"Enemy attack!"

A shrill cry pierced the sky.

Then the horn sounded.

Yong Lake is connected to Dongting Lake, and the mouth of the lake has been built as a fortress at this time.

Historically, Sun Quan set up a water fortress here.

The mouth of the lake is very wide, about a mile or two, and there are a large number of boats floating on the surface of the lake at the moment.

When the horn sounded, Shen Chen stepped on the stairs of the third-story female wall of the building ship with one foot, standing on the roof of the building and watching.

The fierce north wind howled and blew the flags of the ships, and all the big ships threw their anchors in the water, stopped at the mouth of the lake, and joined together with iron locks to block the whole lake.

In the distant wind, a large number of ships, ships, and fighting ships came like a wind, and when they got closer, they began to slowly retract their sails and reduce their speed.

Of course, the water fight is not about the two ships colliding with each other, but the ships of both sides slowly approaching, and then shooting with bows and arrows, and the most consumed in water fights is bows and arrows.

Shen Chen's army was locked across the river, hundreds of warships were connected together, and there were a large number of high oars on the ships, and bed crossbows were also arranged, as if they were defending the city, watching the enemy army vigilantly.

After a while, the speed of the Koto sailors began to slow down, because it was going against the current, and the sails had to be collected when they approached, so the speed was very slow.

When the distance between the two sides was less than a mile, the speed of the Jiangdong naval army completely slowed down, and they all began to stagnate on the surface of Dongting Lake.

I saw that on the opposite side of the Jiangxia Naval Division, thousands of large ships were lined up, and the Jiangdong army was 50,000 or 60,000, except for the more than 20,000 people left behind in the rear, the main force was basically here, almost more than 40,000 troops.

Shen Chen's army only had 20,000 horses here, including Huang Zu, and the rest of the people like Su Fei, Deng Long, Zhang Hu, Chen Sheng and others occupied the rest of Baqiu's important places to prevent the Jiangdong Naval Division from dividing its troops and breaking through from the north or west coast to attack from the land.

In the face of twice as many enemies, the Jiangxia sailors were not afraid, as the defenders, they connected the boats together with iron locks, smeared mud on the bow of the boat, blocked the mouth of the lake, and had high oars on the shore to shoot arrows, which was already in a very big advantage.

Although the iron-locked boat method is easy to be attacked by fire, in fact, this is the common way used by people at that time, not only the battle of Chibi, but also the cliff mountain and water battle at the end of the Song Dynasty and the water battle of Poyang Lake at the end of the Yuan Dynasty, all of which are used in the method of iron lock and boat.

And when the ancient ships stopped at the wharf, they would also use iron cables to connect the boats, which were handed down as early as the Spring and Autumn Period of Wuyue.

It's just that because in the water battles of all dynasties, the people who used iron chains were defeated, so people will think that iron chain boats are not a good tactic.

The problem is that large rivers and lakes such as Dongting Lake and the Yangtze River are very windy and waves, and even professionally trained sailors may not be able to stand firm, so when facing the enemy head-on, the iron boat will make the ship more stable and easier to fight.

As long as you can defend against fire attacks like the cliff mountain and water battles at the end of the Song Dynasty, it is actually a very good way.

At this moment, Zhou Yu stood on the boat and watched.

Ling Tong beside him said: "Dudu, they have connected the ships together, I ask for an assault!" ”

Zhou Yu waved his hand and said, "Let's wait and see first." ”

The two sides confronted each other on the river.

After a while, Zhou Yu ordered Cheng Pu to make a tentative attack.

This battle was the elite of the Jiangdong Army, with Zhou Yu, the governor of the capital, in charge of the military power, with Cheng Pu, the governor of the left, Huang Gai, the governor of the right, Xu Sheng, the general of Zhonglang, Lu Fan, the general of Pi, Ling Tong, the captain of the thief, Zhu Ran, the captain of Zhichong, and Lu Meng, the commander of Pingbei, and so on.

After Zhou Yu gave the order, Cheng Pu, the governor of Zuodu, personally led hundreds of warships to attack a certain part of the Jiangxia Navy.

However, with the roar of ghosts and wolves, a series of iron-headed crossbow arrows with the thickness and length of tree trunks crossed a brilliant arc in the air and fell into the fleet of the Jiangdong Army, making a loud bang.

