Volume 3 Chapter 376 Smoke at Sea (2)
On the flagship deck, although Zhou Yu had a sense of excitement in the face of the big war, he still maintained the calm state that a qualified general should have, constantly reviewing the battle situation, and issuing orders to adjust in time.
There are differences between people. Some people go to the battlefield and will be frightened by the bloody fighting on the battlefield to the point of cramps, while some people are just the opposite, the more intense and hot the situation on the battlefield, the more excited their state will be.
There is no doubt that Zhou Yu is the latter. In fact, the goal of a person like Zhou Yu in life is to find his life value on the battlefield. In addition, the current Zhou Yu is also very clear about one thing, that is, the naval battle he is experiencing now and is personally commanding will be an unprecedented battle of innovation in the history of water warfare, and he will also be recorded in history because of this battle of innovation, and then his name will be recorded in history.
The ancients often regarded fame more than fate, and there is no need to explain this kind of thing, and Zhou Yu happens to be this kind of person. On this basis, Zhou Yu has a deep understanding of the historical significance of this battle of innovation, so what kind of emotion will it be in Zhou Yu's heart?
"If this battle is not fought well, I will not only be ashamed to see Shang Xiang and Lu Ren, but I will not be able to see Jiangdong's father and elders after I go back, but I will also leave an eternal stigma in the history books!!"
This is Zhou Yu's current mentality. It is also under this mentality that Zhou Yu's decision is to fight all the 5,000 Jiangdong children he brought out, no matter what, he will win this naval battle and complete a beautiful first kill in history.
At this point, some people may say, a naval battle is just that significant?
What should I say about this? Or should it be said that before that, whether it was the East or the West, the mode of naval warfare was still hand-to-hand and bayonet. However, in the current naval battle, both sides have completely abandoned the old-fashioned tactics and switched to hand-to-hand combat for artillery competition, so it can be called an innovative war in the military field, and it is a collision between tactics in the new era.
Of course, in fact, before this, Lu Ren had also attacked his opponents with strong ships and cannons many times, but the opponents that Lu Ren encountered were not on the same line as Lu Ren's level at all, so it could only be called a collision between the old and the new, so it was not very representative. Lu Ren is like this, and the same is true of the rest navy bullying the Roman navy, they are all the same, and they are all unrepresentative. And now the two sides have collided in such a situation, and it is only in the military field that they are truly representative.
Perhaps it can be said that in terms of its significance, it is like the aircraft carrier replacing the battleship and becoming the hegemon in the maritime battlefield in the history of modern naval warfare. And the confrontation between the aircraft carrier group and the aircraft carrier group has a real naval combat significance. The trick of having an aircraft carrier and not having an aircraft carrier can not be called a real naval battle, but adults bullying children. What about the battleship that the island nation has put together, which is claimed to be the strongest in history, and its strength is indeed not to be underestimated? Haven't you been abused by the aircraft carrier?
This aspect of the matter is no longer nonsense, just say that when Zhou Yu was calmly commanding, the deputy rushed to Zhou Yu's side to report to Zhou Yu about the current situation: "General! ”
Zhou Yu didn't close his eyes at all last night, in fact, he was chased so closely by the rest ship army first, and then he entered a combat state, and he didn't have time to let Zhou Yu close his eyes, so Zhou Yu's eyes were already bloodshot at this time, and they looked a little scary. Hearing the deputy's call at this moment, Zhou Yu took a moment to rub his bloodshot eyes, and asked, "How about the damage between the enemy and us?" ”
The deputy said: "We have sunk one medium warship and four small warships by the enemy here; The county lord sank two medium-sized warships and three small ones. None of the five main large ships were sunk, but they were all scarred. In addition, the reconnaissance fleet that we brought back has returned to Caliheit for repair in accordance with the general's request after the start of the battle, but I am afraid that it will not be possible to rush back to participate in the battle in a short time. ”
Zhou Yuxin said nonsense! If the five ships of the reconnaissance fleet can still fight, what should I do with them returning to port? They have long since run out of shells, will they stay on this battlefield as a target?
"What about the losses of enemy ships?"
