The moon is white and the wind is high, and the shadows of the boats on the river are sufficient.

Zhu Ran's army had just boarded the ship, and he had not yet had time to drive out of the dock.

Cheng Pu was still smearing the hull with fresh silt at this time.

No one thought that the speed of the Jiangxia Sailor was so fast that it had already killed them closely.

At this moment, seeing that the Jiangdong Navy Division was really defenseless, Shen Chen's spirits were greatly lifted, and he ordered the soldiers to act according to the plan.

At that moment, the fleet immediately drummed into the noise, gongs, drums, and horns were continuous, and thousands of ships beat gongs and drums at the same time on the river that was several miles wide.

The sound spread in all directions, and even the howling wind on the river and the sound of the rough waves crashing on the shore were muffled.

Immediately after that, the fifty warships at the front turned on their full horsepower and crashed headlong into the Jiangdong Naval Division's fleet.

At this time, Zhu Ran wanted to order the soldiers to sail the boat out as soon as possible and block the other party's route.

But years of experience in water warfare were telling him one thing - it was too late!

The speed of Jiang Xia's ships was far faster than they imagined, and before their ships could sail out, the other party's ships would definitely collide with each other.

Therefore, Zhu Ran only hesitated for eight seconds, and when the Jiangxia Sailor fleet was less than two miles away from them, he gave the order to retreat.

"Blow the retreat whistle and get back to shore!"

Zhu Ran roared angrily.

"Toot toot toot!"

A sharp whistle sounded, and the surrounding Zhu Ran soldiers turned their heads and ran through the wooden planks built between the boats and ran to the shore.

In ancient times, when the ship was stopped, it was afraid that the current and wind would blow the boat away, so the ship was often placed sideways on the shore to slow down the current and wind.

At this moment, the ships were lying on the shore, and the soldiers on the ships were running backwards without looking back, and some even crowded back and forth, accidentally falling into other cabins, making a mess.

Fifty medium-sized ships in the rear approached at a rapid pace, and after just over two minutes, they had already rushed to the front and crashed into the Jiangdong Naval Division ship in front.

Bang!

Bang bang!

It was as if rolling muffled thunder resounded through the night sky.

Countless crashing noises rang out in all directions, sawdust flew in all directions, and many ships were smashed.

But the ships were also in tatters.

Ancient ships rarely chose to collide, after all, they were all made of wood, and if they hit and sink others, they themselves would have to be cool.

However, these ships themselves are dead soldiers, so naturally there is no need to care about whether they are cold or not.

So it was full of horsepower and crashed into the enemy's fleet.

Jiangxia Sailor and Jiangdong Sailor will never die!

"Run."

"Help."

"Run, run, run."

The soldiers of the Jiangdong Naval Division on the boat, who had not yet run to the shore, only hated their parents for missing two legs.

Then the flames rushed into the sky in an instant, and many small boats were lowered on the ship, and the soldiers of the Jiangxia Navy Division lit the fire in the cabin and jumped onto the small boat to retreat in an orderly manner.

It didn't take long for the fire to spread from the warship that the Jiangxia Navy had collided with towards the ship that the Jiangdong Navy had stored in the dock port.

The southeast wind blew violently, and with the help of the wind, the flames jumped three or four feet high, and in an instant, the periphery of the Jiangdong Naval Division's fleet turned into a sea of fire, staining half of the sky red.

At this time, Zhou Yu had just reorganized his team and left the camp, and according to normal calculations, he thought that the enemy should still be several miles away at this time, and it would take at least another quarter of an hour or two to rush to the dock.

At this time, Zhu Ran got on the boat to intercept first, and he led the army to arrive later, plus Cheng Pu responded from the side, Zhou Yu thought that once the enemy dared to attack at night, it would be a dead end.

And it's a perfect plan.

Since there are only thousands of miles to be thieves, there is no reason to prevent thieves for thousands of miles.

