The muffled sound of "Kala" and "Kala" came from time to time on the water surface of Chaohukou. This was the sound of Cao's army blocking the warship, which was hit by the giant axe blade on the bow of the Five-Tooth Warship, and was unwilling to break it.

The wood that was shattered and splashed out by Cao's ships burst onto the side of the Han army's vanguard ship, but even the iron armor wrapped in the waterline could not be penetrated. At best, it only slightly smashed the superstructure of the Han army's ships.

"Boom", "Boom", large splashes of water splashed several feet high like shells entering the water. This is the movement of the Five-Tooth Battleship's pole falling from the side of the ship and hitting the lake.

Most of the knock-downs of the poles did not ensure that they directly hit Cao's warships, but as long as they hit, it would be a small boat below the turret level that directly broke and silenced.

And if those fighting ships carrying three or four hundred people are not sunk directly if they are done like this, at least the cabin and tower will be completely destroyed and the main structure will be broken.

The bloody battle at Chaohukou lasted for only half a stick of incense. The Han army's vanguard warship successfully tear out a large hole, allowing subsequent warships to pour into the lake continuously, gradually reversing the gap in the scale of troops invested on the front battlefield.

The ship that rushed in the front was Gan Ning's own ship, and the Cao army was also under the greatest resistance.

But who is Gan Ning, who was born in Jinfan thief? Such a battle with few enemies and more is still with absolute advantageous weapons is enough to stimulate his stubbornness.

Three years ago, he was sent by Li Su to the enemy's back to harassment. He brought the Dafu ship fleet as a dual-purpose mobile unit of the river and sea to restrain the enemy's troops, so he was beaten by Huang Zhong, Zhou Tai, Taishi Ci in the head-on decisive battle.

This made him very unwilling to accept that he did not get the final battle against Zhou Yu and Han Huang Gai. Today, he could finally make up for it. Although he did not get the final battle against the Sun family fleet, he caught up with the final battle against the Cao family fleet.

After the Battle of Chaohu ends, the next step is that the army will force Hefei. There will be no need for large-scale water wars to go north, and there will be no sufficiently wide combat waters.

So today's war is the last water war located in the Chinese mainland in the war to reunify the Han Dynasty! How could Gan Ning not be excited with such a perfect opportunity to conclude?

Under his bloody rush, the five-tooth warships that the Han army poured into Hukou increased from the initial one to three or five. When the number continued to rise, Cao Xiu on the opposite side was actually no longer suspense.

Because the number of Han sailors on these five-tooth warships alone exceeded the total number of Cao's sailors in the opposite battle. The equipment was crushed, the personnel quality was crushed, the number was crushed, and the number was crushed, and it was even more fucked.

"Whoever dares to retreat cowardly and slash! No matter what enemy ship is ahead or how many enemy ships are, they will hit me! Left rudder! Aim at Cao Xiu's flagship! Full speed!"

Gan Ning shouted fiercely, and his ship looked bumpy, but it also added to the sternness. The mottled dark red and sticky blood stains were dyed with patina on the broken wooden stubble of the ship.

The hull is under the force of sails and oars, breaking through the waves, and it looks extremely fierce and stubborn at first glance.

"Stop him! Block Ganning! Dock, quickly dock! Retract back to the village wall! Use the banner to direct all the crossbowmen in the water village to go to the wall, and catapult carts aim at Ganning's ship to smash!"

Cao Xiu, opposite, finally realized that he had become the target of being starved, and his soul suddenly emerged. Even though there were several other Cao army boats covering each other, Cao Xiu was still busy and letting the sailors turn to avoid.

He didn't forget to deploy a sniper, if Gan Ning came up and chased him too hard and hit the iron plate.

Unfortunately, it's too late.

Cao Xiu thought he could hide in the wall of the water village and leave the waterway of the lake mouth. It was built on the basis that the guard boat next to him could hold Gan Ning for a long enough time.

