Although Dong Xi's vanguard troops were basically destroyed in less than half an hour, the damage caused to Taishi Ci by his dying struggle was not much.

The Wu army suddenly lost more than 20% of its combat power, while the Han army only sank a few ships, and none of them at the level of the fighting ship did not sink, at most they were injured.

The total number of soldiers' casualties reached more than 1,000, and 80% were injured by arrows and gravel bombs, which was inevitable.

After all, when the two armies approached, the powerful crossbows, the grape bomb slaughter and the slaughter machine were both crazy. In order to quickly hit and sink the ship opposite, Taishici could not fly kites and rely on the divine arm crossbow to output unilaterally.

Whether you are injured in this combat mode has nothing to do with your personal martial arts and training, it depends on your fate and luck. If you are not lucky, you will be sprayed with grapes, and your martial arts will be injured.

Sun Ce and Zhou Yu's main force also gained observation and thinking, and adjusted the deployment time to deal with Taishici's new weapons and new tactics.

"Seiwei Dong is a loyal and righteous man, and I will avenge him!" After hearing the scout ship sent back by Dong Xi, Sun Ce also slapped the specific battle situation ahead, and he was angry at the beginning.

Fortunately, he knew that time could not be wasted, so he immediately entrusted Zhou Yu to be responsible for changing the formation, and he took charge of the central army to fight.

Zhou Yu was not vague and immediately let the fleet spread, widen the depth, and tried to deploy more troops to the shallow water areas of both wings to reduce the density of the army in Jiangxin.

While deploying, Zhou Yu thought to himself: "The rod and angle of the Han army's five-tooth warship are too sharp. Our army's large number of flexible ships are dealing with the Five-tooth warship in Jiangxin, and only more will be sunk.

Relying on shallow water, let the pole holders try to keep a distance. If the pole is broken, they must accelerate and pull it away to make a try. If you want to jump on the sidelines, you must avoid the position of the pole and board the boat from other angles.

For a building ship, as long as it is not hit by the enemy's pole flat, it should not sink and can fight with the enemy in close combat. Moreover, Dong Xi also verified with his life that this variable angle of collision is not strong, and it will most likely break after the collision, and the five-tooth warship itself will also be damaged in the bow.

The second time there was a close battle with the tower ship, even if the bow was against the bow, there was no need to be afraid. Li Su's army had only more than ten five-toothed warships, and the total number was less than half of our tower ships. It would not have been entirely due to collisions with us.

However, our numerical advantage is not as big as when the war started. Originally, it was 60,000 to fight 25,000, but Zhou Tai first defeated Li Su. But the day before yesterday, Baqiu lost two or three thousand, and Dong Xi destroyed another 123,000. Now our army is only 45,000, and Li Su should not have any losses. 45,000 to fight 25,000, and there is no absolute certainty.

Unfortunately, Zhou Tai blocked Chibi Gorge, and there were probably less than 10,000 people there. Even if we wanted to rush, we wouldn't be able to rush through for a while. We could only fight to the end. It would be useless to think too much."

Zhou Yu had such a vision and arrangement in his mind. He also made such a decisive arrangement when commanding the troops. For a moment, the center of the river became wider, and it became a formation that was as good as possible to avoid the above-mentioned killer moves of the Han army.

Zhou Yu also knew very well that a large ship was definitely not as flexible as a small ship. The previous Taishi Ci came so fiercely, which was also related to Taishi Ci's advantage in occupying the upstream and flowing water.

However, the central army of the Wu army was huge. As long as the geese formation was dispersed, the two wings let the enemy ships come in, so that the two wings would occupy a higher position than the Han army's five-tooth warship, then there would be a chance to detour.

Moreover, the five-tooth warship only has the "five teeth", and the stick layout looks like a turtle, with head and limbs but no tail, so attacking from the tail is the biggest weakness! Even if it is facing the height advantage of the stern of the ship, it has to be fought!

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"This is what Zhou Yu's response is? I feel that the boat is easy to sink by me, so I disperse to the two sides. I bullied my Five-Tooth Warship and could not chase it to the shallow water area. I was really incompetent. I thought he could form a more aggressive attack formation.

Just a little Yanxing Formation, then I will let you know how unfavorable the Yanxing Formation is to fight in close combat! As long as you hit your mind and sink Sun Ce and Zhou Yu's ship, what's the use of Yanxing's wings even stronger!"

