Yang Di didn't know whether Zhu Ran was stupid, or whether he had misunderstood the burning of Chibi? !
Yes, even if you have the blessing of the southeast wind, my naval tactics are not just a chain of iron and a boat. Although the action of throwing a car and Meng Chong is a little slower, it still has the ability to maneuver.
Another thing, even if my Chariot Meng Chong is inconvenient to move, the maneuverability of the more than 100 large and small warships in the vanguard will not be affected. Your more than 40 fire ships rushing up are useless.
There is no need for Yang Xi to take command. The vanguard warships directly separated more than 40 large and small warships, took the initiative to assemble, and went to intercept the more than 40 fireships coming down the wind. For the flexible and maneuverable walking boats and small warships, Said, this is not difficult.
However, Zhu Ran didn't expect that these more than 40 fire ships would actually come true.
Zhu Ran was not stupid. He knew that the current conditions were not suitable for replicating the burning warships during the Battle of Chibi. The Jiangling navy on the opposite side did not make such a stupid mistake as connecting the boats with iron cables.
However, your Jiangling navy is not Cao Wei's land and water army. You only have 20,000 people and more than 130 warships. You are not like Cao Cao who had 400 or 500 large and small warships.
Of more than 130 warships, more than 40 were sent out to intercept the fire ships. The remaining avant-garde formation composed of less than 100 warships had no flaws at all. !
The fire ship was just a cover used by Zhu Ran to attract Yang Xi to divide his troops. The real trump card was Zhu Ran's five Mengchong battleships.
Seeing that the Jiangling navy divided its forces to intercept the fire ships, Zhu Ran waved his hand directly. The assault formation composed of five Mengchong warships, also supported by the southeast wind, quickly approached the Jiangling navy, divided into five arrows, and began a strong attack. .
The purpose is to take advantage of the gap in the loose defensive formation after the Jiangling naval force intercepts the fireships, break directly into the vanguard defense formation, strive to defeat it in one battle, and destroy those two damned chariots and Mengchong.
As long as the cores of these two turtle formations are destroyed, Zhu Ran doesn't think there is any threat to the Jiangling navy.
As for whether he could rush in, Zhu Ran was still very sure.
Even though the Jiangling Navy used the turtle formation every time to make themselves look helpless, Zhu Ran had actually seen the weakness of the Jiangling Navy for a long time.
The formation time is too short, and there is not much actual combat experience. All the accumulation of water warfare is limited to daily drills. It is really hard to say how much it can perform against the enemy in battle.
As for Yang Xi, although he has certain water warfare command skills, his understanding of water warfare is still somewhat superficial.
In the last water battle at Baqiu, he had an absolute advantage and forced Liu Lue to be beaten passively in the water village. The first thing he practiced was water archery and attack routines, and he was completely unaware of the changes in the formation of the warships during the water battle. This is the most difficult part to practice. It can be seen that Yang Di himself is inexperienced in water fighting.
Therefore, when the Jiangling Navy detaches forty warships to intercept the fire ships, there will definitely be loopholes in its defense formation. And this loophole, based on the Jiangling Navy’s water warfare experience, is difficult to completely eliminate in a short period of time. Made up for.
This adjustment time is enough for the Soochow Navy, which is blessed by the southeast wind, to take advantage of it and directly enter the defensive circle.
Judging from the experience of several previous battles, as long as the Soochow Navy can break into the defense circle of the Jiangling Navy and destroy the fleet coordination between the Jiangling Navy, then based on the individual water warfare capabilities of the soldiers alone, the Jiangling Navy is definitely not the Soochow Navy. opponent.
And the actual battle situation is indeed developing as Zhu Ran expected.
After the Jiangling navy divided its troops to intercept the fire ships, in order to adjust the formation and make up for the defense loopholes after the departure of the forty warships, Yang Di did begin to make command adjustments.
However, the Jiangling navy's adjustment speed was a bit slow beyond Yang's expectation.
During normal drills, this adjustment may only take a stick of incense to complete, but now faced with the threat of the Soochow navy, the warship's adjustment is either not in place, or it is simply slow to respond.
At this time, the Soochow Army used five Mengchong warships as arrows, and each Mengchong warship was supplemented by thirty large and small warships as cover, and rushed directly towards its avant-garde defense formation.
The speed was beyond Yang Di's imagination.
It was clear that he was the one with the advantage upstream, with bonuses in speed and agility, but now he discovered that the Soochow navy in the downstream had far greater adaptability and speed than he did.
Here the water battle gap between Yang Xi and Zhu Ran is revealed. On the one hand, it is the lack of experience, and on the other hand, it is also the gap in the utilization of water battle and hydrology.
Yang Di had no time to fully adjust his formation. The five Mengchong warships of the Soochow Navy were like sharp arrows, directly inserted into the front defense circle of the Jiangling Navy.
At this point, throwing cars and Meng Chong is no longer useful. After all, if you throw stones again, it may capsize your own warship.
However, if such a large-scale Soochow Army attacks across the board, if you can't do anything to stop it, then the navy will probably be completely penetrated, divided and surrounded, and eliminated one by one.
