Chapter 3458 Fire Ship Can
Zhou Yu could not rely solely on his own tower ship to fight, but now he has to stand up and bear the main firepower output to avoid the Jiangdong Army being unilaterally ravaged in long-range firepower.
These shortcomings of the Jiangdong Navy are not very obvious in short-term or small-scale battles, and they even have advantages in some local combat.
This is because the smaller the battle, the more obvious the individual's quality and combat ability will be.
But once we enter the stage of full combat, the effectiveness of individual soldiers will be shared.
Although the soldiers of the Jiangdong Army were still very strong in combat capabilities, the shortcomings in the equipment offset this advantage of the Jiangdong Army. As the battle duration extended and the physical strength of the soldiers decreased, various gadgets that could help soldiers save physical strength, such as string pulling devices that helped crossbow arrows to wind the strings, allowed the Sichuan and Shu army to overtake on the curve.
Due to long-term shooting, the physical strength of the soldiers of the Jiangdong Navy Army decreased, and many crossbowmen did not even have the strength to pull the strings away. This led to the reduction of the number and quality of the crossbowmen equipped by the Jiangdong Navy. In the end, they could only be forced to withstand the continuous pouring of arrows, crossbows, crossbows, and rockets from the Sichuan Navy Army.
『Turn!』
『Fireship ready!』
Zhou Yu, who discovered that the long-range firepower was suppressed, had to use the final means.
Fire attack, of course, cannot make your ship burned, so you must turn. On the one hand, it is to give up the attack channel to the fire ship hidden behind the building ship, and on the other hand, it is to take the opportunity to seize the upstream, or to the flank direction to avoid the fire ship's flame attack range.
The fire ship is a trick that has been passed down from generation to generation.
The fire ship tactics can be said to be a tactic that almost all generals like to use small to make big fortunes in the history of water wars all over the world.
Of course, I like to see the other person being burned. If I get burned, it would be a bit sad...
Unlike what most people later believe in naval warfare, in ancient water surface combat can actually be regarded as an extension of the water surface of the land battle.
If Fei Qian had not taken out a killing weapon like artillery, then it would be difficult for ordinary soldiers to destroy the carriers of the opponent's soldiers in a short time, whether on land or on water.
This kind of soldier carrier is a city on land and a tower ship on water.
Because there is no breakthrough in science and technology, the development line of the Jiangdong Navy in history is great.
A bigger ship, loading more people.
In the absence of effective destruction of the hull and the warships are less speedy and difficult to maneuver quickly, the role of large ships is often to provide combat platforms for infantry, or a movable wooden fortress on the water.
Moreover, during the process of surface combat, they still cannot get rid of the thinking mode of land combat. Most naval generals follow the habit of land combat, just like there must be small fortress defense lines outside the pass city. When fighting, these large warships will inevitably have a variety of small warships accompanying the navigation. On the one hand, their function is to conduct reconnaissance, alertness, transmit information, rescue crew members from the water, etc. In war, they will also use their mobility to assist attacks and defenses.
Therefore, using fire ships to destroy the opponent's hull is like the effect of capturing the opponent's city walls in land battles.
If you want to use fire ships to burn enemy ships, the first problem has already emerged. Fire ships full of fuel cannot carry enough combatants like normal warships. Therefore, once intercepted by small ships of enemy fleets halfway, the fire attack will likely be dead.
Even if there is a way to break through this obstacle, how the fire ignited by the fire ship can spread to the entire enemy fleet is a huge problem. Moreover, once a fire occurs in the enemy fleet, how to avoid scattered enemy ships leading the fire to their own side is also a problem that the general must consider.
Zhou Yu dared to use fire attack on a large scale in history and changed the general trend of Jiangdong in one fell swoop. It can be said that he laid the foundation for the situation of the Three Kingdoms in one fell swoop. Unfortunately, he became Xiao Liangliang's supporting role in the writing of Mr. Luo. He had no such majesty and courage as a person who had determined the country in real history. Instead, he became a clown who was petty and petty.
However, there is one thing that Mr. Luo still hit the key point of the Battle of Red Cliff, that is "luck".
In the Battle of Chibi, Huang Gai's fire attack was able to achieve the glory of defeating the Cao army's naval army. The process itself can be said to be the result of multiple layers of BUFF. During the confrontation between the two sides, Cao's army was "infected with an epidemic in Yubaqiu", and the soldiers' physical strength and reaction ability decreased. At the same time, when Cao's army set up their formation, Cao's ships were "connected to the head and tail", which also gave Zhou Yu the fire attack, and the fire spread rapidly to the entire fleet.
