The 224th chapter Zhou Yu defeated (1)
"Mr. Zirou, where are we going now!" Although Deng Long's naval army was going upstream, they were all elite naval army. They were quick and skillful in their movements. The soldiers in the tower ship paddled their oars very vigorously. They knew when the hydrology of this big river should accelerate and when to change direction, so they would enter the waters of Jiangxia in less than half a day!
These warship soldiers were Liu Biao's army in Jingzhou, and the current leading general was Deng Long under Huang Zu's command. Although these naval troops were his, he had to listen to Kuai Liang's words, because Kuai Liang's low position in Jingzhou was similar to his lord's lord.
Kuai Liang did not answer Deng Long's question immediately but asked Deng Long, "General Deng Long, you are already familiar with the crossbow on this warship now!"
"Hmm?!" Deng Long was a little confused, but he still replied, "Mr. Zirou, you can already marching and fight!" Deng Long was not boasting that his troops were still OK, and those crossbows were not too complicated. As long as you can aim, Deng Long said that you can marching and fight, and that marching and fight would be a bad thing. Deng Long dared to say that he could marching and fight was a sign of confidence!
"Very good!" Kuai Liang wanted Deng Long's words, "Does General Deng Long want to make a great contribution in front of your lord Huang Zu!"
"Great credit?" Deng Long was stunned. Now the Jiangxia army has been being suppressed and beaten by the Jiangdong Navy, so how can there be great credit?
"You said that if we drove away Jiangdong Mei Zhou Lang, who occupied half of my Jiangxia, you would be more arrogant than you! You will also be in Jingzhou Mu. Maybe you can be truly exiled to become the prefect of a county!" Kuai Liang continued to tempt Deng Long. He knew that although Deng Long was under Huang Zu's command, he had always been too high and not too low. He had the ability. Otherwise, he would not be sent to accept these warships with him. However, he had never been able to compete with Su Fei and Huang Zhong before, so he had no chance of commanding the army by himself. Now Huang Zhong and Su Fei have left. Seeing that Deng Long was about to stand out, but who knew that most of Jiangxia was occupied by Jiangdong Army. Now even his lord Huang Zu cannot protect himself. Who cares about Deng Long's promotion and wealth?
"Mr. Zirou, you don't really want us to use these warships to fight Zhou Yu in a decisive battle!" Deng Long felt a little guilty. He didn't expect it, but you should know that Zhou Yu had 30,000 naval troops, and only 30,000 naval troops could suppress the 70,000 Jingzhou naval troops led by Wen Pin, and could not move, so both sides could only remain in Jiangxia.
"What! General Deng Long is afraid!" A trace of disdain appeared on the corner of Kuai Liang's mouth, which was a kind of open mockery.
"Not afraid!" Deng Long wanted to defend himself, afraid? Which man was willing to admit that he was afraid? He was cowardly? But before Deng Long could explain, Kuai Liang next to him directly interrupted his words.
"General Deng Long, you should know Gan Ning among the Lu Bu army!" Kuai Liang walked to the bow of the boat. Looking at the vast Yangtze River, what a beautiful place, here. Here, this area of water should belong to them Jingzhou! But now it has changed its master.
"Gan Ning!" Deng Long really knew Gan Ning. He was the Sima of Su Fei and Deng Long had never been able to get along well. Deng Long looked down on Gan Ning and thought that this person was a thief, but Gan Ning's ability was there! Especially when Deng Long was an official army, he suffered the losses from Gan Ning, so Deng Long was very unhappy about Gan Ning!
"The Gan Ning of Lu Bu's army was in this water area. Only 7,000 weak Lu Bu's naval forces wiped out Sun Ce's 30,000 naval troops in one battle without any injury!" Kuai Liang was still talking, and he also saw the expression on Deng Long's face, and there was a kind of disgust and dissatisfaction. This shows that Deng Long not only knew Gan Ning, but also had a holiday with Gan Ning, but this is what Kuai Liang wanted.
