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Guo Wei and the others in the military discussion received the report, quickly boarded the ship, and stood on the top deck to look in the direction of the Yujiang estuary.

The rivers and seas are vast.

Fortunately, the weather is good, it is the time when the autumn is high and cool, and the late autumn and cold winter in the south do not come so early, and the generals have a broad field of vision and can see the blue sea and blue sky.

The blue sea and blue sky intersect on the first line, and there are Lingnan sailors on the first line, with dense ships and ships, and mirages appear between the sea and the sky, attacking the Tang Army sailors.

"How many ships are there in the thief army?" The sea breeze greeted, Guo Wei asked in a deep voice.

"I don't know." The military envoy replied that the Lingnan Navy Division had just emerged, and only saw all kinds of ships of different sizes, scattered, far away and immense, and it was indeed impossible to find out the truth at once.

"Command the ministries to prepare for battle!" Guo Wei arrogantly ordered that when the enemy army attacked, Wang Shi naturally had no reason not to fight.

"The ship and the fighting ship come forward, the building ship is in the center, and the boat is in place!"

"Troop carriers and baggage ships stay put, take precautions!"

"100 fighting ships, cruising on both wings!"

With the issuance of a military order, the huge order flag was waved continuously on the building ship that was more than ten feet high. In the sailors, the building ships are arranged in all directions, just like the corner towers and city towers on the city wall, and after the command flag of the command ship is waved, the building ships immediately wave the order flag, and the military order is conveyed to the four directions.

In dozens of miles of bay, there are more than 4,000 Wang Shilou ships, which are arranged and gathered together in a certain way, and the scale has long exceeded that of ordinary big cities. The ships and pavilions are clearly layered, the masts are numerous, and the distance between the ships is moderate, the big ones are as quiet as ancient giant beasts, and the small ones are swimming around, like a school of fish soaring.

The group of sailors and ships is like a tall and lush ancient forest at this time.

When the military order was issued, the boats first scattered in all directions, each rowing a wave, or rushing to the ocean, or clinging to the back of the ship, like a flock of birds in the forest and scattered in all directions. After that, it was the majestic backbone that broke away from the original forest and rode the wind and waves. They were scattered at first, but after traveling a certain distance, they formed a formation, swallowing mountains and rivers.

The waves on the sea surface are continuous, colliding and merging with each other, and the water ripples bloom like peony flowers.

In the end, the behemoth ship slowly started, like the king of beasts in the forest, appearing unhurriedly after the beasts attacked, hugging back and forth, and sailing steadily towards the sea.

"The thieves are coming so fast!" Commanding the boat, Li Yanqing pointed to the Lingnan Naval Division, his face changed slightly, "Sail away, he is a tailwind, take advantage of the wind, and drive like flying!" ”

Guo Wei's face was solemn, and he ordered again: "Order all boats not to sail and paddle!" Ship a thousand miles away, hurry forward! ”

In summer and autumn, the southwest monsoon prevails on the Lingnan coast, and the Lingnan sailor goes north from the Yujiang estuary, which is a tailwind, and the king goes south from the harbor to meet the enemy, which is a headwind.

"Thief Army Sailor, this time you are prepared!" Li Yanchao is not very proficient in water warfare, but he always knows the impact of the wind on water warfare, and now seeing that the other party is in a tailwind position, he naturally knows that his own situation is unfavorable.

"The thieves are prepared, and what can they do with my king?" Guo Wei snorted coldly, facing the vast ocean, he was open-minded.

On both sides of the cowhide wrapper, the planks were pulled up, revealing several layers of densely arranged square holes, from which long pulp sticks out. The wood pulp paddled the surface of the water, moving neatly, urging the battleship to move forward quickly.

On the deck and on both sides of the ship, the armor soldiers stood solemnly, holding guns and bows, and their bearings were awe-inspiring. A powerful crossbow was carried to the deck, bundles of arrows were stacked next to the crossbow, and wooden boxes were neatly arranged.

