Chapter 324 Destroy the Soochow Navy
The Ganning-Ninghan Navy, thousands of warships of all sizes, were killed along the river to Huangshi.
"Marty, there are iron chains connecting warships in front of you to block the river!" When he arrived at the narrow side of the river, a general reported to Gan Ning urgently.
Gan Ning smiled and said, "Lu Xun no longer has the strength to fight head-on. He only relied on such tricks to stop me from advancing!"
Although this kind of iron cable connects warships to block the river, it is a bit troublesome, but it is not difficult to break through. Gan Ning did not panic at all and ordered the warships to continue sailing forward, preparing to destroy the iron cables and warships on the river.
On a high above the right bank of the river, Lu Xun saw that Ganning and other Han naval warships had arrived, and ordered the deployment of catapults, crossbows, etc. to be launched together.
Boom! Boom!
Stones, burning fireballs, crossbows, etc. attacked the Han naval warships on the river.
Most of the stones fell into the river, making waves, and some hit the warships. Suddenly, wood chips flew everywhere, and some were unlucky Han naval soldiers who were hit and fell into the river screamed and fell into the river.
Most of the burning fireballs were firewood, cloth, and a piece of stone was poured on tinder oil, and they hit the river surface. The flames were swallowed by the river water, without any effect. However, there were always those who hit the Han naval warships. Some unlucky Han naval soldiers were hit and fell into the river screaming. At the same time, the fireballs were smashed, but the flames were not extinguished, but instead splashed over the large deck. On the warships, the Han naval soldiers hurriedly put out the fire everywhere.
The crossbow arrows shot also killed many Han naval soldiers.
However, although the attacks from the Eastern Wu side on both sides seem fierce, in fact, 80% of the attacks fell directly into the river. The attacks on the Han naval warships were limited, and the number of Han naval warships that were destroyed and the number of Han naval soldiers killed and injured was also extremely limited.
Bang!
In a risk of attack, the Han naval warships in the front met with the Eastern Wu naval warships that were connecting the iron chains to block the river.
"Kill!" A large number of Eastern Wu naval soldiers emerged from the cabin and fought with the Han naval soldiers.
On the other hand, Gan Ning did not let go of the Eastern Wu army on both sides of the Taiwan Strait, and he ordered the Tengjia Navy to land.
After the warship carrying the vine armored naval army braved its attack and forced its way to the nearshore, the vine armored naval soldiers on the ship jumped into the river and relied on the buoyancy of the vine armor to swim on the shore.
When the Eastern Wu soldiers on both sides of the Taiwan Strait were shocked when they saw this scene.
The warships in this place could not have been docked, but they never expected that the Han navy would have this move, and individual soldiers could land forcibly!
After landing in the Han army's vine armored naval soldiers, they gathered in one place and attacked the deployment of the Eastern Wu catapults and crossbows.
Before the war, Lu Xun did not expect that the Han navy could land in this way. There were only more than 2,000 Eastern Wu soldiers deployed on both sides of the Taiwan Strait to control catapults and crossbows, while the Han army's vine armored naval army had more than 5,000.
Of course, the number of Han army's vine armor naval troops that landed at the beginning was limited, but the Han army's vine armor naval troops had extremely strong combat effectiveness.
"Shoot the arrow!"
After the Eastern Wu crossbowmen landed, they gathered together to attack the hundreds of Han army vine armored soldiers who shot arrows.
Arrows shot on the vine armor, but they were shot on the ground one after another. The cost of vine armor is more expensive than iron armor, and its anti-slashing ability is no less than iron armor, and its anti-arrow puncture ability is even above iron armor.
The Eastern Wu soldiers had never seen such a scene, and were all scared.
Frightened, he did not continue shooting arrows, and watched the Han army's vine armored soldiers coming to them.
The two armies faced each other in close combat, and the morale of the Eastern Wu soldiers was unstable and they were killed by the Han army's vine armored soldiers and retreated step by step.
