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There was a loud drum sound on the river surface, and two armies fought one place on the river surface. This was the first time that the Jiangdong Navy made its debut. The soldiers fought fiercely, and sometimes they annihilated enemy ships on the river surface, and sometimes they fought separately. They were flexible and orderly, showing strong confidence and superb combat level.

Looking at the Cao army's warships, although they are not bad, they can also arrange their formations, and they are far inferior to the Jiangdong Navy in flexibility and coordinated operations.

In less than half an hour, the Cao army's warship gradually fell into a disadvantage. It had only the power to resist but no strength to fight back. One ship after another was sunk, only more than ten warships were left, while the Jiangdong Navy had only one warship was sunk, and the strength of the two armies was far different.

At this time, Zhang Yun saw that the situation was not good, and if the entire army was wiped out, it would affect the morale of the army. He immediately ran to Cao Cao and said anxiously: "Prime Minister, I suggest to call the gold to withdraw the troops."

"Nonsense" Cao Cao glared at him fiercely, "Who dares to call the gold and withdraw the troops?"

Zhang Yun was so scared that he dared not say anything again, Cao Cao shouted: "Play the drum to cheer me on."

The sound of drums in the water camp inspired the warships to continue fighting. At this time, the west gate of the Cao army's water camp quietly opened. More than 20 thousand-stone ships, led by the navy's deputy general Cai He, came out of the camp one after another, bypassed the battlefield, and rushed towards Zhou Yu's warship watching the battle in the distance.

Although Zhang Nan and Jiao Chu led Yuan Shao's army ships on the Yellow River, they had no experience in fighting with the Jiangdong Navy or the Jiangxia Navy. They were obviously not strong enough and were killed by the Jiangdong Army and retreated step by step.

However, the two strictly implemented Cao Cao's orders. Although they retreated, they did not lose to the camp, but retreated eastward. The Jiangdong army pursued them relentlessly. Huang Gai had discovered that the Cao army had deployed heavy crossbows and stone cannons on the water camp, and it was impossible for him to attack the water camp.

Then as long as the Cao army fleet was able to completely annihilate the power of the Jiangdong army, Huang Gai ordered the ships to pursue them, and the Cao army warships must be wiped out.

This is what Zhang Ji mentioned about the weakness of the Jiangdong Navy. They came to challenge for honor and compete for merit. In this case, the Jiangdong Army often loses its rational judgment, is eager to win, and refuses to retreat easily.

Zhang Nan and Jiao Chu's continuous retreat was certainly because they lost to the Jiangdong Army, but on the other hand, it was also a trick to lure troops.

At this time, Cao's warships felt more and more difficult. The strength of the two sides was very different. They could hardly support them, but they dared not retreat without authorization.

In the critical moment, Jiao Chu suddenly heard the dense drum sound from the village. He looked back and saw dozens of warships circling south. He immediately breathed a sigh of relief and waved his hand desperately and shouted loudly: "Stop the enemy's hand."

At this moment, a warship appeared on his side. Huang Gai held a bow and arrow on the bow and stared at Jiao Chu coldly. He had already stared at the enemy's chief general. At this time, he saw the enemy general wave desperately and shouted, forgetting his defense.

Huang Gai immediately seized this opportunity, blew the bow and shot an arrow at the enemy general. Jiao Chu was caught off guard and was shot through the neck by an arrow. He screamed and fell into the Yangtze River.

Two Jiangdong Army ghosts had already jumped into the river, cut off the Jiao Tun's head, and threw it onto the boat. Huang Gai grabbed his hair and looked at the face. He couldn't help laughing loudly.

But at this moment, the soldiers behind him shouted: "General Huang, the general is in danger of the warship."

When Huang Gai turned around, he saw more than twenty large warships of Cao Cao chasing the governor on the boat. He looked around and was shocked. He broke out from Cao's water camp, surrounding them from the north, entangled by more than a dozen defeated ships in the east, and to the west was Cao's water camp, tens of thousands of crossbowmen waiting in full force, and to the south were more than twenty large ships of Cao's army.

Huang Gai suddenly realized that he had gone deep into the army alone and had committed a military taboo. At this time, he no longer cared about defeating the enemy and making contributions, and shouted: "Retreat immediately."

But it was too late. Cai He led more than 20 warships that could not catch up with Zhou Yu on the boat, so he turned around and surrounded Huang Gai's warship.

This is the wolf pack tactic, which uses absolute numerical advantages to compete for the surface advantages of the Jiangdong Army. This is also a weakness of the Jiangdong Army. It likes to show off personal heroes and is easy to do things that can be fought less and more.

Of course, as an official and a famous doctor, Zhang Ji did not understand these, but as the head coach and his experience in fighting the Jiangdong Army, Liu Jing knew the weaknesses of the Jiangdong Army better than anyone else. He used Cao Cao to teach the Jiangdong Army a lesson and thus gain the dominance of the coalition forces. Why not do it?

