When the order is issued, the herald immediately sends the order to the standard-bearer, informing the surrounding warships to adjust the firing distance.

The general next to the trebuchet raised the flag: "Adjust the distance, prepare at the middle distance!" ”

The four soldiers immediately stepped forward to adjust the attitude of the trebuchet, and after a few moments, the adjustment was completed.

"Ready!"

"Put!"

With a wave of the flag, the flaming stone projectiles streaked across the river with the light of the fire and fell into the enemy's onrushing fleet.

At this time, the enemy's vanguard fleet was only a hundred zhang away from the Great Song warship, and it was desperately speeding up!

"Put!"

"Put!"

..........

With the continuous commands, rows of fireballs soared into the air, flew over the river, and fell into the enemy fleet two miles away, and countless ships caught fire in an instant, the fire was raging, and the sound of panic and screams could be heard clearly by the soldiers of the Great Song Dynasty two miles away.

The hundreds of stone bullets piled up on the deck of the warship are decreasing at a speed visible to the naked eye, and a group of soldiers shoot ten stone bullets, and then they are immediately replaced, the soldiers are full of physical strength, and the shooting speed is getting faster and faster, twenty ships fire a salvo, and from a distance, the fireball falls in pieces.

The enemy squadron soon turned into a sea of fire, the vast majority of the ships that were shot hurriedly avoided and ran to a place where there was no fire for the time being, and a very small number of people calmed down and found the tools to get water, but they could not extinguish the burning black oil fire, but after a while, the black oil ignited the entire wooden boat, and no one on board was spared.

The ships that were lucky enough not to be hit by the bullets did not dare to approach the rescue at all when they looked at the black smoke, and were even more afraid of being ignited by the burning ships, so they cautiously avoided moving forward, or retreated against the current and retreated to a safe river with no smoke and no fire.

As the fireballs kept falling, the formation of the enemy ship squadron was in disarray, either catching fire and following the stream, or fleeing and dodging, just like the rear team, in chaos.

Batches of long-range and medium-range firebombs from the warships of the Jingwu Army in the lower reaches almost completely destroyed the rear and central armies of the oncoming enemy fleet, and the upstream battlefield also achieved good results.

When the enemy's fleet was one mile away from the Jingwu warships on standby, Su Zhong immediately ordered a "long-distance attack", with ten fire bombs per ship, which disrupted the enemy's rear team.

Then, at the sound of an order, each ship adjusted the angle of the trebuchet, changed the attack distance, and launched a close-range attack.

The flaming bombs flew over the river in an instant, hitting the enemy fleet a mile away, and instantly ignited several enemy ships in the front group, and before the surrounding ships could make adjustments and changes, the second batch of burning missiles fell from the sky again, and more ships were ignited by the missiles.

The burning ship immediately lost control, drifted backwards in the direction of the flowing water, and directly collided with the enemy ships in the rear that could not evade, and the formation was immediately chaotic.

Five batches of flaming missiles fell, and there were only a handful of enemy ships that were still desperately rowing forward.

When the 10th batch of missiles flew out, the front convoy of the enemy ships was plunged into a sea of billowing smoke and fire, and the distance between the two fleets was no longer shortened.

Seeing this, Su Zhong immediately ordered to adjust the angle of the bomb again, change the range, and go all out to carry out a "medium-range" attack.

As soon as the order was issued, the warships acted in unison, and the flaming missiles slammed into the middle of the enemy fleet that had not yet caught fire.

Several rounds of missiles fell, and the Chinese army was also caught in flames, and dozens of ships burned and smoked.

At this point, the formation of the enemy's fleet was completely disorganized, and hundreds of burning and unburning ships were huddled together, unable to advance or retreat, except to turn to the river banks on both sides to escape and evade, and could only allow the missiles to fall from the sky.

Each ship was equipped with fifty black oil bullets, but after a while, they were all shot out, and only fifty heavy solid stone bullets remained.

Forty or fifty pounds of solid stone bullets, with an effective firing distance of no more than 50 zhang, were fired from warships, making it difficult to attack enemy ships one or two miles away.

Of the hundreds of enemy ships, only 100 were really hit and burned by missiles, and although the rest did not form a formation, the ships were undamaged, and once they successfully withdrew, they could launch an attack across the river another day.

According to the preparatory plan, Su Zhong ordered the warships to approach the enemy to a distance of 40 zhang and then attack.

As soon as the order was given, twenty warships went down the river to catch up with the enemy ships that were drifting down the river.

However, after a while, the distance was shortened to about 40 zhang, and 20 stone bullets flew out of the warship, and the gray stone bullets rose into the air, flew over a distance of dozens of zhang, and fell into the camp of the enemy ship.

Heavy stone bullets fell from the sky, slightly smaller ships were hit, directly smashed through the cabin, the river was turbulent, could not be blocked, larger from the ship, a smash, also the ship was damaged, huge impact force, the boat was bumpy, and the unsteady soldier fell directly into the water.

One after another, the stone bullets fell like hail into the river, splashing the water with a loud bang, hitting the boat, damaging it at least and smashing through it at worst.

Seeing this, the enemy knew that the manpower could not resist, and if he did not escape, he could only die in the river, so each ship used its own means to flee desperately, and there were boats blocking the way and did not hesitate to hit the past, taking his life and fleeing!

As more stone bullets fell, each boom was like thunder in the ears, making the soldiers fleeing for their lives in the river terrified, and everyone prayed that nothing from the sky would not fall on their heads.

