Chapter 474: The Battle of Chibi (1)
The Alliance of Princes is training troops, and Lu Bu in Jiangdong is also training the navy.
However, there is a powerful general Gan Ning in Lubu, Jiangdong.
The training of the Jiangdong Navy was carried out in a vivid and colorful manner.
I believe that in less than two months, the new Jiangdong Navy Army will have excellent combat effectiveness.
Because the navy recruited by the Jiangdong Navy was originally a child of Jiangdong, and grew up by the river and had a very good water quality.
The new army of the alliance of princes is incomparable to the Jiangdong Navy.
Now the new naval army of the Alliance of the Princes has not even overcome the seasickness problem, let alone combat effectiveness.
So far, only 30,000 naval troops in Jingzhou are worth it. The combat effectiveness of the 120,000 troops drawn from the alliance of princes is worrying.
Under such circumstances, the longer the time is, the more unfavorable it will be for the alliance of princes.
Because the new naval army in Lu Bu in Jiangdong will become stronger and stronger with training.
In the alliance of princes, the strength progressed very slowly because there were no qualified generals to train.
In the end, after discussion, several princes decided not to delay and start a decisive battle of the navy as soon as possible!
In the Jiangdong Lu Bu, a large number of scouts would be sent to patrol the river every day, and he did not dare to be negligent in the slightest.
Soon, they discovered that the coalition forces of the princes opposite the river were gathering warships recently, as if they were preparing to start war.
In the Jiangdong Lu Bu, Lu Bu appointed Zhou Yu as the governor of the navy and was fully responsible for all matters in the water war.
Gan Ning was the commander of the navy, commanding 50,000 navy troops, and was dispatched by Zhou Yu.
Currently, the number of naval troops in Jiangdong is about 150,000.
However, there are nearly 100,000 new troops who have just received training and it is difficult to form combat effectiveness.
Therefore, Lu Bu decided that only 50,000 naval troops would participate in the war at present.
The military advisors under Lu Bu's tent have many doubts about Lu Bu's appointment.
They thought Lu Bu's appointment was too ridiculous.
After all, Zhou Yu is still a teenager and is not even an adult.
Is it appropriate to suppress all the navy, and even the future of Jiangdong, on a young man?
These military advisors don’t have much contact with Zhou Yu.
Although I know that Zhou Yu is extremely smart, I don’t know how capable Zhou Yu is.
Therefore, the doubts of several military advisors are actually very normal.
Faced with this question, Lu Bu only asked back: "So who of you has the ability to fight water? Who can command this fight?"
Everyone shut up when facing Lu Bu’s question!
There is no way, although there are many talents during the Three Kingdoms period, many heroes emerge!
But there are actually very few people who can dominate the water, and there are only a few people in Jiangdong.
After all, the wars during the Three Kingdoms period were mainly inland wars, and there were very limited places where the navy could come in handy.
Since they don’t understand water war and cannot command water war, the command of water war can only be handed over to Zhou Yu, a young boy.
I hope Zhou Yu, a young boy, won’t let them down!
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On the second day, countless ships gathered between the two sides and fought fiercely on the river.
The place where the battle is called Red Cliff!
In terms of the alliance of princes, the 30,000 naval troops from Jingzhou were sent.
At present, only these 30,000 navy troops can be produced.
They hoped to use these 30,000 naval troops to deal with the Lu Bu navigator.
After all, Jingzhou has been developing for many years, while Jiangdong has just risen in the past two years.
It is even said that the rise of the four counties in Jiangdong only lasted for more than a year.
They don’t believe that the old naval army in Jingzhou would not be able to defeat the Jiangdong naval army that they had just established for a year.
Soon, both sides arranged troops on the river surface and carried out a tentative attack.
Jiangbei, Cao Cao, Yuan Shao, Liu Biao, and Yuan Shu all climbed up to look at the battles on the river. They were very nervous and dared not blink.
In Jiangnan, Lu Bu led Xun Yu, Jia Xu, Guo Jia, Pang Tong and others to climb high and look.
Compared with the nervous moods of Cao Cao, Yuan Shao and others in Jiangbei, the moods of Xun Yu, Jia Xu, Guo Jia and others can be described as the word "nervous".
There is no way, I can't be nervous, they really have no idea about Zhou Yu.
Who knows if this young boy will cheat their navy?
Among everyone, only Lu Bu looked nervous, looked calm and confident.
In fact, how could Lu Bu calm down in his heart?
Although Zhou Yu's water battle ability was extremely amazing in the original historical trajectory and was once the commander-in-chief of the Eastern Wu naval army, who knows how good he is now?
After all, he is still very young and has insufficient experience and is far from growing up.
But now there is no way, he has no one to use it, so he can only choose to believe Zhou Yu.
I hope Zhou Yu can stand up!
Soon, both sides gradually launched real fire from tentative attacks, and both sides continued to send fleets to join the battle.
The water surface was two or three miles wide and was soon filled with ships from both sides, stretching for ten miles, all of which were ships fighting against each other.
As the two sides collided, soldiers were constantly shot into the Luo River, ships were constantly destroyed, or they were broken into pieces, and the wreckage flowed down the water.
However, as the war unfolded, the Jingzhou navy gradually gained a little bit of advantage.
The leader of the Jingzhou naval army was Huang Zu, who had certain abilities and standards in water battles.
Seeing that the situation was in favor of his own, Cao Cao couldn't help but say: "General Huang Zu is worthy of being a veteran. He should be stronger. Judging from the current situation, this battle can be won!"
Yuan Shao nodded and said, "Yes, seeing that the Jiangdong Navy is retreating step by step, it is now in crisis. I believe that it will be completely defeated in a short time!"
Liu Biao smiled and said, "Huang Zu is the veteran I admire the most. It is natural that you can win this battle! As long as we can win this battle today, we can drive our troops straight into the four counties of Jiangdong in Lu Bu!"
If the Jiangdong navy can be eliminated today, they can use ships to carry the army directly to Huanglong and the four counties of Jiangdong, which are within their reach.
However, I am afraid that there will be a lot of disputes and even a war to meet each other!
But now I can’t control so much, it depends on when Huang Zu will defeat the Jiangdong Navy!
Compared with the joy of Cao Cao, Yuan Shao and others in Jiangbei, Jiangnan is lifeless.
Everyone saw that the situation was not good, Zhou Yu is still too young this time and is indeed no match for the veteran.
Xun Yu couldn't help but sigh and said, "Our navy army is afraid it can't stand it anymore! Now we must strengthen the defense of the four counties in Jiangdong!"
In fact, even if the navy of Lu Bu was defeated, the only places they could attack were Danyang County and Yuzhang County.
But even in these two counties, the defense line is too long.
Lu Bu has about 100,000 troops, and it is impossible to defend such a long line of defense.
Once the vassals are torn through by the coalition of princes, the two sides will inevitably fall into a long tug-of-war.
In this case, it will be a huge obstacle to the development of Jiangdong.
Chapter completed!