Zhu Ran didn't expect that Yang Wei would set fire to the ship so ruthlessly?!

Well, it seems a little wrong, the forty or so fireships seem to have been released by themselves

But that's not good, so many fireships rushed into the range of the two armies, even if everyone was not chained by iron, but now that the two sides are fighting together, no one dares to retreat easily.

If you withdraw, it will be a big defeat.

Can not be withdrawn. The fire on the fire ship will not take the initiative to identify, which are the Soochow warships and which are the Jiangling warships.

These fireships were filled with sulfur, straw, and fish oil. No matter whose ship you come across, it will only take a moment to ignite.

Zhu Ran was also anxious, and he was still in high spirits watching the Jiangling Navy slowly fall to the downside, and was finally defeated by himself. Now I'm at risk of being attacked by a fireship.

How can you do such a thing, don't you take the lives of your soldiers seriously?!

The sheep were so ruthless that they were desperate to even come up with this kind of tactics that would end up together. But Zhu Ran can't do that.

He couldn't watch the current good situation be destroyed by the forty fireships he let out, and with the return of the Jiangling Naval Army, no matter if the fireships came downwind, the only thing that had a chance to stop the fireships was his own flagship and the nearly fifty large and small warships that Gongwei flagship.

For this reason, Zhu Ran had to order to stop the assault on the middle of the Jiangling Naval Army, and instead let his flagship warship intercept the fireships that were about to break into the battlefield. Stop as many as you can.

Wait until these fireships are burned out on the periphery of the battlefield, and then return to defend the flagship.

In doing so, although he avoided the threat of fireships, Zhu Ran also lost the best opportunity to assault the middle of the Jiangling Navy and break the enemy in one battle.

Zhu Ran didn't know if it was right for him to do this, but Yang Ran was still very grateful to Zhu Ran for doing this. Finally bought myself a little time to adapt.

The vacancy in the middle lane, with the return of more than forty warships and the contraction of Wen Dai's leading troops, was temporarily stabilized, while on the left side, with his own reinforcements and the stacking of troops, the momentum of Liuluo's breakthrough was also temporarily contained.

Generally speaking, the Gangneung Navy is still at a disadvantage, and can only be adjusted by the battle and passively defensive, but it is finally exempted from the crisis of being directly broken by the enemy.

There is no danger of being completely defeated for the time being, but it does not mean that the crisis has been completely lifted now.

On the whole, the combat effectiveness of the Jiangling Navy is still inferior to that of the Dongwu Navy Army, and now it is at a disadvantage and is passively beaten, and if it continues to fight, it will only be a matter of time before it is broken.

In this case, Wen Dai also had to play the flag and ask Yang Wei for instructions on whether to take the initiative to retreat and withdraw to the water village to deploy defenses.

On the one hand, now that the war is unfavorable, retreating a little and relying on the defense facilities of Shuizhai to drag the enemy is also an option to continue the war.

On the other hand, Zhou Mu once said that if you really lose the battle on the river, you should not fall in love with the war easily, resulting in the annihilation of the Jiangling naval army.

In Wen Dai's view, now the Jiangling Navy has reached the moment when it needs to make a decision.

And Yang Wei actually understood the intention of Wen Dai's banner, but he thought about it carefully, and finally played the flag - insist on fighting and not retreat.

The problems that Yang Wei has to consider are not only the Gangneung Naval Army, but also the public security ferry, and the more than 10,000 army troops who have not yet completed the evacuation operation.

Now that they have withdrawn and withdrawn to Shuizhai, it is equivalent to directly ceding control of the waters of the Yangtze River.

Perhaps, the Gangneung Navy can be preserved, but on the south bank of the Yangtze River, those armies that have not had time to withdraw to Gangneung will be completely abandoned.

And the reason why Gangneung ordered to abandon public security and withdraw all the defenders must be that Gangneung has encountered a defensive problem, and has to send these soldiers back to help, if these soldiers can't go back, Gangneung's side will definitely encounter big trouble.

The greatest value of the naval army is that it cannot withdraw to Gangneung to assist in the defense when fighting on the water, but the overall combat capability is definitely inferior to that of these armies.

Therefore, no matter how you consider this issue, Yang Wei feels that before the army at the Gong'an ferry is evacuated, they cannot retreat into the Shuizhai port and give up the struggle for control of the Yangtze River waters.

Now, it can't be withdrawn, and it has to be delayed.

At the same time, Yang Wei can only hope that Zhong Limu, who led the two carts to retreat to the public security, can understand the urgency of the current battle situation and step up the evacuation of the army. It can only be hope.

At this time, Zhong Limu had indeed led two car-throwing Mengchong to withdraw to the public security ferry.

After Zhong Limu withdrew to the public security ferry, the first thing he did was to find Li Qiu, hoping that Li Qiu could arrange for all the soldiers to cross the river as quickly as possible.

What kind of difficulties the current Jiangling Navy is facing, Zhong Limu doesn't know very well, but he knows that when Yang Wei asked him to lead the Che Meng Chong to retreat, the overall situation is not very good.

If the Jiangling Naval Army could not block the onslaught of the Eastern Wu Naval Army in front, and the defenders of the Public Security had not yet completed the crossing of the river and retreated to Jiangbei, then Zhong Limu would have to lead the only two remaining Cheat Mengchong to shoulder the responsibility of protecting the smooth flow of the waterway.

