"Bofu should not be reckless, not be reckless!"

Seeing that his side had already made a sound of gold, Huang Zhong still took advantage of the last time to chase Pan Zhang and safely withdrew from the suppression of the crossbow on the city. Sun Ce was naturally furious and the fire of ignorance that had personally left the city to fight Huang Zhong alone was ignited again.

Fortunately, Zhou Yu always remained calm and forced Sun Ce who was in a rampant trend.

This cannot be blamed for Sun Ce for being impulsive, mainly because Huang Zhong's melee martial arts show should indeed be inferior to Sun's strategy.

After Pan Zhang proved this with his life, Sun Ce became more and more confident in the belief that "if I had come up with me personally, the one who lay down would have been that shameless old man."

On the other hand, Huang Zhong's victory in the fight was more or less used to underestimate the enemy, and there was a suspicion of "playing with pigs and eating tigers"

Whether it is now Pan Zhang or Xiahou Yuan in history, they all suffered the illusion of "I think Huang Zhong is old and must be weak in melee combat". They lost a little unexpectedly.

This illusion of "our side loses is not because of its lack of strength, but because of its poor luck" is the most exciting thing, and it is eager to reopen.

Due to Zhou Yu's close relationship, he still couldn't help but get Sun Ce's punches, and he felt a surge of blood. Only then did Sun Ce realize that he had beaten his buddy in anger, feeling guilty and suppressing his intention to fight.

"I didn't expect that Huang Zhong's old man is in his fifties and has such endurance and long-term battles, even Pan Zhang, who is always strong in the year of prosperity... Alas!"

Li Su, who was under the city, waited for a long time, spread the iron fracture fan, put it on her eyebrows to cover the sunset, and observed the movements at the city wall for a long time before regretfully confirming that today's battle would not be possible:

"Fuck, it must be Zhou Yu who successfully held him back. He is so greedy. He doesn't even go to fight if he is humiliated like this. Otherwise, if Sun Ce is surprised today, the subsequent battle will be much easier, and the subsequent complex plans can be skipped directly. Oh, it's bad luck."

Li Su sighed for a while, and did not worry anymore. She just ordered the troops to move eastward and camped somewhere on the north bank of Xia Ze that night, which could probably stop taking a straight road from Jiangling City to Hanjinkou by land.

If Sun Ce's army passes between Dangyang County and Li Suxin's camp to Xiangyang, Li Su's 20,000 camping troops in the wild can also threaten Sun Ce's retreat and pursue a land battle with Sun Ce.

After Li Su set up camp, he invited Taishici's waterway warships as planned, headed south from Xiangyang along the Han River, and then stood on standby along the river section south of Yicheng, carrying more army soldiers, and then tentatively attacked Hanjinkou.

So, two or three days later, the Nanjun battlefield entered a brief tranquility again, and time was dragged into early November before the next small friction broke out.

Of course, Huang Zhong's military achievements in killing Pan Zhang should be celebrated and rewarded. Li Su has always had a clear distinction between rewards and punishments.

So on the first day after camping, Li Su first served wine in the camp to celebrate Huang Zhong’s achievements, and encouraged everyone to continue to work hard. After completely repelling Sun Ce, he would naturally report to the court to promote everyone.

Considering that it is not advisable to drink too much in the army, everyone drank until they were finished. After drinking, they rewarded Huang Zhong with ten kilograms of gold and one hundred pieces of Shu brocade.

Li Su also made a private statement saying that Huang Zhong would definitely be slightly promoted to half a level this time, and it would be fine to be a general of the Central Army after the war, but if you want to be a miscellaneous general, it depends on Huang Zhong's subsequent performance and continue to work hard.

Of course, Huang Zhong expressed that he would do his best.

...

On the second day of November, Taishici, who had only recovered combat missions for the first time this year on the Hanshui River, more than 30 miles north of Hanjinkoushui Village, had arrived at this frontal battlefield.

Taishici leaned his boat on the shore and asked the soldiers to carry out the last repair before the war. At the same time, he had to listen to the tragic mission instructions for this battle.

He was already very unhappy to learn that the purpose of his battle was to "deceive defeat and further strengthen Sun Ce and Zhou Yu's trust in the impression that "the war between the Eastern Wu is invincible."

No matter how unwilling he is, out of respect for Lord Sikong, he still has to be patient and ask for instructions on his acting skills to avoid being dissatisfied with the leader.

Fortunately, Li Su was quite proud of his face and did not want Taishi Ci to be humiliated. He just ordered fairly and lightly: "Don't worry, just use your real strength to fight. Don't worry about knocking Zhou Yu down. His ability to fight should be above you.

As far as I know, the warships we used in this battle did not have technical advantages in equipment, and the number of troops we used to attack Hanjin Koshui Village was also at a disadvantage. We were not superior in both aspects, so it was normal to lose. Just remember that once you find that the casualties are too fast and the matter cannot be done, retreat immediately."