However, the two Cao Junshi ships who stepped forward to intercept the delayed Cao Junshi were actually slightly shaken by Gan Ning's Five-Tooth Warship, avoiding the bow of the ship, and even slowing Gan Ning's ship speed was not achieved.

At this time, if Gan Ning put down the stick and sank the Cao Junshi, it would be effortless, but it would not be guaranteed to hit the high-speed relative movement with one blow.

Moreover, after putting down the rod, the boat speed will drop to very low. The rod will have great resistance to floating in the water. You have to put it back in order to continue to move forward at full speed. In this way, you may miss the opportunity to chase Cao Xiu.

But Gan Ning didn't choose either.

He saw the opportunity and chose to fully trust the sailors under his command, and issued the order to "completely release the stick".

The stick on the Han army's five-tooth warship has an unlockable locking mechanism, similar to the anchor fixture, in order to release a certain stick in an emergency to ensure balance in the hull.

For example, under normal circumstances, there should be two sticks on the left and right sides of the ship. If the stick is repeatedly beaten during the battle, the durability of the stick will be severely lost and the stick is broken. At this time, the center of gravity of the ship will be slightly tilted to the other side.

Therefore, when the Five-Tooth Battleship was initially designed, it had a design that opened the locking mechanism by itself and gave up the other side of the stick.

The purpose is to regain balance, ensure the center of gravity, or throw away the broken half-spliers directly.

This design is not difficult from the perspective of mechanical design. In history, when the Sui Dynasty people created the Five-Tooth Warship, there was such a mechanical structure.

However, Gan Ning's warship is not seriously damaged by the durability of the stick. It is not that he has broken the stick and discarded it, but he does not want to waste too much time after sinking the enemy ship and then putting it away again.

Moreover, after throwing away some of the pole, the hull becomes lighter and the pursuit speed can be slightly increased.

The two Cao Junshi ships who came to urgently protect their masters and delayed the Ganning operation, aimed at the right and left side of the Ganning giant ship, which was a little ahead of the left and right sides. They were about to hit Ganning, but Ganning put down the pole several feet in advance.

The enemy ship was directly hit by a "boom" and smashed it downwards by more than half a foot deep, and then broke it. The two ships were blocked by such a huge force, and the force of the forward impact was greatly weakened.

It is equivalent to the impact kinetic energy of the stern and central main structures being completely absorbed by the rod, and only the broken bow still rushed forward due to inertia, hitting Ganning's ship's side.

The mass of the impact part is less than one-third of the entire ship, and it is still after pulling and slowing down, so it is naturally not a threat.

Among the two slapped poles on Gan Ning's ship, one of them was also very unfortunate. After falling, it was broken directly by the forward rushing force of the enemy ship wreckage. The other only had cracks. Considering that the solid wooden poles of the slapped poles were thicker than buckets, the huge force was also very impressive.

But whether it is directly broken or cracked, both were abandoned by Gan Ning's locking mechanism just right. The whole process was very tightly coordinated and was perfect.

Most of the sailors on the entire Five-Tooth Warship are worthy of being the old world that Gan Ning brought out when he was a Jinfan thief. The water warfare technology and tactics have reached a considerable level, and can be regarded as the peak of water warfare tactics on the land of China today.

Of course, when Ganning was crossing the Jialing River in Ba County, he had two or three thousand old brothers under his command at his peak, but he lost 20 or 30% during his submission by Liu Bei's camp.

Later, after ten years of war, less than a thousand survived. So these "professional and technical talents" are at least very good, and the grassroots soldiers behind them have been recruited and supplemented over the years.

Gan Ning quickly dealt with the intercepted Cao Junshi, but he had not been slowed down and continued to penetrate Cao Xiu. This incident really shocked Cao Xiu, because there was obviously a problem with his estimated time, so he had no time to withdraw his ship back to the water camp.

"Cao Xiu's dog thief is here!" Gan Ning's five-tooth warship thundered and hit Cao Xiu's ship.

The axe blade on the bow hit the corner and pierced directly into the tail of Cao Xiu's boat, locking the two ships together.

