Gao Jie and Liu Liangzuo agreed that Liu Liangzuo's army, who was more familiar with the water, would supervise the fishermen to drive their boats from Shao Bo Lake to the Pingnan army fleet in the canal, while Gao Jiejun and the remaining Liu Liangzuo army quietly forced to the river bank where the fleet was located.

When the enemy troops in the fleet nervously observed the approaching flotilla, more than 1,000 archers of their own side suddenly attacked the flotilla with rockets.

The canal here is more than 40 zhang wide, but the fleet is anchored in the center of the river, which is exactly within the range of bows and arrows on the shore. In Gao Jie's view, it only needs to shoot continuously with rockets to ignite the boats in the river, and the enemy army in the river will be able to force chaos, and then the own fleet coming from the north is taking the opportunity to attack, with more attacks and fewer attacks, and there is no problem in solving the problem of killing Chongzhen by the enemy in the river.

Looking at the countless fires of the flotilla in the river under the rocket fire, and at the scrambled appearance of the enemy in the firelight, Gao Jie laughed proudly and ordered the archers to continue shooting at the Hanoi flotilla.

However, before Gao Jie could laugh for too long, the sound of "fluttering" breaking through the air came, and countless arrows fell from the black night sky and landed on the array of soldiers on the river bank.

In the night, I couldn't see how many people were hit by the arrows, only the screams of one after another.

"Damn, the reaction is fast!" Gao Jie pushed away the shield that his soldiers were guarding him, and continued to look into the river.

"Boom", "Boom", "Boom", the sound of artillery continued to sound, and Gao Jie was shocked to see the fire flashing on the enemy ships in the river.

Even if you attack with artillery, can you reload and aim at artillery in the dark? Gao Jie's mind flashed with such a question.

It is true that the reloading can be carried out with the help of the ship's lights, and the quantities of gunpowder are weighed in advance and packed in brown paper, but aiming is somewhat difficult.

Although the fluctuation of the water in the canal was not large, it was now a tense battle with the incoming enemy troops, the boats were shaking a little badly, and the enemy troops on the other side of the river were in the dark and could not see clearly, all of which made aiming difficult.

Dozens of tiger squat cannons opened fire at the same time, but the damage caused to Gao Jiejun was minimal.

The sound of "poof, puff" sounded around him, and his subordinates let out miserable cries one after another. Although the distance of nearly thirty zhang is within the range of the Tiger Squat Cannon, unless it hits the vital point, its power will not be too deadly.

"It's a tiger squat cannon, there are so many cannons on the official ship!" Adjutant General Li Benshen shouted beside Gao Jie.

"What are you shouting, ordering the brethren to lower their bodies, and the one in front of them to raise their shields, and the projectiles the size of beans can still kill you?" Gao Jie reprimanded.

The two armies exchanged arrows and launched a confrontation, and to Gao Jie's disappointment, the fleet in the river did not ignite a fire, and many of the fires ignited by the rockets were extinguished by the enemy.

It seems that it is no longer possible to defeat the enemy army by means of rocket attack, and it is necessary to rely on ships to attack.

Liu Liangzuo, with 5,000 soldiers, entered the canal from Shao Bo Lake in more than 200 fishing boats, and headed for the Pingnan army fleet in the south.

The reason why Liu Liangzuo volunteered to take on the combat mission of hand-to-hand combat was the idea of being the first to board the ship and snatch the opponent's money and spoils.

In Liu Liangzuo's view, his own army was five times that of the other side, and it was impossible for the enemy not to be chaotic if he suddenly launched an attack with fire. As long as the enemy army is in chaos, he can lead his troops to take the opportunity to kill the opponent's big ship.

But what he didn't expect was that when the distance between the two sides was still four or five miles, the other party had already woken up.

Looking at the lights of the fleet in the distance, and listening to the gongs and drums that represented the enemy's attack, Liu Liangzuo knew that it was impossible to take advantage of the enemy's unwitting sneak attack.

But so what, we are not the only one to attack, there are still nearly 20,000 troops and more than 1,000 archers on the west bank of the canal, and the situation is still under control.

Sure enough, endless rockets shot from the shore towards the flotilla like meteors, and the flotilla ahead was full of fire.

"The enemy has fallen into disarray. He Jinsong, you take fifty fireboats to attack directly from the front, Ma Lin, responsible for sinking the shipwreck, silting up the river and blocking their way to the north. The other ships followed me around to the west bank of the river, met the group, and attacked the enemy fleet from the front! ”

Liu Liangzuo ordered at his two lieutenant generals.

"Yes, General!" The two lieutenants agreed in unison, and each went with the fleet.

"General, you said that you would let us go home after sending you to the place." Listening to Liu Liangzuo's order, the fishermen who were caught suddenly understood that this was to force them into battle, and they were also going to use their fishing boats as fireboats, no wonder they loaded so much dry firewood on their boats before leaving.

"General, let us go!" The fifty fishermen on the boat, who had been assigned to the fireboat, knelt down on the boat and pleaded bitterly with the officers and men on board.

"Don't talk nonsense, be honest and obey orders, and when you win, your benefits are indispensable, what is a broken boat, if you see that there are no official boats in the river, you will be rewarded with a bigger boat." Deputy General He Jinsong flickered.

Now is the time to employ people, and it is up to these fishermen who are good at rowing boats to get close to each other.

Fifty fishing boats are in groups of two, the front one is full of dry wood and thatch, and the bow is equipped with more than ten spears, as long as they hit the boat, the spears will connect the fire boat and the boat tightly, and the flames on the fire boat will burn on the boat. Soldiers on fireboats and fishermen can jump on the fishing boats that follow behind and escape.

However, when they were still a mile closer to the flotilla, dozens of enemy boats approached. He Jinsong frowned, and ordered more than 20 fishing boats to meet them and fight with the rowing enemy ships, while the remaining fireboats continued to row towards the fleet, and the plan of fire attack remained unchanged.

On this dark river, the fleets of both sides scuffled together, it was a real scuffle, the two sides couldn't even see each other's faces clearly, they rowed their boats together, and then raised their swords and guns together, and their weapons desperately stabbed at each other's boats. "Poof, poof" from time to time there was the sound of falling water.

When his own ships blocked the incoming enemy ships, He Jinsong led more than ten fireboats to break through the enemy's interception and quickly rushed towards the fleet in the river.

The soldiers and fishermen on the boat rowed together with the oars, closer, closer, and the flotilla was already only a hundred and ten paces away.

"Set fire!" He Jinsong commanded sharply, and the fire sickle started a fire, igniting the pile of wood splashed with vegetable oil, and in a short time, the flames burned brightly.

With great inertia, the fireboat quickly rushed towards the flotilla in front, and the soldiers and fishermen on the fireboat jumped into the river together and swam towards the fishing boat behind.

With a "bang", the fireboat collided with the boat, and the spear mounted on the bow fixed the two together, and the raging flames burned towards the boat.