The enemy fleet upstream, under the attack of stone bullets, was scattering and in confusion, and each fled for his life.

The situation of the enemy fleet downstream was slightly better than that of the upstream, after they had endured the attack of thousands of fiery missiles, before they were about to rush to the line of the elite army, hundreds of ships in the intact front team were also attacked by missiles that were different from the fire, and the heavy stone projectiles landed in the river beside the ship from the sky, roaring, causing huge waves, or falling directly on the boat, under the huge impact, people suddenly turned on their backs, and the ship was damaged and killed.

Seeing the stone bullets coming, the front team of the enemy ships was still maintaining their formation, paddling desperately, trying to close the distance between the two sides as quickly as possible, enter the dead corner of the stone bomb attack, and then break through the defense line from the gap between the warships more than ten zhang away!

Yang Congyi did not know the enemy's intentions, he ordered to attack at full speed, and on the other hand, ordered the warship to retreat slowly, as long as possible to delay the time when the distance between the two sides was closer, and strive to dump all the remaining stone bullets on the bow of the enemy ship.

As the stone projectiles flew out and fell into the desperately chasing enemy fleet, the distance between the two sides gradually narrowed, from 40 to 30 zhang distance, and each ship fired five or six stone projectiles.

After another five or six stone projectiles were dropped, the closest distance between the two sides was already about 20 zhang.

This distance is already the effective range of the bow and crossbow, but most of the enemy's energy is either used on rowing boats, or on stabilizing their own figures, and what they are holding in their hands is either wood pulp or the side of the ship, how can they have the leisure to hold knives, guns, bows and arrows! Where is the opportunity to fight back!

The enemy's forward troops, rowing desperately, sought nothing more than to break through the line of defense in order to be able to land as envisaged before the war.

The Jingwu warship slowly retreated, and the stone bullets continued to fly out of the boat, falling into the river, or smashing into the following enemy ships.

At the same time, the soldiers on the ship picked up their bows and crossbows, stretched their bows and arrows, and the sharp arrows were off the strings, and they went straight to the enemy's vanguard more than a dozen feet away.

The enemy forwards who were not attacked by stone bullets, in the face of sudden bow and arrow attacks, they were defenseless, they could only meet the first round of arrow rain with their flesh, and when the second round of arrow rain came, the soldiers who did not row raised their arrows in time to block most of the feather arrows.

The dozens of enemy ships that were charging ahead were not within the range of the stone bullet attack, and they had a shield to block the rain of arrows, and they gained a little sense of security, so they rowed even harder, and the distance between the two sides was further stretched to within ten zhang.

At this point, the flying stone projectiles were no longer able to attack the living enemy ships, and the ships that desperately stepped forward had already entered the dead end of the attack, and the ships that escaped from the fiery missiles and heavy stone projectiles did not dare to come forward at all, and in panic, they hurriedly shuttled between the gaps of the burning ships, desperately trying to escape back to the camp.

"Stop the stone bomb attack! Thunderbolt ready! ”

Yang Congyi looked at the dozens of enemy ships that were rapidly approaching with a shield, and his expression was solemn.

The order spread, and the trebuchet quickly stopped.

In the rain of arrows, instead of a basket of thunderbolts onto the deck, a warship, ten grenadiers, ten auxiliaries, they quickly prepared and waited for the enemy to come within three feet.

"Attack on your own!"

Immediately afterwards, Yang Congyi gave another order.

When the order was issued, the twenty warships immediately began to adjust their attitudes, some retreated, some advanced, some turned left, and some turned right, and soon broke up the original formation and went to find the target of attack.

After some course adjustment, the distance between the two sides quickly approached, and after a short time, it was only three or four zhang away.

Just as the forward enemy ships were about to pass through the front ships and break through the defensive line, they had their last breath.

In an instant, the enemy ship entered the throwing distance, and the thunderbolts that ignited the fuse flew out of the deck of the warship and fell on the enemy ship along with the sharp arrows fired from the ship.

The thunderbolt that fell into the ship, a moment later, exploded violently, and no one was spared in the small atmosphere, and between the ghosts and wolves, the shields and wood pulp all lost their hands, and they just wanted to soothe the wounds on their bodies.

At this time, sharp arrows took advantage of the gap, and two rounds of arrow rain down, and there were still a few enemies who had not yet been killed, but even if they hid in the corner, how could they avoid the explosive attack of thunderbolts, and another round of arrow rain down, and there were few survivors.

In an instant, most of the dozens of ships of the enemy's forward troops, full of illusions, were wiped out, and only a dozen ships were left without a fatal blow, passing through the gaps between the warships.

After destroying the target in front of them, several warships immediately adjusted their course and pursued the enemy ships, and after approaching, thunderbolts and bows and crossbows were brought up together, destroying a ship of enemy troops in an instant.

There were still a hundred loyal and righteous civilian ships behind the warships, and dozens of enemy ships that barely broke through the defense line of the Jingwu Army were surrounded and submerged in the chaos before they had time to rejoice.

"Onward! Sweep the battlefield! ”

At the sound of an order, 20 warships took the lead, followed by 100 loyal and righteous civilian ships, and went upstream, pursuing and clearing the enemy ships that had fled in all directions and were still circling in the river.

The upper elite army is also carrying out the same military order, with the warships in front and the loyal and righteous civilian ships behind, heading straight for the chaotic enemy battlefield.