As Zhou Yu completed the formation change response, Taishi Ci, who was approaching, was also a little drifted because he destroyed Dong Xi with a slight loss just now.

In his opinion, Zhou Yu's response was too timid. He only thought about how to reduce his own losses, but could not cause more effective killing and counter-attack on the Han army. What's there to be afraid of?

As long as the Central Palace advances directly and defeats the Central Army, everything is over!

Taishi Ci is also a brave man, willing to take risks occasionally in exchange for attractive huge benefits.

Fortunately, there were also a slightly calmer general around him. As soon as he started charging, the lookout and flag soldiers on his ship noticed the signals sent by the left-wing friendly warships, which were transmitted to Taishici:

"General, Sima Chen sent a banner, and the two five-toothed warships on the left wing broke the corners of the collision. Please instruct the tactics of receiving the enemy."

Taishi Ci calmed down for a moment, remembering that his combat power was not as complete as at the beginning. The slap and hit the corners were purely consumables. The iron axe that had several thousand kilograms had already sunk into the river. If it hits the enemy ship, his ship would probably be severely damaged. Chen Dao's situation was the same as him, so he asked for instructions.

There was not so much time to adjust in a hurry, and Taishici also gritted his teeth and asked the flag to send a message: try to use the tactic of passing by the wrong side to deal with the enemy's tower ship, and then pat the opponent's superstructure on the side, and don't hit him directly.

However, when it comes to the specific execution level, there will definitely be some distortions. Some of the side poles of several five-toothed warships have broken and damaged side poles, and some have broken hammer heads and sunken rivers. How much success can be achieved depends on luck.

In just a few dozen seconds, with the sound of roaring, the wooden boards breaking and shattering, and a more violent melee battle began. Taishici's five-toothed warships hit Wu Jun's tower ships with poles again, smashed some superstructures, and then the two sides were entangled together.

There are also those that pass by too high relative speed because of the wrong ship. After the rod is hammered down, it is embedded in the superstructure of the collapsed enemy ship, and then dragged it horizontally to break several enemy ship cabins. Then the rod of the rod itself is also broken.

The Wu army sailors were actually very brave. Although their ship was even more damaged, there was no risk of sinking. After seeing the Han army's pony stick break, they even released the crow beak of their warships and stuck it on the Five-Toothed Warship.

Then the sailors on both sides quickly used their swords, shields and hooks to rush towards the enemy ships from the bridge formed by the slap pole or crow beak, and started hand-to-hand combat on the deck.

A grim smile flashed across Taishici's mouth: We are not afraid of fighting on the sidelines! We lost to Zhou Yu in October because there were too few melee troops. But now there are more melee soldiers on a five-tooth warship than a Wu army tower ship. They collided one on one and cut each other. Who is afraid of whom?

Unless Zhou Yu asked three or four large tower ships to surround a Five-Tooth Battleship, and let each of the five-Tooth Battleships be stuck in a building ship, then three or four ships jumped up to siege and chop a boat! Taishi Ci was worried that all the soldiers on the ship would be chopped and killed.

"All the crossbows in the stern tower of the ship are moved over immediately! Don't look to the stern of the ship, just head towards our own deck! After the deployment is completed, let the soldiers return to the ship, give the deck to the Wu people, and shoot them with the crossbows!" Taishi Ci took out his confident trick again.

And like last time, Wu Jun began to use poisonous smoke pots to choke on the mouth and nose after the last time, and his eyes obscured the crossbowman's vision.

Taishici was prepared for this this time. Before the war, he deployed large tanks on all floors of the ship building, filled with cool and detoxifying herbs, soaked with a lot of linen. During the battle, the crossbowman could cover his mouth and nose. The soldiers' eyes were not able to protect them for the time being. After all, glasses could not be made, but they could also clean the crossbowman with red and swollen eyes in time.

The bloody melee battle on the tower ship and the Five-Tooth Battleship became more and more intense, and the casualties on both sides were rising wildly, with hundreds of people on each ship. Various confrontational moves emerged one after another, and Taishi Ci seemed to have seen through the tricks that Zhou Yu once relied on to gain an advantage.

However, during the fierce hand-to-hand combat, the situation on the battlefield quietly changed.

After all, Zhou Yu's ship was not entangled by Taishi Ci. He just sent some tower ships in the front row of the central army to deal with Taishi Ci, but he had not yet boarded. So Zhou Yu could use his banner to command other warships to cooperate.

