Due to the fact that the Great Song warship turned around and went in the opposite direction, the sailing speed slowed down, and although the following chasing enemy ships were chaotic, the distance between the two sides was much closer.

But fortunately, the Yangtze River is wide enough, and the horizontal distance between the two sides is also hundreds of zhang, and it is not so simple to catch up.

Xue Wang led the warship uphill, and the enemy ship gave hot pursuit.

At the same time, Pan Cheng led ten warships to draw out thirty or forty enemy ships from the vicinity of Guazhoudu, and then went upstream.

He traveled five miles with dozens of enemy ships, and then suddenly turned around and went down the water, passing by the enemy's pursuing fleet.

How could the enemy ship give up when they saw the target turn around? They stopped their boats and turned around to catch up.

In the same way, they are not skilled in ships, it takes a lot of time to turn around, and it is useless to see the target slip away dozens of battles in front of them, and it is useless to be angry with regret, and no matter how badly the general scolds, the soldiers will not be able to turn the bow of the ship over immediately.

In the end, the distance between the two sides was stretched to a mile away, and finally they bit it again, and they didn't pull it any further.

Pan Cheng led ten warships down the river, and after arriving at Guazhou, the course changed, first sailed in the direction of Zhenjiang, crossed the center of the river, turned the course, went down the river, did not go for a mile, changed the direction again, turned around and went towards the Guazhou crossing on the other side of the river.

The enemy ships that pursued later, after several turns, were already dizzy, unable to distinguish things in the wide Yangtze River, had no formation at all, and only relied on feeling, desperately chasing the fleeing Song army not far ahead.

Just when Pan Cheng led ten warships to turn to the direction of Guazhoudu and went straight, Xue Wang took the warships to the vicinity of the river between Guazhoudu and Zhenjiang, and happened to see dozens of enemy ships pursuing Pan Cheng turning around.

Seeing this, Xue Wangling unfurled the flag, and the warship sailed at full speed, and when the enemy ships in front had no time to react, they quickly bypassed the stern of the dozens of enemy ships, and when some enemy ships reacted and wanted to turn their heads in pursuit, the distance between the two sides had been widened by hundreds of zhang.

After bypassing the enemy ships pursuing Pan Cheng, Xue Wang took the warship to turn around and also crossed towards Guazhou, ten warships lined up in a column.

However, after a long time, when the warship in front was about to approach Guazhoudu, its direction changed again, and it went down the river and went straight to the east.

After walking less than a mile, they met the warships led by Pan Cheng, and they also turned around after approaching the river bank, but they were swimming against the current.

After the two sides met, all the warships turned on the spot, facing the Zhenjiang River and facing Guazhou with their backs, forming an arc-shaped ship formation, and then quickly advancing towards the center of the river.

After the local fleet chasing Pan Cheng turned several times, they did not know the direction in the center of the river, and originally wanted to pursue the warships led by Pan Cheng in front, but Xue Wang suddenly appeared with the warship, because the distance was closer, where could the enemy ship manage so much, and quickly turned to the pursuit, but their skills in handling the ship were really not good, and they delayed precious time, and before they could turn the direction, they were wrenched together with the dozens of ships that pursued Xue Wang for more than ten miles, and they became a mess.

The enemy ships of the two teams chasing the Great Song Dynasty warships met for the first time in the center of the river, originally one team to the east and the other team to the west, which was already chaotic enough, but when they saw that the target of their pursuit turned again, they followed and turned to the east and west, wanting to continue the pursuit.

Dozens of boats, which had already collided with each other, became even more chaotic as soon as they turned, colliding left and right, and becoming entangled, and many boats were spinning in the river, unable to move forward, backward, or at all.

Just when Xue Wang and Pan Cheng led the warships to form a semi-encirclement in an arc and approached the center of the river, the entire enemy pursuit fleet of seventy or eighty ships was in a mess at the center of the river, shouting and scolding each other, except for a few ships on the periphery, no one could get out of the mess.

The twenty warships led by Xue Wang and Pan Cheng soon approached the enemy ships in Jiangxin for about a mile, and then each stopped their ships and did not continue to advance.

Seeing that the formation had been formed, and most of the enemy ships were trapped in the center of the river and could not move, Xue Wang and Pan Cheng immediately ordered to attack.

"Missile preparation, close attack!"

At the sound of an order, the large oil lamp was lit, and two soldiers each held an iron hook, hooked a missile on the oil lamp, ignited it, and then put it into the throwing basket.

"Put!"

With a wave of the flag, the flaming missile pierced the sky, crossed the river, and fell into the midst of the enemy ships that were still in chaos.

As the two missiles on fire fell, more than a dozen missiles immediately flew up from the warship and headed straight for the enemy ship.

In an instant, smoke rose from the chaotic enemy ships, and screams of terror pierced the noisy river.

After a few rounds of missiles, the cries shook the sky, and the scene became even more chaotic, and the enemy ships that were trapped on the periphery and had not yet been attacked by missiles desperately rowed their boats to turn and escape from the area where the missiles were falling intensively.

Twenty warships, in a semi-encircled position, kept throwing flaming missiles at the gathering place of enemy ships in the river, attacking as much as they could.

