Li Meng let his fleet advance all the way to a distance of 500 zhang from the Jinxiang Navy Dazhai, and then began to line up all the buildings into two rows of horizontal lines staggered front and back, facing the Navy Dazhai with the side side, and then anchored.

Such a formation can give full play to the power of the two guns at the bow and tail of the building ship, and the twelve building ships are twenty-four guns, and the distance of 500 zhang is enough for their five-inch guns.

Now this kind of shooting is a stationary shooting of fixed buildings, and this hit rate is very high, just like shooting a fixed target during training.

The walls on the periphery of the Dazhai of the Jingzhou Navy are all made of wood, and the solid bullets of the five-inch artillery will be smashed into pieces.

Twenty-four guns took turns firing, and the deafening sound of artillery resounded across the river, and there was not much smoke, because they had already begun to use smokeless gunpowder.

Moreover, after the smokeless powder is burned, there is not much residue left in the gun chamber, and the speed of cleaning the gun chamber and the air tightness of the gun chamber are greatly improved, which is equivalent to increasing the range of the gun.

500 zhang is not the maximum distance, but the effective distance, so the cannonballs that pierce the wall can even destroy the barracks, warehouses and even canteens in the village.

The twelve building ships seemed to be blocked at the gate of the Jingzhou Navy Army, happily carrying out target training.

This kind of taste and humiliation of being beaten by the enemy blocking the door of the house is not something that everyone can bear, although Liu Bei has long had a strict order to order them to hold on.

However, some of the Jingzhou Navy are bloody men, and their morale is very high, except for the Dongwu Navy on the Yangtze River, no one can suppress them Jingzhou Navy so miserable.

Finally, the captain of the fighting ship, who couldn't bear it, hoisted the sails, and took the initiative to attack, wanting to fight to the death with the Central Army.

It's a pity that he wants to fight hard, and he also has to rush out of the main channel and gate of Dazhai, and that gate is the area where artillery fire is most concentrated.

The small body of the fighting ship, hit by more than a dozen shells, began to enter the water in all directions, and soon sank, and even many sailors did not have time to jump out of ship to escape.

Seeing his comrades-in-arms die so tragically, the other officers and soldiers of the Jingzhou Navy were also very shocked and stimulated.

The ship also began to want to rush out of the water village to meet the enemy, and its trebuchet began to prepare for the battle, but the range was not enough, and it had to wait.

Although the building ship is much larger than the fighting ship, they are not the modified building ship of the Yangtze River Fleet, and the ship board is far less thick.

The previous design was at best resistant to the stone projectiles of the trebuchet, and the deck was strengthened more than the side near the waterline.

Therefore, if the building ship is hit by a solid shell of the artillery, as long as it hits, it will be pierced, and it will not last longer than the fighting ship, and it will sink in the water.

When several fighting ships and building ships were sunk by artillery one after another, the channel at the exit of the water village was blocked by these sunken ships, and the big ships had a deep draft and could not get out.

Li Meng was very experienced, and when he saw that the large warships of the Jingzhou Navy were circling near the exit, but could not come out, he knew that the channel was blocked by a sunken ship.

He immediately ordered all the building ships to lift anchor, approach the gate of Dazhai, shorten the distance, and shoot at all enemy ships in Shuizhai.

At the same time, Xu Shu, who was watching the battle at the forefront, also keenly grasped the fighter plane, and he ordered Fang Yue's Fifth Division to immediately attack the land part of the naval army Dazhai, which had already been surrounded by regiments.

There is no suspense about the development of the next war, and the Yangtze River Fleet has an overwhelming advantage over the Jingzhou naval army.

Even if there was a small boat of the Jingzhou Navy with a shallow draft, Meng Chong, rushed out of the water village, and wanted to rush to the front of the Central Navy's building ship, but they were all stopped by the Central Navy's Meng Chong and the fighting ships that had been prepared for a long time.

The Mengchong of the Central Navy was all refitted, and the speed was extremely fast, and the bow of the ship had a collision angle, which often broke the waist of the enemy ship that rushed over, and even if the bow collided, it would not fall behind.

They easily intercepted all the Jingzhou boats, did not let one slip through the net, and smashed all attempts to engage in broadside battles or arson.

Liu Bei did not send many infantry to assist the naval army in defending Dazhai, but only sent 3,000 infantry.

This is mainly because before this, I had never heard of the two sides fighting with the water armies, and there was a way of directly hitting the door and attacking the opponent's water village.

In the battle of Dantu, Dongwu concealed this incident, and Liu Bei did not know about it.

When the navy went to land, it was not as good as the infantry, and when the fifth division attacked the land part of the naval army Dazhai defense, there was no resistance.

When the army of the Central Army also attacked the naval army, the Jingzhou naval army in the Dazhai was really without a way to enter the heavens and the earth.

On the shore, the mortars of the 5th Division were constantly attacking, and on the water, the artillery and mortars of the Yangtze River Fleet were roaring.

Their trebuchets were no match for artillery and mortars, and when the sailors charged with spears and broadswords, they were greeted by a volley of flintlock muskets.

If Lu Bu saw this kind of picture, he would definitely think of the wars in which the humiliating powers invaded China in later generations.

More and more Jingzhou sailors lost their fighting spirit, laid down their weapons, and raised their hands in surrender.

The surviving Jingzhou warships also raised the white flag and gave up resistance, not because they didn't want to fight to the end, but because they couldn't fight.

Often fall without even seeing the face of the enemy, or even the familiar side battle, relying on the gang battle can not be realized, how can this battle be fought?

Seeing that the victory was decided, Li Meng hurriedly sent people to inform the Fifth Division on the shore, asking them not to destroy the ships of the Jingzhou Navy when they encountered them, including the facilities, workshops, and warehouses on the shore.

These things will be of great use in the future, after all, the shipyard of the Jingzhou Navy can build ships, and the craftsmen who build ships are the most valuable wealth.

Therefore, when the 5th Division attacked again, the mortars avoided the buildings on the shore, except for the wall.

In the end, all the Jingzhou naval warships that had not yet been sunk surrendered, and the Yangtze River Fleet sank a total of seven building ships, 11 fighting ships, and countless small boats and Mengchong.

Twelve building ships, 30 fighting ships, nearly 100 small boats, boats, Mengchong, etc., were captured, and 15,000 Jingzhou sailors were captured.

After this battle, Liu Bei basically did not have an organized army on the territory south of the Yangtze River.

Jiangling, located on the north bank of the Yangtze River, has also fallen into the siege of Zhang Liao's army, and outside Jiangling City, except for the Yangtze River in the south, the other three walls are all troops of the Central Army.

The 2nd Division, the 7th Division, and the 2nd Garrison Division, each responsible for a wall, began to prepare for the siege.

Although Liu Bei had long been prepared to hold Jiangling City, a large amount of grain, grass and baggage had been hoarded in the city, and the main force of the Jingzhou army of 65,000 people had gathered in the city early.

(End of chapter)