Three Kingdoms New Emperor

Chapter 794 God's Will?

On the vast river, a huge building boat slowly turned around the cliffs on the bank, and the river in front of it suddenly became wilder.This building ship is extremely tall, with a total of five floors above the deck, as majestic as a mountain.The sound of paddling paddling sounded like waves hitting the shore.On the mast at the top of the ship, the huge sails are swelled by the wind, and the speed is extremely fast.

On the sail, there is also a huge golden dragon with teeth and claws. Under the transpiration of the water vapor on the river, the giant dragon seems to swoop down from the sail at any time.

At this time, on the deck of the building ship, the emperor Liu Xie was wearing a battle armor, fluttering in the wind. Behind him, there were Zhou Yu, a beautiful man facing the wind on a jade tree, Zhao Yun on a white horse, and the little Zhuge Liang, holding a feather fan and shaking it slightly.The building boat moved forward at high speed, blowing up the brocade robes of these people, and the sleeves fluttered, as if they would all be flying with the wind in the next moment.

When many Cao soldiers saw this building ship, they suddenly thought of what kind of disaster it would be if their battleship was hit by such a building ship?
However, the shock on their faces became even more solidified before such a terrifying thought arose.Because at this time, they had already seen that there was not only one large ship in the navy of the Han Dynasty, but there were as many as five large ships that turned out from the bank one after another!
Moreover, after the building boat, there are no less than a hundred ships and warships of various kinds, forming a huge fleet, like water beasts floating out of the river, showing the most ferocious and terrifying faces to them.If you look down from a high altitude, you can see the navy warships of the Han Dynasty facing Cao Jun's weak and pitiful fleet, just like a giant facing an immature child.

"I haven't spent more than a year just recuperating. Lu Zijing complained that I spent money like water, but I didn't hear a sound. Now, he should have heard the Han Dynasty's navy swallowing mountains and rivers with anger. Are you yelling?" Liu Xie turned around and said this sentence to Zhao Yun, his face could not help showing a hint of complacency.

However, Zhao Yun did not reply to Liu Xie's words, but handed the telescope in his hand to Liu Xie and said, "Your Majesty, Cao Jun's warship seems a little strange."

Liu Xie took Zhao Yun's binoculars in doubt, and glanced at Cao Jun's water camp in front of him. With just one glance, he saw that Cao Jun's warships had become cocoon-bound and connected into one piece.There were even some tiger and leopard cavalry of the Cao army who were displeased with the Han navy's navy, showing off their equestrian skills on the warships, galloping back and forth on their horses.

However, in the eyes of Liu Xie, this scene was so ridiculous and shocking: "Could it be, is this God's will?"

It is almost impossible for Liu Xie not to think of the bridge section of burning Chibi with such a chain of boats.Even at this moment, he still felt a little disappointed: Cao Mengde, whom he regarded as his greatest enemy, could only end up paying homage like this at the last moment?

But carefully recalling the course of the battle, Liu Xie had to admit that all of this seemed to be predetermined in the dark.Since I traveled over here, I have grasped the historical nodes almost every time, and made this history mess up.And because of his fear of Cao Cao, he spared no effort to suppress Cao Cao's development every time.

Especially in this battle, Liu Xie also had to admit that unless he himself crossed over to become Cao Cao and was familiar with every node of history, he might be like this in the end.After all, the real rise of the Cao family was after Cao Mengde welcomed the emperor of the Han Dynasty into Xu County and defeated Yuan Shao in the village.But without this opportunity, manpower cannot be recovered.

Is there a problem with Cao Cao's strategy in this final battle?

Can't say that.

The rapid rise of the Han Dynasty has swallowed up the living space of the Cao family in the Central Plains step by step. Cao Mengde took advantage of the opportunity of the Han Dynasty to conquer Shu and went south with all his strength. This is undoubtedly the last chance for the Cao family to compete with the Han Dynasty.At this point, Cao Cao is even better than him in history.

Under the countercurrent of history, Cao Mengde could only go against the current in this way in the end, and seized the last opportunity.

But history is so cruel, Cao Mengde's persistence undoubtedly became the last stepping stone for Liu Xie's success.

"Our army has won this battle." Liu Xie slowly put down his binoculars, and made an assertion of Cao Cao's ending.

"Why did your majesty say that?" Zhao Yun was the first to see the vision of Cao Jun's warships connecting, but he didn't understand why this phenomenon made the emperor so sure of the victory or defeat of this battle.

"The army of the Han Dynasty has entered Qing and Yanzhou, and has quite a record. Cao Jun lost his support and has no fighting spirit, and his morale is low." Zhou Yu sighed and said the most critical factor of Cao Cao's imminent destruction. come out.