But even so, in order to complete the fire ship attack, Huang Gai "first write to Cao Gong to surrender" to reduce Cao's vigilance, and then took advantage of the "southeast wind is strong" to break through Cao's defense and complete the fire attack. Even so, during the fire attack, Huang Gai, who was the commander of the fire ship, fell into the water and almost died...
But now, the Sichuan and Shu army have not been covered with so many layers of DEBUFF, and the fire ship tactics used by Zhou Yu are not so easy.
The fire ships in Jiangdong, or all the fire ships in the Han Dynasty, are actually similar in configuration. Except for some manpower to drive the ships, they carry sulfur dry firewood asphalt tincture oil and other substances. The ratio may be slightly different, but the composition will not be much different, and it is impossible for later generations to appear high-energy burning substances, or light metal potassium, sodium, magnesium, etc....
So the most critical issue for Zhou Yu at the moment, or how to ensure that the disadvantages can be recovered, is to successfully send these fire ships into the fleet of Sichuan and Shu, and then ignite the ships that destroy Sichuan and Shu, laying the victory!
This is Zhou Yu's last method and his most sharp move!
But this place is not Red Cliff after all!
If you want to successfully attack the fire when both sides are fighting, you can only let other warships conduct restraining and cover operations!
This is also the reason why Zhou Yu still stepped forward with an arrow and a crossbow!
In this battle, Zhou Yu had no time!
He has no time anymore, neither God nor Jiangdong will give him plenty of time.
In this battle, Zhou Yu gave up the geographical advantage!
Because he was unwilling to accept the fate of failure, he wanted to take the initiative to win.
In this battle, Zhou Yu missed the harmony!
The Jiangdong gentry did not support him, and Sun Quan could not have the firm position of the Battle of Red Cliff. Even his soldiers thought it was good to withdraw their troops and didn't want to continue fighting.
If Zhou Yu wanted, he could throw the stall like Zhang Zhao, and he would always throw it away, claiming that he was sick at home, forcing Sun Quan to come to the door and invite him repeatedly before coming forward to wipe Sun Quan's butt, and only wiped half of it!
If he gave up, he could say that he had been sweating and bleeding for the Sun Family Jiye for so many years, and he should have had a good rest and enjoyment. Even if he didn't go to Chang'an Bai Clinic to treat his illness, at least he wouldn't be able to cultivate in Chaisang, others wouldn't say anything wrong with it!
But Zhou Yu came just now. Even though he knew that this battle was not easy to fight, he still came...
Although it can be said that Zhou Yu was lucky and wanted to conquer Sichuan, at least he never said it was too difficult, too far, too hard, so he simply stopped doing it.
As a series of orders were conveyed, the Jiangdong fleet began to turn and give way to the fireboat's attack channel.
However, in the case of war between the two sides, it does not mean that if you want to turn unilaterally, you can turn smoothly. Even if the Jiangdong Navy has high skill and skillful movements, there are still several Jiangdong ships that failed to complete the steering movement smoothly. They are either entangled by the Sichuan and Shu army and cannot move, or the flaws exposed during the steering process are too big, and they are seized by the collision fighting ship and are fatal to one blow.
The soldiers of the Jiangdong Navy fell into the water, floating and rising, and many people began to shout for help.
But no one has time to care about them...
Of course, these Jiangdong navy soldiers have good swimming abilities, but it does not mean that they can still swim over and save themselves in long-distance wear armor and clothes when they consume a lot of physical strength.
It is of course very good if you have armor equipment that you can take off quickly, but nowadays, most of the materials of the robes of the big man are linen!
This thing is super absorbent!
The water ghosts who specialize in digging boats may have the opportunity to swim and escape, while the average Jiangdong naval army soldiers are too far from the water camp. Even if they go downstream, they often sink to the bottom of the river halfway, becoming a meal for fish and shrimp.
The fire ships in Jiangdong rushed upstream, slanted along the flesh and blood passage that the Jiangdong naval army had finally made, and rushed towards the Sichuan-Shu fleet!
At this moment, Xu Huang and Zhuge Liang, among the Sichuan and Shu fleet, also discovered the abnormal actions of the Jiangdong Navy.
『Jiangdong needs fire attack!』
Zhuge Liang reacted almost immediately, pointed at the Jiangdong fire ships and shouted, "That's a fire ship!"
