At three o'clock in the morning, a wild drum suddenly sounded in the Tanzhou warship located in the east, and the gate of the Tanzhou camp on land was pushed open by eight soldiers shouting, and a group of heavily armed soldiers shouted neat trumpets, and rushed out of the camp in turn in the order of cavalry, archers, sword and shield soldiers, and baggage soldiers, and quickly formed a phalanx in front of the camp.

The Langzhou Army Battalion, which had long been on high alert, also moved in response to the call, competing with the other side to line up their troops neatly. The Langzhou defenders on Meizhou City were also all dispatched, and they formed three columns on the city wall, ready for battle.

As soon as the Tanzhou army finished arranging, another rapid drum came out from the rear of the battle array. A group of archers immediately walked to the front of the battle formation along the gap left by the sword and shield soldiers, and pressed forward with neat steps, and one of the captains let out a long roar and shot the arrow in his hand diagonally.

Could it be that the Tanzhou army should attack first on land that does not have an advantage?

The Langzhou army did not dare to slack off, and all the sword and shield soldiers were neatly stacked with large shields nearly one person high, ready to meet the enemy.

Swift arrows and sharp whistles landed between the two armies. For a moment, all eyes were temporarily drawn to the noisy riverbank.

Before the sound of the arrows fell, small boats quickly jumped out of the gap in the huge group of warships in Tanzhou, and there were two crew members on each small boat, rowing with their heads silently and with all their might. The small boats loaded with dry firewood were lined up in a not very neat long formation, and with the help of the southeast wind, the speed became faster and faster, heading in the direction of the Langzhou warship.

Almost in the blink of an eye, the fleet sailed past the center line of the distance between the two armies' warships, a rapid drum sounded, followed by an earth-shattering gong, the soldiers on the small boat stopped rowing, picked up the torches in the stern, quickly lit the dry wood covered with fire oil and fire, and then shouted in unison, turned and jumped into the water, and swam desperately to the rear. In the rear, several small warships jumped out to meet the soldiers who had jumped into the water.

On the command ship of the Langzhou Navy Army, Lin Feng insisted that the Tanzhou Army would only attack first from the water, and his eyes were constantly paying attention to the movements of the opponent's fleet.

As soon as the other party's boats appeared, Lin Feng immediately poked Wang Kui, the commander beside him, and pointed to those boats. As soon as Lin Feng sent the special soldiers to the expedition, he got off Ma Xixu's sightseeing boat and took his brothers directly to Wang Kui's command ship.

Wang Kui smiled lightly and said, "Lord Lin, just watch the battle quietly!" After speaking, he picked up a small red flag in his right hand and waved it three times.

The command was immediately teleported out, and the top of a large red flag mast was swung three times.

A long row of small boats that had been waiting behind the first row of big ships immediately moved towards the small boats of the Tanzhou army.

On the boat commanded by the Tanzhou army, Xu Zhongya stared nervously at the small boats that jumped out of the other party, only to see those small boats that looked slow and leisurely, stopped not far from the first row of warships in Langzhou, and then all came sideways, and the soldiers on the boat quickly wrapped the bow and stern of the boat with ropes, and then hurriedly jumped into the water.

"I'm going to crash!" Xu Zhongya couldn't help but shout.

"Brother Xu, don't be nervous, our boat is so fast, it will definitely knock the blocking boat away!" Liu Yingyan replied easily.

With the help of the wind, many small boats that had been burned into fireballs collided with the long snake fleet that blocked the attack, to Liu Yingyao's surprise, except for a few fireships that successfully broke through the blocking line, most of the small boats slammed into it, and did not succeed in crossing, but only forced the long snake fleet to retreat some.

"No, there's something weird in the other party's boat!" Xu Zhongya shouted loudly.

"It's probably loaded with river water! It not only increases the weight of the ship, but also can block the fire. The other party's commander made Wang Kui understand that he was brainless, and he wouldn't come up with such a way to deal with it! Liu Yingyan was also a little surprised, muttered to herself, and immediately cheered up, "Soldiers, prepare!" All of them are out on the drums! ”

In Liu Yingyao's opinion, even if the fire attack does not work, there are many ships on his side, and it is not a problem to eat the other party.

"Hey, Master Liu, what's that?" Xu Zhongya suddenly pointed to a moving floating object in front of the bow of the boat and shouted.