Taishici was a little unbelievable: Li Sikong actually felt that our water battle was not as good as Zhou Yu? We were the ones who encircled Guan Cheng, a pirate between Liaodong and Donglai, and had nine years of experience in water battles and even naval battles!

As for Zhou Yu's ability to lead troops in the water battle, Taishici has seen that time five years ago, when Mi Zhu sent Taishici to escort the envoy Liu Ye to Hanzhong to pay homage to Liu Bei, Zhou Yu also traveled to Hanzhong with him.

That time, the two sides were still in a potential alliance. Zhou Yu spoke with Li Su on behalf of Sun Jian to talk to him about selling Changsha County in exchange for money and food to get rid of Yuan Shu's control.

During that journey, Taishici saw how Zhou Yu broke through the naval interception of Lu Kang, the prefect of Lujiang at that time. Taishici asked himself that he knew himself and his enemy and was sure to win.

Taishi Ci asked dissatisfiedly: "Report to Sikong! You said that the number of soldiers in our army is at a disadvantage compared to Zhou Yu, so I don't object. However, our army's water war tactics cooperate, and the weapons loaded on the ship are not as good as those of the enemy. Didn't it be that Zhou Yu is highly regarded? Or did Sikong have any new sources of information?"

Taishici's doubts mainly focus on "equipment technology and quality", but did not question the performance of the warship.

Because Taishi Ci also knew that his camp now has good ships, but it was not the batch he used now that he used now that he had started to develop shipbuilding in Yiling since Guan Yu took over Yidu County in 192. After 194, the shipbuilding industry further developed into the Dongting Lake Basin of Changsha County. Later, Lu Su even lit a lot of scientific and technological trees on dual-use rivers and seas.

However, in order to prevent Sun Ce's army from being alarmed, Sun Ce's army was afraid of not daring to advance westward, so Li Su hid these powerful warships very well and kept hiding in Dongting Lake without revealing his strength.

After Zhou Yu's navy came from the Yangtze River, it cut off the traffic between Jingnan and Jingbei, and Jingnan's ships were not transferred for the time being. Since this time, he was a fraudulent defeat, he directly followed the situation to match Taishi Ci's old warships received from Liu Biao's army.

However, Taishici always felt that the old ship was equipped with a crossbow and a light lever catapult, and then equipped with the "Crow's Beak" mount springboard that was invented and used in the Yizhou battlefield a few years ago to prevent the fire attack of the fire ship... This temporary armed set may not be able to repel Zhou Yu!

The ship is a little bit short, and the ship-based weapons are good enough, so you can still turn the tables in a water battle.

Facing Taishi Ci's confident judgment, Li Su just calmly pointed out: "Ziyi, I'm telling the truth. I really don't have the latest details about Sun Ce's army's water war equipment. So, don't you need to test the feint attack and help me find out and verify it?

However, by common sense, we should predict that the enemy will be lenient, otherwise we will suffer losses. Since the destruction of the Western Liang rebels, the world has been peaceful for two years. Even Yuan Shao from the north has learned to equip the entire army with stirrup saddles in the past two years, and he has also created leveraged and siege-piloting aircraft to attack the city.

As a young and enterprising famous water warfare player, can Zhou Yu strengthen his combat power? Anyway, I just think that he already has a crossbow and a stone catapult. If you are careful, try it and just think that it is for me to confirm it."

Taishici then looked solemn. He trusted Li Sikong's prediction of "technical diffusion speed". Li Su always had a sense of sensitivity that others could not explain.

...

After a brief preparation, Taishi Ci finally brought five thousand direct sailors and the subsequent reinforcements sent by Li Su to him, divided into two fleets of front and back, and attacked from the Han River to the Dongwu Water Village at Hanjinkou.

Of course, although the Eastern Wu army claimed to have a total strength of 90,000, there were not too many enemies who directly fought against Taishici.

Because Sun Ce always released more than 40,000 people on the Jiangling side, the remaining patrol and mobile troops in Jiangjinkou, Jingling County, and even Xiaze were all assigned to allocate their troops.

Therefore, Zhou Yu could directly defend Taishi Ci's attacks, which was about 15,000 people, only one-third more than Taishi Ci, and it was not considered bullying Taishi Ci. In addition, the troops that could support the east side on Xiaze Lake were about 5,000, and they could drive ships to the battlefield within half a day after the war started.

The reason why the second-line troops supported Zhou Yu were so small was that Li Su's remaining 15,000 men would be mobile on the north bank of Xiaze and restrain the main force of the Eastern Wu from advancing eastward.

So, this water battle broke out in a seemingly relatively fair situation.

"The soldiers obeyed the orders and moved forward with all their might, rushed into Hanjinkou, burned all the Wu people's ships and blocked the Xiashui River. Sun Ce's army would be blocked in Jiangling! At that time, Li Sikong will show us his first achievements!"

