Weird Three Kingdoms
Chapter 3484: Chain Effects of Tiny Factors
Chapter 3484: Chain Effects of Tiny Factors
The river is rushing, and no matter how beautiful the words people use to praise it are, it will not stop for a moment.
The keyboard is the keyboard, and reality is reality.
Not all wise people have the superpower of predicting the future like keyboard warriors.
Cao Cao's military ability at least surpassed Ma Jun's. Even Pang Tong was mostly defeated by Cao Cao due to the gap in experience.
Since Cao Cao had designed the trap, how could he let Ma Jun and others leave so easily?
Cao Cao is Cao Cao after all. He personally dug holes for several warships. Could Ma Jun escape so easily?
The concealing tent was lifted, revealing the crossbow carts and catapults hidden behind the tent, which continuously poured stones and crossbows into the river.
Although this kind of long-range weapon is powerful, its hit rate is obviously quite average. The vast majority of stone bullets and crossbows fell into the water, but the very few that could hit the ships of the Hussar Navy caused great damage to the Hussar Navy!
If these were the only means of attack, then the cavalry navy would speed up and might be able to escape the range of Cao's long-range firepower. However, Cao Cao not only deployed catapults and crossbow carts, but also had people yank up the ropes buried under the river!
Block the river!
It's a simple trap like a tripwire.
But it can make Guan Erye stumble.
In its life, Red Hare crossed countless mountain streams, dodged countless swords, spears and arrows, and escaped countless traps, but in the end, it fell in front of a simple hemp rope...
The same was true of the Guanzhong naval fleet led by Ma Jun.
Originally, the river blocking rope was not a difficult move for the Guanzhong navy. After all, Cao's army did not even have an iron chain, but only pulled the most ordinary hemp rope.
Hemp rope will rot if soaked in water for too long, and it is not as strong as iron rope, but it has one special advantage: it is cheap, and it is also an indispensable item in military supplies and available in sufficient quantity.
If one rope is not strong enough, then use ten or twenty of them. A hemp rope tied together has quite good resistance in a short period of time.
If it were not for the current situation, even if this kind of hemp rope could temporarily stop the tower ship, it would be picked up by the soldiers of the Guanzhong navy and chopped off with an axe. Even if it could not be cut with one axe, it would only take another axe.
Moreover, during the normal sailing of the fleet, there are usually fighting ships in front of the tower ship to clear the way. The fighting ships are equipped with equipment and manpower specifically for dealing with this kind of river blocking ropes, but the problem is that they are not in a normal sailing state now...
The stone bullets and crossbows that kept pouring down from the earth slope, even if they didn't hit the ships directly, just splashed water all over the surrounding area, which was enough to put a lot of psychological pressure on these naval soldiers!
It’s like no matter how fluently you memorize a speech at home, when you really step onto the stage, the lights shine on you, and everyone’s eyes are focused on you, even if you have performed on stage many times and have had success before, you may not be able to be relaxed and not nervous every time you go on stage.
Especially on a stage involving life and death!
The slightest negligence will be infinitely magnified under the lights of the life and death stage and cause a chain reaction!
Ma Jun and others were in an extremely embarrassing situation...
Although the destructive power of Cao's stone bullets was not as great as that of the Hussars' artillery, they could easily crack and break the deck or wooden walls of the cabin if they hit them.
At the same time, although Cao's crossbows may not cause casualties, as long as they hit the hull, they will penetrate the outer wooden boards and hang on the side of the ship. Some crossbow stone bullets that hit the side of the ship will also cause some sealed compartments to leak water, affecting the center of gravity of the ship.
Ma Jun dismantled the cannons on the side, which had already aggravated the shift in the center of gravity on the side of the building ship. Now it was bombarded by Cao's army's stone bullets and crossbows, and some watertight compartments were leaking water, causing the center of gravity of the building ship to shift further to one side!
And the key point is that once this center of gravity shifts, it will become more and more serious, more and more tilted, and then cause other heavy objects to start moving to one side!
The entire ship slowly fell to the right, and with the soldiers who had unstable footing and rushed to the right, the right side of the ship became increasingly heavier, and it looked like it was in danger of capsizing and sinking into the water.
