Taishici cherishes the starter opportunity of this water decisive battle very much.

He knew very well how shock and surprise the enemy troops on the opposite side would cause to be attacked by Zhao Yun and Lu Su over the years, as well as the water war weapons that Li Sikong had urgently improved before the battle.

This unexpected time difference is the best opportunity to make contributions and expand the results of the battle.

Before the battle began, Taishici was worried that the generals he led in Sikong this time had the highest position, and he was afraid that he would be in charge of the main force of the central army and would not be able to get the best of the vanguard to take the lead.

He thought Li Su would give up the opportunity to make contributions to Huang Zhong to win the morale of the Xinfu locals in Jingzhou. After all, Huang Zhong came late and his official position was indeed lower than his.

Unexpectedly, Li Sikong finally disagreed with the opposition and let Taishi Ci be the vanguard without any restrictions. Li Su personally took charge of the central army, and Huang Zhong just temporarily served as a guard next to Li Su.

The reason is that "Taishi Ci was a defeated general under Zhou Yu a few months ago, allowing Taishi Ci's vanguard to maximize the enemy's determination to underestimate the enemy and fight to the greatest extent."

Although the reason sounds quite embarrassing, it’s good to have a chance to make meritorious service! Taishi Ci accepted this setting and decided to vent all the discomfort on the enemy.

Besides, Taishi Ci's appointment only affected him personally. The ordinary soldiers of the Han army's vanguard troops still followed the original organization and let the Jingbei soldiers start, and the Jingnan soldiers and other direct troops brought by Li Su to support the support.

Except for a small number of troops similar to "housekeepers" in Liu Bei's camp (such as Guan Yu's school knife hand, Zhao Yun and Ma Chao's partial cavalry guards are of private soldiers), most of the other troops do not recognize generals, so there is no risk of warlords. A general can be used to run in and run in.

Under Taishi Ci's command, countless officers from Jingbei New Office were eager to try, hoping to make meritorious service and be promoted in this battle.

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"Let the sieges in front of the Five-Tooth Battleship slow down and disperse, retreat to the two wings, and the sieges are fighting for the first time by the Five-Tooth Battleship! Especially the siege team with pole-singers, all disperse behind!"

As Taishici and Dong Xi were about to enter a close distance, the two sides had already started a long-range attack. Taishici was underestimated by the cover of Duoka and the steel shield array.

After confirming that the enemy's long-range firepower would not pose any threat to the main warship, he decisively ordered all the traps covering the front of the fleet to disperse to reduce unnecessary casualties.

The troops on the opposite side of Dong Shi had five main ships, as the main force, more than a dozen bucket ships and dozens of ships. The ships were equipped with bed crossbows and trenchers that project grape bombs.

Grape bombs and giant crossbows may penetrate the side of the shipboard, but it will not pose any threat to the main structure of the building ship and the Five-Tooth Battleship, and can only penetrate some superstructures and cabin stacks.

During the long-range firefighting, soldiers on both sides often fell into the river by arrows or were hit by stones and bleeding from their heads. However, the overall intensity of the fight was not high, and the materials were consumed very quickly. Soon the river surface was filled with feathered arrows, and the white hair looked rippling from a distance.

The army enlisted around Taishici was still a little confused about the request of the chief general, and asked for more instructions: "General, the troop team with miners is more flexible, making it easier to quickly approach the enemy's tower ships. Why let them disperse?"

Taishici: "Sikong took care of me before the war, pay attention to the terrain of the river surface and judge the playing style according to local conditions. If you are fighting at the Shaxian Gorge or Chibi Gorge at this moment, the walls on both sides of the shore stand thousands of feet high, and the water on the river will be very deep. The tower ship and the Five-Tooth Battleship can drive to the riverside, so naturally there is no need to fight like this.

But now the enemy has chosen to fight us on the wide river surface between the two gorges. The five-tooth warships and tower ships cannot reach the shallowest mile wide river surface on the shore. The pole mines should be hidden first, and if necessary, they will be used to raid from the shallow water area to maximize the suddenness."

The deputy generals and military strategists around them all agreed and quickly passed on Taishici's orders with the banner.

The Han army's wares, especially the fast assault wares with mines, dispersed and dragged them down to reduce their casualties.

The silo is the narrow and long ship that is most famous for its speed in the army, which is similar to the role played by destroyers and frigates in later battleships. Fast speed is suitable for charging and lightning strikes, but the price of fast is that its own defense is very weak and the boat plate is thin, so it may be penetrated by a grape bomb.

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While Taishi Ci made adjustments, Dong Xi on the opposite side had also noticed the changes in the tactics of the Han army and immediately commanded them in a targeted manner:

"Taishici wanted to rely on the ship's magistrate to directly sank the front row of our army's platoon, and then lean on our stairs to fight directly? Instruct all the pole holders on the turret to be alert and not be hit directly! Then keep a distance and throw the torch!"

Of course, Dong Xi himself couldn't summarize such targeted tactics, so this is actually the experience summarized by the last time he fought with Zhou Yu to fight Taishi Ci.

Zhou Yu is very good at learning. Since he learned Li Su's "stand-stick fire prevention" trick, Zhou Yu quickly discovered that this thing has many uses. It can not only hold the boat in emergency situations to prevent it from hitting the reefs, but also hold the buffer when he encounters an enemy ship with a small boat to prevent direct impact.

Moreover, every time an enemy's big ship wants to hit his own small boat, but is barely supported and only maintained at a distance of two or three meters, it is the best time to throw the torch away, because the torch cannot be thrown away if it is usually far apart.

Dong Xi naturally strictly copied the response tactics explained by General Zhou, which was as strict as writing them into the scriptures.

