Cao Chun, Ah Liu and others standing on the shore were on a hillside, overlooking the river and taking a very careful look at the overall battle situation.
But Cao Wu, who was on the Wuya big ship, no longer had the energy to scan the war in all directions as he did just now.
At this time, he was directing the soldiers to deal with the kerosene on the ship.
The five-toothed ship was painted with fire-resistant paint, but it couldn't bear the opponent splashing too much tung oil on it. Although Cao Jun raised the shield formation before and blocked the opponent's torch rockets, this was only because the opponent did not have the ability to pour oil on high places. If a rocket crossed the shield formation and ignited the tung oil high up, it would be out of control.
After taking care of the oil on the ship, Cao Wuzheng was about to lead his troops to rush to the opponent's ship. Suddenly, there was a "boom" and someone hit the rear of his ship, causing him to sway forward.
He quickly looked back and saw that it was Zhuge Liang's boat that hit him.
Zhuge Liang clung to the side of the ship to resist the collision, his face was pale but his eyes were firm.
When he looked at Cao Wu, he shouted loudly: "General, put down the big banner quickly!"
Cao Wu still didn't understand what happened, but when he heard Zhuge Liang's shout, he already reacted and directed the flag bearer to move the banner.
Cao Cao's central army banner was much heavier than ordinary flags, and it was also much heavier than the flags Cao Wu had captured before.
The four flag bearers worked together to tilt the banner at an angle in front of the Five Tooth Ship.
The Five-Toothed Ship was the highest point on the river. When the banner tilted, everyone on the battlefield could see it.
The left-wing army, Le Jin, also planned to disrupt their formation and go to rescue Zhuge Liang's building ship. However, seeing that the Chinese army's banner was still pointing directly at Lü Meng, he immediately understood and called on everyone to continue besieging Lü Meng as planned.
The right-wing army, Xu Huang, who had been stunned by Ling Tong just now, had realized that he had messed up the entire army's formation. Now that he saw Dajun's actions, he also understood and let the rows of right-wing troops behind continue to assume their original positions. Crescent shape.
Cao Jun's ability to control the navy was not as good as Jiangdong's army, and he could not come and go as freely as they did. However, Zhuge Liang's tactics were consistent and remained unchanged in response to changes.
The situation changed several times, but Cao Jun still besieged Lu Meng as originally planned.
Zhuge Liang's building ship was protected by the five-toothed ship, waiting for Jiangdong's army to attack, achieving the effect of encircling the point and calling for reinforcements.
In this way, the formation of Cao's army was not in chaos, and they surrounded Lu Meng layer by layer, thus besieging Jiangdong's army layer by layer.
At the beginning of setting sail, Cao Jun's fleet was not too dense, but this time the entire army pressed forward, and the ships became denser and denser, leaving less and less space for Jiangdong's army to pass between the ships.
Lu Meng stood on his ship and watched carefully. He knew that the focus of this battle was whether he could destroy Cao's ship that was commanding the battle.
He asked everyone in his fleet to abandon the Five-Toothed Ship, all bypass the Five-Toothed Ship, and kill the ship behind it.
He himself organized a dozen elite school swordsmen to meet Xu Chu, who was strutting on their boat.
With a "swish", the powerful crossbow loaded on the building boat was fired at Xu Chu, but Xu Chu had experienced hundreds of battles and was well prepared, and smashed the sharp arrow away with a hammer.
He held two sledgehammers in his hand, banged them twice, smashed two more people away, and charged towards Lu Meng.
Lu Meng held a sharp sword and only blocked one move. The sword was smashed away and he had to swim around the deck.
Xu Chu massacred the remaining school swordsmen. After a while, their bodies were found lying on the deck.
He wanted to kill Lu Meng, so he chased him for a few steps. Seeing that he couldn't catch up with Lu Meng, he simply threw a hammer.
With a "dang" sound, the hammer made a hole on the deck. Lu Meng turned over to avoid it, breaking into a cold sweat.
He was surprised that Cao Jun, such a fierce general, was just a guard, and he was really wasting his resources.
To deal with such a fierce general, one has to either shoot arrows from a distance, have someone of Gan Ning's strength come and hold him back head-on, or have hundreds of people come out to kill him.
But Lu Meng couldn't do these three things.
He himself is a military commander, but he is not the type known for his combat prowess.
Even though he was extremely resourceful, there was nothing he could do in the face of such power.
Seeing another hammer coming, he sighed, turned over the side of the boat, and jumped into the rolling river.
Xu Chu laughed loudly, drew out the long knife on his back, cut off Lu Meng's flag, and shouted: "Lü Meng's son is dead!"
His voice was so loud that it spread throughout the chaotic battlefield. The people on the Five-Tooth Ship listened and cheered in unison, while the people in Lu Meng's fleet wiped away their tears and continued to try to bypass the Five-Tooth Ship.
The racket poles of the Five-Toothed Ship were raised one by one, and these small sampans were knocked over one by one. Only one out of ten could successfully cross the Five-Toothed Ship.
