A dozen warships lying in ambush behind the island anchored one by one to shore the shore, and in a short time they went around to the west of the island and went straight down the river to the mouth of the river where there were still ships entering the river two or three miles away.

The enemy ships that entered the Yangtze River, all the way down, the vast majority of the ships did not find that the Great Song Dynasty warships appeared behind them, a small number of enemy ships that had just rowed out of the estuary, and had not yet had time to enter the river, although they found that the Great Song warships were approaching quickly, but they did not mean to retreat into the river, but accelerated their speed and rowed towards the river.

In less than a stick of incense, the Great Song Dynasty warships broke through the waves and knocked over several enemy ships that had not yet had time to enter the river and had not had time to return to the river, directly occupying the estuary area.

The enemy ships still in the estuary saw that the estuary was full of Great Song warships, so they immediately turned around and rowed to the shore, and then hurriedly docked, scrambling to return to the land.

The Great Song warships occupying the estuary had no intention of entering the inland river, and saw the ten large ships in front of them turn their course near the estuary, and then drifted towards the river, chasing the enemy ships in the distance.

The following warships circled around the mouth of the river, neither approaching nor moving away, separating the inland river from the Yangtze River, and even if the enemy ships dared to come out, it was impossible to cross them and enter the river.

Just when the ten warships returned to the center of the river and several warships were spinning at the mouth of the river, two more warships rushed to the estuary at full speed from the upstream, and the front boat rushed to the riverbank, the bow of the ship touched the bottom and ran aground, and the sailing stopped in an instant.

The two Great Song warships, one stranded on the river bank and the other collided with the ship, directly stunned the panicked enemy troops on the shore.

The loss of the Song army is their victory! Seeing that the Song army lost two big ships in the blink of an eye, someone immediately shouted.

But on the two Great Song warships that lost their ability to move, all the soldiers were racing against time at this moment!

"Shipwreck!"

With an order, the soldiers with tools in hand acted at the same time to pry open the sealed partition that had been chiseled through the watertight bilge in advance.

Six streams of water rushed in, and the soldiers ran away, quickly leaving the bilge, passing through the gravel cabin, and climbing onto the deck.

As the ship began to sink obviously, the soldiers immediately boarded the receiving ship through the planks erected by the rapidly approaching vehicle.

From the collision of the ship to the evacuation of all the officers and men, no more than half a pillar of incense was taken before and after, and before the enemy stationed in the enemy camp near the mouth of the river came to the riverbank, the soldiers on the sunken ship, under the help of the vehicles and boats, left the broken ship and the riverbank, retreated to the river more than ten zhang away from the mouth of the river, and joined up with the warships waiting for cover here.

Seeing the two warships in the estuary sinking rapidly at a speed visible to the naked eye, Yang Congyi's hanging heart gradually relaxed.

Originally, he wanted to see with his own eyes the final situation of the sunken ship blocking the estuary, but as a large number of enemy troops gathered on the riverbank, the warship could only choose to retreat into the river to avoid accidents.

Judging from the previous posture of the shipwreck, the two warships are connected, directly cutting off the inland river and the Yangtze River diagonally at the mouth of the river, if the shipwreck is smooth, the water depth of the estuary does not exceed two zhang, it will be able to intercept the enemy ships in and out of the channel, trap the enemy ships in the river, so that they can not enter the Yangtze River.

The enemy troops on the river bank stretched their bows and arrows, and the arrows came like flying locusts, but due to the limitation of distance, they fell into the Yangtze River one after another, and only a few reached the melee ships, which were also the end of the strong crossbows, and could not pose much threat.

The Great Song soldiers on the warship watched the enemy army lose their anger and shoot arrows in vain, not to mention how refreshing they were.

After about a quarter of an hour, looking from the middle of the river, the two warships at the mouth of the river no longer sank, except for the top, and the deck was still faintly exposed.

Seeing this, Yang Congyi gave an order, and the warship went down the river and rushed straight to the battlefield in the middle of the river four or five miles away.

In order to drive away ten Great Song warships, the enemy dispatched a hundred ships, hoping to use wolf pack tactics to achieve the desired results, but they obviously overestimated the strength of their own naval army.

The enemy soldiers, who were already lacking in water, took the river boats that were not very stable, and the tall warships of the Great Song Dynasty shuttled among them, rampage, and made waves, where did they still have the slightest combat power, and it was good not to think about escaping.

Even if there were still some enemy troops who had the intention to confront the Great Song warships, their ships were too small compared to the Great Song warships, and they could not withstand a collision and had no power to fight back.

In the initial confrontation, the ten warships led by Xue Wang were surrounded by one hundred and ten enemy ships that were rapidly chasing, and attacked with bows and crossbows, causing them a certain amount of trouble, but as Xue Wang commanded the warships to break away from the entanglement and go straight downstream, they soon broke away the encirclement of the enemy ships.

Subsequently, dozens of warships collided left and right in the middle of the river, and the people who hit the pursuing enemy ships turned on their backs, and the formation was in great confusion, and they quickly seized the initiative in their hands, and the enemy ships were all turned into fish.

When the enemy ships found that they and the Great Song warships had left the camp and wanted to return, dozens of Great Song warships suddenly rushed behind them, from the river bank to the middle of the river, forming an encirclement trend.

At this time, even if the enemy ships wanted to withdraw to the river bank, it was impossible for them to do, and the only thing that awaited them was destruction.

After Yang Congyi witnessed the shipwreck, he rushed to the battlefield in the middle of the river, and the battle or torture was nearing the end, and only dozens of enemy ships were still struggling in vain on the entire river.

