It was already October, and the night wind was already chilling. It was the west wind that blew the flags on the ship.

Guan Yu clapped his hands and said: "Brother Duan draws inferences from one another, his wisdom is good, and the current situation is exactly like this." Cao Cao not only has an advantage in terms of troops, but also has a better time and place, and this battle is indeed not easy to fight. ”

Gong Yu said: "The pangolin is also designed with this factor in mind, but the boat against the current may not be slow. At that moment, he told Guan Yu about the structural design of the pangolin boat, Guan Yu was an expert, and he was greatly appreciated when he heard it, and he appreciated the male loss feather a little more.

"Second Brother Guan, we can't avoid it now, please clean up the army and horses, we will go to Wulin in three days to lure Cao Cao's army to fight to find out the truth. Duan Dahu said.

"Good!" Guan Yu said with a smile, "I was just about to see how the northern army fought a water battle! This battle is bound to defeat Cao Cao and frustrate his spirit." ”

Everyone said goodbye, returned to the boat, and returned to Jiangxia. Zhao Yun said: "Brother Duan, do you really want to use your body as bait in three days to go to fight Cao Bing?"

Duan Dahu heard the concern in her tone, and pretended to be relaxed: "What, I'm afraid that I won't be able to defeat Cao Cao's army?"

"There are few people in the rivers and lakes who are your opponents, but you are not familiar with water warfare, I am afraid it will be difficult to be handy. Zhao Yun pursed her mouth.

If it weren't for the male loss feather here, he would have to kiss it. At this time, the moonlight is bright and the water is rippling, which is a good time for me to be happy.

But in this situation, I had to wash and sleep.

Since the time was determined to take the initiative to fight with Cao's army, in three days, Duan Dahu, Zhuge Liang and Liu Bei repeatedly deduced the marching route, and prepared a number of ordnance materials, just waiting for the war to start in Japan.

On the evening of the third day, when the sun was already turning west, Duan Dahu took the lead in the pangolin and launched an attack on Wulin, where Cao Cao's navy was stationed. As its name suggests, the pangolin boat rides the wind and waves in the river, like walking on the ground, but the shape looks a little strange.

In charge of the training of the Ulin Navy was Cao Cao's Naval Governor Cai Mao and Deputy Governor Zhang Yun. Although these two people are not famous generals in the world, they have unique knowledge of the various tactics of the navy, and they are probably not inferior to Guan Yu.

Duan Dahu knew very well in his heart that the 8,000 soldiers he brought with him were not enough for Cao Jun's 200,000 sailors. This battle did not expect to be able to capture Wulin, the purpose was only to test the reality of Cao's army and prepare for the decisive battle between Eastern Wu and Cao's army.

The red sun was westward, the river was rolling, and the sail shadow boat was out of the estuary, and it went straight to Wulin with great momentum.

The lookout post set up on the top of Wulin immediately discovered the situation, beat the drum to transmit the message, and after the three drums, Cai Mao received a report from the scout, saying "There is a thief ship robbing the camp", and sneered in his heart: The tiger is not mad, you really think I am a sick cat, I don't send troops to destroy you, you dare to bully your grandfather.

He immediately ordered Cao's naval division to set sail immediately and be on alert to meet the battle. Cai Mao got on the ship, and it was two stories higher than Jiangxia's boat, a five-story building, and the boat was ten feet high. He had the intention to show off the strength of the sailors, and specially ordered 100,000 sailors to fight, just taking this opportunity to show his strength to Dongwu.

From afar, I could only hear Duan Dahu scolding loudly: "Cai Mao, you traitor to glory, come out quickly and die!"

Cai Mao heard the sound of the waves whistling, and said angrily: "Duan Dahu, you bastard raised by your bustard mother, damn it, my father made you look good today!"

As soon as he became angry, he used the local swear dialect.

In a short time, the two armies met on the river, and in those years there was no artillery on the warship, and the water battle was nothing more than shooting arrows and injuring people, or burning the warship with rockets, or using hooks and iron anchors to destroy the wooden boat, so that it would sink into the water, or wait for the two ships to approach, and then board the ship and engage in close combat.

In an instant, the arrows of the two armies flew, and you came and went. However, Cai Mao's naval ships were heavy, and although the warships led by Duan Dahu were well-trained, they were still shot and killed countless soldiers. Duan Dahu had never seen thousands of arrows on the warship, and hurriedly ordered the warships behind him to distance themselves and beat drums and cheer from afar, of course, they couldn't beat the momentum on their lips but they couldn't fall behind.

