Xiakou, on the south bank of the Yangtze River, General Chen Guoxiping, the envoy of the capital of Yingzhou, the military of the seven states above Yingzhou, stood on the ship and looked into the distance, his ship was surrounded by dense Chen Guoyingzhou naval warships, and the ship array with masts on the opposite side was the attacking Zhou Xiangyang naval army.

The two sides are old rivals, Zhou Guo and Chen Guo have a decisive victory on the Yangtze River every time they fight, and every big battle ends with the victory of Chen Guo's naval army, so Lu Guangda doesn't think there will be any surprises this time.

When Xiangzhou was still part of the Southern Dynasties, the Xiangyang Navy was originally part of the Southern Navy, although the Northern Dynasties still could not control the Yangtze River more than 20 years ago, although the Xiangyang Navy still could not control the Yangtze River, and Lu Guangda had full confidence in this.

This time, the Jiangbei Zhou army somehow vigorously invaded the south, while the Xiangyang naval army entered the Yangtze River from Hankou from north to south along the Han River.

"General, it's the southeast wind!" The soldiers on the mast shouted loudly, and when Lu Guangda heard this, he looked up, only to see that the flags on the warships around him were blown by the wind and floated to the northwest.

The Chen army is in the southeast and the Zhou army is in the northwest, the southeast wind direction is very favorable to the Chen army, Lu Guangda did not hesitate and immediately ordered the drum to raise the sails, since the wind direction is favorable, then there is no need for his own naval army to cower and wait for the other party to attack.

However, Chen Jun's side just beat the drums, and the Zhou army on the opposite side also began to beat the drums, and the momentum was still very amazing, it seemed that the other party was going to take the initiative to attack, this was an attack against the wind, it was said that the soldiers of the Xiangyang Navy could not be so child's play, but now it is really like this.

The main battle of the naval army is densely packed on the river, and the warships on both sides are densely divided on the river, under normal circumstances, the upstream or upwind side of the side first releases the fireboat to rush to the other party, and waits for the fireboat to burn it to a mess or force the formation to mess up, and then the big ship of the own side is then killed, and then it is a bloody handpicket battle.

Now it's a southeast wind. In the eyes of the generals of the Chen army, it was delusional for the Zhou army to attack against the wind and set fire to the ship. Most of the fireboats that were lit on fire had no oars and could only ride the wind by relying on the sails. Now it's a headwind, if you set fire to the boat, you will be blown back and burned yourself.

If you can't let go of the fire boat, then you can only rely on the big ship to rush hard, but if you talk about the big ship, the Chen army is not inferior, and the Yingzhou naval army is full of 40,000 people, and now the main force is fighting, and the dense warships stretch for miles, if they come hard, they are not afraid of anyone.

The two armies began to face each other, one south and one north, and then there was a river sand siltation formed by the river between the two sides, and Lu Guangda quickly made a decision: the main force of Chen's warships raised their sails to the north, and the warships on the left went upstream, bypassing Parrot Continent, and then attacked the Zhou army from the flank.

Parrot Island is located in the middle of the Yangtze River, just between Chen and Zhou's water armies to the west, Lu Guangda sent Meng Chong, covered with raw cowhides, fighting ships to bypass Parrot Island with the advantage of speed, these clippers have eighty on both sides and the hands are all veterans. The round-trip disturbance is faster than wind power, and even if it goes upstream, it will not affect the speed.

As the main force of the direct attack, the first to be released was the fireboat, followed by the boat full of soldiers, and the main formation of the naval army under his personal command was the main formation of the large ships Golden Wing, Qinglong, and Pingyu, together with the triple building ship, a total of more than 300 as the main force of the strong ship impact, together with thousands of other large and small warships to attack the wind.

The drums were dotted together, like bursts of thunder, and in the sound of blood-pumping war drums, Chen Guo's naval army and Zhou's naval army gradually approached, and both sides had the same plan: the main battleships directly hedged and sent clippers around Parrot Island to deal with each other's clippers first, and then attack the flanks downstream.

