The armies of Han and Wu were still in a stalemate on the frontal battlefield. Although the scale of the battle between the two sides was huge, it was ultimately just a fight between small boats. War drums rumbled, and damaged boats continued to return to the river bank, while new warships continued to join in.
The battlefield. After another round of fighting, I don’t know how many ships have sunk. Only the fragments of broken ships are floating back and forth on the river, like fallen leaves. However, the ships on both sides still have not taken the initiative to attack. This represents the real decisive battle.
It didn't start. But the generals on both sides knew the reason why. They were just waiting for Deng Deng to express his position.
Since Cen Guang left, Huang Quan has been paying attention to the changes in the right wing. He sent three groups of scouts to the forest to check out any changes. If there was any change, he would immediately report back. But as the commander-in-chief of the entire army, Huang Quan also knew that Cen Guang
This trip was very dangerous, and he had to prepare for the worst. If the right wing really defected, what should he do? Should he try to lead his army to retreat eastward to join the main force? Or take the initiative to lead his army to break through to the north bank? After thinking about it, he still decided
He couldn't make up his mind. But time waited for no one. In order to prepare for the decisive battle, he decided to gather more than 60 ships around him in one place and then wait and see.
However, things are often like this in the world. The more entangled the situation is, the more corrupt the situation becomes. Just as Huang Quan was counting the ships in his hands, the scout sent out staggered over to report. The scout choked and knelt down on the deck in front of Huang Quan's feet.
, the first words they said when they met were: "Captain, the flag on Deng Dang's flagship on the right wing has been changed, and Captain Cen who went to contact us seems to have been killed too!"
Hearing such bad news, everyone around Huang Quan was horrified. Everyone was well aware of the serious impact of the rebellion on the right wing. The right wing was downstream, and the Wu army was confronting the Han army in the northwest. This was equivalent to directly blocking the entire Han army.
The army's retreat route. At this time, the strength of the Han army was also at a disadvantage. In terms of the battlefield situation, it was probably nothing more ruined than this. Looking at Huang Quan again, he slowly stood up from the bed with his knife in hand, and felt a sudden
He was dizzy. The worst situation finally happened, but he had no time to feel sad about it. He could only endure the weakness of his legs and said to everyone: "The situation is determined by heaven. Please fight with your best, thieves."
Although there are many, there is nothing to be afraid of, but there is no need to be concerned about the small number!”
After saying that, Huang Quan drew out the sword from his waist, strode to the railing, and said loudly to the soldiers on the flagship deck: "Gentlemen, Deng Dang on the right wing has rebelled, intending to destroy our three armies and destroy our unification. However, he repeatedly made small mistakes.
Thief, even if you win with this dirty method, it won't matter! Besides, our warriors are still there, and the outcome is yet to be determined." At this point, he waved his saber and shouted to the soldiers: "Fight to the death!"
At this time, the west wind was stronger, bringing a biting cold to the Han soldiers. However, when they looked up at the commander above, the fear in their hearts only flashed by, and soon they became angry and wanted to fight. Countless people who passed by
When proud memories emerged, they also shouted: "Fight to the death! Fight to the death!" Then under Huang Quan's order, they rushed to their posts one after another. The sailors shook the oars, the soldiers took up their arms, and as the sky above the south bank rang out
With a blast of desolate bugles, the Han Navy's flagship "Nigui" finally left the shore, followed by all the Han Navy's last remaining troops on the river bank.
It is strange to say that people suddenly put life and death aside, leaving only a desire to fight in their hearts. The fleet could not move forward for more than half a moment when they encountered the Han army retreating sporadically. Seeing the army coming against the wind, the fleet even more
Having no choice but to retreat, they all turned around and followed the army forward.
Although the fog in front was lighter, they still could not tell the enemy's situation. Although the sailors were rowing vigorously, they did not know which direction to move forward. At this time, Du Ji's building boat came over and asked Huang Quan for orders through the cold wind.
He shouted in the white mist: "General, I am willing to march forward for the public. I will fight wherever you say!" His voice came from not far away, and it had become thin in Huang Quan's ears, but
Huang Quan still heard his words clearly. For some reason, an extremely risky idea came to Huang Quan's mind at this time. Even he was shocked, but after careful consideration, he still felt that it was possible to turn defeat into victory.
He immediately responded loudly: "Du Jun, I will give you most of the fleet. You go to the northwest coast to break out! As many people as you can bring out!"
Du Ji obviously heard it, but he did not understand Huang Quan's intention and asked: "General, you are the commander-in-chief. If you give me the ships, what should you do?"
Huang Quan replied hoarsely: "Tune the tiger away from the mountain, sound to the east and strike in the west!"
After saying this, Huang Quan said no more. After a brief exchange of flags between the two ships, Du Ji had already taken over the important task of commanding the entire army. Although Du Ji could not imagine Huang Quan's tactics, he saw that he had such decisive opinions.
, and it is inconvenient to ask more questions. Although he knew that this was a difficult task and would inevitably be besieged by many Wu ships, this was also the first time that Du Ji commanded a force of tens of thousands. He was extremely excited and waited for the war drums to rumble.
When the sound sounded, he took one last look back at the "Nigui" and immediately commanded the fleet to sail northwest without hesitation.