Most of the Cao army's naval forces were ships, with only a small number of fighting ships, and the ship was originally small. Cao Xiu's own ship was the only one among them, so it was particularly eye-catching.

This ship can only be considered a normal person in the building ship, with a full load of 1,500 people and a length of 10 zhang. It stands out between the dou ship's ship. The size of the building ship is also destined to not be broken or sunk by the impact corner, but a huge mouth cracks and surges into the water.

The sailors on Cao Xiu's ship were all tilted by the collision, and many soldiers hit the gangway wall of the ship and were bleeding. Cao Xiu himself staggered, and he beat him several times in iron armor before getting up and standing up.

And Ganning's soldiers were already rushing onto the ship with short shields and crossbows.

Some officers with high martial arts skills, elite veterans, even used a hook to throw a rope to wrap the piles, masts, flying trusses and other heights of the opposite ship in advance.

Then jump before the collision and use the inertia that continues to rush forward after the collision, just like a mountain of ape. In this way, the brake forward rush after the collision will not only not cause a collision to yourself, but can also turn waste into treasure and become power.

All these elite soldiers who fell to the ground had to face were Cao's soldiers stumbled and were bleeding and wanted to stand up again.

These Cao soldiers were originally watching the Han soldiers on the other side coming, so they estimated the landing point in advance to intercept them, and wanted to stab them to death in mid-air.

As a result, the two ships collided in the moment before the gun was fired, and fell directly to the ground, becoming a free side. After being stood firm by the elite Han army, they fought back with no effort.

The shouts of killing on Cao Xiu's flagship became more and more violent. Even after the impact of the collision dissipated, the deck had been tilted because the hull had been severely flooded and was pried. The Cao army soldiers were not well-watered and were not used to standing on the tilted ground at all.

The Gan Ning subordinates on the opposite side were all old water ghosts, running and rushing on the tilted boat, which was hard to imagine. It is not difficult to understand how the fishermen walked smoothly on the undulating deck in the waves.

That kind of stability is like a toe that can hold the deck like a finger, and it can take root no matter how obliquely it is. Therefore, such a melee battle is simply a one-sided massacre.

With one-on-one short-term attacks, Cao's army was defeated step by step, and countless people died.

The only hope seemed to be to use a spear to the outside world to connect the unity formation, and Cao Xiu himself did command the fierce guards around him to resist.

Unfortunately, because of the unstable foothold, Cao's army's gun formation barely stabbed several Gan Ning's subordinates who came up alone to death. Because the center of gravity of soldiers fell down inside the gun formation, it turned into a row of people rolling into a group, and the formation was in chaos.

Gan Ning hurriedly brought the confidant warriors around him to the ground, shouting loudly, using swords and halberds to kill countless people.

Among the crowds, Cao Xiu was also suppressed by a fallen guard beside him, and he could not move for a moment. Gan Ning personally swept over with an iron halberd, pierced his neck, and blood fountains gushed, killing him instantly.

As soon as Cao Xiu died, the news of his death spread quickly. The Han army shouted loudly, and Cao's Chaohu navy gradually collapsed and scattered. Those who had no time to escape and were surrounded also surrendered.

Half an hour later, the surface of Chaohu Lake finally became quiet. A corner of the lake surface stained with blood gradually drifted away with the flow, and the blood flowed downstream along the moist water, and finally it would be fully diluted and injected into the Yangtze River.

The last navy of Cao's army was completely cleared, and since then, only the army remained in the battlefield ahead.

All 60,000 Han troops entered the waters of Chaohu Lake one after another, reorganized their formations and rested the army. Gan Ning took a small boat and leaned on Li Su's ship to personally present Cao Xiu's head to the Prime Minister.

It is now the sixth month of the lunar calendar, and the climate is extremely hot. Moreover, the battle starts in the morning. It is just after noon, and the scorching sun is in the sky. The dead are very fumigated after one or two hours of sunshine.

