The black clouds in the sky were thick, there was blue light in the cracks of the clouds, and there were bursts of thunder in the torrential rain, and the thunder, rain, and waves were connected, and the heavens and the earth were stirred together!

However, the hard sail can also deflect against the wind and borrow strength, and the wind pushing circle can also play a little supplement.

The long river is wide and unsightly, surging like the tide of the sea, the rain is grounded to the sky to form a water curtain, the water on the deck is up to the ankles, and the surging waves are the same color as the water outside the ship, and it is impossible to tell where is on the ship and where is outside the ship.

In this dark water world, giant ships cut diagonally into a tributary to the south of the Yangtze River.

The astronomical tide was too strong, which caused the meta-magnetic confusion, the remote communication of the signal disk was not smooth, and the coverage of the battlefield network of the sorcerer group was greatly reduced.

The front and rear masts of each ship were lit with navigation guidance lights, and the light in the glass penetrated the thick black rain curtain, and the stars made the fleet coherent into a long dragon before and after, swimming deep into Xiangzhou...... Except for wind and rain, there is no hindrance.

"The main princess crossed the river the day before yesterday, and our sailors trained late, so we can pull down a lot of ......"

"I caught up with this wind and rain again, not to mention that the trip was blocked, and I lost the contact ...... Xunpan"

"Don't worry, this time the enemy is strong, it won't be wiped out in a month or two, the main force is just drinking more nodding soup, and there is still more meat......"

"Yes, show the majesty of our sailors!"

In the cabin of the tall flagship ship, the glass lights were snow-white, and a young general squinted his eyes and couldn't see clearly, and more than a dozen lieutenants and lieutenants gathered around, discussing and telling from time to time.

The young man listened quietly, his fingers tapping a few times regularly, as if there was a hidden rhythm, and he did not interject, and when he saw the change in the waterway outside the porthole, he said: "I have finally left the main river, please come and confirm it." ”

It's not uncommon to capsize huge ships on the long river during storms and storms every year, and there are also people who take the wrong waterway and crash into the narrow river channel - no one wants to be the unlucky one.

"We're in Xiangshui. The Lu family sent a steward guide to identify the two sides of the strait, and said firmly: "I am an old ship, and I can't be wrong." ”

The runoff of the Xiangshui River is still very wide, and in the eyes of the Han generals, it is not inferior to the Yangtze River in Xiatu, but the waves are not as generous as the main river.

At this time, tracing the water waves, I saw that the river channel along the way was narrower, and many villages along the coast were dark and dreary in the rain, without movement and popularity, which was very strange.

"It's a little problem...... Zhou Yu immediately came to his senses, his face was a little pale, he gritted his teeth and smiled, and said no more: "Let's go out and have a look." ”

In the wind and rain, out of the bridge captain's room, came to the bow of the ship to jump, the consciousness was full of darkness and desolation, this place is completely inconsistent with the prosperity in the intelligence, pondered for a long time, and then asked: "This is Xiangzhou?"

"Yes!"

The guide Lu Steward followed in the rain, he used to lead the family fleet to and from here, now he looked at it, and said hesitantly for a while: "Or now it is to avoid military disasters, there is a smaller tributary of Xiangshui Yishui in front, let's go to Yishui Beigang to take a look, that side is the famous rice market in Xiangbei." ”

For a moment, Yishui Port, a famous rice market in northern Xiangbei, flashed in the field of vision, and there was no light and popularity, and the guide's face changed slightly.

I have a nephew who has been stationed here all the year round to provide information on the rice market, marry a wife and have children, and settle down, if it weren't for now......

"Governor, Wangzhang's family in Yishui County, is ten miles south of Mishi, and there is a dock fort, which may gather the people of Mishi and resist the foreign demon warriors for some time. ”

Seeing this, the intelligence officers sent down from above were a little uncertain when they said this.

"Or maybe?"

Zhou Yu was noncommittal to this vague statement, and did not trust the strength of the county wang, and immediately spread out the waterproof military map, the light of lightning reflected the bright red sign of the enemy situation on the map: "It must be estimated in the worst case, this place is not far from the county seat, no more than twenty miles, and it should be possible to contact General Guan......"

Turning near a bay, a wave rolled up the hull of the ship, the deck under his feet tilted, Zhou Yu's feet were firmly nailed, and his body did not shake.

"Sail Steering ......"

"Sorcerer Activates Broadside Jet ......"

"Give the rear ship a light signal to prevent collision confusion ......"

The sailors didn't panic much, Zhou Yu couldn't help but be secretly relieved, the lord allocated these 2,000 soldiers to garrison the south in Xiatu, and mixed into the Jiangdong Naval Division and the Jingzhou Naval Division, obviously to prepare for the formation of a fleet on the ground, and now it reflects the benefits of proficient water warfare.

"It's a pity that the new sailor is new, and it can't compete with the infantry army, there are fewer people, and the boat is almost ......" Zhou Yu muttered to himself, thinking, should he let an old friend take the harem route and let Mrs. Shangxiang blow the pillow wind to the lord?

