The initial bloody blast is just a small microcosm of the beginning of this battle. It is impossible for the troops to immediately change their tactical responses in the face of new equipment sneak attacks that they have never seen before.

Although Dong Xi pointed to various commands on the flagship of the Pioneer Squadron, his orders were to be conveyed and understood by the officers of each ship during the chaos, it would take time.

During the water war, the ships were at least dozens of feet apart, and it was very slow to pass on the call. Moreover, the person who passed the message in the middle might not have enough authority. The officer who received the order had to consider whether this was the commander's original intention.

With drums, horns, gold and banners, it is impossible to convey too much detail and unprecedented orders. In the end, to ensure both accuracy and details, you can only rely on the wardrobe to send orders.

Therefore, when the response tactics are conveyed, heavy losses are no longer avoidable.

The five five-toothed warships on Taishici rushed downstream together, which was already unstoppable.

Dong Xi responded to the chaos. In a hurry, more than a dozen snails were killed and sunk and smashed directly. Then, gradually deteriorated into the fact that even the fighting ships began to be sunk. There were wailing on the river surface, and countless people fell into the water to seek help.

However, the battleship was larger after all, with the largest one having a displacement of hundreds of tons, and the smaller one having a displacement of seventy or eighty tons. It was knocked down by a pole of thousands of kilograms and would not be broken into two pieces directly. However, a crack of several feet was smashed on the side of the ship. A huge amount of river water poured in and sank in at most minutes.

The Shishi Fighting Ship that was wandering around was killed and Taishici's five-toothed warship rushed towards Dong Xi's ship formation with its teeth and claws.

"Personnel Dong, let's retreat quickly and re-form. This is not a solution. Even if it's a tower ship, you will probably have to smash a big hole when you get hit by this hammer."

Some officers around Dong Xi were already scared by Taishi Ci's charge momentum and wanted to persuade the main general to retreat temporarily.

However, Dong Xi was very brave and brave. Faced with the cowardly battle of his subordinates, he first scolded everyone not to retreat. Some officers were still timid and long-lasting, and Dong Xi picked up the ring-headed knife and chopped it up with his own hands to use the method of marching.

"If anyone shakes the morale of the army, he will be killed immediately! We cannot retreat. We must buy time for the governor Zhou to allow the main force of the central army to adjust and change the formation to deal with the enemy's new giant ship!"

After killing the officers who shook the morale of the army, Dong Xi glanced at several confidant officers on his flagship, and grabbed two of them who thought that martial arts were the best, courageous, and more convenient to drive the boat. Then he ordered:

"You two get off the ship and control the fastest ship. Go to the Central Army to find the governor Zhou, and tell the governor Zhou about the tactical method of hitting Taishici's new giant ship. Governor Zhou's genius, give him time to prepare for the tactics, so that we will not lose in vain!"

"Captain! My subordinates are willing to fight to the death with you!" The loyal subordinates selected by Dong Xi were indeed more courageous than those who wanted to surrender, and they were still showing their loyalty at that moment.

Dong Xi didn't have time to talk nonsense to them, so he raised his left and right feet and kicked them down the boat building for a floor, and roared at his subordinates who were rolling down the steps:

"If you go and report the message, you will be killed if you talk too much! If I die when you leave, don't forget to look back and carefully, describe the specific details of how I died, and tell the governor Zhou that he will naturally be wary of Taishi Ci's use of the same trick again!"

After sending away the subordinates who were conveying information, the east and the others took the building boat to block the main channel on the river, and asked all the paddlers and rowers on the boat to row with all their strength. The bow of the boat was aimed at Taishici's big ship and directly confronted him.

Dong Xi also saw clearly how his warship was ruined before. Because the opponent's heavy hammer fell, the height difference was relatively large, so the accumulated inertia was also large, and a big hole was smashed into the river with one hammer.

However, if it is a tower ship with a weight of millions of kilograms and it will be hit hard, even though it will be severely damaged by this hammer, the other party will definitely be hit and the bow is not easy to feel bad.

Moreover, the superstructure of the building ship is very high and has a large buffer. When the hammer of the Five-Tooth Battleship falls, it will accumulate the falling inertia impulse at most at more than one meter away. Perhaps it will smash through the superstructure of the several-story boat and get stuck. It will not hit the side or bottom of the ship that is below the waterline surface.

As long as the parts below the waterline are not smashed, the ship will not sink. Then you will get stuck together and jump to help fight! At that time, at least there will be a chance! There are many soldiers in Wu, and rushing to the enemy ship to cut and exchange life is the most cost-effective way to play.

After Dong Xi made these hasty adjustments, the short distance between Taishi Ci and him had already been completed. Taishi Ci took five five-tooth warships and rushed towards Dong Xi's five-story ships almost one-on-one.

The Wu army had a total of forty ships, but thirty were all in Zhou Yu's main formation of the central army. Dong Zhi had only five vanguards, and Lu Meng, who had cut off the rear, also had five.

