Liao Li wrote the document, but before he could send it out, a battle suddenly came.

Because of insufficient troops, Sun Quan had no confidence in winning, so he gave up the rare opportunity, but the Shu army took the initiative to greet him. Thirty bucket ships went down the water from the mouth of Qutang Gorge and provoked him in front of the Wu army's navy.

The commander of the army was Xie Jing, the commander of Wu County Li Yi, the goalkeeper of the goalkeeper, but Zhao Wei was the one who strongly advocated the battle.

Perhaps because he was arrogant and unwilling to be a spectator, Zhao Wei was very active during this period. He not only spoke actively during the public discussion, but also made suggestions through Huang Quan, Hu Du and others from the same county, hoping that Cao Cao could take advantage of the limited military opportunity of the Wu army to fight and boost morale.

Zhao Wei proposed specific tactics, using the navy to harass the enemy, luring the Wu army into Qutang Gorge or Wuxi (now the Daning River), and using the disadvantages of the Wu army being unfamiliar with the water conditions to defeat it. The Wu army was the dominant naval army, and if it could defeat the Wu army in the water battle, it would be of greatest significance to boost morale.

It has to be said that Zhao Wei's proposal is quite reasonable. Even if he has a certain risk, he is more confident than land warfare.

For the most powerful weapon of the Wu army, the stone thrower, attacking a moving fighting ship is always more difficult than attacking a fixed city. If most of the Wu army's iron balls can be consumed during water wars, Wu County will be safely moved.

According to the news I received before, the Wu army would recycle iron pills as much as possible after siege. But if the iron pills sink into the river, how should they be recycled?

Zhao Wei's opinion received support from many people, and even Cao Cao himself was moved, so he ordered Li Yi, who was most familiar with the terrain of Wu County, to fight.

Li Yi was from Badong County, and like Zhao Wei, he was an old subordinate of Liu Zhang. After becoming a minister of Shu, he was reduced to a marginal person. He has always been stationed in Wu County and is familiar with the terrain. His goalkeeper Xie Jing is a local strong sect, so it is most suitable for him to fight.

This is also in the interests of Zhao Wei, who was Zhao Wei's subordinate at the time.

Fa Zheng did not object, but did not express his support, and he looked a little disdainful. His attitude angered Zhao Wei. Zhao Wei repeatedly reminded Li Yi to fight this battle well and let Fa Zheng, a Guanzhong man, see the strength of Yizhou people.

Li Yi made sufficient preparations and discussed repeatedly with Xie Jing. Finally, he decided to lure the Wu Navy into Qutang Gorge. The Wu Navy's naval ships were huge in size and had strong short-distance sprinting ability. They had no advantage in fighting in calm waters. Even if the Wu army did not use stone throwing machines and directly collided, they could easily defeat them. Only by entering a rapids like Qutang Gorge can the advantages of the Wu army's large fighting ships be suppressed.

In addition to the narrow waterways and rapids, Qutang Gorge also has pontoon bridges and iron chains built on the river. Not only can you shoot arrows from the pontoon bridge, throw fire-driving objects, and attack Wu army fighting ships. When the situation is unfavorable, you can also retreat into the gorge and use iron chains to prevent Wu army fighting ships from chasing.

After thinking about it, Li Yi thought this was the best solution and the chances of winning were quite high.

Before the southeast wind could stop, Li Yi ordered a battle and took advantage of the wind to drive the fighting ship upstream. As soon as the wind stopped, he sent Xie Jing to lead dozens of fighting ships to the Wu Jun Water Village to challenge the battle, and he couldn't bear to listen to all kinds of dirty words.

The Wu army soldiers were furious. Although the progress was not going well since the battle entered the river and had lost many ships and people, they were all powers of heaven and earth. When did they have such provocations in front of the Shu army?

The navy soldiers immediately asked Sun Quan for orders to fight and sink these ignorant Shu troops.

Sun Quan took Liao Li and Wu Fen to the riverside and boarded the tower ship carrying stone throwers to check the situation. Seeing the Shu army fighting ships cruising back and forth in the middle of the river, Sun Quan called the powerful crossbow captain and asked him how sure he was to hit the Shu army fighting ships.

The powerful crossbow commander looked puzzled. No matter how stable the tower ship is, it is a ship, not a flat ground, and it has a great impact on the stone thrower. The main problems are two: one is that the triangle positioning is inaccurate, the distance measurement position is large, and the other is that the stability is insufficient during launch and the scattering is serious. It is still acceptable to attack fixed targets, but it is a bit difficult to attack moving targets. It is considered a good one for ten shots.

Sun Quan was very disappointed. This was definitely not cost-effective, and he did not have so many iron pills available. After losing a ship of iron pills, the total number of iron pills was only three thousand left to meet the needs of conquering Wu County, but it was still under the circumstances that everything went smoothly.

As the General of the Central Army of the Conquest of the West, he was only qualified to be equipped with two giant stone throwers. Each stone thrower was equipped with thousands of iron balls. It was impossible to re-create the power of conquering Zigui City. That was the specification that Your Majesty had for his personal expedition. Your Majesty took special care and cooperated with one thousand more iron balls, but he was sunk into the river by those soldiers who had never seen the world.

