The river is rushing, and even if people use beautiful words to praise her, she will not stay for a moment.
A keyboard is a keyboard and reality is reality.
Not all resourceful people have the superpower of predicting the future like a keyboard warrior.
Cao Cao's military ability was at least beyond that of Ma Jun. Even Pang Tong was probably defeated by Cao Cao's experience gap.
Since Cao Cao had designed a trap, how could he let Ma Jun and others leave so easily?
After all, Cao Cao was Cao Cao. He personally dug holes for several warships. How could Ma Jun escape so easily?
The concealing tent was opened, revealing the ballistae and catapults hidden behind the tent, which continued to pour stone bullets and crossbow guns into the river.
Although this kind of long-distance weapon is powerful, its hit rate is obviously quite average. Most of the stone bullets and crossbows fell into the water, but very few of them were able to hit the Hussar navy ships. This is for Hussar.
The water cavalry brought a lot of damage!
If it were just these attack methods, then the cavalry navy would not be able to escape Cao Jun's long-range firepower projection range if it accelerated. However, Cao Cao not only arranged the positions of catapults and ballistae, but also had people bury ropes under the river.
At this moment, everyone was pulled up!
Block the river!
A simple trap like a stumbling block.
But it made Mr. Guan miss his stride.
In his life, Chituma has crossed countless mountain streams, dodged so many swords, guns, and arrows, and escaped so many traps, but in the end he fell in front of the most ordinary hemp rope...
The same is true for the Guanzhong navy fleet led by Ma Jun.
Originally, blocking the river rope was not a difficult move for the Guanzhong navy. After all, Cao Jun did not even have an iron rope, but just pulled the most common hemp rope.
Hemp rope will rot if soaked in water for a long time, and it is not as strong as iron rope, but it has a special advantage, that is, it is cheap, and it is an indispensable item in military supplies, and the quantity is sufficient.
If one is not strong enough, then ten or twenty of the hemp ropes tied together have quite good resistance in a short period of time.
If it were not for the current situation, even if this kind of hemp rope temporarily blocked the building ship, it would be picked up by the soldiers of the Guanzhong Navy and chopped off with an axe. Even if the axe kept cutting, another axe would be added.
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Moreover, during the normal movement of the fleet, there are fighting ships in front of the building ships to clear the way. The fighting ships are equipped with special equipment and manpower to deal with such river blocking ropes, but the problem is that they are not in normal driving condition now...
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The stone bullets and crossbows that kept pouring down from the slopes, even if they did not hit the ship directly, only caused a lot of water splashing around, were enough to put a lot of psychological pressure on these sailors!
It's like reciting a speech fluently at home. When you actually step on the stage, the lights shine on you, and everyone's eyes are focused on you, even if you have many experiences on stage, you have no experience before.
A successful experience may not mean that you can feel relaxed and comfortable every time you go on stage and not be nervous at all.
Especially on this life-and-death stage!
A little negligence will be infinitely magnified under the lights of the stage of life and death, and cause a chain reaction!
Ma Jun and others are currently in an extremely embarrassing situation...
Although the destructive power of Cao's army's stone bullets was not as great as that of the Hussars' artillery, they could easily crack open the deck or wooden cabin wall if they hit it.
At the same time, although Cao Jun's crossbows may not necessarily cause casualties, as long as they hit the hull, they will penetrate the outer planks and hang on the side of the ship. Some crossbows and stone bullets that hit the side of the ship will also
Water began to seep into some sealed compartments, affecting the ship's center of gravity.
Ma Jun dismantled the artillery on the side, which originally aggravated the shift of the center of gravity on the side of the building. Now it was bombarded by Cao Jun's stone bullets and crossbows. Some of the watertight compartments seeped, causing the center of gravity of the building to shift further to one side.
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And the key is that once this center of gravity shifts, it will become more and more serious and tilted, causing other heavy objects to start moving to one side!
The entire hull slowly fell to the right. Coupled with the soldiers who were unstable and rushed to the right, it became increasingly obvious that the right side of the ship was heavier, and it was possible that it would roll over and enter the water.
Ma Jun was the first to react, "Hold the port side! Cast to starboard!"
At this time, the ship was already tilting to the right, and the artillery mount installed in the cabin also began to creak!
