Chapter 1296 - The rhinoceros and the elephant, the wild dragon that overturned the river and the sea

In the battle on the Huaishui River, the balance of victory seemed to have fallen to the side of the officers and soldiers under the command of Liu Menglong. However, when the warships on both wings of the official army also sailed out and began to chase after the strong sailors fleeing to the shore on both sides, on the big ship about a mile and a half away on the west side of the water where the fighting was most intense, Xiao Tang heard the water squad sentry traveling back and forth report about the battle situation, but he nodded slowly and said: "Liu Menglong's house, in the end, you still have to be tricked......

This was born when his mother dreamed of a black dragon flying into the womb, and it can be regarded as a naval commander who was accompanied by some different phases, just like Hao Siwen was reincarnated because his mother was pregnant with him, and Wang Qing's father Wang Yan Menghu entered the room, squatting in the west of the hall, and was suddenly rushed in by the lion beast and took the tiger away, and then Wang Qing was born... It is said that it is a taboo for Zhang Yang to appear any different and similar at the time of birth, although it is said that Zhao Ji is dumb and unreasonable, but Fang is at least enlightened in this matter. It is not just interpreted according to the later generation's pure fetal dream, saying that the mother dreams of the dragon will indicate that the child born in the future can become a big man. Xiao Tang knew that this Liu Menglong should also have some skills, and he couldn't take it lightly.

What's more, although the naval brothers under his command such as Nguyen Thi Sanxiong, Zhang Shun and Zhang Rong have repeatedly performed miraculous feats, most of them were small-scale battles of ambush and interception, and it was the first time that they had experienced a water battle with more than 15,000 enemy troops and more than 500 warships. Even if Liu Menglong is not an elite sailor, he also knows some ways of water warfare, and if he fights head-on, he is afraid that he will also cause heavy casualties to his own navy......

However, of course, Xiao Tang also clearly remembers that according to the trajectory of the original book, how Liu Menglong was defeated twice, and then after being captured, he was secretly discussed by Li Jun and Zhang Heng and was killed on the side of the road.

It is completely different from the fishing boats that were previously assigned to deal with Liu Menglong's sailors, and on the battleship with a height of about ten zhang and a length of eight zhang in the bucket, there are more than ten brothers Rong Wei such as Xiao Jiasui, Yan Qing, Li Jun, Wu Song, Lu Zhishen, Yang Lin, Mu Hong, Xue Yong, Xu Wen, Wang Dingliu and so on, and the two leaders who are at the helm and the sailors are Tong Wei and Tong Meng. It's just that although the two Tong brothers dispatched the sailors and boatmen on the ship did not slack off at all, they also seemed to have a little unwillingness on their faces.

After all, Zhang Shun, Zhang Heng, Ruan's Sanxiong, Wei Zhaode, and other leaders of the Baihe Water Village were all transferred to fight with the official army and sailors, and the two of them only led the water squad to guard the main ship where Xiao Tang was, Tong Wei and Tong Meng's sworn brother Li Jun seemed to be only assisting the staff officers to command the water battle by Xiao Tang's side.

However, with Li Jun's scheming, he had already roughly sensed that Xiao Tang was going to personally come to intercept and kill Liu Menglong's officers and soldiers, but he kept him by his side as a staff advisor.

After all, he has recently joined the army, and he will not be able to serve the public in the water army for a short time, and he will be entrusted with the important task of Li Jun, but he is afraid that he will not be able to serve the public in the naval army. However, when Xiao Tang personally came forward to command, of course, he could also teach the other naval leaders in the village to be convinced, and for the battle plan of the 15,000 officers and soldiers led by Liu Menglong, Li Jun found that Xiao Tang only made a slight mention in some aspects, mainly because he was the original leader of the Liangshan Bo naval army to plan and arrange, and then give orders through Xiao Tang's mouth and convey it to the other naval forces in the village.

If I had commanded properly, and if I had won a great victory, would I have done more than I had done to fight the enemy in a charge? Brother Xiao Tang also intends to teach me to show my face in front of the brothers of the navy, and he also has the intention to achieve my reputation as a mixed river dragon...... Li Jun thought in his heart, looked at Xiao Tang and smiled, and he also realized the meaning of him as a hero and a hero.

