Sixty boats were lined up horizontally on both sides of the river, leaving only a short channel in the center of the river for boats. The coalition ships only need to hold the gap in the middle of the river and can rest at ease.

The ships shuttled back and forth quickly, and sixty two-thousand-stone ships were quickly put into position, and the other ships were tied to transfer bed crossbows and sailors, and when the sailors were exhausted, sixty ships successively leaked the bottom of the ship and slowly sank.

"Ordered all boats to take the gap in the center of the river as the eye of the array, and spread the goose-shaped array. The 3,000-stone ship is in front, the 2,000-stone ship is behind, and the clipper ship shuttles in the center of the formation to block the enemy! ”

"Yes, my lord!"

Jiang Jie skillfully manipulated the flag, and one after another orders were passed to the ships.

When Jin Xuedi's warship arrived close to ten miles, the allied shipwrecks sank one after another, but they did not sink completely, almost half-sinking and half-floating on the water.

"My lord, the shipwreck seems a little strange, why is it half-sunk on the water?"

"If it really sinks, won't it be a big loss? When the barbarian army is defeated, just throw away the anchor, remove part of the cargo on the second deck, and the wooden boat can still float on its own, and then capture the Jin Xuedi sailors, and order them to go into the water to plug the leak and empty the water, so that the ship can surface again! ”

"But the enemy army is several times larger than mine, my lord is really sure!"

"Hehe, ten percent is not sure, six or seven percent are still there."

The wooden ship should not collapse in structure, and after emptying the cargo in the ship, the hull itself has a certain self-floating capacity, and it only needs to block the damage to the bottom of the ship and drain the water in the cabin.

During the previous August dock at Xishan, the craftsmen made minor changes to the boats, removing redundant structures and strengthening the hulls. As a result, the current ships are lighter and more self-flotizing. Coupled with the low water level, many shipwrecks sit on the riverbed and do not sink completely.

The coalition goose-shaped array was quickly put in place, and when the Jin Xuedi naval army approached to five miles, they found that the river was abnormal, and decisively stopped the ship and sent a fast boat to investigate, and learned that the river was blocked by the sunken ship, and the Jin Xuedi people sent several large ships of 3,000 stones, trying to forcibly break away the sunken ship but failed, and a 3,000 stone ship ran aground on the water because of the angle of attack hitting the superstructure of the sunken ship's deck, which was quite embarrassing.

Relying on the large number of people on the boat, after several temptations, the Jin Xuedi people quickly adjusted the formation, changed the horizontal formation to a column, and tried to break through the gap in the middle of the river less than 70 paces, and forcibly attack the coalition ship formation.

"Jiang Jie." Baili Yan ordered: "Order all ships, the enemy is seventy paces away from the arrow, hit one foot above the waterline on its side!" ”

"Yes!"

The allied bed crossbow arrows are all equipped with gunpowder cans or tin cans tied to crossbow arrows, which explode after piercing the hull of the ship, and can instantly blast the planks open and make holes, which is very powerful. In addition, there are fire oil arrows, which are filled with oil in wooden canisters and ignited and fired.

After the river was blocked by shipwrecks, only a gap of 70 paces wide was left in the middle of the river, barely allowing three 3,000-stone boats, or five 2,000-stone boats to pass side by side.

The enemy ships took the lead with two large ships of 3,000 stones, and quickly rushed into the coalition goose-shaped formation through the gap, followed by other ships behind them, and when the head ship approached the coalition array one hundred and fifty paces, the Jin Xuedi bed crossbows took the lead in attacking, and a volley of crossbow arrows came towards the coalition deck personnel.

Due to the relative motion of the hull and the bed crossbow, the bed crossbow of the Jin Xuedi people has limited accuracy, and the bed crossbow technology is not high, the firing range is only more than two hundred steps, even if it is shot at one hundred and fifty steps, the accuracy is extremely poor.

