Located on the eastern shore of Taihu Lake, Goose Bay is surrounded by two headlands that extend into the lake, facing the East Island and the West Island, and almost on the same axis as the waterway between the two islands. The water surface in the bay is about 30 miles in circumference, roughly U-shaped, but due to serious siltation, the water depth of the lake is less than one zhang after the low tide, which is not a suitable place for boats, and also leads to insufficient depth, which makes it difficult for the fleet to maneuver, and drilling into it is equivalent to entering a dead end.

However, there are disadvantages as well as advantages, which narrows the frontal defense and makes it difficult for the enemy to make a detour from the flanks and rear, so that you can concentrate your fire on enemy ships attacking frontally. A prominent headland on the right flank and several small islands in the lake form a fence with the West Island, which also restricts the enemy's maneuver. The bridge crossing on the headland on the left flank has been controlled by the 1st Marine Brigade, which can not only prevent the Zhending army from going ashore, but also evacuate as a last resort.

The Guardian Navy Division has more than 100 warships, but although the number is small, it is simply a small sailor. The standard configuration of sailing in peacetime is the Sheji plus two baggage ships, and a number of dragon ships to accompany the escort, but in wartime or out of a long way, they have to be dispatched, rocket ships, gunboats, and sentinel ships are the same, and there are only fewer guards with the escort of the ship.

Limited by the restrictions of terrain and warfare, Zhao Hao, who has always liked mobile combat and is good at using strange tricks, arranged a decent defensive formation. The whole formation was supported by the Sheji arranged in the center, the rocket ships arranged on its two wings as the backbone, and the staggered arrangement of the gunboats in front formed the first line of interception, with the baggage ships placed in the rear and the sentinel ships interspersed between the ships.

"Your Majesty, all the ballistae on the port side have been transferred to the starboard side!" Chen Dun wiped his sweat and said.

"Good, good job!" Zhao Hao praised him, and he didn't look back and still looked ahead, at this moment the rocket ship kept firing rockets, blocking the pursuing enemy army, and buying time for the formation. The Sheji was equipped with thirty ballistae on each side, and now it was defending with all its might, and the ballistas on the port side were no longer needed, so he ordered them to be arranged all on the second deck on the starboard side to strengthen the frontal fire, so that it could cover the area of three hundred paces in front of the formation.

"Your Majesty, isn't our formation a little thin!" Chen Dun looked at the front and back. At the mouth of the bay were forty gunboats, which, like the Sheji, faced the enemy on the side of the ship, staggered into two lines, while fifteen rocket ships were lined up on each side of the two wings of the imperial ship, and three baggage boats were counted behind, no more than two hundred paces deep, and looked like a piece of paper.

"Thin?! Who do you think can break through hundreds of ballistas and hundreds of rocket launchers on a frontal shot less than four miles. Zhao Hao asked rhetorically.

"This ...... This is a bit difficult, this seems to be even more difficult than the sword mountain and the sea of fire! Chen Dun was stunned, he shuddered after a little thought, if such a dense salvo of ballistas and rockets was fired, he would face a sea of fire, and he was afraid that the fish and shrimp in the lake would be blown up.

"Are all the men of the Marine Brigade on board?" Zhao Hao asked again.

"Your Majesty, step up to gunboats and rocket boats. However, Deputy Commander Zheng left a reserve army, let them hide behind the gunboat formation, the boat was full of gunpowder, if an enemy ship was found to break in, he would blow up the enemy ship at any cost, and never get close to the imperial ship half a step! Chen Dun said softly again.

"Well, am I really going to go to Wheat City?" Zhao Yu said with a wry smile when he heard this, he was full of confidence that he thought that he could lure the enemy to Taihu Lake, and he could easily destroy them, but in the end, he had to rely on risks to win the victory, which made him a little frustrated, and he was also a little worried about the future battle.

"Your Majesty won't, let's go into the cabin and take shelter!" Chen Dun saw His Majesty's face gloomy, and hurriedly spoke.

"Avoid? Anyone can dodge, but I have no reason to dodge! Zhao Yu waved his hand as he looked at the increasingly fierce artillery fire.

"Your Majesty, why?" Chen Dun still tried to pull the little emperor off the top cabin, but he was stunned when he heard his words, and couldn't help but ask.

