"Hurry up, rush forward!"

Chen Dexing also shouted loudly, drew his sword, and only pointed to a small Mongolian army wooden boat four hundred steps ahead.

Given the order to move forward quickly, all 174 oarsmen exerted their strength to feed, and the white waves that parted from the bow of the boat were agitated, and the speed of the ship was increased to more than 6 knots at once!

"Left, left!" Wang Wei stood beside Chen Dexing, shouting, and picked up a red flag and waved it vigorously, which was to convey the order to the helmsman at the stern. The three-layer paddle ship of this type does not have a steering wheel system, and the rudder has to be manually turned by the helmsman at the stern. Wang Wei, the captain of the first ship, was responsible for waving the flag and directing the helmsman, with the red flag to the left and the blue flag to the right. There is also a scale at the rudder, and it can be rotated by one degree with a wave...... Anyway, it's a bit complicated to operate, but it's still manageable to get the boat up and running.

"Arrow! Target! Fuck it! ”

When Yang Daji saw the warship that looked like a hill rushing towards him like this, his mind suddenly went blank, and he forgot even the order to turn around and escape, and just roared at the archers at the bow of the boat.

Yang Daji's boat is the longest narrow wooden boat on the Sichuan River, the bow is sharp, and only a bed crossbow can be placed, and the Mongols have no thunder arrows, which are the most common spear-like giant arrows. With a violent sound of breaking through the air, the huge arrow shot forward, impartially hitting the bow of the three-layer oared ship of the Niu.

And then, no more. So a big ship can sink a spear?

"Lord, I'm going to crash into it! Poof! Puff ......"

Seeing the hill-like enemy ships getting closer and closer, the Mongolian and Han soldiers who rowed the boats stopped doing it, and threw their oars and jumped into the water. In a few moments there were no more people on the wooden boat - all landlubbers who didn't know how to water! Among them is Yang Daji! However, he knew how to dive, but he was so stupid that he forgot to dive.

"Peng!"

With a loud bang, the horns of the bow of the Ox struck lightly on the sixteen-oared wooden boat, and the bow of the small boat was shattered. Yang Daqi naturally couldn't stand, he plunged into the water, just put a head out of the water, he saw a big wooden paddle smashed down, he hurriedly shrank his head, and narrowly avoided it, but he could take care of the front but couldn't take care of the back, just poked his head out of the water, and was smashed by a paddle in the back of his head, and sank into the water with a scream, and there was no movement......

A sixteen-oared warship, with a total of more than 50 people including oarsmen and tactics, was reimbursed with just a light collision! It's not that these three-layer oars are powerful, but that they just restrain the Mongol warships on the Sichuan River -- the three-layer oars are far larger and heavier than the Mongols' small boats, and they are fast, have ramming angles, and have a high freeboard. The warships of the Mongolian navy couldn't jump up if they wanted to fight, and if they wanted to collide, they would be looking for death, and it didn't seem to have any effect if they wanted to fire a crossbow -- the heavy rain had already damp the crossbow, and the elastic force of the tendons and strings dropped after absorbing water, which was not enough for the giant arrow to penetrate the shell of the three-layer oared ship.

So the warriors of the Mongolian navy really didn't know how to fight this three-layer oared ship, and soon there was a scene of a big ship and nineteen small boats playing rear-end chasing on the Yangtze River!

"Hurry up, hurry up, throw everything away!"

"Row hard, row hard!"

"Oh no, Nanban's ship is catching up!"

"Jump overboard and swim to the shore......"

"Don't jump, violators will be killed!"

"Puff, puff......"

Most of the thousands of Mongolian and Han sailors on the nineteen small wooden boats were subordinates of the Yang brothers, who were originally officials of the Great Song Dynasty, and only some of the officers were sons of the Shi family or the Dong family. Now seeing that the signs are wrong, these new annexes who were originally the official army of the Great Song Dynasty did not care how these historians and the sons of the Dong family shouted, so they jumped ship and escaped. Leave a bunch of Northland men who are not very good at water on the boat, stunned and waiting to die......

The farcical battle on the river ended quickly, and the twenty warships and a thousand sailors sent by Yang Dayuan were naturally annihilated. And Chen Dexing did not have a single casualty! However, Chen Dexing didn't feel very satisfied, so he ordered the three-layer oared battleship Niu to return to the eyes of Meng Ke Khan again.

