In the first battle, the Jinshui Division destroyed a warship of the Song army, killing and wounding nearly 100 Song soldiers, although they also lost five warships and suffered more than 200 casualties, but they used small warships that were despised by others. In the ensuing night attack, the navy made persistent efforts and severely damaged several troop carriers of the Song army, and it was enough to be excited to achieve these results under such a huge disparity in strength. After Yan Yong learned the news, he was overjoyed and rewarded Xu Wen, but he was very good at being a man, and he gave all the rewards to the troops participating in the war, and the morale of the Jinshui Army was greatly boosted for a while.

But then the Song army strengthened its vigilance, and when berthing, they would choose a relatively open river bay to avoid the river, and place the transport ships with weak combat effectiveness on the inside, and the warships with strong firepower on the outside, and there were warships cruising back and forth in the river to be on guard, so that the Jin army could no longer infiltrate in the darkness of the night. When marching, the lead ships of the Song army also sailed in formation, no longer acting alone, and in areas with dense network of Guò rivers, they would also send warships to control the mouth of the Zì River and the river to prevent the Jin army's surprise attack.

These defensive measures of the Song army effectively suppressed the surprise tactics of the Jinshui army, and there was no chance to approach for several days, and naturally it could not stop the Song army from moving north, retreating all the way from Xianxiang. But Xu Wen was not discouraged, he believed that there would be loopholes in the strict protection, as long as you searched carefully, you can find them, sometimes it just takes some time and patience. This time he didn't have to wait long, and he soon discovered a new fighter.

The Song army attacked Liaoyang this time and sent two generals' infantry cavalry and two brigades of marines, according to the general algorithm is to combine one soldier for every two stones, which alone requires 2,000 'Yang-class' transport ships, and more than 200 ships to transport horses and baggage. There are also more than 60 'Wei-class' warships and auxiliary ships capable of self-defense. The three-way column is used to sail, and the fleet also stretches for more than ten miles, which is really a vast soup that cannot see the edge, which also causes difficulties for the front and rear to echo each other.

After reconnaissance, Xu Wen found that the Song army formation was very tightly organized. The front army consisted of more than 40 ships, including 10 warships and transport ships carrying marines, who were responsible for clearing the obstacles on the river, pulling out the Jin army fortresses along the river, and fighting the interception of the Jin army; The Chinese army was the largest, and most of the transport ships and baggage ships carrying the horse infantry army were concentrated here. escorted by forty warships; The rear army consisted of more than a dozen warships and more than 30 transport ships carrying three brigades of cavalry. Their main task, in addition to preventing the attack of the Golden Water Army, was to prevent the attack of the enemy on land. The three armies were separated by twenty miles to meet each other.

Xu Wen analyzed that the former army of the Song Army served as the pioneer, and its combat effectiveness was inevitably the strongest, and there were many warships. There are few auxiliary vessels. He felt that he could not afford to provoke; The rear army assumed the task of blocking the enemy. The combat readiness is high, the vigilance is strong, and it is not easy to start; And the Chinese army concentrated most of the warships in the fleet. There were also the most warships, but there were more transports. If those transports are called sheep, the warship is a sheepdog that guards the sheep, and he will be a wolf, and the sheepdog will not be able to keep the whole flock while grazing, and there will always be sheep that will be eaten.

In order to prevent running aground, the marching team could only change from three columns to two columns, and then to a single column, and the bow and stern stretched for dozens of miles, and it was difficult to see the end of the ship. In order to protect the safety of the fleet, the warships can only be inserted into the transport fleet to accompany each other, and cannot move forward or turn around at will......

On the surface of the Tsuruno section of the river, two bends appear in succession, forming a large S-shape. Because most of the warships of the Song army were driven by sails, when they turned corners, they had to sail in the form of half-sails to reduce their speed to prevent them from rushing out of the channel, so that the speed of the entire fleet dropped greatly and could only move forward slowly.

"Report to the marshal, the front report has found that more than 20 warships of the Golden Water Army have launched a surprise attack on the starboard side of our fleet!" Due to the limitation of the depth of the water, Ma Wei could only give up his god-level flagship after entering the Liao River, and succumbed to the 'Weiyong' warship, when suddenly there was news from the signal soldiers.

"Order the warships to drive away forcefully and protect the safety of the formation!" Ma Wei said that he hurriedly got out of the cabin and boarded the front deck of the ship, picked up the binoculars and looked at the front right, only to see that the Jinshui Army warships were attacking the fleet at a very fast speed, and they discharged a loose V-shaped battle formation, and the position of the attack was also very tricky, which was the middle point of the two escort warships, so that their gunwales could not shoot at them from the front, and could only fire their guns to deter and adjust the gun body.

The two Song warships each fired a salvo ...... the two Song warships, only to blow up a column of water on the river, several small boats were hit, and capsized in an instant, while the other Jin warships were still approaching.

