Gan Ning was standing on the boat at this time, looking at Cai Mao's huge battleship group in the distance, and couldn't help but smacked his lips: "Tsk, tsk, I thought I was already doing great by being like this, but compared to this guy, it seems

I’m still a little worse, right?”

Cai Mao was the naval commander in Jingzhou at this time, commanding 80,000 naval troops under his command.

Although this guy has a arrogant and arrogant personality and is a capricious villain, he is indeed a talented man in the navy.

Historically, Boss Cao still appointed this man as the naval commander after taking over Jingzhou, which shows his ability in commanding the navy.

You must know that Cao Cao's ability to judge people is not ordinary. At that time, he had so many generals under his command. Although many of them were not good at water warfare, the fact that he could appoint Cai Hao as the commander of the navy was enough to show Cai Hao's ability in commanding the navy at that time.

Moreover, there was a big boss in Jingzhou at that time, Wenpin! This guy had a fierce fight with Wei Yan in Xiangyang, and he was loyal, which was quite in line with Boss Cao's appetite and was appreciated by him. As a result, Wenpin did not sway Cai Hao.

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Even though there may be many complicated issues involved, Cao Cao, who has always been very eclectic in his employment, would rather choose Cai Mao, a lowly employee, than a civil servant. This can only be said that Cai Mao is really talented.

When all the navy generals in the world are ranked, Cai Mao will definitely be in the top five, not only in the top three.

Even Zhou Yu was very afraid of Cai Hao. He tried his best to get Cao Cao to kill Cai Hao before the Battle of Chibi, and then he relaxed and decided to fight Cao Cao.

As for Cai Mao's abilities, Gan Ning also heard Guo Jia say that, if not comparable to him, at least not much worse than him.

Therefore, Gan Ning was very cautious as soon as he came up and did not dare to fight the opponent head-on easily.

In the past two days, Gan Ning had been using methods such as sneaking in late at night to dig into the bottom of the ship or sneaking behind the opponent to set the ship on fire to create some minor trouble for the opponent.

Cai Mao was also very angry about this. After being harassed twice, he decisively strengthened the patrol ships. As a result, Gan Ning's tactics became difficult to use.

But if one move fails, there is another move. The section of the river flowing down here flows to the northeast. It is already the beginning of spring, but the wind is still mostly from the north. On this section of the river, Gan Ning decided to lead his men at a faster speed.

The ships marched ahead of Cai Mao's navy and carried out kite flying tactics.

The north wind cooperated with the northeastward river flow. The arrows fired by Gan Ning's army traveling in front of Cai Mao's navy happened to be in the wind, while the arrows fired by Cai Mao's soldiers were against the wind. As it increased and decreased, Gan Ning

It is entirely possible to defeat Cai Mao's army through continuous shooting.

He did as he was told. Gan Ning let the slower fleet of more than 20,000 of the 30,000 sailors under his command go first, while he led the remaining nearly 10,000 sailors to prepare to attack Cai Mao's navy.

At noon, Cai Mao's navy sailed into this section of the river, and saw Gan Ning's 10,000 navy troops firing thousands of arrows in the distance.

Cai Mao curled his lips in disdain and pushed the clouds slightly, and suddenly a protective film appeared above the battleship. Countless arrows hit the clouds and fell to the ground.

"A bunch of rats!"

Cai Mao looked at Gan Ning in the distance and waved his hand to speed up the battleship, preparing to catch up and eat Gan Ning's group of sailors.

After chasing for a while, Cai Hao realized that something was wrong!

The speed of the opponent's warship is obviously much faster than our own. No matter how we accelerate, the opponent is still about 10,000 meters away from us. This distance is just right so that the opponent's arrows can hit us with the wind, but our own arrows cannot hit the opponent.

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"General, the other party seems to have a secret method to speed up the ship, what should I do?"

Zhang Yun stepped forward and asked with an ugly expression.

Although these arrows can't cause much damage to your navy, you can't stop the opponent from shooting!

This section of water is quite long. After the clouds are lifted, the speed of the battleship will drop a lot. At this speed, it will take at least another day to sail through this section of water.

The cloud energy here is not endless! Use a little less.

At this rate, the cloud energy on your side will be exhausted in less than two hours. By then, you will have to become a lamb to be slaughtered.

Cai Hao looked at Gan Ning's smiling face in the distance and slammed the table with his right hand: "Hateful!"

He, Cai Mao, was able to defeat all the major families in Jingzhou because of his extraordinary talent in commanding the navy.

The strength of the navy and battleships under Cai Mao's command will be increased by 30%.

In this era where warships are mainly relied on for hand-to-hand combat or ramming, Cai Hao's talent is really invincible when used for storming. But he couldn't resist the rogue Gan Ning.

Typically the opponent will kill you even if they can't beat you.

I don't have as many soldiers as you do, and I don't have as many ships as you do, but my ship is faster than you. There's nothing you can do to fly a kite in front of you with the wind.

Cai Mao said what can he do? I am also very helpless! We can't disembark all the naval forces at the same time and change them to infantry!

It's not like Cai Mao didn't try other methods. He sent a part of the warships in front to carry them first. After holding on for a while, the warships behind them took turns.

If there are too many warships sent up, it will have no effect. If there are too few, it will be easily eaten by the opponent.

Especially after Gan Ning discovered this problem, he changed his tactics and asked his warships to spread out and fire, forming a semicircle to surround Cai Mao's army, firing randomly everywhere. Wherever he saw Cai Mao's warships not releasing cloud energy, he fired at them.

, you can get close as you like, as long as you are 10,000 meters away from the surrounding warships of Cai Mao's army.

The first method Cai Hao came up with failed!

Cai Mao then asked his counselors to use their mental power to change the direction of the wind.

As a result, there was Gu Yong on Gan Ning's ship. Although Gu Yong was an internal affairs strategist, he was still a top-notch strategist. His spiritual power was beyond words. He decisively crushed the opponent and always kept the wind direction in his favor.

If the other party hadn't resisted so fiercely, Gu Yong could have raised the strong wind to two levels.

Why is Gu Yong here? Because as a descendant of the Jiangdong family, even though Yuan Shu trusted him very much, he did not dare to leave him in Yangzhou to avoid being persecuted and instigated by interested people.

Let him use his spare energy to serve as Gan Ning's strategist. After all, a naval force without a top strategist who can call the shots always feels a little inadequate.

Just like that, Cai Mao's second method failed!

Frustrated, Cai Hao could only choose the last and safest method.

After traveling for a period of time, they docked at the shore to rest, and sent some soldiers to take charge of defense on the shore.

This method is similar to the first method, but the difference is that it is on land and Gan Ning's navy cannot get closer. Therefore, half of the soldiers rest and half of the soldiers defend, so as to avoid the problem of serious damage caused by insufficient cloud air.

However, this played into Gan Ning's plan. If Cai Mao marched like this, it would take at least half a month to enter Yangzhou.
Chapter completed!