The tendency of the lord's affection is not a secret in Hanchen, and in the harem of Xiatu, he has to be closer to Qianqian, Hate Yun, Xiao Qiao, and Shang Xiang.

It seems to be some kind of compensation for the heaviness of his mind.,I prefer bright eyes, bright teeth.、Lively and lovely girls.,In order to nourish the body and mind.。

Zhou Yu thought about it and extinguished this thought, don't bother Sun Ce, the Sun family let Yu Fan get involved, it is rare to get rid of suspicion and get reused through the marriage of his sister, there is no need for him, let Mrs. Shangxiang lose points in front of the lord - who said that the pillow wind does not reduce the affection?

"Governor Zhou, our ship is not bad......

Steward Lu looked at the general's face, thinking that he didn't like this ship, and couldn't help but defend himself, he heard that the head of the family, Lu Ming, funded ten ships generously, and Yun Strike funded seven, and these things that the Hanhou Mansion got for free were all third-class merchant ships!

"These are giant ships used to trade with the coastal island chains of Dongzhou and Qingzhou!"

"It's my gaffe, which means that it is not suitable for a combat ship. Zhou Yu basked slightly, his eyes were easy-going, the Han style had his own strength, Zhou Lang would not be angry at the barbarian's little rebuttal.

The attitude of these words was gentle and clear, and the Lu manager was speechless, only a little embarrassed and coughed lightly, and said in his heart that the governor of the week was really magnanimous.

The old man who relied on the waterway to guide the food was very knowledgeable and experienced, and knew very well that there was a great difference between merchant ships and warships, and although these seventeen ships were huge ships in physique, they were not born for war, and they were congenitally insufficient.

The Lujia shipbuilding industry is famous in the north, the keel of the hull does not spare the cost of materials, the inner layer lacks the reserved position of the magic array, and the bulwarks are far thinner than those of the battleship.

In the first two months, it was hurriedly thickened in the three major shipyards of the Lu family, and as soon as it was completed half a month ago, it was handed over to the new naval army of the Hanhou Mansion.

It was pulled out because of the need to cross the river - this combat power can be imagined, not so much a battleship, but a large armed merchant ship.

Zhou Yu, the first governor of the naval division, knew this, and when he left the home port of Jinsha County, he added more than a dozen small platforms covered with rain cloths on the two sides of each ship, and now the soldiers are always on duty to guard them.

The guide of the Lu family who piloted the navigation couldn't see what these were under the cover, and the senior management of the sailor knew in their hearts that this was the thunder ballista.

This kind of shipside perched leaf fire thunder thrower is not a land trebuchet structure, but a ballista structure with steel spring arms.

Ye Huolei's own power has reached the upper limit of a single bundle of spar bundles, and if it is stacked high, it will explode on its own, and it will not be able to become large-scale, which Ye Qing failed in his previous life when he tried to stack it into a strategic nuclear weapon.

In this life, he saw that Li Huaiji also took a small detour, and he did not expose it until he admitted that he had failed, and then ordered to change the direction of research.

Therefore, after a simple attempt at the middle distance of the grenadiers' "offensive grenades" and "defensive grenades", they sought a small leaf fire mine attack technology that far surpassed the leaf fire mine catapult.

When it comes to ultra-long-range attacks, research points to two paths.

One is to use the driving force of the spar to form a miniature driving array of fire-tail arrows, increasing the pure physical kinetic energy and range of the arrows, which was a great success in Zhuge Liang's repeater.

The second is to maintain the explosive effect of the hedron beam, seek to innovate the range of projectile equipment, and form the thunder bolt of the new steel-arm ballista - it is an upgraded version of the Han Dynasty's forty-stone bed crossbow type rhubarb, which is based on the fire spirit steam engine and the new blast furnace to increase the steel production, so that the cost of high-quality special steel has been greatly reduced.

The range of the thunder crossbow arrow has doubled to eight miles, the long-range shooting advantage is very powerful, the disadvantage is that the cost is extremely high, and the most pitiful is not suitable for field warfare - this thing was originally developed to make up for the lack of momentum of the wooden arm of the catapult, and the result is too strong direct shooting, not suitable for field bombardment, there are too many artificial or natural barriers on the ground battlefield, and it is difficult to suppress the warlock regiment in the rear of the enemy army by direct fire.

However, it is suitable for siege battlefields with high objectives and empty and smooth water battlefields.

This set of ship's main weapons has actual combat experience in Xiatu, and the soldiers are already familiar with the side fire attack, if the ship is better and the Taoist soldiers are more, Zhou Yu will dare to fight with the Xiangzhou naval division with the same number of ships...... It's still a matter of now, the number of people is too small and too much to suffer.

The standard configuration of the regular warships of the Cai Chao Navy Division is at least 200 soldiers per ship, and the 2,000 people under his command are divided into 20 ships, each of which is only more than 100 people, and can only drive the ship.

Even if the sailors of Lu Yun and Lu Yun were assisted to share the cables, sail oars, and rush repairs to liberate the Dao soldiers to the combat position, the fleet would eventually rely on the Dao soldiers when fighting against each other, and the number of troops would be dissatisfied with the loss in the magic array bombardment, the loss in the shooting of magic arrows, and the loss in the melee combat.