At the same time, the forty-one warships lined up on the riverside of Zhenjiang and had been waiting for a long time, and as soon as they saw the light of fire in the river, they quickly approached the river under the leadership of Yang Congyi's flagship.

Within a quarter of an hour they were behind the enemy ships, no more than a mile apart.

After adjusting the formation slightly, the ten warships in the middle slowed down, and the warships on the east and west sides accelerated forward, converging with the twenty warships led by Xue Wang and Pan Cheng, forming an encirclement trend, and most of the enemy ships that had no time to escape in the future were completely surrounded.

When the encirclement is formed, the enemy ships that are in chaos in the encirclement, and still cannot move from the left and right, will no longer have the possibility of escaping.

As the more than 60 warships that formed the encirclement began to approach the enemy ships, the missile attacks were temporarily stopped so as not to ignite the peripheral enemy ships in the chaos, and then the burning enemy ships lost control and crashed into the Great Song warships.

The encirclement contracted rapidly, and the distance between each warship was no more than ten zhang away, even if there were enemy ships desperately trying to get out of the chaotic entanglement of enemy ships, it would be difficult to break through the encirclement of the Great Song warships, and the results waiting for them were not much different from the burning ships.

The distance between the enemy ships in the center and the Great Song warships was less than a mile, and the unwilling enemy ships on the periphery were frightened and launched a frantic attack, even a direct collision, in order to break through a gap.

But the battle of the trapped beast is destined not to end well.

The enemy ships, which were desperately approaching and trying to break through the encirclement and were not yet on fire, were immediately attacked by them beyond their imagination.

Thunderbolts fell from the sky like hailstones, and exploded among the enemy ships.

Every enemy ship that came within three feet of the ship withstood a dozen thunderbolts in an instant, and the enemy troops who counterattacked with bows on the deck and the top of the ship were wounded and fell to the ground in an instant, and almost all of them lost the ability to resist.

Another round of thunderbolts, the vast majority of the enemy was dying even if they were not dead, and two rounds of arrows rained down, wounded enemy soldiers, all killed, the enemy ships trying to break through the encirclement lost the ability to counterattack, and what awaited them was slaughter.

There was almost no difference in the means of attack of the various warships in the encirclement against the enemy ships, first suppressing them with bows and crossbows, throwing thunderbolts when the enemy ships approached, and then clearing the field with crossbows, and none of the enemy ships that wanted to escape could escape from the encirclement.

With the isolation zone formed between the Great Song warships and the Jiangxin warships by the enemy ships that had lost their ability to counterattack, the warships led by Xue Wang and Pan Cheng flew out of the flaming missiles again, and attacked the enemy ships that were still trapped in the center of the river and could not advance or retreat.

The enemy army never thought that they would be surrounded in the vast Yangtze River, let alone that the Song army could defeat them, but now that they are about to die, they have no time to regret it except fear.

The unilateral suppression attack finally ended after the Great Song Dynasty warships led by Xue Wang and Pan Cheng each threw five fire oil bombs, and there was a sea of fire in the center of the river, and there were no intact ships in sight.

Without waiting for the enemy ships in the direction of Guazhou Ferry to come to the rescue, a perfect battle of annihilation ended.

After Xue Wang and Pan Cheng led the ship to break, the other warships dragged the ships that had not yet been damaged and quickly retreated in the direction of Zhenjiang, and the enemy ships that came to support from afar did not dare to approach the center of the river because they looked at the fire and smoke.

Not long after, the Great Song warships retreated to the shores of Zhenjiang under the cover of Xue Wang and Pan Cheng.

There were still many enemy soldiers who had lost their ability to resist among the dozen or so enemy ships towed back with the warships, and they were naturally prisoners if they were still alive.

The officers and men of the sixty-one warships who returned victoriously were full of morale and excitement.

In particular, the two naval armies stationed at the Zhenjiang ferry before, this victory was hearty, and the enemy did not have the slightest strength to fight back, and they returned victoriously, roaring again and again, and couldn't help but show off to the other troops stationed on the riverbank.

This kind of victory, they have never seen before, they have been in Zhenjiang for so long, and they never dared to think about it, but they didn't expect to easily win a big victory today.

The results of this battle quickly spread throughout the Zhenjiang army, and the armies sounded unbelievable.

Yu Yunwen, who learned of the rumors, hurriedly came to the camp of the Jingwu Army from the city to verify it, because the rumors were unbelievable.

"General Yang, did you really sink 68 enemy ships and capture 16 ships in a battle this morning? You didn't hurt a boat? Yu Yunwen was excited, but also had a little suspicion, because before that, he had not heard any news.

Yang Congyi nodded, and then said apologetically: "I didn't disclose the battle plan in advance, and I ask Lord Yu not to blame." ”

"Good, good! If you can defeat the enemy, it doesn't matter if you don't reveal it to me, you just told me, and I don't understand. As long as the battle is won, the result is real! Where are the captured captives? After confirming the results, Yu Yunwen didn't care about other things.

"Four hundred and seventy-seven captives were kept in the camp, of whom three thousand were families. Will the last send someone to send them back to the city? ”

"Okay, send them all back to the city, and when I see the big handsome, I will send the generals to the camp to repay your merits!"

Yu Yunwen was very happy to have just taken over the defense of Zhenjiang and achieved such a huge result, even happier than Yang Congyi himself.