The heavy rain finally turned into a light rain, and the rain continued to fall, covering the distant world into a white expanse. The Yangtze River has become wider because of the heavy rain for several days, which is convenient for the three-layer oars ship of the Niu.

With the vigorous rowing of the three-layer wooden oars, the tall oars broke through the waves and slowly moved along the winding Yangtze River to the east of Fuzhou. Yes, slowly, not quickly. The speed of the river in the Fuzhou area during the flood season is always around five or six kilometers per hour, and even the three-layer oared ship Niu, which can reach a cruising speed of 7.5 knots, can only move at a speed of five to seven kilometers per hour in the case of countercurrent. The waterway, which is about fifty miles, takes more than four hours to complete. Rowing for more than four hours in a row is extremely draining on the oarsman's body, and if you want to row directly from Fengdu, you will have to row continuously for nearly ten hours! This is also the main reason why Chen Dexing established a camp in Nantuo Town.

Chen Dexing stood on the watchtower of the Niu, and took out the telescope from his arms, which was a telescope polished with the crystal piece given by the little princess, because of the use of crystal pieces with high transparency, the distant picture seen from this telescope is very clear.

The pontoon bridge built by the Mongol army is about 4,000 meters away, and only a thin strip can be seen across the river with the naked eye. However, through the telescope, you can clearly see one after another wooden forts and watchtowers, and even the bed crossbows erected in the wooden forts, and the faces of groups of Mongolian soldiers patrolling back and forth.

Chen Dexing turned his gaze to both sides of the Yangtze River, and built wharves and water villages on the shore, gathering a large number of ships, but there were no big ships, and they were all the largest but ten zhang long. Most of them look shoddy and are clearly hastily built. But there are a lot of them, at least hundreds!

"How can there be so many ships?" Wang Wei, who was standing beside Chen Dexing, muttered, turned the telescope in his hand to the mountain by the river, and suddenly shouted, "Da Xu, Da Xu, Jiuyou Baixu!" ”

Nine Tours of Baixu? The Great Khan of Mongolia came to Fuzhou?

Chen Dexing turned the telescope violently in the direction of Wang Wei's finger, and what caught his eye was indeed a huge camp under construction! Countless tents have been erected on a large hill, and countless Mongolian soldiers are busy with something, or reinforcing the tents, or wiping their armor and swords, or eating something, or patrolling back and forth.

It's too many to count! The main force of the Mongols has really come to Fuzhou! And it's Meng Ge himself! Chen Dexing took a breath, Meng Ge in history died under Diaoyu City, but now he has arrived in Fuzhou. The Battle of Diaoyu City......

Chen Dexing looked at the top of the mountain again, and there was a huge cyan umbrella covering a huge cyan umbrella with all kinds of banners fluttering, and countless Mongolian warriors wearing iron armor and holding swords and guns surrounded a huge cyan umbrella. Under the umbrella, a tall man sat on a hu bed, stretching his neck to look at him.

'Could it be that he is the Mongol Khan Möngke?' Chen Dexing stared at the other party through the telescope, as if he wanted to kill the other party with his eyes.

Chen Dexing saw Meng Ge. At this time, Meng Ge was squinting at the three-layer oared warship in the middle of the river, a similar ship, he had vaguely seen it during the westward expedition, but he was not too impressed.

"Where is Yang Dayuan?" Möngke looked left and right. Meng Ge had his own master who could speak Mongolian and Chinese languages, and translated his words into Chinese.

Originally a Song general, he later defected to Mongolia, and now Yang Dayuan, who is an official and a servant of the capital province, heard the call, and hurriedly stepped forward and bowed: "The minister is here." ”

Meng Ge raised his hand and pointed to the boat on the river, and said: "Nanban dares to peep into the camp of our great Mongolia, it is really bold, who can go out to fight and capture it?" ”

Yang Dayuan glanced at the strange-looking three-layer oar-block ship from a distance, and did not remember that there was such a ship in the Great Song Dynasty Naval Army. However, looking at its size, and then looking at its speed in the reverse current of the Sichuan River, you know that it is very difficult to deal with. Fortunately, this ship is just one.

