After Li Siye fully occupied Hankou for half an hour, Guo Ziyi led a huge fleet to cross the river to support, but he encountered the Yong army and the neatly arranged artillery on the river bank, and the warships were projectile before they could approach the river bank, and had to retreat to the opposite bank.

After Guo Ziyi withdrew to Jiangxia, the more he thought about it, the more angry he became, and immediately ordered people to arrest Helan Jinming and others, who had escaped from the battle, and prepared to escort them to the river to behead the public.

Helan Jinming didn't feel guilty at all, and shouted loudly: "Guo Ziyi, you can't kill me!" I'm the man of General Yu Chaoen! It also depends on the owner when you beat the dog! ”

Guo Ziyi straightened his chest and proudly stroked his beard and said: "Your master Yu Chaoen is also about to be destroyed, don't expect someone to save you, pull it down and cut it." ”

The knife and axe hand waved the Mo knife, and dozens of people's heads fell to the ground, and the corpses were soaked in the river water and no one restrained.

After Guo Ziyi killed Helan Jinming, he immediately sent someone to send Song Shu to Jiankang, and Shangshu counted the crimes of Helan Jinming and others, and only one escape was enough for him to die several times.

Song Shu passed to Jiankang, and after Emperor Li Yu saw it, he pressed it to the desk and did not deal with it, he wanted to do more important things, get rid of the eunuch tumor Yu Chaoen.

In order to get rid of Yu Chaoen, the emperor and the prime minister Yuan Zai took great pains, first secretly bribed the high-ranking members of the Shence army with high-ranking officials and gold and silver, completely elevated them, and then invited him to the palace and counted dozens of his major sins in person.

The ridiculous Yu Chaoen still did not change his face until his death, and when he talked about his past exploits in the face of the emperor, he even bumped into Li Yulai on the spot. Li Yu immediately ordered the ambushed thugs to rush in and strangle him to death with ropes.

After getting rid of Yu Chaoen, the Tang court finally became an iron plate, with Guo Ziyi guarding Jianghuai and Yuan Zai controlling the center. Although Yuan Zai is a little greedy, at this time, Jiangnan is rich in the world, and it is not a problem to feed a corrupt official.

At this time, Li Siye's only obstacle is the Yangtze River, of course, he is not willing to rule the river with the remnants of the Tang Dynasty, and the domination of the world is the basis of the rulers of the past dynasties, not to mention that the emperor Li Yu of the Southern Tang Dynasty is not the lord of mediocrity, on the contrary, he is still a promising son of heaven, and his later Dezong, Xianzong, and Wuzong have made achievements, if they are allowed to survive, I am afraid that the other party will have a more and more stable foundation in the land of Jiangnan, and it is not necessary to return to the situation of the north and the south standing side by side hundreds of years ago. It is better to take advantage of the current generation gap in military change and technology, and take the opportunity to pacify Jiangnan.

Facts have proved that there is a Dao Ming Jun is not necessarily not the king of the dead country, hearing this sentence Han Xian Emperor and Ming Chongzhen must have something to say, maybe in the future future future generations will recall this period of history, but also say that the Tang Dynasty died in Tianbao, the so-called Su Zong and Dai Zong are all responsible for the chaos caused by Xuanzong.

Li Siye ordered the people to set up four shipbuilding wharves in Anqing, Yangzhou, Gaoyou, and Jiangcheng Hankou on the north bank of the Yangtze River, and recruited 60,000 craftsmen and craftsmen, which lasted seven months to build a total of 48 gunboats and 130 troop carriers. The displacement of the gunboats was designed to be 900 tons or more, with twelve basalt guns on them, one in the bow and one in the stern, and five guns on each side of the ship.

After the gunboats and fleet were successfully manufactured, Li Siye assigned 50,000 soldiers to the Yangtze River Naval Division, appointed Wei Yi as the Governor of the Naval Division, and conducted half a year of water training.

For more than a year, the Tang Dynasty did not rest, Guo Ziyi had no choice but to grope his way forward in the dark because he did not have the artillery-making technology in the north, and created a barrel cannon with a thicker caliber, with a large charge and a relatively short firing range, which had not yet been tested in actual combat.

Li Siye soon provided them with an opportunity, and in the spring and March of the following year, he ordered Wei Yi to lead the Yangtze River Naval Division to attack Jiangxia on the opposite bank.

