"The first general of the left army obeyed the order and advanced at full speed!"

Land Rover at this time gave the order for the first general to go full speed. According to the establishment of the Perak Naval Army, the commanders of the Left Army and the Central Army were concurrently the first general and the first general of the first department at the same time—that is, the commander of the detachment was also the commander of the formation and the captain of the flagship.

The left army and the central army of the Perak Navy each had ten three-layer oar-block warships, and under the left middle army were two generals, and under the two generals were five divisions, each of which was a three-layer oar-block warship. So the Land Rover was followed at full speed by five three-decker paddle ships.

At the same time, fifteen other three-deck oared boats lowered their anchors at the same time and stopped moving on the river.

"Five forward, fifteen ships still...... What does this mean? Shi Tianze wiped the beads of sweat on his forehead and asked with some puzzlement.

"This ......" Brother Wang Tian doesn't understand much when he thinks about it, he is a northwest man, he is a good hand at fighting on the ground, and now sitting on the boat, in addition to being dizzy or dizzy, he feels that his internal organs are swaying in his stomach, where is he still thinking about water warfare? And even if you want to understand Chen Dexing's purpose, it's useless, because the advantage of today's water war is simply with Chen Dexing, and it's overwhelming! It's just a bunch of stupid Tartars and traitors who don't know.

The Khitan Shi Mopress is only said to really understand water warfare, and the Mongolian naval army he led can't find the north of the Song army on the Sichuan River, and there is also a Song army named Liu Cheng among the generals of the Song army in Sichuan!

Now, in this changed history, Shi Moping is only responsible for commanding all the arson platoons, and is the vanguard of the Mongol naval army. Ride on a fast sentry boat. Craned his neck and looked ahead. I couldn't figure out the other party's intentions for a while.

"Look, someone has set fire to the platoon!"

Just when Shi Mo couldn't guess the opponent's intentions, a young general next to him suddenly shouted. He looked up. I saw a wooden raft in front of me, I don't know when it had been lit and burned. Then the second, third, and fourth wooden rafts caught fire, and in the blink of an eye, a large area was already burning on the surface of the Kung Fu River!

"Damn, Nanban is trying to lead us to light the fire in advance!" Shi Mo only stomped his foot and shouted loudly, "Order, pass the order, don't light the fire without authorization!" Violators will be killed! ”

Herald? How do you pass it on? This is the water, not the land, and there are no fast horses to gallop about. Orders can only be conveyed by various colored flags. Moreover, the Mongolian sailors who were responsible for rowing the wooden platoon and lighting the fire could not understand the too complicated flag language, so the pre-war agreement was very simple, which was to wave the red flag and light the fire. There is no such thing as ignition and beheading of violators......

"Hehe, as expected!" Land Rover, who commanded five oars to come up, laughed out loud when he saw the scene burning on the river.

In fact, the arson and platoon tactics of the Mongolian naval army are found in Chen Dexing's textbook "Naval Studies", and this tactic is not uncommon in the history of naval and water warfare between the East and the West. However, miracles are rarely seen, and at most it is a method used to destroy the formation of the enemy fleet. Because after the arson ship burns up, its own power is gone. No one can paddle on a burning fireboat. After ignition. The sailors on the arson ship would jump out of the boat to escape, and the fire boat would have to rely on the current to float.

And the speed of the current is certainly not as fast as that of a warship that goes with the current or with the wind. So these arsonist ships were a big trouble until they were set on fire, and the fleet of the Thunderbolt Navy did not dare to rush up at once, but once they were on fire, it was not a big problem.

The Mongol naval forces were originally formed in a hurry, and it was impossible to undergo rigorous training, and the arson ship tactics were too complicated for them, and it was certain that the dispatch would not be effective.

"Regression. Backwards, cruising speed! ”

Land Rover saw that seventy or eighty percent of the arson platoons on the river had already burned. In accordance with the code, he ordered five warships to retreat - although the stern resistance of the three-layer oared battleship was greater, it was much easier to go backwards in the river with a current speed of up to five or six kilometers per hour. Under the combined effect of 174 wooden oars and the current of the Yangtze River, the five three-layer oar-block battleships retreated so fast that the wooden platoons floating down the river could not catch up at all. And these lit wooden rafts, of course, can't float forever......

"How is this possible...... Shi Mo was really a little dumbfounded this time, he worked hard to tie thousands of wooden rows, cut down I don't know how many axes and broadswords, and also raised a heavy reward to recruit dead soldiers to put the rows, just such a result? Light a torch on the surface of the Yangtze River to show Nanban?

Shi Tianze and Brother Wang Tian's faces were also ugly, the fire row that they thought could work wonders was completely useless, and now there is only a chain boat left!

"Look, Shibo...... Do you want to go on any longer? Brother Wang Tian looked at Shi Tianze with some uncertainty. To be honest, he originally had great expectations for the arson platoon, but now that he has this result, his heart has begun to beat the drum.

