Cheng Chumo and Liu Renliang briefly discussed, thinking that there were too many enemies, and the Tang army should be concentrated as much as possible to avoid being divided and annihilated by the enemy.

Liu Renliang was responsible for commanding the warships that had already arrived at the battlefield, taking a defensive position, forming a horizontal line to meet the enemy, blocking the enemy's onslaught, and buying time for the follow-up troops to arrive.

Cheng Chumo was responsible for directing the assembly of follow-up troops.

Liu Renliang, Xue Rengui and Qin Huaidao got off the flagship and took a yacht to carry out their respective tasks.

Liu Renliang went to the front to command, Xue Rengui couldn't interfere with their command, he had nothing to do, so he followed Liu Renliang to the front line to fight.

Except for the flagship, the remaining 22 warships of the 23 ships with artillery in the Tang Army did not rank in front of the marching army because of training along the way. Qin Huaidao was on his way to this fleet.

King Tianzhi came prepared, he had already divided his troops into two teams, one to attack the Tang army head-on, and the other to penetrate directly into the middle of the Tang army's marching brigade.

The battle began.

The Tang army centered on a building ship in the vanguard and quickly spread out to both sides. The Unu had already prepared, and their movements were fast, and when the formation of the Tang army had not yet been formed, the warships that rushed to the front had already entered the range of bows and arrows.

Liu Renliang and Xue Rengui boarded a building ship and immediately raised the flag as a temporary command ship.

After their observation, they found that at this time, there were less than 20 warships at the front of the Tang army's formation, and it was almost impossible to resist hundreds of Japanese warships.

They saw that there was a big gap between the two warships, and the warships behind had not yet caught up, so they simply commanded their own ship to sail over.

The battlefield situation at this time, if you look down from the air, you can see that the fleet of the Tang Army is like a thin long snake. The Japanese slaves were like a huge pair of scissors, aiming at the head and the middle section of the Tang army.

The two sides began to exchange fire, and the long-range weapons of naval warfare at this time were mainly bows and crossbows and stone throwers, which did not cause much damage to the other side. The main form of combat is still close to hand-to-hand combat.

Xue Rengui held a bow and arrows and fought with the soldiers of the Tang Army, and his arrows were not in vain, winning a round of applause from the soldiers.

Among the weapons equipped by the Tang Army, there were also fire oil bombs, due to the poor accuracy of the stone thrower, and the number of Japanese warships, although some of the Japanese warships were burned, but they could not stop their approach.

The soldiers were full of confidence in the power of the Molotov cocktails, they held the Molotov cocktails, and when the Japanese warship was only a dozen meters away, they lit the oilcloth on the mouth of the bottle and threw it towards the Japanese warship.

That's when the unexpected happened.

Most of the Molotov cocktails thrown by the Don soldiers fell into the sea. When they looked closely, they found that the Unu had set up fishing nets in the bow of the boat, and Molotov cocktails were thrown on them, most of which were bounced off and fell into the sea.

Some Molotov cocktails fell onto the ship, but there was a net on the ground, and the Molotov cocktails fell intact. The Unos picked it up and threw it back.

It turned out that the Unu had already studied the operational characteristics of the Tang army and were prepared in advance.

Just when the Tang army was depressed, the Japanese slaves had already leaned in and engaged in hand-to-hand combat.

Xue Rengui grabbed a Mo knife and slashed at a Japanese slave soldier.

The Uno king Tenchi was well prepared for this naval battle. The ships of the Tang army were tall, and there were weapons such as fire oil bombs and Molotov cocktails, which he had also prepared in advance.

His tactic was to first cut off the fleet of the Tang Army into two parts, and then attack centripetally, continue to divide the Tang Army, and use his superiority in strength to break the Tang Army individually.

After the start of the war, the situation on the battlefield basically developed according to Tianzhi's expectations. The Unu succeeded in dividing the Tang army into several sections.

King Tenchi was full of confidence in victory when he saw his huge fleet that covered the sky and the sun.

The warship where Liu Renliang and Xue Rengui were located was surrounded by four warships of the Japanese slaves, and the Japanese were desperately climbing up. Thanks to the tall ships, the Tang army was condescending and barely stopped the attack of the Japanese slaves.

Liu Renliang commanded the warships to fight and retreat, bringing the Tang warships together as close as possible.

Cheng Chumo's situation was similar, and he and some of the Tang army's warships were also encircled by the Unus.

Besides, Qin Huaidao rushed to the gunboat fleet of the Tang Army before the division of the Unu people. He lined up 22 gunboats in three columns, each about 200 meters apart, and advanced in parallel. This made it possible to give full play to the gunboat's broadside fire.

It was the first time that the gunners had used artillery in real combat, and they were inevitably a little nervous. One of the gunboats, at the forefront of the column on the far right, approached the enemy first.

The other side is a two-masted Haiqiu warship, 14 zhang long, which can carry 220 soldiers, and is one of the main warships of the Unu people.

The captain of the gunner on the gunboat of the Tang Army, for the sake of safety, did not give the order to open the gun, and did not give the order to open fire until the enemy ship was 30 meters away from the Tang Army.

One cannon in the bow and six guns on the side opened fire at the same time, and at such a close distance, they all hit the enemy ship without any precise aiming.

Six shells hit near the draft of the enemy ship, and six large holes were made directly in it. A shell missed, hitting a pair of masts, directly breaking the mast in two.

The enemy ship was turbulent in the wind and waves, and the breach continued to enter the water, and then began to tilt, and then sank.

The officers and men of the Tang Army cheered, and then began to aim at the next enemy ship, this time a smaller warship, and the Tang Army directly broke up the enemy ship with a row of shells.

In less than 20 minutes, the Tang army sank more than 30 enemy ships. The rest of the enemy ships, seeing that the Don army had such terrifying weapons, were all stunned. Most of the enemy ships turned their bows and fled.

Qin Huaidao led the gunboats to open the way in front, and the other ships of the Tang Army followed behind them. The way through is unstoppable.

They continued to rescue ships surrounded by the enemy, and the fleet behind them grew larger.

The Japanese slave king Tianzhi had also heard before that the Tang army had cannons, but he did not expect that the Tang army had already placed the cannons on the warship.

At this moment, Tianzhi saw from a distance that one of his largest warships was destroyed in the face of the Tang Army's gunboats.

Tianzhi wanted to cry without tears, knowing that this battle could not be fought, he reluctantly sent a signal to retreat.

This sudden naval battle ended, the Tang army suffered heavy losses, 172 warships were sunk, and more than 2,700 soldiers were killed.

The losses of the U.S. navy were even greater, with 619 warships sunk and more than 8,000 soldiers killed.

This is not the most important thing, after this brutal naval battle, the navy cobbled together by the Japanese slave state, many states have lost confidence, and they have returned to their own territory. From then on, the Uno navy basically posed no threat to the Tang Dynasty.

This naval battle tempered the navy of the Tang Dynasty, and Cheng Chumo and others also grew up rapidly.