Chapter 686 Water Battle
Chen Chu thought, "Let this go in advance! The problem now is how to deal with the issue of Jingzhou."
Xu Shu thought, "According to Yang Tong's letter, it is difficult for Jingzhou to survive today! But now we are beyond our reach!"
Chen Chu nodded and rubbed his temples.
At this moment, the noise came into the tent. Chen Chu frowned and asked unhappily: "What's going on?" As soon as he finished speaking, a scout rushed in. "Report to the lord, Sun Jian's general Zhou Tai is calling out outside the water camp!"
Chen Chu, who was irritated, stood up suddenly and said angrily: "What a Zhou Tai! I really think I can't bully you! All the generals will go out and see!" "Yes!" All the generals agreed in unison.
Chen Chu stepped out of the tent with his sword, stepped onto the war horse and galloped to the camp by the river. Xu Shu and a group of generals followed Chen Chu.
Chen Chu immediately looked into the river above the village, and saw hundreds of warships lined up outside the water village, just outside the range of the archers in the water village. Zhou Tai's screams were clearly transmitted to Chen Chu's ears by Jiang Feng.
Chen Chu shook the whip and sneered: "Zhou Tai is really confident this time!"
"If I were on the shore, I could break his neck with one hand!" Lu Bu said gritting his teeth, and at the same time he made a twisting move with his right hand. Dian Wei, who was beside him, made a haha, as if he was disdainful of Lu Bu's words.
"Lord, please allow the last general to lead the army to fight!" Gan Ning knelt in front of Chen Chu, his eyes burning with a sharp fighting spirit. As the commander of the navy, Gan Ning was repeatedly defeated in the confrontation with Sun Jian's navy. In the past few days, he has heard many dissatisfaction discussions from his colleagues, and Gan Ning had already felt a sense of anger.
Chen Chuqi did not nod immediately, turned his head to look at Xu Shu. Xu Shu said: "Sun Jian and his generals and counselors are not arrogant and ignorant, but at this moment they only challenged them with hundreds of warships, which obviously set a trap!"
Chen Chu nodded, frowned, and asked in a hurry: "Can you just hide in the water camp and let the other party yell and scold him?"
"Lord, no matter whether the other party sets a trap or not, I, Gan Ning, will definitely defeat him!" Gan Ning glared at Xu Shu fiercely and continued to ask for his order.
Chen Chu ignored Gan Ning and looked at Xu Shu with inquisitive expression.
Xu Shu thought, "If I expected it was not bad, Sun Jian's naval brigade would be hidden in the surrounding harbor. As long as our army goes to fight, they will immediately siege from all sides!"
Chen Chu frowned. At this time, Gan Ning stopped talking. He was well versed in the way of water war and understood that what Xu Shu said was very likely.
Xu Shu suddenly smiled, clasped his fists at Chen Chu and said, "Your Majesty, we can use the trick!"
Chen Chu's eyes lit up and he looked at Xu Shu with anticipation.
"Your Majesty, we can..." Xu Shu explained the plan in detail. Chen Chu immediately burst into laughter, and the generals looked at Xu Shu with admiration.
Afterwards, Zhou Tai was still yelling outside the water village, but Chen Chu did not react at all.
Zhou Tai shouted and cursed for a while, feeling dry mouth, so he stopped and ordered a general beside him to continue yelling and cursing. He went back to the cabin to rest and poured water into a big mouthful of water.
The screams continued, and Zhou Tai paced back and forth with an irritable look on his face. A replaced general entered the cabin and said to Zhou Tai: "General, the other party ignores us at all!"
Zhou Tai frowned and ordered: "Send the order and go fifty steps towards Chen Jun Water Village!" "Yes!" The general responded and quickly stepped out of the cabin.
Nearly five hundred warships lined up in fish scale formations and slowly approached the water camp. When they advanced to nearly 150 steps away from the water camp, they stopped. Sun Jianjun started to scold again. However, Chen Chu still had no reaction. Seeing that there was no effect, Zhou Tai ordered the fleet to move forward fifty steps. Five hundred warships once again approached the water camp.
