The original pole mines had not charged large amounts, and they all exploded underwater, which led to inaudibility in the distance.

It seemed that a water ball, one or two meters in radius, expanded upwards and then fell heavily. The wooden hull, more than half a foot thick under the water, had been torn apart several feet wide, and the huge crack of more than meter long was poured into the river.

The whole process was even more dull than the Seven Injury Fist, and the warship didn't make much noise until the moment it died.

It formed a sharp contrast with the giant axe hitting the corner of the Five-Tooth Battleship, which was hitting the enemy ship with a huge axe hitting the corner, and then sank the enemy ship above the water surface, forming a sharp contrast between the static and movement.

It is also because of this that in the combat plan of the Han Navy, the Han Army Navy, originally used an explicit ultimate move above the water surface to force the enemy into chaos, attracting the majority of the enemy's attention.

Then he took advantage of the chaos to use silent secret orders to increase the results of the battle. So even the Wu army's navy's central army did not notice the changes in the two wings as soon as possible until the vanguards on both wings were harvested miserably.

This is the case at the moment. He is already a famous general in the world with a strong talent in water battles and a very keen sense of the battlefield.

With Zhou Yu's ability to control the battlefield, his attention was still attracted by the direction of fighting with Taishi Ci's two single five-tooth warships that failed to break through, and the sound of killing was shocking.

It was still when the two wings of the Yanxing Formation supported the fewer and fewer reinforcements and the combat power became more and more sparse, he realized that something was wrong. At the same time, the first group of Wu Jun's wings who were stunned by the mine tactics on both sides had already escaped in a mess, and finally brought the information about the encounters between the two wings in front to Zhou Yu.

Even though Zhou Yu responded quickly, he asked the witnesses in detail before he quickly reviewed it: "Taishi Ci used the wooden barrel to blow up the springboard on the side of the board. Could it be that the correct usage is to use a pole to pierce the enemy ship underwater and blow up the side of the ship?

The barrel didn't look very powerful, it just broke a board of one or two inches thick, and it could blow through a hull at least half a foot thick underwater? Even a one-foot-thick bucket could blow through it?"

Zhou Yu was shocked, but he also knew that solving the problem was the most important thing. Now was not the time to be surprised, so he immediately began to quickly figure out the solutions to the problem.

This cannot be blamed for Zhou Yu’s poor physics. He does not have the physical common sense in his mind that “the same equivalent explosion, the power of underwater explosion is dozens of times stronger than the explosion in the open space in the air”.

Within half a cup of tea, Zhou Yu understood two points: First, facing this new weapon, it is useless to rely solely on the tactic of "little boat leaning to the shore and walking in shallow water to avoid war".

There are pole impact angles in the deep waters of the Han army, and there are also mine teams in the shallow waters, which are perfect in the high and low combinations.

Secondly, based on the lessons learned by the severely damaged two-wing wing team with blood, this weapon is detonated by triggering and mainly by pole directly piercing it. After piercing it through the barrel, it explodes after counting breaths. Some people pierced it through the barrel and then drift downstream and drifted for a few breaths and then exploded.

From these victim cases, Zhou Yu concluded that this is a weapon that "delays the detonation after a puncture, and does not require impact at the moment of the last explosion." This situation when Taishici ignited the powder barrel before escaped.

Zhou Yu is also tragic. He is obviously one of the few famous generals in the world, but when he arrives on the battlefield, he still needs his brain to quickly turn and make a temporary guest appearance to solve the case and analyze the principle of the action of the enemy's weapons.

He fell into a deep sense of powerlessness.

This is not the crime of war! It is not that our water war command is inferior to the enemy!

But even so, Zhou Yu still had to insist on playing a few micro-jobs and do everything he could.

It was like when Xiang Yu knew that when the sky destroyed me, he still wanted twenty-eight cavalry to kill the generals and cut the flag and flew around him and showed off his hand.

He ignored the orders given by Sun Ce and directly overthrew his command:

All large warships of the turret or above level are required to be on guard. Whenever the pole of the Han army warship is extended, they must do their best to block and open the frame, keep a distance, and prevent the Han army warship from approaching.

This kind of fighting style is a bit like the formation of spearmen in the land war, and then the opponent's spear was pushed away while approaching the stabbing. It is also like the Qi family army of Qi Jiguang, who used wolf silences to disrupt the battlefield in later generations.

At the same time, the remaining tower ship troops were too slow to escape because they were too slow to rush forward, and they were asked to rush forward and actively hit the five-tooth warships of the main force of the Han army, all of which were entangled together to fight the battle on the sidelines. Because this was the fairest way of fighting for the Wu army and least had to bear the disadvantage of equipment.

