Zhou Yu led Jiang Qin towards the direction of the Kushan Navy command ship, trying to attack the opponent's vital points while the opponent's main force was contained. Of course, the possibility of achieving this was extremely small, while the other side was silently thinking about the current situation.
Although Zhou Yu still doesn't understand why such a large-scale naval battle took place in such a place, nor how Liu Xuande got so many pirates, Zhou Yu's vision as an excellent commander has not been lost because of this.
To put it simply, from deciding to take action to marching to the current position, although Zhou Yu did not understand the cause of the war, he still analyzed a lot of things based on what he saw with his eyes.
[Although the pirates on Gan Xingba's side are quite large in number and have considerable advantages in tactical skills, when it comes to actual fighting, except for the quality and cooperation of the first wave of pirates, which can be considered as high as the regular soldiers of the Han army. , other pirates are essentially just ordinary thieves. 】Zhou Yu looked at the fighting navy and analyzed it with a solemn expression.
[Gan Ning likes to take risks, but he is not lacking in brains. In other words, there is no chance of winning in this water battle. Either he has a back-up plan, or he is not prepared to win from the beginning. 】Zhou Yu silently speculated on Gan Ning's purpose.
[If nothing else, Gan Ning is not prepared to win, which means that the opponent's purpose is to reduce the number of soldiers under his command. 】Zhou Yu has roughly guessed part of Gan Ning's purpose.
"It seems that Gan Xingba is planning to train his troops this time. In that case, I will let him practice his troops well." Zhou Yu suddenly laughed, took out his green Qiqin from the cabin, and sat on the boat. He fiddled with his head slowly.
It’s not a joke to say that Zhou Yu’s piano skills are extremely skilled. The faint sound of the piano slipped out from the Green Qi Qin. The sound of the killing of the iron horse and the Jinge was not covered up by the shouts of killing on the battlefield. It was still transmitted to the audience like the sound of heaven. In the ears of the pirates led by Gan Ning.
Although these Kushan barbarians could not understand the music of the Han piano, as soon as the music came to their ears, a ferocious will to fight and fight endlessly emerged in their chests.
At the same time, the legion talent created by Zhou Yu was also spread along with the sound of the piano, which aroused the desire of fighting among Gan Ning's pirates. A layer of water-colored legion talent slowly covered all the pirates under Gan Ning's command.
"Is this?" When Gan Ning heard the sound of the piano, he couldn't suppress the murderous spirit in his heart. He immediately turned his head to observe the soldiers behind him. Only then did he realize that the soldiers around him had wild eyes and high morale. The Kushan navy was launching a counterattack.
"Zhou Gongjin?" Gan Ning frowned repeatedly. He never thought that that fleet was actually Jiangdong's warship. In Gan Ning's heart, it was quite magical that Jiangdong could come here.
But after all, he had fought against Zhou Yu, and the faint sound of the piano itself was a symbol of Zhou Yu. Although he didn't understand why the other party didn't attack him with Guishang, if he was willing to help, Gan Ning wouldn't show it even if he was unhappy.
Gan Ning, who has stayed in Kushan for more than a year, has already clearly felt the power of Kushan. If this empire did not have the huge cultural conflicts and class problems in the country, this country would be a very, very powerful empire.
With a population of millions and tens of millions of untouchables, if they could be integrated, Gan Ning even thought that this would be a country comparable to the Han Dynasty. But even if it could not be integrated, this country would still be a country. A local power that poses a considerable threat.
Because of this broadened horizon, Gan Ning's interest in water battles like those in Repulse Bay in China was greatly reduced. It wasn't that he looked down on Zhou Yu, but with the water army and tactical skills he now mastered, Zhou Yu would fight with him in the water. There is only one way to go: defeat.
So when Gan Ning returned to the Central Plains this time, Gan Ning had already imagined the scene in which he would finish the Malacca naval battle, return to the Central Plains with more than 10,000 naval seeds, and then easily crush Zhou Yu in the Yangtze River water battle, and finally force the opponent to bow his head and admit defeat.