When Zhou Tai's warship was only one hundred steps away from the water village, the water village finally reacted. More than a dozen water village gates rose up quickly, and thousands of warships of all sizes flocked out, almost at full speed. The fast ships like shuttles were like sharp arrows flying on the water. Zhou Tai was shocked when he saw this scene, and the Qin army's reaction was beyond his expectations.
"General, retreat immediately as planned!" The general said anxiously. Zhou Tai frowned and cursed: "Retreat! Send the order, and all ships are ready to fight!" The general was stunned. Zhou Tai glared and shouted: "Why are you doing while standing there?" The general reacted and hurried down to pass the order.
Thousands of Qin army warships were divided into three parts and crossed the warships directly towards Zhou Tai. The fastest speeding ships rushed in front, followed by larger warships, mixed with hundreds of fire ships loaded with sulfur gunpowder. More than a thousand warships advanced rapidly on the river surface, and the scene was really spectacular.
Zhou Tai's warship was slowly advancing forward, both slowly. The navy soldiers on the ship were fighting spirit and their morale was very high.
When the two sides were thirty or forty steps apart, the crossbowmen on the ships of both sides began to shoot at each other. The arrows on both sides flew intertwined on the river like locusts, and soldiers from both sides were constantly being shot into the river. At this moment, the Qin army's fast ships were getting faster and faster, and the soldiers' shouts were getting louder and louder. At the same time, the soldiers under Zhou Tai held weapons such as hook and sickle spear and rushed to the side of the ship. This hook and sickle spear was a little different from the hook and sickle spear used by the army. It was longer, more than three meters, and the hook on the blade was longer and sharper. This hook and sickle spear was generally used by the navy during the battle between the boarding.
More than 200 Qin army's fast ships drilled into Zhou Tai's formation like a group of swordfish. The soldiers on the clutch shot at Sun Jian's army with light short crossbows, and dense rain of arrows poured out on Sun Jian's warships. Sun Jian's soldiers fell into the river like raindrops. Sun Jian's army did not sit and wait for death. They attacked the farther Qin army's fast ships with a special bid, and attacked the closer Qin army's fast ships with a hook and sickle gun. Qin soldiers continued to either win the bid and fell into the water or had their heads broken by the hook and sickle gun hook. The river surface on this side soon turned mottled red.
Just as the Clippers were fighting with Zhou Tai's warships, the Qin army's warships were surrounding Zhou Tai's fleet, and dozens of fire ships rushed straight towards Zhou Tai's fleet.
When Zhou Tai saw the Qin army's fire ships coming, he immediately understood the Qin army's intentions and immediately ordered the one hundred warships that were ahead to leave the fleet to block the Qin army's fire ships.
One hundred warships were staggered and lined up in two rows to meet the Qin army's fire ships. At this moment, the Qin army's fire ships were full of sails, and the speed was one minute faster than the fastest ship.
In a blink of an eye, the two men met on the river. Zhou Tai's warship turned violently, and they tried to use this method to block the impact of the fire ship. At the same time, the crossbowmen on the warship launched rockets at the fire ships that were close to each other. The fire ships tried their best to avoid the obstacles of these warships. However, several unlucky fire ships were overturned by the surges caused by the warships, and more than a dozen fire ships had already ignited fire heads and were spreading rapidly.
The ignited fire ship simply crashed towards the other side's warship. As more than a dozen fireballs rose, more than a dozen Sun Jian's warships were immediately wrapped in flames. The soldiers on both sides, wrapped in flames, screamed and jumped into the river.
At the same time, other fire ships tried to take the opportunity to break through the opponent's warship, but most of them failed. They were either overturned by the surges caused by the opponent's warship, or had to hit the opponent's warship nearby, and fireballs continued to rise on the river. However, a few of them still broke through and blocked their entry into Zhou Tai's original formation.
Seeing this, Zhou Tai had to order the ships to disperse.
The fire ships rushing into Zhou Tai's formation began to attack nearby, and balls of flames rose in Zhou Tai's formation. After a while, hundreds of warships in Zhou Tai's formation were no longer in formation, and dozens of warships were moaning in the flames.
At this moment, the Qin army warships that were originally watching the battle around started to fight and rushed towards Zhou Tai's main formation from three directions. However, at this moment, the main force of the Jiangdong Navy, who were ambushing in various ports, had already appeared on the river surface. There was not much time left for the Qin army.
Chapter completed!