Every time Sun Quan thinks of this, he is so angry that he wants to cut people down.

If he now has sixteen stone throwers and sufficient iron balls, how difficult is it to take Wu County? What can Cao Cao leads the main force? Even if he kills him, it will save trouble.

The dream is beautiful, but the reality is cruel. Sun Quan sighed and decided to send a fighting ship out of the camp to fight.

The sound of war drums sounded, and the gate of the water camp slowly opened. Four medium-sized fighting ships formed a column and left the camp one after another. After leaving the camp, they immediately changed their formation. The two fighting ships lined up side by side to face the Shu army fighting ships in the middle of the river. The other two still maintained the front and rear formations, along the south bank of the Yangtze River, went upstream, surrounding the right wing of the Shu army, and cut off their retreat.

Seeing that the Wu Navy had only four fighting ships to fight and had the intention of annihilation of himself, Xie Jing was furious and ordered the soldiers to siege the Wu Jun fighting ships facing the front, leaving only ten warships to monitor them in case more Wu Jun fighting ships were out of camp.

As for the Wu army fighting ship sailing upstream, he didn't take it seriously at all.

Li Yi led nearly a hundred warships to lurk in the upstream bay, and could rush out at any time to tear the arrogant Wu army apart.

In the blink of an eye, more than twenty Wu and Shu battleships were fighting in one place.

The Wu army's fighting ships were large in size, and the two fighting ships advanced side by side, always maintaining their formation, and were invincible.

The Shu army won the number of battleships. They besieged from all sides and launched attacks from two aspects, hoping to cut into the Wu army's battleships, separate the two battleships and defeat them one by one. However, the Wu army defended them tightly, cooperated and tacitly. Once they found that there were attempts to attack the Shu army warships, the Wu army's battleships immediately approached each other, clamped the Shu army warships and sank them.

The two sides fought fiercely, and they repeatedly rushed in the middle of the river, making it difficult to decide the outcome.

The sound of war drums echoed in the valleys, like two invisible giants fighting to the death.

Cao Cao stood at the head of Wu County, watching the battle in the river without blinking. Fa Zheng and Zhao Wei stood beside Cao Cao, one left and one right. Fa Zheng had no expression on his face, but Zhao Wei's expression was very nervous, especially when he saw the bow of the warship that was attacking the Shu army was directly pressed into the water by the Wu army, and the stern was raised. The soldiers on the boat fell into the water one after another, and sighed repeatedly.

Cao Cao looked at it for a while and shook his head secretly. The size of the two sides was too different, but there was no clear difference in speed. The Shu army seemed to have a large number, but there was no real effective means to defeat the enemy. The longer the stalemate, the greater the loss, and it was inevitable that he would suffer.

No wonder Fa Zheng did not stop him. He just wanted to see the people of Yizhou being injured or even humiliated. After reaching a large agreement with the Yizhou tribe, a large number of Yizhou people joined the government, which had a great impact on Fa Zheng. Peng Ye, who was close to him, was simply a living threat, and frictions occurred from time to time.

Cao Cao was happy to see such frictions come true. Only in this way can he better control them. He also needs Fazheng, not only Fazheng's strategy, but also Fazheng's ruthlessness. With the existence of Fazheng, Yizhou people dare not take it lightly, and he can knock on Yizhou people at any time to prevent them from being too much.

Zhao Wei has jumped too high recently, so he should have fallen into trouble.

Cao Cao looked at Zhao Wei from the corner of his eyes, and saw the oil on Zhao Wei's forehead, and couldn't help but smile.

Zhao Wei felt Cao Cao's light and Fa Zheng's gloating. His nameless heart was infuriated, but he did not dare to vent. He saw the two sides fighting each other, and he felt that there was still some hope. As time went by, this hope became increasingly slim and gradually became despair.

The Wu army had more than 200 warships, and just two fighting ships tied with the Shu army's combat ships ten times the number. The strength of both sides was indeed not on the same level. Although Li Yi was still lurking in the upstream river berth waiting to attack, it is hard to say whether he could break through the Wu army's interception and whether he could immediately reverse the situation after joining the battlefield.

What's more, there were more and larger warships in the Wu army camp that were not dispatched, especially the stone throwing machine that was spread to the point of being invincible and almost a magic weapon.

Zhao Wei was suddenly shocked. Could it be that Fa Zheng used the lives of Li Yi and others to consume Wu Jun’s iron pills?

Zhao Wei subconsciously looked at the river on the west side. At this moment, he hoped that Li Yi would fight fiercely and not appear on the battlefield. The denser the battlefield, the more conducive it would be to Wu Jun's stone throwing machine to show its power. The ten-pound iron ball was sent out from a few hundred steps away, even if it was only one, it might be possible to make a big hole. On such a battlefield, there was almost no chance of survival.

Zhao Wei was soon disappointed.

