Chapter 553: Fight Again!
Cao Cao's brows furrowed, at this time, Gan Ning stopped talking, he was well versed in the way of water warfare, and he understood that what Xu Shu said was a very likely thing.
Xu Shu suddenly smiled and saluted Cao Cao: "Your Majesty, although this is the case, our army is not just sitting and watching, Weichen thinks that we can do it!" ”
Cao Cao's eyes lit up, and he looked at Xu Shu expectantly.
"Your Majesty, we can do this" Xu Shu elaborated on the plan, Cao Cao laughed when he landed, and the generals looked at Xu Shu with admiration.
After that, Zhou Tai was still shouting and scolding outside the water village, but Cao Cao didn't react at all.
Zhou Tai scolded for a while, only to feel a dry mouth, so he stopped, hoping that one of the subordinates next to him would continue to scold, and he went back to the cabin to rest, and poured water in a big gulp.
The shouting and scolding continued, and Zhou Tai paced back and forth with an irritated face, and one of the replaced generals entered the cabin and said to Zhou Tai: "General, this doesn't seem to work, the Wei army doesn't pay attention to us at all!" ”
Zhou Tai frowned, and ordered: "Pass the order and advance fifty steps towards the Wei Army's Water Village!" Ben Jiang didn't believe that the puppet emperor could endure it forever! ”
"Yes!" The general complied and hurried out of the cabin.
Nearly 500 warships lined up in a fish-scale formation and slowly approached the water village, and stopped when they advanced to a distance of nearly one hundred and fifty steps from the water village, and then the soldiers of the Wu State Navy Division began to curse again.
However, Cao Cao's side still did not react, and Zhou Tai saw that it had no effect, so he ordered the fleet to move forward fifty paces, and five hundred warships approached Shuizhai again.
When Zhou Tai's warship was only a hundred steps away from the water village, there was finally a reaction in the water village. I saw more than a dozen water village gates rising rapidly, and thousands of large and small warships swarmed out. The Wei army is indeed inferior to the Wu State Sailor, who has been eating this bowl of rice for almost generations, but on the hardware of the warship. It's not something that Wu Guo can compare.
Not to mention the rest, just the warships built by the Wei army from time to time in the past, just a little summoning, have gathered nearly a thousand ships, which means that only the wealthy Wei State can maintain a huge number of land and water armies.
Almost all of the thousands of warships that came out of the water village were at full speed, and the shuttle-like clippers were like sharp arrows flying on the water.
Zhou Tai couldn't help but be taken aback when he saw this scene, Wei Jun's reaction was beyond his expectations.
"General, immediately follow the original plan!" The general said urgently.
Zhou Tai frowned and scolded: "a fart!" Pass the order down. Ships are ready to fight! ”
The general was stunned, and Zhou Tai glared and roared: "What are you doing in a daze?" Don't go ahead and give the order! ”
The general reacted and hurriedly went down to give orders.
Thousands of Wei warships were divided into three parts and headed straight for Zhou Tai's warship, with the fastest speedboat at the front, followed by the larger warship, which was also mixed with hundreds of fireships loaded with fire oil.
More than 1,000 warships advanced quickly on the river, and the scene was really quite spectacular.
Zhou Tai's warship slowly moved forward, unhurried. The sailors on board the ship were highly motivated and their morale was very high.
When the two sides were thirty or forty paces apart, the crossbowmen on the ships of the two sides began to fire at each other, and the arrows of both sides staggered and flew on the surface of the river like locusts. Soldiers on both sides were constantly hit by arrows and planted in the river.
And at this moment, the Wei army's clippers are getting faster and faster, and the shouts of the soldiers are getting louder and louder.
At the same time, the soldiers under Zhou Taiying poured to the side of the ship with weapons such as hooks and sickles.
This hook scythe is somewhat different from the hook scythe used in the army. It is longer, with more than three meters. The hook on the blade is longer and sharper, and this hook and sickle is generally used by the navy when fighting drums.
The Wei army's more than 200 clippers burrowed into Zhou Tai's ship formation like a school of swordfish.
The soldiers on the clipper ship used light short crossbows to shoot at the Wu naval division. A dense rain of arrows poured down on the ships of Wu's sailors, and Wu's sailors and soldiers rained down into the river.
The Wu sailors did not sit idly by in this regard, they attacked the farther Wei speedboats with a special tender, and attacked the closer Wei speedboats with hook and sickle guns, and the Wei soldiers continued to fall into the water or cut off their heads by hook and sickle guns, and the river on this side was soon dyed mottled red.
While the clippers were engaged in a battle with Zhou Tai's warships, the Wei warships were surrounding Zhou Tai's fleet, and at the same time, dozens of fireships rushed straight towards Zhou Tai's fleet.
As soon as Zhou Tai saw the Wei army's fireships speeding forward, he understood the Wei army's intentions, and immediately ordered the top 100 warships to break away from the fleet to block the Qin army's fireships.
A hundred warships staggered each other and lined up in two rows to meet the fireships of the Wei army, and at this moment, the fireships of the Wei army were already full of sails, and the speed was one point faster than that of the speedboats.
In the blink of an eye, the two men met on the river, only to see Zhou Tai's warship turn sharply, they tried to block the impact of the fireship in this way, and at the same time, the crossbowmen on the warship fired rockets at the fireship that was close at hand.
The fireships did their best to avoid the jam, but several of the hapless fireships were overturned by the swells set off by the ships, and a dozen more fireships were already on fire and were spreading rapidly.
The ignited fireship simply collided with the opponent's warship nearby, and as more than a dozen fireballs rose, more than a dozen sailor warships of the Wu State were enveloped in flames.
Surrounded by flames, soldiers on both sides screamed and jumped into the river.
At the same time, the other fireships tried to take the opportunity to break through the resistance of the opponent's warships, but most of them failed to succeed, they were either overturned by the waves set off by the opponent's warships, or had to collide with the opponent's warships nearby, and one by one fireballs continued to rise on the surface of the river.
However, there were still a few who broke through the obstacles and entered Zhou Tai's main formation, and when Zhou Tai saw this, he had to order the ships to disperse.
The fireships that rushed into Zhou Tai's main formation began to attack nearby, and clusters of flames rose in Zhou Tai's main formation.
After a while, the hundreds of warships in Zhou Tai's main formation were completely out of formation, and dozens of them were in flames.
At this moment, the warships of the Wei army, which had been watching the battle from all around, started and killed Zhou Tai's main formation from three directions.
However, at this time, the main force of the Wu State Naval Division ambushed in the ports had already appeared on the river, and there was not much time left for the Wei army.
The Wei army's flag danced above the water village, and more than 1,000 other warships also surged out of the water village and greeted the main force of the Wu State Naval Division that was going down the river.
The Wei army surrounded 800 warships, and at this moment, the warships of Zhou Tai's main formation were completely out of formation. (To be continued......)