The Dongwu naval army that was waiting for it was not a sneak attack by enemy soldiers, but a ghostly and terrifying mine. When the first battleship on the outskirts of the water village was blown up, Xu Sheng knew that something was wrong.

If the attack is on people, no matter how fierce the enemy is, there are always traces to follow, and since there are traces to follow, there is a way to deal with them. However, how can such an enemy be fought against the fact that the mines are floating in the water, some of which are only a small part exposed, and some of which are simply half-floating and half-submerging under the surface of the water, without a trace at all?

This is like the way of martial arts, the so-called no tricks to win have tricks, as long as you have tricks, no matter how tricky the tricks are, there is always a way to crack it, the most afraid is to come and go without a trace, there are no tricks, how to crack it?

The attack of mines is similar, and they often do not know that they have been attacked by mines until they start to explode, but this time it is too late, because by this time, it is the time when the mines have reached their destination and the fuses have burned out. One starts to explode, and the others will explode in quick succession.

At this time, if you want to take any measures, it will be too late. The only thing that can deal with mines is the fishing net array, but the fishing net array should be arranged upstream to play a preventive role in advance. Now that the mines have exploded in the fleet, everyone knows that those fishing nets are finished.

The enemy's attack was approaching, and the decision-making level of the Eastern Wu Navy was stunned to find that all the previous countermeasures were ineffective, and they had to hurriedly adjust their countermeasures.

Although it is too late to rush to respond now, and large losses are inevitable, it is even less advisable to sit back and wait if you do not respond proactively. Under Xu Sheng's orders, the various units of the Soochow Navy readjusted their action plans, and soon they were busy.

Although their response was not timely, it was also wise, first of all, evacuation, evacuation. There are a large number of mines floating over on the front of the water village, and it is impossible to sail anymore, Xu Sheng ordered people to urgently pick up the two sides of the water village ~ away, so that the ships can break through to these two sides.

Fortunately, it was the first day of camping, the two sides of the water village were not completely encircled, and the wooden piles nailed down in some places were relatively sparse, and the Dongwu sailors soon made a big gap on both sides of the water village, and the ships rushed to break through to these two gaps, and then fled into the tributaries.

Xu Sheng's second response was to rebuild the fishing net array. The fishing nets were originally prepared according to the purpose of a large amount of consumption, and they were originally prepared to be constantly blown up by the Shu army, and then re-pulled, and then blown up, so the number of preparations prepared by the Dongwu Navy was very large, except for the ones that were sent out to pull up before, the inventory was at least three times as much.

Xu Sheng urgently mobilized the remaining warships, and even some small transport boats, and asked them to drive upstream of the water village to re-erect the fishing net barrier to prevent the Shu army's mines from continuing to cause damage to the fleet. Having received the general's order, the ships had to brave enemy fire and move forward.

In the process of advancing, from time to time, ships were hit by mines, and they were blown up and killed. However, the war was brutal, Moscow did not believe in tears, and neither did the Soochow naval army, and these new dragnet boats, after being blown up a third of them, finally restarted the fishing net array in the upper reaches of the water village.

However, they didn't catch many mines, because it was too late and their reaction was too slow. When the first mine exploded, most of the mines had already drifted into the water village of Soochow, densely mixed in the Soochow fleet, and at this time there were basically no mines in the upper reaches to continue to float over.

There are constantly mines exploding in the water village, raising a column of water that soars to the sky, and ships are constantly blown up to the ground with sawdust, and screams and shouts come and go. Some boats caught fire, the flames soared to the sky, not only the water village was bright, but the firelight even reflected on the opposite shore was also a piece of red, quite the artistic conception of burning the red cliffs in those years.

Another countermeasure of the Soochow Navy is to use a long bamboo pole to resist ~ the mines floating on the water, try to keep them away from the ship, so that they will cause less damage to the ship when they explode, of course, most of the soldiers who are responsible for supporting the bamboo pole will not survive, but under the drive of the general, those soldiers have to do it knowing that they will die.

This is the same as the feat of blocking the eye-catching with the chest and blowing up the bunker with the hand support ~ pill bag, all of which are heroes who sacrificed heroically for the overall situation. However, even so, it is not possible to completely avoid damage to the ship, and there are some mines that are semi-floating under the water, and the flesh ~ eye of the big night cannot detect their existence at all, and it is impossible to use bamboo poles to prop them away.

Such mines cause the most damage to ships, often a large hole is blown up, and the holes are all below the waterline, and the river water pours into these holes, which can quickly fill the corresponding compartments. A small ship without a sealed cabin will sink in an instant, and a large ship with a sealed cabin is better, and can support it for a little longer, but if you are unlucky and are blown up by multiple mines at the same time, you will not be able to avoid sinking in the end.

The sky in the east is white, and the fire in the Dongwu Water Village is still blazing, and some of the ships on fire have not yet burned out and sunk, but the boats that can still be driven have all escaped from the gaps on both sides of the water village, and retreated into the two tributaries to temporarily avoid the edge of the Shu army.

When this kind of army is defeated like a mountain, it is most afraid that the enemy will pursue and beat the water dogs, so the Dongwu Navy is also cautious when retreating, fully alert, and ready to engage at any time.

Although it is not dark and windy tonight, the light is not too good, and under such a night, the Shu army cannot pursue at all. It wasn't until dawn that dozens of big ships in the Shu army chased over, but these ships did not enter the Dongwu Water Village, but separated into two groups and chased them into the tributaries on both sides.

There were not many of these pursuers, and with such a division, there were only about twenty ships left in each tributary. However, the boats did not go far, and when they entered the tributary, they found a relatively narrow part of the river and stopped, gathered together, and did not pursue any more.

It's not that Huang Xu didn't want to chase and kill the Dongwu Navy in one go, and completely wiped them out when they were defeated and frightened, but it was really that the Shu Army didn't have a decent Navy at all.

There is not even a navy, the ships of the Shu army are all temporarily requisitioned civilian ships, and the so-called naval army is also the original army and some temporarily requisitioned civilian husbands. It's good that they can get on the boat and carry them without seasickness, but it's impossible to get them to fight in the water.

Of course, the special combat personnel are an exception, and those people are all one in a thousand and have been specially trained to fight in various environments, but unfortunately the number of them is too small, and their role in the operation of the large army is very limited.

Huang Xu knew that he couldn't take advantage of the victory to pursue and swallow the Eastern Wu naval army in one bite, so he could only retreat and trap them. The dozens of ships that chased after me were not loaded with soldiers ready for battle, but with stones and sandbags.

Huang Xu deliberately selected these larger merchant ships, filled them all with these heavy things, and then selected the narrow parts of the river, scuttled all these ships, and used them to block the river.

Of course, these boats are not scuttled indiscriminately, in addition to choosing the narrow part of the river, the location of the sinking of each boat also needs to be carefully selected, and in some places the riverbed is deep, and even two boats are stacked on top of each other. Twenty large transport ships sank in a narrow part of the river, enough to clog the river to death.

The blockage mentioned here is that for the large and medium-sized warships of Soochow with a draft ~ very ~ deep, the river can still pass through guò, otherwise it will cause the river to flood? Not only is the river water unimpeded, but even some small boats, such as fishing boats and boats with a shallow draft, can barely get through.