Chapter 255: Raid on the Dragnet Boat

Huang Xu's depression is more or less a bit of a 13 ingredient, but Xu Sheng's depression is real. The Eastern Wu Army suffered heavy losses this time, not to mention the direct loss of one-third of its combat strength, the key is that its morale has been greatly hit.

The Eastern Wu army came with great momentum, who knew that it would be hit hard as soon as it arrived at the destination, which was obviously a dismount given by the enemy, and this kind of dismount was the most demoralizing. The battle in the era of cold weapons relies on the word bravery, and the so-called narrow road meets the brave to win.

Whoever is brave enough, ruthless enough, and decisive enough when cutting people can often achieve victory, while those who are cowardly will definitely die the fastest. Therefore, in ancient times, warfare was very important to morale, and morale was enough to win more with less, and if morale was insufficient, there was no need to fight this battle.

Xu Sheng now not only has to worry about how to build a water village and support Nanchang City, but also how to prevent the sneak attack of the Shu army and how to boost morale. In order to prevent another sneak attack by the Shu army, in addition to arranging a large number of fishing net arrays in the upper reaches of the fleet, he also deliberately placed the water village between several tributaries.

The place where Xu Sheng chose to settle the water village is called Yangzizhou, and the topography of this place is very special, it is the Jiangxin Island sandwiched between the tributaries. The water village is indeed the safest place here, whether the enemy is killed from the left or the right land, he must pass through the wide river, and the river, Xu Sheng is confident that it is the world of the Dongwu naval army.

As for boosting morale, it is nothing more than a means of rest, reward, etc. Xu Sheng ordered a three-day rest on the spot, and rewarded the soldiers with wine and food, so that the soldiers could have a full meal, and promised that after the great victory, there would be more generous rewards. In this way, the morale of the soldiers was naturally greatly boosted, and they somewhat recovered a little bit of the decline caused by the sneak attack of the Shu army.

However, these measures have a certain effect on the soldiers, but they have little effect on the generals at all levels, because they are all people who understand, they all know the shape of the world now, and they all know that Eastern Wu is already in decline, and it is difficult to say whether they can go back in this battle, and Xu Sheng's promises are no different from empty checks.

Xu Sheng wanted to rest his troops, but Huang Xu didn't give him time at all, and directly launched a second wave of attacks that night. Huang Xu was born in special forces, and his attacks were of course biased towards special forces. As mentioned earlier, he is the most strict in training troops, and often does it according to the standards of quasi-special forces, so the largest number of people are selected from his command to join the special forces every year.

This night attack also began with a special operation. At present, there are dozens of boats in the upper reaches of Dongwu Water Village, pulling several layers of fishing nets to cover the upstream. Although these fishing nets also caught a lot of fish, their task was not to net fish, but to deal with the mines of the Shu army. The purpose of the special operation of the Huang Xujun was to destroy these fishing nets so that the mines could pass smoothly.

The assault began in earnest at midnight, a very tiring time for the ancients who had gone to bed early. Of course, for military units, they generally take turns to be on duty at night and always be vigilant, so the Eastern Wu Army will not be less vigilant than at other times.

The reason why Huang Xu chose this time to launch an attack was that in addition to considering the vigilance of the enemy, he also needed to leave enough time to strike a full blow to the enemy, and there were two or three hours from the time of the day to the dawn, which was enough.

On this night, there was a crooked moth eyebrow moon in the sky, the moonlight was not big or small, it was not a dark night with no fingers and no bright night when the moon was in the sky, such light conditions were not the best time for a night attack, but it was not the worst situation.

More than 200 carefully selected special combat personnel, dressed in black night suits, carried special crossbows and short knives on their backs, sneaked through the water and headed for the battles that were pulling fishing nets. These horse crossbows are different from the horse crossbows commonly used by the Shu army, this batch of horse crossbows is the latest model produced by the "Ministry of Industry", which can be used even if it is wet, and is most suitable for fighting in the water.

In view of the fact that there will inevitably be a war with Soochow in the future and that water war is inevitable, some research departments of the "Ministry of Industry" are already studying all kinds of weapons and equipment related to water warfare, among which this kind of horse crossbow that can be launched into the water is one of the achievements.

The device for the special combat personnel to sneak in the water is another achievement newly developed by the "Ministry of Industry." Each of them had a crooked head in their mouth, and on the other side of the head was a bamboo pole as thick as a cucumber. The knots in the middle of these bamboo poles have been opened to draw air from the water.

In order to reduce the probability of being spotted by the enemy, the appearance of the bamboo poles is painted black, and it is not easy to find these bamboo poles that only expose a small part of the water surface on the water surface at night. However, this underwater stealth device is not a panacea, because the bamboo pole is very long, if you breathe completely through the bamboo pole, a large part of the exhaust gas trapped in the bamboo pole is inhaled by the stalker at a time.

Over time, the sneakers will be poisoned with carbon dioxide, so the sneaking special operators use the method of sucking in fresh air from the bamboo pole with their mouths and then exhaling the exhaust gas directly into the water through their noses. Of course, such a breathing method is awkward, and it is not easy for ordinary people to do it.

But for the special combat personnel, this action is not very difficult, and a little training is enough. Although this breathing method can avoid carbon dioxide poisoning, it also has a fatal weakness, that is, the exhaled air will become bubbles and float to the surface. This is easy to be discovered by those careful soldiers of the Soochow Navy who are on duty at night.

In order to avoid this situation, the special combat personnel were still about 20 meters away from the enemy ship, so they needed to abandon this breathing rod and instead hold their breath and sneak to the enemy ship at full speed. Sneaking for 20 meters with breath-holding is no problem at all for special combat personnel with large lung capacity. Boats are usually lit with windproof lanterns to guide the direction of the underwater special operators.

Almost at the same time, four special combat personnel surfaced around each of the Soochow dragnet boats, and they immediately shot the Soochow soldiers on night duty on each boat with horse crossbows, and then quickly boarded the ship from all directions to clear out the remaining personnel on board. The standard crew of each Soochow Fighter is 10, and some ships are missing one or two people for various reasons.

For the four special operators armed with crossbows, it was only a matter of one or two breaths to shoot them. The action was very fast and smooth, and soon dozens of dragnet boats were controlled by the Shu army. Of course, it can't be said that there is no movement at all, after all, although some Dongwu soldiers were shot in the body, they still shouted before they died.

The special operators quickly replenished their arrows or knives and completely destroyed them. A few screams rang out throughout the operation. Since these net-pulling boats were some distance away from the naval army of Soochow, although these screams that stopped quickly were heard by some sentries in the water village, they did not attract enough attention.

The soldier who heard the screams looked up, but he could only see a few lanterns dangling in the distance reflecting the flickering outline of the ship, and he could not see the specific situation on the ship at all. Although they heard short screams, they saw no sign of fighting on these ships, and they couldn't help but wonder if they were delusional.