Huang Xu, who was sitting firmly in Diaoyutai, heard that his subordinates had reported that the special combat team's actions were all successful, and he did not hesitate to give the order for a general attack. As his order was given, a red lantern was raised on the mast of the merchant ship, which was the agreed signal to attack.

The soldiers of the Shu army on the surrounding ships saw the lantern rising, and they took action, they lit torches, opened the clay pots and wooden barrels on their boats, lit the lead plates inside, resealed them, and after confirming that the water did not leak, they threw them into the river and let them float downstream to the Dongwu Water Village downstream.

It is said that the dog of the Dongwu Sentinel Da Niu sent a signal to ask the net boat outside the water village, but he did not wait for the return of the net boat, and the big cow's face suddenly changed, and said: "Oh no, there is really something wrong with the net boat." ”

"No, maybe they didn't notice the light here. You know, they only send a safety signal every quarter of an hour, and the last time they sent a letter was not long after, and after sending the letter, they definitely won't look at this side again. You also know, now in the middle of the night, everyone is sleepy to death, who doesn't want to squint, who has nothing to do and keeps staring at this side after sending a letter? The dog still didn't believe it, and found a plausible reason for them.

"It's impossible, they're on the front line, their vigilance can't be so low, and there are dozens of dragnet boats, it's impossible for every one of them to be negligent, but now none of the ships have given us a reply signal, this must be an accident."

"Why are you so suspicious? Not long after they finished reporting safety, in such a short period of time, could someone unknowingly take down dozens of ships? Your imagination is too rich. The dog still doesn't believe the big bull's analysis.

While the two were talking, they suddenly saw a red star rising into the sky in the distance ahead, and then countless small stars suddenly lit up on the river surface over there. The star that rose into the air was the red lantern that rose from the mast of Huang Xu's car, and the other small stars on the river were the torches used to light the lead reels on the ships.

At this moment, even a fool ~ knew that something was wrong, and the big bull snatched the gong placed at his feet, rang it desperately, and shouted at the throat: "Enemy attack!" Enemy Attack"

Dongwu Water Village suddenly rioted, although it had been prepared, but in the event of a sudden attack, it was still inevitable that there would be a short period of chaos. However, the generals at all levels of Eastern Wu commanded properly, and these small riots were quickly quelled. Even though it was already midnight, Xu Sheng hadn't rested yet.

He has been issuing all kinds of orders, arranging a qiē thing in Shuizhai, and he is also worried that he will be attacked by the Shu army tonight, after all, the Dongwu Navy has just arrived and has not yet gained a firm foothold, this is the best time for the enemy to launch a sneak attack, so he didn't dare to sleep peacefully on this first night, and has been busy and waiting in the command room of the flagship.

Finally waiting for the enemy he didn't want to wait for, Xu Sheng didn't feel relieved in his heart, on the contrary, he felt even more depressed, he was the second time he had this bottomless feeling, and the last time he had this feeling was when he was playing against Liu Chan, the prince of Shu.

In the past, no matter how powerful the enemy was, he never lost confidence and was always high-spirited. He is the kind of person who can arouse his fighting spirit the stronger the enemy, he has experienced countless fierce battles in his life, and has also fallen into a desperate situation several times, but he has never been like against the Shu army, only a deep sense of powerlessness, and no hope of seeing victory.

What made Xu Sheng, who was most arrogant, feel resentful was that the last time he faced Liu Chan, who was still the prince of Shu, he had no power to fight back, and now he was playing against an unknown young general, which made him feel a lot of pressure.

As the chief general, even if he has great pressure, he can't show himself in front of his subordinates, otherwise the army's morale will be chaotic, Xu Sheng did a good job in this regard, I saw that he calmly issued orders one after another, let people wake up those sleeping soldiers, arrange various defensive positions, mobilize various troops to be on guard in all directions, send scouts to reconnoiter the enemy's situation, and figure out the scale of the incoming enemy.

