The sky turned from twilight to white, the sea turned from indigo to light green, and the warning bell sounded on the large wing warship at the front, which meant that the fleet entered the shallow water from the deep water, and the sea water turned light green because it was not deep. A thin layer of sea fog drifts on the eastern shore of the Bohai Sea in the early morning – an inexplicable phenomenon that is recorded as no fog in the Bohai Sea in September, but it is very thick in front of you.

"How deep is the water?" Standing on the deck of the Transagile Chaos Tower, Red ordered the depth of the water to be measured. As soon as the order was given, he heard the continuous sound of earth-shattering drums. The Qi army was in front of him, although he couldn't see it.

The fleet went to Zhifu Harbor, and the large-wing warships kept rowing along the coast, and there was no plan for a surprise attack. In the plan of the Great Sima Mansion, this is a process of gradual pressure: if you don't agree, I will take it; But if you refuse, I will go to war. Yingdu must make Linzi understand that the state of Chu has decided to go to war with the state of Qi for the more than 1,700 fishing boats.

Xiang Yan's death not only dealt a blow to the Zhao faction, but also dealt a blow to the Qu and Zhao clans, who were close to Qi. The Chu people, who were already quite xenophobic, did not have much good impression of Zhao Qi, Zhao was the third Jin Dynasty, and the Chu and Jin dynasties competed for hegemony for a hundred years in the Spring and Autumn Period; And the State of Qi and the State of Chu fought fiercely for a hundred years in order to compete for the land of Huaishang. This is the reason why Qu Yuan's alliance with Qi was inevitable in that year, and it is also the reason why Lu Guo has always been close to Chu - King Ling built Zhanghuatai, and only Lu Zhao was invited to the princes.

The state of Qi has been regarded as untrustworthy and useless by the Yingdu Zhengchao - the Zhengchao has many military generals, and the habit of military generals is that once the concept is formed, it is difficult or even impossible to change. Since the Great Sima Mansion judged that the Qin State would attack Qi first and then attack Chu, it would be absolutely good for the Qin State to attack Qi, so that the Chu State could gain time to digest the recovered homeland, and at the same time organize new divisions and brigades.

Now, Yingdu tried to force the Qi State to submit with undisguised force, but such an undisguised intention gave the Qi army time to prepare militarily. At the mouth of Jishui, the Qi army discovered the Chuyue fleet going south, and when it passed through Long Island, it was discovered by the Qi army Hou Zhou who was waiting here, and the Qi army warboat that quickly assembled in Zhifu did not wait in Zhifu Port under the command of Tian Widow, but took advantage of the night to go north to meet the enemy.

In September, the weather was suddenly cold, and the fresh water that poured into the Bohai Sea raised a fog that spread all the way to the sea. Through the rare mist, more than 260 old-style wings of the Qi army launched an assault amid the sound of drums. The fog became thicker and thicker the closer they got to the shore, and one after another the old wings rushed out of the dense fog and rushed towards the nearest Vietnamese warboat with all their might.

The Yue people, who had long been on guard, were not helpless, and the large-wing warships were three-oared warships, relying on the absolute speed advantage, they hit the Qijun warships again and again. Each impact can smash the Qi warship in two. In September, the wave height of the sea was already more than five feet, and if the Qi soldiers and men who fell into the water did not know the water, a wave would disappear without a trace.

However, the number of Qi army warships is twice as large as the Yue warboat in front of the way, the rest period after the impact of the Yue people's wings, the Qi army warships are coming from all sides, the Qi army armor on the deck is holding a three-zhang long hook sickle trying to hook the big wing boat body, the Yue people continue to cut off these hook sickles, when the hook sickle is inexhaustible, the war boats of both sides are tightly adhered together, and a bloody hand-to-hand battle breaks out.

The Chaos class gunboats had no hands and could only be propelled south by ocean currents and retromast spinnakers, so the gunboats were at the end of the fleet. Because of the mist, the red boat standing on the deck of the stern could not see clearly that the Yue people's large-winged warboat in front of him was engaged in a tragic hand-to-hand battle with the Qi people, but he could hear the shouts of the two soldiers in the drums.

In view of the fact that the enemy's position and number could not be seen clearly in the mist, the Red Warrior could only order a retreat. The sound of the cymbals sounding according to his order echoed above the waves, and the others were very dissatisfied with Hong's retreat order, but in this naval battle, the Great Sima Mansion had authorized Hongzhu to command, and they dared not speak out, so they could only lead the war boat to retreat slowly.

In the fog, they fought with the enemy's warboats, forcing the Chu army, which had not tasted defeat, to retreat, and the Qi army immediately shouted long live. Except for five of the dozen or so large-wing warships that were jumped, they were all destroyed by the Qi army. The Qi soldiers cheered, but the general of the boat division, Tian Wei, was not happy, he knew that from the moment the Chu army roared, the Qi army had been defeated.

"Indulge the fireboat!" He commanded loudly.

"The general has an order: set fire to the ship!" In order to facilitate communication, the Qi army's warships were very close to each other in the dense fog, and after Tian Widow's order was transmitted, the fireships around him were lit one by one. The fireboats were hung with sails dismantled from fishing boats, and the southeast wind blew them quickly to the north. It's a pity that the two armies are not in a state of melee at this time, and these fireships not only can't catch up with the extremely fast Big-Wing warship, but even the Chaos-class gunboats and the Shaosi-class sea boats can't catch up.

