There is no doubt that Cao Ren and Li Dian's adjustment and deployment of Jiangbei land defense zones obviously left huge loopholes.

But the current situation is not the turn of this loophole to break out first - Li Su has arranged more and more imminent crises for Zhou Yu and Cao Ren, and is waiting for the explosion.

This kind of small trick can only be regarded as "a small trick that is a small trick in life". Leaning first and then, and following the process obediently is not allowed to go to the line.

There is no way, the IQ is too overwhelming, the brain circuit of the deceived party is not enough to download the Internet speed, and the uploader's network speed is not easy to use, and it is all accumulated in the cloud.

After Cao Ren made the decision to adjust the deployment, there was not much time left before Li Su's waterway army reached the Ankou. After Yu Jin got the order, he quickly commanded most of the warships to rise and set sail immediately, and asked Feng Kai, one of the deputy generals, to lead the team to retreat downstream with him.

At the same time, Yu Jin also followed Cao Ren's request and left a small number of fast-moving Clippers and elite sailors to go to the other side of the river to meet Huang Gai, and temporarily cooperated with Huang Gai to fight the rear-end blocking battle.

The leader of this army-dead troops was Yu Jin's two deputy generals Zhu Ling and Lu Zhao. On the one hand, they could delay the enemy's operations and give the main fleet more time to escape, and on the other hand, they could better detect and find out the reality of Li Su's troops.

Li Su came very quickly. Zhu Lingluzhao had just joined forces with Huang Gai. Before he could ask Huang Gai how to fight, Li Su's fleet had already appeared in the sight of the sentries on the observation tower of Hulin Port Water Village.

Although the two sides were not in charge, Zhu Ling took the initiative to ask for instructions humbly, considering that Huang Gai was a famous general after all, and after all, he was a senior citizen who fought at an age.

"General Huang, how to deal with this battle today? You have been experienced in the water battle for many years, and the instructions are."

Huang Gai was also a blessing in disguise. Seeing the reinforcements sent by Cao's army to assist him, he was willing to listen to him temporarily, and finally he had a few more chances of winning.

Huang Gai knew that the situation was urgent and was very responsible and made a quick decision: "Since you listened to me, then retreat all the ships into the water camp. We will join forces to guard the Hulin Village on the south bank. On the north bank, just stay in the army to guard the village and not leave the ships.

However, when you left, General Yu Jin should have told you to set up flags in the water camp so that Li Su would not see your flaws in the virtual world.”

Zhu Ling: "All these were explained. However, since you plan to defend the camp and not attack, wouldn't we waste our lives leaving these warships? We keep the ships so that we do not lose the ability to move and retreat.

After the water village was surrounded by Li Su from the river, although it could hold on for some time, it would sooner or later be broken. The river surface had been in stages and these ships could not retreat downstream.

And if we don’t intercept, how can we buy time for the main force? General Yu brought a bulky building boat and the speed was not as fast as our ship. If Li Su bypassed us, General Yu would have been caught up before he even arrived in Nanling."

Huang Gai didn't want to laugh at the other party, so he explained expressionlessly: "Li Su's fleet claims to be able to carry 100,000 people. No matter how many people there are, we will be killed by the front. Breaking and blocking is not a waste of life, but also taking shortcuts.

It is already afternoon now, and Li Su cannot catch up with the Grand Commander and General Yu before dark today. We stick to the water camp, and it depends on Li Su's desire to stop steadily, land in front of the village, and slowly attack the camp.

He was still arrogant and was too lazy to even land siege equipment and infantry to land, so he directly attacked our village by boat. Or he directly divided his troops to surround the water camp exit from the water camp, and the main force continued to pursue the Grand Commander.

He chose the first and most steadily path, which is difficult to deal with. We might have to consider abandoning the village by land and fleeing after two or three days. Otherwise, if we delay for a long time, we will be surrounded by water and land retreats and will be completely wiped out. If he chooses the second and third ones, I will have a way to fight back. If he dares to bypass the water camp, I will let him know that it is amazing at night."

Although Zhu Ling and Lu Zhao have not yet understood the essence of Huang Gai's command ideas, they also feel that General Huang is worthy of being a general in the water war. They have analyzed it well and have sincerely implemented Huang Gai's tactics with a win-win mentality.

Anyway, if you close the gate and guard the village, who won’t?

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After a while, Li Su's vanguard, about 30,000 navy troops, led by Taishi Ci and Zhou Tai, each of them was 15,000. They advanced along the south and north banks of the Yangtze River, and arrived at Wankou Port and Hulin Port one after another.

Taishi Ci was in Jiangbei, and arrived for a while and rushed straight to the Wankou Port, which was originally Yu Jin, but now the ship had already left the empty village, leaving only the infantry defenders.

Li Dian led the army into the water camp and took on defensive tasks for Yu Jin. Li Dian had a total of 20,000 infantry mobile troops, and more than 10,000 were placed at Wankou Port, ready for battle.

