Chapter 261: The Battle of the Oil River Estuary

The Shu army is approaching Hanyang, Lu Xun naturally can't wait to ignore it, he urgently # dispatched the garrisons of the surrounding counties to reinforce, and the first to arrive was a thousand garrisons in Shiyang City, not far to the east, the number is small, and most of them are old, weak, sick and disabled, it is better than nothing, after all, Jingzhuang has long been sent to the front line, and the remaining garrison troops can have any good goods?

The other counties are similar, 500 in this county and 1,000 in that county, all of them are old, weak, sick and disabled, and finally gathered enough 5,000 men and horses, and rushed to Hanyang one after another to assist in the defense. There are still 5,000 elite sailors in Hankou Water Village, but Lu Xun does not dare to touch these horses, this is to guard the base camp, if there is anything missing, the base camp will become a lamb with red clothes.

Although Hanyang already had 25,000 men, this bit of men and horses still could not make Lu Xun feel at ease, he had suffered the loss of the Shu army's firearms troops, and knew that the fourth brigade of the Hong army should not be underestimated.

As a last resort, Lu Xun had to draw troops and horses from the front again. Previously, the Eastern Wu Navy had 200,000 horses attacking Jingzhou, and the Guansuo army occupied Chibi and took away 20,000, but the 20,000 soldiers and horses led by Zhuge Ke couldn't help Guansuo at all, and under Zhuge Ke's request for help, Lu Xun sent him another 20,000.

Later, Huang Xu launched an attack on the southern front, all the way to Nanchang, and Lu Xun sent another 50,000 to rescue Nanchang. As a result, there were only 110,000 leftists in the frontline of Eastern Wu, and now Lu Xun had to send another 20,000 horses to Hanyang to block Zhang Bai's army on the northern road, so there were only 90,000 people left on the Jingzhou front.

The Duke concerned was in Jingzhou, and these 90,000 horses could not suppress the Shu army and the Shu army in Jingzhou. Although the Shu Navy is much smaller than the Dongwu Navy in scale, it has two super warships, as well as many strange firearms such as mines, and the Dongwu Navy would have been defeated long ago if it had not been forcibly suppressed by a scale far exceeding that of the Shu Army.

Now that the size of the Soochow Navy has been reduced by half, Guan Gong plans to seize this opportunity to give the Soochow Navy a hard time, in order to repay the grievances that have been beaten for this time.

In addition to the two super warships, the Jingzhou Navy has about 300 ships, of which about 50 can be called warships, and most of the others are converted from civilian transport ships.

The reason why Guan Gong had the confidence to fight a decisive battle with the Dongwu Navy was that in addition to the fact that the Dongwu Navy was transferred half of it by Sima Yi's strategy, it was also because the super battleship that was injured before had been repaired, and he also had a killer weapon, which greatly increased his confidence.

Before the Battle of Hanyang started, Guan Gong seized the opportunity, ordered 30,000 soldiers and horses, boarded these ships, and together with two super warships that had just been repaired, and pounced mightily on the Soochow naval army.

The 90,000 sailors of Eastern Wu gathered together, intending to fight to the death with Guan Gong. The two sides met at the section of the river opposite the mouth of the Youjiang River (also called the mouth of the Youjiang River), and then a fight began.

This oil river is not Sichuan's river oil, but a small tributary of the Yangtze River. Jiangyoukou is the mouth of the oil and water entering the river, located in the territory of Gong'an County, and is named because it is located at the confluence of the oil river and the Yangtze River.

Guan Gong stood on the bridge of the super battleship "Jingzhou" and commanded the operation. Of course, it was not originally called a bridge, but a flying house, and Liu Hou insisted on naming it a bridge, and everyone didn't understand the reason for such a name, but they slowly got used to it.

This is the highest level of the super battleship, and when you climb high and look into the distance, the field of view is quite wide, and you can see far away, which is conducive to commanding battles.

However, the Shu army claims to have comprehensive control of battlefield information, obviously more than this means, in fact, as has been explained above, the super battleship of the Shu army was not built very tall because it was designed to reduce the center of gravity and reduce the wind resistance, and it was much shorter than the building ship of Dongwu.

Therefore, the commander of the Soochow Navy was on the top floor of the ship, and he could see a broader field of vision, which was more conducive to commanding operations. However, the Shu army still has two tricks in gathering battlefield information: one is that on the high mast, there is a rattan basket that only holds one person, called Nestle, because from a distance, it looks like a Nestle.

On the Nestle, a sailor with a telescope is observing the surrounding situation, and through a copper pipe, the observed battlefield information is fed back to the bridge in time. This alone enabled the Shu Navy to discover the enemy faster and better grasp the battlefield information.

Of course, everyone knows that the Shu army's means are far more than that, and the hot air balloon floating in the air is the early warning aircraft that the Shu army relies on the most. Therefore, the Shu army often chooses sunny days to fight to avoid the interference of wind and rain on hot air balloons.

The hot air balloon can detect the enemy much earlier than the Eastern Wu army, and show the enemy's troop deployment at a glance, so that the Shu army has enough time to prepare for battle, so that all the enemy's ambushes, detours, and sneak attacks are all out of order, and they can only fight the Shu army in a dignified manner.

Of course, if the Shu army is willing, it can ambush, detour, and sneak attack the opponent, and, under the monitoring of the hot air balloon, the success of these operations can be guaranteed to the greatest extent.

Although the Shu army had an absolute information superiority, when the two sides approached a close enough range, the Eastern Wu naval army also quickly discovered the existence of the two super warships of the Shu army.

According to the experience of previous battles, the Eastern Wu Navy sent a large number of warships, intending to use wolf pack tactics to consume the two war monsters of the Shu army.

But this time is different from the past, this time the two super warships are no longer fighting alone, but have many escort warships. This is like an aircraft carrier, if it is a single aircraft carrier, it will not dare to come out and swing, although the aircraft on the aircraft carrier has a strong attack power, but it is also likely to be killed by the enemy's small submarine.

But if it is an aircraft carrier group, an aircraft carrier with various escort warships is completely different, at that time, all kinds of shortcomings are filled, and it will be difficult for the enemy to break through such a combat cluster no matter what method it takes. Such a battle cluster can run rampant in the ocean.

Although the super battleship is not an aircraft carrier, it now also has a large number of escort ships, and the hot air balloon has long passed the news of the dispatch of the Dongwu warship back to the flagship "Jingzhou", and Guan Gong immediately ordered his own warship to intercept it.

The size of the Eastern Wu army is now less than half, and the number of warships has also decreased a lot, this time they sent more than 100 warships, and the Shu army sent 50 to respond. Although more than half of the Eastern Wu army was removed, it still comprehensively suppressed the Shu army in terms of the scale of ships.

The speed of the warships is very fast, and other ships can't catch up with them at all, and the best way to intercept them is to use the warships against the ships, so Guan Gong can't transfer other ships to intercept them.

The two sides soon reached the range of the crossbow bolts and invariably began to fire at each other with rockets. The rocket is wrapped around the arrow with a strip of cloth soaked in fire oil, ignited and shot at the opponent. Since the number of ships of the Shu army was only half of that of the Eastern Wu naval army, the Shu army adopted the tactics of guerrilla fighting.

ps. I almost threw up again tonight, but fortunately I took advantage of the lunch break to write some, came back to take a shower and sober up, and insisted on finishing this chapter. I shouldn't have to drink it tomorrow. I wish you all a happy Chinese Valentine's Day and a valentine's day.