And this also gave Zhang Yun's troops enough rest time. Everything that determines the historical moment or destiny may just start with a seemingly simple but correct decision!
Zhou Yu's huge navy entered the Sanjiangkou under a vigilance. This place once allowed Zhou Yu to capture Mi Heng and provoke a massive attack on both Jingzhou and Yangzhou. This place was not unfamiliar to Zhou Yu either, but at this time he
On the river walkway, last time he was lurking in the dense forest on the shore, far away from the main channel.
Although entering Sanjiangkou at night is not the best choice for Zhou Yu who is marching in a hurry, Zhou Yu believes that this area is his blessed land and good luck will continue to accompany him like the last time he captured Mi Heng. The night can stop them.
At the same time, he can block his opponent's eyes from his own sight. The more quietly he enters Sanjiangkou, the more advantageous Zhou Yu thinks it will be for him.
Zhou Yu believed that he was one step ahead of the enemy at present, but he did not know that he had entered the ambush waters of the Jingzhou navy. Suddenly, there was a "dong" sound on the south bank of the river and the sound of drums sounded. Zhou Yu, Zhou Tai and others
I was shocked. When I followed the sound, I saw a burst of smoke and dust rising from a hillside on the south bank of the river, and then the second and third drum beats of "dong, dong, dong" were heard one after another.
"No, there may be an ambush! Before sending the order to the rear troops to stop..."
"Wow..."
Just when Zhou Yu ordered to change the formation, the most advanced former warship made a loud noise, and saw the hull shaking violently, as if it was blocked by something, and then noisy shouts started. And this incident
A domino-like chain reaction immediately occurred. Since all the ships were sailing at a fast speed, when the one in front stopped, the ship behind them had no time to stop and collided with it.
"Dong dong!" The sound of the collision between hulls and hulls on the river was loud for a while. Many soldiers standing on the bow or the side of the ship were overturned by the strong shock. Countless people fell into the river.
Or it rolled onto the deck like a gourd, bumping here and there and screaming again and again. To make matters worse, there were several smaller and faster Mengchong boats behind it that overturned in an instant.
The soldiers on the boat clattered like dumplings and were thrown into the river at once. At that time, dozens of warships of various types in the front of Zhou Yu's entire navy were in a mess, calling for help, rescuing, salvaging, turning the bow, and anchoring.
The sound of boats stopping came and went.
"There is an ambush, let Lu Meng from the front report the situation..." Zhou Yu's emergency order had just been issued, and he felt that the hull of the ship he was sitting on actually hit the stern of a sea falcon in front. That sea falcon may have heard
Zhou Yu's command was earlier and stopped suddenly. However, the walking boat Zhou Yu was riding was a step slower, so they collided with each other. The Falcon's boat was small and could not bear the impact of the walking boat, and its tail suddenly swayed.
It stood up high, stood straight up, and then, like a plot in a movie, amidst the exclamations of everyone on the ship, it fell down into Jiang's heart with a slow-motion whine.
Zhou Yu subconsciously held on to the parapet behind him to prevent him from falling. After stopping his staggering figure, Zhou Yu hurriedly continued to issue orders: "Zhou Tai immediately ordered the Chinese army to divide its troops ashore and occupy the favorable terrain on both sides. The rear army will be on guard.
I want to know where the enemy is attacking from. Then send people to the front to find out the situation. What are the losses there? Why did the ship suddenly stop?"
I have to say that Zhou Yu's handling was correct. After the order was passed on, reports from the generals around him also came at this time.
Zhou Yu quickly figured out that there was an iron cable blocking the center of the river in front, preventing the first ship from sailing normally, which is why the subsequent ships collided. Lu Meng's men also discovered this narrow channel.
A small number of enemy soldiers fixing iron ropes were found on both sides of the shore and behind the rocky cliffs.
Lü Meng has sent charging Mengchong boats to break away from their blocked fleet. There are several Mengchong boats on both sides, carrying soldiers, holding swords and shields high, and archers, heading towards the banks on both sides to destroy these things created for them.
Troublesome enemy soldiers.
Also, no enemy ambushes or enemy figures were found in any other direction.
Zhou Yu stood firm, and after giving several orders to rescue the fallen soldiers and quickly clear the river channel, he once again stood at the bow of the boat, representing his commander's position.
Just as Zhou Yu squinted his eyes and looked around at the chaos of his entire fleet, and looked far into the darkness at the far end of the river, trying to find clues and wondering where the enemy was ambushing, Zhou Tai rushed back to Zhou Yu's side.
He whispered to Zhou Yu: "There is nothing on the river and surrounding waters. Could it be that some local Jingzhou defenders came out to cause trouble?"
"Yeah! It's possible, send more people to check, let Lu Meng leave one or two alive in front, and ask who his subordinates are?"
"yes!"
When Zhou Tai acted in accordance with the order, several Mengchong boats sent by Lu Meng had already docked at the diving place. Under the shouts of some generals, the brave soldiers of the Sun Army turned over and jumped into the water without waiting for the boats to dock.
