Silver Fox of the Three Kingdoms

"Enemy attack!"

A sharp cry pierced the sky.

Then the horn sounded.

Yonghu Lake is connected to Dongting Lake, and the mouth of the lake has been built as a fortress at this time.

In history, Sun Quan set up a water fortress here.

The mouth of the lake is very wide, about one or two miles, and there are a lot of boats floating on the lake at the moment.

When the horn sounded, Shen Chen stepped on the stairs on the third floor of the building and stood on the top of the building to watch.

The fierce north wind whizzed in, blowing the flags on the ship to flutter. All the big ships threw their anchors into the water, stopped at the mouth of the lake, and connected them together with iron locks, blocking the entire lake.

In the gust of wind in the distance, a large number of building boats, warships, and battleships attacked like a gust of wind, and when they approached, they began to slowly lower their sails and slow down.

Of course, water battles are not about two ships colliding with each other, but two ships approaching slowly, and then shooting with bows and arrows. Bows and arrows consume the most in water battles.

Shen Chen's army locked Hengjiang, and hundreds of warships were connected together. There were a large number of high oars on board, and bed crossbows were arranged, as if they were defending a city, watching the enemy vigilantly.

After a while, Jiangdong Navy's boat speed began to slow down, because it was sailing against the current, and the sail had to be retracted after approaching, so the speed was very slow.

When the distance between the two sides was less than one mile, the speed of the Jiangdong Navy's boats dropped completely, and they all began to stagnate on the surface of Dongting Lake.

I saw that on the opposite side of the Jiangxia Navy, thousands of large ships stood in a row, and the Jiangdong army was 4 to [-]. Except for about [-] people left behind, the main force is basically here, almost [-] troops.

Shen Chen's army has only 2 troops here, including Huang Zu, and the rest like Su Fei, Deng Long, Zhang Hu, Chen Sheng and others occupy the rest of Baqiu to prevent the Jiangdong navy from dividing their troops. The west coast broke through and attacked from land.

Facing twice as many enemies as their own, the Jiangxia navy was not afraid. As the defenders, they connected the boats together with iron locks, smeared mud on the bows, blocked the lake mouth, and there were tall sculls shooting arrows on the shore. at a very great advantage.

Although the way of connecting boats with iron chains is easy to be attacked by fire, it was actually a common method used by people at that time. Not only the battle of Chibi, but also the battle of mountains and rivers at the end of Song Dynasty and the battle of Poyang Lake at the end of Yuan Dynasty all used iron locks The method of connecting boats.

And when the ancient ships stopped at the wharf, they would also use iron cables to connect the boats, which has been handed down as early as the Spring and Autumn Period of Wu and Yue.

It's just that in the water battles of the past dynasties, people who used iron chains to connect boats were defeated, so people think that chained boats are not a good tactic.

The problem is that in large rivers and lakes like Dongting Lake and Yangtze River, the wind and waves are very strong. Even a professionally trained navy may not be able to stand firmly. Engagement is also easier.

As long as it can defend against fire attacks like the Song Moya Mountain and Water War, it is actually a very good way.

At this moment, Zhou Yu stood on the boat and watched.

Ling Tong beside him said: "Captain, they have connected the boats together, I beg for an assault!"

Zhou Yu waved his hand and said, "Let's wait and see first."

The two sides confronted each other on the river.

After a while, Zhou Yu ordered Cheng Pu to make a tentative attack.

This battle was the Jiangdong Army's elite force, and the governor Zhou Yu was in charge of the military power. Under his command were the left governor Cheng Pu, the right governor Huang Gai, the Zhonglang general Xu Sheng, the benefactor general Lu Fan, the thief school captain Ling Tong, and the Zhechong school lieutenant Zhu Of course, Pingbei Duwei Lu Meng and so on.

After Zhou Yu issued the order, Cheng Pu, the governor of the left, personally led hundreds of warships to attack somewhere in the Jiangxia Navy.

However, with the whistling sound of howling ghosts and wolves, iron-headed crossbow arrows as thick and thin as tree trunks drew a gorgeous arc in the air, and fell into the fleet of Jiangdong Army, making a loud bang.

