The Parrot Island was overgrown with weeds and barren, and the soldiers of the Chen army who landed on the shore suffered heavy casualties under the attack of the Zhou army, and they attacked the shore with 1,000 troops, thinking that they would be at least equal to the opponent, but they never thought that the enemy army was three times as large as them.

When they rowed to the Parrot Continent, there were only sporadic arrows on the island, and when the soldiers jumped off the boat and rushed forward, the Zhou soldiers who were squatting in the weeds got up and released their arrows, and after the dense rain of arrows, the Chen soldiers suffered heavy casualties, and the rest were caught up by the Zhou army and took their lives, except for the lucky ones who jumped into the water to escape.

Seeing this, the general of the Chen army on the warship restrained the urge to send people again, but ordered the warship to continue to move forward, and the Zhou army even sent troops to Parrot Island to shoot arrows with a giant crossbow in order to win.

They don't plan to waste too many troops to capture Parrot Continent, the water battle will have to deal with the enemy warships with all their might, if they send another 3,000 people to fight on the continent, it is better to take the warships to fight hard, if the Chen army wins, then to deal with the Zhou army on these sandbanks is to catch turtles in the urn.

From time to time, the burning arrows hit the Chen warship, and the soldiers were busy extinguishing the fire, and they were no longer sent to kill the enemy on Parrot Island, and soon after, the forward clippers were already engaged in the battle with the Zhou army's vehicles and ships, and the two sides first fired crossbows and slowly approached, and then melee combat.

Meng Chong and the fighting ship were fast on the water, and they were also nimble when they turned around, and they were not afraid of the beating stick on the opponent's big ship, but just when the soldiers looked up to see when the shooting stick fell to dodge, suddenly a burst of white mist erupted from the cabin, enveloping them.

Eyes, noses, and throats suddenly stabbed, and many Chen soldiers howled in pain and rolled off the warship, and most of the clippers rushing in front were shrouded in white mist from the Zhou army's vehicles and ships, and then lost their combat effectiveness.

The speed of the car and ship was very fast, they rushed through the west end of Parrot Island, turned around in the depths of the water, and happened to be on the opposite side of the Chen army's big ship, which had caught up with the Chen army's big ship that had been catching up for a long time.

As soon as the battle began, Chen's ship was hit head-on. Then the big ships that arrived on both sides began to stagger, but Chen Jun did not have the upper hand. The top deck of Zhou Jun's car and ship seems to have done something, and he smashed the pole with his hands and feet, but he only made a hole, but he failed to smash it. But Zhou Jun smashed the pole into Chen Jun's warship, but it was a hole directly.

After a round of shooting, Chen Jun's shooting rod was slowly pulled up, but Zhou Jun's shooting speed was obviously much faster, Chen Jun's shooting stick had not been pulled in place, and the other party's shooting rod was fired again.

The clippers of the two armies, such as Meng Chong and the fighting ships, were entangled together, but they were inseparable, but the decisive force of the water battle was more and more sunk, and the situation began to be not good.

On the one hand, the hook of the Zhou Jun clipper refused to hook the boat and the boat could not move, on the other side was the unscrupulous shot of the Zhou army's big ship, and the Chen army's warship could not parry, and they turned into rotten planks, and the soldiers on the boat were either dead or injured.

Blood stained a large area of water, full of warship wrecks and corpses, and the battle on the water at the western end of Parrot Island soon became clear: Chen's big ship was broken first, and then the small boat could not withstand the attack of the opponent's big ship, and the huge arrows fired from time to time on Parrot Island harassed them into a scattered formation, so they began to rout.

The Zhou army took advantage of the victory to pursue, and the whole army bypassed Parrot Continent and completely occupied the upper reaches and began to attack with full sails and rivers, while the remnants of the Chen army's ships were hastily resisted and were completely broken for a moment. Seeing that they had gained the upper hand, the Zhou army began to rush downstream.

Downstream, on the river at the eastern end of Parrot Island, the main warships of the Zhou and Chen armies are fighting inseparably, the number of large ships of the Chen army is large, but the shooting speed is slow, and it is difficult to shoot the other party with one blow, and the number of large ships of the Zhou army is smaller, but the shooting speed is fast and can be carried, so the two sides are unable to hold each other.

