According to Yan Xiang's plan, Yuan Shu immediately divided his troops into two groups. A small number of troops used blocking momentum to fight against the water pirates of Gan Ning, Zhou Tai and others, while most of the warships turned around and turned back to attack.
In the hearts of Yuan Shu and others, he is the "main naval force of Jinling City".
As soon as Yuan Shu's navy made this arrangement, they saw Guo Jia, who had been staring closely at the formation of Yuan Shu's fleet, with a happy smile on his face.
"Yuan Shu has fallen into the trap!... Fujun, order all the ships to hold back the main force of Yuan Shu's fleet. We don't need to attack, we just need to maintain our formation and guard the gate... The rest will be left to Gan
I wish they would do it!"
Yuan Shu and Yan Xiang have been victorious in the past few days and have solved the "potter's scheme". Unknowingly, they have become impetuous and unknowingly fell into Guo Jia's arrogant soldier's scheme. At this moment, they are completely
They did not look down on the naval forces of Gan Ning and Zhou Tai, but instead used their main force to attack the pottery merchants. This also laid the ultimate bitter fruit for the failure of this battle.
Although the ships of Gan Ning and other water thieves were small boats, they moved extremely fast. They took most of Yuan Shu's warships to attack the main force of the pottery merchants. They ordered the oarsmen to quickly move towards Yuan Shu's front army.
The battleship approaches.
The oar-waving and pole-holding hands of the water pirates are completely different from those of Yuan Jun and Tao Shangjun. They are all experienced drivers! They are as easy as visiting their own backyard on the Yangtze River waterway, and controlling the movement of the ship seems to be leisurely.
Walking around the court, unknowingly, it seemed to be approaching the front of Yuan Jun's fleet slowly and swiftly.
Seeing that Yuan Shu's fleet was approaching his own firing range, Zhou Tai waved his hand and shouted loudly: "Fire the arrow!"
The rain of arrows from the army of water thieves flew towards Yuan Shu's warships in the south.
Compared with the Jinling Army and Yuan Shu Army's accuracy on the river, the water thieves' ability to shoot arrows on the river is obviously not on the same level.
With just one round of arrows, the water thieves basically blasted away the defensive front line of Yuan Shu's southern warships.
Among Yuan's troops, the man responsible for commanding some of the warships to deal with Gan Ning and others was Yuan Shu's heroic general Li Feng.
In Li Feng's heart, he originally didn't look down upon these "underdogs" from Jinling City, but when a hail of arrows fell, Li Feng clearly felt that something was wrong.
How do the sailors on these small boats look like weaklings?
They are clearly a group of tigers and wolves... No, they should be killer whales!
At this moment, it was too late to rearrange the defensive formation. After a round of arrows, the large group of water pirates had no intention of stopping. The small boat used its flexible hull to quickly engage Yuan Shujun's navy.
border.
The water thieves' warships did not use the method of Tao and Yuan ramming each other's bows against the hull. In the eyes of Gan Ning and other water thieves, that method was completely used by junior players in water warfare!
The fighting method of water fighting masters is usually to fight hard!
Although it is also a water surface battle, the water pirates are different from the Tao Shang Army's weak fighting style. Each of them has a rope hanging from the hook. When they get close to the opponent's warship, the pirates will
They threw the ropes one after another and pierced the nails firmly into the deck of the enemy ship. Then everyone jumped on the enemy ship and engaged in close combat with Yuan Jun soldiers.
Facing these water thieves who dared to jump back and forth on the Yangtze River, Yuan Jun's soldiers were frightened to death.
The Yangtze River was bumpy, and they sometimes felt uncomfortable walking back and forth on the boat. However, these water thieves were like water monkeys. Jumping between boats was almost as easy as walking on flat ground or crossing river ditches.
Aren't they afraid of falling into the river?
As soon as they boarded Yuan Jun's warship, these water thieves felt as if they were at home, waving their swords on the enemy ship to kill enemy soldiers, and shouting at the same time.
"Hand over all valuables!"
"Don't kill me if you give me food!"
"What's the matter with no food!"
"Then kill!"
The small boat that Gan Ning was in rushed straight into the inner formation of the enemy fleet.
He aimed at the battlefield where the enemy general Li Feng was, bent his legs slightly, and jumped directly onto the bow of the enemy's ship.
The navy soldiers behind him also followed closely, jumping onto the warships in various places in Yuan Jun's naval battle formation.
Gan Ning laughed and waved his arms, slashing at the Yuan Jun who were running towards him, almost one by one, as effortlessly as chopping melons and vegetables.
He is already extremely brave, and facing these ordinary Yuan soldiers who are not good at water fighting, he can do it one by one.
Li Feng's face turned pale and he backed away repeatedly in fright.
Gan Ning bared his teeth and walked towards him with a ferocious expression.
"Block him, block him!"
Several more Yuan Jun soldiers rushed towards Gan Ning.
But at this moment, Gan Ning's water bandits also followed him and boarded the ship one after another. The water bandits blocked Li Feng's Yuan Jun soldiers one after another, slashing and killing them, and the blood splashed soaked the ship's planks.
of bright red.
Gan Ning squeezed through the crowd, grabbed Li Feng, and said with a smile: "Where is the flag?"
Li Feng was grabbed by Gan Ning's hands as hard as a vise, and he couldn't even break free.
Under Gan Ning's fierce glare, Li Feng tremblingly pointed towards the rear cabin and said fearfully: "Yes, in the rear cabin."
