Chapter 147 The First Wave of Mine Attacks

Gan Ning felt a little guilty when she saw Gu Tan's wolf appearance, so she stopped and said, "I'm sorry, I didn't control my strength for a while, are you okay?" ”

"General, General Gan, this letter is not simple, and I ask the general to forward the letter to the Grand Duke." Who knew that Gu Tan didn't care about his injuries, but endured the pain and continued to dwell on the issue of faith.

Seeing Gu Tan like this, Gan Ning had no choice but to say: "Forget it, you can deal with this letter as you like, it doesn't matter." After saying that, he waved his sleeves and went straight out to patrol the camp.

Seeing Gan Ning's promise, Gu Tan breathed a sigh of relief. He vaguely felt that this matter was not simple, but he couldn't tell how it was not simple. The matter was very important, he didn't dare to delay, reluctantly put the letter on the desk into his arms, transferred a fast boat, and hurried to Xiakou to personally deliver the letter to Lu Xun.

Lu Xun personally met Gu Tan, he read the letter presented to him by Gu Tan, frowned and thought for a long time, and suddenly shouted: "Not good!" ”

Gu Tanzheng looked at him nervously, startled by his shout, and hurriedly asked, "Governor, what's wrong?" ”

This must be the words of the Emperor of Shu to shirk responsibility. So why should he shirk responsibility? It must be that he has some plot against me. Our two countries are allies, and it is difficult for him to deal with us clearly, so he uses this clumsy excuse to shirk responsibility. ”

I have to say that Lu Xun is indeed the top strategist of this era, and his guess is not far from the truth.

When Gu Tan heard this, he became even more nervous, and asked, "Governor Dadu, what kind of plans does the Emperor of Shu have for my Wu Kingdom?" ”

"The old man didn't know what the specific plot was, but he knew that they must have plotted against him. The little emperor of Shu has always been insidious and vicious, and his warning should not be underestimated. The matter is very important, you go back immediately, take the order of the governor of Pontus, and ask Gan Ning to withdraw the fleet immediately, and the sailor cannot continue to stay there, otherwise the fleet will definitely be in danger. ”

Gu Tan was taken aback, he didn't expect that this letter would be treated diametrically opposite to that of Gan Ning by Lu Xun, nor did he expect Lu Xun to attach so much importance to this letter. However, he also knew that this matter must be important and could not be delayed. After he received Lu Xun's arrows, he immediately rushed back to the naval camp overnight.

Unfortunately, he was still a step too late, and when he returned to the water village, he saw the water village in the midst of a raging fire, and the entire fleet was almost half destroyed.

A few hours ago, Liu Hou personally went to the Jingzhou wharf to bid farewell to the mine-laying troops. He chose to release mines at night, mainly because he wanted to use the cover of night to make mines more difficult to detect. Although the mine is half-sunken and half-floating, and only a small section is exposed on the water surface, it is inevitable that it will still be seen by people who are interested in the daylight and white daylight.

At night, there were no searchlights, not even electric lights, and lighting relied on lanterns, torches, oil lamps, candles, etc. The common feature of these things is that the light emitted is very faint and the range that can illuminate is very small. It is difficult to illuminate things on the water surface clearly, especially those buildings that are more than ten meters high, and it is even more difficult to reach the water surface at night.

Liu Hou ordered people to paint all the mines black with black paint, just like a ninja wearing a night suit, so that it would be even more difficult for the people of Eastern Wu to find these strange little things.

At that time, several minelaying boats of the Shu army were already close to the water village of Dongwu, and the leader was a battalion commander, who looked at the leaky pot, and the appointed time had arrived. So, he waved his hand and said in a low voice: "Order down, the third phase of the Lei Hai Plan will be implemented." ”

"No!" A soldier next to him answered, stood up, pouted and let out a few owl-like "hooo, hoo, hooo" calls. The voice is sharp and poignant, and it sounds creepy.

There were a few "croaking" frog calls in all directions, which seemed to respond to the owl calls here, but the length of each frog call was different, and there seemed to be a certain pattern. The soldier listened attentively for a while, then turned back to the battalion commander who led the team and said, "Battalion commander, orders have been received on all boats. ”

"Okay, let's get started." As soon as his words fell, the soldiers on the ship began to act. I saw that they took out black and long thorny mines and threw them into the water according to a certain distance. The same is true for other minelayers, which move mines out and drop them in the water.

In an instant, a hundred mines drifted down the current to the starry downstream. Where the starlight flickered, it was the naval camp of the Dongwu people, and the bright light that looked like starlight in the distance was the windproof lantern hanging on all kinds of ships.

Unfortunately, although there are a lot of these lanterns, their light is too small to illuminate the range effectively, and relying on the bright light they emit, it is impossible to detect the black death floating on the river.

Only about half of the first wave of the Grim Reaper slipped into the water and hung on various boats. The remaining half was hung on the fence.

