Chapter 607: Ruthless River
The water ghosts in Jiangdong attacked and quietly went down the river at night.
The surface of the river was pitch black, and the sound of water was bursting.
Below the surface of the water, thousands of people are moving quietly.
After swimming for a while, they approached the busy temporary pier by the river.
There are many ships lined up on this temporary pier, waiting to load food and personnel.
The targets of these water ghosts are these ships.
After they got to the bottom of the boats, they slowly scraped with knives to damage the bottoms of these boats.
It is not easy to damage them due to the thick bottom of the boat. They scrape slowly on the side of the boat with a knife, and dare not use a chisel because they are afraid that they will be discovered if they make too much noise.
The thick wooden planks at the bottom of the boat were scraped thin, and they were not in a hurry to break.
There are usually two or three people working under a boat. They stay close to the side of the boat, and after a while they can come out to breathe with a tube in their mouth, and they can stay underwater for a long time.
The boat was so busy, they didn't realize what was going on under the boat, the sound of carrying items on the boat, the sound of people calling, and the sound of water covered their voices.
These people are all people who live by the river, and it is no problem to stay under the water for an hour.
The sharp small knives are specially configured, which can save effort to scrape the transmission thinly. Some people even bring a few knives and tie them around their waists, which allows them to use more convenient knives to operate.
A few places on the bottom of the ship were scraped very thinly, and there were even some cracks. The cracks were not big, and the command saw a little water seep in, so it would not be found in the dark.
Many parked boats are taken care of.
After more than an hour, these ships were all attacked, and there were problems with the bottom of the ships.
And these water ghosts swim downstream along the Yangtze River.
After swimming a few miles, there was a special person to meet him in a reed marsh.
One by one, the water ghosts were pulled onto the boat to rest wearily.
"grown ups,
There are more than two hundred people who have not come back, I am afraid..."
The young general who was in charge of responding to these water ghosts sighed and said: "Wait for another stick of incense, if you don't come back, I'm afraid you won't come back."
Most of these water ghosts are not members of the army, they are temporary recruits of people with good water skills.
Some of them are boatmen and some are fishermen. This time, there is a need, and as soon as the government called for them, many people came to apply.
Finally, a group of more than 1,000 water ghosts was selected.
But this operation is still very dangerous, not because of the enemy, but because of the dark night and the icy river.
The temperature is already low at night, and it takes a lot of energy to stay underwater for such a long time.
Many people just don't have the strength to swim back, and never do.
But their sacrifice was worth it.
A few hours later, these ships were loaded with cargo, and the formation began to go to the other side of the river.
There are hundreds of big ships, and it feels a bit mighty on the river.
This is the fleet assembled by Sun Ce and Yuan Shu.
The army has crossed the other side, and now the main thing is to transport the food and grass, and then they can prepare for war.
Well planned, they moved overnight.
Hundreds of boats headed for the center of the Yangtze River.
The waves in the water beat on the boat, but the boat was full of supplies and personnel, and the draft was very heavy, which did not shake the boat violently.
However, some cracks under the bottom of the boat began to seep under the beating of the river water, and then the openings slowly expanded.
When some thin planks start to splinter, those splits will grow bigger and bigger.
It hasn't been discovered yet.
Crackling, crackling.
Some of the planks were broken in pieces, unable to withstand the beating of the water waves and the pressure of the ship, they shattered all at once.
"No, there's water in here, stop it quickly."
"Why is it broken, plug it up quickly, or the ship will sink."
"What, there's water in here too."
"Quick, soak some of the food on board."
"Block it, stop it, if you don't stop it, it will be dangerous."
A boat began to break apart, opening several holes, and the river gushed in.
The crew was terrified. The ship was fine just now, so why did such a serious thing happen just now in the middle of the river.
One boat started to have problems, and then several boats had problems at the same time, causing chaos on the river, and the originally neat fleet suddenly became a mess.
"What's going on, what's going on, what's the mess." Huang Gai was the general in charge of escorting Sun Cefang. He led ten thousand soldiers across the river with grain and grass, and this happened suddenly.
"Don't make a mess, if you make a mess, you will collide." Huang Gai shouted looking at the swaying ships around him.
It would be serious if the ship collided.
"Crack, click."
There was also a crackling sound from the ship where Huang Gai was on.
"General, it's not good, the bottom of the boat is leaking."
"Two big holes were broken, and the ship was going to sink."
The soldiers shouted hastily.
Huang Gai has realized something, these ships have been destroyed.
Since they were in a hurry to cross the river, they did not check.
"Boom~"
Suddenly there was a not-so-loud collision sound, and Huang Gai saw that two boats not far away had collided.
Many people were thrown into the river and the boat capsized.
The ship was completely hopeless, and both ships sank rapidly.
This sinking also brought great harm, that is, the vortex generated by the sinking affected some ships nearby, and they couldn't control it, and collided one after another.
"It's over, it's over." Huang Gai sighed, and then ordered: "Abandon the boat, abandon the boat immediately, and swim to the river."
Knowing that these ships had been tampered with, Huang Gai could only order to abandon the ship, and save some soldiers if he could.
Many soldiers dived one after another, smart enough to take off their equipment, and some nervously jumped down with their equipment on, and sank after a while.
Even people who take off their equipment may not be able to swim to the shore.
Not to mention the grain and grass, most of them sank to the bottom of the river.
"The operation went well, it's time for us to set off."
Counting the time, Gao Shun slowly moved towards the river with the army.
Withdrawing fifty miles back is just to make the enemy underestimate the enemy.
Gao Shun and the others set the battlefield by the river to prevent the enemy from invading the hinterland. At the same time, they also wanted to take advantage of the natural danger of the Yangtze River.
At this time, many people in the Yangtze River were struggling, including Sun Ce's soldiers and Yuan Shu's soldiers.
More than 30,000 soldiers were transported on hundreds of large ships. These people all dived. If they were lucky, they could grab the planks and swim back. If they were unlucky, they would be directly sucked into the water by the whirlpool.
After tossing for most of the night, people on both sides actively rescued people, but only about half of the people came back in the end.
It's too miserable, it's such a big loss before the fight, especially the food and grass of the more than 100 big ships.
Without these supplies, it would take several days for them to reorganize the delivery.
More importantly, food is easy to handle, but ships are hard to find.
They suddenly realized a big problem. It might be a big mistake to fight across the river.
Zhang Yu has been in control of the Yangtze River for so long, he has already figured out the Yangtze River clearly, and has thought of many tactics. This time they come, he already has a countermeasure.
(End of this chapter) The strongest system to control the Three Kingdoms