After all, Gan Ning was very unhappy with Zhou Yu's handsome face that always carried a touch of arrogance and calmness. To be precise, most generals who opposed Zhou Yu would be unhappy with Zhou Yu.
After all, Zhou Yu always appears as a winner in life. Although Gan Ning is conceited, he really thinks too much when it comes to defeating Zhou Yu in a water battle. But this time he has practiced hard and intensively, and finally has such an opportunity to try. After giving it a try, Gan Ning was naturally ready with his lines.
Just like Lu Bu refined Kun's internal energy for six months and waited until Central Asia to show his strength, Gan Ning practiced for more than a year and was unable to complete the big goal of defeating Kushan, but he still cared about the small goal of defeating Zhou Yu. of.
However, things went wrong. The Battle of Malacca had not yet ended, and Gan Ning had not returned to the Central Plains to prove his strength to Zhou Yu. He said the famous saying that he had been searching for and adjusting for a long time - Zhou Gongjin, you go alone to Repulse Bay in the Central Plains. Play, I, Gan Xingba, have entered the door of the new world, look up and catch up!
However, Zhou Yu obviously did not give Gan Ning a chance. Before Gan Ning returned to the Central Plains, Zhou Yu had already appeared on the edge of the South China Sea, and Zhou Yu even helped.
Although Gan Ning wants to say now that I don't need your help, and he wants to say Zhou Yu that you should lead your troops to attack me, and then let me stand on the pinnacle of morality and justice to defeat you and teach you how to be a human being, but such words Gan Ning couldn't say.
Chen Xi had warned Gan Ning a long time ago that if you fight at home, it doesn't matter if you hit me or I hit you. But when you go abroad, if others hit your brothers, don't ask why. Even if it's our fault, we will beat the other party to death first, and then Asking why, in this era without human rights, only fists are real.
In the past, Gan Ning would have scoffed at the first half of this statement, but after going out of the country, being defeated by Ghaznavids, and stealing troops in Guishan for more than a year, Gan Ning truly understood Chen Xi's words. The correctness of the words.
The world is not equal to the Central Plains. There are countries in this world that are absolutely unable to fight against the Han Dynasty when they split. So this time Zhou Yu showed kindness and Gan Ning said that he had received it. Although he was very unhappy, but Zhou Yu chose to be external, then he Gan Ning would definitely No small tricks will be used.
"Brothers, kill! Reinforcements have arrived!" Gan Ning roared angrily, cut off a guard officer from Guishang on the opposite side with a knife, and then shouted a message.
With Gan Ning's roar, the morale of the pirates led by Gan Ning rose again.
The ships led by Zhou Yu and Jiang Qin were extremely fast. Although they were not as fast as the Yunqijia of the Kushan warships, the speed of the galleys was still guaranteed even if Zhou Yu changed the weather.
Lochte's cold eyes scanned the direction in which Zhou Yu was charging. The changes in the morale of Gan Ning's army had allowed him to confirm Zhou Yu's identity, and he immediately issued an order to block Zhou Yu's attack direction. This was roughly the same as what Zhou Yu had estimated. .
"Well, it's a little bit not good." Zhou Yu's ship also showed cloud energy, and he frowned slightly when he looked at the Kushan navy rushing towards him.
The performance of the Kushan battleship in the first half was the same as Zhou Yu expected after suppressing the opponent's IQ, but the performance in the second half was somewhat different.
It is not that Zhou Yu's mental talent has not been cracked, but except for Chen Xi, Zhou Yu has never encountered any opponent who solved this problem so quickly.
Even Guo Jia, who had fought against Zhou Yu, took more than a month to realize this problem. As for the solution, Zhou Yu had never seen it except Chen Xi.