Zhuge Liang is still very young and his eyesight has not been damaged by his long-term work, so he can see far and clearly.
『Rocket! Crossbow! Concentrated shooting!』
Xu Huang also immediately ordered the soldiers to turn their direction and attack the Jiangdong fire ships.
However, the problem of insufficient training of the Sichuan and Shu naval army is fully reflected.
Covering the shooting ships or a designated area, without seeking special accuracy, then ordinary Sichuan and Shu archers and crossbowmen can complete the same thing. However, when the time comes, when accurate shooting is urgently needed, these archers and crossbows among the Sichuan and Shu navy are powerless, and their accuracy cannot be maintained at a considerable level even under the same physical exhaustion.
Although the accuracy of the crossbow cart is relatively high, compared with Jiangdong Tower Ship and Fighting Ship, these Jiangdong fire ships are small targets. If there is a slight deviation, they may fail.
If it is an ordinary Jiangdong boat, even if it cannot be solved for a long range, the problem will not be big. After all, the closer you get, the shooting accuracy will naturally be improved. Moreover, the tower ship has the advantage of height difference for ordinary boats. Shooting from top to bottom is often similar to shooting the enemy from the city wall on land. If the boat can still break through the middle and close defense line, then there are still poles waiting for them...
But these are fire boats!
You must never let these fireboats get too close!
what to do?
"Set the fire!" Zhuge Liang was anxious and wise, crossed Xu Huang, and ordered directly, "Top the turmeric oil tank! Throw the turmeric oil tank! Shoot the turmeric oil tank! Let's set the fire first!"
The messenger looked at Xu Huang.
Xu Huang shouted, "I won't go and pass the order yet!"
There are not many tinned oil tanks in stock.
Neither tin oil nor can it be generated automatically, so this counterattack is also Zhuge Liang's last method!
『Puzzle!』
Amid the continuous sound of water, the turbulent oil tank was thrown out.
『Set an arrow! Get a fire!』
The archers yelled at the side of the ship's wall.
Arrows were wrapped around cloth strips and put them together on the brazier.
In the blink of an eye, the strips of cloth on the arrow were lit, and flames and black smoke emerged.
"Prepare! Aiming—" The archers waved their arms, "Shoot!"
The arrows roared out and then covered the turbulent oil tank.
The rocket shot into the water and did not immediately break the ignition oil tank and ignited the fire.
The Jiangdong fire ship is still approaching, and it is about to approach the inner circle of Sichuan and Sichuan ships!
"Hurry! Why are you standing there? Arrows! Getting on fire!"
『Shoot! Shoot!
The Rockets roared down from the tower again!
The second wave of the Rockets, the third wave of the Rockets rushed down...
The fire cup was broken.
The flame finally rose!
When the Sichuan and Shu army threw out the tinder tank, the Jiangdong soldiers who were driving the fire boats did not pay attention.
On the one hand, in order to avoid arrows, these Jiangdong soldiers buried their bodies as much as possible under the cover of ships, and not many people would show their heads to see them. Even if they took a look occasionally, they would adjust the direction of the ship's advance.
On the other hand, these Jiangdong soldiers can almost be regarded as suicide squads on the water. There is no concept of delayed ignition these days, and Jiangdong's attitude towards soldiers is actually similar to that of Central Plains. They are treated as consumables, and it is even more impossible to be equipped with new ignition equipment. Other Jiangdong soldiers who row the boat have a little chance of jumping off the ship to escape, but the soldier in charge of ignition often has no time to be fired and is directly buried in the fire. Therefore, these Jiangdong soldiers are very nervous, and only have the opportunity to ignite the Sichuan Tower and their own ignition in their eyes and hearts. How can they care about anything else?
Therefore, when the first and second waves of rockets of the Sichuan and Shu navy were shooting down, these Jiangdong navy were still glad, or mocking the Sichuan and Shu navy for being in a hurry and lacking training, the rockets were shot into the water...
As a result, suddenly, when the water surface rose and flames rose, these Jiangdong fire ships realized that the previous rocket attacks of the Sichuan and Shu army were not shooting them, but shooting tinder tanks!
『Steer! Turn quickly!』
"Run! Rush over!"
Seeing that some turbulent oil tanks were ignited, these Jiangdong fire ships immediately had two different choices.
Obviously, some people feel that there is a flame on the route of travel, so they naturally choose to turn as soon as possible, while others feel that there is no flame spreading ahead of them, and they want to rush over as soon as possible.
