At this time, the river near Huilongshan was full of Mongol boats. They even drove their fishing boats into the inner river to find a waterway to Zhang Rou's military camp, but soon got lost in the cobweb-like waterway.

Most of the ships were moored on the bank of the river, inspecting the Song warships anchored downstream, ready to attack while the Song warships were unprepared.

When Zheng Yunming and Yang Luo came to inspect the situation on the river on a water sentry horse, this is what they saw. More than 1,000 small boats and 600 majestic warships faced each other on both sides of the river, and no one would attack easily.

"It's really unreasonable, the Song army's sailor warships are far superior to the Mongols' small fishing boats in terms of quality, why don't you take the initiative to attack?" Zheng Yunming looked at the river and asked puzzledly, "Don't you know that the life of the Lu Dao Water Army lies in attacking?" When your strength is weak, you should sail away, and when you are strong, you should take the initiative to attack! You must attack and attack until all the enemy ships are annihilated, this is the true meaning of water warfare! ”

Yang Luo crossed his arms and looked at the direction of the Song army's ships for a long time, and said: "It is estimated that Jiang Hai is in command, this general is brave and brave, and he blindly seeks stability and weight with his troops, although he completes the task without making mistakes every time, but because of excessive weight and delays the fighter, there are many things that cause the enemy to successfully advance or retreat." ”

"Failing to catch the fighter is the biggest mistake!" Zheng Yunming shouted: "I would rather my subordinates suffer losses because of their recklessness, and I will never tolerate them losing the spirit of attack in a superior situation!" ”

"All in all, it seems that Jiang Dutong's fleet is still as safe as Mount Tai now." Yang Luo tilted his head sideways and said, "I think we should worry about ourselves." ”

Among the Mongolian ships that were mooring, dozens of small boats were leaving the riverbank, and the Mongolian soldiers were acting as sailors, loaded with swords, bows and crossbows, and rowed quickly towards the lone water sentry horse.

"In this way, the commander of the other party has not the slightest suspicion? Who will send only one ship to reconnoiter under the flag of the commander-in-chief? Yang Luo mocked and urged the sailors: "Hurry up and drop the flag and flee in a panic!" If the action is slow, everyone and the Zheng Guanren will fall into the pockets of the Mongols. ”

The sailors took the flag off the mast and turned the bow of the ship to flee upstream, each rowing with eight or nine points of strength while constantly looking back. They could not allow the Mongol ships to catch up, but they also could not leave these already baited prey too far behind, leading them to abandon the pursuit believing that the pursuit was hopeless.

It is difficult to grasp the scale of this without three or five years of sailing experience, and for the Mongols, only the conscripts in the Mizusawa region of Luxi and Lunan can have such rich experience on the water. But it was different for the Jing'e navy, almost all sailors grew up soaking in Dongting Lake, and this kind of thing was like the Mongolian army's horseback archery, which was a familiar means of play since childhood.

Whenever the Mongol ships came closer, the sailors redoubled their efforts to paddle and throw them farther away, and once the enemy in the rear was lagging behind, they would deliberately slow down their oars and stop and wait for the enemy to catch up.

If it was an experienced naval officer who commanded the pursuit, he could immediately judge that this was just a clumsy trick by the Jing'e naval army to lure the enemy, and the lonely sending a clipper to reconnoitre, and the posture of wanting to resist and welcome back when retreating was simply a drama full of loopholes. It's a pity that the 100 households of the Guan army who are responsible for the pursuit task are from Qinghe County, Hebei Province, which is Zhang Rou's administrative area, and the soldiers are brave and good at fighting, but they are not familiar with driving ships. He only thought that the Song army ships were as unskilled as his subordinate sergeants, so he was sometimes fast and slow, and the archers were already standing on the bow of the boat, ready to wait for the chase to start shooting arrows, but the Song Dynasty lonely boat in front was always a little bit larger than the maximum range of the bow and arrow. Let them anxiously shout that the oarsmen behind them are paddling with all their might, and get into the battle distance as soon as possible.

Between the pursuit and escape, it has entered a narrow river bay in the west of Huilongshan, where the reeds on both sides of the bank are thick, some of the reeds are as high as zhangxu, almost as high as a small shrub, the local place is called Luhuadu, it was originally a commonly used ferry.

"It's time, I'll send a signal!" Yang Luo took out a fireworks canister from his arms, and as firearms gradually became more popular in the Song army, the Song army was also innovating the signaling system of the army, and in addition to the traditional flags, gongs, drums, bangzi and bamboo whistles, they also began to use fireworks and gunpowder equipment such as firecrackers to give orders.

