Chapter 91: The Battle of Chibi No. 5, turning before the battle
Cao Cao's army array, the ships stretched for several miles, pressing like a long dragon.
And the two wings of the arrow array, no matter how fast the ship is, are not enough to advance and retreat.
Because no matter how wide the river is, it is only a few miles, and you can't play with flowers.
Therefore, when it was determined that Cao's army still continued to press, the formation of the Jiangdong army moved.
The entire "Tong" word array moved at the same time.
Under the command of Zhou Yu's flagship, every Jiangdong ship, including Liu Beijun, turned around. They changed the direction of the sails, and all of them shifted to the left, except for the Lu Meng fleet, which was entangled by the five-toothed ships.
The Jiangdong Army attacked from the south to the north, with the upper reaches of the Yangtze River on the left, and now they were all fully sailed, and with the help of the easterly wind blowing from right to left, they quickly completed the turn and went directly to the upper reaches of the Yangtze River.
In this way, the Jiangdong Army, which has been in the lower reaches of the water potential, has completed the exchange of geographical advantages with the Cao Army.
From a high altitude, on the water surface of the Yangtze River, the characters "Tong" and "Tu" were originally pointed at Maimang, and they were about to collide, but they were staggered from each other, and only Lu Meng's fleet was still in front of the Wuya big ship.
The Jiangdong Army with the word "Tong" made a bend, lowered its sails upstream, and with the help of the current, stabbed obliquely into the Cao army's military formation, collided head-on with the right flank of the Cao army, grabbed a point of the word "soil" and plunged into it.
"Such a quick turn, it must have been rehearsed!"
Zhuge Liang's boat, sitting in the house did not dare to go out of the house to see the wind, but Xun You, who listened to the report at all times, exclaimed.
When it comes to the navy, the Jiangdong Army is really the best in the world.
Cheng Yu and Jia Xu also hurriedly thought about countermeasures.
Zhou Yu's move has surpassed the judgment of Xun You and others before the war.
According to the previous inference, there were few soldiers in Jiangdong, and their chances of victory, except for ethereal fire attacks and other strange tricks, were only one way to attack Cao Cao's flagship.
If it is tough, no matter how strong the Jiangdong army is, it will be consumed by hundreds of thousands of people, but if it is aimed at the flagship of the Cao army, it will have the effect of winning by surprise.
In the war of this era, morale is the most important, as long as the banner of the word "Cao" falls, no matter whether Cao Cao lives or dies, the Jiangdong Army will be half of the victory.
Therefore, Cao Wu, who pretended to be Cao Cao, would be on the Wuya ship.
It seems that the five-tooth ship is at the forefront and the most dangerous, but on the battlefield composed of hundreds of thousands of people, there is no place stronger than the five-tooth ship and can protect his life better.
It is not only safe, but also able to seduce the enemy, and inserting Cao Cao's Chinese army on the Wuya ship is the only way to firmly attract the enemy's firepower.
The previous plan, with the five-tooth ship as the lead, and the army turned into a crescent formation to surround the Jiangdong Army, was made based on this idea.
But no one expected that Zhou Yu only lost four building ships to trap the Wuya ship, so he abandoned the big ship, turned around, and killed the right flank of Cao Jun.
It seems that they don't want to go straight to Cao Cao's flagship, but are ready to fight Cao Jun head-to-head?
Cao Jun's sailors were not well trained, and they would definitely not be able to turn to the Jiangdong Army in this way, and if they hurriedly followed the turn, then the coordination of the various fleets would only disrupt the formation of the entire army, and it was very likely that if they turned around, their own ships would collide with their own people.
If you can't turn around, you can't turn around, and the opponent will kill their right flank like a sharp knife, so if the other ships that are not attacked by the Jiangdong Army do not turn, they can only continue to sail to the south bank of the Yangtze River, and they will not be able to form a counter-package to the Jiangdong Army.
In this way, when the Jiangdong Army defeats the right-wing Cao Army in front of it, the sky will be high and the birds will fly, and they can turn and raid again at any time, relying on the advantage of water warfare to firmly grasp the initiative.
In this way, even if Cao Jun wins, it can only be a miserable victory.
Before the three of them could figure out the countermeasures, Zhuge Liang, who was standing on the bow of the boat outside, had already given an order.
Cao Jun still charged in the shape of "earth" according to the original plan, and then each line turned into a crescent moon to besiege the enemy.
The difference is only that the object of the siege was all the Jiangdong Army before, but now the besieged is only a fleet of Lü Meng.
Seeing Zhuge Liang's arrangement, the three strategists lit up at the same time, affirming Zhuge Liang's order.
After all, Cao's army was inferior to the enemy army in training and communications, so sticking to the original plan was the best way.
