The Yuan army fleet was moving fast on the river, and Zhang Hongfan, who was sitting on the tower of the Chinese army ship, kept his eyes on the river, and somehow, from the very beginning, he sensed that something seemed to be wrong.

He had always believed in this instinct he had cultivated on the battlefield. This instinct to foresee danger saved his life more than once.

The Yuan fleet traveled for about half an hour, and the Song army appeared.

The scout's report is very accurate, the Song army did only have more than 200 warships, and there were not many sea ships, most of them were light boats such as water sentry horse boats, Zhang Hongfan knew that the Song army should have learned the lesson of several fiascos, and no longer used the kind of huge, bulky and windless sea ships on the river, but also fought with the Yuan army, with flexible and light multi-oared light boats.

The Song fleet soon spotted the Yuan warships, but the Song army did not charge the Yuan army with great fanfare as the navy led by Zhang Shun and Zhang Gui last time, but launched a long-distance attack with artillery carts (stone throwers) and crossbows from a distance, and the Yuan army immediately used the same means to fight back.

Pieces of boulders and burning fireballs flew over, and fell straight into the Yuan army fleet, probably because the boats on the river were unstable due to the unstable driving, most of the boulders and fireballs from the Song army did not hit, but the fireballs fell on the river surface and scattered, and all the ignitions soaked in fire oil were burned on the river surface, and the Yuan army warships in the middle had to start to avoid, and the originally neat formation became a little scattered.

However, the officers and men of the Yuan army were already familiar with the tactics of the Song people, and the warships in the vanguard began to speed up in order to shorten the distance with the Song army's fleet.

The gunners of the Yuan army fired on the same head as higher than the Song army, and the two sides fired several rounds in succession, only five or six warships of the Yuan army were hit by fireballs and caught fire, while the Song warships were hit by more than ten ships, and when they saw the Yuan army's forward rushing over, the Song army was obviously timid, and immediately divided into two teams, turned their heads and retreated to both sides, making way of the wide waterway ahead.

Zhang Hongfan stood up, and at this time he could clearly see the pontoon bridge across the river.

Wait a minute! Wrong! How could this pontoon bridge be different from the last time he saw it?

How does it look like ...... What about the wooden boats that "grow" out of the river?

What surprised him even more was that the pontoon bridge was covered with green vines!

Zhang Hongfan was surprised, but saw a gray strange ship without mast and oars on the river, which was quickly heading towards the Yuan army fleet.

The Yuan warship at the front of the array found this strange ship, although there were no weapons on board, and no one could be seen, but the Yuan warship still launched an attack on it, at this time the two sides were already close, and the sailors on the Yuan warship did not fire cannon stones, but used bed crossbows and rockets to shoot at the strange ship. For a while, the large and small arrows shot from the warship of the Yuan army rained down on the strange ship.

To the surprise of the soldiers of the Yuan army, the arrows they shot hit this strange boat, but they did not penetrate the ship's plank, but fell into the river one after another!

Zhang Hongfan was secretly frightened, at this time, the strange ship did not slow down, but rushed straight towards a Yuan army warship, the Yuan army warship collided with it head-on, and the bow of the ship immediately shattered as if it was avoided by a sharp axe.

Seeing the cold metallic light flashing on the bow of the strange ship in the sunlight, Zhang Hongfan suddenly understood and couldn't help but be surprised.

Could it be that the ship was made of iron?

The strange ship rushed over unceremoniously, directly cutting the Yuan warship in half, and the soldiers on the surrounding Yuan warships threw fireballs and rockets at it one after another, but all of them bounced off it, and many fireballs exploded on it, but they still couldn't hurt it in the slightest.

"It's unbelievable that the southerners actually built an iron boat to come out." Zhang Hongfan's guard Liu Ying, the young archer, also saw the abnormality and couldn't help frowning.

"It must be a tin boat." Another dead soldier, Wei Ansheng, said even the man with the hammer, "It can't be made of pure iron, not to mention where so much iron comes from, the iron is heavy, and the shape of the ship can't float, it can't be so light." ”

"I'll see if it's cast in iron." Liu Ying said, jumped out of the ship, came to the bow of the ship, turned a bed crossbow set up there, and faced the strange ship.

"Be careful not to hurt your own people." Zhang Hongfan couldn't help but remind him. At this time, the strange ship crashed into a Yuan army warship, but it was surrounded by a number of Yuan army warships, Zhang Hongfan was worried that Liu Ying would block the Yuan army warship when he fired an arrow, and he would not succeed in hitting the enemy but hurt his own people.

"The general is relieved." Liu Ying responded, loaded the bed crossbow with a pure steel long arrow, he finished loading the arrow, moved the crossbow body with both arms, and began to aim.

The strange ship was rampage among the Yuan warships at this time, its bow was very sharp, not to mention, there were rhino horn-like angles under the water, all the Yuan warships hit by it were either shattered, or quickly sank, and after a while, there were already more than a dozen Yuan warships or destroyed or sunk, and the river was full of broken hulls and wailing people.

Liu Ying turned a blind eye to the tragic situation on the river, his eyes fixed on the strange ship. Soon, the surrounding Yuan army warships understood the power of the strange ship, and they retreated one after another, making way for the gap.

Liu Ying swung the wooden hammer violently, smashed the trigger of the bed crossbow, and the pure steel long arrow more than one person long passed through the narrow gap between several Yuan army warships, flew straight towards the strange ship, and hit the hull of the strange ship.

Zhang Hongfan stood up violently.

He saw that the steel arrow had actually stuck into the hull of the strange ship, but only the arrow was submerged into the hull, and the long shaft of the arrow was still exposed, trembling slightly, and did not shoot through the strange ship as he had imagined.

Seeing this scene, Liu Ying's face also changed color.

This shows that this strange ship is really made of iron.

Then something shocked him even more, he saw that the steel arrow inserted in the body of the strange ship seemed to be twisted by some force, and instantly bent and stuck to the body of the strange ship, and then it seemed to melt, and it quickly melted into the strange ship, and disappeared without a trace!

"Blame! Do mischief! Zhang Hongfan couldn't help but scream.

At this moment, the strange ship seemed to know that the steel arrow had just been shot from Zhang Hongfan's ship, and it suddenly turned its bow and rushed towards Zhang Hongfan's warship.

Zhang Hongfan's ship is the command ship of the entire fleet, located in the middle of the ship array, the strange ship rushed into the Yuan army ship formation, it broke through from the position of the left flank, there are still more than ten Yuan army warships between the strange ship and Zhang Hongfan's ship, but the strange ship is regarded as nothing, so it rushed over.