"The warship broke away from the formation and blocked the enemy ship from approaching!" The distance was too close, and the enemy ships were short and scattered, and it was not easy to hit them, so Ma Wei could only let the ships run aground and ram the enemy ships, so that they would not break into the convoy.

"Marshal, the port side has also found the Jin Army warship!" The lookout post issued another warning.

"Fuck, they're really good at picking places!" Ma Wei turned to look to the left, and there were also more than a dozen small warships rushing out of the reeds and rushing towards the fleet. At this time, they were in the channel between the two bends, both front and back were turning, the speed could not be as fast as they wanted, the channel was narrow, the room for the movement of the ships was very small, the warships in front could not turn around to support, and the rear could not arrive in time. What's even stricter is that I don't know if Jin Jun still has a backhand, so that he can move the tiger away from the mountain.

"All ships should remain in formation, and they should not moor or break away from the formation without authorization." Ma Wei was thinking about countermeasures, and when he saw that there were ships in the fleet, he hurriedly ordered. The Jin army warship quickly rushed up and began to launch rockets, several transport ships with poor self-defense ability tried to dodge or dock to let the enemy ship pass, but the fleet was so long, the front and back were all connected by the sound of trumpets and flags, they stopped, and the unclear situation behind did not occur a series of rear-end collisions!

'Da Da ......'

'Smack, smack......

The infantry on board the transport ship also went to the deck one after another when they heard the siren, and they wanted to see the water battle, but they found that when the Jin army warship saw that their warship broke away from the formation and rushed towards them, they immediately dispersed in a hurry, taking advantage of their small and flexible ship, playing cat and mouse with the warship, gathering and scattering to avoid the collision of their own warship, while their warship was like a clumsy giant facing a group of rats being played.

Such a scene made the dragoons on the ship immediately aware of the danger, wasn't the trick of the Golden Navy exactly the 'guerrilla' tactics they commonly used on land? Although one is on the water and the other is on land, the principle is the same, first drag the main force of the other side with a part of the force, and then attack on its weakness, and the one you take is not armed with a transport ship, then you will become the weakness of being slaughtered by others, how can the infantry cavalry who have figured it out be willing to wait for death!

In order to facilitate the operation, the transport ships carrying the infantry cavalry were organized according to their respective units, with each commander taking one ship, and one brigade of ten ships forming a small formation, escorted by one warship. In addition to the horses, they were equipped with weapons and supplies, so that in case of emergency, they could take up arms and fight, and they could also reduce the number of supplies on the way. So these landlubbers were not bare-handed, the weapons were at hand, and they immediately picked up the guys and prepared for battle, and the cannon team set up all the small cannons on the deck.

Sure enough, just as these soldiers had expected, several of the warships of the Golden Navy's army diverted the attention of their own annoyed and angry warships, and the other warships swooped down on the convoy, and just when they thought they could do something new, suddenly there was a loud burst of gunfire, and a dense rain of bullets covered them like a fire net. This is not a naval gun, it is not easy to hit a fast-moving boat like them, at this moment it is a hundred machine guns and bead guns aimed at them, and the small boat is much larger than a person, a burst of fierce shooting, and there is no Jin army warship that rushes over without color.

Although the rocket of the Jin Army entered the range, it had no chance to launch at all, and was killed and injured in the blink of an eye. At this moment, they also understood that these transport ships carrying troops could not be provoked, and they could still move and quickly flee for their lives, and the seriously injured were quickly beaten into a sieve and sank to the bottom of the river. The Jin army, which had suffered heavy losses, did not dare to move forward, and under the bombardment of the warship artillery, it re-burrowed into the reeds and disappeared without a trace.

"Marshal, fireship!" With the assistance of the infantry army, the large-scale surprise attack launched by the Jin army was finally repelled, and Ma Wei had just breathed a sigh of relief when he heard another warning. He turned to look at the rear of the fleet, only to see more than a dozen small boats piled up with firewood and grass and other fire-igniting things rushing down the river towards the baggage flotilla that was turning a corner. The ships escorting the ships in the formation could only bombard the river with more intensive artillery fire, in an attempt to use the bombed water columns and swells to overturn the enemy ships and water the firewood and grass. And the ships on the attack side also hurriedly lowered their rams, ready to push the fireboats away......

Ma Wei looked at the river intently, his heart had already raised his throat, he could only let the ships in front of him speed up and beg to make room for the fleet behind to avoid the distance, in order to widen the distance between the ships, otherwise as long as one ship caught fire, the company camp would be burned, and the ships might collide or run aground in the avoidance, which would cause a devastating blow to the entire fleet, and even make the mission fail and die halfway.

As a result, they were really afraid of something, and the Jin army who drove the boat seemed to be out of the way, they scattered and walked through the gaps in the artillery fire to look for opportunities, some of the fireships were destroyed and overturned, but there were still a few that broke through the interception of the warships and leaned towards the baggage fleet, they lit the firewood and grass on the warships and let them go down the river, and a baggage boat that was turning a corner could not avoid being hit in the exclamation of everyone...... (To be continued......)