Therefore, even if Shen Chen did not launch a night attack after that, maintaining this state would not make the soldiers tired.

It's better to come naturally, and you can react immediately.

But Zhou Yu never expected that when he led the army out of the camp, he saw the monstrous fire on the bank of the river several miles away.

"What's going on?"

Zhou Yu was shocked, according to his calculations, the enemy obviously had some time to arrive, how could it catch fire?

Because the night was too dark and the distance was far away, it was not clear to see, so Lu Meng next to him said: "Dudu, it may be that the enemy is attacking with fire, and it may have been intercepted by General Cheng and General Zhu, and there is a fire on the river, let's go and take a look." ”

"Yes, only possibly."

Zhou Yu hurriedly comforted himself, after all, he naturally didn't want anything to happen to the dock.

However, he didn't know that there is an effect in psychology called Murphy's Law, that is, the more you fear, the more you come.

Soon they came to the shore, and the closer they got to the riverbank, the colder Zhou Yu's heart became, because he saw that it was not the enemy who had been intercepted at all, but that a raging fire had already ignited on the riverbank.

At this moment, the remnants of Zhu Ran's army were still on the shore, and they tried their best to transport the silt and river water, wetting the boats in the middle, trying to create a barrier to prevent the flames from burning over.

At the same time, Zhu Ran and other middle- and lower-ranking officers took the lead and rushed to the front of the sea of fire, constantly cutting the ropes of the ships, trying to let the peripheral ships go.

But under the southeast wind, the flame momentum is extremely fierce, and often one ship will be burned into a fire ship in just a minute or two, and then the flame will be blown northwest by the southeast wind, and quickly ignite the other ships.

"It's over, it's over."

"How can this be?"

"Our ship is going to burn down."

Many of the officers and men of the Jiangdong Army behind him were like ashes, and their morale was extremely low.

Although they did not lose any men, horses, food and grass, for the navy, the boat is life, especially since they are still in the Hongkou area.

The Hongkou area is not exactly an isolated island, the east is the Yangtze River, the south is Dongting Lake, the north is Yunmengze, and there is a narrow land in the west, which leads directly to Zuotang, that is, the area of Huarong County, Yueyang City in later generations.

However, the reason why they were able to set up camp here was because they had ships, and if the war was unfavorable, they could immediately take a boat down the river and leave Jingzhou and return to Yuzhang.

But now that the ships are burned, they can only go to Tang by land, which can be said to be a lone army, and they will face the siege of the Jingzhou army at any time.

This means that they are already in the embarrassing situation of being isolated and unable to return to Jiangdong.

As a result, the morale of the soldiers was on the verge of collapse.

"Poof!"

Zhou Yu vomited a mouthful of blood.

"Governor, Governor."

The surrounding Ling Tong and Lu Meng were all busy and stepped forward to help.

Zhou Yu's face turned pale, and he said with difficulty: "Quick, let the soldiers go to fight the fire immediately, leave the periphery alone, wet the boat in the middle with silt and water, and protect the innermost boat." ”

"Quick, put out the fire."

Ling Tong helped Zhou Yu, and Lu Meng hurriedly went to command the soldiers to put out the fire.

Although the fire spread quickly, Zhu Ran desperately created a layer of isolation belt, but because of the small number of people, the fire was still burning fiercely.

The night sky was dyed orange by the fire, and the flames were struck with terrible waves, and the surroundings had turned into a sea of fire.

At the end of December in the middle of winter, the weather was still very cold, but even if the Jiangdong soldiers who were fighting the fire were far away, even if they jumped into the river, they could feel the heat wave coming to their nostrils, and the air was filled with the smell of sawdust.

The fire burns the sea, and the rivers are boiled.

Heaven and earth were filled with rising ashes, and even the river under the boat seemed to have evaporated, rolling up hot steam.

The soldiers of the Jiangdong Army fought hard, some used knives to cut the ropes connecting the boats, some made separation belts with silt and river water, and some simply jumped into the water, filled buckets with silt and water, and handed them to their comrades on the boat.

