Originally, Lu Meng didn't want to show the strongest strength, but he wanted to give the Celestial Empire Navy a dismount, so he sent the strongest force. In order to be able to decide the situation in a battle, at least through this battle to deter the other party and make them have some scruples, then he only needs to hold on for enough time and wait for General Huang Gai to return.

It's just that I never thought that the strongest force was sent out, and it was even with the other party, could it be said that the Celestial Empire also showed the most powerful power when it came up? It wouldn't be that coincidental.

Of course, the truth will not be so coincidental, Gan Ning sent only a second-class army in the first battle.

There are 500,000 people in the Waterway Legion, and it is also divided into three, six, nine and so on, among which the strongest is naturally the elite force of the first class, followed by the second-class force that is stronger than the third class, and in the end it is still an ordinary third-class force.

This first contact was also the first battle between the Celestial Empire Navy and the Eastern Wu Navy, Gan Ning didn't want to weaken his morale, so he sent a second-class combat power warship to attack the opponent, in his opinion, even if he only sent second-class combat power, it was enough to win the game.

It's just that now it seems that this is not the case, the Dongwu Navy is still very powerful, and it can compete with his second-class combat strength.

Fighting is the best way to test your strength. After this first battle, Gan Ning didn't dare to hold it up, and he decided to use a trick.

Naturally, Gan Ning didn't know that Lu Meng would send out the most elite power when he came up, otherwise, he would not have used his hole cards so quickly.

"Pass my order and set up a double battle formation." Gan Ning didn't know what the strength of the Dongwu Navy was, and if he continued to fight like this, he would fight hard and lose his vitality, so he quickly made a decision, that is, to use the most powerful moves, if this is the case, he can't do anything about the other party, then he has to take the boat back.

Of course, the confident Gan Ning would not believe that once the hole cards are used, he will not be the opponent of the Dongwu Water Army, this pair of sandwich battle formations has been deduced many times with the military advisor Jia Xu, and has been a very mature tactic, he firmly believes that this formation will be able to occupy a sufficient advantage.

With Gan Ning's order, the warships of the Waterway Legion immediately expanded, not as dense as before, but two ships acting together as a unit, and the target was a single warship of Soochow.

In other words, it is equivalent to two waterway legion warships attacking a Soochow warship, which is the attack method of the double-pinch battle array.

The originally dense Celestial Empire Waterway Army suddenly split into two and evolved into a two-attack situation, which was indeed somewhat unexpected by General Lü Meng. But he was not alarmed. In naval warfare, it is customary to use the advantage of warships to attack the enemy, that is, as long as you have enough warships, it is also appropriate to fight one by one, and in doing so, the final result will be the side with more warships.

The current situation is that there are more warships of the Celestial Empire Waterway Legion, and it is natural that they will choose to attack in this way.

"Gather a hundred warships and start counterattacking one by one, and the other warships will find a way to support each other." Lu Meng had a plan in the face of such an attack, that is, to first support most of the opponent's warships with a small number of troops, and then concentrate a part of the warships to counterattack one by one, which is a bit like the meaning of Tian Ji's horse race.

With the orders of the generals of the two sides, soon the more than 1,000 warships on the sea moved, and each began to attack in formation according to the general's order.

Lu Meng himself took a hundred warships to get rid of the encirclement and attack of the other party first, and then began to approach again on the periphery, obviously they wanted to use the temporary advantage to counterattack, and then find a way to expand this advantage indefinitely.

For such a move, the Waterway Legion did not seem to have heard of it, and they still continued to set up the formation according to the double sandwich battle formation mentioned by General Gan Ning, and soon surrounded the opponent's 400 warships, surrounding them in a small space.

Seeing that the formation was well arranged, Gan Ning's face showed a confident look. What he was worried about was that the other party would suddenly flee and not give himself time to prepare, and once he was ready, then he was confident that no one would be able to escape his double-clamped warship attack formation.

"Start attacking!" Seeing that everything was ready, the commander of the Ganning Legion on the first ship finally gave the order for the final attack, and then the flag bearer behind him suddenly lowered a red flag in his hand.

It was precisely with the sudden lowering of this red flag that the warships of the Waterway Legion, which had been surrounded by nearly 400 warships, suddenly moved, and they began to quickly squeeze horizontally towards the warship that was sandwiched in the middle.

