Although the powerful neighbor from the north seems to be still focusing on the Central Plains, no one dares to reassure him.

The other party dared to brazenly break into the two states of Luhao when there were only two states, which dashed the hope of the king to unify the entire Wu state, and since then the entire western part of the Wu state has been in an extremely unstable state, forcing the Wu state to station a large number of troops in the two states of Chuyang to maintain vigilance, which is enough to show its danger.

In Gao Hongchuan's view, the biggest enemy of Wu should not be the ant thief, nor the Yue country, but Xuzhou in the north.

The ant thief is not enough to worry about, even if it can bring harm for a while, but it is not enough to put the entire Wu country into a crisis, Yue Guo is indeed a problem of elbows and armpits, but Xuzhou is really a problem of henchmen.

It's just that Wu has a natural disadvantage to Xuzhou, and the Xuzhou Navy on the Huaishui River is stronger, and after controlling Luhao and Chu Sizhou, its infantry army and navy have a huge overbearing momentum against the Wu State in the east, which is why the king wants to solve the threat of ant thieves as soon as possible, because if it drags on like this, let Wu distract both sides, once Xuzhou's edge turns from the Central Plains, Chuyang Erzhou will be dangerous.

Aware of this, but unable to change, the only thing Gao Hongchuan could do was to hope that the sudden provocation of these water thieves in Baima Lake and Fanliang Lake had nothing to do with Xuzhou in the north, but he did not dare to take it lightly, because he knew that bad guesses often turned into reality, and he could not take risks.

"Order the fleet to spread out, in a diamond-shaped combat formation, the boat goes first, pay attention to the enemy!"

"Commander, I'm afraid the pirates don't dare to confront our fleet head-on, right?" The deputy next to him glanced at his boss in surprise, and hesitated: "What are you worried about?"

"I have a bad premonition, Gaoyou City is not so simple when it is attacked by water thieves this time, and there must be other forces involved. Gao Hongchuan shook his head, his hand on the hilt of his waist knife, his eyes still staring ahead, "Can you believe that the water bandits of Fan Liang Lake and Baima Lake dare to attack Gaoyou City? Wang Zhen's Eastern Navy is not a vegetarian, there is also a battalion of garrisons, and there are also private armies of the gentry.

"Maybe the water thieves have an internal response in the city?" the deputy hesitated, "Or did they buy the garrison?"

"These are all possible, but can this change the overall situation of Gaoyou City?" Gao Hongchuan said coldly: "The water bandits are not stupid, they will not know that our Third Army is close at hand, and if they dare to do so, they must be promising!"

"Lord Commander, you mean there is an ambush?!" The deputy was shocked, and subconsciously looked around, "But on this canal, apart from the water thieves, who else can set up an ambush? Even if the north has bad intentions, it is impossible for them to quietly cross Shanyang! The Chuzhou side communicates with us almost every day, Anyi still has an army of us, no matter how strong the Huaiyou Navy is, it is impossible to wipe out one of our battalions at once and still make people unaware, this is impossible!"

Gao Hongchuan was also a little distressed, he also felt impossible, if the Huaiyou Navy wanted to enter the canal, it had to cross Shanyang, and An Yi also had his own water battalion stationed, how could he fly to Gaoyou all of a sudden?

If it's an infantry army, it's just that, if it's a naval army, without a fleet, it's meaningless.

Gao Hongchuan's heart tightened, but then he thought that if the Huaiyou Army came, the scouts and the fine work should have been reported a long time ago, so why didn't they react?

This question was like a poisonous snake coiled in Gao Hongchuan's heart, and he only wanted to rush to Gaoyou as soon as possible to annihilate these damn water bandits in one fell swoop, and find out why they did this.

But before rushing to Gaoyou, will this waterway be dangerous?

The fleet continued to accelerate, from Shao Bo to Gaoyou is two or three hours of waterway, there are not many ships on the canal at the moment, along the way, the patrol boat also intercepted a few passing ships, but they all fled in a hurry when they found that Gaoyou's situation was wrong, but they did not find anything abnormal along the way.

This did not relieve Gao Hongchuan's suspicions, but fortunately, it is not far from Gaoyou, and the mystery will soon be revealed.

I can already see the outline of Gaoyou City, the shouting and killing sound can be faintly heard, black smoke shrouded in the city, Gao Hongchuan's heart sank for a while, it seems that the water thieves have attacked the city, the deputy's suspicion is right, the water thieves should have internal responses, otherwise it is impossible to break the city so easily, but even if the city is broken, the water thieves may not be able to succeed.

