"Sixty of your warships can surround more than eighty ships of the enemy, and two hundred can't stop their hundreds of ships? Must be stopped! The Jianghuai patrol envoy sent by the camp will arrive in Zhenjiang tomorrow, and there must be no mistake at this time! Yu Yunwen still insisted.

"Adult ......"

"Say no more. All the sailors went to the river for defense, and no enemy ships were allowed to land on the shore, otherwise the military would be punished by law! ”

Before Yang Congyi's words were finished, he was interrupted by Yu Yunwen.

"Yes, sir." Seeing that the other party didn't listen, Yang Congyi could only accept the order.

"You lead your troops, responsible for the Wuli River section on the left and right of the ferry, and the other armies, I will send people to give orders, so that they can resist the enemy with all their might. The Zhenjiang ferry crossing is the most important, you must not let the enemy approach, you must not be careless, you know? Yu Yunwen also knew that Yang Congyi did not mobilize all the power of the navy, so he immediately gave a further explanation and repeatedly admonished.

"Yes, sir." Yang Congyi raised his hand and clenched his fist, his face calm.

Resisting the enemy ship in the river, the Jingwu army can naturally do it, but in this way, it is far from the result he wants, if the enemy ship breaks through from other river sections and retreats, the consequences will soon appear, it may not be the current Zhenjiang defenders can deal with it, but Yu Yunwen is stubborn, and he has no choice.

In fact, Yu Yunwen's thoughts, Yang Congyi also understood, seeing that the Jianghuai patrol envoy sent by the imperial court was coming, it was probably because they had won a battle before and rejected the enemy outside the Jiangbank defense line, so they sent people to condolence and reward, so that the soldiers could make persistent efforts to hold Zhenjiang. If the enemy army is released today, then the merits and reputation accumulated in the early stage of repelling the enemy from the defense line of the river bank will be gone, what does it mean for a person who has been in the officialdom for many years? It means that the opponent who is not used to him will be left with the mouth and handle of the attack, and the career may be ruined.

It was precisely because Yang Congyi understood that he no longer insisted, and first blocked the enemy boats that might be about to cross the river, and then said, maybe when the Jianghuai patrol came tomorrow, the situation would improve.

Yu Yunwen quickly left and ordered other naval forces deployed along the river to enter the river to intercept the enemy ships that were about to cross the river.

Yang Congyi continued to wait for the latest enemy situation in the Jingwu military camp at the ferry, and Yu Yunwen ordered him to enter the river to intercept it, but it was still up to him to decide how to intercept it, and he had to use different interception methods according to different enemy situations across the river.

Not long after, the warships patrolling the river sent back the latest enemy situation: two or three hundred ships of the enemy army were preparing to cross the river, with Guazhou as the center, and the battle line was more than ten miles long.

Knowing the exact enemy situation, Yang Congyi hurriedly sent someone to send the enemy information to Yu Yunwen, and at the same time raised a red flag at the ferry.

Su Zhong, Pan Cheng, Xue Wang, Yuan Hua, and other elite army, Yangwu army generals, and naval army generals who were leading training in the middle of the river and were familiar with the waters of the Yangtze River, immediately ordered the training to be stopped and formed a red formation according to the established preparatory plan.

In a short time, all the Jingwu Army, the Yangwu Army and the two naval warships were lined up in the river into two one-word long snake formations, each formation was three miles long, the front formation was in the center of the river, the rear formation was a hundred zhang away from the river bank, and the two formations were more than one mile apart.

The two arrays were formed, Su Zhonglingqi, who was at the head of the front formation, showed his banner and led the front formation upstream, and Pan Chenglingqi, who was at the head of the back formation, showed his flag and led the rear formation downstream.

After three miles of each line, turn around and turn, the rear formation enters the center of the river, goes upstream, and the front formation comes to the vicinity of the river bank and goes down the river.

When it is young, the front formation becomes the rear formation, and the rear formation becomes the front formation.

The boat is not stopped, and it goes back and forth.

This is the formation that Yang Congyi thought about for a long time to come up with, the front and rear formations are skillfully coordinated, and the solid warship hull can form an insurmountable defense line, and even directly collide and intercept the enemy ship, or you can open an opening in the front formation, let the enemy ship enter between the two formations, and then form a front and rear encirclement momentum, and destroy the enemy ships entering in the two formations.

They have practiced this formation a few times recently, and although they are not particularly skilled in coordination, they are also forced to deploy the formation at this time, hoping to block the enemy ships from the river bank through this formation.

Yang Congyi stood on the high place of the riverbank, looking at the red formation running in the river from afar, and he was not very worried about the outcome of this battle.

If the enemy concentrates a few hundred ships to cross the river intensively, then this formation is obviously not suitable.

But if the enemy really crosses the river with scattered ships, then this array happens to be its nemesis, and there is little chance that the enemy ships will pass through the two running formations, either blocked or destroyed, depending on the mood of the two formations.

Just after a few rounds of running in the two formations, the naval warships stationed on the riverbank farther to the left and right of the Zhenjiang ferry also quickly left the shore and entered the Yangtze River, some heading straight to the center of the river, while others swayed left and right not far from the riverbank, neither advancing nor retreating.

In any case, after receiving the news that the enemy might cross the river, the entire Zhenjiang defense line quickly entered a defensive state and went out of the river to wait for the enemy.

