The moon is dark and the night is dark and the wind is high and the fire is set.

The dark moon can block your eyes, and the high wind can block your sound.

Four days later than Li Su's optimistic estimate at the beginning, after four days, in the middle of the night of May 26, Huang Gai finally made complete preparations and decided to do his best to set fire to defeat the enemy tonight.

Doing so can temporarily cut off the way back to pursue Zhou Yu and Yu Jin, Li Su, who has gone downstream to pursue Zhou Yu, and finally harass Li Su's food route.

Huang Gai also discovered a situation through the surveillance ships on the river and the Shuizhaiwang Tower. After Li Su's main force passed, it seemed that because he ensured that Zhou Tai could control the river surface of Hulin Port and Wankou Port, there would be a fleet of subsequent transport of grain and military consumables in the past two days, and went through this section of the river to the front line one after another.

As long as Huang Gai breaks through Zhou Tai's blockade line, he can also fight rabbits and cut off Li Su's supplies. Li Su has always consumed the most in the world in wars. He has long been famous and even his enemies know about it.

After all, if you are poor, you will be interspersed with tactics, and if you are rich, you will be blown up by me. Li Su likes to climb military technology the most. The more advanced equipment, the more military supplies it consumes, and the more logistics supplies it consumes.

Lever-type catapults, crossbows, slap-slashing corners, crossbows, divine arm crossbows, flying fire crows, water mines... Which one is not the one who consumes supplies in a crazy way? The more advanced the army is, the sooner it loses its combat effectiveness after being cut off from logistics.

From these perspectives, Huang Gai's decision is not a rash decision, but rather a kind of bravery that he has to do.

Huang Gai set sail at the beginning of the third day, which was around 11 o'clock in the morning. He sailed downstream for one and a half times before he arrived near Zhou Tai's blockade line.

In order to ensure that Zhou Tai can be killed this time, Huang Gai also sent all the defenders of Hulin, which is the kind of "after defeating Zhou Tai, he went directly through Zhou Tai's defense zone, trying to meet Zhou Yu before the other enemy troops could react." Hulin's nest was no longer needed.

In terms of military distribution, Huang Gai also considered that he had Zhu Ling and recruited friendly troops from the two Cao Cao sides. Although the source of the friendly troops was also from the two Huai Rivers, they were not too northern and had a bit of water.

But these Cao soldiers were not as professional as the water battles of the Jiangdong children. They were obviously unable to handle the complex operation of "driving a fire boat to set fire, and after ignition, fleeing to the ship that follows behind to continue fighting."

Therefore, Huang Gai simply did not let Zhu Ling and Lu Zhao participate in these complex operations, so he asked them to lead 5,000 Cao's navy, plus 3,000 land guards in Hulin Village, a total of 8,000 as support tonight.

Huang Gai had taken care of before the war: they don’t have to worry about the arson stage, and we, the children of Jiangdong, do the technical work first, and you can wait until the fire rises and then charge with the trend.

This is already the easiest job, which is equivalent to fighting a favorable battle in the harvest stage. Zhu Ling and Lu Zhao were also impressed by Huang Gai's generous elder attitude, indicating that they must listen to General Huang's dispatch wholeheartedly.

Huang Gai himself brought five thousand navy soldiers, plus the 3,000 land guard soldiers from Hulin Village, a total of eight thousand people, serving as the front army. He not only had to cover up the killing, but also had to fully undertake the arson work.

The two armies in the front and rear combined 16,000, which is similar to Zhou Tai's strength. In terms of the number of ships, Huanggai's ships are actually much more than Zhou Tai, because they are all light high-speed boats, with a higher proportion of turrets and boats.

There are tower ships and five-tooth warships on Zhou Tai, which have very slow speeds, but a few ships can accommodate a large number of soldiers.

When Li Su asked Zhou Tai to blockade, he obviously calculated the number of troops to give him, leaving only Zhou Tai with the number of 15,000 troops as the vanguard of the South Bank, which was only slightly less than all the troops that Huang Gai could use.

Li Su was afraid that it would be too fake if he was spared, so he seemed to deliberately give Huang Gai a flaw, which made Huang Gai alert and dare not come. If he kept too much, Huang Gai would feel that even if he was desperate, he would not come.

It means that the number of people is small and small, and at the same time, let the enemy see the reasonable reasons for your confusion and confidence, and at the same time give the enemy some expectations, so that he can actually crack your confusion and confidence.

This is the highest level of seduction, neither fast nor slow nor relaxed.

There is no doubt that the important factor in Li Su's deployment of "the enemy and me have poor information" is that Li Su showed his trust in Zhou Tai many times before the war, and also expressed his statement in various public occasions:

Although General Zhou used no more troops to block Huang Gai than Huang Gai, I believe you can definitely defeat Huang Gai completely, because the water battle is not only about the number of people, but more than the warships and equipment.

Even if the side with strong and sharp pole is small, it is highly likely to defeat the enemy with a large number of people but small boats. The Han army's Five-Tooth Warship had already shown its magical power half a year ago. The enemy's warship was the one who was the one who was hit or sunk!

