The Three Kingdoms become stronger when they get treasures

Chapter 169
On the great river, Sun Quan and Zhou Yu are leading an army of [-] to Jiangxia. According to the plan, after defeating the Jiangxia navy, the Jiangdong army will be divided into two, one part led by Sun Quan will enter Jiangxia, and the other part will be led by Zhou Yu to go straight to Jiangling.At that time, Tai Shici will also lead an army from Yuzhang County over the mountain to attack Changsha County in the four counties of Jingnan.

Standing at the bow of the boat, Sun Quan looked at the mighty army behind him and the green hills on both sides, full of pride. This battle was not only a battle of revenge, but also a battle of opening up the frontier for him as the lord of Jiangdong.After this battle, he will sit in Yangzhou and Jingzhou, Jiangdong's power will rise sharply, and he will finally surpass his brother Sun Ce!
However, Zhou Yu has always been worried. Since ancient times, those who join forces for profit must divide for profit.Now that Jiangdong and Cao Cao jointly attack and carve up Jingzhou, it can be said that Jingzhou is doomed, but then?Cao Cao was really willing to pay such a high price, but only got one Xiangyang?
Even if Cao Cao will abide by the agreement for the time being, but after he establishes a firm foothold in Xiangyang, he will inevitably raise troops to seize Jiangling again, and he does not know whether he can hold it.

At this time, a soldier suddenly shouted: "There is a big ship ahead, it is the Jiangxia Navy!"

Sun Quan looked up, and there was indeed a fleet of ships coming from the upper reaches of the front. The flag was Jiangxia's navy, and the one leading the army was Gan Ning, the prefect of Jiangxia.

"Prepare to meet the enemy!" Zhou Yu ordered, but it's not normal, this has not yet reached Jiangxia's territory, how dare Jiangxia's navy dare to take the initiative to fight!
But it's too late to think about it. Since we have encountered an encounter, it depends on who reacts faster, and although the Jiangdong navy is stronger than the Jiangxia navy, the Jiangxia navy has an upper hand. But it's a big advantage.The navy in the upper reaches rowed with the current, saving more energy and going faster.

In history, Jin defeated Wu, Sui destroyed Chen, and Li Jing conquered Xiao Mian first captured the upper reaches of Bashu or Jingxiang, and then went down the river to the east.Cao Cao and his son crossed the river directly from Huainan twice, but returned without success.

As soon as the two sides started fighting, Zhou Yu found that Jiangxia's navy was resisting fiercely. The Jinfan bandit Gan Ning even led his troops to charge ahead, and none of the Jiangdong army was his opponent.

"Gan Ning is the number one general in the Jingzhou navy. He is extremely brave. We need to send a few more generals to defeat him." Zhou Yu suggested.

Afterwards, Sun Quan ordered Huang Gai, Xu Sheng, Pan Zhang, Ling Tong, Jiang Qin, Dong Xi and others to lead their troops to charge forward. He didn't believe it. No matter how brave Gan Ning was, he was only one person, and he could withstand such an attack. Multiplayer attack together?
However, when the Jiangdong Army rushed forward, suddenly a rain of arrows flew from the opposite fleet to cover the sky, and then there were even big round stones hitting them!

Because the Jiangdong army was too dense, they were shot by arrows one after another, and some fell into the river.It's better for the big rock to hit the big ship, at most it will make a hole in the deck, but if it hits the small boat, it will overturn immediately or make a big hole in the bottom of the boat, and the boat will sink after a while.

Only then did Zhou Yu discover that the battle location chosen by the Jiangxia navy was not conducive to his own side. The river surface was narrower than other places, and it was inconvenient for the Jiangdong navy army to deploy, and why would there be a big stone in this water battle?Even if a trebuchet is installed on the opponent's ship, but the ship is not on land, it is impossible to install a large trebuchet. How can it throw such a large stone and hit it so far?

Zhou Yu quickly ordered to suspend the attack, and sent troops to bypass the main battlefield to check the specific situation behind Jiangxia's navy.

When the Jiangxia Navy and the Jiangdong Navy were at war, Cao Ren and Li Dian also led troops to Jiangxia City, ready to cooperate with the Jiangdong Navy to attack the city.When he learned that the Jiangdong navy had fought against the Jiangxia navy, and that Gan Ning had indeed appeared on the river, Cao Ren sent someone to report to Cao Cao while preparing to attack the city.

At this time, the banner with the word "Su" was hanging above the city of Jiangxia. Cao Ren knew that it was Jiangxia's deputy general Su Fei who was guarding the city, and he didn't pay much attention to Su Fei at all.

When Cao Cao learned that the Jiangdong navy had held back the Jiangxia navy, and that Gan Ning was fighting with the Jiangdong navy, he finally waited for the opportunity to cross the river, so he ordered the navy to leave the village and head towards the center of the Hanshui River, preparing to fight against the Xiangyang navy. Army decisive battle.

The Jiangdong navy suffered heavy losses despite the fierce attack from the opposite side, but they finally found out the true situation of the Jiangxia navy.

It turned out that the Jiangxia navy deployed conventional warships in front of the formation, and Gan Ning personally led them to resist the attack of the Jiangdong navy, while the Chinese army was several giants.The Jiangdong soldiers approached desperately and found that it was a huge warship made of dozens of warships tied together with iron locks, like a small island across the river.

A large catapult was installed on the deck of the iron-locked giant ship, and there were densely packed archers standing there, firing rounds of salvos under the command of the officer.The catapult was the new catapult that had made Jiangdong's army suffer so much.If this kind of large catapult is installed on an ordinary warship, even the largest building ship, it will not be able to accommodate a few units, and ordinary warships cannot withstand the shock of this large catapult.

But now the Jiangxia Navy has connected so many warships together, and they just created a small land on the river, making that impossible possible.

The catapult hit so far and accurately that even Sun Quan's command ship was almost smashed, and Sun Quan was so frightened that he quickly retreated the ship.

This is the iron chain boat that Cao Cao made in the original book, and was later burned by Zhou Yu. The 80 army was really wiped out, and even Cao Cao himself almost died.But this thing is really useful, this is a small castle on the water, this is the prototype of the aircraft carrier that Zhang Wu's later generations have seen!

Water warfare is nothing more than shooting with bows and arrows, jumping off boats and hacking each other, or sending people to dive and dig boats.The original version of the aircraft carrier created by Zhang Wu can carry more soldiers, and can deploy large catapults that could not be used otherwise, which is sharper than Jiangdong Army in terms of attack.It would be better if you send troops to jump over to fight. Anyway, basically no one dares to wear thick iron armor in water battles. The crossbowmen on my boat have targets to shoot.

As for the shortcoming of being afraid of fire attacks, don't worry about it now.First of all, the Jiangdong army did not expect that the Jiangxia navy would have this method of warfare, and did not prepare flammable objects in advance.Secondly, the Jiangdong army is downstream, so the fire boat cannot float over, and there are other boats blocking the iron chain boat.Finally, the wind direction today is not east. If the Jiangdong army set fire to it, they would play with fire and set themselves on fire in all likelihood.

The large water fortresses of the Jiangxia navy lay across the river, like a wall blocking the way of the Jiangdong navy. The Jiangdong navy had no way to do it for a while, as long as they approached, they would be overwhelming with bows, arrows and stones.

(End of this chapter)