[It is not so much that it has been cracked, but it is better to say that the opponent's command system is divided into a central command system, a fleet command system, and I am afraid there will be a ship command system, and there is no internal energy separation among this group of people. I You can only roughly estimate the direction of using your spiritual talent. 】
Zhou Yu frowned slightly, and decisively threw another spiritual talent in the direction of the navy flagship heading in his direction. Then the other party's command coincided even more with Zhou Yu's estimate. In an instant, Zhou Yu confirmed his previous judgment, Guishuang The Navy's hierarchical chain of command.
However, these were completely unimportant to Zhou Yu. Seeing that the opponent's command began to coincide with the height he had expected, Zhou Yu directly led the warship to attack him.
"Fire arrows!" Zhou Yu gave an order, and all the long archers in the Jiangdong navy threw their arrows upward toward the Kushan ship on the opposite side. The heavy siege crossbow machine equipped on the ship was also rotated by the joint efforts of three or four people. Attacked Kushan's warships.
The arm-thick spear was hung on the crossbow machine, and the powerful ejection force of the crossbow machine spurted it out. The warmed spears turned into black shadows and shot toward Kushan's ship.
However, after penetrating the seemingly very thin layer of group defense, the originally extremely powerful spear could not even be nailed to the side of the opponent's ship.
Zhou Yu was not too surprised by this situation. In his opinion, whether it is the Kushan defense method or the Han Dynasty defense method with reinforced materials, it is a correct method. At best, it can only be said to be a performance. Just different.
As the distance between the two sides got closer again, the two sides did not test the legion attack, but allowed the self-formed clouds in the sky to begin to entangle.
When the distance was once again three points closer, Zhou Yu's side again rained arrows, instantly suppressing the Kushan flagship that was facing him. Then, as Zhou Yu estimated, the clouds extending from the opponent's warships directly formed a series of physical chains to trap Zhou Yu. The warship held on.
"What a strong chain." Zhou Yu felt the blockade of this chain in person, and his expression became much more solemn, but then he couldn't resist the idea of setting fire to the warships that were tied together. The best thing to do was to set fire to the warships. choose.
Zhou Yu led five hundred navy troops to conduct a tentative boarding attack. The moment he jumped onto the Kushan warship, his face sank.
The double-layer suppression caused Zhou Yu's strength to decline significantly, but the decline in his own strength was not important. What was important was that this environment greatly affected the performance of his own soldiers.
The moment Zhou Yu boarded the ship, Guishuang's navy launched a hail of arrows in Zhou Yu's direction. Zhou Yu's personal guards either avoided it or used round shields to block it, but did not cause any damage. As for Zhou Yu, the arrows Rain doesn't do any harm.
But just feeling the blessing that the Kushan navy still had after offsetting the cloud blessing of the Han army, Zhou Yu's face turned darker by three points.
In this case, if the quality of the Han Navy and the opponent are the same, there is no way to fight. After all, even if the Jiangdong Navy is powerful, it is absolutely impossible for everyone to be better than the opponent.
"Gong Yi, return to our own warships and don't attack yet!" Zhou Yu issued a new order to the navy the moment he discovered the current situation. Although the quality of the navy he led was indeed excellent, it was also more advanced. It is precious and cannot be wasted on a battlefield like this.
The battle consciousness of the personal guards led by Jiang Qin was extremely terrifying. Although part of their strength was suppressed by the opponent's cloud, their own quality was there and it was not something that the Kushan navy could easily defeat.
However, as a battle-hardened general, Jiang Qin was not a fool. Although he did not immediately realize the problem like Zhou Yu, he also knew that the elites under his command were not consumed in this way, and immediately withdrew his warships following Zhou Yu's order. above.
After Zhou Yu's navy retreated to its own warship, the Kushan soldiers decisively began to counterattack. A large number of sailors, led by the sailors on the ship, launched a counterattack towards Zhou Yu's warship. As Zhou Yu had estimated, the Kushan sailors After jumping onto his own warship, he lost the blessing of one of the clouds just like the normal Han navy.
