Huo Jun's role is to seize this fleeting opportunity and deal the heaviest blow to his opponent.
With his command, the three large ships moved forward together, blocking the direction of the enemy ships.
The other party seemed to be aware of the unfavorable situation and seemed to want to avoid the oncoming Huo Jun's warship.
But how could Huo Jun let the other party succeed?
He ordered the archers on the other side to quickly suppress them.
The enemy's ship formation was immediately opened by a hail of arrows.
This is the shortcoming of small boats. Although they are fast and flexible, they will sink in an instant when faced with a dense rain of arrows.
The big ship would not have such worries. Sure enough, although the ship array was suppressed by the rain of arrows, the big ship was still sailing towards the river.
However, the other party's choice did not surprise Huo Jun.
Huo Jun is a pragmatic general who starts from the bottom.
In other words, his abilities were actually trained through many battles, large and small.
Before following Liu Bei, he was an outstanding navy commander in Jingzhou, second only to Cai Mao and Zhang Yun.
He has faced all kinds of difficult situations.
Therefore, seeing that the opponent was determined to break through the encirclement, Huo Jun commanded a warship to intercept the enemy, and at the same time ordered another warship to outflank the opponent's retreat.
Now it was a headwind, and the opponent's speed seemed to be very fast, but compared to the regular navy, the sailors on the opponent's ship obviously did not have the physical strength and strength of the soldiers.
Even if the speed is downwind, it is not much faster than the officers and soldiers.
Under Huo Jun's command, the situation soon took a turn.
The two warships, one behind the other, directly blocked any possibility of Ji Wuming's ship turning around.
The remaining Jiang bandits were attacked by Huo Jun's single warship, and their formation inevitably fell into pieces.
If the formation is messed up, it is equivalent to cutting off the possibility of nearly a thousand Jiang bandits to take care of each other, greatly weakening their ability to fight together.
To put it simply, it is to quickly cut off the opponent and return them to the situation where they once fought alone.
Under such circumstances, the fighting spirit of the Jiang bandits faded very quickly.
After all, it is impossible for the Jiang bandits to have a stronger consciousness than the regular army.
They are absolutely unwilling to do such a thing as risking death.
Or they are used to fighting against the wind, as fierce as a tiger when facing the wind, and as timid as a dog when facing the wind - they are talking about river bandits.
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On one side, Ji Wuming's ship, intercepted by two warships, slowed down again and again.
They say they are wavers, white stripes in the waves, etc... In fact, compared to regular soldiers of the navy, their control of ships is obviously not that flexible.
Once caught in a dilemma, the speed of the big ship stagnated, giving the officers and soldiers the best opportunity to engage in boarding battle.
Soon, under a two-pronged attack, the warship quickly approached Ji Wuming's ship.
Perhaps because the situation changed so quickly, the bandits didn't even have time to intercept the ladder coming from the enemy ship. They just watched helplessly as the enemy approached them, and then quickly fell into a hand-to-hand situation.
Yes, less than half an hour after the war started, the situation became one-sided.
In the boarding battle, the officers and soldiers were well-equipped and had high morale. Crucially, their cooperation also completely crushed the enemy soldiers and bandits. The result can be imagined.
On the huge ship, the bandits were forced to retreat continuously, and soon they were no longer able to resist.
The officers and soldiers basically took control of Ji Wuming's ship without even paying many casualties.
On the other side of the river, because Huo Jun was very good at taking advantage of large ships and easily crushed many small boats, he issued an order to the river bank.
The officers and soldiers who had been waiting on the river bank for a long time immediately boarded the boats and began to clear out the bandits scattered on the river.
At the same time, the war situation was changing so rapidly, and more and more Jiang bandits were escaping.
A one-sided massacre was carried out quietly.
An hour later, only countless broken pieces of boats were left on the river, flowing downstream along the river.
Many floating corpses were washed up on the river bank, because there were dead and injured river bandits everywhere, and the river surface was even dyed bright red for a time.
But Huo Jun didn't care about this.
This is the result they should have. The reason why they were defeated in a row before was because the opponent launched a surprise attack.
Rather than what the rumors say, that Ji Wuming is so magical and powerful.
In fact, Huo Jun is now standing on Ji Wuming's ship.
He heard from the deputy general that Ji Wuming had been caught, so he hurried over.
But as soon as he reached the deck of the ship, he heard someone crying and shouting:
"Spare your life! Lord, spare your life! We are just following other people's orders, and we don't really want to go against you, Lord!"
"Ji Wuming, now you know how to beg for mercy. Why didn't you show mercy when you killed our soldiers before?"
The soldier escorting Ji Wuming was obviously a little angry. He kicked Ji Wuming, causing Ji Wuming to roll on the ground in pain.
"That's enough. Don't beat him to death. I have something else to ask him."
"yes!"
When the deputy general heard that Huo Jun was coming, he quickly stepped aside to make room for Huo Jun.
Huo Jun slowly walked over and saw the beaten guy with a bruised nose and swollen face... he frowned, knelt down and asked:
"Are you Ji Wuming?"
"Hmm...no...Master Jun, it's all a misunderstanding, it's all a misunderstanding!"
"Ji Wuming has another person, we just follow the rules...Ji Wuming himself ran away long ago!"
"What did you say?"
Huo Jun had a look of disbelief in his eyes.
The deputy general shouted anxiously:
"General, don't listen to his nonsense. Just now, the Jiang bandits were all following his orders. Only when the situation was over did he suddenly kneel down and beg for mercy. This is all just an act of his!"
"That's not the case, Master Jun! Listen to my explanation. My name is Niu Dazhuang, not Ji Wuming. I only became a Jiang bandit two years ago. I do have a group of brothers around me, but compared to that Ji Wuming, I
Niu Dazhuang is a piece of shit!"
The guy who claimed to be Niu Dazhuang kowtowed to Huo Jun crazily and continued to explain while kowtowing.
"Master Jun, the Ji Wuming you are looking for is a person who just appeared half a month ago. We have all seen him. He is young and looks like a young man... Is there anyone who can compare to me, Niu Dazhuang?"
When Huo Jun heard this, he seemed to feel that something was wrong.
Young Master?
Will the young master become a gangster?
But... the Ji Wuming he imagined should not look like Niu Dazhuang.
How could a man who could control nearly a thousand river bandits look so vulgar?
That means...they arrested the wrong person?
"Since you act according to the rules, does it mean that Ji Wuming ordered you to pretend to be him?"
"That's not true. We don't dare to disobey that man's order... He has two strong men beside him. One of them can beat twenty of us without any problem. All the brothers were defeated by them..."
"But they should have run away now - as for where they went, we have no idea."
"Wait a minute, I have a question for you."
"Master Jun, you said, as long as we know, we will definitely tell you!"
"Is there a woman beside the Ji Wuming you are talking about?
And among those two strong men...does one of them look like this?"
With that said, Huo Jun took out a scroll he carried with him from his arms and unfolded it in front of Niu Dazhuang.
Just one glance made Niu Dazhuang scream in surprise.
"Yes, yes, there is a big man who looks like this, and there is a woman... wearing a cloak... but we accidentally caught a glimpse of it, and that woman is definitely not bad looking!"
At this time, Huo Jun felt a headache.
He finally realized that he seemed to have fallen into a trap.