From a distance, this is a bit like a horizontal technique, the two warships suddenly crossed the sea water, one left and one right, as if they were attracted by something, and crashed straight away, crashing towards the body of the Soochow warship that was surrounded in the middle.

This change has made many people unbelievable. It should be clear that at sea, the movement of warships is far less free than the movement of warhorses on land, they can only retreat or advance, and it is not impossible to achieve traverse, but it takes a certain amount of time to do it.

Therefore, seeing that the warships of the Waterway Legion had made such a change, the Soochow Navy was not thinking about how to take precautions, but thinking about how others did it.

"Bang, bang, bang, bang, bang..."

While many people's thoughts were at a standstill, the Celestial Empire's naval warships had already moved horizontally in front of them, and after that, the sound of fierce collisions between warships and warships came one after another.

On the surface, the size of the warships of the Celestial Empire Navy is not much different from that of the Eastern Wu Navy, but in fact, they do have a detailed difference in workmanship.

It's like the Celestial Empire's navy, and the periphery of their warships is made of pig iron, which has the advantage of making them heavier and more afraid of impact, but the disadvantage is also obvious, that is, the speed is much slower than that of warships of the same level that are not made of pig iron.

But now, when the warships of the two sides collided together, the obvious advantage of the Celestial Empire's naval warships was highlighted, at least under this kind of impact, they were safer, and the hull of the ship was only a few times when they collided. On the other hand, under this kind of impact, the Dongwu Navy was indeed full of loopholes, and the wooden bars on the side of the ship obviously began to collapse, and some of them were even more unbearable, and there were already leaks under the impact.

After just one impact, the Eastern Wu Navy was obviously downwind, and taking this opportunity, the Celestial Empire Navy was indeed still staying on a stable ship, and they only needed to aim their bows and arrows at their opponents now.

The bow and arrows continued to be shot, and I saw that the Soochow naval army was shot one after another and fell to the ground, forcing many naval troops to jump into the sea in order to escape the opportunity.

"How is this possible?" Gan Ning, who was not far away, stared at this scene intently, with an expression of disbelief.

In just one round, the Soochow Navy was defeated, and it was a big defeat, this result is really unbelievable. What he didn't know was why the ships of the Celestial Empire could move across the sea, could it be a spell that didn't work?

Lu Bu was puzzled, of course he wouldn't know that this was the role of the magnet. After Zhang Chao ordered the magnet to be used on the ship, there were many relevant "scientific and technological personnel" and masters began to think of a way, and finally they successfully installed the magnet on the warship, and used the iron tools on the side of the ship to fix these magnets, and then if you want to have the strength of the double clamp battle array, then you only need to turn over the magnet that was originally negative and negative, so that they become a positive and negative to form an attraction trend, and the natural sea ship can achieve the effect of horizontal movement.

However, the method of using this method has not been thoroughly developed, and such traverse movement can only be done once, and if you want to do it a second time, you need to unplug all the magnets and install them again.

But it was this time that the impact was enough to hit the other party, just like now, the double-clamp battle array played a decisive role, beating the Dongwu Navy one was dizzy, one was at a loss, and the other was panicked.

The attack of the waterway legion made in a very short period of time, the Dongwu navy was greatly damaged, and hundreds of warships were hit and lost their combat power, and many people of the Dongwu navy were killed, even if they jumped into the water in time, but only a small number of people were lucky enough to escape by the water, and most of them were still strangled by the bows and arrows of the waterway legionaries of the Celestial Empire who came with them.

I thought that the war would last for a long time, and I thought that the warships of Soochow were also very good, but in comparison, Lu Meng realized that he was too serious, and his ideas were 108,000 miles away from reality.

"Withdraw, retreat, find a way to rush out." Seeing that the main force was destroyed, Lu Meng at this moment was not thinking about how to hit the enemy hard, but how to escape from here. Now there are still many of his own warships besieged and are suffering, and he may have a glimmer of life for these people to come forward to rescue them, but once they wait for Gan Ning to draw their hands, it is very problematic whether they can escape from here at that time.

Lu Meng is not afraid of death, he just doesn't want to throw all the main forces of the Dongwu Navy here, if he does this, even if he dies, he will still be sorry for Dongwu.

Lu Meng was about to withdraw, and at this moment he didn't have to think about saving people and waiting for General Huang Gai.

Fortunately, not long after Lü Meng retreated, an army was killed from the direction of Haixi City.