Liu Yingyan glanced at Xu Zhongya dissatisfiedly, this literati scholar just can't let them go to the battlefield, when is this, what kind of mess are you adding?

"There are a few more groups, and it doesn't look like it's floating down the water!" Xu Zhongya was anxious and grabbed Liu Yingyao's sleeve.

Liu Yingyan muttered and stretched her head forward to look. Indeed, there were several clusters of spherical floats, gathering in one place not far in front of the bow.

"Pigs?" Liu Yingyu was also a little confused, except for the scattered aquatic plants on the floating objects, those round objects really looked like blown pigs, how could such a dirty thing suddenly appear on this water?

Just when Liu Yingyu was stunned, several floating objects gathered together suddenly sank down, and several heads that could not see clearly jumped out of the water in a circle, they used both hands hard, and a shirtless man with a big bow suddenly appeared in the empty circle in the middle.

The big man shook off the water droplets on his head suddenly, pulled his right hand back, and the three sharp arrows that he had already held in his hand made a "clanging" sound, and rushed straight to Liu Yingyan's door.

"Enemy attack!" Liu Yingyu shouted, and retreated sharply according to the body on the side of the boat.

Three arrows flew by, the arrow on the left missed, and the arrow in the middle grazed Liu Yingyan's ear, causing him to fall down on his back. An arrow from the right shot Xu Zhongya's high crown on the side, scaring the literati into sitting on the board.

"Lord Liu has been attacked!" Several soldiers shouted at the same time, and the news immediately spread, and after hearing the news, all the soldiers on the ship shouted wildly, and ran to the bow of the ship with their weapons.

At this moment, an iron grappling hook silently landed on the stern side of the ship, but after a few breaths, a human head with a steel knife in its mouth appeared on the outside of the ship, it was Lin Renzhao.

Needless to say, this was a sneak attack by the officers and men of the special forces. The small warships they were riding in went around from the north to the flanks and rear of the Tanzhou flotilla and swaggered into the flank.

In a large fleet of 150 boats, a small boat was inconspicuous, and even if a neighboring boat occasionally shouted and asked, Lin Renzhao asked the boatman to reply that he was going to the front to meet the soldiers who were diving, which naturally did not arouse much suspicion.

Because Liu Yingzhen decided to take the initiative to attack, the command ship he was on was very forward, in the fourth row of the entire fleet.

The small boat moved forward leisurely for a while, and not far from the tall and eye-catching command ship, the special soldiers of the special department took advantage of the staggered time with a large ship, quietly slipped into the water one after another, and hoisted the pig belly that had just been blown on the small boat above their arms, and slowly swam towards the command ship with a hollow reed pipe folded from the river in their mouths.

Shooting arrows in front of the command ship was Qin Hansheng, the archery instructor of the special forces. They had practiced this way of sneaking out of the water to carry out archery sneak attacks many times in the valley, and this time, with the help of the pigs, they had done it well. Qin Hansheng was able to almost hit the target the moment he surfaced, and he had already managed to attract the attention of all the soldiers on the ship.

All three missed! Qin Hansheng scolded angrily, and shot three more arrows in his hand. Before the ship's personnel could fight back, they threw quivers and bows, and one of them plunged into the water. The four teammates who were holding him next to him also ripped off the pigs and quickly dived down.

Soon, almost all the soldiers gathered around the bow of the boat, and kept shooting arrows at the place where a few people had just appeared.

Liu Yingyao, who was startled, jumped up from the ground, picked up Xu Zhongya, who was still sitting on the ground, and angrily reached out and snatched a big bow and an arrow from a soldier's hand, and shot an arrow at the location where Qin Hansheng appeared just now.

The river was constantly surging waves, and there was no one for a long time, but all the pigs floating on the surface of the water were shot through by the angry soldiers as targets.

Liu Yingyu turned around and found that all the soldiers on the ship were around him, and he had a sense of foreboding in his heart, and immediately shouted loudly: "This commander is fine, all the soldiers go back to you!" ”

At this point, it's too late!

Lin Renzhao, Feng Jingyun, Wei San, and Zhang Bin had already capsized on the boat and set up a semi-circular defensive circle at the place where they boarded the boat. Cheng Yuehai, Liu Qi, and Chen Lifei, who followed closely behind, also quickly came to the rope.