Chapter 375: The Fire of Red Cliffs, Victory through Burning
Suddenly a strong wind blew up on the river, and the fireboats moved faster, rushing towards Cao Cao's fleet.

The place where Huang Gai lit the fire was two or three hundred feet away from Cao Cao.

It was impossible to get any closer because Cao Cao's fleet was protected by fighting ships and they would set up checkpoints.

Huang Gai set fire to the small boat just before the fighting ships approached.

The distance was two or three hundred feet, and in a flash, the boat had passed halfway.

The firelight on the boat shone on everyone's faces from afar, flickering.

"retreat!"

Huang Gai stood at the bow of the ship and ordered his soldiers to retreat to avoid Cao's arrow attacks and pursuit.

His face was full of excitement, joy and excitement.

He is about to accomplish an unprecedented feat, and with his hands, Cao's army will be wiped out in one battle.

Zhou Yu, Huang Gai and others, fearing failure and that the fire was not fierce enough, placed kerosene barrels under the burning ship in advance.

Calculating the distance, if the firewood burns through the surface, it will burn the oil barrel below.

When the two ships collided, the kerosene exploded and Cao Cao's ship would immediately be engulfed in fire.

It's an unsolvable situation.

Huang Gai laughed so loudly that the sound shook the surface of the river:
"Cao Cao, you are a thief who stole my country. You want to attack Jiangdong, but you only bring disgrace upon yourself. Today, let's see how you can escape and make the world laugh at you!"

Before he finished speaking, his expression suddenly changed.

Behind Cao Cao's flagship, several small boats rushed out between the large ships.

The small boat was actually filled with firewood.

Someone on the boat rowed and quickly headed towards the approaching fireboat.

The two teams of ships met in the middle of the river, and collided with each other violently when they were still forty or fifty feet away from Cao Cao's large ship.

The boatmen from Cao's camp jumped into the water in advance.

The colliding ships were burning fiercely in the middle of the river, and the wind fanned the flames.

As we all know, the burning of flames will cause the surrounding air temperature to rise, expand, and form a low-pressure area.

The place with the lowest air pressure is the center of the flame.

Under the pressure of the external high pressure, the ships sent by Cao's army were filled with firewood. Once they caught fire, the fires on the two ships would attract each other and would be difficult to separate.

So when the two ships collided, they became scorched earth.

At this time, several large fighting ships sailed out from both sides of Cao Cao's fleet.

The ships were lined up between every two boats, with several river locks being dragged out from under the river surface.

This is the second level of insurance.

The river lock was placed in front of Cao Cao's fleet. Even if the fireboat came, it would be blocked by the river lock and would hardly pose a threat to Cao Cao's fleet.

The strategy of sending fire ships to burn Cao Cao's fleet was not complicated.

It is not difficult to crack either.

The prerequisite is to be prepared in advance.

Huang Gai's laughter suddenly stopped.

After the two ships collided in the middle of the river, the fire that surged into the sky made him feel a chill in his heart.

The performance of Cao's army clearly showed that they were well prepared!

The planned collision of small boats and the river locks all proved that Cao Cao knew what they were going to do!
Huang Gai's panic and resentment after failure surged into his mind.

Gan Ning was on the commander's boat, stealing a glance at Cao Cao's back in front of him.

Before he boarded the ship, he saw the small boats being towed behind the command ship and was still puzzled. Now he finally understood what it meant to anticipate the enemy's moves.

I just saw the other side setting fire to the ship.

Even Gan Ning felt a palpitation in his heart and felt that the end was coming.

Unexpectedly, Cao Cao had made arrangements in advance and easily resolved the opponent's fire ship plan.

Gan Ning felt relieved that he had escaped from a desperate situation. He stood up again and felt that he was able to do it again.

Earlier, Cao Cao ordered the killing of Huang Gai, and Xu Chu rushed out instantly: "Da Dian, this military achievement belongs to me."

"no way."

Dian Wei sneered and was about to rush forward to fight for the lead when he heard Xu Chu's voice:
"Two hens, three geese, four ducks and a donkey."

Fuck, using this trick again... Dian Wei stopped and whispered, "Too little."

But Xu Chu had already rushed to the front.

As he spoke, he was in mid-air, drawing a high parabola, rising and falling dozens of feet at a time.

