"Knock" "Knock" "Knock" "Knock" "Knock Knock" ······" The sound of violent drums was heard towards the sea in the distance.

In ancient times, marching and fighting were drum charges, Ming Jin collected troops, even the navy army is also this practice, at this time, whether it is the Chen army, or the Xia army side began to beat the cowhide drum, the soldiers on both sides under the leadership of their respective generals to drum up morale towards each other.

In the sound of drums, Chen Jun and Xia Jun were competing for the upper wind direction, while gradually approaching each other, although at this time there was no theory of sea power, and there were no naval battle regulations, but whether it was Chun Yuliang or the generals of the Xia army, they were very aware of the importance of occupying the wind direction of the fleet.

Having the upper wind not only means that the sail warship can move much faster than the opponent, but even the trebuchets, bed crossbows, fire oil bombs and other weapons on your own ship have a longer range than the opponent, which is self-evident in naval warfare.

The naval warships of the Xia army were originally faster than the naval division of the Chen army, but because the Chen army had already occupied the upper hand when it attacked, and the number of ships of the Chen army far exceeded that of the Xia army by several times, it seemed that the Chen army still had a greater advantage when it was time to engage in battle.

Seeing that the Xia army's warships were getting closer and closer to him, Chun Yuliang commanded in a loud voice: "Go forward with the fighting ship and attack the enemy ship with trebuchets!" ”

Even if the large warships of the Southern Chen Navy led by Chun Yuliang were more than five times the size of Kan Lesuo's division of the Yizhou Detachment of the Xia Army in the East China Sea, he was determined from the beginning to take down this Xia army with all his might.

Four huge special warships sailed out of Chen's ranks, escorted by more than a dozen small warships, and these four large ships were Chen's army's water warfare weapons -- fighting ships.

The trebuchet on the Chen Jun fighting ship is slightly different from the trebuchet used on land, because it is a trebuchet used on a ship, so the range is relatively limited, but even so, the average range of the ship-borne trebuchet is between 200 and 250 steps, not only the power of the trebuchet is great, but the fighting ship also carries a melee batter.

These poles were about five feet long, carrying huge stones on them, which were hoisted by the ship's slings, and then smashed down when they got close to the enemy ship, and even the planks that were nearly a foot thick would be deformed after successive blows, and then they would be invaded by the sea, and eventually lead to the sinking of the ship.

Now it is winter, the sea near Yizhou is very cold, once a soldier falls into the sea, if he is not rescued for half an hour, he will inevitably die here.

The Xia army on the opposite side obviously knew these water warfare weapons of the Nanchen Navy very well, and at the beginning they were also trying to regain the upper hand, but because they fell behind at the beginning, and the number of ships was far from enough, they still barely deviated in a certain direction, but they did not regain the upper hand after all.

After seeing Chen Jun's fighting ships come forward, Xia Jun did not immediately send large ships to engage in battle, but sent several smaller but faster sea fox boats to meet them, each of these sea fox ships was about 500 stone deadweight, basically only 20 people per ship, but the speed of the ship was very fast.

Looking at the sea fox boat that was approaching quickly, Chun Yuliang was very puzzled by Xia Jun's actions, but he was still unmoved, and when several sea fox boats approached more than two hundred zhang, Chen Jun's fighting ship began to throw stones one by one.

Because water warfare is different from land warfare, the range of trebuchets is smaller, so in order to improve the hit rate, most of the trebuchets in water warfare have been roughly polished, so the size of these stone projectiles is very uniform, generally around 50 catties.

In this way, the hit rate of the trebuchet in the naval battle was greatly improved, and one of the nearly ten sea fox ships that came in front of him did not have time to dodge, and was immediately hit by a huge stone projectile, and then it was torn apart in the blink of an eye.

Even if it was far away, the soldiers of the Xia Army could vaguely see traces of flesh and blood splashing in it, but Kan Le, who was in charge of commanding this naval army, did not have any expression at all.

When I was fighting, as soon as I saw my comrades die, I rushed regardless of it, as if a small universe could destroy all the enemies at once, the kind of stupid guy on the battlefield only existed in the Hengdian movies of later generations, and the most important thing to need in marching combat is calm.

In particular, the main general of the first army, even in the face of tens of millions of casualties, must be indifferent for the final victory, even if he is accused of 'one general succeeds and ten thousand bones wither', there can be no personal feelings, under the command of Kan Le, the Xia army warships continued to follow behind, forming a battle formation to meet them.

At this time, Chun Yuliang looked at Chun Yukun's fleet behind the Xia army and couldn't help frowning, today he knew that he could definitely annihilate the Xia army in front of him, but this was not his ultimate goal, Chun Yuliang wanted to capture all the Xia army and navy warships in front of him today.

As early as in advance, Chun Yukun made an appointment with Chun Yukun, and before the two armies met the enemy, Chun Yukun raised a big banner with the word 'Chunyu' written on it as a signal, and then it was the beginning of Chun Yukun and his uncle Chun Yuliang to flank the Yizhou Xia army. The whole book

In ancient times, the name of the general was often used as a banner in wars, and Chun Yu Kun's original surname was Chun Yu, and at this time, the 'Chun Yu' banner was raised, and the Xia army would inevitably think that this was Chun Yu Kun raising his own banner, and he would definitely not be on guard.

