But the mystery of war is that you can never change in the next moment. The retreat of the chariot and ship did not represent the complete rout of the Song Dynasty naval forces on both wings, but after the retreat of the chariot and vessel, they shouted in unison on the warships covered by cowhide on the two sides, accelerated the speed of rowing, and rushed towards the tortoiseshell boat.

A considerable number of sailors who had participated in the Huaidong battle attached to the tortoiseshell ship had always known the reputation of the Shooting Sun Ship for not fighting for their lives, and at this time, they saw more than 100 Shippers charging towards the tortoiseshell ship, and they were a little panicked.

"Don't panic!" Shi Tianze looked at the chaos on the deck and scolded: "Bastard! What is there to worry about the Nanren's boat, are you still worried that they will be able to hit this tortoiseshell iron ship! Go ahead and sink them all!! ”

Indeed, in terms of ramming tactics alone, the larger and stronger the armor of the ship, the better the impact effect, and the tortoiseshell and stern ships were designed and built with ramming tactics in mind. If the two warships collide, it is natural that the tortoiseshell ship will suffer more. Shi Tianze didn't think that this was Zheng Yunming's real determination to turn the tide of the battle with a warship, this was just the only ship in Zheng Yunming's hands that could slightly compete with the tortoiseshell ship, Zheng Yunming was already exhausted, and there was no opponent in front of the tortoiseshell ship that could be worth fighting.

In the forward warship, Yu Jue stood at the bow with an arquebus in his hand, facing the river breeze with the pungent smell of gunsmoke, and the huge black shadows that were getting closer and closer, he shouted: "Give the order to go down, don't attack the deck, aim at the oars of the tortoiseshell ship, and hit me hard!" ”

The tortoiseshell warship has a backplate on its back, and the side is equipped with iron armor, just like a living tortoise that makes people unable to speak, but just as the tortoise has a place that cannot be guarded against, the tortoiseshell ship also has its own weakness, that is, the oars, the tortoiseshell boat that cannot hang sails, its only power is the long oars that stretch out from under the two sides, and each tortoiseshell warship needs at least a hundred strong oarsmen to drive it, so that this heavy warship can run fast on the water. But these oars, which stick out of the tortoiseshell, are not covered by any effective cover.

The tortoiseshell ships also tried to turn their bows and meet the enemy with strong frontal armor, so that the enemy could not catch the fragile oars, but the huge and bulky hull became a burden to the steering at this time, and in order to pursue absolute indestructibility, the tortoiseshell ship paid too much weight to make the tortoiseshell ship even less agile than a fully loaded gun. It takes more time to turn around than a normal warship, but on the other hand, a warship with only twenty oarsmen is known for its agility and speed, and it can even change the rhythm of its rowing to avoid oncoming gunfire.

The soldiers on the tortoiseshell ship fired their guns and arrows with all their might, and the arrows and lead bullets shot out from the side in waves, and they all clearly saw the target of the Song Dynasty's light clipper attack, and they also clearly realized that this was the weakness of the tortoiseshell boat that was difficult to hide. The skills of the Han shooters in the Mongol army have become more and more sophisticated year by year in these years, and they are even no less than the archers in the Mongol army headquarters, and their appearance on the ship is even better than the Mongolian cavalry that is impermeable, but the years of war have caused a lot of attrition, the well-trained archers are not enough, and a large number of new recruits have not been trained, and the Mongol army's guns are heavy and slow to load, although they have successfully hit many oncoming enemy ships, It did cause a lot of casualties to the Song people, but the Song people were like madmen who didn't want to die, shouting loudly and rowing their oars in unison, and approaching quickly.

"Raise the oars and tell them to lift the oars!" Lu Wende's first reaction was similar to that of most of the bow of the tortoiseshell boat, except that the tortoiseshell boat was three levels up and down, and the oarsman rowed at the bottom, and the command from the bow was not so easy to be received by the oarsman at the bottom in time. Before most of the tortoiseshell boats had time to retract their oars, the Sunshoot slammed into them at lightning speed.

Yu Jue's ship collided with the enemy's tall armored battleship at a very small angle, almost grazing the side of the tortoiseshell ship, and the collision alone caused more than a dozen oars to break and shatter, and the fine pieces of wood crackled on the hanging cowhides of the ship, and many of the oars he was riding on were broken before they could be put away. Such an impact is happening one after another on the river, maybe the rest of the warships are not perfect at the impact angle, and even the huge impact makes the warships themselves not look good, but these are insignificant compared to the results produced by the warships, thirty-four tortoiseshell warships, more than 20 have lost most of their oars because of the violent impact, becoming dead tortoiseshells that cannot act independently in the heart of the river, and a large number of Song warships carrying soldiers are heading up to carry out a large-scale siege of these isolated tortoiseshell ships. The upper deck, which was wrapped in a hard wooden backboard, was originally the best protection against the enemy's bows and arrows or guns, but when the enemy climbed up and threw incendiary objects into it, the upper deck became a coffin for the sailors and soldiers to fear, and there were archers and sailors jumping into the water with flames from the narrow openings on both sides.