"Mr. Zirou!" Before Kuai Yue finished speaking, Deng Long began to breathe heavily, and his face turned red, which was a sign of shame and anger: "No need to say, Deng Long is willing to obey Mr. Zirou's order!" Although Deng Long also knew that the 30,000 naval troops defeated by Gan Ning were not comparable to Zhou Yu's 30,000 naval troops in Jiangxia now, but don't forget that the soldiers under Gan Ning's command were not as elite as Deng Long's own. It was not Deng Long who boasted that Gan Ning's subordinates were half of Jiangxia's original naval troops and half were newly recruited new recruits. How could such a combination be comparable to his command?
"Haha, this is my general in Jingzhou, and this is the powerful general under General Huang!" Kuai Liang was not stingy with his praise at all.
"Mr. Zirou is too rewarded!" Deng Long also made up his mind. Isn't it just a battle? As generals, they had never thought of dying in battle! Instead of always being under Huang Zu's command, they might as well try their best. Perhaps they can win a future. Even Gan Ning's thief could defeat the Jiangdong naval army. Why can Deng Long not do it? Gan Ning is relying on these warships and the weapon on this warship. Now he also has it.
"From the flag first!" Kuai Liang issued the first order, and Deng Long went to execute it without thinking. Kuai Liang lowered all the battle flags of Jingzhou, in order to surprise the Jiangdong naval army. Kuai Liang is not a famous figure. He and his brother Kuai Yue helped Liu Biao pacify Jingzhou to see Kuai Liang's ability.
However, Liu Biao no longer had the aura and the idea of expanding territory, which left Kuai Liang no longer able to use his skills. If we really count it, Kuai Liang was the military advisor of the entire Jingzhou Army, not Cai Mao, a person with higher strength than wisdom but not very good strength!
The Jingzhou navy still cruised on the river as usual. They did not take a detour back to the camp belonging to the Jingzhou naval army, but headed towards the other direction Sanjiangkou. This base occupied by the Jiangdong naval army governor Zhou Yu, was preparing to attack the hinterland of Jingzhou.
Over the past few days, wars broke out almost every day. Zhou Yu's navy started from Sanjiangkou, and Jiangxia's navy started from Xiakou. After that, the two navy troops fought on the Yangtze River. Because Jiangxia was in the upper reaches, he could occasionally see the bodies in the costumes of the two armies from the Yangtze River along the lower reaches.
"The Jiangdong Naval Army Camp is in front of you!" Sanjiangkou was right in front of you. Sanjiangkou is not a place like the Wancheng Naval Army Camp that can only be used as a transitional naval army camp. It is a large camp. In other words, it is a city on the water. It can not only garrison troops but also people come and go. It has formed his unique geographical location. There are only two such naval cities in Jiangxia, one is Xiakou and the other is Sanjiangkou!
Kuai Liang could even see the flags planted at the mouth of Sanjiang River. The soldiers of the Jiangdong naval army there were really very strict guards and were all elites. No one was sleeping. They were all staring at the water surface of the Yangtze River with a bright look. This was the elite under Zhou Yu’s command!
Kuai Liang saw Sanjiangkou, and the naval soldiers at Sanjiangkou naturally saw this fleet. The lookout soldiers were very strange. This was a fleet of fleets, but they did not hold any of the flags. There were more than twenty ships. This was already a built-in naval army. The lookout soldiers themselves could not find out whether they were enemies or friends, so they naturally reported to their superiors.
"There are unknown fleets outside the Sanjiangkou!" One layer after another, the person responsible for guarding the camp this time was Han Dang. This man was an old minister of the Sun family, good at bows and arrows, riding skills, and was highly skilled, so he was appreciated by Sun Jian. He followed him to fight and fight, took risks and difficulties several times, captured the enemy, and made many military achievements. He was later appointed as a Sima of another department. During the process of Sun Ce's conquering Jiangdong, this man was extremely brave and was already a god-refining warrior when he followed Sun Jian. So many years have passed, and although he is old, his martial arts have not fallen at all.
