A red sun jumped out of the river, instantly turning the Taotao River red.
At this time, a large number of warships could be seen going up the river.
Lu Xun rushed to Chaisang with more than 500 warships.
At this moment, he did not know that Chaisang City had fallen into the hands of the Han army before dawn. .
The infantrymen of the Wu army on the ship were all holding weapons specially designed for boarding battles and stood on the deck of the warship.
The soldiers in charge of lookout climbed to the mast to guard against the enemy on the river.
On land, nearly ten thousand Wu soldiers bravely formed a team that was more than two miles long, marching toward Chaisang with light armor and simple equipment, but their speed lagged behind the boats in the river.
When Lu Xun's fleet arrived at the Chaisang River, these infantry were still more than ten miles away from Chaisang City.
Lu Xun stood on the bow of the boat and squinted at the river bank where Chai Sang was, but he didn't seem to notice any confrontation between the troops.
Chaisang City was a scene of devastation, as if a great battle had just occurred.
Lu Xun was not surprised at all, because the advance reconnaissance ship he sent last night reported to him before dawn that there was a fierce battle in Chaisang City from noon the day before yesterday until late at night.
But Lu Xun never expected that after only half a day and half a night of fierce fighting, the Han army would be able to capture Chaisang City where eight thousand elite soldiers were stationed.
He was about to send out troops to land for reconnaissance and get in touch with Chai Sang.
The boatmen and soldiers responsible for the lookout had already issued a warning and shouted: "A large number of enemy ships have appeared in the northwest of the river."
Similar shouts and shouts came one after another on the sterns of various ships.
Lu Xun put up a pergola and looked toward the northwest river.
Sure enough, he saw a large group of ships covered in darkness, so he issued a military order to fight the enemy.
The warships of the Wu army formed an offensive formation amid the sound of drums and trumpets, and headed towards the enemy.
At the same time, the Han navy also issued an attack order, and nearly three hundred centipede ships "shot" at the Wu fleet like arrows.
The centipede ship went down the river, and the oarsmen in the bilge turned on their power again.
In a moment, they were close to Wu Jun's warship.
Lu Xun was extremely surprised when he saw how fast the enemy warship was.
Then when he saw the strange shape of the Centipede ship, which looked like four rows of long oars with its wings flying up and down, he knew something was wrong.
Before he could change his mind, these centipede ships had already rushed into the Wu fleet, and huge rumbling crashes were heard one after another.
Many Wu Army warships were tilted severely by the collision.
The soldiers on the deck who were still waiting to join the battle were caught off guard and rolled on the deck.
Many of them rolled directly into the Taotao River.
Others were accidentally injured by their own weapons during the collision and rolling, and died immediately from stomachache and intestinal bleeding.
The only counterattack the Wu army warships could do was to keep throwing arrows at these centipede ships.
However, there was almost no one on the deck of the Centipede ship.
The few sailors operating the ship were all wearing heavy armor, and the arrow attacks had almost no effect on the Centipede ship.
A Wu Army warship was lucky enough not to be hit by the centipede ship's ramming angle, and happened to pass by a Centipede ship.
The Wu Army soldiers on the ship seized the opportunity and used a hook-and-scythe that was specially designed to engage in broadside combat and lasted for two battles.
The gun set up the centipede ship, tried to bring the centipede ship closer, and then jumped to fight.
At this time, Wu Jun on the warship heard a series of loud noises like muffled thunder.
The hull under his feet began to tremble violently.
It turned out that the five crossbow cannons installed on the sides of the Centipede fired huge shells, instantly blasting five large holes in the side of the Wu army's warship below the waterline, and the river began to flow.
Flooding into the cabin, the ship began to tilt.
The sailors in the Centipede's bottom cabin began to speed up at the commander's command.
A dozen soldiers of the Wu army were still setting up the centipede ship with hook guns.
Suddenly, they felt a huge force coming instantly.
Except for one or two who quickly reacted and threw away their hook guns, the others were instantly dragged off the tilting ship.
The agile centipede ships clashed left and right in the Wu fleet.
After the two sides connected with the enemy, in less than half an hour, most of the 500 Wu fleets were buried at the bottom of the river.
The surface of the river was densely covered with heads of Wu soldiers from Luoshui.
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The few Wu army warships that survived fled downstream.
The Centipede ship began to accelerate its pursuit, and when it was approaching parallel to the target, it attacked with ballista shells or explosive shells.
The infantry of the Wu army who were marching towards Chaisang City on the river bank were at a loss when they saw this scene.
Gan Ning, who was leading the army, did not know whether he should continue to march towards Chaisang or turn around and retreat.
Gan Ning hesitated and marched forward for another two miles before confirming that their Wu navy had been completely destroyed.
Gan Ning immediately ordered the entire army to retreat.
However, it was too late.
A Han cavalry force of more than 3,000 men was speeding up.
At the same time, ships full of Han army's Tiger and Infantry infantry had flown down the river and landed behind Gan Ning, blocking their way back.
The terrain on this section of the river bank was flat, and the Ganning tribe was quickly overtaken by more than two thousand kidnapping horses and six to seven hundred iron pagodas.
The Wu army, which was retreating rapidly, was chased and slaughtered by these cavalry and immediately turned into a rout.
The soldiers of the Wu army began to lose control of their generals and fled in all directions.
Some continued to flee to the lower reaches of the Yangtze River, some ran to the mountains far to the south, and some got into the reeds along the river.
Gan Ning regretted his hasty retreat order.
It would have been better if he had arranged for a small group of troops to cut off the rear before retreating.
However, there is no regret medicine on the battlefield.
Now he can only try his best to organize troops and horses for a counterattack.
After working hard for a long time, he can only gather 3,000 troops and horses, and barely form a formation.
In order to boost his morale, he raised his gun and rode towards them.
Unexpectedly, a general jumped out from the cavalry of the Han army.
He had a silver helmet, a silver spear, a white robe and a white horse.
It was so dazzling that it hurt your eyes.
It was Changshan Zhao Zilong, the general of the Han army.
The two men fought in advance in the formation a few breaths before the two armies fought.
In these few breaths, as Zhao Yun shouted: "Death to the water thieves," Gan Ning was knocked off his horse by Zhao Yun.
Almost at the same time, the Han army's iron pagoda rushed into the three thousand Wu troops.
With swords in hand, the three thousand Wu troops were completely defeated in a moment of bloody killing.
The dead were not counted.
More than two thousand kidnapper horses in the rear continued to hunt the fleeing Wu army.
When the sun was in the middle of the day, a large number of ships appeared on the river east of the river.
The Han army began to cross the river on a large scale from Guangling, Shouchun, and Wujiang.
The remaining Jiangdong naval forces dispatched urgently to try to intercept.
But their fate was the same as that of Xiakou and the Wu navy in Chaisang City.
They were completely beaten by nearly a thousand escorting galley warships.
The infantry that was supposed to be used for boarding battles were greatly lost in water battles without boarding battles.
The Han army's five Tiger Divisions and 50,000 county soldiers successfully crossed the Yangtze River and began to attack the city as if there was no one in the area.
Three days later, the navy from Jingzhou also arrived near Jianye and brought two Huben divisions.
At this time, Jianye was tightly surrounded, and Sun Quan was like a turtle in an urn.
At the same time, Cheng Lian's Southern Expedition Army had conquered Lingling, Wuling, and Guilin counties.
The moment of unification of the Han Empire is just around the corner
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