A massive net made of iron chains stretched across the river, pulled by two enormous warships, one to the east and one to the west.
The decks of the giant ships were packed with sturdy soldiers. They hauled the iron chains taut, forming an iron wall!
The fire ships came charging in and crashed into the chains. The chains only swayed slightly a few times, and otherwise remained completely unaffected.
The warships, however, shattered themselves to pieces under the force of the impact when they struck the chains!
Boom! Boom! Boom!
Every impact erupted into a towering blaze.
Unfortunately, the flames could only burn along the iron chains and could not reach Jiang Siming's navy or warships at all.
Jiang Siming's soldiers watched leisurely, as if enjoying fireworks—the fireworks Jiangdong had put on for them.
Huang Gai watched the scene from the river, almost unable to believe that such a method could withstand the assault of hundreds of fire ships.
In the past, they could at most shoot down the fire ships. But Jiang Siming had used this net-like formation to completely extinguish the scheme in which their four-way alliance had placed all its hopes.
"Retreat! We'll return to Jiangdong and think of another way!"
At this point, Huang Gai could only choose to retreat first. Once the strategists came up with another plan, they would deal with Jiang Siming again.
But they were far from Jiangdong, and swimming back would take at least half a day.
The original plan had been to set the fire ships ablaze and crash them into Jiang Siming's navy, then jump into the river and escape.
Afterward, the four feudal lords would lead their troops to pick them up. Finally, they would take advantage of the chaos and wipe out Jiang Siming's navy in