Sun Ce had no objection to Zhou Yu's deployment, he just felt a little sad: "Gongjin, are we really defeated today? You can command those light brigades to break through.

Also, use the banner to tell Lu Meng not to reinforce, and turn around and break through to Zhou Tai's ship formation in Chibi Gorge. Zhou Tai has been besieged by us before, so these messy weapons should not be deployed.

Alas, today’s fault is Gu, because Gu’s judgment is wrong. If he had completely abandoned Dong Xi and told him not to meet with us, but to layer in the narrow Shaxian Gorge, resisting the delay of Li Su, maybe we can all retreat to Chibi."

The speed of the tower ship is too slow, and both sides have reached such a stalemate, so it is impossible for the tower ship to withdraw. Whoever loses means that the slow main warship will be wiped out.

This is the cruelty of water wars. The slow-moving ships are all winners.

The wave of raids Huang Zhong had just now caused at least thousands of people in the Wu army's wings to sink the ship and fall into the river. Now the remaining vitality of the Wu army is probably falling below 40,000.

If you only rely on more than 30,000 people to deal with Li Su, what number of people are there? You can't beat the opponent at twice, but now you are only 30% or 40% more than the opponent. Moreover, your morale is declining, so there is no chance.

Zhou Yu was shocked: "Why did you get there? You want to lead the Clippers to break through, and it is my brother who will lead me personally. I will leave the governor to the throne ship! If your brother fails, what reason does Jiangdong Jiye have to survive? Even if it is not completely annexed by Liu Bei, he may become a puppet who surrenders to Cao Cao!"

Sun Ce smiled bitterly: "Those who are the princes should have the character of being the princes. I give up the building boat and take a boat to retreat. If I am still caught up by Li Su's mine ship, wouldn't I die too cowardly?

Ten thousand Jiangdong's children followed me into Chu. Can eight thousand children be left now? Wuyan saw Jiangdong's elders. Even if he did not seek further support to Yuan Shao, Cao Cao would be a puppet and could not be defended by us.

Since that's the case, let Zhongmou complete the humiliating work on my behalf. I have seen through him since I was a child and didn't care much about face. He surrendered to Cao Cao. Cao Cao would believe it, not be afraid of him, nor would he think about harming my Sun family's children.

At that time, if Jiangdong is indeed unavailable, Zhongmou will slowly return west and rely on Cao Cao with the land of Jiangbei and Huainan. At least our Sun family will still have three counties and use the northern troops to help defend. Li Su is now in short supply and is unable to fight with Cao Cao in Jiangbei."

Sun Ce had the last consideration based on the battlefield situation and did not say it, that is, he was worried that if he fled immediately, he was afraid that the Wu soldiers on the remaining twenty buildings on the battlefield would immediately lose their backbone, and he was afraid that he would surrender without any fighting.

The head coach's role in stabilizing morale is something that no one can replace. If Sun Ce does not come in today's battle, it's nothing, and Zhou Yu can save the situation. But when Sun Ce appears and runs away, Zhou Yu can't save it either.

Zhou Yu naturally refused to do so, saying that he could take on the responsibility of staying in the central army. In the end, Sun Ce drew out his sword and ordered him to take the direct command of the command team with military orders, so Zhou Yu had to take over the order and leave.

Sun Ce was also afraid that Zhou Yu would not arrange his funeral in the future, so he hurriedly gave him a piece of silk in half a cup of tea and wrote about a hundred words, which was regarded as the "sacred will" assigned to Sun Quan.

Sun Ce also comforted Zhou Yu and said that he would try to make the fleet strand to the south bank when he was defeated, and strive to retreat by land anyway, after passing Chibi, it would be Xiakou. Even if he didn't have Xiakou City, he would go east in advance and walk dozens of miles more, and he could retreat to Jiangxia.

Zhou Yu also realized that at present, he needed to concentrate his strength with Lu Meng to break away from Zhou Tai, who was blocking behind him, which would increase the probability of retreating for his righteous brother. Otherwise, if Zhou Tai also abandoned the ship and landed on the shore and intercepted it in an army manner, it would also cause a lot of trouble.

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Zhou Yu got off the stairs and boarded the fastest and longest craft in the army, and then began to command the squadrons on both sides of the Taiwan Strait to gather in an orderly manner and keep a distance from the Han army's mine team.

At the same time, considering that he had no time to command ships on the northwest and southeast sides at the same time, Zhou Yu made a choice to give up the northwest and defend the southeast alone, and concentrated the remaining wings on one wing, which was equivalent to giving up the wings of the geese formation.

Under Zhou Yu's close command, Huang Zhong's Mine Team's results were indeed rapidly declining. The Wu soldiers adapted to local conditions and found melee equipment such as long-handled axes, so that the soldiers could leave the shielding and protection of the Duotan and stand directly on the side of the ship to defend.

