On the river, at the beginning of noon.

It is equivalent to the Yangtze River between Jingjiang and Jiangyin in later generations, Xu Kun's fleet pursued relentlessly behind, gradually approaching, and Tai Shici's fighting fleet "fled in a hurry" in front, clumsy and slow.

Tai Shi Ci looked at the sky, the sun was almost in the middle, and his always heroic heart was also a little nervous, and carefully recalled the today's battle plan explained by General Fubo.

Unlike Sun Cejun's hasty deployment of the front and rear divisions, Liu Beijun's naval army was divided into three parts today.

At the rear, slow-moving, cumbersome to lure the enemy, was Tai Shici's troops, about 5,000 men, all of whom used large, sturdy old fighting ships.

Twenty miles downstream of Tai Shi Ci, in the direction of the north bank, there was also a naval army of 9,000 people, which was also the absolute main force of today's battle, and was personally led by Guan Yu.

The warships of the Guan Yu Department are all large and small, but they are all light keel-type ships, and they are all new ships built in the last two or three years, and they are fast.

The reason why Guan Yu had to pull away such a distance was also to ensure that the enemy who was chasing Tai Shici behind him could not see his presence through the lookout on the mast, so as to underestimate the enemy.

Once Tai Shi Ci was about to fight the enemy, Guan Yu would turn around and kill back, taking advantage of Tai Shi Ci's sticking to the enemy, outflanking and detouring to give the enemy a fatal blow.

In addition to Guan Yu and Tai Shici, there is a third group of people in Liu Beijun's navy today, who came from the south bank near the direction of Sun Ce's territory, and the station is more downstream than Guan Yu, about 4,000 people. The generals who led the troops were Zhang Duo and Lu Yi, and they were all new keel warships, and they would also wait for the opportunity to enter the decisive battlefield.

And because it came from the floating sea, Lu Yi was all new ships and big ships along the way. Although the number of people is small, and the military logistics are all provided by Wang Lang, it will definitely be a strategic force.

Tai Shi Ci reviewed the battle plan in his heart, and recalled the time point of the high tide on the 18th day of May explained by Zhuge Jin, and felt that it was almost time to test it, so he decisively ordered:

"Each ship turned around first, tried to meet Xu Kun, and saw how Xu Kun reacted, whether to rush up and fight us, or keep a distance and wait for the main force of the rear army."

After Tai Shici's lieutenant Xu Gan received the order, he immediately commanded the ships to turn around and test the enemy.

Because of the large size of the fleet and the bulky ships, it took more than a dozen large fighting ships two cups of tea to complete the U-turn one after another.

More than ten miles away in the rear, Xu Kun's fleet also quickly discovered this movement, and Huang Gai immediately asked Xu Kun: "Fujun, Tai Shi Ci has turned around!" Could it be that he found that his speed was too slow and was about to be caught up by us, so he wanted to take the lead in the formation and fight to the death? ”

After Xu Kun heard the report, he signaled that he wanted to go up to the mast in person to confirm the situation, so the lookout on Wangdou immediately dropped a hemp rope, and Xu Kun's guards hurriedly helped tie the safety rope to Xu Kun, and then helped him half-climb and half-pull on Wangdou.

After watching for a while, Xu Kun had confirmed that Tai Shici was planning to fight in formation and adjust the formation to meet the attack, so as not to be caught up with the scattered formation and unable to take care of each other.

Xu Kun secretly smiled and ordered: "Let's slow down the ship too!" Keep your distance! Just wait for Bo Fu to catch up with some, lest we have to fight with Tai Shi Ci alone for too long for a while, our ship is smaller than Tai Shi Ci after all, and melee combat is not good for us. ”

As a result, Xu Kun's fleet did not turn around, but slowed down one after another, and flanked both flanks in the north and south directions, trying to approach Tai Shici from three sides.

Tai Shi Ci saw that the enemy was slowing down, and he also knew that the enemy's vanguard was waiting for the main force of the Chinese army, shortening the time difference between the need to fight alone after a while.

However, Tai Shi Ci knew that today's battle was to take advantage of the tide, so he was happy to make a fortune in a muffled voice, and ordered the fleet to turn around and head east again, pretending to be a passive posture of "wanting to ask for war but not getting it, so he could only flee again".

Xu Kun saw Tai Shi Ci's dilemma, and became more and more proud: "Tai Shi Ci's ship is clumsy, the speed is slow, and he can't escape, and he can't escape when he turns around and kills me and doesn't fight him, it's too embarrassing."

Everyone said that the Zhuge brothers were clever, Guan Yu used his soldiers like an arm, and he even had such a misfortune today! Obviously, there were fast ships available, but in order to ensure the scale of the troops and the full deployment of the whole army, they had to bring so many slow ships, and in the end, the whole army lost its speed advantage.

Don't you know that the speed of a fleet is determined by the slowest ship in the fleet, which is simply a snake to add to the snake! ”

Anyway, Tai Shici's two consecutive U-turns really slowed down the rush time for him and Xu Kun to travel for at least two sticks of incense.

