The Three Kingdoms become stronger when they get treasures

Chapter 265 The Great War Begins

Jiangdong fierce generals Lu Meng and Ling led the army to face the Jingzhou Army forward Gan Ning, Zhu Zhi and Jiang Qin led the army to rush to the Jingzhou Army's left wing Ding Feng Department, Dong Xi and Zhu Ran led the army to the Jingzhou Army's right wing Wenpin Department, Zhou Yu led Pan Zhang and Chen Wu to support them, ready to support the ministries at any time.

After the two sides approached, they first engaged in several rounds of long-range shooting, but the Jingzhou army had a parapet cover on the iron chain ship and was condescending. Naturally, it took a lot of advantage, and the casualties were much less than the Jiangdong army.

Moreover, there are many heavy crossbows installed on the iron chain ship. This thing is accurate and far away, and it is powerful. The crossbow arrows as thick as spears can shoot Jiangdong Army's boat into a big hole at once, or hit it directly. Turn over, some crossbow arrows shot through two or three Jiangdong soldiers at once.

There were also heavy crossbows on the Jiangdong Army's building boats, but they were cleared by a designated point of fire within a few shots, and then the small trebuchets installed on the Jingzhou Army's large boats also began to shoot stone bullets at the Jiangdong Army's building boats. It was sawdust flying horizontally, and large holes appeared in the hull of the ship.

Although the Jiangdong army has the upper hand, it is not an opponent of the Jingzhou army at all in long-range shooting, because Jingzhou is too rich now, and the quality of the ordnance produced is not only good, but it is far behind the Jiangdong army. .

Zhang Wu's philosophy is that if it can be solved with money, try not to use people!

After the two sides fired several rounds of bows and crossbows at each other, the Jiangdong army boat was small and windy, and soon came to the Jingzhou army, and the two sides began to fight hand-to-hand again.

The Jiangdong army found that close combat was no match for the Jingzhou army. Thanks to the rain, the bowstrings and crossbow strings of both sides were damp and unable to exert their power after being used for a period of time, so the Jingzhou army did not condescend to use their hands. Crossbow to shoot.

Otherwise, Jiangdong Army's battle with the iron chain ship on a small boat would be like attacking a small castle, and there would definitely be more casualties than now.

In water warfare, generally speaking, the larger the ship, the more advantageous it is. Since ancient times, the key to Chinese water warfare has been "fighting the strength of ships, not manpower."The larger the ship, the stronger it is, and it has an advantage when it collides. It can also carry more soldiers and equipment, especially the small water fortress of the iron chain ship. Each ship can carry more than 4000 soldiers, and there are countless soldiers. Qing heavy crossbow and trebuchet.

The largest warship of the Jiangdong Army is the building ship. A building ship is a mobile water fortress carrying multiple layers of weapons and equipment, with four floors in total.The bottom layer is the spear window, the spears protruding like hedgehogs, which can prevent the enemy from boarding the ship to fight.The two floors above the column spear windows are open crossbow windows, where crossbowmen can shoot as much as they want.The top layer is responsible for long-range attacks, with parapets protecting trebuchets and other long-range weapons.

Originally, the building boats were considered to be very large warships, but they were not enough in front of the iron chain ship, and the number of building boats in the Jiangdong Navy was not large. When the battle started, the Jingzhou army's trebuchets were used as the main attack Target.Since the trebuchets on the warships of the Jingzhou Army were also of the counterweight type, they were not affected by the heavy rain. After the range was calibrated, the stone bullets hit the Jiangdong Army's buildings one after another.

In addition to the iron chain ship, the Jingzhou navy also has a new type of warship, which is faster and more flexible than the warships of the Jiangdong Army, and the sailors who are in charge of stepping on the runners are in the bottom of the ship, so they will not be attacked by the enemy. the power of the ship.

Therefore, from the beginning of the battle between the two sides, the Jiangdong Army was at a disadvantage.

