Silver Fox of the Three Kingdoms

The moon is white and the wind is high, and the boats on the river are full of shadows.

Zhu Ran's army had just boarded the ship and had not yet had time to drive out from the pier.

Cheng Pu was still applying fresh mud to the hull at this time.

No one thought that Jiang Xia's navy's boat was so fast that it was already approaching them.

Seeing that the Jiangdong navy was really unprepared at this moment, Shen Chen's spirits were lifted, and he ordered the soldiers to follow the plan.

Immediately, the fleet was beating loudly, with continuous gongs, drums and horns, and thousands of ships were beating gongs and drums on the river several miles wide at the same time.

The sound spread in all directions, and even the howling wind on the river and the crashing waves of the waves were covered up.

Immediately afterwards, the fifty warships in the front turned on their full horsepower and rammed into the Jiangdong Navy fleet.

At this time, Zhu Ran really wanted to order the soldiers to drive out the boats as soon as possible to block the opponent's route.

But years of experience in water warfare told him one thing—it was too late!
The speed of Jiang Xia Navy's ships was far beyond their imagination. Before their ships sailed out, the opponent's ships would definitely collide.

So Zhu Ran only hesitated for eight seconds, and when the Jiangxia navy fleet was less than two miles away from them, he gave the order to retreat.

"Blow the retreat whistle and go back to shore!"

Zhu Ran roared angrily.

"Doo-doo-doo-doo-doo!"

The sharp whistle sounded, and the surrounding soldiers of Zhu Ran turned their heads and passed through the wooden boards built between the boats, and ran to the shore.

In ancient times, when boats were parked, because they were afraid of being blown away by the current and wind, the boats were often placed sideways on the shore to slow down the action of the current and wind.

At this moment, the ships were lying on the shore, and the soldiers on the ships ran back without looking back. Some people even crowded back and forth, and accidentally fell into other cabins, making a mess.

Fifty medium-sized ships in the rear approached quickly, and after just over two minutes, they had rushed to the front, aiming at the Jiangdong navy ship in front and slammed into it.

Boom!

Bang bang bang bang!

It was as if billowing thunder resounded through the night sky.

Countless collisions and loud noises spread in all directions, sawdust flying, and many ships were smashed.

But those battleships were also dilapidated.

Ancient ships seldom chose to collide. After all, they were all made of wood.

However, these ships themselves are dead soldiers, so naturally there is no need to care about whether they are cool or not.

So it turned on its full horsepower and slammed into the enemy fleet.

Jiangxia Navy and Jiangdong Navy will never die!

"Run."

"Help me."

"Run, run, run."

The soldiers of the Jiangdong Navy on the ship who had not yet reached the shore only hated their parents for losing two legs.

In an instant, the flames rushed into the sky, and many small boats were put down on the ship. The soldiers of the Jiangxia Navy lit the fire in the cabin, jumped onto the small boats and retreated in an orderly manner.

It didn't take long for the fire to spread from the warship that the Jiangxia Navy collided with to the ships stored in the dock by the Jiangdong Navy.

The southeast wind blew violently, and with the help of the wind, the flames shot up three or four feet high. In an instant, the periphery of the Jiangdong Navy fleet turned into a sea of ​​flames, dyeing half of the sky red.

At this time, Zhou Yu had just assembled his team and left the camp. According to normal calculations, he believed that the enemy should be several miles away at this time, and it would take at least another quarter of an hour or two before they rushed to the pier.

At this time, Zhu Ran boarded the boat to intercept first, and he led the army to arrive later. In addition, Cheng Pu responded from the side, Zhou Yu believed that if the enemy dared to attack at night, it would be a dead end.

And it's a perfect plan.

Because there is only a thousand miles to be a thief, there is no reason to prevent a thief from a thousand miles away.

Therefore, even if Shen Chen did not launch a night attack afterwards, maintaining this state would not make the soldiers tired.

