The smoke of gunpowder dissipated, the entire beach has been unrecognizable, a sand pit about ten meters deep is spread all over the beach, the cold river water is pouring into these pits, a mutilated corpse is driven by the current, slowly squirming, at this moment, even the quiet Yingshui River is boiling, near the shore, a huge whirlpool is forming, turning, half an hour, boom, the huge wave finally crashes on the bank of the river.

A few of the survivors lost their souls, unconsciously wandering on the beach, their direction was actually Yingshui River, ignoring the desperate shouts of their companions behind them, they plunged into the icy river, struggled a little, and then disappeared from everyone's field of vision with the river sinking and floating.

The river turned red.

The snow on the beach turned red.

The sand, too, turned red.

The first wave of attackers disappeared on the river beach and on the embankment, and the Chu army that was preparing to move forward turned around at this moment, and disappeared behind the embankment in a blink of an eye. Countless rafts that had been painstakingly built were either shaken apart or turned into pieces of wood that drifted down the river.

Bai Xizhong's first attack was over before it even began. From the night when he arrived in Yingchuan County to today, he has not seen a single living Han army, he has already lost thousands of people, and when he sees the corpses of the Chu army all over the beach, Bai Xizhong has a mouthful of blood gushing up, and his face is also flushed.

The current war is very different from before, and there are too many things in it that he can't understand.

"Retreat, rest for a while." He gave the order with difficulty.

Jingzhou, Nanyang County, on the map in front of Gao Yuan, the location of the Qin State's army was marked on the map by Ning Xin, and the army of tens of thousands of troops attacked Yingshui. It is specifically marked in black to indicate how dangerous it is.

"The last battle!" Gao Yuan exhaled, "It's also time, give the order to the whole army, and the general attack begins." ”

In order to lure the Qin army to send troops, Gao Yuan's attack on Jingzhou of Chu has always been unhurried. In many cases, it is even desperate to create an illusion that it is difficult to move forward, and the various armies take turns to attack, even so, now the Han army has also compressed the Chu army to a very small range, all the way to Xinye, all the way to Anyang, and the other way to Anzhong. The Chu army has been sharply reduced from the initial 500,000 troops to less than 300,000. 200,000 troops lost. Most of them were defeated by the Han army, and these armies, which were not trained in the first place, fled after being defeated, took off their military uniforms, and ran all the way home, and with a hoe in hand, they became peasants again.

Now that the Qin State has almost poured out, the lofty purpose has been achieved. There is no need to grind foreign labor with the Chu people anymore.

Li Quan clasped the ship's railing with both hands and watched his fleet go upstream. The river slammed against the boats, causing the boats to shake slightly, and this was a fleet of fifty three-story ships, except for the ten in front of them, which were battleships, and the rest were all marines transferred from the navy. Li Quan is excited to be able to command this army that is attacking cities and plundering land overseas again.

The other day. King Gao Yuan of the Han Dynasty received the commander of the inland water division, and after comforting him with warm words, it was clear that after this battle, he would return to the navy and become Yang Qingyi's deputy. This made Li Quan excited. Although he made a big detour, he finally returned to the navy that haunted him.

The naval army under his command became the first force of the general attack, and they would act as a sharp arrow, penetrating themselves from the water to the core of the opponent. Since the start of the war, the Han army's water division has not launched an attack on the last remaining water division of the Chu army, and the Chu army's water division also knows that it is invincible and has been shrinking in the water village, but now, they can no longer hide, and have to come out to fight the Han army to the death.

"Commander Li, there is a Chu army sailor ahead." Above the fight, the banner soldier bowed his head and shouted loudly.

"The battleship moves forward to meet the enemy, informs the rear troop carriers, widens the distance between them and the battleship, and is on full alert." Li Quan ordered loudly.

The ten battleships in front were equipped with dozens of guns and countless crossbows, but the troop carriers in the back were equipped with only one gun at the bow and stern in order to reduce the weight and carry more marines.

With the waving of the command flag in the hands of the flag speakers, the ten battleships in front of them broke out of the group, accelerated forward, formed a herringbone, and sailed forward.

Countercurrent, headwind, from the perspective of water warfare, the Han army is indeed at a disadvantage in terms of form, but considering the huge gap in the long-range attack power of the two sides, these disadvantages are basically negligible.

