The last three kingdoms

Chapter 1338 Conquering Xiling
In fact, there was no need for scouts to report, Wang Jun had already grasped the movements of the Wu army. Building iron cables on the Xiajiang River and burying iron cones at the bottom of the river were all very dynamic projects, so how could Wang Jun not know about them.

The iron chain that blocks the river is as thick as an arm and hangs across the river. The river here is turbulent. If the warships of the Han army go down the river, they must be unable to hold back and will directly hit the iron chain. , With such a high speed, once it hits, the bow of the ship will definitely be smashed to pieces.

Among the gorge rivers, the dangerous shoals and reefs are the most dangerous, and the passable waterways are extremely limited. Wu Jun's deployment of iron cones on the passable waterways is equivalent to increasing the dangerous shoals and hidden reefs in the river. If these can not be ruled out According to the iron cone, once the warship touches, it will definitely hit the bottom of the ship and cause the warship to sink.

Therefore, in order to pass through the Xiajiang River unimpeded, Wang Jun must first find a way to remove these obstacles. If there is no way, he must not send troops rashly. If he wants to control the speed of the boat in the torrent, it is simply impossible. Impossible.

These days, Wang Jun has been thinking hard, but he really came up with a solution. Before going out, Wang Jun specially ordered people to build dozens of large rafts. A beam with a depth of four or five feet is formed, and a large torch is made on the raft, which is several feet long and filled with sesame oil.

When they arrived at Xiling Gorge, Wang Jun ordered the fleet to stop at the shore, released the dozens of rafts alone, and lit the torches on the rafts.The raft went down the river, and when it encountered iron cones, all of them stuck into the beam of the raft and were taken away.When the raft encountered iron cables, it slammed into it and was intercepted. At this time, the torches on the raft were blazing, burning the iron cables and destroying several iron cables set up by Wu Jun.

Hearing that the iron chains and iron cones had been broken, Wang Jun immediately ordered the Han army to sail eastward, heading towards Xiling.

At the narrowest Niugan Mafei Gorge in Xiling Gorge, Wu Jun specially set up two catapult positions, one south and one north, locked on both sides of the Yangtze River. Because the river surface is the narrowest here, stones thrown into the river from both sides All can be cast to the center of the river, both sides can be cast, and the purpose of blocking the river can be achieved.

Although the accuracy of catapults is limited, it is generally difficult to hit passing ships, but there are hundreds of catapults on each side of the bank, and if they throw stones at the same time, they can completely cover the river. If a military warship wants to pass through by force, it will inevitably take a great risk. A stone weighing a hundred catties falling from a high altitude is definitely not something a wooden warship can resist.

However, the Han army has gunpowder crossbows, so they can naturally ignore Wu Jun's catapults. The range of the gunpowder crossbows is more than three times that of the catapults. The catapult position launched an attack.

A series of gunpowder crossbow arrows with blue smoke flew towards the sky above Niugan Mafei Gorge, and the sound of explosions kept coming and going. These catapults were heavy and difficult to move, and they became living targets for the fire crossbows. In a sea of ​​flames, these catapults were all destroyed before they could fire a stone bomb. There was no one left, and even the Wu soldiers guarding the position suffered heavy casualties.

The three lines of defense carefully prepared by Zhou Chu were easily breached by Wang Jun, and the Han army braved the wind and waves to reach the Xiling City.

Lu Jing didn't expect that the Han army would come so fast. The iron chains, iron cones, and catapults they carefully prepared were all cracked by the Han army. Now that the Han army had already reached Xiling, Lu Jing had to send all the water troops to fight with them. The Han army launched a large-scale water battle on the Xiling River.

Although Zhou Chu took [-] sailors and hundreds of warships with him when he left, the number of sailors left in Xiling is still considerable. There are not only small and medium-sized Mengchong warships, but also large ones For the building boat, Lu Jing personally boarded the ship and commanded it, and set up a formation on the wide river.

After the Yangtze River flowed out of Xiling Gorge, the river surface had to be widened and the water flow became much calmer. Such a river surface was most suitable for water warfare. The Wu army formed a diamond-shaped battle formation to meet the Han army.

During the Yong'an Water Battle, the Soochow Navy suffered heavy losses. Although it was only the Mengchong Fleet of the Wu Army, and there were no large ships, the fierce firearms of the Han Army left a deep shadow on the Wu Army, and, until now However, the Wu army could not find a way to deal with the Han army's firearms. In today's Xiling water battle, the Wu army is likely to face the same problem, how to resist the Han army's gunpowder and crossbow arrows.

Sure enough, after the start of the water battle, there was a one-sided situation. Although the Wu army mobilized a large number of archers and used a large number of rockets to fight back, the gunpowder crossbow of the Han army was so powerful that almost a single crossbow could kill a small crossbow. The warships of the Han army, those large-scale building ships, became the targets of the Han army. Although it was impossible to destroy them with a few arrows, the Han army was not stingy with these gunpowder arrows. The targets of Wu Jun's building ships were huge. , can often attract dozens of gunpowder crossbows to attack at the same time.

Dozens of gunpowder and crossbows are used to deal with a building ship. No matter how strong your building ship is, it will be difficult to withstand the repeated explosions. Soon the first Wu Jun building ship that was attacked was buried at the bottom of the river. Ji Hanshui The army rushed into Wu Jun's ship formation like a broken bamboo, and then other buildings and ships also suffered disasters and were bombed and sunk one after another.

As for those small and medium warships, even the Han army could not withstand an arrow, and the Wu army's navy was defeated.

Seeing this, Lu Jing could only retreat to Xiling City.

After the warships of the Han army defeated the Eastern Wu navy, they launched an attack on Xiling City. Countless Firebolts flew into the sky and attacked Xiling City. The entire Xiling City was engulfed in a sea of ​​flames.

Lu Jing came to the front line to defend the city, and the people around persuaded: "Shu people are very powerful with firearms, the governor can avoid it."

Lu Jing reprimanded: "This governor shoulders the responsibility of resisting the enemy and defending the city. If he retreats at this time, he will surely disturb the morale of the army. Anyone who dares to retreat will be punished without mercy!"

But how powerful is a gunpowder weapon with flesh and blood, Lu Jing fought to the death, but unfortunately was hit by a gunpowder arrow and died on the spot.

As soon as Lu Jing died, the Wu army had no leader, and was unable to organize a corresponding battle. Soon the Han army broke into the city and fought against the Xiling army defending the city.The Han army's offensive was ferocious and armed with firearms, adding wings to a tiger. How could the Wu army resist it, and Xiling City soon fell.

Taking it down to Xiling, the Han army did not stop, looking at Jiangling and advancing.

(End of this chapter)