On the south side of Dongting Lake, the huge roar was deafening, and the sound of fighting spread all over the wilderness, one after another.

On the open lake, the battle is extremely fierce, and the huge ship is like a fierce beast with teeth and claws, and the thick slap rod is constantly smashing down, and everyone and boat are torn apart everywhere it goes!

The building ship is the king of water warfare, with its huge hull, strong potential energy and invincible, although the other party is also a brave soldier, but no matter how brave the warrior is only flesh and blood after all, without the blessing of the same powerful warship, it is completely difficult to resist the attack of the ship, after being destroyed by this war machine, there are few survivors.

In order to be able to convey his orders to the participating ships in time, Xu Wensheng was also on one of the battleships, his sharp eyes were like eagle vision, keenly capturing the changes in various situations on the battlefield, adjusting the formation of the ships in time, gradually compressing the enemy's activity space to a corner of the water, and driving towards the Xiangshui River.

At the beginning of the battle between the two armies at Dongting Lake, Wang Lin's army was completely down, because the size of each other's boat fleets was completely out of the same class.

Today's situation is no longer the moment when Wang Lin led people to control the big ships to block the Wei army and did not dare to go out of the camp, the Western Wei army was ashamed and brave, and made many ships in the Danjiangkou dock in Xingzhou, and at the same time captured a large number of ships in Yingzhou and Jiangling, the number and scale of a single boat is already second to none in the world, I am afraid that only the Wang Seng and the army in the lower reaches of the Yangtze River can match.

Wang Lin's men and horses were urgently withdrawn from Lingnan, and although there was a spiritual canal between the two places, and there were continuous waterways, this channel was not enough to sail large ships. As for the local area of Xiangzhou, which was already under the vigilance of Emperor Xiao Yi of Liang, it was even more impossible to place a large-scale ship in Dongting Lake.

Therefore, Wang Lin's current boat division strength is just reversed from the previous Western Wei Dynasty, and after returning to Xiangzhou, most of what he can mobilize are speedboats or boats, and there is not a single large ship that can really influence and determine the situation of the water war.

Originally, Wang Lin planned to appease or attack Xu Shipu and Ren Yue's troops stationed on the south bank, and obtain their ships to enhance his own water warfare strength, but before this idea could be implemented, Xu Shipu took the first step to kill the appointment and surrender to Jiangling.

Now there is a huge disparity in strength between them, when Xu Wensheng, the original general of the Southern Dynasty, led the Western Wei Zhou Division to kill in a big way, Wang Lin's naval army stationed on the south side of Dongting Lake was quickly defeated, and even the large camp was lost.

The fierce fighting lasted all day, and a large number of ship debris and corpses of soldiers floated on the surface of Dongting Lake.

In the case of the overall backwardness of the boats and ships, although Wang Lin's troops fought hard, but in the end it was inevitable to be defeated, and the surviving boat divisions and ships retreated south along the Hunan River, due to the tightening of the channel, which was not conducive to the advance and retreat of the large ships, the Western Wei boat division did not continue to pursue the tail, and the situation was temporarily stabilized.

However, after this great battle, the Wei army also paid a lot of price, several large ships were damaged to varying degrees, and one of them was completely destroyed under the enemy's almost suicidal collision and incineration of light boats.

But all in all, the results of this battle were relatively brilliant. In the course of the battle between the two sides, there were almost no evenly matched broadside battles, so the casualties on the Wei side were minimal, while the Wang Lin side was much more tragic, and there were thousands of corpses floating on the surface of the lake alone, which was shocking to see.

After a battle is over, the next step is naturally to reward the soldiers. After Mingjin withdrew his troops, the army entered the Liang Junshui camp that had just been captured, and after a simple repair and arrangement, smoke rose from the camp.

As night fell, the soldiers also enjoyed a hot meal, and when the meal was over, except for the people who stayed on duty at night, the other soldiers dragged their tired bodies into the tent to rest.

Soon the time came to the middle of the night, and suddenly the drums in the Xiangshui River were agitated, and many light boats and speedboats broke through the night like arrows off the string and rushed straight towards the camp fence.

The soldiers in charge of night duty in the battalion lowered the iron cable water platoon to intercept these enemy ships that launched a night attack, and at the same time blew horns to warn the battalion.

The camp at night has always been dominated by southerners and northerners

Xu Wensheng has been in the north and south and has rich experience in the battle, and he is naturally not slack off, and he has already arranged the personnel to deal with the situation, and when he saw that the enemy army was really attacking at night, those battalion soldiers all put on armor to meet the battle.

To the south of the camp, there was a constant movement of boats hitting the battalion fence water platoon, but it was mainly a feint attack by the enemy's empty ships, and there were often only a small number of boat control soldiers on the attacking ships, but there were very few real war soldiers.

Although the Wei soldiers in the battalion were indignant, they did not dare to relax on this, and the assembled battalion soldiers rested on the ground and did not dare to disperse, and they have always maintained basic vigilance.

