When they went further up, they saw a small patch of reeds, in which the ships were hidden, and there were fifty of them.

Mengji also brought more than 100 Yingchuan sailors, stationed here, waiting for Bai Zhong's arrival and arrangements.

These warships were not as tall as Bai Zhong imagined, a ship could carry more than fifty people, there was a kind of strong crossbow on the deck, and the bow was equipped with an angle of attack, this kind of ship was called a sudden attack, and it was mainly used to ram the enemy's ships.

The method of water combat is generally to use crossbow fire first, then engage in string combat, and finally board the ship to fight, and even use this kind of warship called sudden attack to attack the enemy's ships to achieve the effect of killing the enemy.

Bai Zhong simply looked at the warship and said: "The sailors get on the ship first, be familiar with the operation of these warships, Gengwu, you lead the Iron Eagle Warriors, train with the sailors of Nanjun, and wait until Li Xin and them come back, and then cross the river to attack Shangcai." ”

Sailors from South County were the first to board the ship.

Geng Wu led the Iron Eagle Warriors to negotiate with the three two or five hundred masters of the sailors in the past to discuss how to train on the water.

Bai Zhong led the people out of the reeds, camped outside, and rested, and at the same time had people prepare a large amount of timber, and also build a pontoon bridge, and prepare to use the war boats and the pontoon bridges to force the crossing of the Rushui and storm the other side of the river.

The barracks had just been stationed.

Another scout hurriedly came over and said, "General, there are twenty scouts of the Chu army found in the south, and we captured seven alive, and let the rest escape." ”

"The first lieutenant's men, chase after them and kill the rest of the scouts."

Bai Zhong didn't want their specific location and deployment to let the generals on the Chu army's side know.

Yingshu shouted: "Follow me!" ”

She spent the few days when her aunt came, and finally regained her true nature as a female man, and led her subordinates to kill all the thirteen Chu army scouts who escaped.

At the same time, Bai Zhong arranged for the first lieutenant to be deployed around the riverbank.

The scouts of the Chu army can't go back, and they will definitely send scouts to cross the river to find out the news, and when the time comes, they will kill as many as they come, and the news of the ancient war is also extremely important, and the news of the Qin army cannot be transmitted back to Shangcai, so the Chu army will be very passive.

In the evening.

Finally, news came from Li Xin's side, saying that they were on their way.

"How long will it take for Li Xin to arrive?"

Bai Zhong asked after reading the news.

The messenger said: "At the current pace of marching, we will be there tomorrow afternoon." ”

Since he could arrive tomorrow, Bai Zhong planned in his mind, and decided to force the day after tomorrow to cross the Rushui, wave his hand to let the messenger go down to rest, and then go to see how the Iron Eagle Ruishi and them train on the water.

The sharps are all elites in the army and have a strong learning ability, but in a few hours, most of them have learned how to swim, and the rest of them are still practicing diving and various swimming movements.

"Learn to swim as much as possible today, and start tomorrow to learn how to deploy and kill enemies on the water with the Nanjun sailors, and adapt to water combat."

Bai Zhong said as he stood on the shore.

Even if someone gets seasick, they have to adapt as much as possible.

Since you have become an Iron Eagle Warrior, you must learn everything, and you can't quit on the way, and if you dare to leave, you will be treated as a deserter.

However, this time in the water battle, he did not plan to let the Iron Eagle Ruishi directly participate in it, but just sent some people to the warship to follow the sailors to meet the enemy, if the Chu army did not have a warship, it was best to attack, if there was a warship, it might be a little troublesome.

The time was fast, and it was the afternoon of the next day.

Li Xin and Zhang Han's troops finally arrived, and the results of the attack on Chongqiu were delivered.

The city was taken, and the soldiers killed in the battle were only a few hundred, which can be said to be a big victory, which is enough to prove that their ability is not bad.

The battle exploits and the like were also sent to Bai Zhong for statistics.

"Record the merits first, take down Shang Cai, and reward the merits together."

Bai Zhong announced: "You rest for the night, and early tomorrow morning, cross the river to attack Shang Cai." ”

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Outside the city of Shangcai.

More than 20,000 Chu troops gathered here.

The Xiang clan of the lower Xiang family has been a nobleman of the Chu State for generations, and the children of the clan are basically the generals of the Chu State.

The nobles of the Chu State defended the Chu State, not only for the sake of their family and country, but also for the interests of their nobles.

The general of the garrison in Huaiyang County, Xiang Liang of the Xiang clan, learned that Xianghe was lost, so he judged that the next move of the Qin army was either Shangcai or Pingyu, and Shangcai was the closest to the two cities of Xianghe and Chongqiu, and he could attack the city by crossing Rushui.

He believed that the Qin army attacked Shang Cai first.

The main forces of the Chu army in Huaiyang were all stationed on the shore, waiting for the arrival of the Qin army.

It was already night.

"General, none of the scouts sent out in the afternoon will come back."

A general walked into the tent and said.

This is also the first time that Xiang Liang led the army to fight as the main general, and he did it very carefully, sending a lot of scouts to cross the river to find out the news, who knew that none of them would come back, and they would definitely be discovered by the Qin army and then killed.

"The Qin army should have come to the shore."

Xiang Liang groaned and said, "We will cross the river in two days after tomorrow at the earliest, since he can kill our scouts, he must have expected that we will be on the shore." ”

"Pass on my military order and call some warships over, the more the better."

He considered that in the end, he thought that the Qin army would not be left unprepared.

Vigilance must not be relaxed.

The general was ordered, and he immediately went to arrange it.

Xiang Liang has been frowning, the first battle of his life is a bit stressful.

He has already found out clearly, this time it was the Qin general Bai Zhong who attacked Huaiyang, this person has become famous in recent years, destroying Han and Zhao, all have his figure, and it is said that he also kills people like hemp, as long as he is an enemy on the battlefield, he will not be merciful if he can kill.

For the first time as the main general, he faced such a ruthless person, his nerves tensed, and he continued to order the whole army to strengthen vigilance to prevent the Qin army from crossing the river elsewhere, or from having any conspiracy.

Soon, it was dawn.

"General, the warship is coming!"

Last night's Pi will wake Xiang Liang up outside the tent.

He hurried to the shore and saw more than a dozen warships docked aside, which made him a little relieved.

The coast of Rushui has been very calm, and there is no news of the Qin army smuggling, and the same is true for Pingyu.

In other words, the Qin army decided to force the crossing of Rushui to the west of Shangcai, and wanted to fight them head-to-head.

The best way to deal with the enemy crossing the river is to attack it halfway, Xiang Liang has asked people to prepare a large number of bows and crossbows, and now the warships are also coming, as long as the Qin army dares to cross the river, he is confident that the Qin army will be buried in Rushui and will not be able to cross the river.

"General, there are ships again!"

At this moment, a Chu soldier pointed upstream.

"Where are the boats?"

Xiang Liang looked up in confusion and looked upstream, and suddenly felt shocked.

Those warships were all sudden, and at the bow of the ship, there was also the black water dragon flag of the Qin army.

"That's the Qin army's warship!"

The general was surprised.

The Qin army was also prepared to have warships, and there were more of them than theirs.

Fifty ships swooped down with the current.