"Let's go, let's see!" Zhao Junsheng got up as he said and immediately walked out, and a eunuch immediately took a cloak and his war knife and chased after him.

When Zhao Junsheng rushed to the river, there were a lot of anxious calls for help and shouts on the river, and it seemed that many people had fallen into the water.

At this time, the light is too dark at night, and the weather is not very good tonight, there is neither moonlight nor starry sky.

Zhao Junsheng turned his head and asked Yang Lie, "How is the preparation of the fireship I asked you to prepare before?" How many are there? ”

"Back to Your Majesty, the minister ordered ten fireboats to be prepared, and they will stop on the bank of the river below!"

Zhao Junsheng looked left and right, and found that the flag next to him was fluttering in the direction of the river, he shook his head and said: "This Xiao Siyan is too bold, he really wants to be those sailors and will be gods, and he actually let them sail at night?" Spread my will, and order the fireships to disperse and attack! ”

"No!" The herald quickly ran to the shore.

Li Bao hugged his fists and said: "Your Majesty, the minister thinks that Xiao Siyan is a gamble, and there is half a chance of success or failure, if the bet is right, his soldiers and horses will quietly insert into the rear of our army and wait for the opportunity to move, or intercept our army's grain road, or cooperate with the main force to sneak attack the rear of our army, and our army will be defeated!" ”

Zhao Junsheng said: "So Xiao Sihua is a gambler? ”

Li Bao smiled: "Who can say that he can completely control the situation of the battle? Isn't fighting a war just gambling! ”

Zhao Junsheng shook his head and said: "I'm afraid it's not Xiao Siyan's idea, with our understanding of this person, I'm afraid that he can't do such a thing, maybe a certain meritorious general in the Song army patted his chest and promised Xiao Siyan that he made a military order!" ”

Dongfang Chen next to him said: "The minister agrees with His Majesty's opinion, if there is moonlight and starlight, it is okay, people who have been begging for life on the water for a long time are familiar with the hydrological waterway, as long as they can see the channel, it should be no problem to sail at night, but tonight there is neither moonlight nor starlight, and the visual distance is only three or four zhang at most, if such a short distance knocks down the reef or the shore, the ship will be too late to stop, and there is a danger of capsizing or running aground at any time!" Only those generals who thought they were familiar with the hydrological waterways here would dare to do this, but they didn't expect that we would make a move to lock the river in advance! ”

Speaking of this, Dongfang Chen said to Zhao Junsheng: "Your Majesty, Yichen speculates that there should not be too many soldiers and horses on the fleet of the Southern Dynasty Navy Division this time, Xiao Siyan will never dare to put all the chips in his hand on this Navy Division!" ”

Zhao Junsheng said with a smile: "No matter how many people and horses there are in this fleet, in short, this is a group of fish that have entered the net, pull the net up first, and then say, the harvest is counted as one!" ”

Dongfang Chen's speculation was right, this Song army sailor fleet only carried 3,000 people, all of them infantry, but there were also many sailors who operated the boat, more than 1,000 people.

The general who led the army was called Xu Yibao, who was surrounded and annihilated under Liu Yikang in the past, Liu Yikang had been stationed in Jingzhou after his death, this time Liu Jun, the emperor of the Song State of the Southern Dynasty, sent reinforcements to rescue Sichuan and Shu, Xu Yibao took the initiative to ask Ying to go with the army after receiving the news, and wanted to get rid of the negative impact of Liu Yikang's affairs on him in the past, Liu Jun agreed after receiving his letter, and transferred him to Xiao Sihua's subordinates.

This time, the idea of sending a fleet to transport soldiers and horses to raid the rear of the cadres by waterway at night was put forward by Xu Yibao to Xiao Siyan, and he also made a military order, Xu Zhibao is not Xiao Siyan's cronies, he thinks that the idea he proposed is unlikely to succeed, but Xu Zhibao is willing to make a military order, and he is not good at hitting the enthusiasm of the generals to seek war, and Xiao Sihua does not want others to say that he excludes dissidents and cronyism, so he still agreed to Xu Yibao's request.

At this time, Xu Yibao's intestines were repentant, because the channel was blocked by iron cables, the fleet ships could not move forward, and the impeller was stuck by iron cables, and they could not retreat, and the sailors on the warships behind did not know and still advanced, so the ships collided together, and suddenly people turned over on their backs, some small boats were knocked over, and the soldiers fell into the water like dumplings.

There were also ships that had been knocked out of large holes, and the river water was pouring into the holds, and the ships were sinking at a speed visible to the naked eye, and the sailors and generals on board were panicked and ran around looking for a way out.

In order not to be discovered by the cadres on both sides of the strait, Xu Yibao ordered in advance to prohibit anyone on all warships from lighting the lanterns, and those who violated the order would be killed.

The battlefield suddenly lost speed in the fast boat, and almost one of the nervous Song soldiers on the boat was counted as one, and all of them fell to the ground due to inertia, because the soldiers all held weapons in their hands, and countless people were accidentally injured when they fell, and those who screamed and wailed one after another, which is also the reason why the cadres and barracks on the shore heard what was happening on the river.