At this time, Jiangdong's army also arrived from the right wing of Cao's army, preparing to attack Zhuge Liang's ship.
Cao Wu shouted to Xu Chu on the fifth floor boat: "Hu Chi, break the chain!"
Xu Chu agreed and came to the connection between the building ship he stepped on and the building ship next to it.
The iron rope was wrapped around the iron pillar of the ship's bow. He couldn't cut the iron, so he simply slashed at the deck with his knife.
A huge force cut a gap in the deck. The wood of the deck was so hard that his knife curled up, showing his great strength.
Xu Chu lowered his waist, grabbed the crack with both hands, exhaled loudly, and suddenly broke it open.
With what seemed to be hundreds of kilograms of force, that piece of deck, together with the iron pillars and iron cables, were all lifted up.
He threw a small piece of deck into the river, and a gap immediately appeared between the two large ships.
Cao Wu gave the order, and the ships charged with full sail. The five-toothed ship squeezed out a gap from the gap and knocked the two ships apart.
In this way, Zhuge Liang's ships were able to keep up.
The formation changed, with three large five-toothed ships, Cao Wu's advancing, and the two behind, surrounding Zhuge Liang's large ship in the middle.
In Jiangdong's army, Ling Tong and Chen Wu, who were wounded in the battle, had already led their troops to Zhuge Liang's ship, and Zhou Yu's banner was behind them.
Chen Wu felt cold when he saw this situation.
Lü Meng's general flag has fallen, and Lü Meng's life or death is unknown.
The five-toothed warships formed a formation. Under the protection of the five-toothed warships, it seemed impossible to surprise the enemy chief.
Cao's troops on the left and right wings are coming in a steady stream. If they don't leave at this time, they may be trapped in a heavy camp and never be able to get out.
But after finally fighting here, how can we be willing to do anything if we don’t do something?
At this time, the remaining ships under Lu Meng rushed to them, and Chen Wu shouted to them: "What happened to General Zhonglang?"
But seeing the sad faces of those soldiers, he immediately understood that Lu Meng was already in serious danger.
He was anxious to turn around, but unlike Cao's army, Jiangdong's army did not have the power to command on the spot and had to obey Zhou Yu's unified dispatch. Chen Wu did not dare to act without authorization.
“Buzz——!”
When Jiangdong Army's horn sounded, Chen Wu turned around and saw Zhou Yu's command flag changing again. He shouted with great joy: "My sons, follow me to attack the enemy ships!"
He took the lead and climbed to the top of a short ladder.
It turns out that the side of the Wuya large ship is higher than that of the building ship. It is very difficult to board the Wuya large ship to fight in a normal encounter. Jiangdong Army summed up the method during these few days of battle, imitating siege equipment and built a bunch of small ones. Soldiers only need to stand on the top of the short ladder to board the five-toothed ship.
On the battlefield, there is a battle of wits and courage, and weapons and equipment are also improved in this confrontation.
However, this kind of opportunity is obtained by risking one's life. The racket stick of the Five-Tooth Ship keeps falling, and not many people can board the Five-Tooth Ship as expected.
Dozens of soldiers boarded a large ship with five teeth, like ants climbing up driftwood. It seemed insignificant, but it was the first time since Ling Tong boarded the ship that the large ship with five teeth was attacked.
The person who commanded this five-toothed ship was Linghu Shao, the Prime Minister's Chief Registrar. Linghu Shao was an honest and upright official, but he was also a scholar.
During the Eastern Han Dynasty, the gap between civil and military officials was not that big. Many officials dismounted to study and mounted to kill the enemy.
Because the five-tooth ship had many skills and ordinary military officers were rough and could not command it, two literati, Heng Jie and Linghu Shao, commanded the two ships respectively and followed Cao Wu.
Now the soldiers were fighting hand to hand. Linghu Shao held his sword and led the crowd to meet the enemy. With strong crossbows as cover, he killed Chen Wu twice.
Chen Wu instead sent people to find a way to block the racket stick. He actually found two secret rooms that controlled the racket stick, destroyed the racket stick, and killed the soldiers who were shaking the racket stick.
As a result, Jiangdong's army gathered more and more, and more and more people boarded the ship. Linghu Shao's headband was cut off, and his hair was disheveled.
All the soldiers tried their best to pull him back, but Linghu Shao said: "The big ship is a weapon for conquering the world, how can it be killed in my hands? The soldiers don't need to worry about me, but I have to kill thieves!"
After saying this, he stepped out from the crowd to attack Chen Wu.
Chen Wu was stabbed by Le Jin during the night of Huanggai's false surrender. The injury did not heal, and the ship could not be attacked for a long time. He was already annoyed, so he used all his strength to fight with Linghu Shao on the deck.
In December of the thirteenth year of Jian'an, Linghu Shao, the prime minister of the Han Dynasty, died in battle at Chibi on the Yangtze River.
Ten breaths later, Chen Wu, the general of the Han Dynasty who was fighting against the enemy, was also shot to death by an arrow.
Jiangdong's army defended the enemy on all sides and could not attack the Wuya ship for a long time, so they began to retreat.
