At less than three o'clock on June 15, the fourteenth year of the Great Cause, the combined forces of Li Qin and Dou Qing met on the river in the middle of the Yangtze River, a hundred miles north of Huarong County. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

Both sides spotted each other and began to hedge against each other.

Although there are many ships on Xiao Miao's side, the Lou boats, which are the overlords of the water war, are fewer than those on Dou Qing's side. Xiao Mo knew that the strength of the Fang side was the surprise attack ability formed by the cooperation of the fighting ship and the warp, rather than the ability to fight in battle with the enemy.

Therefore, the formation set by Xiao Milling is the Wild Goose Array, and its intention is to let Dou Qing be the best at attacking Dou Qing's back side.

This is Xiao Miao's inevitable choice.

On the opposite side of Xiao Miao, Dou Qing's side stood in a sharp arrow formation, using the tall building ship as the arrow, covering the fighting ships and ships to move forward, forming a cone, and then carrying a large number of small boats as the rear team.

This is the result of Dou Qing, Chen Ling and Nangong Haizhu's discussion.

And this result seems to be right on Xiao Miao's goose array.

Before the end of the day, the two sides engaged in battle.

The arrows in the sky were staggered in the void where the two sides were only thirty feet apart, obscuring the sky between the two ships, and the small boat soldiers who were hidden between the big ships only felt that the sky above their heads suddenly darkened, and they stared at each other, seeing that it was such a situation where you came and went like locusts circling.

The ships on both sides are the same, equipped with the same number of archers, and the level of training between them seems to be half a pound.

At the moment when the battle began, the attack of the rain of arrows entered a rather fierce level.

From time to time, an unlucky ghost with an arrow fell from the side of the ship, from behind the female wall, and fell into the river, splashing blood-colored waves, smashing onto the board of the ship and falling like flesh.

"Steady! Steady! As long as we miss this wave of enemy ships, we can teach them a good lesson. The officer on board shouted loudly.

Although both sides have ships, war is not a collision of soldiers against soldiers, generals against generals, strong against strong.

In fact, for a clever commander, how to use his longest point to deal with the opponent's shortest is the most important thing they need to ponder.

Even though the casualties on both sides were unexpectedly high at the beginning of the battle, neither side had any intention of temporarily changing the way of fighting, and they used various methods to persuade the soldiers to persevere in such a hell until the end of this hellish journey.

At the second moment, the ships of the two sides finally disengaged from contact.

The most tragic journey for these vanguards has finally come to an end.

"Send a signal! The wings are encircled! Dong Jingzhen, who was standing on the ship, calmly watched the battle situation on the field, and gave an order indifferently.

The melodious horn sounded across the river, and all the soldiers understood that this water battle had entered the second stage here.

This stage is when the fighting intentions of both sides are fully revealed.

For Xiao Miao, this stage is when the warship in his hand besieges the soft part of Dou Qinglou's ship under the leadership of Lou Chuan, who still doesn't know how much combat power has been retained, is a feast of fierce harvesting of the enemy's flesh and blood.

For Dou Qing, Chen Ling, and even Nangong Haizhu, this section is when the gunboat in Nangong Haizhu's hands shows its hideous fangs.

"Xiao Mo probably doesn't know how our gunboat fights and how strong its combat effectiveness is. He's going to go out of his way to get close to us, get it closer, and give him the hardest punch. When we beat them to the ground, the ships of the Yangtze River Sailors will rush forward and bring them into despair. In Nangong Haizhu's heart, the most ideal situation of this battle should be like this.

Everyone has their own expectations. Before the collision even began, both sides were confident that they would be able to pull off the perfect victory.

But is that really the way it is?

In order to ensure the combat effect to lure the enemy deeper, Dou Qing and Nangong Haizhu both restrained their minions at the beginning of the war, and they carried out the most basic resistance to the fleet of Xiao Mill's army that rushed over.

Under such weak resistance, Dong Jingzhen's fleet swept over from the north and south lines like pincers, and suddenly ploughed a bloody road full of blood and debris in Li Qinjun's formation.

The boat is not able to go head-on with the boat. The positive result of both sides was that the boat was directly crushed to pieces.

Dong Jingzhen started with more than ten building ships, and with the direction of the river and the drumming of the crosswind, he easily increased the speed of the warship to a high point. He ran over and crushed dozens of ships of Dou Qing's Yangtze River Sailor Division at once.

"The North Third Formation was broken through ......"

"The collapse of the South Sixth Formation ......"

"The South Fourth Formation Receives the Enemy......"

All kinds of bad news came one after another, covering Nangong Haizhu's pretty face with a shell like ice.

"Stop telling me these inconsequential details. Now I just want to know how far Dong Jingzhen's fleet is from us. Nangong Haizhu's face was cold, his heart was cold, and the cold voice interrupted the report of his soldiers.

"They're a mile away from us!" The soldier was taken aback, and hurriedly stood up and replied in a slightly panicked manner.

"Inform me when they're still a hundred and fifty feet away from us." Nangong Haizhu gave the order succinctly.

"Yes!" The soldiers left in a hurry.

But it didn't take long for him to return: "The enemy is only one hundred and fifty feet away from us. ”

He reported loudly, a slightly panicked look on his face.

