Chapter 258: Sun Ce Defeated
In a false war, wise generals can always strategize and win a decisive victory. It seems that after the General Staff made several sets of plans before the war, it would be able to conquer the whole world, and after the war started, it would be able to carry out the plan according to the plan.
In a real war, even if the staff case is fully conceived, when it comes to the exchange of arrows, the two sides will directly become a pot of porridge, and all kinds of accidents will happen anytime and anywhere, who can take care of the pre-war plan?
In today's Jiangyin water battle, Zhuge Jin imagined various improvisable tactics for Guan Yu and Tai Shici to break the enemy before the war, but when it really came time to fight, no one expected it to evolve into such a tragic situation.
The thickened fish paste and dovetail torch prepared for Tai Shi Ci to burn the building ship will eventually become a tool for the extreme.
Tai Shici himself may be quite sure of escape, he knows how chaotic the battlefield is, he has a lifeboat, a bamboo tube armor, the enemy ship has been too busy to take care of itself, and there is no time to search and kill the enemy soldiers who fall into the water on the river.
But Guan Yu in the distance was completely unsure, he saw that Tai Shici's fighting ships and Sun Ce's building ships were mostly on fire, and he was immediately anxious.
How can the bait that you sent out according to the pre-battle plan to "stick to the enemy and bloom in the center" can really be eaten by the enemy! It is not possible to die together!
If he really suffered such a big loss, how would he maintain his prestige in the army in the future?
Although the eldest brother will definitely not punish him, Guan Yu's arrogance does not allow him to sell his teammates, and he can't afford to lose this face.
As a world-class general with a first-class ability to govern the army, Guan Yu knows very well that not selling the glorious resume of his teammates is an important guarantee for him to win the hearts of the army for a long time and use soldiers like an arm.
Once you sell it once, the soldier's future unity will be greatly reduced, and his ability to govern the army will also decline to the rank of Cao Ren Xiahou Yuan and the like.
"Don't suppress the guerrilla with a bow and crossbow anymore, play the flag, and the whole army will rush directly to engage in the broadside battle, and whenever you encounter a small boat below the ship, you will directly hit the enemy with the bow! Most of Sun Ce's ships were on fire, and the remaining ships were not threatening! ”
Guan Yu hurriedly ordered, and the main fleet of nearly 10,000 people under his command finally changed the tactics of the previous guerrilla fighting one after another, and instead charged head-to-head in a daze.
On Guan Yu's side in this battle, the three fleets combined, the total strength is 18,000 people, if you don't count the strange soldiers of Lu Yi, who didn't know the existence of the enemy before the war, the strength on the surface is only 134,000.
Sun Cejun on the opposite side had 30,000 or 40,000 people. If Lu Yi did not join, Guan Yu would have relied on almost one-third of the enemy's forces to meet him, and after Lu Yi, he would only have half of the enemy.
The disadvantage of numbers made Guan Yu have to be cautious at first, giving full play to the speed advantage of his own warship, and pulling and fighting.
Strive to pull out the superiority of more troops and fewer troops on the local battlefield, and defeat the enemy individually.
But as the most threatening Lou Chuan troops under Sun Ce's command lost their combat effectiveness, although Sun Ce's remaining living force still had nearly 20,000, it was still more than Guan Yu's, at least the gap was not so great, and they could fight.
Guan Yu's fleet advanced by leaps and bounds, and the ships and boats on the periphery of Sun Cejun's northern flank changed one after another.
After some of the ships were hit by the new large warships with a length of 12 zhang, they broke directly, at least the wall of one side of the ship's gunwales cracked. With each collision, dozens of Jiangdong sailors shouted and fell into the water, and the chaotic scene made the morale of the Jiangdong army more and more low, and it was difficult to maintain discipline and fleet formation.
The original warships of the Han Dynasty did not have ramming angles, and flat-bottomed boats were not suitable for ramming angles. Guan Yu's new ships all have a keel structure, which is relatively much higher in longitudinal bearing strength, but they have not been specially equipped with ramming angles.
In the two years before the war, when the Zhuge brothers were gradually improving these large warships, they only thought of adding some wave-breaking accessories underwater to improve the seaworthiness of the warships.