The Mongol warships in the rear were not without the willingness to come forward to protect the besieged tortoiseshell ships, but they were also too busy to take care of themselves, and after the Song army surrounded the tortoiseshell ships, the vehicles and ships loaded with artillery immediately swept over the fierce battle from the flanks, and poured dense artillery fire on the board boats and oars that followed the tortoiseshell ships. Zheng Yunming temporarily transferred well-trained sailors from the Hunan Army and the Shenwu New Army to supplement the Dongting Naval Army, although most of the veterans of the old Jing'e and Hubei Naval Corps were still too late to be recalled in various places, but the Dongting gunboats had initially regained their former glory, and the gunboats that had been outflanked from the banks of the Yangtze River were fired in order on the side of the gunboats, and the shells kept blowing up water columns in the Mongolian fleet. The Mongolian oars and slab boats were bombed to pieces. Yiqiē seems to be back to the way it was before the appearance of tortoiseshell boats.

At this time, the tortoiseshell warships lit a fire one after another, and the armored warships parked on the river seemed to be torches lit on the river, illuminating the river red. Fragments of ships and the corpses of sailors drifted down the river, and they could be seen everywhere on the surface of the river for dozens of miles. The Song Dynasty naval army did not stop, and the large group of warships continued to advance against the current over the burning Mongol warships, and their purpose was already very clear.

"Raise the flag, notify the military horses from all walks of life, seize the pontoon bridge, reward 100,000 yuan, and seal the liehou!" Zheng Yunming stood at the head of Hanyang City, watching hundreds of Song ships fight against the current, beating the Mongolian ships that exceeded his own army several times the water, and the Song army's ships have been getting closer and closer to the South Pontoon Bridge. The most critical moment of this battle is coming.

Seeing the defeat of their own naval army, the Mongol army also sent men and horses to strengthen the defense of the pontoon bridge, and the number of crossbows and artillery placed on the shore increased by dozens, and even some artillery and artillery trucks originally used to attack Ezhou were also carried over, and they stepped up to build positions, and crossbow arrows and shells flew on the river, just to be able to stop the Song warships full of soldiers that were constantly approaching the pontoon bridge.

On the pontoon bridge, rows of soldiers were already lined up, and the archers held their bows and fired arrows at the oncoming Song army, and the Song army returned fire with ferocious artillery fire and firearms. The vehicle and boat slammed into the pontoon, and the huge impact made many people unstable on their feet. Numerous iron claws were thrown down from the bow, wide planks were lowered from the bow, and heavily armed armorers jumped off the ship with their blades, and the pontoon bridge became a killing ground for hand-to-hand combat. The terrain of the pontoon bridge or the long causeway, the heaviest sharpness, the two armies meet the brave and the like and the like, not to mention, the pontoon bridge can accommodate the limited number of troops, Rao is that you have hundreds of thousands of troops, can fight on the pontoon bridge is only a few thousand people, at this time the Song army attacked the Mongolian army, sharp on the side of the Song army, the Huaidong army and horses were already fierce and able to fight, and Zheng Yunming organized the Hunan army of 2,000 people as a dare to help the war, the Hunan army is commonly known as the iron head army, once the battle, but there is an advance, never look back. Even if they did not form any formation, the onslaught of the Song army forced many Mongol troops into the water.

The troops in front were squeezed and retreated, and the soldiers behind would naturally fall into the Yangtze River if they had no foothold, and the Mongol army was overconfident in their tortoiseshell warships, and most of the elites were besieging the city. At such a moment of life and death, there is absolutely no room for half a moment of shaking and panic, and the escape of one person will immediately turn into the collapse of the whole army. Even if it is an invincible army in the world, it will not be able to escape such a law in the end.

Looking at the crimson flag that began to flutter on the pontoon, Zheng Yunming's heart had been half relieved, although the more than 10,000 Mongolian defenders near the south bank of the south pontoon bridge were still trapped, after all, they were already the turtles in the urn, they relied on the barriers and fortifications in the south of the Yangtze River to resist desperately, but the gunpowder and supplies had been completely cut off, and they were all wiped out only at the moment, he could see that Zhang Shijie and Xiang Shibi had led the military horses to rush up, and there was a fierce shouting of killing in front, and the smoke and dust raised by the artillery bombardment of the fortifications were getting closer and tighter, The first step in turning the tide of the war had been successful, and the victory of the navy army had laid a solid foundation for the defeat of the Mongol army, and the next question was how to break the main force of the Mongol army besieging Ezhou