The Rise of the Song People of the Three Kingdoms

Chapter 342 The Yangtze River Water Battle
Then we know that as soon as the army on the Luheng West Road was dispatched, and the commander Zhu Huan had just marched from Lujiang to Jiangxia, bad news came from Jinyiwei. Fleeing to Xiling, Sun Ce took all the Jiangxia area south of the Yangtze River.

Misfortunes never come singly, Zhang Shuo, the commander of Huang Zu's navy, wanted to surprise Zhou Yu in the water battle, but the latter saw it through, blocked the way with a big ship, sent out a fire boat to smolder, and Zhang Shuo and the entire navy were wiped out. Zhou Yu They were storming Xiakou, a ferry crossing, which would become a breakthrough in the defense line of the Yangtze River. Sun Ce and Zhou Yu merged and broke through to attack a large area north of the Yangtze River.

Fortunately, Huang Zu was not too old-fashioned. After receiving these two bad news, Huang Zu personally led Gan Ning, Liu Hu, and Han Xi to defend Xiakou, and at the same time sent someone to ask Lu Heng for help again.

When Huang Zu sent the news that Jiangxia was in an emergency, Marshal Zhu Huan of the West Road led his troops to Xunyang. It wasn't that Zhu Huan marched too slowly, but the West Route Army was the first one to set off among Lu Heng's troops. Zu lost too fast!

When Zhu Huan's trio negotiated with Hu Yanzan, Zhao Kuangyin, Xu Shu, Zhuge Liang and others, let Huyanzan, Xu Shu, and Zhao Kuangyin take the Qingqi from the Chixin camp to go first, and let Zhou Tai's Shenshui camp step up to attack on the river, so that Sun Ce would not be allowed It is so comfortable to be able to attack the city, which can contain Sun Ce to the south of the Yangtze River.

When Zhou Tai received the news, he took Zhang Cheng all the way to the west and set off first. Just after E County, he encountered Zhou Yu's navy for an encounter.

Didn't Zhou Yu hit Xiakou?Why are you here?
This is because Huang Zu had a good hand. After personally leading troops to block Xiakou, Zhou Yu took advantage of the easy-to-defend and difficult-to-attack terrain to prevent Zhou Yu from leading troops into the port several times. A huge amount of food was consumed.

Zhou Yu came up with another strategy, splitting half of the fleet to take advantage of the fog to bypass Xiakou and join Sun Ce's army first, transporting Sun Ce's army to a port further downstream to land, and attacking Xiling, the governor's seat, by land, but he did not expect to meet Zhou Yu. Tai's Shenshui Army.

"Forty degrees to the west! Aim! The ballista fires arrows!", "Whoo! Whoosh! Whoosh!"

Zhou Tai's iconic roar made the bed crossbow placed on the building ship fire a spear. The eight-ox crossbow with a maximum killing range of 1000 meters fought other princes for the first time, and he is experiencing its power!

There were many young people in Zhou Yu's navy, such as Sun Quan, Pan Zhang, and Zhu Ran who had just turned [-]. They were brought to the battlefield for the first time. Before that, they mostly read wars from books, or the knowledge of water warfare. The army, but since Cai Mao put down the pick, the Jingzhou navy is called a dish.

When Sun Quan and other young people looked at the Jiangdong Navy, they knew for the first time what a navy is. More than a dozen buildings above the river seemed to enter the clouds, with medium-sized fighting ships on the flanks, small warships, and the sudden jumps responsible for breakthroughs. The largest ship on the bridge for transporting troops is half a point larger than the other ships, with the word "Shenshui" embroidered on it on a huge flip. This ship should be the legendary Yu Huang.

Just as these boys were amazed at the magnificent boats in Jiangdong, countless black spears flew out from the building boats and shot at themselves. The huge flying spears were extremely fast!

"Get out of the way!", "Get out of the way!", "Do! Do!"

