nownovels Chapter [319] Victory In The First Battle
Chapter [319] Victory In The First Battle
"Ugh!" Gan Ning let out a scream.
Behind him, Lu Bu pulled out the arrow, and began to heal Gan Ning's wound, saying: "This battle is good. Xingba led our army to victory in the first battle, strengthening our army."
"Hiss!" Gan Ning gasped in pain, and he did not forget to brag to Lu Bu: "Your Majesty doesn't know something, the general almost choked Guan Yu to death in the water, if it wasn't for Sun Ce's sneak attack, he must have Your Majesty fetches the head of Guan Yu's Xiangshang."
"Hahaha!" Lu Bu laughed loudly, "Xingba is doing well, this time he fell short, and it won't be too late to capture Guan Yu next time."
Tighten the bandage tightly, Lu Bu finished the treatment of Gan Ning.
At this moment, in Poyang Lake, the two armies are facing each other, and both sides are in formation.
The vanguard fleets that were originally fighting together retreated to the main fleet at this moment.
Lu Bu observed the situation in the field and found that Zhou Yu's formation was completely different from Lu Xun's.
Although he doesn't know water warfare, Lu Bu is a master of land warfare at any rate, and he can figure it out by analogy.
Zhou Yu's formation on the opposite side is more aggressive, and can be regarded as a frontal formation on the water.
The formation that Lu Xun puts out is a yoke formation. If you look down from the sky, you will find that the Qin army's formation presents a huge 'X'
When the coalition's front arrow array is coming towards 'X', use the X's gap to push up, so that the coalition's arrows will fall into a situation of three-sided siege.
Zhou Yu was confident that he would be able to defeat Lu Bu on the water, so he adopted this sharp and aggressive front and arrow formation.
Although Lu Xun was full of confidence, this was his first time on the battlefield, so he was a little nervous. He was facing a strong opponent like Zhou Yu, so he was naturally more cautious, and his formation was more defensive.
The mentality of the two sides is different, so the formations are naturally different, but Lu Xun's X formation happens to be the most restrained formation, which can be regarded as a mistake.
Allied ships.
Zhou Yu looked at the formation of the Qin army in front of him, and couldn't help frowning.
"Gongjin, is it possible that the water thief still understands the military formation?" Zhuge Liang saw it clearly that the rushing yoke formation on the opposite side was restraining the front arrow formation, so he couldn't help asking.
"It's definitely not Gan Ning. The mad dog fighting style of the Qin army's vanguard just now is what Gan Ning did." Zhou Yu shook his head and said, "The person shot by Bofu is Gan Ning himself, and there must be other ways to command the Qin army. people."
"Does Gongjin know who it is?" Zhuge Liang asked, "After all, anyone who can understand water warfare must come from Jiangdong."
Zhou Yu fell into deep thought, but finally shook his head.
Sun Ce has a bad relationship with the Jiangdong family, especially Sun Ce has a blood feud with the Lu family. Zhou Yu has never met Lu Xun, so naturally he has no way of knowing.
"I can't guess it." Zhou Yu shook his head.
"Now what"
"It doesn't matter, it's just a formation, and it doesn't explain anything." Zhou Yu said to himself: "The Qin army's ship on the opposite side is just a cargo ship. Even if the formation restrains us, our warship can rush in directly."
"But you still have to save one hand." Zhou Yu looked at Zhuge Liang, "Kong Ming, you lead a team to wait for the opportunity, and after the battle starts later, you will fight out from the flanks, as a backup to the main force.
Zhou Yu still chose to put a layer of insurance on himself, in case he plunged in and couldn't get out, Zhuge Liang would still be there to help.
"Alright." Zhuge Liangliang nodded, "Don't worry, Gong Jin.
After the discussion between the two, Cao Liusun came out of the cabin, Zhou Yu and Zhuge Liang turned around at the same time and asked, "How is Yun Chang's situation?
"Drink too much water, just spit it out, and you can recover after rest." Sun Ce said casually.
Frequent water battles, naturally often encounter drowning.
He became a good doctor after a long illness, and Jiang Dong was very good at rescuing drowning people. After Guan Yu was rescued, he was out of danger.
"Gongjin, when will the war start?" Cao Cao couldn't help asking.
"It's now."
"Woo~~~~" The low and melodious horn sounded.
The front arrow array received the horn of the charge, and immediately urged the warship with all its strength, like an arrow leaving the string, it rushed towards the formation of the Qin army without moving forward.
Lu Xun looked at the charging enemy army, and began to constantly adjust the angle of the army formation, so that the opponent's arrows could accurately rush into the gap of X, forming a three-way pincer attack on the enemy army.
"Hmph!" Zhou Yu couldn't help sneering at Qin Jun's change of formation, "If you want to double-team me, first you have to be able to withstand it!"
If the yoke array wants to stop the arrow array, the midpoint of the X must be hard enough to withstand the impact of the arrow, and only after resisting can it form a three-sided attack.
If the midpoint of X is directly pierced, the entire yoke formation will be divided into four, losing the connection hub, and thus collapse instantly.