Such a large-scale operation could not be concealed even in the thick fog. Soon, Huang Quan vaguely saw many small ships approaching Du Ji from the fog, and the sounds of the Wu people's fierce waves were overlapping.
Together, it has become clear and audible since then. And just as he thought, even though his flagship is extremely conspicuous, it is insignificant compared with Du Ji and his party at this time, and the Wu people cannot care about this place at all.
, when the surrounding ships almost disappeared, they gradually seemed to have forgotten that there was still such a tall ship standing in the mist.
The strong wind and fog made bows and arrows almost useless, and people instinctively drove their boats to fight against the nearest enemy. The Han army was already determined to die, and the Wu people were also elite in Jiangling and had extremely high fighting spirit on the water. Many good men from Nanfu,
The veteran generals who had always relied on the Nanfu Army such as Jia Kui, Miao Shang, Zhang Yan, etc. were now besieged by no less tough opponents. After several collisions and fights, they were all floating on the water at this time, but
After struggling for a while, he sank into the middle of the river and allowed death to finally come.
Although Huang Quan was not engaged in the battle, he could still smell the increasingly strong and cold smell of blood not far away. At this time, he was even more dizzy, his vision was blurred, and his ears were somewhat unclear. At this time, the attendant next to him asked him:
"General, where are we going?" Huang Quan did not answer hastily, but suddenly stretched out his hand to hold the man's arm and asked him who he was. The answer was Ma Su, Ma Youchang, a son of the Ma clan in Xiangyang.
Huang Quan asked: "Can you hear the enemy's drums?" Ma Di listened for a while and replied that he could.
Huang Quan asked again: "Can you tell the direction clearly?" Ma Di looked around and nodded and said yes.
Huang Quan patted him on the shoulder and said, "Okay, then you will show the way. Let's go around to the northwest of the drum sound!"
Everyone present was surprised and did not understand Huang Quan's intention at all, but they trusted the general, so they followed it. Huang Quan, however, was well aware of this intention, and the reason why he was looking for the enemy's encouragement was
The number means that we understand that in this kind of fog, any fleet can only use drums and trumpets for command. This also means that the enemy's building ships equipped with drums must be the flagship of the first army. Huang Quan is in
To pursue Zhou Yu in this way, he planned to use this building ship to engage in a final life-and-death battle with Zhou Yu.
The time waiting for the final verdict seemed to pass extremely slowly. Huang Quan couldn't help but clenched the handle of the knife in his hand and closed his eyes tightly, fearing that he would be discovered by the enemy on the way. But fortunately, God still favored him at this time, although he didn't know it.
It took a long time, but the sound of fighting was indeed getting farther and farther away from him. After a while, Ma Di finally said to Huang Quan: "General, we are probably less than a mile away from the drum and trumpet place. If we go further, we will probably be discovered."
Okay, what to do next?”
When Huang Quan heard this, he suddenly woke up and couldn't help blurting out: "It's time, let's just hit it!" But he woke up immediately and knew that there was not much chance of winning if he hit it alone. So he relaxed again and said:
Ma Su said: "All of you veterans who are over forty years old will stay, and the rest of you will take small boats and go to the north of the Yangtze River."
Ma Su was shocked when he heard this: "General, do you think we are cowards? How can you let us leave!" Then he knelt down with many of his entourages to ask for battle.
However, Huang Quan was unmoved and still ordered them to abandon the ship and leave. Ma Di and others could not resist, so they had to obey the order and go down to the lowest deck, and then got on the boat and left. The boat floated on the river, like a few fallen leaves, which made them
Feeling confused and helpless. Can the general really turn defeat into victory? What method was used? Just when they were approaching the north bank with doubts, someone suddenly pointed at the building and loudly shouted: "Fire! Fire!"
Everyone looked over and couldn't help but be shocked: a bright fire suddenly lit up on the blurred neon outline, and quickly spread across the hull of the ship. When they first looked at it, they felt that the fire was blurry, but soon,
The blazing fire penetrated the white mist, as if it had become a blazing torch on the river. With the blessing of the west wind, the fire boat turned into flames and rushed towards the source of the drum without hesitation. Everyone under the boat watched.
They were stunned! They stared directly at the fire rising into the sky, accompanied by the black smoke as thick as a dark cloud, and the seemingly slow but actually fast speed of the ship, which gradually became a point of light in the fog.
Then there was a violent crash, which was heard by all the soldiers of the two armies present. Then there was a long silence. Only then did people realize that following this deafening crash, all the drums and trumpets in the fog sounded.
All disappeared. This caused the Wu army to be in chaos for a while. Everyone was concerned about the safety of the general and turned back to find out what was going on. The besieged Du Ji ship was freed, and the soldiers on the ship did not care about the rest of the disaster.
Fortunately, I also looked at the source of the sound, but I couldn't see anything there except a bit of blood-red fire.
In the end, Huang Quan failed to achieve a reversal with this blow. After the Wu army's leader Zhou Yu fell into the water, he was quickly rescued by Cheng Pu with a small boat. However, Huang Quan did destroy the Wu army's flagship, and even the six tower ships of the Wu army.
Turned into ashes, one-third of the Han navy took this opportunity to escape back to the north bank. However, the remaining Du Ji navy could no longer compete with the Wu army and completely lost its qualifications for naval warfare. This also meant that Jianye
The 150,000 Han soldiers under the city were officially isolated on the south bank of the river.