With their bows and crossbows, they started shooting at the enemy defenders on the shore.
As the melodious attack horn sounded, the roaring drums aroused the unyielding fighting spirit of the soldiers, and a large number of soldiers stepped onto the battlefield of death with strong and powerful steps and splashing langlang.
Suddenly, with the sound of bowstrings pulling in the sky, countless sharp arrows flew out of the air and landed on the heads of Sun Jun's soldiers who were still landing. A group of more than 200 Jingzhou archers came out of the dark woods on the shore.
emerged from the inside and shot at the Sun Army soldiers who landed on the beach. Blood flowers exploded in the crowd. From the first scream, the advancing Sun Army soldiers simultaneously raised their shields and raised them at an angle.
Facing the sky at a 45-degree angle, they continued to advance steadily without stopping. Their generals saw clearly the number of enemies at the first moment, and this small amount of troops was not in their eyes. So they kept looking coldly.
After all this, the general in charge of Sun's army saw that his soldiers were slowing down after being attacked by arrows. Finally, he couldn't help shouting: "My sons, there are not many of them, follow me and destroy them!"
"roar!"
The soldiers of the Sun Army who landed on the shore responded to the general's loud shouts and responded with heroic roars, and rushed forward at the same time, as if the ferocious beasts were finally aroused to blood at this moment, and finally launched a fierce collision.
.The Sun Army soldiers who rushed to the shore wanted to rush over and kill all the bastards who dared to ambush them.
At this moment, the blood entered a fierce period of spraying, roars exploded in the sky, and the sound of sharp arrows whizzing in the sky kept shuttling over the heads of the Sun Army soldiers. One after another Sun Army soldiers were in this kind of situation.
Knocked down during a long-range attack.
Lu Meng, who was standing on the main battleship of the former army, still had cold eyes. He only thought about the changes in the attack speed of his subordinates, the increase in the number of casualties, and the possibility of analyzing the opponent's actions. In his opinion, it was not necessary at this time.
For generals, war is always just a way, that is, the desire for victory. Only in this way can they maintain their inner calm and their insensitivity to bloodshed and death.
When Lü Meng's soldiers used blood and bravery to defend this belief in Lü Meng's heart, the battle here quickly ended. At the cost of nearly a hundred casualties, Lü Meng gained victory over both sides of the bank.
When his subordinates came back to report the results of the victory to him, they did not tell him that the enemy was waiting for the soldiers in charge of the iron rope to retreat before retreating.
It was not that they were repulsed. They just reported that they only needed a cup of tea to clear the iron cable blocking the river.
"Is the opponent a soldier from Cao's army or from Jingzhou?" Lu Meng asked the question he was most concerned about.
"Jingzhou Army!"
"Is anyone alive?"
"No!"
"well!"
Lu Meng sighed in disappointment. After finishing the report, he basically thought that this was a sporadic garrison in the county along the way, creating some trouble for them along the way, rather than a real ambush by a large army.
However, Lu Meng did not know that this was only a small part of the entire battlefield, by no means the whole game. At best, it could only be regarded as an integral part of the upcoming Chibi War. Even the sub-battlefield of Sanjiangkou where they were at this time,
It is also the epitome of a very small part of it.
Just when Lu Meng turned around and ordered his men to report the enemy situation and battle situation to Zhou Yu on the main warship of the Chinese army, a fleet of ships secretly appeared in the distance and finally appeared in the distance.
"Hey yo, hey yo!" The neat sound of rowing boats first interrupted Lu Meng's words, and then the boats, like mobile battle forts and giant sharks with fangs, came towards the stranded war ships.
The outline of the walking boat completely brought the stunned Lu Meng back to his senses.
"It looks like there is an ambush!" Lu Meng overturned his previous conclusion and turned to look directly ahead at the hundreds of ships that appeared a mile away in the water. They must be enemy warships, but Cao Zhi's troops were from Jingzhou.
?
Soon Lu Meng got the answer. The large and conspicuous military flag with the word "Zhang" in the middle told him that it was Zhang Yun's troops. They already knew the news that Jingzhou surrendered to Cao Zhi, so they looked at the menacing Zhang Yun's Jingzhou
Lu Meng, the naval force, just smiled contemptuously and said: "There are only more than a hundred warships, and only three of them are sailing boats. The others are small boats. Please inform us that the warships are ready for battle, and we are ready to meet them.
"
The soldiers on the shore who were dismantling the iron cables across the river were told to immediately cut and destroy the iron cables and the simple winch machine at all costs so that their fleet could attack quickly.
The soldiers responsible for this matter were not unhappy. After the machine that fixed the iron rope at one end was destroyed, it was thrown into the river with a crash. As the iron rope was released at one end, Lu Meng's first warship that was blocked in the front was finally able to move.
At this time, his main battleship quickly sent out a trumpeter flag, which clearly conveyed the signal "There is an enemy situation ahead, kill them!"