"Peace of mind! Wait until they are a hundred feet away from us. Nangong Haizhu waved his hand indifferently and sent the soldiers away again.

"Good!" The soldier left nervously.

But soon, he turned back and reported to Nangong Haizhu again: "It's only a hundred zhang." ”

At this moment, he had a look of crying on his face. Dong Jingzhen's fleet kept approaching, and the other party's tall and majestic hull and unbeatable momentum weighed heavily on his heart. He was worried and scared, and he tried to persuade Nangong Haizhu to launch a counterattack immediately: "If we don't fight again, the enemy will rush in front of us." ”

"Don't think so much, it's only a hundred? What weapons does the enemy have that can attack us from a hundred feet away? Nangong Haizhu still waved his hand indifferently.

As he was talking, he only heard the crisp sound of bowstrings plucking on the opposite ship, and saw three or five thick iron guns coming and piercing through the hull of the gunboat's outer layer and slamming into the deck not far in front of Nangong Haizhu.

Nangong Haizhu and the soldiers were taken aback. They looked at each other for a long time, looking at the tail of the iron spear, which was still buzzing and trembling.

"General, the enemy still has weapons that can attack us." The soldier was really scared and cried.

"Peace of mind, peace of mind!" Nangong Haizhu gently patted the soldier's shoulder: "There are definitely not many weapons that they can attack us." This is an arrow fired from a bed crossbow, which does not have much of a fast firing speed. Wait until the enemy is only fifty feet away from us, and then let me know. ”

Nangong Haizhu once again sent the soldiers away.

After a while, the soldier returned. At this moment, the soldier stopped crying, and his face was completely numb: "The enemy is only fifty feet away from us. He said rigidly.

"Good!" Nangong Haizhu ordered loudly: "All warships, the left and right cannon doors are open...... Let's give these guys the warmest welcome. ”

"Yes!" When the counterattack finally began, a smile of excitement appeared on the soldier's face. He quickly turned around and trotted out to give the order.

"Huh!" The flags for the start of the shelling were hoisted on the left and right sides of the battleship's mast.

For a moment there was a crisp bell chime above all the gunboats, which was the sound of the beginning of the shelling.

In the midst of such bells, the gun doors on both sides of the ship were opened, and the silver guns made of stainless steel were pushed to the gun windows.

"Fire!" As the commander of the artillery gave a loud order, the soldiers who operated the cannon invariably lit the arquebus on the gun door.

After two or three breaths, the cannon began to roar, and a hot shell smashed through the white smoke that had first erupted from the muzzle of the cannon and smashed into the enemy ship fifty feet away.

The power of artillery is amazing. Although the projections were all huge iron balls, which seemed to have no power, it was really a very dangerous thing for the building ship.

The iron ball smashed into the body of the building ship with a terrible whistling sound, and the huge kinetic energy given by the gunpowder made him easily tear open the hull of the building ship.

The building ships of this era did not have any special reinforcement to cope with the threat of artillery. Therefore, they all look tall and majestic, but under artillery fire, their own behavior is no different from that of paper paste.

In the first round of shelling alone, three or four ships were beaten by the gunboats on Li Qin's side, and they completely lost their combat effectiveness. And the rest of the building ships were also injured a lot in this round of stormy blows.

For a time, Xiao Miao's fleet was completely blinded.

"Damn, what the hell is going on? What kind of weapons can cause such damage? Dong Jingzhen, who got up from a piece of wooden ruins, shook her head in a daze, and asked in surprise.

He didn't know how to respond to such an attack.

What to do?

Now Dong Jingzhen can only go to the end helplessly: "Attack!" Keep going, no matter how big the casualties, we have to get close to them! ”

Dong Jingzhen ordered loudly.

Under his death order, Xiao Miao's fleet gritted its teeth and insisted on carrying out its original plan. They continued to advance under the artillery fire of Nangong Haizhu.

However, as the roar of the artillery unfolded, the Dou Qing's captains who had only watched their comrades being crushed and did not dare to rescue also changed their originally depressed combat methods and began to actively counterattack.

Under the cover of the gunboats and artillery of Li Qin's army, they attacked Dong Jingzhen's fleet from all directions, and climbed towards those big ships through grappling hooks.

With their unremitting efforts, Dong Jingzhen's attempt to get close to Nangong Haizhu became unattainable from the beginning.

"Damn it! How could they ...... like this" Seeing that his strategy seemed to be bankrupt, Dong Jingzhen couldn't help but panic.

In order to be able to win, he went directly to Xiao Miao.

"Boss, I'm afraid it's up to you now." Dong Jingzhen prayed to Xiao Miao.

"You want me to raid the ship that took the lead?" Xiao Mo looked forward and immediately understood what Dong Jingzhen meant: "Directly kill the generals and capture the flag, so that they will completely collapse." Well, that's the only way to do it now. ”

Xiao Mo thought about it and felt that he had been driven to a dead end by the other party.

On such a desperate road, if you don't rise up and resist, there is only a dead end.

Xiao Mo didn't want to die yet, so he flew up from the wrecked bow like a big bird, more and more like an enemy ship dozens of feet away.