stopped, turned its hull sideways and aimed at the two pursuing Dongwu warships with its side. After the shelling just now, the people of the Eastern Wu also knew what was going on, and the two medium-sized warships immediately turned to both sides, trying to avoid the upcoming shelling of the Jingzhou, and only some of the warships still rushed towards this side.

But it was too late, the Jingzhou had already finished loading the ammunition, and after the ship stopped, it could be launched as long as it aimed slightly, and at a distance of 200 meters, the hit rate was very high. In an instant, a medium-sized battleship of Soochow was hit by more than 10 projectiles, and this time without waiting for the results to come up, Liu Hou ordered the Jingzhou to continue to move, and he wanted to continue to bleed the Soochow naval army during the movement.

This time, the Jingzhou adjusted its attitude and aimed its side at another medium-sized battleship of Soochow. The Jingzhou, which had a propeller, turned its head effortlessly, and quickly turned around and aimed its side at the Soochow battleship, which had fled to a distance of 300 meters.

Although the distance of 300 meters is not as high as 200 meters, it is not bad, only to hear the "boom" of artillery scattering, this Soochow medium-sized battleship was hit by 5 or 6 shells, and the ship was in chaos. The Jingzhou continued to shell it for two rounds until observers reported that signs of flooding had been observed, and Liu Hou ordered a halt to the shelling.

Unfortunately, under the command of Zhang Bao and Guan Xing, 10 8 thunderbolts were thrown beyond recognition, and they were instantly blown up beyond recognition, and ignited the flammable materials loaded in the ship, becoming luminous buoys in the river.

After sinking the two medium-sized warships and the two shipwives of Soochow, Liu Hou was surprised to find that there were no ships chasing after him like he had just done in a frenzied manner.

There was a mournful horn sound in the air, Liu Hou estimated that it was the military horn of the Eastern Wu Army, and all the Eastern Wu ships that were originally chasing the Jingzhou, whether they were medium-sized warships or warships, turned their bows and slowly retreated towards the Dongwu fleet.

The two medium-sized warships that had been shot earlier had not sunk for a while, probably knowing that it was impossible to do anything, the soldiers on board abandoned the ship one after another, and were picked up by the Soochow warship that caught up. In addition, there were only three or five ships left on the wide river cruising at various shipwreck points, trying to collect the Eastern Wu soldiers who abandoned their ships and soaked in the water.

Liu Hou looked far away and saw that on the Jingzhou dock in the distance, the Eastern Wu soldiers who had already landed and were preparing to attack Jingzhou City had re-boarded the ships that had come to pick them up, and the ships that were full of people immediately set sail out of the river and headed east.

"It seems that the people of Dongwu are going to retire." Standing next to Lee Fairway.

"What? Isn't this a fight? I haven't gotten it yet. Liu Hou looked at the retreating Dongwu fleet in the distance. Neither of them cared about the Soochow ships that had fallen on the river, and the warships had already sunk people, so it seemed unnecessary to beat the water dogs.

"Shizi, if we chase after it, with the speed of our Jingzhou, we can at least catch up and knock out one or two medium-sized warships." Li Qiu said.

"This ......" Liu Hou thought for a moment and said: "Forget it, it hasn't been long since the war started, and there are only a few ships sunk, and the Dongwu people still have an absolute advantage in strength." But they retreated, and who knows if there was some conspiracy. The Dongwu people are the most insidious, in case there is any trap in front of us, and then we will be miserable if we steal chickens and rice. After all, we only have one boat, so let's forget it, wait for the next time, and have a good time next time. ”

"But......" Li Qiu wanted to refute, but thinking about it, it seemed that it was really the case, why did the surging Eastern Wu army retreat for no reason?

Of course, Dongwu did not retreat for no reason, and at this moment, Sun Quan, who was on the ship of the Feiyun Building, was furious, swept the objects on the desk to the ground with one sleeve, and kicked over the short ones with one foot. The civil and military officials standing in front of him were silent, and they didn't dare to breathe.

Just now, under Lu Xun's hard persuasion, Sun Quan finally agreed to withdraw from the army, and he agreed to agree, but the anger in his chest had nowhere to vent, no, now he smashed the qiē he saw in front of him to vent his anger.

Soochow's losses were not as small as Liu Hou imagined. On the surface, there were thousands of ships in the Soochow fleet, but most of them were transport ships that transported troops, grain and grass, and siege equipment. There are not many real warships, and there are even fewer large and medium-sized warships, most of which are small warships such as shipwrecks and fighting ships, which are used for assault.

In a battle of less than an hour just now, Soochow was sunk by sinking a building ship, 6 medium-sized warships, and nearly 20 small warships. This is almost one-tenth of the strength of the Soochow battleship. And the enemy who caused such heavy losses was only one battleship, and what was even more infuriating was that this enemy ship was still unscathed after sinking so many of its own warships.

