Soldiers come to the world

At the same time as the prohibition order, flaming fireballs were thrown from the big ship, rolled and shot towards the sand wall, and the fireballs ignited the kerosene all over the ground, 'Boom! 'The fire suddenly burned rapidly, and the inside and outside of the sand wall were suddenly engulfed in a sea of ​​flames.

Countless soldiers of Cao Jun were ignited by the fire, turned back and ran in horror, howled and rolled on the ground, and the screams rang out.

Yu Jin shouted anxiously: "Retreat! Retreat quickly!"

Five thousand soldiers of Cao's army withdrew from the fire one after another and retreated to the rear. At this time, a soldier rushed over and raised his arrow to the ban and said loudly: "General Yu, the lord has an order to order the bow and crossbow troops to withdraw immediately to the barracks! "

Yu Jin wanted to retreat a hundred steps, and then continue to shoot Jiangxia's army who were about to disembark with crossbow arrows, but Cao Ren ordered him to do nothing, so he had no choice but to order the entire army to withdraw to the barracks.

At this time, there was a burst of war drums from the north, and 50 spear infantry lined up from the barracks, forming a long square formation, [-] people in a row, with a huge momentum, and the end could not be seen at a glance, and they rushed towards the pier quickly.

The sand wall in front of the pier was still burning, but Jiang Xia's navy did not disembark. Three hundred warships were moored on the river, confronting the [-] cao army spearmen killed on the shore.

Standing on the big boat with hands behind his back, Liu Jing looked at Cao Jun on the shore as if he was approaching a formidable enemy. A smile appeared on his face. Since Cao Jun was successfully dragged in Fancheng, the possibility of Gan Ning's success was high.

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Cao Jun had occupied Fancheng for five days, and was unable to cross the south and south due to lack of boats. However, Cao Ren was not at a loss. He sent people to collect boats along the north bank of the Han River and its tributaries.

Within five days, Cao Jun still collected more than [-] private boats of various kinds. Although most of these boats were small fishing boats, not large ferry boats, they could carry more than [-] people across the river at one time, and tens of thousands of soldiers overnight. People, barely able to complete the task of Cao Jun crossing troops south.

However, for the army that is formally marching south, it is generally not to use this kind of small boat to cross the river. The small boat crossing the river is very dangerous. First, it is small to carry, especially difficult to carry war horses, but the more important thing is that retreat will be a big problem. It will be difficult to withdraw to the north bank, and it may even lead to the danger of annihilation of the entire army.

So although Cao Ren collected more than [-] small boats, he still didn't want to use them to cross the river. He planned to transform these small boats into small-scale warships for crossing the river.

Send small-scale Cao troops to the south bank, harass the counties and counties in Jingzhou, destroy Jingzhou's spring plowing and capture small county towns, hit Jingzhou people's hearts and army morale, make Jingzhou's army extremely tired, and lay the foundation for next year's main Cao army to go south.

From this point of view, these more than [-] small boats are still quite a threat to the south bank of Jingzhou.

At present, more than [-] warships are mainly concentrated in Luwan downstream of Bishui. It is a natural lake located in the east of Fancheng, less than ten miles away from Fancheng. It can park thousands of small boats. Cao Jun is here More than a hundred fishing boats from Bishui have been seized here, and there are currently more than a thousand troops stationed here.

Bishui is a tributary of the Han River. The upstream is composed of six or seven small tributaries. Each small tributary is several feet wide. The confluence of the tributaries makes the water surface change rapidly.

With the influx of tributaries on both sides of the bank, after passing Hekou Town, the water surface suddenly widened to [-] feet, and the depth of the water was several feet, which could accommodate a two thousand stone inland river boat, and Luwan was located at the widest part of the water surface. Establish a shipyard in Lowan.

To the west of Luwan is a small village. Dozens of families make a living from fishing and shipbuilding. There are several small shipbuilding workshops. More than 300 small boats are moored on the water close to the village. 1000 Many soldiers are divided into three squads, patrolling day and night, guarding the only more than 300 small boats.

As night fell, several fast boats appeared on the Bishui River under the cover of the night. The speed of the boats was extremely fast. Gan Ning stood in front of the fast boats, dressed in black water jacket, with a bow and arrow on his back, holding a sharp single halberd in his hand, his gaze Gaze sharply ahead.

Without any obstacles along the way, the boat entered Luwankou, swung the oars, and sailed into Luwan Water Park, heading towards the group of small boats several miles away.

"Brother, something's wrong, it's too quiet, and there's no patrol!" one of his subordinates whispered to Gan Ning.

Gan Ning also found that something was wrong. Since Cao Jun used [-] soldiers to protect the small boats, Cao Jun didn't notice them now that they were approaching the boats. But Gan Ning didn't bother to patrol around at this time, and ordered without hesitation: "Go into the water." , gather boats!"

Several men slipped into the water, dived in front of the small boats, and brought the small boats closer to the shore, so that the small boats scattered on the water surface could be gathered together as much as possible, so that they could be burned and destroyed.

At this moment, a loud shout suddenly came from a distance, "Who is in the water?"

The patrol on the shore finally found them, and they immediately shouted, "There is an enemy situation!"

The bell rang loudly on the shore. Cao Jun rushed out from the barracks not far away and rushed towards the bay. On the boat, Gan Ning opened his bow and set up an arrow. , the remaining soldiers of Cao Jun shouted and fled in all directions.

