Three Kingdoms

Chapter 3456 Snowball rolling down

For Zhou Yu, this was indeed a very stupid and uncomplicated mistake.

He left no time or space for Jiangdong soldiers to eat!

It’s not that Zhou Yu didn’t prepare food, but the food is still in the water village!

Not sent to the ship!

So in fact, Zhou Yu was just one step behind!

But this problem happened so surprisingly. It wasn't until Zhou Yu discovered that his Jiangdong soldiers couldn't move forward when they rushed forward that he suddenly realized this!

Originally, traveling against the current was not a big problem for the Jiangdong Navy. As long as they had sufficient physical strength, the speed of the Jiangdong Navy traveling against the current would not be much worse than that of the downstream!

But now Jiangdong Soldier's strength has dropped a lot, which means that even if Jiangdong Soldier works hard, the upper limit has been cut, and he cannot reach the original high-speed state no matter what.

Although the Sichuan and Shu soldiers who went down the river may not be as good at boat maneuvering as the Jiangdong soldiers, they had some food and the assistance of the water flow, so that the soldiers of both sides reached an equal level in controlling the boats. On the horizontal line!

This is the first time that Sichuan and Shu have equalized in terms of skills and physical strength!

Many battles in history don't seem to have anything particularly exciting to look at. There is neither the power of Guan Erye to break into the formation and behead the general in the midst of thousands of troops, nor the ambush from all sides to plan a thousand miles. The kind of careful arrangements outside of the army, and most of them are "snowball" victories, starting from one soldier to another, bit by bit, slowly accumulating small victories to big victories, and finally determining the situation of the battle.

This kind of battle is obviously not popular with some people. They prefer to fight each other like martial arts heroes. On one side, they shout "Flying Dragon" and a golden dragon will fly all over the sky. On the other side, the golden dragon appears all over the body. , close your eyes and assume the posture of King Kong...

There is no preparation process, and there is no need to consider the number of blue and red bars.

After all, some people just want to be happy, but when Zhuge Liang and Zhou Yu actually fight, they have much more to consider.

Any oversight or omission at a certain point will eventually turn into a disadvantage for one's side, and then turn into a victory for the other side!

Zhou Yu discovered his negligence and immediately ordered the soldiers on his own ship, as well as the soldiers on the ships that were relatively behind and not yet in the fighting order, to eat and supplement as much as possible.

The current situation cannot be stopped.

The two sides have entered the stage of preparation for collision and handover. Can't we just call a timeout and let everyone go home and eat for now?

This kind of problem is like the college entrance examination in later generations. Let’s not talk about the results, but forget to bring the admission ticket!

But what Zhou Yu didn't expect was that his "snowball" had just started rolling...

When the distance between the two sides had just entered three to four hundred steps, Zhuge Liang's second move was launched.

On the battleship, Jiangdong soldiers began to aim their arrows, preparing to enter combat mode, but saw that the Sichuan and Shu ships on the opposite side began to lay "eggs" again...

The soldiers on the Sichuan-Sichuan ship kept throwing cans out!

Those jars look very familiar!

Ups and downs, drifting down with the current.

"Fire tank!" 』

Jiangdong soldiers screamed, signaling to the helmsman to avoid these fire oil tanks and alerting the ships behind them.

When talking about this thing, Jiangdong soldiers were filled with hatred.

This time, there was no need for Zhou Yu to issue any special orders. These Jiangdong soldiers were already "skilled" in using long oars or bamboo poles to push open the earthen jars flowing down the river without breaking them to prevent the earthen jars from being destroyed. The kerosene inside leaked out.

This is a natural human reaction.

Just like being burned by fire once, you will know that the fire will hurt and will not touch it again.

Jiang Dongbing was burned twice. Even the most stupid people remembered the pain this thing caused them and would subconsciously avoid it...

Zhou Yu looked at it and frowned, "Here comes someone!" Pick up a few of those jars and take a look! 』

Immediately, some soldiers fished up some earthen jars that were floating down the river. When they opened them, they shouted: "Captain!" There is nothing inside! It's empty! 』

Zhou Yu raised his head sharply, "What a trick!" 』

In order to avoid these kerosene tanks without kerosene, Jiangdong soldiers unknowingly messed up their formation!