The battleship is the fortress, and the side of the ship is the women's wall.

On the ship, the tarpaulin was torn open by the soldiers, revealing a hideous-looking bed crossbow. These dozens of feet long ships are even equipped with artillery, and the gunners are twisting the trigger to adjust the guns to a state ready for fire.

The Datang Naval Division, ready to go, is ushering in the first real naval battle after its formation.

The two sailors drove opposite each other, and finally met on the sea, and the strikers both entered the range of attack in the other place.

With a shout of order, the armor soldiers on the ship either hid behind the female wall or hid in the cabin, while the crossbowmen drew their bows and arrows, and shot their sharp arrows into the air in a neat movement, flying towards the enemy ship.

Enemy arrows fell, clanging on the hull of the ship, and the sound was crisp or dull, shaking the heartstrings. Many arrows either missed the ship, or skimmed the ship, hit the surface of the sea, and sank into the water.

The Lingnan sailors came with the wind, and the arrows were all borrowed by the wind, so the power increased greatly, on the other hand, on the side of the Tang army, although the strong bow and crossbow, but the power was greatly reduced when shooting against the wind. Fortunately, the Tang army has countless strong bows and crossbows, both in quantity and quality, they are far higher than the Lingnan Naval Division, and the two armies can fight to a draw.

But soon, on the ships of the Lingnan Navy Division, they began to throw sand grains downwind, fascinating the eyes of the Tang soldiers, and throwing beans, making the Tang soldiers untenable. The Lingnan sailors came prepared, and prepared a lot of sand and beans, which suddenly caused the officers and soldiers of the Tang Army to suffer a great blow.

"Lottery, lottery, fast, fast approach the thief ship!" The generals and colonels in the Tang Army's naval division shouted orders and urged the warships to move forward.

The two sailors rushed forward noisily, each interspersed into the other's military formation.

And when the artillery on the ships of the Tang Army's naval division began to wield, the situation on the scene immediately changed. A huge fireball, carrying a thunderous momentum, even if it is smashed into the water, it is enough to cause extraordinary movements and stir up huge waves, not to mention falling on the ship of the Lingnan Naval Division?

The mast sail will break when it encounters, the wall of the ship's side will crack when it encounters, and the deck cabin will smash out a big crater, and in the rumbling explosion, the fireball will burst out countless high-speed flying iron blocks, coupled with the sawdust of the planks flying sideways, the officers and men on the ship of the Lingnan Navy Division will immediately suffer unspeakably and suffer heavy casualties.

What's even more terrifying is that after the fireball detonates, it burns the ship, causing flames everywhere on the ship, making the Lingnan Navy soldiers tired of extinguishing the fire, which is exposed to the strong bow and crossbow of the Tang army.

However, the Tang Junlou ship was in motion, and the accuracy of the artillery was not large, and the fireball that fell on the sea was several times that of the Lingnan Navy Division's ship, which made the Lingnan Navy Division be defeated without looking at it.

As the battle progressed, the ships of the two armies quickly approached, and the officers and men of both sides were also preparing to start the battle for ships, and one by one the armor soldiers were ready to go.

Braving the rain of arrows, ropes with huge iron hooks were pulled out, thrown from the hands of the soldiers to the opponent's ship, hooked the opponent's side and pulled it to his side. When the distance between the two ships was close, countless hooks and sickles poked out, risking the rolling logs smashed down by the top of the opponent's ship, and hooked the opponent's side of the ship, so that the opponent's ship could not escape.

At this time, the officers and men of the Tang Army were deeply affected by the blows of the wind and sand and beans thrown by the Lingnan Naval Division, and the combat strength of many soldiers was greatly reduced, and the soldiers who fell on the deck abounded, and there were countless soldiers who rubbed their eyes with their heads covered.

However, this is the time when the Tang Army's naval division really exerts its combat power.

