Gan Ning stood on the boat at this time, looking at Cai Mao's huge group of warships in the distance, and couldn't help but smack his lips: "Tsk, I thought that Lao Tzu was already quite good when he got mixed up now, but it seems that Lao Tzu is still worse than this?" ”

Cai Mao was the head of Jingzhou's naval army at this time, commanding the 80,000 naval army under his command.

Although this person is arrogant and self-congratulatory, he is a fickle villain, but he is indeed a talent of the navy.

In history, after Boss Cao took over Jingzhou, he still appointed this person as the governor of the navy, which shows this person's ability to command the navy.

You must know that Cao Cao's ability to see people is not ordinary, there were so many generals under his command at that time, although they were not good at water warfare, but being able to appoint Cai Mao as the governor of the navy is enough to see Cai Mao's talent in commanding the navy at that time.

And at that time, there was a big guy in Jingzhou, Wenpin! This product is inseparable from Wei Yan in Xiangyang, and he is loyal, which is quite in line with Boss Cao's appetite and is appreciated by him. As a result, Wen Ping did not shake Cai Mao's status.

Although there may be many complicated issues, Cao Cao, who has always been eclectic in employing people, would rather choose Cai Mao, who is grass on the wall, than Wenpin, which can only be said that Cai Mao really has real materials.

The generals of the world's naval army are lined up, Cai Mao does not say that he is in the top three, and there is no doubt that the top five will definitely be in the top.

Even Zhou Yu was very jealous of Cai Mao, and tried his best to let Cao Cao kill Cai Mao before the Battle of Chibi, and then put his mind at ease and fought a decisive battle with Cao Cao.

And Cai Mao's ability Gan Ning also heard Guo Jia say, not to mention that he is comparable to himself, at least not much worse than himself.

Therefore, Gan Ning was very cautious as soon as he came up, and did not dare to easily engage the other party head-on.

In the past two days, Gan Ning has been secretly diving to the bottom of the boat in the middle of the night, or diving behind the other party to set fire to the boat, etc., to create some small troubles for the other party.

Cai Mao was also very annoyed by this, and after being harassed twice, he decided to strengthen the patrol of the ship, but Gan Ning's trick was not good.

But one trick doesn't work, there is another trick. This section of the river flows to the northeast. At this time, it was already the beginning of spring, but it was still mostly a north wind, and on this section of the river, Gan Ning decided to lead his faster ships to march ahead of Cai Mao's sailors for kite flying tactics.

The north wind cooperates with this northeastward river, and the arrows shot by Gan Ning's army in front of Cai Mao's army are just tailwind, while the arrows shot by Cai Mao's soldiers are against the wind.

Just do what he said, Gan Ning let the slower of the 30,000 sailors under his command take the lead, and he led the remaining nearly 10,000 sailors to prepare to attack Cai Mao's sailors.

At noon, Cai Mao's navy really sailed into this section of the river, and saw 10,000 sailors of Ganning in the distance with 10,000 arrows launched together.

Cai Mao pursed her lips disdainfully, slightly urging the clouds, and suddenly a protective film appeared above the battleship. Countless arrows shot at the clouds and fell to the ground.

"A bunch of rats!"

Cai Mao looked at Gan Ning in the distance, waved his hand, and let the battleship speed up, ready to catch up and eat Gan Ning's group of sailors.

As a result, after chasing for a while, Cai Mao found that something was wrong!

The speed of the opponent's battleship is obviously much faster than his own, and no matter how he accelerates, the opponent is about 10,000 meters away from him. And this distance is just enough for the opponent's arrows to be able to shoot against him, but his own arrows can't shoot the opponent.

"General, the other party seems to have a secret method to speed up the ship, what should I do?"

Zhang Yun stepped forward and asked with an ugly face.

Although these arrows can't do much damage to their own sailors, they can't stop the other party from shooting all the time!

This section of water is still quite long, and after the clouds are propped up, the speed of the battleship will drop a lot, and at this speed it will take at least another day or more to sail through this water.

The clouds on my side are not endless! Use a little less.

At this rate, the cloud qi on his side will be exhausted in less than two hours. Then he will become a lamb to the slaughter.

Cai Mao looked at Gan Ning's grinning face in the distance, and slammed the table with her right hand: "Hateful!" ”

He Cai Mao was able to overwhelm the major families in Jingzhou, relying on his talent to command the navy.

In everything about the navy under Cai Mao, the sturdiness of the battleship will be increased by 30%.

In this era of mainly relying on warships for white-knuckle combat or ramming, Cai Mao's talent is really invincible when used for strong attacks. couldn't help but meet Gan Ning, a scoundrel.

The other party's typical is that if they can't beat you, they will consume you.

There are not as many soldiers as you, and there are not as many boats as you, but Lao Tzu is faster than you. You can't do anything about flying a kite in front of you with the wind.

Cai Mao said what she could do? I'm also helpless! You can't get off the ship with all the sailors and change to infantry!

Cai Mao didn't try other methods, and sent out some warships to carry them in front first, and after holding them for a while, the warships behind went up for shifts.

There are too many warships sent up, and there is no effect. If there is less, it is easy to be eaten by the other party.

In particular, after Gan Ning discovered this problem, he changed his tactics and let the warships under his command scatter and shoot, surround Cai Mao's army in a semicircle, and shoot indiscriminately everywhere. If you see where the Cai Mao warship does not release cloud qi, shoot wherever it is, and approach it at will, as long as it is 10,000 meters away from the surrounding Cai Mao warship.

The first method Cai Mao came up with failed!

Later, Cai Mao asked his strategists to use their spiritual power together, wanting to change the direction of the wind.

As a result, Gan Ning couldn't stand it, and there was a Gu Yong on the boat. Although Gu Yong is an internal affairs strategist, he is a first-class top strategist after all, and this spiritual strength has nothing to say. Crush the opponent decisively and always keep the wind in your favor.

If it weren't for the fierce resistance of the other party, Gu Yong would have been able to raise this gale by two levels.

Why is Gu Yong here? Because he is the heir of the Jiangdong family, even if Yuan Shu trusts him very much, he does not dare to leave him in Yangzhou, so as not to be persecuted and provoked by people with intentions.

simply let him exert his spare heat to be Gan Ning's military advisor. After all, there is no top strategist in a naval army who can call the wind and rain, and he always feels that there are some shortcomings.

That's it, Cai Mao's second method failed!

Under the grievance, Cai Mao could only choose the last and most secure method.

After driving for a while, they will dock to rest and send some soldiers to the shore to be responsible for defense.

This method is similar to the first one, but the difference is that it is located on land, and Ganning's sailors can no longer get close. Therefore, half of the soldiers rested and half of the soldiers defended, so as to avoid the problem of major damage due to lack of cloud qi.

However, this also played into Gan Ning's hands, if Cai Mao marched like this, it would take at least half a month to enter Yangzhou.

Gan Ning didn't expect these little tricks to do anything to the other party, to slow down the other party's marching speed, and to buy time for his own side.