"I have had nowhere to avoid it since the day I ascended the throne of God." Zhao Hao said leisurely, "When I was appointed as the deputy marshal of the world's soldiers and horses, I moved to Qiongzhou to open a mansion, thinking that I could stay away from the war and be an idle king in that overseas land, and I just wanted to run Qiongzhou into a place where the people were happy and prosperous." From that moment on, I could only let go of everything and take on this almost impossible task, even if there were mountains of swords and fires in front of me, thorns, and even if I knew that even if there was an abyss ahead, I had to go down without hesitation! ”

"Your Majesty, your subordinates are willing to stay by Your Majesty's side all the time, even if they burn their bones to pieces!" Chen Dun used to think that the little emperor lived a masochistic life for a day, which was simply asking for hardship, but he didn't expect that these were actually not what he wanted, but just because of responsibility, regardless of preferences and interests, let alone reluctance. This shocked him and said solemnly.

"Okay, we don't have any role here, get me a gun, let's go to the bottom to guard and hit the boarding place!" Zhao Yu patted Chen Dun's shoulder and said with a smile.

"Yes!" Chen Dun was enthusiastically boiled by the little emperor's words, and stood up and saluted. And Zhao Yu still just smiled, took the body armor handed by the guards, tied the armed belt, hung the ammunition box, took the musket, and led a team of guards to the first deck to arm the defense......

Although the Haidao Grain Transport Army is nominally an army, in fact, it is only equivalent to a labor army with a military number, and at the same time is in charge of public security along the coast. Therefore, they did not have the vehicles and ships of the Longwan sailors, nor did they have heavy weapons such as stone throwers and gold juice cannons, and they even had very few crossbows for water warfare. In the first battle, they finally defeated the enemy and drove them to the South Lake, relying on the strength of the outnumbers and the courage they had cultivated as pirates.

However, Zhang Xuan was still distressed, under the First World War, the whole army lost more than 100 warships and more than 2,000 soldiers, and the key thing is that the grain looted by the Song army has not been recovered. When he was ready to take a breather, when the stupid boys of the Longwan Navy Division surrounded the Song army, and both sides were defeated, he went to pick up a leak again, which could be regarded as atonement for his sins and escape the crime of losing grain, and this was also his original intention to send troops.

But before they could attack, the Song army took the lead in attacking, but fortunately, they were rushing to the Longwan Naval Division who was dragging Hubito. But he didn't dare to be careless, and ordered the front army to prepare to prevent the defeat of the Longwan Naval Division and let the Song army copy his own back road, but he didn't expect that the Song army's firepower and attack speed were so fast, and it easily broke through the array of the Longwan Naval Division, while another naval army of the Song army took advantage of this opportunity to insert from the waterway between the two islands and went straight to his rear army.

Zhang Xuan didn't expect that the Song army would dare to provoke them under the new defeat, not to mention, only thirty ships still had to copy their own back road, he knew that the rear army was his weakness, and most of them were recruits and sailors forcibly recruited from Songjiang Mansion in the past two years. Although these people are considered to be in their own township, their reputation is not good, and the Yuan court is increasingly squeezing Jiangnan, most of them are here for the treatment of 'double Lumi', and they are not willing to accompany themselves on this extremely risky sea route, and many of them are oriented to the old dynasty, not like those old brothers who were born and died with them are willing to work for him.

So Zhang Xuan urgently ordered Zhu Qing to immediately lead the Chinese army with a thousand reinforcements to destroy the enemy ships that broke into his formation, but unfortunately he had never heard of the fact that when the Qiongzhou Army was first established, the little emperor of Qiongzhou had rushed into the large array of Liu Shenshui Army with ten dragon ships, sank and injured more than 100 warships, captured his ship, and almost lost his life. Otherwise, Zhang Xuan's decision at this moment must be to shrink the formation and quickly retreat, rather than attacking it.

However, Zhang Xuan doesn't seem to have this awareness, and he doesn't have this time. The Song army attacked from the front again, and they rushed over in several columns, and they had already opened fire as soon as they entered the firing range. But Zhang Xuan was not worried at the moment, because he knew that in the water battle, the two armies fought in horizontal formations, and the columns were often used to break through. The enemy's front and rear flanking attacks were in a hurry to flee for his life, and the partial division was to attract the attention of the Longwan Naval Division and create conditions for the main force to escape, so he could make the remnants of the Chinese army and the front army all press on and fight a decisive battle with these enemy forces who had no desire to fight.

The Yuan army was not all confused, and Zhang Xingzu, who was watching the battle on the East Island, found that things were not quite right. In fact, he felt inappropriate as early as when he entered Taihu Lake, and when the defeated army guarding Pingjiang fled here, he found that the Song army did not flee in the desert, but launched a counterattack. It is said that if an army knows that its strength is inferior to the enemy, its first choice should be to withdraw as soon as possible to avoid suffering greater losses, but the enemy's failure to retreat and counterattack indicates that it may lead its own side into the ambush circle.

