Three Kingdoms: The opening incorporates Li Cunxiao

Chapter 658: Taishi Ci is a little confused
"My lord, it's Taishi Ci of Qingzhou."

Sun Ce had naturally heard of the name of Taishi Ci.

Although this person seldom appears on the battlefield, he has an iron rule when serving in the Wei Dynasty.

Those who guard the prosperous and important places may be Cao Cao's relatives and friends who are incompetent, or they may be so-called elegant people who are good at talking and not doing practical things.

But anyone who can guard the border and hold the power of life and death must be a general among generals.

Many people don't often show up not because they are incompetent, but because there are too many capable generals in Cao Wei.

Taishi Ci was the admiral of the Qingxu Navy many years ago, so how could he be a fool?

Besides, can a straw bag seize the opportunity of the first battle from Huang Zhong, Zhao Yun and Gan Ning?

"Grandmaster Han."

"Ah?" Han Xuan heard Sun Ce calling him and quickly stood up straight.

"The emperor often talks to him: Han Taishou is his confidant, but because the Han Dynasty was just established, the emperor has no chance to promote him. It just so happens that Taishi Ci is unknown, so I will give this position to Han Taishou, okay?"

Han Xuan was overjoyed when he heard this, and quickly changed to a warship to meet them.

Zhou Tai was puzzled: "My lord, now that our warships have reached the north bank, why don't you go out in person? If you quickly capture Taishi Ci, you can penetrate the Cao Wei ferry in an instant. Why send a mediocre man to fight? I'm afraid it will delay the opportunity to fight."

"Fighters? Where do they come from? Last time, I sent out all my best troops, but they were stopped in the middle of the river. If we really want to rush to the north bank, then Lü, Huang, Zhao and Gan will rush forward. Who do you think can stop us?"

"Zhang Wu?" Zhou Tai blurted out and secretly cursed himself as an idiot. Zhang Wu could be stopped, but the problem was that Zhang Wu was the main coach of the opposing team!
Saying this is simply to boost others' morale and destroy your own prestige!

Sun Ce did not get angry. He patted Zhou Tai on the shoulder and whispered, "When the battle starts, you take a small boat to support them. If Taishi Ci wins, that's fine. But if Han Xuan wins, shoot him with a hidden arrow."

Zhou Tai clasped his fists and accepted the order.

Zhou Tai agreed to Sun Ce's somewhat sinister plan without any psychological pressure.

The number of his brothers who died at the hands of Liu Biao was much greater than that who died at the hands of Cao Wei.

and.

Now that Liu Biao has ascended the throne in his old age, they are all holding a grudge. Zhou Tai hopes that Han Xuan will die and at the same time, anger Liu Biao to death.

Anyway, once Liu Biao died, his power would naturally be divided up by the other three families, which would not affect the overall strength of the Southern Alliance at all.

At this moment, Han Xuan's vanguard warships had already engaged in battle with Taishi Ci's navy. The Changsha prefect, who was thinking about getting promoted and making money, was advancing triumphantly all the way, and had no idea that the Qingxu navy had deliberately let his main ship in.

Instead, he praised Sun Ce for his loyalty in his heart.

Such a weak navy is simply bringing him credit!

On the deck of the Qingxu Navy's main ship.

Ma Zhong opened his mouth wide, looking a little stunned: "General, who is under this Korean flag? He really has the guts to rush in."

Taishi Ci was also a little confused.

He just symbolically opened the channel ahead, but he didn't expect that the other party would really dare to fight back. A main battleship and more than a dozen warships rushed in.

Quite courageous!

"Cheer up, there may be another powerful general in the South besides Sun Ce. I will go meet him in person."

At the sound of the flag, the main ship of the Qingxu Navy moved slowly forward and met the warship that Han Xuan was on in an instant.

"Who is coming? Tell me your name!"

"Changsha Governor Han Xuan!" I don't think I've heard of him.
Taishi Ci stopped talking nonsense, drew his bow and arrow, wanting to test the other party's strength.

The arrow flew out of the bow.

Unexpectedly, this tentative arrow, which was not very strong, hit Han Xuan in the face.

Seeing the other party fall into the water, Taishi Ci and Ma Zhong were stunned, thinking that the other party was playing some lame trick of faking his death.

It was not until the surface of the river began to turn red and Han Xuan's body floated to the surface that they dared to completely believe that Sun Ce's vanguard navy commander was truly a useless idiot.

In fact, Han Xuan is not so useless. He has commanded the Jingnan Navy for many years and naturally has his own way of naval combat.

The problem is that before the separation of Jingnan and Jingbei, he only existed to support the Jiangxia navy.

The real tough battle was one that had never been fought.

The position where Han Xuan stopped the boat was also carefully measured by him, so that the elite arrows under his command could shoot at the farthest distance.

Just because he had never seen the world, he didn't know that there were many sharpshooters in the world, and the arrows they shot were much farther than those of ordinary people.

Because he had never seen the world, he didn't know that naval forces also needed to deploy troops in battle, and the most straightforward one was the opening formation. However, this formation was more provocative than practical, and was just a symbolic act. No one had fallen for it for many years.
So everything was over, and he could only feed the fish with his ignorance and shallowness.

"kill!!!"

Although Han Xuan died, Sun Ce had no intention of letting this bait be sacrificed in vain from the beginning. Hundreds of warships under his command lined up in a row and advanced in unison.

Arrows rained down from the sky. Normally, when shooting at each other on the river, the bow of the ship would face the enemy, so the area affected by the arrows would be much smaller. As long as the soldiers in the front and middle sections put up large shields, they could easily avoid any substantial damage.

But it was precisely because of Taishi Ci's previous change of formation that dozens of warships were standing across the Yangtze River.

The ship's weakest belly was completely exposed to the enemy's rain of arrows. Even though the soldiers reacted in time and began to raise their shields, they still suffered heavy losses after several rounds of volleys.

"Push forward and engage in boarding battle!" Taishi Ci said in a low voice with a cold face.

"promise."

As soon as the flag bearer signaled, the following warships started moving. As a navy that had been training for many years but had not officially participated in the war, the soldiers had already been eager to fight, and naturally would not passively avoid fighting because of a few losses.

"Woo woo woo." A short horn sounded suddenly. Immediately, the Qingxu Navy sailed at full speed and collided with the enemy in a moment.

The soldiers brandished their swords, rushed madly onto the enemy's deck, and fought hard.

In just a moment, thousands of soldiers fell into the water.

The blood first dyed the Yangtze River red, and then densely packed corpses were seen floating downstream.

"Kill." The big ship that Taishi Ci was on finally hit Sun Ce's warship. He immediately shouted, "Kill!" and rushed towards Sun Ce with a pair of halberds in hand.

"Kill." Seeing this, the soldiers also let out a loud roar and rushed towards the enemy ship frantically.

In fact, from the moment Han Xuan was killed, Sun Ce could have retreated.

The reason why they did not retreat was that if they retreated like this, Zhang Ren on the left wing of the fleet would naturally report the truth when he returned. If Liu Biao was not a fool, he would be able to guess that Sun Ce had deliberately killed Han Xuan.

Secondly, Sun Ce really looked down on the combat effectiveness of the Changsha navy.

If you want a strong army, the fastest and best way is on the battlefield.

In a high-intensity fight, only the strong deserve to survive.

Even if there are some losses, it's worth it.

(End of this chapter)