Before Cao Zhi's troops arrived, he saw that the remaining seven Zhang Yun warships suddenly slowed down and turned. Cai Mao was shocked when he saw this, and his shouts and screams were immediately heard from the command platform where he was standing.
"Oops, Lao Zhang, you're crazy..." They both have been working as watermen for many years and have been partners for many years. How could they not see Zhang Yun's intention?
After Cai Mao acquired the catapult, he discussed with Zhang Yun how to use the characteristics of this long-range weapon to fight. At that time, Zhang Yun mentioned how to win by cleverness if the firepower and warships were inferior to the opponent. He once imagined using the skills that were about to be lost.
Warships with high mobility and combat capabilities flank the enemy from the belly or stern, get as close as possible to the enemy ship in a one-for-one manner, and use their traditional best hand-to-hand combat to exchange for the enemy's warships or more enemy ships.
Life, so that you don't lose money. It can also make the warships and soldiers on the ships that are eventually scrapped or may fall into the enemy's hands have a place to use, so as to gain more opportunities for victory for the follow-up troops that follow the encirclement.
Cai Hao didn't expect Zhang Yunzhen to do this. Cai Hao ordered his flagman to wave flags urgently, asking Zhang Yun to retreat and not do anything stupid. However, Zhang Yun's fleet turned a blind eye and continued to rush forward. Then Cai Hao had to order his own warships
He immediately turned the rudder to the side, prepared to throw rocks to cover, and immediately ordered several of his warships to speed up and pass between the four blocking enemy warships, and rush towards the waters where Zhang Yun wanted to fight the enemy like a group of firefighters.
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Lu Meng, who was also the commander, also saw Zhang Yun's actions. Now Zhang Yun's intention was obviously to encircle his warship. This method was basically changing water warfare to ship-to-ship positional warfare. I think
Fighting with his warships to the last man, and trying to prevent their slings from playing a greater role.
Lu Meng also saw that Cai Hao wanted to rescue Zhang Yun in order to help Zhang Yun. He also wanted to limit their range of activities so that the warships could not move out of a better range and followed their radius of movement. In this way
As soon as Lü Meng and his warships arrived, it was no longer possible to use their catapults, and many warships gathered in a dense formation to approach the outside of Lü Meng and his Lü Meng warships.
Lü Meng also responded immediately to this situation. He ordered the two stranded boats to wait for the enemy to engage in life-and-death combat. After all, it was still possible for them to attack the enemy forces on the left and right wings with arrows. And their head and tail protection tasks required
The other two warships will complete the task. At the same time, the two Sea Falcons will retreat and line up side by side with the two ships that have lost the ability to maneuver, and then continue to complete the stone-throwing attack on the enemy.
However, this is only to delay time, and is mainly used when other friendly ships are exchanging fire with the enemy ships, so that the enemy ships cannot concentrate their forces to attack them.
In this way, both moving and immobile warships can play a role. At the same time, due to the shielding of the hull, the Cai Mao warship behind cannot carry out precise strikes, which gives them time to implement close combat firepower suppression and attack the opponent.
possible.
"Are the wooden bombs ready?" Lu Meng calmly asked the flag bearers on the left and right. This is the order he just gave. This is also an improvement that they only have long-range attack capabilities against stone throwing, but no melee capability. This is what Zhou Yu summarized
After the defeat at Sanjiangkou, they upgraded their existing weapons and made an important improvement in the catapult ammunition. This was also their secret.
War sometimes promotes the development of something, whether it is used to destroy more lives or to win victory. People in war become extremely smart, actively use their brains, and think of everything
Way to use limited resources to serve unlimited war!
"Attack with fire!" Lu Meng did not expect that he would use Zhou Yu's wisdom so soon. Yes, this was an important improvement made by young Zhou Yu to catapult ammunition based on actual combat needs. Perhaps in his time,
Such improvements are timeless.
"Boom! Boom!"
At Lü Meng's order, the ignited wooden bullets were thrown away from the warships equipped with catapults, and smashed into Cai Mao's enemy ships, setting off a fire bomb attack in the air.
Several fire bombs were thrown out at the same time, and several beautiful sparks suddenly appeared on the roaring waterway. The clear and bright sky suddenly became even more lively.
Since long-range attack has become the most important method of water warfare, some people will question that it can only operate within a certain long-range distance. This is mainly because water is not as good as land. In land combat, cavalry is the biggest enemy of long-range arms. Usually,
You only need to withstand a few rounds of arrows to reach the enemy. However, in water battles, no matter how fast the boat is, it cannot be faster than a war horse, and it requires adjustment of wind direction and manual hand control. The driving is extremely complicated and the speed cannot be that fast.
The strength of the long-range firepower advantage is sometimes directly related to the victory of a water battle. At this time, Zhou Yu thought of not using stones as the only cheap ammunition for catapults, but using wooden bullets instead.
