Because of the counterattack of the Han army rockets, some fires of fire were earlier than expected. Fortunately, the soldiers sent by Huang Gai to drive the arson ships were the most elite dead soldiers.

After the ship caught fire, the dead men tried to take advantage of the dozens of seconds before the fire completely spread throughout the ship, adjust the sails for the last time, row the oars and adjust the course, and stagger the rudder behind the stagger.

They persisted until the flames burned in front of their eyes. The heat waves on the ship were so strong that there was no place to settle down on the deck. The dead men jumped into the river and swam back, waiting for the Huanggai's pick-up boat to catch them up.

Most of the fire ships persisted until they were less than fifty feet away from the enemy before they abandoned the ship and entered an unmanned state. They relied on inertia like torpedoes and hit the five-toothed warship.

Only those who caught the rockets in advance could not last for so long. They abandoned the ship in advance and lost control within a range of fifty to one hundred feet away from the enemy.

The distance of the abandoned ship controlled by Huang Gai was already very dangerous. He entered the range of the ordinary crossbow on the Five-Tooth Warship, and the Divine Arm Crossbow could aim at the fire from a distance. On dozens of fire ships, many dead soldiers were suppressed and shot by the Divine Arm Crossbow of the Han army's large ship because the target of the fire was too obvious.

Huang Gai breathed a sigh of relief and ordered: "Come onto the fireboat and the dead soldiers! It's only started tonight! The flying fire god crow crossbowmen are all ready! After the enemy's big ships are burned, continue to shoot and set fire on the deck! Let them lose sight of each other and have no time to save them!"

Unfortunately, Huang Gai's relaxation did not last even for two minutes.

Soon, as his main force of the rear army approached within a hundred feet of the five-tooth battleship formation of the Han army, he felt the sound of sharp arrows breaking through the air in his ears becoming increasingly dense. The Han army's long-range arrow rain was still so fierce, and gradually there was a stone rain that was thrown out by leveraged catapults.

The arrows and stones were poured on a large carriage where Huang Gai was personally stationed like washing the deck. Huang Gai's screams gradually became denser and denser.

"General Huang! Our fire ships have all hit the target! However, the fire did not seem to spread! Several fire ships have burned themselves, and the Five-Tooth Warship has been stuck for at least 100 breaths, so why hasn't it burned?"

Huang Gai focused his attention and observed carefully, and then he found that the situation was wrong - at least two-thirds of the fire ships hit the target! However, why didn’t the enemy’s big ship spread?

"Are they all supported by poles? Impossible! There are so many fire ships, which are intensive attacks, and they are still so dark that they can only ignite the fire. Moreover, the five-tooth warship ship's side is so high that a large number of long poles have to extend from the lower porthole to resist the fire ship. If you stand on the deck and push it down, the angle is too slanted and you can't use it at all!"

Huang Gai quickly changed his mind and checked it one by one, but he couldn't explain it himself. Anyway, the iron-packed pole used by Li Su and Zhou Yu before was impossible to be so efficient in such a surprise night.

In front, some of the Wu army's fire ships that had successfully hit the ground gradually burned down on their own, and the flames did not spread until the moment they sank.

There are some, even more so sank that they are so fast that they are not as hot as they are - Huang Gai was a little far away from it at the beginning, so the details are not visible.

In fact, on the side of the Han army's Five-Tooth Battleship, Zhou Tai organized a lot of people in advance, using log slides similar to those that went down to the oil and yaksha during the war to defend the city, and moved directly above the fire ships' collision positions.

Then, the thousand-pound boulders prepared in advance were pried and lifted onto the slide rails through five or six strong men, and then rolled into the river obliquely. Because the slide rails had a certain orientation effect, the thousand-pound boulders rolled down from the side of the ship after a drop of two or three meter high and were accurately smashed on the fire ship below, which could directly sink, making the yellow-covered fire ship unable to burn the Five-Toothed Warship for too long.

However, even though Huang Gai observed this clearly, it was still not enough to explain why the burning efficiency of those fire ships that were not quickly sunk or supported was so low.

"Is it because Zhou Tai was cheating that he wiped a very thick wet mud on the side of the ship in advance to prevent fire? It's impossible! The wind and waves on the river were so strong and it was raining a few days ago. Where did he get the time to replenish the wet mud so quickly? And even if he wiped it, the part near the water surface had long been washed away by the river waves!"

