Chaos of the Three Kingdoms Summons

Chapter 2224: Zixu wins the Yangtze River, Bai Qi occupies Nanjun

Yangtze.

Broken warships of all sizes lay across the river, with corpses occasionally appearing on the surface. Everything showed that a brutal battle had just taken place here not long ago.

As the winner of this battle, Wu Zixu did not feel the joy of victory at all.

The 30,000 naval forces of the Yellow River and the 80,000 naval forces of the Yangtze River, almost all of the naval forces of the Jin army were used on the southern battlefield.

On the southern battlefield, the Jin army, whose naval power was already at a disadvantage, naturally had no room to hold back. They would naturally use all the naval forces they had.

However, this still cannot make up for the gap in strength between the two sides.

The Southern Navy not only concentrated Zhu Yuanzhang's Yangzhou Navy, but also included Liu Bei's Qingzhou Navy and Zhao Kuangyin's East China Sea Navy.

Both in quantity and quality, they surpassed the Jin army.

Even in terms of generals, there was a gap between the Chinese and Jin armies.

Even before this, Zhu Yuanzhang dispatched 10,000 naval forces led by Zhu Tianpeng back to Yangzhou, but he still could not change the situation where the enemy was strong and we were weak.

Wang Jian won several battles on land, but because the navy could not come up in time and the navy and the land could not form coordination, he had to suffer setbacks step by step. After winning the battles, he could not get the results of victory.

Although Wang Jian was the commander-in-chief of the army's land and sea forces, he did not interfere in the naval battle.

Firstly, he had no experience in naval battles, so even if he took command, he might not be able to do better than Qi Jiguang.

Secondly, he was still on land and had to look after the army. He couldn't always be at the front line of the navy battlefield. The battlefield was changing at any time and opportunities were fleeting. Instead of letting him give tedious commands, it would be better for him to just take charge of the overall situation and leave the specific details to Qi Jiguang to deal with on his own.

Thirdly, Wu Zixu, the enemy's chief commander of land and sea forces, was no ordinary man. Just facing him, he would need to exert all his strength.

Come on...

In short, although the two commanders, Wang Jian and Wu Zixu, were in charge of the overall situation, the fight between the two was basically concentrated on the infantry battlefield. On the naval battlefield, apart from the macro control, the rest was basically left to the generals under them.

It's not that Wu Zixu didn't want to take command personally and use the advantage of the navy to break the situation, but he really didn't have the power to do so.

Wang Jian was well aware of their disadvantage in the navy, so he kept a close eye on Wu Zixu and tried every means to do so, even fighting unnecessary battles, just to test whether Wu Zixu was there and to prevent him from leaving the infantry camp easily to command on the river.

Wang Jian was watching him so closely that Wu Zixu had no way to leave even if he wanted to.

There is really no other way. Yangzhou has many generals who are good at naval warfare. Even when facing the Jin army, they can still have an advantage in terms of naval warfare generals.

However, there is no comparison when it comes to generals in land warfare.

If he left the land and went to the river, there would be no one in the army who could help him watch Wang Jian. Therefore, it was not that he did not want to leave, but that he really could not leave. Even if he could really find time to leave for a while, it would only be one or two hours at most. And one or two hours was far from enough.

Fortunately, the Yangtze River Navy is indeed full of naval commanders.

Although Wu Zixu had left, Fu Youde still took over his command. In addition to Fu Youde, there were also Lu Xun, Zhu Banjin, Ao Guang, Zheng Zhilong, Zheng Chenggong, Zheng He and other naval generals.

Moreover, in addition to the generals of the Yangzhou Army headquarters, there are also many naval generals on Zhao Kuangyin and Liu Bei's side, who should not be underestimated.

Especially on Liu Bei's side, there were many experts in naval warfare. A group of naval warfare generals from the Yuan Dynasty and Mongolia made up for Liu Bei's original disadvantage in this regard.

It can even be said that Liu Bei's navy originally consisted of a few big cats and small cats, but after the addition of this group of people, it was his current naval power system that restricted the development of these people.

Of course, the Jin army is not really like this, so they have no advantage at all.

Otherwise, if he really had no advantages, Qi Jiguang would not have been able to persist until now despite all the disadvantages.

First of all, the Jin army had the advantage of occupying the upper reaches of the Yangtze River.

Secondly, there were 5,000 rattan-armored navy soldiers in the Jin army's navy. It was these 5,000 people that gave the Jin army a considerable advantage in the naval battle.

The navy troops were basically all unarmored or lightly armored. However, while others were unarmored or lightly armored, these five thousand rattan armored navy troops were completely armored.

Although rattan armor cannot replace iron armor, it has its own strengths and weaknesses. On the water, rattan armor has even avoided this only weakness.

Although kerosene can still burn on water, the rattan armor is only made of tung oil, not kerosene. With this ratio, it is not enough to support them to burn on water.

Thirdly, it is Qi Jiguang’s personal ability.

After being strengthened with attribute points by Li Xiang, Qi Jiguang's basic command has now reached 100 points as a peerless commander. Among the entire enemy army, except for Wu Zixu who can be compared to him, the only one left is Zhou Yu who has been strengthened with the skills of a military saint.

However, Wu Zixu had to take charge of the entire battle situation on this front and could not go to the front line in person to directly command the battle.

As for Zhou Yu, because of the situation on the Central Plains battlefield, Zhu Yuanzhang and Zhao Kuangyin jointly promoted him in name only and demoted him in reality, making him the chief military advisor of the joint navy, while reducing his military power.

Of course, even if his military power was not reduced, he would not be able to become the commander-in-chief. After all, the commander-in-chief of the southern battlefield was always the host of this battle, the Yangzhou Army.

Not to mention, among the joint navy, Zhu Yuanzhang's Yangzhou navy originally accounted for the largest proportion, and Zhu Yuanzhang certainly would not give the command right to the other two.

However, although Qi Jiguang's personal ability is strong, two fists cannot beat four hands, not to mention that the other party is obviously not just four hands.

After a long time, Fu Youde finally seized an opportunity and eventually suffered a defeat. A total of 20,000 navy troops from the Yangtze River and Yellow River were left on the battlefield.

Such a great victory should have been a happy thing, but when the news of Bai Qi's capture of Nanjun came, Wu Zixu's face immediately turned from joy to worry.