The White Gate Tower is the south gate of Xiapi. This gate was built by Song Xianggong, one of the five tyrants of the Spring and Autumn Period, and this gatehouse was named because it was built with white stone.

Close to the White Gate Tower, is Surabaya. Whether it's from Surabaya upstream, or Yishui, or Shushui downstream, ships will arrive here. If it weren't for the fact that Sishang is mostly a small country and there are no big countries, such an important waterway hub status here in Xiapi will definitely be able to become a city comparable to Pengcheng and even Taoqiu! Even so, the vicinity of the White Gate Tower became more and more prosperous with the Sishang trade and even the more prosperous East China Sea trade!

The vicinity of Baimen Tower has also become a wharf area similar to that of Taoqiu Riverside District. Now, due to the outbreak of war, such an excellent dock area has also been unceremoniously requisitioned by Dai Yan!

Standing on the White Gate Tower, Dai Yan looked at the thousands of ships near the dock, and then carefully thought about the battle plan, Dai Yan couldn't help but have a kind of determination in his heart! Under his order, a large number of ships entered the state of readiness, and as long as he gave an order, they could directly fight the Chu army!

The Huaishui division of the Chu army that entered Surabaya from Huaishui and even Fuling Lake was very careful, and they overshadowed the Taoqiu Shui Division on Fuling Lake, so as to achieve such a great advantage and take the lead in the war. Now, they were also worried that Tao Qiu would recalculate, so they would send warships to carefully explore the way with each step forward.

They won't hit the road until the waterways in front of and behind them have been explored. After the Chu army completely entered Surabaya, the Taoqiu Water Division located in Xiapi still chose to stand still!

Although the Chu army didn't know what the Taoqiu Sailor wanted to do, if they adopted the method of non-resistance and let the Chu army enter Suishui perfectly, it would be the best!

Just when the Chu army continued to swim upstream, wanting to enter Suishui, the Taoqiu Sailor located in Xiapi finally moved! Under Dai Yan's order, the entire Taoqiu Naval Division was collectively dispatched and adopted the most direct combat method to rush downstream!

The Chu army did not understand the Taoqiu Sailors' approach: although the number of ships of the Chu army was still less than the number of Taoqiu Sailors, the number of warships owned by the Chu army could not be compared with the Taoqiu Sailors! If the Taoqiu Sailor took an ambush to deal with it in Surabaya, it might really cause a lot of trouble to the Huaishui Sailor, but now that they want to fight the Chu army head-on, how can the Chu army, which boasts of its superiority, be afraid?

The Huaishui Naval Division, directly adopting the method of frontal combat, with the flagship of the most powerful building ship in the entire naval division as the vanguard, the battleship as the protection, and the rear of the merchant ship, directly went upstream, and greeted the Taoqiu Naval Division that was coming!

On one of the main battleships of the Taoqiu Naval Division, Dai Yan looked at the Chu Army's Huaishui Naval Division that was attacking at full speed from afar, and the corners of his mouth couldn't help but sneer. He said to the herald beside him, "The Xuanniao Project will be activated immediately!" ”

When Dai Yan's order was given, the Taoqiu sailors who were advancing at full speed changed slightly. The naval warships that were at the forefront of the impact were all replaced by small ships made of merchant ships. These small boats pulled up their sails, turned their wooden wheels, and rushed towards the Chu fleet with unimaginable speed and resolute attitude!

The fleets of both sides were rapidly approaching, and the people standing on the ships also saw the appearance of their opponents clearly!

In Chu Jun's opinion, the opponent's approach is simply ridiculous! They have a building ship that can be called a giant on the water, and a battleship with strong combat effectiveness to play the striker, and these small boats on the opposite side rush over at such a speed, isn't this looking for death?

In such an instant, the romantic character of the Chu people played a role again, and the morale of the Chu army became extremely high! The ships and warships that came from the impact also became faster!

Seeing that the opponent was approaching faster and faster, the sailors on the merchant ship at the front of the Taoqiu fleet, maneuvering small boats to approach the Chu fleet, were not afraid of the opponent's tall fleet at all, but became more and more excited!

The speed of the two fleets was getting closer and closer, and when the distance between the two forwards was less than 100 zhang, the small boat of the Taoqiu sailor's forward suddenly sent out a crossbow arrow with a rope with a bed crossbow, nailing it to the opponent's building ship and battleship. Then, the sailors on the ship quickly stirred the winch of the rope, causing the boat to rush towards the building ship and the battleship at a faster speed!

"Suicide attacks?" The commander of the Huaishui Naval Division, who was standing on the ship of the Chu Military Tower, pondered. Although he doesn't understand why his opponent can't think like this, as long as these boats are close, he will definitely not release the water, but will use the most powerful slapstick to smash all these boats!

This thought of his still stayed in his mind, and then he saw the small boats that were rushing in, and they seemed to light up. Firelight?

At this time, behind these small boats, one by one the sampans began to be launched, and the sailors who had been operating the ships on the boats began to move to the sampans, and the last person to disembark would take a torch and throw it on the deck sprinkled with coal tar and whale oil!

These small boats, which rushed towards the Chu army fleet at an extremely fast speed, instantly turned into arson ships that burst into flames!

These arsonist ships rushed in front of the Chu ships, and immediately there was a violent collision, spilling more fuel from the deck, splashing it on the surface of the Surabaya water, and just like that, it burned on the water!

The arson boat that hit the Chu army's ships did not bounce off, but the other party's ships were tightly connected. Even if the sailors of the Chu army wanted to prop up the arson boat with oars and try to separate it, they would not be able to do it at all!

The commander of the Chu Army Sailor standing on the building boat looked dumbfounded, he never thought that the Taoqiu Sailor would use such vicious tactics!