As soon as he heard the arrival of an unknown fleet, Han Dang immediately stood up and ran towards the head of the Navy Dazhai City with the battalion officers of the observation soldiers.
After arriving on the city wall, more than twenty warships were sailing towards Sanjiangkou one after another. "These warships?!" Han Dang looked at these warships, and there was no identification sign on them. They were not from their Jiangdong Navy or from the Jingzhou Navy, because the Jingzhou Navy camp was in this upstream, and should be driven from that aspect, rather than from the downstream.
Han Dang remembered that these warships were not the naval forces of Lu Bu’s army!
"Aren't these Lu Bu's navy?" A general next to him spoke. He looked at the warships and said to Han Dang.
"Lu Bu army warships?! Are you sure?" Han Dang asked, "Lu Bu army warships? Could it be the fleet that sent Jiang Qin into the bottom of the river?"
"General Han, the last general is sure!" The general who replied nodded, it would be fine. These warships came from the downstream, and because this general was responsible for patrol in Huangzhou, he had seen these Lu Bu army naval forces. At that time, under Gan Ning's command, they went directly towards Huangzhou and Wuchang, which scared everyone and thought Gan Ning was about to start a war!
"Why didn't the navy army, who was the slave of the three surnames, put on the flag?" Han Dang was a little disdainful. He had a bad impression of Lu Bu. His old lord Gongsun Jian and his current lord Gongsun Ce had never suffered a loss in Lu Bu's hands. Han Dang was like this, whoever was good was the Jiangdong Army was right, wouldn't be a good person!
"Elder General, look at those huge things on those warships!" The general pointed to the crossbows wrapped in black cloth on the warships and said, "Only Lu Bu's naval army has this sharp weapon, which was the one who defeated General Jiang Qin to annihilate!"
He had patrolled Huangzhou and naturally rescued the soldiers who jumped into the Yangtze River to escape. From the soldiers, he learned from the soldiers that these Ganning navy had magical tools that could penetrate warships and sink the entire warship.
"Bed crossbow!" Han Dang was also a senior member of Sun Ce's naval army, so he naturally knew the name of this thing. "Hmph, what are the slaves from the three surnames here for doing here! Show off their power!" Han Dang was very unhappy. Now the Lu Bu army and the Jiangdong naval army were on truce. It is impossible for Gan Ning to come over to fight the Jiangdong naval army now. The rules of the peace talks Lu Bu army will still abide by the rules of the peace talks. Now only Yaowu is the only one left. "What arrogance! In a few days, our army can have a bed crossbow!" Han Dang already knew from Zhou Yu. Jiangdong got the drawings of the bed crossbow and started to build it. The first batch of bed crossbows had been manufactured, so he was waiting to be loaded into the ship to transport it to Sanjiangkou. They are the front line of the war, and all the supplies need to be given to them first! They also installed the bed crossbows in a few days. Han Dang really wanted to use the Ganning naval army to practice the target! At worst, he would say that he accidentally injured and compensated some gold.
"This must be Gan Ning's navy, right!" Another general spoke. This general had fought against Gan Ning. Gan Ning was very inconspicuous when he was in Jiangxia. However, when he arrived at Lu Bu's command, he fought such a shocking battle. Gan Ning was originally a Jinfan thief. So what Gan Ning liked the most was to use brocade clothes as a ship decoration on the warship, and the bells sounded in the strong wind. These were all Gan Ning's symbols!
The bells and brocades on Kuai Liang's ship were indeed left by Gan Ning. They didn't have time to take them away. Now they are directly misunderstood to be Gan Ning's navy. This has to be said to be an unexpected joy.