The military orders obtained by Taishi Ci and Zhou Tai from Li Su before the war also considered the situation of "the main force of the enemy warship retreated and only the army was left to defend the water camp to land on the back". Naturally, Li Su also explained the idea of ​​"How to deal with this situation if you encounter this situation."

Li Su made strategic plans, which was a bit similar to the general staff system of the German army in later generations. When encountering A, plan A, plan B, plan B.

Of course, Li Su is so extravagant and lazy, and is also very good at training his subordinates.

So he has not done all these specific tasks personally. The advisory plan for this battle was his aide Xu Shu, who followed Li Su's guidance to check for omissions and fill in the gaps.

Seeing this, Taishici thought to himself: "Sikong has instructed that if the enemy does not leave the camp, the key is to find out whether there are warships left in the camp, whether they are really only defending with infantry, or whether they have reserved the warships to reserve the strength to counterattack in the future."

This must be figured out, and all naval generals who know a little more about their military strength know the importance.

If the enemy is afraid of ship losses and has no ship left at all, then even if the remaining water camps have troops, they can only play a counter-landing role and lose the possibility of counterattacking and making a vote.

If the enemy leaves the ship, it means he is hiding there and enduring.

It seems that when your main fleet passes by, he still dares not to argue with you. But if your main fleet continues to go downstream, the rear army will slowly advance into the snake formation, or there may be a military ration and transportation fleet that will be dragged behind, as long as they catch a weak point, they will open the gate of the village and take a boat to fight, and then rob and retract.

This principle is actually just like during land wars. If you don’t conquer many cities with important transportation routes, you will not dare to bypass the city and continue to attack deeper, because you are afraid that the nail left behind will break your food route while your main force is not there and only the grain transport team passes by.

However, on the edge of the Yangtze River, whether the defense has the potential to cut off food channels depends on one more condition than land warfare: whether he has left enough warships.

If you understand Taishi Ci's common sense, the next decision will be natural, almost textbook-like.

"The whole army leaned on the water camp and set up several fire boats as the guide. They hit the gate and burned the gate to test the attack on the camp and see how the defenders were."

With Taishi Ci's order, 15,000 Han troops prepared in an orderly manner.

The large and medium-sized warships equipped with catapults and crossbows on the ship were all lined up and started long-range fire suppression step by step.

Several ships of the ferry-level ships were temporarily modified at first glance. The hull was narrow and long, and small collision angles were installed on the head of the ship, which was similar to the door-scratched trolley used in siege battles. If the firewood is piled up and ignites, it can ensure that it will not be washed away when it is stuck in the water gate gate.

For a moment, arrows and stones broke through the sky, and fire boats collided in a mighty way, and several fires caught outside the water village on the north bank of Cao's army.

Li Dian's guard troops were not to be outdone, and they used heavy catapults deployed on the high platforms of the village to smash the fleet outside. At the same time, all the crossbowmen went up to the walls and enemy towers, preparing to suppress the enemy ships rushing in through the gap after the gates of the water village were broken.

Attacking a water village is a little different from siege, that is, even if the gate is broken, it does not mean that the camp will be completely lost and cannot defend. Because even if the gate is broken, enemy ships will just drive in, and there are dock berths inside.

If the attacking party wants to completely capture the camp, it must place a springboard and climb the dock, and charge and seize commanding heights everywhere.

Compared with those tactics of landing and attacking directly on the beach outside the village, they only obtained excellent deep-water berths. They can quickly unload large troops without considering the stranding of ships or the soldiers who have to slowly wander from the river water at least waist-deep to the shore.

To put it bluntly, this kind of attack method is to try to be fast, and there is no advantage in combat effectiveness.

After a while of stalemate, both sides killed and injured hundreds of people in the attack of arrows and stones, and dozens of ships and fortifications were also damaged. The personnel of both sides had better living power, so they were not easy to shoot at the target, and the materials were consumed very quickly.

Fortunately, the gate of the Water Village Gate has been shaking and cracked by the impact and fire. The outer sentry towers standing in the river with piles and walls on the Water Village line have also been gradually damaged in the fire.

On the other hand, Taishici was smashed into this kind of battle, a fighting ship, four ships, and two building ships. Five or six fighting ships were injured to varying degrees. The main reason was that the superstructure was smashed into many holes by large stones, but as long as the underwater part of the ship's side and the bottom of the ship were not directly shot, these multi-layer warships would not be sunk.

Taishi Ci was also a little anxious for a while, disliked the progress of the fire damage to the fire was slower than expected, and it took so long to make this progress.

But he also knew that there was no way to fight. It was the disadvantage of today's combat weather. It could only be like this. As mentioned earlier, in order to allow northern soldiers to adapt to the hot combat climate in the south, Li Su did not waste his time until the dog days of summer before fighting, but chose the plum rain season.

The middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River were still raining two days ago, and today it was just the rainfall, but it did not stop.

This led to the fact that the Han army was originally a very useful weapon for setting fire with water war, the Flying Fire God Crow, could not be used.

The "cross-shooting kite" like the Flying Fire God Crow with powder barrels and fast fuel is more afraid of rainy weather. Not only is the small fire easily extinguished and cannot be ignited quickly, but its flying structure itself is prone to fly far because of too much wet water.

Not to mention the Flying Fire God Crow, even ordinary rockets are much more difficult to use on rainy days.

The Han army could not have multiple levels. The three-dimensional setting fire suddenly ignited the Cao army's water camp. It could only break through one layer and burn it one layer. It would inevitably lead to a decrease in efficiency by setting fire with a fireboat.

During the whole process, Taishici suffered more casualties than Li Dian, the defender. Who made the fixed lever catapult in the camp have a higher power range and catapult weight than the ship-based ones, and the hit rate is also higher.

This is a matter of no choice. Naval guns in any era are definitely not as good as coastal defense fortress guns. Warships and coastal defense fortresses will definitely suffer from the bombing.

Fortunately, the part of the buildings and guard walls that Li Dian guarded the camp extending to the river were finally breached by Taishi Ci, and the gates were all boiled and blasted open. Although Taishi Ci paid some price, this test also thoroughly understood the enemy situation:

There was nothing in the dock area in the water village, and Yu Jin had already run away with the warship. Li Dian's defenders were quite large, and the specific number of troops, Taishici basically estimated the firepower density of the counterattacking side. It was not cost-effective to continue to land directly from the dock and fight to the death of the mainland.

Therefore, after Taishi Ci understood the enemy situation, he temporarily changed his tactics and left some warships to patrol far away, blocking all the waterways of Ankou Port towards the Yangtze River.

Anyway, the primary goal at the moment is not Li Dian. Just make sure that Li Dian has broken his legs and cannot catch up and participate in the subsequent battle. As for fighting to the death, it is not what you have to do now, and it is not to do it to Li Dian.

While Taishi Ci finished all this, Zhou Tai from the South Bank Squadron was actually doing similar things. However, Zhou Tai encountered greater difficulties and suffered greater losses during the test. It was about three or four more warships sank than Taishi Ci, and nearly a thousand more people were killed or injured.

Moreover, because the Han army is huge, Taishici and Zhou Tai both organized patrols to search and rescue the soldiers who fell into the water on the wreck. Therefore, even if the warship is lost, most people can be rescued and will not drown, unless the ship is injured before it sinks, and may not be able to hold on.

But the price Zhou Tai paid was not in vain. He at least found out the enemy situation and confirmed that "Zhou Yu kept a fleet in Hulin Port. With Huang Gai and Zhu Ling, Lu Zhao led a sailor of less than 10,000 people to defend this water camp with the army soldiers, and retained the potential to come out to intercept the food channel in the future."

After understanding the facts of the enemy, the casualties and consumption during the test are acceptable.

In the evening of the day when the war was fought, Taishi Ci and Zhou Tai reported the battle situation of the front army to Li Su who was personally in charge of the central army, and asked Li Su to officially decide the next stage of the fighting style.

"Today, because the rain was not small enough, even the Flying Fire Crow and the Rockets could not be used? You can only set fire with a fire boat? So the losses you suffered during your tests were bigger than expected?"

When Li Su received the report, he was not harsh and kindly verified the above situation with the messenger, and understood the key points clearly. Then, among the several sets of staff response plans he had already thought of, he chose the most suitable instructions:

"Since we have confirmed this kind of weather, we can't use the Flying Fire God Crow and Rocket to set fire, so Huang Gai must not use it either. Don't stop tonight, just take a stance of chasing Zhou Yu and Yu Jin, and cross the Hulin to advance to Nanling!

Zhou Tai deliberately exposed his back to Huang Gai, pretending to be eager to fight and be eager to make contributions. Also, Zhou Tai remembers to drink some wine during dinner this evening.

He complained to his lieutenant generals and soldiers that he was surrounded in Hanyang last year and fought a difficult battle behind the enemy's city. In the final battle, he lacked equipment, had no large ships, and had no good equipment and supplies, so he was not allowed to make meritorious contributions. In the end, he fought the most difficult blocking battle, and was also escaped by Zhou Yu and Lu Meng.

This time, with good ships and equipment, he must work hard to fight to the death, and strive to achieve the first achievements of Taishi Ci and Gan Ning. Well, just pass it on, just let him drink and complain in public, without deliberately whipping or whipping to death and putting it to Huang Gai. That would be too fake. It would be enough to do the first step."

When Li Su's decision was passed to the army, Taishi Ci and Zhou Tai were of course unconditionally implemented.
Chapter completed!