Half an hour after this battle, the commander of the Dongwu Navy saw that it was not the right way, and hurriedly ordered Mingjin to withdraw his troops, but it was too late, and there were only a dozen ships that escaped back in the end, and almost all of them were wounded. Others were either sunk or captured.

Most of the ships were captured, and about twenty were sunk. The firearms used by the Shu army this time are not very powerful things, and there is no problem in killing and injuring people, but the destructive power to the hull is still a little worse. The Shu army also knew this, so as long as those Dongwu ships stopped moving, and no one inside fought back, they didn't care about them, saving them from wasting firepower.

These immobile ships show that the people inside are either all dead, or seriously injured and unable to fight again, and when the large army of the Shu army comes to clean up the battlefield, these ships and people will be the property of the Shu army.

Almost every one of the ships of Shu was injured, but they were all slightly injured, and some rockets, in the case of fire prevention preparations in advance and the damage management personnel to extinguish the fire in time, it was not so easy to be sunk.

However, the Shu army still sank five ships, which were basically rammed and sunk by the fearless Eastern Wu army. The Dongwu Navy is worthy of being the strongest naval army in the world, and its will to fight is also terrifyingly strong.

In addition to the sunken five ships, the other ships of Shu can be repaired, and there are many captured Dongwu ships that can be repaired, so to speak, this battle, in terms of ships, Shu is a big profit, as long as it is repaired, Shu's ships can be more than doubled out of thin air.

But the loss of personnel is irreparable, these sailors who went to battle are the elite specially trained by Guan Gong, less than 400 people came back from the 500 battles, and nearly half of these 400 people are injured, and about 20 of them are disabled, even if they are good, they will not be able to join the army again.

Although the Eastern Wu Army does not have those terrifying firearms, but the archery skills are not bad, although the Shu Army has a shield baffle, but when launching an attack, it is inevitable to expose its body, and it will be exposed ~ within the killing range of the Eastern Wu Army's rockets.

Damage controllers, in particular, are the most vulnerable to firefighting, and once they are killed or injured, the captain can only assign someone else to continue to serve as a damage manager, because damage management is indispensable unless everyone can watch their ship burn down.

After the war, Guan Gong summed up the experience of this war and believed that it was necessary to enhance the protective ability of the loss management personnel, and he proposed to the research institute of the "Ministry of Industry" to develop armor suitable for the use of water war loss management personnel.

Back on the battlefield, as soon as the warships of Eastern Wu collapsed, the Shu Navy seized the opportunity to attack, and the first to come out were two super warships. In the past, these two war beasts were overwhelmed by the ant-like warships, but now that these pesky ants have been destroyed, it is time for them to be disgraced.

The two super battleships took the lead in the front of the formation, hitting the hull of the ship, revealing the black holes ~ holes, and it didn't take long for each artillery group to complete all the preparations before launching, and nearly a hundred fire~ guns on one side of the two ships roared one after another, and the dense big round balls flew towards the Dongwu Navy, where countless columns of water that soared into the sky.

The Soochow Navy is also experienced in the attack of super warships, they saw the super warships sail out and quickly disperse the formation, the loose formation can reduce the probability of being hit than the dense formation, this law was finally summed up in their continuous losses.

But it is still inevitable that many ships will be shot. Soon some of the ships were battered, some were on fire, some were pierced through the bottom, and the water poured into the cabins, and the sailors on board tried desperately to scoop the water out of the boat, but could not stop the ship from sinking slowly.

The commander of the Soochow Navy obviously also knew that the correct thing to do at this time was not to sit back and wait, let alone retreat, but to rush forward as quickly as possible and fight the enemy. The Eastern Wu naval army was soon divided into three parts, the middle part was facing the enemy head-on, and the other two parts were detouring from the left and right, trying to outflank the Shu naval army from the left and right.

The ships of the Eastern Wu naval army were more than three times that of the Shu army, and even if they divided their forces in this way, they still had an advantage in strength. If the Shu army did not have a powerful attack weapon such as firearms, the best response at this time was to turn around and break through and leave the encirclement of the Eastern Wu naval army as much as possible.

The Eastern Wu army was forced to the Shu army in the form of a burden, their movements had long been detected by the hot air balloon in the sky, Guan Gong after receiving the news, also issued an order, the fleet was divided into three parts, one part continued to rush forward, and the other two parts were divided into two parts to resist the enemy who was outflanked by the left and right. The two super-battleships also turned and were sent to the left and right to deal with the outflanked enemy.

The frontal enemy Shu army had the advantage of the upstream, while the left and right sides did not, so Guan Gong let the two super warships strengthen the attack power on both sides. Of course, the advantage of relying on the upstream is used to release mines, but the Dongwu fleet is pulling layers of fishing net arrays in front of it, which is used to deal with the mines of the Shu army. Therefore, if you want to release mines, you must first break the fishing nets.

Guan Gong's method of breaking the fishing net array is different from Huang Xu. Huang Xu's method is very technical, and it has very high requirements for the special combat personnel, and it can be said that it is a delicate work. Even then, it had to be used at night, and it was impossible to break the fishing nets in such a way during the day. Guan Gong's breaking method is simply one word: "simple and rude". This method works day or night.

In fact, there is no trick, Guan Gong just ordered the medium and large ships of the Shu army to be in front and rush over at full speed. These nets can successfully catch mines the size of buckets, but in front of ships carrying hundreds or thousands of people, they are not much different from the cobwebs in the corners.

Those small boats responsible for pulling the net were even more miserable, only a few boats ran away in advance when they saw that the situation was not good, and most of them could not run, and were swept away by the passing Shu ships in a row, or several thunderbolts were thrown over, and when they landed, they became ghost boats floating on the Yangtze River.

The ships of Shu went down the river, and the fleet of Dongwu also charged with all their strength against the current, and soon the distance between the two armies was quite close, and the long-range firepower on the ships of the two countries had already opened fire. At greater distances, both sides fired with bed crossbows. The Shu army also had several warships with cannons installed on their bows, and they were also firing at the maximum rate of fire at this time.

These ships are different from super battleships, they do not have fire~gun arrays installed on the sides of the ship, only a fire~gun is installed in the bow and/or stern, which is better than nothing.

As the ships got closer, the trebuchets on the larger ships began to fire. For the time being, long-range firepower is still superior to the Soochow naval army. Soochow's ships were huge, like moving castles, with stone throwers on them in addition to bed crossbows, and one can imagine how big these battleships were.

This firepower advantage of the Dongwu naval army did not last long, and when the ships of the two sides approached further, Guan Gong gave an order, and the ships of Shu first turned their hulls sideways, ready to meet the enemy. The Dongwu Navy felt very strange, and at the same time became vigilant. In general water warfare, the ships of the enemy and us must be completely close together before the hull of the ship is turned sideways, and the ship must be on the side of the ship before the so-called broadside battle can begin.