Chapter 148: The Death of the Eastern Wu Naval Army

As mentioned last time, the Shu army launched the first wave of mine sneak attacks, and before Gan Ning, who regretted that his intestines were green, could react, the second wave of mine attacks occurred.

"Boom Boom" this time is stricter than the first time, because half of the first batch of mines was blocked by the fence wall, this time because most of the fence wall has been blown down, almost all the mines have entered the naval camp smoothly, and a hundred mines have played their greatest role.

This time, thirty or forty ships were badly damaged, and many of them sank immediately or slowly. Gan Ning's eyes were torn, and he immediately ordered his subordinates to prepare for battle, and dispatched a large number of patrol boats to swim around the water village to find the enemy who was sneaking up.

However, no matter how much they searched, they could not find the source of the enemy, in fact, there were no enemies around the water village at all, only a few minelaying boats upstream. Of course, the Dongwu people did not let go of the upper reaches, which was the direction of Shu and the direction that was most likely to be attacked by the enemy.

However, in front of the black rumbling, there seemed to be a hidden monster that chose people to devour, so that those patrol boats that acted as scouts did not dare to search too far upstream, and the minelaying ships of Shu were far enough away from the water village of Dongwu, and this distance was far enough for the mines to float along the current for an hour.

This distance is enough to keep them away from the scout ships of Soochow, of course, if the scout ships of Soochow really run that far and find them, then they will be greeted by a large number of horse crossbows that can fire fifty arrows in a row, and bed crossbows with range and penetration that can frighten people to death, and the crossbow arrows are less sound when fired, which is more suitable for night combat than firearms.

After half an hour of fuss, the Dongwu Water Village gradually began to quiet down. Those who fell into the water and did not die have been rescued, and those who could be extinguished by the burning boat have been extinguished, and those who could not have burned have almost sunk to the bottom of the river.

It seemed that the noise was about to subside, but at this time, the third wave of attacks came, or a hundred black mines, quietly drifting into the water village, and continued to severely damage dozens of Soochow ships.

Although the Dongwu people sent a lot of patrol boats, the lighting equipment was too poor, and on this dark and windy night of this month, even if the black shadow in the water was half-sinking and half-floating floating past their boat, it was easy for them to ignore it, so stupid that the Dongwu people never understood the source of the attack.

It wasn't until the sixth wave of attacks that someone discovered the black shadows in the water by the light of the skyrocketing fire from the burning ship in the water village. However, when they curiously scooped up a black shadow covered in thorns, before they could figure out what it was, the mine exploded in the middle of a group of curious people in Soochow.

The result was naturally flesh and blood, and no one who came to watch the monster on the scene was spared, which also made the Dongwu people miss a precious opportunity to know the source of the attack. It wasn't until the sky was white and the Soochow was tossed all night that he finally knew where these "heavenly thunders" came from.

However, this is already the penultimate wave of attacks. Although they knew the source of the attack, the people of Eastern Wu had no good way to stop these black gods of death for a while. Where do people in this era know how to clear mines, they can only fill it with human lives.

Dozens of patrol boats were sent upstream as cannon fodder to intercept mines. When they found a mine, they fished it onto the boat and then risked their lives to row as fast as they could to the shore. If you are lucky, you can throw the mines ashore before they explode, but if you are unlucky, the mines explode in their speedboat, and needless to say, even the people and the boat were blown to pieces and sank into the river together.

However, there are also a few eye-catching, they found a long bamboo pole, and after finding a mine, they used the long bamboo pole against the mine to prevent it from continuing to float downstream, so that even if the mine exploded, with the distance of a bamboo pole, at least not the whole boat would die.

Most of the people who are responsible for supporting the bamboo poles will still be killed, and even if they don't die immediately, they will be seriously injured, and they will inevitably drown after falling into the water. Many of the others in the boat were also injured by the shock or the dinghy that was overturned by the blast waves, but most of them were able to save their lives.

It's a pity that they were deceived by the black paint on the mines, and mistakenly thought that these strange things were made of iron and difficult to disassemble, and if they knew the inside story and knew that these were things made of wood or clay, they would definitely smash them at the first time, pour out the fire # or extinguish the leads.

When Gu Tan came back, it was when the sky was showing the white belly of the fish, and the water village was full of fire, and the water surface was full of broken boats, wooden planks, sawdust, flags, all kinds of daily necessities that could float in the boat, as well as the blood-stained river water, of course, there were also corpses and some stumps and broken arms.

Gu Tan couldn't believe his eyes, how long had he been gone, the water village that was originally majestic and full of flags was now so miserable, what the hell was going on? Cao Cao's defeat at Chibi back then was just such a tragic situation, right?

In this night attack, almost half of the ships of the fleet of Soochow were damaged, of which 200 were sunk and more than 300 were damaged by different means, most of the ships sunk by the bombing were small and medium-sized ships, and most of the large ships were injured but not sunk because of the application of watertight tank technology. It can be expected that for a long time to come, just repairing these ships will be enough for the Soochow people to have a headache.

