The Jagged Cavalry of the Three Kingdoms

Chapter 620 619 The Burning Yangtze River (59)

The next day, it was a clear sky. The two sides of the Yangtze River under the scorching summer were shrouded in a layer of steaming heat. It was already the weather at the end of July. Instead of dropping as soon as the beginning of autumn, the temperature rose again in the past few days. Much higher.

In the past few days, the temperature has been rising continuously. By today, it is estimated that it has risen to the highest level, so that in the early morning, under the scorching sun, it seems to be steamed on the stove. .

In the camp of the Jiangdong Water Army, all the warships are ready, lined up on the river, there are about 200 large and small ships, and the number of soldiers accommodated on each warship is also different. , but in total, there are only 3 people.

3 people are already all the troops of Zhou Yu's subordinates. This time, Zhou Yu gathered all of them without reservation, just to be able to kill Zhang Yan in the first battle, and severely damage the enemy's navy, take advantage of the victory to pursue and land Fight to completely defeat the Han army on the shore.

In this battle, Zhou Yu was full of confidence, and firmly believed in this victory.

Therefore, Zhou Yu allocated [-] troops each to Chen Wu and Dong Xi, the lieutenants of the navy, to be on his left and right flanks respectively. Zhu Huan and Ling Tong stayed by their side, ready to be dispatched at any time.

All the soldiers marched towards the water camp of the Han army in Xiazhi. Ling Cao led [-] water soldiers and [-] warships and set off first, followed by Zhou Yu, Chen Wu, Dong Xi and others. A group of people slowly marched towards the water army camp of the Han army.

Ling Cao held a shield in his left hand and a saber in his right. Standing on the bow of the boat, he braved the wind and waves, with an excited and vigorous look on his face, which also looked very majestic.

When the fleet sailed to the center of the river, Ling Cao fixed his eyes on some patrol boats of the Han army, and those patrol boats also saw them, and immediately beat the gongs and drums to spread the news of the enemy's attack to the water army camp inside.

In the water army camp of the Han army, Sima Yi was gathering all the soldiers of the Jingzhou water army together, and was giving instructions on how to fight this battle. When he heard that there was an enemy attack, he immediately ran out of the tent to take a look, and learned that it was After the Jiangdong water army came to attack, a faint smile appeared on Sima Yi's face, and he said to himself, "It's finally here!"

As soon as the words fell, Sima Yi shouted to the sailors behind him: "Everything is going according to the original plan!"

"Here!" Everyone replied in unison.

After a while, the entire camp of the Jingzhou navy was boiling. The soldiers boarded the warships one after another and opened the gates of the navy camp. They sailed out one after another, and after a while, the river surface was covered with a large area of ​​darkness, and the flags of the Han army were fluttering in the wind on every warship.

The vanguard fleet led by Wenpin rushed to the forefront. There were thirty warships in total, and each warship contained a hundred soldiers. They were all archers in the navy who were good at archery. A wave of echelons.

Wenpin led the vanguard fleet, attacked [-] soldiers, rushed into the Yangtze River at the fastest speed, and then opened their bows and arrows one after another, and began to shoot fiercely at the rushing enemy troops.

The water army camp in Xiazhi County belongs to the upper reaches of the Yangtze River. Although the vanguard fleet led by Wenpin is going downstream and does not require much manpower, it is in a state of headwind.Although the Jiangdong Navy's attack was upstream, it was with the wind, and the warship raised its sails. With the help of the wind, as long as the helmsman grasped the direction of the ship, it did not require much manpower to steer the ship.

However, the fleet led by Wenpin is going down the current, no matter how headwind it is, it will be much faster than the Jiangdong army with the wind.However, a new problem appeared again. Wenpin and the others belonged to the state of headwind, and the arrows they shot were affected by the wind. Basically, they were not very accurate and not too far away. A cluster of arrows fell, not only did not shoot Every single soldier of the enemy army fell into the Yangtze River due to the influence of the wind, and was swept away by the waves without a trace.

Seeing this, Ling Cao was naturally overjoyed, so he ordered his subordinates to start shooting arrows. Since it was in a downwind state, the lethality and range of the arrows were much longer.

After the Jiangdong water army shot a bunch of arrows, the Han army's water army fell down, at least one or two hundred people.

"Fire the arrows! Shoot them to death!" Ling Cao ordered while waving the long knife in his hand.

Arrows flew back and forth between the two armies like rain, but due to the influence of the wind, none of the arrows fired by the sailors of the Han army could touch the Jiangdong navy, and the Han army was completely overwhelmed by the arrow array of the Jiangdong army. Suppressed, Wenpin and others hid, and could only wait for the two armies to collide.

The warships of the Han army went down the river at a relatively fast speed. Soon, the warships of the two armies collided with each other, and the two armies began to fight hand-to-hand in the middle of the river.

But just after fighting for a while, Wenpin ordered to retreat, but this place is on the water, not on land, and in a hurry, it does not mean that retreat can be retreated. Wenpin killed several people, under the protection of the guards, in the Jumping back and forth from ship to ship, they finally arrived at a ship at the end, allowing the soldiers to punt and paddle and flee. The rest of the ships were all blocked in the attack route of the Jiangdong Army, but the soldiers on the ship raised their hands one after another. The weapon is in a surrendered state.

Ling Cao arrested all the surrendered soldiers, and then issued a semaphore backwards, asking Zhou Yu how to deal with these surrendered soldiers. Zhou Yu asked Ling Cao to release the captives, and then aggressively attacked the water army camp. Sima Yi, General of the South.

At the same time that Pioneer Wenpin was defeated, the countless warships of the Han army on the river had been assembled. Surrounded by many ships, a huge ship slowly sailed out of the water army camp, with the words " The banner of "Regent Zhang" of the Han Dynasty and the banner of "General Pingnan", Zhou Yu looked from a distance and knew that Zhang Yan and Sima Yi were on that boat.

Therefore, Zhou Yu ordered the army to launch a fierce attack on the ship where Zhang Yan and Sima Yi were. Like three sharp knives, they pierced directly into the enemy's heart.

At this moment, a fire suddenly broke out in the water army camp of the Han army, billowing thick smoke rose into the sky, and the fire gradually spread to the surroundings, and the shore seemed to have become a sea of ​​flames.

At the same time, around the boat where Zhang Yan and Sima Yi were, large and small boats suddenly began to retreat independently, leaving only dozens of boats lined up in front of Zhang Yan and Sima Yi.

Zhou Yu, who was far away on the fighting ship, saw this sudden scene. He knew that it was the result of Huang Zhong and him cooperating internally and externally. Immediately, he shouted hysterically: "Kill! Kill me! Anyone who can kill Sima Yi will be rewarded with a thousand gold, and whoever kills Zhang Yan will be rewarded with ten thousand gold!"

(End of this chapter)