"Haha, this water and fire dragon is really powerful, and immediately gave this Xia Jun a dismount!"

Seeing that their own weapons had made such a contribution as soon as they appeared on the scene, sinking several relatively powerful Xia warships one after another, Yuan Jingshan and Zheng Xiaoru also looked at each other and smiled, and the original fear of the Xia fleet in their hearts suddenly disappeared, and they began to regain their self-confidence.

"Fortunately, with the help of Master Huikong and others from the Futu Sect, this is why we have such a powerful gunpowder, otherwise how could we make such a powerful firearm just by relying on those Heavenly Master Dao Bull-nosed Taoist priests?"

Zheng Xiaoru expressed his dissatisfaction with the Taoist priests within the Sui Empire.

"After all, Your Majesty has been raised by Master Zhixian of Boruo Temple since childhood, of course this Futu Sect is going to overwhelm the Heavenly Master Dao, and now the Haotian God Sect of the Dao Gate is the state religion of the Xia Kingdom, of course, these bull noses are towards the Xia Kingdom in their hearts, and it is natural that they will not work hard!"

Yuan Jingshan said and then ordered the Sui fleet to continue to approach the Xia ships, preparing to launch a more fierce offensive against the Xia army.

Zhong Likai in the back was even more furious when he saw this, he couldn't imagine that this Sui army was not only so powerful in combat, but even had the intention of annihilating himself, although the Xia army suffered a big loss just now, but this was not a reason why the Sui army could defeat itself.

Under the command of Zhong Likai, the Xia army launched a powerful counterattack.

After all, the Xia army occupies the upper wind direction, so the firing distance of the fire oil bombs fired by the Xia army's warships, whether it is bed crossbow or ballista shooting, far exceeds that of the Sui army's headwind shooting, which is the biggest advantage that the Xia army currently has.

In order to retaliate for the sudden attack of the Sui army just now, the soldiers of the Xia army, who were holding back their anger, also used all their long-range strike weapons, and this time the Sui army finally recovered from the previous victory and felt the taste of being pressed and beaten by the other party.

Thunderbolts filled with yellow explosives were thrown onto the deck of the Sui army, not only causing heavy casualties to the Sui soldiers on the deck, but also destroying a lot of the ship's bed crossbows and trebuchets.

The fire oil bomb ignited a large number of Sui ships, and in the cold wind, the wind helped the fire to ignite many ships around him, forcing the Sui army fleet to disperse urgently.

Of course, it was impossible for the officers and soldiers of the Sui army to be pressed and beaten by the Xia army like this, and they braved the dense fire of the Xia army to quickly move forward, wanting to get close to the Xia army's fleet.

However, Xia Jun had learned the previous lesson, not only maintained the long-range strike distance of Erli, but even dispersed the formation, forming a linear formation, giving full play to the firepower advantage of his ships.

Seeing that Xia Jun had learned the lesson of the light enemy in front of him, Zheng Xiaoru gritted his teeth and ordered to shoot half of the fire dragon carried by the fleet out of the water in one go.

Speaking of this water and fire dragon, not only did the Futu monks within the Sui Empire assist in creating more powerful explosives, but the craftsmen of the Sui Empire who were responsible for the development of gunpowder weapons also drew inspiration from the monkeys playing with the children, using thick bamboo pipes to fill the propellant behind and the powerful explosives in the front.

In order to allow it to give full play to its explosive effect, the front end is also specially equipped with a sharp iron cone, so that as long as it pierces the deck of the warship, the warship will basically be damaged.

What's even more lethal is that after this weapon is launched, it flies close to the surface of the water like a torpedo in later generations, so the attack is all at the waterline of the ship, and once the explosion destroys the ship's board, a large amount of seawater will immediately pour into the cabin, and there is no time to rescue.

With Zheng Xiaoru's order, the Sui army's sailors released thousands of water fire dragons in one go, and the smoke sprayed by the fire dragon was like clouds and smoke in the sky, and then the Sui army took advantage of the opportunity when the opposite Xia army tried its best to avoid the fire dragon and quickly approached the Xia fleet.

Although there were only less than a hundred of the thousands of fire dragons concentrated on the target due to the distance, they still caused the Xia army fleet to suffer an unprecedented blow.

At this time, the Sui army, which was already about a mile away from the Xia army, began to give full play to the power of long-range weapons such as bed crossbows and trebuchets on the ship, and what made the Xia army a little flustered was that the bed crossbows and trebuchets of the Sui army fired not crossbow arrows and stones, but bags of explosives.

This can be regarded as the skill of using explosives that Sui Jun learned from Xia Jun, and it can be regarded as Xia Jun getting his own reward.

Under the attack of the second round of fire dragons, more than 20 Xia warships were sunk, and more than 30 were injured to varying degrees.

However, the previous attack of the Xia army also sank hundreds of Sui warships, and in the process of the Sui army approaching the attack, the Xia army's counterattack sank more than 20 Sui warships, and dozens of warships were caused by fire bombs, and they could not continue to be used.

