On September 17, two Yuan troops took advantage of the dark night to enter the canal from the five drains and went down the river to attack the Pingjiang River, and the 1st Marine Brigade of the Song Army stationed here was caught off guard and relied on the remaining city foundations after the destruction of the city to engage in a fierce battle with the enemy. The two sides fought until dawn, the Zhending army was never able to break through the position of the Song army, the soldiers of the Qianhu Institute of Kunshan to transport grain from the first sea road sneaked into the city from the water gate of the original southern city, and the Song army found out and divided the troops to block, but it was too late.

The Marine Brigade of the Song Army's Navy was organized into three regiments plus 5,000 soldiers directly under the army, because it undertook the task of guarding the military port and landing operations, in order to facilitate the mobile weapons equipped according to the light infantry, and lacked heavy weapons, and now there was no naval army to help the battle, and when the frontal strong enemy was not stopping and the rear road was about to be cut off, it had to abandon the position and alternately cover the northward breakthrough.

Pingjiang City previously had five city gates, but each gate had a land gate and a water gate, which allowed them to 'plunder' a large number of civilian ships and escape into Songjiang and Taihu Lake. The Yuan army Zhending army suffered a lot of losses in a night of hard fighting, and as an old strong force was also beaten out of fire, so it pursued along the land route, and after seeing the enemy panicked into the lake, he immediately pursued it with the Longwan naval army, and entered the lake one after the other.

At this moment, the sky was already bright, the Song army in the pursuit of the water village in the West Island, Zhu Qing of the sea grain road ten thousand households looked at the water village and his eyes were red, he found that the eyes of the ships moored in the water village were red, those were the grain ships that the Song army hijacked from Liujiagang. I think that if I die in battle today, I will be a pirate for a lifetime, and in the past, I only robbed others by myself, but now I am robbed by others, and I still hide under my nose, can I not be angry?

However, Zhu Qing had been a pirate after all, and when he saw the flags fluttering on the enemy's water village, as if he had been prepared, he couldn't help muttering, he didn't rush to attack, so he first deployed warships to line up outside the enemy water village to block the big gap to prevent the enemy from escaping. After a while, the Longwan Navy also arrived with the Zhending army, and the two sides combined, attacking the city and capturing the village was the strength of the Zhending army, and this job could only be done by them.

Zhu Qingjiu naturally knew in the rivers and lakes that the Song army in Qiongzhou could repeatedly defeat the Yuan army's water division, and even the Zhang Hongfan brothers died at their hands. And without a strong sailor, it would not be possible in any way. Therefore, he did not hesitate to destroy his reputation, believing that his Cao soldiers had low combat effectiveness, and took the initiative to ask for a raid for them, and gave them the opportunity to make a 'meritorious service'.

Zhang Xingzu also has his own little Jiujiu, although he is also a Han but looks down on the southerners, thinking that he followed Shi Tianze to fight in the south and the north, and destroyed Jinping and Song Dynasty with countless military exploits, before he was named ten thousand households by the Great Khan and managed an army. And Zhu Qing, Zhang Xuan and others are just a gang of pirates, after the reduction of the Yuan, but opportunistic luck successfully opened up a sea route, and became ten thousand households, thousands of households, wearing tiger charms, hanging silver medals, with the favor of the Great Khan rampant, by taking charge of the sea smuggling to make a fortune.

But when the war really started, the Wanhu Mansion, which had more than 10,000 troops and managed the transportation of several prefectures, lost Liujiagang under the First World War, lost thousands of dollars, and lost 100 stones of grain. On the other hand, Zhang Xingzu knew that water warfare was not his own forte, and it was better to attack the water village than to swing on the boat and seize the lost grain, which was a special achievement. Therefore, knowing that Zhu Qing was clever, he still agreed to come down.

Longwan Navy 10,000 households Hubi Tuo is a newborn calf is not afraid of tigers, its origin in Mongolia is Miao Hong, the young man from Boyan to the Song Dynasty, in the water army as a soldier, attack Xiangfan, Jiao Mountain, to the war achievements to 100 households. He didn't know whether he was lucky or unlucky, after the destruction of the Song Dynasty, he had been training in the Jingxiang Water Army, and he failed to catch up with Japan twice, and he did not have a turn to conquer Zhancheng and Annam, although he lost the opportunity to make meritorious service but also saved his life.

After several foreign wars, the elite of the Yuan Navy was lost, and Hubi Tuo became the only remaining veteran, and in this reorganization, the tide rose to become a navy of 10,000 households, and the elite was transferred from the four provinces to form the two Zhejiang Navy Army, which was responsible for defending the water and sea combat missions of the states in the lower reaches of the Yangtze River. But after more than a year of formation, he didn't touch a decent battle, and now that the opportunity comes, of course he doesn't want to let it go, and he volunteered to be a pioneer to attack Shuizhai, but he didn't know that he was calculated by two old slippery heads first.

