Chapter 26 Sixth, the east wind suddenly blows, and the fire burns Chibi

On the night of December 20th in the thirteenth year of Jian'an, there was indeed a strong southeast wind, which finally relieved Sima Yi's unsteady heart.On this night, Huang Gai led more than 30 warships and two Wuyalou ships, and "surrendered" at night according to the previous agreement. With the sound of "cracking" on both sides of the gate of Wulin Water Village, the iron chains blocking the river were gradually rolled up, and Huang Gai and the "surrender" fleet behind him finally sailed slowly. In the Zhaizhong Water Lane.Among the more than thirty ships, except Huang Gai's leading ship, the flagship of the Wuyalou ship, which was on the flagship, the rest of the ships did not have any lighting.Therefore, in the dim darkness, no one can clearly see that under the cover of the bamboo canopy on these warships, battleships and building boats, they are actually piled with dry firewood, sulfur, and nitrate that have been doused with kerosene. ——As long as the slightest spark rubs against it, the whole ship will be on fire in an instant.

Jia Xu was standing beside Cao Cao at the moment, staring intently at Huang Gai's fleet from the podium of Cao Jun's flagship, and suddenly his face changed drastically: "No! Don't let them come near!" Cao Cao was watching Furan happily smiling, and couldn't help being startled when he heard the words: "Why did Wen He say that?" Jia Xu turned his face, his face was gray and blue, and his voice was extremely nervous: "Prime Minister, the boat is light and buoyant, which proves that what is written on it is definitely not what Huang Gai said earlier. The agreed provisions, supplies, and, tonight, it is not the northwest wind that blows, but..."

Cao Cao immediately came to his senses, stomped his feet, and shouted: "Wenpin! Hurry up and send an order to the real minister—tell Huang Gai and the others to stop where they are and not to move forward!" Jia Xu also hurriedly added from the side: "General Yu, immediately lead our fleet to intercept..." Wen Pin and Yu Jin hurriedly jumped up as if they had been shocked by an electric shock. The excitement on their faces earlier had already been thrown abroad in Java, and they all flew away with ashen faces, as if they were ordered to fly away. The flagship immediately became a mess.The counselors talked about all kinds of abnormalities in the fleet led by Huang Gai, but the generals scolded Huang Gai for his broken promises.

At this time, Sima Yi separated from the crowd and stepped forward, approached Cao Cao and said: "My lord, after hearing what Jia Junshi said just now, I feel that since the current military situation is critical and unpredictable, you and the generals and your lords can no longer stay together. The conspicuousness of this flagship in the army..." His words reminded Cao Cao and all the officials and generals of the Cao Mansion—with a wave of his hand, Cao Cao took the lead in leading his men to evacuate the flagship of the Cao Army as quickly as possible, so as not to be regarded as "living targets" by Huang Gai and the others later. "Shooting indiscriminately!

When everyone got on the boat and avoided the side, Jiang Gan still had a dazed look on his face: "This Huang Gai...he...he wants to mess around in our Wulin Water Village with these dozens of ships. Is the name coming out?..." At this point, he suddenly stopped talking, he and the people on the boat had already seen, on both sides of the Huanggailou boat, facing the row of Cao Jun ships around the water village All of a sudden, a cluster of very bright and dazzling huge fireworks burst out... Immediately, two clusters, three clusters, five clusters, the flames burned more and more, Cao Cao, Jia Xu, Mao Jie and others were stunned. !

"What... what's going on here?" Cao Cao asked in surprise and anger, pointing his hand. "Prime Minister—he...they are attacking with fire!" Jia Xu's voice had lost its usual composure and trembled slightly. "Alas!" Cao Cao continued to sigh, his eyes shot out a cold light, "Mao Jie—order all the ships to form an array to meet them!" Mao Jie cried out in tears: "Prime Minister! You have sent an order just now—they replied: Our warships are all connected by iron chains. Let's go..." "Oops! Oops!" Cao Cao couldn't help clenching his fists and stamping his feet on the ship's plank when he heard this.

