Traveling through history leaving a name

Chapter 85 Action
Half an hour later, as Zheng Chenggong's ship waved the flag, the Youzhou fleet, preparing to head to the Yangtze River for a decisive battle with Sun Quan's navy, quickly moved.

woooooo~
Several steam-powered gunboats responded with bursts of sirens.

Fifteen gunboats and fifteen supply ships left the fleet and began to move westward along the Yangtze River estuary.

This battle belonged to the inland river gunboat. As the commander of the sea-going ship, Zheng Chenggong did not follow him into the Yangtze River.

His command of the inland cannon boat is not as good as that of Lin Yongsheng. Instead of commanding blindly, it is better to let Lin Yongsheng fight by himself, as long as he tells him the strategic goal this time.

Moreover, he has more important things to do when he stays, which is to block the Yangtze River waterway and prevent any boat from entering the Yangtze River.

The Yangtze River waterway has always been the main transportation artery of Wudi. Relying on the Yangtze River, Sun Quan can quickly dispatch troops from the coast and inland.

Zheng Chenggong can't control the inland, but he can prevent the soldiers and horses along the coast from using the Yangtze River waterway to support Sun Quan.

Blocking the Yangtze River waterway is also very simple, just log in on the north bank near Haimen and block it with cannons and ships.

After Lin Yongsheng led a dozen gunboats to leave, Zheng Chenggong also led the remaining fleet into the mouth of the Yangtze River.

The mouth of the Yangtze River is very wide, with a river surface of more than ten kilometers wide, enough for Galen boats to sail.

Not long after, the fleet arrived near Haimen and immediately began to log in.

The north bank of the Yangtze River was Cao Cao's sphere of influence, and there was no obstruction from Sun Quan's army, so the landing went smoothly. Three Galen ships took cover, and five thousand Musketeers were able to land calmly.

"I'm going to emphasize the discipline again, you are not allowed to drink raw water, you are not allowed to eat uncooked food, and you must pay attention to mosquito bites to avoid infection..."

After the [-] musketeers landed, some of them were sent out to guard against anyone approaching, while others quickly cut down trees and set up camp on the spot.

In one day, a camp with both offensive and defensive capabilities was built.

The next day, a dozen large-caliber artillery pieces were transported from the ship to the shore, and then they found a high-lying place to set them up.

This fort, together with several Galen and dozens of troop carriers, is enough to block the entire Yangtze River waterway. Any ship that wants to enter or leave here will be driven away, and disobedient ships will be sunk.

On the other side, more than a dozen gunboats have entered the Yangtze River and are heading west along the Yangtze River.

Among these gunboats, the fastest one was undoubtedly the Youzhou, which was loaded with sixty cannons and propelled by underwater propellers.

In the Yangtze River, its upstream speed can reach more than ten knots, more than two times faster than other boats.

Even if the steam power of the Youzhou is broken, it can still be moved by manual oars, but compared with sea ships, it has no sails.

There is more than 700 miles of waterway from the mouth of the Yangtze River to Moling, and the Youzhou fleet is expected to travel for more than two days.

At this time in Moling City, Sun Quan had received the Kuaima battle report and learned that the Youzhou fleet had arrived and was coming along the Yangtze River towards Moling.

"Is everything ready?" Sun Quan asked the navy generals under him in a large hall.

In order to deal with the Youzhou fleet this time, Sun Quan dispatched most of the navy to the Moling section of the Yangtze River, with almost tens of thousands of people and thousands of large and small ships.

"Lord Fang Xin, everything is ready!"

A man who looked like a general said: "After the Youzhou fleet passes the Guangling section of the Yangtze River, we will pull up a few iron chains to block the opponent's retreat, and then send arson boats to burn the opponent's ships."

"That's good." Hearing this, Sun Quan nodded.

In order to deal with the Youzhou Fleet, everything that should be prepared has been prepared. As for whether the enemy can be defeated, it depends on the next action.

In the middle of the Yangtze River.

After a day and night of sailing, the dozen or so gunboats led by Lin Yongsheng had traveled half of the route.

"Senior brother Lin, the Youzhou ship has issued a semaphore, requesting to go to Moling first to explore the way."

Lin Yongsheng was on the boat, and one of his subordinates said to Lin Yongsheng.

Hearing what his subordinates said, Lin Yongsheng thought about it, and then said to his subordinates: "Tell Youzhou, I agree with them to go to explore the way."

Soon, the semaphore was sent out.

woooooo~
With the sound of sirens, a huge gunboat speeded up, rushed out of the fleet, and went upstream along the Yangtze River at a speed more than twice that of other boats, and soon disappeared in all directions. in front of people.

"What kind of ship is this? It's so fast, it's still smoking, and why is there only one ship? Didn't it mean that there were more than a dozen ships?"

At Guangling Ferry, hundreds of soldiers on the shore kicked their eyes in unison as they watched a huge ship belching black smoke going upstream quickly.

They are the ones who are going to block the Yangtze River with iron chains after the Youzhou ship passes here.

It's just that only one ship has come now, but they don't know what to do.

"Master Captain, what shall we do now? Shall we pull up the iron chains to seal off the river?" Someone asked the Captain who led the team.

"Don't worry, wait a little longer, I believe someone will send the situation over soon." The captain said.

Sure enough, a fast horse came here soon, and everyone knew the situation.

It turned out that most of the Youzhou fleet was still behind, and the previous ship went to explore the way alone, and the higher authorities told them not to pull up the chains in advance, so as not to reveal the battle plan.

If you want to block the Yangtze River, you don't just need to pull up a few iron chains. You also need to fix some iron stakes on the iron chains or lift up the iron chains by ships to maintain the height of the iron chains.

This will take a lot of time to complete. If the Yangtze River is blocked before the Youzhou fleet passes by, it will definitely be exposed, which will make the Youzhou fleet vigilant.

A tributary of the Yangtze River in the Guangling section.

"General, what should I do? Do you want to intercept?"

At this time, in a tributary of the Yangtze River, thousands of boats were all ready.

Most of these ships were arson ships.

Most of these arson boats were connected in a series by iron chains, with as few as a dozen ships and as many as dozens.

These arson boats were filled with flammable materials. As long as they were ignited when encountering enemy ships, these arson boats would flow down the river and burn the enemy ships. This is how Sun Quan dealt with Cao Cao during the Battle of Chibi.

Because it is strung together with iron chains, the enemy ships will not even try to hide from the gap between the two ships. As long as they are entangled by these arson ships, the fire will burn the enemy ships.

Just when this side was ready to attack, they never expected that only one ship had left the other ships and came here first.

Because the gunboat was too fast, no one had received the news yet.

"Let it go, don't startle the snake." Wei Wen said to his subordinates.

In the end, the Sun Quan Navy, who was about to intercept the Youzhou fleet in the Guangling section of the Yangtze River, ignored the Youzhou.

The Youzhou continued to swim upstream. Surprisingly, when it was still dozens of miles away from Moling City, the people on the boat saw several smoke pillars rising from the shore.

"It's our scout."

Seeing these plumes of smoke, the people on the Youzhou immediately judged the situation.

More than two months ago, when Youzhou was planning to seek revenge from Sun Quan, it dispatched many scouts in advance, mainly to inquire about Sun Quan's movements and familiarize themselves with the terrain here.

The Youzhou sailed towards the smoke column, and finally stopped at a distance of more than ten meters from the shore.

Soon, a canoe quickly rowed towards the Youzhou, and there was only one person on it.

Not long after, the man in the canoe climbed aboard the Youzhou.

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