Dahua military camp outside Jingmen Mountain.

Li Jing sent someone to take stock of the grain and grass, which was enough for half a month's expenses, and his heart became full of confidence, and he decided to start the war in advance.

Xu Shao came from Guizhou this time, bringing tens of thousands of stones of grain and grass, and his son Xu Zhiren and son-in-law Zhang Xuanjing followed, and also wanted to assist the army to attack the camp of the Liang army in Jingmen Mountain.

In the past two days, Qianzhou Thorn Shitian Shikang went out of Chenzhou Road, and Zhou Faming, the governor of Huangzhou, came out of Xiakou Road and rushed to converge.

Together, there were 80,000 people, and the momentum was immense.

A few days after the army was reorganized, Li Jing gave the order to fight.

The infantry launched a tentative attack on the Jingmen Mountain camp, mainly to trap Xiao Liang's army in the mountain city, and then carry out his military strategy.

At the same time, Hou Junji launched an attack in the area around the mouth of the Qingjiang River, boarding ships from the north bank of the Yangtze River, using warships to attack the river beach on the south bank.

The two armies fought a large-scale water battle on the river at the mouth of the Qing River.

Hundreds of warships, fighting in array on the wide water surface of the Qingjiang estuary, with great momentum.

There is a navy of the Liang State, which is practiced by the general Wen Shihong of the Liang State, and there are hundreds of large and small ships, and now they have touched one-third of them and are the first to meet the enemy.

Hou Junji commanded his own naval warships and also attacked forward.

In this era, there was no artillery, and they did not want to bombard the warships of later generations, so they could only rely on the solidity of the hull to ram the opponent's warship, using bows and arrows, arrows tied to torches, or using ropes and long boards, and when they approached, they put on the enemy's hull and land on it to kill the enemy.

Originally, Liang Guo's sailors were well-trained and full of confidence, but once they approached Dahua's battleship, they were hit by the black powder projected by the other party.

Then there was a booming explosion, and the hull of the ship was damaged, and it went directly out of the water.

Some of the ship's poles and sails were blown up and directly broken, affecting the operation of the ship, and suddenly deviated from the course and hit the nearby ships from the side.

In other warships, in the blasting, a fire broke out, and the soldiers on board were picked up into the river and washed away by the turbulent current.

The general of the Liang Army's sailors is named Chen Puhuan, who is the right-hand man of Wen Shihong and is good at water warfare, but in the face of the battle situation of this matter, he also feels powerless.

This is the first time he has seen this kind of black powder, there is no way to deal with it, he is at a loss, seeing the heavy losses of the battleship, he can only order the withdrawal of the army.

"Close attack on all fronts, approaching the naval division's camp!"

The Qingjiang estuary is open, three times wider than the normal water surface of the Yangtze River, like a large lake with living water.

The river is surging and heavy, but at this time the river surface seems to be full.

At this moment, the Liang Army's naval division retreated, and the Dahua battleship rushed forward, approaching the Shuizhai military camp.

Only by taking the Xiao Liang Naval Division here, sending cavalry to land, and then smashing directly into the rear of the Jingmen Mountain camp, using mobility, destroying their rear grain routes and supply lines, etc., can the Liang army in the mountain camp be completely isolated, and within a month, they will also starve to death inside.

Even if the Liang army from all over the country came to the rescue, several teams of cavalry formed by Hou Junji and the grassland prisoners were definitely a nightmare for the Liang army's foot soldiers.

As we all know, there are few horses and many boats in the south, so the number of cavalry in Xiao Liang is very small, and most of them are infantry.

The sailor division is the advantage, but the sailor at the mouth of the Qingjiang River, in the face of the advanced weapons of black powder of the Dahua army, even if they fight to the death, they will not have an advantage.

"Knock knock!"

The war drums were beating, the flags were fluttering, the ships were mighty, and they were neck and neck, approaching the sailor camp of the Liang army.

"Fight back, stop the Dahua army."

In the camp, there were also generals who shouted, organized soldiers to resist, and batches of ships sailed out and rushed towards Dahua's ships, wanting to rely on speed and impact to block Dahua's sailors.

"Boom, boom!"

The trebuchet continued to reveal shells of black powder, and the crossbow machine also fired arrows tied with black powder, inflicting heavy damage on the Liang warships.

However, those wrecked ships rushed towards Dahua's ships with raging fire, with the idea of burial together.

When Hou Junji saw this scene, he also felt a trace of admiration for some of the loyal martyrs of the Liang army, but he would not be relentless, and continued to give orders to let the battleships continue to attack, and at the same time increase the shooting of the battleships in the distance.

At the same time, it is also necessary to prevent the approach of some small boats, between the battles of large ships, and some rafts paddling over, carrying one or twenty people, using shields to protect themselves, blocking arrows, and when they get close, they either swim under the water to destroy the Dahua warship, or climb up the hull to seize the ship, or destroy those trebuchets and black powder drops.

"Kill!"

On the entire river, the sound of killing shook the sky, thick smoke rose, many hulls were burning, and people were fighting on the planks and pavilions.

Some used crossbow machines, bows and arrows, and some used Mo knives and spears, clashing together, blood splattering, very tragic.

After a few hours of fighting, in the afternoon, the Liang army's sailors completely collapsed, because they lost on Dahua's black powder, this kind of thing, against the wooden ship still has a great counterweight effect, Liang Jun encountered it for the first time, it is inevitable that he will not adapt, many large warships have been blown up, relying on small boats alone, it is easy to be knocked away by Dahua's battleships, and the boat is directly capsized.

"Rush!"

The battleship approached the river beach, the bamboo raft was thrown down, and the soldiers jumped on the bamboo raft one after another, swam through the shallow water, and approached the river beach.

The defenders on the river beach kept attacking with arrows, taking advantage of the terrain to make a last-ditch fight to block the landing of the Dahua army.

However, Dahua's army came in waves, like a tide beating up.

Hou Junji stood on the splint of the battleship, watching the charge of the soldiers, his face was solemn, watching the river water continue to dye red, and there were more and more floating corpses, and he was unmoved.

Victory is just around the corner, and the completion of this blow is equivalent to completely controlling the Qingjiang estuary, cutting off the retreat of the Liang army of the Jingmen Mountain camp, and also blocking the reinforcements of Jiangling, and then sending cavalry to attack the city and pull out the village within this range, destroy the grain route of the Liang army in Jingmen Mountain, and besiege the city for reinforcements, then the steep fortress of Jingmen will be difficult to hold on.