"Oh! These Jiangdong guys are capable—look at how big their boat is!" "Yes! The poles on the sides of their boats are so high!" "Tsk tsk tsk—the balcony on the ship is also wide!" In the quarter of an hour before the fire broke out there, Cao Jun from the Zhailou and the ships all ran out, and stretched their necks to watch the Wuyalou ship Huang Gai was on.The huge size of the building, the brilliant lights, the wide terrace, and the astonishing ordnance facilities made almost all the Cao soldiers in the village couldn't help but "focus" their eyes.They almost didn't notice that in the huge black shadow behind this huge building ship, boats and boats were gradually getting deeper and deeper like sharks and crocodiles, even if Jia Xu noticed it in the end. It was too late—when the sulfur, firewood, and flame nitrate on these ships were ignited one after another, the soldiers of Cao Jun suddenly woke up: it was a trick!Got it!Huang Gai is pretending to surrender!Wu Bing has launched a fire attack under his nose...

The fire began to burn from the surface of the water about two miles deep into the alley.Before the fire was lit, these ships, large and small, had already filled their sails. As soon as the flames were lit, the sound of "bibi peeling" suddenly rang out—all the ships turned into floating "fire piles" ", under the urging of the south wind, hit the Cao Jun ship in the water village with the speed of a meteor meteorite. At this time, the command ships of Wenpin and Yujin also arrived almost at the same time.Although the two of them hurriedly ordered the ships to cut off the interconnected iron chains and flee separately, fighting on their own, it was too late.The strong southeast wind became an extremely effective "combustion accelerant". Under its agitation, the raging fire "jumped" from the Jiangdong warship to the approaching Cao Jun battleship, and then spread violently horizontally.All of a sudden, thick smoke rose everywhere, the flames shot up into the sky, and people shouted and horses neighed, and the river was noisy.The scene in the water village is completely out of control!The fire dragon with its fangs and claws took advantage of the wind to show its power, and one ship after another, one after another, burned the past, burning them so that they were full of holes and sank one after another.Looking from a distance from the river, there are flames inside and outside the water village, and the entire night sky is reflected as red as charcoal!

Cao Jun's soldiers were in an uproar and chaos.The officers and soldiers of Jingzhou's local navy, who had no fighting spirit and had considerable experience in water warfare, jumped out of the boat and swam to escape when the enemy's fireship just ignited; They could escape, almost half of them were either burned to death or suffocated by thick smoke. Running around like flies, but the ultimate fate is to sink into the river with the ship burned by the fire... "I'm defeated!" Cao Cao looked back at the scene from the bow of the flat boat flying towards the shore, and suddenly yelled out of his chest like a heart-piercing lung.

Almost all officials and generals cast their sharp eyes on Jiang Gan who was sitting at the end of the boat. Jiang Gan was trembling all over his body, like a dead leaf curled up in the cold wind - he stared at the sea of ​​flames behind him, his face twitched ugly: "Why...how could this be..." Then, he turned around and bowed his head to Cao Cao, who was full of anger, and said sadly: "I don't pay any attention to the conspiracy, and I ruined the prime minister's great cause of Kuang Han Fumin, and ordering chaos...The only way to do it is to die!" After all, he turned his body backwards, and fell into the red river reflected by the fire with a "plop"...

Amid all the scolding by officials and generals, only Sima Yi, who was sitting in a corner of the cabin, remained silent, watching in a daze as the blossoming water splashed by Jiang Gan after he fell into the river gradually faded away. There were actually two lines of hot tears streaming down silently and slowly. However, Cao Cao suddenly suppressed the anger in his chest. Looking at the place where Jiang Gan jumped into the river, he was silent for a moment like an iron statue, and said slowly: "Don't be restless, gentlemen——Is it Jiang Gan who is burning the boat today? Is it your own fault? The truth is also the fault of not being careful about things. Jiang Jun knows his shame and is able to bear his responsibility bravely. He is also a generation of righteous men. Secretary Lang wrote it down. After the war subsides, he will still be ranked in the army Hou Zhili offered sacrifices to him." In an instant, there was silence on the boat, so quiet that even the heartbeats of the people could be heard clearly...