Huang Gai's fleet was surrounded by Cao's warships from all directions. Cao's large ships were descending from high above, and arrows were like rain. The soldiers in Jiangdong were shot into the river one after another, and the rest of the soldiers were crushed into the cabin.

At this time, large urns filled with tincture oil were thrown from the ship and smashed onto the Jiangdong warship. The pottery pieces were shattered, and the tincture oil flowed into the ship. A rocket shot onto the Jiangdong warship. Suddenly, the red flames soared into the air and the fire burned.

Huang Gai's eyes were red in anger. His warship had already broken through to the edge, but none of the five warships following behind him came out. Huang Gai was so anxious that he shouted: "Get back for me."

His personal soldiers hugged him and started crying, "General, you can't go back again, you will definitely die when you go back."

Huang Gai saw the surrounded warships one by one burning from a distance. Jiangdong soldiers were covered in fire, screaming and falling into the water, or being shot to death by arrows at the bow. He closed his eyes in pain and punched the deck hard.

At this moment, a large ship rushed from the thorn and hit Huang Gai's warship hard. Only the sound of the hull rupture was heard. More than a dozen soldiers fell into the water, and Huang Gai was thrown into the river.

A classic wolf pack tactic, together with Huang Gai's ships, all ten Jiangdong warships were wiped out, and Cao's army immediately cheered, and the cheers resounded through the clouds. This was their first victory that they had not lost for a long time.

But Cao Cao couldn't laugh at all. He simply defeated the Jiangdong Army and broke the fear that the northern army would not defeat the Jiangdong Navy.

But just such a simple strategy was Jiang Xiajun who told him that Cao Cao felt like he was a kite, which was very bad.

At this time, dozens of Cao soldiers pushed Huang Gai up, who was caught, and Huang Gai was tied up with ropes.

"Kneel down" Several soldiers forced him to kneel down, but Huang Gai broke free from the soldiers' push, stood up straight and looked up at the sky, not looking at Cao Cao at all.

If it were in the past, Cao Cao would definitely order to untie the rope and go up and put on his clothes himself, but there must be a prerequisite, that is, the opponent's power is over and the captured generals are no longer left. Cao Cao condescendingly put on his clothes is to give him a step, and the opponent will definitely surrender along the steps, such as Yuan Shao or Lu Bu.

But everyone can't do this. If you can't get spitted or punched or kicked by the other party, you will lose face. Cao Cao knew very well.

He knew that Huang Gai would never surrender, so he would not condescend to persuade him to surrender. He just glanced at Huang Gai coldly and ordered his left and right, "Detain him and then deal with it."

Although Cao Cao did not want to persuade Huang Gai to surrender, he did not want to kill him. He had already thought of a wonderful strategy to defeat the enemy, and Huang Gai was the guide to this wonderful strategy.

Back at the big tent, Cao Cao sat alone in the tent and pondered for a long time. Since Liu Jing used himself to attack the Jiangdong army, it means that Jiangdong and Jiangxia did not have the tacit cooperation as imagined. On the contrary, there was an indescribable contradiction between them. In fact, Cao Cao also knew what this contradiction was. To be clear, it was interests.

If he could make full use of this contradiction and trigger internal conflicts or disagreements between the Jiangdong Army and the Jiangxia Army, perhaps this was the key to his final victory.

He needed to send someone to the other side to implement his counter-espionage plan. Thinking of this, Cao Cao immediately ordered: "Let Jiang Gan come to see me."

Not long after, Jiang Gan was taken into the tent, and he was shocked. Zhang Ji left him a note, which meant that Zhang Ji had already known in advance that the Prime Minister was going to summon him. The question is, how could Zhang Ji know

He did not dare to look at Cao Cao's eyes and bowed: "See the Prime Minister."

Cao Cao smiled and said, "I remember Yi said that you and Zhou Yu were classmates back then, and they had a good personal relationship, that's right."

"Report to the Prime Minister, this is indeed the case."

"That's good. I want you to go to the other side of the shore and meet Zhou Yu again. What's the point of Yi's intention?"

Jiang Gan looked embarrassed and couldn't speak for a while. Cao Cao was a little unhappy, but he smiled and said, "What, don't you want to go?"

"It's not that I don't want to go, but I failed to go on a mission last time. I still feel guilty. I have limited abilities and am afraid that I will let down the Prime Minister's trust again."

Cao Cao laughed, "I am very pleased that Yi can think like this, but this kind of thing is to plan for others and to succeed in heaven. As long as you do as I say, even if you can't do it, it has nothing to do with you."

Jiang Gan was overjoyed and bowed and said, "I wish to share the worries of the Prime Minister."
Chapter completed!