Three Kingdoms

Chapter 3484 The chain effect of small factors

The river is rushing, and even if people use beautiful words to praise her, she will not stay for a moment.

A keyboard is a keyboard and reality is reality.

Not all resourceful people have the superpower of predicting the future like a keyboard warrior.

Cao Cao's military ability was at least beyond that of Ma Jun. Even Pang Tong was probably defeated by Cao Cao's experience gap.

Since Cao Cao had designed a trap, how could he let Ma Jun and others leave so easily?

After all, Cao Cao was Cao Cao. He personally dug holes for several warships. How could Ma Jun escape so easily?

The concealing tent was opened, revealing the ballistae and catapults hidden behind the tent, which continued to pour stone bullets and crossbow guns into the river.

Although this kind of long-distance weapon is powerful, its hit rate is obviously quite average. Most of the stone bullets and crossbows fell into the water, but very few of them were able to hit the Hussar navy ships. This was for Hussar. The water-riding army brought a lot of damage!

If it were just these attack methods, then the cavalry navy would not be able to escape Cao Jun's long-range firepower projection range if it accelerated. However, Cao Cao not only arranged the positions of catapults and ballistae, but also had people bury ropes under the river. At this moment, everyone was pulled up!

Block the river!

It's like a simple trap.

But it can make Guan Erye stumble.

In his life, Chitu Ma has crossed countless mountain streams, dodged so many swords, guns and arrows, and escaped from so many traps, but finally fell down in front of the most ordinary hemp rope...

The same is true for the Guanzhong naval fleet led by Ma Jun.

Originally, blocking the river rope was not a difficult move for the Guanzhong navy. After all, Cao Jun didn't even have an iron rope, he just pulled the most ordinary hemp rope.

Hemp ropes will rot if soaked in water for a long time, and they are not as strong as iron ropes. However, they have a special advantage: they are cheap, and they are also an indispensable item in military supplies, and the quantity is sufficient.

If one is not strong enough, then ten or twenty of the hemp ropes tied together have quite good resistance in a short period of time.

If it were not for the current situation, even if this kind of hemp rope temporarily blocked the building ship, it would be picked up by the soldiers of the Guanzhong Navy and chopped off with an axe. Even if the axe kept cutting, another axe would be added. things.

Moreover, during the normal movement of the fleet, there are fighting ships in front of the building ships to clear the way. The fighting ships are equipped with special equipment and manpower to deal with such river blocking ropes. However, the problem is that they are not in normal driving condition now... …

The stone bullets and crossbows that were constantly pouring down from the slopes, even if they did not directly hit the ship, just splashed water all over the surrounding area, were enough to put a lot of psychological pressure on these sailors!

It's like reciting a speech fluently at home. When you actually step on the stage, the lights shine on you, and everyone's eyes are focused on you, even if you have many experiences on stage, you have no experience before. Even with a successful experience, you may not be able to feel comfortable and not nervous at all every time you go on stage.

Especially on this life-and-death stage!

A little negligence will be infinitely magnified under the lights of the stage of life and death, and cause a chain reaction!

Ma Jun and others are currently in an extremely embarrassing situation...

Although the destructive power of Cao's army's stone bullets was not as great as that of the Hussars' artillery, they could easily crack open the deck or wooden cabin wall if they hit it.

At the same time, although Cao Jun's crossbow may not necessarily cause casualties, as long as it hits the hull, it will penetrate the outer wooden planks and hang on the side of the ship. Some crossbow stone bullets hitting the side of the ship will also cause some sealed compartments to start seeping water, affecting the center of gravity of the ship.

Ma Jun dismantled the artillery on the side, which originally increased the shift of the center of gravity on the side of the building. Now it was bombarded by Cao Jun's stone bullets and crossbows. Some of the watertight compartments seeped, causing the center of gravity of the building to shift further to one side. !

And the key is that once this center of gravity shifts, it will become more and more serious and tilted, and then cause other heavy objects to start moving to one side!

The entire hull slowly fell to the right side. Coupled with the soldiers who were unstable and rushed to the right side, it became increasingly obvious that the right side of the ship was heavier, and it was possible that it would roll over and enter the water.

