While Liu Shen was shrinking his defense and preparing for a counterattack, Ying Jieyan also dispatched troops to redeploy. He knew that the Tan people were untrained and not good at frontal attacks, but they were familiar with the nature of the water and had strong combat ability in single boats, so he withdrew them from the front of the attack and was responsible for intercepting and killing the enemy's small warships that had infiltrated the array, and rescuing the soldiers of the Shuai Mansion who had fallen into the water.www.biquge.info The frontal assault was carried out by ten large warships armed with ballistas, cutting into the enemy line with a sharp arrow, followed by the largest number of medium-sized warships, whose task was to quickly penetrate the enemy line after the large warships had opened the passage to find His Highness and try to escort him out of formation.

At the same time, Ying Jieyan sent Jiang Xuan to lead the 100 warships of the rear army and the dragon boat detachment of the Destroying Front Army from behind the island to bypass the enemy fleet and quickly join up with Chen Renweng, and uniformly dispatch and command the two units to serve as auxiliary attacks, attracting the enemy army so that they could not draw troops back to the commander. If His Highness breaks through from the south, he will immediately mobilize all his forces to meet him and escort him out of the battlefield, so that His Highness must not be lost. However, if the two sides want to maintain contact and quickly report to the other side after rescuing His Highness, so that they can adjust their forces to fight again, they must severely damage Liu Shenbu and make him lose the ability to land in Qiongzhou.

In addition, when passing through Wenchang, Ying Jieyan had ordered Zhao Mengjin to return to Qiongzhou first to preside over the overall situation on the island, and mobilize the Chinese army to maneuver to Changhua to prevent the enemy from landing on the island; He also ordered the right army and the front army to enter combat readiness, and the coastal forts were closed to strengthen coastal patrols, and when they found that there were enemy troops trying to land, they immediately launched a counterattack; At the same time, the left army was also ready to reinforce Qiongzhou at any time, and first sent part of its troops to maneuver in the direction of Qiongzhou, open up access roads, repair bridges, and ensure the passage of the army.

He also ordered all prefectures and counties to cancel their vacations, and the chief officials were not allowed to leave without permission, and Ding Zhuang was requisitioned to go to the city to assist the garrison in defense, and those who entered and left the city were strictly investigated, and fishing boats and merchant ships were not allowed to leave the port. The yamen of each department should also be manned day and night, and at the same time raise silver and grain, arrange camps and berths, and prepare to meet them, and at the same time strictly seal the news of His Highness's departure from Qiongzhou, and those who leak the news will not be forgiven.

Ying Jieyan is more convened than anyone else at this moment, His Highness is deeply trapped in the enemy's formation, life and death are unknown, and launching an attack a moment earlier will be less dangerous for His Highness, and it will also relieve a little pressure on him to break through. So after the preparation was completed, the formation was immediately launched to attack. In order to speed up the pace of the attack, he changed the tactics of the previous drills, which usually used rocket ships to bombard first and wait for the enemy's formation to disperse before launching an attack. In order to prevent accidental damage, he asked them to increase the elevation angle of the launch, so as to ensure that the rocket could fly over the fleet and fall into the enemy's position......

Over there, Jiang Xuan led the army to quickly bypass Qizhou Island to meet Chen Renweng, but unexpectedly found that Jiang Cheng was also there. The brothers have a lot to say when they meet, but the war is urgent, and there is no time to talk about the past, and the two don't have to argue about who commands whom, all power naturally belongs to the boss, and Jiang Xuan did not hesitate to take over the command and command the three armies.

Because they were at a disadvantage, Jiang Xuan agreed with the prince to still choose the attack point on the front right flank of the enemy, reducing the impact of large enemy ships powered by sails. Considering that the forbidden army in front of the palace led by Jiang Cheng fought hard for many days, and the lack of supplies led to a decrease in combat effectiveness; And Chen Renweng has also been fighting fiercely with the enemy for a long time, and he has not had time to rest, so he used the rear army he brought as the main attack, Chen Renweng led the main force of the front army to cover the two wings, and the forbidden army in front of the palace was the rear response.

But Jiang Xuan's arrangement made Chen Renweng disagree, although the main responsibility for His Royal Highness being trapped in the battle did not lie with him, but after all, he was the chief general of the Destroying Front Army, and he could not escape the blame for losing the prince. And His Royal Highness has the grace to save his life, and he has promoted him to the chief general of the first army, trusting and taking care of him, and he also regards His Royal Highness as a confidant. The death of a confidant of the people could not sit idly by in public or private, so he asked to use the dragon boat detachment of the Destroying Front Army as the main force of the assault to serve as the main attack and open the way for the army. Then take advantage of the dragon ship's good protection, strong attack power, and fast speed to go deep into the enemy formation to search for and rescue His Highness, and cover its breakthrough.

