There is a thin layer of haze between heaven and earth, although it is not heavy, but it can also make people's eyes seem to be covered with a light veil, hazy, and not very real.

Liu Xinda stroked the flagpole above the fortress with his hand, his hands were wet, it was dew. At his feet, stretching far on both sides, was his Yellow River defense line. All the sergeants have been in place, as the core of the entire defense line, this section of the defense line about ten miles long, with the fortress he is now in as the center, more than a dozen fortress-type fortresses are stubbornly guarding the path of the Tang army's advance. A full 30,000 Ping Lu army will rely on the Yellow River here to fight to the death with the invading Tang army.

Looking up at the opposite shore, the fog made it impossible for him to see the other shore clearly, but the dull, one after another war drums were clearly audible. He could feel that the opposing army's army was approaching the Yellow River defense line.

A horse galloped from downstream, and when he reached the bottom of the fortress, the knight raised his head and shouted: "Return to the general, five miles downstream, I have found an enemy warship." ”

Almost at the same time, in the direction of the upper reaches, another rider also galloped over.

"General Hui, our army's naval division has arrived!"

Liu Xinda let out a long breath.

The big war must start from the struggle for control of the water, and if the own naval division wins, then the Tang army's plan to cross the river will come to naught.

This is the ideal ending.

"Beat the drums and cheer for our army's sailors!" He snapped.

For land operations, Liu Xinda lacked confidence at all. The Tang Army under Li Ze's command has been fighting all these years, while the Pinglu Army, the first battle it fought was a few years ago in Dizhou against Li Ze's subordinates, who were far less powerful than the current one, and the result was a complete defeat.

Now, the gap between the two sides is only getting bigger and bigger.

Now the Tang Army is no longer only Qin Zhao's Zuo Xiaowei, Li De's rangers and Chen Changping's Zuo Weiwei have also arrived in Dizhou. Let's not talk about Zuo Xiaowei, Li De's rangers alone are enough to make Liu Xinda frightened, this is a strong force that has fought with Zhang Zhongwu and the Tubo army.

The only thing to look forward to is the sailor.

The Tang Army's sailors were only built in the past two years, while the Pinglu sailors have always existed. According to intelligence, the naval division of Dizhou has only more than 30 large and small warships, while the Pinglu naval division has as many as 100 large and small ships.

Control the waterways, this war, invincible.

In the mist, the sound of war drums on the warship became clearer and clearer.

A beam of sunlight penetrated the haze and landed on the top of the fortress, and the haze that shrouded the sky and the earth disappeared without a trace in an instant, and the river, the opposite bank, was clearly presented in front of Liu Xinda in an instant.

On the other side, the Tang army's military formations one by one were like black reefs, standing on the field, with about 10,000 people. And above the river, the Tang warships downstream were going upstream, and around the ten large warships, accompanied by dozens of small warships.

Upstream, the dense Pinglu warships are going downstream, and as far as the eye can see, the field of vision is almost full of the sails of the Pinglu warships.

The right time and place!

Liu Xinda felt that every pore was overflowing with excitement, and the wind was rising, but the Pinglu battleship was going downwind, and the enemy battleship was going against the current. Even though he didn't know much about water warfare, Liu Xinda also knew that such a form was simply too advantageous for the Pinglu warship.

"General Liu, the enemy's ship is so fast, it's so weird!" Beside him, a lieutenant said suddenly.

Only then did Liu Xinda notice that the enemy's warships were indeed against the current and against the wind, but their speed seemed to be faster than that of their own warships going downstream. Originally, he expected that the battlefield where the two sides collided would be directly in front of his fortress, but now, the Tang warships were passing directly in front of his fortress, and his own warships still had a distance of nearly two miles to arrive.

Seeing that the enemy's ten large warships suddenly accelerated and threw off his own small ships, Liu Xinda suddenly remembered some of the records in the war history he had read.

"Cars and boats!" He exclaimed.

Li Hao was like a statue, standing firmly on the command platform of the first battleship, the black cloak on his body was blown back high by the oncoming wind, revealing the crimson inside.

Looking at the swarming Pinglu warships on the opposite side, he sneered.

No matter how many sheep there are, they are still sheep, and no matter how few wolves there are, they are still wolves.

The warships of the Tang Army used the latest technology, combining the vehicles and ships with the ships, so that they had a perfect combination of speed and firepower, and the warships of the Pinglu were all flat-headed ships, the warships of the Tang Army were prismatic bows, the bows were as sharp as knives, and they were equipped with long ramming angles. These warships under Li Hao's command are themselves a miniature version of the warships at sea.

"Command the ships, prepare for battle!" He said coldly.

On top of the fight, the standard-bearer waved the signal flag in his hand, and on both sides of the command platform, the war drums rumbled.

