The collision between the warships shook greatly, and the most damaging thing was that the hull was greatly damaged, and some even directly broke the keel and caused the whole to fall apart, and some small ships were directly knocked over by the big ships.

The two naval divisions quickly engaged in a scuffle and a broadside battle, and the two warships that passed by were still firing arrows at each other, and the warships that had collided with each other rushed over with weapons to fight together.

The most tragic battle in the water war belongs to the side battle, but this is different from the land melee, in the side battle has high requirements for body coordination and balance, after all, it is not on land but on the ship, the hull often shakes, and the center of gravity must be adjusted in time in the fighting.

If the soldiers of both sides meet in the water, if they can see each other's identities clearly, they will inevitably fight, and the victor will live, otherwise he will die.

Although most of the officers and soldiers of the Cadre Army were Song soldiers in the past, but now they are cadres and soldiers, and the change of identity will not make them soft when they fight each other now because they were comrades in the past.

After all, the number of warships and troops of the Song army's naval division here is only a minority, and the cadres have an absolute advantage in both the number of warships and the strength of the naval army, and the battle has been going on for about an hour, and the Song army's naval officers and soldiers are getting fewer and fewer, but the battle has not stopped.

It was already an hour after the Song Army's naval division, which assisted the army in crossing the river more than ten miles away, disappeared, and the general of the naval division immediately ordered to lead the fleet to the battlefield to reinforce the Song army's naval division here.

It's a pity that the reinforcements came too late, and the cadres have already annihilated the Song Army Naval Division here, and the Song Army Naval Division's reinforcements arrived, and the two sides fought another fierce battle.

By daybreak, both sides were exhausted, each suffered heavy casualties, both flotillas were disabled, and both sides retreated with tacit understanding.

After the Qianjun naval division withdrew to the water village, it was found through the inventory that the warships had lost two-thirds, and the soldiers had also lost even more; The Song army's naval division was also beaten miserably, the warships also lost more than two-thirds, and there were almost no unwounded soldiers, and it was impossible for both sides to have another water battle in a short time.

After receiving the report, Zhao Junsheng brought people to Shuizhai to express his condolences to the officers and soldiers of the Navy Division who had not long returned to rest, and ordered to reward them with a large amount of money and materials, meat and wine, and reward these soldiers.

Zhao Junsheng asked Xu Yibao and Wu Xi to recruit warriors as soon as possible to retrain a group of sailor officers and soldiers, and ordered a large amount of money and craftsmen to be transferred, ordering them to prepare to build warships to replenish losses, but this could not be completed in a day or two.

After condolences to the remaining officers and soldiers of the naval division, Sima Chuzhi said to Zhao Junsheng: "Your Majesty, now the naval division of the Song army in Xiakou and the naval division of our army are both defeated, although the naval division of our army has no ability to fight in a short period of time, and the remaining naval divisions of the Song army are estimated to be about the same, so in a short period of time, they are only afraid that they will not be able to cross the river to attack, but what the old minister is worried about is that they will send the naval divisions stationed in Dongting Lake or Poyang Lake, in that case, our army will be absolutely passive and can only be beaten passively!" ”

If you want to say that Liu Song of the Southern Dynasty is more powerful than the Qianguo, only this water division can handle it, the water division of the Southern Dynasty is not ordinarily powerful, there are water masters in the Yangtze River and several large lakes, Liu Song even built a building by the Taihu Lake for the emperor to inspect the water division.

Although the Qianguo side has also set up water divisions in recent years, and several water villages have also been built in the middle and lower reaches of the Yellow River, the scale is not large, on the one hand, because there are no generals of the water division, and on the other hand, most of the soldiers of the Qianguo army are northerners, who are not familiar with the nature of water, and it is not easy to train a water division.

Liu Song had such a powerful sailor because of the old foundation of the Eastern Jin Dynasty, otherwise they would not have had the extra energy, financial and material resources to develop the sailor every time Liu Song fought against the Northern Song Dynasty and the Great Cadres over the years, losing more and winning less.

Zhao Junsheng frowned and said, "What you said is not impossible, but we don't seem to have any good way to make corresponding arrangements!" ”

Sima Chuzhi hugged his fists and said: "Lao Chen heard that our dynasty has several water villages in the Yellow River and the East China Sea, and there are more than 10,000 officers and soldiers of the water division, can they let them go around the coastal sea to kill Huiji County and transfer the water divisions of Taihu Lake and Poyang Lake away?" ”

Zhao Junsheng thought about it for a while, shook his head and said: "It's useless, and it's too late in time, even if you can transfer the Song Army Sailors from Taihu Lake and Poyang Lake, there are still their Sailors on the other side of Dongting Lake, and the scale is larger than the previous Xiakou Sailors!" For the time being, there is no good way, you can only take one step at a time, and the soldiers will block the water and cover the earth! ”

As Sima Chuzhi expected, the Song army basically did not cross the river and land on the beach again in the next five days, and the cadres also took this opportunity to step up the construction of new river defense fortifications.

The Song army in Nanjun had just learned that the cadre army had only 5,000 infantry, so they became emboldened and decided to gather troops to take the initiative to attack, vowing to kill the 5,000 infantry in Jingling.

