After simply clearing the ships and removing the corpses from the river, the fleet set sail again.

When driving into the control of Chen's territory, the speed slowed down, as this was the meeting point with the great white shark.

Looking at the haggard looking people, Wang Yu patted his shoulders one by one, "Go back and have a good rest, you won't be idle in the future." ”

After getting the medicinal materials, Wang Xuan's hanging heart finally let go of half of it, and he only hoped that the third wave of the opponent's offensive would come later.

May 17, the second day after the Second Battle, the fifth day after the start of the war.

The news that the King of Great Xia was going to kill King Jixiang finally reached Jixiang.

Army.

"Lao Xiao stayed in the town, and Lao Han and I led the troops to rescue him. As Zhao spoke, he took off his military hat, and after the words fell, the person had already left the courtyard.

Xiao Qiangzhi and Han Zhigang glanced at each other, and they both saw worry in each other's eyes.

"I'll leave it to you here, if Your Majesty has three longs and two shorts, I won't come back. Han Zhigang patted Xiao Qiangzhi on the shoulder, and after leaving this sentence, he chased Zhao Qiang.

"I ......"

Xiao Qiangzhi wanted to say that your air force guards your home, and our army went to rescue the driver, but thinking of the importance of the homeland, he only turned into a sigh and had no choice but to stay in charge.

His Majesty's cheap brother-in-law turned his face, and New Taipei, which was in the preface of the war, must be the top priority, and he had to make good arrangements.

So he sent more than a dozen horsemen one after another, heading in all directions.

went all the way to the New Song Dynasty, and transferred 800 of the 1,000 defenders stationed here to the Hubei Development Zone to standby.

The second route went to the Hubei Development Zone, and ordered the local defenders to set aside a piece of land as a temporary military camp.

Sanlu went to New Taipei, where the auspicious front line was, and the order was only one sentence: be ready to fight against Xia at any time.

The fourth road went to Hudong, drew 800 of the 1,000 garrisons, and converged with Xinbei.

Wulu went to Dongshan Pass and issued an order to allow entry and not exit.

Liulu went to Xishan Ling and asked Sun to borrow troops.

The Seventh Road went to the lake embankment and reorganized the army for battle.

The Eighth Road went to the reserve and issued a summoning order, and Jixiang had 60,000 combatable veterans.

Jiulu went to the recruit camp and issued a war mobilization order, and from this moment on, the conscripts were all transferred to the front-line troops.

Shilu went to the Ministry of Public Security (Ministry of Public Security) and issued a notice to take over the Ministry of Public Security during the war, and from now on, the Ministry of Public Security was directly under the jurisdiction of the Military Department.

......

After Zhao Qiang left the military headquarters, he went straight to the Bay Area.

The Naval Academy suspended classes, and the teachers and students took the Type 1 battleship that returned first and went up the Xingyao River.

Xu Jibao brought all the types of warships that could be used in his hands, and the other requisitioned wooden ships were specially used to carry ammunition.

After Han Zhigang returned to the Ministry of the Air Force, he also issued a war mobilization order, and 20 hot air balloons and their supporting personnel, ammunition, and fuel were all loaded into trucks and headed north along Hunan Avenue to New Taipei.

For a time, the main roads everywhere were crowded with heavily armed soldiers.

With such a big move by the military department, it is impossible for the people not to pay attention to it, they all know that something is wrong, but they don't know what it is.

Some well-informed people thought of the auspicious king who had not yet returned, so they guessed that the **** was not far from ten.

Zhang Yun is also one of the insiders.

Originally, due to the last incident of Wang Xuan's serious illness, the group of officials arrested after the early crackdown were expected to fish out a few officials who were not responsible for the crimes, but now they have no thoughts.

His immediate priority is to maintain stability.

So in the next few days, there were rumors in society that they would be cracked down, and those who were restless disappeared directly.

On May 18, it began to rain heavily.

