The Three Kingdoms become stronger when they get treasures

Chapter 246
The warships of the two armies were already very close to each other. Not long after the fireboat was lit here, the pungent and smoky black smoke had already drifted into Cao Jun's formation.Immediately, Cao Jun's soldiers were in a mess, but there was nothing they could do. Some soldiers jumped into the water in fright when they watched the fire boat float by.

The fire takes advantage of the wind, the wind helps the fire, the boat shoots like an arrow, and the smoke rises to the sky.Hundreds of fire boats crashed into Cao Jun's warship one after another, and they were all caught up for a while, and there was nowhere to escape.But seeing above the Han River, the fire is chasing the wind, and the sky is full of red.

The sky-high fire seemed to burn the sky, and Chen Sun and others standing on the city wall of Xiangyang and Xiahou Dun and others standing on the city wall of Fancheng could see clearly.

But Chen Sun and others knew that Zhang Wu's fire attack plan had succeeded, and it was Cao Jun's warship that was on fire at this moment, but Xiahou Dun and others didn't understand it at first, thinking that it was the Jingzhou Army's warship that was burned.

Cao Jun's warships were densely packed, and the fire quickly burned through the warships in front of Cao Jun with the help of the wind, and then spread backward.

Cao's soldiers were either burned to death, smoked to death, or jumped into the water and drowned.

Zhang He was leading his men to kill very close to the front, when suddenly he saw countless fire boats rushing towards him, seeing the thick smoke billowing, it was obvious that the wind direction had changed.Zhang Yun was terrified. If there was a fire on the big river, there would be nowhere to hide!Seeing that the big ship he was on was already on fire, if he didn't run away, he would be roasted!

So, Zhang Yun jumped into a small boat with a few personal guards, rowed desperately, and fled to the rear.

The fire was so big that the Jingzhou army didn't dare to rush to chase Cao Jun, so they could only go around and go behind Cao Jun to intercept the fleeing Cao Jun.

In fact, even if they were allowed to escape, they would not be able to escape much, because most of Cao's troops came in chained boats, and only a few small warships were used to pass orders, and the fire was so big that even if they boarded a small boat, they would have to be lucky to escape go.

Anyway, Cao Jun's former army, left army, and right army are finished. If 10,000+ people can survive, 1 people will be good.When Cao Cao and Yu Jin in the Chinese army saw the fire, they knew it was over. The damn south wind would not come sooner or later, but it came at the most critical moment.

Prime Minister Cao has suffered a lot!It was about to win a big victory, but I didn't expect such a change to happen!Now the only thing to do is to save your life. When the fire burns over or the Jingzhou army attacks, you won't be able to run away even if you want to.

Under such circumstances, the iron chain ship could not turn around at all, and even if it turned around, it would not run as fast as the Jingzhou warship.Yu Jin has been captured once, he doesn't want to be captured alive by Zhang Wu again, and now Cao Cao is still on board, the most important thing is to send the prime minister away as soon as possible!

So, Yu Jin made a decisive decision, and immediately took his personal guards to protect Cao Cao and several counselors into a few small boats, and ordered them to row northward desperately, trying to escape before the Jingzhou army arrived.

Thousands of people were placed on this big ship, and only a few hundred people could escape on the small boat at most. The rest had no way to go to heaven or land.

Zhang Wu ordered all the troops to go around the fire in the middle to attack Cao Jun's rear army and pursue Cao Jun's deserters. Ding Feng and Liu Pan went around from the right and kept shooting Cao Jun's left army deserters and soldiers who jumped into the water. Kill Cao Jun's rear army.

Guan Yu and Zhang Fei walked around from the left, just in time to bump into Lu Tong who had escaped from the fire.Standing at the bow of the boat, Zhang Fei saw a general of Cao's army trying to escape in a small boat, so he hurriedly led his men into the boat to chase after him.

Lu Tong managed to escape from the scene of the fire, and saw that someone was chasing him. He took a closer look and it turned out to be Zhang Yide from Yan.

Lu Tong was so frightened that he quickly ordered his soldiers to row the boat quickly, but the more panicked and confused the boat turned around.Zhang Fei caught up and stabbed Lu Tong to death with a spear. Then he picked up Lu Tong's body into his own boat with a spear, and killed all the soldiers on the other side's boat.

Zhang Wu personally led Xing Daorong and five thousand soldiers from the Huwei battalion to board a new ship and go straight to the rear of Cao's army, and headed straight for Cao Cao's command ship.Pang Tong, Xu Shu, Zhuge Liang and others commanded their iron chain boats to follow slowly behind.

Wei Yan and Zhao Yun also followed with their troops.Wei Yan led the remaining soldiers of the Tiger Guards battalion to rush straight to Cao Jun's rear army, where Cao Jun's warships had not yet caught fire, and the tens of thousands of horses were about to turn around and flee in panic.However, the iron chain ship is too big, and it usually takes a lot of time to adjust it. Now in such an emergency situation, and several iron chain ships are still very close together, they didn't adjust it until the Jingzhou army came to the front. Come over.

The new ships of the Jingzhou Army gave full play to their advantages of flexibility, throwing clay pots around Cao Jun's iron chain boats, filled with kerosene, and then fired rockets to ignite them.

When the commander-in-chief of the rear army, Lu Qian, did not escape in a small boat immediately when the Jingzhou army set fire to it, he knew that once he escaped, all the tens of thousands of soldiers in the rear army would be finished.Therefore, Lu Qian also wanted to command these warships of the rear army to leave the battlefield. On the one hand, he could preserve some strength, and on the other hand, he could also meet some escaped soldiers.

But what he didn't expect was that Cao Jun's soldiers were so flustered that they couldn't turn around for a long time, and he didn't expect the Jingzhou Army to come so quickly.When a large army faces off against each other, the most fearful thing is that the soldiers panic. When the battle was going smoothly, Cao Jun could still carry out the orders of the generals in an orderly manner.

But once encountering an unexpected situation, these Cao Jun soldiers who were originally infantry panicked, because this was on the water, and they could not find a way to run like on land.There is water all around, what if the boat is burned!At this time, the soldiers were thinking about how to escape for their lives, and how could anyone seriously carry out the orders issued by the generals.

When the warship he was on was set on fire, Lu Qian knew that he could not escape, even if he jumped on the boat, he would not be able to escape the pursuit of the Jingzhou army.Seeing that the soldiers under him were either burned to death, shot to death by arrows, or even jumped into the water and drowned, Lu Qian felt extremely sad and indignant. Why is there a south wind in this cold winter?

At this time, Lu Qian's personal guards urged loudly: "General Lu, hurry up and escape in the boat, or it will be too late if you don't run away!"

"Hehe, run? Where are you going?" Lu Qian sneered, "There are Jingzhou naval forces all around us. How can we be their opponents on the boat? Rather than being captured alive by the Jingzhou army, I would rather die!"

Lu Qian knew that after jumping into the boat, the most likely possibility would be to be captured alive by the Jingzhou army, but he would rather die than suffer such humiliation.After all the guards around him fled, Lu Qian pulled out his sword and killed himself on the boat.

Wei Yan learned from the captives that Lu Qian, the commander-in-chief of the Cao army, would rather die than disembark, and he admired him very much, but he also felt that this man was a bit stupid. Even if I captured him alive, he would have nothing to fear. My lord is not a person who likes to kill prisoners. .

Perhaps this is what Lu Qian was afraid of. He might think that being killed was better than being sold.

(End of this chapter)