Volume 3: The Land of Jingchu Chapter 221: Shura Military Supervisor
Wearing a silver and red gilded armor, Zhou Yu stood at the bow of the Wu Ya warship. Zhou Yu was a typical master of both seals and talismans. Like Bai Tu, he had both the seal of a civil official and the seal of a military commander.
But in terms of military strength...
It reached the gilding stage half a year earlier than the white map.
The naval battle three days ago was just a contact battle, but the army had not followed up yet because Sun Ce couldn't help it...
Zhou Yu had not expected that he would destroy a small half of the Jiangxia navy's combat effectiveness in one fell swoop - on the one hand, the Wuya warships were invincible, and on the other hand... the Jiangxia navy was originally supported by military equipment, and when the military equipment was at an absolute disadvantage, the weakness was also obvious.
However, there are mostly cliffs on both sides of the big rivers, and at most some mudflats that are inconvenient to walk on may be exposed during the dry season.
Especially in Xiakou and Miankou, where the Han River flows into the Yangtze River, as long as troops are stationed on both sides of the river and equipped with sufficient stone arrows, any fleet that wants to enter the water fort will have to go through this baptism from top to bottom.
In other words, although the naval battle was a decisive confrontation, it would be impossible to capture Mianyangkou without the support of infantry and cavalry on land. At least the camp on the cliff must be controlled, and the water surface cannot be attacked at will!
"Huh? You actually dare to take the initiative to fight back?" Zhou Yu was surprised when he saw that a large number of boats and sea gulls appeared on the other side, and the three remaining warships were also on the line.
Just at this time , shouts of killing were heard on both sides of the river. It was the land assault army led by Cheng Pu, which had already engaged in a battle with the camps deployed by Huang Zu on both sides. Zhou Yu also waved his hand.
I saw powerful archers on both sides, drawing their strong bows and shooting into the sky. What they shot were flaring arrows, and the sound was heard on the river. The Chaisang navy, who received the signal, rowed their boats three times faster!
Three five-toothed warships were in the middle, two in front and one in the back, with flat boats covering both wings. Between and behind the warships were densely packed fast oars. When the battle was about to begin, a large number of fast oars were seen passing through between the two large warships and pouncing on the opposite boats like a group of jackals hunting their prey, but they were not too far away from the five-toothed warships.
The soldiers on the Wuya warship, taking advantage of their height, shot arrows into the sky from the arrow holes on the cabin...
However, at this moment, Huang Zu's warships also approached, and even... started shooting arrows earlier than Zhou Yu expected!
The commander is nervous? ——Zhou Yu just had a flash of doubt in his mind, and then he realized something was wrong!
The opponent's range has increased by a quarter...
Was he using a longbow? That doesn't make sense. Speed of fire should be more important in naval battles.
And... right after that, arrows were fired out from the warship with a density that was probably half that of the Wuya warship!
This firing rate can't be a longbow!
The Wuya warship has nine hundred archers alone, distributed on five floors. Normally, they use a three-stage shooting method - after an archer shoots an arrow, he will make way for the arrow hole and replace the second and third archers, and the cycle continues.
All you have to do is follow the instructions and shoot the arrow at the angle specified by the instructions from the arrow hole. There is only one arrow hole in sight, and you can't aim...
The three-person rotation can basically balance the archer's arm fatigue with the arrow's shooting speed and power to the greatest extent, with the best cost-effectiveness.
Because they shoot according to the drum beats, the rhythm of each batch will basically not be disrupted before the archers are exhausted, so it appears as a series of dense rain of arrows.
In comparison, the arrows fired at the same time from a single-layer warship were much sparser than those fired from a five-layer Five-toothed warship, but... the frequency was always maintained! There was no pause at all from the Five-toothed warship.
This is also the reason why Echeng's manufacturing industry cannot be compared with those of Jinling and Jingkou - if the crossbows are replaced with those produced on the assembly line, the shooting frequency will not be so different. They obviously start shooting arrows at the same time, but the arrows come out in a mess, and it becomes more and more chaotic.