Huang Gai thought of another possibility, but then he felt that it was unexplainable. He felt a burst of blood rushing into his brain, his blood pressure soared, and his mind was spinning rapidly, but he couldn't figure it out.

Fortunately, he had no time to think about it, because he rushed to the distance of more than a hundred feet, so he could only fight to the death.

Not only did Huang Gai himself have to bite his teeth, but Zhu Ling, who was behind, had insufficient experience in water battles. Seeing that there were so many fires on the river in the distance, there were fire everywhere. I don’t know how much the enemy was burned, so I followed Huang Gai to the ground.

"Swoosh swish swish swish~"

"Cha~ Crack~"

The crossbow broke through the air, and the gravel was like rain. Because Huang Gai's turtle was getting closer and closer to Zhou Tai's warship, Zhou Tai's combat power was almost unharmed. Many of the turtles of Huang Gai's army were washed by the decks of gravel bombs, and the closer they were, the higher the probability of being hit.

There were even a few people who entered the shore battle, and were directly sunk by the opponent's five-toothed pole, and the river was covered with tragic Wu sailors.

At this moment, Huang Gai had actually become a little aware of what happened today. His mentality also changed significantly. He seemed to no longer worry about whether he could successfully break through the siege alive today. He just wanted to know why his fire attack did not work!

Even if you are a ghost, you can’t be a fool! If you don’t know the truth, you will not be willing to die!

Huang Gai wiped the internal injuries that were overflowing from the corner of his mouth and vomited blood. He waved the ancient ingot knife to direct his ship to Zhou Tai's flagship. It was clear.

The fish scale armor on his body is of good quality and has never been penetrated by arrows. However, because he was hit by two small gravels, the high-speed stones were like small copper hammers, which concave the two armor leaves, and even the thick and tough sutures of the armor pieces were pulled and broken. Huang Gai's internal injury vomited blood, which was damaged by the blunt force, and it was probably a bone crack in his ribs.

Finally, when he entered the distance of the boarding battle, the yellow cover climbed up the boat with a hook rope ladder, and then realized the problem.

The tentacles on the side of the ship were cold, and they were actually covered with iron sheets!

Moreover, under the flames that approached, with the reflection of the metal, the yellow cover could see clearly that the parts wrapped in iron were deliberately painted with yellow paint, which was very similar to the wood of the shipbuilding itself! So it was impossible to see from a distance.

At this moment, Huang Gai remembered that during the feint attack on Hulin Port Water Village in the past few days, even if the Five-Oral Battleship was not allowed to approach the Water Village, the defenders did not know the existence of this kind of weapon technology improvement.

After all, many of the Wu army sailors had seen the Five-Tooth Battleship in the bloody battle half a year ago. On the Yangtze River from Shaxian to Chibi, many Wu army sailors witnessed their ship being sunk by the big slapped pole of the Five-Tooth Battleship and being hit by the corner by a huge axe.

How could the sailors not be impressed by the technical characteristics of the weapons that left them with huge psychological shadows?

But they just had a deep impression and formed a stereotype. After the enemy upgraded and optimized again, they did not realize it at all.

...

The operation of the Han army's five-tooth warship wrapping iron sheet is undoubtedly Li Su's arrangement.

Historically, the initial appearance of iron-armored ships was actually for fire prevention. In contrast, the requirement of preventing kinetic energy through attacks was much lower. Because both the turtle ships in North Korea and the iron-armored ships in Japan were only covered with a layer of one or two pieces of thick iron sheets.

Although iron is tougher than wood, if you replace it with a few inches or even one foot of wood, the equivalent structural strength is definitely stronger than a thin layer of iron. The biggest advantage of iron sheet is that it will not be ignited.

In history, Oda Nobunaga besieged Ishiyama Honanji Temple (later Osaka Castle) for ten years. The reason why he could not siege the supply line for those monk soldiers in the first ten years was that the enemy's Murakami navy had "baked jade" (a thrown pottery pot gunpowder burning bomb), which burned Nobunaga's Nikki Katsura's warships torture.

After Karoko Kyu added iron sheet to the warship, Murakami's baked jade was immediately defeated because it could not penetrate the iron sheet and set fire.

After the demise of Ishiyama Honanji, the Murakami navy slowly learned the lesson, and later combined the "roasted jade" with cannons and turned it into a "roasted fire arrow" to break the defense of the iron-armored ship again.

