Under the night, the shadows of the boats on the river are heavy, and the Zhou navy entrenched in the five continents is now pouring out, and the momentum is fierce towards the Xisai Mountain on the south bank of the downstream, and many warships are lit up with two lanterns, which look like a few strings of lanterns stretching endlessly from the back, and it is spectacular.

It is not easy to march at night, and it is even more difficult to sail at night, if it is a few ships alone, it is better to say, as long as the boatmen are experienced, they are not afraid of hitting the reef, or avoid accidentally touching the sandbar in the river and running aground, but it is a big problem to send a large fleet together.

Therefore, the Zhou warships adopted a precautionary measure: the warships on both sides of the convoy were lit up with two lanterns, so that the ships on both sides of the convoy could maintain their formation from beginning to end, while the other warships were honestly sandwiched in the middle.

Of course, the lantern is fixed and opaque at the front, so that the light does not appear obvious in front of the fleet, so that the ships following behind it, except for the lead ship, can see the ships in front of them clearly.

Wuzhou is located in the upper reaches of Xisai Mountain, now it is the northwest wind in the autumn season, the Zhou army warship oars and sails are used and the wind and water are smooth, so the speed is very fast, the Huangshiji beacon on the south bank has just ignited the warning not long after, the main fleet has crossed the Huangshiji River.

"I didn't sleep so late, I'm quite dedicated." Yu Wenwen looked back at the little fire on the river bank on the right and praised, that is the Huangshiji Chen military camp, now there is some noise thinking that the garrison is preparing for war, and there are a few small boats moored on the shore but dare not move.

"Lord Lang, don't get too close to the side of the boat at night." Zhang Yu reminded on the side that it is easy to bump into the naval warship if it is close to it, and it will shake when it bumps the hull, and if it shakes, some people will easily fall into the water.

Some people include Yu Wenwen, although he knows how to water, but it is also half a bucket of water, Zhang Yu knows that it is very dangerous to fall into the water at night with heavy armor, if it is in a calm pond, it is okay, but now it is on the Yangtze River.

The wind and waves are strong and he is wearing armor, even if he barely floats on the water, he can't stand it for long, and it will not be good if the ensuing warships collide again, and no matter how good the soldiers in the navy are, they will secretly be wary of sailing at night, let alone half a bucket of water like Yuwenwen.

Yu Wenwen returned to the door of the cabin, which was located on the center line of the warship, some distance from both sides, he was a reasonable person and would not deliberately joke about his safety, but hiding in the cabin would damage his image, so he still stood outside the cabin and watched the warship move forward.

The autumn harvest is not over yet, even if there are still many things to do after the end, it is said that he should cultivate and recuperate, but Yuwen Wen can't sit still, attacking and defending is his strategy, since Chen Guo was bitten out of a wound by him, he should never think about healing.

Taking advantage of your illness to kill you, this is Yuwenwen's way of doing things, Chen Guo's water army has been hit hard, but he can't transfer its upstream Bazhou water army, or transfer the main force of Jiankang downstream to watch the house, now the river from Xiakou to Wuzhou is under the control of Zhou State, so he has to use it 100%.

Chen Jun is stepping up to build warships, although the skilled sailors are not so fast, but the number of warships is also very tricky, Yuwenwen is very difficult to compete with Chen's Yingzhou, Jiangzhou, and even Bazhou with the strength of a state, and the arms race of shipbuilding can not be played.

The Xiangyang naval army of Xiangzhou was stationed in Hankou, and their task was to keep an eye on Xiakou on the other side, and they had to guard the upper reaches of Chen Guobazhou's naval army from going south to help, while part of the naval army of the Huangzhou Governor's Office was stationed in Wuzhou, and the other part was stationed in Hukou downstream of Hankou, and they had to defend Huangzhou Prefecture in the upper reaches of Lishui.

In this way, the shipbuilding pressure in Bazhou is also very great, and Wuchang on the other side of the river is also rushing to build ships day and night.

Chen Jun in Xisai Mountain was not idle, and Jiangzhou downstream was even less idle, although only ships and people were needed to have combat effectiveness, but Yuwenwen did not want to sit back and watch the situation deteriorate day by day.

Most of the main forces of the Shannan Zhou army were concentrated in the north to fight against the Sui army, and the main force of the Huangzhou Governor's Office had to be used as a strategic reserve, and in case the situation changed, it would be used as a firefighting team to 'rush to the rescue', and it was no longer realistic to reproduce the scene of going south with all its might in April.

It is inconvenient for his main force to cross the river, but the other party is furious, and he can use the tactics used by Chen Guo against the other party, as the so-called 'the way of the other is to give back to the other', Xiyang City is located on the edge of the Yangtze River, and it is recorded in the Chen army's revenge list, either first or second.

Yuwen Wen is not afraid of the other party's attack, but after all, the Xiyang realm is full of his altars and jars, and he has finally made a good start to farming, so he can't withstand too much tossing, so he has to guard his family business against thieves, so his troops will be nailed to Xiyang and can't go anywhere.

There has never been a reason to prevent thieves for a thousand days, since the thief doesn't come, then he will go, anyway, Liangzi has already been settled, and he doesn't care about sneak attacks without declaring war.

Chen Jun made Wuchang like a hedgehog, so this time Yuwenwen wanted to attack the Xisai Mountain downstream, where there were also heavy troops and had water and land, according to the detailed exploration, and the iron cable across the river.