Yes, it's vicious! The other party uses such tactics, obviously not wanting them to have a way to live! His heart couldn't help but be filled with fear!

It's not just the commander of the sailors who is filled with fear in his heart, but when the arson ship comes at him, any captain of the warship connected to it becomes extremely terrified! Because, they found that they had no way to deal with such a tactic!

When Dai Yan wanted to fight the Chu army in a water duel, he immediately hoped to find a successful example of annihilating the opponent from the entire history of later generations of China. In his opinion, the most widely used water warfare in China and even East Asia, large-scale water annihilation warfare, is undoubtedly fire attack tactics!

Not to mention the battle of Chibi, which everyone in later generations was familiar with and determined the pattern of the three parts of the world at the end of the Han Dynasty; At the end of the Yuan Dynasty and the beginning of the Ming Dynasty, Zhu Yuanzhang and Chen Youliang decided to conquer the battle of Poyang Lake, which was a typical example of using large-scale fire attack tactics to determine victory or defeat.

The Chinese used fire attack tactics not only in civil wars, but also against foreign enemies! At the end of the Ming Dynasty, the classic water battle of China's resistance to the Western colonizers - the Battle of Liaoluo Bay, as the main force of the Ming army, the Zheng pirate group also used arson ships on a large scale to fight a decisive battle with the Dutch colonists, and won the victory!

In Dai Yan's view, the Battle of Chibi is a perfect interpretation of the essence of fire attack tactics in water warfare! First of all, it is necessary to have a chain of iron cables to lock up Cao's ships; Subsequently, Zhou Yu was needed to fight Huang Gai and other bitter tactics, which made Cao Jun defenseless against the use of fire attack tactics by the Sun-Liu coalition army; In the end, Zhuge Liang also needs to borrow the east wind to put the Sun-Liu coalition army in the upper hand, so that the arson ship can directly rush into the opponent's formation with lightning speed, and burn the Cao army's fleet to the ground!

According to Dai Yan's understanding, the use of fire attack tactics on today's battlefield is three tricks. The purpose of the chain is actually to limit the battlefield and make the opponent's activity space smaller, in order to achieve this purpose, Dai Yan chose the Chu army fleet to enter such a not wide river as Surabaya before launching an attack!

The bitter meat trick makes the opponent defenseless, for today's Taoqiu, it is too easy! Before that, no one could have imagined that fire attack tactics could be used on the water! Such a tactic is undoubtedly a great innovation, Chu Jun couldn't think of it, how could they be on guard against it?

To take advantage of the east wind is to seize a dominant position in a water battle, and to let the speed of your own ship far exceed that of your opponent, so that when the arson ship approaches your opponent, the opponent does not have the slightest time to react! During the Battle of Chibi, the Sun-Liu coalition army was located on the south bank of the Great River, located downstream, which was itself in a disadvantageous position, and naturally needed to "borrow the east wind". However, in today's water war, Taoqiu Sailor is located in the upper reaches of Surabaya, and is naturally in an advantageous position, so there is no need to "borrow the east wind" at all!

It can be said that the moment the Chu army's sailors entered Surabaya, they could hardly avoid Taoqiu's fire attack!

And Taoqiu uses fire attack tactics, and also has a fuel advantage that the victors of the Battle of Chibi and even the Battle of Poyang Lake do not have - liquid fuel composed of coal tar and whale oil!

The coking industry, and even the whaling industry, was originally one of the pillar industries of Taoqiu. Even though the Xiangyi industrial area has now been occupied by the Chu army, how can the amount of coal tar that Taoqiu have hoarded in the past few years be in the minority? Whale oil can almost turn Taoqiu into a city that never sleeps, so how could it be that it didn't stock up on the fuel needed for a fire attack?

Liquid fuels such as coal tar and whale oil play a huge role in water warfare. Not to mention that the wooden barrels full of oil were ignited and burst into flames, igniting the Chu warships one after another. Even the fuel that was spilled on the water was still burning in the flames!

Starting from the arson boat, it goes down for several miles, thus forming a spectacular "river of fire"! The ships located in it were set on fire one by one, including the flagship of the Chu Army's naval division, and even most of the warships!

In this river of fire, whether you jump into the water to escape for your life, or want to surrender, there is no way out! Where this river of fire is located, there is a Jedi who will die!

Dai Yan, who was standing on the main battleship of Taoqiu, also felt a little guilty when he saw such a cruel tactic of fire attack. But soon, he began to adjust his mentality! What is war? It's a fight to the death! In the face of such a brutal fight, any mercy is weak! Burning so many people, and only now to sympathize with the opponent, don't let this crocodile tears go!

Seeing that the flagship of the Chu army's building ships was burned to the ground, and the spreading fire began to become weaker, Dai Yan took all the main warships of Taoqiu and attacked the remnants of the Chu army at full speed, and even the merchant ships that followed and transported grain and grass!

With the advantages of being located upstream, using sails, and even having wooden wheels, the speed of the Taoqiu sailor is finally vividly displayed! And in the melee attack, these remaining opponents lost their dominance and became a plate of loose sand, no different from the water bandits that Taoqiu once fought!

After their main forces were burned to the ground, their morale was even weaker than that of the water bandits! The neatness of morale caused a low combat effectiveness, and under the capture of the main battleship of Taoqiu, only a few Chu warships, and even dozens of merchant ships, were able to escape!

The entire Huaishui Naval Division was almost completely annihilated! The Taoqiu Sailor has won a complete victory, and occupies an absolute water advantage in Surabaya and even in the inland rivers of the Song Kingdom!

The dominance of the war is once again in the hands of Tao Qiu!