The Han and Wu armies were still in a stalemate on the frontal battlefield. Although the scale of the battle between the two sides was huge, it was ultimately just a fight between small boats. War drums rumbled, and damaged boats continued to return to the river bank, while new warships continued to join the battlefield. After another round of fighting, no one knew how many ships had sunk. Only the fragments of broken ships were floating back and forth on the river, like fallen leaves. However, the ships on both sides still did not take the initiative to attack, which meant that the real decisive battle had not yet begun. But why this was the case, the generals on both sides knew very well, and they were just waiting for Deng to express his position as a navy commander.
Since Cen Guang left, Huang Quan has been paying attention to the changes on the right wing. He sent three groups of scouts to the forest to check out the situation. If there was any change, he would immediately report back. However, as the commander-in-chief of the entire army, Huang Quan also knew that Cen Guang's attack was very risky, so he had to prepare for the worst. If the right wing really changes sides, how should I act? Are you trying to lead the army to withdraw eastward to join the main force? Or take the initiative to lead an army to break through to the north bank? After thinking about it for a while, he still couldn't make up his mind. But time waits for no one. In order to prepare for the decisive battle, he decided to gather more than 60 ships around him and wait and see.
However, this is often the case in the world. The more entangled it is, the more corrupt the situation becomes. Just as Huang Quan was counting the ships in his hands, the scout sent out staggered over to report. The scout choked and knelt down on the deck in front of Huang Quan's feet. The first thing he said when they met was: "Captain, Deng on the right wing is the flagship." The flag has been changed, and Captain Cen who went to contact us seems to have been killed!"
Hearing such bad news, everyone around Huang Quan was horrified. Everyone is well aware of the serious impact of the right wing's rebellion. The right wing is located downstream, and the Wu army confronts the Han army in the northwest. This is equivalent to directly blocking the entire Han army's retreat. At this time, the Han army's military strength was also at a disadvantage. In terms of the battlefield situation, it was probably nothing more deplorable than this. Looking at Huang Quan again, he slowly stood up from the bed with the knife in hand, only to feel dizzy. The worst situation finally happened, but he had no time to feel sad about it. He could only endure the weakness of his legs and said to everyone: "The situation is determined by heaven. You all have to fight as hard as you can. Although there are many thieves, there are not enough." Don’t be afraid, don’t worry about being outnumbered!”
After saying that, Huang Quan drew out the sword from his waist, strode to the railing, and said loudly to the soldiers on the flagship deck: "Gentlemen, Deng Dang on the right wing has rebelled, intending to destroy our three armies and destroy our unification. However, he repeatedly made small mistakes. Thief, even if you win with this dirty method, it won't matter! Besides, our warriors are still there, and the outcome is yet to be determined." At this point, he waved his saber and shouted to the soldiers: "Fight to the death!"
At this time, the west wind was stronger, bringing a biting cold to the Han soldiers. However, when they looked up at the commander high above, the fear in their hearts only flashed by, and soon they became angry and wanted to fight. When countless proud memories of the past emerged, they also shouted: "Fight to the death! Fight to the death!" Then under Huang Quan's order, they rushed to their posts one after another. The sailors shook the oars, and the soldiers took up arms. As a desolate bugle sounded over the south bank, the Han Navy's flagship "Ni Gu" finally left the shore, followed by the last remaining soldiers on the river bank. All Han naval forces.
It is strange to say that people suddenly put life and death aside, leaving only a desire to fight rising in their hearts. The fleet could not move forward for more than half a moment when they encountered retreating Han army ships sporadically. Seeing that the army was coming against the wind and unable to retreat, the soldiers all turned around and followed the army forward.
Although the fog in front has become lighter, the enemy's situation is still unclear. Although the sailors are rocking the oars vigorously, they don't know which direction to move forward. At this time, Du Ji's boat approached and asked Huang Quan for help through the cold wind. He shouted in the white mist: "General, I am willing to march forward for the public. I will fight wherever you say!" "His voice came from not far away and became thin in Huang Quan's ears, but Huang Quan still heard his words clearly. For some reason, an extremely risky idea came to Huang Quan's mind at this time. Even he was shocked, but after careful consideration, he still felt that it was possible to turn defeat into victory. He immediately responded loudly: "Du Jun, I will give you half of the fleet. You go to the northwest coast to break out! As many people as you can bring out!"
Du Ji obviously heard it, but he didn't understand Huang Quan's intention and asked: "General, you are the commander-in-chief. If you give me the ships, what should you do?"
Huang Quan replied hoarsely: "Tune the tiger away from the mountain, sound to the east and strike in the west!"
After saying this, Huang Quan said no more. After briefly ordering the two ships to exchange flags and drums, Du Ji had already taken over the important task of commanding the entire army. Although Du Ji couldn't imagine Huang Quan's tactics, seeing that his opinions were so decisive, it was inconvenient to ask more questions. Although he knew that this was an arduous task and would inevitably be besieged by multiple Wu ships, this was also the first time Du Ji commanded a force of tens of thousands. He was extremely excited. When the war drums rumbled, he looked back for the last time. After taking one look at "Ni Gu", he immediately commanded the fleet to sail northwest without hesitation.