He couldn't run across the sky like Dian Wei.

But it is not a problem to use leverage on the water.

Xu Chu fell from the air and kicked his big feet on the water.

The water surface was pressed down by the powerful force field he released, forming a huge dent and the whole water sank.

Then the waves exploded, creating a reaction force, and Xu Chu jumped up again.

He ran on the water without stopping, making a terrifying sound and causing layers of waves to explode.

Everyone looked at Xu Chu.

But he was seen moving on the water at an incredible speed, and a huge gully was torn on the water surface wherever he passed. With the power of one person, he was like a huge ship sailing on the water, rushing towards Huang Gai.

Everyone couldn't help but shout in unison to cheer: "Zhongkang, catch him!"

"General Xu, take him! Take him!"

The generals cheered incessantly.

Xu Chu suddenly accelerated a second time.

All the bows and crossbows fired by the men on Huang Gai's ship missed the target.

In an instant, Xu Chu had climbed onto the bow of the ship where Huang Gai was, and without slowing down, he rammed into the enemy troops on the ship.

The two soldiers beside Huang Gai were hit by the roaring waves and fell into the water.

Huang Gai gathered his strength and threw a punch in the face.

He is tall and a brave general of Jiangdong.

The force of this punch can break stones and split monuments.

However, Xu Chu did not dodge or evade, but instead charged forward with his body.

In the muffled sound.

Huang Gai's punch was like being hit by a bomb, with blood and flesh all over the place.

After his forearm bone was hit, it protruded backwards from the elbow where it connected to the upper arm, revealing the white arm bone.

boom!
Huang Gai was then bumped into by Xu Chu, and was knocked away, losing weight and falling into the river.

Before he fell into the water, Xu Chu threw several punches, killing the Jiangdong soldiers on the boat one by one.

The ship was full of soldiers, and not a single one was alive.

Before Huang Gai fell into the water, Xu Chu leaped after him with a ferocious look on his face. He grabbed Huang Gai's neck, pushed him into the water, grabbed his hair, and dragged him backwards, running back.

Huang Gai was pressed into the water and dragged all the way back to Cao Cao's ship.

"Your Majesty."

Xu Chu killed and captured at the same time, just for the sake of being fierce.

Cao Cao looked at Huang Gai who was thrown on the deck, and took the long sword handed to him by his personal soldiers behind him.

"Your Majesty, the enemy has an ambush." ​​Taishi Ci stood on Cao Cao's flank.

He had amazing eyesight and could see through the mist on the river surface and focus his attention in one direction.

Cao Cao also turned his head to look.

The surface of the Yangtze River is quite wide.

This time, another fleet rushed up from the flank of Cao's army, also setting fire to it and rushing towards Cao Cao's ships.

It was Lu Su and Zhou Yu who thought carefully.

Consider in advance what to do if there is a change and Huang Gai fails?
They made backup arrangements in advance.

Even if Huang Gai's frontal attack failed, it would at least attract the attention of Cao's army.

As a supplement, this hidden fleet rushed out from the flank, aiming to set fire to Cao's ships.

The strategy of burning is the most direct and the most difficult to resist, and can destroy Cao's army.

Therefore, Zhou Yu used a series of strategies, all of which were fire attacks.

The fire ships that appeared at this time had many spells engraved on their sails and hull sides.

That was a spell drawn by the wind-listener, which could gather wind to a certain extent and increase the speed of the ship.

From this point of view, this fleet on the flank is the killer.

Zhou Yu made more detailed arrangements.

A thought flashed through Cao Cao's mind.

There are no detailed records of the Red Cliff Fire in history books.

Was there a second fleet arranged by Zhou Yu at that time, lurking on the side, waiting for an opportunity?
"Cao Cao!"

Huang Gai smiled bitterly and said, “Before the battle, my commander-in-chief said that you were cunning and hard to trust, but you easily accepted my surrender. Maybe there is something fishy going on.

As expected, my Grand Commander predicted it right."

Huang Gai struggled to stand up from the deck and looked to one side.

He wanted to see clearly how Cao Cao's ships were burned and how he was defeated:

"Cao Cao, you are ultimately inferior to my Grand Commander, whose strategies are unmatched... Red Cliff is where you lost your army and perished."

The fire ships on the flanks had already rushed within several dozen feet.