"Then Liu Menglong is really eager to fight for merit, and he only said that my and other naval brothers are unsuccessful little guys on the road, since he is greedy for fame, how can he be willing to teach the military exploits in his hands to fly? If you set up a position on the river, with the size and number of ships of other sailors, it is indeed very tricky to win. But in the end, he still can't avoid being greedy for merit, and when the ship of the division pursues to the harbor, it seems to be in an urn, how can he line up to fight with our army? ”

Li Jun said to Xiao Tang in a deep voice, and there seemed to be a fire in his chest. If this battle had been commanded by me, I would have been able to defeat 15,000 officers and sailors in one fell swoop... It also made my reputation, far better than guarding the Liangshan Shan Fortress as in the past, only dealing with some unpopular soldiers and weak generals. Sure enough, compared to continuing to follow Song Jiang and begging for all to return to the imperial court, and doing earth-shattering deeds with Brother Xiao Tang, this is the fulfillment of my Li Jun's long-cherished wish!

Seeing Xiao Tang smiling and signaling to his chin, Li Jun bowed and saluted, and then boarded the bow of the boat, facing the murderous aura on the river, and gave orders to the other sailors who were ready to go in front of the big ship......

Originally, a large number of ships ordered by General Liu Menglong to pursue and annihilate the robbers on both sides of the robbers were advancing rapidly, intending to take advantage of the rout of the thief army and fleeing backwards to carry out a unilateral pursuit and killing. Even some thieves sneaked into Hong Kong and fled to the shore, and Liu Menglong also planned to make the pioneers in the sailors bravely land and chase for a while. Even if the thieves on land have another ambush, there is a ship next to it with a bow and crossbow to respond, and then they will accept it when they see each other, and they will naturally not cause any serious damage to their own soldiers and horses when they return to the ship.

After all, Liu Menglong now thinks that the war has reached the stage of "the enemy is broken, and it is necessary to seize the head and accumulate military merits".

However, when the sailors on the left and right flanks chased after the countless small boats that were rapidly moving away in front of them, and the warships finally sailed into the harbor area densely covered by reeds and leaves, it was not long before almost all the pursuing warships had slowed down at a speed that could be visually detected by the naked eye, and the officers and soldiers of the sailors on the ships immediately found that the shallow harbor they passed through seemed to be filled with firewood, grass and trees, and the oars on the ship were stirred by the debris accumulated in the water, and in the end they became more and more shaky! However, the fishing boats that the surrounding strong sailors rode were shallow and short, and the most suitable for shallow rivers and near-shore navigation used pennies to prop up the water, and they still came and went freely, and disappeared long ago in the reeds!

Seeing that the harbor on both sides was crowded with their own warships, and you bumped into me, unpredictable, not only did not respond to each other, but also couldn't move at all, Niu Bangxi was shocked when he saw it on the boat, and hurriedly asked Liu Menglong: "Liu Tong, this... But how? ”

Liu Menglong was also surprised and shocked, now he didn't have the heart to appease Niu Bangxi, a cronie under Gao Yu, since Liangshan's gang of strong men still had to follow, it meant that the battle situation was still under the control of the other party, which also made Liu Menglong realize that he was indeed a little presumptuous, in the case that the left and right wings of the sailor ships could not move, how could Liangshan's gang of gangsters not take advantage of the situation to fight back!?

Not long after, Liu Menglong really saw the clouds in the distance, and another group of ships swam straight over with their sails puffed up, rushing to the front of those ships, but there were dozens of wooden rafts full of firewood and grass, which were going down the river and crashing straight towards the side of the middle formation of his own sailors who were wide open in the middle gate. It turned out that Cheng Gui, Xie Fu, Zhai Yuan, and Qiao Zheng, the four dragons of Zhejiang, according to Xiao Tang and Li Jun's orders, had prepared fifty companies made of large pine fir wood, and the fire rows were piled with straw handles.

The light of the fire burst into the sky from the fifty fire rows, and with the help of the momentum of the river, it rushed straight towards the direction of the warship where Liu Menglong and Niu Bangxi were. And what made Liu Menglong's eyes even more dumbfounded was that behind the fast-moving fire platoon, a large group of sturdy and huge ships appeared in his vision, forming a formation early, and they were also heading towards their own sailors!