As early as when Chen Baxian and Chen Qian were alive in the past, Nan Chen made many requests to buy the warships of the Xia Army in the East China Sea, but Wang Zewan refused.

Chen Baxian and Chen Qian also knew that the navy was Wang Ze's evidence of gaining a foothold in the East China Sea, and although Chen Jun's navy was inferior to Wang Ze, it was much stronger than the navy of the Northern Qi Dynasty and the Northern Zhou Dynasty, so after Wang Ze refused, the two did not continue to mention this matter.

After Chen Xu ascended the throne, on the one hand, he increased the reward for the shipyards in Nanchen, hoping that the craftsmen in the shipyards could imitate the same big ships as the ships in the East China Sea.

On the other hand, Chen Ji hoped to obtain a relatively complete part of the Xia army warships by attacking Yizhou this time, so that the speed of imitation by craftsmen on the Nanchen side could be greatly improved.

Therefore, this time, Chun Yuliang said that he would capture the warship of the Xia army in front of him, even if it was just a warship, it could also be imitated by the craftsmen according to this ship, and then not only the strength of Nanchen's naval army would be greatly increased, but even the performance of Nanchen's merchant ships would be greatly improved.

At this time, the huge profits of China's maritime trade with the West and the South Seas were not unknown to the nobles and heroes of the Nanchen side, but because there were still many defects in the ships manufactured by Nanchen at this time, these made the fleet of Nanchen have a high discount rate after sailing.

Therefore, at present, the maritime trade between the entire East and the Western countries is still in the hands of Tianzhu merchants, and in the past ten years, it is because the private merchants of the East China Sea have received strong support from Wang Ze, so in the trade with the South and Western Oceans, the commercial ratio of the Xia Kingdom is increasing.

Seeing that there was still no movement in Chun Yukun's department behind Xia Jun, Chun Yuliang couldn't help but shake his head, his nephew didn't know what he was doing, he actually dropped the chain at such a critical moment, it seems that he needs to continue to cultivate in the future.

Out of the thirst for the Xia army's warships, Chun Yuliang saw that the main warships of the Xia army were only ten, so he simply ordered the deputy general to lead a team of warships to outflank the Xia army.

At this time, several of Xia Jun's sea fox boats were still fearlessly advancing in the waves and bullet rain, although one sea fox boat was destroyed by Chen Jun's trebuchet before, and several others were injured by the rubbed stone projectiles, but the remaining few small boats successfully evaded the attack of Chen Jun's trebuchet.

When these few remaining sea fox boats were still about 100 steps away from Chen Jun's warship, Chen Jun began to find that the Xia Jun on the ship was preparing bed crossbows, and these Xia Jun soldiers who rushed over with great difficulty and danger carefully loaded round objects on bed crossbows and shot at the four large fighting ships in front of Chen Jun.

Chen Jun's fighting ships were all newly built in the past two years, because they had to carry trebuchets, large slapsticks and other weapons, so they were built very large, each ship was more than 5,000 stones, more than 10 times larger than the sea fox ships in front of him, which were only less than 500 stones.

Because the soldiers on the Chen Jun fighting ship pointed to the sea fox boat that was preparing to launch the bed crossbow and laughed, they were amused by Xia Jun's inexplicable behavior of running over to launch the bed crossbow, in order to increase the protection ability of these fighting ships in close combat, the board of the ship is hardwood more than a foot thick, and the bed crossbow in front of them shoots on the fighting ship, just to scratch the fighting ship.

Chun Yuliang was also very puzzled by Xia Jun risking such a big danger just to launch a bed crossbow, but when the front fighting ship was hit, he was stunned by the sudden change.

"Boom" "Boom" "Boom"

Several violent explosions sounded one after another, and Chun Yuliang felt that these violent noises were louder than the thunder during the summer thunderstorm season in Nanchen, as if someone had angered the heavens and made the heavens send down thousands of thunderbolts to punish their own people.

A bed crossbow shot at the front of the fighting ship, and the wooden structure on the upper deck was suddenly shattered, and the sawdust that was shattered by the explosion flew all over the sky, and a piece of wood even flew to the surface of Chun Yu who took nearly a hundred steps, although it did not cut the dough, but it was also hot and painful when hit in the face.

Chun Yuliang touched his face like fire, and saw that the huge fighting ship with a load of more than 5,000 stones at the front had already begun to tilt, and it seemed that a huge gap had been blown open by the explosion just now.

The soldiers of the Chen Army on the fighting ships jumped into the sea one after another to escape, and some of the more clever soldiers did not bother to grab the wooden planks floating on the sea near the fighting ships, and swam away as soon as possible.

When some Chen soldiers who were busy scrambling for wooden planks realized that something was wrong, they saw a large amount of seawater constantly pouring into the cabin, and before these Chen soldiers who fell into the water could react, the fighting ship sank quickly, and even those soldiers who had no time to escape were also swept into the cold seabed by the sinking ship.