It's naturally better when it comes, and you can react immediately.

But Zhou Yu never expected that when he led the army out of the camp, what he saw was the raging flames on the bank of the river several miles away.

"How is this going?"

Zhou Yu turned pale with fright. According to his calculation, the enemy will still arrive for some time, so how could there be a fire?

Because the night was too dark and the distance was too far to see clearly, Lu Meng next to him said, "Captain, the enemy may have attacked with fire. They may have been intercepted by General Cheng and General Zhu. There is a fire on the river. Let's go and see." Let's see."

"Yes, that's the only possibility."

Zhou Yu quickly comforted himself, after all, he naturally didn't want an accident at the pier.

However, he didn't know that there is an effect in psychology called Murphy's Law, which means that the more you fear something, the more you will get something.

Soon they came to the bank. The closer they got to the river bank, the colder Zhou Yu's heart became, because he saw that it wasn't the enemy being intercepted at all, but that the river bank was already ignited with raging flames.

At this moment, Zhu Ran's remnant army was still on the shore. They tried their best to transport the silt and river water, wet the boats in the middle, and wanted to create a isolation zone to prevent the flames from burning over.

At the same time, Zhu Ran and other middle and lower-level officers took the lead and rushed to the front of the sea of ​​fire, cutting off the ropes of the ships, trying to let the outer ships go.

However, under the blowing of the southeast wind, the flames were so fierce that a ship would be burned into a ship in just one to two minutes, and then the flames were blown to the northwest by the southeast wind, quickly igniting other ships .

"It's over, it's over."

"How could this be?"

"Our boat is going to burn."

The faces of many Jiangdong Army officers and soldiers behind them were ashen, and their morale was extremely low.

Although they didn't lose any men, horses and food, for the navy, the ship is life, especially if they are still in the Hongkou area.

The Hongkou area is not entirely an isolated island. It faces the Yangtze River in the east, Dongting Lake in the south, Yunmeng Lake in the north, and a long and narrow land in the west, which leads directly to Zuotang, which is Huarong County, Yueyang City.

However, the reason why they can set up camp here is because there are ships. Once the battle is unfavorable, they can immediately take the boat down the river and leave Jingzhou to return to Yuzhang.

But now that the ships are burned, they can only go to Tang by land. It can be said that they are going deep alone, and they will face the siege of the Jingzhou army at any time.

This means that they are already in an embarrassing situation where they are alone and unable to return to Jiangdong.

As a result, the morale of the soldiers was on the verge of collapse.

"Pfft!"

Zhou Yu spat out a mouthful of blood.

"Captain, Commander."

Young generals Ling Tong and Lu Meng around rushed forward to help.

Zhou Yu's face was pale, and he said with difficulty: "Quickly, tell the soldiers to put out the fire immediately. Don't worry about the outside. Wet the boats in the middle with mud and water to protect the innermost boats."

"Quick, put out the fire."

Ling Tong supported Zhou Yu, and Lu Meng hurriedly directed the soldiers to put out the fire.

The Jiangdong ships were arranged in the port with three floors inside and three floors outside. Although the fire spread quickly, Zhu Ran tried his best to create a isolation zone, but because of the small number of people, the fire was still burning fiercely.

The soaring fire dyed the night sky orange, and the raging flames came with terrifying waves, and the surrounding area had turned into a sea of ​​flames.

At the end of December in midwinter, the weather was still very cold, but the Jiangdong soldiers fighting the fire could feel the heat wave coming from a long distance, even if they jumped into the river, and the air was filled with the smell of sawdust.

Burning fire burns the sea and boils the river.

There are rising ashes everywhere between the sky and the earth, and even the river under the boat seems to be evaporated, rolling up hot steam.

The soldiers of the Jiangdong Army fought hard. Some used knives to cut off the ropes connecting the ships, some used mud and river water to create isolation belts, and some simply jumped into the water, filled buckets with mud and water, and handed them to their companions on board.