"General, the army is going to go out to camp later, look!" Almost every day, Zhou Yu's navy wants the Jingzhou navy to have a friendship battle. Both sides want to seize the opponent's flaws in these days' battles, otherwise it would be too much of a waste of money. For food, grass and weapons, it is a long-distance transportation. Sun Ce's army cannot give up half of Jiangxia that he got. Jingzhou navy cannot let Jiangdong Sun Ce swallow his city. It is just like this. The daily military consumption is very heavy. Pull the soldiers out of battle. First, the people who died in battle can eat less food, grass and use less weapons. The second is to boost morale. If you can't fight for a long time, you will hurt morale and fight too much. The soldiers will be lazy. Anyway, it is better to take a break if you can't catch them, right?
In a while, the army will leave the camp and go to the Yangtze River to fight against the Liubiao naval army in Jingzhou. There are so many people outside the camp, which makes the entire army restless and not good to fight. After the fight is just quit, the one who will be unlucky is Zhou Yu's naval army. His naval army does not have a crossbow yet! Don't fight! These naval army are very uncomfortable. You say that he seems to be being monitored here for no reason. The most important thing is that if the army leaves the camp, he may have the possibility of dispersing the entire army!
Han Dang frowned. This was indeed a problem, but then he spoke, "What are you afraid of!" Han Dang waved his hand, "We are just one more spectator when we come out! Let him see our elite naval army in Jiangdong and let the young people cheer up." Han Dang didn't care at all, wasn't he just let you see it! Since you want to see, then look more and see what the difference is between your Lu Bu army and our Jiangdong naval army, which makes you ashamed!
"Yes!" One by one, they took the school down and prepared. The gate of the Sanjiangkou camp slowly opened, and warships followed one by one drove out of the camp. These were Zhou Yu's navy. They were all elites, standing on the warships with high spirits, looking at the warships beside them that were considered the Ganning navy. It was a provocation and a disdain! These were all a group of piranhas. They had their own confidence. They were confident that they were the overlords on the Yangtze River! It was just a temporary luck that these Ganning navy could defeat Jiang Qin!
"It's worthy of being the Mei Zhou Lang of Jiangdong!" Kuai Liang watched these warships sail out of the camp one by one. The morale of the soldiers and the unruly eyes were no wonder that they could suppress the Jingzhou naval army. Although the Jingzhou naval army was also elite, they did not have the spirit of charging and fighting for life, that kind of spirit! If an army loses its spirit, it can only be used as elite, not as a trump card! The spirit lost by the Jingzhou naval army is because of the lord! What kind of spirit can the old and dying Liu Biao have? Moreover, these naval warships are allocated very well, one after another, and the distance between each one is almost the same. This cannot be done without hard work!
"Mr. Zirou!" Deng Long walked to Kuai Liang's side. To be honest, Deng Long's palms are covered with sweat now. In front of him is the Sanjiangkou Camp. Once these Jiangdong naval troops were surrounded by others, they would be really done! But now Kuai Liang is standing here leisurely and can still evaluate these Jiangdong naval troops.
"General Deng Long, don't panic! They can't find us!" Kuai Liang comforted Deng Long. The reason he asked Deng Long to put down the flag was because he wanted to pretend to be the Lu Bu Army Navy. He directly used the Lu Bu Army flag to destroy the friendship with Lu Bu Army. If you do bad things under my banner, I will give you a good face, but this does not prevent these Jiangdong Navy from misunderstandings! Kuai Liang asked Deng Long to put down the Jingzhou Navy flag, but he did not put the Lu Bu Army flag to tell everyone that it was your Jiangdong Navy who admitted his mistake. If you were confused and didn't see clearly, don't blame me!
"I hope!" Fortunately, they are downstream, and once there is a situation, they can raise the sails and escape in time.
Most of the Jiangdong navy had already left the camp, and then followed closely a warship that was much larger than the two previous tower ships. Not only were there many floors on the warships, but the soldiers were several times that of other tower ships. There were also generals wearing general armor on it.
