With the strong support of his generals, Yao Gezhong was even more confident, and after a little preparation, he led the army to pounce on the Wujiang crossing.

In the direction of the Wujiang ferry, the Jin army on the south bank was a uniform naval army, with more than 30,000 sailors on thousands of warships, large and small, and camps stretched for miles on the shore of the ferry, and the soldiers could rest in these tents after they went ashore.

On the north shore of the ferry, it is the main army of Shi Hu, in just over half a month, Shi Hu mobilized craftsmen to build thousands of large and small warships at a very fast speed, and is still building.

But Shi Hu faced a very strict problem, that is, these Zhao soldiers did not know how to be watery, except for thousands of sailors transferred from the rear, the vast majority of the remaining soldiers were full landlubbers.

In order to train these soldiers who are not good at water, Shi Hu let the soldiers practice on the warship day and night to cultivate the soldiers' water warfare skills, in order to test the soldiers' water warfare ability, Shi Hu also often let the soldiers drive the warship and go to the south bank of the river to provoke the Jin warship.

However, what annoyed Shi Hu was that every sortie had failed, and even when there were more troops than the Jin army, he could not win the battle.

In order to change this decline, Shi Hu ordered craftsmen to step up the construction of large warships, and on the other hand, let the few generals of the navy train their soldiers day and night.

Of course, under Shi Hu's increasingly aggressive momentum, the Jin army guarding the south bank of the Wujiang River crossing was also under great pressure, although they won every water battle, but there were still casualties, and as the soldiers of the Zhao army became more and more skilled in water warfare, this pressure became more and more urgent.

In order to hold the south bank of the Wujiang ferry and block the road for Shi Hu's army to go south, the generals of the Yangzhou Army who were responsible for defending the ferry could be described as exhausting, and he constantly adjusted his deployment to counter the increasingly powerful naval army under Shi Hu's command, but the protection of the rear was very small, which provided convenience for the sneak attack of Yao Gezhong's army.

Only half an hour after Yao Gezhong's army set off, they arrived at the Jin army camp on the south bank of the Wujiang River crossing, and when the Jin soldiers in the camp found them, they had already lined up in battle formation to attack.

The Jin soldiers in the camp were unprepared, and when they suddenly saw Yao Gezhong's army coming, they suddenly looked extremely panicked, and the soldiers in charge of the sentry hurriedly beat the gong to warn.

After hearing the early warning, the soldiers in the Jin army camp hurriedly picked up their weapons and hastily set up a formation to resist Yao Gezhong's army.

One is that it has been planned for a long time and has a detailed surprise attack plan, and the other is unprepared and hastily responded, and the results of the battle can be imagined.

Under the fierce surprise attack of the army under Yao Gezhong's command, the hastily assembled Jin army was defeated, and Yao Gezhong's army broke into the Jin army camp, killed the Jin army in the camp, and set fire to the Jin army's camp tent.

However, fortunately, it was daytime at this time, and there were not many soldiers staying in the camp tent, most of the soldiers were outside the camp tent, and in order to be able to attack quickly, most of the centaurs of the navy stayed in the cabin.

Therefore, although Yao Gezhong's army successfully broke through the camp of the Jin army, the capture was not outstanding, and in the battle of nearly half an hour, only more than 1,000 soldiers of the Jin army were killed, however, the destruction of the camp of the Jin army should not be underestimated, and a large number of camp tents and other materials were burned, and the losses caused to the Jin army were really not small.

The chief general of the Jin army, who was inspecting a three-story warship, was shocked to find that the camp was raided by Yao Gezhong's men and horses, and he ordered his generals to lead a hundred warships to stare at Shihu's main force in the direction of Jiangbei, and at the same time gathered the remaining sailors and soldiers to get off the ship and go to the direction of the camp to reinforce.

"General, the main force of the Jin army's naval army is coming here, our army retreat!" A subordinate general looked at Yao Gezhong and said loudly.

Yao Gezhong looked up in the direction of the ferry and said loudly, "Retreat? At this time, it is the time for our army to make meritorious contributions, why should we retreat, light the wolf smoke, and report to the king on the other side, if the king can send warships to help the battle at this time, our army will definitely take the Wujiang ferry in a battle. ”

"Yes, General." Hearing the order, the general hurriedly led two soldiers to release the wolf smoke.

Yao Gezhong released wolf smoke at the Wujiang ferry, and the Shihu army on the other side of the river saw it, and at the same time, the thunderstorm army reinforcing the Wujiang ferry also saw it.

"General, wolf smoke, it's in the direction of Wujiang Ferry." A soldier reported loudly.

Thunderstorm naturally saw the wolf smoke in the distance, which was fifteen miles away from the Wujiang ferry, and the cavalry galloped with all their might, and they would definitely be able to arrive within half an hour.

"There must be an accident at the Wujiang Ferry, and our army must rush to the aid of the Wujiang Ferry as fast as possible and set off at full speed." Thunderstorm said loudly.

Under the leadership of Thunderstorm, the 7,000 cavalry of the Northern Expeditionary Army rushed to the Wujiang River Ferry at the fastest speed.

On the north bank of the Wujiang ferry, the sentries of Shi Hu's main army saw the wolf smoke burning on the opposite bank and immediately reported to Shi Hu.

Shi Hu personally went to the ferry to observe, and when he saw three wisps of wolf smoke rising on the opposite bank, he understood that it was Yao Gezhong who released it, so he immediately ordered the newly trained naval army under his command to march to the south bank.