Tens of thousands of soldiers rushed to the rescue, but the manpower was as fragile as ants in the face of natural disasters and fires.

In the distance, above the river, more than 2,000 Jiangxia sailor ships floated.

Shen Chen stood on the boat, and thousands of arsonist soldiers in front rowed back with the boat, they were lucky in this battle, because Zhou Yu was just on guard, he was not sure that they would come to attack at night, so he did not set up an ambush, otherwise thousands of archers were arranged on the ship, and at least half of these people might not be able to come back.

After the arson soldiers returned, the generals Su Fei and Chen Sheng, who had personally led the soldiers to launch a brave charge, came back to resume their lives, and Shen Chen praised their courage and gave the order for a general attack.

"Pass my order, the army will be outflanked left and right, and you must not let go of a Jiangdong army!"

"Yui!"

The herald immediately blew the horn.

In an instant, the fleet began to disperse towards the river banks on the left and right.

The ships of the Jiangdong Naval Division were more than 1,000 more than the Jiangxia Naval Division, and there were more than 3,000 ships.

Among them, there are as many as five or six building ships, and there are countless small and medium-sized boats such as other fighting ships, warships, Maotu, Luhua, red horses, fast boats, airships, and pleasure boats.

These large and small ships are densely spread all over the riverbank, and the wharf stretches for more than ten miles, and the flames form a fire dragon.

At this moment, the fire dragon is blazing, the whole sky is illuminated, and the heat wave spreads in all directions, which is spectacular.

It's just spectacular that they are also hard to get close to the past.

Therefore, Shen Chen could only choose to divide his troops into two routes, at least the left and right flank fleets had to sail more than ten miles away, bypassing this terrifying sea of fire and going ashore from somewhere else.

Huang Zu led more than 10,000 people to bypass from the west, while Shen Chen led the other half of the men and horses to bypass from the east.

The direction he chose was at the entrance of the Yangtze River, and the fleet was coming.

And it just so happens that there are actually some boats of the Jiangdong Navy Division over there, that is, the Chengpu boats that are experimenting with the silt effect over there, they are not at the wharf, but at the entrance of the Yangtze River.

It's just that I didn't expect that this happened to keep the last bit of the Jiangdong Naval Division's fleet, about hundreds, at this time Cheng Pu had already driven the ships away from the port, and when he arrived on the river, he saw the enemy attacking, and hurriedly ordered a retreat.

Shen Chen saw from afar that hundreds of ships actually abandoned the army and sailed towards the lower reaches of the Yangtze River, and he did not choose to chase after him, but stopped the boat from Cheng Pu's side and went ashore to intercept Zhou Yu.

At this moment, the situation of the Jiangdong Navy Division on the shore is even worse, no matter how hard they try to put out the fire, they still can't stop the spread of the fire.

There were only more than 3,000 ships, and only less than 500 were saved, and they barely made a circle of isolation belts, but before they could be happy, the news of the attack of the Jiangxia sailors came.

Zhou Yu gritted his teeth and insisted, and ordered Ming Jin to let the soldiers who were fighting the fire come back immediately to prepare to meet the enemy.

As a result, the old camp was lost.

Huang Zu went ashore in the northwest and attacked Zhou Yu's main camp in the northwest.

He also chose to set fire, and this fire seemed to stretch out the humiliation of being attacked countless times by Sun Ce and Sun Quan for more than ten years.

After sweeping away the previous shame, Huang Zu was extremely excited, looked up to the sky and howled, and was so ecstatic that he coughed up blood.

And over there, Zhou Yu was also coughing up blood.

The main camp stored all the materials for their expedition, and now in addition to the ships, even the grain and grass were destroyed, and the hope of going from land to Tang was completely lost.

"Fight to the death, fight to the death! The only way to go home is to fight to the death! ”

Zhou Yu said in an extremely weak voice to Lu Meng, Lingtong and the others beside him.