At this time, no one cared about which items on the deck were useful or useless. Everyone was hurriedly throwing the items on the starboard side into the river.
Arrows, throw!
Tub, throw it away!
Ballast stone, throw it away!
Artillery shells, throw them!
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After finally re-adjusting the ship's center of gravity, Ma Jun discovered that all the "small gifts" originally intended for Cao Jun on the upper ship had been thrown away!
If the artillery hadn't been too heavy and fixed on the gun mount, someone might have thrown the artillery into the water.
At this point it is too late to say something about whether this should be thrown away or that should be thrown away.
If there is any chance, Pang Tong will definitely send a keyboard warrior on board, so that the keyboard warrior can predict the situation and prevent these chain reactions from happening when Ma Jun suddenly changes the position of the artillery, cut off the chain of cause and effect, and cast
The supreme road...
Unfortunately not.
Therefore, under such circumstances, Ma Jun reacted quickly and kept the ship from rolling over in extreme circumstances, which is already a very good result.
But Ma Jun's face felt like it was on fire, as if Cao Cao had slapped him hard on the face several times!
Before he set off, he thought he could easily defeat Cao Jun!
Ma Jun's ship suffered heavy damage. Some people in the other ships were dumbfounded. Others were aware of Ma Jun's danger. Without waiting for Ma Jun to issue any orders, they automatically mobilized the ships and headed towards Ma Jun.
The building boat is approaching...
The purpose of these ships was of course to rescue Ma Jun and the soldiers on Ma Jun's ship who fell into the water after being attacked by Cao's army.
At this time, Ma Jun had not fully recovered from the blow...
This is the shortcoming of non-professional soldiers.
The Hussars Army is professional, but the Hussars Navy is not.
Just like when the stock market rises, any stock you buy will rise, no matter how much it rises. Everyone feels like a stock god!
Only in difficult times can you see the difference between high and low levels.
After all, Ma Jun was not a professional general. When he realized the danger, Cao Jun's second wave of attacks arrived!
The water surface suddenly became very lively. The originally orderly Guanzhong naval fleet was in chaos and collided with each other. One fighting ship was even directly knocked over by its companions. The soldiers on the ship fell into the water. In addition, Cao Jun's stone bullets
and crossbow gun, water and blood splashed all of a sudden!
Ma Jun only reacted at this time and shouted for the ships to disperse. However, at this time, the chaotic sound covered up his shouts, and the shaking of the fire also made it difficult to transmit the order!
This is the opportunity Cao Cao has been waiting for!
As soon as he saw the hussars staying in the river and busy rescuing people, he immediately ordered the attack.
With an order, a group of archers ambushing by the river rushed out from their hiding place, stood on the river, and started shooting wildly at the Hussars Guanzhong navy in the river!
The Guanzhong naval forces were busy rescuing people. Although they were covered by the warships' parapets and sideboards, there were still many soldiers who were caught off guard by the ambush Cao Jun archers!
From time to time, people were shot, screaming and falling from the building and boat into the water!
The hussars have to save people while defending, and they also have to withstand the stone bullets falling from the air. Even though the hit rate of these catapults is indeed not high, there are always times when a blind cat encounters a dead mouse...
The navy in Guanzhong was in dire straits and was in a state of disarray.
In surface combat, the strongest attack power is the building ship. Not only because the building ship is large in size, it can directly collide and crush the opponent, but also because there are more soldiers on the building ship, which can organize an effective attack. But now Ma Jianwen and the building
The ship was entangled, and other small fighting ships came to rescue the large ship. This meant that all the troops lost their formation, were tied together and unable to move, unable to attack, and could only be passively beaten.
This is what Cao Cao wanted.
When everyone in Cao's army saw such a scene, they couldn't help but cheer!
Ma Jun, who was on the building boat, made an unexpected move at this moment!
Ma Jun saw that the orders of the golden drum flag were no longer useful at this moment. In desperation, he had an idea and rushed towards the cannon that initially caused the ship's center of gravity to become unstable. He ordered the soldiers who were still beside the cannon to assist.
I personally aimed at the place where Cao Cao's banner was on the high slope, and there was a blast!
The sound of gunfire is a warning!
