In the northwest of Zhongba County, on the riverbank on the edge of Gaoshikan, a temporary water village has been built on the wide natural harbor, which is used as the garrison of the 8,000 Kong Youde naval army.

The river breeze on the river continued to blow gently, and Song Ming, the commander of the water army wearing armor and cotton clothes and a red cloak on his shoulders, stood on the edge of the water village, silently watching the river, but his mind had already flown to the war with the Liangshan army to block the Yangwu army.

With the strong rise of the Yangwu army, the trend of its unification of Yongzhou has become more and more obvious, while the Liangshan army and Kong Youde's army have to put a large number of troops into the war between each other, and no one can eliminate anyone in a short time, but in vain to exhaust the strength, giving the Yangwu army a chance to quickly sit big.

Now, both military strength and economic strength have reached a level that makes Liang Shanjun and Kong Youde's army feel dangerous. Once Sima Yu is allowed to calmly occupy the entire Yongzhou, after a short rest, his next target is likely to be the Liangshan army or Kong Youde's army.

Instead of fighting against the odds at that time, it is better to take advantage of the fact that Sima Yu is now leading more than 100,000 Yangwu troops to go out to fight, and first unite the forces of the two sides to suppress the Yangwu army.

Therefore, in the face of this overall situation, although Song Ming was still hostile to the Liangshan army in his heart, he still firmly carried out the orders issued by the above.

"General, the spies from the front have come to report that the Yangwu Army's naval fleet has been found 10 miles away!"

Just as Song Ming was thinking about it, his deputy Zheng Dong came to his side and reported to him.

"Oh? But the fleet of the North Battalion of the Navy Division? How many people are there? ”

The North Battalion of the Naval Division of the Yangwu Army has been stationed in the northern part of the southern end of Zhongba Island, which is still more than 100 kilometers away from Gaoshikan, and I didn't expect to get the news so soon.

"Yes, general, it is the North Battalion of the Navy Division under the command of Yu Dayou, there are more than 160 large and small warships, and the number of soldiers should not be less than 6,000!" Zheng Dong said with a solemn expression.

Zheng Dong, who came from the Liaodong Frontier Army at the end of the Ming Dynasty, naturally heard of Yu Dayou's name, which was a famous anti-Japanese general with almost the same name as Qi Jiguang. The Che Battalion created by Yu Dayou played a great role in their battle with the Houjin.

Unexpectedly, after coming to this world, they would actually have a day of fighting with this famous general, Zheng Dong's heart couldn't help but feel a little complicated, both the excitement of looking forward to fighting him, and the worry and fear of the war.

"General, are we going to retreat immediately?"

Hearing this, a fine light flashed in Song Ming's eyes, and he fell into a short silence, while Zheng Dong on the side had a look of wanting to speak and stopped, and after hesitating for a while, he couldn't help but ask Song Ming out loud.

This time, although they nominally formed an alliance with the Liangshan army, due to the long-term fighting between the two armies, the officers and men in the army had already formed indissoluble grievances. In this battle, they were in a headwind position, and Zheng Dong didn't want to watch the soldiers under his command risk their lives for the 30,000 Liangshan troops who landed to go to the North Camp of the Water Division.

"No! Now when we still have these Liangshan troops, we will order the whole army to go out of the village to face the battle! ”

Zheng Dong's words woke up Song Ming, he raised his head and shook his head in rejection.

The task of the Liangshan Army was to attack Zhongba County, and the Kong Youde Army was to attack Jumei County.

Now they are facing the Yangwu Army, if the North Battalion of the Naval Division flees without a fight, the 30,000 Liangshan Army that has just landed will be cut off, and it is very likely that it will cause a rapid rout of the Liangshan Army. And once the Liangshan army is defeated, without the containment of the Liangshan army, the attention of the Yangwu army is likely to be shifted to the location of the Tibetan army that led the army to lurk in Shimen Town, and this result is not something they can afford.

Therefore, they can't retreat now, and as the general of the German Naval Division of Kong Youde, who started as a water division, Song Ming naturally has arrogance in his heart, and he also wants to see the gap between them and the Yangwu Army Naval Division that is rampant in the upper reaches of the Yangtze River.

"Yes!"

Zheng Dong also understood when he heard this, and quickly received the order.

"Knock knock~"

The drums of war sounded, and in the urging of the drums, the soldiers of the German Naval Division began to drive in rows along the bank of the river that had just been roughly built, forming a formation on the river, preparing to meet the invading North Camp of the Yangwu Army's Naval Division.

Time passed slowly, and when the army of sailors under Song Ming completed the assembly for more than a quarter of an hour, on the river in the distance, a formation with dense black dots slowly appeared in the sight of Song Ming and the others.

"My lord, we are about to arrive at the coast, and the enemy is ready, are you ready to attack?"

On the 5-storey huge ship, Yu Dayou and others stood quietly on the ship's floor, looking at Kong You's German Naval Division that had already completed the formation on the opposite side, and Ma Li, the deputy captain of the North Battalion of the Naval Division, asked in a loud voice.

"Storming? There is no need to spend this effort, about the situation of Kong Youde's water army, Jinyiwei has already collected a lot, it is indeed a hard bone to gnaw, for this battle, the lord has long anticipated, and has made corresponding preparations, those barrels carried on the ship are the key to the victory of our army! ”

Yu Dayou smiled lightly when he heard this, shook his head and said.