This harassment continued until the second half of the night, when the enemy seemed to be tireless, and even the soldiers in the battalion who were on duty at night had been replaced, and similar harassment continued.

But near dawn and at the deepest moment of night, the sound of the water flowing from the river became louder, as if there were hundreds of boats competing for the current, and the water barracks that had been harassed for a long time also broke abruptly at this moment, and it was difficult to stop it anymore.

"Enemy attack, enemy attack, meet quickly!"

The sentries outside the camp heard a distinctly different movement, and suddenly a spirit came to their senses, and they hurriedly beat the gongs and drums again to signal the alarm.

The battalion soldiers, who had been waiting for a long time, were inevitably a little slack at this time, and after hearing the warning, they hurriedly rushed to their respective positions. Before they could take their positions, the enemy boats had already poured into the docks, and the enemy soldiers at the front of them were screaming and slaughtering them.

"Kill! Kill all these captives!"

Those enemy soldiers shouted fierce slogans in their mouths, and the knives and guns in their hands mercilessly stabbed at the soldiers in the battalion.

The Wei soldiers who hurriedly met the battle suffered a lot of casualties under the surprise, but soon they noticed that the situation was a little strange, these attacking enemy soldiers seemed to be vicious, but in fact they seemed to be even more panicked than them, few long-range weapons such as bows and crossbows, and most of them held short soldiers, because they were scrambling to land and blocked the front and back, making the situation chaotic.

Except for some enemy soldiers who rushed to the front and slaughtered into the camp, the situation in the back became chaotic, and the continuity of the attack could not be guaranteed at all, as if a group of recruits who had never been on the battlefield were forcibly driven into battle.

The performance of these enemy soldiers was more in line with this conjecture, when the Wei army battalion soldiers recovered their organization after the initial chaos, each took their own positions, and launched a counterattack, these enemy soldiers suddenly became more and more clumsy in coping, and no longer dared to go forward to fight, and even began to flee on the boat, and the essence of the color was exposed.

"These southern thieves are really ridiculous, and when they disturb the camp for a long time, they are such goods!"

Seeing such a clumsy performance of the enemy, the soldiers of the Wei army also couldn't cry or laugh, and scolded one after another.

When the enemy began to scramble to retreat, the battalion soldiers laughed louder and shouted, "Don't let these thieves flee!" Kill all the pawns who come to make trouble, and see if you dare to disturb them again!"

Seeing that the enemy had fled all the way, the battalion soldiers were eager to kill the enemy, and they all left the lord's advice behind, chased them out one after another, and boarded boats and continued to pursue and kill along the Xiangshui River to the south.

But when they broke out of a layer of river mist, they saw more than a dozen warships lined up on the river, and the battleships seemed to have been waiting for a long time.

"Camp! Take back the stronghold!"

After harassing in the middle of the night, and driving the scattered soldiers to lure the enemy in front of them, and finally luring the enemy out of the camp, these Liang soldiers who had been in ambush for a long time naturally refused to let go of this opportunity, first shot with bows and crossbows, and then controlled the warships to rush towards the large camp that had already opened the door.

This new group of enemies was no longer as scattered and clumsy as before, all of them were brave and experienced veterans, and after entering the camp, they landed in a stream, and rushed towards different areas of the camp in a clear array, and soon most of the battalion's defenses were destroyed.

Xu Wensheng woke up in his sleep and learned that the enemy army had entered the camp, and he was also panicked in his heart, but he still quickly ordered: "Don't fight in the camp, quickly withdraw to the ship!"

As the light breaks, the camp

The chaos continued unabated, and there were people running everywhere, making it difficult to distinguish between friend and foe, but fortunately, Xu Wensheng urgently led more than 2,000 tribes to retreat to the place where the boat was anchored, and held on here to repel several enemy attacks, so as to avoid suffering greater losses.

In the early morning, when Liang Shiyan, who was stationed in Xiangyin, led his troops to come to reinforcements, the camp was already in disarray, with corpses from both sides covering the camp, and of course more Wei soldiers were killed and wounded. Yesterday, a water battle was carried out, and the Wei army killed and injured many Liang soldiers, but after the enemy's night attack, the Wei army suffered more casualties.

After Liang Shiyan's victory in the first battle, he originally despised Wang Lin's subordinates, but when he entered the camp and saw such a miserable scene, his heart was also a little heavy for a while, and when Xu Wensheng returned to the camp again, he also said with a ashamed face: "Although I am vigilant, I am still not cautious enough after all, and I am still taken advantage of by the enemy. Wang Lin's subordinates have many outlaws who are aggressive and happy to die, which should not be underestimated. This attack on Xiangzhou will be a tough battle!"

While the Wei army was still cleaning up the dilapidated camp, the Liang soldiers who had gone out to cut the camp in the morning returned to a military city in the upper reaches of Xiangshui.

Wang Lin was in front of the city gate to greet this group of triumphant soldiers, and after seeing the crowd landing on the shore, he strode to meet a burly general, and laughed and said: "I know that Han Erlang will succeed in this battle, and a feast has been prepared in the city, and Erlang and I will return together to congratulate!"

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