The fleet of the Pingnan army was lined up in the canal, and although Jin Shenghuan ordered dozens of small boats to be mobilized to intercept the attack, it was still unable to stop the opponent's fire attack. Seeing that more than a dozen boats in the northernmost part were attacked by the fire boats one after another, the flames burned straight to the ship.

The flames rose upward, and the boat soon burst into flames.

"Fight the fire!" The regimental trainers on the cao boat hurriedly carried sand and water and threw it at the fire, but it was not so easy to extinguish the fishing boat that was piled up with dry wood and burned violently.

In a short period of time, the attacked boats fell into flames, and the regimental training soldiers above jumped into the river.

Fortunately, under Jin Shenghuan's order, all the boats lifted the anchor from the river, and the boats next to them quickly began to row, away from the burning boats.

More than a dozen ships were caught in flames, and the northern side of the entire fleet was suddenly in chaos.

On a cao boat, Chen Ping stood on the deck, looking nervously to the north, the burning cao boat illuminated half of the river, and the visibility of the entire battlefield was greatly increased.

To the north of the burning boat, the sound of killing was faintly heard, and it was dozens of small boats sent to meet the enemy who were fighting fiercely again. On the nearby river, hundreds of regimental training soldiers swam in the river, and this was the regimental training of the regimental training soldiers who jumped into the river from a burning boat. These people are all indigenous people in Huai'an, and almost all of them are familiar with water.

"Paddle north and pick up these overboard brothers." Chen Ping gave the order in a deep voice, and dozens of sailors rowed their oars vigorously towards the burning boat.

One after another, the overboard soldiers climbed onto the boat and lay on the deck, panting. Fortunately, the boats on the north side were all trained by the Huai'an regiment, and they were familiar with the water, and they had no armor on their bodies to swim freely in the river.

Several nearby boats also moved over, and most of the regimental training soldiers who fell into the water were picked up on the boats. Although the dozen or so boats were not saved, the loss of personnel was not too great.

Commanding the ship, Jin Shenghuan nervously observed the situation on the battlefield, and the dozen or so ships on fire in the north made him very anxious. After all, the regimental training soldiers had not experienced too many battles, and they were suddenly chaotic in the face of the opponent's fireship attack, which allowed the opponent to succeed.

Each ship had more than a dozen bamboo spears three zhang long, enough to hold the incoming fireships far away. Before leaving, he had taught how to prevent fire attacks, so why didn't the soldiers on these dozen or so boats use it?

However, Jin Shenghuan was also glad in his heart, glad that the enemy army did not take a large-scale attack, but only sent dozens of fireships to attack tentatively. If hundreds of fireships attacked at the same time, he would definitely be in a hurry at the moment.

Fortunately, seeing that the burning ships are ready, it is not so easy to attack them with fireboats.

A string of red and blue lanterns rose to the mast, which was an order for all ships to guard against enemy fire.

There were more than 200 ships in the entire fleet, and the 5,000 soldiers all had wide eyes, waiting for the opponent's next attack.

Battles should always be fought in one go, taking advantage of the confusion of the other side to launch a larger offensive, so as to quickly expand the results of the battle and defeat the enemy.

Liu Liangzuo has been in the army for many years, so he naturally understands this truth. But instead of pressing all the ships, he came along the west bank of the canal to the side of the main army.

Because he suddenly found that the enemy army had not fallen into the expected chaos, and the rocket attack commanded by Gao Jie did not bring more losses to the other side.

If he continued to attack, it would be equivalent to his army and the enemy fighting a hard battle, but Gao Jie only used a bow and arrow to reap the benefits of the fisherman, which Liu Liangzuo did not want to see.

Fighting at night, no matter how strong your own army is, you will suffer heavy casualties if you get caught in a melee, not to mention that your own army is only 3,000 fewer than the other party, and the ships are all fishing boats, which are not as big as the opponent's boats.

Therefore, Liu Liangzuo commanded the fleet to turn around, and did not directly rush to the enemy fleet in the river, but rowed towards the main army on the west bank.

"Okay!" When he saw more than a dozen boats burning in the Pingnan Army's fleet, Gao Jie waved his fist excitedly.

The soldiers of the Gaoliu coalition army on the west bank also applauded, attacked like this, and burned his mother! During this period of time, at least 100 soldiers were shot by the crossbow arrows and tiger squat cannons fired from the ship, and the screams came one after another. The enemy ships were suddenly set on fire, which boosted the morale of the coalition soldiers.

But how did no enemy ship get set on fire again?

Gao Jie's eyes widened, and he tried to look at the river to the north, and by the light of the burning boat, he saw that the black shadows in the river were moving towards him.

"General Liu, why don't you continue to attack?" Gao Jie greeted him, and said to Liu Liangzuo, who jumped off the fishing boat, with an ugly face.

At night, he couldn't see Gao Jie's face clearly, but he could hear Gao Jie's anger from his voice, and Liu Liangzuo was suddenly unhappy.

"No matter how the fire attack, I sent all the fireboats, and the other ships didn't have dry firewood on them." Liu Liangzuo didn't have a good airway, Lao Tzu worked hard to get boats from various fishing villages, and burned more than a dozen boats from the other party, you kid is waiting here, but you blame Lao Tzu!

"Why don't you get more fireboats? Even if you don't have a fireship, you can take advantage of the enemy's chaos to kill and capture the ship! ”

What a good fighter, it was missed by this guy! When the other party regrouped, it would be difficult to get it easily, Gao Jie thought bitterly.

"I would like to make them all into fireboats, but there are only so many fishing boats that have been looted, how can they be made into fireboats to carry soldiers?

Taking advantage of the chaos of the enemy? Lao Tzu also wants to ask you, where is the enemy in chaos? You're here with the main fucking force, saying you're going to make a rocket raid and pit their ships in flames. Lao Tzu asks you, where is the sea of fire? ”

Liu Liangzuo asked angrily, and Gao Jie was speechless. I thought that only a rocket attack was needed to plunge the fleet into chaos and fire, but who knows how much it didn't work!

A well-designed night attack turned out to be like this, and neither of them refused to admit that it was because of themselves, and they both pushed the responsibility to each other.

However, compared to the angry Liu Liangzuo, Gao Jie still has a little sense, so many years of rogues and military careers, countless defeats, have tempered Gao Jie's strong nerves.

He knew that now was not the time for infighting, and he still had to work together to win the battle.

Gao Jie shut up and didn't speak, and after Liu Liangzuo yelled, he finally closed his mouth. So the two sat down together again and began to discuss what to do next!