Zhou Yu hurriedly ordered, "Leave those jars alone!" Attack the enemy formation! 』

Zhou Yu's brows furrowed deeply.

Originally, when the Sichuan-Shu Army turned around, the formation of the battleship array was not very good, so Zhou Yu seized this opportunity and tried to use the battleships to directly cut into the opponent's formation, and then divided the Sichuan-Shu Army into two or three Part of it, concentrate your superior forces to eat the small ones first, and then the big ones!

But Zhuge Liang used these empty jars to disrupt Jiangdong's battleship array!

Throwing these cans does not require much advanced technology, which is equivalent to Zhuge Liang using the tactics of lowering the Si, which slowed down Jiangdong's speed, causing the Sichuan-Shu navy to once again force Jiangdong's army to be on the same level in the queue. superior!

The Jiangdong Army failed to increase its speed and had no time to rush into the Sichuan-Shu Army's fleet. Now it was disrupted by the Sichuan-Shu Army and its formation was disrupted. Invisibly, it had gradually begun to slip into a disadvantage!

Zhou Yu's response has begun to fall behind.

"Is this what Qiusi's subordinates do?" Zhou Yu grabbed the railing and said, "What a good use of conspiracy!" 』

It's like everyone knows that the hunter will die from clearing the field, but seeing the opponent's field one after another, and the means one after another, they have to clear it in the end!

If they don't clear it, they will be killed by robbing, and if they clear it, they will be slowly worn down!

After suppressing the Jiangdong Army to the same or even slightly lower level in terms of speed and formation, the advantages of the Sichuan Navy began to play out!

The first to show their power were the bow cannons installed on the Sichuan Tower Ship!

The cannons roared, sounding the horn of a bloody battle between the two sides.

The Sichuan Army has a small number of cannons, and when both sides are moving, it is difficult for every shot to hit accurately, and most of them miss. However, the deterrent power of the cannons is very large. Even if the Jiangdong soldiers know that they may not be hit, when they see the cannons on the tower ship start to turn and aim, they will subconsciously dodge. This subconscious dodge behavior further destroyed the original formation of the Jiangdong Army fleet, causing some disconnection in the Jiangdong Navy fleet.

Because of the disconnection of the Jiangdong Navy fleet, to some extent, the Sichuan Army formed a situation where the Sichuan Army was outnumbered in some local areas!

In these local areas, the weapons that really killed and injured the Jiangdong Navy were not artillery, but the strong crossbows in the hands of the soldiers, and the crossbow carts that were far less powerful than artillery but more accurate!

If the Sichuan Army and the Jiangdong Army were to shoot at each other in the queue, the Jiangdong Army would undoubtedly have the upper hand, but the problem is that Zhuge Liang used various means to eventually form a situation where the Jiangdong Army's fleet was outnumbered!

Whether it was a fighting ship, a Mengchong, or a Jiangdong building ship, before the collision, they had to pass through the coverage of the opponent's arrows and crossbows.

Normally, when shooting at each other, it was one-on-one, and both sides were shooting under the shelter of the ship's parapet shield, but once they were outnumbered, the shooting angle was not just one side, but a cross-fire coverage, which led to the fact that even if the soldiers of the Jiangdong Navy were elite, they could not resist two or more angles of the opponent's shooting at the same time!

The whistling sound of arrows and crossbows was endless. The dense arrows shot through the bodies of Jiangdong soldiers. Even the soldiers wearing some armor were severely injured, not to mention those who were not wearing any armor, but only wearing short clothes and preparing to jump into the water to dig the boat. In a blink of an eye, the soldiers on the deck of the Jiangdong navy ship fell in a pool of blood one after another, and even the shieldmen fell down because of insufficient protection.

In such a situation, let alone collision, even counterattacks were difficult to do. The Jiangdong soldiers could only shrink their bodies under the parapet as much as possible, cover the other side with shields, and form a simple shelter to resist the overwhelming arrows and crossbows.

Even so, those crossbows like spears can still easily penetrate the shields and nail the soldiers and shields to the deck together!

In some cases where the angle is right, the crossbows can also directly penetrate the deck and the side of the ship!