According to the original plan, the various departments have long been clear about their own tactics for this battle, know what they want to do, and will never make a big mistake.
They do not follow or move.
In the face of the temporary changes of the other party, Zhuge Liang was able to stay in danger and make a decision immediately, so that the three of them looked at him again.
Zhuge Liang himself is not comfortable, his heart is beating at high speed, in the face of the bloody battlefield, every decision will be accompanied by death, the difference is only more death.
Even if the decision is right, there will be countless deaths and injuries.
He always observes the battlefield and prepares for his next move.
At present, the two armies have two points of engagement, one is the Lü Meng fleet, which was bitten by the Wuya ship.
Four building ships stopped the Wuya ship, and Lu Meng's own building ship, and some clippers, were responsible for harassing them.
When Lu Meng himself saw Cao Jun's momentum, he immediately took a sip, but he didn't expect that he would become the target of Cao Jun's encirclement and reinforcements.
Cao had many troops, and he would soon be able to form an encirclement of him, but Jiangdong had few soldiers, so he could not counter-encircle, so he could only continue to insist on carving a formation from the right flank of Cao's army.
However, the Cao army had so many ships, and by the time the Jiangdong army chiseled through the right flank, he Lu Meng might have died a long time ago.
After gaining insight into the battle situation, Lu Meng, one of the four heroes of Jiangdong, was already determined to die, and his fleet must complete the task of trapping three five-tooth ships.
"Chain!"
With Lu Meng's roar, the four building boats, his own building boats, and the five ships each threw iron chains and tied each other together.
The five building boats, like huge barricade fishing nets, stopped the three five-tooth ships.
"You're really prepared!"
Cao Wu was speechless, and for the first time since the battle, there was no strategy against the enemy.
The other party's move to serial ships was simply disgusting, although they themselves had no combat effectiveness, they successfully dragged the five-tooth ship.
No matter how powerful the five-tooth ship is, after the momentum is blocked, it can't hit the opponent's iron chain ship, so it can only engage in hand-to-hand combat, looking for opportunities.
Xu Chu laughed, and his knuckles snapped.
"Xiao Wu, it's time for me to make a move!"
After that, he chose two long knives from a pile of weapons and stuck them behind his back, a pair of halberds rested on his waist, and raised a pair of hammers, and shouted: "I'll go!" ”
Cao Wu hurried to stop him, but Lu Bu and Dian Wei were dead, Huang Zhong was old, and no one in this world could stop the tiger idiot's charge in foot combat except Cao Cao.
Xu Chu started running from the end of the deck of the Wuya big ship, ran all the way to the bow of the ship, took advantage of the inertia of running, jumped heavily on the other party's ship, and shouted: "Grandpa Xu Chu is here!" ”
His goal is precisely those iron cables!
The second point of engagement was the right flank of Cao's army, which was diagonally inserted by the Jiangdong Army.
Xu Huang is the commander here, and he is not comfortable being hit head-on.
He had already seen the Jiangdong Army's clippers coming and going freely, and now he was facing it again, except for taking the number of boats to pile up and the boats to block the other party, he didn't even think of a way to counterattack.
In fact, the fleet led by Xu Huang alone was enough for 10,000 people, but under the attack of the Jiangdong Army, which was also 10,000 people, he was not sure.
Fortunately, Zhuge Liang let the army attack according to the original plan in time, and a few rows of ships behind the right flank immediately came over to support. In this way, as long as he drags the Jiangdong Army, when the right-wing army arrives, it will be impossible for the Jiangdong Army to break through for a while.
If you fight well, everyone will work together to completely trap the Jiangdong Army.
If you don't fight well, it's just to let the Jiangdong Army break through to save Lü Meng.
After several water battles, Xu Huang was also familiar with the routines of water battles, he held an axe in his hand, patiently waited for the opponent's fleet to approach, and prepared to jump to the gang to attack the enemy after the two sides were connected.
However, to his surprise, the other party's ship passed him at a very close distance, but instead of attacking his ship, it went straight downstream.
The same is true of the clippers of the Jiangdong Army, which have no intention of boarding and fighting except for shooting arrows at each other with his fleet.
Xu Huang felt that he was being ignored, and couldn't help but be furious, and commanded his subordinates to intercept the Jiangdong Army.
However, except for some of the ships of the Jiangdong Army that were stopped, most of them still shuttled between his fleets, taking advantage of the trend of the river, rushing backwards.
Xu Huang is not a brave and unscrupulous person, he looked back and suddenly woke up.
It turned out that the target of the Jiangdong Army was not his right wing from the beginning, but the Cao Army's command Lou Ship, which was hidden behind his right wing army!
The target was the building ship with the flags of Xun You, Cheng Yu, and Jia Xu.
The target of the Jiangdong Army is not Cao Cao's flagship, but Zhuge Liang's building ship!