Tens of thousands of soldiers rushed to rescue, but manpower was as fragile as ants in the face of natural disasters and fires.

In the distance above the river, more than 2000 Jiangxia Navy ships floated.

Shen Chen stood on the boat, and thousands of soldiers who set fire in front rowed back. Their luck was good in this battle. Since Zhou Yu was only on guard, he was not sure that they would come to attack at night, so he didn't set up an ambush, otherwise he would Thousands of archers were arranged on board, and at least half of these people may not return.

After the soldiers who set the fire came back, the former commander of the army, Su Fei and Chen Sheng, who personally led the soldiers to charge bravely, came back and returned. Shen Chen praised their courage and gave the order for a general attack.

"Pass me an order, the army will approach the shore to outflank the left and right sides, and we must not let a Jiangdong army go away!"

"only!"

The orderly immediately blew the horn.

In an instant, the fleet began to disperse and sail towards the river banks on the left and right.

The Jiangdong Navy has more than 1000 ships than the Jiangxia Navy, a total of more than 3000 ships.

Among them, there are as many as five or six large boats, and there are countless small and medium-sized boats such as fighting ships, 艨艟, Maotu, Luwei, Chima, Kuaizhou, airships, and cruise ships.

These ships, large and small, densely covered the entire river bank, the wharf stretched for more than ten miles, and the flames even formed a fire dragon.

At this moment, the fire dragon was blazing, the whole sky was illuminated, and the heat wave spread around, which was spectacular.

It's just spectacular, and it's hard for them to get close to the past.

Therefore, Shen Chen could only choose to divide his troops into two groups. At least the left and right wings of the fleet would have to sail for more than ten miles to avoid this terrifying sea of ​​fire and go ashore from other places.

Huang Zu led more than 1 people to go around from the west, and Shen Chen led the other half to go around from the east.

The direction he chose was at the entrance of the Yangtze River, and the fleet attacked mightily.

And it just so happens that there are actually some ships of the Jiangdong Navy over there, that is, the Cheng Pu ships that are experimenting with the silt effect. They are not at the dock, but at the entrance of the Yangtze River. Hit it to see the effect.

But I didn't expect that this happened to retain the last fleet of Jiangdong Navy, about hundreds of ships. At this time, Cheng Pu had already driven the ships away from the port, and when he reached the river, he saw the enemy attacking and quickly ordered to retreat.

Shen Chen saw hundreds of ships abandoning the army and sailing towards the lower reaches of the Yangtze River from a distance, so he didn't choose to pursue them, but stopped the ships from Cheng Pu's side and went ashore to intercept Zhou Yu.

At this moment, the situation of the Jiangdong Navy on the shore is even worse. No matter how hard they try to fight the fire, they still can't stop the fire from spreading.

There were only more than 3000 ships, and less than [-] ships were saved, barely creating a isolation zone, but before they were happy, news of the Jiangxia navy's attack came.

Zhou Yu gritted his teeth and insisted, and ordered to call gold, so that the soldiers who were fighting the fire came back immediately and prepared to meet the enemy.

As a result, the old camp fell.

Huang Zu went ashore on the northwest side and attacked Zhou Yu's main camp which was in the northwest.

He also chose to set the fire on fire. This fire seemed to have been stretched for more than ten years, and he had been attacked countless times by Sun Ce and Sun Quan for humiliation.

After sweeping away his past humiliation, Huang Zu was extremely excited, raised his head to the sky and howled, and was so ecstatic that he coughed up blood.

Over there, Zhou Yu was also coughing up blood.

The main camp stored all the supplies they had for this expedition. Except for the ships, even the food and grass were destroyed, and they completely lost hope of going to the Tang Dynasty by land.

"Fight to the death, fight to the death! Only by fighting to the death can we go home!"

Zhou Yu said to Lu Meng Lingtong and others beside him in an extremely weak voice.

