Chapter 296: Mirage
When the Jiangbei carnival, the firelight illuminates the entire Yangtze River. *With* Dream *Small* Say .lā
In the dark night, Duan Dahu and the generals of Jiangxia stood on the building boat and watched. I saw that Cao Ying's navy stretched for hundreds of miles, from the river to the sky, like the lights of thousands of homes, and the momentum was terrifying.
"Cao Ying's momentum is big, this is a tough battle!" Guan Yu said.
Gong Yu narrowed his eyes slightly, but he didn't know what he was thinking.
In the past few days, after receiving a report from Zhuge Liang, the context of Cao Cao's battle has gradually become clear: on a dark and windy night, Huang Gai and Gan Ning went to surrender with a ship full of fire oil and hay, and Zhuge Liang sacrificed to the southeast wind on the altar of the seven stars. The fireship took advantage of the southeast wind to go straight to the Cao Ying chain of warships and burned the warships in one fell swoop.
This is consistent with history, but Duan Dahu always feels unsteady in his heart, and it seems that there is always a link that is wrong, but he can't say anything.
"Brother Gongyi, I don't know how the ship you designed to burn Cao Jun's ship?" Duan Dahu asked.
"I have already sent the drawings to Soochow, which can improve their existing ships and increase the speed of the ships, which I think will definitely be of help to Zhou Yu's navy. ”
Duan Dahu nodded and said, "I'm always unsure, is this Huang Gai's bitter meat trick feasible?"
Gong Yu shook his head and said: "Although the bitter meat plan is wonderful, if Cao Cao suddenly wakes up when he sees the ship, then the outcome of this plan is unpredictable. We also need to make other preparations to ensure that the burning of the serial warships is foolproof. ”
"What do you mean?" Duan Dahu wondered.
"When King Qin was in power, there was a strange man in the rivers and lakes, Xu Fu, who took five hundred boys and five hundred virgins to Dongying Island, riding the wind and waves all the way. Do you know what kind of boat he's on?" asked Gong Yuyu suddenly.
Duan Dahu shook his head and said, "I don't know about this. ”
Fortunately, Gong Yu didn't expect him to answer, and continued: "The name of this ship is 'Mirage'. The ship is ten feet high, with five floors, and a huge hull, which can carry 8,000 soldiers. The important thing is that this mirage uses the secret technique of our Gongyi family, and the hull of the ship can hide its tracks in the dark night, and no one can detect it until it is in front of the enemy. ”
"Wonderful!" Duan Dahu said with a sneering smile, "You mean, if we build a ship, even if Dongwu Huanggai's ship fails, we can also burn Cao Cao's warship?"
"Exactly. In fact, the last time I built the Pangolin Battleship, I had already ordered the craftsmen to start building the 'Mirage', and hopefully it would be completed before the decisive battle. "Gong loses the feather road.
"Can I go and take a look?" Duan Dahu was eager to try.
"Well, if you're so curious, I'll take you there. Gong Yu looked reluctant.
The construction of this mirage was extremely hidden, and the two men disembarked from the boat and went to a quiet harbor sheltered from the wind, and sure enough, they saw a behemoth covered with a white curtain standing quietly. Gong Yu ordered his soldiers to tear open the curtain, and saw a warship resplendent with gold, but it was extremely hazy, as if it was in a thick fog.
Duan Dahu raised his eyes and saw that the big ship was taller and more majestic than the building boat that Zhou Yu of Dongwu was riding, and the hull material was made of special materials. Just as I was looking, suddenly the full moon was obscured by dark clouds, and suddenly the ship seemed to disappear out of thin air.
Duan Dahu was shocked: "What kind of strange ship is this?"
"This ship is the biggest secret of the Gongyi family, my ancestors built this ship for Emperor Qin back then, in order to go to the overseas immortal mountain to seek the elixir of immortality. But the sea is not quite peaceful, and there are not a few water cowards, so there is this function that can hide their whereabouts. The ancestors of our Gongyi family took great pains to make the big ship invisible by using the changes in the materials of the shipbuilding and the changes in light. Gong Yu said.
