The battle of the Sapocalypin Forest, the results were huge, especially the killing of Gao Jingshan, the commander who had been arrogantly provocative in Lin'an, so that the battle was famous, not only everyone in Zhenjiang knew it, and even soon spread to Lin'an, especially when Gao Jingshan's head was sent back to Lin'an, the victory of the Saponaria Forest spread throughout the imperial court.

As for the battle of Hezhou, they had just heard some rumors, and they heard that the enemy army was defeated in Hezhou and suffered heavy losses, so they had to move to Yangzhou.

I don't want the other party to participate in both battles, is this possible?

They had doubts in their hearts, but they all kept their mouths shut.

Yang Congyi saw that the time had come, and immediately said: "I don't know if the enemy army is strong in frontal combat on land, but they are indeed inferior to our Great Song Navy in the water. In the First Battle of Taiping, thousands of enemy ships were destroyed, and we only lost a few civilian ships. As long as the enemy army does not go ashore, they will not have a chance of victory in the water, but only if we dare to fight! The Yangtze River is vast, and if you engage them in the water, the hundreds of thousands of enemy troops on their shore are all decorations, and it is impossible to help, and if you destroy their naval troops and ships, they can't swim the Yangtze River, and Zhenjiang can be saved. ”

Speaking of this, Yang Congyi paused for a moment, and then continued: "But there is a problem, the enemy has collected more than 1,000 ships on the other side of the river, and we have less than 300 warships in Zhenjiang. In order to avoid this from happening, we have only one way, that is, to take the initiative of the enemy to launch a battle to cross the river in our own hands, and we have the final say when they can cross the river, and to achieve this effect, we must take the initiative to attack and go to them to fight, instead of passively defending and waiting for them to attack! ”

"We can defeat the enemy army in Taiping, and we can do the same in Zhenjiang, although the enemy army is strong, we must also have confidence, otherwise Zhenjiang will not be able to defend, and there will be no place to retreat in the future. When this time of crisis, it is a good time to make meritorious contributions, usually we may not be able to wait for the opportunity to make meritorious contributions, now the enemy's army is pressing, the eyes of the Great Song Dynasty are here, so many teams retreat, but as long as we stick to it, no matter who will look down on us, the opportunity and reputation are ours! As long as the enemy retreats north of the Huai River and wins this battle, our merits and future will not be less! After Yang Congyi finished speaking, he glanced at everyone.

As long as they can win their hearts, advance and retreat with the Jingwu Army and the Yangwu Army, and defend Zhenjiang, Yang Congyi will have confidence.

The generals were silent, but everyone's eyes were bright.

Yes, Zhenjiang is now the most dangerous place, the court is all staring here, some hope that Zhenjiang can be held, some are to see when Zhenjiang is lost, they can escape in time to take refuge, but no matter what, Zhenjiang's attention is absolutely enough, whoever can come out to win a battle can get unimaginable fame, with fame, why worry about not having a chance?

"My lord, you say let's do it, how to fight this battle, we will listen to the arrangement of the adults!" Then some generals couldn't suppress the excitement in their hearts and opened their mouths to respond.

"Yes, how to fight, just tell us directly, the first few battles were suffocated to death, and if you don't win a battle, I'm afraid my brother will run away!" When one person speaks, someone immediately responds.

"No matter how many enemies there are, they are not afraid, they are afraid of fighting a battle and losing a battle, and the brothers worked hard in the first few battles, but they did not win a single battle, and the brothers were demoralized, and they couldn't fight for meat. As long as adults can lead us to victory, there is no ambiguity in pointing to where to fight! ”

The enthusiasm of the generals was ignited, because they were eager for victory, and only victory could unite people's hearts and establish fame.

Yang Congyi didn't respond immediately, but looked at the two naval forces that had not yet spoken, and asked, "I don't know what the Zhou and Song commanders mean?" ”

Song Tong and Wang Tong raised their hands one after another and replied: "I am willing to listen to Commander Yang's dispatch!" ”

"Okay, in that case, your two armies will each send five warships to patrol the river from tomorrow to monitor the movements of the enemy troops on the other side, and each will send twenty warships over early tomorrow morning to cross the river with the Jingwu Army and the Yangwu Army to challenge the enemy camp!" Yang Congyi immediately ordered.

"Yes." Song and Tuesday should be represented.

"Challenging the enemy camp tomorrow is extremely important, but the number of places is limited, who fights and who defends the camp, you decide for yourself, I will not participate. That's it for today's business, go and prepare! ”

"Yes!"

The generals got up and departed.

However, after a long time, only Su Zhong, Pan Cheng, Xue Wang, Yuan Hua and others remained in the camp.

"Tomorrow's battle is related to the success or failure of Zhenjiang's defense, and it can only be won, not peaceful, let alone defeated! Tomorrow there will be a battle of annihilation, and there will be many interspersed turns, so the soldiers are required to be extremely proficient in the control of the warship and not make any mistakes, otherwise they will not be able to achieve the set combat goals. Tomorrow the Jingwu army will dispatch twenty warships, one person will command ten, which of you will go? Yang Congyi did not elaborate on the specific battle plan, but only said a general idea.

"I'll go!"