Who knew that after the Song army in Nanjun entered Jingling, he learned that the Qianjun army had suddenly increased by 3,000 cavalry, and then the generals of the Song army panicked, not to mention 3,000 cavalry, even if there were only 1,000 cavalry, the Song army could not resist it, so the Song army quickly returned to Nanjun with men and horses.

But Zhu Gui was also not easy to get along with, and after learning that the Song army had retreated, he immediately ordered the cavalry to attack first.

The 3,000 cavalry of the cadre army quickly pursued and outflanked from the east and west sides in two directions, and after chasing for two days, the Song army of nearly 6,000 people was stopped in the field, and the general of the Song army did not panic, and immediately set up an army formation on the spot to defend it.

Where can a cavalry general of a cadre army make a loss-making business, the cost of a cavalry cadre army can support three infantrymen, and if it cannot solve the problem of more than three times the infantry, it will lose money.

The cavalry of the dry army then quietly retreated, and the Song army saw that the cavalry of the dry army was gone, and could not stay where they were, so they quickly continued to retreat south, but after the Song army's military formation was withdrawn, and marched in a long snake formation, the cavalry of the cadre army immediately killed them.

This time, the cadres appeared very suddenly, and the speed of killing was very fast, and they did not give the Song army a chance to arrange their troops at all, and they rushed from both flanks before the Song army regrouped and set up the military formation.

The general of the Song army could not restrain the soldiers, the military orders could not be conveyed, and they could not organize an effective defense and counterattack, and the cavalry of the cadre army kept swimming around the periphery to attack with cavalry shooting, and under several blows, the Song army quickly dispersed, and the cavalry of the cadre army rushed to kill, and the 6,000 Song army was completely annihilated in a very short time.

These 6,000 Song troops are almost the vast majority of the garrison strength of the Song State Nanjun, with the annihilation of the 6,000 Song Army, the Song State has little military strength left in the South County, when Zhu Gui led the cadres into the territory of the South County, the cities of the South County soon surrendered one after another.

On October 12, the cadres arrived at Jiangling City, there were only a few hundred defenders in Jiangling City, and Ye Langming, the Taishou of Song Guonan County, tried to resist stubbornly to the end, until Xiao Siyan sent troops to reinforce him.

But not everyone in Jiangling City had to hold on like Ye Langming, and the two generals led the troops to hold him hostage and forced him to order the city to surrender, and Ye Langming had no choice but to order surrender.

As Jiangling City was captured by the cadre army, Zhu Gui sent troops to attack everywhere, and almost bloodlessly occupied the entire territory of Nanjun.

Xiao Siyan, who was confronting the cadres in Yiling Road and Yaoting for several months, was shocked to learn that Nanjun had been attacked by the cadres, and now Nanjun has become the retreat route of his army on the east bank of the Yangtze River, and once Nanjun is captured by the Qianjun, the right flank of his tens of thousands of horses can be attacked at any time, and even the retreat route is unknown.

After Xiao Siyan got the report, he decided to send 5,000 people to reinforce him, but he had just entered the territory of Nanjun when he learned that Jiangling City had been captured by Zhu Gui, the general of the cadre army, and other cities had surrendered one after another.

Xiao Siyan, who got that all the Nanjun had fallen into the hands of the cadres, was shocked, how could this be good?

Xiao Siyan urgently convened his generals to discuss, and then decided to take advantage of the fact that Zhu Gui's army had just captured Nanjun and had not had time to cross the river, and the whole army retreated sharply, retreated to Baling, and used Dongting Lake and the Yangtze River as a natural danger to block the Qian's army from continuing to attack, but in this way, all the areas north of the middle and upper reaches of the Yangtze River fell into the hands of the Qianguo, and this loss was too great, and I don't know what kind of reaction the imperial court would have if it got such a result.

However, at this time, Xiao Siyan could not take care of so much, if he did not retreat to Baling as soon as possible, once the cadres and Zhu Guibu crossed the river and waved their divisions to the west to attack and occupy the Jiang'an line, the retreat of tens of thousands of Song troops might be cut off, not only could they not get food and material supplies, but they were also afraid that the whole army would be in danger of annihilation under the attack of the cadres from the north and south.

Tens of thousands of Song troops retreated in a hurry, and in order to speed up the march, Xiao Sihua ordered a large amount of baggage to be discarded, and marched day and night, and finally retreated before Zhu Gui captured the Jiang'an line.

Lu Shuang, the general of the cadre army who was also in Yiling Dao, got the news and immediately sent a group of soldiers and horses to pursue, and surrendered the cities along the way.

The speed of the cadre army was very fast, and tens of thousands of Song troops were chased very embarrassed, and in order to speed up the footsteps in a hurry, many soldiers of the Song army had to discard their armor and helmets, and hurried away with only weapons.

Finally, before the cavalry of the Qianjun army caught up, tens of thousands of Song troops withdrew to Baling under the response of the Dongting Lake Water Division.

The Yangtze River turned around in Baling, flowing from south to east, connecting the eight hundred miles of Dongting in the west, Xiao Siyan relied on the Yangtze River, Dongting Lake and the naval warships to block the cadres in the north, but lost the fertile land for thousands of miles.