The huge bed crossbow was still being fired, and the Jiangdong Army fleet was flying sawdust, and the screams were continuous, and Cheng Pu had to retreat before he could get close to the distance between the bows and arrows of the two sides.

"All the fleets approached, shot with bows and crossbows, and then let people prepare fish paste grease!"

Zhou Yu gave a new order again.

Lu Fan, the general next to him, was surprised: "Dudu, the enemy's bed crossbow is powerful, and the mouth of the lake is relatively narrow, so if you forcibly break through the past, you may not be able to get close." ”

Zhou Yu said with a smile: "This iron-locked boat is usually used when the fleet is moored at night on the river or wharf without a safe harbor, and Shen Chen is really smart to block the mouth of the lake in this way." But the ships are connected together, and once the fire is burned, they can't get out, and we can destroy them by forcibly breaking through and letting the ships light the fire. ”

Lu Fan was stunned for a moment, then gave a thumbs up, nodded again and again, and said: "The governor is really a ghostly plan, at this time it is the time of the north wind, we can attack the enemy fleet in the north, as long as their ships in the north burn, the fire will take advantage of the wind and burn the ships all the way to the south." ”

"Huh."

Zhou Yu smiled and did not speak.

Because what Lu Fan said was the truth, he really planned to let the death squad rush to the north of the Jiangxia Navy.

As long as you can get close, light the fire, and with the blessing of the north wind, you will soon be able to burn the ship.

At that moment, under the command of various horns, command flags, gongs and drums, the fleet of the Jiangdong Navy Division spread out along the lake, and then began to move forward slowly according to Zhou Yu's orders.

They can only move slowly.

Although it is a tailwind, it is not smooth the water, and in close combat, the sails cannot be opened, and the speed rushes too fast, and the two ships collide together, and the ships are destroyed, so the two sides often shoot bows and arrows at each other in water battles.

Then close combat, that is, use a hook to hook the enemy's ship and your own ship, and then jump into the opponent's boat to engage in hand-to-hand combat with the enemy with cold weapons.

Therefore, unless it is attacked by fire, it is generally not used to attack with your own fleet.

And at this moment, on the side of the Jiangxia Naval Division, there are many ships for several miles, the mast flag covers the sky and the sun, and the high turrets stretch vertically and horizontally, watching the fleet of the Jiangdong Army begin to sail forward, and a large number of bed crossbows begin to fire.

The Jiangdong Army raised the plank, and under the cover of the plank, the distance between the two sides was less than 100 meters.

The rain of arrows rained down on the wooden planks erected at the bow of the Jiangdong Army, making a tinkling sound. However, the height of this kind of wooden plank was not good, and a large number of soldiers were still hit by arrows.

On the plank, under the plank, and on the side of the ship, many Jiangdong soldiers covered their arrow wounds and wailed, and people kept dragging them into the cabin in the rain of arrows.

And the Jiangdong Army actually suffered a loss at this time.

Later generations of Yueyang people should know that the mouth between Nanhu Lake and Dongting Lake stretches for one or two kilometers from east to west, and there are more than ten large and small lake hills such as Ergui Mountain, Moon Mountain, and Ouyang Mountain.

In the Han Dynasty, due to the large water area, a large number of islands in the west of Nanjin Port in Yueyang were in the water at this time, but many mountains were exposed on it, and these mountains were now occupied by the Jiangxia naval army, and then many military facilities such as high turrets, water villages, and dock forts were built on them.

In addition, the mouth of the lake was facing east and west, so the Jiangdong army could only attack from west to east, and the north wind was blowing at that time, so there would be no blessing for the bows and arrows on both sides.

However, due to the relationship between many small hills and islands on the lake, the Jiangdong Army was baptized with bows and arrows.

Therefore, the overall offensive of the Jiangdong Army was actually very difficult.

However, fortunately, they had a large number of ships, and although the Jiangxia Navy was covered with arrows, they finally got close together under the successive attacks of the Jiangdong Army, despite huge casualties.

Immediately afterwards, the Jiangdong Army also began to counterattack with bows and arrows, and at the same time, more than a dozen ships filled with fish paste and grease desperately rushed towards the fleet of the Jiangxia Navy.

