"Cao Cao's great victory over Yuan Shao made him arrogant, and he didn't even leave a single support army." Lyle, who came down from the upstream, originally thought that he was going to have a fierce battle with Cao Wei's reinforcements first, but he didn't know if there were no reinforcements left at all, or if the Cao soldiers on land had not yet reacted, and when the arson fleet arrived at the rear of Cao's ship formation, it was not blocked at all.

"Haha~ So I said boy, you are too careful~" Gan Ning laughed, but he also said casually, it was a blessing to have a strategist by his side who could remind him of various conditions, and he would continue to listen to these opinions in the future, "Then, leave the following things to me!" ”

"I'm going to fire the first shot." Lyle made the only request.

"Yes~" Gan Ning grinned, his brainwaves were synchronized with Lyle at this moment, but obviously he would not degenerate enough to compete with a ten-year-old child, "Reduce the speed, get close to Cao Jun, and the artillery will load incendiary bombs into the barrel!" ”

The cannons had already been set up and the gunpowder had been filled, and the ammunition had not been loaded in order to prevent a battle with reinforcements from the north bank of Chibi, but now it was possible to ignore the solid stone shells that were placed at the feet.

"Turn!" Gan Ning was much more daring than Zhou Yu, and sailed the warship until he could see the chaos on Cao's ship, and then ordered the bow of the ship to swing over, so that the cannon on the starboard side was facing the enemy.

"Ignition!" At the sound of an order, the artilleryman reached into the barrel with a torch and ignited the incendiary grenade inside.

Two of the groups of artillerymen handed over the torches in their hands to Lyle and Sun Shangxiang, and automatically and consciously retreated to the back.

"I'm the first!" Lyle was the first to light the fuse.

"Yes, yes~" Sun Shangxiang deliberately slowed down for a few seconds, but also did it before Gan Ning gave the order.

"Shoot ——!"

The cannon roared, and unlike the stone bullets on the south side, barrels were fired from this side.

The 'incendiary bomb' that Lyle made with a makeshift recipe was different from the one in later generations, and today's production technology can't do anything like that, so you can only use a separate barrel to hold the incendiary, first ignite the incendiary, and then detonate the black powder in the barrel to fire the barrel.

The weight of these incendiary bombs was obviously insufficient, and although they flew high and far, there was only a sound when they landed on Cao Jun's warship, and they could not even smash through the deck.

However, as the incendiary continued to burn, the originally greasy black mud-like incinerant gradually transformed into a fluid, and the flames, which were not too violent but difficult to extinguish, spread rapidly along the deck. Originally, only the incendiary agent was burned, but soon the ropes, sails, linen, and boxes on the ship were ignited one by one, and finally the whole ship was enveloped in flames.

"Keep firing! Don't stop if I don't shout! Gan Ning roared loudly.

Lyle handed the torch to the original artilleryman, covered his ears, walked up to Ganning amid the intermittent sound of cannons, kicked Ganning with his foot, and said loudly: "No, we should stop." ”

"Huh?" Gan Ning lowered his head suddenly, not daring to cry out confidently.

"Of course, the other four warships will continue to fire and want to create panic, and this fire is not enough." The range of the cannon is limited, and the speed of the spread of the flames is also limited, in fact, the Cao army can still retreat by separating the warship, but this requires them to calm down and do the right thing, while the Wu army has to find ways to make them lose their cool.

Gan Ning still didn't understand for a while, and said confusedly: "What about our ship?" ”

"Go around the downstream and prepare to welcome Cao Wei Junchen who fled in the wilderness~!" Lyle sneered.

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"Can anyone tell me! What's that! ”

Even if the solid stone bullet will not explode and the killing efficiency is not high, there is also the theoretical possibility of Cao Cao, who just happened to kill someone and stood on the south side of the ship formation to point out the country, which made Cao Cao a little calm.

However, no matter how loudly he asked, the strategists around him couldn't even say a single guess, and they could only think of the 'thunderbolt (catapult) thing that projected the stone projectile, and the things on the Soochow warship had nothing to do with that thing.

The strategists realized that the cabin of the warship that had been damaged by the stone projectiles fired by the cannons was flooded, but it was pulled by the warship behind and did not sink completely, slowing down the already modest sailing speed, and they all proposed to retreat. However, in the process of trying to stabilize the morale of the army, the north side of the ship formation was attacked by the Soochow naval army, and the flames ignited.

To accomplish the right thing, it is inevitable to divide labor and cooperate, but the flame is like a talisman, giving the Cao soldiers who are located on the ship array a time to be defeated, who will be willing to do the work of almost sending them to death, and it is difficult to stabilize the morale of the army in this situation. Cao Wei had no choice but to abandon the large army on the ship formation and flee for his life under the escort of his own soldiers.

It was impossible for them to flee upstream, the wind was west-north, and even if the ship had sails and oars, it was impossible to deliberately run against the wind. He had no choice but to run to the east side, quickly separated a few warships in a chaotic manner, and rowed his sails and oars to flee downstream at full speed.

However, no matter how fast they move, they can't avoid the amount of advance that someone predicted-

"Is the sky going to kill me, Cao Mengde!?" Cao Cao looked desperately at the Soochow warships that were firing stone projectiles at them across the river.

If it were the way of war in the past, there would probably be a sentence 'Cao thief is gone!' Gan Xingba has been waiting here for a long time! But even if the cannon invented by Zhuge Liang can adjust the firing angle, it is limited by the range of the fire, and it should have been fired long ago before it reached a distance where the opponent's shouting could be heard.

"My lord! Duck into the cabin! Ah Meng forced Cao Cao into the cabin, pulled past one of the guards who were rowing, took the oars and rowed hard, and shouted, "That kind of thing is like a catapult, the accuracy is very bad, as long as we row fast enough, the stone bullet will not hit us!" ”

"Oh!" The paddling guards were inspired to survive, and the frequency of paddling increased.

The roar of cannons rang out one after another.

Then came the sound of stone bullets falling into the water.

Suddenly, there was the sound of a warship being hit.

“！” Cao Cao's heart tightened, and it took a while to realize that the warship that was hit was not the one he was in, but the warship that other subordinates were on.

Gritted his teeth and got out of the cabin.

As soon as he looked up, he found that the warship he was riding had crossed the Dongwu warship blocking the road, but on the other side of the Dongwu warship with a flag painted with human skulls and flames, there were also strange weapons that fired stone projectiles, so frightened that he retracted into the cabin again, lest his mighty appearance be recognized by the Dongwu generals, and all his firepower was aimed at this side.

As for the fact that he had to confirm which of his subordinates was on the sunken warship, he had no time to pay attention to it, so he could only continue to pray to God for good luck.