Ma Jun was the first to react, "Hold the port side! Throw the starboard side!"
At this time, the ship had a tendency to tilt to the right, and the gun mount installed in the cabin began to creak!
At this time, no one cared which items on the deck were useful and which were useless. Everyone was busy throwing things on the starboard side into the river.
Arrow, throw!
Wooden basin, throw it!
Ballast stone, throw it!
Artillery shells, throw!
……
After finally readjusting the center of gravity of the ship, Ma Jun discovered that most of the "little gifts" originally prepared for Cao's army on the ship had been thrown away!
If the cannon was not so heavy and fixed on the gun mount, someone might have thrown it into the water.
It’s too late to say something like this cannot be thrown away and that should be thrown away.
If there was an if, Pang Tong would definitely send a keyboard warrior on board, so that the keyboard warrior could foresee the future and prevent the chain reaction from happening when Ma Jun suddenly changed the position of the artillery, cut off the chain of cause and effect, and forge the supreme path...
Unfortunately not.
Therefore, it was a very good result that Ma Jun reacted quickly in such a situation and prevented the ship from capsizing in extreme circumstances.
But Ma Jun felt as if his face was burning, as if Cao Cao had slapped him hard on the face several times!
Before he set out, he still felt that he could easily defeat Cao's army!
Ma Jun's ship was badly damaged. Some people on other ships were stunned, while others realized the danger to Ma Jun. Without waiting for Ma Jun to issue any orders, they spontaneously urged their ships to approach Ma Jun's ship...
The purpose of these ships was of course to rescue Ma Jun and the soldiers on Ma Jun's ship who fell into the water due to the attack by Cao's army.
At this time, Ma Jun had not yet fully recovered from the blow he had suffered...
This is the drawback of non-professional soldiers.
The Hussar Army is professional, but the Hussar Navy is not.
Just like when the stock market is rising, any stock you buy will go up in value, it’s just a matter of how much it goes up, and everyone feels like they are a stock god!
Only in difficult times can the gap between high and low levels be seen.
After all, Ma Jun was not a professional general. By the time he realized the danger, the second wave of attack from Cao’s army arrived!
The water surface suddenly became extremely lively. The Guanzhong navy fleet, which had been well-organized, was in chaos and colliding with each other. One of the warships was even overturned by its companions, and the soldiers on the ship fell into the water. Coupled with the stone bullets and crossbows of Cao's army, water and blood splashed everywhere!
Ma Jun finally reacted at this time and shouted for the ships to disperse, but the chaotic sounds drowned out his shouts and the flickering flames made it difficult to convey the orders!
This is the opportunity Cao Cao has been waiting for!
As soon as he saw the cavalry navy staying in the river and busy rescuing people, he immediately ordered an attack.
At the command, a team of archers who were ambushing on the river bank rushed out from their hiding place, stood on the river bank, and started shooting wildly at the Guanzhong navy in the river!
The Guanzhong navy were busy rescuing people. Although they were protected by the warship's parapet and side shields, many soldiers were still caught off guard by the ambushing archers of Cao's army!
From time to time, someone was shot and fell from the ship screaming and into the water!
The Hussars had to rescue people and defend at the same time, and they also had to withstand the stone bullets falling from the sky. Even though the hit rate of these catapults was indeed not high, there was always a chance that a blind cat would catch a dead mouse...
The Guanzhong navy was stretched thin and in a state of disarray.
In surface warfare, the most powerful attacking force is the tower ship. Not only because the tower ship is large in size and can directly ram and crush the opponent, but also because there are more soldiers on the tower ship, which can organize an effective attack. But now Ma Jun and other tower ships are entangled, and other small battleships are coming to rescue the tower ship, which means that all the troops have lost their formation and are tied together and cannot move, and can only passively take the beating.
This is exactly the effect Cao Cao wanted.
When Cao's army saw this scene, they couldn't help but cheer!
Ma Jun, who was on the ship, made a move that no one expected at this moment!
Seeing that the orders from the golden drums and flags were no longer effective at this moment, Ma Jun had an idea in a hurry and rushed towards the cannon that initially caused the ship's center of gravity to be unstable. He ordered the soldiers who were still beside the cannon to assist him. He personally aimed at the place where Cao Cao's flag was on the high slope and fired a cannon!