"Small boats, lots of small boats." The soldier above Diao Dou shouted in surprise, and in his field of vision, he saw hundreds of small fishing rows, which were speeding down the river, this kind of small fishing rows were almost no different from a small reptile in front of the huge Han warship, why did the Chu army use this kind of small paddle to attack, the soldiers were a little puzzled.

Li Quan is different, when he saw those small rowing fishing boats for the first time, he understood what the Chu army wanted to do, the original people in those places they conquered on the sea back then, in order to attack their big boats, they didn't think about anything.

"The enemy wanted to attack with fire, so all the battleships turned, met the enemy on the side of the side, and opened fire with all their might, smashing all these fishing boats." Li Quan shouted loudly.

The speed of the warships slowed down, and one by one they slowly turned over the wide river, aiming their most ferocious side forward, and by the time they had just set up their position, countless small fishing boats had clearly appeared in front of them. Li Quan was slightly surprised, because there were no fire-starting objects on these fishing boats, and there was nothing to see from the outside, only two soldiers on each boat, paddling desperately.

With a slight turn in his mind, Li Quan's face changed slightly, "Order all ships, these small boats are very likely to be loaded with explosives, don't let them get close, open fire, and sink them." ”

If it is a fire-starting ship, Li Quan is not afraid, his battleship is covered with iron armor, and the hull has also been specially fire-resisted, even if it is ignited, it can also carry out loss management in a very short period of time, and will not make the battleship lose its combat effectiveness, but if it is explosives, it is different, any small fishing boat comes up and detonates, it is possible to immediately make one of his battleships lose its combat effectiveness, and the most terrible thing is that these small fishing boats slipped between them and leaned on the rear troop carrier, which would be troublesome. Blowing up and sinking one is the death of thousands of people.

The rumbling cannon sounded, one after another cannonballs jumped out of the cannonballs, with red flames flying towards the small fishing boat on the river, Li Quan stared intently ahead, when he saw a small fishing boat hit by artillery, but there was a loud noise, and the whole small boat was blown to pieces, the conjecture in his heart was confirmed, it was indeed a pure suicide attack loaded with explosives.

"The artillery continues to fire, put down the boats that accompany the ship, I need the death squad to set up an interception line on the river." Li Quan took a deep breath.

With the sound of clanging, the boats carried with the ships were put into the water, each boat was equipped with two soldiers, after they boarded the boat, they did not hesitate to wave the oars, and tried to slide forward, on top of the ten battleships, fifty small boats were lowered, these small boats in front of the battleship, laid an interception line, if there was a suicidal attack of the Chu army small boats rushing from the artillery interception, they would form a second line of defense.

Li Quan stared nervously at the river, the wind was very strong on the river, and the smoke of the artillery would be blown away by the river breeze as soon as it rose, which allowed him to clearly see the battle situation above the river, because with the wind downstream, these suicide attack boats of the other party came extremely fast, so fast that his artillery could not adjust the angle of fire in time.

At least half of the fishing boats on the river had been destroyed by artillery, but dozens of them still broke through the fire net and joined the dozens of gangsters who intercepted them.

At this time, behind these small boats, dozens of large warships of the Chu army also appeared, and the throwing arm of the trebuchet installed on it was clearly visible, Li Quan Ke knew that what was thrown now was definitely not a stone projectile, but an explosive bag that ignited the fuse, and if it was hit by them, it would be enough to drink a pot.

"Signal the troop carriers behind and launch the lifeboats on all the boats to form a third line of defense to prevent these suicide boats from attacking the troop carriers."

"Battleships move forward, meet the main fleet of the Chu army, fire, fire!" Li Quan drew his knife and shouted.

The sound of a loud explosion came faintly from a distance, and above Diao Dou, the flag soldier shouted loudly: "Commander, the battleship No. 8 on the left wing was hit by a suicide attack by the opponent, the port side was damaged, the cabin was flooded, and the hull was tilted. ”

"Tell them to immediately carry out battle damage control, and the ship continues to move forward, unless it sinks, it is not allowed to retreat, and fire!" Li Quan roared angrily.

The guns of the battleships sprayed shells at the Chu Junlou ships farther away, and not far from them, countless small boats were still entangled, and from time to time there was a violent explosion sound.

Hundreds of small boats were lowered from the troop carriers, and as soon as they entered the water, they rowed forward desperately without hesitation, each with two oarsmen and two marines. From time to time, desperate Chu sailors detonated explosives and perished with the Han ships that attacked them, and each explosion was a loss of several lives on the river.

(Happy New Year and all the best.) (To be continued.) )