Five hundred and fiftieth chapters camp in the middle of the lake
Have you ever seen a battleship rowed like a dragon boat?
Every time the drum is struck, it generates force, maintaining the same frequency as the drum.
This is the daily life of the rowers of Yunfan Camp. They have been training for several years and their rowing skills are extremely exquisite. They can make the warship drift on the water, turn around on the spot, and turn around quickly.
Under the control of the helmsman, the swordfish battleship kept breaking through the enemy's interception, rushed to the vicinity of the battleship, and launched a round of crossbow bolts. Then, like a flexible small fish, the hull drew an arc and broke away from the big ship.
range, knocked over a few more stern boats, and continued to swim in the distance, like a pack of wolves teasing the buffalo.
The crossbowmen on the ship called this a rush. It was the result of the precise cooperation of the fifty people on the ship.
"One more round!" Crossbowman Li Yu shouted excitedly.
"Fuck you!" This was the answer given by the rower who was so tired that he stuck out his tongue.
The whole ship roared with laughter and was filled with joy.
Attacking the big ship is not the purpose, it is just a means to hide from others. The swordfish warship uses this method to force the enemy's cockpit to fight with itself and reduce their numbers.
Taishi Ci commanded one hundred and twenty swordfish battleships and slowed down to attract the attention of the enemy's navy. He wanted to lure the enemy into deeper waters, expand the battlefield area, and prevent them from escaping back into the narrow waterway.
He has no confidence in fighting head-on.
While pulling the enemy troops back, Zhou Tai led two hundred swordfish warships to try to reduce the number of enemy sailfish ships to prevent these small boats from getting entangled during the decisive battle and affecting the attack rhythm of the swordfish warships.
However, Zhang Xian was frightened by this tactic of using boats to shoot and fire, as well as the large number of losses suffered by the stern. He did not understand military strategy or water warfare, but he knew that the battle loss ratio was abnormal.
Our own side has lost more than 400 stern ships. Did the enemy lose ten ships? There are still a few ships that they overturned by themselves.
There were already more small boats like centipedes on the water and like knives when they capsized than there were surviving scorpions. They were swimming around the fleet from a distance, and Zhang Xian felt chills in his heart.
"We can't pursue him anymore, the enemy has a conspiracy." As for what the conspiracy was, he didn't know, but it didn't feel right anyway.
Jingnan's fleet was slowing down, and the flag was notified to Zhou Xin, who also had to slow down the Yangzhou fleet. He angrily came to Zhang Xian's flagship in a small boat, with veins popping on his temples, and asked angrily: "Why are you slowing down?"
Stop the ship? Our army has been pursuing it for a day and a half, and even took the risk of a night voyage last night. We saw that we were about to catch up, so why did we stop the ship?"
Zhang Xian didn't care about his tone and said calmly: "We have suffered too much loss. The enemy has a conspiracy."
"What's the conspiracy?"
"I, I can't guess."
These words almost made Zhou Xin angry. You didn't know what the enemy's plot was, so you overturned your previous decision and slowed down and stopped the ship.
Playing!
This is war! Do you understand war?
It is a taboo in the army to change orders at night and retreat, which will destabilize the morale of the army and make the soldiers at a loss what to do. He wished he could kill Zhang Xian, there is no way to fight like this!
Why did I end up with such a stumbling block? Do I regard war as child's play?
He was trembling with anger. He had already captured the main force of the imperial navy, and had an advantage several times that of the enemy. The whole army was united in the hatred of the enemy. At this time, he did not move forward bravely, but stopped because of too many small boat losses.
Didn't he know that the damage to the cockroach was too great?
Didn't he know that the enemy boats were constantly harassing him?
Are you the one who understands?
That kind of small boat, which is less than half the length of a battleship and as thin as a chopstick, can knock over another one if it comes up. The outcome of the battle cannot be determined by that kind of small boat. It depends on the performance of the main battleship.
"The main force of our army's warships is three times that of the enemy. What should we fear from a mere small ship? Do they dare to get close to them along the way? The more harassed the enemy is, the more afraid they are of the main force's decisive battle. You don't understand such a simple truth.
?"
Zhou Xin's angry attitude and growling voice made Zhang Xian feel as if he had done something stupid. He knew that he was not good at military strategy, so he could always accept opinions with an open mind.
So, he asked in a consultative tone: "Then
, our army will catch up again? It won’t waste much time, we should still be able to catch up.”
Zhou Xin sighed, if his power was not inferior to his opponent, he would really want to chop off his head.
Now that Yangzhou is in decay, all supplies have been cut off, and Jingnan has to be counted on for support. He can only suppress his anger and shake his head and say: "One rush will weaken again, and three will be exhausted. Since the ship has been stopped, let's form a camp for repairs. Military orders are capricious, and only
It will make the soldiers confused, which is a big taboo."
He returned to his flagship with a complicated mood and ordered the camp to be formed.
The warships adjusted their positions, dropped anchors on the outside of the fleet, and protected the supply ships in the inner circle. He also ordered the big ships to be connected with planks and ropes to prevent them from being washed away by the waves in the lake.
The waters here are helpless, so we can only set up camp with a company of ships to guard against enemy raids.
This method was commonly used by the navy in the Han Dynasty. In the Battle of Chibi in history, Boss Cao was chained with iron ropes. This was not because he had lost his mind, but because that was how the navy was perceived in that era.
If you think of big ships as chariots or heavy armored infantry, you can understand why Cao Cao did what he did.
In fact, even if he doesn't use iron ropes to connect the ship, he will still be burned to ashes when faced with a sudden attack by a fire ship. The ship is not a human being, so he can't stop at will, leave at will, lift anchor, hoist sails, and row oars.
It all takes time, and the bigger the boat, the less flexible it is.
The core strategy of Burning Red Cliff is to fake surrender, not to connect the ships.
Therefore, Zhou Xin used connecting ships to set up camps in order to deal with possible raids or harassment by the enemy. This was a normal tactic in the Han Dynasty when boarding warfare was the main focus. However, the number of more than a hundred ships was indeed too small and insufficient.
In order to complete the warning mission, he could only send additional lookouts.
The Jiangnan boat master suddenly stopped chasing, and Taishi Ci was surprised. Could it be that his seduction strategy had been seen through? He felt relieved when he saw that the enemy had formed a camp with ships in the middle of the lake.
It's not just that he sees through his own strategy, he doesn't want to bring the enemy into a fixed encirclement, and he doesn't have to drag the enemy into a specific position.
It's almost time to launch a counterattack here.
In order to make the enemy believe that he was escaping, he would from time to time make a gesture of wanting to reach the shore and seek land support. He ran for three hundred miles in twists and turns, and was at least one hundred and fifty miles away from the nearest land.
The Yangtze River waterway is more than two hundred miles long, that's about it.
"Send the order, get out of the enemy's sight, go upwind, anchor down and rest."
The enemy's night pursuit last night was beyond his expectation. At the most dangerous time, the enemy ship was less than a mile away from them, so the oarsmen could only use force and speed up to escape. Fortunately, it was night, otherwise, it would definitely have happened.
If the enemy discovers your true speed, the secret will be revealed.
After all, it is necessary to hit more with less, and the sight of the crossbow is not that accurate. The battle time will certainly not be short, and the soldiers must be restored to their best condition.
If you lose strength in the middle of the fight and let a tall building ship or a fighting ship get close to the side, the outcome will be disastrous.
"General Taishi, are we going to attack at night?" After receiving the order and returning to the main fleet, Zhou Tai felt that this was a good opportunity for a night attack.