Traveling through history leaving a name

Chapter 92 Confrontation
However, Wei Wen was not lucky for long, and soon, under Lin Yongsheng's order, more than a dozen gunboats were thrown into the attack.

Facing the speed and agility of the gunboats, Sun Quan's naval ships did not have the slightest aggressiveness against the Youzhou gunboats.

Facing Sun Quan's navy's igniting boat, the Youzhou gunboat can retreat and fight at the same time, just like flying a kite, hanging you a certain distance forever, so that you can't hit it.

Seeing that Sun Quan's navy didn't have any special attack methods, several Youzhou paddle wheel gunboats moved directly to a distance of more than ten meters from the ignition boat and opened fire.

Such a distance is like shooting a gun at the enemy's forehead, even a fool can hit the target.

Moreover, the artillery position of the gunboat is very low from the water surface, so even a small boat can be hit by the artillery.

At such a short distance, the artillery does not even need to adjust the elevation angle, just shoot flat.

After more than a dozen gunboats were put into the attack, the losses of Sun Quan's naval fleet suddenly increased.

Several ships are lost almost every minute. Although most of these ships are worthless igniters, if there are too many losses, God knows what the final result will be.

When fierce battles broke out on the Yangtze River waterway in the Guangling section, in Guangling County, a news quickly spread to Zhang Liao, the general of the Cao army stationed in Hefei.

"What's the situation? Is it a ship from Youzhou? Have you checked it out?" Zhang Liaochao's subordinates asked in disbelief.

It seems that he still doesn't know about Youzhou seeking revenge from Sun Quan Navy.

"Back to the general, I have already found out that it is indeed a ship from Youzhou. According to the news of the villain, it seems that Sun Quan's navy burned a Youzhou merchant ship a few months ago, and killed more than 100 people from Youzhou. Merchants, this time it is Youzhou who is here for revenge."

"So, how is the situation now?" Zhang Liao continued to ask.

"General, when I came, the Youzhou ship had just entered the Yangtze River. After getting the news, the villain immediately came to report. I don't know what happened next, but I believe someone will come back soon. "

"General, scouts report urgently."

Suddenly, an urgent voice sounded outside the camp.

"Let the scouts come in." Zhang Liao ordered.

Soon, under the leadership of several Zhang Liao's guards, a scout walked in behind the guards.

"What's the situation?" Zhang Liao asked immediately after seeing the dusty scouts. .

"Back to the general, the villain found that there was a water battle between a ship and Sun Quan's navy on the Yangtze River in the Moling section, so I came here to report immediately." The scout quickly said to Zhang Liao.

"So fast?" Hearing the scout's report, Zhang Liao was very surprised.

He just knew that the Youzhou ships had arrived at the Yangtze River, but he didn't expect that the Youzhou ships had now arrived at Moling, Sun Quan's home base.

"What's the specific situation? Tell me quickly." Zhang Liao asked the scout.

"Go back to the general, the villain saw..." Afterwards, the scout recounted what he saw.

"Why is there only one ship? It was also besieged, but luckily it escaped."

Zhang Liao thought about it, and asked the messenger who reported the message earlier, "How long did it take you to come from there?"

"Back to General, it took me more than a day to get here from Jiangkou." The messenger said: "But it took me more than half a day to find out the news. It took a total of more than two days."

"Then how long did it take you to come here?" Zhang Liaochao asked again from Moling.

"Back to the general, the villain came here non-stop, it only took a few hours." The scout said to Zhang Liao.

From Moling to Hefei, there is a distance of more than 200 kilometers. Based on the speed of riding alone at [-] to [-] kilometers per hour, a few hours is really not too much.

"In this case, it seems that the Youzhou ship has arrived at Moling." Zhang Liao was lost in thought.

"Since merchants from Youzhou dare to trouble Sun Quan, I might as well support them."

"Pass me an order to let Zhang Yun and Niu Gai lead an army on the frontier of Chen Bing to put some pressure on Sun Quan."

