The river breeze caresses gently and the ships ripple.
On the battleship swaying in the wind, two figures were constantly intertwining.
"Haha, Zhou Tai, stop being so aggressive, you are no match for me!
It was not the case before and it is still not the case now!”
Waving Ba Jiang in his hand, Gan Ning's face turned red when facing Zhou Tai who was sweating profusely.
Having already gained the upper hand, Gan Ning's original plan to rob a few Chu State crossbow gunships gradually became more serious.
Why can't I take this opportunity to kill Zhou Tai, and then directly destroy the Chu navy and seize all their warships?
Gan Ning knew that this possibility was very high.
Now that Zhou Tai has been suppressed by himself, the Chu State's crossbow ships are basically in the middle of a battle between the two countries.
As long as Zhou Tai can be successfully captured this time, the Chu navy, whose morale has plummeted, will inevitably be unable to withstand its own attack.
Although Gan Ning is now inferior to Zhou Tai in terms of military strength.
But as long as all the ballista ships can be snatched away, the other warships of the Chu army will be nothing more than meat on the chopping board.
Through his previous experiences, Gan Ning was very confident that he would use the ballista ship to fight a comeback and completely bury the Chu navy in the river.
However, he obviously overestimated himself and underestimated Zhou Tai.
"My dear Gan Ning, don't be so arrogant. Do you really think that I haven't made any progress over the years!?"
With a loud shout, Zhou Tai swung the serrated blade in his hand sideways, used both feet to exert force, and used his momentum to rush towards Gan Ning.
Idiot, are you looking for death?
Facing Zhou Tai's attack, Gan Ning just sneered in return.
Ba Jiang was lifted high by him, and he slashed at Zhou Tai who was rushing towards him.
Seeing Gan Ning's offensive, Zhou Tai, who had already planned it, refused to dodge and resisted the attack with his flesh and blood.
When the Bajiang Sword struck into Zhou Tai's body, Zhou Tai had also successfully jumped in front of Gan Ning.
No nonsense, the horizontal serrated blade used the momentum to sweep straight towards Gan Ning's waist.
What!?
Gan Ning was shocked when he saw that Zhou Tai would rather die together than die himself.
However, Ba Jiang was between the flesh and bones of Zhou Tai's shoulders. At such a close distance, even if Gan Ning abandoned Ba Jiang and tried to dodge, he would not be able to do so.
Gan Ning's eyes widened as he watched the serrated blade sweep into his waist and felt the sharp pain after it penetrated his flesh.
"You... are just a... lunatic..."
Leaving behind the last words, Jinfan Thief Gan Ning, one of the Five Tiger Generals of the Shu Han Dynasty and the general of Zhenjun, reluctantly left this prosperous world.
"Haha, hahaha, wahhahaha!
Gan Ning is dead, send an order... ahem... the entire army, kill all the Jingzhou Navy, leaving no one... alive!"
Zhou Tai was excited after killing the place where he had lived his whole life.
Feeling the pain at the wound, Zhou Tai knew that he was unable to fight anymore for the time being.
However, Zhou Tai is not worried about the upcoming battle.
With Jiang Qin leading them, the Chu army would never fail in the face of the Jingzhou navy that had lost the command of Gan Ning.
As Zhou Tai shouted, the news that Gan Ning was killed and the battle was quickly passed among the ships.
Whenever the news was passed to a Chu army ballista ship that was fighting for control, the morale of the Chu army soldiers suddenly soared, and the killings shook the sky.
On the other hand, when the Jingzhou Army learned that Gan Ning had been killed by Zhou Tai, its morale dropped rapidly at a speed visible to the naked eye, and its fighting spirit also dissipated at any time.
You must know that the shadow left by the Chu Army's navy to the Jingzhou Army has not dissipated.
What they relied on was the invincible figure on the water, Gan Ning.
Now, Gan Ning, who was invincible in the eyes of Jingzhou Navy, was actually killed in front of the battle, which caused the belief in their hearts to begin to collapse.
As the saying goes, defeat is like a mountain falling.
Gan Ning's death in battle completely became the trigger for the defeat of the Jingzhou Navy.
More and more subsequent Chu troops joined the battle with the arrival of the main battleships, and more and more Jingzhou navy troops were killed by the Chu troops in a state of uncertainty.
Finally, after the first nearly collapsed Jingzhou navy tried to escape by jumping into the river, a large number of Jingzhou navy who lost their fighting spirit dropped their weapons and jumped into the river in an attempt to escape with their lives.
But this only accelerated the demise of the entire navy.
"Shoot! Shoot them to death! Shoot hard into the river and kill all these Jingzhou navy troops!"
Under Jiang Qin's order, the Chu army navy who arrived later fired arrows at the river.
Countless arrows fell, and the Jingzhou navy who jumped into the river could not show his head to take a breath, otherwise he would only become a dead soul under the arrows.
Countless Jingzhou naval officers drowned in this river out of frustration, and countless Jingzhou navy were shot by flying arrows in the process of breathing, making it impossible for them to breathe a breath of air again.
Finally, the Jingzhou Navy, which was still stubbornly resisting, collapsed.
A large number of navy soldiers knelt down on the planks of the ship and prayed for surrender to save their lives. A large number of Jingzhou navy soldiers cried bitterly and kowtowed to the Chu soldiers beside them, begging for surrender.
"Report! General Guan! Gan Ning... General Gan Ning's navy was completely destroyed. General Gan Ning also died on a Chu ship."
!!!
Guan Yu, who led his army to retreat for several miles, finally learned of the naval battle situation after the naval duel between the generals of Chu and Han.
No matter what he thought, he never expected that Gan Ning would be killed in front of the battle, and his navy would also end up being annihilated.
This was really unacceptable to Guan Yu.
You know, Gan Ning was one of the Five Tiger Generals personally appointed by his eldest brother Liu Bei.
Now, not long after the Shu Han was founded, one of the five tiger generals was killed in battle.
This had a great impact on the morale of the entire Shu Han army.
Moreover, without the navy, the Shu Han completely lost its right to speak on the river.
In the future wars, the Shu Han could only watch the Chu navy galloping on the river but could do nothing.
The Navy is not as easy to train and reorganize as the Army.
In less than three to five years, there is no way to train a combat-effective naval force.
Moreover, the navy also has extremely high requirements for generals. If there is no general who is proficient in naval warfare, then the navy will be cannon fodder with no combat power.
Now that Gan Ning was killed in battle, Shu Han no longer had any generals who were good at water warfare.
What's more, now that the war has begun, it is impossible for the Chu State to give Shu Han time to retrain the navy.
Guan Yu knew that the future war in the south would really be detrimental to the Shu Han.
"Send an order to the entire army to abandon the siege!
Let’s go back to Jingzhou!”
Now that the navy was destroyed, the Jingzhou Army lost control of the river.
If Shouchun is besieged, it will only be constantly attacked by the Chu army's ballistae ships.
After experiencing that baptism of crossbows, Guan Yu had no interest in experiencing that feeling again.
Now that Shouchun can no longer be conquered, Guan Yu can only choose to return to Jingzhou to deal with Lu Meng's invasion of Jingzhou first.