"Here!" Kuai Liang sneered. What he wanted was this warship. This was the flagship of the Jiangdong Navy, and this was also the ship of Zhou Yu, the commander of the Jiangdong Navy. What he wanted was to directly lead these twenty warships into the Jiangdong Navy fleet and go directly to the flagship. As long as the flagship was sent to the bottom of the river, the entire Jiangdong Navy would be defeated without fighting.
"Hmph! I saw it! The three surnames slaves, this is our Jiangdong naval army!" Han Dang was very proud. These naval army were the aces of Jiangdong. Especially their commander Zhou Yu, who is a talent! Han Dang had never convinced many people, and this Zhou Yu was one of them!
"Elder General, look at these naval warships moving!" The general of the border reminded Han Dang.
"It's moved. Of course it's moved. They are ashamed and they are going back!" Han Dang said carelessly. The overall quality of the Jiangdong Navy is really not comparable to that of Gan Ning's subordinates and Jingzhou Navy. Otherwise, it would be impossible to defeat Jingzhou Navy two or three!
"No, they moved towards us!" shouted the general of the side. "They raised the battle flag! Green!"
"Green?!" Han Dang had not had time to react! Isn't Lu Bujun's flag black? Why is it green?
"The navy of Liu Biao in Jingzhou, the navy of Liu Biao in Jingzhou!" The general shouted, "This is not the navy of Lu Bu's army, but the navy of Liu Biao in Jingzhou. Only Liu Biao will use this dark green to represent the dark green of wood!
"Liu Biao's army!" Han Dang was a little stunned. It wasn't Gan Ning's navy! How did it become Liu Biao? It was said that it was Gan Ning! But Han Dang deserves to be a veteran and immediately shouted, "Enemy attack, enemy attack! The whole army is ready to fight!" Although the old man was old, his voice could be heard on the entire river, which was much better than beating a drum.
"The navy of Jiangdong!" Zhou Yu on the flagship also saw the more than 20 tower ships coming straight towards his flagship. Didn't it be the navy of Lu Bu's army? How could it be Liu Biao's men! But all this is not important anymore. Since you are here, don't leave!
These twenty or so ships are only a few thousand men! If it were tens of thousands of Zhou Yu, he could still frown, and thousands of men? Is this here to die!
"Swallow him! Give him a big gift to Liu Biao!" Zhou Yu's flagship issued orders one by one, and the entire fleet began to operate. Zhou Yu's flagship rushed towards the direction inside the fleet. Other warships along the way began to make way. After the difficulty, fill in the vacant position of the flagship before!
"Don't blame me for giving away the money for free!" Han Dang came to his senses, but there were only more than twenty warships! They had more than one hundred tower ships, and the Jiangdong navy has always fought with fewer and more, and these thousands of troops were not enough to divide them.
Han Dang's ship was in the first place, and the soldiers on the warship rowed desperately and fell down in line, so they soon arrived in front of the warships hundreds of steps. Behind Han Dang was his commander, and Han Dang was also a general who led troops here. Although Zhou Yu said that Han Dang could only be the deputy general's material, it was about commanding troops alone. In this kind of battle, Han Dang still had 5,000 subordinates and could form an independent army!
"Han's big flag?" Kuai Liang looked at the battle flag coming towards his fleet and smiled: "It's Han Dang!" Han Dang was an old man in the time of Sun Jian. Kuai Liang had participated in the killing of Sun Jian. The one who made the most efforts in Sun Jian was not Huang Zu but Kuai's brothers. Huang Zu just implemented it according to the plan! Sun Jian, the tiger in Jiangdong, made Liu Biao feel threatened, so the Kuai brothers wanted to help the lord remove the threat. Sun Jian was shot to death by Huang Zu's army. Liu Biao thought he could be stable. Who knew that he would have another son after he died. Sun Jian's eldest son Sun Ce actually relied on himself to take several brothers and the elderly Sun Jian's army to sweep the entire Jiangdong, and once again became a major concern in Jingzhou. But it doesn't matter. If Zhou Yu's navy is destroyed today, Jingzhou will be safe for ten years!
