It is twenty miles from the mouth of the lake to the water village of Qingshan Town, the thief army, and the water journey of more than 20 miles takes more than half a day even if it is a boat during the day. In order to launch an attack on the thief army Shuizhai in time, Jin Xin led the main force of the water division to pass through the lake mouth and enter Poyang Lake by moonlight in the middle of the night.

According to the daytime measurement of the water level of Poyang Lake, the water level in most places of Poyang Lake is more than three zhang deep, and the draft of the largest tonnage Galen ship is only one zhang, which means that except for the shallow water area of the lake shore and near some islands in the lake, most of the fleets in the center of Poyang Lake can pass freely.

That night, a slight northwest wind blew, and all the ships pulled anchor and set sail into Poyang Lake. For river boats and riverboats in the mainland, it is rare to travel at night, after all, it is not suitable for rowing at night, and the boat is in danger of capsizing when it encounters wind and waves. For sea vessels, it is the norm to sail at night, after all, not every night there is a bay to shelter from the waves.

Poyang Lake is vast and wide, although it is not as wide as the boundless sea, but it is also much wider than the Yangtze River, as long as there is wind and moonlight, there is no problem.

Soon after dawn, the fleet reached the vicinity of Qingshan Town, which was only three or four miles away from the thief army's water village.

The strategy of attacking the thief army water village has been formulated in advance, which is to destroy the thief army water village with powerful artillery. Each of the five Galen warships has dozens of cannons, and the navy has as many as 300 cannons, which are all heavy artillery comparable to the redcoat cannons!

Since the end of the Ming Dynasty, the Ming Dynasty purchased and cast many red-coated cannons from the Portuguese in Macao, and the Manchu Qing Dynasty also attached great importance to the use of artillery after seeing the power of red-coated cannons from the Ming army.

But for a rogue army like the Great Western Army, it has never been in a state of wandering all the year round, paying no attention to the use of firearms, having no conditions or ability to cast heavy artillery, and seeing more than 300 red-coated cannons firing together at the same time has never been seen in this scene.

The firing range of the cannon can reach ten miles, more than three miles away from the Western Army Water Village is completely within the range of artillery, five Galen warships are lined up, the side chord is aimed at the thief army water village, the other three-masted sailing ships and two-masted sailing ships are guarding the Galen ship nearby, Dinghai General Lu Tai with more than 10,000 sailors waiting not far away on the boat, once the thief army is out of chaos under the shelling, it is the time for him to lead his troops into the water village.

More than 200 warships set up a position on the lake not far from the water village in Qingshan Town, and the thief army water village had already received the news.

Zhang Wenxiu originally planned to lead his troops to cross Poyang Lake by boat today to reach the opposite shore and attack the Ming army to build the city, but he did not expect that when the soldiers under Tiangangming were having breakfast, they were attacked by the Ming army's fleet.

Standing on the upper deck of the only two-story ship, looking at the Ming army fleet not far away, I saw that the Ming army ships were as tall as a building and had masts like a forest. Compared with the other party, the building ship under his feet, which was not small, was like the difference between a child and an adult, not to mention other ships. Zhang Wenxiu's face immediately sank.

In water combat, large ships have natural advantages over small boats, which Zhang Wenxiu naturally knows. Most of his ships were civilian ships from the people of Jiangxi, and none of them could compare with the Ming warships, perhaps if they were lightly hit by the other side, their own ships would capsize, and the other party's attack from high could not withstand it.

The number and size of the opponent's ships were far superior to his own, and Zhang Wenxiu knew that there was no hope of victory when he took the initiative to attack, and the only thing he could do now was to defend the camp.

The Ming ships were adjusting their formation, and Zhang Wenxiu knew that they would come to attack after they adjusted, so he issued an order and ordered his soldiers to prepare for the attack of the Ming army.

Zhang Wenxiu has been in battle for a long time, naturally knows the importance of the camp, his water village with a thick wooden pillar as the wall, up to one zhang, the wall is provided with a foothold beam, each fifty steps is equipped with an arrow tower, the wooden wall and the arrow tower can accommodate soldiers, the whole water village is equipped with three water gates, more than 200 ships are connected by wooden planks, walking on it is like walking on the ground, remove the wooden planks and boats can enter Poyang Lake through the water gate.

On the shore of the lake next to the water village is a continuous large camp, Zhang Wenxiu's soldiers are 30,000, of course, they can't sleep on the boat, except for some soldiers stationed in the water village, most of them are resting in the camp on the shore.

And now, in the face of the attack of the Ming army, with Zhang Wenxiu's order, most of the soldiers on the shore rushed into the water village one after another, the upper wall of the wall, the upper arrow tower of the arrow tower, and more things were on the warship, waiting to rush out of the water gate and fight with the Ming army.

Although the warships of the Ming army seem to be powerful, they are not without ways to deal with them, such as rocket attacks are the best way to deal with the ships.

Under Zhang Wenxiu's order, the 30,000 Western Army had already prepared the quasi-book and was ready to meet the attack of the Ming army's naval division. However, the first thing to wait for was the attack of the Ming artillery.

When the first shell fell into the water wall, the hull of a small boat that was smashed was broken, and several soldiers on board jumped into the lake with screams, Zhang Wenxiu only frowned lightly and did not care.

The Western Army and the Ming Army have been fighting for so many years, and they have already seen the power of the Ming army's artillery, and they have not felt the slightest fear. First artillery bombardment, then fire salvo, and then infantry attack, and the Ming army has been fighting for so many years, Zhang Wenxiu has been familiar with the Ming army's routines.

Moreover, although there are most cold weapons in the Western Army, it is not that there is no artillery, and Zhang Wenxiu's army has more than 100 artillery pieces of various kinds, but there are no such red-coated cannons of thousands of catties.

In Zhang Wenxiu's view, after the Ming artillery was fired, the fleet would come to attack. However, to his surprise, the Ming artillery did not stop as soon as it was fired.

And it's not one or several artillery pieces firing, judging from the shells falling like a meteor shower, the Ming army naval division clearly has dozens of red-coated cannons with hundreds of guns!

Dozens or even hundreds of shells flew in from miles away and landed in the camp, and the destructive power of the huge momentum of the shells as they fell was terrifying. Where the shells fell, sawdust flew sideways, the hull tilted, and the hull of the ship broken by the shell made a crushing cracking sound. Zhang Wenxiu's water camp is mostly a small boat carrying dozens of people, and it can't withstand the bombardment of red-coated shells at all!

In the "click" sound, a cannonball fell on the arrow tower, and the top of the arrow tower made of solid wood immediately collapsed, and several thieves on it screamed and fell into the lake; There were shells smashed on the wall, and the wall made of rough wood could not bear it, and it collapsed immediately.

In fact, the Ming army is only using solid shells now, and the damage caused to the water camp of the Western Army is not too great, but hundreds of shells fell, and the scene of the collapse of the wooden wall and the rupture of the hull is like the sky collapsing, which is really terrifying.