The reason why Zhou Yu dared to charge head-on was that he was proud of the advantages of the warship, far superior to the cargo ships of the Qin army, and it was entirely possible to defeat the Qin army, so Zhou Yu chose to wait for the danger and charge.
Give it a go and see if you can win the battle.
Seeing that the Fengya fleet of the coalition forces had rushed into the encirclement, Lu Xun finally made a move.
"The bed crossbow is ready!" Lu Xun raised the command flag in his hand, and then swung it down suddenly, "Let it go!"
Following Lu Xun's movements, the messengers on each ship made the same movements.
In front of the bed crossbow at the bow, the soldiers waved their wooden mallets one after another and smashed them heavily on the machine post.
"whoosh whoosh"
Zhou Yu looked at the sky full of crossbow guns with a confused face, and his brain even fell into a short-term stagnation.
Zhou Yu was stunned, but the soldiers around him were not idle, and immediately dragged Zhou Yu into the cabin.
"Bang bang bang!!!"
It is no longer appropriate to describe it as raindrops, it should be described as hailstones.
Numerous crossbow spears hit the coalition fleet directly, giving the coalition a head-on blow.
Some unlucky coalition soldiers were directly stabbed on the deck by crossbow spears, and some of their bodies were shot to death.
As for what was even more unlucky, the crossbow gun was stuck just below the side of the ship, and the crossbow gun instantly pierced the ship's side, and the lake water seeped into the cabin along the cracks.
"What is this?!" Sun Ce and Zhou Yu had never seen such a thing.
But Cao Cao and Liu Bei seem to have known each other, and soon thought of the tragic experience of Hangu Pass and Jiange.
"Damn! Lu Bu actually moved this thing to the boat!" Cao Cao was shocked, and quickly explained to everyone.
Liu Bei did not expect that the equipment for guarding the city at the head of the city would be installed on the bow of the ship.
Suffering a head-on attack, Zhou Yu's idea of rushing directly to the midpoint was naturally in vain, and the rushing yoke formation was considered to have withstood the attack of the front arrow.
"Send orders! Bow and arrow strike back!" Zhou Yu didn't care about that much, and the fleet of the coalition forces had rushed in at this moment.
On the deck, the coalition soldiers began to bow their bows and take arrows.
After the bed crossbow was fired, the Qin army on the opposite side lay down on the deck one after another and began to string the pedal crossbow.
Before the coalition soldiers could shoot their arrows, the Qin army pulled the trigger first.
~ wind!"
"wind!"
"Gale!"
With a head-on blow from the crossbow guns, the coalition fleet was unable to break through the core of the yoke formation, and could only fall into the siege, surrounded by the Qin army on three sides.
The Qin army on three sides shot a rain of arrows that covered the sky, drowning the coalition forces in the middle in an instant.
The formation was restrained and the ordnance was in the lead. Under Lu Xun's command, the Qin army gained a great advantage as soon as it came up, and Zhou Yu was a little overwhelmed.
The coalition forces were bogged down in the quagmire, struggling, and were about to be encircled and suppressed by the Qin army.
"boom!!!"
At the critical moment, Zhuge Liang finally arrived, and Zhou Yu left behind out of caution, which played a life-saving role at this moment.
Zhuge Liang, who came from the flank, opened a gap in the three-way encirclement of the Qin army.
Zhou Yu was not an ordinary person either. He immediately commanded and dispatched the army, broke through the gap made by Zhuge Liang, and survived with a short tail, directly discarding the arrow part of the front arrow as a means of delaying the Qin army's pursuit.
With the former army as an obstacle, and cooperating with Zhuge Liang to open the gap, Zhou Yu commanded calmly, and finally brought most of the coalition forces and warships out of the encirclement.
But this is not something to be happy about. Zhou Yu, who has always been self-confident, was defeated by Qin Jun, especially in water warfare, which he is best at. After the troops are cut off, the Lord is fortunate that the losses in this battle will not be small.
"Hahaha!" Lu Bu was overjoyed, "Well, well! Winning beautiful!"
"Your Majesty, the level of mobilization of the fleet is still very rigid, not as flexible as Zhou Yu." Lu Xun was not being humble, but telling the truth.
This was Lu Xun's first actual combat, and he was very rigid in command and dispatch, unlike Zhou Yu, who could slip away as soon as he seized the opportunity.
When Zhuge Liang attacked from the side, Lu Xun responded very slowly and failed to fill the gap in time.
Although this battle was won, Lu Xun also clearly realized the gap between him and Zhou Yu.
"Bo Yan doesn't need to underestimate himself. If you win, you win. Who cares if you are flexible or not?" Lu Bu immediately asked, "Do you want to take advantage of the victory and pursue it?"
"The speed on the water is the same, it is difficult to catch up with them." Lu Xun explained: "It is better to wait for them to stop, the other party has not yet built a water fortress, we can wait until then, and then launch an attack on the coalition forces.
"Okay, Bo Yan has the final say." Lu Bu nodded immediately.
When the war came to an end, the Qin Army fleet returned to the water village, and then sent scouts to paddle to see the enemy's secrets.
Regardless of whether it is a vanguard fight or a main battle, the Qin army has won an all-round victory today, and the morale of the whole army has been greatly boosted.