On the third day after the Daishan army arrived in Tongling, the sentinel ship reported that Zuo Liangyu's vanguard set off from Anqing and was coming to Tongling. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 infoAnqing to Tongling 200 miles of river road, if you take a boat down the river, it only takes half a day. And it will take some time for the sentinel ship to come back from Anqing, and I am afraid that Zuo Liangyu's fleet is already about to arrive in Tongling.

Ren Siqi immediately sent people by boat to inform Huang Degong's army on the other side, and at the same time ordered all the warships to leave the water camp and set up a defensive line on the wide Yangtze River.

The river near Tongling is more than four miles wide, and it is also mighty as far as the eye can see. Although it cannot be compared to the vast and boundless sea, it is also an extremely vast water.

Because most of Huang Degong's sailors were smaller river boats, Ren Siqi did not trust their combat effectiveness very much. Therefore, without waiting for the Huangbu naval army to leave the camp, Ren Siqi ordered all the ships to go upstream, and set up a position on the relatively vast river ten miles west of Tongling.

Because the Daishan army has more large ships, the wider the river, the larger the space for the ships to turn, the more advantageous it is.

"Does this kid surnamed Ren think that he can fight against Zuo Liangyu's army with their army?" Seeing that the Daishan army fleet was heading up the river without saying hello, Huang Degong's subordinate generals spoke coldly and were quite disdainful of the Daishan army.

"Look, what kind of formation are they arranged?" A general of the Yellow Army pointed to the ship formation of the Daishan Army in the distance and shouted.

Although the battle of ships on the river is not as strict as that of the infantry army on land, it is also necessary to pay attention to coordination. Large ships and small boats alternate each other, leaving room for maneuver in case the rear ships attack, and water warfare is also a very deep science.

However, the formation of the Daishan army fleet was really strange, all the big ships were at the front, lined up in a long line, and the sides of the boats were facing the river upstream. The Daishan Army has ten large sea ships, each of which is a giant ship of 5,000 materials, which is known to Huang Degong's army, but no one among the generals of Huang Degong's subordinate naval army envies the big ships of the Daishan army. Because this is the Yangtze River, not the sea, what a mentally retarded person can do it when he drives a sea ship into the Yangtze River to fight! Such a large sea ship can move in the middle of the river, and the steering is clumsy, and the most important thing is that there is only a sail to power, if there is no wind, it can not move at all, then it can only stop on the river and wait to be beaten, the enemy has a hundred ways to attack this immobile big ship.

"Does this kid surnamed Ren know how to fight, isn't he waiting for the enemy to attack the ship sideways like this? If nothing else, they could drop some huge logs from the upper reaches and sink their big ship by the impact of the current, or go down the river and put some fire boats, and a single fire could burn his big ship downstream. Tian Xiong, the chief soldier of Huang Degong's subordinates, snorted coldly, the defeat under Li Xingjiu's knife a few days ago made him very faceless, and he hated the Daishan Army very much.

"Ren Zongbing can become a general soldier at the age of twenty, he should have some ability, maybe he has another meaning in doing this." Li Shun, the general soldier, was the only person in Huang Degong's department who had a good impression of Ren Siqi, mainly because he had contact with Ren Siqi when he went to greet the Daishan army, and he had the impression that Ren Siqi was humble and polite, and the soldiers of the Daishan army were also very elite in terms of equipment and appearance.

"Humph! At the age of twenty, he became a general soldier, and I don't know what relationship I relied on to become a soldier. Looking at the handsome appearance of this kid surnamed Ren, maybe he got the position of general soldier by selling his ass. The chief soldier and horse said obscenely on the side, causing the generals to laugh lewdly. Li Shun shook his head and said no more.

I have been a soldier for most of my life, and I have fought countless battles before I got into the position of deputy general and chief soldier, and a kid who has not grown up is on an equal footing with himself, which makes people not angry!

"Okay, what should you do, what should you do!" Huang Degong couldn't listen to it anymore, and snorted coldly, so the generals dispersed in a hurry and returned to their own troops.

Huang Degong frowned and looked at the fleet of the Daishan Army on the river a few miles away, and his face also showed doubt.

Although he had contact with Ren Siqi once, in Huang Degong's opinion, this young man is still capable, but after all, he is still young and has not experienced many battles!

Ren Siqi stood at the bow of the "Princess", holding a clairvoyant mirror and looking at the river in the distance, the vast upstream could already see the shadows of the boat, Zuo Liangyujun had come!

The formation of the Daishan army was indeed strange, and all the big ships lined up against the upstream river, and they all lowered their sails and anchored. In other words, the Daishan Army's ten three-masted galleons and twenty two-masted seagoing ships lost their ability to maneuver and were only used as fortresses on the sea. In fact, Ren Siqi's purpose is the same. Because the Daishan Army's sea ships were too large and clumsy, and they were driving against the current and had no speed at all, it was better to stop on the river and use them as batteries, because there were artillery guns on every sea ship.

There are twenty-four red-coated cannons on the "Princess", which is a huge cannon with a firing range of more than ten miles, and there are also sixteen red-coated cannons on the "Exocet", in addition to these two Western-style sailing ships, the other three-masted galleons cannot place too many cannons because of their structure, but each can also place a red-coated cannon, plus several Francophone cannons. The two-masted galleon can't be equipped with a redcoat cannon, but it can also be equipped with a small cannon. In this way, the whole fleet has more than 50 red-coated cannons, 40 1,000-pound Furlong machine guns, and 200 500-pound guns.

