Chapter 422: Absolute Strength
"Let them know today that I am great!"
Zhou Yu sneered and said to Huang Gai,
"General Gongfu, pass the order down and prepare to meet the Cao army!"
"Whoa!"
Huang Gai turned around and walked away quickly.
"Mr. Zijing, Mr. Kong Ming, would you like to go to the deck and see how I can break the Cao army?"
Zhou Yu smiled and said to Zhuge Liang and Lu Su.
Zhuge Liang and Lu Su glanced at each other and nodded,
"I don't dare to ask for it."
The three of them, with a few retinues, went to the deck at the top of the ship.
At this time, Huang Gai had already conveyed Zhou Yu's military order to the allied naval division through the flag.
The naval warships of Jingzhou and Jiangdong can be roughly divided into three categories.
The first is a light boat such as a boat and a ship.
They are incredibly fast and are usually used to storm enemy lines or transport soldiers.
The second type is the main fighting ship, which has a female wall on board, which is specially used for broadside combat.
The third type is a huge building ship, which is mostly used as a command ship.
Among them, the most famous is Sun Quan's car Feiyun.
In the current water warfare, most of the ships such as ships and boats were used to attack the opponent's warships.
Then use a salvo of bows and arrows to suppress the opponent and use the angle of the bow to ram the enemy ship.
In the end, the warships of the two sides leaned together and engaged in a fierce broadside battle.
Water warfare is different from land warfare, but it has the same effect.
The ships should also be formed in formation like soldiers, so as not to be attacked on their backs in battle.
Therefore, after receiving Zhou Yu's military order, the fighting ships of the coalition army converged around the building ship where he was located.
There are also countless ships and boats, shuttling back and forth between building ships and fighting ships.
This situation looks so spectacular!
Zhou Yu took everything in his eyes, and the corners of his mouth couldn't help but have a sneer.
Even if you Yang Ling have never tasted defeat, it is limited to land battles.
In terms of water warfare, I, Koto, is the strongest!
It didn't take long for the coalition fleet to make a roundabout, and dozens of warships suddenly appeared in front of Zhou Yu and the others.
As Huang Gai said, these warships lined up on the river, and seemed to be waiting for Zhou Yu and their arrival.
It's just that what makes Zhou Yu, Huang Gai and others puzzled is that the Cao Jun warship looks a little wrong.
They were not grouped around the flagship of the commander-in-chief, as was the case with the coalition fleet.
On the contrary, it is horizontal on the river, lined up.
This posture is like telling the Jiangdong Naval Division, you guys come and hit me!
"There must be something strange in this, Yang Ling is very likely to be on the other side!"
Zhuge Liang said in a deep voice.
Although I don't understand why Cao Jun put on this posture, he has suffered many losses in the hands of Yang Ling.
As soon as I saw something that violated common sense, I instinctively remembered Yang Ling!
"Even if Yang Ling is on the other side, so what? In the face of absolute strength, any intrigue is in vain! ”
Zhou Yu said coldly.
Cai Mao and Zhang Yun's sailors combined only have a few dozen warships.
And the fleet of the coalition forces, both in terms of quality and quantity, far crushed them.
While they were talking, the two sides were slowly approaching.
"Pass the order down, let the ships and boats go to attack the enemy ships first!"
Zhou Yu commanded in a deep voice.
Huang Gai on the side immediately instructed the soldiers to pass the order to the other warships by waving the flag.
Soon, the dense ships and boats broke away from the fleet and sailed towards the Cao army warship on the opposite side!
However, at this moment, a sudden change occurred!
I saw several fire dragons flying out from both sides of the river, directly blocking the river surface of Hanshui!
The small boat of the coalition army was extremely fast, so it couldn't react at all, and was directly ignited by the fire dragon!
Looking at the warships that turned into fireballs, Zhou Yu's pupils on the boat shrank suddenly.
"This ...... What is it? ”
"This should be Cao Jun's fierce fire oil tank."
Zhuge Liang said in a deep voice.
After the battle of Changsaka Bridge and Zhang Fei's fiasco, Liu Bei also spent a lot of effort to find out about this strange-looking and powerful weapon, called the fierce fire oil tank.
Previously, Zhou Yu, Lu Su and other Jiangdong people were a little unimpressed when they heard Liu Bei and them talk about the fierce fire oil tank.
It can spew out fire oil, and water cannot be extinguished.
This thing sounds like a rumor!
However, seeing it with their own eyes today made Zhou Yu, Lu Su, and Huang Gai gasp!
The ambush site selected by Yang Ling has an extremely narrow river.
The fire dragon spewed out from both sides of the fierce fire oil tank just blocked the entire river!
At this moment, Zhou Yu couldn't help but feel a little remorseful in his heart.
I knew that I would listen to Zhuge Liang's advice and send people to search both sides of the Han River.
If it was discovered in advance that Cao Jun had a fierce fire oil tank, there would be no need to take dozens of ships and ships!
It's just that regret is regret in his heart, and Zhou Yu won't show it.
He thought for a moment, then said in a deep voice,
"Send someone ashore to repel Cao's army!"
"Whoa!"
Huang Gai ordered someone to play the flag again to convey Zhou Yu's order.
After a while, the allied soldiers moved from the building boat to the banks of the Han River through the boat.
Guan Yu and Jiangdong General Dong attacked, each led an army, and rushed towards the place where Cao's army had set up a fierce fire oil tank.
Seeing the allied soldiers killed, Cao Jun did not fall in love with the battle.
As soon as the two sides made contact, they quickly withdrew to the rear with fierce fire oil tanks.
After receiving the news that Guan Yu and Dong Xi had completed their tasks and saw the fire dragon on the river disappear, Zhou Yu was also overjoyed.
"Public, let the fleet come over and prepare to engage Cao Jun in a broadside battle!"
In order to avoid long nights and dreams, Cao Jun took out any other weapons, and Zhou Yu planned to fight quickly through the onboard battle, relying on the powerful sailor.
At this time, it was a tailwind, and the warships of the coalition army flared up their sails and quickly approached the Cao army's warship.
But they were halfway there, and before they could get closer, they heard a dull "rumbling" sound coming from the surface of the river.
Just when Zhou Yu and the others were still a little puzzled, thinking that it was when the thunder was thundering during the day, countless cannonballs dragging white smoke shot fiercely!
Those tall and sturdy warships were as ridiculous as paper paste in front of these shells.
"Bang ......"
The fighting ship that rushed to the front was instantly beaten to the point of sawdust, and it was directly beaten.
After a moment's work, it began to sink slowly.
The situation of the warships behind is not much better.
After all, the power of artillery is just too great.
When a cannonball lands on the ship, it is blasted out of a huge hole!
Once hit by several shells, even if the warship does not sink for a while and a half, it will be temporarily ineffective.
With just one salvo of artillery, more than a dozen fighting ships were destroyed!
Seeing this scene, Zhou Yu and the others seemed to be dripping blood in their hearts.
You must know that these warships cost a lot of manpower and material resources, and it takes a long time to build.
However, in front of Cao Jun's artillery, it was so vulnerable!
"Cao Jun's ...... What kind of weapon is this? ”
Zhou Yu's eyes were red and he looked at Zhuge Liang.