"Shoot the arrows!"

There were still more than 100 paces away, and the Song warship gave the order first. Suddenly, a series of thick crossbow arrows shot straight at the Chijiao boat, causing Ruan Xiaoqi's ears to immediately resound a series of sounds of gold and iron, the cracking of the wooden hull, and the screams of the sailors.

Teng Zhu around the guardrail of the helm tower was shot a lot.

The Chijiao ship, which was in the lead, continued to move forward, and for an eight-zhang long warship, a crossbow arrow could not kill it. What's more, there are three layers of rattan and bamboo like fish scales on the periphery of the red boat, just like the Teng bamboo at the helm tower. This was the idea that Lu Qian came up with, using the concocted rattan and the bamboo to weave a protective belt, he felt that it would be safer to hang the warship in a circle, just like the small ships in later generations always had a circle of tires around the periphery.

Not only can it resist bed crossbows and stone throws, but it can also resist impacts, and as for fire prevention, just cover it with a layer of raw skin. It's a big deal to put another layer of mud on it before the war.

The distance between the two sides is rapidly decreasing. A cloud of fire struck towards the leading Chijiao boat, and a large number of rockets slashed a piece of fire above the water and fell.

Only listen to the sound of "crackling" endlessly, most of the arrows were intercepted by the iron plate of the arrow, a few arrows fell on people, but there were only a few screams, there were more than a dozen people hit the arrows, but most of them wore armor, whether it was leather armor, rattan armor or paper armor.

Ruan Xiaoqi always stood at the bow of the ship, and the screams came, telling him not to even turn his head to look. Just like the crossbow bolts just now.

It wasn't until the battleships were closer to each other that Ruan Xiaoqi shouted, and thick crossbow arrows shot out from the Liangshan Water Division's battleship. The target shoots straight at the opponent's bed crossbow, but there are only a few contributors. The quality of the Song warships was not bad, and the sturdy defense was much stronger than the discipline of the literati doctors. When the battleships are staggered, there is no need for Ruan Xiaoqi to give an order, and the battleships of the two armies are all rocket salvos.

For a while, it was all a rush of flames. Rockets can naturally burn enemy warships, but in today's weather where only a breeze blows, it is really too much to expect rockets to burn enemy ships.

But before they fought each other to the last moment, no one would use such desperate tricks as gang jumping.

The twenty warships of the front battalion passed through the weak interception between the warships of the Jinling Naval Division of the Song Army, and then without looking back, they rushed straight towards the large force of the Jinling Naval Division.

This kind of indomitable momentum made Liu Menglong, who was on the boat of the Jinling Sailor, change color.

Husband war courage also. War is all about momentum, especially water warfare. At that moment, he ordered the two fleets to go to the top, stalking to the death, and be sure to stop the battleships of the thief army.

In the fierce battle between the two sides, the boats of Ruan Xiaoqi and Zhang Shun caught fire one after another, and the flames rose.

Ruan Xiaoqi stood on the bow of the ship, although the arrows and crossbows were flying around him, he was not moved, but only called the soldiers to extinguish the fire, and ordered the sailors below to continue to paddle forward, and told the bombardiers to fight back, and crashed straight into the depths of the Jinling Naval Division, killing the water and fire, and the blood stained the blue waves.

The strength of the Jinling Naval Division is more than that of the Liangshan Water Division, and the number of warships also teaches the Liang Shan Water Division to be more, and it is more than one step superior to the Liangshan Army in terms of strength.

But Liang Shanbo has won many battles in recent years, even if it is a foot army, he is proud of himself as a sailor, and he has long condensed a spirit of victory in a hundred battles in his bones. And this is the first major battle of the sailor in years, you must know how many people have been looking forward to this battle for a long time.

The interior of the Liangshan Army is very calm, there are no major disputes, and it is not as 'vigorous' as the little devil navy and army in World War II. But to say that there is no dispute between the sailors and the infantry army is nonsense.

In the past, the sailors were inevitably ridiculed by the Lu Division's infantry cavalry, or squeezed with good intentions. Although he knew that it was a joke, he also made many soldiers in the water division secretly hold their breath. Now in the first war, they call themselves to dare to fight, fight to the death, and fight happily.

Not to mention the significance of this battle, the Xuanzheng Division has already preached it many times, telling the Liangshan army to work together.

A ship with many soldiers, and a soldier dares to fight. When Ruan Xiaoer saw that Ruan Xiaoqi's front camp shook the main force of the Jinling Naval Division, he immediately led the battleship with Ruan Xiaowu, Li Jun and others, and rushed straight to kill. The two armies held their own and fought desperately.

That Liangshan army dares to fight, and Liu Menglong here is not eating rice.

can sit in the commander of the water army of Jiankang Mansion in Jinling, Jiangnan, Liu Menglong is not ordinary. Not to mention the vision of his life, it is mostly false. Just looking at his merits in begging thieves in the Xichuan Gorge River can make people look up to him.