In fact, before the actions of the Liangshan Army and Kong Youde's army, Jinyiwei had already been aware of their actions.

With the continuous expansion of the commercial empire under the rule of the Yangwu Army, the merchants of the Yangwu Army have already penetrated almost the entire middle and upper reaches of the Yangtze River, and under the powerful money offensive, Jinyiwei can clearly grasp the marching dynamics of the major forces.

Therefore, Sima Yu has already made some arrangements for this battle.

However, all this was done quietly, and Yu Dayou only received these wooden barrels secretly sent by Jinyiwei before setting out on the expedition, as well as a letter from Sima Yu.

On the other side, Song Ming and others did not know anything about this, and in this war of complete asymmetry of information, the outcome of the war can be imagined.

"Pass the order, and the whole army will stand by!"

The corners of Yu Dayou's mouth hooked a cold arc, and he ordered the standard-bearer beside him.

On the battlefield, there is only you living and dying, and there is no mercy to speak of.

Yu Dayou could almost imagine the tragic scene of the enemy army after the tactics were launched.

"Whoa!"

The drums sounded, the flag waved, and the huge fleet of the Beiying Navy Division slowly stopped on the river.

"Command the vanguard, immediately execute the predetermined tactics!"

After the fleet stopped, Yu Dayou ordered again.

"Whoa!"

"General, what is the Yangwu Army Sailor on the other side doing?"

Looking at the 10 Beiying transport ships that sailed out of the brigade alone, Zheng Dong said to Song Ming suspiciously.

I saw that the 10 ships of the Beiying Navy Division sailed away alone and stopped 100 meters away from the fleet, and then the crew on the ship began to pour something into the river without stopping, and the personnel on both sides of the enemy were confused.

"No matter what tricks the other party has, who have we been afraid of in the Southern Wangfu Water Master! Command, sortie! ”

Song Ming was also puzzled by the strange behavior of the Yangwu Army, and the North Battalion of the Yangwu Army's Water Division, which went down the wind, did not take advantage of the situation to attack directly, such a big unconventional approach is not like the style of a generation of famous generals Yu Dayou.

Inevitably had an accident, Song Ming decisively issued the order to attack, and this order finally made the navy under his command lose the last chance to escape.

"Whoa!"

"Knock knock!"

The rousing drums sounded,

"Send the order, all ships speed up and line up to face the enemy 3 miles in front of the enemy's water village!" The corners of Yu Dayou's mouth hooked a cold arc, and he ordered.

On the battlefield, there is only you living and dying, and there is no mercy to speak of.

"Whoa!"

Densely packed, the ships of the Song and Ming Army's naval divisions began to dance their oars and rushed towards the Beiying fleet of the naval division.

The biting east wind slowly blew across the river, and a pungent smell could be smelled in the distance into the noses of the Song and Ming dynasties, and as the distance continued to approach, the floating river surface faintly emitted a colorful luster.

"What is this?"

Looking at the river glowing with colored oil, Song Ming frowned and said, faintly feeling that something was wrong in his heart.

Is this the means by which the army is raised?

Zheng Dong and the others around you, you look at me, I look at you, and they are all all puzzled.

"Attack!"

Just when Song Ming and the others were puzzled, in the Beiying fleet of the sailors opposite, seeing that almost half of Song Ming's sailors had entered the range of the colored river, Yu Dayou decisively gave the order to attack.

At this time, they were still more than 500 meters away from the fleet of the Song Ming Naval Division, and even the largest carrier-based catapults could not reach this range.

"Whew~"

"Whew~"

Huge boulders with flames rose into the air like huge fireballs, projecting away at the river in the distance.

"Haha, the Yangwu army on the opposite side is already stupid, and they started launching catapults so far away!"

"Haha, fools on the other side, come on! Uncle is here! ”

General Yangwu's actions in the North Battalion of the Water Division immediately amused the generals of the Water Division under Song Ming's command, and they leaned forward and fell back and laughed wildly.

"Bang!"

"Bang!"

Dozens of fireballs landed on the river 200 meters in front of the Song Ming Naval Division's fleet, splashing huge splashes one after another.

"Boom!"

The splash had not yet subsided, and in the loud ridicule of the officers and men of the Song Ming Naval Division, the surface of the river suddenly burst into flames, and the momentum was violent, and it quickly spread along the direction of the water towards the fleet of the Song Ming Naval Division.

"Not good! Evacuate! ”

Under the rapid firelight, Song Ming's face turned pale, and he immediately ordered loudly to the standard-bearers on the side.

Unfortunately, it was too late, but in a few breaths, the fire spread along the river to the fleet of the Song Ming Naval Division, and the oily hull burned along the way and burned along the bottom of the ship.

"Hurry up and put out the fire!"

"Fight the fire!"

The panicked Song Ming sailor generals hurriedly shouted loudly and took buckets to the burning hull, but they could not extinguish it at all.

"These are demon fires! Run! ”

"Demon Fire!"

This is the sailor soldiers, most of whom are ordinary people from the bottom of the society, seeing that these flames cannot be extinguished with water, and thinking that they are demonic fires from hell, they all panicked and became a mess.

"This !!"

In the distance, on the huge flagship of the Beiying Naval Division, Yu Dayou's deputy Ma Li looked at the Song Ming Naval Division, who was suddenly in a sea of fire in the distance, and his face was shocked.

This is the tactic arranged by the lord, it is really terrible!