Sun Ce's main fleet was originally at least half an hour behind Xu Kun, and this toss almost caught up, and the distance from Xu Kun was only less than ten miles.

Xu Kun saw Tai Shici fleeing at full speed, afraid that the distance would be too far away again, and estimated that Sun Ce would be able to follow soon, and looked up at the sky. This time it was finally decided to assault the whole army.

"I can't let Tai Shi Ci re-open the distance, I delayed this little time just now, it's enough, catch up at full speed, outflank and intercept Tai Shi Ci. As long as we fight alone for a stick of incense, we can drag it out until Bo Fu catches up, and then Tai Shi Ci will definitely be destroyed! Although our boat is small and occupies a disadvantage, a stick of incense can still hold up! ”

Huang Gai gave the order and immediately executed Xu Kun's order. During Tai Shi Ci's two U-turns just now, Xu Kun kept a distance from the north and south flanks to outflank the squadron, and finally under the command of Qi Yu, like a pincer offensive, interspersed with Tai Shi Ci and entered a real bloody battle.

Tai Shici, who was on the boat in front, also showed a smug smile when he saw this scene, and he also didn't forget to look up at the position of the sun.

"It's past noon, it's time for the tide to rise, and the whole army turned around and headed west again to meet Xu Kun! Give me the Chinese army that attacked Xu Kun at full speed! ”

After a cup of tea, Tai Shici's fleet turned around for the third time and headed west instead, hedging head-on with Xu Kun.

Xu Kun didn't care about this at all, he had calculated the speed of receiving the enemy, his ship was small, but there were many of them, and the number of troops far exceeded that of Tai Shici, basically more than 10,000 people fighting four or five thousand people.

He can encircle Tai Shici on three sides, and engage the enemy from the north, south, and west directions almost simultaneously. Even if the ship is smaller and suffers some losses, it is enough to offset it by relying on the size of the number of people and the advantage of three breads.

However, just when the two sides were rapidly approaching, Xu Kun suddenly realized that something was wrong, the two fleets were obviously only three or four miles apart by waterway, and Xu Kun suddenly found that his north and south wings pincer attack fleet was approaching relatively slowly.

However, the approach speed of the Chinese army from west to east and the Taishi Cibu hedged was very fast, exceeding expectations, even if he had made all the oarsmen stop paddling, and the sailors also lowered some of the canopies, and only sailed at the speed of the river, the distance between the two sides was still rapidly shortening.

"Why did Tai Shi Ci's ship suddenly get faster? That's impossible! How could a fighting ship sail so fast against the current? ”

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Because there was no telescope in this era, Xu Kun naturally had to wait until he was relatively close enough to see the waves of Tai Shici's fleet before estimating the difference between the speed and the expectation, and Xu Kun couldn't help but exclaim.

In the end, it was Huang Gai who was experienced, and after a little observation, he couldn't help but slap his thigh and exclaimed in surprise:

"Fujun, it's not good! Tai Shi Ci took advantage of the Guangling tide! He fled all morning, just waiting for the afternoon when the tide of Guangling rose to turn back and kill back! Now he's not sailing against the current, he's sailing with the current! The tide will rise a few more miles, and it will come to us, and if we don't turn around, it will be our turn to sail against the current! ”

In normal times, the mouth of the Yangtze River is a river flowing eastward with spring water. But at high tide, the surface water flows westward.

Xu Kun didn't expect the time when the enemy turned back and killed, and it happened to be stuck at the point of high tide. At the beginning, he had the front army spread out to the north and south flanks, kept a distance, and attacked in a decisive battle, but he was also wrong.

At this time, it is too late to adjust.

After just two teas, Tai Shici's 5,000 people, riding eighteen fighting ships, with an average of more than 300 people per boat, rushed straight into Xu Kun's Chinese army.

Xu Kunkong had more than 10,000 people assigned to him by Sun Ce, and they were divided into more than 100 ships, each ship was about 100 people, but the more than 10,000 people were divided into three parts, and only the middle forty or fifty ships were engaged in battle with Tai Shici at the first time.

The number of people on both sides was basically the same, but Xu Kun's ships were smaller, with an average of only 30% of the tonnage of Tai Shi Ci's warships, and the number of ships was three times that of Tai Shi Ci.

Moreover, Xu Kun kept his distance in order to change the formation in the face of the battle, some ships just turned around, and the formation was inevitably a little chaotic, and he did not estimate the timing of the battle at all.

"Boom!" There was a loud bang on the ground, which kicked off the prelude to Tai Shici's attack.

It turned out to be a Tai Shi Ci army fighting ship that took advantage of the high tide to kill, and it hit a Xu Kun military ship that was making a horizontal U-turn, and directly knocked the boat over.

Hundreds of Jiangdong Army sailors suddenly fell into the water, screaming and wailing continuously, suffocating the morale of the Jiangdong Army.