The trolleys and fighting ships that were originally commanded by Zhou Yu in the Yanxing Formation and spread out towards the shallow waters on both sides of the river were now called back by Zhou Yu again, specifically attacking the tails of Taishici's five-toothed warships.

At first, Taishi Ci relied on the high stern building, feeling that the other party's boat could not climb up and didn't care at all. Moreover, he had already transferred the crossbow to the front of the stern building and fired at the deck, and was indeed not very prepared for the rear of the stern building.

At the same time, because Taishici's Five-Tooth Warship conflict was too deep, the advantage of the upstream that it originally occupied was reversed. Instead, the ships on both wings of the Wu army Yanxing Formation were higher than Taishici.

Wu Junzhi is now rushing downstream, with extremely fast speed and flexible steering, and does not leave any reaction time for Taishi Ci.

After approaching the stern, the stern battleships approached the stern, almost reaching a very close distance, which was within thirty or fifty steps. Then, they used single-headed bullets to smash the stern of the Five-Toothed Battleship in a flash.

Under normal circumstances, such a close distance was already the smallest range of the lever catapult, but who made Zhou Yu's water battle command extremely exquisite? Before the war, he observed that the Han army warship was extremely tall.

If a small boat with a low deck hits a large Han army's high-rise ship, even if it is shot within the minimum range of the dead corner, the parabola in the projectile rise stage will just hit the superstructure of the large ship.

Taishici was commanding the guards on the stern and forecastle to shoot and slaughter the Wu army's soldiers on the central deck. As a result, they found that half of the back of the stern was collapsed, and then many crow beaks came up. The Wu army soldiers rushed up from those directions along the ruins. Both sides completely entered a fair hand-to-hand combat with no terrain height advantage.

However, some of the soldiers under Taishi Ci were Liu Biao's surrendered army. They did not have time to go through the long-term devil training of Liu Bei's camp. Their personal martial arts, technical skills, and morale were not as good as those of Wu Bing, and they fell into a hard battle for a while.

It was entirely up to each Five-Tooth Warship carrying two thousand soldiers. In the melee battle, it was impossible to kill them for a while, but there was no advantage in killing and exchanging, and life was exchanged for life.

"Can Zhou Yu's water war commander be able to reach this level as an arm commander? So quickly discovered the disadvantage of the Five-Tooth Warship attacking from behind? And can it also make the detour of the pirate so precisely and meticulously?

No, I have to command all the paddlers to speed up the paddle and completely get out of close combat. I had the siege mine fleet under my command waiting in a circle before, and it was a bit too much. It was time to let the mine fleet use pole and lightning to intercept the enemy shallow water fleet as soon as possible! After all, I underestimated the enemy and wanted to exert the suddenness of the last new weapon to the extreme."

Taishi Ci complained secretly and felt a little regretful. He could actually use the mine weapon as soon as possible. The reason why he was temporarily useless is that he felt that the later the trump card, the better it would be. Anyway, the Five-Tooth Warship was enough. Playing the trump card too quickly would easily scare Sun Ce and Zhou Yu to death earlier.

If the remaining 40,000 people were scared and fleeing in scatters, there was still a possibility that a small number of them would rush through Zhou Tai's blockade downstream and retreat back to Jiangdong. Taishi Ci also wanted to stick to the enemy more, so that even if they collapsed, they had nowhere to escape and had no time to escape.

Fortunately, there are some mine reserves on Taishici's Five-Tooth Battleship, and about a dozen are left on each ship, and they are strictly sealed in several sturdy cabins on the lower floor.

At this moment, he wanted to get rid of the battle on the shore, so he naturally asked the paddlers to row wildly on one side, and organized suicide squads to charge back, and cut off the crow beak of the enemy ship on the deck.

However, they soon found that the crow's beak was not easy to cut off, so they had to temporarily change the purpose of the mine and use it directly as a powder barrel. The mine was moved up from the bottom cabin, moved it to the near the crow's beak springboard, and pierced through the wooden barrel partition between the quicklime and the acid layer. The powder barrel soon showed up the lime water and began to heat up the boiling white smoke.

Then several brave Han soldiers rolled the powder barrel along the springboard toward the enemy ship, and within a few seconds it exploded. About one kilogram of TNT equivalent of black gunpowder was originally designed to break the armor below the enemy ship's waterline by water pressure, but because it was changed to explode in the air, its power was reduced by dozens of times.

