Survival Three Kingdoms

Chapter 223 Water Battle (1)

After a night of horror, Jiangdong soldiers dared not sleep all night, and they were afraid of a surprise attack. Early the next morning, they searched for horses to report, but no reinforcements from Xuzhou were found.Sun Ce ordered the soldiers to retreat ten li and set up camp.

After half a day of exploring the horses, they still reported no trace of the enemy. Sun Ce concluded that this was Chen Deng's suspicious strategy, just to exhaust his own army, so Sun Ce once again ordered the rear army to land as soon as possible, and the front army to rest as soon as possible.

At dusk, Sun Ce was having dinner with his subordinates Huang Gai, Han Dang, Chen Wu, Pan Zhang, etc., when the soldiers came to report that the Guangling navy was found in the rear, with dozens of large ships and hundreds of small boats, thousands of people. .Sun Ce turned pale with fright, and it broke down. The size of the warship on the water has an absolute effect. This time, only himself and a few generals are on the big boat, and the others are small boats. How can this be the opponent of the Guangling Navy.

Gan Ning, courtesy name Xingba, was a young man who was a thief on the Jialing River, and he was king in the waters from Jiangzhou to Jiangling. His distinctive symbols were his boats with brocade sails, red scarves around his neck, and copper bells around his waist. Jiang thieves and merchant ships knew him at the first sight. Gan Ning's thief boat heard the bell and knew that Gan Ning himself had arrived, so they all fled away.Gan Ning knew the nature of water, was good at fighting with water, and was good at using a hard bow. Before meeting Dian Wei with a pair of iron halberds, no one could match him. Dian Wei was also afraid of Gan Ning in the water.

At the age of 20, Gan Ning became the overlord of the water, with the potential to dominate the rivers and lakes.At this time, Liu Yan came to Yizhou and severely cracked down on water pirates. Gan Ning repelled several encirclement and suppression campaigns.After the water bandits dispersed, Gan Ning migrated to the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River, where he met tens of thousands of Jingzhou regular water troops. Gan Ning was defeated and retreated to Jiangxia, where he was taken in by Huang Zu.Because of his bad background, he was often ridiculed by Huang Zu and his subordinates, and was brought back to Guangling by Zhou Wen.Gan Ning burst out his potential again, converted all the dozens of giant ships brought back by Zhou Wen into warships, and once again set up brocade sails.Zhou Cang tempted Gan Ning several times to change into black sails with skulls on them, but Gan Ning stubbornly insisted on using brocade sails.

"General Cheng, look quickly, it's Jin Fan. It must be Gan Ning!" Dong Xi, who was also a water thief, reported to Cheng Pu.

"Who is Gan Ning?" Cheng Pu raised his eyes and saw [-] giant warships sailing downwind from the west, arranged in a row of geese, and there were hundreds of small boats behind them.There is a huge ship in the middle, and the sails are shining in the sun, like brocade.

"This man has outstanding martial arts skills, is tough and brave, and is especially good at water warfare. His subordinates are all desperadoes. He was nicknamed the Jinfan Bandit. The general should not take it lightly."

"It's just a water bandit. He has experienced any big battles. He only uses the sun to move westward in the afternoon to fight against the light, occupying the upper reaches and taking advantage of the trend."

Is this still a trick?Dong Xi despised Old General Cheng a little bit, because he had taken advantage of the right time and place.Fighting on the water, with a clear view of the river, it is difficult to make small tricks, and the command between the fleets is not as easy as that on land. Being able to arrive at the battlefield in time and enter the offensive state fully demonstrates Gan Ning's ability.Out of caution, Dong Xi sent people to report to Sun Ce immediately.

"The order is that Ling Cao will be the chief general, and Ling Tong will be the deputy general. They will lead 3000 men and [-] small boats to intercept them," Cheng Pu said.There is a shortage of large ships in Jiangdong, only Sun Ce's flagship and his own command ship.

Ling Tong's boat had ten men in it, two oarsmen, four crossbowmen, two spearmen, and two sword and shield soldiers.The boat was rowing very fast, and the faster the soldiers were, the more frightened they were. The opponent's warship was too big, and it seemed as if Mount Tai was overwhelmed.

"Hurry up, let the arrows go," Ling Cao and Ling Tong shouted loudly, Jiangdong soldiers all drew their bows and shot upwards, few of them hit the bow of the boat.

Gan Xingba held his breath in his heart. It has been three years since the establishment of the navy. The lord Zhou Cang attached great importance to the navy and himself. He first appointed himself as the commander of the navy, and now he is the commander of the water camp. There are 1 sailors. If you want arrows and arrows, you need ships and boats. The only thing you don't have is war.There are fifty big ships empty, training troops all day long, but not fighting a single battle, Gan Ning is in trouble.Huoziying captured the Lujiang River and made great contributions. He heard that Jinziying was planning to go north to take Chengyang County, but his own Shuiziying could only watch it.

In addition to training the navy for three years, under Zhou Cang's suggestion, Gan Ning made some modifications to the warship. Due to the current productivity and technical conditions, he only added two kinds of offensive weapons to the warship. The poles are Zhang Zhang long, and the second is to fix five hard crossbows on each side of the ship. The crossbows are six feet long and can easily shoot three hundred steps, piercing large shields and thick armor. With Zhuxiang Kungfu, there is no need to aim in the chaos. If you can release a crossbow, it means that you have one more weapon than the opponent, and it may play a decisive role.

Hard work pays off, Gan Ning waited for the stars and the moon to find the uncomfortable enemy before he could send troops. After hearing from Chen Deng that there were 3 enemies coming, Gan Ning's eyes sparkled, as if he had encountered an enemy. flock of hungry wolves.He and Chen Deng planned Zhou Xiang to first lead the water army to cruise a hundred miles upstream, and then go down the river early in the morning two days later, approaching the Jiangdong Army at noon, and it was too late when the Jiangdong Army found out.

"The big ship moves forward, don't mess up the formation. You don't need to release the stick, just hit the enemy ship directly, the hard crossbow doesn't fire, shoot the enemy with random arrows. The small boat follows, shoot and kill those who fall into the water, don't take prisoners, don't capture, those who disobey the order Fight." Gan Ning issued the military order with a cold face.

"Ah! Swipe quickly, to the left! Quickly!"

"It's too late, let's dive in."

Taking advantage of the force of the water and the wind, fifty large ships slammed into the Jiangdong Fleet brutally. The small boats were smashed to pieces. The boat bowed and shot down, and the Jiangdong Army became a target.

"Water ghosts go into the water, dig a boat!" After winter came, the wind was biting and the water in the river was even colder, Ling Cao still gave the order.

A dozen sailors, with hammers and chisels around their waists, jumped into the water, dived under the big ship, and began to chisel the ship.Gan Ning was born as a water thief, and these are his usual tricks to block rivers and rob money. In the bilge of every large ship, there is a small soldier who is in charge of listening. Tonggong, the information is transmitted to the captains, one ship is one mark, the captain is the captain, and the name of the ship is the mark.

Left Whistle Bingbiao, Captain named Li Da, was born as a fisherman, and was promoted to Captain by Gan Ning because he was proficient in water and could hold his breath for up to 30 breaths in underwater wrestling.Hearing that there were people underwater, Li Da felt that the big boat bullying the small boat was too boring, so he handed over the command to Chief Jia, and personally led [-] people to jump into the water with knives in their mouths.The other boats found people underwater one after another, and they went into the water one after another to intercept the Jiangdong water ghost.

(End of this chapter)