As soon as Zhu Ran returned to Changsha County, he got a thunderbolt from the blue.

The Jiangxia Navy was defeated by the Xiangyang Navy in the Battle of the Han River, and now it has to retreat to Xiakou.

This news, Zhu Ran is true, I can't figure it out.

The troops on his side were at an obvious disadvantage, and he also encountered strange warships that he had never seen before, so he was able to save some of the situation through tactical changes and the individual combat strength of the Soochow naval army. How did you lose the Jiangxia Army?!

Didn't I send Ding Feng to lead 10,000 sailors to support?!

Even if you Zhuge Ke are not very proficient in the tactics of the naval army, with the assistance of Sun Sheng and Ding Feng, the two generals of the naval army, 30,000 people fight 20,000 people, you can still lose to the point where you can only be trapped in Xiakou?!

Zhu Ran really couldn't understand it, because he didn't understand how much Zhuge Ke was stubborn and self-serving.

Zhuge Ke transferred Zhang Cheng under the pretext of transferring him and grasping the control of the Jiangxia Naval Army, in the face of Sun Sheng's airborne, he didn't give any face at all, and he didn't pretend to be at all, so he dominated the command of the naval army.

At the time of the Battle of Jiangling, Zhuge Ke looked down on Sun Sheng very much, thinking that he was just a general who had survived by his surname and seniority, and he had no ability at all. Now it is natural that he will not give Sun Sheng any face.

also took Sun Sheng's personality a little too soft, although he was a clan general, he really didn't dare to offend Zhuge Ke, as well as Zhuge Jin and Sun Deng behind Zhuge Ke.

Therefore, in the Jiangxia Water Army, it is still Zhuge Ke who has the final say.

In the face of the Xiangyang Navy that went south along the Han River Basin, Zhuge Ke was not false, and personally led the Navy fleet to compete with the Xiangyang Navy in the Han River Basin.

Then, Wen Ping saw a picture that he couldn't quite understand.

The Jiangxia Navy lined up the five Mengchong warships in a row, without any large or small warships around them, and just rushed towards the fleet of the Xiangyang Navy Army.

And the large and small warships and walkers of the Jiangxia Navy Army all shrank behind these five Mengchong warships, and they seemed to be leading but not starting.

This tactic. Wen Ping said, I haven't seen it.

The tactics of water warfare are either to form a fleet with Meng Chong and large and small warships and cooperate with each other to fight, or to use large and small warships and walkers as the vanguard, and Meng Chong will lead but not launch in the rear. It was the first time that Wen Ping had seen Meng Chong take the lead, and there were no ships around to escort him, and the walker and the small warship were not led behind.

But no matter what, the veteran of the naval warfare hired by Wen was unlikely to be retreated by this kind of bluffing military formation tactics, so he immediately sent two Mengchong warships and a fleet of fifty large and small warships to take the lead in a tentative engagement.

Then, Wen Ping found that his two Mengchong fleets encountered a very dense arrow attack when they were close to the five Mengchong warships of the Jiangxia Navy.

At this time, Wen Ping probably understood why the Jiangxia Navy put on such a strange formation, which was to prepare to use the maximum concentrated fire attack to shoot the enemy soldiers who were close to the Mengchong battle array.

What's the real point of just doing that?!

Wen Ping didn't understand, but he ordered his own Mengchong fleet to be retracted and end the temptation.

It has been seen that the enemy's battle formation is about to be swayed, so there is no need to continue to test and move forward, but it is about to enter the hand-to-hand combat link of gangside melee combat.

In this regard, Wen Ping knew very well that the Eastern Wu Army was the dominant side, and he could not win in a close battle on the side with two Mengchong and fifty large and small warships.

Moreover, up to now, Wen Ping has not seen the changes in the movements of those walkers and large and small warships of the Jiangxia Navy, so there is no need to risk a strong attack.

But just when Wen Ping ordered the withdrawal of the two Mengchong fleets, Zhuge Ke smiled slightly at his flagship, and then waved the flag.

The large and small ships of the Jiangxia Navy that were originally hidden behind the Mengchong battleship suddenly attacked at high speed from both sides of the Mengchong battleship, and quickly attacked the two wings of the retreating Mengchong battleship of the Xiangyang Army with the situation of being surrounded by two wings.

What's this for?!

With the maneuverability of the walker and the small warship, it is necessary to attack the two wings, or even cut off the retreat route around the rear ?!

Wen Ping is becoming more and more unable to understand the tactical arrangement of the naval army on the other side. Relying on these small warships, how could the commander of the navy on the opposite side have the confidence to think that he could stop the retreat of the Mengchong fleet?!

This set of tactics will not work on land warfare.

Walking Ke and small warships are basically equivalent to infantry, and Mengchong battleships are basically the existence of cavalry.

Wen Ping really couldn't understand what kind of reason the commander of the naval army on the opposite side would arrange his troops like this. Unless the commander of the naval army on the other side is a fool who doesn't understand water warfare at all.

But. Is this possible?!