The specific principle is nothing more than using the projectiles fired by the cannon to first penetrate the outer armor of the iron sheet, and then explode and catch fire. Unfortunately, it is only 198 now, and even Li Su has not made a cannon. Where did Li Su's enemies get the cannon? The incendiary bombs they currently use are afraid that they will never want to break through the fireproof layer of the iron armored ship in their entire lives.

Based on the analysis of the strength of the enemy and us, Li Su had long wanted to pack iron sheets for the main warships, but half a year ago, because he was too late to work, he only packed his flagship, the world's largest ship with an 800-ton one.

However, Li Su is a relatively stable person, so in the Battle of Shaxian-Chirocliff, his flagship did not come forward to fight and stayed behind, which led to the enemy not realizing that there is such a technology in the world.

Otherwise, even if Li Su let his ship personally take the arrows and stones, Zhou Yu and Huang Gai would not have been kept in the dark.

On the other hand, in the battle last winter, Li never had time to pack iron sheets for the warship, but he still allowed the main ship to fight. This was not because he was careless or had low requirements, but because Li Su judged the situation and thought calmly.

Of course, Li Su knew that Zhou Yu and Huang Gai were good at fire attacks, but at that time he was upstream and Zhou Yu was downstream. There was no southeastern wind in the middle of winter, which was not a special year, and the date of the battle was controlled by Li Su.

These factors made him know that there was no problem without a fight in winter.

But now it is different. In summer, southeastern wind, battle dates and weather are likely to be chosen by the side of the dead. Various factors, the necessity and urgency of wrapping iron sheets have been greatly improved.

So, during the three-month preparation period, the Han army faced another problem: there were more than a dozen five-tooth warships to participate in the war, and all of them were wrapped in iron sheets. It seemed that there was no time to build the steel plant in Jianwei County, Yizhou, and the production capacity was not enough for the steel plant in Jianwei County, Yizhou, and there was not so much hard-core steel that was tough enough to shape.

After all, Li Su's flagship construction specifications are too high, and it can be said to be a "luxury product". It is the life-saving work of the world's number one stable celebrity. It is a waste to use it for mass production and promotion.

So, during the preparation period, Li Su changed his idea: Anyway, wrapping iron sheets is not for structural strength, but for fire attack, so there is no need to wrap the upper layer of the ship, and there is no need to wrap the bottom of the ship, and the deck with the largest and most iron area can also be not wrapped.

The final decision result was that each ship would wrap around a circle of iron sheets with a height of about one meter along the waterline.

In other words, as long as the side of the ship contacts a full circle of the water surface, it will cover two or three feet deep underwater, and leave seven or eight feet on the water surface. Ensure that the five-tooth warship is lightly loaded and the wood will not be exposed to the waterline when the draft is shallow. When the heavy load is full, the hull will sink a few feet deep down, and it will still ensure that there is nearly one meter of iron on the water surface.

The entire construction is a bit similar to the decoration of a circle of "chasers" along the water surface, and then apply some paint of the same color as the wood to cover it.

Li Su knew very well that when he was attacked by a fire ship, the biggest channel for flame spreading was that the part of the ship's side was close to the water surface to catch fire first. So, focus on preventing this circle! If you don't have money, don't do other parts.

This idea is also considered advanced, just like later battleships. When designing the main armor belt, the thickest part is the "water line armor". The closer it is to the water surface, the more it is necessary to prevent breaking into the water and sinking. As for the superstructure, it will break down if it is broken down, especially the engine compartment or main turret, it doesn't matter!

Li Su's move now is the originator of the future "key defense" design concept of iron armored warships.

Of course, in this case, if the deck is hit by a long-range fire weapon, it is possible to catch fire. This involves Li Su's further fire protection ideological education for the navy generals under his command.

For example, before this battle, Li Su took care of Zhou Tai to pay attention to fire prevention. The deck did not have iron sheets. As long as it was not raining, he would change the wet mud caught in the river every day to apply it to the deck.

Anyway, the deck will not touch the river water and waves, and it will not be washed away immediately after applying wet mud. It is cheap and there is no cost.

In addition to mud, the rest is in the superstructure of the ship. On sunny nights every day, as long as there is no strong wind, some water must be stored in advance, and the fire damage tubes must be retained on the ship.