This time, they all witnessed a new way of water warfare, which was an epoch-making water warfare, without jumping gangs and hand-to-hand combat, without ramming horns, without water ghosts digging the bottom of the boat, and even the most skilled stern in Eastern Wu did not work.

The opponent just threw some big black balls from afar, and smashed all of his more than 20 battleships. And they didn't even know how the other party could throw so many big black balls so far in such a short time, and they guessed that Xishu must have mastered a very advanced and powerful stone throwing machine.

The battle was going on in a way they couldn't understand, and their losses were big enough to affect morale. And what they are most worried about is that even if they don't provoke it and concentrate on landing and preparing to attack Jingzhou City, this strange enemy warship will stick around their fleet like a maggot on tarsal bones, biting from time to time. In this case, your side will not be able to land smoothly.

In fact, Liu Hou thought exactly this way, and did so, and it was Liu Hou who ordered the first attack just now. Lu Xun saw through this, so he strongly persuaded Sun Quan to withdraw his troops and go back. Otherwise, when your own army has landed, you don't know how many ships will be lost and how many soldiers will be killed or wounded.

Although Sun Quan was unwilling, he had not lost his mind, and he had no choice but to retreat. However, his more than 1,000 ships and 100,000 troops were forced to retreat by the other party's ship, and it was rumored that his Sun Quan's face was lost along with the face of his old man Sun Jian and his brother Sun Ce, how could he not be angry. Angry to angry, but he couldn't do anything with the opponent's battleship, which was so fast that it couldn't even catch up.

This time the loss is too great, you know, the Jingzhou was built for several years to complete, how long will it take to build a Soochow battleship about the same size as the Jingzhou? Although it is said that the shipbuilding industry of Dongwu is far more developed than that of Xishu, but this time it lost 6 medium-sized warships at once, which is not something that can be replenished in a short period of time, not to mention that there is also a super-giant Lou Captain Chang'an. How much manpower and material resources will it take, and how much time will it take to rebuild a building ship?

Sun Quan's heart was dripping blood, and the enemy was behind, but he could only retreat in disgrace. He had to go, but he wasn't going to just walk away. The Soochow Navy has a tactic of crossing the Yangtze River with an iron lock, which is to use a large iron chain to block the Yangtze River, at this time, of course, it is impossible to stop the entire Yangtze River, and it is Lu Xun who proposed to make 6 medium-sized warships behind, and these 6 battleships are connected with thick iron chains.

The six battleships were lined up on the river, and it was difficult to detect them from the water when the chains sank in the water, but if a ship passed between any two of the six warships, the propellers and rudders at the bottom of the ships would inevitably be stuck in the chains, and the ships would be restricted.

These 6 warships deliberately slowed down and waited for the Jingzhou to chase after them, so as to avenge the attack just now, who knows that they will wait left and right, but they will not see it catch up. Due to Liu Hou's prudence, the Jingzhou escaped the catastrophe.

You must know that even if the Jingzhou has more than 90 cannons, once the speed is limited, there is a situation of death and no life, after all, the artillery loading speed is very slow, and it is impossible to ensure continuous firepower output. No matter how strong his musketeers are, they can't withstand the strong attack of 100,000 sailors.

Liu Hou sent a small reconnaissance ship to hang far behind the Soochow fleet to confirm that the Soochow army had really retreated. The six warships behind the Dongwu Navy Palace saw that the other party's strange warships were not fooled, and they had to retreat in disappointment. The Jingzhou returned to the Jingzhou dock smoothly, and Liu Hou led the guard battalion to board the dock and prepare to return to Jingzhou City.

On the dock, Liu Hou suddenly became happy when he saw the two-story building exposed by the stranded Chang'an next to the dock, and felt that he had not worked in vain this time, this huge building ship and a medium-sized warship next to it were repaired and repaired, maybe it could still be used. In the years since the Jingzhou was built, he has not been less than running to the dock, and he knows how amazing the materials required to build such a large ship are, especially the big tree that makes the keel, he can hardly believe that there is such a big tree in the world.

Now, there is a ready-made ship bigger than the Jingzhou in front of him, how can he not be elated, even if this ship can no longer be used, it is a great fortune to dismantle the wood for other purposes.

Liu Hou returned to Jingzhou City with his head held high with the triumphant return of the guard battalion, and Guo Youzhi and Fei Yi took the civil and military officials of Jingzhou City out of the city to greet them. After a big victory, it is natural to celebrate, Liu Hou did not hesitate, ordered the slaughter of pigs and sheep, and took out the wine to treat the soldiers.

This night, except for the soldiers on duty, everyone else was very drunk, Liu Hou was still a child, naturally he didn't drink, and no one dared to let him drink, of course, he also had something to drink, he asked people to grind some seasonal fruits into juice with a stone mill, and drank several large bowls of juice in one night.