Chapter 244: The Madness of the Eastern Wu People

Liu Hou, who was far away in Xiangyang, received a battle report at this time, but it was not a battle report of the battle of Wancheng sent by Zhang Fei, but an intelligence sent by Guan Gong from Jingzhou about the troops sent by the Eastern Wu people.

The people of Eastern Wu saw that the fall of Wei was imminent, and they were also anxious, they understood the truth of cold lips and teeth, after all, Shu was too strong, as long as they were not stupid # Zi knew that after Shu annexed Wei, it would be their turn next. Therefore, although they had been half-crippled by Liu Hou before, and their strength was damaged, they had to send troops with all their strength to help Wei contain the forces of Shu, in the hope of slowing down the fall of Wei.

The strategy formulated by the Eastern Wu Dynasty was to first taoguang and raise obscurity, so that Shu and Wei would fight for both sides, and then they would come out to pick up the bargain. Who knew that the Wei State was so vulnerable, and in a short period of time, first Sima Yi's more than 200,000 legions, and then Cao Ren's 300,000 legions, were wiped out by the Shu army one after another. Half of Wei's army, which claims to be a million, has disappeared.

Moreover, there is no doubt that these are the elite of Wei, and among the remaining armies of Wei, except for the 200,000 border troops guarding against nomads on the northern border, the others are local garrisons, which belong to the ranks of the old, weak, sick and disabled, and have little combat effectiveness at all. It can be said that the Wei State has also been crippled by the Shu State, and the crippled Cheng Dù is even more powerful than the Wu State.

This time, there was no need for Wei to send an envoy to Eastern Wu to lobby Sun Quan, and the people of Eastern Wu already knew that the shape was not good, and decided to send troops to the end of the madness. The shape of the world has gradually become clear, and the ministers of Eastern Wu have also stopped fighting internally and unanimously with the outside world, and they all know that if Wei and Wu do not unite against Shu, the pace of Shu Han unifying the world can no longer be stopped.

This time, Lu Xun was the commander-in-chief, leading the 200,000 troops that had been recruited with great difficulty, and thousands of warships were slaughtered to Jingzhou. Lu Xun was very smart, he didn't plan to go ashore to fight the Shu army on land this time, let alone choose to besiege Jingzhou City. There is a prince sitting in the town, Liu Hou sent an additional fire # gun brigade to assist in the defense, when Wei and Wu besieged the city with hundreds of thousands of horses and horses that could not be taken for half a year, Lu Xun did not believe that with these 200,000 recruits with insufficient training, he could take it.

Therefore, Lu Xun's main strategy was to harass the transport channels, specifically to strike at the transport ships of the Shu army on the Yangtze River waterway. This hit exactly the seven inches of the Shu army. The operations of the Shu army relied too much on logistics, and the transport ships that came and went between Chengdu and Jingzhou on the Yangtze River every day were like carp crossing the river, and the river was endless. The troublemaking of the Eastern Wu Navy had too great an impact on the logistics and transportation of the Shu army.

Guan Gong said in the battle report that several transport ships have been destroyed by the Dongwu Navy, and the only two super warships of the Shu Army have also exchanged fire with the Dongwu Navy, but because there are only two, the difference between them and the Dongwu Navy is too great in terms of quantity, so these two warships do not dare to approach the Dongwu Navy too much, and can only adopt the tactics of wandering around the periphery.

And the Soochow Navy has obviously learned to behave, whenever these two super warships appear, their big warships hide behind, dispatch a large number of small speedboats, carrying fire oil and even some have been equipped with gun#, and surround them in all directions to launch suicide attacks. These little speedabouts are very numerous, fast, and always doing irregular changes of direction, and hitting them with cannons is as frustrating as cannons against mosquitoes.

It is difficult to hit the middle of the battle, even if a few ships are hit, their losses are not large, after all, a speedboat is only ten or eight people, compared to the 200,000 army, it can only be said to be a drop in the bucket, such a loss Lu Xun will not even blink an eye. And once it is touched by these annoying little speedboats like flies, the other party ignites the fire oil, or even detonates the fire # medicine, which will cause great trouble to the super battleship.

Up to now, there has been a super battleship that was close to a dozen small runabouts in a big battle, and as a result, the hull was damaged Yan Zòng, and now it has been returned to the dock in Jingzhou for repairs, and it will not be able to continue to participate in the battle in the short term. The remaining ship was unsustainable, and could only harass in a more remote place from the Soochow naval army.

Liu Hou felt very helpless, once upon a time, the majestic super battleship has now been reduced to the sake of soy sauce, sure enough, war can promote the progress of mankind, the Dongwu Navy suffered a big loss to the super battleship at first, because this terrifying monster suddenly appeared, and it was impossible to adapt for a while. However, they never gave up trying to find a way to deal with it, they had tried to shoot it with an ultra-long-range bed crossbow before, and now they thought of using this method of ants biting elephants to death.

Sure enough, no matter how strong a single entity is, it may eventually be killed by the enemy in numbers, and a hero cannot decide the victory or defeat of a war. In the final analysis, the scale of the Shu army's sailors is too small, and compared with the sailors developed by the Eastern Wu Dynasty, it is the relationship between an elephant and a group of African marching ants. It seems that after the defeat of Wei, it is still necessary to vigorously develop the naval army, otherwise it is not so simple to clean up Eastern Wu.

Seeing the battle report, Liu Hou had a question: Why didn't Guan Gong use mines to deal with the Dongwu naval army? Last time, they used mines to make the Soochow Navy suffer a lot, aren't they afraid that these mines will bring a heavy blow to their fleet again?

Guan Gong's next battle report answered this question, Guan Gong also tried to attack the fleet of Dongwu with mines, but the people of Dongwu had already thought of a way to deal with it. Their solution is also very simple, that is, in the upper reaches of their fleet, many layers of fishing nets are pulled. When mines come down, they are caught in these nets, even those that are half-sunk and half-floating below the surface. By the time the fuses burned out, the mines would blow up a fishing net worth a few pennies.

As long as the soldiers pre-set up enough layers of fishing nets and replenish the blown up ones in time, then the fleet is safe. Liu Hou didn't expect that the mine array he had painstakingly created would be broken by a few broken fishing nets so simply. Although these mines are still very primitive, they are also epoch-making products, and they are ahead of the scientific and technological level of this era for I don't know how many years, but people don't need to look at how much advanced technology you have in them, they only need to use the cheapest and easiest way to break them according to the characteristics that come out of it.

This is like using an RPG bazooka worth thousands of dollars to knock out a Black Hawk helicopter worth tens of millions, and a missile worth more than a million dollars to knock out a high-end fighter plane worth hundreds of millions. So, sometimes high-tech weapons really can't hurt.

Liu Hou really felt this time that the times are constantly advancing, people are getting smarter and smarter, their enemies are not NPCs in the game, they are not pre-set parameters are what parameters, they are also constantly using their brains, they are also constantly improving, constantly adapting to their own style of play, to win them, you can't use the same method.