The sound of cannon is the command!
The sound of the cannon is an unyielding roar!
The artillery shells roared across the night sky, and the sound of the artillery suppressed all the panic and roars!
At this moment, everyone subconsciously turned their heads and looked at the cannon fire, and then suddenly looked at the big banner where Cao Cao was!
Naturally, the explosive effect of the solid bullet cannot be seen at the point of impact, but the subconscious deflection and stop of Cao Jun's soldiers gave the Hussars Guanzhong navy a rare chance to breathe!
Ma Junlou's ship had the commanding general's flag, so it naturally became the key target of Cao's army.
During this chaotic time, Ma Junlou's ship was hit by three or four rounds of stone bullets, as well as more than ten or twenty rounds of crossbows. There were several large holes in the deck and side of the ship, and many soldiers were lost.
Most of the damage caused by stone bullets was to the hull, while crossbow guns caused more direct casualties.
The lethality of the crossbow is almost ineffective even with armor. Those who are unfortunate enough to be shot will basically end up with a hole.
Coupled with the ordinary arrows and crossbow bolts shot from the shore, mixed with ignited rockets, if Ma Jun cannot adjust the status of these battleship clusters in time, there is no real danger of the entire army being annihilated!
Fortunately, Ma Jun fired such a shot at the most chaotic moment!
When the sound of the cannon fell, the entire artillery support tilted to the side, and was about to fall over!
I don’t know whether it was because the original bracket was not nailed properly when disassembling or assembling it, or it was damaged during the tilting process of the ship. The recoil of the gun made the bracket groan, and then it tilted to one side!
It was too late, but it was too soon. Ma Jun, who was standing next to the cannon, subconsciously went to support the cannon!
But the artillery is so heavy, how can one person support it?
The artillery fell from its mount and broke one of Ma Jun's legs...
"Ahhhh..."
Ma Jun screamed.
The rest of the soldiers and craftsmen rushed up quickly, lifted the cannon with all their hands, and dragged the horses out from under the cannon.
"Leave me alone..." Ma Jun grimaced in pain, but still shouted, "Fight back! Ahhh... Go and fight back! Go quickly!"
During the pause on the battlefield caused by the sound of artillery, Ma Jun's order was finally passed on, and the Guanzhong Navy recovered from the panic and began to fight back at the surrounding Cao soldiers, especially the archers on the shore. Another ship
The building's ballista also began to try to fire counterattacks at the position of Cao's army's catapult and ballista on the hillside.
The archers of Cao's army on the shore had no cover and were quickly shot to pieces by the crossbows of the hussar navy. The catapult and crossbow positions of Cao's army on the hillside were also hit by two or three stone bullets.
After shouting and panicking for a while, they resumed their attack on the hussar navy under the suppression of Cao Jun's team.
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The hussar navy restored order, but in this short half-hour, the hussar navy suffered a heavy blow.
Some battleships were overcrowded and unable to fight because they rescued many hussars who fell into the water, and Ma Jun's building ship also suffered heavy damage. Another building ship also suffered some damage, but there was no Ma Jun's building ship.
So serious.
Pang Tong, who was on the high platform in the distance, saw this scene and knew that it was useless to fight anymore. Apart from exhaustion, it could not cause additional damage to Cao's army, so he ordered a retreat...
The Guanzhong navy turned towards the north bank and then returned with wounds.
The hussars on land were also retreating in an orderly manner.
Cao Jun's blocking battle in this unknown mountain village seemed to be a victory.
Cao Cao looked at the escaping Hussars Guanzhong navy fleet, and after some calculation, it seemed that Cao Cao and the others had only sunk two battleships, and the rest of the ships were only damaged...
Cao Cao personally took action and faced off against Ma Jun. Regardless of his upper or lower scores, he naturally defeated Ma Jun. Therefore, he successfully ambushed Ma Jun's fleet. It was an expected thing, but let
What Cao Cao didn't expect was that he couldn't destroy the Guanzhong navy in one breath! Although Cao Cao didn't know how long it would take to repair a building ship, it just meant that these Guanzhong navy wouldn't appear again in a short period of time.
Just because I did it doesn’t mean I won’t come again in the future!