The naval forces fought from far to near, and the weapons of the long-range battle included man-powered artillery carts, crossbows, bows and arrows, and rockets and torches when the two ships approached but had not yet been docked. Finally, there was the splashing of molten iron and the brutal and bloody engagement.

All of this is a very familiar routine for Chen Guo's naval army and even Zhou's naval army, so the key to victory or defeat lies in whether the commander's command can disrupt the opponent's position when the two armies engage in battle, find out the flaws, and defeat them in one go.

The first means was the fireboat, and the fireboat released by Chen Jun was very fast because it was downwind. The response of the Zhou army was also expected, and they sent out a boat to meet them, and the soldiers on board used hooks to hook the fireboat and then splashed water to extinguish it or sank it with long-handled axes.

When Chen's subsequent offensive came, Meng Chong and fighting ships, which used both sails and swords, followed the fireboats, first some of them fought with the Zhou army that intercepted the fireships, and the other part rushed straight to the main warships behind them.

The main ships were different from the big ships the soldiers had ever seen: the hull was chubby, the top seemed to be covered with planks, and the hull was quite large, but there was only one mast, and the boat leaned on a long tree, and the ship looked a strange-looking like a large turtle with a shell on its back.

In addition to the lonely mast, the other erected is a clap pole as high as dozens of feet, the clapper is a powerful water war weapon, the pole is placed at the head of the boulder pole and connected to the reel, on weekdays, like a mast erected, when the enemy ship is close to the slapping rod will be released, with the power of the boulder falling, you can directly hit the fighting ship in two.

Before the big war ships equipped with several beating rods, the warships of the class of the Meng Chong Fighting Ship had a dead end, but the vanguard clippers of the Chen Army fearlessly rushed towards the capital ships of the Zhou army, and their mission was to fight the fire with moths.

Use your own crushed bones to make the enemy shoot, and then your own capital ships rush to preemptively strike.

The power of the stick is huge, but one disadvantage is that it takes a long time to pull it up after the shoot is fired again, and this time difference is the opportunity for your own capital ship.

Fifteen years ago, Chen Guoxiangzhou assassinated Shi Huajiao and defected to Liang, and the Chen court immediately sent water and land troops to quell the rebellion, and the tactics used by Wu Mingche, the commander of the Chen army and the famous general, to lead 30,000 water troops in the decisive battle with the rebel water army in Bailuo, Dongting Waterway.

Before the war, Wu Mingche recruited the small boat soldiers in the army and promised a heavy reward, so that he would take the lead in attacking the main ship of the rebels during the decisive battle, and bear its beating, but the enemy ship was rushed to the official ship before it had time to pull up the shoot, and as a result, after a round of shooting, the rebel ship suffered heavy casualties and sank most of them, and finally suffered a big defeat.

This time, the vanguard of the Chen army undertook such a responsibility, they ignored the interception of the Zhou army, endured the coverage of strong crossbow arrows, and leaned straight towards the big ship, although the Mengchong fighting ship did not shoot the pole, but the long-handled axe in the hands of the soldier can destroy the hull of the big ship, and can also set fire to the ship, so it is impossible for the other party to turn a blind eye,

One by one, the slap rods stirred up huge columns of water, and most of them, except for a few Chen army warships, were sunk by the slap rods on the Zhou army's big ships. Some soldiers survived, while others were filmed to shreds. Life and death are fateful, rich and noble took a heavy reward before the battle, if they failed to avoid the beat, then they can only blame themselves for their poor skills and bad luck.

These Chen pioneers bought time for the capital ships that rushed later with their heavy casualties. Because it was a southeast wind, the main ship of the Chen army was advancing extremely fast with full sails, and with the help of the vanguard's moths to the fire, they had already approached the Zhou army's big ship.

A soldier of the Chen army who fell into the water looked at the approaching warship with a happy face, the big ship of the Zhou army has been slapped now, where is there time to pull up and fight again, this battle officer and army are decided!

Suddenly, the waves splashed, and he saw that the end of the Zhou army's big boat had entered the water, and the lever under the water was actually rising at an incredible speed, which was so fast that he could pull up the lever in his memory.

What's going on!!