"Don't be in a hurry!" Zheng Yunming shouted loudly, turned his head to look at the pursuers who were chasing closely, it seemed that they were still a little far away: "Take the enemy's ship and bring it inside!" They haven't gone deep yet! ”

"That's not going to happen." Yang Luo said seriously: "I have to take care of the safety of Zheng Guanren, for the sake of these dozens of small boats, I sent the life of the general of this army, this deal can't be done, in addition, if you bring it inside, I'm afraid that our ambush soldiers will only have to copy the back road, now is the right time." He reached out and lit the fireworks on the charcoal brazier in the bow of the ship, and held it high.

A golden spark suddenly bloomed in the sky, and the crisp sound shook the four fields. In the reeds on both sides of the river, countless large and small Song warships sounded in unison, and the soldiers shouted and pulled their oars at the same time, rushing out of the ambush on both sides of the bank at great speed, surrounding dozens of Mongolian fishing boats.

At this time, the Song army's multi-oared boat had been properly modified, and a wooden general or bamboo general was placed in the bow, and there were two gunners behind the general's cannon. The way to fight is no longer to use a bow and arrow to shoot when you get close to an enemy ship, and then throw a canister of fire and set it on fire. After approaching the enemy ship, wait for the distance of the enemy ship, and when it is within range of the gun, first fire the gun to bombard the enemy ship, then continue to charge, use the gun to shoot, and finally approach to throw the oil and use the flamethrower.

Zhang Weixiao led a multi-oared boat to the front of the team, and from a long distance he spotted a figure who looked like an officer standing on a fishing boat opposite. Ordered his subordinates to paddle with all their strength and rushed towards the fishing boat, which was sixty or seventy paces away, Zhang Weixiao lit the torch in his hand and lit the fuse on the fire door. The bamboo shogun installed in the bow of the ship is a large bamboo general, and the sound of the launch is very powerful, and a cloud of black-brown smoke rises in front of the bow of the ship with a loud thunderclap, and a stone projectile shoots out. At the same time, the huge recoil force made the whole boat suddenly, the impact of the current was almost snatched away from the oars in the hands of the sailors, Zhang Weixiao staggered backwards, and then stood firmly on the board of the boat, and looked up, the middle of the fishing boat that the officer was riding in had been punched a big hole, and the enemy sailors were killed and wounded at the place where the wood chips flew sideways, and the officer also stood unsteadily and fell from the bow of the ship.

The first artillery bombardment of the Song army threw the Mongol commander into the water, and the Mongol ships lost their command and could only be improvised and leaned together to meet the Song warships. This is the way of fighting on the water that the Mongols have studied after a period of exploration, when fighting hand-to-hand with the Song army, they first use a boat to rush towards the Song army's ship, and when this warship succeeds in helping the ship, the other warships will immediately go up to get close to the warship, and use the gangplank at the stern of the gang to use their superior individual quality and numerical advantage to seize the opportunity in the battle.

This was originally a temporary solution that the Mongol army, which was not good at water warfare, came up with a solution to avoid falling into a long-range struggle with the Song army, and quickly divided the victory and defeat with a white-knuckle battle on the side, so as to minimize the advantage of the Song army's ships.

It's a pity that the Song warships that came over this time were not as reckless as the last time, and after firing the general's cannon, they obviously purposefully slowed down the speed of the ship, while trying to ensure the stability of the ship, while changing to the firecrackers to go forward and aim at the Mongolian warships to continue shooting, the warships without firecrackers used bows and arrows to attack, the arrows on the river rained down, the Mongolian warships were shrouded in a bloody wind and mist, and the pops of the soldiers falling into the water came and went, and the rest of the ships tried to turn around to avoid these dense guns and arrows, However, the maneuvering was ineffective, and several ships soon collided with each other, and these ships were disturbed in the fleet, and the Mongol ships were even more confused.

The ships of the Jing'e Navy only approached the enemy ships in an orderly manner from all directions, until they were forced to a distance enough to throw fire-starters, flying oil canisters, fire meteors and torches, the Mongol warships soon became victims of the fire attack, once the ships were ignited, the Mongol army did not seem to know how to extinguish the fire, but in vain took off their heads as water to scoop the river water to extinguish the fire, but the fire caused by the oil canister and the pine branch torch spread at a very fast speed, and it was not at all this cup of water that could be saved. The fire went so fast that some of the Mongol sergeants could not extinguish it no matter how hard they pounced, but they jumped into the river, and the sergeants who jumped into the water with them were because the flames had surrounded the whole ship and they had nowhere to go.

Zheng Yunming stood at the stern of the water sentry horse, looking at the battlefield with blazing gas in the distance, and the Mongolian warships that were burned by the fire drifted down the river one after another, looking from a distance, like small paper boats lit in the Yangtze River.

Yang Luo said lightly on the side: "Although today's victory is complete, it is only a small victory, the loss of these dozens of ships by the Mongols is like a drop in the bucket, please don't underestimate the enemy." ”

Zheng Yunming didn't turn back, and only replied in a confident tone: "Don't worry, I won't just burn this one, I will burn it one after another until all the Mongolian beards are burned out!" ”