Cao Wu, who was on the south bank of the Yangtze River, had the best view in the audience. After setting the fire, he simply stood on the riverside on horseback and watched the battle between the two armies.
When Cao Ying's vanguard troops turned around, Cao Wu saw the flags above. It turned out to be Xia Houyuan's troops.
"Frontguard? It looks like there are thirty thousand people."
Cao Jun's forward camp was far more luxurious than Zhou Yu's. The forward camp alone had ten large ships, while Zhou Yu only had three.
The poorest one was Liu Bei's navy. Guan Yu built a large ship by selling iron.
The building ship has better visibility and stronger sides. It is difficult for ordinary ships to fight against it, and smaller ones will even be directly hit and sunk.
And once it comes to a boarding battle, the number of soldiers on the building and ship will be partially crushed.
Therefore, Xia Houyuan not only has more people, but also has better equipment.
Of his ten ships, four were in the front, four were in the middle, and two were in the rear.
But Zhou Yu lined up his forward troops and lurked behind the corner, waiting for work.
He was downstream, so he didn't have an advantage. However, the position he chose was excellent. It was just a stone's throw away from the turning point. If the other party turned around, they would still come along the river. There would be no time to adjust the sails, and they would be caught. The bows and arrows shot all over the place.
Zhou Yu gave an order, and the sound of "swish" was heard endlessly. However, Xia Houyuan's troops were warned by Cao Wu's flames, and the whole army was alert. When they turned around, many people raised their shields to defend themselves. Seeing the rain of arrows, they had no shields. They also found shelter to hide.
The first wave of arrows had little effect.
Zhou Yu stood on his flagship and saw the first wave of arrows passing by, and continued to give orders without being arrogant or impatient.
Zhou Yu's building ships were changed from the central army to the rear army, guarding the rear together with Liu Bei's ships. Zhou Yu stood high on the ship, observing the changes on the battlefield.
The red flag was lit up on the flagship, and the vanguard clipper team that was originally lined up dispersed and became several fleets. Each fleet had a slightly larger ship and a bunch of clippers. The main force was three large ships. But he still fell behind and did not step forward.
Xia Houyuan was following the current and was faster, but he obviously did not have enough experience in water warfare. His formation did not change at all. The four tower ships of the front army took the lead, abandoning the clippers and rushing straight towards Zhou Yu's troops.
Immediately afterwards, each of Zhou Yu's fleet sailed towards one of Xia Houyuan's ships.
Before the two armies came into contact, they were still shooting at each other desperately, as if they were going to pour all the arrows on each other.
Seeing that the first building ship was about to approach Zhou Yu's small fleet, the main ship of the small fleet suddenly lowered its sails. At the same time, a group of speedboats rushed forward quickly and surrounded the building ship in a circle.
With a loud "boom", the building ship hit the main ship, and the clippers on the left side of the small fleet suddenly shot out hook locks.
Immediately afterwards, the strong men on the ship exerted force at the same time. The large ship was blocked by the big ship, and then pulled by the speedboat. It tilted to the left visibly to the naked eye.
At the same time, there were several loud "dong dong dong" sounds, and the clippers on the right side all pressed against the building ship, causing the ship to tilt a little further.
The huge building ship could barely keep moving, but the soldiers on board were all northerners. They had never seen the deck roll over, and they were all terrified and completely at a loss.
The military commander on the big ship shouted: "Jump to the gang!"
After hearing this, the soldiers on the big ship rushed out one by one and jumped straight to the building.
Caught off guard, the soldiers on the building ship were shaken by the building ship while engaging in battle, while Zhou Yujun's troops were all walking on the deck as if they were on the ground.
The battle on the side is more bloody than the siege. It is a head-to-head battle. Fighting in narrow alleys, either you die or I die.
After a while, the soldiers on the building ship fell to the ground with the slain man on his back.
Some of them were smart enough to jump off the boat to escape, but this was the winter moon and the river was cold. When the river flooded, many people drowned in the river.
Such a scene was staged on four buildings at the same time.
Zhou Yu's clippers were like ants that killed an elephant, constantly eating the soldiers on board the building.
Xia Houyuan of the Chinese Army stared at this scene with wide eyes. Not good at water fighting, he grabbed the deputy general Zhang Yun next to him and yelled: "What should we do!"
Zhang Yunnai was a surrendered general in Jingzhou, and he brought out half of the Jingzhou navy. He thought about his status as a surrendered general, and he did not dare to participate in Xia Houyuan's command, but now that the situation was urgent, he could not care less.
"General Xiahou, for the current plan, we should slow down, close up our formation, and then press forward again! Only in this way can we take advantage of our large number of ships!"
Xia Houyuan glanced at the thick smoke on the south bank, nodded heavily and said: "That's exactly what it should be!"
But at this time, Zhou Yu's troops who had occupied four tower ships shouted in unison.
Xiahou Yuan heard that they were shouting: "Xiahou Miaocai, General Baidi!"
"General Baidi?"
Xia Houyuan was immediately furious and struck the deck heavily with his iron spear.
Cao, the lord of Xia, was a close confidant of Cao Cao, but compared to brothers Cao Hong and Cao Ren, Xia Houyuan was more famous for his military force. When it came to marching and fighting, he was inferior to many generals in Cao's camp. So in order to humiliate him, the enemy gave him the title of General Baidi, which meant that he knew nothing.
Xia Houyuan's anger surged every time he heard it.
Today, the other party had the upper hand and shouted such slogans. How could Xia Houyuan not be angry?
"Army, crush us up and let the enemy see how powerful we are!"
Xia Houyuan immediately ordered all ships to move forward quickly.
Isn't it just close combat? Lu Bu is dead, how many people in this world can beat me, Xia Houyuan!
