The revival of Shu Han

Chapter 220 A Feast for Crows ([-])

In warships of this era, generally speaking, the bow is the strongest.And the weakest place is often the midship.Therefore, in water warfare in this era, if the commanders of both sides are not stupid, most of them should try to avoid the midship of the ship from facing the bow of the opponent's ship.Therefore, the water warfare mode at this time generally focuses on facing the enemy with the bow of the ship, and then rushing into the enemy's formation head-on.After that, the two ships staggered. If they are far apart, they can shoot with bows and arrows.And if it really enters the stage of gang-jumping combat, then the Soochow navy, which can walk on the ground on the undulating ship, will naturally have a great advantage.

Therefore, when Liu Lu and Zhu Wan, the two commanders of the Soochow Fleet, saw the Shu Han fleet slowly turning upstream and facing them with the midship, they couldn't help laughing wildly: Midship to meet your own bow?Then I will directly hit your midship with the bow of the ship later, can't I send you to the river to feed the fish in minutes?
Unfortunately, this smile lasted for a while.

Following Luo Xian's order, the [-] large ships that had completed their turn, the fire oil tanks loaded in the bow and stern catapult magazines rose into the air, pulling out [-] beautiful flames.These flames drew a beautiful parabola in the air, and then quickly plunged into Soochow's fleet.

Before the Yangtze River leaves the Three Gorges, the widest river surface is about 800 meters, and generally only four to five hundred meters wide.After leaving the Three Gorges, the surface of the river suddenly widened. In the section of Xiling, even in the dry season in winter, the width reached thousands of meters.

But this width is still too narrow for Soochow's huge fleet.

Therefore, at this time, Soochow's fleet is very dense.

Then, the sixty fire oil tanks on the side of the Shuhan Navy hit all of them!
"Bang Dang!" The pottery fire oil tank hit the hull of the Soochow Fleet at such a high speed, and of course it was torn apart in an instant.The kerosene in the jar was ignited by the fuse, and it burned as a whole at once.What's more terrible is that the sparks flying around are still looking for new burning targets in the sky.Moreover, the northwest wind is blowing at this time!
"How is this possible?! Their boat is so small, how could the trebuchet on it be thrown so far?"

It can't be blamed that Liu Lu and Zhu Wan are ignorant.In fact, China's trebuchets in this era are still in the state of pure lever trebuchets.If such a trebuchet wants to obtain sufficient range, it must be extremely large.This kind of large trebuchet is not a big problem on land, but it cannot be transplanted on a boat: the boat is small, and the trebuchet is too large, which will cause the center of gravity of the boat to rise, and it will capsize accidentally.And how much does it cost to build such a big ship?
It is not that there are no such giant ships in Soochow, but the number is very limited.Now all the hedgehogs are gathered near Jianye.

"Hehehe, the winch-type trebuchet provided by Da Sima is really convenient." Seeing that the Soochow Fleet downstream had already caught fire in many places.Luo Xian smiled and continued to order: "One more round of trebuchet, and then all the buildings and ships of our army will turn around. Use the bow of the ship to face the enemy!"

"Here!"

After all, it is still necessary to confront the enemy with the head of the ship.Because, even the capstan trebuchet is limited to the hull, and its shape is also limited.This also determines that its range will not be too far.If the enemy continues to rush forward regardless of his care, and the midship of our ship is still exposed in front, something big will happen.

"Don't worry about the casualties of the fleet behind! All those that have already caught fire, concentrate on the north bank, and try to rush up to the beach. Other ships, paddle hard, and try to get close to the enemy ship! Realize the gang battle as soon as possible!"

"Here!"

Looking at the downstream Soochow Fleet, all the boats that can still move have stretched out their oars from the cabin and started rowing hard.Luo Xian smiled slightly: "Have all our ships turned?"

"Reporting to the governor, everything has been completed."

"Good! Order, release the fire scorpion!"

"Here!"