It was dark before, so it was not clear to see, but after dawn it was almost the same: "The enemy has a total of sixty-seven ships, including five large ships, twenty-two medium ships, and the remaining thirty small ships. At present, none of the enemy's five large warships have been sunk, but it can be seen that two of them have been badly damaged, and there is not much combat power left; Six of the medium-sized warships were sunk by us, and five others were badly damaged; The enemy's small ships were very nimble, and our artillery fire was not easy to hit, so only eight of them had been sunk so far. ”
Zhou Yu frowned after hearing this. If the opponent is seriously injured, then so far it has only sunk six medium and eight small ships of the opponent, and only fourteen ships. But in fact, Zhou Yu sank the opponent's six or seven ships when he set up an ambush at the beginning, which means that after fighting for so long, his own results were only seven or eight additional ships. At this time, if you take your own losses into account, then you really can't take advantage of most of them.
"Sure enough, he killed 1,000 enemies and damaged 800 ......."
Muttering this secretly, Zhou Yu asked his deputy to step aside first, and continued to keep an eye on the dynamics on the battlefield.
But at this moment, Zhou Yu's heart was also secretly wiping cold sweat. The reason for wiping the cold sweat was not that Zhou Yu was worried about the battle situation, but after calculating how much money had been knocked out so far, Zhou Yu's cold sweat came down.
Needless to say, the various expenses of the ship are not too much, but in the eyes of others, Zhou Yu and Sun Shangxiang's boats were all given by Lu Ren, and Zhou Yu and Sun Shangxiang can be completely generous to Lu Ren, so if you really want a pain in the flesh, it should be Lu Ren's pain in the flesh, so what kind of cold sweat are you Zhou Yu wiping? Could it be that you are still worried that you will not be able to explain to Lu Ren?
I'm sorry, Zhou Yu is not thinking about this, but thinking about how much money Sun Quan will have to lose if he wants to turn against Lu Ren one day, and then whether Sun Quan's current economic system can hold up. is still the same sentence, Zhou Yu's most fundamental purpose is to take the initiative to come to Lu Ren to help for Sun Quan, so when he encounters any problem, he will think about it from Sun Quan's point of view.
Of course, Sun Quan can also not take this naval battle mode, but at this time, Zhou Yu has thoroughly understood that if Sun Quan uses the old model to play naval battles with Lu Ren, Sun Quan's navy will be beaten by Lu Ren's navy.
And when he thought of this, Zhou Yu couldn't help but feel a little sour in his heart and bitter in his mouth, and he could only shake his head silently, and said secretly in his heart: "Forget it, now is not the time to think about these things, and I haven't understood long ago that if it is not necessary, I must not let Zhongmou provoke Lu Ren?" It's this Lu Ren......"
Thinking of this, Zhou Yu couldn't help but sigh lightly, and his brows were slightly wrinkled: "If this person has a heart, it is probably not an exaggeration to say that he has the assets of an emperor, but after a long relationship with him, I feel that this person does not have that mind at all, so he has some similarities with Liu Jingsheng." But if you really regard him as Liu Jingsheng's character, he is definitely not so bad. Liu Jingsheng is sitting in Jingzhou and does not know how to make progress, but Lu Ren ......"
I didn't think about it later, and I didn't have to think about it. Why? If Lu Ren really doesn't know how to make progress, how did Southeast Asia start? How did you get started in Liaozhou? And where are Zhou Yu and Sun Shangxiang at this time?
I tried very hard to leave these messes behind me and continue to command the battle.
At this time, the situation on the battlefield has also undergone some changes, to be specific, Zhou Yu's tactics are still the same, still the two fleets around the rest of the fleet, from the beginning and the end of the attack on the rest of the fleet, and the rest of the fleet was really chaotic at the beginning, and it took some time to stabilize the position.
At the same time, in order to deal with Zhou Yu and Sun Shangxiang's "work" attack, the rest fleet is in a leaf-shaped formation, and it is no longer blindly following Zhou Yu or Sun Shangxiang's fleet, there is a little bit of meaning to respond to all changes with the same.
Some people may say that this is not just right? The other party no longer follows your maneuver to change direction, so you just stop the ship in the direction of their bow or stern and blast it to death.
