There are hundreds of large and small ships of the Huainan Naval Division, including various types, and there are only about fifty really large warships, Xu Yang took half of them to attack the water block, and the remaining half was led by Gong Bin to attack Li Hao's six warships. If those small ships are not counted, on average, four large ships attack one Tang warship.

Each battleship of the Tang Army was extremely open, and there was no intention of cooperating with each other, but they were fighting separately, but this also divided the Huainan Naval Division into six or seven teams.

Six or seven warbands were formed on both sides, entangled and chasing each other. The speed of the Tang warships was extremely fast, and what amazed the Huainan Navy Division even more was that these Tang warships were retreating above the water, and they were no slower than when they were advancing.

The Tang warships tried to keep a certain distance from the opponent in order to attack the enemy ships with trebuchets on the front and rear decks, while the Huainan naval division responded with strong crossbows, rockets, etc., hoping to get closer to each other, and then jump into a decisive battle.

Yangzhou Water Village, the iron chain lying under the water has been cut off by the water ghost of Huainan and then sunk to the bottom of the water, with the impact of large warships, one after another water gate was knocked open, in the cheers of the Huainan army, one after another big ships drove straight into the water gate.

Above the city tower, Mei Jiu's heart was cold.

After the water village, there is still a waterway, and this waterway allows these enemy ships to be inserted directly into the core of Yangzhou City.

He turned his head to look at Fu Xiao, an officer from Wuyi, but he looked intently at the big ships that were flowing in from the Water Gate. ”

"General Fu, the organization has fought back!" Mei Jiu shouted frantically from the side.

Fu Xiao turned around and glanced at him, grinning, "Of course, Zhizhou!" ”

A red flag rose to the top of the city tower, and with the raising of this red flag, on both sides of the waterway, countless soldiers poured out, and what they held in their hands was not knives and guns, but wooden barrels one by one, and when they reached the edge of the waterway, they cut the wooden barrels together, and then threw them into the waterway.

An unpleasant smell lingered in the air.

A rocket fell and shot into the water, but the fire was not extinguished, but spread rapidly to both sides with its center.

The whole waterway was on fire.

The more than 20 Huainan Navy Division warships that entered the waterway through the water gate fell into the sea of fire in an instant.

"It's fierce fire oil!" Fu Xiao glanced at Mei Jiu, who was stunned beside him, and said: "This is the first time to use it on the southern battlefield, and the Huainan Army is very lucky, they are the first to taste the sharpest weapons of the Tang Army." ”

The warship on the waterway was a little miserable at this time, the whole ship was burning, and the sailors on board were running wolf, but at most it became a fire, screaming and jumping into the water, but even the water was burning. It didn't take long for it to become a charred black floating corpse in the middle of the fire.

Only those with the best water nature, rushing into the sea of fire, and then a fierce man plunged to the bottom of the water, if he could swim to the shore and climb up with a breath, of course, he could escape with his life, and naturally, such people would also become prisoners of their opponents.

Xu Yang stood on top of the last big ship, and when he saw the fire spreading towards him, he couldn't help but be shocked, and ordered to exit the water gate one after another. However, it is easy to come and difficult to go, although the water gate was smashed by them, but the Tang army on both sides of the water gate is still there, one by one the gasoline bombs were ignited, thrown at Xu Yang's boat, in a rumbling violent sound, finally the big ship completely stopped near the water gate, and there were no living people on the boat.

The battle inside and outside the water village has largely ended, but the battle on the river is still going on, at this time, Gong Bin's fleet and Li Hao's fleet are fighting and walking, but they are already four or five miles away from the water village.

Standing on the command platform of the high warship, Li Hao laughed loudly when he saw that the fire in the direction of Shuizhai almost reflected half of the sky. The arrogance of the enemy, at last, sent themselves to their death. Originally, even if they had fierce fire oil, they would not be able to use it on such a wide river, and it would not be able to achieve the effect they wanted, but if they could trick the enemy's fleet into the narrow waterway leading directly into the inner city of Yangzhou, the power would be doubled.

The big ship sailed into that waterway, and it was not easy to turn around, and the only option was to drive forward, turn around in Yangzhou City for most of the circle, and go out from the other end.

It only takes a small amount of fierce fire oil to bury dozens of opponents' ships.

The Huainan sailor, who knew nothing about this, fell into this trap headlong. It is now estimated that half of their ships are already weeping in the flames.

Gong Bin didn't know what was going on in the direction of the water village four or five miles away, he could only see the fire that reflected half of the sky, in his opinion, this was probably Xu Yang had already attacked the water village and was setting fire to the water village.

The speed of the enemy's warship is slowing down, and after fighting on the river for a long time, even an iron man will get tired, and the bigger the ship, the more physical strength it will take to control him.

