In order to maximize the effectiveness of his secret weapon, Liu Zong chose the tactic of abandoning peripheral entanglements and directly attacking the Chinese army. Cai Zhong's flagship was the most important target.
After being besieged and attacked by several battleships, Cai Zhong's flagship has become unrecognizable. The originally tall and spectacular high-rise cottages are now only ruins. The hull has also begun to tilt due to water intrusion. The dilapidated
There were corpses and wounded everywhere on the deck.
At this moment, Cai Zhong was no different from an ordinary soldier. He was lying on the deck like a dead dog. Every part of his body was in pain, especially his head, which seemed to be about to burst.
Cai Zhong's body was limp, and he was breathing hard from his mouth and nose. As blood flowed into his eyes, his vision was blurred, but he could still easily identify that what was pressed under him was his general's flag.
"Captain... Let's go, let's go..." Cai Zhong's own weight plus the armor weighed no less than four hundred kilograms. The general and a guard, one on the left and the other on the right, forcibly lifted him up and pulled him, causing him to stumble all the way.
Then he ran towards the back of the ship.
Cai Zhong's previous impact was really not light, and he has not completely recovered until now, but he is still holding on to his general's flag in his hand.
"This ship is about to sink... Lieutenant Colonel, please change to another ship as soon as possible, otherwise the situation will be in danger!" The general looked at Cai Zhong, who had a bloody head and was in a state of embarrassment. He thought to himself, if he had listened to my advice just now, why would he have died?
Falling into such an embarrassing situation?
Cai Zhong did not object again this time, and his previous bold statement that "anyone who dares to say this again will be killed" became a complete joke.
Cai Zhong tightened the general's flag in his hand, and there was no way he could save his life if he continued to stay. He had to raise the general's flag on other ships as soon as possible. Otherwise, if the delay lasts for a long time, the whole army will be panicked, causing the soldiers to be unwilling to fight, and even
There is a risk that the entire army may collapse.
The ship was about to fall. At the critical moment, the soldiers crowded together and scrambled for the position to get off the ship. Some of them were hot-tempered and jumped directly into the river.
"Get out of the way, get out of the way...let the captain go first..." the general shouted, brandishing his sword.
When the soldiers heard this, some of them consciously gave way, while others ignored them. How could they care so much when it came to life and death?
When the general saw this, he was furious. He rushed forward with several guards and chopped down several people in a row, shocking everyone in one fell swoop.
Cai Zhong escaped from the ship without any danger, passed by a light boat, boarded a tall ship behind, and raised his flag again.
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As a battle broke out in the front, Cai Mao's Chinese fleet soon became unable to advance. They were all blocked in the winding and narrow mountains and rivers. Looking around, the entire river was crowded with large and small ships, and sails and rafters were overwhelming. It was impossible to see the end.
Cai Mao relied on his strong strength and did not pay much attention to the enemy at first. He believed that Cai Zhong's front army was enough to deal with it, so he ordered all the ships to launch anchor stones and moor in the river, waiting for orders.
However, when he received a report from the Caizhong front line and learned that the enemy had nearly a hundred battleships and more than 200 large and small ships, he was quite surprised and began to face his opponent squarely.
The enemy's overall strength was not much inferior to Cai Zhong's former army. Of course, Cai Mao could no longer stay out of the situation. Just when he was about to assign his generals Cai He and Xi Zhen to lead their battalions to land from the south bank to assist Cai Zhong, an accident happened.
Thousands of arrows suddenly flew out from the quiet mountains on the north coast.
Being blocked in the river and unable to move, the officers and soldiers of the Jingzhou Army gathered on the deck to let out wind. They were suddenly attacked and suffered heavy casualties immediately. What was even more frightening was that these were not ordinary arrows. There was a faint black light from the arrow clusters.
It can be seen that poison must have been smeared on it.
"The arrows are poisonous, the arrows are poisonous..." A soldier held the big spear high and hid behind it to avoid the crossbow arrows. In the process, he suddenly discovered that the color of the arrow tip at his feet was wrong, and he exclaimed after pulling it out.
"This is the Jing Man's medicine crossbow..." The shape of the Jing Man's crossbow arrow was very different from the Han crossbow arrow, so some soldiers recognized it immediately.
In fact, Jingman are not only spread throughout the four counties of Jingnan, but also in the Nanjun and Jiangxia counties of northern Jingzhou. Therefore, the Jingzhou Army is no stranger to Jingman.
"Jingman..."
"Dog breed..."
"ah……"
Exclamations, curses, screams... came one after another. The officers and soldiers of the Jingzhou Army used buildings, war tents, parapets, ship sides, shields, and even the corpses of their comrades, anything they could use to defend themselves against the poison falling from the sky.
Arrow attack.
The first round of Jingman's volley was the most effective, because the Jingzhou Army soldiers were unprepared and killed more than a hundred people at once. The Jingzhou Army was ready for the second round, and the killing effect was only half of the first round. The third round was
There was another decrease.
But of course Jingman's methods didn't stop there. After three rounds of arrow rain, rocks of different sizes began to fly out of the mountains.
Since it falls from a height of more than 100 feet, even a stone the size of a fist will produce extremely astonishing power.
Let alone a human being, even if a ship were to hit it, it would not be intact.
Moreover, the stones thrown by Jing Man were not only the size of fists, but also the size of human heads. Stones of various shapes fell like raindrops and hit the Jingzhou Army's fleet.
The buildings, war tents, and shields were all shattered into pieces, and the soldiers who were hiding were naturally killed and wounded for a while.
Large warships can still hold up for a while, but some small boats are directly destroyed and people are killed.
If you want to rely on rocks to sink ships, battleships, or even high-rise ships, it cannot be said that there is no chance at all, but the success rate will certainly not be too high. At this time, the most effective long-range attack method is undoubtedly the fire attack. A burst of stones
After the rain, a large number of flaming arrows and short spears came flying.
"Dong, dong, dong..."
One after another, rockets and fire spears were densely hammered into the cabins and decks of the Jingzhou ship.
It is not easy to light a large ship, especially arrows. The short spears are just wrapped in a layer of oilcloth, and the flames are not stable. However, when the number of rockets and fire spears accumulate to a certain level, even if they are as tall as mountains,
A building or a boat covered in cowhide will inevitably burst into flames.
What's even more terrible is that although the wind is not strong at this time, the Jingzhou fleet is densely packed on the river, and boats and boats are connected with each other. If a ship catches fire, it will often quickly spread to neighboring ships in front, rear, left, and right. What's even more terrible is that due to limited space,
, you can't avoid it even if you want to.
Cai Mao looked at the ship that started to burn, and was so angry that his eyes were about to burst, and there were blue veins on his forehead. Because the ship was as luxurious as a palace on the water, even though it was parked in the middle of the river, far away from the north bank, it was still attacked by rockets.
Originally, a small amount of rockets did not pose much of a threat to the building ship, but the green canopy and crimson curtains on his ship were flammable. When exposed to fire, they began to burn fiercely, and quickly spread to the building and masts.