Gan Ning stroked his beard and sighed. "A true tiger cub of a general's house."
"Xingba, don't tease me. Our Lan Family rose from humble beginnings—what general's house are we?" Lan Tian shook his head with a bitter smile.
"Haha, you will be one in the future." Gan Ning replied with a smile.
Noncommittal, Lan Tian looked out over the river. Fighting on the water differed from fighting on land. After suppressing the enemy with a rain of arrows came the close-quarters battle to seize ships. Since there was no land to flee to if one lost, agile and nimble fighters held the greatest advantage; the heavily armored Trap-Breaking Army was instead ill-suited to such combat.
Gan Ning's core troops had come from the Brocade Sail Bandits. Every one of them was sturdy and nimble, clad in light leather armor and wielding a motley assortment of weapons. They hardly looked like a regular army, yet when it came to taking ships, they shone with particular brilliance. They flung out grappling hooks to secure the Eastern Wu vessels, then climbed and leaped like apes.
As time passed, the Eastern Wu soldiers sent to urge surrender were persuaded to surrender in turn. Amid the battle, Gan Ning directed the Doujian Warships into formations, using them like cavalry on land to forcibly split apart Eastern Wu's fleet. Not only did this prevent the ships from joining forces, it also kept Lu Xun's orders from reaching the front lines.
An hour after the battle began on the river, the sun slowly sank into the waters west of the Yangtze River, and the situation on the battlefield gradually became one-sided.
"Grand Viceroy, the situation does not seem favorable." Sun Quan came to Lu Xun's side with a grave expression.
Sweat covered Lu Xun's head as