Once the ships on both sides were too close and saw the Han army's struts that were suspected to be tied with mines stretched out to hit them, they waved their long-handed and big axes with both hands to cut off the bamboo pole. So, dozens of mines had not yet triggered the detonation, and the struts were cut and sunk into the river. At least 20% of the mines were in vain.

Of course, the defense of Wu Jun soldiers is not without cost. Because to chop off the powder barrel strut that has penetrated several feet deep underwater, the handle of the battle axe must be very long, and you must swing your arms with all your strength. The resistance after the axe enters the water is also very large, so the swinging move is also very large.

In this way, these axe soldiers must be strong strong men in the army. They have to leave the protection of Duotu and cannot raise their shields, and they will completely become living targets for the Han army's god-arm crossbow.

As long as the two armies approached, the Wu army warriors had to stand on the gang of ships one after another, shooting one on the other, and blood overflowing down the side of the ship. This situation of being beaten and difficult to fight back really made morale decline.

Despite such heavy casualties, Zhou Yu's defensive effect on the water mine tactics was at least real, which really made the Han army general Huang Zhong look at him with admiration.

"It seems that the effect of using mines to fight the Wuren Shipeng Fighting Ship in the shallow water area is no longer great. However, Sun Ce's banner never retreated, and the tower ships could not leave. We transferred our tower ships back and concentrated on attacking Sun Ce's tower ships, annihilated these large ships, and the battle was over."

Huang Zhong was in charge of his own Five-Tooth Battleship, and also took an advanced telescope to comprehensively examine the battlefield situation and make new judgments.

The total amount of mines in the Han army was not large, and only a few hundred were built. Fifty were used before the war training, and dozens were wasted due to temporary changes during Taishi Ci's battle. So the rest had to be saved, even if one trumpet was divided, it was not enough.

Then we will concentrate the remaining firepower to annihilate Sun Ce's large ship, which is just as slow and difficult to run.

Huang Zhong estimated that the remaining mines were only more than a hundred. Including the dozens that Taishi Ci had not used up, the total number should not exceed two hundred.

He immediately commanded all the wings that had used their speed advantage to be surrounded by the two wings and turned around and hunted towards the Wu Junlou fleet in the middle.

Of course, the soldiers on the Wu Junbo's ship would not wait to die. Governor Zhou had demonstrated how to deal with mines and minimize damage. So the heavy armored soldiers on the ship stood on the side of the ship, holding long-handled axes to cut off the mine pole.

Unfortunately, the freeboard of the building was too high and there was no porthole on the lower floor. The axe could not reach the water surface at all, so he had to switch to long poles and support poles and huge oars, and slow defense.

However, the long-range firepower on the building ship was not enough to quickly hit the sinking ship. After some left and right support, the Han army spent 50 or sixty mines, of which only more than twenty were successfully detonated, blowing seven or eight building ships into severe water and slowly sinking.

The Han army only lost a few ships, and the remaining ships were only damaged. However, the soldiers on the ship suffered serious casualties, because they were all pressed against the fire of the crossbows and grape bullets of the Wu army's tower ship and put them on to lightning. The ship was covered with broken limbs and broken arms and blood.

Similar to the naval battle in the 20th century, the destroyer placed a torpedo several thousand meters near the battleship. The superstructure and sailors of the destroyer themselves were washed away by the rapid-fire secondary artillery of the battleship, which was terrible.

But no matter what, even if most people on the Han army's lightning strike ships are injured or killed, as long as they replace the building ships, they will still make a big profit, which is equivalent to expelling one battleship.

This process seems easy, but in fact, it is because the water battle battlefield is huge and slow, and it takes a quarter of an hour to become like this.

During this period, the remaining Wu Jun ships also discovered the problem. They knew that being bitten to death by many ants would only give them in vain. They had already collided with the nine five-toothed warships of the Han army regardless of their own.

After all, only after they collided together can they avoid being attacked by mine explosions. The Han army would be afraid that the two ships would be entangled together, and then they would drag their five-toothed warship into the water after sank one.

The two five-toothed warships that Taishici failed to break through were finally killed by the entire ship, or temporarily surrendered by the Wu army, under Sun Ce's fighting style of life.

However, the seven five-toothed warships brought by Huang Zhongxin are all new forces, with the angle of collision and pole being in place, so the tower ships heading towards Huang Zhong have no good end.

At least four tower ships were sunk by the giant axe on the bow of the new Five-Tooth Battleship, and a small half of the rest were injured by the impact. The water inlet slowly sank, and less than half of them leaned up to catch the side.