For a moment, the decks and bulkheads of these trapped Jiangdong ships seemed to have grown a lot of hair out of thin air!

The arrow feathers trembled and buzzed.

Under the covering shooting, even if the shooting skills of the Sichuan Navy soldiers were slightly inferior, it was not affected at all.

These solitary ships, which were outnumbered by the Jiangdong Navy, could only lie on the river with their heads in their arms and let the Sichuan Navy beat them.

The Jiangdong Navy was now in a very embarrassing situation.

They had originally expected that they would divide the Sichuan Navy, then use arrows and crossbows to sweep the decks, and then go up to the ramming warships to sink the opponent's ships, but now all of them turned over, and they became the objects of sweeping, and the ramming warships were rushing towards them!

The Jiangdong Navy, which had lost the initiative, was caught off guard and had no chance to counterattack. They were directly stunned. When they found that the arrows and crossbows of the Sichuan-Shu navy had stopped, before they came to their senses, they saw the Sichuan-Shu navy's battleships, which had already revealed their sharp claws and rushed over ferociously!

The combination of long oars and flywheels can make the battleships gain the maximum speed bonus in a short period of time. The Jiangdong army had no time to react because the Sichuan-Shu army had just cleaned the deck, so they could only watch the Sichuan-Shu navy's battleships hit them!

And this was exactly the tactic originally planned by the Jiangdong navy!

This is like a collision of clothes at a fashion festival. Don't say who comes first and who comes later, but who is ugly and embarrassed!

『Bang! 』

With a dull loud noise, a Jiangdong building ship was hit hard by the Sichuan-Shu navy's battleship in the belly of the ship, and a big hole suddenly cracked, and the river water rushed into the cabin of the Jiangdong building ship frantically!

The battleship tilted outward, and the ship was also seriously damaged in the collision, but the more serious one was the Jiangdong building ship!

Almost in the blink of an eye, the center of gravity of the Jiangdong ship tilted, and the remaining soldiers on the deck and in the cabin could not stand at all, and fell to the surface of the river.

A moment later, the bow of the Jiangdong ship sank, and the stern rose up, sinking to the bottom of the river little by little. I don’t know how many Jiangdong soldiers were buried with it inside the ship.

The Sichuan-Shu battleship, with its corner tilted, the side of the ship broken and broken, and some damage to the side of the ship, was still shaking, and its spirits were even more excited, cheering like a warrior who cut off the head of an evil dragon.

The military school at the front of the Jiangdong navy looked a little green.

He saw with his own eyes that the building ship on his side was hit and sunk in front of him, but the other party didn't seem to have much damage at all, but it was rushing towards him with a ferocious aura. He clearly felt the pressure brought by the Sichuan-Sichuan Navy. This kind of pressure was something he had never felt before, and he even thought it was impossible to appear on the Sichuan-Sichuan Navy...

But now, if he continues to move forward, under the tactics of cross-fire coverage by the Sichuan-Shu Army and ramming battleships, there will definitely be no room for him to fight back, and there will be no possibility of escape!

"Turn the helm!" Turn the helm! 』

Jiang Dongbing Military Academy turned pale and roared angrily.

He made his choice almost instinctively.

As the Jiangdong Navy Building Ship Military Academy issued the order, the helmsman in the cabin gritted his teeth, flexed his muscles, and struggled to pull the seven-eight-foot-long rudder in an attempt to turn the building ship.

Although the speed of the building ship is not as fast as that of the fighting ship, it is larger and has full inertia. It is a very difficult task to turn in a hurry.

What's more, because the front part of the Jiangdong Navy was trapped under the cross attack of the Sichuan and Sichuan Navy, the Jiangdong ship was directly exposed in front of the opponent's battleship collision angle. The white belly exposed after turning immediately attracted the attention of Sichuan. The attention of the Shu army.

The battleships of the Sichuan-Shu Army rode the waves and came with their horns raised high.

Almost all the dozen or so helmsmen of the Jiangdong navy pressed their bodies against the rudder, and a few extra oarsmen who came in temporarily were able to twist the belly of the large ship.