The rest of Lu Fan, Xu Sheng, Huang Gai and others were also extremely sad. Someone asked: "What is the governor talking about?"

Lu Meng cried and said: "The governor said to fight to the death! Only by fighting to the death can we go home!"

"Fight to the death! Go home!"

"Fight to the death! Go home!"

"Fight to the death! Go home!"

In an instant, it started from Zhou Yu's side first.

Immediately afterwards, this force seemed to infect the entire Jiangdong Army, and the entire army began to roar.

At this moment, Huang Zu and Shen Chen's army began to form a siege in the distance. Hearing the shouts of Jiangdong's army from a distance, Shen Chen led the Yuluo horse off the boat and rode on the horse's back, frowning.

"The Jiangdong army has become a mourning army."

He said.

Zhang Nanqugan and two lieutenants were always by his side.

Hearing his words, Zhang Nan said: "Governor, I have also heard the truth that mourning soldiers must win, what should we do now?"

"Back to the boat and kill them."

Shen Chen said.

"Report!"

However, at this moment, horses galloped in the distance.

Although they used ships as a means of transportation, some scouts in the army still used war horses. In order to ensure the transmission of information on land, the war horses were placed in the cabin and could be used after landing on land.

This scout was the scout from Huang Zu's side. He galloped over at this moment and said to Shen Chen: "General Huang burned Zhou Yu's camp. Zhou Yu led the army to fight him. General Huang was unable to retreat in time and was held back by them. He couldn't get on the boat. , he was afraid that the ship would be snatched by the enemy."

Shen Chen frowned even tighter. He realized that he had made a mistake in his command. He shouldn't have gone ashore immediately. He should have waited on the river. When the burns were almost the same tomorrow, he would keep sailing on the Yangtze River, consuming the life of these people. Share Jiangdong Army.

The reason why I am anxious is that Cao Cao and Liu Bei are fighting in the north, and Liu Cong always has 6 or [-] horses in his hands. If Liu Cong is behind the scenes when Cao and Liu are fighting, it will not be good for Cao Cao to pick peaches from Nanyang. .

Moreover, although the Jiangdong Army lost their ships, they did not lose food, grass and camps. If they continued to confront each other, they would still be able to face each other for at least a few months, and it would be useless for him to burn their ships.

So he wanted to do it once and for all, thinking that if he burned the Jiangdong Army ships, their morale would be low, so he defeated them in one fell swoop.

Unexpectedly, it turned them into mourners instead.

"Go to the rescue of General Huang!"

Shen Chen knew that he couldn't delay, so he immediately gave the order.

Immediately, their men and horses quickly began to run towards the shore, attacking the rear of Zhou Yu's army.

At this moment, Zhou Yu's army was fighting with Huang Zu's army.

Zhou Yu was already very weak, and his face was extremely pale. He muttered to himself: "It was my miscalculation, it was my miscalculation."

Lu Meng cried and said, "It's not the governor's fault, who would have thought that their ships are so fast?"

"Pfft."

Zhou Yu spat out another mouthful of blood, and said with difficulty: "This is the crime I should bear. I don't regret my death, but these Jiangdong sons are the elite of Marquis Wu. I must take them back."

"But, but we don't have any boats anymore."

Lu Meng mourned endlessly.

Zhou Yu said softly: "Also. Come here with your ear."

Lu Meng hurriedly listened to him.

Zhou Yu whispered a few times in his ear, and finally said, "Do as I say."

"The Governor!"

Lu Meng opened his eyes wide and said, "It can't be like this."

Zhou Yu's eyes widened suddenly, and he said with the last of his strength, "Do as I say!"

Immediately afterwards, he still maintained that staring posture, but the strength in his hands was already very weak.

At the end, Zhou Yu slowly collapsed, as if he had no life left.

"Captain! Commander!"

Lu Meng was distraught and burst into tears.