He used simple wood to make the required stone projectile weight, and added strips of cloth, pebbles and cinders soaked in kerosene to the wooden bullet. Even so, it was far lighter than the stone projectile and was only enough to provide the basic weight of the projectile.
, the degree of damage after bombarding the target is not as great as that of stone bullets. But it can be used when enemy ships are pressed into the stone projectile range, so that they have one more means of attack and improve the use of slings. And wood
The kerosene and other fillings inside are extremely flammable, and hitting an enemy ship is likely to ignite the wooden hull. If the fire is not extinguished in time, it will bring disaster to the opponent's warship.
Now Zhou Yu's navy's cabin is filled with half of these wooden bombs that can be burned and fired, specifically used for short-range bombardment of enemy naval warships. Once more than ten warships gather together, think about the overwhelming
Meteors and fire showers hit the enemy ship, and then bloom all over your ship, causing sparks to fly everywhere. It must be chilling.
But Zhou Yu never thought that they would use their improved secret weapon in their first large-scale water battle with the Jingzhou Navy. The secret weapon was always intended to be used at the most critical moment. So this
Zhou Yu, who like Cao Zhi was watching the battle in Wulin behind the two sides, shouted angrily. Looking at the rising wooden fire bombs, he thought that his opponents would have a chance to target their new ammunition after this battle.
I had enough time to take precautions, but I was still annoyed.
When Cai Mao saw the incredible wooden fire bombs, he initially thought that Lu Meng jumped over the wall and used stone fire bombs. They also had this kind of fire bombs, but they smeared oil on the outer layer of the stone bombs. But at this time, most of their warships had already
They sailed within the scope of the stoning parabola, so he was not worried about Lu Meng's fire bombs. According to his estimation, most of these fire bombs would be thrown into the river behind them.
But with the "Boom! Boom!", which was different from the crisp sound of stone bullets in the past, Cai Hao only saw that the parabola of many enemy fire bombs had become shorter. Immediately, his warship was hit, and the falling fire bombs were very small.
What's strange is that not a few of them smashed through the wooden hull, but seemed to be unable to withstand the impact. The hull scattered as soon as they hit it. Some even disintegrated in the air before falling. As sparks flew everywhere, there were immediately
Many ships were set on fire. This unexpected change made Cai Mao feel cold. What the hell is this?
The ships he launched this time were all new warships that had just been assembled. Cai Mao also had new secret weapons that he had not yet used! But in his initial vision, he might not be able to use these in the first head-to-head confrontation.
A new type of weapon. With his naval wealth, both the total number of warships and the warships he led in this attack were superior to the opponent's, so he was eager to show off. At this time, Cai Mao was already pressed by a large army. At the same time, both the water quality and the
Cai Mao was originally very confident in fighting Lü Meng due to his ability to use ships. But Lü Meng suddenly took out wooden bullets, which made Cai Mao, who had very few scruples, a little confused.
For a moment, the sky was filled with fire, and the flying wooden bullets were like streaks of colorful flying rainbows, hitting Cai Hao's warship from time to time.
The Jingzhou archers behind the parapet who were nervously preparing their equipment for the first round of water arrow shooting were forced to drop their belongings and escape from the parapet in panic under the burning flames.
Although they all have the belief to die in battle, the flesh and blood of the soldiers cannot resist the fire after all.
The wooden ladders on the second and first floors of the first Sea Falcon, which was rushing to the front and preparing to break through the enemy's blockade and go to the enemy's rear to rescue Zhang Yun, were hit by an enemy wooden bullet and caught fire. The front section of the wooden ladder was hit.
The deck was suddenly covered with blood, and the flying wood splinters made the deck suddenly sweaty. The sailors and soldiers on the ship who were hit by the dense wood fire bullets lay lying on the deck.
A flaming wooden bomb fell right near the area where soldiers and sailors were lying down. Everyone was so frightened that they ran away. Huge flames sputtered out in an instant, rushing towards some combustibles, and
Ignite them. Close observation and experience allowed these soldiers to understand that the enemy also added extremely flammable kerosene and other combustibles to these wooden bullets.
At this time, they had no time to examine how the enemy did it. They saw two soldiers being swallowed up by the flames because they could not escape in time. Their entire clothes quickly burned and they let out miserable wails.
"Back up! Back away! Put out the fire..." The generals and sergeants on the left and right shouted loudly.
Several enemy warships were circling leisurely in the area where their catapults had become blind spots, constantly bombarding them with wooden fire bombs.
In just a few minutes, Lu Meng's wooden fire bombs had hit all the warships in Cai Mao's front line, and the entire front line of Cai Mao's fleet turned into a sea of fire.
The situation was changing rapidly. Cai Hao, who had just regained his disadvantage and entered an offensive state, was now in a passive state of being beaten, or in other words, they were bound to suffer considerable losses before they even tried to get close to the enemy ship.