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On the river surface west of the Yangtze River, the flag covers the sky and says, and the clouds are spreading, and the sea is straight.

A huge fleet of more than 1,000 fighting ships, warships, and building ships was moving eastward along the river, slowly killing in the direction of the landing port.

On the deck of the four-story ship, Pang Tong looked around at the ships around him with great interest, and his eyebrows were full of confidence and slight pride.

In the past two years, Wang Jun and Wang Ping have built warships in Yizhou, relying on Yizhou's rich population and material resources, they have rushed to work day and night, and in just two years, they have rushed to build about 700 warships, plus the original 500 warships in Jingzhou, the number of warships in the entire Jingzhou naval army has reached more than 1,200.

This number has actually exceeded the heyday of the number of naval warships during the period when Guan Yu was guarding Jingzhou.

However, despite having rebuilt such a large naval army, compared to the nearly 2,000 warships of the Wu army, the Jingzhou naval army was inferior to its opponents in terms of quantity and shipbuilding technology, and theoretically, this naval army was not enough to compete with the Wu people on the Yangtze River.

The reason why Pang Tong is so confident is that the Han army still has a secret weapon, and it is this weapon that inflicted a heavy blow on Wu Guo in the first battle of Jingzhou between Han and Wu that year, so that he did not dare to have any thoughts about Jingzhou for more than ten years.

This secret weapon is the Shenwei Cannon invented by Fang Shao.

Back then, it was with the powerful bombardment of the Shenwei cannon that the Dongting Battle severely damaged the elite sailors of the Wu people.

Today, after years of experience summing up and actual combat training, the Jingzhou Navy has explored a set of combat systems with Shenwei cannons as the main striking weapon, and most of the warships have been transformed, and even the smallest fighting ships can be equipped with two fewer Shenwei cannons, while large buildings such as the Pangtong flagship are equipped with nearly seven Shenwei cannons at a time.

This is a terrifying number, which means that the entire fleet, if it develops the cannon at the same time, can fire nearly 30,000 rounds of stone shells in the first salvo.

Although Pang Tong had never commanded a water battle, he believed that with such a powerful weapon, he could easily wipe out the Wu people's naval army without much effort, and then go down the river and go all the way to Jianye.

Then, the great prestige gained by the extermination of Wu Zhigong would enable him to surpass Fang Shao's reputation once again and rebuild his position as the number two leader in the central decision-making level of the Han Court.

"Da Sima, there is a Wu warship ahead."

The soldiers on the mast shouted loudly, Pang Tong temporarily restrained his complacent thoughts, and looked far away, sure enough, at the end of the river, there was a faint black line wriggling, and there seemed to be countless clouds rolling in the air, which should be a scene composed of flags and sails moving with the wind.

"Order, the whole army stabilized the formation and prepared to face the battle."

The flagship waved and the heads of the ships moved, the gunners and crossbowmen quickly entered the combat positions, hiding behind the large ships on the ship, and the soldiers who were about to board the ship also clenched their swords.

The fleet of the Han army went down the river, the speed was extremely fast, and after a while, the scene of the fleet of the Wu army had been clearly seen, the black pressure was generally like a low cloud covering the water, and it was roughly estimated that there should be more than a thousand warships.

Seeing this, Pang Tong sneered: "It seems that the Wu people are planning to fight a decisive battle with us at Lukou, hehe, just annihilate their naval army here." ”

The Han fleet was advancing steadily, and the ships at the front had begun to load the Shenwei cannon with stone shells, and an expected water battle of great scale seemed to be about to unfold according to Pang Tong's inference.

In a short time, the two fleets were miles apart.

At this moment, the Wu Ren Chong ship, which was hidden behind the big ship, suddenly rushed out in unison, and there were about 300 ships densely packed, rushing towards the Han fleet at the fastest oar speed.

At such a long distance, the bow and crossbow of the big ship cannot give long-range fire support at all, and such a hasty dispatch of the weak defense of the ship will inevitably be exposed to the enemy's long-range fire attack without cover.

"Da Sima, the tactics of the Wu people are a little strange, do you want to send a ship to block it." Guan Pingjin said.

Pang Tong stroked his short beard and said indifferently: "The Wu people are afraid that the distance is too close, and they will be bombarded by our Shenwei cannon, so they have no choice but to let the warp rush attack at a long distance." If we also send ships to rush forward, when the two armies are entangled, our divine power cannon will easily hurt our own people, hum, how can such carving insect skills escape my eyes. ”

"Then we should ......"

Before Guan Ping finished speaking, Pang Tong waved his hand and said: "The herald ordered the Shenwei cannon to start bombarding, and blasted the Wu people's stern to pieces." ”

The ship is long and narrow, and it is less likely to be hit with weapons of mass destruction with strong attack power and weak accuracy, such as the Shenwei cannon.

However, this water battle was different from the previous one, and the number of Shenwei cannons equipped on the Han warships this time was enough to lay a dense network of stone bullets on the entire river, and even a small warship could not escape this "sky net."

