On the river, the beginning of the war.

"Bump!"

Zhang Liao is indeed not familiar with water warfare, and he still needs to learn the tactics of waterway warfare, but wars are ever-changing, he knows his shortcomings, and the best way is to avoid exposing his shortcomings, so he used the most direct method.

With the river as the grassland, the warship as the warhorse, rampage, at this time all the tactics will be broken, the fight is a courage, is the courage to fight, but also a fighting heart that is not afraid of death.

"Bump!"

"Bump!"

The fighting ships of the fifth battalion marched forward bravely, as if they were pounced on by wolves.

"You guys are ......!"

Deng Long stood on the building boat, staring at the battlefield in front of him with wide eyes, it was the fighting ship that was put into the battlefield, and his building ship was the command camp of the entire Jingzhou Naval Army, in the face of this situation, he was really confused.

Deng Long has fought countless battles in Jingzhou, and he can be regarded as a veteran of the battlefield, but he is really not familiar with this kind of brutal cavalry warfare, warship confrontation, unless it is the last step, otherwise who will be on the field is a lose-lose confrontation.

After half a ring, Deng Long came back to his senses, and at this time his expression had become annoyed and angry, and he suddenly ordered: "Pass my military order, all warships, avoid left and right, don't let them hit the right one, surround them from the left and right wings, Shuanglong out of the water, go around, surround them, and then strangle them!" ”

His ships were more agile, his men were more proficient in water warfare, and in his opinion, there was no need for him to fight such a lose-lose battle, and the retreat at this time was tactical, not fearful, and temporarily avoided the edge.

But he forgot something.

On the battlefield, no matter what kind of battlefield it is, always pay attention to it in one go.

When the herdsmen's warships came in like wolves, their morale was high-spirited, if the Jingzhou army met up, I really don't know who killed the deer, but the Jingzhou army's warships retreated, which undoubtedly boosted the morale of the herdsmen.

In the eyes of the Jingping soldiers, since the Jingzhou Navy retreated, it was fearful, and if they were afraid, they could let go of their hands to attack and attack without reservation.

Therefore, the more ferocious impact of the herdsman warship did not mean to stop at all, no matter what angle it was, no matter how to avoid it, they just hit it directly with a tactic, and hit it without reservation

Boom Boom Boom Boom !!!!

As the so-called one wrong step, one wrong step, if there is a head-on collision, the herdsman warship may not be able to hit the Jingzhou warship, and the defeat is also the cultivation of the Mushan injury, but they avoided it, but they were hit by the herdsman warship in the middle of the heart, and the sound of collision sounded.

In a face-to-face war, in a short moment, the warships directly of the herdsmen have already lost three ships and one fighting ship, and the front cabin of these fighting ships is sinking into the air, and the warship has turned over.

The Jingzhou Navy suffered even more tragic casualties, they were sunk at least three fighting ships, more than ten ships were knocked over, countless soldiers fell into the river, and many soldiers in the water were struggling.

In the first round, the Pastoral Army had the upper hand.

And the Jingzhou Army, all the generals were blinded, and they looked at this scene in disbelief.

"Front, left, bump into me!"

Zhang Liao is a general who is good at catching fighters, the temporary evasion of the Jingzhou Navy Division opened up the situation, the opponent's warship battle array was torn, let him see a trace of gap, he wanted to seize this opportunity, a giant building ship has appeared in front of his eyes, this building ship must be the core of the Jingzhou army, capture the thief and capture the king, he wants to do this building ship, so he personally drove six or seven warships to charge forward.

"The brave wins?"

On the boat, Deng Long's face was ugly, reflecting on his mistakes gloomily, the more he thought about it, the more ashamed he became, a veteran of the battlefield actually made such a low-level mistake, and he had an indescribable depression in his heart.

"It was me who was wrong, I shouldn't have avoided it!" Deng Long gritted his teeth and said word by word, all his shame and anger at this moment turned into anger: "Since they want to fight, the sons and daughters of Jingzhou, let them see how powerful the Jingzhou Navy is, kill!" ”

A killing sound, earth-shattering.

"Kill!"

"Kill!"

The building ship is the first to move, this building ship is a moving fortress on the river, the stone thrower on it began to rotate constantly, although the stone bullets are not as large as those stone bullets used to attack the city trebuchet, but it is indeed the supreme weapon to deal with the warship.

Boom Boom Boom !!!

It was the launch of the trebuchet, which caused countless stone projectiles to fall on the warship that was catching up directly on the opposite side.

Poof!

A warship was sunk by force, and countless soldiers on board fell into the water, some climbed ashore, and some of them had already floated on the corpses, which was extremely tragic.

Shake!

