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It was just as the ban was sent, burning fireballs were thrown out of the ship and rolled towards the sand wall. The fireballs lit the tinder all over the ground, and the fire suddenly started to burn rapidly, and inside and outside the sand wall suddenly fell into a sea of ​​fire.

Countless Cao soldiers were ignited by fire, and they turned back and ran in horror, howling and rolling on the ground, screaming in full swing.

Yu Jin shouted in a hurry: "Retreat quickly"

Five thousand Cao's soldiers retreated from the fire and retreated to the rear. At this time, a soldier rushed over and raised an arrow and said loudly to Jin: "General Yu, the chief general has an order, and ordered the bow and crossbow army to withdraw immediately."

Yu Jin wanted to step back and continue to shoot the Jiangxia army that was about to disembark with crossbow arrows, but Cao Ren had an order, so he had no choice but to order the entire army to withdraw back to the barracks.

At this time, waves of war drums came from the north, and 20,000 spear infantry lined up from the barracks and laid into a long square formation. Fifty people were in a row, with a huge momentum, and they could not see the tail at a glance, and quickly ran towards the dock.

The sand wall in front of the pier was still burning, but the Jiangxia navy did not disembark. The warship was moored on the river and confronted the 20,000 Cao army spearmen who came from the shore.

Liu Jing stood on the big ship with his hands behind his back, looking at the shore as if he was facing a great enemy. A smile appeared on his face. Since Cao's army was successfully dragged in Fancheng, there was a high possibility of success in Gan Ning.

Cao's army had occupied Fancheng for five days, but he was unable to cross the river to the south because he had no ships. However, Cao Ren was not helpless. He sent people to collect ships around the northern bank of the Han River and its tributaries.

Within five days, the Cao army still collected various civilian ships. Although most of these ships were small fishing boats, not large ferries, they could also rush over 2,000 people at a time, and cross the river in one go, and could ferry tens of thousands of soldiers overnight, barely completing the mission of Cao's army ferrying southward.

However, for the army that formally expeditioned the south, this kind of small boat will generally not be used to cross the river. The small boat crossing the river is very dangerous. First, the carriage is small, especially difficult to carry war horses. But more importantly, retreat will become a big problem. Once the southern expedition is unfavorable, it will be difficult to withdraw to the north shore, and it may even lead to the danger of annihilation of the entire army.

So although Cao Ren collected other small boats, he still did not want to use such small boats to cross the river. He planned to transform these small boats into small-scale warships for crossing the river.

A small-scale Cao army was put into the south bank, harassing the counties and counties of Jingzhou, destroying the spring farming of Jingzhou and capturing small counties, attacking the hearts of Jingzhou people and the morale of the army, making the Jingzhou army extremely tired, laying the foundation for the main Cao army to move south next year.

From this corner, these other small boats are still quite threatening to the south bank of Jingzhou.

At present, the rest of the warships are mainly concentrated in Luwan, which is a natural lake bay, located east of Fancheng, less than ten miles from Fancheng, and can moor thousands of small boats. It was here that Cao's army seized Yu Bishui fishing boats, and there are currently more than a thousand troops stationed here.

Bishui is a tributary of the Han River. The upstream is composed of six or seven small tributaries. Each small tributary is several meters wide. The convergence of tributaries causes the water surface to change rapidly.

As tributaries continued to pour in between the two sides, after passing Hekou Town, the water surface suddenly widened to ten feet, with a depth of several feet, and a large inland boat of two thousand stones could be driven. Luwan was located at the widest part of the water surface, so Cao Ren planned to build a shipyard in Luwan.

To the west of Luwan is a small village, with dozens of families making a living by fishing and boat building. Several small shipbuilding workshops were built. Many small boats were moored on the water close to the village. More than a thousand soldiers were divided into squads, patrolling day and night, guarding the only small boats.

As night fell, several fast ships appeared on the Bishui River under the cover of night. The ship was fast. Gan Ning stood in front of the fast ship, wearing black water, leaning against the back, holding a sharp single halberd in his hand, staring sharply at the front.

Without any obstacle, the boat entered the Luwan entrance, swung the oars and sailed into the Luwan waters, and headed towards the small boat community several miles away.

"Brother, something is wrong. It's quiet. There is no patrol." A subordinate whispered to Gan Ning.

Gan Ning also found that it was abnormal. Since Cao's army used a thousand soldiers to protect these small boats, they have approached the ships, so why didn't Cao's army notice it at all? But at this time Gan Ning didn't care about patrolling everywhere and said without thinking: "Get into the water and gather the boats."

Several men slid into the water, dived in front of the boat, and moved the boats to the shore, so that the boats scattered on the water could gather together as much as possible, so as to facilitate burning and destruction.

At this moment, a stern shout suddenly came from a distance, "Who is the person in the water?"

The patrol on the shore finally found them, and they immediately shouted, "There is an enemy situation."

The bells on the shore were heard, and Cao's army rushed out of the barracks not far away and rushed towards the water bay. On the boat, Gan Ning took a bow and arrow, shooting arrows in a row, and the arrows were shot out without vain. Seven or eight soldiers were shot overturned by him, and the remaining Cao's soldiers shouted and fled in all directions.