In this case, both sides have blessings. The stronger the side, the better the combat effectiveness it can exert. Zhou Yu's navy was all selected for this trip south. Compared with the quality of Kushan's navy, It is much stronger than before, and it can crush Kuishang steadily with absolute strength without being suppressed by Yun Qi.
[This is not a solution. Soon the opponent will discover the crux and will probably give up the attack by jumping off the ship, and our army will have no way to board the opponent's warship. ] Zhou Yu thought with a solemn expression, [What is going on with the second layer of cloud blessing? 】
At this moment, the archers commanded by Jiang Qin nailed an arrow directly to the side of the Kushan warship. Zhou Yu couldn't help but be stunned, as if he had noticed something inexplicably.
[If the ship stores cloud energy, then the fragility of the opponent's ship is understandable. The arrow hitting the wood three-thirds can be used as evidence for this guess. But in this case, the opponent's ship can actually be broken when conditions permit? 】
Zhou Yu was stunned by his speculation. If the ship cannot provide protection, then what is the point of building a ship?
"Everyone change to bilge siege crossbows!" Zhou Yu immediately ordered. If his estimate was correct, then now is definitely the time when the Kushan ships are most vulnerable.
Following Zhou Yu's order, the Han army's ship dragged out the spare siege crossbow machine from the bilge, then quickly cocked it and launched a counterattack towards Kushan's warship.
As Zhou Yu expected, the Kushan warship, which had been able to easily defend against the attack of the heavy siege crossbow machine before, was easily shot through the side of the ship by the heavy crossbow machine this time.
"Concentrate the crossbow bolts and attack the opponent's flagship!" Although Zhou Yu had vaguely understood the shortcomings of the Kushan warship at this time, he had no time to think more deeply.
Because if the distance is closer, even if the crossbow can shoot through the side of the opponent's ship, it will not be able to cause fatal damage to the opponent's warship.
After all, it is impossible for a heavy siege crossbow to shoot downward, and if it shoots flatly against the side of the opponent's ship, it will not cause a shipwreck even if it can penetrate it.
As the first crossbow bolt penetrated the hull of the Kushan flagship, dozens of huge crossbow bolts shot directly over from the Han warships led by Zhou Yu. Although the crossbow's hit rate was extremely poor, it was for human beings. Yes, for something like a warship, which is usually tens of meters away, it can be easily shot at such a short distance.
As a result, the warship hit by dozens of thick-legged crossbow bolts directly exploded the front deck, and a large amount of seawater poured in directly.
"Is it really because of his spiritual talent that he has simply ignored his biggest shortcoming?" Zhou Yu said with a sneer as he looked at the obviously sinking flagship on the opposite side and the chaotic shouts.
Then he unceremoniously ordered all the navies that were not engaged in the battle to use crossbows to attack all the opponent's warships trapped in the main battlefield.
In fact, Zhou Yu's estimate was correct. The opponent was indeed affected by his own spiritual talent. Whether he did not use the Kushan navy's tactical skills, but used double-layer cloud suppression, carried out close combat to crush Zhou Yu, or used the decisive battle in advance later. His skills were actually influenced by Zhou Yu's spiritual talent.
After all, Zhou Yu's spiritual talent used to be used by those with spiritual talent or legion talent. No matter what, those people are quite amazing in spirit and will. Zhou Yu's spiritual talent can affect the intelligence of the opponent. , and the impact is unlikely to be too serious.
This time Zhou Yu's opponents were very capable, but they had no ability to protect themselves from Zhou Yu's influence. To put it simply, this time Zhou Yu reduced the opponent's intelligence, and the opponent had no resistance at all, and was directly destroyed by Zhou Yu in one breath.
This is also an important reason for Kuishang's repeated mistakes. Even the biggest shortcomings of its own battleships have been exposed. You must know that now Kuishang and Zhou Yu are not doing it with a few people. There are nearly 100,000 people on the front. Warships and Gan Ning were fighting.
In other words, the nearly 100,000 warships that were coming and going were killed by the Ganning pirate group who used decisive battle skills and the overall talent of the legion. Because of such a mistake, the fatal point was directly exposed in front of Zhou Yu.