Although Jiang Xuan had heard of the dragon boat, he had been in Leizhou most of the time, but he had never seen the combat effectiveness of the dragon boat, so he was a little hesitant at first. But when he learned that His Royal Highness had defeated the enemy's vanguard army with only eleven dragon ships as the main force, and had achieved a small victory in sinking and damaging more than 100 enemy ships, capturing more than 40 ships, and killing the former army commander Hara. And it is precisely because of this that His Royal Highness dared to launch a second attack on the enemy team, and he rushed into the enemy formation with a single boat to kill Liu Shen, so as to drag the first main fleet.

Jiang Xuan was accustomed to seeing His Highness always surprise or frighten people, and only then did he know what His Highness was going to do when he went deep into the enemy formation. After worrying, if it weren't for his sudden arrival causing the enemy to shrink their defenses, His Highness, who had already taken advantage of the chaos to break through the enemy's two defense lines, might have really succeeded and beheaded Liu Shen under his horse, no, he was pulled into the sea and drowned. In addition to being angry, he also secretly admired the boldness and cleverness of his precious students.

Jiang Cheng is different, he is used to seeing a submissive, timid and afraid of the little emperor, although he has heard of what His Royal Highness has done, but with his level is not enough to be more than ordinary people, at first hearing about King Wei's 'great achievements', he was so shocked that he couldn't close his mouth, you must know that he and Liu Shen fought no less than a dozen times, but none of them took advantage. In the battle of Jingao Dahengqin, they also occupied a geographical advantage, and the strength was three times that of Liu Shen, and they repelled it after paying a great price, although everyone called it a great victory, but everyone knew what was going on, and it was reluctant to say a small victory. The declaration of the great victory was just to reassure the Queen Mother and Her Majesty and gather the scattered military spirit to improve morale.

The small victory in the mouth of the Marshal's army only mobilized more than 3,000 people and less than 40 warships to defeat the enemy's forward army, and the main general was killed. But this little prince did not give up after learning that the reinforcements had set off, and he wanted to kill the enemy commander and annihilate Liu Shen's department. In order to achieve this goal, King Wei actually went into battle to lead a single ship assault, not to mention whether this plan was perfect or not, Jiang Cheng thought that his courage alone was enough to kill all the generals in the imperial court in seconds.

But Jiang Cheng also knew very well what the Shuaifu army he did a year ago was like, and judging from the combat effectiveness of the Destroying Front Army in front of him, it was enough to be compared with the Yuan Army, and they were the most elite forbidden army in front of the palace. Looking at his brother's attitude again, he didn't seem surprised that he was angry, which made Jiang Cheng also realize that King Wei was by no means a puppet on the stage like His Majesty, and that the Shuaifu Army must have a great relationship with what it is today, and from the looks of the commanders of the two armies in front of him, he also knew that his prestige in the army was unparalleled. This also shocked him and made him even more curious.

Jiang Xuan thought about it for a while and felt that what Chen Renweng said was reasonable, their purpose was to rescue His Highness first. So the deployment was adjusted, still the rear army was the main force of attack, and the front army was hidden behind the place where the battle began, and suddenly accelerated to rush out after the enemy was about to be connected, in order to seek the effect of a surprise attack, and after opening the gap, it could act alone to enter the battle to find His Highness. Chen Renweng was overjoyed when he heard this, and decided not to take any more ships, and he changed the Brave to his flagship to go deep into the front line to command the fleet......

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The reinforcements on both sides were anxious to arrange troops to prepare to save His Highness from the sea of suffering, and although the person concerned, Zhao Hao, was not very happy at the moment, and even very dangerous, he felt that it was not difficult to support. After this morning's fighting, he realized that he had misunderstood. At first, he thought that the biggest threat to dragon ships was the large warships, because of their huge size and superior impact power, if the dragon ship was caught or hit by them, even if it was strong, it would be difficult to withstand it. On the other hand, these large warships are equipped with more complete weapons and are equally powerful, which is a great threat to dragon ships. But in actual combat, he realized that these seemingly very reasonable reasons were difficult to stand.

It is true that the large warship hull sank vigorously, but that was at the cost of losing good maneuverability, and the possibility of catching up with the dragon ship and ramming it cannot be said that there is none, but it is approximate none. It is also not easy for two large ships to flank the dragon boats, they are slow, difficult to adjust their direction, and require a large space to move, so the slightest mistake in such a dangerous action as the dragon boat can cause them to kill each other. In addition to destroying it, the bed crossbow can also get close to the lower limit of the enemy ship's firing depression angle and be safe. The rod is not all over the sides and is difficult to move, as long as it is a little farther away from it, or hiding in a dead corner.