Ma Jun reacted first, "Hold down the port side!" Throw to starboard! 』

At this time, the ship was already tilting to the right, and the artillery mount installed in the cabin also began to creak!

At this time, no one cared about which items on the deck were useful or useless. Everyone was hurriedly throwing the items on the starboard side into the river.

Arrows, throw them!

Tub, throw it away!

Ballast stone, throw it away!

Artillery shells, throw them!

…

After finally re-adjusting the ship's center of gravity, Ma Jun discovered that all the "little gifts" originally intended for Cao Jun on the upper ship had been thrown away!

If the artillery hadn't been too heavy and fixed on the gun mount, someone might have thrown the artillery into the water.

At this point it is too late to say something about whether this should be thrown away or that should be thrown away.

If there was an if, Pang Tong would definitely send a keyboard warrior on board, so that the keyboard warrior could foresee the future and prevent the chain reaction from happening when Ma Jun suddenly changed the position of the artillery, cut off the cause and effect chain, and forge the supreme road...

Unfortunately, there was no such thing.

Therefore, in such a situation, Ma Jun reacted quickly and kept the ship from capsizing in extreme cases, which was already a very good result.

But Ma Jun felt as if his face was burning, as if Cao Cao had slapped him back and forth on the face several times!

Before he set off, he thought he could easily defeat Cao's army!

Ma Jun's tower ship was severely damaged, and some people on other ships were stunned, while others realized the danger of Ma Jun. Without waiting for Ma Jun to issue any orders, they spontaneously urged the ships to approach Ma Jun's tower ship...

The purpose of these ships was of course to rescue Ma Jun and the soldiers on Ma Jun's tower ship who fell into the water due to the attack of Cao's army.

At this time, Ma Jun had not yet fully recovered from the blow...

This is the drawback of non-professional soldiers.

The cavalry army is professional, but the cavalry navy is not.

Just like when the stock market is rising, any stock you buy will rise, it's just a matter of how much it rises, and everyone feels like a stock god!

Only in difficult times can we see the difference between the upper and lower levels.

After all, Ma Jun is not a professional general. When he realized the danger, the second wave of Cao's attack came!

The water surface suddenly became very lively. The originally orderly Guanzhong naval fleet was in chaos and collided with each other. Even a fighting ship was directly overturned by its companions, and the soldiers on the ship fell into the water. Coupled with the stone bullets and crossbows of the Cao army, water and blood splashed everywhere!

Ma Jun only reacted at this time and shouted for the ships to disperse, but at this time the chaotic sound covered his shouting, and the shaking of the fire also made it difficult to pass the order!

Cao Cao was waiting for this opportunity!

As soon as he saw the cavalry navy staying in the river and busy rescuing people, he immediately ordered to start attacking.

At the command, a team of archers ambushed on the river rushed out from their hiding place, stood on the river bank, and fired wildly at the cavalry Guanzhong navy in the river!

The Guanzhong navy was busy rescuing people. Although they were covered by the parapet and side signs of the warships, many soldiers were still caught off guard by the ambushing Cao army archers!

From time to time, people were shot and fell from the tower ship with screams and fell into the water!

The cavalry had to rescue people and defend at the same time, and they also had to withstand the stone bullets falling from the air. Even if the hit rate of these catapults was indeed not high, there would always be a time when a blind cat met a dead mouse...

The Guanzhong navy was in a dilemma and in a mess.

In surface combat, the tower ship has the strongest attack power. Not only because the building ship is large in size, it can directly ram and crush the opponent, but also because there are more soldiers on the building ship, which can organize an effective attack. But now Ma Jun and other building ships are entangled, and other small fighting ships are coming to rescue the building ship, which means that all the troops have lost their formation, tied together and unable to attack, and can only passively be beaten.

This is the effect Cao Cao wants.

Seeing such a scene, the Cao army cheered up!

Ma Jun, who was on the building ship, made an unexpected move at this moment!

Ma Jun saw that the orders of the golden drums and flags were not useful at this moment. In a hurry, he rushed to the cannon that initially caused the center of gravity of the ship to be unstable, and ordered the soldiers who were still beside the cannon to assist. He personally aimed at the place where Cao Cao's big flag was on the high slope, and banged it!