Naxia River is not Xiajiang County, Jiangxi, but refers to the upper reaches of the Yangtze River above Kuizhou. In the era of the Northern Song Dynasty, who dared to say that the officers who could pacify the thieves in the upper reaches of the Yangtze River were not cadres?

It's just that compared to the old Zhao family's million army, the ceiling of this water division is really lower. Liu Menglong has reached his current position, and he has already touched the ceiling. If it is not a great merit, he is like this in this life.

Liu Menglong has not yet reached the time of old age. In the past, he was helpless and dormant, but now he clearly sees the opportunity, if he doesn't go all out, he is not Liu Menglong.

- As long as he overturns Liangshanbo, he can also be a land and water soldier in the government.

And whether the ancient Chinese army can fight, whether it dares to fight, and whether it can endure the war depends mostly on the generals of this army. If it was a fleeing general like Liu Guangshi, the Yue family army on the land Great Wall would also be led by him into a scud that turned into the wind. And Liu Menglong trained in Xichuan Xiajiang, his personality can be called perseverance, and he is even more persevering in battle.

In the original work, he was calculated by Liang Shanbo, suffered the loss of unfamiliar geography, and also suffered the loss of Gongsun Sheng's spell. Of course, he himself is also responsible. But now? The Liangshan army took the initiative to kill, and the two armies were head-to-head.

This is just a show of the strength of the officer, army, and sailor.

From the punctual battle in the morning to the two o'clock in the afternoon, the shouts of killing shook the sky, and the screams of misery rippled on the water. The waters outside Shigou Town, as far as the eye can see, are full of floating and unsinked wrecked dead bodies, and miles of water are dyed red.

And with the battle, the Liangshan army, which had arson bombs, still had the upper hand.

Because most of the ships were small, there were very few rods, and there were a few bed crossbows, but their rate of fire was too slow. In a word, each side lacks sharp means to effectively kill each other's warships.

In this case, compared with the Jinling Naval Division, which was already a means of rockets, fire pots, ramming, and jumping gang warfare, although the Liangshan Army was no different in type, it actually had more arson bombs with stronger arson capabilities, which was like an extra anthill on a thousand-mile embankment. At first, it was inconspicuous, but over time, it became effective.

Not to mention that the warships of the Liangshan Shui Division had already prepared sand and thin mud. Specifically designed to deal with fire pots. It can't be said that this can completely call the fire pot and the power of the rocket lost, but this increase and decrease, the accumulation of a lot, the final result is that many warships on the Liangshanbo side are injured but not destroyed, but many warships in the Jinling Navy Division were burned to ashes by the fire.

"General, the battle is fierce, please ask the general to pull back a little bit." Several times the Liangshanbo battleship rushed close to Liu Menglong's ship, and the arrows and crossbows fell on the ship from time to time, seeing this situation, Zhang Gongyu, the commander of the Jinling Jiankang Mansion, couldn't help but change color, and immediately persuaded Liu Menglong not to take the risk himself, but to retreat to the distance to watch the battle.

Liu Menglong was naturally reluctant to risk the locusts himself, but at this time he was silent.

Now that the fierce battle is in full swing, the thieves seem to have the upper hand, and once their ship retreats, I am afraid that a catastrophe will come.

At that moment, Liu Menglong refused: "The soldiers are fighting to the death, how can the general retreat, give orders to the army, and kill the thieves bravely." ”

At this moment, Liu Menglong's boat shook suddenly, and he almost fell down when he was watching the battle on the helm tower, but two thick crossbow arrows were hit one after another at the guardrail of the helm tower. Tear up the long card that was blocked from there.

Liu Menglong looked at where the crossbow bolts came from, and saw a red warship still burning with flames, swooping towards him, and the fierceness of its momentum made him frown.

Liu Menglong recognized such a warship. The ships in the rivers and lakes were actually the bow and tail of the sea ships, and this was the first time he had seen such a ship in the rivers and lakes, which made him remember it deeply.

In today's water battle, there are a total of three such warships in the Liangshan Bandit Array, each of which is carrying the flag of the Ruan general. It is reported that the general leader of the Liangshan thief Kou Shui Division is three robbers surnamed Ruan, who are from Shijie Village on the edge of Shijie Lake, and they followed the Lu thief early and made them his henchmen.

There was one such warship that rushed into battle earlier today, and several times in the course of the battle tried to storm its own ship, not afraid of bows and crossbows, and did not avoid the collision, and the courage was extraordinary. The other two such ships also rushed towards his ship several times later, but they were not able to succeed, and they were forced back by the escort ships.

"General, the thief is sharp, let's avoid it for the time being!" Zhang Gongyu is Liu Menglong's henchman, and when he fought Xichuan to fight the thief, he followed the front and back, seeing this, his face changed greatly, and he said.