Chen Jun originally wanted to rely on the large ship, and the soldiers loaded in it also had more broadside battles to directly seize the ship, but the opponent's big ship was like a turtle carrying a shell, covered with raw cowhide, and covered with sharp knives, unable to jump, and could only rely on the slap stick to break the enemy.

The Zhou warship was protected by a hard shell, and the soldiers in it were not afraid of slapping the pole, but every time the Chen army's warship was photographed, in addition to the damage to the hull, many soldiers were killed and wounded, and the situation began to be bad after more than an hour of fighting.

Lu Guangda, the commander of the Chen army, looked at the Zhou army ship that was sunk on the starboard side, and his face was solemn, this turtle-like Zhou army ship had already sunk two Chen Jun's golden-winged ships before it was sunk by his ship.

He has rich experience in water warfare, so he cares very much about why the speed of the Zhou army's big ship is so fast, and in the same time, his own side shoots two rounds, and the opponent can almost shoot five rounds, that is to say, the speed of the Zhou army's big ship is twice as fast as his own.

Zhou Jun's turtle boat can fight and carry, and can "one for two", although Chen Jun's big ship is more numerous than Zhou Jun's big ship, but it is far from twice the advantage, so if you continue to shoot each other like this, I am afraid it will be over.

Chen Jun's tactics in this battle were simple. The main big ships at the eastern end of Parrot Island fought a decisive battle, and some of the warships rode the wind to advance to the western end of Parrot Island. If you have a large number of ships, if you can win, of course, it is best if the battle is deadlocked, you can bypass the western end of Parrot Island by roundabout the warship and hit the opponent's flank.

The same is true of the tactics of the Zhou army, but Lu Guangda has confidence in his own roundabout warships, because they are considered to be downwind, and in the case of advancing against the current at the same time, the Chen army's warships can be sailed and used at the same time, and the speed is much faster.

Bypass Parrot Island first and stand upstream, so that it has a great advantage in the subsequent water battle, and when the Zhou army's roundabout warship is solved and then go downstream, then the victory and defeat have been divided, Lu Guangda is very confident in the ability of his own navy, so he waited for the lookout to bring good news.

"General, according to the time, the victory and defeat on the side of Parrot Island have been divided, and the Zhou army is going to lose all this time!!" Some generals said confidently that they would definitely win if they were a downwind warship.

However, the lookout on the mast then came bad news: the western end of the upper Parrot Island was indeed won by the Zhou army, and now the other party had bypassed the Parrot Island and began to go downstream.

Looking at the erected sails, there were still a lot of large ships in the roundabout fleet of the Zhou army, and it seemed that the losses of the other party in the battle were not so great.

"How is that possible!!"

All the generals looked at each other. The roundabout fleets of both sides look about the same. It's just that the Zhou army won, how could it lose so little. Their comrades are not fish belly, where can they lose so badly?

"It's okay, the left-behind sailors will stop them." Lu Guangda pressed the uneasiness in his heart and forced him to calm down, he is not a fool, and the whole army will attack as soon as he comes up, so keep his back hand, and there is a reserve fleet in Xiakou Water Village, just to prevent the Zhou army from taking a detour and successfully copying the back road.

Victory or defeat is a common thing in soldiers, so Lu Guangda kept the reserve fleet just in case, and now it is used, and the sound of drums in the direction of Xiakou is the signal for the navy to attack, and with these reserve warships to intercept the roundabout fleet of the Zhou army, the victory or defeat is not yet known.

"It looks like we're going to lose both," Lu Guangda muttered to himself as he looked at a sinking golden-winged ship in front of him, and now his ship had entered the heart of the battle between the two sides, and sinking warships could be seen everywhere.

The big boats are shooting at each other, and the small boats are fighting. The two sides have been fighting in one place, and from time to time there were screams, at this moment, the lookout shouted hoarsely, the upstream Zhou army was setting fire to the boat, Lu Guangda's face changed when he heard this, he didn't expect the other party to ignore the staggered enemy and our warships in this water, and directly release the fire boat to die together.

"How many !! are there in a fireship" Some generals asked the lookout in a loud voice, their sight was blocked by the warship next to them, and they couldn't see the situation upstream, so they could only hope that the lookout would bring good news, if the other side released fewer fireships, then the reserve fleet that rushed out of the summer mouth could stop them.

"Many, many, densely packed!! The river looks like it's all on fire!! ”

"The reinforcements couldn't stop the fireboats, they rushed over!!" The lookout's tone had begun to panic as he spoke.