At this time, Huang Zu had actually retreated to the ship. Although the Jiangdong army was chasing after him, Zhou Yu fell ill. Ling Tong, Huang Gai, Lu Fan, Xu Sheng and others did not have a unified command, resulting in disordered coordination and chaos.

Taking advantage of this opportunity, Huang Zu repelled the first wave of the enemy's attack with a bow and arrow, barely got rid of their offensive, and successfully retreated to the shore and boarded the boat.

After having a ship, Huang Zu took advantage of his condescension to shoot and kill the Jiangdong Army incessantly, relieving the pressure.

And at the rear, Shen Chen led the army to kill.

"Captain, look, Zhou Yu!"

Qu Gan has good eyesight. He noticed that on a hillside not far away, Zhou Yu's commander-in-chief's flag was flying high. There was a man with his back facing them, sitting cross-legged on the top of the hill, as if looking into the distance.

There are still thousands of soldiers protecting the hillside. Farther to the northwest of the hillside, there seems to be a battle taking place. Various roars, shouts of killing, the sound of weapons handing over, and even the sound of screams continue to hit.

Shen Chen instinctively judged that this should be Zhou Yu leading an army to attack Huang Zu's army fiercely. He seemed to have not expected that Shen Chen chose two outflanking routes, and unexpectedly the army suppressed the border, leaving only thousands of soldiers around him for protection.

of course.

Perhaps it wasn't that Zhou Yu didn't expect it, but that he had to snatch Huang Zu's ship as soon as possible to take the initiative.

So Shen Chen immediately said: "The whole army raided and captured Zhou Yu alive!"

"The whole army raided and captured Zhou Yu alive!"

"The whole army raided and captured Zhou Yu alive!"

"The whole army raided and captured Zhou Yu alive!"

The shouts shook the world.

Shen Chen's army rushed towards the hillside like a tide.

Soon the two sides were fighting together.

"Fire arrows!"

At this moment, countless Jiangdong troops suddenly appeared on the hillside on the right, shooting at them.

"No, there is an ambush!"

Shen Chen was taken aback, and quickly ordered: "Ming Jin."

There was a tinkling sound.

Unexpectedly, the Jiangdong army on the hillside on the right ran faster than them, and actually swarmed behind them.

"Kill!"

And the shouts of killing gradually rose from the west side.

It turned out that Huang Zu shot and killed a large number of Jiangdong soldiers with his bow and crossbow, which made him even more happy, and he actually chased them down.

Shen Chen was stunned for a moment, the battlefield was so chaotic, it was easy for people to get confused about the situation, and ordinary people had no idea what was going on.

Fortunately, Shen Chen was smart, and immediately realized that this should be Zhou Yu's plan. The situation on the front line should be that Huang Zu still had the upper hand, so Zhou Yu deliberately created the illusion that the two sides were fighting, and lured him to come to support, so as to kill him and snatch his ships. .

"Zhou Yu is still scheming, but I have been guarding against this move for a long time."

Shen Chen sneered, turned his horse's head and said, "Kill it."

Now he joins forces with Huang Zu's army and pursues the Jiangdong army.

At this time, Lu Meng was carrying Zhou Yu's body on his back, and kept crying while running.

Jiangdong's army is in a mess at the moment, not at all like the victorious army that ambushed Shen Chen just now, but rather like a defeated army.

The soldiers threw away their helmets and armor, and fled eastward desperately.

It's just that Shen Chen left thousands of soldiers and horses on the ship. If they went to snatch the ship, they would definitely be shot with bows and crossbows, so Shen Chen was not worried at all.

The army pursued, and the two sides ran one after the other, one side fled, the other side desperately chased, and the front and back were seriously out of touch. Many Jiangdong soldiers were exhausted, or fell down, and were caught up by the Jiangxia navy who was chasing behind, and chopped into corpses.

But it was these disjointed soldiers who briefly delayed the enemy's pursuit, and even Huang Gai personally led thousands of people to break the rear and cover the retreat of the main force.