And Zhao Hao thought that the biggest threat to the dragon ship was the small and medium-sized warships that also had good maneuverability, although their single ship was not enough to injure or sink the dragon ship, and even be injured by it. But they can limit the maneuverability of dragon boats through grappling, compress their range of movement, and once they are surrounded by several, or even a dozen ships, they become dead turtles, and sooner or later someone will smash their shells open and light a fire.

Now the Warrior looks like it is deep in the enemy's formation, but Liu Shen gathers all the ships to rearrange the formation, and also to prevent it from being attacked by the Song army when it is closed, so it is necessary to leave the middle and lower warships to cover after being broken, which is just like the confrontation between the two armies on land must also send rangers to protect the front of the formation to prevent the enemy from taking advantage of the chaos to attack and disturb, so that there are not many ships that can participate in the round-up of Zhao Yu. Moreover, the sea is not as good as the land, under the action of the wind and ocean currents, stability is relative, if the ship does not anchor, it is difficult to maintain the formation without falling anchor, which will inevitably leave a lot of holes to drill, so he can still be at ease.

With Zhao Hao's restless character, how could he be idle, and while hiding in Tibet, he also seized the opportunity to sink and injure more than a dozen enemy ships that rounded him up, and the enemy soldiers who were injured by ballistas were not counted, and it was estimated that there were one hundred and eighty. But he did not forget the purpose of his stay here, and still managed to get close to the enemy ship when he took a detour to dodge, and it was less than 200 steps recently, but when he was about to attack, he was discovered by the enemy ship, so he had no choice but to give up and continue to dodge, and look for another opportunity.

'Boom, boom......'

"Your Highness, the reinforcements are on the offensive!" Wang Meng saw the rockets in the north dragging the flaming red tail flames through the air, and then falling rapidly and making bursts of explosions, he said excitedly.

"Well, what's wrong, listening to the drums should be from the rear army, why are they here?" Zhao Yu listened carefully and wondered, it was precisely in order not to let Ying Jieyan get involved that he did not notify him, but ordered Liu Zhu to lead the army to help. But now it is the rear army that is coming, indicating that Ying Jieyan and Jiang Xuan have arrived.

"Your Highness, the last general listens too, then our Shuaifu Navy will not be able to arrive, then Liu Shen is really in a catastrophe!" Although marching with drums and retreating with gold are common communication signals, there are still differences in actual combat, so that the positions of each army can be identified and what is invited. Wang Meng listened to it and confirmed that what His Highness said was true.

"Yes, in that case, let's surround it on all sides and bloom in the center!" Zhao Yu nodded and said, anyway, it is already like this, you can only take one step at a time, and now the top priority is to kill Liu Shen, as long as the handsome ship is captured, the enemy army will inevitably be in chaos when surrounded on all sides, especially those Song troops who have just surrendered must be panicked in their hearts, and it is difficult to fight to the death.

"Your Highness, run!" Just as Zhao Hao was about to launch a sniper operation again, Guan Tongshou found that several more enemy ships were surrounding him from all sides, and hurriedly warned him.

"Left rudder, three points, accelerate!" Zhao Yu raised his eyes and saw that a warship powered by sail oars rushed over, this kind of ship was also equipped with an angle of attack to collide with it, and he couldn't get any cheap, so he ordered the rudder to hide on the port side of another enemy ship and parallel it, so that the warship pounced. And their dragon boat was like a loach in the formation, and the cold was returned, so that it had long been notorious, and became a street rat that everyone shouted and beaten, and the enemy ships that were parallel to him found that they had taken refuge here with a bow and arrow, and the stones were indispensable to serve.

"Full speed!"

'Knock'

"It's dangerous!" With a loud bang, the bow of the boat jumped up violently and fell down again, and Zhao Yu was turned upside down, but he didn't care, but shouted that it was dangerous. When he had just passed a large ship, he got closer, and the enemy ship lowered its slapping rod, which frightened him to speed up in a hurry, and he was able to avoid the attack of the boulder, and the splashing waves pushed the boat up to the top of the old man, not to mention smashing it, it was enough to choke on the side.

His own reinforcements had already attacked, and the enemy's ships continued to meet him, but they no longer pursued him except for a burst of 'rage' as they passed. And with the large-scale dispatch of enemy ships, the space left for him to operate gradually increased. Seeing this, Zhao Yu seized the opportunity to try to get close to Liu Shen's handsome boat again.

"The bow gun is aimed at the top deck of the enemy ship in front of it, and it fires continuously!" Zhao Hao commanded the Warrior to turn left and right, and when he emerged from the shadow of an enemy ship, he suddenly found that the enemy ship was two hundred paces away. He was pleasantly surprised to pick up the telescope and look up and down, and suddenly saw the command flag on the top deck swinging back and forth, and there was a group of people in front of the flag bearer who were pointing fingers, and the golden helmet and gold armor around him in the middle were shining in the sunlight...... (To be continued.) )