This is still the result of encountering several waves of attacks, Gan Ning ordered the fleet to urgently move and flee outside the water wall, otherwise the losses would not be more than that. Unfortunately, the gate of the water village was too small, and the Dongwu people could not evacuate all the ships to the outside of the water village in time.

The losses were not large, about 600 dead and missing, and more than 1,000 wounded, but the wounding of Gan Ning, the commander of this fleet, became the biggest result of this sneak attack.

Gan Ning's ship was a building ship, and when the fleet was attacked, he immediately ran out to find out, and then simply commanded it on the deck. The fleet suffered an inexplicable attack and suffered heavy losses, Gan Ning was anxious, because of the poor vision at night, Gan Ning grabbed the side of the ship with both hands, leaned forward, and tried his best to look at some ships that were on fire in the distance.

However, no one expected that a mine would avoid all the ships, quietly come under the ship, and successfully nail it directly below Ganning's location.

Soochow's building ships were large and tall, with five-story buildings on board. Gan Ning stood on the highest fifth floor, more than ten meters from the water. At such a distance, he could not be killed, after all, this mine did not put such terrible things as iron pieces and nails.

However, the powerful impact and splash of water were enough to flipped Gan Ning into the water by surprise. Gan Ning fell from a height of more than ten meters into the water, although he was strong in martial arts, but he did not have the ability of Guo Jingjing and Fu Mingxia, although he also turned and churned in the air for a few and a half weeks, but he did not do a good job of pressing the water when entering the water.

Well, forget it, without mentioning the water splash, he didn't use the hardest part of the human body, the skull, to meet the powerful impact of the water, but made a leapfrog jump, smashing it on the surface of the water in a large shape.

Gan Ning is not young anymore, his physique is not as good as before, and the powerful impact force of more than ten meters high made him vomit a mouthful of blood, and he suffered internal injuries in the hall, and the person also passed out.

A few of his men were shaken off the boat, but many more were not injured, and when they saw their general fall into the water, they hurriedly went into the water to rescue them. It was also a blessing in misfortune, after the soldiers fished underwater like dumplings for a while, they finally fished up the unconscious Gan Ning.

Gan Ning was poured with a stomach of water, and his breathing had stopped, however, there were many ancient first aid methods in Huaxia, and for the first aid of drowning, as the largest fleet in China at that time, the Soochow Navy of course, also had a set of advanced first aid methods at that time.

A strong soldier carried Gan Ning behind him and ran up the deck. The water that Gan Ning choked on his lungs was poured out like this, and because the soldiers ran, Gan Ning's body was turned upside down, which was equivalent to doing a chest compression, and soon, a choking cough came from Gan Ning's mouth.

The soldiers cheered, knowing that their general had returned. This ancient first aid method for drowning is still very effective, of course, it is slightly inferior to the first aid method of artificial respiration and chest compressions taught to Zuo Ci by Liu Hou. After all, the first aid method was founded based on the advanced medical theories of later generations, and it has a good restart effect on short-term heartbeat and respiratory arrest.

Gan Ning was temporarily rescued and woken up, but the soldiers of Dongwu did not understand medical knowledge, Gan Ning fell into the water from a height of more than ten meters, and his body was already injured internally.

The mine sneak attack created by Liu Hou hit Gan Ning very hard, in addition to the physical injuries #, his psychological trauma was even more serious.

He was originally full of ambition and high spirits and was ready to find Guan Gong to fight a duel, but yesterday he was still in front of his subordinates to give instructions to the country, and he was disdainful of Liu Hou and a number of heroes of the time. His arrogance made him look down on many people, including Liu Hou and Cao Pi, who were all little white faces who relied on "Spelling Daddy" in his eyes.

In his eyes, none of these people are his opponents, and they are not even worthy of being his opponents, his opponents can only be big heroes of Guan Gong's level. He is confident that as long as he goes out on his own, he will definitely be able to defeat those little white faces, and even against Guan Gong, he is not afraid.

The record of these years also fully illustrates this point, he has indeed fought a lot of victories over the years, breaking the Huangzu according to Chu Pass, attacking Cao Ren to take Yiling, Zhen Yiyang rejecting Guan Yu, guarding Xiling to get Zhu Guang, leading the cavalry to attack Cao Ying, these past battles, that one is not a hard bone to gnaw, that opponent is not a famous hero, a real hero.

He won and defeated such a difficult battle and such a powerful opponent, but today, today he was defeated, and he was so inexplicably defeated and so aggrieved. He had no idea where the enemy's attack was coming from, and he didn't even see a single enemy, so he was defeated.

Not only defeated, but also suffered heavy losses, this fleet was almost half of the naval strength of Eastern Wu, Sun Quan handed it over to him, but he only took half of the night, so inexplicably damaged half, what face did he have to see Sun Quan?

The most difficult thing for him to accept was that he vaguely guessed that he was defeated at the hands of Liu Chan, the little emperor of Shu that he had just despised, and this little kid he disdained to fight against.

Isn't this a slap in the face? Gan Ning's old face is not thick, and the consequences of his being slapped in the face by Chi Guoguo are severe, which makes him feel depressed in his heart, and his internal injuries will not heal, and after three months, not only did he not get better, but became more and more serious, and finally vomited blood three liters and died.