Extremely embarrassed, Xu Yibao finally got up, he stood at the bow of the ship and shouted to the generals and soldiers beside him: "What's going on? Why can't the ship move? ”

"General, I don't know what's going on, according to memory, I shouldn't have taken the wrong course!" General Hengjiang Shen Zheng replied with a sad face.

Xu Yibao scolded: "Don't go to check the reason, go and find out!" ”

"Yes, yes, yes!" Shen Zheng hurriedly agreed, turned around and ran away.

After a few breaths, there was a sudden sound of another jolt in the hull of the ship, and the sound of wooden planks breaking, and all the soldiers on the flagship were once again unsteady on their feet, and many fell.

At the same time, there were a lot of shouts and cries for help from behind.

"General, it's not good, the ships behind can't see that we have stopped, they are still advancing, and they hit the stern of our warship, and a big hole has been knocked out of the stern, and there is river water pouring into the cabin!"

Xu Yibao only then remembered that if he didn't give an order to stop all the ships and turn back, he was afraid that all the ships would collide with him, and he didn't know how many dead and injured he would have at that time, so he immediately shouted: "Quickly give the order with the lights, let all the ships stop and turn around quickly!" ”

There was a general next to him who was so frightened that he hurriedly stopped: "General can't, the river here is not spacious, once it is discovered by the cadres, when the time comes, ten thousand arrows will be fired, and we will all be shot into hedgehogs!" ”

Xu Yibao was furious, shook his hand and slapped the general, and scolded: "You look like a pig's brain, how can there be such a stupid person as you in this world?" made such a big move, do you think that the cadres and soldiers are all deaf and blind, and they all slept to death? Don't give the order yet! ”

"Yes, yes, yes!" The general agreed, turned around and shouted: "Give the order by the lights, order all the warships to stop moving forward and turn around and return!" ”

At night, the speed of the order is the fastest, in front of some warships turned on their backs and a large number of cries for help were heard, and the generals on the Song warships in the rear also heard some movements, but they found that there was a light order in the night ahead, so they stopped advancing according to the order, and ordered the sailors to operate the boat back.

On the shore, Zhao Junsheng observed for a while and ordered Yang Lie: "Can you make up for the energy to seal their retreat?" ”

Yang Lie hugged his fists and said, "Yes!" The last general ordered people to build two iron locks, one in front and one behind, the front one blocked the advance of the enemy warships, and the back one could block their return as long as they pulled up! ”

Zhao Junsheng praised this: "General Yang is more thoughtful than me, very good!" Pass the order down, pull up the iron lock and cut off the return of this Song fleet! ”

"Order!"

At this time, ten small boats on the shore quickly rowed towards the Song army fleet in the center of the river, and in the dark night, the Song army on the Song army ships were in chaos at this time, and no one noticed that ten small boats were rushing over at a very fast speed.

When these fireships rushed closer, someone on the Song army's warship finally spotted the vague figure of the small boat and quickly collided with it, and immediately shouted: "A ship is rushing over from the side!" ”

"Be on alert, be on alert, crossbowmen get ready, fire the arrows—" The situation stabilized a little, the Song generals and colonels all regained some composure, and a general ordered the soldiers to prepare to meet the enemy.

At this moment, the small boats that were rushing over suddenly burst into flames, but they were still rushing towards the Song army's great war ships.

"What's going on? How did these boats catch fire? A Song general said suspiciously, and then his face immediately changed greatly, and he pointed at the fireships that rushed over and shouted: "Quickly release the arrows and shoot the people on the fireboats!" Go tell the helmsman to turn and avoid, quick! ”

"Whoosh ······" A rain of arrows rained down on one of the most advanced fireships, but this did not affect the speed of the fireships in the slightest.

At this moment, the sailors of the fireboat jumped into the river and disappeared.

"Bad ······" Song Jiang's voice stopped abruptly.

The soldiers of the Song army on the warship watched the fireboat crash over and could do nothing.

With a "bump", the fireboat crashed into the side side of the Song warship, and the dragon's head got into the cabin of the warship and got stuck.

"Push the fireboat out of the way, push it away!" Song Jiang shouted.

One of the Song soldiers tried to push the fire boat with their spears, but as soon as they entered, they were engulfed in flames, and the sailors and boatmen who were rowing in the cabin were also terrified, the fire had already burned into the cabin, and everyone fled to the deck in alarm.

After the first fireship ignited a Song warship, the other nine fireships also crashed into the Song warship, causing a fire that swept through everyone on board.

Countless Song soldiers were engulfed in flames, burning miserably and howling, and many were forced to jump into the river by the fire.

The warship burned and lit up the entire river, and Zhao Junsheng and the officers and men of the cadre army standing on the shore could see the general situation on the river.

"Now it seems that the distance between the Song warships is not very dense, these ten fireships can only burn some Song warships, and they can't burn all of them, pass on my order, gather all the archers and bed crossbows to the shore to standby, and prepare rockets and fireblood!" Zhao Junsheng gave the order.

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