Accompanied by the fierce sound of war drums, Li Yi's battle flag appeared in his sight.

At the front were several narrow Mengchong. Mengchong went down the water, as fast as a galloping horse, and rushed straight towards the Wu army's fighting ship. Although Meng was on the ship, he could not see the soldiers on the ship clearly, Mengchong's sudden impact was still shocking. If it weren't for the Wu army's stone throwing machine, Zhao Wei would almost scream.

From afar, the two Mengchong collided with the Wu army's warships. The sizes of the two warships were very different. They should have been tragic without any suspense, but the result was a big surprise. The two Mengchong neither overturned nor left, and they were as if they were stuck on the Wu army's fighting ship, firmly attached to each other.

Immediately afterwards, a rain of arrows shot out from Li Yi's formation and hit Meng Chong.

Meng Chong caught fire, and was blown by the river wind, and the flames spread rapidly, licking the belly of the Wu army's fighting ship, and rushed to the female wall again. Even the flag beside the female wall was lit and burning.

There was a little chaos on the Wu army's fighting ship, and many soldiers tried hard to extinguish the fire, but it was difficult to work. Some even caught fire and stabbed down with spears, intending to push Meng Chong, who was rising flames, which was also difficult to work.

Taking advantage of the Wu army's panic, more Meng Chong went down the river and rushed straight to the battlefield downstream.

Li Yi accused the ship and rushed towards the Wu Jun fighting ship. His ship was also a medium-sized tower ship, which was comparable to the Wu Jun fighting ship, and went down the water, with extremely fast speed and amazing momentum.

The Wu army saw Li Yi's ship, and the war drums sounded loudly on the tower ship. After a brief panic, the two fighting ships chose to fight each other. One fighting ship adjusted its direction and rowed hard. The paddles rolled up snow-white waves, pushing the fighting ship upstream and facing Li Yi head-on. The other fighting ship turned a corner, which seemed to have escaped, but in fact it opened the distance and seized the upstream.

"Boom!" With a loud bang, the two warships collided together. The Wu army's warship tilted at a high angle and almost overturned. Li Yi's ship was also knocked to the point of being tilted, almost crossing the river. Several giant oars on one side were also broken. Li Yi stood on the Feilu, clutching the railings with both hands, and loudly ordered the Zhuoji soldiers to row hard and adjust the boat posture.

The soldiers on both sides of the game exclaimed at the same time.

Although the Wu army fighting ship had a hull tilted and the scene on the ship was a little chaotic, it did not retreat. Under the command of the war drums, he turned around and squeezed the siege of the Shu army fighting ship while chasing Li Yi. Both sides attacked with crossbows, and they went back and forth, becoming more and more intense.

The river was turbulent, and when Li Yi's ship returned to balance, it had rushed out nearly hundreds of steps and reached the periphery of the battlefield. Another Wu army fighting ship started again, throwing away the besieged Shu army fighting ship and killing Li Yi. Going down the water, the Wu army fighting ship's advantages were fully utilized. The smaller Shu army fighting ship was no match at all, and it was knocked over and turned around, and two fighting ships were directly pressed into the water.

The sound of the war drums that called the police was as fast as a wave of speed. Li Yi heard the drum sounds wrong. When he turned around, he saw the Wu army fighting ship chasing him again. He was shocked and quickly ordered to adjust the direction. During the impact just now, his ship had broken many oars. If he was hit again, he would lose his motivation and could only drift along the water. He would leave the will of fate and could not play the role of the main warship, which might become the target of the other party's hunting.

Hearing the rapid sound of war drums, the Wushu warships that were originally fighting noticed the battle situation upstream. Seeing that their companions caught fire, the two Wushu fighting ships immediately threw away their opponents and rowed hard, trying to avoid the head-on collision of the Shu army Mengchong.

Meng Chong was very fast and very flexible. Without giving the Wu army's fighting ship a chance to dodge, several of them flew towards him like sharp arrows and nailed them to the Wu army's fighting ship. Immediately afterwards, the soldiers on the ship transferred to the small boat tied behind and ignited Meng Chong before retreating.

The Wu army on the fighting ship shot dense rain of arrows and shot these Shu soldiers into the river, while stretching out a long iron pole to push Meng Chong away from the fire. Compared with the caught off guard, they had relatively sufficient preparation time, and did not allow the fire to spread and quickly controlled the situation.

While putting out the fire, the Wu army's fighting ship rushed towards Li Yi's ship.

Li Yi was intercepted and fell into a dilemma. He was hit one after another. Most of the huge oars on both sides were broken. The tail rudder was also cracked by the Wu army fighting ships that rushed to the tail. They suffered a lot of losses after shooting each other. Seeing that there were many situations, Li Yi quickly gave up the ship, took a small boat, and headed straight upstream to Wuxi.

Seeing Li Yi running away, Xie Jing also gave up the battle and fled in another direction with the people.

The main general and deputy general escaped from the battlefield one after another, and the morale of the Shu army was greatly deteriorated and they were immediately defeated.
Chapter completed!