"Crossbowmen fire their arrows with all their might! Don't face the enemy on the side of the ship, just rush up to the enemy with the bow of the ship! If you can hit it, you can hit it! Our boat is much bigger than Xu Kun, don't be afraid of colliding! They have just changed from going with the tide to going against the current, and they must have difficulty moving! ”

Tai Shici very decisively asked all ships to go straight to Xu Kun's Chinese army, not to take into account the enemies on both sides. Tai Shici's warships have all adapted to the current of the rising tide and are attacking behind the tide, while Xu Kun's fleet, on the eve of the battle, will only cross the tide, and will inevitably be swept into a whirlpool, unable to control it for a long time, and when it stabilizes, the battlefield has already been strangled and slaughtered.

"The left and right wings are coming closer! Why is it so slow? Block Tai Shi Ci for me! Block it for me! Xu Kun was so anxious that he desperately asked the two wings to speed up and get closer, but he couldn't stop the local decline.

Tai Shici's warships were forced to a very close range, chopping melons and vegetables, forming an absolute superiority in strength in the local battlefield, and successively sank three or five ships of Xu Kun.

The crossbowmen on the fighting ship also relied on the female wall battlements and the upper portholes, and fired arrows wildly at Xu Kun's fleet. Xu Kun's bow hurriedly lowered the porthole to avoid the rain of arrows, but the side openings of those oarsmen stretched out could not be completely closed, and the rain of arrows shot into the oars in a tricky manner, shooting the groups of oarsmen directly into the wolf.

"General, Xu Kun's left and right wings have been killed, and he has entered the range of the bow and crossbow, what should I do?" On Tai Shi Ci's ship, the lookout also reported the latest emergency to Tai Shi Ci.

Tai Shi Ci: "Leave them alone! Just give me a fight for Xu Kun's Chinese army! If the north and south wings want to release arrows to harass them, let them go! Free Fire Returns Fire! But don't lean in! ”

Soon Tai Shi Ci and Xu Kun were completely strangled together, and several ships next to Xu Kun were eager to protect the master, and they all rushed up to entangle Tai Shi Ci's fighting ship, wanting to take over the battle.

Tai Shi Ci can hit it, and if it can't be hit, it doesn't matter if it is close to the gunside, just put the gunside nail plate on the gunside and tie it to the ship.

Then use the bow and torch to suppress the enemies on the deck, and then send the sword and shield soldiers to jump and slash, and after occupying the upper deck, throw the torch into the cabin window to create chaos.

The Jiangdong Army, which could not withstand the smoke and fire, rushed out of the cabin, and directly intercepted and killed them at the hatch, until the whole ship abandoned its weapons and surrendered, or was directly burned and sunk-

There is nothing to repeat on these details, because Guan Yu also used this trick when he fought Liu Xun's Lujiang army during the Spring Valley-Wet Sushui Battle two years ago. Tai Shici and Gan Ning have both observed, and this time it is the second time to use it, and they are familiar with the road.

In the bloody battle, Tai Shici always wanted to sink Xu Kun's flagship, or rush up to slash and kill.

Helplessly, Xu Kun's boat was personally commanded and piloted by Huang Gai, and the left and right dodges were quite flexible, and he was never approached by Tai Shici.

Tai Shi Ci had no choice but to retreat and suppress with condescending arrows.

Xu Kun had been hiding in the Wangdou of the mast to watch and command, and when he received the enemy, he thought about it again and again, and caught up with the fleet and was affected by the tide, and it was too bumpy to climb down, so he had to hide in the Wangdou all the time.

Seeing that the fighting was becoming more and more intense, and the rain of arrows thrown was becoming more and more dense, Huang Gai was very anxious, and repeatedly urged Xu Kun to hurry down, hide back in the cabin, and stop observing the enemy situation in person.

The lookout in Wangdou also pleaded with Xu Kun vigorously: "Fujun, don't worry about the bumps, go down directly, I will definitely hold on to the hemp rope tied to your waist, no matter how bumpy it is, it won't fall!" Big deal, I'll tie myself to the mast first! ”

Xu Kun glanced at the lookout gratefully, and then decided to ignore the bumps and shaking of the ship, and ducked back to the cabin.

However, just as he was tied with a rope around his waist, half-crawling and half-falling, another rain of arrows struck.

Xu Kun himself happened to be behind the sail, but the enemy crossbowmen couldn't observe him, but shot blindly, and he was still shot by a crossbow arrow in the calf, but fortunately, the injury was not serious.

But the lookout hand carrying him in the lookout bucket above, but because the position was too high and the target was too obvious, he was shot in the head by Tai Shici with an arrow from seventy or eighty steps.

The arms of the lookout who was shot released spasmodically and convulsively, and Xu Kun, who had already been shot in the calf, was unable to grasp the soft ladder himself, and fell directly on the deck from a height of more than a zhang.

The crossbow arrow, which originally failed to penetrate the calf, was hit by the falling gravity, but instead pierced directly from the other side, making Xu Kun let out a miserable howl and fainted with serious injuries.

"Hurry up and protect the prince to enter the cabin! I'm in command here! Huang Gai was so anxious that he personally protected Xu Kun with a knife, sent him back to the cabin, and then guarded the hatch.

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