Hubituo is really not ambiguous, after the discussion, he wanted to take advantage of the Song army that fled into the water village to defeat them, and immediately led the Longwan water army to go out and smash the water village with a stone thrower, destroy the wall, and then hit the gate of the village with a large warship. Sure enough, as soon as the gate of the village was broken, the Song army that fled into the water village had no time to set up defenses, and immediately fled by boat as birds and beasts. The Zhending army converted boats and rushed to the island, and almost bloodlessly seized the Song army's water village.

"Oh no, I've been tricked!" After Zhang Xingzu landed on the West Island, he found that the water village had long been empty, and there were only a few old boats parked in it, and he did not find any stolen grain on the island, and those grain hoards were just mounds of soil surrounded by mats, without a grain of grain, and it was obviously a newly abandoned village.

......At this time, the war drums sounded, Zhang Xingzu climbed up to take a look, and saw that the two or three warships of the Song Navy army spread out from the south of the island to the east and west flanks, trying to encircle them, and the Song army, which had been defeated from Pingjiang, just waved a shot and went to the south bank.

"Get on board and seize the East Island!" Zhang Xingzu found out that the Song army had already surrounded him, and he reacted quickly, and immediately ordered his troops to stop going to the island, and the soldiers on the ship quickly seized the east island.

Because as we all know, from the Pingjiang River to visit Taihu Lake, the east and west mountains are the best, and in fact, the two mountains are also small islands in the lake. Since the beginning of the Song Dynasty, the east shore of Taihu Lake silted into land, gradually formed the Taihu Lake Plain, called the east of the water, belongs to Wu County, its place extends into the center of the lake, the lake ring on three sides, the south east from Baiyang Bay, there are ferry ports and ferry bridges connected with the two islands in the lake, the ferry port is on the north shore of Taihu Lake, and the ferry bridge is on Dongshan Island of Taihu Lake.

Zhang Xingzu realized that the other two armies were all naval armies, but he was the only infantry army, and once the two armies were defeated, it was okay, and he could evacuate by boat; If they are defeated, they will be isolated on the island and will have to swim back. And the East Island has a bridge connected to the south coast, and he can return to the shore from the bridge, so he preemptively occupies the East Island and controls the bridge, and he has a way to retreat regardless of victory or defeat.

"Meet the enemy!" Zhang Xuan secretly scolded in his heart, he really encountered a ghost today, he tried his best to avoid coming out, but he still didn't avoid it, now the Longwan Navy is attacking the island, and he can only go up on the periphery, but what makes him feel a little relieved is that he has a large number of warships, and most of them are big ships of 2,000 stones, and the overall strength is not inferior to it. In addition, now is the time of high tide, and he occupies the head of the tide and attacks the enemy with the water, and also occupies an advantage.

Zhang Xuan ordered the front army to line up in a horizontal line, staggered into three columns, hoping to take advantage of the water potential to collide with the enemy troops who were still in formation, disrupt their formation, and at the same time engage the enemy in close combat, and take advantage of the advantage of strong forces to seize the ship. But when the two armies were rapidly approaching, a group of medium-sized warships of about 1,000 stones suddenly rushed out of the Song army's formation. He was very surprised, these ships were obviously much smaller than his own ships, and they would definitely not take advantage of the collision, could they just be used to delay time?

Just when Zhang Xuan was full ......of suspicion, the two armies were still a mile away from each other, and the warship in front of the Song army suddenly flashed with fire, followed by a sharp whistling sound that made people sore the teeth. But he saw one after another fire dragons rising into the sky, flying quickly towards him, climbing high in the surprised eyes of everyone, and then falling down again.

'Boom, boom, boom...... I saw those fire dragons crackling and falling, and there was a violent explosion after falling. The moment it crashed into the ship and exploded, the flames soared into the sky, and the soldiers within a few feet of the surrounding area were either killed or wounded, and the cries rang out; Some rockets crashed through the deck and exploded in the bilge, creating a huge air flow that broke through the ship's gunwales and sank as they watched.

"Meteor ......," Zhang Xuan swallowed hard and said in a trembling voice. In the past, he only heard that the Song army had a firearm called meteor fire, the range can be as far as two miles away, after the explosion spread beyond the range of ten zhang, the middle can not escape life, it is said that Liu Shen and Zhang Hongfan were defeated here, and Ali Hague's conquest army has not yet launched an attack, it was destroyed by the meteor fire in the water village, resulting in Huguang Province two years later to launch the campaign to conquer Qiongzhou, but still defeated.

"Wanhu, what should I do!" At this moment, the formation of the front army has long been chaotic, some of them were shot and then ignited a fire and swirled on the water, some of the ships were destroyed and sunk, and those who were not hit were scattered to dodge, and the water columns that were blown up were swaying, and they could not help but collide with each other. Qianhu Zhu Qing, who led the Chinese army, asked with a frown.