Wen Ping still felt that this matter was not very reliable, so he chose a more conservative approach, responding to the retreat of his naval fleet, and temporarily withdrawing to the water village he had temporarily set up, and then see the situation first.

And Wen Ping's retreat directly made Zhuge Ke excited. World War I repelled the famous general Wen Ping of the Navy Army, who would dare to say that he did not understand the tactics of the Navy in the future? !

Even Sun Sheng's face is not very good-looking, you Wen Zhongye is so bold that this idiot is scared off in this way?!

What kind of naval tactics are these, chaotic blind command, even Sun Sheng, a general who is not strong in water warfare, thinks that he is messing around, and as a result, Zhuge Ke really forced Wen Ping to retreat. Now this bastard kid's nostrils are not allowed to open to the sky?!

It's a pity that the more unpleasant Sun Sheng's face is, the more proud Zhuge Ke is.

His own ingenuity, with a mediocre person like Sun Sheng who can only stick to the old tactics and don't know how to use his brains to change, is incomprehensible after all.

When Zhuge Ke advocated using this kind of improved naval tactics to practice, Sun Sheng tried his best to oppose it, so that Zhuge Ke originally wanted to give Sun Sheng some face, but after this incident, Zhuge Ke never took care of Sun Sheng again.

Now, you've won the water war. It is normal for a mediocre person like Sun Sheng to have an ugly face.

Well, when this battle is over, he must write to the Supreme and ask him to transfer Gu Tan and Chen Biao to Jiangxia, as for a mediocre talent like Sun Sheng, he can go back wherever he wants.

Here Zhuge Ke was still immersed in the joy of his victory, but Wen Ping, who had retreated to the water village, began to reflect. Aren't you being too careful?!

Due to the lack of early intelligence, Wen Ping did not know that the current Jiangxia Navy was under the control of Zhuge Ke, and the information he got was that the old opponent Zhang Cheng had been transferred out of Jiangxia, and the new Jiangxia Navy commander was Sun Sheng.

Anyway, Sun Sheng is also an experienced general, although I haven't heard that he is good at naval warfare, but he shouldn't be an idiot in water warfare.

This is also the biggest concern of Wenpin's choice to withdraw troops. Even if you change to Zhang Yun, Cai Mao's henchman, he will not discharge such a strange military formation.

No matter how bad Sun Sheng is, at least he has to have Cai Mao's level. Don't be so deceitful.

This was Wenpin's idea at that time, but now, after returning to Shuizhai, the more Wenpin thinks about it, the more he regrets it.

Think back carefully, at that time, the two armies were facing each other in the water war, judging from the size of the ships, the Jiangxia Navy should have been elite, and even if the Baqiu Navy came to help, it should not be able to come so quickly. How can the Jiangxia Navy still cheat?!

It was clear that the fighter plane was in front of him, but he voluntarily gave up. Can you not regret it?

As soon as he thought about these things clearly, Wen Ping was annoyed for a while, and immediately decided to continue to play tomorrow.

It's just that although the enemy's naval tactics are a bit strange and have many loopholes, the attack power of the water battle formation composed of the five Mengchong battleships is still very strong, and if you rush hard, your own casualties will not be small.

Therefore, we still have to think of a way

The next day, Wen Ping once again led the Xiangyang Navy into battle and approached Xiakou.

And Zhuge Ke, who "won" in the first battle, once again confidently put out the military formation he invented to meet the enemy.

At the beginning of the battle, it was almost a copy of yesterday, Wen Ping first sent a fleet of two Mengchong warships to attack, and immediately chose to retreat after discovering that the Mengchong army could not get close to the Jiangxia naval army.

After that, just like yesterday, Zhuge Ke sent a two-wing attack tactic to take the lead, followed by a small warship, trying to reverse the two-wing defense line of the Xiangyang Navy Army.

At this time, Wen Ping was not polite at all, and ordered his remaining three Mengchong warships, including his own flagship, to attack together to carry out a counterattack on the two wings of the Jiangxia Navy.

Facts have proved that in a water war, although the boats and small warships are flexible, they cannot make any waves in the face of large ships such as the Mengchong warships, which have superior defensive and offensive capabilities.

It hardly took much time, and the two wings and small warships sent by Zhuge Ke were all defeated by the Xiangyang naval army, and they could only retreat in embarrassment.

Seeing that the time was ripe, Wen Ping waved the command flag, and the more than 40 warships hidden behind his fleet rushed at high speed from the position in the center of the battlefield and went straight to the five warships of the Jiangxia Navy.

It's not a simple way to attack Meng Chong with a walk, Wen Ping's water warfare ability has not yet fallen to the same level as Zhuge Ke. These are filled with sulfur, straw and fish oil.

While quickly approaching the Jiangxia Navy formation, the Xiangyang Navy set fire to these walkers, and then jumped into the water to escape, allowing these walkers to go straight to the Mengchong warship of the Jiangxia Navy under the blessing of the current and wind.

The Xiangyang Navy originally occupied the advantage of the upstream, and the probability of a northwest wind in the Hanshui basin was much higher than that of a southeast wind in the Hanshui Basin. Wouldn't it be a shame not to attack with fire?!

(End of chapter)