Under the horrified eyes of the Jiangdong navy soldiers, the Sichuan-Sichuan battleship's collision angle failed to hit the belly of the building ship due to the angle. Instead, it slid past the ship, making a creepy creaking sound. .

In this harsh friction sound, the two sides passed each other. The left side of the building was empty, and it suddenly fell down and slapped on the water, causing a burst of water splash. The building made a creaking sound and shook violently. After a few times, it slowly calmed down.

The Louchuan Military Academy of the Jiangdong Navy finally breathed a sigh of relief. They felt that their command was correct and they escaped the dangerous trap of the Sichuan-Sichuan Navy. Other Jiangdong soldiers on the building boat were also cheering, happy to be able to avoid the fatal blow from the Sichuan-Sichuan warship.

But this building officer of the Jiangdong Navy did not know that his sudden turn would be the last straw that broke the camel's back at the front of the Jiangdong Navy!

The building ships under his command are not in danger for the time being, but the entire fleet array in front of Jiangdong is in danger!

The on-the-spot command and danger avoidance of this naval academy were originally the advantages of the Jiangdong Navy, but now they have become a disadvantage!

If the soldiers of the Jiangdong Navy have no combat experience and only know how to blindly follow Zhou Yu's orders and cannot make decisions on the spot, then they must continue to move forward in accordance with the orders rigidly, unless they receive any new instructions. , otherwise you will continue to jump into the "pit"...

But obviously, the Jiangdong Navy Frontline Military Academy decided not to jump into this pit, and he wanted to go around it.

The flexible combat mode of the Jiangdong Navy is very good at certain times and is also the strength of the Jiangdong Navy. Because in the chaotic battlefield, there is no instant communication, this combat system that relies on the frontline military academy to adjust strategies and coordinate commands in a timely manner can make the Jiangdong Navy flexible and responsive during operations, and can avoid most risks. , get more advantages.

But at this moment, this "advantage" went wrong.

Jiangdong Military Academy's avoidance completely broke the Jiangdong fleet, which was already a little out of shape, into two sections!

In this way, it is almost equivalent to selling the Jiangdong ship in front!

Of course, in his mind, he did nothing wrong. Because if he continued to charge forward, he would still be jumping into the "fire pit", being washed away by arrows and crossbows from multiple angles by the Sichuan-Shu Army, and finally being hit and sunk by a fighting ship. Therefore, he chose to avoid "slightly", and then combined with the ships behind him to form a new array, and then launched an impact, which would obviously be safer and more powerful.

But he overlooked one thing. The dense, high-intensity arrow and crossbow shooting of the Sichuan-Shu Army was not a combat mode that could be sustained for a long time.

If he continues to rush forward, even if he encounters the same multi-angle crossfire of arrows and crossbows, the density and speed will drop by a notch. If the Jiangdong Navy behind him catches up again, the Sichuan-Shu Navy will be forced to replace them. , otherwise the soldiers' physical strength will not be able to keep up, and their combat effectiveness will be greatly reduced.

Then it will inevitably enter a flesh-and-blood mill where both sides strangle each other and consume each other.

In this flesh-and-blood mill battle mode, Jiangdong navy soldiers with higher combat training and combat skills will undoubtedly have an advantage to a certain extent. Especially under the gang-hopping tactics, the Sichuan-Shu Army's training time is short, and the shortcomings of a relatively simple response method will be exposed, and then they will suffer greater damage.

Even if the front of the Jiangdong navy does not receive a temporary supplement of food, to be cruel, it is not a big problem, because the dead people do not need any rest or food...

As a result, his concession was almost equivalent to giving the Sichuan and Sichuan navy time to breathe!

The turn of the navy was slower than that of the cavalry, and even if they reorganized their formations to attack again, they would not be able to provide any support to the ships in the front of Jiangdong that were covered by crossfire in the first place.

This allowed the Sichuan-Shu navy to easily eat part of the front of the Jiangdong navy!

This greatly enhanced the momentum of the Sichuan-Sichuan navy and also dampened the morale of the Jiangdong navy!

It was from this moment that the Jiangdong navy, under the little arrangements of Xu Huang and Zhuge Liang, gradually showed a rolling "snowball" trend, and finally rolled towards an irreversible abyss, and it was getting faster and faster...