"Now that the tide is rising, there is no way back, let the front army accelerate forward and scatter the enemy fleet, can't you see that the meteor fire is far from near? As long as you get close to them, there is no way; Order the Chinese small boat forward, their target is small and difficult to be hit, take the opportunity to board the ship to fight, and capture the enemy warship! Zhang Xuan ordered in a deep voice.

Although he is a slippery head, he knows that he should be ruthless when it is critical, if he is ruthless, how can he deal with those innocent merchants, how can he lead those ruthless pirates. In fact, he also understood that it was difficult for the front army to do anything, and only by sacrificing them could he disrupt the enemy's formation and fight with him, which was his own strength, and those small boats were using flexibility to entangle the enemy......

"Your Majesty, this pirate is indeed a bit evil!" Zheng Yong accompanied the little emperor to watch the battle, and chuckled when he saw the situation in front of him.

Zhang Xuan's alternative style of play did cause trouble for the Song army, the enemy troops who had fought with them in the past would panic after being hit by rockets, some would take the initiative to retreat, and some would rout, but after the initial confusion, they did not disperse, but launched another attack under the order. The formation seems to be scattered, but it can maintain a certain distance between each other, which greatly weakens the effect of rocket coverage shooting.

"Looks like we've all despised these pirates!" Zhao Hao nodded and said, "In the beginning, pirates were all people on weekdays, and they gathered for thieves, so the leaders had extremely strong control over various gangs, and their methods were extremely cruel, so that all parties could obey orders, and their discipline was even better than that of some armies, so they could be chaotic and not defeated; In addition, pirates did not receive strict military training, and how to fight a war was more based on experience, and it was their instinct to seek advantages and avoid disadvantages. So there are no rules for them to talk about, which makes them always choose the tactics that minimize losses, promote their strengths, and have the best results! ”

"Well, at first, we judged that the weapons of the sea channel cao were poor, and the ships were mostly cao boats, and they lacked training, so their combat effectiveness was the weakest, but now it seems that they are more difficult to deal with than the Longwan naval army!" Zheng Yongshen thought it was authentic, "The enemy's forward fleet attracted the firepower of our rocket fleet, and the follow-up boats took advantage of the advantages of fast speed, good maneuverability, and small targets to break through, but although the firepower of our rocket ships is strong, their self-defense ability is poor, and it will be troublesome to be entangled by them." ”

"Don't worry, what Dong Yicheng did before was the business of suppressing bandits, and he is familiar with their routines and playing methods, so he won't suffer!" Zhao Hao chuckled, he is still very confident in his own navy, and he will definitely grow up from weak to strong back then, through a little bit of accumulation, and he will also follow the routine of preserving himself and destroying the enemy, and these generals under him will not forget all the basic skills.

Sure enough, as soon as Zhao Hao's words fell, he saw several gunboat columns in the Song army's array interspersed between the rocket ships, and they met the enemy's forward fleet in a group of two. After the reorganization of the Song Navy, most of the gunboats were B-type warships of more than 1,000 stones, which not only ensured the speed, but also made it easy to maneuver and seize advantageous positions. The formation of two ships can support each other, and it is also conducive to concentrating firepower to increase the intensity of the strike.

If the covering fire of rockets is an indiscriminate attack, then the gunboat is a sharp weapon for targeted killing. After entering the firing range of the enemy ship, they first attacked the mast sail of the enemy ship with chain shells fired from the bow gun, destroying its forward momentum, and killing and injuring the exposed enemy soldiers with the fire shells. When approaching, it was inserted between the enemy ships to exert the power of the gunwales, and the enemy ships that were hit were often badly damaged and the sailors suffered heavy casualties under the left and right bows.

Under the gaze of the commanders of both sides, I saw that the two Song gunboats in front of them, after destroying their sails, avoided the collision of the Yuan warships and walked opposite each other at a distance of about fifty paces on their sides. This distance was within the effective range of the crossbows, and the archers of the Yuan army opened their bows and arrows to shoot at the Song ships, and the first ships of the Song army immediately counterattacked with gunwales, bombarding the archers on the side and deck of the enemy ships.

The solid bullets fired from the ballistas smashed the wooden parapet on the side of the ship into the sawdust in an instant, and the flowering catapults exploded through the gunwales and exploded in the crowd, killing and wounding the archers. Taking advantage of the sparse arrows of the enemy, the rear ship lowered the firing angle and fired solid bullets at the cabin of the enemy ship, opening huge holes in its bilge, and the rear cannon fired the flowering catapult into the cabin, causing an explosion that not only killed the oarsmen in the bilge, but also further tore the hatch, widening the gap, and the lake water was immediately poured into it......