Following Luo Xian's order, more than 200 fast boats quickly rushed out from the gaps between the [-] large boats.This type of boat has a pointed head with sharp barbs.There were not many soldiers on board, and after they carefully steered the boat to the front of their own ship with oars, they quickly added full sails to their own ship, and then, one by one, began to move towards the rear of the ship. Only a small sampan walked.Before leaving, the last soldier to disembark opened the torch in his hand and casually threw it towards the bow...

Then, in the line of sight of Liu Lu, Zhu Wan and others, more than 200 huge fireballs suddenly appeared.

Seeing such a scene, Liu Lu, Zhu Wan and the others knew what happened even without seeing it.Isn't this the legend that Zhou Lang set fire to Chibi?

Unfortunately, at this time, the Soochow Fleet was located downstream, and the Shu Han's unmanned fireboats could go down the river.Moreover, this is a big winter, and the common wind direction is northwest wind.No one in Soochow's generation can communicate with God and borrow the southeast wind for a few days.Therefore, the fire boats of the Shu Han could go down the river at a very high speed with full sails.But Soochow had to lower all the sails, and simply use human paddling to realize the maneuvering of the fleet.

However, in the face of such a huge coverage of the fireship offensive, no matter how maneuverable it is, it is useless.As the sound of collisions sounded one after another, the dozens of warships in the front row of Soochow's fleet were all hit by the warships put down by the Shu Han, and then burned quickly.

"Hey, the country should have taken advantage of the weakness of the Shu thieves to take Badong County recklessly. The enemy came down the river from the upper reaches, and it was really too difficult for our navy to resist!"

Looking at the burning surface of the river and the completely disorganized fleet of his own side, Liu Si reluctantly gave the order to withdraw his troops. "Send an order, immediately send a fast boat to report the news of our army's defeat to Zuo Da Sima downstream, and tell Zuo Da Sima that our army will temporarily retreat to the south bank of Xiling City to garrison. Leave some small boats to search for our army's drowning people and try our best to save them. Right. At the same time, send envoys to the commanders of Western Shu to tell them that our army is heading east for the time being, and please don’t embarrass our captured soldiers.”

On this side, Luo Xian also gave the same order: "The whole army lowers the sails, divides into left and right armies and docks separately. Afterwards, we send out boats to salvage the soldiers who fell into the water of Soochow, and try our best to rescue them!"

There is no way, Guan Da Sima's current thirst for population is well known to all the people in Shu Han.In order to get the population of 7 to [-] in Xiling City at one time, Da Sima did not hesitate to take risks himself, and came to the Yangtze River to fight against Soochow.However, compared with Jin, Han and Wu are still weak.Therefore, it is okay for everyone to fight a little bit, but the feud cannot be too deep.The battle is over, and the opponent's soldiers who fell into the water still have to try their best to save them.This is winter. Although most of the Yangtze River does not freeze all year round, it is easy to die if you catch a cold in such an era!

When Shi Ji and Lu Kang received the report of concern, although they were very angry, they didn't lose control of their emotions-Guan Zifeng, a profiteer, never got out of business early.Ever since he ordered the Shu Han's Hanzhong Legion to threaten Jin's Weixing County, Shi Ji and Lu Kang knew in their hearts that he would definitely intervene in the matter of Xiling.It was precisely because of this that Lu Kang ordered Jingzhou's navy to move westward.It's a pity that the generation difference of combat weapons, as well as the water flow and wind direction are all not on our side.As a result, our navy was quickly defeated.

If Guan Yi's navy was defeated by Soochow this time, Guan Yi, Luo Xian and others would have to escape, and Soochow would not be polite to them.But the other captured soldiers are probably not in danger of their lives-Soochow also hopes that the Shu Han can look a little bit more decent, and don't come here every once in a while and are on the verge of subjugation.It's just that Shi Ji wouldn't give Guan Yi any chance at all, and would eat up Xiling by himself.And now...

Well, as an unbreakable Han-Wu alliance, it is harmless for brothers to exchange ideas occasionally.After the discussions were over, the bosses from both sides came out to have tea and negotiate.

Soon, envoys from both sides were in the process of negotiating.The top commanders of both sides, Guan Yi and Shi Ji, sat together in a small pavilion northwest of Xiling.

(End of this chapter)