In the camp of the Jin army on the south bank of the Wujiang ferry, as the main force of the Jin army returned to the camp from the warship, the arrogance of Yao Gezhong's army was greatly suppressed, but the land combat strength of the Jin army's sailors was not as good as that of Yao Gezhong's army, so although the main force returned one after another, it was still unable to defeat the army under Yao Gezhong's command, and the two sides suddenly showed a stalemate.

Two moments later, the Zhao navy sailing from the north bank of the ferry was the first to arrive in the waters near the south bank and fought with the defending Jin navy warships.

Nearly 1,000 warships of the Zhao Navy are coming one after another, while the Jin Army is responsible for defending only more than 100 warships, and the gap between the two sides is huge, but the Jin Army's naval division has blocked the Zhao Navy several times its own by virtue of its skillful command and operation.

However, with the successive arrival of the Zhao State Water Division, the weakness of the insufficient strength of the Jin State Water Division gradually appeared, and the pressure it faced became more and more great.

Seeing that the Zhao army's sailors took advantage of the situation to kill, Yao Gezhong and his men and horses were suddenly demoralized and killed more energetically, while the soldiers of the Jin army were demoralized and panicked.

If he leads the army to retreat from the warship and fight with the Zhao army, he will definitely be able to repel the Zhao army, but in this way, the south bank of the Wujiang River Ferry will be occupied by Yao Gezhong, and the Navy cannot stay on the river all the time, losing the fleet to rely on, in order to get supplies, it must evacuate the Wujiang River Ferry and go to other ferries.

In this way, the north and south banks of the Wujiang ferry will be occupied by the army of Zhao, and Shi Hu's main army will be able to pass through the Wujiang ferry and set foot on the land of the south of the Yangtze River continuously, with unimaginable consequences.

"Soldiers, you must recapture the camp and kill ......" In despair, the Jin army commander loudly ordered the soldiers to fight with Yao Gezhong's army.

At this moment, in his heart, retaking the big camp is more important than anything else, as for the Zhao State Sailor on the big river, the hundred warships he arranged can still resist for a while.

The Jin army had an advantage in strength, and under the personal command and encouragement of the chief general of the Jin army, the Jin army's sailors recovered some morale and fought more bravely, and Yao Gezhong's army suddenly could not take any advantage.

At the moment when the fierce battle between the two sides was in full swing, Lei Storm led 7,000 cavalry under his command was about to arrive at the Wujiang Ferry, and Yao Gezhong, who was in charge of the vigilance, immediately rode his horse to the Wujiang Ferry, and reported the news of the Jin cavalry to Yao Gezhong.

Hearing that the seven thousand cavalry of the Jin army were a few miles away, Yao Gezhong was taken aback, he looked up to the east, and could already vaguely see the shadow of the cavalry of the Jin army.

"General, it's the Jin army reinforcements again, let's retreat!" A subordinate general persuaded.

"General, the Jin army is all cavalry, if you don't retreat at this time, when it is killed, our army will have no way to retreat, and it will definitely suffer heavy losses." Another general continued to advise.

Seeing that the Jin army was suffering from the enemy on its back, it was about to be unable to hold on, and at this critical moment, the reinforcements of the Northern Expeditionary Army appeared again, and it was 7,000 cavalry, which made Yao Gezhong's heart have great hatred, and he couldn't wait to break all the Northern Expeditionary Army into pieces.

"General, retreat! Don't hesitate, the little general is still waiting for us at the Wuhu ferry? The ministry will persuade again.

As soon as he heard the general mention Yao Xiang, Yao Gezhong's heart also sounded Yao Xiang's previous warning, that is, if reinforcements from the direction of Jiankang City appeared, they must not fall in love with the battle, and they must evacuate quickly.

"Retreat, the whole army retreats." Yao Gezhong finally reluctantly gave the order to retreat.

This is a helpless decision for him, as long as there is a glimmer of hope, Yao Gezhong is unwilling to give up, after all, after crossing the river, without achieving a big victory, he will face great psychological pressure if he withdraws like this.

"Withdraw, withdraw." The generals shouted loudly to convey Yao Gezhong's orders.

Soon, Yao Gezhong's army withdrew to the west one after another, and the Jin army commander at the ferry ordered not to pursue, and the whole army returned to the warship, preparing to meet Shi Hu's tens of thousands of sailors.

When the thunderstorm quickly whipped his horse and led 7,000 cavalry to the Wujiang ferry, Yao Gezhong's army had already evacuated some distance, seeing that the ferry was safe and sound, and the men and horses under his command were very tired, the thunderstorm did not order the pursuit, but let the soldiers dismount and rest near the Wujiang ferry, so as to wait for the Wang Sixth Army that was still behind, and when the Wang Sixth Army arrived, they could set up camp nearby and garrison here.

After the main force of the Jin army's sailors returned to the warships, under the command of the commander-in-chief, they began to attack the provocative Zhao navy.

In order to give the Zhao navy a little color and let it understand that the Great Jin Naval Division was not easy to mess with, the chief general of the Jin Army ordered the naval division to adopt dangerous interspersed tactics, sent the main warship, penetrated the formation of the Zhao army, and cut the Zhao army's warships that were not familiar with water warfare into several sections, so that they could not take care of each other, and then broke each other.

In the face of the strong combat effectiveness of the Jin Army's naval division, the Zhao State Naval Division was obviously not an opponent, and thousands of warships were washed away, almost completely losing their combat effectiveness.