Therefore, with more than 10,000 soldiers of the public security, Zhong Limu really hopes that he can withdraw as soon as possible.

But Li Qiu is also embarrassed by this matter.

From Zhang Xi's order to retreat, the order to be sent to Li Qiu's hands, to the vanguard of the Eastern Wu Army, after all, there were only two days in between.

In the past two days, Li Qiu had to arrange an ambush operation, and he had to organize a large army to evacuate the public security and defend the ferry, and at the same time, he had to wait for the warships provided by the Jiangling Navy to transport troops.

The main force of the Jiangling Navy has already gone out to intercept the Eastern Wu Navy led by Zhu Ran, and there are less than thirteen warships left for Li Qiu to use to transport troops, and each ship can only carry more than 100 people at most, that is to say, the number of people who can transport troops across the river at one time will not exceed 2,000 people.

Fifteen thousand soldiers, to transport all of them across the river, these warships need to run back and forth at least eight times, and this is only counting people, not counting the logistics supplies such as grain, grass, ordnance, etc.

And three trips back and forth across the river in one day is already the limit.

In other words, the two-day gap was simply not enough for Li Qiu to complete all the withdrawal work.

Not to mention, Zhou Yu didn't give Li Qiu two days to withdraw his troops at all, and only one day after Li Qiu arrived at the public security ferry, Zhou Yu had already surrounded him with 20,000 Eastern Wu troops.

The front was attacked, and the rear was evacuated by Queen Cang, so who would want to stay in the public security port and continue to hold on.

Therefore, what Li Qiu has to do now is not only to command the soldiers to block the attack of the Eastern Wu Army on the public security ferry, but also to be able to stabilize the morale of the army in time and arrange the evacuation of the soldiers in an orderly manner.

It's very difficult to put this in anyone's hands.

When there are 15,000 soldiers guarding the public security ferry, whether it is defending or withdrawing, the soldiers at least have the bottom of their hearts, after all, with so many troops, even if the Eastern Wu army comes, it will be impossible to attack for a while.

But if the number of fifteen thousand soldiers is slowly decreasing, and the offensive pressure of the Eastern Wu army on the opposite side is increasing, Li Qiu himself doesn't know when he will not be able to hold on.

Don't expect any soldier to understand the righteousness and voluntarily stay to resist the soldiers who have been soldiers for the survival of their comrades, without this concept and without this discipline.

Li Qiu was already very embarrassed, and when he heard that Zhong Limu had withdrawn to the public security ferry, he told himself that the situation of the navy in front was unfavorable Li Qiu immediately asked Zhong Limu to block the news immediately.

If this news spreads, the military morale of the entire public security ferry will be completely dispersed.

Li Qiu hurriedly asked Zhong Limu to declare to the outside world that the Dongwu Navy had been defeated, and now the Jiangling Navy was chasing and killing the remnants of the enemy, and Zhong Limu came back to help everyone guard the public security ferry.

It doesn't matter how long you can hide it, now you have to say that. The most important thing is to stabilize the morale of the military.

Then, Li Qiu asked Zhong Limu's two cart Meng Chong to anchor at the ferry and act as a catapult battery, even if the bombardment of the Eastern Wu army outside the city could not stop the attack of the Eastern Wu army, it was always good to scare them and boost their morale.

In the end, he privately discussed with Zhong Limu how to withdraw from the army.

Yesterday, when the Dongwu Army had not yet arrived at the public security ferry, there were already 4,000 people transported to Jiangbei through two transportations, and now there are about 10,000 people left in the public security ferry.

If there is no threat from the Eastern Wu Army today, it would not be difficult to transport troops across the river, but now if you want to transport another 4,000 people to Jiangbei, well, it is estimated that the army will be distracted.

When the first batch of 2,000 people retreated across the river, there were still 8,000 people in the public security ferry, and Li Qiu was sure that he would be able to stabilize the morale of the army.

But if the second batch of 2,000 had to retreat across the river, there would be only 6,000 people left at the public security ferry. Who would want to stay and face the attack of 20,000 troops?!

At that time, the military spirit will definitely not be able to be maintained, and everyone will inevitably rush to get on the boat and flee for their lives, which is not something that Li Qiu can stop.

Therefore, this withdrawal of troops across the river must be the last, and there is no possibility of the next withdrawal.

But even so, only 8,000 soldiers who could evacuate the river would die, and more than 6,000 people would be left on the south bank of the river.

Li Qiu knew that there were some things that could not be forced, but if he could evacuate a thousand more people, it would be good.

Then, Zhong Limu said that he didn't come over with two cart Meng Chong, and the car Meng Chong is also Meng Chong, at least it is big enough.

An ordinary warship can only cross about 100 people at a time, but if the Mengchong battleship crosses 500 people at a time, it shouldn't be a big problem, right?!

Nowadays, the car is used to assist in the defense of the public security ferry, but if at the last moment, the catapult on the ship is dismantled, and the stones in the cabin are lost, it is not impossible to act as a troop carrier. It is not impossible to cross the river with troops before transporting more troops.

But this matter can only be a one-time thing, after all, the speed of the Mengchong battleship is not comparable to taking a small boat, and Dongwu will not give the Mengchong battleship another time to come back.

But these are enough for Li Qiu.

(End of chapter)