Three Kingdoms: My Strategy Simulator

"You old codger, messing up my new ship, I'll kill you for sure!"

The next moment, accompanied by a burst of arrogant and displeased voices, a large number of torches suddenly lit up in the darkness.

Gan Ning stood on the ship's rail, looking down at the dense crowd of tiny figures below, a playful and cruel smile on his face.

Only at this moment, as the torches blazed, did everyone, including Guo Yi, realize that the behemoth looming over the Qiantang River was actually a giant ship?!

If measured by size, this giant ship was like a giant elephant, Guo Yi's pleasure boat was like a rabbit, and the ferries used by ordinary soldiers were like ants.

This extreme contrast plunged everyone, including Guo Yi, into a daze, unable to react for a long time.

But while Guo Yi and the others were stunned, Gan Ning, who had been waiting for a long time, would not hesitate at all.

Small sampans, like fishing boats, the largest of which were merely pleasure boats used by aristocratic sons...

A trace of pity and full of cruelty flashed in Gan Ning's eyes, as he shouted in a bandit-like manner, "Old codger, you probably haven't seen what real naval warfare is, have you? I'll open your eyes today."

As Gan Ning's words fell, a loud and stirring bugle call suddenly rang out from the giant ship.

Unlike Guo Yi, Guo Cai, and other pitifully inexperienced naval novices, Gan Ning had not only been a Jinfan pirate on the Yangtze River for many years, but had also honed his skills in the open sea for several months. The naval warfare skills of the two sides were simply not on the same level.

Having received Li Ji's order to deal with mostly small sampans early on, Gan Ning had specially devised a good way to deal with these small sampans.

"The river surface has no big waves, just right!"

Gan Ning flicked an iron chain in his hand, and then, under the horrified gaze of Guo Yi and others, another giant ship, almost identical to the one under Gan Ning's feet, appeared behind the first.

Not one, but two!!

What made Guo Yi's scalp tingle even more was that the two ships were connected by a thick iron chain at a height of about five feet above the river surface.

Immediately, the two giant ships pulled apart a certain distance from each other, raised their sails together, and charged towards the fleet led by Guo Yi in parallel amidst the rapid bugle calls.

How could Guo Yi not understand what these two giant ships, which had emerged from nowhere, wanted to do? They wanted to use their absolute size advantage to force their way through them.

And the iron chain across the two giant ships would tear apart the sampans, like small fishing boats, along the way.

"Quick! Retreat!!!"

Guo Yi shouted subconsciously.

However, even without Guo Yi ordering the torches to signal the order, the morale had already collapsed instantly upon seeing the two behemoths charging towards them. The ships desperately tried to turn around and retreat.

However, Guo Yi and Guo Cai were completely ignorant of naval warfare. The large number of ships, rather than rushing forward in a swarm, simply had no formation to speak of and were squeezed together.

Now, wanting to retreat, they were directly thrown into chaos. Before the two giant ships could even get close, more than a dozen small sampans had collided with each other, and the number of people who fell into the water was unknown.

This chaotic scene filled Guo Yi with despair. Even the retreat of the pleasure boat he was on was completely blocked by the ships behind, leaving no space to retreat.

As for Gan Ning, who was standing on the ship's rail overlooking the situation, his face was full of contempt.

Such goods dare to compete with me on the river?

"It's no wonder that Mr. Zikun said, 'Just wait for them to cross halfway and strike, and you can win a great victory.' It really doesn't have any challenge, it's really boring."

Gan Ning smacked his lips and muttered to himself, then shouted loudly to the rear.

"Hurry up, lads! After Hai hour, it will be the auspicious hour. Don't let it be bloody at the auspicious hour."

"Woah!!"

Responding to Gan Ning was the unique tone of the Jinfan pirates, and the bugle call also became three times more urgent, indicating that the speed of the other giant ship also accelerated.

The small sampans, with nowhere to escape, were caught up in almost an instant.

The thick iron chain was like a large knife, slashing across from above. Many soldiers had no choice but to abandon their ships and jump into the river to survive.

Amidst the scalp-numbing sounds, Guo Yi couldn't see the specific condition of the small fishing boats swept by the iron chain, but he could see the torches lit on the small fishing boats extinguished almost quickly.

As it got closer and closer to the pleasure boat where Guo Yi was, Guo Yi's expression became more and more desperate...

"Block it, block it..."

Guo Yi held onto that faint hope, but what responded to him was the thick iron chain sweeping across, and then slamming heavily on this not-so-strong pleasure boat.

Where the iron chain passed, everything was reduced to powder.

At the critical moment, Guo Cai dragged Guo Yi and jumped directly into the river to escape the disaster by chance.

It's just that the armor worn by Guo Cai was very heavy. After falling into the water, he almost sank directly to the bottom of the river, and Guo Yi's swimming skills were not excellent at all.