Liu Menglong hesitated for a moment, shook his head and rejected the proposal: "As soon as I ordered the soldiers to fight to the death, I avoided the enemy and retreated, and the army's morale will be chaotic." How can you bring about your own destruction? Command them to go down and tell the soldiers to prepare for battle. At this moment, Liu Menglong seemed to have returned to Xichuan back then. At that time, he was also so not afraid of danger and did not avoid arrows, so he was able to make contributions again and again, and finally sat in the position of the commander of the Jinling Water Division.

When Zhang Gongyu heard this, he sighed, turned around and asked the drummers to gather the surrounding warships to come to escort them, and ordered the sailors to turn the wheels and raise the speed, and at the same time ordered the soldiers on board to wait for the day.

Reports of a constant stream of water from the helm and deck.

At this time, Ruan Xiaoqi's eyes widened.

Piloting a red Jiao boat seemed to be a tiger descending the mountain, leading five or seven loach boats to pounce straight towards the diagonal front of Liu Menglong's boat. It is not easy to catch Liu Menglong's ship, not to mention the surrounding Song army escort ships, nor the number of enemies and indignations, only the speed of Liu Menglong's ship, which is about to go away.

The speed of a car and a boat is not weaker than that of a galleys.

"Stopped, stopped, really stopped. What a white strip in the waves, a good Zhang Shun. ”

Stunned, the living Yama clapped his hands and shouted on the helm tower. But not far away, the ten-car boat representing the flag of the Jinling Navy Division suddenly stopped in the water. Naturally, the ship did not move at all, but it was faster than before, but it was like a mountain pressing on it.

Of course, it was not that the water wheel of the car and boat suddenly broke down at this critical time, but that Zhang Shun led a master among the sailors and secretly filled the spoke plate with utensils, so that the treadmill sergeant in the boat could not step on it.

Ruan Xiaoqi took a deep breath and ordered the Chijiao boat to rush forward and summon him to wear armor, which was a set of rattan armor of good quality.

This is the battle armor that Liangshan Boshui Division will use in the future, which is lighter than leather armor and paper armor, and there is no need to mention iron armor. Even if Zhang Shun is as water-based, wearing a set of thirty or forty pounds of iron armor and falling into the water, it is difficult to escape. The role and disadvantages of the latter in water warfare are simply five or five.

The rattan is soaked in tung oil and woven into armor, which has a strong protective power against cold weapons. Compared with metal armor, it also has the advantages of light weight, not afraid of water, and strong air permeability. Of course, this is not to say that the rattan armor is more awesome than the iron armor, and the invulnerable rattan armor soldiers only exist in the Romance of the Three Kingdoms. Here it was favored by Lu Qian, just because the rattan armor was inherently suitable for the water army. In addition, the material is easy to obtain, and the cost of a single piece is not large.

Although there is a disadvantage of being afraid of fire and cold, the former can be compensated for with leather.

Liang Shanbo is not a poor clangist in the southern ravine, the latter is not capable of skinning the rattan armor, but what is this to Liang Shanbo? That is, the cost of rattan armor is much higher, compared to orthodox leather armor and iron armor, the cost of rattan armor is still much cheaper.

Just like the rattan used by the army of the Ming and Qing dynasties in later generations, in order to enhance its fire resistance, a layer of leather is put on it, and it is not effortless.

Compared to what it actually does, this flaw is perfectly tolerable. And the second defect - afraid of the cold, then afraid of going down. There are very few naval divisions used in the war in the north.

That is to say, the time for the development of rattan armor is still short, and it is far from enough to call all the sailors in Liangshanbo to be deployed.

And Zhang Gongyu, who was on Liu Menglong's boat, was as angry as fire at the moment, and the warship actually stopped, which was really hateful, hateful.

He knew that there must be Liangshan thieves who were making trouble underwater, so he shouted the crossbowmen and kept a close eye on the surroundings. But whenever a water ghost comes out, he will shoot and kill.

It's just that the plan is far from changing as quickly as it comes. Just when Zhang Gongyu angrily called the crossbowman Zhang to look around, suddenly there were sergeants in the cabin who shouted together: "The bottom of the ship is leaking!" I don't know if there are watertight compartments for vehicles and ships, anyway, China at that time had already invented this kind of thing.

Rolling into the water all around, even Liu Menglong, who had always looked calm, couldn't help but feel a little panicked, and even a kind of trance after the dream was shattered. But he was the first to take off his military uniform.

When the warship is majestic, the armor is majestic; But when the ship sinks, this thing is the culprit that kills people.

Liu Menglong's boat hurriedly raised the flag and summoned the nearby warships to rush to the rescue. For a while, the Song army didn't know how many warships were exclaimed from the helm, but many warships witnessed the scene of the ship in distress. Suddenly, the morale was depressed, the people's hearts were confused, and they didn't need to give another order from the ship, so they retreated towards the boat and towards the water village of Shigou Town......

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