This was indeed a good thing for Cao Cao's troops who were distributed on both sides of the river, but Cao Cao did not cheer like ordinary Cao Cao soldiers, and there was not much excitement on his face, but only fatigue and helplessness.
Cao Cao is now beginning to feel the importance of knowledge inheritance and middle- and low-level officers in addition to manpower and material resources.
It is not enough for Shandong to have manpower and material resources without the support of the military academies at the middle and lower levels. Many things will not be done properly!
Just like this ambush, Cao Cao chose the best location, made the best arrangement, and seized the most accurate opportunity, but he did not inflict the maximum damage!
After the sound of the cannon, the Hussar navy was able to recover from the chaos and launch a counterattack. However, the Cao army archers arranged on the shore failed to take advantage of the chaos of the Hussar navy to ignite the explosion.
The gunpowder or kerosene on the building ships and other ships naturally did not destroy the navy in Huqiguan in one fell swoop.
This is also a chain reaction caused by Ma Jun moving the position of the artillery.
Of course, Cao Cao could not know that Ma Jun had moved the position of the artillery and moved the artillery and gunpowder from the bow to the cabin, so naturally he asked the Cao Cao archers to shoot rockets at the bow of the building as much as possible...
Because there used to be gunpowder in addition to artillery.
However, when it was obvious that shooting rockets at the bow did not cause the expected deflagration effect, Cao Jun's archers did not immediately change the target due to their rigid pattern, but continued to pour rockets towards the bow, while Ma Junlou's ship
After removing the artillery, only the bare deck and the collision angle were left. In fact, it was not afraid of ordinary rocket attacks.
If the military academy of Cao's archers could have been smarter at that time. After all, they were the closest to the Hussars' ships, could see them most clearly, and made timely adjustments, then the Hussars' navy would most likely have suffered greater losses!
Shandong's implementation has been implemented.
But the stupid people are really stupid people.
Cao Cao sighed, "Come here! Find where the cannon landed... measure its range..."
Ma Jun's shot just now did not produce any masterpiece that only keyboard warriors could say.
But it also shocked Cao Cao!
The shell landed not far from the core area of Cao Cao's formation.
Cao Cao even saw the mud, sand and gravel that spewed up at that moment!
The range of the Hussars' artillery has been increased?
Cao Cao couldn't help but feel a little more sad.
Little did he know that when Ma Jun ordered the artillery fire, the soldiers and craftsmen were in a hurry and loaded more gunpowder...
Perhaps it was the excessive amount of gunpowder that caused the cannon to have too much reaction force, causing it to fall off the gun mount and break Ma Jun's leg.
In the battlefield, there are always such small factors, but they cause chain effects.
The guard responded and went down to deliver the order.
The Hussars were retreating, and Cao's army had a short rest.
However, the battlefield was devastated, and the wounded and sick soldiers could not immediately regain their health visible to the naked eye just because the two sides were temporarily separated from the battle. Under the fierce attack of the soldiers on the land of the Hussars, the Central Guards of the Central Leading Army directly under Cao Cao
The losses were also great.
Some of the Cao family's sons lie on this unknown land forever.
If the Tongguan camp had not retreated so quickly, then Cao Cao would have had more time to rest and reorganize the fortifications here, and perhaps many casualties could have been reduced.
Pushing forward, if it weren't for Anyi Camp...
If it is not within Shandong...
These things may not have been too fatal when viewed individually, but they accumulated little by little on the balance of victory and defeat. Now they piled up like a mountain, making it impossible for Cao Cao to turn things around even if he personally took action.
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People must experience pain in order to grow.
People in Shandong, this big man, have experienced too little pain in the nearly two hundred years since Liu Xiu came...
If it hurts and you can wake up, then there is still hope.
If you feel pain, you won’t even wake up...
Cao Cao looked up at the sky.
The sky is getting whiter.
The morning star shines in the sky...
The soldiers who went to measure the range of the artillery had not returned yet, but there was bad news from the north bank. Cao Jun, who was still a little excited at first, suddenly felt like he had been splashed with ice water!
"Report to the Prime Minister! The camp at Zhongtiao Mountain is in great disarray!"
Cao Cao once again felt the biting cold wind coming from the north, and it hit his face with a ferocious smile.