Two battleships rushed up from the rear, Li Hao's flagship was at the forefront, and the two battleships were about ten zhang behind, forming a cone. The other two ships were located exactly in the gap between the three ships in front of them.

The winch was pulled to the tightest of its strength, and with the officer's command, a boulder the size of a millstone flew up from the bow of the ship and spun towards the Pinglu battleship in the distance.

Li Hao's flagship was the first to fire. And the two battleships on his left and right sides also flew up boulders.

The two battleships in the rear began to accelerate, while the two battleships on Li Hao's left and right sides slowed down slightly, and the four battleships changed their positions in the front and rear in an instant, and the other two battleships that caught up also made a huge whistling sound, and two boulders flew out.

Liu Xinda watched as five boulders the size of a millstone fell into the Pinglu warship that was sailing rapidly on the opposite side.

There was no time to dodge, let alone room to dodge, and several warships withstood the heavy blow of this stone bullet weighing hundreds of catties.

"Shoot the ship!" Liu Xinda almost roared and howled.

He never imagined that the powerful warships that he had only seen in the history of war would appear alive in front of him.

Stone cannons were also installed on the Pinglu warships, but the range was only more than 100 paces at most, and the power was not great, so it was difficult to inflict a fatal blow on the warships.

Obviously, his sailor robe did not expect to suffer such a heavy blow at this distance.

A Pinglu warship was shot in the bow, and the bow of the ship sank downward, and the whole thing was submerged in the water, and the stern of the ship was cocked so high that even the rudder was exposed to the water, and the sailors on board fell into the water screaming like dumplings.

The ship plunged into the water, and it was clear that his bow had been severely damaged, and the worse was yet to come, and when his stern fell heavily, the whole hull had deviated from its original course with the current, and a warship that had been next to him was just below him, and the stern fell heavily, and the warship also suffered a great loss.

Another small warship was smashed squarely in the middle by a stone bullet, and it sank cleanly, and the bow and stern of the ship were cocked upwards at the same time, and it actually broke from the middle.

The third battleship that was shot was hit in the tail, the rudder part was smashed to pieces, and the whole ship completely lost control, dripping and spinning above the water, occasionally colliding with other ships passing by at high speed around it.

With just one attack, the vanguard ships of the Pinglu warships were already in disarray.

The small warships of the Don army had completely fallen behind, and they lined up in two neat rows, closely following the battleships in front, while the ten large battleships kept changing positions with each other so that the stone cannons on the bow could fire continuously.

Only Li Hao's battleship has always remained in the first place.

"Drop the sails!" Seeing that the Pinglu warship on the opposite side was getting closer and closer, Li Hao gave an order again.

The sails of the ten battleships clattered, and all of them fell.

"Prepare for the impact, solid!" On the battleship, the roar of the officer was heard, and all the soldiers on the battleship clung to everything that could be grasped by their side, and their bodies squatted slightly, ready for impact. At this moment, only the soldiers in the bilge who desperately stepped on the wheels did not have to worry about this, because they were already fixed in their positions one by one.

There was a thud of impact.

The monstrous waves rushed into the sky, falling on the deck with a bang, Li Hao grabbed the railing in front of him tightly with one hand, leaned forward, and looked ahead excitedly with his eyes, the tall battleship was directly in front of him, a Pinglu warship was smashed and torn apart by his car, and at this moment, his battleship was crushed from the wreckage of the broken warship.

"Enjoyable!" He screamed excitedly in his heart.

Countless feather arrows shot from the enemy warships on both sides, and several shields were immediately raised in front of Li Hao, and the sound of tinkling was endless, and the boat gang, for a while, was filled with feather arrows from both sides.

At the same time, Tang Jun raised the crossbow in his hand and fired back at both sides.

Another roaring crash sounded, and the Tang ships on both sides once again collided with the Pinglu warship in front.

When the Tang Army's naval warships were built, keels were introduced in an epoch-making way, which made their warships much stronger than those of Pinglu. The warships specially built for combat were completely different from the warships that had been converted from civilian ships like Pinglu, at least in terms of the power of the impact, it was a completely two-level contest.

One by one, gasoline bombs were thrown from the battleship, and in the explosion, one after another the Pinglu warships ignited a fire, although there were also rockets fired on the Tang warships, but for the Tang warships that had long since fallen sail, these rockets had no power at all. The hull of the ship is fireproof, and the only thing that is afraid of fire is the sails.

But the warships of the Tang Army did not rely on wind propulsion. Without sails, they still maintain strong power.

Liu Xinda stood on top of the fortress and watched as the Tang warships easily destroyed the vanguard fleet of the Pinglu Naval Division like a tiger entering a flock of sheep.

The Tang army on the other side of the river heard the sound of cheers that shook the nine nights.

This was a war that broke out between the two armies, and the impact on the morale of both sides is self-evident.