Although the number of warships damaged by the Sui army was more than three times that of the Xia army, Zhong Likai's face was extremely gloomy, because the combat effectiveness of the Xia army's warships far exceeded that of the Sui army, and the warships of the Sui army were far smaller than those of the Xia army, so such a replacement could not be rowed at all.

In addition, most of these Sui warships were originally just river ships traveling in the Yangtze River, and with the national strength of the Sui Empire, thousands of such warships could be built within a year, while the warships of the Xia Kingdom were all sea ships, and the time and cost of manufacturing were far more than the warships of the Sui army.

"Huh?"

Just as Zhong Likai was about to retreat, he suddenly saw more than ten warships suddenly continuing to approach the Sui army's fleet, which was less than a mile away from the Sui army's fleet.

"This is nonsense!" Zhong Likai found that one of the dozen or so warships was one where Liu Kun was, and he was immediately anxious, but then he opened his mouth wide in surprise.

More than a dozen Xia warships suddenly fired the guns on the ships one after another about 400 meters away from the Sui fleet, and at the same time, the thunderbolts and Zheng's rockets fired from the bed crossbows were all shot out without money.

What surprised Zhong Likai was not the huge casualties caused by the dense Zheng rockets and thunderbolts to the Sui army, but the fact that the guns on those ships actually shot huge holes one after another on the board of the Sui army's ships, and a large amount of seawater quickly poured into the Sui army's warships.

In less than a quarter of an hour, more than 30 Sui warships were sunk, and more than 40 other Sui warships were broken and damaged, and the Xia warships were not harmed at all because the Sui army had no time to counterattack.

"All pressed up, artillery, thunderbolts, and rockets are fired at full strength, and we will replenish them when we are finished!" At this moment, Li Kai realized that he was a little outdated.

In the past, the Xia army was far superior to other countries in terms of weapons and ships, and it was completely possible to use its own advantages to slowly sink the enemy fleet, but now the Sui army is no longer able to strike slowly like that after the weapons quickly approach or even surpass themselves.

The warship where Liu Kun and the others were located used the facts to teach Zhong Likai a lesson, and the current naval battle can only give full play to its advantage in firepower and intensive strikes, so as to achieve the final victory in the naval battle.

Although the water fire dragon launched by the Sui army before was infinitely powerful, it carried a total of about 2,000 units because of the high manufacturing cost, and the ships in front of it in order to fight the Xia army's offensive had all shot them out, and the ships that still had fire dragon weapons left behind and had not yet followed.

At this time, when the Xia army's warships were fully pressed, the Sui army was suddenly bad.

Although more than 30 warships were sunk by the Sui army before, when more than 260 Xia warships deployed their firepower in full force, countless explosions sounded in the Sui fleet, even if some thunderbolts could not destroy the warships after being missed, they also brought heavy casualties to the Sui army on board.

Even in the scuffle, even Yuan Jingshan was cut through the forehead by the sawdust that burst up, and Zheng Xiaoru pulled him into the cabin in time to hide, so that he did not suffer a bigger blow.

The more than ten huge pole warships wanted to get close to the Xia army warships and use the huge poles to sink several Xia army warships, but how could the Xia army give them a chance, several warships concentrated the guns and rockets on the ship, and sent several seemingly huge warships into the icy seabed with a concentrated shot.

The Sui army that tried to engage in the broadside battle was even more miserable, under the intensive firepower, the Sui soldiers on the ship turned into a pile of juice and flesh in a short time, and the scene was unsightly.

Zheng Xiaoru and Yuan Jingshan, who were hiding in the cabin, almost constantly received bad news.

"Report, Li Jing has sunk the ship of General Mount!"

"General Yuan Gushan is dead!"

Hearing these news, the two of them became more and more heavy, and they no longer had the posture of pointing at the beginning with high spirits, but they were still unwilling to retreat like this, and continued to command the Sui army to fight in the cabin.

The scuffle between the Xia army and the Sui army lasted from noon to near the afternoon Shen hour, when the sky was getting late and the hopeless Sui army quickly retreated in the night, and the Xia army had no choice but to stop the pursuit, and hurriedly took advantage of the fact that it was not completely dark to salvage the robes and Sui prisoners of war who were still floating on the sea.

"I'm really unwilling!" Zhong Likai looked at the retreating Sui army and was a little unfinished.

In this battle, the Xia army lost a total of more than 40 warships, but most of them were warships that had been used for more than ten years, and most of them were ships under 6,000 stones, and less than 10 ships above 6,000 stones were lost, which was also acceptable.

However, the Sui army lost more than 300 warships in the final stage of this battle, even if most of them were ships under 3,000 stones, but the casualties brought to the Sui army were still very large.

After this battle, Zhong Likai also knew that he was old, and his understanding of naval warfare began to fall behind, it seems that after this battle, he should also ask His Majesty to resign and leave his position to a more suitable young man, so that Wang Ze will give himself better preferential treatment because he took the initiative to delegate power.

With the grief of losing dozens of warships and the joy of sinking more than 300 Sui warships, Zhong Likai finally returned to the anchorage of Weihai County the next morning.

However, before he could get off the boat, he was taken aback by the news coming from the shore.

"What Changguang County actually lost? Changguang County is guarded by 100,000 troops, how can it be lost? ”