Therefore, the number of people is almost certainly able to defend. I have left you with several five-toothed warships, but I haven’t crushed Huang Gai!

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At the fourth update, there were only a few miles away from Zhou Tai's blockade line. Huang Gai even saw Zhou Tai's fleet still illuminating with torches at night, and large ships such as the Five-Tooth Battleship and Tower Ship were parked on berths outside the water village.

Some snares of ships were patrolling the river. Zhou Tai was afraid that Huang Gai would sneak past the open area on the river at night, so he insisted on intensive patrols and intercepting the river at night without giving any chance to steal.

Zhou Tai was lit up on the boat at the station, which probably means that.

Huang Gai looked at it, and felt more confident in his heart, and couldn't help but sneer:

"Li Sugou, today when you were defeated because of your arrogance, Zhou Tai was also unlucky. He followed you such a arrogant and arrogant guy who won a big victory. You think you have few people but big ships, and you can do everything.

I just asked you to see what the shipmaster is still dead now, but it is at the end of May, which is completely different from the situation that helped the Northern Army not be able to attack in the fire in the middle of winter half a year ago! Those who ignore this will have to pay the price of their lives!”

Although Li Su did not use the "serial ship", so what? His five-toothed warship can seat 3,000 people! The total tonnage of Cao Cao's five-company battleship in the Romance is larger than the ten-company ship of Cao Cao in the Romance!

In Huang Gai's eyes, this was simply a target of fire attack from heaven.

Huang Gai was investigated. Li Su was so arrogant that he left three large five-toothed warships for Zhou Tai. The three giant ships had 8,000 soldiers in total! It accounted for half of Zhou Tai's total strength!

Moreover, the surface of the Yangtze River in the Ankou-Hulin (Anqing) section is originally a narrow key point, only three miles wide, which is already considered narrow in the lower reaches of the Yangtze River.

If you go downstream for dozens of miles to reach the alluvial fan area of ​​the Yangtze River bend between Anqing and Chizhou in later generations, it is normal for the river surface to be even ten miles wide because of shallow silt.

The camp where Zhou Tai intercepted was at this location, which fully considered the hydrology of the river. A five-toothed giant ship with three thousand people was built on each mile wide river. I asked you how to pass! It was invincible!

"The fire ship charges! When it is one mile away from the enemy, the enemy is sleeping. Such a large ship is accelerating and cannot drive!"

Huang Gai outlined the outline of the torches on the other party's ship, and positioned all three five-toothed warships of Zhou Tai, and finally allocated his own fire ships. Which ones hit which five-toothed warships were all clearly arranged. If there were more, they would be arranged manually to take care of the remaining old-fashioned building ships.

With a call, all dozens of arson ships were covered with oars and sails, taking advantage of the summer night wind and flowing smoothly, like torpedoes leaving the strings, sprinting over!

Although the night was dark and the wind was noisy, when it was hundreds of feet away from the Five-Tooth Battleship, it was finally discovered by the patrol boats and ships of the Han army.

For a time, the Han army used rockets to shoot at the surprise attack fleet, trying to indicate the location of these surprise attack ships so as to provide accurate position information to the main fleet in the anchorage.

At the same time, the Han army patrol also shouted wildly, beating drums and drums to create warning sounds, hoping that the main fleet hundreds of feet away could hear it. At the same time, larger torches and bonfires were lit on the ship to warn with changes in flame signals.

It’s a pity that the size of the patrol warships is generally small, so it is impossible to raise a lot of beacons like the Great Wall beacon tower, otherwise I might even have to burn the entire ship.

There are also some fast-moving boats that grab time, heading towards the main fleet like those attacking ships, trying to bring more accurate alerts and military information.

However, when Huang Gai encountered the fierce warning and resistance from the Han army sentry, he not only did not worry, but instead felt that the last hidden worry had been hanging in his heart.

After all, he is attacking in a surprise attack today, not a fraudulent surrender! If no one resists, the enemy is used to it, and even has no patrols, then there will be a conspiracy!

During the battle, the ships of the Han army patrol and guard fleet were all wearing torches and their targets were too exposed, and they obviously fell at a disadvantage in the shooting. Although the arrows of the Jiangdong archers could not directly hit people, they could at least land on the Han army's ships. The screams of sentries and archers came from the Han army from time to time.

In contrast, the Han army relied on the river waves to beat the enemy ships and shot arrows in one direction by listening to the sound. Or they relied on the reflection of torches on the river surface and shot arrows at the black shadows. Even the size of the ship was not hidden, and they were just shooting in the river.

However, this situation lasted less than half a cup of tea. After all, some of the Wu army warships were themselves fireboats, filled with firewood and a layer of grease. The rockets shot on the boards may not be able to ignite quickly, but as long as one fell into the cabin, Wu army did not need to set fire by himself.

Three or five arson ships were ignited more than a hundred feet in advance before they arrived at the designated location, forming a large fire.

The Han army became completely noisy, and the sleeping sailors were getting up one after another, and all the boats moved. The clumsy and heavy Five-Tooth Battleships and Tower Ships also tried to raise their sails and set sail.
Chapter completed!