Moreover, the mines did not contain prefabricated shrapnel such as iron gravel, gravel, and stings, and they did not rely on the principle of shrapnel to kill. In addition, they could relieve pressure in the open space. They did not kill a few people after the explosion. They just blew up a few pieces of the crow's beak springboard and the surrounding ship boards.

As for the killing effect on personnel, it is nothing more than being blown by the shock wave within five feet and bleeding in seven orifices, which may cause death. If you are far away, unless you are unlucky and are stuck by the blown-off wooden board, it will form an effect similar to shrapnel killing. As long as there is a cover and not being hit by shrapnel, at most it will cause bleeding from the mouth and ears.

The Wu army soldiers were frightened by the sudden loud noise and explosion for a while. Several five-tooth warships from Taishi Ci took advantage of this opportunity to get rid of the battle on the side, rushing downstream, just to get out of the battle.

However, the Wu army soldiers would not be beaten to a complete collapse of morale due to such an incident. After all, the emergence of gunpowder blasting weapons in this era has been a few years.

Ordinary soldiers of the princes from all sides may not know the existence of gunpowder weapons, but grassroots officers with a little bit of experience and common sense know it - Liu Bei's camp had publicly used explosion scare rockets like the Wantian Monkey.

The battle in Southern Central may be relatively confidential, and other princes do not know the details. However, when fighting Shi Xie in the 195th Jiaozhou two years ago, Zhao Yun and Gao Shun also used this weapon to deal with elephant soldiers again. Naturally, Han soldiers under Shi Xie would flee and spread, which took a full two years to make the princes from all sides mentally prepared.

Therefore, the officers and soldiers of the Wu army would not be frightened by the explosion directly. At most, it was just similar to the reactions of the Mongolians or Tatars when they saw the firearms of the Song and Ming dynasties in history. To play a decisive role, the key is to rely on real killing and not to expect fright.

In the end, Taishi Ci's side had three warships breaking out of the siege, namely Taishi Ci, Chen Dao and Liao Hua personally took charge of the three. However, all five poles of the ships had been destroyed, most of the superstructure was destroyed, and the parts that were blocked by the crow's beak were also blown up.

There were also two five-toothed warships. Because of the lack of a skilled officer, the hero made a quick decision and cut off his arm. Unexpectedly, he was still surrounded by a group of people and fell into a slash and slashing battle and could not extricate himself.

Fortunately, after Taishici's flagship escaped, he immediately began to command the flag and ordered the rear marching fleet, especially the mine fleet, to take the opportunity to chase and kill the small boats that were retracted on both sides of Wu Jun Yanxing, and strive to use mine tactics to sink more enemy ships in shallow water.

At the same time, when Taishi Ci just fell into a hard battle, his situation was noticed by the main force of Li Su's army in the rear - after all, Li Su was much stronger in the battlefield observation ability than Zhou Yu, and he had a telescope polished with crystal lenses.

Moreover, a strategic observation instrument, which is only equipped with senior officers, is very small in existence and there is no problem of being captured and copied by the enemy's battlefield, so Li Su's battlefield observation advantage can continue to monopolize it.

(Note: Before, book friends have repeatedly emphasized the doubt that the Zhuge crossbows were kept secret for a long period of time in history, and were copied by Cao Wei after the demise of Shu Han, thinking that the technology I set spread faster. Let me clarify that the Zhuge crossbows in Shu Han were used in defensive battles in history, such as guarding dangerous passes, and shooting Zhang He from wooden gateways.

Because the Wei army has not captured Yangping Pass for decades, there is no battlefield seizure. However, the Zhuge crossbow set in my book has been used for offensive battles many times, especially in cooperation with war elephants. This has war damage and seizure. I think anything that is seized on the battlefield and only innovative mechanical and physical structures may be imitated.

Chemical components may not be imitated if seized, at least the accuracy of the formula ratio cannot be reversed. It is normal for leverage catapults and watertight cabin ships to be imitated. Mi Zhu has been in Liaodong for so many years, and his ship was seized by Cao Cao, resulting in the spread of technology. The telescope will never be seized. I will set that the plot of this book will not be imitated.)

Therefore, when Li Su saw Taishi Ci being entangled by melee battle on the sideline, he realized that Taishi Ci was suddenly in order to hold his ultimate move and was so excited that he could not help. Li Su immediately directed Huang Zhong to accelerate forward and reinforce, and clearly ordered Huang Zhong not to hide the mine tactics anymore, and directly use all the firepower together to help Taishi Ci's troops.