When they ran to the place where Shen Chen stopped the boat, the crossbow shooting that Shen Chen expected did not happen.

"what happened?"

With the light of the fire on the river bank, Shen Chen was riding a horse three miles away on the hillside to watch, which made him startled.

Because he saw that his fleet was also fighting at the moment.

"Cheng Pu!"

Shen Chen's face turned cold.

Not only Zhou Yu killed a carbine, Cheng Pu also killed a carbine.

He had a boat, and he used the boat to rush to the place where Shen Chen stopped the boat, and then ordered the soldiers to board the boat for hand-to-hand combat.

The crossbowmen in ambush on Shen Chen's boat were held back by them, making it impossible for them to shoot at them when the main force of the Jiangdong Army came running.

The main force of the Jiangdong army began to climb onto the ship one after another, many ships were taken away, and Huang Gai led the main force to the rear, so that the main force of the Jiangxia Navy could not entangle with the other side.

"Huang Gai!"

Shen Chen saw Huang Gai who was leading the troops to cut off the rear not far away, he was angry from the heart, turned the horse's head, and killed in Huang Gai's direction.

At this time, Huang Gai had been surrounded by Jiangxia navy which was several times larger than theirs. They fought bloody battles, and the number of soldiers around them became less and less. At the beginning, there were still 3000 to 800 soldiers, but now there are less than [-], and the number is still decreasing.

Shen Chen galloped away on his horse, holding a tiger knife in his hand. After approaching the battlefield, he got off his horse, passed his own army group, came to Huang Gai, and shouted sharply: "Huang Gai, surrender to avoid death!"

"Hmph, it's delusional to ask me to surrender to a junior like you!"

Huang Gai was over fifty years old, his body was covered in blood, sweat and blood were intertwined, he was out of breath, but he still stood awe-inspiring with a knife.

At this moment, Shen Chen felt like a villain, bullying the old and the weak.

But soon he shook his head, dismissing the thought.

In fact, there are no villains and decent people in this war, but only positions and struggles for survival.

Shen Chen wants to end the troubled times and create a beautiful new world where everyone can afford to eat and read, where the common people live and work in peace and contentment, without powerful families.

On the other hand, Sun Quan wanted to dominate the south and dream of being the lord of Soochow, so this battle was naturally inevitable.

Therefore, none of us is just, and some of us just have different goals and ideals.

Shen Chen stopped talking nonsense with Huang Gai, and bullied himself over, and slashed at the top of Huang Gai's head with the tiger knife in his hand.

The surrounding soldiers suddenly surged again.

All kinds of spears, axes, axes, knives, guns, swords and halberds hacked randomly, and even bows and arrows were shot in all directions.

Huang Gai raised the big knife in his hand to block, but his own strength was exhausted, coupled with his old age and frailty, and Shen Chen was young and strong, so he couldn't bear this move, and the back of the knife was pressed to his shoulder.

"die!"

Shen Chen changed his move again, drawing his knife and slashing across.

Huang Gai tried to block sideways with difficulty, he had no strength to fight back but only to parry.

After three rounds, under Shen Chen's stormy attack, Huang Gai finally couldn't resist and was slashed in the chest.

Immediately afterwards, Shen Chen picked up his big knife, pierced his heart with one knife, and pushed him back.

Huang Gai stared angrily, took a few steps back, and finally fell down.

As soon as he died, the surrounding resistance weakened a lot, and the fighting soon subsided.

"It turns out I'm already that strong."

Shen Chen looked at Huang Gai's body on the ground. Although Huang Gai was old and physically exhausted after repeated battles, he was experienced and was once one of the four strong generals who followed Sun Jian.

I didn't expect to kill him with just a few moves, maybe I already have the level of a second-rate general.

"Bury General Huang!"

Shen Chen looked up into the distance, and shouted: "Keep chasing!"