The rest of Lu Fan, Xu Sheng, Huang Gai and others were also extremely sad, and someone asked, "What is the governor talking about?" ”

Lu Meng cried and said, "The governor said to fight to the death!" The only way to go home is to fight to the death! ”

"Fight to the death! Go home! ”

"Fight to the death! Go home! ”

"Fight to the death! Go home! ”

In an instant, it started with Zhou Yu's side.

Immediately afterwards, this force seemed to infect the entire Jiangdong Army, and the whole army began to roar.

At this moment, Huang Zu and Shen Chen's army began to encircle in the distance, and when they heard the shouts of the Jiangdong army from a distance, Shen Chen led the jade horse to get off the boat, riding on horseback, and his brows furrowed.

"The Jiangdong Army has become a mourning soldier."

He said.

He has always been followed by Zhang Nanqu and two lieutenants.

Hearing his words, Zhang Nan said: "Governor, I have also heard the truth that mourning soldiers will win, what should we do now?" ”

"Retreat to the ship and kill them."

Shen Chen said.

"Report!"

However, at this moment, horses galloped in the distance.

Although they used ships as a means of transportation, there were scouts in the army who used war horses, which were placed in the cabins of ships to ensure the transmission of information on land, and could be used after disembarking on land.

This scout was the scout on Huang Zu's side, who galloped over at this moment and said to Shen Chen: "General Huang burned Zhou Yu's camp, Zhou Yu led a large army to fight him, General Huang couldn't retreat, he was dragged by them, and he couldn't get on the ship, he was afraid that the ship would be snatched away by the enemy." ”

Shen Chen's brows tightened, he found that he had made a mistake in command, he shouldn't have gone ashore immediately, he should have waited on the river, and when it burned almost during the day tomorrow, he would keep sailing on the Yangtze River and kill this Jiangdong army.

The reason why he was anxious was that Cao Cao and Liu Bei were fighting in the north, and Liu Cong always had fifty or sixty thousand horses in his hands, in case when Cao and Liu were fighting, Liu Cong would make trouble behind his back, and it would not be good for Cao Cao to pick peaches from Nanyang.

Moreover, although the Jiangdong Army lost its ships, there was no loss of food, grass and camps, and if the confrontation continued, the people could still confront each other for at least a few months, and it would be useless for him to burn the other people's ships at that time.

Therefore, he wanted to do it once and for all, thinking that by burning the ships of the Koto Army, their morale would be low, and he would defeat them in one fell swoop.

Unexpectedly, it turned them into mourning soldiers.

"Go rescue General Huang!"

Shen Chen knew that he couldn't delay, so he immediately gave an order.

At that moment, their men and horses quickly began to run towards the shore, attacking towards the rear of Zhou Yu's army.

At this moment, Zhou Yu's army was fighting with Huang Zu's army.

Zhou Yu was already very weak, his face was extremely pale, and he muttered to himself: "It's me who miscalculated, I miscalculated"

Lu Meng cried and said, "It's not the governor's fault, who would have thought that their ships would be so fast? ”

"Poof."

Zhou Yu spat out another mouthful of blood and said with difficulty: "This is the responsibility I should bear, I don't regret dying, but these Jiangdong sons are the elite of Wuhou, I must bring them back." ”

"But, we don't have a ship anymore."

Lu Meng mourned.

Zhou Yu said softly: "Also. You come with your ears. ”

Lu Meng hurriedly chimed his ear over.

Zhou Yu whispered a few times in his ear, and finally said, "Do as I say." ”

"Governor!"

Lu Meng's eyes widened and said, "It can't be like this." ”

Zhou Yu's eyes widened suddenly, and he said with his last strength: "Do as I say!" ”

Immediately afterwards, he still maintained that staring posture, and the strength in his hands was already very weak.

In the end, Zhou Yu slowly collapsed, as if he had no more life.

"Governor! Governor! ”

Lu Meng was overwhelmed with grief and indignation, and began to cry.