Wang Xuan stood by the door of the broken war room and looked at the boundless south.

In order to concentrate their forces, more than a dozen old battleships were blown up and sunk, and the supply ships hoisted out the ship's guns and ammunition.

The only people in the whole fleet were sailors and gunners, as well as logistics non-combat personnel.

Wang Xuan's available soldiers were too few.

In the territory of Great Xia, which was bent on killing him, a big wave hit, and if it was unexpected, the whole army would be annihilated.

Rainy weather is the most likely to cause gunpowder to get damp, and in serious cases, it will make the naval guns become the burning sticks of the big roots, which is tantamount to adding insult to the situation for the fleet that relies heavily on naval guns.

This can be seen from Wang Xuan's equally gloomy face.

"All the moisture protection measures have been taken?"

"Yes, Your Majesty, the new medicine packets are stored in sealed boxes, and those scattered ones are afraid that they will have to be sunned. Wang Yu replied in rainwater.

"Go in and have a cup of hot tea, you can't fall down at this time. ”

"Good. ”

The thunder began to roar again, and the rain became heavier.

After a burst of thunder, a tight warning bell was heard on the mast.

"Directly in front of the target, about 500 meters, there are boats blocking the river. ”

"On the west side of the target, it is suspected that a large number of people are coming, and the number is unknown. ”

"On the east side of the target, a large number of people also arrived, and the number is unknown. ”

Wang Xuan listened carefully to the report, and he was not likely to be disturbed by these bad news to his normal judgment.

Think about it, the heavy rain weather is beneficial to auspiciousness, the opponent's artillery will definitely not be used, but his own naval artillery can.

If you shoot from inside and out, you can also use a musket.

Thinking like this, Wang Xuan also breathed a sigh of relief.

The early warning information was passed down one ship after another, and after the lightly injured were dressed, they leaned on the building above the hull and raised their guns.

The intact soldiers, heavily armed and armed with cold weapons, were to prevent the enemy from rushing in, and the deck and the side of the ship were their main battlefields.

The rain washed away time faster, and before the mascot could get ready, the other party launched a flanking attack from both sides.

The first wave is the Claw Attack.

When the iron claw gets stuck on the side of the ship, the opponent begins to climb up the rope at great speed.

It's not a bad luck luck.

The gun window opened, and it was not the barrel that sticked out, but the jet-black barrel.

'Bang...... The bang......' gunfire continued, and the flying man in mid-air was like a bird that had been shot, and he fell headlong into the water.

In the ship's building, the lightly injured people hidden behind the concrete walls also continued to output out of the window.

This is the third large-scale use of auspicious muskets, and the other party has obviously figured out the principle of this weapon to some extent, and has raised their shields.

In this way, it is not easy for the people on the shore to hit, and they can only hit the trapeze in the air.

As time passed, more and more Daxia people boarded the battleship, and the mascot fought more and more hard, and even the civilian personnel held weapons and put cold guns in the back.

The second wave of the enemy's offensive was crossbow bolts.

It's just that the effect is not big, you can only try your luck, if three or two of them go in along the window, you can still hurt some people, and nothing else has been done.

With the last experience, Wang Yu put all the vipers in the war room, for fear of being exploited by the enemy.

After all, this ship is too hateful.

At this time, the vipers have a gun in their hands, and they pick small leaders and people with high skills to fight, not to mention a hundred shots, but they also have no missing shots, and the other party cries and calls for his mother.

The rear fight is easy and freehand, and the fighters who resist the front line are much more bitter.

Although the quality of the auspicious armor is good, and the horizontal knife is also sharp, it can't stand the opponent's many people.

In the line of sight, whether it is near or outside the rain curtain, it is all black and oppressive, which invisibly gives people the illusion that they can't finish killing from exhaustion.

Once this negative emotion appears, death is not far away.