When Zhou Yu died, Sun Ce broke his arm. Sun Ce had only three main players in total, and lost one in Wancheng. If one is lost here today, there will be only one left in Jiangdong. Self-protection will become a problem at that time. I will still be in the mood to attack Jingzhou!
"Let's use your Han Ding first!" Kuai Liang's fleet was only five hundred steps away from Han Ding's troops, four hundred steps, and three hundred and fifty steps! Deng Long's subordinates showed all the temperament of elite troops, that is, calmness. They were not like Gan Ning's subordinates, because they were nervous, before Gan Ning could even wait for Gan Ning to say that they could shoot, and some people couldn't help but shoot out. These Jingzhou navy soldiers, Kuai Liang did not say that they would shoot, and they would never move at all!
"Three hundred steps!" Deng Long looked at Kuai Yue and said. These three hundred steps were what the Ganning navy told them. It was time for them to shoot, but Kuai Liang still did not move.
"Two hundred and fifty steps! Two hundred steps!" If this continues, the battle will begin! The Jiangdong Navy on the opposite side and the longbow in his hand will be pulled up.
"Shoot!" With a command from Kuai Liang, countless giant arrows suddenly flew out from the deck of the building. More than 100 giant arrows from more than 20 warships rushed towards Han Dang's warship.
"What is this!" Han Dang was stunned. He had never seen such things before. Every arrow was larger than the paddle of a warship, and this force was "boom!" Han Dang staggered and did not stand firmly. His warship was taken care of. More than twenty giant arrows directly hit the tower ship. The thick wooden boards could not resist the penetration of the giant arrows and were directly bloomed by the bottom of the ship!
The surging river water directly poured into the cabin of the warship. This was already good. Han Dang's deputy general was nailed to death by a giant arrow on the warship. His internal organs were exposed and flowed all over the ground, and the general armor on his body was torn apart.
The other warships were the same in just one moment, and Han Dang lost six or seven warships.
"Roar over, rush over!" Han Dang, like Jiang Qin, thought this thing was powerful but could only shoot at one time, so that his warships under his command rushed over and chased after him. However, unexpectedly, those giant arrows were shot out again on the Liu Biao army's warships.
This time, even Zhou Yu was not calm. "Shooting continuously! So powerful?!" Zhou Yu really didn't expect that the power of this crossbow could reach this level. Although Sun Ce introduced it in his letter, Zhou Yu still didn't believe it, but now he had to believe it. In the second round of shooting, several more tower ships were directly sent to the bottom of the river.
"Damn it!" Han Dang yelled. His warship had already sunk half into the water. If it weren't for the wood, it would have sunk now. But Han Dang knew that he could not stay on the ship anymore. Even if he could stay, he would be dragged into the bottom of the river by the whirlpool formed by the sunken warship.
Han Dang was angry with his subordinates. Those were all men he trained, but they were fed directly to the turtle before they met the enemy! Han Dang could not scold him! His current thoughts were exactly the same as Jiang Qin at that time. How could there be such a weapon? How could there be such a disposal? The broken warships were killed and wounded, and the river was ruined.
"Shoot!" Kuai Liang would not sympathize with these enemies. He issued another order without hesitation. Swhoosh, the whole sky was once again filled with rain of arrows.
The entire fleet of Zhou Yu's army began to become chaotic. People were most afraid of something. The first was an unknown thing, and the second was a new thing. The navy troops had fought for so many years, but they had never seen it before. It turned out that the navy could still fight like this! Some warships were panicked and began to fight across the border, while others began to hide in the gap and let other warships block the front! (To be continued...)
Chapter completed!