The Yangtze River is only as wide as it is, only four miles, and so many cannons are enough to block the entire river. This is also the reason why Ren Siqi dared to put on this formation. As for the possible attack of the enemy, of course, it was also taken into account. In front of each sea boat, there were several river boats, although there were only a dozen soldiers on each river boat, but it was enough to protect the big boat behind them.

In the clairvoyant mirror, the shadow of the boat upstream is getting closer and closer, and soon it is ten miles away, and it can be seen without a clairvoyant mirror on the empty river, but it cannot be seen clearly.

At this time, the enemy had already entered the range of the red-coated cannon, but Ren Siqi did not give the order to open the cannon, because he wanted to surprise the enemy.

Several sentinel ships quickly approached from upstream, each chasing several enemy ships, which were the speedboats that were heading upstream.

The musketeers on the "bang bang bang" sentry ships fired desperately back, while the archers of the ships chasing by the left army fired back from time to time.

"I'm going to pick them up!" Li Xingjiu couldn't bear it for a long time, and took the initiative to ask Ren Siqi for orders, as a guard, he rarely had the opportunity to really fight, and he had long been itching in his heart.

This kind of chaotic battle between ships is the most suitable for Li Xingjiu, and Ren Siqi suddenly remembered the situation when Li Xingjiu fought with the enemy ship on Pingdao.

Nodding, Li Xingjiu happily got off the Princess, got on a small boat, and quickly headed towards the enemy with ten small boats.

Seeing that the other party had ships to reinforce them, the dozen or so small boats pursued by Zuo Liangyu's army gave up the pursuit, but they did not retreat, but turned around and pounced towards Li Xingjiu's ten boats. Soon the two sides were entangled and fighting together.

Each of Li Xingjiu's ten small boats had a few musketeers, and they fired "bang bang bang" at close range, and almost every shot had a soldier of the left army fall into the river. And there were shields, and every soldier of the Daishan Army was wearing a mandarin duck battle jacket, so that the bow and arrow shots of the left army did little damage.

At this moment, the difference between the musket and the bow and arrow was revealed, even if the left army had a shield, but the wooden shield at close range could not stop the musket fire at all, and the bullet penetrated the shield and burrowed into the body of the left soldier holding the shield. Even if the bows and arrows of the left army could penetrate through the gaps in the shields, they could not penetrate the mandarin duck battle jackets on the soldiers of the Daishan Army, and at most they caused minor injuries to the soldiers of the Daishan Army.

Before the ships could really make contact with each other, the soldiers of the Left Army had already suffered heavy losses just by the shooting of long-range weapons, but it was not easy for them to turn the bow of the ship and escape as they went downstream, so they could only continue to advance and fight with the Daishan army.

When the ships came into contact with each other, the power of the muskets could not be demonstrated, and they had to rely on hand-to-hand combat. The soldiers of the Daishan Army put down their muskets one after another, took out their spears and fought with the soldiers of the Left Army, and stabbed each other across the boat. From time to time, soldiers screamed and rolled over and fell into the river.

Li Xingjiu jumped up and jumped onto an enemy ship, his long knife flickered, cut off a few spears that were stabbed at him, and stood firm on the enemy ship. Several soldiers of the left army howled and brandished their weapons to kill him, Li Xingjiu's figure rolled and the long knife danced, and the soldiers of the left army screamed and fell into the river.

Almost in the blink of an eye, Li Xingjiu killed all the soldiers of the Left Army on the ship and captured a warship. Li Xingjiu's bravery boosted the morale of the soldiers of the Daishan Army, but the morale of the soldiers of the Zuo Liangyu Army was completely lost. Soon, under the leadership of Li Xingjiu, he repelled the pursuit of the left army and captured three enemy ships.

With the three small boats of the captives, Li Xingjiu returned triumphantly and climbed up the rope ladder to the deck of the Princess. However, what awaited him was not praise, but harsh reprimand.

"You don't have the advantage of being a musketeer, you have to go up and fight people hand-to-hand, are you having a broken head!" Ren Siqi scolded angrily.

"I, didn't I win?" Li Xingjiu touched his head, looking aggrieved.

"Winning is winning, but how many brothers have you lost, why don't you fight them, shoot the enemy with a musket first, and then chase them when they collapse, wouldn't there be far fewer casualties than now!" Ren Siqi said.

This Li Xingjiu's military strength is high, but he doesn't know how to understand his brain when fighting, and he is not material to lead troops at all.

After thinking about it carefully, Li Xingjiu lowered his head in shame. In this battle, he carried 150 soldiers in 10 small boats, and more than 30 people were killed and wounded. If it is really as Ren Siqi said, if you shoot the opponent with a musket first and then fight hand-to-hand, the casualties are estimated to be much less.

After all, Li Xingjiu won the battle, and after the reprimand, Ren Siqi comforted him again, and let him stand aside. At this time, the warship of Zuo Liangyu's brigade had sailed five miles away from the Daishan army. (To be continued.) )