This battle is related to the future of the two, so no matter how reluctant they are, they have to continue to attack.

After deliberation, it was decided to focus on fire attacks, after all, it was not easy to snatch enemy ships in the dark, and since the fire ship attack had just achieved great results, it was necessary to draw a scoop based on the gourd.

Although Liu Liangzuo was still thinking about the spoils on the ship, the emperor Lao'er must have brought a lot of wealth when he traveled. But at the moment, victory is the first priority, and there is no need to care so much, it is a big deal to send soldiers with good water skills to the river to salvage after the war.

A large number of soldiers were sent to look everywhere for fires and dry firewood and thatch, but fortunately there was a dilapidated warehouse on the bank of the river not far away, which was originally a merchant's warehouse, but later abandoned, and it became the residence of the coolies who lived by carrying and pulling fiber by the canal, forming a small village.

Of course, the sudden outbreak of war frightened these people, and they fled into the darkness with their families and families, far away from the canal.

The soldiers of the coalition army rushed into the village with torches and began to demolish all kinds of timber in the village, most of the houses were made of wood and bamboo poles, and many dry firewood and thatch were piled up in each courtyard to start a fire for cooking.

Soon, a large amount of dry firewood was fetched and piled up with fifty fishing boats, each of which stood seven or eight soldiers, plus four fishermen. They were all brave men chosen from the coalition forces, and as for the fishermen, they had no choice. Behind the fireboat, a smaller boat was tied, and once the fireboat rammed into an enemy ship, the soldiers and fishermen on board could jump into the boat and evacuate.

In order to boost morale, Gao Jie took out all his private silver deposits, and each soldier who attacked was rewarded with two taels of silver, even the fishermen.

A glimmer of dawn appeared in the eastern sky, and the night was about to pass. It is necessary to attack before dawn in order to achieve maximum results.

Under Gao Jie's order, all the fire boats were ignited, and more than 100 fishing boats lined up and rowed quickly towards the fleet in the canal.

After the fireboats, more than 3,000 soldiers boarded the remaining hundred or so fishing boats, and after the fireboats, they wanted to take advantage of the chaos caused by the fireboats to the enemy's fleet and launch an attack on the fleet. And this attack, Gao Jie led the troops to attack in person, 1,000 of the 3,000 soldiers were his own soldiers, in order to achieve victory, for his own future, Gao Jie decided to gamble!

On each fishing boat, four fishermen were in charge of rowing, and six or seven soldiers held their shields aloft, covering everyone. Ships of fire that have already been lit will surely be discovered by the enemy, and how can they allow their own attack.

Sure enough, the fireship didn't row far, and the sound of "fluttering" breaking through the air came to the face, and countless arrows crossed the dark sky and fell towards the attacking fireship.

There was a sound of "bangbang" one after another, and it was the arrows that shot into the hull of the ship and the shields in the hands of the soldiers, and of course more arrows fell into the river.

Thanks to the protection of the shields, the soldiers and fishermen on the fireboat were not harmed much. The speed of more than fifty fireships became faster and faster, and even the soldiers on board were divided into most of the rowing queues, and they no longer cared about the arrows flying in the air.

Because the flames of the ship's pyre were getting bigger and bigger, and the scorching heat could not stand even themselves, and perhaps it would not be long before the flames would force them to nowhere to stay.

"Fire!" Without Jin Shenghuan's order again, the commanding officers on each Cao ship gave the order to attack on their own. The enemy's fire attack was too strong, and the more than ten boats were still burning, and they never dared to let the opponent's fireships get close to them.

The ship's Tiger and Fran cannons opened fire on their own, and this time instead of bombarding the enemy with rockets on the opposite bank, they fired at the fireboats that were speeding in the river.

However, the hit rate of artillery in these years was too low, let alone attacking moving targets, seeing a round of artillery fire, most of the fireships sailed through the artillery fire and continued to rush over unharmed, only two or three fireships happened to be hit by artillery, countless sparks bloomed, and the hull began to spin on the river, which happened to be hit by the solid shells of the Fran machine guns.

There are more than 100 artillery pieces in the fleet, most of which are tiger squat guns, and more than a dozen guns are guns that have been withdrawn from the Tianjin Acropolis Fort, all of which are 100 to 3 or 400 pounds of Franc machine artillery.

In Chen Yue's view, although the fire rate of the Franc machine artillery is high and the firing range is long, but in terms of attack power, it is not as good as the Tiger Squat Cannon, because the Tiger Squat Cannon can install more than 100 projectiles at a time, and the cannon can hit a large area. Of course, the range of the tiger squat cannon is only one mile, and often only one cannon can be fired in battle, and it will be approached by the other party.

And this time, it was the Tiger Squat Cannon that made a contribution, and nearly 100 Tiger Squat Cannon fired continuously at the river, and the small projectiles fired were overwhelming. Before the fireboat could evacuate, the soldiers and fishermen of the Gaoliu coalition heard a "buzzing" sound in the air, as if a large number of wasps were flying towards them.

The soldier holding the shield felt a huge force hit the shield, and the wrist holding the shield ached, although the shield was large, it was not enough to protect the whole body, and the exposed limbs suddenly had a sharp pain, which ate the bones and sucked the marrow, but it hurt countless times more than a wasp sting on the body.

"Ahhh The screams were terrible, and the fishermen and soldiers rowing threw down their oars and covered their faces with trembling hands. In the daytime, you can see several more potholes in their faces, and tiny projectiles have pierced their skin and muscles, digging deep into their bones.

"Puff Ton" "Puff Passage" could not bear the severe pain caused by the small projectile, and the fishermen and soldiers fell into the river like dumplings.

However, the unmanned fireship continued to rush towards the fleet of boats a few feet away by taking advantage of the huge inertia of the advance.

"Resist it!" Looking at the rapidly approaching fireboat, the soldiers on the cao boat, under the order of the officer in command, raised the long bamboo spear in their hands and stabbed at the rushing fireboat.

Several three-zhang bamboo spears resisted the coming fireboat, and the bamboo poles were bent by the impact, and the other soldiers hurriedly used more bamboo spears to resist. Finally, the fireboat was held up by more than a dozen bamboo spears, the momentum disappeared and stopped, and it burned alone three zhang away from the boat.

Due to the sufficient preparation of the Pingnan Army's fleet, the fire attack of the Gao-Liu coalition army did not play its due role.

However, Gao Jie, who personally led the troops to attack, could no longer care about these, and commanded the fleet to rush towards the boats in the river. Fortunately, all the guns in the Pingnan Army fleet attacked the fireboats, so that the fleet led by Gao Jie escaped the wild fire of the tiger squat cannons.

Arrows were flying in the air, constantly falling on the boats, falling in the river, and more feathered arrows crossed the attacking fleet, like a tributary, falling towards the Pingnan army fleet in the river, which was the archers commanded by Liu Liangzuo covering the attack.

Under the joint rowing of more than a dozen fishermen and soldiers, the fishing boat moved quickly, and soon approached the fire boat that was still burning when it was resisted, and rushed towards the Pingnan army fleet.

Looking at the fireship that was held up by the spear, Gao Jie's eyes shrank, knowing that the fire attack strategy had failed, and the plan to make the enemy's fleet chaotic frustrated, and what was waiting for him now was probably a bloody battle.

However, this did not make him flinch, but only provoked Gao Jie's bloody courage, and he held a sharp steel knife in his hand, and roared at the enemy ship in front of him.