Out of the east gate of Hangzhou, not far away is the Qiantang River.

From the section of the river closest to the city wall of Hangzhou facing east, looking down from the height, the Qiantang River first has a convex arc, followed by a concave arc.

The Qiantang River then flows north-eastward for thirty miles, then turns eastward, and finally throws out a trumpet-shaped Hangzhou Bay, which merges into the endless sea.

Yu Yunwen led more than 30,000 Great Zhou reinforcements, but did not land west of Taihu Lake or along the Yangtze River, which was controlled by the Great Zhou army. Instead, it went around most of the coastline in a half circle, broke directly into Hangzhou Bay, and landed at the most acute place in the Qiantang River, with a straight-line distance of less than thirty miles from Hangzhou City!

With the Qiantang River as the boundary, the two battlefields of the Yongle Dynasty in the north and south were in danger of being divided.

As far as the opposing army was concerned, the battle situation began to collapse rapidly from the moment the fleet led by Yu Yunwen burst into Hangzhou Bay......

Time goes back to the day before.

The naval army of the Yongle Dynasty has always dared to fight, and after capturing the port of Mingzhou, it has obtained a large number of high-quality ships, which is like a tiger with wings. Although frightened, as soon as the advance fleet of the Great Zhou army appeared in Hangzhou Bay, hundreds of warships of the Yongle Dynasty met it fearlessly.

However, the quality of the sailors, the quality of the battle formation, and the level of ordnance on both sides are too far behind, and the bravery of the Fang La Navy is no longer easy to use.

The Xiangzhou Navy is worthy of being one of the best sailors in Da Zhou, and when he came up, he gorgeously taught the Yongle Chao Navy to be a man. Two-car boats, four-car boats, eight-car boats, flying tiger warships, loach ships, ten-car boats, and sand-proof flat-bottomed boats, the seven main warships of the Xiangzhou Navy formed a battle formation, wielding a variety of weapons to meet the Fangla Navy.

The Great Zhou army's two-wheeled boats, that is, two paddlewheels on each side, were driven by strong men. The four-wheeled and eight-wheeled boats were similar, except that there were more paddlewheels and larger and stronger hulls.

Flying Tiger battleship. In addition to the two pairs of paddle wheels, there is also a rotating shaft in the bilge, which is rotated by six to ten people to drive the propellers to provide power, "moving like flying".

Loach boats. It is a kind of small and medium-sized warship that imitates the appearance of marine fish, and there are sails and boats, and it can gallop on large rivers, large rivers and offshore seas.

Ten boats. Medium-sized warships propelled by ten boats on each side, with sails, are particularly suitable for exploiting in large rivers and offshore waters.

Sand control punts. Large ships that are not suitable for long-sea voyages, have a large carrying capacity, are not easy to run aground, and are generally used to carry a large amount of materials and ordnance, mainly in inland lakes.

In order to ensure a complete victory, the commander of the Xiangzhou Navy tried his best at the beginning.

The two-wheeled and four-wheeled boats served as the vanguard, the eight-wheeled boats and the loach boats were the main forces of the operation, and the ten-wheeled boats protected the sand-proof flat-bottomed boats as the Chinese army. The Flying Tiger battleship, which is agile in steering, fast in speed, and easy in advance and retreat, is used as a small warship to and fro.

The formation of the Fangla Navy is not as reasonable as that of the Xiangzhou Navy; In terms of experience, it is not as good as the Xiangzhou Navy that has suppressed bandits for many years; Although the quality of some warships is better than that of the Xiangzhou Navy in terms of quality, it is difficult to compare the functional positioning and equipment configuration of different ship types.

In less than a quarter of an hour after the battle between the Xiangzhou Navy and the Fangla Navy, they used the bows, crossbows, crossbows, spears and other weapons on the two-cart and four-cart boats to bring a large number of casualties to the soldiers of the Fangla Navy.

Seeing that the situation was not good, Fang La's naval army quickly resorted to tried and tested fireship tactics and ramming tactics, intending to use arson and close combat to force back the Great Zhou naval army and prevent a large number of Great Zhou troops from landing.

However, as soon as the eight chariots and boats of the Xiangzhou Navy and the loach boats were engaged, they used the putter and the ramming angle to block the crazy attack of the Fang La Navy Army. The Flying Tiger warships began to respond, using their own mobile and flexible characteristics to eliminate the fireships of the Fangla Navy one by one.

In the chaotic battle, the Fangla Navy still pulled the nine warships of the Xiangzhou Navy into hand-to-hand combat, and had the upper hand. However, the nine warships were not a wound for the Xiangzhou Navy, and the ferocity of the soldiers of the Fangla Army in hand-to-hand combat could not infect other warships.

The Xiangzhou Navy's Ten Boats and Sand-Defying Flat-bottomed Boats finally engaged, using catapults, three-shot cannons, and slapsticks and other ordnance to deal a fatal blow to the Fangla Navy.

Yu Yunwen saw that the victory of the Xiangzhou Navy had been decided, and ordered the herald to beat the war drums, wave the flag, and pronounce the death sentence of the Fang La Navy who was defending Hangzhou Bay.