Duan Dahu led his pangolin warship in front of the water village, pressed the mechanism and shot two spears, destroying the two arrow towers in front of the water village. Cai Mao's army fired thousands of arrows at the pangolin, but it was like a turtle with a shell on its back, and no matter how many bows and arrows you had, it couldn't hurt it. Cai Mao stood on the boat and saw it clearly, and felt very strange in her heart: Could this be that the 10,000-year-old turtle has become a spirit, but it has come to oppose me?

But he has a lot of soldiers and ships, even if all the shrimp soldiers and crabs of the Dragon Palace come out, he doesn't pay attention to it, waving the command flag, and directing the fighting ship to ram the pangolin, intending to board the ship for close combat.

For a while, four fighting ships came out of the crowd and collided with the pangolin warship, and Duan Dahu felt several shakes in the cabin, as if the wind and waves were blowing, making people stand unsteadily. Looking out of the shooting holes in the cabin, I saw several fighting ships crashing into the turtle boats, all dismembered by the steel spikes they wore and instantly turned into smithereens. Duan Dahu secretly admired the superb skills of the Gongyi family, this kid Gongyi Yu is really a talent.

But when he looked at the river and saw the number and scale of Cao's warships, he realized that this was not the main force, but most of them were the vanguard of the temptation. The ships dispatched by Cao Jun this time were relatively small, and in front of the huge ships of the Duan Dahu Army's sailors, they could only cry out in vain. And Cao Jun is not good at water warfare, as long as he deals with it properly, there should be no suspense.

As the sky gets late, the river is red in the sunset, and there is already twilight on the eastern horizon.

But Cai Mao was cautious and still refused to use the main force to attack, although he sent 100,000 troops, but he only let the other ships line up and shoot a rain of arrows.

Duan Dahu secretly said: "Even if our warship is bigger and we have the help of the pangolin warship, if we can't lure Cai Mao to attack in a battle, and ambush him according to the predetermined route, he can retreat to Wulin to rest and recuperate, and then make a comeback." Cao's army has a large number of troops, and our troops are overstretched, and there are too many times, and I am afraid that we cannot afford to consume them. ”

Cao Cao claimed to have 300,000 sailors, although he boasted, but at least more than 100,000, and Duan Dahu's army added up to 8,000, with a huge disparity in strength. To put it mildly, even if there is a full-scale decisive battle on the river, even if the combined forces of Eastern Wu and Jiangxia have the advantage of water warfare and fight for everyone's lives, I am afraid that they may not be able to wipe out the entire Cao army......

At this time, in Jiangxia City, Zhuge Liang and Liu Bei were looking at the map. The scout had just come to report the results of the water battle, and in the stalemate between the two sides, Cai Mao didn't know why Duan's army attacked rashly, worried that he would not know the enemy's situation at night, so he sent troops to meet the enemy but was cautious.

Zhuge Liang pondered for a long time and said: "The so-called late will change, this battle cannot be postponed, if you can attract Cai Mao's main force to the fullest, lose the Wulin Water Village as a barrier, and lure it into the water Jedi, you can fight without blood......"

Liu Bei said: "Of course, this is the best, it's just ...... How?"

Zhuge Liang muttered: "First of all, if an urgent situation can be created and the Eastern Wu feint to attack Jingzhou, then Cai Mao's army will inevitably become a frightened bird, and if they want to return to Jingzhou, there will be great hope." ”

"Military advisor," Liu Bei pondered: "You can let the Eastern Wu warships advance north, creating the illusion of encircling Xiangyang, presumably Cai Mao is afraid that Cao Cao will blame him, and there will be pressure, but even so, ......"

Zhuge Liang stared at the map of the Yangtze River waters for a while, and muttered: "When Cai Mao's main force leaves Wulin, if our warships block the downstream and fight and retreat, let Cai Mao see the hope of breaking through and returning to Jingzhou, then Cao's army will strive to pursue our warships." ”

Liu Bei's eyes lit up, and he nodded: "That's right, he chased after the lord, but the lord broke through to the northwest, Cai Mao must have thought that when he returned to Jingzhou, the lord would return to attack Wulin again, and he would inevitably destroy the lord's warship in a battle." ”

"That's right," Zhuge Liang pointed to the map with his hand and said with a smile: "Brother Xuande, look here!"