"Enemy?"

Zhang Hongfan, who received the news, only thought about it for a while, and then understood the other party's intentions, as he hoped, the other party was obviously unwilling to put his fleet into Dongting Lake, so he chose the Jingjiang River estuary as the battlefield, which is the place where the rivers and lakes converge, the water flow is gentle, the wind is not strong, and the width is long and narrow, which is beneficial to the Song people and not to the good. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

But the more this happened, the more excited his heart became, what could be more refreshing than defeating the Song people on the battlefield they were most familiar with? He and the tens of thousands of soldiers behind him were not Cao Jun who were not accustomed to water, and they had already proved on the Han River and the Great River that they could also defeat the Song people, even if it was the water battle that the other party was best at.

"The left and right flanks are advancing at full speed, and they don't have to return when they encounter the enemy, and they rush in with a rush to disrupt their formation." Zhang Hongfan issued a command in a deep voice, and after a series of flags were played, the Yuanren naval army that was originally lined up immediately changed, and the sails and oars of the ships on both sides moved in unison, and they overtook it at once, while the Chinese army led by his boat still maintained the previous speed.

"The number of ten brothers is too small, and they are under siege, so I'm afraid they won't last long." A cronie took a look at the void and whispered a reminder in his ear.

"I know, but I also believe that Lao Shi will not die so easily."

The cronies did not say any more, he understood the thoughts of his general, the premature appearance of the Chinese army may make the Song people retreat, so he can add it in waves, entangle its two wings, and then the Chinese army will launch a heavy blow, as for the three hundred ships in the forward, it is the bait he gave to the Song people.

In fact, the worries of his cronies are not superfluous, Zhang Hongzheng and the vanguard led by him have been surrounded by the Song people, at this moment, the two wings of the Yuezhou naval army under the command of Gao Shijie have converged at the center of the river, thus cutting off the connection between the enemy army in the encirclement and the main force behind, Gao Shijie knows that this part is only the forward, and he is going to eat the other party and make a good start to the war.

As the wings continued to stretch, the whole encirclement became thicker and thicker, and the heavy and large ships fired stone bullets, fire oil bombs, bed crossbows, rockets, and ordinary crossbow arrows at the enemy troops in the encirclement according to the distance of the range, but in a moment's effort, almost every enemy ship withstood attacks from all directions.

As the command ship in the forward fleet, Zhang Hongzheng's ship will naturally be taken care of by the Song people, the two main masts are full of arrows, and the coarse cloth sails soaked in oil are burned into a ball, and after a while, even the masts are affected, Zhang Hongzheng watched the wooden poles as high as several zhang fall in the fire, and fall into the river together with a few sergeants who could not dodge.

"Huh", a crossbow arrow flew past his ear and nailed to the wooden wall behind him, Zhang Hongzheng glanced back, and saw that the arrow was not coated with fire oil, so he turned his head, from his point of view, he could no longer see the shadow of his main force, all the directions were full of Song people, and arrows like flying locusts covered the sky, pressing his men to shrink behind the regimental card on the side of the ship, and couldn't even raise their heads, let alone fight back.

It can't go on like this, Zhang Hongzheng is not without the consciousness of being killed in battle, but he was pressed by the Song people like this, and in the end he was either shot to death or burned to death, that was never the result he hoped for, no matter what, he had to try to fight too, without the mast and sail, the ship lost most of its power, and the remaining small part was at his feet.

"Ahh A miserable scream came, no need to look back, Zhang Hongzheng also knew that it was his helm, he retreated back to the helm platform with an arrow step, and was held by the steering wheel that was released, and the huge hull of the ship slammed into a horizontal under the action of the river, almost hitting his own men.

"The people below listened, and shook Lao Tzu with all their might."

Zhang Hongzheng's voice was transmitted by a crooked brass pipe to the second deck, and when he heard his command, a squad leader with a long face and a full face immediately waved the long whip in his hand, and a whip hit the deck, making a "crackling" sound.

"Hurry up, shake it up, and do it if you don't want to die."

"Hey, hey." Under his command, two rows of more than 100 ragged men waved heavy wooden handles together, and wooden oars more than ten feet long turned up and down in the river water in a uniform rhythm, setting off waves from the originally calm current, pushing the huge hull to move slowly, and Zhang Hongzheng, who was at the helm, was not satisfied, he needed to be faster.