The lord confirmed from the Dragon Palace that he knew that the 2,000 warships of Sun Xinbo, the commander of the Xiangzhou Navy Division, had run to Xiaozhou to spare the water village, and there was a conflict with the Dragon Clan, otherwise Zhou Yu would not dare to enter Xiangzhou like this.

Sun Xinbo ...... Tsk, when will I see!"

Zhou Yu returned to the bridge and continued to listen to the deliberations of the military captain, and opened the hydrological map to see if there were any reefs and shoals in the river, and he was actually a little disdainful of this naval commander in his heart.

"But it's okay, this person was ordered by the Cai Dynasty to control and contain the sailors of the ten states in the lower reaches of the Yangtze River, and just when he was making meritorious contributions to the immortal ships, he was frightened by Long Jun on the way, and he didn't dare to return to Xiangzhou, didn't this just fulfill the lord's wishes?"

"Now that the task of the sailor division is simple, there is no need to worry about the threat of the Cai Dynasty's surface forces in the short term, as long as it deals with the ground terracotta warriors and gives General Guan firepower support from the water, which is very easy. ”

"The main weapon of the fleet, the thunder ballista, has a range of eight miles, and Xiangzhou is where the water network is dense, and many battlefields can be supported, and no matter how powerful the terracotta army is, it will not be able to take the fleet on the river. ”

Listening to the discussion of the lower officials, Zhou Yu smiled and bowed his head, when the Dao soldiers swam, they became the targets of the fleet's condescending crossfire, unless those enemy generals and loose cultivators were upgraded to the real ones to have a certain threat.

"Taking advantage of the blank gap between the Cai Dynasty and the foreign demons in the water surface of Xiangzhou, it is an excellent period for the training and development of the Han army's sailors, and the terracotta warriors bombarded by the fleet still have the same benefits as the battle of Jizhou......"

In the deep night, Zhou Yu thought, I don't know why, but there is an emptiness in my heart, this is not just now, it has been a long time ago.

It seems to be around, a person who should have been, is now gone.

In the dark water world, the fleet followed the Yishui bend, close to the county seat fifteen miles, and the magician who was monitoring on the lookout transmitted: "The location of the enemy ship has been sensed, but the main force of our army's divine consciousness network has not been detected nearby, it may be the range of aura disorder interference, and the fleet magic circle is requested." ”

"Allow!" Zhou Yu stood up, and when the ships of the fleet were shining brightly, he also connected to the battlefield divine consciousness network, expanding and probing.

Lightning flashed on the horizon, cutting through the darkness and falling somewhere deep in the rain.

Because the distance is very close, after the light arrives, there is a thunder sound of "boom", the air appears tight, and the thunder light suppresses all directions, Zhou Yu's divine consciousness just reveals a wisp of spiritual consciousness and retracts, and it is quiet after the throbbing is calmed down in the spiritual pool.

A smile appeared on his face: "No need to look for it, the direction of the enemy's Immortal Thunder Fall, the lord must be there." ”

"Ten miles away from the enemy ship, its range is much farther than ours, we can't deal with it, we can only deal with the peripheral terracotta warriors. ”

As soon as the words fell, a hostile gaze pierced through the void and locked on the fleet, and many sailors who looked strong and fierce fell to their knees on the spot.

But the Taoist soldiers have all passed through the battle of Jizhou in Xiatu, and the follow-up scattered immortals in the outer regions have been killed, and they immediately ordered: "Come forward and take the place." ”

"Yes!" a large number of Dao soldiers took the place of sailors.

The fleet went forward against the wind and rain for a minute, and when the electric light in the front shone again, the generals were shocked to see the huge enemy ships, and they couldn't help but look back.

Zhou Yu narrowed his eyes and calculated, and said calmly: "Lower the sail, reduce the speed, continue to move forward, and you can get closer to Sanli...... Contact the lord and ask where the enemy warriors are. ”

"Boom" electric light fell on the three-mile river in front of it, and the fish that cooked half of the river were floating with their bellies tumbling towards the sky, flashing light.

Everyone sweated, but they still steered the ship against the wind, and stopped some distance in front of the enemy's immortal ship's range, and a familiar female voice connected to the network: "This is the Han army's main formation, I am Qianqian, please verify your identity when you come to the ship." ”

"Received, this is the sailor, I'm Zhou Yu, do you need fire support?"

"Zhou Dudu, you came just in time......" Qianqian's female voice was a little happy, Zhou Yu bowed her head and looked over, at this time, you don't need divine sense, you can see the faint battlefield.

The black clouds rolled on the sky, and from time to time there was a heavy thunder, sometimes there was firelight, and the faint shouting of killing came like a tide, and sometimes the lightning flashed, and I saw the army on my side, nervously and skillfully pouring down the crossbow and blade fire and thunder, drowning the rushing surging terracotta warriors.

It can be seen that the lord's large array did not move at all, standing solemnly, and a straight murderous aura rushed into the sky.