Zhang Liao's main battleship was also hit by a stone projectile that broke through the deck, the entire battleship shook, and the soldiers on the battleship couldn't stand steadily, his face was ugly, he thought he had the upper hand, but now he knew that some gaps could not be bridged.

"This is the ship?"

The combat effectiveness of this giant building ship greatly exceeded his expectations, and at this moment, he suffered greater casualties than the previous Jingzhou army, and the Jingping soldiers were also stunned, and they were surrounded by the corpses of their own soldiers.

"Retreat!"

Zhang Liao was a calm person, he knew that it was impossible to land on this building ship, even if he could defeat the surrounding escort ships, all his ships would be sunk by this building ship.

A building ship is enough to pull away all the combat power between them.

How ants shake elephants.

"Retreat!"

The officers and men of the fifth battalion were ordered to quickly drive the warships back and withdraw one by one.

Although the herdsmen and sailors were defeated in the building boat

"Chase!"

Deng Long's anger in his stomach could not be vented now, how could he allow the herdsman warship to leave the battlefield.

"Aim at the bed crossbow and sink them when you have the chance!"

"The trebuchet goes on the attack!"

"Archer, shoot me!"

The Jingzhou naval army, which had breathed a sigh of relief, counterattacked unprecedentedly, and their warships were like the wind, pursuing the warships in front of them to attack, and they were bound to break the entire Annihilation of the herdsman warships.

This ferocious tactic ignited the blood of the Jingzhou Navy at once.

The soldiers of the Jingzhou Navy screamed one by one, and everyone looked at the warships that were escaping from the battlefield in front of them as if they were looking at prey, and they were chasing and fighting.

On the dock in the distance, on the observation deck, Mu Jing watched this scene and clenched his fists slightly.

"We're still inferior to them!"

Even if Mu Jing was already prepared in his heart, but seeing this scene, he was still unhappy, very unhappy, his own warship, his own navy, in front of the Jingzhou navy was like a child and an adult fighting, even if they had the upper hand with stratagem for a while, when they exerted their strength, they would directly turn the tide of the battle.

Strategic planning is important.

But on the battlefield, strength is the most important thing.

There is a saying that it is difficult for a clever woman to cook without rice, to put it mildly, the fight between life and death on the battlefield is compared to strength, even if you have a thousand schemes, if you have no strength to support, it is still useless.

Even if Zhang Liao has opened up the situation, a building boat can wipe them all out on the river.

"Someone, herald!"

Of course, since Mu Jing is prepared, he will not let the water army and the Jingzhou water army fight so simply, even if he loses this battle, he is still the backhand, at least to ensure that his water army will not be wiped out.

Although the battlefield here is the Hanshui River.

But located in the inner city.

This is the pastoral advantage.

"Order Niu Gai, immediately Chen soldiers on both sides of the strait!" Mu Jing said: "Put out all the large weapons in the arsenal and cover the withdrawal of the naval army from the battlefield!" ”

"No!"

A herald immediately went to give the order.

The Shuofang battalion led by Niu Gai soon entered the battlefield, and on both sides of the bank of the Chen Bing River, the river channel of the Han River was very wide, but the banks on the left and right sides were condescending.

"Ballista!"

On the east bank where Niu Gai stood, on the east bank, there were more than ten large crossbow beds, and the crossbow arrows of these crossbow beds were three zhang long, and the penetrating power could exceed 300 meters away, as for crossing the entire river.

"Shoot!"

Niu Gai ordered with an expressionless face.

"Shoot!"

"Shoot!"

One by one, the ballista moved, wound, drew the arrows, and fired.

Crossbow bolts rained down on one ship after another.

"General, there are ambushes on both sides of the strait, and it is not appropriate to fight again!"

Deng Hu looked around at the figures on both sides of the strait and hurriedly advised Deng Long.

They dominate the river, but this is always the inner city, not the outside, and the river outside is wider, and there is no place on both sides of the river, so that they can be invincible in their boats, but in this they fight like trapped beasts.

"Withdraw!"

Although Deng Long was now full of anger, but seeing the formation on the left and right sides, he also knew that he was no longer pleased, first, he had no chance to land in the inner city, and second, the weapons on their ships were definitely not as good as those on land.

At this time, it is not a wise choice to fight to the death.

The Jingzhou naval army stopped the pursuit.

Then he turned the bow of the ship, cleaned up the battlefield, dragged the crippled warship, and withdrew the county seat of Shandu along the Han River.

After the Jingzhou naval army withdrew, Zhang Liao led the army back to clean up the battlefield.

On the battlefield at this moment, the Hanshui River was dyed bright blood red, the blood was surging, the corpses were floating, and the wreckage of countless warships appeared on the water.