This made Guo Yi struggle frantically, wanting to swim upwards, but he was completely unable to do anything.

Until he felt his chest becoming more and more burning and uncomfortable, and then a large amount of river water poured in from his mouth and nose, extreme discomfort flooded his body, and Guo Yi's body quickly lost its last strength.

"Save... glug... glug..."

Guo Yi's mouth opened, but his consciousness quickly dimmed.

'My... my life is over...'

'Is this also Li Zikun's trap? Such a monstrous man, to be an enemy of him, it is too late to regret...'

At the last moment, this thought flashed through Guo Yi's mind, and then he no longer knew anything, only a strong regret remained in his heart.

Until, Guo Yi suddenly felt his face burning with pain, as if someone was slapping his big mouth.

"Slap slap slap slap!"

"Wake up, you bastard!!!"

"Someone, bring me knives and salt water, I don't believe I can't wake him up."

Guo Yi, who suddenly reacted, quickly opened his eyes, only to see a man with a bare upper body straddling his body. Before Guo Yi could instinctively want to say anything.

The man slapped him again.

"Slap!!"

This slap made Guo Yi, whose face was already swollen, scream on the spot.

"I said that dealing with the enemy directly with a big mouth is definitely more effective than the artificial respiration introduced in the gentleman's picture book."

Gan Ning cursed and got up from Guo Yi's body, and then did not forget to kick Guo Yi directly, kicking Guo Yi several times on the deck.

After kicking, Gan Ning did not forget to say angrily.

"You eunuch party dog, do you have a brain or not? You still wear a suit of iron in naval warfare, wasting so much of my effort to get you out of the river."

"If it wasn't for the gentleman insisting that I capture you alive, I would definitely cut you alive and soak you in seawater to wash your brain."

And those words entered Guo Yi's ears, who was gradually regaining his senses, making Guo Yi shrink together instinctively in fear, and only then did he notice that he was on a huge deck wide enough to run horses.

In addition, Guo Yi's peripheral vision also noticed that the soldiers under his command were also being fished out of the river in strings.

After Gan Ning forcibly destroyed those small sampan-like ships by relying on the iron chains across the river, the soldiers in the center of the Qiantang River had nowhere to escape except to jump into the river.

Except for obediently waiting to be captured, there was only a dead end.

Guo Yi cautiously looked in the direction of Gan Ning, and suddenly noticed the figure lying in a pool of blood behind Gan Ning.

Guo Cai!

And Gan Ning cursed at Guo Cai's body.

"Throw this idiot in iron armor directly into the river. I was so tired that I was afraid of making a mistake and fished up one more. It's really an eyesore."

"Yes."

Just as two Jinfan pirates stepped forward to prepare to throw Guo Cai's body down, Jiang Zhi, who was standing behind Gan Ning, said.

"Wait, take off the armor on his body first. We're short of iron now, so don't waste it."

Guo Yi watched Guo Cai being skillfully stripped clean, and then directly thrown into the sea.

This made Guo Yi, who witnessed this scene up close, tremble with fear, fearing that the same would be his fate, and shrank into a ball like a quail in fright.

Seeing this, Jiang Zhi couldn't help but show a hidden smile.

Killing the chicken to warn the monkey is always simple and effective.

Immediately, Gan Ning strode to Guo Yi, stepped on Guo Yi's body, and Guo Yi hurriedly knelt down and begged for mercy, saying.

"Hero, spare my life, hero, spare my life."

Gan Ning, who has always been quite brutal to outsiders, is not a soft-hearted person. While stepping on Guo Yi's feet more and more forcefully, he shouted.

"Stop talking nonsense, where is that Xu You? Did he come on the ship with you?"

"Xu You?!"

Guo Yi was stunned when he heard this, and then quickly replied.

"Xu You is still in the camp, still in the camp on the shore. If the hero has a grudge against Xu You, I will go back and help the hero tie him up and send him here."

"No need."

Gan Ning frowned first, then reached out to Guo Yi, and then said. "The seal of the prefect of Kuaiji Commandery, bring it."

Seal?

Gan Ning's request changed Guo Yi's face.

Losing the seal is no different from losing the official hat.

This made Guo Yi hurriedly beg, “Hero, if there is anything you desire, this humble governor will certainly do my best to satisfy you, be it treasures, beauties, or…”

Before Guo Yi could finish speaking, Gan Ning delivered another hard slap.

“Smack!”

Two teeth flew directly out of Guo Yi's mouth.

“Hand it over!”

Gan Ning shouted in a commanding tone.

This caused Guo Yi, whose heart was filled with extreme fear, to no longer dare to utter a word, and he could only tremble as he took out a seal from the hidden pocket on his body and handed it to Gan Ning.

(End of this chapter)