However, Wang Jun was under a lot of pressure. No one knew what the strength of the Navy and Marine Corps was. It was a mule or a horse. I only knew it after I took it out for a walk.

The Wei army's navy is now invincible, but it is limited to water. Once it leaves the water surface, Wang Jun cannot guarantee that he will definitely win this battle. After all, after the Marines land, they will have to carry out an arduous siege battle. For an army that has never experienced the baptism of war, the first battle is such a difficult battle, and Wang Jun is indeed not sure.

Now the Marines can only rely on long-range fire support provided by the stone casting battleships. However, the casting car of the battleship is a chain casting car with a high firing rate but a relatively small stone bomb. This small stone bomb can only strike some vulnerable targets, such as wooden ships, and for relatively solid city walls, the destructive power is much smaller.

Therefore, when the attack was first launched, all the Wei army used fire bombs. The fire bombs covered a large area and were very powerful, especially for large-scale use, with extremely strong destructive power. In a short period of time, a sea of ​​fire can form on the enemy's positions, which has excellent defense effect on destroying the enemy.

This time the navy made full preparations for the attack on Xiling. Just the fierce oil fire bombs, there were as many as 5,000, which was almost twice and a half times the number of them during the Pengze Lake water war.

You can imagine what the scene would be like if these five thousand fierce oil bombs were poured into Xiling City? The fire was enough to burn him for three days and three nights. There were no tiles in Xiling City, and everyone would be buried in the sea of ​​fire.

Of course, the fierce oil fire bombs are just an auxiliary means of attack. After all, the range of the catapult car is limited, so it is impossible to completely cover the fierce oil fire bombs into Xiling City. Their attack range can only cover the south gate of Xiling City and this section of the city wall near the Yangtze River.

However, compared with the assisting method, this is enough. Only a fierce fire bomb can destroy the defensive fortifications of the Shu army and disrupt the defensive formation of the Shu army, which has created excellent conditions for the Marine Corps to siege the city. After all, if you want to capture Xiling City, you have to rely on the marine troops.

In addition to the fierce fire bombs, Wang Jun also prepared tens of thousands of stone bombs. Although these small stone bombs, which are smaller than ordinary stone bombs, are not effective in destroying the city walls, if they hit people, the effect is still great. No matter how thick the Shu army wears armor or holds a solid shield, they cannot resist the stone bombs flying in the air. Those who rub against each other will be injured, and those who touch will die.

Moreover, all the catapults equipped on the battleship are serial catapults, and the firing rate of the chain catapult is at least twice that of ordinary catapults. If fifty catapults attack stone bombs at the same time, it will definitely bring a meteor shower to the Xiling defenders.

Fire bombs and stone bombs, the two weapons have different attack effects and are used differently. Fierce oil fire bombs are only suitable for use before siege, and their destructive power is amazing, but the fire barrier it forms is also an obstacle for the Wei army's siege troops. The Wei army must wait until the fire is extinguished before launching an attack.

But stone bombs are different. Its attack range is small and can be used while the Marines attack. Just land a little in front of the infantry. It is equivalent to the infantry's pioneering vanguard, clearing obstacles for the infantry's attack in advance.

Therefore, while the Wei army was equipped with fierce oil fire bombs, they also forgot to prepare more stone bombs. This offensive routine of joint water and land combat was practiced many times in the past. Relatively speaking, this tactic is relatively mature.

The main difficulty comes from the Marine Corps. This army has only conducted exercises and exercises in the past. This is the first time in real actual combat. Although battleships can provide them with strong firepower support when landing, it is only limited to the initial stage of siege. Once they enter a battle that is close to the enemy, the help the navy can provide is extremely limited.

The next battle will depend entirely on the Marines themselves.

For this attack, Wang Jun had made sufficient preparations. Since he decided to open the second front, the entire navy became busy. Wang Jun mobilized almost all the navy forces currently in the upper reaches of the Yangtze River and rushed to Xiling one after another.

In order to confuse the Shu army in Xiling, Wang Jun adopted the tactic of shuttle back and forth. Although there were many warships passing by the Xiling River, he basically just passed by and did not stop for more on the Xiling River, which gave the Shu army an illusion that they were targeting elsewhere.

The sudden increase in the number of warships of the Wei army on the river naturally brought tension to the Shu army. They were as if they were facing a great enemy and took strict precautions.

However, they soon discovered that the Wei army's warships were not anchored on the Xiling River, but were more shuttled back and forth, like a round trip.

Since the Wei army's target was not Xiling City, the Xiling defenders relaxed their vigilance. After all, the Yangtze River waterway has now become an area controlled by the Wei Navy, and they can only sigh at the river. As for how the Wei army warships traveled in the river, they could not interfere, so they had to let them go.

Although the Wei army's warships were increasing, the Shu army's defense was gradually weakening. Anyway, they could not go down the water, and the Wei army could not come to the shore. The two sides were just confronting each other and were in peace.

But the Shu army would never have thought that this was a plan by Wang Jun. If Wang Jun suddenly drove nearly a thousand warships onto the river in Xiling, it would inevitably arouse the Shu army's full alert, which would be detrimental to the Wei army to launch a sudden attack.

The number of warships was sent to the Xiling River, which gave the Xiling Shu army a paralyzed mentality. Anyway, the Wei army would not attack. The number of more ships on the river was less than a few ships, which would have no impact on Xiling City.

This is equivalent to boiling a frog in warm water, which makes the frog gradually lose consciousness. When it realizes something is wrong, it will almost cook it.

Wang Jun used this method to successfully confuse the Shu army, including Jiang Wei and Lu Kang, who were successfully deceived by him, so that the Wei army's fleet appeared under the noses of Jiang Wei and Lu Kang. They were still drinking happily, not knowing that the Wei army was ready to launch a full-scale attack.

Wang Jun did not choose to launch an attack during the early morning or dusk, but appeared on the river surface of Xiling at noon at this time. When the battleships that were originally moving forward normally arrived at the city of Jiangling, they all stopped.

The warships that had been in the Three Gorges area also turned the bow of the ship at this time and rushed towards Xiling City together.
Chapter completed!