On the four-car ship and the Flying Tiger warship, some soldiers of the Great Zhou Army were busy, using black and yellow oil pipes to spray a large amount of thick liquid with a bad smell and bright black color, and then ignited it with rockets.

The modified fire tank is still compressed air and then sprays out of fire oil, but the copper tank has been replaced with a copper hoist, which is easy to carry on the ship.

The spherical and ellipsoidal object with fire at one end and most of the surface coated with fish glue was thrown at the ships of the Fangla Water Army by the soldiers of the Great Zhou Army on the eight-chariot boat and the ten-chariot boat.

The spherical poisonous smoke fireball releases thick smoke, the ellipsoidal tribulus fireball bursts out metal thorns and broken porcelain pieces, and the tightly wrapped thunderbolt fireball explodes violently and burns, all three of which have a good ignition effect.

As soon as the firearms came out, Fang La's army finally collapsed, and it could no longer stop Yu Yunwen from landing. In the next few days, small groups of Fang La's fleet continued to crash desperately into Yu Yunwen's fleet, but it didn't have much effect.

Yu Yunwen's fleet could no longer move forward, because many high-ranking officials of the Yongle Dynasty were always worried about the powerful naval army of the Great Zhou, and they had sunk hundreds of ships in the Qiantang River, which was close to the city of Hangzhou.

After successfully breaking into Hangzhou Bay, Yu Yunwen ordered the Xiangzhou Navy, which was the main force in the water war, to control the left and right rivers and cover the landing of the main force of the official army.

Dozens of warships of the Zhou army lined up in a row, using crossbows, catapults, three-sentry cannons, crossbows and other weapons to kill the Yongle Dynasty soldiers who wanted to stop them.

The warships carrying a large number of sergeants, the horse boats carrying livestock, the boats carrying the first batch of grain and grass, and the sand-proof flat-bottomed boats carrying a large number of supplies and ordnance were unloaded in full swing, and then withdrew north from the sea under the protection of the fleets of the Gaoyou Army and the Wuwei Army.

"The next batch of grain and grass will arrive in ten days."

Yu Yunwen put on armor and held a sword, stood on the largest sea falcon ship, and shouted to a part of the generals gathered in front of him, "Ten days, as long as you hold on for ten days, the battle in Jiangnan will definitely be clear." ”

"Seal your wife and son, and look at today. The name of the history is only in the present day. ”

"Including this official, the patrol will not be killed! Those who retreat before and after the battle are slashed! Those who disobey the order will be killed! ”

In the afternoon, the Great Zhou army began to land on the north and south banks of the Qiantang River at the same time.

In order to ensure the threat to the city of Hangzhou and at the same time ensure that he was not driven down the river, Yu Yunwen concentrated most of the Chinese army on the north bank despite the dissuasion of Zhang Tianlei and other generals.

The Xunyang infantry led by Zhang Tianlei, the soldiers and archers of Shiyan Prefecture, the Nanyang Instrument Army, the Tangzhou Horse Team, and the Suizhou Spear Throwing Battalion. With most of the elite of Jingnan Road in hand, Yu Yunwen felt that it was foolproof, and he would definitely be able to make Yongle all halves.

However, judging the level of combat strength has been an extremely complicated issue since ancient times, and it cannot be seen from the quality of equipment or the results of one or two exercises.

Equipment, training, food, marching rhythm, quality of generals...... And the most important and elusive morale will affect combat effectiveness. Of course, Yu Yunwen, who personally led the army to fight for the first time, could not understand this knowledge.

Trenches, earth pits, thistles, horses, sheep and horse walls. The above is known as the "Five Treasures of the Camp", and the thistle terrestris in it can be replaced with bamboo thorns, wood thorns, etc.

Zhang Tianlei and several other generals of the Chinese army inspected the temporary camp by the river, and after making sure that the "five treasures of the camp" did not cut corners, they came to Yu Yunwen's Chinese army tent and left after setting the order of rotation at night.

Zhang Tianlei returned to his military tent to rest, and felt that his eyelids were always jumping, so he lay down in the Dutch.

Early this morning, in front of Yu Yunwen, Zhang Tianlei euphemistically mentioned his concern about the simultaneous landing of the north and south banks.

Yu Yunwen didn't think so, and Zhang Tianlei didn't dare to get an inch. After all, Zhang Tianlei is deeply trusted by Yu Yunwen, and he has already attracted the eyes of other generals, and it is good to say it, but it is unwise to say too much.

"Lord Yu didn't tell the shocking plan to raid Hangzhou and divide the Yongle puppet dynasty into two until the fleet went to sea, maybe he was too worried."

Zhang Tianlei smashed his mouth, put the worries in his heart behind, and then remembered that Zhang Yongnian's nephew asked him to borrow a sea boat.

"I don't know what that kid is doing with the help of Han Zhaoqiu, Liu Chengdong and my uncle, what are you doing when you find a good sea boat? The soldiers are in chaos, don't be robbed by a gang of pirates, there are not many outstanding juniors in the clan. ”

"Hey, it shouldn't be Li Xiang's idea to make a fortune again, right? Write to him another day to ask him, can you eat alone and leave Lao Tzu behind! ”

The dead wind lamp went out, and the snoring sounded.