The Qi army's ships were next to each other, forming a dense chain of fire. Witnessing the anger of the fireship disappearing without a trace, if the red ship did not sound the cymbal, the two armies were fighting together at this moment, even if the fireship could not burn the warship, I am afraid that he would have to be in a hurry for a while to get rid of the dual attack of the Qi army's warship and the fireboat.

Seeing that the fireboat and the others had dissipated their anger, the red boat couldn't help but chuckle. Qi people's tricks are exhausted, but the losses brought to themselves are minimal. As long as the sun comes out and the fog clears, it will be pressed and beaten by itself. As he chuckled, the full-sailed Chaos was retreating at full speed, the fireships getting closer at first, then farther and farther behind. When no one is sailing, the chains of fire formed by the fireships are either broken by the wind and waves, or they attract each other and spin until the whole ship burns out and sinks to the bottom of the sea, which is not deep.

When the fog finally dissipated, when the Chaos sailed down the river and headed south again, Zhifu Mountain was already in the red mirror. The mountain is a fiery red maple forest, and the bottom of the mountain is Zhifu Port, which is several times larger than before, and in the non-fishing season, the fishing boats are densely docked in the harbor, and some are even dragged to the shore, and the boat body is upside down on the beach.

Far away from the harbor, the warships of the Qi army that had just fought in the fog were the warships of the Qi army, and now they were arranged in an extremely dense group, with the bow facing the north, trying to meet the impact of their own large-winged warships. These warships are full of vertical feathers, on the deck are armor soldiers holding hooks and sickles, and in the middle of the last row of warships is hung a flag, which is the ship of Qi General Tian Widow.

On the Chaos, the red man used the Lu Lijing to look at Tian Widow on the warship, and Tian Lijing's Lu Lijing also looked at the Chu Yue fleet that was getting closer and closer. He was familiar with the Yue people's large-wing warship, and he was also familiar with the Shao Si Order-class sea boat, but he couldn't quite understand the Chaos gunboat: if the Chaos was a supply ship transporting grain, why did the red flag be hung on the supply boat? If the Chaos is a warship, how does the ship of the sea, which has no weapons, fight?

The Chuyue fleet is approaching. The six Chaos-class gunboats formed a thin horizontal formation like a formation of foot soldiers, flanked by the large-winged warships of the Yue people, who gathered together like hedgehogs, controlling their advance speed so that they could advance parallel to the horizontal formation of the Chaos-class gunboats; Behind the horizontal formation, there are one big and two small, three young division-level sea boats. Wu Zhu and the others looked at the Qi army warship in the distance, and at the same time watched every movement on the Chaos.

Since Gou Jian, the Yue people are both close and afraid of the Chu State. is because the state of Chu often woos itself and gives itself many benefits; And I'm afraid, Chu Guo's handy hand can benefit himself, and his backhand can also bring nightmares to himself. The Shao Si Order-class sea boat and the big wing war boat are superior to all other sea boats and war boats, but now the Chu State has built unheard of gunboats. Twenty-four guns on a single ship, which is more and larger than the guns of an infantry division, how can such a weapon not be carefully witnessed?

The flat dan array of the Chuyue fleet was getting closer and closer under the impetus of the sea current, and when the distance between the two sides was only four hundred steps, Tian Widow, who did not want to wait, pointed forward, and the drums on the war boat sounded again, and in the shouts of the soldiers, the dense boat formation of the Qi army rushed forward, and the formation gradually became messy.

Lean in! Only by leaning on it, the hand-to-hand fighting of the jumping gang can have any hope of victory.

The Qi army rushed in, and the red mob on the Chaos did not give the order to attack the large-winged warships on the two wings, but instead ordered them to stop advancing. The military order was like a mountain, and the warboat officers and the Yue people could only watch the six Chaos-class gunboats that had transformed into a cone formation go away, meeting the rushing Qi warboats.

The Qi army's old-style wings did not collide with each other, and they erupted into cheers when they saw the Chu army's sea boat rushing alone. The two armies faced each other, and the Chu army's big wing war boat stopped in place and did not dare to rush, which was obviously a manifestation of cowardice. It's a pity that the side of the Chu people's boat is too high, and even if he leans on it, he can't jump to the gang.

They could only shoot arrows, or hook their scythes to the freeboard of the boat in an attempt to board the boat, but this effort was futile, and the distance they had to climb was too long, and before they were halfway through it, they were struck by spears or arrows from the boat.

Looking at it from Tian Widow's point of view, the six sea boats approaching him in a conical formation looked like six giants, surrounded by a circle of dwarfs. They wanted to board the boat but had no way to do it, so they could only passively follow the boat and retreat.

"Father, the Chu people will be deceitful!" The sea boats got closer and closer, and the cone formation gradually turned into an unstandard column. Tian Pu, who was beside Tian Widow, felt a strong uneasiness. As he spoke, he felt that he was deep in the depths of the Qi Army's boat formation, and the red man was giving a deep order: "Open the cannon door." ”

"Open the cannon door!" The order was passed to the artillery deck, and the gun doors on both sides of the ship's side were opened one after another. Before the cannon door was opened, the Qi people on the war boat thought that this was the oar hole, and they stabbed it several times with a hook sickle but did not open it, and as soon as the gun door was opened, the hook sickle immediately hooked the lower end of the gun door. It's not as tall as a freeboard, so it's easy to climb up.

"Target: enemy flagship, solid shells, salvo ......" each gunboat opened its gun doors, and the command of the red one was repeated on the decks of six gunboats through the flag. At this time, the agile Qi soldiers had already climbed to the cannon door, and they were pushing the muzzles that stretched out of the cannon door, as long as they pushed these cannon ports away, they could get into the cabin and fight the Chu army hand-to-hand.