The huge bed crossbows were still being fired, sawdust flying from the Jiangdong army fleet, and screams continued. Cheng Pu had to retreat before he got close to the bow and arrow distance of both sides.

"All fleets approach the past, shoot with bows and crossbows, and then ask people to prepare fish oil!"

Zhou Yu issued a new order again.

Lu Fan, the general next to him, said in surprise: "Commander, the enemy's bed crossbow is powerful, and the lake mouth is relatively narrow. If we force our way through, we may not be able to get close."

Zhou Yu said with a smile: "This iron-chained boat is usually used when the fleet is moored on the river or dock without a safe haven at night. It is really smart for Shen Chen to block the mouth of the lake in this way. But if the boats are connected together, once the fire starts, it will be destroyed." We can’t get away, we will pay some price to break through forcibly, let the ship set fire, and we will be able to destroy them.”

Lu Fan was stunned for a moment, then gave a thumbs up, nodded again and again and said: "The governor is indeed a conspiracy of gods and ghosts. It is the time when the north wind blows. We can attack the enemy fleet in the north, as long as their ships in the north are burned. Get up, let the fire take advantage of the wind, and burn all the way to the south to connect the boat."

"Ha ha."

Zhou Yu smiled and said nothing.

Because what Lu Fan said was true, he really planned to let the Death Squad charge towards the north of Jiang Xia's navy.

As long as you can get close and light the fire, with the blessing of the north wind, the boat will be set on fire in no time.

At present, under the command of various horns, flags, gongs and drums, the fleet of the Jiangdong Navy spread out along the lake, and then began to move forward slowly according to Zhou Yu's order.

They can only move forward slowly.

Although it is downwind, it is not smooth, and the sails cannot be opened in close combat. If the speed is too fast, the two ships will collide and the ship will be destroyed. Therefore, in water battles, both sides often shoot bows and arrows at each other. .

Then fight at close range, that is, use a hook to hook the enemy's ship and your own ship together, and then jump on the opponent's ship to engage in close combat with the enemy with cold weapons.

Therefore, unless it is an attack with fire, it is generally not to use its own fleet to launch an attack like this.

But at this moment, Jiangxia Navy's side was lined with ships for several miles, with masts and flags covering the sky and sun, and tall oars stretching across the sky. Watching the Jiangdong Army's fleet start to sail forward, a large number of bed crossbows began to fire.

The Jiangdong Army raised the wooden boards, and the distance between the two sides was less than [-] meters under the cover of the wooden boards.

The rain of arrows hit the wooden plank erected on the bow of Jiangdong Army's ship like a blanket, making a ding-ding-dong-dong sound.However, the height covered by this kind of plank is not good enough, resulting in a large number of soldiers being shot by arrows.

On the board, under the board, and on the side of the ship, many soldiers of the Jiangdong Army were holding their arrow wounds and crying, and someone kept dragging them into the cabin under the rain of arrows.

And Jiang Dongjun actually suffered a dull loss at this time.

Later generations of Yueyang people should all know that the mouth between Nanhu Lake and Dongting Lake stretches for one or two kilometers from east to west, and there are more than ten large and small hills on the lake, such as Ergui Mountain, Yue Mountain, and Ouyang Mountain.

Due to the large water area in the Han Dynasty, the large islands to the west of Nanjin Port in Yueyang were all in the water at this time, but many mountains were exposed on them. These mountains are now occupied by the Jiangxia Navy, and many tall oars, Military facilities such as Shuizhai and Wubao.

In addition, the mouth of the lake is facing east and west, so the Jiangdong army can only attack from west to east, and the north wind was blowing at that time, which would not have any blessings on the bows and arrows on both sides.

However, due to the many small hills and islands on the lake, the Jiangdong Army was baptized with bows and arrows.

Therefore, the overall offensive of the Jiangdong Army is actually very difficult.

But fortunately, they had a large number of ships. Although Jiangxia's navy was raining arrows, they finally got close to each other under the successive attacks of the Jiangdong army and suffered huge casualties.