"Since ancient times, people from the north rode horses, and people from the south rode boats. Cao Jun abandoned his saddle horses and rode boats to compete with Wu and Yue. He was not the leader of Qing and Yan soldiers." Under Zhou Yu's light, little Zhuge couldn't help but look a little bleak, as if In order to show his own existence, he also mentioned the second factor.

Zhou Yu glanced at Zhuge Liang, didn't mind, just continued with a slight smile, "It's midsummer, and the weather is hot. Cao Mengde drove the Central Plains people to travel between the rivers and lakes. If you don't know the water and soil, you will get sick." After that, Zhou Yu He turned his head to look at Zhuge Liang again, waiting for little Zhuge's key words.

Sure enough, Zhuge Liang did not disappoint Zhou Yu, and said lightly, "In midsummer, the warm wind blows from south to north on the river, and the people in the Central Plains are not familiar with it. Connecting the river boats together can solve the problem that the northerners are not used to the turbulence of the boats. However, with the help of a big fire and a strong wind, Cao Jun’s warship had no escape, but turned into ashes. This is the biggest defeat of Cao Mengde’s tactics!”

Listening to Zhou Yu and Zhuge Liang's eloquent talk, Zhao Yun also believed in the conclusion that Cao Jun would be defeated, but Zhao Yun was still a little confused about Cao Jun's self-defeating move: "After all, Cao Mengde is like a god in using troops, and his subordinates and generals are also experienced. Fighting, could it be that none of them see through this?"

"Even if he expected it, so what?" Liu Xie finally couldn't help it, and sighed: "Cao Mengde is a human being after all, not a ghost or a god. As long as he is a human being, he has the ability to seek advantages and avoid disadvantages, and to only see what is in front of him and ignore it." The fluke mentality of risk. Cheng Demou defeated Cao Jun in the past, forcing Cao Mengde to play tricks like this. But today, when I waited for the boat to show up, even if he was worried about our army's fire attack, how dare he untie the iron chain easily and put himself in a trap? A losing situation? In the end, Cao Mengde has no choice but to choose the lesser of two evils..."

It was night, and the navy of the Han Dynasty arrived at Jiangdong Water Camp smoothly.It was a peaceful night, and neither side had the intention to test it out, let alone make each other swear bold words.Only the battle flags on the water battalion ships of the two armies fluttered slightly, from south to north.

Under the night sky, Liu Xie couldn't help stretching out his hand, feeling the wind that is usually visible and meaningful at this moment: "All of this is indeed God's will."

The wind blew slightly from the first watch, wrinkling the mirror-like smoothness of the river.By the middle of the night, the wind was like a mad knife, making the flags flutter, which is rare in this sweltering midsummer season.At this time, the Jingzhou navy and Jiangdong soldiers under the command of the Han Dynasty had already prepared all the fire starters, and the veteran general Cheng Pu was even more armored, and he could not wait.

At the fourth watch, Cheng Pu led ten large boats, which were surrounded by green cloth and filled with oil-soaked dry firewood and hay inside, with small boats attached to the back of the boats, which were easy to attack, and galloped towards Cao Cao's water village.When they were less than five feet away from the water stronghold, ten large ships ignited at the same time and rushed straight into Cao's army!

That night, the wind was very strong and the fire was very strong. Several boats that rushed into Cao Ying in advance turned into a ball of fire and crashed into Cao boat on the river, and the fire spread rapidly by the wind.One fire started, and the fire quickly spread to the second. In less than half an hour, the entire water village was engulfed in flames.

Above the surface of the water, the flames soared into the sky.

The red-hot dragon soars up, baring its teeth and claws, invincible; the fire dragon exhales, and the whole river is as red as day!The river rolled and howled, like a life ignited by fire, screaming in pain; when the water surged, Cao Jun's soldiers who were not good at water warfare burst into tears, flooded their bodies, and the fire rushed to their bodies, igniting their clothes Limbs, limbs, and heads, one by one, the firemen were vying for each other on the deck, and the ones who could survive the water were plunged down one by one, but were beaten to death by the waves of water.

Soldiers who can't swim can only roll around on the boat, trying to put out the fire on their bodies, but every time they roll into more serious flames, their faces are burned and deformed!Pitiful for these Central Plains men, they are also the people in other people's spring boudoir dreams. In just a moment, half of them will be buried in the sea of ​​fire, and half of them will be buried in the river.

The shrill screams spread far away, reaching the tall and towering Dianjiangtai. On the Dianjiangtai, the emperor Liu Xie's splendid battle robe was crackling.

Liu Xie stood on the stage seemingly calmly, and the southeast wind kissed his long black hair and the long satin tied on the crown of the hair.He pursed his thin lips, his eyes were as clear as water, and one hand rested naturally on the hilt of the sword.

Then, he tightened his hand on the hilt and pointed his sword forward.

(End of this chapter)