"Huh, why are there still so many boats in the river outside the city that haven't left?" Gao Hongchuan stood at the bow of the boat, looking at the river next to the city with some vigilance.

These boats don't look like pirates' dinghys and fishing boats, and they don't look like merchant ships and grain ships passing through the canals, but like old ships that came out of nowhere.

Could it be a fireboat? Gao Hongchuan immediately ordered the patrol boats in front to go forward and take a closer look, because the fireboats should not be distributed like this, and the wind is not suitable, judging by the degree of draft, it is not like this.

But soon Gao Hongchuan realized the seriousness of the problem, and almost received a signal, and the originally scattered and scattered ships of different sizes on both sides of the canal began to move.

The number of these boats seems to be not small, in bits and pieces it is thirty or forty, and most of them are small and medium-sized old boats, swarming towards the middle of the canal like fishing nets.

"What's going on? It's a fireboat?!" the deputy cried out in some panic, "the forward ship is approaching, shoot the enemy paddleman!"

The attacking ships seemed to be a little chaotic, but Gao Hongchuan was keenly aware that this was not the whole story.

Although there are many ships in front, as long as they really enter the attack range of the fleet, the rocket can quickly make them incapacitated, and for such small and medium-sized ships, the heavy slap is enough to make them fall into the abyss immediately.

The key lies in those big ships behind.

Although those big ships look old, but the quickly raised sail rope made Gao Hongchuan suddenly nervous, how are their sails completely different from ordinary ships, not at all the sails used by water thieves or merchant ships here, but very consistent with the sails of the rumored Huaiyou Navy military ships, is it really the Huaishui Navy entered the canal?!

As the small boats in front of him continue to approach, coming from all directions, greatly squeezing the travel space of the entire military fleet, Gao Hongchuan realized the problem, but he couldn't make adjustments immediately, in the process of traveling, you want to let each ship operate according to the commander's intention at once, it is not a simple matter, it takes a process.

But the enemy did not give her so much time.

Whether it was a small boat or other ships, they began to surround the entire fleet, obstructing the movement of the fleet, and the Wu military ships immediately attacked, but these attacking ships were not fire ships, and the rocket attack did not make these ships catch fire immediately, on the contrary, the ships that had obviously undergone fire protection treatment were still able to maintain their status even if they were attacked by dozens of rockets.

Gao Hongchuan sensed the enemy's conspiracy, the enemy was not attacking with fireboats, so he only needed to use poles to resist and use rockets to quickly solve it, and the other party's advance ships just wanted to disrupt their formation, so that their fleet could not only move and turn, but when he realized this, it was too late.

The next few ships are the key.

The catapult frames are exposed on these ships, which is intimidating.

But to Gao Hongchuan's surprise, these catapult frames did not attack their own fleet, but threw black square objects at the ships that were approaching their fleet.

Everyone was a little puzzled for a while, what is this for?

But soon everyone understood, when these objects landed on these ships, some kind of device was immediately fired, and the ships, which had no reaction to the rocket attack, were activated by these devices, and suddenly let out a terrible scream, and the whole canopy was blown open, and countless arrows with barbs were sprayed from the hive-like nest car on the ship, and once these arrows hit any ship, they attached to it and quickly burned, and its burning momentum was also so fierce that Gao Hongchuan had never seen it before.

There are also some ships that directly explode completely, and the liquid splashing everywhere is sprayed several feet away, and even the entire water surface is burned, which is obviously a specially processed oil, which does not burst into combustion under the attack of the opponent's rocket, but can burst and burn under the stimulation of some kind of magic device.

Two other ships quickly circled the flotilla, which had begun to disarray, and a large pipe in the back of it not only flowed black liquid, but then soon the liquid burned and quickly spread with the current towards the fleet.

Everything is out of control.

"It's over, this kind of battle can't be fought at all!" This was Gao Hongchuan's last thought when he plunged into the water, and when he floated out of the water, he had already been captured by the enemy's dogs.

"Perfect. Luo Zhen and Ganquan stood on the river bank and watched all this, grinning with joy, "No, it's not perfect enough, this is just the beginning, we still need to refine a lot of things, in general it's still too rough, I always feel that there are too many things that can be improved here, and this time the plan is too immature, and the other party is unguarded, otherwise we can't achieve such a result." ”

"Hehe, it takes a process, the magic device is already very good, but to apply it to a more complex chain, we still need time, this is just the most superficial application, from my personal point of view, I don't think there is anything in this, there are many more worthy of our efforts. Another magician, who clearly had a Central Plains accent, shook his head, "This shouldn't be the direction of our research, and of course it's understandable. ”nt

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