As the number of landed Han army's vine armored soldiers increased, the Eastern Wu on the shore began to flee, and the catapults and crossbows abandoned by the Eastern Wu soldiers were all destroyed by the Han army's vine armored soldiers.
At the same time, on the river.
The number of Eastern Wu naval soldiers on the iron chain connecting the river-blocked warship was not large, and they were all killed by the Han naval soldiers. The Han naval soldiers cut off the iron chain and cleared the waterway.
Just as Ganning and other Han naval warships sailed to the second iron chain connecting warships arranged by Lu Xun to block the river, Lu Xun ordered a team of Eastern Wu naval soldiers to drive hundreds of small boats loaded with firewood to rush out. The boat was not blocked by the iron chains on the river, and rushed towards the dense Han naval warships without any obstacles.
When it was only a few dozen meters away from the Han naval warship, the Eastern Wu naval soldiers on the boat lit the firewood on the boat, and then jumped into Jiangzhou by themselves. The burning boat continued to rush into the Han naval warship group by wind and waves.
Some Han naval warships were burned, and some of these fired warships could be extinguished, while others could not be extinguished. The Han naval soldiers on the ship had to abandon the ship and jump into the river.
This wave of attack caused 17 warships to the Han navy, 6 warships were burned, and more than 200 soldiers to suffer casualties!
Although this loss was not big for the Han navy, which had a number of up to 50,000, it made Gan Ning look quite unfair.
Gan Ning stood at the bow of the boat, bent his bow and arrow, and shot and killed the soldiers and generals of the Eastern Wu navy in front.
Five arrows were fired in a row, and the arrows hit the arrows. A general of the Eastern Wu navy and four Eastern Wu navy soldiers fell into the river.
With such a mighty power, all the soldiers and generals of the Eastern Wu navy ahead were frightened!
"Kill!" Gan Ning put down his bow and arrow and pointed the knife in front of him. The Han navy soldiers immediately rowed their oars and the warship rushed forward like a sharp sword.
The second iron cable connected the warships to block the river defense line, and was soon broken through by the Han navy.
When they arrived at the third defense line between the river, Lu Xun cooperated with the fire ships to fight against the Han navy including Ganning and other Han army with the remaining more than 10,000 Dongwu naval forces.
After three hours of war between the two sides, the Eastern Wu naval army was defeated, and all three defense lines between the river were broken. Lu Xun led the last few thousand Eastern Wu naval army back to Huangshi Water Village.
At this point, the 100,000 naval troops in the Eastern Wu were almost wiped out, and there was no more force on the river to resist the Han navy.
"The navy army is about to perish, and the water camp cannot be defended again!"
The Huangshi Water Village was originally built on the navy, but now the navy is almost wiped out. The water village is not defensive here. Lu Xun quickly gave up the Huangshi Water Village and retreated to Jiujiang County City.
Gan Ning also took advantage of the situation to lead the Han navy along the river to Jiujiang County. Thousands of warships large and small were cruising on the river surface outside Jiujiang County. Their reputation made the generals of the Eastern Wu soldiers and generals in Jiujiang City turmoil and the soldiers were not in a fight.
In this case, once Guan Yu and other 200,000 Han troops arrived on land, it would be difficult for Jiujiang County to defend.
Standing on the city tower, Lu Xun sighed, and said to the deputy general beside him: "The king has entrusted an important task, but I have ordered the 100,000 naval troops to die, and it is difficult to stop the Qin army's offensive. I really have no face to see the king again."
Although Liu Yu replaced Liu Xie as emperor, became the emperor of the Han Dynasty, and officially reshaped the Han court, the original Qin soldiers should also be changed to Han soldiers. Lu Xun also called the "Qin soldiers", which was just a deception, showing the legitimacy of the resistance of the Eastern Wu.
In fact, at this point, Lu Xun knew that the situation was hopeless, and it was meaningless to admit Liu Yu's orthodox Han court, because the Eastern Wu no longer had the power to continue to resist, and there was only one way to surrender.
While Lu Xun went to Jianye and apologized to Sun Quan, he also discussed the surrender of the whole country.
Chapter completed!