At this time, Huang Zu had actually retreated to the ship, although the Jiangdong army chased after him, but Zhou Yu fell ill, and Ling Tong, Huang Gai, Lu Fan, Xu Sheng and others did not have unified command, resulting in unbalanced scheduling and chaos.

Taking advantage of this opportunity, Huang Zu repelled the first wave of enemy attacks with bows and arrows, barely escaped from their offensive, and successfully retreated to the shore and boarded the ships.

After having a ship, Huang Zu took advantage of his condescending superiority and kept shooting the Jiangdong army to relieve the pressure.

In the rear, at this time, Shen Chen led a large army to kill him.

"Governor, look, Zhou Yu!"

Qu Kang's eyesight was better, and he noticed that on a hillside not far away, Zhou Yu's Governor flag was hanging high, and there was a person with his back to them, sitting cross-legged on the top of the mountain as if looking into the distance.

There were thousands of soldiers guarding the hillside, and farther to the northwest of the hillside, there seemed to be a battle going on, with all kinds of roars, shouts of killing, the sound of blade exchanges, and even screams.

Shen Chen instinctively judged that this should be Zhou Yu leading a large army to violently attack Huang Zu's troops, as if he did not expect that Shen Chen chose two ways to outflank, and actually pressed the border, leaving only thousands of soldiers by his side to protect.

Of course.

Maybe it wasn't that Zhou Yu didn't expect it, but that he had to snatch Huang Zu's ship as soon as possible to take the initiative.

So Shen Chen immediately said: "The whole army raided and captured Zhou Yu alive!" ”

"The whole army raided and captured Zhou Yu alive!"

"The whole army raided and captured Zhou Yu alive!"

"The whole army raided and captured Zhou Yu alive!"

The shouts shook the world.

Shen Chen's army was like a tide heading towards the hillside.

Soon the two sides were at war together.

"Shoot the arrows!"

At this moment, on the small hill on the right, countless Jiangdong troops appeared in an instant, shooting at them.

"Not good, there is an ambush!"

Shen Chen was taken aback, and hurriedly ordered, "Ming Jin." ”

The sound of tinkling gold sounded.

Unexpectedly, the Jiangdong Army on the hillside on the right ran faster than them, and actually ran behind them in a swarm.

"Kill!"

And the shouts of killing on the west side gradually increased.

It turned out that Huang Zu shot a large number of Jiangdong troops with a bow and crossbow, which made him even happier and actually chased and killed.

Shen Chen was a little dazed for a while, the battlefield was so chaotic that it was easy for people to figure out the situation, and ordinary people didn't know what was going on.

But fortunately, Shen Chen was smart, and immediately thought that this should be Zhou Yu's strategy, and the battle situation on the front line should be that Huang Zu still has the advantage, so Zhou Yu deliberately created the illusion that the two sides were fighting, luring him over to support, so as to kill him and rob his ship.

"Zhou Yu is still calculating, but I have long been guarding against this hand."

Shen Chen sneered, turned his horse's head and said, "Kill it." ”

At that moment, he joined forces with Huang Zu's army and pursued the Jiangdong army.

At this time, Lu Meng carried Zhou Yu's corpse on his back, and kept crying while running.

The Jiangdong army was in a mess at the moment, not at all like the victorious army that had ambushed Shen Chen just now, but like a defeated army.

The soldiers threw away their armor and fled desperately eastward.

It's just that Shen Chen had already left thousands of soldiers and horses on the ship, and if they went to rob the ship, they would definitely be shot with bows and crossbows, so Shen Chen was not worried at all.

The army pursued, the two sides were one after the other, one side fled, the other side desperately pursued, the front and back were seriously disjointed, many Jiangdong soldiers were physically exhausted, or fell, and were caught up by the Jiangxia sailors who were pursuing behind, and were cut into corpses.