With Li Su's fire fighting philosophy, Zhou Yu and Huang Gai's idea of ​​setting fires is several times stronger, and he can only do nothing.

...

"Why! Why! The ship's side actually wrapped in iron sheets. After finally climbing onto the deck, it was covered with fire-proof mud! After finally several enemies started burning, there were also people who drew water from the water tower on the top of the ship to extinguish the fire! Is Li Su so cautious in managing the army!"

Hundreds of brothers died, Huang Gai took several ships of sailors and finally killed Zhou Tai's flagship Five-Tooth Battleship in blood, but his heart was extremely collapsed and he was not complacent about his gains.

Because he knew that even if he rushed up, he would only exchange for a "dead clearly and not be a foolish ghost." As for winning, it was impossible.

The battle loss ratio was already there. Even though the Wu army sailors who had seen the truth clearly were still elite and skillful in fighting on the water, their morale had fallen.

This is how everyone is: the more clearly the enemy's fire attack principle, the more desperate the fire attack effect will be.

Sometimes, I really have the courage to be a fool, and the clearer I see, the more desperate it becomes.

"Huang Gai, let your soldiers immediately abandon their weapons and surrender, and surrender your flag. For the sake of General Polu (Sun Jian), you are also a meritorious minister who participated in the fight against Dong. Later, after following the wrong path, it is understandable that you each serve your own master.

Cheng Demou was captured by the latter general more than half a year ago. Although he was already a disabled person and refused to use it for our Lord, he was also spending his rest in Xiangyang. If you are stubborn, you will not only kill yourself, but also kill your brothers!"

Zhou Tai didn't need to fight with Huang Gai at all. Even though Huang Gai rushed to the deck of the Five-Tooth Battleship, Zhou Tai still had to command the crossbows in the stern of the forecastle and stern of the ship to suppress the deck. Rows of Wu soldiers climbed onto the deck were dead.

As long as the Five-Tooth Battleship is not successfully attacked by fire, its melee ability is very strong. The offensive party is as uncomfortable as the siege, and the defensive party is as relaxed as the defender. If Huang Gai had not been wise and quick to hold a shield, and had personal soldiers to protect him, he would have been shot long ago.

"General, it's not worth dying here. It seems that when we reach this point, the major general is following the wrong person."

"You can't criticize the old master! The major general killed himself to serve the country. How dare you..." Huang Gai subconsciously wanted to kill the confidant officer beside him who persuaded him to betray him.

Unfortunately, the next second he saw countless confused and desperate eyes of the gods, and he also felt guilty: he just wanted to die and let everyone climb to fight the battle on the shore, and fight the battle on the shore even though he had no chance of winning.

Many brothers died because of their unwillingness to be foolish ghosts. Even if they disperse directly, they would not have to die so many, although they could be captured and become prisoners of war.

So many brothers followed him to abandon the fleet and crossed the Dabie Mountains and retreated here. Today they were brought into such a desperate situation.

The Sun family is dead!

Huang Gai pushed away the shield guard in front of him and shouted at the boat tower: "Zhou Tai! Huang Gai is here! Our army is no longer lucky today. I have followed Sun for many years and will not work hard for Liu Bei! If you want to kill, kill! Don't kill my robes indiscriminately!"

The rising sun on the river surface has gradually risen, and this night attack has lasted for more than one update, from setting fire to the later bloody battle. It is now the end of the fifth update.

The morale of the sneak attacker was already depressed due to the attempted arson. The enemy's melee combat and crossbow stone shooting were outrageously strong, so the attacker was naturally declining.

As Huang Gai gave up in despair, the 16,000-strong defenders of the Hulin Army completely collapsed. Only a small number of fleeing boats and birds scattered downstream, and the rest were either sunk or broke through the building and chose to surrender without hope.

Huang Gai was tied to Zhou Tai with a dull look on his face. Zhou Tai repeatedly persuaded him to surrender, but he turned a deaf ear. Zhou Tai was also very kind and righteous, so he would deal with it as a prisoner rather than a surrendered general.

Perhaps, I completely lost my life and doubted my ambition to fight for the rest of my life was blown away.

Zhu Ling, the general of Cao's army, was also captured by Lu Zhao. The two of them were not as strong as Huang Gai's backbone and surrendered directly.
Chapter completed!