So at that time, Zhuge Jin thought that later generations of high-speed sea ships liked to add a bulbous bow, and adding a round ball head to the part below the waterline of the bow could make the navigation resistance smaller.
But Zhuge Jin definitely couldn't do a bulbous bow in the Han Dynasty, and the material processing technology couldn't be realized. The final compromise was that Zhuge Jin instructed the blacksmiths to add a cast iron axe-like blade-like object weighing 1,000 catties to the bottom corner of the bow.
When the ship is sailing, the semi-circular blade of the axe is facing the waves, which can slightly reduce the resistance to breaking the waves, and can also approach the shape of the bulbous bow vertically. What the specific shape of the axe blade should be made is not up to Zhuge Jin.
Instead, they made a pool experiment, and the results of the experiment were used to speak, and finally the shape with the best effect on breaking the waves and the most conducive to navigation was selected.
Strictly speaking, the blade of the axe should be perpendicular to the axe handle, and the cast iron round blade of the bow of this kind of bow is coaxial with the keel of the hull, so it is more like the shovel blade on Lu Zhishen or the Sha Seng Zen staff.
At this moment, as Guan Yu's main fleet began to go straight to play the fighting style, the cast iron wave-breaking shovel blades with the bow to improve seaworthiness crashed into the small boat of the Jiangdong Army, and immediately tore a big hole in the Jiangdong Army's ship formation.
Those warships that can dodge the impact of the shovel blade at very close range often can't avoid the "crow's beak"-like smashing nail board on the side of Guan Yujun's big ship.
The hitch board with two-foot spikes staggered past the two ships, smashed down just right, and suddenly smashed several deck planks, so that the two ships could no longer be freed, followed by the condescending dense accumulation of crossbowmen by Guan Yujun's crossbowmen, throwing swallowtail torches and fish paste jars.
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As soon as the fire began to spread, Guan Yu's sailors followed the method taught in the pre-war drills, picked up a giant axe and cut off the plank, so as to prevent the flames from the enemy ship from spreading back to their own warship, and then rowed with all their strength to regain the distance.
Such a scene is repeated repeatedly on the surface of the Yangtze River Bay in the Jiangyin section, as long as there are three or five times, there will be more than a dozen times.
After that, the frightened Jiangdong Army will decisively raise the white flag and shout surrender as soon as it is tied up by the nail board, and once the demonstration effect is successful, the panic will spread very quickly.
More than a dozen, dozens of ships, more and more Jiangdong Army was defeated and began to break up and surrender.
Guan Yu finally fought his way out of the fleet of Sun Ce's army on the northern flank, dividing and surrounding the remaining remnants of the enemy.
In the bloody battle, Zhou Tai, who was in charge of the northern wing of the ship and the fighting fleet, was also hit by several arrows again, and was seriously injured and comatose and had to withdraw from the battle. People have to sigh that the life of this general is really hard, and every time the bloody battle is unfavorable, he can hit a few arrows, but he can't shoot to death every time, and the residual blood is dragged back to recuperate for a few months and is alive again.
After defeating Zhou Taibu, Guan Yu's main force finally entered Sun Ce's Chinese army, and at this time, four of Sun Ce's nine ships had been burned and sunk, and three of them also had many fires.
Only the last two were quick to see the opportunity, and when Tai Shici used the extreme one-for-one arson method at the beginning, he decisively cut off all the hook cables and kept the distance between the two ships, so as to avoid being engulfed in the fire.
On Tai Shici's side, the eighteen fighting ships sank two and damaged two when they first engaged Xu Kun and Huang Gai. Later, it was knocked over by Sun Ce in the first wave and sank three ships, including those two that were already heavily damaged. Later, in the arson and mutual burning, more than 10 were damaged.
When Guan Yu's fleet rushed into the Chinese ship formation, there were only two or three fighting ships left on Tai Shici's side, and there were still five or six wreckage fires that had not been extinguished.
On the water surface of Jiangwan, there are soldiers who have fallen into the water everywhere, as well as dozens of life-saving boats, and Tai Shi Ci's troops wearing bamboo tube armor are still struggling to survive, as long as they are not targeted by the Jiangdong Army to mend knives or release arrows, they can basically insist on swimming.