Cao Cao's fleet was so huge, with chains connected to each other, that it was impossible to dodge it again.

However, without Cao Cao's orders, soldiers on both sides of the ship took action, lifting the wooden boards between the ships, revealing the bronze chains that connected the hulls underneath.

The connection between the two ships was not nailed, but connected with hooks.

The soldiers grabbed one end of the chain connected to the hull and pulled it up to take it down.

Several soldiers attacked at the same time and separated the connected ships in a blink of an eye.

Cao Cao knew in advance that the other side was going to set fire, so of course he would not really link the ships together.

From the very beginning, he asked Zhou Yu to discover that Cao's army was carrying firewood along the coast and connecting to ships, which was an intentional trap to lure the enemy into a fire attack.

At the beginning of the Battle of Red Cliff, Cao Cao used his foresight to lure Zhou Yu and Lu Su into a trap.

All the arrangements made by the two afterwards were controlled by Cao Cao.

If Cao Cao had not wanted to wait for the troops from all parts of Jiangdong to gather and to inflict a heavy blow to Jiangdong and the aristocratic families behind it at one go, he would have taken action long ago and would not have waited until now.

At this point the ships were separated and the most that would be lost would be the two outer ships.

Moreover, as soon as they discovered a fire ship approaching, the small boat prepared behind the large ship immediately rushed up to intercept it.

The situation is similar to before.

The small boat stopped the fireboat and the big ship was safe.

The separation of the large ships fundamentally eliminated the possibility of fire attacks causing devastating damage to Cao's army.

On the boat, Huang Gai looked at the large ships breaking apart one by one in disbelief: "Your ships are not nailed down... not nailed down..."

A personal guard came up and forced him to his knees.

Cao Cao slashed with his sword.

Huang Gai's neck was cut open.

From his throat came a rapid gasp like a broken bellows.

That was caused by a cut throat, which made it impossible to breathe.

Cao Cao swung his sword.

Huang Gai's head was broken off and was pulled off by his personal soldiers who grabbed his hair, and his head and body were separated.

The remains fell on the deck.

"Hang his head on the bow, go ashore, and defeat the enemy!!"

Behind, one ship after another emerged from the crowd, overtook the command ship, and rushed to the opposite bank.

……

Zhou Yu was in the camp on the shore, waiting for news.

He had sent a team to follow Huang Gai so that they could pass on the news in time.

Judging from the time, there should be results soon.

Also in the general's tent were Lu Su and Cheng Pu.

The scout in charge of looking out over the river sent back a message:
"Grand Commander, a fire has broken out on the river!"

Zhou Yu and the other two looked at each other. There was a big fire on the river. Nineteen was done.

"After tonight, the fate of the world will be determined by this battle."

Lu Su and Zhou Yu both saw it very clearly.

If Jiangdong wins this battle, Cao's army will be seriously damaged.

Even if Cao Cao could escape unscathed, he would not have the strength to invade the south for several years.

What's more, Zhou Yu had a series of arrangements centered around the fire, and he pursued Cao's camp relentlessly to expand the results of the battle.

It remains to be seen whether Cao's army can hold on to Jingzhou and Xiangyang.

Zhou Yu came to the entrance of the big tent and looked out.

Over the Yangtze River, flames were faintly visible.

The fire that ignited the river at Red Cliff will surely leave an indelible mark for a thousand years, dividing the world into three parts and losing the opportunity for unification.

The so-called defeat is like a mountain collapsing.

With the victory in this battle, Jiangdong's position became unshakable.

Zhou Yu sat back in the main seat and personally poured a cup of brewed tea for Lu Su and Cheng Pu.

"People say Cao Mengde is a cunning and strategic warrior with careful considerations, but this defeat at Red Cliff is enough to ruin his reputation."

Cheng Pu had a resolute face and a large frame, and he looked quite imposing as he sat there.

He raised his teacup and said, "I wish the Grand Commander a successful battle and a name that will live forever."

Zhou Yu took a sip from the cup and felt a warm current flowing through his stomach:
"Pass the order. Once it is confirmed that Huang Gai's plan has succeeded, immediately send troops to attack and sink Cao's army into the river."

At this time, a personal soldier walked in quickly from outside the tent.

His face was grim and he looked terrified.

Zhou Yu and the other two suddenly felt a little depressed.

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