Such a large-scale operation cannot be concealed even in the thick fog. Soon, Huang Quan vaguely saw many small boats approaching Du Ji from the fog. The sounds of the Wu people's fierce waves overlapped and became clear and audible. And just as he thought, even though his flagship was extremely conspicuous, it was insignificant compared to Du Ji and his party. The Wu people didn't care about this place at all. When the surrounding ships almost disappeared, they gradually seemed to forget about it. I forgot that there was still such a large ship standing in the mist.
The strong wind and fog made bows and arrows almost useless, and people instinctively drove their boats to fight against the nearest enemy. The Han army was already determined to die, and the Wu people were also elites in Jiangling and had extremely high fighting spirit on the water. Many Nanfu good men, such as Jia Kui, Miao Shang, Zhang Yan and other senior generals who had always relied on the Nanfu army, were now besieged by no less tough opponents. After several collisions and fights, they all Floating on the water surface, it only fluttered and struggled for a moment, then sank into the middle of the river, allowing death to finally come.
Although Huang Quan was not engaged in the battle, he could still smell the increasingly strong and cold smell of blood not far away. At this time, his dizziness was even worse, his vision was blurred, and his ears were also a little unclear. At this time, the attendant next to him asked him: "General, where are we going?" Huang Quan did not answer hastily, but suddenly stretched out his hand to hold the man's arm and asked him who he was. The answer was Ma Su, Ma Youchang, a son of the Ma clan in Xiangyang.
Huang Quan asked, "Can you hear the enemy's drums?" Ma Di listened for a while and replied that he could.
Huang Quan asked again: "Can you tell the direction clearly?" Ma Su looked around and nodded and said yes.
Huang Quan patted him on the shoulder and said, "Okay, then you will show the way. Let's go around to the northwest of the drum sound!"
Everyone present was surprised and did not understand Huang Quan's intention at all, but they trusted the general, so they followed suit. But Huang Quan was well aware of this intention. The reason why he looked for the enemy's drums and trumpets was because he understood that in this kind of fog, any fleet could only use drums and trumpets to command. This also means that the enemy's building ship with a drum trumpet must be the flagship of the first army. Huang Quan is using this method to pursue Zhou Yu. He plans to use this building ship to have a final life-and-death battle with Zhou Yu.
The time waiting for the final verdict seemed to pass extremely slowly. Huang Quan couldn't help but clenched the handle of the knife in his hand and closed his eyes tightly, fearing that he would be discovered by the enemy on the way. But fortunately, God still favored him at this time. Although I don't know how long it took, the sound of fighting was indeed getting farther and farther away from him. After a while, Ma Su finally said to Huang Quan: "General, we are probably less than a mile away from the drum and trumpet place. If we go further, we will probably be discovered. What should we do next?"
When Huang Quan heard this, he suddenly woke up and couldn't help blurting out: "It's time, let's just hit him!" But he woke up immediately and knew that he didn't have much chance of winning if he hit him alone. So he relaxed again and said to Ma Su: "All the veterans among you who are over 40 years old will stay, and the rest will take small boats and go to Jiangbei."
Ma Su was shocked when he heard this: "General, do you think we are cowards? How can you let us leave!" Then he knelt down with many of his entourages to ask for a fight.
But Huang Quan was unmoved and still ordered them to abandon the ship and leave. Ma Di and others could not resist, so they had to obey the order and go to the lowest deck, then get on the boat and leave. The boat floated on the river like a few fallen leaves, making them feel confused and helpless. Can the general really turn defeat into victory? What method was used? Just when they were approaching the north bank with doubts, someone suddenly pointed at the building boat and shouted: "Fire! Fire!"
Everyone looked over and couldn't help but be shocked: a bright fire suddenly lit up on the blurred neon outline, and it quickly spread across the hull of the ship. When they first looked at it, they thought the firelight was blurry, but soon, the blazing light penetrated the white mist, as if it had become a blazing torch on the river. With the blessing of the west wind, this fire ship turned into flames and rushed towards the source of the drum without hesitation. Everyone under the boat was stunned! They stared directly at the fire rising into the sky, accompanied by the black smoke as thick as a dark cloud, and the seemingly slow but actually fast speed of the ship, which gradually became a point of light in the fog.
Then there was a violent collision, which was heard by all the soldiers of both armies present. Then there was a long silence, and people realized that with this deafening impact, all the drums and trumpets in the fog disappeared. This caused the Wu army to be in chaos for a while, and everyone was concerned about the safety of the general, so they all turned back to find out what was going on. The besieged Du Ji's ship regained its freedom. The soldiers on the ship did not care about the luck of the rest of their lives and went to look at the source of the sound, but there was nothing there except a bit of blood-red fire. not see.
In the end, Huang Quan failed to achieve a reversal with this attack. After the Wu army's leader Zhou Yu fell into the water after the ship crashed, he was quickly rescued by Cheng Pu in a boat. But Huang Quan did destroy the Wu army's flagship, and also reduced Wu army's six tower ships to ashes. One-third of the Han army's navy took this opportunity to escape back to the north bank. However, Du Ji's remaining navy could no longer compete with the Wu army for supremacy and completely lost its qualifications for naval warfare. This also means that the 150,000 Han army soldiers under Jianye City are officially isolated on the south bank of the river.