At this time, if it was a general with extremely rich experience in water warfare like Huang Zu, he would send a warship to intercept it.

In history, when the red cliff was burned, Huang Gai rushed over like this, and he would definitely be stopped. It's just that he sent someone to send a letter to Cao Cao saying that he wanted to surrender, so Cao Cao didn't send someone to intercept him, resulting in the success of burning Chibi.

Therefore, Cao Cao actually did not lose in the iron cable, but lost in the gullible.

Otherwise, from the Spring and Autumn Period, when the ship stopped at the dock without a safe harbor, it would take the way of connecting the boat with iron cables, why did Cao Cao suffer heavily?

It can only be said that there was perimeter protection when the ship was parked, but unfortunately Cao Cao put Huang Gai in by himself, no wonder who was.

At this moment, Shen Chen should have immediately sent a ship to intercept the other party.

But he didn't.

It's not that they are arrogant, but the number of their ships themselves is less than that of the Jiangdong Army, and now the big ships are all connected, and there are no extra ships to send out.

Soon the ships were running towards them at a very slow pace.

Bang!

With a loud collision sound, these ships crashed into the fleet of Jiangxia Navy, and the entire fleet shook slightly.

Then the soldiers of the Jiangdong Army lit a fire in the cabin and ran to the stern of the boat to lower the boat to escape.

This is the time for each to flee and secure his destiny.

Historically, when Huang Gai went to set fire, he evacuated in a small boat, but was shot by an arrow, fell into the water and almost drowned.

At the end of the Yuan Dynasty, in the water battle of Poyang Lake, Zhu Yuanzhang sent the dead soldiers to set fire to it, and the dead soldiers were almost wiped out.

Therefore, setting fire to this kind is also filling with life.

However, this time they obviously did not have such good luck, countless arrows rained down, and the Jiangdong army on the small boat fell into the water one after another, and in an instant, more than ten fighting ships were shipped, nearly a thousand soldiers, and there were heavy casualties.

But their mission was accomplished.

Soon the flames of these warships burned, and the flames were scorching, and the flames jumped very high, and began to spread towards the ships of the Jiangxia Navy.

Shen Chen stood at the top of the main ship, watching the position of the fleet about a hundred meters away from him being attacked, and he didn't have any worries, just said softly: "Keep shooting!" ”

"Buzz buzz buzz!"

The bed crossbow strings on the ship rattled, and each time hundreds of crossbow arrows flew out and shot into the fleet of the Jiangdong Army, causing a large number of casualties.

And after more than ten minutes of burning over there, the fire has spread to the sky.

The Jiangxia sailors on those ships did not have any urgency, constantly going in and out of the cabin, scooping out a large amount of silt and lake water from the cabin with buckets, and pouring it onto the deck and the side of the ship.

This is the way when the Song army was fighting at the end of the Song Dynasty to deal with the attack of the Yuan army's fireships.

The hull of the ship was covered with a lot of silt, and when the flames came, the fire could not spread out of the cabin when the fire came, and then it continued to pour mud into the ship, let alone burn, even if one or two ships were on fire, but when all the ships were covered with silt, the fire would not spread.

It's just that this method is good, and it will also make the ship very dirty, and the silt still smells disgusting, so except for the cliff water battle at the end of the Song Dynasty, almost no one will use it in other situations.

"Huh?"

Zhou Yu looked at it from a distance, because it was far away, and he couldn't see the specific situation clearly.

He only saw that although the flame ship was forcibly sent in, after the fire broke out, it did not spread to the ship of the Jiangxia sailor.

"Why didn't it burn?"

On the side, Lu Fan also wondered, as the main ship, they were a mile away from the battlefield, and they really couldn't see clearly.

Zhou Yu didn't speak, still waiting patiently.

At this time, the battle between the two sides had lasted for more than an hour, the two sides continued to shoot at each other, the Jiangdong army suffered heavy casualties, and even under the suppression of bows and arrows, many Jiangxia sailors put down their boats and began to storm the big ships of the Jiangdong army.

"Withdraw!"

Until the flames of those warships were in flames and the enemy ships were burning, Zhou Yu had already realized that something was wrong and immediately ordered a retreat.