"Cruff" a series of sour sounds of iron-packing poles inserted into the thick shipboard came. Several Wu Junshi ships carrying more than a hundred people stood against the side of a Han army's five-tooth warship and were pushed back.

Even the total tonnage of four or five ships is still far less than the weight of a five-tooth warship. After all, the former has only a displacement of thirty or forty tons, while the latter has more than 600 tons, so it is normal to be pushed away.

Because the pole supporters on Wu Junshi could not withstand this huge force, their ship fell to the ground while being tilted by the top, either the pole was broken or could not hold it. The palms were grounded with blood from the bamboo pole flying backwards. The bamboo pole was poked back several feet and nailed directly to the board of the pole.

The poles originally rated to ensure that both sides maintain a distance of four or five meters were often broken halfway, or retracted by a small half to be placed on their own ship. The distance between these snares and the Han army's Five-Tooth Battleship was shortened from five meters to only two or three meters.

Fortunately, I was not hit directly, and as long as the buffering removes the impact force, it will not sink.

"Drop the torches and poison cigarettes!" After the sailors on Wu Junzhi were stunned, they quickly calmed down and stood up again from the deck, under the command of the officers, trying to light the torch and throw it on the Han army's ship.

Some are pottery pots with added ingredients, which not only contain straw and sesame oil, but also some are made of medicines with pungent smell and strong toxic smoke after burning.

Unfortunately, many people fell down due to impact in a hurry, and it took time to get up and light the ignition temporarily, but few people threw it out as soon as possible.

Even after throwing it out, the fire attack effect looks bad.

The Han army's five-tooth warships had a large tonnage and had a lot of redundant reserves and loads, so they could be squandered. Before the battle, Taishici asked all five-tooth warships to apply wet silt on the side of the ship and the edges of the deck, and a small amount of torches could not be ignited at all.

To put it off topic - Actually, the five-toothed warship on Taishici's side is relatively easy to be attacked by fire. If Dong Xi or Zhou Yu were asked to observe the battleship Li Su, the central army of the Han army, was sitting close, it would be despair.

Li Su's 800-ton ship even luxuriously imitated the "iron armored ship" of Jiugui Jialong in the later Warring States Period in Japan, and wrapped a thin layer of iron fireproofing on the side and deck of the Five-Tooth Warship.

They were all blocked with iron, and Zhou Yu also put fire with wool. However, the warships were huge. Even if they were covered with thin iron sheets, they needed hundreds of square abbots to cover an area of ​​one centimeter of iron sheets, and each square abbot weighed three hundred kilograms.

Li Su's ship used up more than 80,000 kilograms of steel, accounting for 2% of Yizhou's steel production last year. Because it was really expensive, that special process was not promoted and used for many purposes. Li Su was only equipped with his own ship, and Taishici still applied wet mud to prevent fire.

After Dong Xi's army threw away the torch and poison cigarette tank and suppressed it, he also considered jumping torches and toxic cigarette tanks and hitting the boarding battle.

They observed that the five-tooth warship of Liu Bei's army was different from the traditional tower ship. The traditional tower ship was integrated, just like a city.

The Han army's large warships were always relatively low in the middle, with a low deck in the middle for easy boarding, while there were towering forecastles and sterns in the bow and stern. The same is true for today's Five-Tooth Warships, which are very suitable for being climbed from the middle.

This tactical feature was actually played out in the battle between two and a half months. At that time, he was hoping to "put the enemy's living power on the deck of his warship, and then because there was no cover on the deck, he could be shot and killed by the crossbow formations on the forecastle and stern stairs."

However, that time, Taishi Ci was restrained by Zhou Yu's subsequent smoke bomb attack on the ship tower, and that time, Zhou Yu's number of sailors far exceeded that of Taishi Ci, which led to the "put in and fight" tactic that really led to the wolf entering the house, and the boat was lost after playing too much.

At this moment, Dong Xi's troops learned from his victory experience with General Zhou two and a half months ago, and naturally became more and more familiar with the path dependence, "Do the right things repeatedly, from one victory to another."

Unfortunately, just as they adjusted their bow orientation and were about to put down the "crow beak" nail board on the bow to fight, Taishici's Five-Tooth Battleship took the lead in counterattacking.

The Five-Tooth Warship also looks very eager to fight on the side. There are five high-hanging "pin boards" in total, which seem to be ready to put down and connect with the enemy at any time, and then rush up from a high position.

"Hu" with the blow of wind and thunder, the hammer head was more than one thousand pounds, the wooden handle was more than two feet thick and several feet long, and the handle weighed three or four thousand pounds, so he aimed at several trolleys next to him and smashed them one after another.

"This...is I want to stalk on our boat, and then people rushed over to fight along the wooden poles? This sound is wrong."

The Wu soldiers on the siege subconsciously discovered something was wrong, because the sound of the springboard falling down was so scary, so the weight was not right.

"Kala!Kala!" Several loud noises were made, and several trunks were directly hit by a giant hammer with a total weight of 5,000 kilograms from a few feet high with inertia, smashing the entire ship into two pieces, and sank instantly.

Dong Xi on the boat in the rear was stunned: Damn it! I agreed that this was just a springboard for the boarding? It looked like a springboard from a distance! The power was so amazing when I got it?

"Distract! Command the siege to spread as much as possible immediately! Don't fight with Taishici's giant ship in close combat! No, be careful to avoid the position of strange giant hammers on both sides and rush up from other angles! By the way, isn't there no such giant hammer on the stern of the ship? Let's use our flexibility to go around the stern to board the ship!"
Chapter completed!