"Is it really that amazing?"
"All I can do now is for the ship to hide its tracks in the night, and there is nothing I can do during the day. Moreover, the Cao Jun Water Village stretches for hundreds of miles, if the Cao Ying ships cannot be gathered together, then it is almost a drop in the bucket for this one ship to ignite all the Cao Cao warships. ”
Duan Dahu nodded, "That's true." It can only be regarded as a miracle soldier, but it cannot be relied on mainly. ”
He looked at the sky and said: "Then the main problem now is the southeast wind, the more I think about Zhuge Liang, the more unreliable this kid is, he really thinks that he is a Taoist priest, and the southeast wind says that there is." ”
At this time, I saw that the flag was blown by the northwest wind, and it entered the deep winter, and the northwest wind blew more urgently.
However, it was said that in the northwest wind, the two generals Jiao Touch and Zhang Nan led 500 soldiers and 20 small boats, taking advantage of the night to row the boats, and wanted to march towards the Sanjiangkou of the Shuizhai of the Dongwu Naval Army, and cut the generals to win the commander.
Cao Cao was still not at ease, so he ordered Wen Ping, the general of Jingzhou, to lead thirty river patrol boats to Jiao Touch and Zhang Nan.
Just after the fifth watch, the darkest time before dawn. As soon as the cannon sound of Caoying Water Village sounded, the golden drums sounded in unison, Jiao Touch and Zhang Nan took 20 boats, half of them were hung with green flags, and half of the boats were hung with red flags, rushed out of the water gate, distributed on the water, and marched south.
When the two were young, their families were poor, and they made a living by catching loaches in the river, and they were even praised by their neighbors, so they were full of confidence, and the water war in Dongwu was fierce? But can you catch loaches in the Yangtze River?
Jiao Yan smiled, thinking that Prime Minister Cao always thought that the soldiers in the north were not accustomed to water warfare, but they also looked down on people too much. You're a landlubber yourself, you can't assume everyone is a landlubber, right?
As soon as these twenty boats arrived in the center of the river, Jiangnan rushed over two sailors, five sentinel boats on the left and five sentinel boats on the right, and I don't know where they came from, but they were really fast!
It turned out that Zhou Yu was very experienced in water warfare and had been prepared for a long time. Recently, the decisive battle is imminent, Zhou Yu can't make any mistakes before the battle, and has already issued an order to take strict precautions. When Cao Cao was training the navy, Zhou Yu heard the voice, so he took Xu Sheng and Ding Feng to the top of the mountain to climb high and take a look.
In the early hours of the morning, Zhou Yu heard the loud sound of Cao Ying's cannons from a distance, and immediately raised his tent and asked, "Which general is willing to resist Cao Bing?"
Han Dang and Zhou Taier stepped forward: "Governor, we are willing to be the vanguard and go to break the enemy." ”
"Good. How many soldiers and horses are you going to bring with you?"
Han Dang said: "No matter how many enemy ships it comes, the two of us only bring five sentinel boats each, and they will kill left and right, and the soldiers only need a hundred people." ”
"Okay, I'll personally sweep the battle for the two generals and wait for the two generals to triumph!"
The two went to the water village to transfer ships and send troops. Zhou Yu passed down the second order: "All camps are strictly guarded and must not be moved." The rest of the generals followed the Pontus to the heights to watch the battle. ”
"Obey. ”
Han Dang is a veteran, and the ship rushes straight to the scorch. Han Dang was wearing a heart armor to protect his chest, standing at the bow of the boat, holding a shield in his left hand and a big gun in his right hand. Anxious to touch, I'll give you a mess of arrows. He gave the order, and the soldiers confessed to filling in the strings,
Arrows were like flying locusts, shooting at Handang all over the sky. Han Dang held a shield in his left hand to resist Diaoling, although there were many bows and arrows, they couldn't hurt him.
"Get out of the way!" Jiao Touch shouted, pulling his bow like a full moon, his internal force was full of bows and arrows, and an arrow with a scream went towards Han Dang's heart guard.