Before he could figure out that his own big ship had rushed to intersect with the big ship of the Zhou army, the slaps of both sides smashed into the other party's ship almost at the same time, and he opened his eyes to see that one of his own big ships in front of him was quite damaged, and the enemy's big ship was also slightly damaged?!! ……

On the river at the eastern end of Parrot Island, the main forces of Zhou and Chen Shuijun were entangled in a vicious fight. The detachments they each sent invariably advanced to the western end of the upper Parrot Island, wanting to bypass the Parrot Island and then go down the river to assault the opponent's flank.

Although they were all going upstream, the Chen army's warships took advantage of the southeast wind to sail and move forward extremely fast, not to mention the speed of the Mengchong fighting ship, even the speed of the golden-winged ship was not slow, they thought that they could take advantage of the tailwind to bypass the west end of Parrot Island first, turn the bow of the ship, and attack downstream, but they found that the speed of the Zhou army on the opposite side was not slow.

Specifically, the speed of the other party's big ships is not slow, and the appearance of those big ships is completely different from the ships that Chen Jun has seen, because there is a "wheel" at the head and tail!

The wheels are like waterwheels turning and paddling, according to the principle of symmetry between the left and right, think of a big boat like Zhou Jun, there are two wheels on the left and right of the boat, no wonder the speed is so fast, the well-informed general Chen Jun looked at it and said: "That's a waterwheel boat!" ”

Vehicles and ships, rare in the south of the Yangtze River, but not nothing, just few people use, let alone use to make warships, so the Liang Navy general Xu Shipu after the fall of Jiangling went south to follow Chen Gaozu Chen Baxian, and the later Chen State Navy equipment was built by his supervision, including waterwheels and ships.

There are wheels on both sides of the waterwheel boat, generally a round on each side, and the eight poles on it are stepped on by manpower, and the boat can sail without wind, the advantages look good, but the disadvantages are also mainly due to the addition of the weight of the two-wheeled boat, and the draft becomes deeper, so it is inconvenient to move in the shallow water area, and the weight of the ship is not flexible.

According to these shortcomings, waterwheels and boats were not widely promoted, but since the generals of Chen Jun knew that the opponent's big ships were not conducive to approaching shallow water, they had countermeasures. They ordered the clippers to sprint hard to the west end of Parrot Island, and entangle each other before the Zhou army's waterwheel ship turned around, buying time for their own big ships such as the Golden Wing and the Lou Boat.

"Winding. Wind up all the crossbows! "The stove is burning and the iron is ready to melt!!" "Light the torches, the archers are ready to drop the rockets!!"

The shouts of one after another sounded on the warships of the Chen army, and the power of more than ten arrows fired by the Wanjun crossbow was extraordinary, and the molten iron was the molten iron juice, which was splashed on the other ship's ship when the warships of both sides approached, and the soldiers were drenched with death or wounded, and the deck was stained with hot and red molten iron, which was very easy to catch fire.

It doesn't matter what kind of waterwheel ship you have, what's the use of those sideways things other than the slap pole and the broadside battle!!

Just when Chen Jun was about to do a big job, he saw a large number of Zhou soldiers on the Parrot Island next to him, and the other party seemed to want to release arrows to the Chen army's warship near the water on the continent.

It's better to build a few more ships, so that the odds are greater, and it's ridiculous to think that this small means of land to water can turn the tide of the war in a hurry.

Just as he was laughing, he suddenly heard the sound of breaking the sky one after another, and when he looked up, it was the Parrot Continent Zhou Army's army shot a huge arrow full of fire, and the giant arrow hit the Chen army's warship, some of which shot into the air, and some of which were nailed to the hull and began to ignite the ship's board.

"Giant crossbow, it's a giant crossbow!! There are many giant crossbows on the continent!! The lookout shouted hoarsely on the mast, Chen Jun never thought that Zhou Jun would transport the giant crossbow to Parrot Island, and quickly made up for the death of the arrows on his side, and sent the clipper to land on the sandbank, the forward of the fleet was about to engage in battle, and now there were giant ballista rockets on the flank, no matter what, it always made people restless.

"Drive away the enemy forces on the continent!" (To be continued.) )