"I'll go!"

"I'll go!"

Everyone spoke in unison.

"Don't fight with me, every time I go to sea over the years, I have been on a warship, and I don't know how many thousands of miles I have run in the water, and I want one for tomorrow's battle quota!" Seeing the fierce competition, Su Zhong immediately jumped out.

"Second Su, if you go to sea, I won't go to sea? You're on the boat and I'm not on the boat? I want one for this place! Pan Cheng saw that the momentum was not right, and hurriedly leaned on Su Zhong, these people in front of him had an advantage in terms of the two of them having been at sea for the longest time.

Xue Wang saw that the competition was fierce, and he was not to be outdone, and immediately shouted: "I am in Nanyang, and I am at sea every day, and the time is not shorter than yours." Moreover, since entering the waters of the Yangtze River, it has always been me who has led my brothers to take the lead, and it is also us who have been cruising in the river. Don't talk about the Taiping cruise, let's just say that at the beginning of the defense of Guazhoudu, which of you has trained more in the river with my brothers? I must have one place to challenge the enemy camp tomorrow! ”

Yuan Hua said: "I won't fight with you, except for the veterans of the Xuanwei Army, the brothers under my command are not very good at operating the ship, and they can't learn in a short time, if there are not enough people on the ship, I am willing to take the brothers on the boat to help." ”

"Don't argue yet, listen to me. Xue Wang is more familiar with the waters of the Yangtze River, tomorrow he will take the warship to battle, and the other quota Su Zhong and Pan Cheng can be competent for whoever goes, so let's do it, you decide who wins, and whoever loses has other tasks. Yang Congyi saw that if they continued to fight like this, they would inevitably not be able to fight for results, it was just a delay in time.

In this arrangement, everyone had no objections, and Su Zhong and Pan Cheng immediately put coins to determine whether they won or lost.

As a result, Pan Cheng's luck was a little better than Su Zhong's, and he was qualified to participate in the challenge of the enemy camp tomorrow.

Later, Yang Congyi arranged guard and cruise monitoring tasks for Yuan Hua and Su Zhong, who could not fight, to guard the camp.

The generals went to prepare, but Yang Congyi continued to deliberate and deduce the battle plan alone, and did not let anyone participate, because he did not know how many spies sent by the enemy in Zhenjiang. The enemy has occupied Yangzhou for a short time, and if he wants to cross the river, he must send people over to understand the deployment of the river defense.

But in tomorrow's battle, regarding the morale of the two armies, the morale of the winning side will inevitably be high, while the losing side is likely to lose the courage to cross the river again, and will eventually lose the entire war.

The next day, the sky was overcast, there was a light mist on the river, and the sight was a little worse than usual.

Sixty warships docked at the riverside camp, and half an hour before departure, Yang Congyi explained in detail to the four main generals who asked Ying to fight the battle plan, how to intersperse, how to arrange the formation, how to attack, and the four of them repeated it clearly, and sketched out the battlefield in their minds to form a complete picture, and then put them back.

Half an hour later, sixty-one warships sailed out of the shore one by one, sailed into the Yangtze River, and lined up in formation.

About a mile away from the river bank, the drill lasted for an hour, and then I saw a wave of the red order flag on the flagship, and the ten warships led by Xue Wang first went diagonally to the downstream of Guazhoudu, a few miles away, and the yellow flag waved, and the ten warships led by Pan Cheng slanted towards the upstream of Guazhoudu.

The remaining forty-one warships in the river, centered on Yang Congyi's flagship, flowed along the Yangtze River, facing the north of the river, forming a line, more than a mile long. In order to let the naval warships that lack tacit understanding see the figure of the flagship, the flagship is ten feet ahead and independent of the fleet.

Xue Wang led ten warships to quickly sail in the direction of Guazhoudu, two miles ...... One mile.....

The reaction speed of the enemy army in Guazhou exceeded Xue Wang's expectations, and before his warships approached within a mile, the enemy ships would group up from the shore and come to intercept, there were twenty or thirty ships, not giving the Great Song warships a chance to get close to Guazhoudu.

Seeing a large number of enemy ships approaching, Xue Wang gave an order, and the warships immediately turned to the east and withdrew.

Where would the enemy ships that pursued less than a mile away let go of these more than ten Song ships that dared to come to the door to provoke, and they knew the combat ability of the Song army very well, and if they caught up, it would be a great achievement, so twenty or thirty enemy ships chased after them at full speed.

Xue Wang led ten warships to always maintain a distance of about one mile from the enemy ships pursuing behind, and ran five or six miles away towards the lower reaches of the Yangtze River, and then the fleet suddenly turned to the right, went upstream, and passed by the enemy ships, and the nearest distance was only a few dozen zhang away.

Suddenly, the Song boat turned, and the enemy ship that was desperately pursuing behind hurriedly followed.

But how can their ability to operate ships be compared with the Jingwu army, when they were originally pursuing, they were not in formation, and when they saw the target turn around, twenty or thirty ships turned around and chased, and the previous pursuit was in front, falling to the end, and the slowest runner suddenly became the lead ship, and the ships that did not turn smoothly in the middle had to scramble, and in a hurry, it was very chaotic.