"Oh!" Gan Ning nodded suddenly, then flew up and kicked Li Feng directly into the Yangtze River.
Poor Yuan Shu's generals, they were kicked in the air and drowned in the river without even swinging their swords when facing Gan Ning.
"Kill all Yuan's troops on board and take the command flag!" Gan Ning shouted loudly at his soldiers.
At this time, the water thieves had already commandeered many battleships. They turned the bows of Yuan Jun's large ships and plunged viciously into the interior of Yuan Jun's fleet.
Li Feng's command flag was also taken to the battlefield by Gan Ning's men and waved blindly, giving wrong information to the enemy fleet. For a time, Yuan Jun's fleet was in chaos.
Yuan Shu had just taken over the battle with Tao Shang. Before the confrontation, a huge change had already occurred behind the fleet.
However, the pottery merchant took his time and ordered the navy to guard the gate and not compete with Yuan Shu's fleet. He just calmly watched the changes.
Le was sweating profusely and rushed towards Yuan Shu, reporting to him: "General! Something bad has happened. Our fleet at the rear has been defeated by the weak troops in Jinling City!"
Yuan Shu's face turned pale when he heard this. He hurriedly led Yan Xiang, Ji Ling and others to the bow of the ship and looked towards the rear.
But seeing that the fleet at the rear was already in chaos, countless soldiers on our side were either hacked to death or fell into the water. Many large ships had been turned around by the enemy and plunged viciously into the center of Yuan's fleet, causing a chaos.
The chaotic ups and downs of the film, the water on the Yangtze River, seemed to be faintly red with blood, and there were floating planks, shipwrecks, and corpses of soldiers everywhere.
Yuan Shu's eyes almost popped out of his head.
His lips trembled, and he screamed at Yan Xiang tremblingly: "What's going on? The defenders of Jinling City are not supposed to be weak troops. How can they be so ferocious... and they seem to be extremely proficient in water warfare!"
Yan Xiang also didn't react and was dumbfounded.
He stared blankly as his soldiers were massacred by a group of water pirates, more and more warships were captured, and chaos gradually spread among his fleet.
The matter was completely beyond Yan Xiang's thinking.
The smooth sailings of the past few days are now being replayed in Yan Xiang's mind... The events of the past few days, if you think about it carefully, seem to have turned into an ever-expanding conspiracy.
It seems like someone has plotted against me!
Thinking of this, the sweat on Yan Xiang's head began to slowly flow down his cheeks.
He had always prided himself on being very wise, but now he had unknowingly fallen into the pottery's arrogant tactics.
Is the potter plotting against himself or someone else?
Is there really such a master among the Jinling Army...
At this moment, Le suddenly shouted loudly!
"Fire! Fire! It's fire!"
Yuan Shu and Yan Xiang suddenly looked up.
After Zhou Tai and other water pirates seized many of Yuan Jun's ships and sterns, they lit the fire starters that had been prepared on some of the small boats that they were originally riding on, and took advantage of the water and wind direction to drive the boats towards Yuan Shu's center.
Come.
These small fire boats in the river will not cause any devastating blow to Yuan's army, but they can accomplish one key thing!
That is to drive away Yuan Shu’s fleet!
Sure enough, in order to avoid the fire ships that plunged into the Chinese army, Yuan Shu's fleet began to roar in all directions and flee in panic.
On large rivers, fleets are most afraid of separation. Once the ships are out of formation, they will be cut off by the enemy's navy!
The fleet was cut off, each ship could not see the command flag, and individual warships could only do their own thing without effective unified command.
This is what Zhou Tai and others want to do.
At this moment, Tao Shang's Jinling Army also began to exert force.
Under the attack from two sides, Yuan Shu's warships were cut into several sections as he wished. They could not look at each other from head to tail. The soldiers in each ship were not under unified command and could only do their own thing and attack indiscriminately. They were defeated by Jinling City's navy and Gansu.
Ning's naval forces were defeated one by one.
When the situation took a turn for the worse, many of Yuan's soldiers had no choice but to wave their oars and shout for surrender.
If a navy is cut into several sections on the river, there is no doubt that it represents a complete failure.
Yuan Shu is like this right now.
A small number of ships protected Yuan Shu's main ship and hurried toward the waterway next to it.
While Xu Rong ordered all naval forces in Jinling City to concentrate on clearing the warships on the river, he also sent soldiers from small boats to the main ship to ask the pottery merchant whether he still wanted to pursue Yuan Shu at this moment.
Tao Shang discussed with Guo Jia, and then sent someone to report to Xu Rong that there was no need to pursue Yuan Shu himself for the time being, but that Yuan Shu's navy on the river needed to be cleared, and those who could be recruited should be recruited as much as possible, and those who could not be executed on the spot.
Weaken Yuan Shu's strength to the maximum extent and collect the captured warships.
As for Yuan Shu himself, he only needs to send some fleets and conduct a small symbolic attack on him.
The so-called "nurturing bandits to respect themselves".
The pottery merchant is not strong enough to take over so much of Yuan Shu's territory now. If Yuan Shu is really allowed to take charge of this place, the cheapest person to start with will probably be Liu Biao.
Although they are allies, if Liu Biaoquan annexes Yuan Shu's territory after taking over Jingzhou, he will really become the dominant tyrant in the south.
Potter is a pacifist, and for an ally of Nantian Yiba's level... Potter thinks it is better not to exist.