The first battle that started in spring was actually a water war, and it was fought very loudly!

Danzhou of the Wu Zhou Dynasty (Tang), the city of Abadan, which was originally a big food country, experienced last year's bloody battle, the population was lost, but during the Spring Festival, it was like an old tree sprouting new sprouts and re-sprouting vitality. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

Danzhou is a good place, with a port, and a land of fish and rice, and the Tang people will never give up these places, using local women (the Tang people have no grace to force female slaves) and the tribes that have been transported, plus China's own farmers to farm, within a month after the beginning of spring, spring wheat is green all around the city of Danzhou, along with lush vegetable fields, showing a strong trend of revival.

The population is much smaller than before, but there are more fields than before, and the ability of Chinese to farm is the best in the world!

As thriving as the fields were the harbors, where people came and went, banging all day long, and the busyness was endless, disturbing the sleep of the nearby residents.

However, martial law is imposed near the port, and there is no way to know what is going on.

On the third day of March, a good day, the mystery was revealed, and everyone saw one steam ship after another come out, try sailing back and forth on the Shatt al-Arab, and sail straight out of the estuary.

These boats, with V-shaped hulls and paddle wheels on both sides to draw water, and chimneys on the hulls, are very fast.

Some of the ships had a small bridge, and some did not have a small bridge, and the hull was higher, and there were two layers of gun ports on the left and right sides of the ship, but they were blocked by wooden planks and did not fire their gun ports.

After a week's trial voyage, the fleet formed by this steamship fleet traveled up the river in search of the river fleet of the Great Food Country.

They consisted of forty-five without bridges, thirty-five with bridges, and twelve coal carriers with a long line of tows, making a total of ninety-two steamships.

The Admiral of the Two Rivers Water Division (the official name established) is called Liu Qifeng, who is from the family of Liu Renliang, the former left servant, and his reputation is not obvious, but he has a set of water fights.

Wei Xi's navy is based on the Dengzhou Navy Division and the Marine Corps, and there have been no celebrities, and people are afraid of water, and it is not the right way, so he can only choose the children of coastal fishermen to join the army.

For the major families to mobilize their children to join the army, they had to send a few children from the Jingzhaowei family, the Liu Fushu family, and the Yingzhou Li (Jinxing) family to help him.

Liu Qifeng was the son of the Liu family, and gradually rose to become the commander of the Lianghe Water Division, which was characterized by not being in a hurry or being bored in battle, and making good use of all means to attack the enemy.

If they want to launch a full-scale attack, they must annihilate the fleet of the big cannibals, otherwise they will block the army from crossing the river, or cut off the Tang army's grain route, and send troops ashore to attack and harass, which is not a beautiful thing.

So you have to take out the Great Cannibal Fleet first.

Where is the fleet of the Great Cannibals?

The Tang army knew very well that it was in the Raizazai Lake, a land of fish and rice, located in the middle of two rivers, with a river connecting it with the Euphrates.

The fleet of the Great Cannibals is not very strong, they are not very useful, they have a vast land area, the area controlled by the rivers is not large, and then again, there are hundreds of ships or the bottom of the Great Empire.

When the Tang fleet went to look for them, the big cannibals were still staying at Lake Raizzai.

What made the Tang army overjoyed was that there was no obstacle on the river passing through Laizazai Lake, and the big cannibals did not set up a gate, or even armed!

The fact is that the big cannibals are unconscious, and if they set up defenses, at least the Don fleet will not be unimpeded.

The Tang fleet smoothly passed through the estuary and the mouth of the lake and entered Lake Raizazai.

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The vast expanse of Raizazai Lake is a good place for water warfare, and it is a place where they are stationed, repaired, and trained compared to the naval base in the western part of the lake.

On the morning of March 6, the sun was shining.

The wind on the lake is still cold, and the glow is shining, setting off the murderous battlefield on the lake.

The president of the Great Cannibal's fleet led Montzir's sailors into five groups, each group of fifty ships, scattered in the northern waters, with the advantage of a smooth wind and water, to meet the invading Tang fleet.

Monzir was a distant relative of the caliphate, loyal to the caliph and had a certain ability for water warfare.

His flagship was three decks high, and the other ships numbered more than a hundred large ships with two or three decks, and more were medium-sized fast paddle ships, with a fleet of neatly formed and flags flying.

Seeing the smoke-puffing and sailless Tang Fleet approaching at a fairly fast speed (in the eyes of the Great Cannibal) in the distance, the Great Cannibal did not show surprise because he had received the notice in advance.

At the same time, for the tactics of the Tang people, many of them were nailed with iron armor or handguards near the waterline to strengthen the defense, resist the "angle of attack" attacks of the Tang ships, and avoid the danger of being hit and sunk.

The major cannibals were crowded on the boats, in case the Tang ships "built the bridge" and sent people to grab the boats.

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Monzier held a telescope and observed the approaching Tang ship.

For this battle, he is ready, if the Tang ship is capable of the waters of Abadan last time, then he is confident that he will defeat them, even if it is a steam ship!

There are many ships, as long as each ship does its best, it is not difficult to win.

An officer next to him proposed, "Commander, shall we set the ship on fire?" ”

In the battle of Chibi in the Three Kingdoms, Cao Cao's hundreds of thousands of sailors were attacked by the weak Wu army, and the result was defeated.

The Great Cannibal's fleet consisted of hundreds of small boats, filled with oil, which was a good way to burn the ship.

It has been smooth sailing, and the most important thing in the water war is the advantage of the upstream, maybe the boat can build a great achievement, and if the enemy's steamship is burned, everyone can be a blessing to God.

But Monzil thought for a moment and gave up this tempting idea, because he saw that the Don ships were nimble in maneuvering, not affected by currents and wind directions, and the dinghy could not burn them, and it would not be easy to pursue them in case they were scared away.

He gave a military order, and two groups of ships were activated, and they attacked the Tang ships in a pincer shape on the left and right.

In the sound of drums and drums, the forty ships of the Tang ship moved forward, and the flotilla behind slowed down, obviously the front forty ships went to break the enemy, the strange thing is that these forty ships did not carry small bridges, and there were not many soldiers on board, could it be that they were just fighting by the angle of attack?

The other party was prepared, and they couldn't sink their ship at all.

In the fleets of the enemy forces on both sides, sixty oar-scratching boats of the great cannibals were dispatched, and the long oars poked out of the holes on the side of the ships, and rowed into the water, finding clumps of waves, and the speed of the ships increased in vain, even comparable to that of the Tang boats.

There were also sails on the oar-scratching boat, using the current and wind power plus manpower, the speed was very fast, and the ship was full of warriors, and it was Montzil who spent a lot of effort to prepare the "gift" to the Tang people.

Standing on the flagship, Montzier watched with a smile, dreaming of victory.

And the Tang boats turned one after another, drew an arc, and turned the boat sideways towards the big food boat, the gun muzzle on the Tang boat opened, and the straight pipe guy with a black hole in the door was aimed at the big food boat.

"Boom!"

"Boom! Rumble! ”

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The loud noise shook the surface of the lake, and even more awakened Montzil's sweet dream!