"Give Lao Tzu a little faster."

"Smack!"

This time, the whip did not hit the ground, but hit a man with slightly slower hands and feet, the tattered clothes were torn off by the whip, and a dark purple whip mark bloomed along with the flesh and skin, and the pain made the man snort coldly, but he did not dare to stop in his hand, but used more force.

"You barbarians killed these days, it is the old man who is pitiful, so he gave you a bowl of rice to eat, and if you want to eat tomorrow's meal, you will row Lao Tzu to death, otherwise the ship will sink and die, and if it does not sink, there will be a way to live."

Under the whips of several squad leaders, these men had to use all their strength to make the heavy wooden oar turn faster, and no one dared to resist, for they were all chained together in thick chains, and could not even stand up without untying them.

"Come on, rush up to Lao Tzu." Zhang Hongzheng felt that the speed of the ship was getting faster, he grinned and grasped the tiller, his eyes fixed on one direction, and his mouth let out a beastly call.

Gao Shijie didn't expect the Tartar to be so tenacious, besieged by his own fleet, almost every boat was on fire, and he still didn't give up resistance, and when the big ship that didn't even have a mast went straight to his direction, his eyes shrank suddenly.

At this time, in order to facilitate the command of the overall situation, his boat is located in the middle of the encirclement, almost in a stationary attitude, but with the river is slowly moving, because of the advantage, he did not give the order to rush directly into the enemy formation, but to carry out long-range strikes at a distance, at the moment, the enemy obviously will not sit still, want to fight with himself hand-to-hand? Gao Shijie sneered.

"Drop the sails, drive, and get ready."

After encircling the enemy, the sails were put away, and only the manpower was used to adjust in order to distance himself from the enemy as much as possible, and to give full play to the long-range advantage of the ship, the effect of this approach was obvious, relying on the superiority in numbers, the enemy had almost no power to fight back, and could only be slaughtered.

Unlike the enemy, on the lower deck of the Gao Shijie ship, there are rows of wooden pedals, and in front of each pedal stands a wrestler with a big waist and a round waist, after hearing the command from above, all the wrestlers step on the pedals barefoot, and under the shouting of a sergeant, they begin to step on the beat according to a uniform rhythm, under the pedals are a wheel, and the belt made of cooked cowhide is connected to a thick cylinder, which constitutes the axle of the wheel, and will eventually drive a huge wheel that is half the height of the boat to turn, It is not the wooden axle strips that make up this wheel, but the paddles.

Gao Shijie's ship is a car ship with as many as 20 pages!

Under the manipulation of these wrestlers, the wheels turned like waterwheels, bringing out waves one after another, and the hull of the ship, which was more than three times high, barely shook at all, and lightly split the water and rowed forward, while at the same time, the two crossbars that had been erected on top of the heavy building were pulled up by the sergeants, each wearing a stone roller, almost weighing hundreds of pounds, like a guillotine, waiting for the sacrifice under the knife.

The two ships are approaching quickly, Gao Shijie is very clear about the opponent's intentions, if there is no speed, it is likely to let it succeed, although the long-range attack is slow, but with the enemy to fight bravely, he never thought about it, therefore, the moment the ship intersected with the enemy ship, he really gave the order.

"Drop the pole, and the army is ready to take the ship."

When the stone roller that was suspended in the air slammed down, Zhang Hongzheng was almost crazy, the steering wheel in his hand was directly pushed to the bottom by him, the long hinge made a "squeak" sound under the force, driving the rudder blade hidden in the water to turn a direction suddenly, and at this time the hull was still moving forward under the action of inertia, and the sudden turn made the whole hull stagnate, just when he was worried about whether it would fall apart, the bow roared out of the river, with a twisted force to the right side.

"Wow"

The stone roller fell from the sky, almost rubbing the side of the boat and smashing heavily into the river, and the splashing waves made several sergeants behind the board stand unsteadily, and rolled to the other side with a "gurgling", which shows how powerful this blow is, Zhang Hongzheng's cold sweat broke out all of a sudden, and he felt a deep fear.

The other party not only knew his intentions, but also had a way to restrain himself, this kind of tall chariot and ship was more flexible than wooden oars, and the slapping rods on both sides prevented the enemy from receiving the possibility of broadside, just when he hesitated, several winds whistled, and stone projectiles the size of wooden basins fell around him, and Zhang Hongzheng had already rushed into the formation of the Song people.