Li Su subconsciously opened the folding fan and fanned it out, one was afraid of heat and the other was to dispel the smell. She quickly took a breath away and held it in her breath. Only when Gan Ning walked closer did she praise her with a lot of energy.

"Xingba is brave enough to let down the expectations of the lonely man. Rong Hou will report to Your Majesty for reward. However, there is still Hefei and Shouchun is not over yet, so we must continue to work hard."

Gan Ning was full of energy, "Don't worry, Prime Minister! With our army now winning battles, the army is in a fierce way. Liu Xun of Hefei only surrendered cowards several times, first followed Yuan Shu and then Cao Cao. Such cowards must be able to capture them!"

Li Su did not immediately speak, but gave a wink and asked the person next to him to take down Cao Xiu's head, which had already begun to smell slightly rotten. Only then did he breathe a breath of turbid air and talk with a gentle smile.

"I feel this way, so I let my soldiers work harder and quickly pass Chaohu, and travel to Hefei overnight to intercept and block the mouths of the East and West Feishui River. I will consider resting!"

"Here!"

All the generals took the orders one after another. At that time, they just cleaned the battlefield a little and didn't have much rest. More than half of the soldiers slept, and the other half were rowing and sailing, and took turns to marching quickly.

In just two days, the fleet crossed the entire Chaohu Lake surface and entered the Feishui River on the third day. The East-West Feishui Channel was cut off on the nineth day of the sixth month, and the siege of Hefei began to be deployed on the tenth day of the day.

The Han army had just completed all this. Upstream of the west side of the Xifei River, Cao's scouts appeared and came forward to provoke, but were easily repelled by the Han army. Both sides also captured the other side during the battle.

The Han army brought the prisoners of war to question it and found that it was indeed the vanguard of Li Dian's retreating troops. Li Dian's main force has not been completely freed because of Zhu Zhi's delay. He had fought Zhu Zhi several times before in Shiting, and Zhu Zhi suffered many casualties, but he still successfully delayed Li Dian, causing him to be besieged until Hefei was besieged and could not withdraw from the Feishui River.

Of course, even at this moment, Li Dian still had a chance to choose, which is to attack the whole army, support Liu Xun in the siege of Hefei, cooperate with Liu Xun, and kill all the people besieged Li Su, Zhuge Liang, Gan Ning and Huo Jun, and also open up the way for him to meet with Cao Ren.

But Li Dian's own troops, plus Liu Xun's troops, were less than one-third of Li Su's total. How could he have the courage to do this?

So after learning that his pathfinding scout was annihilated, Li Dian chose to abandon his ships and supplies very decisively, crossed the mountains and walked lightly, and continued to retreat north to Runan, moving closer to Cao Cao's main force in the Yuzhou War Zone.

Liu Xun was indeed a boneless surrender. He was besieged by Li Su for only seven days. After a few attacks, he abandoned the city and surrendered.

However, he did not surrender voluntarily from the beginning, and could not retain his official position during surrender according to law. He was deprived of his local official position and only retained his military position as the original miscellaneous troops.

Li Su also urged Liu Xun to attack the front station, followed the army to continue north along the Feishui River, and penetrated directly into Shouchun through Shaopi.

On June 20, the Han army finally arrived in Shouchun, the node between the Huai River and the Fei River was also the key to entering the Huai River system from the Yangtze River system at that time.

Cao Ren in front of him was forced to leave the Huainan battlefield because he had lost Cao Xiu and Liu Xun before, and although Li Dian was not annihilated.

Therefore, Cao Ren's 50,000 elite Cao troops in the Huainan War Zone were left, and only 20,000 elite soldiers were left to guard the city in Shouchun City. The remaining combat power could only be expected to temporarily recruit strong men.

Fortunately, Cao Xiu and Liu Xun's delay in the front caused most of the early rice in Lianghuai that had been harvested into the warehouse these days to be looted into the city by Cao Ren, which gave him the confidence to recruit more men.
Chapter completed!