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Chapter 2004 The price of five buckets of rice

It didn't take long to destroy the two tower ships, and it was only two or three incense sticks. After all, when the four battleships concentrated their firepower to strike, the attack power was quite terrible. Hundreds of stone bombs and fire bombs poured down, even if only one-quarter or one-fifth could hit the target, it would be enough to hit the two tower ships with holes and bruises.

However, it took a long time for the sinking of the tower ship. The burning fire had burned the parts of the water surface of the two tower ships beyond recognition. Countless Wu soldiers were buried in the sea of ​​fire. Those who were lucky enough to die dived and escaped because no one knew that staying on the ship could only follow the tower ship to bury them.

The Wei army had already stopped attacking these two half-sinking tower ships, and they placed the target of the attack on other warships of the Wu army.

Of course, there is no need to use heavy weapons like a catapult to attack such small targets. The target is too small, and most of the stone bombs will fall into the river. Such an attack direction is more of a waste, so Wang Jun ordered the battleships to stop attacking and sent other warships to accelerate forward to sweep the endgame.

If the Wu army's tower ship was annihilated, then the one who showed great power would become the Wei army's tower ship.

The tower ship is actually a medium- and short-range offensive warship. The tower ship is equipped with a large number of archers and crossbow cars. Although the range cannot be compared with the battleship, it is possible to shoot without getting close to the enemy ship. Especially when standing on the tower ship, arrows are flying, the Wu army has no power to fight back at all, and can only run away with their heads in their arms.

What is even more terrifying about the tower ship is its close-range attack ability. Six poles are installed on both sides of the tower ship. The principle of poles is also lever, which is a derivative of catapult car. However, it is not used for long-range combat but for close-range combat, that is, a long wooden stick is set up on both sides or head and tail of the warship. One end of the wooden stick is tied with a large stone and several ropes at the other end. When used, pull the rope to raise one end of the boulder tied with the boulder high, and then the warship approaches the enemy ship and then relaxes the rope. The boulder hits the enemy ship hard under the action of gravity, which can completely destroy the hull of the wooden warship.

It is simply easy to use a slap rod to deal with the small and medium-sized ships of the Wu army. When the slap rod approaches the Wu army's warship, the slap rod falls and instantly smashes the Wu army's warship into powder. Most of the Wu soldiers on the ship cannot escape the fate of becoming meat cakes.

When the rod is lifted up again, you can clearly see that the rod is covered with blood and a lot of broken meat, which looks stunning.

Compared with the thick and long heavy rods, ordinary warships were as fragile as earthenware carved, vulnerable and easily destroyed, while the Wu army's warships did not even have any resistance.

If the Wu army's tower ship is still there, it will definitely have the power to fight. Even the Wu army's tower ship is above the Wei army. When the two sides fight, the Wu army even has a certain advantage.

But the Wei army did not give the Wu army a chance to fight like this. The Wei army adopted a method similar to Tian Ji's horse racing. The above-mentioned horses were against medium-grade horses, and the medium-grade horses were against low-grade horses. The Wei army used battleships to deal with tower ships, tower ships to deal with Mengchong, and Mengchong to deal with other ships. In this way, the Wei army could have an absolute crushing advantage during the battle, which made the Wu army suffer.

After destroying the Wu army's tower ship, the Wei army's battleships basically stopped, but the Wei army's tower ship became an invincible existence. In addition to using bows and arrows and rods, the tower ship can also adopt a more direct and barbaric attack method, that is, collision. As long as there are Wu army warships in front of them, the Wei army's tower ship will rush up without hesitation and smash the Wu army's warships to pieces.

The larger the tonnage of a ship, the stronger the impact force. When two ships collided, the large ship was often unharmed, while the small ship would be smashed to pieces.

Therefore, the tower ships of the Wei army were like tigers rushing into the flock of sheep, rushing around in the Wu army formation, as if they were entering a no-man.

Apart from turning around and running away, the Wu army really had no countermeasures. If they were lucky, they could escape to the shore and save their lives. If they were unlucky, they would be attacked by the tower ship and died without a place to die.

The Mengchong battleship of the Wei army also attacked. The target they dealt with was those fishing boats. If the Wu army's warships still had some combat effectiveness, then those fishing boats were completely transport tools. Usually fishermen used them to fish, but before that they played the role of ferries, but in terms of combat effectiveness, they were almost zero.

These fishermen were also frightened by the Wei army's offensive and their faces were pale. The price of these five dou of rice was too high. After eating other people's five dou of rice, they ended up trading for their lives. These fishermen were regretful. If they had known that such a result, they would have been better than escaping with the fishermen who refused to respond to their fate. They fell to this stage, so how could they be miserable?

The Wu army fleet was simply unwilling to fight and escaped with all their might. However, the river was too wide, and all warships and fishing boats were in an overloaded state, and they couldn't get fast. The Wei army was advancing with light boats, which were extremely fast. Except for those near the shore, most of the Wu army ships that entered the middle of the river, few survivors were there.

The battle of this cat and mouse game came to an end soon. The Wu army suffered heavy losses. All ships trying to dock to the north shore were destroyed, either destroyed or sunk. No ship could dock, and no Wu soldier could land.

Bu Xie was so anxious that he beat his chest and stamped his feet on the shore, but he had no choice but to help. Even if he wanted to lend a helping hand and only brought some Wu soldiers, it was beyond reach and could not be used for strength. He could only watch these Wu soldiers sink and their personnel were killed.

In fact, the Buhui Association is more anxious than anyone else, because this time he crossed the river north, he was the vanguard officer, and the troops he led were brought from Xiling. Except for the first wave of those who followed him across the river, which was safe and sound, the second wave of Wu army was not so lucky, most of them sank with the ship and died heavily.

Not only is it a problem that the Wei army's halfway attack was a fatal blow to the Bu Xie. Now he has only gathered about 7,000 people on the north shore. These 7,000 people will lose contact with the main force of the Wu army. Faced with the Wei army's encirclement and blockade, Bu Xie wants to reach Jiangling alive, which is almost a fool.

Next, where should he go?
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