This kind of large ship is still very valuable and there will not be much stock. In history, Dong Xi died in the Battle of Ruxukou. During that battle, he also led five tower ships to block the mouth of Ruxu River and prevent Cao's army from entering the Yangtze River. However, the storm was too strong and the tower ship capsized, and Dong Xi drowned in the river with the ship.

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"It seems that Dong Xi's reaction is quite fast. He has seen that the pole can only smash the upper wooden building of the building ship. The remaining strength is not enough to smash the waterline, so he dares to confront me and want to die together. How can he give you such a chance? After all, we are the general of the court. Can you exchange your life with you a fake magistrate?"

When Taishi Ci saw Dong Xi hedge against him, he also felt one or two points of admiration for the other party's courage, but that's all.

Since the enemy is brave and brave, he must also give him a dignified way of death.

"Put down the axe blade rod on the bow of the ship in advance, put it flat and insert the snail! Directly hit the enemy ship!"

With Taishi Ci's order, when the warships on both sides were still nearly a hundred feet apart, the Han sailors directly chose to cut off the hemp rope on the winch and put the largest and heaviest pole on the bow of the boat into the water to make a corner.

The moment the rod fell into the water, huge waves splashed, but several sailors with good water properties did not avoid difficulties and jumped to the impact corner and inserted a thick tree trunk with a defined angle directly into the rotation joint of the rod's impact corner. It looked a bit like an old-fashioned pin-type train hook. After inserting it, you are not afraid of the hammer head shaking around, and it is also necessary to correct it with force during impact.

However, considering the huge force of the impact, the joint position will definitely be broken in the end, but there is nothing to do about it. This is the biggest disadvantage of multi-purpose impact angle and fixed impact angle.

Dong Xi on the opposite side was already full of confidence, and wanted to take a hammer and rush forward to kill, but saw that the other party's head was a giant axe with thousands of kilograms of cold light, and a terrifying feeling instantly rose.

Unfortunately, there was no time to change the formation again. A giant axe equivalent to Xu Huang, Xing Daorong, Pan Feng and others using famous axes and famous generals to increase their weight by a hundred times, plunged straight into the bows of several tower ships in Dong Xi's army.

Fortunately, Dong Xi ordered the soldiers under his command to use the bow to the bow and fight against the bow, so this row of stings did not break the ship. If the tower ship came over and carried the collision from the side, it would probably accelerate and die many times faster.

The axe blade pierced into the hull for more than three meters deep, and the impulse gradually became similar with the speed of the two ships and no longer penetrated.

Unlike top-down hits, this angle of impact attack directly stumbles the part below the waterline, so the difference in killing effect is as obvious as the shells washing the deck and the torpedoes that specifically drill holes into the water.

The river water was poured into the thunder along the thunder. With the sound of "kla", the bow of the Five-Tooth Battleship hit the corner and was directly broken into the hull with the rebound of the ships on both sides.

Thousands of pounds of giant axes slid out from the thunderbolt. Because the wooden part was a lot shorter, the overall reserve buoyancy of the broken part of the pole could not support the weight of the iron head and sank into the bottom of the river. It was like after a dagger stabbed the enemy to death, the dagger blade broke into the enemy's body, and a knife exchanged for a life. It was worth it no matter how you looked at it.

Isn’t it just a few thousand kilograms of iron spent at one time? The steel mill in Jianwei, Yizhou, can refine steel with a yield of one million kilograms a year.

When the two ships collided, Dong Xi was unstable and fell directly on the deck of the ship. After a while, he got up and felt the warship under his feet sinking slowly.

He looked sad and resentful. At first, he fantasized that the two ships could be tied together and could be dragged Taishici to sink together, but he pulled them down to the bow of the ship and looked down, and found that the bow pole of the Taishici ship had been broken and the two ships were not connected together, so it was not realistic to drag Taishici to sink together.

Fortunately, the two ships were still very close, so Dong Xi roared: "Put the crow's beak! Throw the hook and jump with me if you can move!"

There were more than a thousand sailors on his flagship, but on the upper floor of the ship, close to the ship, only two or three hundred people could immediately jump into the gang to fight. But he couldn't care about it anymore. If he waited, he would probably fall in vain and could not get a single one.

Dong Xi even abandoned his shield, just to make it easier to climb. He clasped his sword in one hand and swung a scratch hook with a hemp rope in the other hand. He walked into the opposite boat like a man of ape, and slashed three or five Han sailors in succession, yelling to fight while slashing.

"If Taishi Ci Dog thief has the courage, he will fight me quickly! Yuyao Dong Zhi is here!"

With a "buzz" sound, Taishici shot an arrow down from the railing on the two floors above his head, stabbed Dong Shi's helmet from top to bottom, leaving a white mark on the iron helmet.