Half an hour later, Xue Wang, who led five warships to patrol outside the enemy camp in Guazhou, led the fleet to quickly return to the vicinity of Jiangxin, and waved the flag to the Jingwu Army, Yangwu Army, and Navy Army running in formation: "The enemy army is coming!" ”

Then Xue Wang led the ship around the two formations, and the news of the enemy attack along the road informed him of the encounter with the warship.

When they returned to the vicinity of the river bank and reported the latest and most detailed military situation to Yang Congyi, the enemy ships had already entered the Yangtze River, each ship was separated by more than ten zhang horizontally, and they were galloping towards the center of the river in a very scattered formation.

Yang Congyi is on the high bank of the river, and most of the military situation in the river can be roughly seen, but the distance from the river is too far, and the vision is very blurred, and he can't personally command the red formation, and he is not very worried, because the military information sent back by Xue Wang is very certain, and the enemy ship is indeed charging in a scattered formation in order to prevent it from being attacked by missiles again.

As long as the red formation runs properly, the enemy ships scattered across the river will not have much chance to cross the wall of the river, and of course the exception cannot be ruled out, because this formation is a new formation, and it has not been practiced much, let alone used. In the event of an accident, it is still possible for enemy ships to reach the river bank through the gap.

In order to ensure that nothing goes wrong, several warships still on the shore of Zhenjiang Ferry have all left the riverbank, and are on standby between the rear fleet and the riverbank, ready to stop the fish that have slipped through the net at any time.

Two quarters of an hour later, looking from afar, the enemy ships approached the center of the river in a horizontal formation.

Seeing the enemy ships attacking, the warships in front did not have the slightest intention of stopping, and continued to go against the grain.

All the soldiers on board were ready with their bows and crossbows, and when a ship came within the range of forty or fifty zhang of battle, they immediately fired with sharp arrows, and they did not have a fixed target, and whichever ship was near, their arrows were shot at whomever their arrows were fired.

The Song warships had bows and crossbows, and the Jin army also had them, and the two sides shot at each other and suppressed each other, but with sharp arrows alone, the suppression effect was limited, and the distance between the ships of the two sides was still slowly shrinking.

The Jin army did not seek to kill the other party, they just wanted to cross the river and cross the Yangtze River, so even if sharp arrows rained down, as long as the ships were not damaged, they had no reason to retreat, after all, ten taels of gold was not a small amount for them.

However, they were afraid of the Great Song Dynasty Navy and did not dare to approach rashly, so the ships of the two sides were more than 20 zhang away, forming a delicate confrontation situation.

The soldiers on the ships in front were still shooting, but they did not expect to be able to repel the enemy with bows and arrows. The enemy ships were scattered, and it was obviously too wasteful to use missiles, and besides, it was difficult to hit the enemy ships in the retrograde, so the most effective weapon of attack was the thunderbolt, which had to wait for the enemy ships to come within three feet.

After the two sides tested each other with bows and crossbows for a long time, finally an enemy ship could not bear the loneliness, or was tempted by the golden bounty of ten taels, and took the lead in breaking the confrontation, suddenly speeding towards the warship in the opposite direction, and rushing straight into the gap between the two ships.

When the ships in front saw an enemy ship approaching, the ships closest to the enemy ships in a straight line did not slow down and stopped, but continued to move forward against the current, while the ships behind it increased their speed and changed their course slightly, giving way to the main channel of the front fleet and deviating ten zhang in the direction of the rear formation.

The formation of the front formation remained unchanged, and the other warships continued to move against the current, while the warships that came out of the formation kept an eye on the enemy ships that were rushing into the formation, adjusted their speed and course in time, and were always in front of the enemy ship.

As one ship leaves the front and the ships in the battle sail at almost a constant speed, the gap between the two ships widens, and the accelerating enemy ships will pass through the gap and break through the front line.

However, as soon as the enemy ship had passed through the front line moving at a constant speed, its path was blocked by a departing warship, which was always directly in front of him, and if it rushed over, the two ships would surely collide.

However, the number of Great Song warships was limited, and the size of the enemy ships was not small, so they would not use the method of losing both sides to win.

The Great Song Dynasty warships in the battle were in front, their speed decreased, their course changed slightly, and they soon ran parallel to the enemy ships, three or four zhang apart.

"Thunderbolt, attack!"

The ship's squadron gave an order, and under the cover of bows and arrows, dozens of thunderbolts flew out of the warship and fell into the enemy ship in the blink of an eye.

After a series of loud explosions, the screams instantly spread from the enemy ship.

"Thunderbolt, attack!"

The team commander gave another order, and dozens of thunderbolts fell into the enemy ship again, and after the explosion, the screams became even louder.

Two rounds of thunderbolts fell, and the enemy ship quickly slowed down, as if it had lost control.

Seeing that the enemy ship was slowing down, the team immediately ordered the ship to approach further.

When the distance was less than two feet, a black oil bomb flew across the river and smashed into the deck of the enemy ship, which immediately fell apart, and the black oil that flowed out was immediately ignited by the flames left by the thunderbolt.

After another black oil bomb landed on the deck of the enemy ship, the team gave the order, and the warship quickly moved away and returned to the forward direction, ignoring the fire and smoke of the enemy ship, and the terrible screams and cries of pain.

When the warships rejoined the forward formation, the enemy ships also drifted away with the screams of the enemy's wounded and helpless, leaving only the black smoke rising upward.

When the enemy ships on the periphery saw such a scene, no ship dared to move lightly.