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Song-Ming -> Romance of the Three Kingdoms -> Zhuge Liang Plans For The Three Kingdoms; Sun Quan Attacks Xiakou To Take Revenges -> 25

孫權曰：「此金玉之論也！」遂命周瑜為大都督，總水陸軍兵；呂蒙為前部先鋒；董襲與甘寧為副將；權自領大軍十萬，征討黃祖。細作探知，報至江夏。黃祖急聚眾商議，令蘇飛為大將，陳就、鄧龍為先鋒，盡起江夏之兵迎敵。陳就、鄧龍各引一隊艨艟截住沔口，艨艟上各設強弓硬弩千餘張，將大索繫定艨艟於水面上。東吳兵至，艨艟上鼓響，弓弩齊發，兵不敢進，約退數里水面。甘寧謂董襲曰：「事已至此，不得不進。」乃選小船百餘隻，每船用精兵五十人。──二十人撐船，三十人各披衣甲，手執鋼刀，──不避矢石，直至艨艟傍邊，砍斷大索，艨艟遂橫。"The advice is most valuable," said Sun Quan, and he made his preparations. Zhou Yu was appointed Commander-in-Chief; Lu Meng was Van Leader; Dong Xi and Gan Ning were Generals. Sun Quan himself would command the main army of one hundred thousand troops. The spies reported that to Huang Zu who, at the news of an expedition against him, called his officers together to consult. He placed Su Fei in chief command. He also appointed Chen Jiu and Deng Long as Van Leaders, and prepared for general defense. He had two hundreds of warships under the command of Chen Jiu and Deng Long. On these he placed strong bows and stiff crossbows to the number of more than a thousand and secured the boats to heavy hawsers so that they formed a barrier in the river. At the approach of the southern fleet, the drums beat for the ships to attack. Soon arrows and bolts flew thick, forcing back the invaders, who withdrew till several miles of water lay between them and the defenders. "We must go forward," said Gan Ning to Dong Xi. So they chose a hundred light craft and put picked men on them, fifty to a boat. Twenty were to row the boats and thirty to fight. These latter were armored swordsmen. Careless of the enemy's missiles these boats advanced, got to the defenders' fleet, and cut the hawsers of their ships so that they drifted hither and thither in confusion.

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