The sound of the cannon is a warning!

The sound of the cannon is an order!

The sound of the cannon is an unyielding roar!

The shells whistled across the night sky, and the sound of the cannon suppressed all the panicked roars!

At this moment, everyone subconsciously turned their heads and looked at the place where the cannons were, and then suddenly looked at the big banner where Cao Cao was!

The explosion effect of the solid bullets naturally could not be seen at the landing point, but the Cao army soldiers subconsciously deflected and stopped, giving the Guanzhong navy of the cavalry a rare chance to breathe!

The flag of the general in command on Ma Jun's ship naturally became the focus of Cao's army.

During this chaotic time, Ma Jun's ship was hit by three or four stone bullets, and more than ten or twenty crossbows. There were several large holes on the deck and the side of the ship, and many soldiers were killed.

Most of the stone bullets caused damage to the hull, while the crossbows caused more direct personnel damage.

The lethality of the crossbows was almost ineffective even with armor. Those who were unfortunately shot were basically pierced.

In addition to the ordinary arrows and crossbow arrows shot from the shore, mixed with ignited rockets, if Ma Jun could not adjust the status of these warship clusters in time, there was a real danger of annihilation!

Fortunately, Ma Jun fired such a shot at the most chaotic time!

As the sound of the cannon fell, the entire cannon bracket tilted to the side and was about to fall!

I don’t know if it was because the original bracket was not nailed well when it was disassembled or it was damaged during the tilting of the ship just now. The recoil of the cannon made the bracket groan, and then it tilted to one side!

It was said that Ma Jun, who was standing next to the cannon, subconsciously went to support the cannon!

But the cannon was heavy, how could one person support it?

The artillery fell from its mount and broke one of Ma Jun's legs...

"Ahhhh..."

Ma Jun screamed.

The rest of the soldiers and craftsmen rushed up quickly, lifted the cannon with all their hands, and dragged the horses out from under the cannon.

"Leave me alone..." Ma Jun grinned in pain, but still shouted, "Fight back!" Ahh...go and fight back! Go quickly! 』

During the pause on the battlefield caused by the sound of artillery, Ma Jun's order was finally passed on. Only then did the Guanzhong navy recover from the panic and began to fight back at the surrounding Cao soldiers, especially the archers on the shore. Another ship The building's ballista also began to try to fire counterattacks at the position of Cao's catapult and ballista on the hillside.

The archers of Cao's army on the shore had no cover and were quickly shot to pieces by the crossbows of the hussars. The catapult and crossbow positions of Cao's army on the hillside were also hit by two or three stone bullets. They yelled and panicked for a while, and then under the suppression of Cao Jun's team, they resumed their attack on the hussar navy.

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The hussar navy restored order, but in this short half-hour, the hussar navy suffered a heavy blow.

Some battleships were overcrowded and unable to fight because they had rescued many hussar soldiers who had fallen into the water, and Ma Jun's ship also suffered heavy damage. Another building boat also suffered some damage, but not as serious as the Ma Jun building boat.

Pang Tong, who was on the high platform in the distance, saw this scene and knew that it was useless to fight anymore. Apart from exhaustion, it could not cause additional damage to Cao's army, so he ordered a retreat...

The Guanzhong navy turned towards the north bank and then returned with scars.

The hussars on land were also retreating in an orderly manner.

Cao Jun seemed to have won the blocking battle in this unknown mountain village.

Cao Cao looked at the escaping Hussars Guanzhong navy fleet, and after some calculation, it seemed that Cao Cao and the others had only sunk two battleships, and the rest of the ships were only damaged...

Cao Cao personally took action and faced off against Ma Jun. Regardless of his upper or lower scores, he naturally defeated Ma Jun. Therefore, it was expected that he successfully ambushed Ma Jun's fleet, but let What Cao Cao didn't expect was that he wouldn't be able to destroy the hussar navy in Guanzhong in one breath! Although Cao Cao doesn't know how long it will take to repair a building ship, it just means that these Guanzhong navy troops will not appear again in a short period of time, but it does not mean that they will not come again in the future!