"Could it be multiple shots? No, that cabin doesn't look like it can accommodate hundreds of people." Zhou Yu frowned.
Considering the size of the ship's cabin and the density of arrow holes, it shouldn't be possible to shoot in multiple stages - it simply can't accommodate so many people.
"Hmm? It seems to pause for a moment... and starts again! The interval in between is only about one breath." Zhou Yu observed, and imagined in his mind archers drawing their bows and shooting arrows at the speed of three arrows per breath.
A breath refers to a person's breathing in and out, which is generally about six seconds...
One arrow every two seconds? The scene in Zhou Yu's mind suddenly became weird.
"The same ability as mine? Impossible. Even for me, there can't be such a large-scale amplification. Under Huang Zu... no, it should be said that there is no one in the whole world whose mental power is as strong as mine." Zhou Yu muttered as he surveyed the battlefield from the top of the Wuya warship.
I saw three warships and most of the fighting ships, all of which had this firing rate at this time... The overall firepower was not much weaker than the three five-tooth large ships for a while!
For a time, the soldiers on both sides' boats and paddle boats who were responsible for boarding battles suffered a lot. Not only did they suffer heavy casualties, but they were also not allowed to force their way in...
"Gongjin! The casualties will be too great. Let's move the Wuya warship forward!" Sun Ce said hurriedly.
Sun Ce turned around and saw Zhou Yu with a gloomy face, lowering his head slightly, with the feather fan in his left hand slightly covering his face...
"Are you going to use that trick?" Sun Ce grinned slightly, and his Adam's apple moved.
"Don't worry, it's just shooting arrows. It's okay if you, Bofu, come to lead the troops, but... don't let me keep it up for too long... it will make me ugly!" Zhou Yu said, raising his head and covering the part below his eyes with a feather fan.
However, judging from the "eyes", it is already full of destructive desire and terror!
If it were Liu Xun, he would probably have had some experience - before at Wujiang, when Liu Xun wanted to kill Sun Ce, Zhou Yu's face turned as white as a demon in an instant, and his facial expression would be reflected in the minds of those around him even if they didn't see it with their own eyes.
At that time, Liu Xun was just frightened, because... this is not an ability that mainly works on the enemy!
At this moment, in the Wu Ya warship where Zhou Yu was, thousands of soldiers and hundreds of generals had a ghost-like face appearing in their minds at the same time.
However... what they felt was not just panic. Both the Ji-zao soldiers and the human generals seemed to be supervised by evil spirits, and their potential suddenly burst out.
It’s not a psychological factor, but the body seems to be "woken up".
The soldiers became excited from the moment they received the order to beat the drum, so the drumbeats became faster. Along with the drumbeats, the Ji-zao soldiers in the Wuya warship also began to speed up!
It was Zhou Yu's strategy - Shura Military Supervisor, that caused his own soldiers within a certain range to enter a "frenzy" state, with their strength, speed, and combat instincts increased, but the obedience of Ji-made soldiers decreased, and humans would become impulsive and irritable, making the enemy troops within the range more likely to be infected by fear.
It is a strategy for directly "interfering" with the battlefield, derived from the "Phase Scroll". Only the scope and quantity of its impact are related to mental power. Its continuation does not consume mental power, but rather... consumes "Phase"!
Zhou Yu's "Appearance" is directly linked to his mental power, which can be said to be different from ordinary strategies. "Ashura Military Supervisor" directly consumes the upper limit of mental power.
At the same time, Zhou Yu's "appearance" will also be affected, so Zhou Yu will not use this strategy unless he has to.
Sun Ce also knew this, and had already rushed down the Wu Ya warship, using the power of the fast oar boats and the enemy's running boats - cherishing every second of advantage created by Zhou Yu, personally leading the charge and organizing the boarding battle!