Jiangzhong is inconvenient to move and cannot accept prisoners, so the last enemy army, the final fate, can not escape death, either take the initiative to jump into the river, or the boat is knocked over, fall into the Yangtze River, other than that, there is no third way.

Unsurprisingly, the battle in the river ended quickly, the enemy army was completely annihilated, and none of the Jingwu warships were damaged, only three soldiers were wounded by stray arrows, but they did not lose their lives.

This battle can be said to be a complete victory, not only accomplishing the set purpose of sinking ships at the mouth of the river, but also destroying hundreds of enemy ships and killing and wounding three or four thousand enemy soldiers.

Returning to Taipingdu that night, Yang Congyi immediately sent someone to Taiping City to report the results of the battle to Yu Yunwen.

When the Great Song army was defeated on all fronts, retreated to the south of the Yangtze River, and was demoralized, it urgently needed a victory to boost the morale of the whole army!

Yu Yunwen, who learned of the results of the battle, immediately informed the whole city of the victory of destroying 100 enemy ships, and told them that Taipingdu would definitely be able to hold it, and Taiping City would not be lost.

At the same time, Yu Yunwen, as a military staff officer, urgently sent war documents to Jiankang, Lin'an, and Zhenjiang, informing the reinforcements of the Jingwu Army, the Yangwu Army, and the Taiping Defenders of the enemy army in two consecutive battles, defeated the enemy's naval army, destroyed more than 170 enemy ships, and stabilized the Taipingzhou River defense.

Just when Yang Congyi convened the generals overnight to plan and deduce how to destroy the Jin people's naval ships in one fell swoop, Wan Yanliang, the gold lord in Hezhou City, was furious.

"Who made the claim and ordered the navy to cross the river?"

The high-ranking officials in the camp were silent, and no one dared to speak.

After a while, the commander of the Chinese army couldn't resist the pressure and had to stand up and replied: "Your Majesty, it was the minister who ordered the navy to cross the river. ”

"Drag it out, whip twenty!"

Wan Yanliang's expression was serious, and with a wave of his hand, a guard stepped forward.

"Your Majesty, there is also a reason why Lord Su ordered the navy to cross the river, today the Song army has been verbally provoking in the river for more than two hours, what they said is unbearable, if it is not stopped in time, I am afraid that the army's heart will be shaken. Please forgive Lord Su! Immediately a minister stepped forward to intercede.

"Drag it out and whip twenty together!" Wan Yanliang didn't listen at all, and directly ordered to whip the person who interceded, and then glanced at everyone, and said in a deep voice: "If there is another person who intercedes, the same crime!" ”

The crowd bowed their heads and remained silent.

The two were dragged out by the guards and whipped outside the camp.

"Again, if anyone makes his own assertion again, it is not as simple as whipping twenty, and those who dare to violate the order of self-determination will be killed!" Wan Yan Liang looked at everyone.

"Yes, Your Majesty! Don't dare! Everyone shouted in unison.

"In just a few days, the naval vessels have been damaged by two, how to cross the river? In two days, another 300 boats were built, and after three days, the river was crossed in one fell swoop! Wan Yanliang's voice was high-pitched.

Who knew that as soon as his voice fell, someone said: "Your Majesty, Wan Yan Yong rebelled in Liaoyang, and the Song State has the Yangtze River, it is difficult to take it for a while, if the north is still quelled as soon as possible, wait for the end of Yan Yong, calm the rear, and then turn around to destroy the Song State is not too late, if you go back late, Wan Yan Yong will inevitably become a big trouble!" Please think twice! ”

"Your Majesty, the minister also proposed to strike the army and return to the north, destroy Yan Yong first, and then go south. The minister was worried that if he stayed in Jiangnan for too long, Yanjing would fall into the hands of Wan Yan Yong, and when he sat down, it would be difficult to calm down! ”

"Since ancient times, there have been clouds that the internal affairs are unstable and there is no war. Wanyan Yong will not rebel sooner or later, just wait for the emperor to rebel when he conquers the Song Kingdom, obviously he has been planning for a long time, and his plan is not small, if he is not extinguished as soon as possible, it will become a disaster! Your Majesty, the Yangtze River is difficult to cross in a short period of time, and the south of the Yangtze River is vast, when will the battle come to an end? If we delay too long in the south and Wan Yanyong gains a firm foothold in the north, we will be in great trouble. Please think twice! ”

Three ministers came out in a row to persuade Yan Liang to stop the army as soon as possible, go back first to pacify Yan Yong, and then go south.

The two failed to cross the river have made them a little disheartened, although the Great Song army is not good, but there is a danger of the Yangtze River, even if the Jin army is as many as 500,000, can not cross the river, there is no way to take the Song State, and if it continues to fight, it will not take half of the benefits.

Wan Yanliang didn't know the situation in front of him, but how many years he had been preparing and how much effort he had spent, and even did not hesitate to move the capital of the Jin Kingdom from Shangjing between the white mountains and black waters to Yanjing, and from Yanjing to Bianjing, just to take Jiangnan and drink horses and money!

Millions of troops, four routes south, how much people's and financial resources are spent, if you can't cross the Yangtze River, where will you have the face to go back? He is the king of a country, and at this time, he must not lose face!

"Wan Yan Yong is indecisive, not a problem! I have an army of millions, and I can destroy the Song Kingdom in a single hand, so why be afraid? The matter of the strike must not be mentioned again! Cross the river in three days! ”

Wan Yan Liang sharply dismissed it, and there was no doubt about it.