"Turn the rudder, lean in, smash him!" One blow missed, Gao Shijie regretted it even more than him, although there was no sign on this ship, but he believed that it was the commander of the besieged enemy ship, and the enemy's cunning also confirmed this, since this was the case, he must not let it go, and he immediately made up his mind.

The moving car and ship did not make a big bend, but stopped and began to step backwards, the whole boat was like a car reversing in later generations, slowly turning backwards in place, from the forward direction slowly turned into a cross, only half an hour later, the whole ship can complete the turn, and the stone rollers that fell into the water have been pulled up by several strong sergeants with a winch, and returned to the state of being ready to go.

"Oh no, the enemy brigade is coming!"

It's a pity that it's such a short half a moment, it's gone, hearing the news from the trumpet, Gao Shijie struggled to lean forward on the slipway, just outside his encirclement, and the black sail shadow swooped over like Mount Tai pressing.

The other party chose an extremely opportune time, because his fleet was almost still in a static state, and what was worse was that the part of the ships that received the enemy was even in the opposite direction, that is, they were in the same direction as the enemy, and they could not make any tactical moves at all.

"Haha, rush forward and tear apart the enemy formation!" Zhang Hongfan looked up to the sky and laughed, and resolutely gave the final order.

At this time, he didn't need to make any reservations, all the sails were raised to the highest point, and under the action of the river breeze and the oars at the same time, the speed was much higher than that of the other party, even if the other party began to raise the sails and reverse, it was already too late, because this section of the river was too narrow, and the total number of warships as many as four thousand was crowded together, where was there room for maneuver.

Zhang Hongfan wants this effect, he doesn't want to fight with the other party at a long distance, let alone fight any traditional water battles with them, using his numerical advantage to entangle with the enemy, so that they can't be deployed, and then ...... Solve the battle with hand-to-hand combat, which you are best at.

In other words, he just wanted to fight a water war into a land war, and this was exactly what the Song people were most afraid of.

Just when Gao Shijie was still in a daze, the enemy's fleet had already rushed in, all kinds of collisions, howls, and fighting sounds were endless, and the enemy and us were all mixed together, and the space on the battlefield was squeezed smaller and smaller, not to mention retreating, and they couldn't even enter.

The warships of the Yuan people did not have so many battle tools, and the crossbow machines, throwing cars, and rolling stones were less than those of the Song people, but there was one thing that was several times that of the Song people, that is, the sergeant, not the boat operator or the archer, but the armor, the armor and the sharp, close hand-to-hand combat soldiers, such a warrior, Zhang Hongfan brought 40,000 people, and the battle was actually over from this moment.

In fact, the Yuan people have always fought like this, whether it was the Battle of Ezhou at the beginning of the year, or the Dingjiazhou a little later, and even the Battle of Jiaoshan in history, until the last Yashan. All of them, it wasn't until this moment that Gao Shijie suddenly understood why the person had tried so hard to persuade himself, but unfortunately it was too late.

"Fujun, run away." Gao Shijie's hesitation caused further confusion on the other side, listening to the words of his own soldiers, he didn't even know whether to let himself escape, or to order the whole army to evacuate, in just such a moment, the Yuan people had already broken through the encirclement they had formed before, and crashed into the rear army centered on him.

Around him, the Song army in the chaos was still resisting in their own positions, seeing those familiar flags being cut off and dropped one by one, Gao Shijie's heart was like a knife, and in less than an hour, he changed from being surrounded to being surrounded, for such a conspicuous target, Yuan Ren quickly noticed.

"How many more oil bombs are there?" When the pro-soldiers reported the numbers, Gao Shijie just waved his hand lightly.

"Hit them all."

"Hit ...... Where to hit? The soldiers were shocked by his words, and it was almost suicidal when they were all caught in hand-to-hand combat in front of them.

"Hit out!" Gao Shijie pulled out his saber and roared to the sky: "Raise the flag, the whole army assault, fight to the death!" ”

A blood-red tooth flag was raised on the mainmast, without any words or patterns on it, but all the soldiers of the Song army knew very well what it meant, that is, to fight to the last man!

For the madness of the Song people, Zhang Hongfan's eyes actually flashed a trace of appreciation, and he shook his head with some regret: "It's late, give the order, concentrate on sinking it, whether it is dead or alive." ”