The Han army built a total of twelve five-tooth warships of six or seven hundred tons, as well as a customized Li Su ship. After Huang Zhong got the order, he brought seven five-tooth warships and a large number of auxiliary ships to reinforce. Li Su was left with his own flagship and some small boat guards.

Moreover, Huang Zhong did not choose the central breakthrough like Taishi Ci, but used a ship array similar to the crane wing array to sweep across the river, without letting go of deep and shallow water, forcing the two wings of Wu Jun Yanxing in the shallow water area to retreat downstream, without giving them the chance to circle around.

At the beginning, the Wu army saw Huang Zhong bringing most of the subsequent main forces of the Han army together. He also rose up to fight against the Han army in the shallow water area, trying to delay Huang Zhong's reinforcements so that the lord and governor Zhou had time to digest and annihilate Taishi Ci first.

Considering that both sides in the shallow water area are mainly small boats and neither has the advantage of bunker height, both sides use crossbows and small catapults to smash each other, and the form of war once returned to the beginning of long-range firefighting.

However, Huang Zhong quickly showed that the enemy's combat power was completely worthy of his enemy in this combat mode. A large number of crossbowmen in the Han army were equipped with divine arm crossbows, and they aimed accurately through two hundred steps. The hit rate and penetration rate were still far higher than that of the Wu army. Before approaching one hundred steps, this advantage could not be leveled.

The ships were all without a bunker, and at most there were only some ships. The Han army took advantage of this kind of small boats that lacked cover. Soon the Wu people completely gave up their fantasies, and many Wu army officers began to command warships to charge and launch hand-to-hand combat between the ships and the ships.

Unfortunately, this is still the result that the Han army navy hopes to see - whether it is to fly a kite and shoot at the two hundred steps, slowly consume it, or approach the boarding battle, the Han army is actually beneficial.

However, the kind of combat distance between fifty steps to seventy or eighty steps, soft bows and light crossbows can also cause damage. Both sides have grape bombs and stone throwers that can spread stone rain. It is more "equal to all beings" against the Han army and the Wu army. But who could not realize this so quickly? They can only choose to fly kites or fight in close combat, and they will fall into a disadvantage no matter how they choose.

Huang Zhong saw two wings of shallow water boats approaching each other on the Five-Tooth Battleship, and quickly used the flag language to type the order "The mine team freely chose the target to attack, and there is no limit to use."

The Wu Junshima Team saw that the Han Junshima Team's ships stretched out iron bamboo poles, and the head of the bamboo poles seemed a little heavy and dragged into the water. At first, they didn't care and continued to rush up.

They also had a lot of knowledge about this kind of bamboo pole. After all, the governor of Zhou also ordered the Wu army to equip such poles to resist the fire ships to prevent the enemy from attacking fire.

The Han army did this, was it because they were worried that the Wu army would attack again? How could it be possible! The Wu army had no money to make money with the wares, so who would be so stupid that they would change one? If you want to change this tactic, it would be like a small boat to replace it with a large boat.

This lack of defense mentality quickly cost Wu Jun a price. They finally saw the correct use of the mine that was temporarily used by Taishi Ci's head and the doctor.

"Bang~" a few slight muffled sounds came one after another. It was obvious that the Han army's thunder's gunpowder barrel hit the underwater part of the Wu army's warship. The iron head of the bag pierced the quicklime layer partition, and it was violently heated and detonated after a few seconds.

There were a series of depressing muffled sounds, and seven or eight scattered sank directly in the shallow water during the first wave of blasting. More than a thousand Wu soldiers, without even reacting, maintained their posture of preparing for a battle on the sidelines, and sank directly into the water, abandoning their armor and sprinting to survive.

"The mine team continues to rush downstream along the shore! Surround Sun Ce and Zhou Yu's retreat, and don't give their tower ship a chance to escape from the battlefield! Anyone who sees Sun Ce and Zhou Yu's flagship running, even if they directly hit the mine, they will have to sank me!"

Huang Zhong shouted fiercely on the Five-Tooth Battleship, and he was not in a hurry to rescue Taishi Ci, who was in the middle of the battlefield. Instead, he took this opportunity to cut off the wings of Sun Ce's Yanxing Formation and set out a counter-encirclement net.

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PS: Six thousand words... Today is equivalent to at least three updates, and there will be another chapter later, which should be more than three thousand words. So today I can really finish writing the Battle of Red Cliff.
Chapter completed!