The Tang Army's naval divisions stationed in Jiangxia also heard the wind, and the two sides began a decisive battle of warships on the river for more than ten miles. Most of the warships of the Tang Army were built before the war, which were three feet larger than the gunboats of the Yongjun Army, and the ships were suitably loaded with more than a dozen coarse-caliber cannons. Since the Tang army did not have confidence in the victory of such coarse-caliber artillery, a large number of bed crossbows and shooting rods were also installed on the ship.

The slapping rod is equivalent to the melee weapon of the ship, and the power is very great, especially the slapping rod on the giant ship like the big yellow dragon, which has a devastating lethality for the small boat.

Guo Ziyi knew that no matter how his cannon was built, he couldn't fight the Yongjun's Xuanwu cannon, so he gave full play to the advantage of the big yellow dragon in close combat, and installed a large ramming angle on the dragon head of the bow, and when he encountered the opponent's gunboat, as long as he hit it, at least let it split in half. Even the Yongjun's new warship wrapped in iron plates could not withstand the impact of the ramming angle.

However, Guo Ziyi really underestimated the speed of the replacement of the Yongjun Xuanwu cannon, and they successfully cast the length of the breech cannon in their workshop to nine times the caliber, and the firing range was more than 100 steps higher than the previous seven times and eight times the caliber, and the total firing range exceeded 400 zhang, according to the conversion of Tang 1 foot and 32 centimeters, the range of 350 zhang exceeded 1,000 meters.

Yongjun's shells have also undergone a great innovation, and the charge is no longer filled with slag, but a special oiled paper wrapped cartridge with a lead, which greatly speeds up the reloading. There are also three or four types of shells, from solid shells to destroy the hull, flowering shells with gunpowder inside, fierce fire thunderballs with gunpowder and grease, and even fragmentation shots fired at close range. What's even more powerful is that the twist of the cannonball is also waterproof, and even if the flowering shell and the fierce fire thunder bomb fall into the water, it can explode.

Guo Ziyi can only win in close combat on the surface, so that the advantage of the large number of large ships of the Tang Army can also be brought into play.

Li Siye understood Guo Ziyi's combat intentions, so he had to give full play to the strengths of his firepower range, and in addition to installing a large number of artillery on the gunboats, he also arranged a Xuanwu artillery battalion on the wharf on the river bank, lining up more than 600 guns. The Yangtze River Naval Division used the tactics of kite flying to fight the Tang Army on the river, giving full play to the advantage of the long range of gunboats, and as soon as it discovered that an enemy ship was approaching, it immediately retreated to the dock on the river bank. However, once the Tang Army's Dahuanglong and other warships pursued and crossed the line, they would enter the shelling range of the artillery battalion on the river bank, and the opponent could only fall into a situation of passive beating.

After determining this stinky and shameless tactic, the Yong army could pour out to attack the Tang army.

The weather was sunny that day, and because it was the turn of spring and summer, the southeast wind was blowing on the river, and it was about three or four levels. This kind of wind is very unfavorable for the Yongjun. Cao Cao, who was defeated in Chibi back then, also thought so.

However, Li Siye still ordered the sailors to fight against the wind, which was based on absolute confidence in weapons and equipment.

As soon as the Tang army sailed out of the water village, they lined up the big yellow dragon warship on the river, raised the sails and took advantage of the wind, the soldiers in the bottom cabin accelerated their rowing, and the speed of the warship gradually accelerated, rushing towards the Yongjun gunboat on the other side of the river, and the collision angle of the warship was pitch black, like a bull about to explode.

Wei Yi divided the gunboats into three echelons and lined them up on the river, each with a range of about one cannon between them, and when the Tang warships charged, the first echelon of warships fired flowering shells, and the shells landed on the river and exploded into raging waves.

The gunboats of the Yongjun army fired another volley, and the warships of the Tang army were hit, and the masts on the ships were either broken, and the hull of the ship was damaged, but they still charged forward with momentum. Some ships sank in the process of charging.

The gunboat lowered its guns again, and the two sides were slowly closing the distance. Wei Yi ordered the first echelon of warships to pull up their sails and retreat, and continued to shell the Tang army while retreating.

When the gunboats of the first echelon retreated to the second echelon, the Tang army faced an even more fierce artillery attack, and the soldiers who were blown away by the shells fell into the water, and blood stained the river red.

Guo Ziyi stood on the Huanglong ship in the rear, personally beat the war drums, urging the warship to move forward, he wanted all the Tang troops to carry forward the spirit of not being afraid of death, and completely defeated the Yongjun naval division in the first battle, so that they would never dare to touch the Yangtze River again.

For a time, all the Great Yellow Dragon warships went forward one after another, charging forward with the spirit of sacrificing their lives and forgetting their deaths.