The general of the Mu country, Mingquan, led an army of 150,000 to the west to fight against the invading Red Army, but the result was unfavorable, and he was ambushed by the Red Army on the way, losing more than 50,000 troops, and even the general Mingquan was also lost in front of the two armies.

In desperation, Liu Ji had no choice but to send an order to transfer Sima Changren, who returned to the west bank of the Wang River, to the west to replace Mingquan, and the task of resisting the Jin army fell into the hands of the deputy commander Zhou Fang.

After receiving the news, Lin Haotian was so excited that he almost jumped up directly, he immediately summoned the generals in the army to discuss the specific battle plan with everyone, and prepared to launch a second war against Mu Guo.

On the second day of Sima Changren's journey to the west, before the Mu Kingdom could make any response, the Jin Kingdom once again declared war on the Mu Kingdom.

At this time, the Third Army Corps led by Dou Bo had also reached the Hedong camp, and in addition, the sixteen generals recruited by Na Wu Ling had also been assigned to each army.

At present, the strength of the Hedong battalion of the Jin State has exceeded 300,000, and in addition to the Fourth Army Corps, the strength of the First Army Corps, the Second Army Corps, and the Third Army Corps has reached more than 100,000.

In the battle against Mu, the primary goal of the Jin army was to cross the Wang River, crush the Jiangxi camp of the Mu army, and completely open the passage into Jiangxi County.

In the past, when Sima Changren was guarding Jiangxi, Lin Haotian suffered two big losses in a row, losing more than 50,000 soldiers, and now the commander of Muguo guarding Jiangxi has changed Zhou Fang, and Lin Haotian does not want to suffer another defeat in the hands of Zhou Fang.

After Lin Haotian and his generals' discussions, a complete set of combat plans was finally formulated: the Second Army Corps took the lead, attacked the Jiangxi camp head-on, and contained the Muguo warships, while the First, Third, and Fourth Army Corps made a detour to the flanks and forced crossing.

Although the Jin army has been trained in water warfare for a long time in the Jiangdong battalion, water warfare is still the weakness of the Jin army due to the limitations of ships and equipment. This first battle across the water was also the most difficult for the Jin army.

On the day that Lin Haotian declared war on Mu, in order not to give the Mu army too much time to prepare, the Jin army launched an attack in the morning of that day.

Because the task of the Second Army was the most important and the most difficult, almost all the wooden boats in the Jin Army were assigned to the Second Army, an army of more than 100,000. Nearly 20,000 small boats sailed out of the Jiangdong camp and rowed straight to the opposite bank.

For the sudden offensive of the Jin army, the Mu army was not unprepared.

Zhou Fang's ability may not be as good as Sima Changren, but after all, he has followed the latter for so long, and he has also found some ways, after the first strike of the Jin State, he did not dare to take it lightly, but constantly sent secret agents. Monitor Jinguo's every move.

Since Sima Changren had just been transferred, Zhou had a premonition that Lin Haotian would not give up, and he began to actively prepare for war without receiving an order from the imperial court to meet the needs of the emergency.

The result was really right for him!

Hearing that there was an abnormality in the Jin camp, tens of thousands of ships were heading towards his own camp, Zhou Fang sneered, and gave the order unhurriedly to let his own warships meet the battle.

The ships of the Second Army were close to twenty thousand. The ships of the Wood Army were only a few hundred, but the difference in size between the two sides was too great.

The warships of the Wooden Army were huge. Tall and long, most of them are divided into three or four layers, each layer has a dense turn of arrows, and the hull is also wrapped in iron sheets, not afraid of collision, and even worse. The trebuchet that fell into the hands of the Mu Army of the Jin Army was imitated by Zhou Fang and equipped with various warships, with such powerful weapons, the combat effectiveness of the warships was obviously raised to a higher level.

The ships of both sides had just started fighting, and the high and low points were divided.

The wooden army is on a big ship. Condescendingly, the first shot out of the giant crossbow arrows, the crossbow arrows hit the small wooden boat, instantly shattered the hull, the wind soldiers on it fell into the water one after another, and the Jin army also has trebuchets here, but it doesn't hurt to shoot on the battleship of the wooden army, the huge ship, the huge hull, I don't know how many crossbow arrows are likely to sink.

The Jin army outnumbered the wooden army, and the ships were several times larger than the wooden army, but the combat effectiveness was not proportional.