"Why don't you play with the iron rope across the river!" Yuwen Wen glanced at Xisai Mountain, which was already close at hand, "Dare to send an assassin to Xiyang to assassinate, come out immediately to face it, kowtow and apologize!" ”……

The Zhou army's warships were menacing, and the Chen army of Xisaishan woke up from their sleep, and they were hurrying to prepare for the battle, when the Zhou army's forward warships were already approaching the Hengjiang iron cable, according to the common tactics of this era, the next fire boat should be released to burn the iron cable.

At the end of the Three Kingdoms, the Jin army took a boat from Bashu to attack the Eastern Wu, known as "the Western Jin Dynasty attacked Wu to break the Xisai", when the Wu army pulled up the Hengjiang iron cable, and the Jin army was to prepare a lot of large torches, poured sesame oil and placed in front of the ship, and the torch was lit to burn it when it touched the iron cable.

Therefore, Xisaishan Chen Jun very much hoped that Zhou Jun would do the same, and then buy time for the naval army to adjust the formation to meet the enemy.

The choice to attack in the early morning did make the Chen soldiers react more slowly, the Zhou army warship came quickly because it was smooth sailing, and the time for the warning beacon fire at Huangshiji was too short, mainly because the warship was a little troublesome to attack, and it was necessary to turn around Xisai Mountain after leaving the water village, so the Hengjiang iron cable built by Chen Jun was full of materials.

It takes a lot of time to burn it, and in order to ensure the effect, they also did a special experiment, they used a large torch to burn the iron cable of the same thickness, and finally it took nearly two pillars of incense to burn it, which was enough for Chen Guo's navy to line up in formation.

Therefore, the Chen army's warships were busy but not chaotic, the soldiers rowed in an orderly manner, and the warships marched towards the exit of the water village in an orderly manner.

"Hurry up, grab your weapons, and prepare your bow and arrows!" Some generals shouted loudly, the soldiers were a little sleepy-eyed, Zhou Junxuan was about to take advantage of the attack when the dawn was about to break, this is the time when people are most sleepy, and many people are awakened in their dreams.

But this is nothing, in order to prevent the Zhou army from sneaking up on them, they have also made a lot of preparations, and even the practice of not having fires in the camp at night has been changed, and in the past few months, as long as night falls, torches or lanterns will be lit in the main areas of the camp.

This is true of both the naval camp and the camp on the shore, even if the consumption is quite large, rain or shine, in order to let the soldiers see the path clearly when they are attacked at night, so as not to scurry around like headless flies, and the soldiers cannot find the generals and the generals cannot find the soldiers.

Especially in the naval barracks, the soldiers who spent the night on the shore slept near their warships, and the men on the ships were kept on duty for the night while bows, arrows, knives and guns were kept in the cabins, and all the measures were taken to deal with emergencies, which came in handy now.

As soon as the trumpet sounded on the mountain, the trumpeter on duty at the foot of the mountain also blew the horn, and the generals on duty at night in the water and land camps immediately sent their men to all places to call people to get up.

The land village of Xisai Mountain is the road to the village, the north is connected to the Xisai Mountain and the south is connected to the stretching mountain, and the Huangshiji direction must pass through the Xisai Mountain camp to Jiangzhou by land, although they are not afraid of the Zhou army attacking by land, but they still gather to defend the village.

The attack of the Zhou army seems to be by water, but the land route must be guarded against, in case the other side uses a strategy of attacking the east and west, using warships to attract attention, and then a large group of men and horses touch the shore to steal the camp.

The Chen army was mobilizing, the Zhou army warships had already begun to move on the Hengjiang iron cable, and several Chen army fast ships were approaching, and they were all a little surprised to see that the other party did not seem to plan to light a torch to burn the iron cable.

"Are they going to chop with an axe? How long does it take to cut such a thick iron cable! A soldier wondered that their boats were fast boats on duty tonight, so they could be dispatched as soon as there was a warning, but the movements of the Zhou army made them scratch their heads.

Because a night battle was about to break out and the enemy was outnumbered, these Chen army warships naturally did not dare to light torches so as not to become targets.

Looking back at the water village, his own warship has already moved, and it will be able to go out of the village in a while, no matter how you look at it, it looks like the Zhou army is going to be unlucky, and then the other party began to move.

Their ships pointed the bow directly at the iron cable, and some of them used hooks to refuse to raise the iron cable, and when the bow passed under the iron cable, they let go, and the arm-thick iron rope lay on the deck.

Lying right under a large guillotine.

The mechanism on the Zhou army's warship is a little weird, that is, it is more appropriate to describe it with a big guillotine, there is more than one mechanism with this mechanism, and there are several ships that have the iron cable across the deck like this, and each iron cable has three ships 'waiting', it seems that the Zhou army is going to use the big guillotine-like mechanism to break the iron cable.

"How is this possible, such a thick iron rope is not a hemp rope!" The soldiers of the Chen army thought it was incredible, and the Zhou army warship lit torches, and they barely saw the scene of the iron rope about to be broken with guillotine knives.

"No matter how much, rush up and put it first"

Before he finished speaking, he heard several loud noises coming one after another, mixed with the crisp sound of metal, and the soldiers of Chen Jun looked at the scene in front of them in disbelief: the three Hengjiang iron cables were actually broken by Zhou Junquan!

The iron cable was broken, and the remaining iron cables on both sides sank into the river in an instant, and the main warships of the Zhou army then arrived, and they collided head-on with the lonely Chen army's clipper, and directly knocked over the fragile boat with its huge hull.

The soldiers who fell into the water struggled on the water, and in front of them, countless Zhou warships swarmed in, all of them quickly advancing towards the Chen Army Water Village at the foot of Xisai Mountain, and at this time, the front of the Chen Army's main warship had just left the Water Village.

"It's a car and a boat, and Zhou Jun has a car and a boat!" (To be continued.) )