I'm sorry, but that's what you're talking about in some games, and in real naval battles, unless you have an absolute firepower advantage, anchoring and stopping the ship means sending you to death, so the most you can do is lower your sails and slow down. In the same way, although the other ship's ship no longer adjusts its direction, people will not stupidly stop in place and let you bomb. Therefore, the purpose of saying that the other party no longer adjusts the direction is to determine a direction to rush...... Well, to put it simply, the other side just wants to concentrate on impacting and breaking the siege. Judging from the current battle situation, the purpose of the rest fleet should be to fight for the initiative and no longer be bombarded by Zhou Yu and Sun Shangxiang around the fence.
The overall strength of the two sides is similar, but Zhou Yu and Sun Shangxiang are divided into two fleets to fight mobile warfare, which is also conducive to giving full play to the advantages of their own ships with slightly better performance than the other side, and at the same time, they can also reduce some of their own losses as much as possible. However, if the other side concentrates its forces on a group charge, the forces of Zhou Yu and Sun Shangxiang are relatively scattered, and the rest fleet has a local advantage in strength. Of course, Zhou Yu and Sun Shangxiang could go to the hard block, but because they did not have an absolute advantage in firepower to quickly sink the opponent's ships, they could easily be rushed into their own queue by the rest fleet, thus causing great losses.
Zhou Yu was a veteran of water warfare, and he was very active in learning Lu Ren's things here, so he immediately judged the other party's intentions. The block must not be hard block, because that would be too cost-effective, so Zhou Yu's order was to get out of the way and let the rest fleet rush out, and the two fleets of himself and Sun Shangxiang were located on both sides of the rest fleet, sandwiching the rest fleet in the middle for parallel sailing shelling.
In fact, Zhou Yu also wanted to block the rest fleet there, and then fight a war of annihilation as much as possible. But as I said just now, if you block it hard, it will inevitably bring a lot of losses to your side, and Zhou Yu certainly wants to fight a very beautiful war of annihilation, but he also wants to bring back as many of the five thousand Jiangdong disciples as he has. If you think about it carefully, as long as you win the battle and drive the rest fleet away, there is no need to sacrifice so many Jiangdong disciples to fight a war of annihilation, not to mention that even if it is blocked, it may not be able to be annihilated.
Well, to put it mildly, this battle is the battle that Lu Ren wants to fight in the final analysis, so Zhou Yu and the Jiangdong disciples really don't need to be so desperate.
All in all, Zhou Yu took a relatively safe approach at this time. Moreover, Lu Ren's ships have certain advantages in performance and artillery, and they can make full use of this advantage by maintaining a parallel line with the Sabbath fleet.
Of course, in such a situation, if the Resting Fleet insists on withdrawing, Zhou Yu will inevitably let go of a lot of Resting ships, but as I said just now, as long as Zhou Yu wins this naval battle, he can beat the Resting Fleet away, and how many Resting ships can be killed is not the main purpose.
The next battle situation was just as Zhou Yu envisioned, and the rest fleet began to break the siege. Zhou Yu did not have a hard block at this end, and after adjusting the course, he began to compete with the rest fleet in a parallel line sailing.
On the other hand, the rest fleet is indeed retreating at this moment. First of all, from the psychological level, they didn't expect to meet a strong opponent whose strength is almost the same as their own in all aspects, and they have also been ambushed by the other party, so they are a bit chaotic on the psychological level, and this psychological gap is difficult to adjust in a short period of time, so they need to temporarily evacuate and then think quietly.
In terms of the current physical state of the crew...... Zhou Yu hasn't closed his eyes for a day and a night, where have they closed their eyes? Of course, Sun Shangxiang's side didn't close their eyes, but when they were chasing with Zhou Yu on the sea, although the three groups of crew members on Sun Shangxiang's side couldn't close their eyes, they were at least in a state where they could close their eyes and recuperate. In other words, both the rest fleet and Zhou Yu's fleet are exhausted, but Sun Shangxiang is in a state of fresh force.
It may not have had much to do with the initial battle, but now the battle was almost noon, and the fatigue of the crew was becoming more and more obvious. So at this time, the rest fleet needs to withdraw to a safe area to rest. If you continue to hold on like this, most of the crew will not be able to hold on, and the result of not holding on is needless to say.
Similarly, Zhou Yu actually had this concern, so he made the decision to let go of the rest fleet. Next, the two sides sailed on a parallel line on the sea, and after bombarding each other for more than half an hour, Zhou Yu was afraid that his side would be too far from the shore and cause other accidents, so he ordered all the fleets to return, and the rest fleet sailed straight away from this sea area......