When its ships approached seventy paces to the left and right flanks of the coalition forces, the allied crossbow arrows were fired with fire, either missed or fell overboard, and more than half of them hit one or two feet above the waterline of the hull.

In a few cases, a series of intensive bombings occurred one after another, and the enemy ships exploded at least one or two, and at most several large holes were blown up above the waterline on the side of the enemy.

The rapid fire lasted for three formations, and the first to rush into the formation of more than 20 enemy ships either on the port side or starboard side, blowing up a huge hole.

"Jiang Jie!" Baili Yan ordered.

"The subordinates are here!"

"Order the big ship, change to fire the enemy deck with fire oil arrows, and the clipper entangled the enemy ship on the southern flank, let me board it, the more the better!"

"Order!"

Sikong Nan insisted on Pavins, and Bailiyan transferred 25,000 sailors, but Bailiyan accompanied the sailors and oarsmen of only more than 23,000 people. Sixty ships were sunk in the previous round, and all the sailors and oarsmen on board were transferred to the clippers to concentrate their forces on attacking the enemy ships.

The clipper received the order and quickly pounced on the enemy ships on the southern flank. At this time, the coalition forces switched to fire oil arrows, and a volley fell on the deck of the enemy ship, igniting a large fire.

The oil burned through the wooden pots and flowed down the arrows to the deck, contaminating everywhere it went, and the Jinxuedi were busy extinguishing it with water, but to no avail. The oil was still floating on the surface of the water and continued to burn, rolling wherever it burned, and the enemy sailors quickly fell into panic and were overwhelmed, neglecting to counterattack, and the allied clippers were able to quickly approach.

At this time, the allied clippers quickly approached the enemy ships with sporadic clusters of arrows, and the old soldier Mari threw out more than a dozen rope hooks, pulled the two ships closer to the bound sideboards, and forcibly hooked the enemy ships with iron hooks at both ends.

Iron hooks are fixed at both ends of the boarding sampan, which can be used for crossing the bridge at the same height, and can also be used for two boats with a shallow drop. At the same time, there are horizontal wooden strips on the front of the sampan, which is very convenient for climbing from the bottom up. Once it is hooked by several or even dozens of sampans, it will only get tighter and tighter under the action of the external force of the two ships.

The Jinxuedi were busy putting out the fire, and the allied clippers quickly boarded from the left and right, and the battle was about to break out.

At the same time, the Jin Xuedi warships continued to pour into the gap, and the originally small array was quickly covered by more than 50 enemy ships under the constraints of the coalition goose-shaped array, and the remaining 250 or so Jin Xuedi warships were blocked by the sinking ships and could only do it in a hurry.

"Look, my lord, the enemy ships on the southern flank are starting to roll on their sides!"

Jiang Jie pointed to the south flank of the formation and said quickly, several three-thousand-stone ships that were besieged by the coalition speedboats had tilted.

"Blow the trumpet, let them withdraw, attack the next few ships!"

"Yes!"

Today's gunpowder weapons are extremely rudimentary, with no sealing technology, no triggering of the fuse, or delayed fuse, and the powder cannot be detonated on the surface or underwater.

The only way to do this was to shoot a foot or two above the waterline with a crossbow bolt to blow up the gap. Then he boarded the ship with manpower to increase the draft, forcing the ship to sink to the breach, causing it to sink in water, and then overturning, causing it to fall into a panic, so that he abandoned the ship and jumped into the water and lost his combat effectiveness.

The allied soldiers quickly retreated, without delay, and quickly besieged the next target.

At this time, the other enemy ships that rushed into the eye of the formation quickly pounced on the two wings of the coalition warships, and Bailiyan immediately ordered that the warships in the front line quickly close in the circle, and the warships in the rear continued to maintain half a goose-shaped formation, moving towards the gap, always holding the area of the gap firmly, so that the enemy ships would not have any chance to see the seams.

