The first plate axe, the Eastern Wu naval army was completely defeated, so Ling Lie sacrificed the second plate axe. Ling Lie's second axe was to dispatch all the small and medium-sized warships to attack the reef area in an all-out way to prevent the Jingzhou Navy from continuing to blast the reef.

Small warships do not have a deep draft, and it is safe to enter the reef area, but medium warships will have diǎn trouble when they enter. However, when the Soochow people arranged the reef area, they actually secretly left a narrow safe passage, which could accommodate medium-sized warships that were not too big.

This passage is winding in the reef area, and if you don't know the inside story, it's absolutely impossible to get into it rashly. Due to the good secrecy work, and the Soochow Navy rarely uses this passage in peacetime, the Jingzhou Navy cannot detect the specific situation of this passage.

But now it's time for life and death, and Ling Lie doesn't have to worry about whether this passage will leak anymore, anyway, this passage will not be leaked, and the Jingzhou Navy will clear a passage by itself in a few days.

So, he sent all his medium-sized warships into this passage. However, medium-sized warships can only stay in this passage and cannot go out to fight, so they mainly play the role of supporting and supplying small warships.

This was tantamount to a large-scale attack, Guan Gong hurriedly ordered all the small boats responsible for blasting to withdraw, and then also dispatched small warships to meet the Soochow naval army. An unexpected head-to-head battle between the two armies broke out.

The Soochow Navy had twice as many small warships as the Jingzhou Navy, but they were all wooden ships and used cold weapons. Although Dongwu obtained some of the firearms technology of Shu Han, it was not so easy to manufacture them in large quantities.

So like the Wei state, in a short time, they only minted a small number of fire ~ cannons and fire ~ guns. They have seen the fire ~ artillery on the two "super battleships" of the Jingzhou Navy Army, so they gritted their teeth and equipped 8 gunboats, but the fire ~ guns were reluctant to be taken out for the water army, but all stayed in Jianye to equip the garrison troops of Jinwu.

Therefore, these Soochow naval forces are not equipped with fire ~ guns, and still use cold weapons to fight. This method of combat is similar to that of land combat, with long-range shots and crossbow arrows and spears at medium range.

When the enemy ship is close, he hooks the enemy ship with an iron hook, and then jumps over to the gang and says, .¢.o☆s_(); Hand-to-hand combat. Of course, in addition to these conventional combat methods, there are also some special combat methods, and the most used is fire attack.

Rockets are used for long distances, and fireboats, that is, small boats filled with fuel, which are fired and rushed towards enemy ships at high speed. Such an uninnovative method of engagement The Jingzhou Navy will certainly not go crazy with them, and almost all the small warships of the Jingzhou Navy that are now fighting are equipped with fire ~ guns.

The small warships of the Jingzhou Navy were almost all cement ships, and a wooden plank was erected on all four sides to resist the enemy's arrows. There were also shooting holes on the board, and the soldiers stretched out the muzzles of their guns from these shooting holes to shoot at the Soochow sailors.

The range of the arrows of the Eastern Wu Navy was far inferior to the fire ~ guns of the Jingzhou sailors, so they suffered a big loss in an instant. However, the small warships of Eastern Wu also have arrow shields, and because they have repeatedly suffered the losses of Jingzhou water weapons ~ guns, they also deliberately put a thin layer of iron on the outside of these arrow shields.

This makes the fire ~ guns of the Jingzhou Navy Army unable to penetrate these shields lightly, so the Jingzhou Navy equipped with fire ~ guns cannot cause a large increase in casualties of the Eastern Wu Navy in a short period of time.

In this way, relying on the protection of the arrow board, the Soochow Navy rushed towards the battleship of the Jingzhou Navy with full horsepower. Their idea was to fight well, that is, to rush to the enemy's ships as much as possible and carry out broadside battles and gang jumping operations, so as to offset the advantage of Jingzhou's water arms ~ guns.

Of course, the Jingzhou Navy didn't want to fight them in close combat, and when they saw this situation, they also retreated at full speed, trying to stay away from the enemy ships. They fought back against the enemy while retreating.

All of a sudden, a chase battle unfolded on the river. The chase of a ship is actually very similar to the chase of a war horse, both of which are shooting arrows or guns while running. After all, the cement boat of the Jingzhou Navy was relatively bulky and slower, and the distance between the two sides gradually became closer and closer. Soon, the arrows shot by the Dongwu Navy ~ can also be shot ~ to the ship of the Jingzhou Navy Army.

However, ordinary arrows basically do no harm to the ships of the Jingzhou Navy Army, after all, there are baffles. But the rocket is in danger, in order to reduce the weight, the baffles on the side of the Jingzhou Navy are all wooden, which is flammable.

However, the problem is not very big, there are generally eleven people in a small battleship, and they each perform their own duties, some are responsible for rowing, some are responsible for steering, and some are responsible for shooting.

But in fact, there is another person who is responsible for damage management. Usually when there was no damage to the ship, he also participated in the shooting of the enemy, and as soon as there was any damage to the hull, he stopped shooting and began to do his essential work.

For this kind of small warship, there are two main types of damage management, scooping water and extinguishing fire. If there was water in the boat, he would scoop it out with a scoop. If there is a fire there, he is responsible for extinguishing the fire.

So, when the ship was hit by a rocket, the damage control officer could be seen holding a wet blanket and jumping up and down in various parts of the ship to extinguish the fire. If the baffle was hit by a rocket, he simply splashed it with a scoop of water to extinguish the fire.

As the distance between the two sides got closer and closer, there were casualties on both sides, but in general, the casualties of the Dongwu Navy were much larger than those of the Jingzhou Navy Army, after all, it is an indisputable fact that the fire ~ gun is much more powerful than the arrow.

When the distance between the two sides got closer, the Jingzhou naval army began to use the damage move, that is, the shotgun. Actually, the gun was still the same gun, but instead of a big buckshot, they filled it with fine iron sand.

Although the Eastern Wu sailors hid behind the baffle, they also had to shoot arrows through the guò shooting hole, and some of them even dared to stick their upper bodies out of the upper edge of the baffle and shoot arrows at the enemy with impunity.

They move very quickly, and after shooting the arrow, they quickly retract their bodies. It takes time for Jingzhou sailors to aim at them with fire~ guns, and many times they often don't have enough time to aim and can't hit them.

It's different with scattered bullets, as long as you point the muzzle at the approximate range and fire, a dozen scattered bullets are a big ~ piece, and there is no need to aim at all. In the past, a lead bullet could only hit one diǎn, and it was difficult to hit the small shooting hole on the baffle of the Middle Eastern Wu ship, and it was difficult to hurt the people behind the baffle, but now there is no need to worry, countless iron sand flew over, and the striking range was a plane.

As long as the shooting hole is covered in this plane, the archers behind the baffle are all cups. Although you will not be killed by these iron sands, the pain is unbearable, and you will basically lose your combat effectiveness.

If you are unfortunate enough to be hit in the eyes by iron sand, it will be even worse, you can retire directly and go home to buy a pair of sunglasses, and then go to the bottom of the bridge with an erhu to sing. When the Jingzhou Navy began to use shotguns, the casualty rate of the Soochow sailors suddenly rose to a terrifying height.