Immediately afterwards, the Jiangdong Army also began to counterattack with bows and arrows. At the same time, more than a dozen warships filled with fish paste and fat rushed towards the fleet of Jiangxia Navy.

At this time, if it is a general with rich experience in water warfare like Huang Zu, he will send warships to intercept.

When Chibi was burned in history, if Huang Gai rushed over like this, he would definitely be stopped.It's just that he sent someone to send a letter to Cao Cao expressing his intention to surrender, so Cao Cao didn't send someone to intercept him, which led to the success of burning Chibi.

So Cao Cao actually didn't lose in the iron chain Lianzhou, but in the gullibility of Huang Gai.

Otherwise, starting from the Spring and Autumn Period, the method of connecting boats with iron cables will be used when docking at wharfs without safe havens. Why did Cao Cao suffer the most?
It can only show that when the ship is parked, there is external protection, but it is a pity that Cao Cao put Huang Gai in, no wonder.

At this moment, Shen Chen should have immediately dispatched a ship to intercept the opponent.

But he didn't.

It's not arrogance, but their number of ships is less than that of the Jiangdong army. Now that the big ships are connected together, there are no extra ships to send out.

So soon those warships rushed towards them at a very slow speed.

Boom!

With the loud collision sound, these warships collided with the fleet of Jiangxia Navy, and the entire fleet shook slightly.

Then the soldiers of the Jiangdong Army lit a fire in the cabin, ran to the stern and put down the boat to escape.

This time is the time for each to run away and settle down to their destiny.

In history, when Huang Gai went to set fire to evacuate in a small boat, he was shot by an arrow and fell into the water and almost drowned.

In the water battle at Poyang Lake at the end of the Yuan Dynasty, Zhu Yuanzhang sent dead soldiers to set fire like this, and the dead soldiers were almost wiped out.

Therefore, setting fire like this is also a life-saving task.

However, this time they obviously did not have such good luck. Countless arrows rained down, and the Jiangdong army on the small boats fell into the water one after another. In an instant, more than a dozen battleships and nearly a thousand soldiers were killed and injured.

But their job was accomplished.

Soon the flames of these warships started to burn. The flames were so hot that they shot up very high and began to spread towards the ships of the Jiangxia Navy.

Standing on the highest point of the main ship, Shen Chen didn't have any worries when he saw that the fleet position about 100 meters away from him was attacked, but said softly: "Keep shooting!"

"Buzz buzz buzz!"

The bowstrings of the bed crossbow on the ship were booming, and hundreds of crossbow arrows flew out every time and shot into the fleet of the Jiangdong Army, causing a large number of casualties.

And after more than ten minutes of burning over there, the fire has spread into the sky.

The Jiangxia sailors on those ships did not have any urgency, they kept coming in and out of the cabin, scooped out a large amount of silt and lake water with buckets from the cabin, and dumped it on the deck and the ship's side.

This is how the Song army used iron chains to connect the boats to deal with the Yuan army's fire boat attack during the cliff battle at the end of the Song Dynasty.

A large amount of silt was applied to the hull, and when the flames came over, the silt was poured onto the ship from the cabin, not to mention burning, even if one or two ships were on fire, when all the ships were smeared with silt, the intensity of the fire Can't spread out either.

It's just that this method will make the ship very dirty, and the silt still smells disgusting, so except for the Song Moya mountain and water battle, almost no one will use it for water battles in other situations.

"Ok?"

Zhou Yu watched from a distance, because he was far away and couldn't see the specific situation clearly.

He only saw that although the flame boat was forcibly sent in, after the fire started, it did not spread to the boat of the Jiang Xia Navy.

"Why didn't it burn?"

Lu Fan on the side was also puzzled. As the main ship, they were one mile away from the battlefield, so they couldn't see clearly.

Zhou Yu did not speak, still waiting patiently.

At this time, the battle between the two sides had lasted for more than an hour. The two sides continued to shoot at each other. The Jiangdong Army suffered heavy casualties.

"withdraw!"

Waiting until the warships of the warships were soaring into the sky and the enemy's warships were on fire, Zhou Yu realized that something was wrong and immediately ordered to retreat.

"Woooooooooo!"

