Chapter 386. Dabnew, the wind wall!
The water battles in the past are not as complex as those in later battle lines. They are just variants that are close to land warfare, and they still fight for someone to be fierce. If you attack the opponent's ship and kill the opponent with no two left, you will win.
However, water war is still water warfare after all, land warfare is a formation, while water warfare is a ship fighting. When the weapon of destroying ships is not that powerful, angle-to-corner combat is still the mainstream of ship-to-construction techniques. Therefore, a big taboo in water warfare is not to easily expose your side to the enemy, as it will hit the corner!
Moreover, the Qingzhou fleet was too short of configuration. Wang Hou had 100 warships, only a large ship of 40 to 60 meters. Dongwu had a giant tower ship with a length of 100 meters and a width of more than 60 meters, and a small sampan with a flexibly rotating small sampans. Now, the Qingzhou army was obviously helpless about these sampan fire ships. In Zhou Yu's shocked look, these Qingzhou warships that were coming in fiercely put on a rock, and then were forced by the group of fire ships to hang up the sails in a hurry, pull up the anchor, turn the bow and run away.
This is OK? While watching in surprise, hesitated for a few minutes, Zhou Yu still didn't make a decision. After all, he was miserable by Wang Hou playing a pig and eating a tiger last time! Now he could not tell whether the Qingzhou army was really good or Wang Hou's trick was again.
However, as he was hesitating, the heavy and huge Qingzhou warships were not much less flexible than those small boats. As the fire ships approached, the warships quickly turned around and withdrew their sails. This time, they also fled in a hurry.
It was so dangerous that the two ships in the center were almost burned by these small sampan fireboats. The Qingzhou fleet completed the tactical actions and also increased its speed.
Zhou Yu hesitated here, but Sun Shangxiang did not hesitate. After following the fireboat, it was more than 100 years old, about twenty meters long, and was also chasing with a low long ship with a hard sail. These ships all have a characteristic. The bow of the ship was specially wrapped with metal sharp corners, and the back of the sharp corners was also connected to the hard keel made of a whole tree, making these ships look like pointed warhammers, full of impact.
The sign is either for nothing, it’s just about rushing!
Standing on the bow of a ship, a small white and tender little foot in straw sandals was stepping on the sturdy corners, holding a bow in his left hand, and the ends of his hair were flying with the wind of the river. Miss Sun was as handsome as a goddess.
During the tense pursuit, they ran out four or five hundred meters without realizing it. While sliding down the wind, the formation of the Qingzhou ships that were staggeringly changed. The three Qingzhou ships that were originally rushing to the front and were slowly dispersing to the wide side of the entire fleet, and gradually lagging behind the entire fleet, the fastest fire ships that rushed were even level with the Qingzhou main warship on the edge.
But at this moment, something strange happened!
The fire ship that was charging urgently suddenly shook violently, and then its speed suddenly slowed down. It maintained its parallel speed with the backward Qingzhou warship in a violent tremor, just like being blocked by the happy wind man's skill. The first one was stuck, followed by the second fire ship, the third one and the fourth one.
The backward Qingzhou warships were getting slower and slower, and more and more fire ships were intercepted and gathered among the three ships. It was not that they had no price, but the backward middle warship was hit by more than a dozen fire ships. Even if they were covered with protective layers, the warships made of wood were burned by flames and burned, quickly burning into a huge pillar of fire. But with the combustion, all the hundreds of fire ships that attacked the first wave were stopped!
Moreover! A large number of fire boats were burning in groups, and the Sun Shangxiang team chasing behind him was in trouble.
"Stop the boat! Stop the boat when the sail falls!"
The hot wind even rushed to his face. Looking at the fireboat that was burning in front of him, he could no longer care about being handsome. Sun Shangxiang shouted in panic with a white face, and shouted in disbelief.
"How is that possible? Is the old thief really good at demons and legally accused of these fire ships? Stop the ship quickly!"
It is also the same as saying that driving on the highway cannot speed. It is easy to get inertia, but it is difficult to stop. In the front, the Eastern Wu Shizhe had already crashed into the fire fleet with the screams of the soldiers. He was immediately burned to the point of burning fire boats like the Beijing Roast Duck Roof. Seeing that he was about to turn into a roast duck, he was so anxious that he almost cried. He looked at the Qingzhou fleet behind the fire wall that was also slowing down on the river. He gritted his teeth and threw away the embarrassing bow. He shook his arms left and right, straddling his long legs and running quickly towards the stern, and then jumped into the Yangtze River.
Does Wang Hou know magic?
Of course not! The seemingly magical scene, but the principle is simple. Each of the three backward ships had three iron chains with a thickness of more than 200 meters. The iron chain net formed was tied on the Internet, and the wood covered with sharp iron nails was tied with hob meat. The three ships stretched the distance, and the iron chain dragged at the bottom of the river was straightened, forming an interception net on the surface of the river. The light sampan fire boat hit the Internet and naturally stopped.
This move did not even transcend the times, and it was not a tactic that was too advanced. After Cao Wei destroyed Shu, in order to prevent Wei from attacking from the upper reaches of the Yangtze River, Wu also set up a river-blocking iron cable in the Yangtze River. The Western Byzantine Empire defended the Bosphorus Strait and also set up a sea-blocking iron cable.
In "Romance of the Three Kingdoms", Huang Gai's bitter plan, and Wang Hou, whom Zhou Yu pulled the big cupping for President Cao, knew clearly. How could he not be careful of his own actions?
Behind them, there were also a rumbling sound of snare drums, but compared to the majesty of the Qingzhou Navy just now, he always felt a little weak.
The squad had more than 2,000 Wu troops, and even if Zhou Yu hesitated, he had to march. As a general, he could not accept the result of his actions and watching more than 2,000 subordinates burned and drowned. The giants of Eastern Wu ran towards the fire line in heavy and slowly as the rowers shouted trumpets.
Seeing the snails crashing into the pile of fire like moths flying into the fire, Zhou Yu couldn't help but feel annoyed. If he had known that Wang Hou, the little thief, followed Cao Cao, the old thief, would have been tricked by traitors! He was foolish and fell into his plan to show weakness, and his hands holding the hilt were clenched and clattered.
But even though his heart had already pulled Wang Hou to a new height, Zhou Yu still underestimated Wang Hou's three axes. Just as he was paying attention to the burning line of fire and his subordinates who were sending the boat to rescue him, there were bursts of violent drums coming from the north again. Around the edge of the intercepting ship, the Qingzhou fleet, which was like a long snake, went upstream and tangled across the edge of its huge tower ship fleet.
Looking at the Qingzhou pointed warship more than 100 meters away from him, Zhou Yu even vaguely saw the lewd and obscene figure standing at the bow of the ship. Just as he was speculating on Wang Hou's next trick again, the portholes of the Qingzhou ship, which was very different from the Jiangnan ship, were hung up on the side of the Qingzhou ship, and then one black steel pipe after another was pushed to reveal his head and aimed at him.
What is this? A crossbow??
In Zhou Yu's surprise, the sky that had been cleared thousands of miles away, and waves of thunder suddenly sounded deafeningly. Immediately afterwards, the heavy and huge ships under him trembled violently.
Chapter completed!