Bi Wu knew very well where his own shortcomings were, and where the enemy's strengths were, he kept giving orders, beating drums, beating drums, and beating drums again, and the whole army charged violently, and he must be close to the other side, as long as his own soldiers can successfully climb to the opponent's warship, the victory will be on his side.

As the ships of both sides continued to approach, the water battle also reached a fever pitch.

The crossbow arrows of both sides shuttled back and forth on the river surface, and the small boats on the side of the Jin army were hit by the crossbow arrows from time to time, broken into wooden planks, and countless soldiers fell into the water.

On the other hand, the wooden army, the warships are also constantly suffering from crossbow arrows, especially the warships in front, the huge hull is full of crossbow arrows, the river water continues to pour into the boat along the breach, and then it is poured out of the boat by the wooden sergeant one after another, and the wooden soldiers in the cabin are also from time to time by the crossbow arrows shot in, through the body, the death is extremely miserable.

As the distance between the two sides became closer, the wooden army took the lead in firing arrows.

At this time, the advantage of the tall hull was brought into play again, and the condescending shooting made the wooden army able to shoot the Jin army, but the Jin army could not shoot the wooden army, even if there were arrows flying to the warship, it was only the end of the strong crossbow, and it was difficult to hurt people, not to mention that the wooden army was still hiding in the cabin, with a hard hull as cover.

In the battle, the power of the wooden army's arrow array was fully demonstrated, after a round of arrows, the attacked boat was submerged by the eagle feather, the inside and outside of the hull were filled with dense arrows, the gold soldiers on the ship were inevitably hit by arrows even if they had a shield as a cover, often a boatload of gold soldiers were not spared, all were shot into hedgehogs.

Zhou Fang, who personally went out of the camp to supervise the battle, stood at the top of the handsome ship, raised his eyes and looked at the battlefield in front of him, with a confident smile on his face, the Jin army wanted to use a small wooden boat to defeat his own giant warship, even if he invested more troops, it was just a suicide, this was not a battle at all, it was a completely one-sided slaughter.

The battle continued, and the Jin army was still making a desperate suicidal charge, but the number of dead had soared to 20,000 or 30,000.

Just when Zhou Fang felt that the overall situation was decided, suddenly, a partial general behind him pointed to the north and exclaimed: "General, it's not good, there is wolf smoke in the north!"

Zhou Fang hurriedly turned his head to look north, but no, on the west bank of the Wangjiang River in the north, the beacon towers everywhere had been ignited, and black smoke was billowing into the sky.

It seems that the Jin army not only attacked in this place, but also invested troops in the north.

I don't know whether the Jin army is a feint or a real attack in the north, and the Zhou side does not dare to divide too many warships, so he turns around and orders the herald to mobilize fifty warships to the north for reinforcements.

He had just separated fifty warships from his side, and immediately after that, the southern wolf smoke rose again.

The Zhou side concocted the same method and divided fifty warships to reinforce the attacked sites in the south.

However, the Jin army did not invest one legion in the south, but two legions, the first and fourth legions.

Lin Haotian commanded the Fourth Army Corps and forcibly crossed the river ten miles south of the Jiangxi camp of the Mu Army, in order to express his determination to cross the river for this time, and also to let the soldiers abandon the distracting thoughts of greed for life and fear of death, Lin Haotian personally led the army to fight.

Because the ships were all given to the Second Army, Lin Haotian didn't even have small wooden boats here, and some were just rafts.

The raft he was on took the lead, rushed to the front, and went straight to the other side, the commander can be so willing to forget his life and death, and take the lead, where are the soldiers below who still have the slightest idea of stealing their lives, people are all holding back their strength, rowing wooden oars, and following Lin Haotian's raft.

Twenty miles south of the Jiangxi camp, that is, the place where the Jin army suffered two consecutive defeats, was the main attack site of the First Army.

Ding Feng still vividly remembers the scene of the first army's fiasco here last time, and this time he has made up his mind to be ashamed, even if he uses people to fill in and pile up people, he must rush to the other side.

Since its establishment, the First Army has never been defeated like last time, and the only stain is on the Wang River. When crossing the river, most of the soldiers threw off the armor on their bodies and went into battle shirtless, holding a shield in one hand, scribbling in the other, holding a steel knife in their mouths, their bloodshot eyes were about to emit red light, staring at the opposite bank, and the speed of driving on the river was even faster than that of the Fourth Army led by Lin Haotian.

The fifty warships sent by Zhou Fangnan did not encounter the First Legion, but first encountered the First Legion led by Lin Haotian. (To be continued......)