Wang Xuan put down the binoculars and said to the adjutant: "Let the artillery on the first floor hit the enemy in the distance, and you have to put pressure on them." ”

After the adjutant recorded the order, he laid it out.

After a while, the hull of the ship shook, and there were bursts of thunder from outside the line of sight.

The naval guns began to attack the enemy's rear units, which greatly encouraged the front row of swordsmen.

In terms of fighting alone, they are not much stronger than the Great Xia people, but in terms of the combat power of the three-person team, they are not comparable to the Great Xia people, this is the advantage of the tactics.

Right now, after each trio has been fighting for a while, they will be replaced to rest and take care of their wounds by the way.

A thousand melee soldiers were distributed on more than twenty battleships, with an average of fifty people each, about sixteen groups of three.

There are also nearly 1,000 lightly injured spearmen, who are looking for opportunities to output in the back, which seems to be full of dangers, but in fact they are still at ease.

This scene made everyone in the war room secretly applaud.

Wang Xuan didn't see it that way.

Judging from the various clothes of the other party, it is obvious that they are private soldiers in various territories, not the garrison of the royal capital, which Wang Xuan did not expect first.

Secondly, the other side occupies a favorable geographical position, people and people, and can continuously send troops to the front line, but its own side cannot do it, and many ants can bite the elephant to death.

The war has just begun, and the casualties on our side are not large, and they can still deal with it.

However, one of his own people dies one less, there is no supply, there is no support, and after the exhaustion, it is the time for others to be slaughtered.

Wang Xuan thought of the bad side, and he really couldn't be optimistic.

At present, how to break this situation?

An officer brought him a bowl of hot instant noodles, but Wang Xuan couldn't swallow it.

He still had time to eat lunch at this time, but those soldiers who were still fighting to the death could only hold on with perseverance, and some of them no longer had to eat lunch.

This is not the way to go.

Wang Xuan put down the bowl and asked Wang Yudao: "We have to move, since there is a blockade in front, we will go north, stopping here will only become their target, fighting for consumption has never been our strong point." ”

Wang Yu understood what His Majesty meant, only by moving could he reduce the opponent's offensive and give himself a chance to breathe.

So he nodded and said "yes".

"The order was given, and the tail of the fleet changed its head, and it headed north, and marched. ”

That's when the benefits of wheel warfare become apparent.

At the beginning, the auspicious trio could easily repel or kill each other, but now it is not possible, and if it can be solved with one move, it will be possible to get the third sword.

Apparently, they are physically exhausted.

At this time, the ship moved.

This caused a lot of trouble for the Great Xia people to board the ship.

And the pressure of the soldiers on the deck suddenly lightened, no longer killing one to make up for two, but killing one less and one less, which gave them great courage and hope.

The mascot walked back was something that the other commander did not expect, he never thought that Wang Xuan would take the initiative to drill into the thief's den.

So he ordered the crossbow arrows to attack indiscriminately against the enemy and me, and tried his best to kill and injure the living force of the mascot.

Although the ship moved, under the overwhelming crossbow arrows, the mascot suffered heavy casualties, and the opponent was a private soldier, with little armor protection, and a death was a piece, which was much worse than the mascot, and there was no room to save it.

The tragic situation of the mascot made the commander laugh out loud, even if more of his own people died under his orders.

He knew that the mascot would not be able to hold on.

The bad news of the enemy is the good news of himself, so even though he broke a lot of people in this time, he still smiled and was very happy.

The fleet went north, and the enemies on both sides had to follow.

The roads of Daxia are not auspicious, as the most developed riverside area, the paved roads are only gravel roads, and it is very difficult to walk under the heavy rain.

The auspicious fleet went north differently, the wind and water were smooth, and the speed suddenly increased.

Gradually, the people on both sides of the strait stopped chasing, because they were desperate to find that their two legs could not outrun each other.

The commander, who had just laughed out of the sound of a pig, turned gloomy, and while sending someone back to report the news, he chased after him with the cavalry.