The water village of Soochow is surrounded by a fence, or fence wall, of course, the fence is not made of thin bamboo, but made of thick logs nailed to the bottom of the river. If an enemy ship wants to attack the water, it will be temporarily blocked by these thick wooden stakes.

The Soochow people cooperated with the patrolling clippers and could easily spot the invading enemy. These fence walls are also very good for defense, and if the enemy wants to attack, they can generally only enter through the entrance of the water wall, which is not very wide in front of the water wall. Otherwise, you will have to brave the rain of arrows from the defenders to clear these fence walls, and when you are done, you don't know how many people will be lost.

These fence walls are closely spaced between the stakes and reinforced with horizontal and diagonal stakes, which are impassable for even the smallest boats, but do not include mines. The mine is only the diameter of a bucket and can easily pass through the stakes and of course, there are many lucky ones who hit the stakes directly, and the sharp steel needles hold them firmly to the stakes.

The fuses in the first wave of mines of the "Boom Boom Boom ......" finally burned out, and the explosives # inside were detonated one after another in a very short time. The fence wall on the upstream side was blown to pieces, and some small speedboats patrolling near the fence wall were also affected by the explosion, killing and injuring many people, and even a patrol speedboat that was too close was directly sunk.

The entire Dongwu Water Village facing the upstream side has opened its door to the Shu Kingdom, and the various ships inside are no longer a little blocked, becoming a group of unguarded and unguarded small fresh meat.

In addition to the collapse of the fence wall, the harvest of about 50 mines that leaked in was even greater, because the ships of Soochow were parked densely, these 50 mines were all hung on the ships without exception, and when they exploded, more than 40 ships were affected, the small ships were directly sunk, and the large ones were also severely damaged. Some of the ships were even on fire.

Some of the fires were not directly caused by the explosion of the mine, but because the explosion of the mine caused a huge vibration of the ship's hull, which caused the fire on the ship to be overturned, thus igniting the flammable materials on the ship.

As mentioned earlier, ships usually have lanterns, torches, oil lamps, and candles to help the sentries observe the river at night and prevent enemy attacks.

Although the range of these fires can be illuminated is very small, it is better than nothing, and it is better than a pitch black, so the people of Dongwu are still very willing to light a lot of fires at night. These fires are always accidentally ignited by some flammable materials in the huge explosion vibration, thus causing a fire.

"Enemy Attack ......"

"Dangdangdang......"

The Dongwu Water Village was boiling, and the shouts of soldiers were heard everywhere, as well as the warning sound of gongs. Such a loud sound woke up the Soochow naval forces on the nearby ships, and they quickly put on their belts, brought their weapons and equipment, and prepared for battle as quickly as possible.

Unfortunately, when they got out of the cabin and ran to the deck, they didn't see where the enemy was, only a few ships were slowly sinking, some of them were in flames, many wounded soldiers were wailing, and some soldiers who had fallen into the water were fluttering in the water, waiting for rescue.

Before the Eastern Wu soldiers could figure out what was going on, the second wave of mines had already arrived. A thousand mines were divided into ten batches of 100 each, with a planned interval of half an hour between each wave, so that the whole attack could last five hours, just in time for dawn.

Of course, the second wave of attacks did not have an interval of half an hour, only about ten minutes, because half of the first wave of mines was blocked by the fence wall, and the first wave of mines was too small to hit the ships of Soochow, so the second wave arrived later and played the role of replenishing the guns.

After that, the plot was performed completely according to Liu Hou's pre-written script, and the Shu army released a wave of mines every half hour or so, blowing up the fleet of Eastern Wu with extremely heavy losses.

The black light is blind, the Dongwu people are stunned that they did not find the monster hidden under the water, even if the back is due to the fire of many ships, the illuminated river surface is as bright as day, many people have seen the half-floating and half-sinking mines in the water, but they still think that these black things are the things that fell from their own ship, and no one can think that the disaster of the Dongwu fleet tonight is caused by these black things.

They were not to blame, they had never seen or even heard of such a horror as a mine, which was beyond their knowledge and imagination. It's normal for them not to know that this is a deadly mine.

Due to the unexplained attack, the entire Soochow fleet became panicked. When encountering phenomena that cannot be explained by their own knowledge, many people will rely on supernatural powers, and it is most convenient to explain them with strange things. At this time, it was no exception, and all kinds of legends of gods and monsters quickly spread among the Eastern Wu naval army, and the more mainstream saying was that the thunder god was angry and wanted to punish the people of Eastern Wu.

The same soldiers just guessed differently, but Gan Ning, who had read the warning letter sent by Liu Hou, had mixed feelings in his heart. At the beginning, he was disdainful of the letter of the Emperor of Shu and thought it was nonsense, but now this absurd and uninhibited thing is presented in front of him, how can he not be surprised? How can you not be annoyed and regretful?