Taishici was on a building ship with a rated capacity of 2,000 people, waving his sword with one hand and shouting for command, making the entire fleet move forward. In addition to his flagship, the Han army had two other building ships, but the size was slightly smaller, and the remaining smallest ships were also fighting ships. (The small boats used for setting fire are not counted, and the warships were not full of people)

As the two armies got closer and closer, Taishi Ci saw clearly the formation set up by Zhou Yujun downstream opposite, and his confidence rose to another level.

Because he discovered that although Wu Jun claimed to have many large ships, on the battlefield of Hanjinkou, the largest warship of the Wu Jun was just a fighting ship carrying seven or eight hundred people, and the rest were all ships.

Obviously, the reason why the Wu army's ship was small was to adapt to the draft depth of the Xiashui channel. No matter how large the ship was to stay in Hanjin, he could only go to Hanshui. The Yangtze River circled around a large circle and could not go to Xiashui directly communicate with Jiangling. So Zhou Yu left all the big ships in Jiangling and Jiangjin.

"Although our ship is also Liu Biao's old ship, it is several times bigger than you. Zhou Yu, why should you fight me? It's useless to double my number!"

Taishi Ci thought to himself, and as he saw both sides approaching the attack distance between the bed crossbow and the lever catapult cart, he immediately ordered all his warships to start casting stones and release crossbows.

For a moment, arrows and stones flew on the Han River. Zhou Yu's navy opposite was forced to catch fire first because of the lack of advantage in range. Fortunately, the ships were bumpy and undulating on the river, and the moving targets hit the moving targets. The hit rate of the stones was very low, so there was no obvious loss for the time being.

Seven or eight large stones weighing hundreds of kilograms fell into the Han River, and the closest one to the Wu army warship was at least several feet away, but it splashed the water of the Wu army sailors on the side.

Although there are no actual results, this attempt is remarkable, because this is the first large-scale water battle between the enemy and our army in China, which is enough to be recorded in history.

Taishici's ship is large, and the tonnage of the catapult machine that can be carried is naturally large. His flagship has four machines that project 100 kilograms of stone bullets in front and back, with a maximum range of 300 steps.

In contrast, Zhou Yu's trencher on the opposite side was smaller and had not yet entered the range, so he was temporarily unsuccessful.

Unfortunately, Taishi Ci smashed two rounds and used practical experience to verify that the bumpy mobile target at this distance could not be hit at all. He no longer had to worry about whether this range advantage was suitable for "flying a kite", so he chose to urge the fleet to continue to approach.

"Our army goes downstream, and it is beneficial to conflict with the enemy's formation. Get close to 200 steps before you make a shot!"

The Han army fleet advanced steadily. Seeing this, Zhou Yu's warship had already begun to fight horizontally, and even turned around, preparing to keep a distance to prevent being hit by the big ship and jumping. However, because it would take time to turn around, Taishici quickly approached within 200 steps, and the hit rate of the stone began to increase, and Zhou Yu's side's catapult also began to counterattack.

"Kala~" With a muffled sound, a large stone of hundreds of kilograms directly hit a Wu Jun's trap and hit the deck directly.

Several thick boat boards several feet wide were broken. After the stone smashed the deck, the residual momentum declined, but it could still knock the wooden boards at the bottom of the boat out of the cracks, and the river water immediately seeped in.

The paddlers on the damaged ferry immediately threw down their oars and rushed to block the leak and rescue themselves. The other Wu sailors on the adjacent ships were instantly flustered when they saw the power of the Han army's catapult.

Zhou Yu immediately drew out his sword and shouted loudly to stabilize his position: "Don't make noise! ​​Those who dare to instigate the army will kill! Those who retreat without authorization will retreat without authorization will kill the tun leader; those who retreat without authorization will kill the tun leader!"

The warships are all medium-sized warships, with more than 100 to 500 or 600 people on a ship, so the officers who served as "captains" on the ship were Tunchang and Qu Junhou. If the tower ships with two or three thousand people were full of loads, the captain had to be at least a military sarma, so that they could manage so many people.

Zhou Yu was very strict in his army. With his orders, Dong Xi, who was fighting with him today, and Chen Wu, the two generals of Dong Xi, were strictly enforced, and soon suppressed the panicked soldiers. (Huang Gai led the patrol fleet in Xiaze, so he did not participate in the war)

The leaking siege quickly blocked and stabilized, and bravely prepared to fight back.

On the contrary, next to the damaged ship, there was a friend-neighbor ship. It was frightened by the previous riots and the near-lost bombs that were hit closer and closer, and it was actually messed up and wanted to accelerate the escape from the front.

As a result, Dong Xi was blocked by a boat. The two ships approached within fifty steps. Dong Xi personally ordered the soldiers on the escaped ship to take down the officers who violated the order to execute the military law. If they did not follow, they would fire arrows to enforce the military law!

Of course, the soldiers dared not refuse to obey and killed a escaping commander.
Chapter completed!