Zhang Yun was stunned, but looking at Xia Houyuan's expression, he could only agree.
"Weng!"
The horn of charge sounded on the flagship, and Xia Houyuan's troops pressed forward to the front line regardless of their formation.
Zhou Yu saw it from a distance on the building boat and sneered. The green flag was erected on the bow.
The vanguard team that had captured four tower ships immediately jumped onto their own ship. Before going back, they cut off the sails of the tower ships. The white sails fell, and the tower ships lost power, blocking Xia Houyuan's path forward.
The soldiers who were jumped back to their own ships were abandoned on the building boats, but they were not discouraged. They adjusted the rudder together to turn the building boats and blocked them on the river.
However, their own ship quickly retreated and regrouped.
Although the river was wide, the fleet's destination was the same and it was not spread out. With four large ships blocking the way, about one-third of Xia Houyuan's ships hit the large ships, sinking more than a dozen ships on the spot.
Zhang Yun beat his chest and stamped his feet and said: "This is a shield and a spear to resist the enemy. General, we can't charge anymore!"
However, the shouts of "General Bai Di" from the opposite side never stopped from the beginning to the end. Xia Houyuan saw that his flagship was almost rushing into the opponent's formation, so he was not willing to pause!
Other boats crossed the building boats and drew water patterns on the river. However, as soon as they came over, they saw that Zhou Yu's fleet had already opened a line and opened an arrow's distance, and the arrows were shot down like locusts again.
Xia Houyuan's flagship took the lead, but before it could pass through the rain of arrows, the other party's boat once again broke into pieces and rushed towards them.
"Damn it, this is what you do!"
Xiahou Yuan angrily picked up his bow and arrow and shot down an enemy soldier with one arrow. But how many could he kill by himself?
Zhang Yun clenched his fists beside him, knowing that for this plan, he could no longer look back, so he had to take weapons and prepare to join the ship.
Cao Wu on the shore could clearly see that Zhou Yu's troops repeated their previous actions again, hooking boats, ramming boats, boarding boats, and Xia Houyuan's four large ships were once again trapped in a tight siege.
"this……"
What Cao Wu thought of was playing some computer games in his previous life, circling a bunch of soldiers and then besieging a target.
Now Zhou Yu's army is doing just this, using its superior strength to quickly eliminate Xia Houyuan's most powerful force.
Zhou Yu's troops had obviously practiced such attacks countless times, and everything went smoothly.
When Zhou Yu's flagship changed its flag again, his Chinese army also pressed forward.
Cao Wu knew what he had to do.
Zhou Yu's forward alone was enough for Xia Houyuan to fight. Once the Chinese army arrived, Xia Houyuan's troops seemed to be trapped in a quagmire. Everyone was obviously a navy, but the quality of the opponent's navy was several times that of yours, and the ability of the sailors to control ships was also yours. Several times, how can we fight this?
On the ship, Xia Houyuan relied on his bravery to lead his personal guards to cut down the opponent and board the ship again and again. However, he did not see a general from the opponent coming out, so he jumped up angrily.
But the other three building ships next to him were not so lucky, and they were about to follow in the footsteps of the four building ships in front.
Zhang Yun hacked an enemy soldier to death and said anxiously: "General, we are about to break out!"
Xia Houyuan looked around and knew that the battle situation was too unfavorable. His army was originally in a formation around the building ships, but now the formation was completely broken up. The river was full of enemy ships surrounding his ships.
I don’t know how many people Zhou Yu has and how many times he has trained this kind of siege tactics. At a glance, every small boat is surrounded by the other side.
Xia Houyuan gritted his teeth, knowing that he had lost.
He encountered the strongest naval force in the world, and his own troops were completely unable to unite.
He touched the blood on his face and said, "Where to break out?"
Zhang Yun was also choked and went down the river. The other party seemed to have a complete navy waiting in front.
Run back? Are you kidding me? If you run against the current, you will be caught up in a hurry!
Then, only...
He looked towards the shore and his eyes widened immediately.
On the south bank, smoke rose from several fires at the same time.
If there was a puff of smoke just now, it might be a wildfire, but now so much smoke is rising, it can only be caused by someone deliberately setting it off.
Zhang Yun made a decisive decision: "I'm afraid there is an ambush on the south bank. Let's break out to the north bank, then abandon the ship and go back!"
In fact, the north bank is covered with mountains and forests, and the south bank is covered with reeds and grass. The south bank is more suitable for breaking out, but someone is setting fire to the south bank, and he is afraid of being ambushed.
Xia Houyuan put up a pergola with his hands and looked towards the south bank. He suddenly said with great joy: "It's Xiao Wu! Xiao Wu is on the south bank! Go to the south bank to break out!"
"Little nothing?"
Zhang Yun was surprised.
"One of our own!"
However, Xia Houyuan had no time to explain and went to give orders.
The image of Cao Wu riding a little red horse kept lingering in his mind. The majestic steed of the little red horse was unmatched by other horses. He would never admit his mistake.
If he hadn't lit several fires in succession, he wouldn't have carefully identified who was there.
Zhang Yun asked: "How many soldiers and horses do we have?"
Xia Houyuan was stunned, touched his head and said, "There seems to be only one?"
Zhang Yun was in a hurry: "There is only one person, how can you rescue us!"
Xia Houyuan was confident: "Since Xiaowu set fire to attract my attention, he must have his thoughts!"
Zhang Yun stayed there, his ears constantly filled with the enemy's shouts.
General Baidi, General Baidi!
Zhang Yun thought to himself, this Xiahou Miaocai is really brave, but he is actually a Baidi general!
No matter how powerful the Xiao Wu he was talking about was, could he still be able to save so many of them?