Seeing this scene, Guan Yu's expression relaxed, and he immediately divided the boat to prepare to fish for rescue, and at the same time, he took the main battleship with better combat effectiveness to continue to conflict with the remnants of Sun Ce's army.
At the same time, Guan Yu did not forget to let the soldiers shout in unison: "Sun Ce is dead!" Those who descend will not be killed! Sun Ce's ship has sunk! ”
Thousands of soldiers, shouting in unison on dozens of warships, roaring a few times while fighting, and the morale suppression formed in the chaotic battlefield was also very impressive.
Of course, Sun Ce himself is not dead, he was only rescued by Cheng Pu and transferred to another ship after being hit by an arrow. But because the flagship was burned and sunk, Sun Ce couldn't let his soldiers know for sure whether he was dead or not.
When he heard Guan Yujun's shout, Sun Ce was afraid of shaking the army's heart, and wanted to endure the pain and force it, and ordered Cheng Pu to raise the handsome flag again and proclaim that he was not dead. But Cheng Pu stopped the operation, expressing concern:
"Your lord, no! Our army has been killed by Guan Yu to penetrate the Chinese army, and at this time, no matter how much publicity is made, it will only be besieged by Guan Yu, if you are injured, you should withdraw first! Our army and ships are all lost, and today's battle has been lost! Let's think about how to keep more soldiers! ”
Sun Ce was injured and weak, and he couldn't resist Cheng Pu, so he could only be arranged by his subordinates.
On the other side, there were also brave people in Sun Ce's army, such as Chen Wu, who was responsible for guarding Sun Ce after the break, and was transferred to another building ship at that time. Seeing that Guan Yu shouted that Sun Ce was dead and the flagship had sunk, causing his morale to be devastated, Chen Wu immediately raised the banner of command on his warship, wanting to stabilize the morale of the army.
This move covered Cheng Pu's retreat with Sun Ce and pulled away Guan Yu's hatred value.
But as soon as Guan Yu saw Chen Wu pulling the flag, he immediately besieged the whole army violently, and finally Chen Wu's building ship was besieged and annihilated by Guan Yu's army, and sank into the river bay with a raging fire.
On the other side, the vanguard of the Jiangdong Army and the troops on the southern flank were also entangled by Lu Yi's reinforcements, and Jiang Qin on the southern flank was defeated by Lu Yi's fair duel.
The vanguard Huang Gai was originally difficult to withdraw, but fortunately, Ling Cao of the vanguard fleet fought to the death in the palace, dragging Lu Yi and Zhang Duo, so that Huang Gai was able to protect Xu Kun's corpse and retreated successfully, but Ling Cao was also besieged and was finally killed by random arrows in the bloody battle.
The bloody battle on the Jiangyin River lasted from noon until night, and the two sides could be regarded as completely opened.
Sun Cejun's fleet was almost completely wiped out, and nearly 10,000 sailors were lost. The total number of sailors lost in the total number of sailors lost exceeded 20,000, and more than half of them were caused by the burning of fires and the sinking of ships into the river.
On the general's side, Sun Ce himself was hit by an arrow in the face and returned with an injury. Sun Ce's cousin Xu Kun fell from a height after being hit by an arrow, and finally died of serious injuries after being pulled back.
Ling Cao was shot and killed, and Chen Wu was surrounded and died with the shipwreck. Huang Gai and Zhou Tai each had minor injuries, so there is no need to mention it.
In just one afternoon, half of the living force of the Jiangdong Navy disappeared. Sun Ce was hit hard by this, and the strength of the troops between Guan Yu and Zhuge Jin was completely reversed.
The remaining field soldiers of Sun Ce's army were no longer more than Guan Yu's army, so it was impossible to launch any offensive again, so they could only switch from offensive to defensive.
And blindly defending is definitely not promising, Zhuge Jin and Guan Yu can be divided, surrounded and encroached, and they can not fight for the time being for a strong city, and after Liu Bei Zhuge Liang ends the Jingnan Campaign, transfer the main force of Liu Bei's army, and launch a comprehensive counteroffensive against Sun Cejun.
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