"This, this, what's going on?"

When a certain Great Khan saw the Song army's big ship swaggering back again, his mouth suddenly opened wide, as if he wanted to stuff his fist into it. Because the distance was too far away and there were no binoculars, Meng Ge didn't see the scene of the battle just now, so he was so surprised now.

"Shi Tianze, Yang Dayuan!" Meng Ge pointed to the river, "Why did Nanban's ship sail back again?" And also...... What about our Great Mongolian ships? Where did it all go? ”

Yes, the twenty ships of the Great Mongolia were chasing one of the ships of the Great Song Dynasty, why did a ship of the Great Song Dynasty swagger back now? Have they all been wiped out?

"Ambush, it must be an ambush!" Shi Tianze thought for a while, and soon came up with an answer, "Nanban is cunning, and must have set up an ambush downstream." ”

"20 boats, 1,000 people are gone, how much time is this? It's not so fast to have an ambush! ”

"Great Khan, maybe there are a lot of Nanban ambushes!" Shi Tianze was silent for a moment, and came up with what he thought was the most accurate number, "There may be 10,000 people!" ”

Although Shi Tianze was a famous general, he was loyal to Mongolia in history, and he was a general for 50 years, making indelible contributions to the destruction of China by the Mongol Empire. But at this moment, his understanding of the navy and water warfare is still very superficial. He is also accustomed to looking at water warfare from the perspective of land warfare, and always feels that the number of people is the key to victory or defeat.

"10,000 ......," Möngke Khan nodded, agreeing with this analysis. Nanban is cunning, and he can't fight the dignified array, so he knows how to steal chickens and dogs. He waved his hand, "Let's ignore it, and when the weather clears, we will advance by land and water, and wave east!" first shoveled Nanban's camp in Nantuochang, and then took Fengdu and Wanzhou! ”

……

"The Tartars don't seem to dare to come out!"

The three-layer oared battleship Niu stayed outside the Mongol water village for another hour, until Chen Dexing had a thorough view of the entire Mongolian army's camp, and no Mongol warship came out.

"Let's go back," Chen Dexing put down his binoculars and said to Wang Wei beside him.

"Big brother, the main force of the Tartars has arrived, are we going to return to Wanzhou for the time being?" After giving the order to turn around and return, Wang Wei asked in a low voice.

The original plan was to use twenty three-layer oared warships and 8,000 elite to defeat the 15,000 Mongol army in Fuzhou. But now, the main force of the Mongolian Khan Meng Ge has come, and the Mongolian army in Fuzhou is almost 100,000 people! 8,000 to 15,000 is okay, 8,000 to 100,000...... If this can be won, won't this Mongol become a paper tiger?

Chen Dexing smiled coldly, "I didn't fight, why did I have to quit?" Let's go back to Nantuochang and see how the brothers have built the camp? Maybe you can fight with the Tartars in Nantuochang! ”

"Eight thousand against one hundred thousand? Big brother, that's a Tartar! Wang Wei's face turned a little blue.

Chen Dexing smiled and said, "This is the Yangtze River!" If it's on the plains of the Northlands, I'll leave right away without saying a word. But what is there to be afraid of in the Yangtze River? You also saw the battle just now, and it was like a joke! The Tartar warship is no match for these three-tiered oars! What else do I dare not fight? If you can't fight, can't you go? ”

Seeing that Wang Wei still had a solemn face, Chen Dexing patted him on the shoulder with a smile and said, "Old Seven, your thinking still has to change." There can be more battles on land than many horses, but when it comes to water, it is more than ships. The little broken ship of the Montatars is not usable at all, it is small, slow and broken, and a thousand of them can't help us. There is no suspense in this battle on the water, and the only thing that is a little risky is the land battle. But our advantage is not small. First, we are based on the underwater village, and the nearby water surface is open, we can fight if we want, and we can leave if we want! Second, we have hair stones, thunder, and camps to rely on; Third, the terrain around Nantuochang is not open, either woods or mountains, and the army can't be moved at all, so what can you do if there are 100,000 Tartars? or thousands of thousands of troops to come and fight; Fourth, now that it is hot and rainy, it is not a good time to engage troops at all, as long as we block the Tartars in Nantuochang, within a month, the Tartar army will be demoralized and plagued. When the time comes, you and my brother will have made immortal achievements! ”

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