The sound of cannons is a warning!
The sound of cannons is the order!
The sound of cannons is the unyielding roar!
The shells whizzed across the night sky, and the sound of the artillery drowned out all the panicked roars!
At this moment, everyone subconsciously turned their heads and looked towards the source of the artillery fire, and then suddenly looked towards the big banner where Cao Cao was!
Naturally, the explosion effect of solid bullets cannot be seen at the point of impact, but the Cao army soldiers subconsciously deflected and stopped, giving the Guanzhong navy a rare chance to catch their breath!
There was a commanding general's flag on Ma Jun's ship, so it naturally became the focus of Cao's army.
During this chaotic time, Ma Jun's ship was hit by three or four stone bullets and more than ten to twenty crossbows. There were several large holes on the deck and side of the ship, and many soldiers were killed.
The stone bullets mostly caused damage to the hull, while the crossbows caused more direct casualties. The lethality of the crossbows was almost ineffective even with armor, and those who were unfortunately shot were basically pierced.
Add to that the ordinary arrows and crossbow arrows shot from the shore, mixed with ignited rockets. If Ma Jun cannot adjust the status of these warship clusters in time, there is a real danger of the entire army being wiped out!
Fortunately, Ma Jun fired this shot when the chaos was at its most chaotic!
As the cannon fired, the entire cannon's support tilted to the side and was about to fall over!
I don't know if it was because the original bracket was not nailed properly when it was disassembled and assembled, or if it was damaged when the ship tilted just now, but the recoil of the artillery made the bracket groan, and then it tilted to one side!
It happened in a flash. Ma Jun, who was standing next to the cannon, subconsciously went to support the cannon!
But the cannon is heavy, how can one person hold it up?
The cannon fell from the gun carriage and broke one of Ma Jun's legs...
"Ahhhh..."
Ma Jun screamed.
The rest of the soldiers and craftsmen rushed over, lifted the cannon with all their might, and dragged Ma Jun out from under the cannon.
"Don't mind me..." Ma Jun grimaced in pain, but still shouted, "Fight back! Ah ah... Fight back! Go now!"
During the pause in the battlefield caused by the sound of artillery fire, Ma Jun's order was finally delivered, and the Guanzhong navy recovered from the panic and began to fight back at the surrounding Cao army soldiers, especially the archers on the shore. The crossbow carts of another tower ship also began to try to counterattack the positions of Cao army's catapults and crossbow carts on the hillside.
The Cao army archers on the shore had no cover and were soon shot and scattered by the bows and crossbows of the Hussar navy. The Cao army's catapult and crossbow cart positions on the hillside were also hit by two or three stone bullets. They shouted and panicked for a while, and then, under the suppression of the Cao army's supervision team, they resumed their attack on the Hussar navy.
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The Hussar Navy restored order, but in this short half hour, it suffered a heavy blow.
Some of the battleships were overcrowded because they were rescuing many fallen hussars and were unable to fight, and Ma Jun's tower ship was also severely damaged. Another tower ship also suffered some damage, but not as serious as Ma Jun's tower ship.
Pang Tong, who was standing on a high platform in the distance, saw this scene and knew that it was useless to fight any further. Apart from wasting resources, he could not cause any additional damage to Cao's army, so he ordered a retreat...
The Guanzhong navy turned towards the north bank and then returned with wounds.
The cavalry troops on land were also retreating in an orderly manner.
Cao's army seemed to have won the blocking battle in this nameless mountain village.
Cao Cao looked at the fleeing fleet of the Guanzhong cavalry and calculated that it seemed that Cao's army had only sunk two ships, and the rest were only damaged...
Cao Cao personally went out to fight against Ma Jun. No matter the upper or lower circumference, Cao Cao naturally crushed Ma Jun. Therefore, the successful ambush of Ma Jun's fleet was originally expected. However, Cao Cao did not expect that he could not destroy the Guanzhong navy in one breath! Although Cao Cao did not know how long it would take to repair a tower ship, it only meant that the Guanzhong navy would not appear again in the short term, not that they would not come again in the future!