Gan Ning saw the enemy group running from a distance, and there were still dozens of steps away from the water bay. He turned around and ordered: "So quickly."

Dozens of subordinates poured cans of tincture oil on the boat into the water, and the tincture oil spread rapidly in the water. At this time, arrows kept shooting from the shore, and arrows roared over their heads, and General Cao Junya led the rest of the people to jump off more than a dozen small boats and rushed towards this side.

Gan Ning turned around and saw that his subordinates had not boarded the boat. He picked up a shield and ordered the two paddlers to "fight up"

The boat met the enemy ship, Gan Ning held a halberd in one hand and a shield in the other. When the two ships collided, Gan Ning jumped onto the enemy ship, and the short halberd pierced out like lightning. A trench leader could not dodge and was pierced by the tip of the halberd, and he screamed and fell into the water.

Gan Ning's short halberds flew, and in a moment, all five or six Cao soldiers on the boat were stabbed to death. At this time, Cao's tooth general was furious and waved his spear and rushed from the side, "The little thief came with his life."

Gan Ning used a shield to hold the spear, and the short halberd slashed horizontally. When there was a loud bang, the enemy general used the spear to set the short halberd open. At this time, the ships collided. Both of them were unstable and fell into the water together, splashing a splash of water.

After a moment, Gan Ning threw the short halberd onto the boat. He jumped out of the water and jumped onto the boat. He held a head in his hand, which was the tooth general Cao Jun just now.

At this time, the subordinates behind shouted: "General, it has been completed, please retreat."

Gan Ning shouted, "retreat"

Seven or eight fast-turned, heading towards Bishui, and sailed dozens of steps. Several soldiers lit rockets and shot towards the dense ships. The bright rockets crossed the night sky and shot several small boats outside.

The tincture oil spilled on the boat was ignited, and the flames soared into the air, and soon ignited the tincture oil floating on the water surface. The fire on the water surface quickly spread around, and soon swallowed up several small boats anchored on the water surface.

More than a dozen Cao's ships preparing to pursue the enemy were also trapped in a sea of ​​fire. The soldiers on the ship were in chaos and dived into the water and fled to the shore.

Ganning's clutch sailed several miles and entered Bishui. He turned around and looked at the water bay. He saw the fire in the water bay soaring into the sky and thick smoke. Ganning snorted disdainfully and gradually disappeared into the night.

Under the moonlight, the remaining warships were quietly moored on the Han River. The confrontation between the Jiangxia army and the Cao army continued. The fire inside and outside the sand wall had already been extinguished and had no effect on the sand wall. However, the Cao army did not dare to approach the sand wall. Instead, they built a long new sand wall with sandbags fifty steps away from the sand wall. Thousands of crossbowmen were hiding behind the new sand wall and waiting for battle.

On the big ship, Liu Jing's eyes looked towards Bishui from time to time. He was waiting for news from Gan Ning. Suddenly, the lookout soldiers on the mast shouted, "Shou, there is a fire in Bishui."

The soldiers looked northeast, and for a moment, everyone saw it. Fires were soaring into the sky about ten miles away, and it was particularly dazzling and shining in the night sky. The soldiers on the ship immediately cheered.

Liu Jing couldn't help laughing, and he immediately ordered, "The fleet continues to move forward and moor to Longzhong Pier."

A rocket shot towards the night sky, the sails spread out, the anchors were pulled up, and the fleet slowly started again, heading towards Longzhong ten miles west.

At the top of Fancheng City, Cao's army also discovered the fire in the direction of Bishui. Someone immediately informed Cao Ren. Soon, Cao Ren ran to the city and held the city wall and stared at the fire in the distance. He knew that something must have happened to Bishui's ship. Cao Ren's face turned pale and he punched the city wall.

At this time, Jia Xu slowly walked forward and said, "General, don't be angry, this is actually a good thing."

"Good thing"

Cao Ren looked back at Jia Xu in confusion, "How to say this?"

Jia Xu smiled slightly and said, "In fact, this fire exposed two things. One is that the Jiangxia navy's absolute advantage on the water surface is that we cannot match.

Secondly, it also exposed that Liu Jing would never allow us to have a warship, so the fire was burned very timely and sounded the alarm for us. If we build a warship in the future and burn it by him, wouldn’t it be even more heavy to lose it?”

Cao Ren nodded slowly. He understood what Jia Xu meant. If they built the warship, Liu Jing would definitely set fire again. This fire reminded them of the importance of strengthening the protection of warships.

"I understand, this fire did burn very quickly and I was awake."

At this time, a soldier rushed to report: "Report to the General, the Jiangxia army warship has started and is heading west."

Cao Ren frowned, where is Jiang Xiajun going?

Jia Xu smiled and said, "The Jiangxia army should have been stationed in Longzhong. This way, it can be seen that there is no unity within Jingzhou, and they will still be in their own formations. Liu Biao will definitely appoint Cai Mao as the main general. Liu Jing will not obey Cai Mao's command, and Liu Bei will not, so Jingzhou has actually split."

"In this way, we have a chance"

Jia Xu pondered for a moment and said slowly: "General, let's wait and see if it is necessary. We can give up Fancheng and retreat north to Hekou Town."
Chapter completed!