"You can send my brother to fight."

Yang Daji is Yang Dayuan's younger brother, who sent troops with his elder brother, and surrendered to Meng Ge together, and is now the official in charge of the water army. However, he, like his brother Yang Dayuan, is actually a layman who does not understand water warfare, and their brothers are all Han people from the north, originally from Tianshui, and have never commanded a naval army in the Song army. It's just that Meng Ge doesn't have many naval generals in his hands, so he can only catch ducks on the shelves, and let him and Shi Tianze be responsible for building warships and forming a naval army.

And where do Yang Daji and Shi Tianze know how to build warships? I could only detain some civilian ships, and recruit gourds to paint scoops and let the craftsmen in the army make hundreds of them. It is said that it is a warship, but in fact it is just an ordinary civilian ship. It's not a car or a boat, it's just the simplest wooden boat with a paddle.

After receiving the order, Yang Daji immediately ordered twenty warships to attack. On both sides of the ship's side, cooked cowhide and fine nets are hung, and side signs are erected. In the gap of the side card, a crossbow machine and a spear stretched out. Each boat has sixteen wooden oars, which are lined up on the left and right, plucking the river and moving forward in waves. The oarsmen were sturdy men, shirtless, muscular, shouting trumpets and paddling hard.

The oarsman who came out of the ship was the warrior. Because the boat is small and easy to capsize, these sailors do not wear iron armor, everyone is just tight-fitting and short-handed, and at most they have a leather helmet on their heads. Some of the Mongol sailors armed with spears and crossbows, and fought by boats. There are also some single-knife rattan cards, which are ready to jump - but looking at the tall side of the three-layer oared boat, it is estimated that it is difficult to jump without the martial arts of Guo Daxia.

"Beat the drums, charge!" Yang Daji also changed into the short clothes of the water battle, and looked up at the Song-character flag flying high on the three-layer oar-seat boat. Gritting his teeth, he gave the order to charge.

At this time, the Mongolian Navy was still grassy, and Liu Quan, who single-handedly trained the Mongolian Navy into a strong force, was still an official of the Song Dynasty in Chongqing. Therefore, the combat methods of the Mongolian naval army are very simple, that is, they beat gongs and drums and rush up to shoot arrows and fight hand-to-hand. Oh, and there's archery, bed crossbows, throwing rocks and whatnot, but that's not an errand for the sailors.

However, what happened next made Yang Daji breathe a sigh of relief, this Song warship, which looked quite large, probably found that the Mongolian warriors rushed out, and immediately began to retreat - why did it go backwards instead of turning around? Yang Daji didn't think much about it, just shouted loudly and urged his subordinates to paddle hard. Twenty 16-oared boats followed the current, speeding forward, and a 174-oared wooden boat started a chase battle on the surface of the Yangtze River.

The distance between the two sides was gradually approaching, at first they were seven or eight miles apart, and after chasing for about an hour, there were only less than three or four hundred steps left. At this time, the huge three-story paddle boat had arrived near the bend of the Yangtze River near Nantuochang (Nantuochang was surrounded by a large river loop, and the Yangtze River turned into a zigzag bay in this zigzag, and Chen Dexing's Shuizhai camp was on the right side of the zigzag river loop).

"Brothers, add another oar, and rush over!" Yang Daji knew that the opportunity was coming, and he was dumbfounded, "The big turn of Nantuochang is in front, and the Nanban ship is going backwards, so it's not easy to turn around, let's take it here!" ”

Before the shout fell, the three-decker oarship suddenly stopped retreating, and one hundred and seventy-four wooden oars rowed forward at the same time, breaking through the countercurrent and rushing forward at maximum speed!

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