One by one, crossbow arrows with ropes were shot out, and they were nailed to the Tang warship, and Gong Bin's warship quickly approached Li Hao's warship.

At this time, on the river, the six Tang warships seemed to be a little weak, and they were being caught up and surrounded by Huainan warships one by one.

No one noticed that in the distance, at sea level, the sail of a huge fleet had already appeared.

More than 20 wheeled warships of the Tang Army, from above the sea, rode the tide of the sea, took advantage of the sea breeze, outpaced the galloping horses, and the momentum was like thunder, like divine soldiers descending from the sky, killing from the sea. This is the fleet of Pan Motang, who had gone from Lingnan to welcome the newly canonized queen mother, and they had been suspended in the open sea for several days for this battle.

The sound of whining trumpets and deafening war drums resounded across the river.

When Gong Bin found this huge fleet on the sea, he was really heartbroken. At this time, the tide was rising, and the already wide estuary of the Yangtze River was even more boundless at this time, and he finally understood why the enemy's fleet had been luring him outside, and it turned out that there was a trap waiting for him here.

At this time, his fleet was not as big as the enemy's ships, and it was not as fast as the enemy's ships, let alone fighting, and he could not even escape.

When the Tang warship completed the encirclement, the white flag was raised above Gong Bin's bow.

From the beginning to the end of the whole battle, Mei Jiu was like being in a dream, shocked, sad, and happy, and his emotions were always changing rapidly.

Gong Bin was captured alive.

From Gong Bin downward, more than 1,000 Huainan sailors surrendered.

Nearly twenty large ships became trophies, and many more were auxiliary ships of other small boats.

Pan Motang's fleet did not stay here, taking advantage of the tide, they took a circle outside the Yangzhou Water Village, and then walked away, I believe that their majestic posture must have left an extremely deep impression on the people of Yangzhou.

The north gate defended by Qin Xinming did not start at all. When the Huainan general slowly prepared to attack the city, what he saw was Gong Bin, the young marshal of Huainan who was tied to the head of the city. In a panic, this Huainan army dropped countless baggage and fled directly on light horses.

The news of the defeat of the sailor and the capture of Gong Bin quickly spread outward.

Baoying, Zheng Guoqiang was dumbfounded, without saying a word, he immediately withdrew the army, but was entangled by the army commanded by Baoying's general Ren Xiaonian, and finally paid nearly 3,000 casualties, and the strong man ran back after breaking the bowl.

And in Yizheng, after Jiang Qiaoan got the news, he retreated much more calmly, because from beginning to end, he did not have the strength to attack Yizheng, once things changed, he retreated, but he also had the strength to do it.

Huainan Jiezhen's operation to recover Yangzhou was a complete failure, and Gong Yunda, who may have just led his army out of the Huainan territory and was about to assist Zhu Youzhen in attacking Eyue, stopped and hurriedly led his division back.

After the defeat of the first battle to recover Yangzhou, Gong Yunda is likely to lose not only a naval division, but thousands of troops plus his son. There is also a risk that he will lose control of Huainan. Yangzhou used their strong combat effectiveness and brilliant victory to proudly declare their strength to the Huainan people and the surrounding people, and also hinted at the surrounding forces that they would have many choices.

Gong Yunda must return to Huainan to unite the hearts of the people, reinvigorate his forces, and try to fight again, only by defeating the opponent and cutting off the opponent's head can he regain his prestige in Huainan.

The problem is that the loss of the entire Huainan Navy Division is irreparable. Without the water division, how difficult is it to rely on the land division alone to take Yangzhou? The other party can rely on its advantage on the water to wantonly attack other boundaries in Huainan, cut off the transportation links of various places, and cut the entire Huainan into small pieces that are difficult to connect.

Moreover, Gong Bin also fell into the hands of the other party.

Gong Yunda, who returned to Chuzhou, had not yet sat on the hot ass, and the envoy sent by Yangzhou Meijiu had already arrived.

Mei Jiu's meaning is very clear, as long as Gong Yunda doesn't fight Yangzhou, then our two families can get along safely, if you dare to fight Yangzhou, then I will cut off Gong Bin's head first, and then break the net with you, but see who can have the last laugh?

Helplessly, Gong Yunda could only give in to Yangzhou. Although Yangzhou is violent, its strength is probably just able to protect itself, and if you want to attack outward, it is impossible in a short time. Now he is more worried about whether Wu Ning's Third Highness will take advantage of his weakness and swallow himself in one gulp.

And Zhu Youzhen in Wuning, facing the news from Yangzhou, was also dumbfounded, unbelievable, but unfortunately at this time, his several armies had already launched an attack on Eyue, and before he took Eyue, he had nothing to worry about. Regarding Gong Yunda's decision to withdraw his troops, he could only reluctantly and silently agree.

The most regrettable thing for him was the destruction of the Huainan Water Division, which he had coveted for a long time.