Sun Quan and the others shouted one after another, and immediately hid in the cabin. Immediately after the shout, there was the sound of breaking the air and the sound of sawdust splashing after the wood was pierced. The bottom of the boat began to leak water and sank.

Of course, there are also quite a few javelins that penetrate directly into the river, but the overall hit rate is very high!

Zhou Yu also saw this scene on the building boats. The number of building ships in Sun Ce's army was far less than that of Lu Heng's Shenshui Camp. There were only three building ships. Among them, the building ships commanded by Zhou Yu himself, one of Huang Gai's flanks, and Sun Quan and others one ship.

This is not the point, but the fact that the two armies are now separated by a full 800 meters, and the Jiangdong navy started a long-range weapon attack at such a distance, even an effective attack, which made Zhou Yu's face very ugly!

This scene made Zhou Yu realize that the equipment aspect was likely to be left far away by Jiang Dong, and there was no time for Zhou Yu to express his feelings there. In Zhou Tai's roar, the second wave of javelins had already been fired, and the sound of piercing came from the front line. The ships were already crumbling, and they were being hit by such a volley of javelin-like arrows, and many warships would be lost before the war even started.

"Dho! Do! Do! Do! Do! Do!"

There was another sound of toothache being shot. This time the loss was greater than the previous salvo. The first dozen or so ships sank like hedgehogs with blood red, and the blood was floating on the Yangtze River.

"All ships! Accelerate and rush over!"

The Sun Ce Navy is a newly formed navy built by Zhou Yu who personally trained and collected warships from Jingzhou. The ships also include building ships, warships, and fighting ships from the late Eastern Han Dynasty. However, the structures of the ships of the two armies are quite different, and the same parts will not be repeated. .

The boats of the Jingzhou Army are still traditional flat-bottomed boats, with a square shape and huge sails that borrow the wind to navigate, while Jiangdong’s boats are narrow on the top and wide on the bottom, with a sharp bottom, multi-layered sails and triangular auxiliary sails. difference.

As the fleet began to accelerate, and soon reached 500 meters, Sun Ce's navy also began to launch bed crossbows!The crossbows on both sides of the bed were very spectacular, but the number of arrow rain was absolutely suppressed by the Shenshui camp.

That’s right, Zhou Yu heard from Huang Gai that the Jiangdong navy put bed crossbows on the tower boats. Zhou Yu also tried it and found that his tower boats could also put bed crossbows, but he couldn’t put too many, otherwise the tower boats would be very dangerous. It is easy to roll over, but even so, three cars can still be placed.

Both sides faced each other, and both ships sank with their spears. Because of the base number of arrows, Zhou Yu's navy suffered even greater losses, but Zhou Yu ignored these losses and gritted his teeth and began to charge.

500 meters, 400 meters!

"Change the bed crossbow for the arrow box! Get ready! The crossbowmen cooperate together and let go!", "All the archers are ready to fire!"

"Whoo! Whoosh! Whoosh!", "Do! Do! Ah! Ah! Ah!"

Zhou Yu and Zhou Tai shouted commands within the range of the archers. Naturally, some messengers turned into semaphore, and the crossbowmen on both sides began to shoot arrows. Naturally, there were shield soldiers standing at the forefront with large sculls to protect their own crossbowmen. .

The equipment soldiers of the Shenshui camp immediately opened the mechanism buckle of the bed crossbow, replaced an accessory, installed the boxy arrow box in a fixed position, and adjusted the angle of the three-bow crossbow.

"Filled! Let it go!", "Whoo! Whoosh! Whoosh!", "Do! Do! Ah! Ah! Ah!"

This roar is the roar of every equipment soldier. An eight-ox crossbow shoots ten arrows every two seconds, and only one eight-ox crossbow shoots thirty arrows within six seconds. The overwhelming rain of arrows shot at Zhou Yu's water army.

　Thanks to Mosheng for the monthly pass of Brother Feng Xiansen, which has been recorded!
　　
　
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