Since the Song army occupied Guangling City, the Song army's naval division began to enter Guangling. At this time, outside Guangling City, on the water near the Great River, there were wharves built by the Song Army's sailors, which were full of large and small boats.

Fighting a water battle on a large river is not the same as fighting a water battle in Huaishui or even Sheyang Lake. The water surface of the lower reaches of the river is extremely wide, and the water battles fought here are not so much water battles as inland river battles, but are actually similar to naval battles.

Even the Song Army's naval divisions, which had been rampaging in the north for many years, exterminating all kinds of water bandits, had extremely rich combat experience, and once they came to the vast river in the south, they were not used to conducting water battles in such a vast area. In such a place, not to mention anything else, just the stable and calm water surface in the north, there is no such thing as a great river!

Compared with the waters in the north, not only is the wind and waves high on the surface of the river, but even the situation under the waters, the Song army is also dark. Although the Song army had the upper hand in the battle with the Chu army's Yangtze River water division, the Song army's failures were all because the Song army did not understand the geography of the Yangtze River waters, and was ambushed by the Chu army.

The Yangtze River Naval Division of the Chu Army, although in terms of the performance of ships and equipment, was inferior to the Song Army's Naval Division. However, after all, the Chu army had been here for ten years, and had figured out the situation in the nearby waters, so it could be said that it was a home battle. Although the Song army had the upper hand at some levels, it was never able to completely defeat the Chu army's naval division, which made the Song army commander anxious!

After all, the combat style of the Song army is the way of advancing by land and water, and only before the water has a dominant position, the infantry of the Song army can follow up with peace of mind, and the logistics of the Song army are also endless. As long as the logistics can be guaranteed, the Song State relies on its own wealth, which is consumption, and it can also consume the Chu State, which is already in crisis!

Tang Ying, who originally commanded the Song army, was still quite confident in Wu Ying, who was sent to Wu by sea, but now Wu Ying only sent a few messages back, but there has been no news so far, which makes Tang Ying unable to wait any longer. And in his opinion, with the strong strength of the Song army and the strong deterrent power of the three cities, as long as the Song army is willing to make up its mind, it will definitely be able to take all the Jiangnan in one go!

According to the records of many battles between the Song army and the Chu army, the Song army has clearly known the strength of the water division near Yunyang, as long as the Song army invests a large number of troops to surround Yunyang at one time, it will definitely be able to defeat the Chu army's water division!

On the river outside Guangling City, the Song army's sailors began to pour out, and with the assistance of countless East China Sea noble rangers, the Song army began to attack the sailor camp on the Yunyang River on the other side of Guangling.

In the face of the attack of the Song army, except for a few Chu ships that left the camp and came to the river to reconnoitre, most of the fleet of the Chu army did not make any moves, but silently docked in the camp.

For such a situation, the Song army was a little puzzled: didn't the Chu army know that if it didn't resist in the camp of the water division like this, it would be easy to be surrounded by the Song army's water division and then the whole army would be annihilated? Faced with such a strange scene, the generals who commanded the naval division on the front line did not dare to make decisions on their own, and immediately reported to the rear.

As a general who doesn't understand water warfare, in Tang Ying's view, the Chu army's approach is actually just cowardice! Just when he wanted to give the order to attack directly, Le Yi, the chief of staff who was helping the counselor's military aircraft, stopped his behavior.

"Tang Shuai, we have been fighting with the Chu army more than once, do you think the Chu army's sailors will be the kind of person who surrenders without a fight and likes to be a turtle with a shrunken head?" Le Yi asked.

Hearing Le Yi's question, Tang Ying was also a little silent, and then said: "Although we have captured three Chu army cities one after another, the Chu army is not a person who does not dare to fight. However, now that the battle situation on the other side of the river has been clearly investigated, our army is now in absolute upper hand, so we should seize this opportunity to defeat the Chu army's naval division in one fell swoop! ”

Le Yi smiled indifferently, and then said: "Tang Shuai, the situation on the battlefield, who dares to say that it can be completely investigated?" You must know that our real opponent is Zhao Slip, who is in the position of the pillar of the Chu State. In the previous battle between the lord and Zhao Slip, Tang Shuai also participated, Tang Shuai thinks that Zhao Slip is an easy person to deal with? ”

Tang Ying was silent. Then he asked, "What does Chief of Staff Yile mean, what should we do now?" ”

Le Yi took out a plan, handed it to Tang Ying, and then said to him: "Tang Shuai, this is all kinds of actions that the staff and other staff departments guess the Chu army may do, we think that the war with the Chu army now, it is not advisable to be impatient, even if it is necessary to forcibly advance the progress of the war, it must also ensure that most of the army will not be threatened." Now that the Chu army led by Zhao Hua has not moved, no matter what, our army will have to divide at least half of the army to deal with the possible attack of the Chu army! ”

After listening to Le Yi's words, Tang Ying only thought about it a little and agreed. After all, with the Song army occupying an absolutely dominant position now, even if the Song army's naval division is only half dispatched, the strength is above the Chu army, and it is more than enough to beat the Chu army!