Everything was as Pang Tong expected.

With the earth-shattering roar, more than 800 stone bullets rushed into the sky, and soon they were like falling meteors, rushing towards the Wu people's ship group with a piercing sound of breaking the air.

Boom Boom!

Above the river surface, the three-zhang high water column rises to the sky, lying across the entire river surface, constituting a dense water column forest. In the water forest, the boat was sunken and broken, and countless fragments and severed limbs flew in the splash.

Under the first round of salvo fire, more than 30 stern ships were hit, and as many as 20 ships were sunk on the spot, which is already a rather terrifying number in such an era of cold weapons.

But that's not the end, it's just the beginning.

The enemy ships that were not hit still rushed forward desperately, and as the distance approached, they entered the strike range of more and more Han ships.

One by one, they were torn apart in the huge waves, but the Wu people were like dead soldiers who were not afraid of death, fearlessly continuing to paddle forward on the blood-stained river of their comrades.

By the time nearly two-thirds of the Han army's large ships were able to fire stone bullets and bombard the Wu army within range, there were less than 70 ships left in the hundreds of ships, and this number was still rapidly decreasing under the overwhelming stone bombs.

The impact of the Wu people, in the eyes of the Han army, is no different from an egg hitting a stone, and the gunners of the Han army are like ravaging and vulnerable ants, wantonly firing stone bullets, sinking fewer and fewer Wu ships in a relaxed atmosphere.

Half an hour later, hundreds of Wu ships were almost lost, and the fragmented wreckage almost covered half of the river, and the river surface within a radius of several miles was stained with red blood, and the corpses that died under the stone bombardment floated everywhere, and those Wu troops who survived could only rely on the ship's planks to drift, and what awaited them was still the stone bombardment of the Han army.

Looking at the tragic situation of the Wu people on the river, Pang Tong was a little proud.

"Da Sima, our army's stone bullet consumption is too large, isn't it time to stop bombardment." Guan Ping reminded.

Pang Tong said disapprenorovingly: "So what, the Wu people's Chong Chong has been wiped out, even if the two armies start a close battle next, and there is no Chong ship to board the ship to engage in battle, the Wu people will only be beaten." After passing the order, the whole army accelerated and crushed the main fleet of the Wu people in one fell swoop. ”

As soon as the order was given, the main sails of the Han navy battleships were all raised, and at a faster speed, through the wreckage area of the Wu ship, the waves were cut through the waves, and rushed towards the main fleet of the Wu people in front.

After losing almost all of the warships, the Wu army did not seem to be retreating, on the contrary, the remaining eight or nine hundred fighting ships and building ships also ushered towards the Han army at full speed.

The two fleets of unprecedented scale traveled in the opposite direction along the river, and after a short time, the Wu fleet entered the strike range of the Han army's divine artillery.

Although the Han army had consumed almost eighty percent of the stone bullets in the bombardment of the Wu people's fleet just now, Pang Tong believed that the remaining two percent of the stone bullets were enough to break the confidence of the Wu people to fight again. When the enemy fleet came into range, Pang Tong decisively gave the order to open fire.

"Da Sima, there seems to be something abnormal on the Wu Ren ship!" The lookout on the mast exclaimed loudly.

Pang Tong raised his eyes to look idly, but saw that on the enemy ships on the other side, the Wu people were in a hurry, lifting the canvas covering one side, and at the same time, someone was constantly carrying something out of the cabin.

Suddenly, Pang Tong's mind was like a lightning strike, and his face was as pale as paper.

"God...... God...... Divine Cannon! ”

The three words came out of Pang Tong's mouth with difficulty, and the soldiers who saw the abnormal movement of the enemy ship were also shocked.

That's right, the canvas covering the Wu ship was the same Shenwei cannon used by the Han army, and what they carried out from the ship was the stone bullet that had been prepared a long time ago.

At this moment, in the group of Wu warships, on the five-story giant ship, Lu Xun, the commander of the Wu army, was like Pang Tong a few minutes ago, looking at the oncoming enemy ships leisurely.

Looking at the divine power cannon that appeared on a door, the corners of Lu Xun's mouth were slightly slanted, revealing a murderous smirk.

The Shenwei cannon was originally the exclusive weapon of the Han army, but Pang Tong forgot that after Lu Xunqi attacked Jingzhou, he captured a large number of Jingzhou craftsmen who could make Shenwei cannons, and thus obtained the Shenwei cannon production process that made the Wu people fearful.

After that, Lu Xun used these craftsmen to secretly produce a large number of Shenwei cannons, in order to give the Han army a surprise blow at the time of the decisive battle.

Obviously, Lu Xun did it.

Coldly staring at the panicked scene on the enemy ship opposite, he said lightly: "Pass on the commander's order, fire the cannon." ”

Almost at the same time, the Shenwei cannons of the two fleets were launched at the same time, and two waves of stone shells in opposite directions pierced through each other's gaps, whistling towards each other.

A battle between the Shenwei Cannon and the Shenwei Cannon began.

(To be continued)