……

Evening.

The herdsmen had already cleaned up the battlefield, the wounded soldiers were dressed in the wounded barracks to recuperate, and the uninjured soldiers also began to bury the pot and cook.

Above the county hall, Mu Jing sat cross-legged.

Zhang Liao knelt in front of him and reported: "In this battle, we lost 572 soldiers, six fighting ships were sunk, and 12 ships were broken and could not be used!" ”

"How do you feel?"

Mu Jing asked.

"Ship a ship!" Zhang Liao only replied with two words.

"Shipbuilding?"

Mu Jing squinted.

"Lord, we will be rude in this battle, not a tactical problem, not a problem of matching between generals, nor a problem that we are not familiar with water warfare, the biggest problem is that we don't have a building ship that can compete with!"

Zhang Liao gritted his teeth, and his voice was deep: "If we also have a building ship, I may not lose this battle, so I think that our navy must have a building ship, no matter how much it costs, it must also have, otherwise we will still be defeated in a battle against the Shangjing navy in the future!" ”

"Lou ship?"

A bitter smile appeared on Mu Jing's face: "I want to too, but even if I am willing to spend the price and invest in the money, I may not be able to find a craftsman to build a building ship!" ”

In the heyday, craftsmen had a humble status.

But in the troubled times, it is quite popular.

It seems that the well-known craftsmen and blacksmiths in Hanzhong were all recruited by Mu Jing for the first time, and the craftsmen who can build buildings and boats are not in Hanzhong, Nanyang is not, most of them are in Jingzhou and Jiangdong, I am afraid that they have already been taken down, which makes him go there to find them.

"Lord, you also saw it on the battlefield today, the combat effectiveness of the building ship is unparalleled, even if we have more fighting ships, if we can't even get close, how to fight, is it possible that we have to use human lives to pile them to death?"

Zhang Liao said: "If the navy wants to develop, it will not work without a ship!" ”

"You're right!"

Mu Jing agrees with this sentence, in this war, he saw it from the beginning to the end, Zhang Liao's courage allowed him to occupy the first mover, but as soon as the Jingzhou military building ship came out, the ferocious mess was a mess, and the Mu army and the navy army were directly defeated.

The combat effectiveness of this building ship is indeed not comparable to that of a fighting ship.

"I'll figure out a way to deal with the ship!"

Mu Jing still took over this task, he looked at Zhang Liao, and said: "But today's battle, I am still not very satisfied, there is no tactics of water warfare, I feel that this is a cavalry battle, not a naval battle, and our soldiers, after falling into the water, showed a greater panic than the Jingzhou naval army, this must be overcome!" ”

"Don't worry, my lord, after this battle, the last general should train them hard!"

There was a touch of coldness on Zhang Liao's face: "My Jingping Second Army, on the river, will not be worse than any water army!" ”

"Hmm!"

Mu Jing nodded, he still trusts Zhang Liao, this is a person who does not admit defeat, he will not admit defeat on the battlefield, today's battle, how many shortcomings are exposed, he will make a change of strength.

"Lord, ...... next"

"Next, you rest first, there is a Shuofang battalion in the city that is entrenched, they can't get in, since the flag has been raised, it depends on Jingzhou's attitude!"

The corners of Mu Jing's mouth raised slightly: "Jingzhou dares to attack desperately, I dare to fight with them!" ”

It's autumn now, and it's crisp, but as the days get colder and colder, it's about to enter winter.

Once winter came, he didn't believe that the Jingzhou army would dare to stay around.

Even if Jingzhou is determined to win the mountain capital Zhuyang, he is not afraid, the big deal is that he sent the main force of the violent bear to the south and fight with the Jingzhou army, the violent bear army is still being reorganized, but the combat effectiveness is there.

He can't fight a water war, he admits that.

But he can send troops to attack the city from the land, Jingzhou Deng County is not far from the mountain, once he breaks through Deng County, he can directly hit Fancheng, Fancheng is the gateway to Xiangyang, then Xiangyang will be frightened, do you dare to send troops north?

He didn't believe that Liu Biao would dare to fight him at any cost at this time.

Jingzhou seems to be peaceful, strong soldiers and strong horses, but it does not mean that there are no enemies, no internal troubles, Liu Biao in history to guard the dog as the name, good at guarding the house, but lack of enterprising.

If Shandu County is not blocked, he will send troops to take it, and even take Nanyang in one fell swoop.

But once the main force of the herdsmen is stationed in Shandu, he will definitely consider it.

Therefore, Mu Jing estimates that next, it is time for the two sides to argue, and the Minghou Mansion and Jingzhou will eventually have a communication.