Chapter 181: The Storm and Clouds (Part 2)

A few days later, Jiangling welcomed distinguished guests.

King Wei Yue of Wu went out to greet him, and the Marquis of Chu Zheng Pingyuan, and naturally there were all the generals of the Chu Navy.

In Jiangling City, Wei Yue and Zheng Pingyuan had a secret talk and finally reached a consensus.

It is to jointly launch a flood war against the Shu army.

So I decided to fight and decide quickly because the situation did not wait for anyone. The 100,000 troops were mobilizing and rushed over in a few days, and it could not be slowed down for a moment.

After reaching a consensus, Zheng Pingyuan returned to his tent to deploy.

King Wei Yue of Wu had already made preparations and was waiting for a battle to come.

The next morning, before the sky was completely bright, there were fleets gathering on the river.

In the early morning of September 29, 16th

At this time, the summer spirit has passed, the autumn spirit is thick, the sky is already dawn, there is a layer of mist on the river surface, the wind and waves are slightly rising, and a huge water village is built near a river estuary.

Wang Hongyi looked over the high platform of the water village and saw that there were many fleets in the distance opposite, all of which were full of fleets. There were sails and warships covering the river, which were very cool and could not help but change color slightly. Only when I was in the scene could I understand what a huge fleet this meant.

Almost at the same time, the soldiers around were all nervous, and some even pinched their fists tightly.

This is understandable. If the water battle is lost, even if the counties in Jingbei are unable to protect them, even if Xiangyang is guarding them, they will be passively beaten and it will be difficult to make progress.

"Where is the Grand Governor?"

"I am here!" At this time, Lu Suhai responded and lies on the ground, with a solemn and resolute expression.

"The enemy ships launched a large-scale attack and fought against our army. I fought against him. I set up a water camp here, and there were supplies inside, so I stayed here."

"In this battle, you can use Tao Lei. You must know that this method can only be used once. Gu hopes that you can make achievements in one go and completely defeat the Wu and Chu coalition."

There was originally a powerful weapon on the water, which was Tao Lei. This weapon was an expanded version of the hand fire thunder, but it was launched with a simplified version of the catapult and dropped onto the enemy ship.

This kind of pottery thunder is huge and weighs about ten kilograms. Once it hits an enemy ship, it will explode with "boom". Its power is far above the hand fire thunder. However, in ancient times, the oil supply was insufficient, and the oil bombs were very expensive. The savings in Shu in a year were only a thousand oil bombs. Most of them were used up in Xiangyang at once, and now there are only three hundred.

Last time I was transported to Zhang Fanzhi, but it was not used, so I can keep it until now.

This can only be a strange plan, because once the enemy knows that they use rockets in large quantities, their ship will become a flame hell, so it is impossible to tell.

"Yes, if you raise troops for a thousand days, use troops for a while, the lord will train the navy for so long, just for today, I will swear to repay you to death and break the powerful enemy for you."

"Thank you, Governor!" When Lu Suhai heard this, a hint of joy appeared in his eyes.

I understand the power of this water Tao Lei.

"Or you break the enemy, or the enemy breaks my water camp - our victory or defeat is handed over to the Grand Governor." Wang Hongyi said slowly, untied the sword on his body: "You use this command to command the entire army. If anyone does not follow, kill them immediately!"

"No!" Lu Suhai responded, first he gave a tribute, kowtowed, and then raised his hand to take the long sword.

After a moment, the horn horn roared, and a continuous sound came, focusing everyone's attention on the river surface.

I saw a large number of fleets rushing out on the vast river surface, at the entrance of the Shuizhai.

This is a huge navy composed of two hundred ships, while the enemy has 300 ships, but the ship is tall and large, and can carry more naval soldiers. Against their background, it is a surging river.

The sun rose in the sky, shining wide on the earth, the river water shone with sunlight, and golden light flashed. Wang Hongyi had already ordered the left and right to fire cannons (this was an ancient sound cannon) and officially issued a combat order.

After receiving this order, a group of fifty warships formed line-shaped arrows. Almost at the same time, the other party formed a fan shape, forming a formation that surrounded and intercepted, and killed each other.

This is caused by the different guidelines of the two armies.

The Shu navy relies on the small ship, firearms, and fast to implement the "water riding and shooting tactic", so that it must show linear arrows. The Wu and Chu navy, with large and high ships, implement the tactic of encirclement and interception and cutting off the middle.

Each commanded the ship, a regular and rhythmic sound was generated, and it was followed one by another. This was the war drum.

Wang Hongyi looked from a distance from a high altitude and saw that the initial warship was approaching, approaching a distance of 300 steps. At this moment, the Shu army waved the order flag.

"The ship turns the rudder!"

The ship immediately deviates from the relative route.

"Herving iron plate!"

Suddenly, the iron plate on the side began to slouch.

Almost at the same time, the enemy ship was also ordering: "Go on the Vine Shield!"

A large number of sword and shield soldiers were transferred to the ship. They held their shields high and raised them high on the side and left and right, forming batches of defenses. Almost at the same time, the archers and crossbow archers were ready to deal with the fire.

"Stone thrower!"

