For the spear attack of the Jingzhou naval army, the Eastern Wu naval army was not without countermeasures, and they generally resorted to two countermeasures: First, the easiest and fastest way was to shoot the opponent's spear bearer with a bow and arrow.

Second, throw the rope hook over, hook the side of the enemy's ship, and then pull hard to bring the two ships closer. In response to the countermeasures of the Dongwu people, the Jingzhou Navy also had countermeasures against countermeasures, such as shooting at the Dongwu people, throwing thunderbolts, cutting rope hooks, and so on.

A scuffle broke out on the border between the two armies. The Jingzhou Navy repeatedly inflicted large-scale damage on the Dongwu Navy with advanced weapons, and the Dongwu Navy relied on its numerical superiority to rush up and fight without fear.

This battle was fought from noon to dark, and the Dongwu naval army pursued it to ten miles upstream, until it was almost impossible to see clearly. On the surface, it seems that the Soochow naval army has won a great victory, at least they can confidently say to others that they chased the enemy all the way, pursued the enemy for ten miles, and finally returned victorious, even if it was written to the imperial court, it could be written like this, because this is indeed the truth.

However, in fact, what Soochow got was an out-and-out fiasco. The Jingzhou navy seemed to be constantly retreating, but the losses of soldiers and ships were minimal. The weapons were sharp and the protection was strong, so that they could protect themselves well while killing and injuring a large number of Soochow sailors.

They kept retreating, just to try to distance themselves from the Soochow Navy and avoid hand-to-hand fighting. This is a tactic of exploiting one's strengths and avoiding one's weaknesses. On the other hand, the Dongwu Navy was brave and brave, and rushed forward one by one, but the losses were amazing.

Before they approached the Jingzhou Navy, they could do little damage to the Jingzhou Navy, because the Jingzhou Navy's continuous escape, and they also launched a fierce counterattack while fleeing, they were very few who could really jump to the Jingzhou Navy's ship for hand-to-hand combat.

Most of the Soochow Navy was killed in the process of approaching the Jingzhou Navy ships, and it can also be said that in fact, the Jingzhou Navy used itself as bait to seduce the Soochow Navy to run upstream, and then constantly eliminated the living forces of Soochow in the movement.

In this battle, the Soochow naval army suffered heavy losses, and Ling Lie's defensive team had lost more than half, and the battle loss ratio between the two sides had reached at least 1 to 10. In the end, the wide Yangtze River was almost stained red with blood, and of course, most of it was the blood of the sailors of the Eastern Wu Dynasty.

In the end, the Soochow naval army had to withdraw its troops, hoping that it was because it was dark and could not be seen, or because the casualties were too heavy to continue the battle. Such a large casualty rate, if it weren't for the well-trained Dongwu Navy, it would have collapsed a long time ago, of course, if it wasn't for the cover of the night, the Jingzhou Navy's no counter-pursuit, maybe the Dongwu Navy's fate would still not be able to escape the rout.

The retreat of the Dongwu Navy retreated to the downstream of the reef area, there was no way, this reef belt protected them like a city wall, and they were not afraid of the Jingzhou Navy chasing after them only when they retreated, so they had a sense of security.

The next day, 12 large cement warships of the Jingzhou Navy were displayed on the edge of the reef area, and small boats were continued to be sent into the reef area to clear the reef, and the territory occupied by the two sides returned to the situation before the war.

Yesterday, the Dongwu Navy paid a huge price to make Jingzhou retreat ten miles back to no avail. The only effect was to delay the time for the Jingzhou Navy to bomb the reef for half a day, so that Wu Guoduo could breathe for half a day.

The Jingzhou Navy continued to clean up the reefs in the reef area, and the Soochow Navy suffered too heavy losses last night, so after using the two plate axes, the third plate axe could no longer be used, and they could only lick their wounds while watching the enemy blow up the reef groups they had built one by one over there.

In this way, there was no fighting on the Western Front all day, and the front line between the two armies was terrifyingly calm, but the sound of explosions sounded from time to time constantly reminded people that this was actually still a tense front line.

After three days of such peace, the Jingzhou Navy finally cleared a channel from the river that was large enough for two large warships to sail side by side. This waterway can make the warships and transport ships with the deepest draft in the current Jingzhou naval army navigable smoothly. However, not all reefs along this stretch of river have been cleared, and navigating outside the waterway is still dangerous.

Guan Gong left behind the water ghost team and the demolition team to continue to clear the reef outside the channel, while he himself led the army slowly through the narrow channel, crossed the last line of defense between the two countries, and entered the waters of Soochow that he had been waiting for. Since Ling Lie's troops had already been crippled, they did not take advantage of the Jingzhou naval army to launch an attack through this narrow channel, and missed a good opportunity in vain.

Ling Lie couldn't help but feel itchy hatred when he saw the Jingzhou Navy lined up in a long snake formation through that channel, he now regretted that he launched that attack three days ago, wasting his troops in vain, but only blocking the enemy for half a day.

If the attack were to be launched at this time, the enemy would be squeezed into a narrow channel, no different from being trapped in a canyon, and their own side would simply have a great geographical advantage, and the attack would certainly be invincible. But now it was too late to say anything, and he couldn't drive this already frightened army to attack now, so he had to watch the Jingzhou naval army break through the defense line.

It took Guan Gong another month for the water ghost team and demolition team to clean up the entire reef area. The construction was difficult and easy to destroy, and the Dongwu people mobilized hundreds of thousands of manpower to build a reef area that took a year to build, and was blown up to ashes by the Jingzhou Navy for more than a month.

The cleanup was so fast, in addition to the fact that the Jingzhou Navy used a large number of explosives with amazing destructive power, it was also related to the poor construction work of the Dongwu people. Perhaps in the eyes of the people of Dongwu, such a project is already remarkable and sturdy, but in Liu Hou's eyes, it is undoubtedly a tofu scum project.

The reefs built by the Soochow people did not use any construction adhesives, but simply and rudely piled sandbags and stones together, which is not difficult to destroy.

If Liu Hou were to do this project, he would definitely use reinforced concrete to build the reef, so that even if he wanted to blow it up with explosives, it would not be so easy to blow it up. Of course, Liu Hou will not be so bored as to block a good golden waterway.

Guan Gong was overjoyed to see that the biggest obstacle to his eastern crusade had been breached, and immediately ordered the whole army to anchor and attack Eastern Wu downstream. Ling Lie saw that the Jingzhou Navy was killing violently, and he didn't dare to stop it, so he had to order the whole army to lift anchor and retreat downstream.

Guan Gong led the naval army all the way without encountering any resistance along the way. During this period, the military Sima Wang Fu reminded him not to advance too fast, he was careful that the Eastern Wu people had an ambush, and it was best to wait for the armies on both sides of the strait to advance together.

However, Guan Gong refused to listen, he thought that the army's march was too slow, especially the Guanxing Department on the north bank, due to the complex terrain and many rivers and lakes, so the speed of the eastward advance could almost be described as turtle speed.

Although the Guansuo Department on the south bank is a little faster, it is also a big step worse than the navy army going down the Yangtze River. Guan Chengcheng enjoyed this refreshing feeling of a thousand miles a day, and did not listen to Wang Fu's advice at all, but ordered to move forward at full speed, hoping to be able to come to Jianye City as soon as possible.