This is not that Taishi Ci does not talk about martial ethics, but that the two of them are separated by two floors, and they can't get through the close combat even if they want to fight each other. Taishi Ci can't watch Dong Xi wield a storm with a quick sword to slash up one by one to talk about martial ethics.

Dong Xi felt a blow on his head, so he quickly raised his head and waved his sword to block it. There were several Han army god-arm crossbowmen next to him who saw that the main general had fired arrows, and they also shot arrows.

Although Dong Xi waved his knife very quickly, it was a pity that only his hands were knife and hooks. In order to jump the ship, he was instantly shot by two powerful crossbows and penetrated his shoulders and arms.

"Despicable Liar" Dong Xi cursed and roared. The second arrow shot by Taishi Ci himself hit him in the chest. Dong Xi shot three arrows in a row and died.

"The fighting between the two armies is not a fighter. You can say whatever you want. I won't bother with the dead. If you jumped over and jumped up two floors, I will fight you." Taishici put away his bow and arrow and said something to save face.

He thought that even if he fought in close combat, he would not be able to defeat Dong Xi, and the battlefield situation was inconvenient.

On the other side, on the two wings of the battlefield, the other four tower ships that Dong Shishi was also under the attack of the intermediate officers under Taishici, with the Five-Tooth Warship, and were in a precarious situation that could sink at any time.

Several Jingzhou Army officers at the Sima level of the army were qualified to lead a five-tooth warship, and were counting on making contributions in today's battle.

On the north bank of Jiangxi, a man named Chen Dao, who was still a marquis of Qu Jun of Yuan Shu’s army at the beginning of last year. When he passed the Wancheng Battle, he was promoted to the Sima of the Army. Today he was qualified to lead a five-tooth warship. His subordinate Zong Yu followed him as a marquis of Qu Jun.

There was also a young military officer Liao Hua, who was originally a Sima-level military officer under Liu Biao's tent. He surrendered with Liu Biao's army and surrendered to Liu Bei's camp. Today, he also led a five-tooth warship under Taishici's command and surrounded the southeast bank of the Yangtze River.

The command ability of Chen Da Liao Hua and others is of course far inferior to Taishi Ci, who has rich experience in water warfare. After all, they are all in their early twenties and even younger.

At the beginning, when they commanded the warships to hit the enemy's tower ship, they were not as straightforward as the flagship that Taishici personally took over. The bow of the Five-Tooth Warship hit the corners, and none of them completely hit the solid side of the ship. They just made a cut at a small angle on the side of the local ship, and then the pole itself broke and sank the river.

Fortunately, Taishi Ci took the lead in killing Dong Xi, and Wu Jun pioneer completely fell into a state of sinking the flagship and losing command, and the remaining several tower ships were also in chaos.

Chen, Liao Hua took advantage of the opportunity of passing by the side after the impact, and used two poles on the side of the ship to finish the second blow, smashing the superstructure of the Wu Jun ship several places. The catapult on the warship also took the opportunity to use grape bullets to repair the enemy ship.

Under normal circumstances, because the parabola attacked by the catapult, there is a minimum combat range, and it cannot open fire with close body. However, it is only aimed at low enemy ships such as fighting ships and turrets.

After learning this lesson in the last battle between Taishi Ci and Zhou Yu, Taishi Ci, who went back to think about countermeasures behind closed doors, adjusted the deployment in the past two months and learned the lessons, moving the catapult deployment position of his large warship from the top of the ship building to the deck.

In this way, the shortest shooting dead corner can be shortened, and the stone thrown upward hit the superstructure of the enemy's large warship on the ascending trajectory. Chen Dao, Liao Hua and others beat the face to output, and sprayed the remaining four tower ships of Wu Jun Pioneer, and they completely sank after a short time.

On the entire Yangtze River, because the vanguard fleet's tower ships were all sunk, there were as many as five or six thousand Wu soldiers who fell into the water to seek help. Including the sinking of the fighting ships, at least nearly 10,000 people were floating on the river, wailing, holding wooden boards, or dying, or trampling on the water to wait for death.

The era of water war has completely changed. In the future, water wars on the land of China will no longer be the main way of fighting by jumping onto the opponent's ship and killing the enemy. They will more directly sink the enemy's fleet.

Taishici was afraid of delaying the fighter plane, so he annihilated Dong's attack and headed straight to Sun Ce and Zhou Yu's central army. He knew that with Zhou Yu's ability, as long as he gave him more time to react and think about countermeasures and re-arrange the formation, the surprise attack effect of the Five-Tooth Warship would be greatly weakened, so he must not give Zhou Yu more time to think.

As for the rescue and salvage of prisoners of war, it will be left to the main fleet of the Han army's rear army. Letting the enemy soldiers flood the river for a while can also weaken their resistance, and the danger will be smaller after being fished out, and it will not be easy for prisoners to rob the ship.

If you can't swim in the river for more than half an hour and drown, you can only blame these people for their poor water quality.
Chapter completed!