Gan Ning saw the enemy army rushing from afar, dozens of paces away from the water bay, he turned around and ordered: "speed up!"

Dozens of men poured the cans of kerosene on the boat into the water, and the kerosene spread rapidly in the water. At this time, arrows shot from the shore continuously, and the arrows whizzed past their heads. Yu people jumped off more than a dozen small boats and rushed towards this side.

Gan Ning turned around and saw that his men hadn't boarded the boat yet, so he picked up a shield and ordered the two oarsmen, "Let's fight!"

The small boat met the enemy boat, and Gan Ning held the halberd in one hand and the shield in the other. When the two boats collided, Gan Ning jumped onto the enemy boat, and the short halberd pierced out like lightning. Piercing the throat, screaming and falling into the water.

Gan Ning's short halberds were flying, stabbing five or six soldiers of Cao Jun on the boat to death in a short time. At this time, General Cao Jun Ya was furious, and rushed towards him from the side with his spear, "Little thief, take your life!"

Gan Ning held the spear against the shield, and slashed with the short halberd, Dang!With a loud bang, the enemy general Yajiang opened the short halberd with his spear. At this moment, the boats collided with each other, and both of them couldn't stand still.

After a while, Gan Ning threw the short halberd onto the boat, and he jumped onto the boat from the water, holding a human head wet in his hand, it was Cao Junya just now.

At this time, the men behind shouted: "General, it's done, retreat!"

Gan Ning shouted, "Retreat!"

Seven or eight fast boats quickly turned around and headed towards Bishui. After dozens of steps, several soldiers lit rockets and shot at the densely packed ships. The bright rockets streaked across the night sky and hit the outermost small boats .

The kerosene splashed on the boat was ignited, and the flames rose into the air, and soon ignited the kerosene floating on the water surface. The fire on the water surface quickly spread to the surroundings, and soon engulfed hundreds of boats moored on the water surface. boat.

More than a dozen Cao Jun ships that were about to pursue the enemy also fell into the sea of ​​fire. The soldiers on board were in a mess, and they jumped into the water to escape and swam to the shore.

Gan Ning's fast boat sailed several miles into Bishui. He turned his head to look at the bay, and saw that the bay was full of fire and smoke. Gan Ning snorted disdainfully and led his men to disappear into the night.

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Under the moonlight, more than [-] warships moored quietly on the Han River. The confrontation between Jiang Xia's army and Cao's army continued. The fire inside and outside the sand wall had already been extinguished, which had no effect on the sand wall, but Cao's army did not dare to approach it. Instead, a new sand wall about three miles long was built with sandbags fifty steps away from the sand wall, and three thousand crossbowmen were hidden behind the new sand wall and waited for it.

On the big ship, Liu Jing looked towards Bishui from time to time. He was waiting for Gan Ning's news. Suddenly, the watchman on the mast shouted, "Prefect, there is fire! It is in the direction of Bishui."

The soldiers looked to the northeast one after another, and for a moment, everyone saw it. The flames were about ten miles away in the northeast direction, and it was particularly dazzling and shining in the night sky. The soldiers on the big ship immediately cheered.

Liu Jing couldn't help laughing, and he immediately ordered, "The fleet will move on and go to Longzhong Wharf to anchor!"

A rocket shot into the night sky, the sails were opened, the anchor was pulled up, and the fleet slowly started again, heading towards Longzhong, ten miles away to the west.

At the top of the city of Fancheng, Cao Jun also spotted the flames in the direction of Bishui. Someone immediately reported to Cao Ren. After a while, Cao Ren ran up the city, holding onto the city wall and staring at the flames in the distance. He knew that something must have happened to Bishui's boat Cao Ren's face turned ashen, and he slammed his fist on the city wall.

At this time, Jia Xu slowly stepped forward and said, "You don't need to be angry, the general, this is actually a good thing."

"Good thing?"

Cao Ren looked back at Jia Xu suspiciously, "How do you say that?"

Jia Xu smiled slightly and said, "Actually, this fire has revealed two things, one is that we cannot match the absolute superiority of the Jiangxia navy on the water.

Secondly, it also exposed Liu Jing's bottom line that he would never allow us to own warships, so this fire was burned in time, and it sounded the alarm for us. Wouldn't it be an even greater loss? "

Cao Ren nodded slowly, he understood what Jia Xu meant, if they built the warship, Liu Jing would definitely set fire again, this fire reminded them of the importance of strengthening the protection of warships.

"I see, this fire did burn in time! It burned me sober."

At this time, a soldier rushed to report: "Report to the general, the warship of the Jiangxia Army has started and is heading west!"

Cao Ren frowned, where is Jiang Xiajun going?

Jia Xu smiled and said: "Jiang Xia's army should be stationed in Longzhong, so we can see that Jingzhou is not united and is still fighting separately. Liu Biao will definitely appoint Cai Mao as the general, and Liu Jing will not obey Cai Mao's command. And neither will Liu Bei, so Jingzhou has actually split."

"So, do we have a chance?"

Jia Xu pondered for a moment, then slowly said: "General, let's wait and see what happens for now. If necessary, we can abandon Fancheng and retreat northward to Hekou Town."

"Never retreat!" This time, Cao Ren did not accept Jia Xu's suggestion.