"Woooooooo

The sound of trumpets pierced the sky, and the sound traveled miles away.

The Jiangdong sailors on the river began to retract the anchor with difficulty, and then rocked the oars in reverse, allowing the ships to slowly retreat, and waited until they were out of the range of the enemy's bows and arrows, and then slowly turned and moved to the rear.

And this process is really very painful, from the last moment when Zhou Yu launched an attack in the middle of the corner, to the failure to withdraw the troops now, they have been fighting for more than two hours.

It was already two o'clock in the afternoon, and the sun was high in the western sky. The Jiangdong sailors retreated in a gray manner, leaving some broken ships, the wreckage of the large ships that were still burning after the fire attack, and countless corpses floating on the surface of the lake.

There are more arrows on the surface of the lake.

A water battle consumed a large number of feather arrows, and the Jiangxia naval army used no less than 500,000 arrows in this battle alone, so the dense arrows on the lake seemed to fill the entire lake.

"Clean up the battlefield and recover the arrows!"

Shen Chen gave the order.

He did not choose to continue the pursuit, mainly because although the iron cable boat stabilized the hull and occupied the favorable terrain at the mouth of the lake, it was only suitable for defensive and defensive battles, not for offensive pursuit battles.

More importantly, although Zhou Yu suffered heavy casualties in this battle, at least thousands of casualties, the number was twice as many as them after all, and the water battle could not be taken advantage of.

But even so, this is already a big victory for the Jiangxia sailors.

Since the last defeat of Huangzu in Maoxukou, the Jiangxia Navy has always been afraid of the Jiangdong Navy like a tiger, so this big victory, watching the Jiangdong Army flee in ashes, is very morale-boosting for the Jiangxia Navy Division.

"Win, we win."

"Ho ho

"Jiangdong rats, they attacked us last time, and they lost in our hands this time."

"Hahahaha, sons, we have won!"

On the other main ship, Huang Zu, as the second main general, was extremely excited.

Because whether it was Sun Ce's time or Sun Quan's period, he suffered a lot of losses in the battle with Jiangdong.

Now that the rare Jiangdong sailor has suffered a loss, he is naturally happy, standing on the boat and stroking his beard and laughing.

But Shen Chen didn't get carried away, he looked into the distance, looked at the direction of the Jiangdong Army's departure, and just ordered: "Order the scouts to follow in a light boat and see where the Jiangdong Army is stationed!" ”

"Yui!"

On the side, the deputy general Qu Dang hurriedly went to carry out the order.

Shen Chen looked at the northwest from afar, and a smile appeared on the corner of his mouth.

If nothing else, the only place where the Jiangdong Army can be stationed is Hongkou.

Hongkou is located at the mouth of Dongting Lake into the Yangtze River, in the northwest of Baqiu, that is, in the area of Junshan District, northwest of Yueyang City in the later generations.

Although it can be stationed there, it is like the terrain of Ulin and Chibi, and there is no natural sheltered harbor.

This also means that when the Jiangdong Army stops the ship, it can only choose the iron cable boat.

There are currently only two other sheltered docks in the Baqiu area, one is Yonghu Lake that they occupy, and the other is Weishuikou to the south.

Yonghu Lake is a large lake recessed by Dongting Lake, surrounded by mountains and sheltered from the wind. Weishui is the Xinqiang River in the north of Yueyang County in later generations, and there is a notch wharf in the north of Yueyang County as a port.

As for Bajiao Lake in the north of Baqiu, because it was almost a part of the Yangtze River at that time, including the surrounding Dongfeng Lake, Jijia Lake, Chengyu Lake, Maojiayan Lake, etc., were all connected together, forming a huge Dongting Lake into the mouth of the Yangtze River, so the wind was called big.

So if Zhou Yu insists on finding a safe haven, he can only go south to Weishui. But when they go to the south, the north wind blows at this time, and they will suffer a lot in the direction of the wind, and they will also be flanked by Liu Panjun from the Xiangjiang River in Jingnan.

Therefore, Shen Chen believes that they retreat to the next best thing and have a greater probability of being stationed in Hongkou.

And things were not as Shen Chen expected.

Day 2.

Scout returns.

Zhou Yu is stationed in Hongkou!