"Urgent order, order Li Yan and others not to get close to the place where Gan Ning and the opponent are fighting, and use crossbows to directly attack the opponent's warship. The opponent's secondary cloud blessing directly loses the protective power of the warship!" Zhou Yu immediately gave the order to the trumpeter.
It was also because of this attack that Zhou Yu directly saw the clues of Guishuang's naval warfare skills. Compared with generals like Gan Ning who had learned Guishuang's naval warfare skills, Zhou Yu understood the essence of all naval warfare skills at a deeper level.
[If you guessed it right, the opponent's warship itself is not used to enhance the strength of materials and structures, but to enhance the storage of cloud gas. In fact, these two attributes are both attributes of the city, but because The warship is different from the size of the city, so you can only choose one or the other. ] Zhou Yu thought with a strange expression.
[In other words, all the skills of the opponent's navy are basically based on Yunqi skills. 】Zhou Yu was slightly lost in thought. He already understood the essence, but he also understood the reason why the Han army's naval forces still did not develop the navy skills.
"So that's it. There haven't been any naval skills in the Han Dynasty. It's not that the navy doesn't know how to do it. On the contrary, we have actually developed more skills." Zhou Yu looked at the Kushan warriors who had already used all the skills to attack. Kaoru said to himself after the ship was about to sink.
"On the other hand, the opponent may have developed a lot of naval combat skills relying on cloud gas reserve technology. It's a pity that there are so many skills that they are actually useless." Zhou Yu sneered and looked at Li Yan and others in the distance. They had already used heavy crossbows. The Kushan warships attacked those Kushan warships that had activated their reserve clouds and lost their group defense style.
Although before Zhou Yu didn't understand it, he felt that these skills were indeed extremely amazing, far more powerful than the water battles of the Han Dynasty, and he needed to absorb and learn them. But now that Zhou Yu has come to his senses and discovered the essence of the Kuishang naval battle, Zhou Yu has already Understand that the Kushan way is not suitable for them.
As for the so-called Kushan naval battle skills, to put it bluntly, isn't it the skill of using cloud energy? The reason why Kushan naval battle is so terrible is, to put it bluntly, isn't it because the warships have a lot of cloud gas reserves? Compared with Yunqi's usage skills, there are many military formations in the Central Plains that can be learned from.
[Hmm, but the opponent’s naval combat technology is indeed far behind ours. To make up for this, we do need to develop some naval combat skills. However, compared to theirs, the disadvantages are too obvious, and the number of complex skills actually relies on our combat skills. Five or six items are enough for a ship. ] Zhou Yu thought silently.
Because Zhou Yu has to deal with Sun Ce all year round, the methods he usually adopts or considers need to take into account Sun Ce's IQ, that is, simplicity, clarity and ease of practical combat are the priority. Therefore, the moment Zhou Yu starts to really consider it, several more plans appear.
However, none of these plans can be tested in a short time, so Zhou Yu suppressed his inner thoughts and began to command the warships to counterattack. If the opponent activated the reserve cloud to form a double layer of blessing, they would retreat and use crossbows to attack the ships. Attack, if the opponent does not suppress it, the Han army will jump off the ship and attack, trying to seize the ship.
Zhou Yu's actions were quickly noticed by Guishang's watchman, and then passed to Lochte. Lochte was slightly startled, as if he just remembered that this kind of situation would happen again, but then he remembered that this kind of situation would happen again. How to deal with it.
Although his intelligence was greatly suppressed after eating Zhou Yu's spiritual talent, he was still deeply impressed by the relevant experiences. He immediately changed his fighting method and stopped carrying out decisive attacks. Instead, he began to use conventional naval battle mode for suppression and encirclement. .
And quickly dispatched a fleet to suppress the fleets led by Li Yan and Ling Cao, and soon contained the fleet led by Zhou Yu, making Zhou Yu quite irritable.