This was indeed a good thing for Cao Jun's troops distributed on both sides of the river, but Cao Cao did not cheer like ordinary Cao Jun soldiers, and there was not much excitement on his face, but only fatigue and helplessness.

Cao Cao is now beginning to feel the importance of knowledge inheritance and middle- and low-level officers in addition to manpower and material resources.

Shandong’s manpower and material resources alone, without the support of the middle and lower-level military academies, are not enough. If there are many things, they will not be in place!

Just like this ambush, Cao Cao chose the best location, made the best arrangement, and seized the most accurate opportunity, but he failed to do the maximum damage!

After the sound of the cannon, the Hussar navy was able to recover from the chaos and fight back. However, the Cao army archers arranged on the shore failed to take advantage of the chaos of the Hussar navy to ignite the explosion. The gunpowder or kerosene on the building ships and other ships naturally did not destroy the navy in Hussar Pass in one fell swoop.

This is also a chain reaction caused by Ma Jun moving the position of the artillery.

Of course, it was impossible for Cao Cao to know that Ma Jun had moved the position of the artillery and moved the artillery and gunpowder from the bow to the cabin, so naturally he asked those Cao Cao archers to shoot rockets towards the bow of the building as much as possible...

Because there used to be gunpowder in addition to artillery.

However, when it was obvious that shooting rockets at the bow of the ship did not cause the expected deflagration effect, Cao Jun's archers did not change the target immediately due to their rigid pattern, but continued to pour rockets towards the bow of the ship, while Ma Junlou's ship After removing the artillery, only the bare deck and the collision angle were left. In fact, it was not afraid of ordinary rocket attacks.

If the military academy of Cao's archers could have been smarter at that time. After all, they were the closest to the Hussars' ships, could see them most clearly, and made timely adjustments, then the Hussars' navy would most likely have suffered greater losses!

Shandong's implementation has been implemented.

But the stupid people are really stupid people.

Cao Cao sighed, "Come here!" Go find where the cannon landed... measure its range..."

Ma Jun's shot just now did not produce any masterpiece that only keyboard warriors could say.

But it also shocked Cao Cao!

The shell landed not far from the core area of ​​Cao Cao's formation.

Cao Cao even saw the mud, sand and gravel that spewed up at that moment!

The range of the Hussars' artillery has been increased again?

Cao Cao couldn't help but feel a little more sad.

Little did he know that when Ma Jun ordered the cannon to be fired, the soldiers and craftsmen were in a hurry and loaded more gunpowder...

Perhaps it was the excessive amount of gunpowder that caused the artillery to have too much reaction force, causing it to fall off the gun mount and break Ma Jun's leg.

In the battlefield, there are always such small factors, but they cause chain effects.

The guard responded and went down to deliver the order.

The Hussars were retreating, and Cao's army had a brief rest.

But the battlefield was devastated, and the wounded soldiers could not recover immediately just because the two sides temporarily left the battle. Under the fierce attack of the soldiers on the land of the Cavalry Army, the losses of the Central Guard Army directly under Cao Cao were also great.

Some of Cao's sons and daughters lie forever on this unknown land.

If the Tongguan camp had not retreated so quickly, Cao Cao would have had more time to rest and repair the fortifications here, and perhaps many casualties could be reduced.

Pushing forward, if it were not for the Anyi camp...

If it were not within Shandong...

These things, which might have been considered individually, were not too fatal, but they accumulated little by little on the balance of victory and defeat in the battle. Now they are piled up like a mountain, so that even if Cao Cao took action personally, he might not be able to turn the tide.

People must experience pain to grow.

The people of Shandong, this great man has experienced too little pain in the nearly two hundred years since Liu Xiu came...

If you can wake up when you are in pain, there is still hope.

If you don't know how to wake up when you are in pain...

Cao Cao looked up at the sky.

The sky gradually brightened.

The morning star was shining in the sky...

The soldiers who went to measure the range of the artillery had not returned yet, but there was bad news from the north bank, which made the Cao army, which was originally somewhat excited, feel like being splashed with ice water!

"Report to the Prime Minister! The Zhongtiaoshan camp has collapsed!"

Cao Cao once again felt the biting cold wind coming from the north, which pounced on his face and body with a grim smile.

It was a bone-chilling cold.