Therefore, under Tang Ying's order, half of the Song Army's naval division came out to guard, and the remaining half of the troops began to attack rapidly! Tang Ying and Le Yi would not have thought that it was precisely because of their cautious move that the Song Army Sailor avoided extremely tragic losses!

The warships of the Song Army's naval division were moored outside the Chu army's naval division camp in several columns, and the arrows sent out from the boats began to attack the Chu army's camp like flying locusts, immediately causing the Chu ships patrolling the river to flee in embarrassment!

Subsequently, the Song army immediately took advantage of the situation to pursue and began to chase outside the camp of the Chu army's water division. It was only at this time that the Chu warships docked in the camp of the sailors began to start and slowly sailed out of the camp.

Such a "coquettish" move made Song Junshui happy for a while. The Chu army was so unbearable! The Song soldiers had this disdain in their hearts, and their attack on the Chu army was even more rapid!

However, the Chu Army's sailors still started at a slow speed as if they didn't realize it, and they didn't fight back at the Song Army's moves!

Such a move made the captains of the sailors who were in command on the front line stunned, but then they were overjoyed and increased the intensity of the attack! Arrows, bed crossbows, and even ballistas and other long-range weapons all attacked the Chu army's sailors as if they didn't want money, and in this chaotic attack, there were immediately deeds of the Chu army's ships being damaged or even sunk!

Such a scene made the Song Junshui even more excited. Some impatient captains began to directly control the Mengchong battleship, arrived in front of the Chu army's sailors, and used melee weapons such as slapsticks to attack the Chu army's sailors!

And just as the naval divisions of the Song and Chu sides were on the surface of the Yunyang River, showing a one-sided water battle situation, in the upper reaches of the river, there were countless Chu naval divisions and warships speeding towards like a gale!

These Chu warships, unlike the Chu Army Naval Division near Yunyang, are huge in size, and they are powerful battleships at first glance! And such a huge warship, sailing smoothly on the river, its speed is no slower than that of the Song army's water steamers!

And behind these giant battleships, there are countless small ships, these small ships are small, but they are all ships with sails, and the speed is not in the slightest below those giant warships!

Such a fleet, in terms of numbers, although it is not as good as the number of ships in the Song Army's naval division and the East China Sea, but the total number of them is not much different! And as soon as this fleet arrived near the waters of Yunyang, where the battle was fighting, it immediately began to move!

They quickly stopped the large battleship, and let the small sailboat that followed behind them continue to sail, heading straight for the Song army's sailors who were attacking the Chu army's camp!

As soon as this fleet of Chu naval divisions appeared, it was immediately discovered by the reconnaissance ships of the Song army and warned the Song army. However, at this time, although half of the Song army's sailors were on guard, they immediately prepared to engage the Chu army's sailors, but the other sailors who were attacking had no time to react!

The sailboat of the Chu army was less than three hundred meters away from the Song fleet, and at this time, from the bow of the sail fleet of the Chu army, rows of eye-catching spikes suddenly appeared! Did these Chu army sailboats intend to defeat the Song army's sailors through such a suicidal attack?

No kidding! All the sailors of the Song army have such thoughts in their hearts, how good the quality of the sailors' ships is, the soldiers who accompany these ships day and night are very clear! Even if the spikes at the front end of the Chu army's sail ship were all made of steel, it would be impossible to destroy the Song army's ships in one go!

However, then, something happened that frightened all the Song army sailors: from those Chu army sailboats that came from the impact, a fire suddenly lit up! This firelight was only a trace at first, and then it spread to all the Chu warships that rushed forward at once!

They rushed towards the Song Army's naval fleet that was attacking the Chu Army's naval division camp at a rapid speed, and the ships of both sides immediately fit together, and then, the ships of both sides were tightly pressed together by the spikes at the front of the Chu army's ships, and the entire fleet was ignited by the Chu army!

In addition to the fire of the ships of the Song and Chu sides, on the river, there were all kinds of wooden barrels that fell from the ships of the Chu army. These barrels ignited flames, and when they rolled down to the surface of the river, they immediately scattered in all directions, and whale oil spilled from them, igniting the entire battlefield on the river!

The battleships in the Chu army's camp took advantage of this opportunity to rush out of the camp and launched an attack on the Song warships that were on fire.

At this time, the main force of the Chu Army's naval division, which had been moored outside the battlefield, once again relied on its advantage of smooth wind and water, and began to move, attacking the defeated army of the Song army downstream!

The person standing on the bow of the Chu Army's naval division, his figure is burly, with only one hand, it is the commander of the Chu Army in Jiangnan, Zhao Slip! He looked at the ignited Song warship and said to the surrounding Chu army generals: "The Song army defeated our army with fire attack during the water battle at Fuling Lake. ”