But it was these disjointed soldiers who briefly delayed the enemy's pursuit for a while, and even Huang Gai personally led thousands of people to break the rear and cover the retreat of the main force.

When they ran to the place where Shen Chen stopped the boat, the crossbow shot that Shen Chen expected did not appear.

"What's going on?"

By the light of the fire on the riverbank, Shen Chen rode a horse on the hillside three miles away to watch, which made him stunned.

Because he saw that his fleet was also fighting at the moment.

"Cheng Pu!"

Shen Chen's face turned cold.

Not only did Zhou Yu kill a horse pistol, but Cheng Pu also killed a horse pistol.

He had a boat, and he used the boat to rush to the position where Shen Chen stopped the boat, and then ordered the soldiers to get on the boat and fight hand-to-hand.

The crossbowmen who were in ambush on Shen Chen's boat were dragged by them, resulting in no way to shoot at them when the main force of the Jiangdong Army came running.

The main forces of the Jiangdong Army began to climb onto the boats, and many ships were snatched away, and Huang Gai led the main force behind the palace, so that the main force of the Jiangxia Navy Division could not entangle with the other party in the past.

"Huang Gai!"

Shen Chen saw Huang Gai, who was leading the men and horses not far away, and he was angry, turned his horse's head, and killed in the direction of Huang Gai.

At this time, Huang Gai has been surrounded by Jiangxia sailors who are several times their size, fighting bloodily, and there are fewer and fewer soldiers around, and there are still two or three thousand people at the beginning, but at this moment there are less than eight hundred, and the number is still decreasing.

Shen Chen galloped away, holding a tiger courage knife, and after approaching the battlefield, he turned over and dismounted, crossed his own army crowd, and came to Huang Gai, shouting: "Huang Gai, surrender and avoid death!" ”

"Hmph, you want me to surrender to juniors like you, delusional!"

Huang Gai is over fifty years old, covered in blood, sweat and blood are intertwined, and the whole person is panting, but he is still standing with a knife.

Shen Chen felt like a villain at this moment, bullying the old and weak.

But soon he shook his head and dismissed the idea.

In fact, there are no villains and no decency in this war, there are only positions and existential struggles.

Shen Chen wanted to end the troubled times and create a beautiful new world where everyone could afford to eat, read, and live and work in peace and contentment, without the pride of the family.

And Sun Quan wants to dominate the south and dream of being the lord of Eastern Wu, so this big war is naturally inevitable.

Therefore, no one is righteous, and some of them only have different goals and ideals.

Shen Chen no longer talked nonsense with Huang Gai, deceived him, and slashed at the head with the tiger knife in his hand, slashing towards the top of Huang Gai's head.

The surrounding soldiers suddenly surged again.

All kinds of spears and axes, swords, guns, swords, halberds, and even bows and arrows.

Huang Gai raised the big knife in his hand to block, but his own strength was exhausted, coupled with his old age and decrepitness, and Shen Chen was young and strong, so he couldn't bear this move, and the back of the knife was pressed to his shoulder.

"Die!"

Shen Chen changed his move again, drawing his knife and slashing horizontally.

Huang Gai is difficult to block sideways, and he only has the power to parry, not the power to counterattack.

After three rounds, under Shen Chen's stormy attack, Huang Gai finally couldn't resist and was slashed in the chest.

Immediately afterwards, Shen Chen picked up his big knife and pierced his heart with a knife, pushing him back.

Huang Gai's eyes widened in anger, and he took a few steps backwards, and finally collapsed.

As soon as he died, the resistance around him weakened a lot, and soon the battle subsided.

"So I'm already so strong."

Shen Chen looked at Huang Gai's corpse on the ground, although Huang Gai was old and his physical strength was exhausted in many battles, he was experienced and was once one of the four strong generals who followed Sun Jian.

I didn't expect to kill him in just a few moves, maybe I already have the level of a second-rate general.

"Bury General Huang!"

Shen Chen raised his head and looked into the distance, shouting, "Continue the pursuit!" ”