"At the same time, order the scouts to go to Moling to continue to inquire about the situation of the Youzhou fleet. If there is any news, report it immediately."

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On the Guangling section of the Yangtze River waterway, Sun Quan's navy and the Youzhou fleet were still engaged in "fierce" battles.

Relying on the advantage of the number of ships, Sun Quan's navy continued to force the Youzhou fleet to go down the river, and the Youzhou fleet was not to be outdone, and bombarded the Sun Quan navy's fleet while retreating.

In just over an hour, more than 300 igniting boats were sunk by the artillery of Youzhou gunboats.

"This Mariner Sun Quan is afraid that he has a bag in his head, and he is still chasing after him."

Seeing the sinking of the igniting boats one after another, the people on the Youzhou fleet were very relaxed.

Rather than saying that this is a battle, it is better to say that this is just a unilateral massacre by the Youzhou fleet.

Neither side has lost any manpower yet.

Sun Quan's sailors will retreat to the rear ship after lighting the fire boat.

The Youzhou fleet was not attacked at all.

"Brother, look downstream, there seems to be something wrong?"

Someone discovered what was going on downstream.

Upon hearing this, Lin Yongsheng took a telescope and looked downstream.

It's okay if you don't look at it, but once you look at him, his face changes immediately.

A few kilometers downstream, several iron chains were cut across the Yangtze River. In addition to more than a dozen ships, there were also iron piles inserted into the bottom of the river to support these iron chains. This could ensure that The chain will not sink into the water.

"No wonder, no wonder."

Seeing the situation downstream, Lin Yongsheng finally understood and understood why Sun Quan's navy had suffered such a heavy blow and still refused to give up following them.

It turned out that all of this was for such a situation.

"Brother, what should I do?"

"What can we do, let's fight."

Lin Yongsheng thought for a while and said: "While there is still room for movement, all the artillery fires with full force, let's make a way out."

"Brother, I have an idea."

"what idea?"

"We can concentrate our firepower on one side and leave the other side alone. It seems that they chained the ignition boats together, layer by layer, but they couldn't solve another problem, that is, they couldn't gather them together."

"As long as we penetrate a few ships on one level, the other ships on this level will be useless."

"Okay, this is a good idea." After hearing this, Lin Yongsheng immediately clapped his hands and applauded.

Sun Quan’s navy seems to have many igniting boats, but there are only one or two igniters coming up, and no one is rowing and rowing. They can only rely on the power of the downstream water to move the boat forward, which makes the speed of the igniting boats very slow. .

What's more important is that these ships are strung together by iron chains. If they are ordinary ships, as long as the iron chains are entangled, several nearby ships can be pulled over and burn the enemy ships.

But the Youzhou ship is different. They have artillery on board, which can directly sink a few ships in the middle or on the side of a series of ships from a long distance, so that the series of fire-igniting ships forms a gap.

The Youzhou fleet can let the ships on both sides pass by, and only need to face the front ship.

With a solution, the Youzhou fleet quickly moved into action. More than a dozen gunboats came to the side of the Yangtze River, and then all the gunboats took turns attacking the boats going down the river. As for the passing ships, the Youzhou fleet didn't care at all.

Seeing this scene, the officers and soldiers of the Sun Quan navy upstream were dumbfounded.

"This..." Navy general Wei Wen felt a little dizzy when he saw this scene.

The fire boat seemed to have no effect on the Youzhou fleet.

"Have they been playing tricks on us all the time?"

Wei Wen couldn't imagine it.

"General, good opportunity." Under such circumstances, one of his generals said to Wei Wen.

"What good opportunity? The fire boats are useless." Wei Wen said.

"Although the fire boat is useless, our warships can go out to surround and besiege them. We have a lot of people on board. As long as we get close to them, we can defeat them." The general Chao Weiwen said.

"Good way." Hearing what his general said, Wei Wen's eyes lit up immediately.

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