"Go on Tao Lei!" There were only three Tao Leis on each ship. They specially adjusted the original Pili Vehicle Camp. The people who were good at shooting catapults were loading them. At this time, they were all waiting for a rest.

Seeing that the distance had reached, the captain called out: "Start!"

The fuse was lit and burned towards Tao Lei. Almost at the same time, three Tao Leis rose into the air together, drawing three lines in the sky, and landed.

One of them brushed the side of the boat and fell into the water, and detonated before falling into the water.

"Boom" the flames exploded, and a large amount of oil and fire fell down, causing a piece of wood chips to fly, and sparks were everywhere, but most of them fell on the water.

One fell into the water and let out a muffled sound in the water.

Another one hit the deck of the enemy ship, and there was only a "boom".

Even after the explosion, even after the ship was separated, I felt a vibration. In the dawn sunlight, a force exploded deeply, and countless blood and flames trajectories flew out.

Let the warriors and armor be broken under this force, and the flames rise with a raging bell.

When it was the first time that this kind of attack was encountered, the enemy sailors screamed, and in a short while, the black smoke filled the sky and caught fire.

Many soldiers screamed hoarsely with signs of severe burning, on the deck, like a group of madmen in panic.

"Prepare, shoot!" At this time, the shields that were originally standing on the enemy ships naturally no longer existed. When the ship woke up, an officer called the order.

The musket soldiers who were ready but were shocked subconsciously pulled the machine, and "slap" sounded, and fire and smoke came out of the musket, and fired together.

In the fire and smoke, several enemy generals who were running on the deck of the enemy ship suddenly appeared on their bodies, and their powerful attack power made them stagger back and fall out.

"shoot!"

The screams continued, followed by the deafening sound of Fire Order. The second row of Fire Order soldiers shot together. This shot together and knocked down a group of Wu soldiers to the ground.

For a moment, the vanguard of the Wu Chu fleet quickly collapsed and the warships caught fire.

The navy generals commanding behind, including Zhao Jing, the navy governor of Zheng Pingyuan, suddenly had no blood on his face. The generals beside him were stunned, not knowing how to deal with this battle of changing elbows and armpits, with a huge difference in strength.

"Snatch the upper hand and shoot right!" Seeing this, Lu Suhai was overjoyed and immediately said with order.

In fact, this weapon is expensive for the first time, but it is not practical.

First of all, during the water battle, the ship itself is not easy to sail and shake. It is not easy to use a catapult to place it. Even if the shooting person in the army is adjusted, the hit rate will not be high.

Moreover, there are not many Tao Leis. Once the enemy finds the key points, the rocket alone will cause a big explosion on his own. If you can't make the final decision, the big thing will be gone.

But at this moment, in a flash, more than a dozen giant ships of the coalition forces were hit, and flames flew, and the water surface was boiling, and the fires soared into the sky, and the crying and screams were connected.

At the height of the water village, when Wang Hongyi saw this situation, he was immediately overjoyed.

War is courage!

Historically, the Battle of Poyang Lake on Earth claimed that a fire burned Chen Youliang's 500,000 naval troops. In fact, not only did the number of it exaggerated, but also the specificity was exaggerated.

At that time, Zhu Yuanzhang chose to drive seven fishing boats, filled with gunpowder and firewood, approached the enemy ships, set fire with the wind, and spread rapidly, but only lost more than a dozen ships. It was only at this time that Zhu Yuanzhang led his army to take advantage of the situation to launch a fierce attack, killing 2,000 enemies.

However, with this great victory, the Ming army was greatly motivated and launched a fierce attack. In the end, Chen army retreated without support, and abandoned the battle of flags and drums and weapons covered the lake.

After that, Chen's army was defeated repeatedly, and the situation gradually became more and more unfavorable, and finally suffered a great defeat.

At this time, it was time to take advantage of the first time that the enemy was panicked and launched a fierce attack. As long as the enemy's command and morale collapsed, the situation would be gone!

In fact, there may not be more than a few thousand people who actually killed them!

At this time, Lu Suhai immediately seized the fighter opportunity and issued seven orders in succession to issue a general attack.

Seventy warships behind them were snatched out and spread out and rushed up.

The smoke rolled, and cheers came from the deck, flags fluttered, and gongs and drums sounded. Looking at this situation, the morale of the entire army was immediately boosted.

Under the command of each general, the 20,000 troops waving the red flag, waved the flag, and rushed forward.

"Boom! Boom!"

The more at this time, the more calm the attack, the high morale even caused these ships carrying Tao Lei to venture closer to the enemy ships, and only came directly from twenty meters away.

At such a short distance, when you hit the deck, it exploded. The explosion covered several meters in size. No one could survive here. The most amazing thing is that the explosion airflow and oil fire were equally terrifying in the farther area.

Dozens of thick smoke have emanated from the river surface, and flames are rushing up. The fire is raging, which can rise dozens of wood, making the river surface covered with thick black smoke.

At this time, although the sun shone, the river surface was dark under the black smoke.

The originally arranged formation had already broken several gaps. The navy of the Shu army broke through the gap and broke the array like an iron stream. On the burning deck, the most elite navy of the Wu army screamed in the flames, and some even formed the Great Wall of Flesh and Blood to fight to the death.
Chapter completed!