Chapter 11 The First Battle of the Marine Division

"General, the Jiangdong navy has been following us!" On the wide river, two fleets are chasing one after another. In front of them is the Xuzhou sailors who have just come out of the Huai River, and behind them are the Jiangdong sailors who have just come out of Sanjiang Town. The former's general is Gan Ning, and the latter is Cheng Pu.

"What are you afraid of? Their boat is not as fast as ours. We will deal with them when we arrive at Lujiang Water Village!" Gan Ning looked at the Jiangdong sailor behind him and wiped his face. After looking at it for a while, Gan Ning said again, "Go on the order and tell the brothers to drive slowly. Don't let them lose it!"

"I see!" After the little school agreed, he hurried to inform the messengers to use the flag to pass the order. At this time, the Jiangdong sailor was only a few miles away from the Xuzhou sailor, but it couldn't catch up. General Cheng, it seems that their ship is very fast!" A captain of the sailor fought against Cheng Pudao.

"It doesn't matter where he can escape no matter how fast he is? These small fishing boats in Xuzhou dare not fight against us and blindly escape. I'm afraid they want to hide in the Lujiang River Village!" Cheng Pu has been in the battlefield for a long time and has rich combat experience. Now he also guessed that he is inseparable.

"So do we still have to chase it?" The captain looked at the Xuzhou sailor not far ahead, and his heart was a little confused. Say that he is far away, you can still see it; say that he is close, don't want to shoot the crossbow.

"Keep chasing! I have been to Lujiang Shuizhai many times, and the situation there is very familiar. Now the surname Suo destroyed these fishing boats in Xuzhou together with their nests!" Cheng Pu was also bold and gave this seemingly rash order. In fact, in Zhao Feng's opinion, this is not only a little reckless, but also a rash can't find the north. With 8,000 sailors alone, they want to destroy a water village and bully rookies without this. You know, there are 100,000 Xuzhou troops in Lujiang City, not to mention that Xuzhou sailors are not rookies.

In this way, you chased me and fled. Sometimes Gan Ning sent a few small boats to turn around and shoot a few arrows to raid, and they all left immediately, giving Jiangdong sailors a chance to fight back at all. Although this did not cause any major casualties, Cheng Pu was so angry that he ordered a full-speed pursuit. Fortunately, today, God gave Cheng Pu a lot of face. In the late autumn, it turned out to be a very strong east. Now, the Jiangdong sailor's speed up against the water is not slow.

Two groups of people will rush to Lujiang River. At night, the Xuzhou sailor in front of them has already turned into a canal. Cheng Pu knew that they wanted to enter the water village, so he immediately ordered to catch up at full speed, so the Jiangdong sailor also drove into the canal.

"Gala!" With a few such sounds, several large boats of Jiangdong sailors suddenly stopped about half a mile in the canal, and only those boats continued to chase forward.

"What's going on?" Cheng Pu was very surprised to see the situation and hurriedly ordered someone to see what was going on. Several colonels looked at it a few times, and the trapped boats exchanged information with each other. Then they replied to Cheng Pu, "General Cheng, it seems that he has hit a reef!"

"What, hit the reef?" Cheng Pu looked disbelief when he heard the news, and then said angrily, "I have walked this canal more than ten times. The river is at least two feet deep. How can it hit the reef?"

The little schoolmate saw that Cheng Puxu was furious, and now he also accompanied the careful interface and said, "Maybe it's autumn and winter communication, and the river has dried up?"

"Huh?" Cheng Pu thought about it for a moment, but soon ruled out this possible surname. There has been a lot of water this year. How can the river be depleted? Seeing that three or two large boats have blocked the river, and it is difficult for large and medium-sized ships to move forward, but the rest of the boats are still chasing after them, getting farther and farther away from the large army, Cheng Pu suddenly had an ominous feeling and hurriedly said, "Order the ship in front to stop, don't go deep alone."

But it was too late. A torch suddenly lit up on both sides of the canal, and then there were shouts on both sides. Countless infantry rushed to the shore, and they also pushed dozens of crossbows.

This crossbow car is also Zhao Feng's idea. In fact, it is to install a shelf for the crossbow cannon, and then install four small wheels underneath, which is more convenient to push than to carry. Nearly a hundred crossbows on both sides of the river were set aside, but strangely, they did not launch immediately, but seemed to be waiting for something.

"Kill!" With another shout of killing, dozens of turtle boats came out of Lujiang Shuizhai and fought with the previous Jiangdong army boats. This water war is different from land war. The land war can be arranged to play with you slowly. The water war really depends more on the surname of the warship and the personal ability of the soldiers. Now that both sides are stuck in this not very spacious canal, it is difficult to have any room to move and dodge. Therefore, Zhao Feng and Gan Ning both gave up their flexibility and used collision-resistant turtle boats to deal with the Jiangdong navy.

"Papa!" A turtle boat and a small boat of Jiangdong Army collided with each other. Suddenly, the boat of Jiangdong Army was hit by a big hole, and the river poured straight into it. This kind of turtle boat designed by Zhao Feng and made by Lu Xun not only wraps the whole body with iron leaves, but also has a "**" completely cast by iron in the bow, which is specially used to collide with the other party. Unless it is a much larger warship, it will definitely hit a big hole.