The continuous sound of horns pierced the sky, and the sound spread several miles away.

The Jiangdong sailors on the river began to withdraw their anchors with difficulty, and then swung the oars in the opposite direction to make the ships retreat slowly. After withdrawing from the range of the enemy's bows and arrows, they slowly turned and headed back.

And this process was really tormented. They had been fighting for more than two hours from Zhou Yu's attack at the end of Yuzhong to the retreat of the troops after the failure of the attack.

It was already two o'clock in the afternoon, and the sun was hanging high in the western sky.The Jiangdong Navy retreated in desperation, leaving some broken ships, the wreckage of the large ship that was still burning after the fire attack failed, and countless corpses floating on the lake.

There are more arrows on the lake.

A water battle consumes a huge amount of feathered arrows. In this battle alone, the Jiangxia Navy used no less than 50 arrows, so the densely packed arrows on the lake seemed to fill the entire lake.

"Clean the battlefield and recover the arrows!"

Shen Chen gave the order.

He didn't choose to continue chasing. The main reason was that although the cable boat had a stable hull and occupied a favorable terrain at the mouth of the lake, it was only suitable for defensive battles, not offensive pursuit battles.

More importantly, although Zhou Yu suffered heavy casualties in this battle, at least thousands of people were killed or injured, but the number of people was twice as large as them after all, and chasing them into the water battle could not take advantage.

But even so, this is already a big victory for Jiangxia Navy.

Since the last defeat of Huang Zu at Ruxukou, the Jiangxia navy has always been afraid of the Jiangdong navy like a tiger. Therefore, this big victory, watching the Jiangdong army flee in despair, is very morale-boosting for the Jiangxia navy.

"We won, we won."

"Hooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!"

"Jiangdong Rat, last time we sneaked into us, this time we lost."

"Hahahaha, sons and daughters, we have won!"

On the other main ship, Huang Zu, who was the second admiral, was extremely excited.

Because whether it was Sun Ce's time or Sun Quan's time, he suffered a lot in the battle with Jiangdong.

The Jiangdong Navy, which is rare nowadays, suffered a loss, so he was naturally very happy, standing on the boat and stroking his beard and laughing.

But Shen Chen didn't get carried away. He looked into the distance and saw the direction of Jiangdong Army's departure, but ordered: "Order the scouts to follow in a light boat and see where Jiangdong Army is stationed!"

"only!"

Lieutenant General Qu Gan hurriedly went to carry out the order.

Shen Chen looked to the northwest, with a smile on the corner of his mouth.

If nothing else, the only place where the Jiangdong Army can be stationed is Hongkou.

Hongkou is located at the mouth of Dongting Lake into the Yangtze River, in the northwest of Baqiu, that is, in the area of ​​Junshan District in the northwest of Yueyang City in later generations.

Although it is possible to station there, it is like the terrain of Wulin and Chibi, and there is no natural shelter from the wind.

This also means that when the Jiangdong Army stops the ship, they can only choose to connect the boat with iron chains.

There are currently only two other havens in the Baqiu area, one is the Yonghu Lake they occupy, and the other is the Weishuikou in the south.

Yonghu Lake is a large lake sunken into Dongting Lake, surrounded by mountains and sheltered from the wind.Weishui is the Xinqiang River in the north of Yueyang County in later generations, and there is a notch wharf in the north of Yueyang County as a port.

As for the Bajiao Lake in the north of Baqiu, because it was almost a part of the Yangtze River at that time, including the surrounding Dongfeng Lake, Jijia Lake, Chengyu Lake, Maojiayan Lake, etc., all connected together to form a huge Dongting Lake into the Yangtze River. mouth, so the wind is called big.

So if Zhou Yu insisted on finding a safe haven, he could only go south to Weishui.But when they went to the south, the north wind was blowing at this time, and they would suffer a lot from the wind, and they would also be flanked by Liu Pan's army coming from the Xiangjiang River in Jingnan.

Therefore, Shen Chen believed that they had a better chance of being stationed in Hongkou.

And things did not go as Shen Chen expected.

Day two.

The scout returns.

Zhou Yu is stationed in Hongkou!