Shi Tianze looked back at the Jiuyou Baixu who had become faint on the mountain in the distance, shook his head and said, "The Great Khan is there, I can't tolerate us not to work hard!" ”

He took a deep breath and waved his big hand: "Beat the drum!" Trumpet! Fight with the Southern Barbarians! ”

……

A rush of drums and trumpets sounded loud on the river, and all the serial boats suddenly began to speed forward. The unlit arsonist platoons were also pushed aside so that they would not block the passage of the chain boats, which had only one sailor on them, and could sail at a speed that could not be compared to a chain boat with forty-eight oars and two rows.

"The Chinese army changes formations, and a horizontal formation ......"

"The left army retreated a thousand more steps......"

"Order the ships to prepare for a blazing bomb attack!"

Chen Dexing, who was standing on the watchtower of the Tiger battleship, also began to give orders one after another at this moment. Just now, the left army rushed forward and forced the other side to set fire to the arson platoon, which was just an appetizer, and the real battle had only begun now. And when the first general of the left army in front of the sudden return to the position, Land Rover also issued the same order. The ten warships of the left army were also formed into a horizontal formation, lined up in front of the Chinese army, thus forming a large two-column horizontal formation. At the same time, all twenty warships lowered their anchors and fixed themselves on the surface of the river - this is the preparation for the upcoming blazing bomb attack!

"Hurry up, put the iron bullet in the furnace!"

"Armor, armor on the top of all armor!"

"Check the fire extinguishing sand!"

"Gunners enter the hidden position!"

"Hair Stone...... Sheet! Prepare for the test launch! ”

On the twenty three-decker oars, the officers kept giving orders, and the sailors carried out various tactical maneuvers according to the orders. These actions are not very skillful, and even seem a little flustered, after all, the Perak Navy is just a water army that has not been formed for a long time, and all kinds of tactical practices are still being explored - this is probably the reason why Chen Dexing did not let the Perak Navy go to sea immediately. Sailing on the river and sailing on the sea are two completely different concepts!

And their opponents seemed very calm at this time. More than 100 large ships marched in formation, except for the oarsmen and oarsmen, all of them were motionless, everyone had a tense face, and they did not make a sound. At first glance, you can tell that it is the elite of the long-term war.

On the first boat, a young man with a short and stocky stature, a bearded face, and Shi Tianze's appearance was standing on the deck of the ship's amidships, which was Shi Tianze's eighth son, Shi Bin. He was appointed by his father to be a naval army Qianhu, and together with Yao De, a new attached army, Qianhu Yao, he was in charge of the ten serial ships that took the lead.

He is a typical Northland man, although he has some water nature, but he has no experience in boat and water fighting. Most of his soldiers were the new annexed army that followed the Chengdu Prefecture to control Yao De's surrender to Mongolia - the original Song army. However, they are also ordinary foot soldiers, and they also have no experience in water warfare, and only a few of them are from the Song Army, and they are responsible for rocking the rudder.

Such a sailor is barely boating on the river, and it is really difficult for Shi Tianze and Brother Wang Tian to fight by boat.

"Test shot, hair!"

"Canopy ......"

With the order of the artillery team of the Thunderbolt Navy, twenty test-fired red iron bullets were thrown out one after another, drawing a series of curved ballistics in the air, and then smashing heavily into the river.

Not a single hit!

Shi Bin breathed a sigh of relief, the story of Fa Shi, Tianlei and Yeliugan being blown to pieces had long been spread in the upper echelons of the Mongolian army, and of course he knew that it was powerful.

"Woo ......"

The sound of the horn passed through the moist air on the surface of the river, and sounded again, this is Shi Tianze ordering the front army to charge! And Shi Bin was also dumbfounded: "Rush! Rush up and fight with Nanban! ”

The centipede ship that desperately entangled the Song army was Shi Tianze's earlier arrangement, using ten serial ships to entangle ten centipede ships, even if it couldn't be defeated! Just wait until the chain boat behind rushes up and kill these damn centipede boats with a number of piles!

"Fluffy ......"

This is the first fiery salvo of the Thunderbolt Army! When the fleet commanded by Shi Bin rushed to within 200 paces of the Thunderbolt warship formation, forty hot iron balls came out of the air! Two of them hit the target! The hits were all serial ships numbered A 2, and this boat was on the side of A 1 where Shi Bin was riding. But No. 1 A is unharmed.

"Ah......h

"Scalded to death......"

"Fire, fire!"

The so-called red-hot bullet is a red-hot iron ball, which has long been used as a weapon for arson bombs in the era of sail battleships. The temperature of the iron ball is high enough to ignite the planks! As for the human body, let alone smashing it, even if you wipe it, you can go to half a life! And these serial ships were now crowded with armor soldiers, and a blazing bomb almost fell into the crowd, first smashing and bruising and burning many people, and then igniting something I don't know, causing chaos.

Another blazing bomb smashed a hole in the makeshift deck and fell into the interior of the ship. And below the deck of the chain ship, there is a place where debris, arrows, and cannons are piled up! Almost all of these things were flammable, and they were quickly ignited by the hot iron balls...... (To be continued......)