The dense fireships went down the river and soon crashed into a group of scuffled ships, although they were entangled, but after all, the fireboats attacked the rear of the Chen army's battle formation, so after the sails were burned, the unlucky Chen army's warships were the majority.

Meng Chong and the fighting ships are fast, they can disperse and dodge, but the big ships can't dodge, the big ships on both sides are huddled together, shooting each other, not if they want to dodge, they can dodge, and the oars can't be used for a while. Chen Jun's big ship fire prevention measures are not without it, but the hull area of those triple-building ships is huge, where does this lot of raw cowhide spread on the periphery to prevent fire.

The fire in the group of ships became more and more fierce, and it burned in the northwest direction by the southeast wind, which was burning from the retreat road for Chen Jun's big ship, and the dilemma and defeat appeared. The scattered two sides of the Clippers chased each other and struggled with each other, and the victory was not scored for a while, but if the big ship was gone, it would really be a return to the sky, and the defeat was decided.

Lu Guangda stood on the ship, feeling the heat waves surging around, looking at Zhou Jun's specially made ship like a turtle, which was covered with raw cowhide everywhere, and the fire prevention effect was not bad, no wonder he would choose the tactics of ending up together.

If the fire is big, it is not enough to just give birth to cowhides, but the opponent's turtle warship has begun to pour water on the roof, with these measures, the opponent's fire resistance is stronger than his own, this fire burns over, if the opponent's big ship loses more than half, then his own big ship is afraid that it will be completely annihilated.

Without the support of the big ship, just relying on Meng Chong and fighting ships can't stop the opponent's big ship from moving forward, and after this fire is burned, the upstream Zhou army warships rush over again, then everything is a foregone conclusion.

When the two sides were fighting and auctioning each other, Lu Guangda's subordinates reported the losses: about every time they shot three turtle ships of the Zhou army, they would lose five big ships. The number of their own ships has the upper hand, but they have begun to take pictures of each other, and now they are unlucky to be the first to burn in the rear, and if they continue like this, they can only lose everything.

Holding the handle of the knife tightly, Lu Guangda was silent for a moment and finally made a difficult decision: retreat, those who can retreat to Xiakou will return to Xiakou, and those who can do it cheaply, if they can't do it, they will go downstream.

When the generals heard this, they were all emotionally excited, they asked for battle, they thought that the situation was unfavorable now, but if they fought hard to break forward, it was not impossible to turn the tide of the war, if the Yingzhou naval army of nearly 40,000 was defeated like this, then the other party controlled the Yangtze River and then transported troops to besiege it, but it was not good.

Lu Guangda smiled bitterly and shook his head and ordered Ming Jin, this is a game of chess that must be lost, you don't need to go down to the end before admitting defeat, although you don't want to face it, but your own navy is indeed defeated, the warship can be rebuilt, but you have to keep the lives of the soldiers, without skilled soldiers and generals who are proficient in water warfare, it is the most important thing.

He saw the strategy of the Zhou army: to use the main force to fight with his own side in Parrot Island, flank around the west end of Parrot Island to make a detour and directly set fire to a jade stone, and the other party's turtle boat prepared for fire prevention in advance in order to carry the fire.

Killing a thousand enemies and losing eight hundred, simple and crude tactics are very effective, although Lu Guangda doesn't know why his flank fleet was defeated at the western end of Parrot Continent, but now it's useless to say more, he can only stop the loss as soon as possible, after boarding the escape boat, he looked at the fire burning in the group of warships around him, and the anger of revenge burned in his chest:

"There are also Bazhou sailors coming upstream, you don't want to run rampant on the river!"

Lu Guangda took a small boat under the cover of several clippers to avoid the warships that were burned into torches, escaped from the combat waters and fled into the Xiakou Water Village, looking back to see that his own warships on the river were either sunk or pursued by the tail of the Zhou army's clippers.

Nearly 40,000 Yingzhou naval troops were defeated in this way, and if the scattered Chen army warships failed to escape back to Xiakou Water Village, they could only flee to Wuchang downstream.

This time, the Zhou army dispatched such a large-scale naval army, and Lu Guangda did not think that what the other party was trying to do was just to restrain the main force of Chen Guo's naval army on Xiakou's side.

Just to attack Wuchang in retaliation? That's impossible! (To be continued.) )