This was indeed a good thing for Cao's troops distributed on both sides of the river, but Cao Cao did not cheer like ordinary Cao's soldiers, and there was not much excitement on his face, only fatigue and helplessness.
Cao Cao now began to feel the importance of knowledge inheritance and middle and low-level military officers in addition to manpower and material resources.
It is not enough for Shandong to have only human and material resources without the support of middle and lower-level military academies. Many things will not be done well!
Just like this ambush, Cao Cao chose the best location, made the best arrangements, and seized the most accurate time, but he did not inflict maximum damage!
After a cannon shot, the Cavalry Navy was able to recover from the chaos and launch a counterattack. However, the Cao army archers arranged on the shore were unable to take advantage of the chaos of the Cavalry Guanzhong Navy to ignite the gunpowder or kerosene on the tower ships and other ships, and naturally failed to destroy the Cavalry Guanzhong Navy in one fell swoop.
This was also a chain reaction caused by Ma Jun moving the artillery position.
Cao Cao certainly couldn't have known that Ma Jun had moved the cannons, moving the cannons and gunpowder from the bow to the cabin, so he naturally asked the Cao army archers to shoot rockets at the bow of the tower ship as much as possible...
Because originally there were not only cannons but also gunpowder in that place.
However, when it was obvious that shooting rockets at the bow did not cause the expected explosion effect, the Cao army archers did not change their target immediately due to their rigid pattern, but continued to pour rockets at the bow. After the cannons were removed from the bow of Ma Junlou's ship, only the bare deck and ram were left, and it was actually not afraid of any ordinary rocket attacks.
If the military school of Cao's archers at that time had been smarter, after all, they were closest to the ships of the Hussar Navy and could see the situation most clearly, and had made timely adjustments, then the Hussar Navy would most likely have suffered even greater losses!
The implementation in Shandong was carried out.
But they are really fooling the people.
Cao Cao sighed, "Come here! Go find out where the cannon just landed... and measure its range..."
Ma Jun’s shot just now did not produce the masterpiece that only keyboard warriors talk about.
But it also scared Cao Cao!
The shell landed not far from the core area of Cao Cao's formation.
Cao Cao even saw the mud and sand splashing up at that moment!
The range of the Hussars' artillery has increased again?
Cao Cao couldn't help but feel more worried.
How could he know that when Ma Jun ordered the cannon to fire, the soldiers and craftsmen were so busy that they loaded too much gunpowder into the cannon...
Perhaps it was the excessive amount of gunpowder that caused the artillery to have too much recoil, causing it to fall off the gun carriage and blow off Ma Jun's leg.
On the battlefield, it is always these tiny factors that cause a chain reaction.
The guard responded and went downstairs to pass on the order.
The Cavalry Army was retreating, and Cao's army had a short period of rest.
However, the battlefield was devastated, and the wounded soldiers could not recover immediately just because both sides temporarily left the battle. In the face of the fierce attack of the Hussars on land, Cao Cao's Central Guards also suffered heavy losses.
Some of the Cao family's sons will lie forever on this unknown land.
If the Tongguan camp had not retreated so quickly, Cao Cao would have had more time to rest and repair the fortifications here, which might have reduced many casualties.
Going back further, if it weren't for the Anyi Camp...
If it wasn't in Shandong...
These things might not have been fatal individually, but they accumulated little by little on the balance of victory or defeat. Now they have piled up like a mountain, making it difficult for Cao Cao to turn the tide even if he took action himself.
People must experience pain in order to grow.
The people of Shandong have experienced too little suffering in the nearly two hundred years since Liu Xiu came...
If you feel pain and can wake up, there is still hope.
If you don't wake up when you feel pain...
Cao Cao looked up at the sky.
The sky is getting white.
The morning star is shining in the sky...
The soldiers who went to measure the artillery range had not returned yet, but bad news came from the north bank, making Cao's army, which had been somewhat excited, feel like they were poured with ice water!
"Report to the Prime Minister! The Zhongtiaoshan camp has been shattered!"
Once again, Cao Cao felt the biting cold wind coming from the north, blowing towards his face and body with a hideous grin.
It was icy cold that penetrated the bones.
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