Yang Xi's reaction was not slow, and he directly ordered the three Mengchong battleships to take the initiative to attack. They were divided into three groups: left, center and right. He took command from the Mengchong battleship in the center, and Wen Dai went to fight from the Mengchong battleship on the right. To delay the Soochow Army's attack.
At the same time, Yang Di ordered the men to retreat in their vehicles, led by Zhong Limu, who first withdrew to the public security ferry to rest and then choose an opportunity before entering the battlefield.
At this time, there is no use for Chariot Meng Chong, so it is better to retreat temporarily and save some combat power. Even if the water battle fails, at least you can still have the ability to retreat and protect the water stronghold, so that the entire army will not be annihilated.
Next, Yang Xi could only rely on three Mengchong warships and more than a hundred large and small warships to have a head-on confrontation with the Soochow Navy on the Yangtze River.
This is not a good choice. After all, the Jiangling Navy's water warfare experience and soldiers' combat capabilities are not as good as their opponents, but now, it is the only choice.
Even Wen Dai did not raise any objection to Yang Xi's command.
Wen Dai is Wen Pin's son. Wen Pin began to teach Wen Dai water warfare skills when Wen Dai was young. Although Wen Dai was not talented enough to become an outstanding navy commander, the first element of water warfare was to be on the battlefield. It takes courage, Wen Dai still knows this.
Water warfare is different from land warfare. There is no retreat on the river. Once defeated, the only end result is to be chased to death. Therefore, the most taboo in water warfare is to stay in the face of battle.
Even if there is a gap in strength between the two sides, they must move forward bravely, so that they can find a way out, otherwise, it will be no different than waiting to die.
Therefore, Wen Dai did not hesitate at all to Yang Xi's order. He jumped directly onto the Mengchong battleship on the right side of the battlefield. With his own Mengchong battleship as the front, he faced the attack of the Soochow Navy and killed it.
The water battle at this time is no longer a duel with bows and arrows or throwing darts, but a battlefield where people jump off the ship and fight at close quarters. At this time, the personal force value of the generals becomes particularly important.
There is a saying that Wen Dai's force value would not be enough if he encountered the powerful Soochow navy.
Not to mention people like Gan Ning, Zhou Tai, and Ling Tong, even if Wen Dai met people like Jiang Qin, Pan Zhang, and Chen Wu, Wen Dai would have had enough trouble to come back.
But today's Soochow Navy, at least in terms of generals, is indeed somewhat in decline. Among the generals on the five Mengchong battleships, the most capable person is Liu Lue.
Unfortunately, Liu Lue was now attacking on the far left wing of the battlefield, while Wen Dai was now filling the defensive holes on the right wing of the battlefield. The two did not encounter each other immediately.
However, this also caused a very troublesome problem. Wen Dai slowly made up for the defensive holes on the right wing of the battlefield, but the left wing of Jiangling Navy was about to be penetrated because there were no qualified generals to plug the holes. .
Liu Lue is also holding back a lot of anger now. How embarrassed Liu Lue was during the Ba Qiu water battle, and now Liu Lue is so ruthless in killing the enemy and attacking. He is all counting on this battle to save the face he has lost. Coming back.
The wavering of the left-wing front caused Yang Di to no longer dare to stay in the center of the formation.
Yang Ya gritted his teeth and directly ordered his Mengchong battleship to give up the challenge in the middle, turn to support the left wing, and personally block Liulu's advance.
Although Yang Di is a scholar, and in terms of force value, he is probably not an enemy of Liu Lue, but Yang Di still has a military advantage after all, and he may not be able to stop Liu Lue by taking advantage of his military strength.
But just at this moment, Zhu Ran's flagship also moved.
The direction of the killing run happened to be the defensive gap left in the middle after Yang Di moved his troops to the left wing.
The Jiangling Navy encountered the greatest crisis.
If Zhu Ran were allowed to attack directly from the middle, then the Jiangling navy would be cut into two sections, and the direct connection between Yangqi and Wendai would also be cut off, and they would be defeated by the Soochow navy one by one.
But now, Yang Di's warship has been moved, and it is too late to return to the center to defend. Although Yang Di is anxious, he has no solution at all.
Insufficient troops, insufficient ships, and the current situation. Well, ships? !
It seems that there are more than forty warships. Yang Xi's heart moved and he looked at the more than forty warships at the forefront of the battlefield, responsible for intercepting the fire ships.
Now that things have happened, there is nothing we can do about it, Ci Bu is in charge! ! !
Yang Di gritted his teeth and asked his guards to wave flags, telling the more than 40 intercepted warships to return to defense.
Don't worry about those fire ships. If they want to burn, let them burn over! ! !
Anyway, the Jiangling navy and the Soochow navy have been completely intertwined. Fire attack? ! Okay, if you are going to be burned, then let’s all be burned together.
It's easy for you, Zhu Ran, to set a fire. Now it's up to you whether you can put out the fire! ! !
(End of chapter)