In the ensuing battle, Zhang Xingzu's feeling of being in ambush was even worse, the water village was empty, the grain had already been transferred, and the enemy army had no need to fight this battle with them at all. Then a fierce battle broke out between the two sides, and his own naval army repelled the Song army with the help of the water flow, and it seemed that he had achieved a great victory, but in the eyes of his veteran, the defeat was indeed his own. Although the Song army was forced to retreat to Nanhu, it could advance and retreat in an orderly manner, with very few casualties, and the lake was full of its own destroyed warships as far as the eye could see, and almost all of them were floating corpses of their own soldiers wearing Yuan army uniforms.

Zhang Xingzu felt that the Song army had been defeated in a row, but there were many waterways in Taihu Lake, and it was not only possible to evacuate from the Songjiang waterway, but it did not retreat, but regrouped and lined up. He vaguely felt that his worries were real, and that the enemy army was deliberately leading them into Taihu Lake to gather and annihilate them. Then he took advantage of the truce to transfer all his troops to Dongdao, and prepared to withdraw from the bridge to Wu County, no matter how strong the enemy navy was, it was impossible to land in a boat to chase them.

There are all kinds of signs that he has fallen into the trap of the Song army, and when Zhang Xingzu was about to inform the two two colleagues, he thought about it and held back. That Zhang Xuan relied on the favor of the Great Khan to drag it can't work, he doesn't put himself in his eyes at all on weekdays, not to mention making a fortune from it, and he also monopolized the overseas trade of Jiangsu and Zhejiang provinces, this time it is good to let him suffer a little loss, and the Great Khan died without a backstage, see how long it can be rampant. As for the young Zhuang faction, Hubi dragged himself to the fact that he was a Mongol, on his own territory, but he didn't listen to his own greetings, and he used his identity to oppress people at every turn, so forget it!

Of course, Zhang Xingzu also has selfishness in it, if this is really a pit as he expected, then someone must have to fill the pit, and the best person to fill the pit is not himself. Therefore, he has been monitoring the movements of the Song army, and at first he also wondered why the Song army's attack point would be on the right flank of the Longwan Naval Division, which would obviously be copied by it. But he soon understood that the Song army was only dispatching a partial division, and its purpose was to attack the Cao army first, and the detachment of clippers was to cut off their rear route. But when Song Jun retreated into Goose Bay, he couldn't understand it, which was tantamount to throwing himself into a net!

But when Zhang Xingzu understood, he immediately regretted his original decision, and after the Song army retreated to Goose Bay, he immediately sent an army to occupy the headland on the east side of Huwan, seemingly to meet the trapped naval army. However, he realized that the Song army was coming against him, and that its occupation of Qiaodu was precisely to cut off the passage of his landing, and their appetite was very great, and they still wanted to kill themselves......

The three battlefields in Taihu Lake were on fire at the same time, and the side of Goose Bay was under great pressure, but Zhao Hao was very calm. He knows that he is now holding two families in one hand, not only the other two battlefields of Taihu Lake, but also the two battlefields of Jiankang and Hangzhou, as long as he drags the Longwan New Army to the death, it is of great significance both locally and to the overall situation, even if he makes a certain sacrifice, it is worth it.

"Blossom bomb, full fuse, four hundred paces away, fifteen degrees to the right, one point higher!" Zhao Yu held a telescope to fix a large enemy warship, which is equipped with a large stone thrower, which can throw five catties of stone projectiles into the array of gunboats, and has destroyed two of his own warships in a row, with more than ten casualties, but its position is far behind, it is close to the range limit of heavy ballistas, and it has not been able to knock it out after organizing several shots.

"Your Majesty, the shooting is ready!" The gunner replied.

"Okay, steady, steady, fire!" Zhao Yu waved his hand violently and said in a deep voice.

'Bang', the torsion string that had been strengthened to the limit suddenly loosened and developed a muffled sound, and the flowering bullets on the butt swished out, but everyone found that the shells fired were not as straight as before in flight, but were a little erratic, and they couldn't help but worry a little about whether they could hit the target. But in an instant, the shells fell, exploding at a height that had not yet touched the mast, and a cloud of fire was raised.

"Your Majesty, I'm hit!" Although everyone can't see the flying shrapnel, they can see the fire rising on the ship, and it spreads rapidly, but a few breaths of kung fu fire has been uncontrollable, the Yuan soldiers above scattered and fled, diving to survive, obviously the scattered shrapnel shattered the oil tank on the ship, and the sparks ignited it again, so it spread so quickly, everyone couldn't help cheering.

"Your Majesty, it's really a sure shot!" Chen Dun saw that the enemy ships on fire were slowly tilting and falling, and the surrounding enemy ships were hurriedly scattered to dodge, but its tall hull still pressed down several enemy ships that could not retreat and set them on fire, and he couldn't help but raise his big fingers and praise......