His subordinates were somewhat infected when they saw his calm appearance, and gradually became less flustered, but they didn't expect that their general was actually very confused, and that calm and unhurried appearance was actually pretended.

Xu Sheng's defense can be called tight, no matter which direction the enemy kills from, he can be effectively blocked, but he did not understand the form of the enemy's attack, and the premise of his defense was wrong, which is tantamount to going in the opposite direction, if the direction and purpose are wrong, no matter how much you do, you can't meet the requirements.

All of Xu Sheng's arrangements were made in response to the enemy's sneak attack on the water village, that is, he was guarding against "people", but he didn't expect that it was not people who attacked them, it was still mines. As for the specific content of the enemy attack, including the sentries and scouts, no one passed the information to the command of the Soochow Naval Army, and finally the command center of Soochow misunderstood the form of the enemy attack.

In fact, you can't blame the big cow and the dog, they have done a good job, and the others are not as vigilant as they are. They only deduced from the unusual details of the unresponsiveness of the dragnet boats and the flare of fire in the distance that the enemy was going to attack, and they were equally ignorant of the specifics of the enemy's attack.

The fact that they were able to send out the alarm signal at the first time in such a situation has fully proved that they are very good sentinels. It's not that they're too bad, it's that the enemy is too cunning.

In fact, the responsibility still lies with the decision-making level of the Dongwu Naval Army, although they have repeatedly suffered the losses of the Shu Army's mines, but the commanders of the Eastern Wu Naval Army headed by Xu Sheng ruled out the possibility of mine attacks for the first time this time. There are three reasons for them to rule out mine attacks:

First, they believed that the Shu army had already used a mine attack during the day, and it was unlikely that the old trick would be repeated at night; Second, they believed that this kind of powerful weapon must not be easy to manufacture, and the cost was also very high, and it was impossible for the Shu army to have a large number of reserves, especially for a garrison in a remote place like the Huang Xujun, who could not have the authority to get too many stocks. During the day they had launched an attack of such magnitude that they must have used up all their stock;

Third, they have already set up a heavy array of fishing nets upstream, and after the test of many wars in the Yangtze River valley, these simple and inexpensive fishing net arrays can indeed be very effective in preventing mine attacks.

In particular, the third one, which is the most important reason for Xu Sheng to sit back and relax. He couldn't have imagined that war is the freak that can promote the progress of mankind the most, there is a spear and a shield, you come up with a trick today, tomorrow I can come up with a trick to crack your trick, maybe the day after tomorrow you will come up with a trick to crack my hack

The Dongwu Navy was able to come up with a way to crack the mines in a short period of time, and after so much time, why couldn't the Shu army come up with a way to crack the fishing net array? After all, there is no shortage of smart people in the Shu army, and this battle is the first battle in which Huang Xu applies the method of cracking the fishing net array, and Xu Sheng deserves to be unlucky, and he happened to meet him.

As for the manufacturing cost and reserves of the Shu army's mines, Xu Sheng also miscalculated, he never thought that Liu Hou's northern expedition was like a bamboo, and he took countless prisoners, especially Sima Yi's 200,000 troops near Xiangyang were killed by him, which made Shu have a large number of young and strong laborers. Liu Houke transferred a large number of his captives to major mines to open mines.

This has led to a significant increase in the output of raw materials for the manufacture of gun~powder in Shu recently. The bottleneck restricting the production of fire ~ medicine is the mining of raw materials, and the addition of these strong laborers has temporarily alleviated this problem, which naturally makes the production of fire ~ medicine in Shu has increased greatly recently.

In addition, Huang Xu has been holding back his strength to make a difference, and deliberately applied for the allocation of a large amount of gun~poison, so the stock of gun~powder in Huang Xu's army far exceeded Xu Sheng's expectations.

As for the manufacture of mines, it is not a high-tech product at all, but just a cannon battle, as long as there are manpower and raw materials, it is not a matter of how many people are needed. These are all things that Xu Sheng and his staff do not know, and they will pay a heavy price for their ignorance.