The air was filled with gunsmoke, explosions were heard one after another, and fierce fighting continued until dark, and the enemy ships that rushed into the gap capsized or sank, or were captured by the coalition forces, and only five enemy ships fled in panic.

"Lord Qiqi, our army has more than 700 killed, more than 17,800 wounded, and more than 50 missing. More than 3,000 of the enemy should be killed, and most of the rest should abandon ship and flee for their lives, either drown or escape, and most of them should have drowned.

In addition, our army sank two ships, three of which were heavily damaged, but captured nine 3,000-stone ships, 10 2,000-stone ships, and 14 sunk, and another 8 3,000-stone ships overturned, and seven 2,000-stone ships overturned, and perhaps saved. ”

"Immediately repair our army and capture the warship, overturn the ship and send people to investigate, repair if it can be repaired, take out useful things if it can't be repaired, and scuttle it on the spot to use it as a barrier!"

"No!"

"In addition, catch more work, and let them do the dirty work."

"Yes!"

The victory in the first battle made Bai Liyan breathe a sigh of relief, and it was certain that the commander in front of him was not Mooney. If Mooney was in charge, most of them would not have forced a crowd of people to rush into battle with a large number of boats, and would definitely choose to use mammoths to tow a few sunken ships away from the shore, or drag them to consume the time of the coalition forces.

The Jinxuedi people suffered a defeat, retreated ten miles west at night and camped, and released a large number of small boats to guard the surroundings to guard against the night raid of the allied gunpowder ships.

The coalition forces rushed to repair six overturned enemy ships that night, and the rest could not be repaired, and all that could be towed were dragged to the pass and scuttled, so the next day, the original not wide array, there were more than a dozen sunken ships, which made it difficult for the big ships to pass through the gap.

Jin Xuedi suffered a big loss in the first battle, and today he did not dare to act rashly, cruising in the west and waiting for an opportunity. Bailiyan did not hurry to withdraw his troops, drove the prisoners, and successively boarded his own ships on the north flank, which had been scuttled and sealed the river.

The wreck has several planks chiseled through the left and right waterlines, which is more conducive to emergency repair than the bottom of the ship. On the same day, three shipwrecks were repaired, and a gap was vaguely opened in the north wing.

The confrontation entered the second day, and four sunken ships were repaired and salvaged, and the gap in the north wing was expanded to 100 steps.

"Jiang Jie, let people land from the south bank, transport the fat water ashore, move four miles to the west to ambush and wait for battle, and at the same time dispatch sixty crossbows from each shipbed, transport them to the south bank in small boats at night, and conceal the ambush south of the sunken ship."

"Your Excellency, are you worried that the enemy ships will follow our army's example from the southern flank tomorrow to salvage the sunken ship?"

"It's just a parrot, and I'm going to deliberately sell him a flaw. In the past two days, the northern flank has been opened by our army, and tomorrow it will make a big attack on our northern flank, and at the same time repair the sunken ship on the southern flank. Fat water can be dumped west of the south shore to set fire, while arrows can be fired near the wreck to divert its attention. Remember, bring your horse ashore, and if the enemy attacks the shore, you will immediately flee on horseback, and you will not fall in love with the battle! ”

"Yes!"

The blockade of the river is not conducive to the eastward advance of the Jin Xuedi people's naval army, and at the same time it is not conducive to the westward advance of the coalition army, where the two armies face each other, and the sunken ships in the river must be cleaned up sooner or later.

Bailiyan deliberately opened the gap in the north flank to suppress the gap, and if the Jin Xuedi people wanted to break through the defense line, they had to attack the two waterways in the north flank and the middle of the river to lure the coalition forces, and at the same time open the gap in the south flank to make a detour.

That night, 60 bed crossbows and hundreds of barrels of oil and horses were transported to the south bank, and the next day, as expected, the enemy ships did not wait for the day to be completely bright, and launched an offensive from two gaps in the north flank and in the middle of the river, and at the same time landed on the wreck of the south flank to follow the example of the allied forces.