However, when these two different corresponding strategies of Jiangdong Fire Ship are mixed together, problems arise...
This is like in the ancient real-time strategy game. More than a dozen tanks are working hard to find a road due to the AI ​​of the road search system. However, as long as one of them turns around inexplicably at the intersection, the entire team of tanks will be stuck at the intersection and turn around wildly. No matter how hard they click the mouse, these tanks are like they have encountered a ghost hitting a wall and cannot move forward any further!
Jiangdong fire ships also encountered similar problems.
Originally, in order to avoid stray arrows and crossbow guns, these fire ships were almost next to each other and hid behind the buttocks of the Jiangdong Navy's tower ships. So when they rushed out, the distance between them was not very large. Now some had to rush forward, some had to turn left, and some wanted to tilt right. Without a unified frontline commander, these fire ships affected each other, causing several to bump into each other, and the other several had to disperse and turn larger, resulting in the speed dropping...
During the Battle of Red Cliff, Huang Gai led the fire ship to attack for a lifetime. Even if he was rescued by other Jiangdong ships, he was almost drowned in the toilet pit. This shows that this kind of suicide squad captain is not such a relaxed and pleasant job. Now for Zhou Yu, he does not have a second Huang Gai to serve as the captain of this suicide squad, which makes Jiangdong fire ships uncontrollable chaos after encountering temporary changes after attacking.
Some fireboats crashed into the sea of ​​fire on the water, and then were stained with flames, and were ignited with sulfur asphalt and other items on the ship. In a blink of an eye, they turned into a huge torch, spreading out a larger sea of ​​fire.
Some fireboats temporarily changed directions, which not only caused the speed to drop, but also exposed the side of the ship, which invisibly increased the area of ​​the hit. They were immediately hit by crossbow guns, breaking and leaking, and sinking into the river.
There were only a few fire ships, although they successfully rushed out of the fire belt on the water, but unfortunately, due to insufficient numbers, they could not cause effective fire damage, which ignited several Sichuan and Shu ships, but the fire damage to the entire Sichuan and Shu fleet was not added enough!
The most basic fire prevention actions of the Sichuan and Shu navy were still done. If large-scale flames could not be ignited in a short period of time, sporadic small fires would be extinguished soon.
At the same time, because the Jiangdong Navy revolved backwards under Zhou Yu's order, a large number of belly on the side of the ship string were exposed!
Even Xu Huang and Zhuge Liang, who had little experience in large-scale naval battles, commanded artillery and crossbows to bombard the bombardment!
The shooting angle and the hull armor are undoubtedly enemies who love each other.
Zhou Yu's tower ship naturally became the focus of many firepower points.
At this moment, Zhou Yu saw that the fire ship attack did not achieve the expected effect, and was doing everything possible to command and mobilize the remaining troops, preparing to reorganize the battle against the Sichuan and Shu navy again, a shell hit the side of the string of Zhou Yu's tower ship, smashing the female wall on the middle floor of the tower ship!
With the roar, the entire ship where Zhou Yu was located suddenly tilted to one side. Some Jiangdong soldiers on the other side of the ship were unstable and fell off the river.
Zhou Yu's reaction was quite quick and grabbed the railing in front of him, but he still couldn't control his center of gravity immediately, and he hit the pillar hard!
"Governor! Not injured, aren't you?" the guard shouted anxiously.
Zhou Yu originally wanted to say that it was okay, but he opened his mouth, but he didn't know whether it was because of the impact or some other reason, and his whole body collapsed because of the squirting of blood!
"Governor!"
"Governor!!"
The guards and soldiers on the side screamed.
The guard rushed up and protected Zhou Yu.
The messenger on the side was at a loss. After a while, Qiqi Ai asked: "The other warships are asking for instructions... how to fight..."
Seeing that Zhou Yu vomited blood and was already in a state of lord, the guards heard the orders and asked about what kind of battle they were fighting, and they shouted in anger, "The governor is like this, what are the commands? How can I fight?! Retract the troops! Retreat! Governor! Governor! Governor!"
Zhou Yu was half unconscious, maybe he heard the archery shouts, maybe he had no consciousness, but his eyes were still on the swaying "Zhou" battle flag on the boat...
He wanted to say something, but he couldn't say anything...
The white clouds are lingering.
Qingshan Dai Dai.
The river is surging.
Blood and flames, wreckage and black smoke.
The Jiangdong navy fled in a hurry and the Sichuan and Shu fleet were excited to chase.
Chapter completed!