The soldiers who fell into the water and wailed on the river had stretched for thirty miles, and the total number of people who paddled and asked for help exceeded 20,000, just like a pot of boiling dumpling soup. Earlier, several groups of soldiers who had no broken wooden boards to hold began to sink into the river in full swing.

With the shaking shouts of killing, within half an hour, one Wu army ship after another may sink slowly, or lower the flag, and his morale collapses and surrender.

Sun Ce's flagship has also been besieged by Huang Zhong, but the two thousand personal soldiers around Sun Ce were the old foundations of the Sun family who had been with him for many years, and some of them were followed by Sun Jian's time, so since they fought to the death in a desperate situation, they would not retreat.

Chen Wu was covered in blood in his face, and had been injured in two places. He slashed and killed more than a dozen Han soldiers who rushed to Sun Ce's flagship in hand-to-hand combat. Seeing that things were not done, he begged Sun Ce, who was also covered in blood:

"Lord, you must not stay any longer. If you are still in those tower ships, you must descend. Go down and retreat. What if Huang Zhong doesn't notice it if the troops are in chaos."

Sun Ce pushed Chen Wu away and continued to fight with his long spear and sword: "Gu is called a little overlord by the elders of Jiangdong. How can he suffer such a great humiliation! You are not making me lose my moral integrity in the evening! Don't say too much. If you want to retreat, just sit in the boat and retreat. Gu wants to fight to the end!"

Not only did Sun Ce not retreat, he also insisted on carrying a stunning helmet and wearing a gold-engraved iron armor. Because his flagship flag was eye-catching, this ship had long become the target of the Han army's five-tooth warship.

Other locations on the battlefield may be that several Wu army tower ships fought a Han army five-tooth warship, but at this point, three Han army five-tooth warships surrounded Sun Ce's tower ships. However, after the Han army's five-tooth warships surrounded, more Wu army tower ships would also crash into it, and eventually formed a floating fortress with eight large warships connected together, and they were all broken into pieces.

The Han generals knew Sun Ce's value very well, and everyone wanted to steal the magical achievements of destroying the enemy chief. The generals who surrendered under Liu Biao were eager to show themselves, and they used scattering machine grape bullets and divine arm crossbow to shoot at Sun Ce's ship, and then personally took hundreds of soldiers to jump over the ship to kill bloodily.

Sun Ce's warship was hit in front of Huang Zhong's ship head-on, and the axe blade hit the corner and inserted into the hull several feet. The bow of the ship was completely broken. It was just because the bow of the ship was not easy to jump to the bow, so Huang Zhong had not yet committed suicide in person.

On the left side of Sun Ce was the Five-Tooth Battleship of the General Wang Wei, and on the right side of Wenpin, the Five-Tooth Battleship of Sun Ce was hit by a stick on both sides of the ship, and the superstructure was sparse and the soldiers exposed in the gap were shot and killed.

Wang Wei wanted to grab the credit, so he rushed to Sun Ce's ship with soldiers who wrote a song. Sun Ce personally brought one or two hundred guards to block the door. Wen Pin also boarded the ship from the other side, and Chen Wu led his people forward to block the ship. The upper deck of the entire building was filled with blood, and the four walls were hung along the side of the ship.

Seeing that Sun Ce brought few personal guards to block the mouth, Wang Wei was excited to fight. Unfortunately, he realized something was wrong while fighting. He led 600 people to siege Sun Ce and kill less than 200 people, and gradually fell into a disadvantage. Sun Ce himself was as powerful as a mad tiger, and was injured several times, and he actually killed nearly 100 injured Han soldiers.

The personal guards around Wang Wei could not stop them at all. When Sun Ce was killed, Wang Wei tried his best to fight, but he barely took seven or eight moves, but was savagely stormed and broke the shield. Wang Wei stumbled to the ground, just about to fight the carp and turn over again, but Sun Ce shot him and became the representative of robbing the head and killing him in today's battle.

After stabbing Wang Wei to death, Sun Ce roared to the sky and assassinated more than ten more people. The Han soldiers were in a panic and no one could intercept him. Sun Ce returned to the other side of the ship building with injuries, and followed Chen Wu and repelled Wen Pin.

Wenpin could not withstand Sun Ce's offensive and was suppressed to the side of the ship. He was stuck on the left and right and was stabbed into the shoulder with a shot, and turned over and fell into the river. The soldiers on Wenpin's ship quickly tried to salvage, hoping that Wenpin's water was OK and he would not die immediately.

Unfortunately, Sun Ce did not have much time to be proud of his bravery. Assassination of Wang Wei and the fall of Wenpin had already consumed too much time and energy. The Wu soldiers on the flagship also killed hundreds of people in the battle in the process. Gradually, they were both angry and exhausted.
To be continued...