On the deck, a box of hand-grenades was opened, and soon distributed to the officers and men of the Tang Army, and one torch after another was lit and passed to the hands of the soldiers, who twisted the bottom cover of the hand-grenades, took out the fuses, lit them on the torches, and then threw them into the ships of the Lingnan Navy Division in no particular order.

The Lingnan sailors threw sand and beans for a long time, and seeing that the Tang army was in chaos, he thought that it was the time to show his strength, but when the two boats were on the ground, he rushed into the other party's boat and slaughtered the Tang army one by one.

Unexpectedly, just as they rushed to the deck, countless grenades fell from the air and exploded beside them, and this thunderous movement and thunderous lethality immediately made the Lingnan soldiers straighten their eyes one by one, and their heads were chaotic.

The officers and men of the Tang Army hid behind the women's wall, and kept throwing grenades into the enemy ships in front of them, and the other party's ships suddenly flew sawdust, fires everywhere, and a boat was a hell.

The fireball of the artillery is not very accurate, its function is to overwhelm people, and throwing a hand-grenade at close range will never lose its accuracy, and it can be thrown into the opponent's ship at will!

At this time, the Lingnan ships had already stopped throwing wind and sand, that is, the archers were under the bombardment of hand-grenades, and it was difficult to protect themselves, while the Tang army maintained fire suppression, tried to kill and wound the soldiers of the Lingnan Naval Division, and destroyed their combat strength, while bringing out a basin of water from their comrades, they quickly cleaned their eyes.

When the officers and men had almost cleaned their eyes, the nearby Lingnan Navy Division's ship had almost lost any movement, and under the general's order, the officers and men of the Tang Army jumped up one by one, turned onto the ship of the Lingnan Navy Division, and hacked the wounded and bewildered enemy officers and soldiers to death one by one.

As the battle progressed, on the vast sea, thousands of ships on both sides were entangled with each other, and the strikers had completely penetrated into the opposing group's ships, and under the bombardment of the Tang Army's hand-grenades, the ships of the Lingnan Navy Division broke out into flames, and their combat power dropped to a very low level in a very short period of time.

In the chaos, the officers and men of the Tang Army were like tigers and wolves, constantly jumping over the side of the ship, seizing the ship and killing people.

Some of the ships of the Lingnan Navy Division were seriously damaged and the fire was not easy to extinguish, and after killing the people, the officers and men of the Tang Army simply withdrew their own ships. Only those ships that were not too damaged would be captured by the officers and men of the Tang Army and made them part of the Tang Army's naval division.

On a building ship of the Lingnan Navy Division, Yang Dongqian, a squire of the military department, looked stunned, seeing that the Lingnan ships were destroyed one by one in the artillery fire, he had no idea what was happening in front of him. It's not that he hasn't seen the explosive oil, and he knows that the explosive oil can burn ships, but what's the matter with that explosion? Could it be that when the Tang army burned the ship with fierce fire oil, it would also light firecrackers and cannons to make a strong noise?

This soldier who once spoke arrogantly to Liu Yan, saying that "the soldiers will block the water and cover the earth" and "why should the Tang army be afraid when they come from afar", at this time he saw the completely unreasonable combat power of the Tang army, and he was already trembling.

Yang Dongqian suddenly remembered that after Su Zhangchi returned to the south of Wu State, he had said that when the Hundred Battles Army defeated the army of the 30,000 Qin Kings of Wu State in one day, it was accompanied by thunderstorms and fires, which lasted for half a day, but Su Zhang failed to rush to the battlefield to see what happened.

"Thunder and fire, isn't this the scene in front of you?" Yang Dong looked at the naval battle in front of him, dumbfounded and speechless.

In the end, this virtuous minister who encouraged Liu Yan to defend the land according to the dangers of mountains and rivers, the soldier who took the initiative to ask Ying to lead the sailors to fight the Tang Army, had to give a military order with great grief: "Retreat!" The whole army retreated to Zhongshan Island! ”

It's a pity that now, if Yang Dongqian didn't want to withdraw, the Lingnan Navy Division would be able to withdraw.