"Rap arrows, shoot arrows!" The sergeant on the small boat of the Jiangdong Army began to shoot arrows at these strange turtle-like boats crazily. But the soldiers huddled in the boat could not get one arrow in almost ten arrows. At the same time, from the holes on both sides of the turtle ship, the Xuzhou army shot a sharp arrow, and many Jiangdong water troops fell into the water after being hit by arrows.

"Hey!" However, several Jiangdong sailors saw that the turtle ship was not flexible. At present, several people worked together to lift a ballast of cannabis stone and hit the side of the turtle ship when the two ships were staggered, hoping to knock him over. But the turtle boat with a very low center of gravity just shook it, and finally continued to move forward steadily. Now they were stunned.

"Puff!" Dozens of spears suddenly stretched out from the hole, and these pawns fell into the water one after another.

"Remove quickly!" Cheng Pu saw that his boat had been destroyed in nearly half, and the other party's hard turtle ship had been destroyed by less than five. Knowing that fighting again today was also a result of victory or defeat, he hurriedly ordered to retreat, and at the same time ordered the stuck ship to turn around quickly. However, at this moment, the sergeant in the rear became noisy again. Fire!" " "Fire!" Cheng Pu looked back and saw more than a dozen ignited boats coming quickly from the mouth of the canal to the unmovable Jiangdong water army ship.

"It's over!" This idea flashed through Cheng Pu's mind in an instant. But he was not a man who accepted his fate. He immediately pulled out his sword and said harshly, "Generals and soldiers, now we can't enter in front of us. There will be a fire in the back, and there are crossbows on both sides of the river. The only way to do it now is to live in death, turn around and kill a bloody way, rush to me!" After saying that, he ordered his command ship to be the first to turn the bow to kill the other party's fireship. The rest of the warships were encouraged by his momentum and kept up and fought together.

"Wo-Wo!" At this time, the crossbows on both sides of the river began to be powerful. How wide can the canal be? The crossbows on both sides suddenly formed a blockade line on the whole river. The Jiangdong navy rushed out against the fire in the rain of arrows, and hundreds of people's lives were wiped out at every step.

"Five me!" Cheng Pu ignored the smoke of the fire. Before his ship and a fireboat were about to collide, he ordered the man to cut down the mast in a hurry, and then dozens of non-commissioned officers worked together to carry the mast to push the ship open, so as to prevent his ship from being ignited. However, the arrow rain arranged by Zhao Feng was also full of weight. In the end, only Cheng Pu's few ships broke through the fire blockade and killed this deadly canal.

"Ah!" Cheng Pu, who escaped from the sky, looked back and saw that there were only three boats that came out with him. The soldiers on the ship were also more than half of the casualties. Suddenly, he couldn't help crying. General, go, the Xuzhou army is chasing you!" A pawn's eyes were sharp, and he saw dozens of ships chasing him fiercely behind him, and quickly persuaded Cheng Pu.

"Go, go to the south bank!" Cheng Pu also calmed down and hurriedly ordered, and the remaining three boats hurriedly fled to the Hulin Water Village of the Jiangdong navy on the opposite side. In this battle, there were 8,000 people in the Jiangdong navy, 50 large and small warships, and the last s were only a few hundred lucky soldiers and three warships. The remaining more than 7,000 people lost their lives in the small canal except for the last less than 2,000 prisoners.

"General Zhao, it seems that Cheng Pu is on that boat. Do you want to chase him?" On a warship of the Xuzhou Army, Gan Ning asked Zhao Feng, who had just boarded the ship.

"It's all gone, so don't let the soldiers take risks." Zhao Feng saw that the other party was almost on the south bank and knew that it was too late. After receiving the news from Gan Ning in the morning, he immediately ordered several thick chains that had been prepared to be placed in the canal. The shallow water of the Xuzhou military ship can be passed safely, but the big ship of the Jiangdong sailor was blocked by the Hengjiang iron chain. At the same time, he ordered ten small boats to be loaded with fire sulfur and dead grass to stand by upstream, and then placed the crossbow cannons with the army on both sides of the canal. As soon as the Jiangdong sailors entered the canal, it gave them a complete nightmare.

"It's enough!" Gan Ning looked at the three warships and escaped, and he suddenly calmed down a lot. At this time, Zhou Yu, who was in Huiji to pace the rebellion, absolutely did not expect that his most reassuring north would suffer such a big loss. And this is also the turning point of the whole campaign.

"General, since the Jiangdong Marine Division has been defeated by us, we should be able to cross the river to attack!" In Lujiang City, after the victory, everyone immediately became more confident. How about the invincible Jiangdong sailor in the world? Wasn't he buried by us with the baptism of fire and arrows? In the face of the generals with soaring self-confidence, Zhao Feng frowned.

"Why didn't the general order to take advantage of the victory to chase across the Yangtze River?" Seeing that Zhao Feng did not say a word, the generals who had a heated discussion suddenly cooled down, and Zhang Liao was the first to ask.

"Although our army has won today, it has occupied the change of warships and land benefits. If we really fight with the Jiangdong Marine Division on the river, our Xuzhou Marine Division may not have a chance of winning. Not to mention crossing the river and occupying the other party's water village. Zhao Feng frowned and said slowly.

"What should we do at the time?" Gan Ning was asked this time. As a water war con nounrator, he naturally knew that today's victory was a little fluke.

"Explore the reality first, and wait for the arrival of the county soldiers who take over the garrison, and then try to cross the river!" Zhao Feng touched the beard that had just grown on his chin and said slowly.

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