After Lu Su ran to the rear to find Sun Quan, he told Sun Quan what Zhou Yu had said. Sun Quan immediately asked Gong Chong if he could do something else to stop the rain.

Gong Chong just did the magic trick once, and now he is mentally exhausted, so he has no ability to do it again, and he doesn't know any spells to stop the rain.

Sun Quan was extremely disappointed when he heard this, and it was only then that Lu Su realized that there was such a thing in the middle of this battle. Just now, the west wind overwhelmed the east wind, and the east wind overwhelmed the west wind again.It's just that when the Jiangdong Army was about to set fire to the ship, it suddenly rained for some reason.

Sun Quan and Lu Su also saw clearly the battle ahead. The Jiangdong army was obviously at a disadvantage. The chained boats were like little monsters on the water, constantly devouring the lives of Jiangdong soldiers.

The Jingzhou army has been equipped with iron chain ships for a long time, and has long formed a set of water warfare models around the iron chain ships. Coupled with the flexibility and mobility of the new ships, and the improvement of the combat effectiveness of the Jingzhou navy, it occupies a Absolute advantage.

The Jiangdong Army was not equipped with iron chain ships, because they were in the lower reaches of the Yangtze River, and it was difficult to prevent them from being attacked by fire when fighting the Jingzhou Army, so they have always been small warships, relying on their soldiers to fight against water Familiarity and the quality of a navy general.

The [-] Jiangxia navy led by Gan Ning was the main force in the Jingzhou navy, and the former army was also the main battlefield. Gan Ning fought against Lu Meng and Ling Tong alone without losing the wind.Relying on the large size of his warship, he commanded his men to drive the boat back and forth, and the small boats of the Jiangdong Army dodged one after another.

Ding Feng of the left army fought against Fu Xun and Kou Feng against Zhu Zhi and Jiang Qin, while Wenpin of the right army fought against Liu Pan and Wang Wei against Dong Xi and Zhu Ran. Formation on the deck to fight with the Jiangdong Army.

In close combat, the Jingzhou Army is not the opponent of Cao Jun, and the Jiangdong Army is even less the opponent of the Jingzhou Army. Their best way to jump ship is now to die.

But the Jiangdong Army had to fight, because the Jingzhou Army's fleet was facing the wind and waves, and kept pressing towards the Jiangdong Army's Central Army. If it was not blocked, once the Central Army was broken, the Jiangdong Army would be defeated. Sun Quan in the rear It's dangerous.

Zhou Yu is worthy of being the top navy commander in the world. Under such unfavorable circumstances, he still commanded calmly. Taking advantage of the small and flexible Jiangdong military ships, he continued to intersperse and detour, and insisted on resisting the Jingzhou navy.

Zhang Wu saw the battle in the central army, and said to Zhang Fei and Zhao Yun beside him: "Yide goes to the former army to help Xingba, and Zilong goes to the left army to help Chengyuan."

Zhang Fei was itchy for a long time, but firstly he didn't know how to command the navy, and secondly he didn't get an order. This time, when Zhang Wu gave the order, he quickly agreed and went to the battlefield with Zhao Yun in a small boat.

Zhang Wu saw that although the Jingzhou Army was suppressing the Jiangdong Army, under Zhou Yu's command, the Jiangdong Army also resisted tenaciously, causing considerable losses to the Jingzhou Army.Fortunately, neither side could use bows and crossbows in the rain, and could only fight with knives at close quarters. In this regard, the Jingzhou army had the upper hand.

Zhang Wu knew that if he didn't want to kill Zhou Yu, even if he could win this battle, he would suffer a lot of losses, which would not be conducive to Jingzhou's next plan.But it was raining now, and there was a lot of water vapor above the big river, so the vision was very bad. Zhang Wu, Zhuge Liang and others searched with binoculars for a long time but couldn't find Zhou Yu's location.

(End of this chapter)