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End of June.

The Yangtze front suddenly changed.

——A Song army composed of seven or eight hundred large and small ships sailed here.

Most of the ships in this fleet are very old, and here in the Tiger Ben Water Army, they will definitely not be able to enter the front-line battle sequence.

Moreover, there were three or four hundred large ships among them, with colorful flags fluttering, dressed like flower boats.

This is the Ping Navy and the Cheng Navy of Dengzhou, as well as ...... Gyeonggi Water Army.

Needless to say, the Ping Navy and the Cheng Navy will not be said.

These two naval armies can be regarded as the two largest naval divisions of the Zhao and Song dynasties.

The battle reached this level, and the Song army was trapped north of the Yangtze River because of the lack of naval strength and could not cross the river, although these two naval armies did not have much combat effectiveness, but as the most capable naval army of Zhao and Song, they all had to participate in the war.

What is more interesting is this Gyeonggi Naval Army.

At the beginning, Liu Che, Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, excavated 400,000 square meters of Kunming Pool near Chang'an to cultivate the Han army's water warfare capabilities.

——Because Liu Che was preparing to attack the barbarian country of Kunming at that time, he named the pool after the name of the other party's country, so as to show his determination and ambition.

A thousand years later, the Later Zhou Emperor Chai Rong, who owned most of the area north of the Jianghuai River, carried out a similar operation based on the same mentality.

- Chai Rong established a shipyard in Bianliang City, Tokyo, where the water system originally passed, and asked people to dig a training pool in the west of the city, preparing to wait for the sailors to complete the training, so they directly sent troops south from Bianliang City, Tokyo, and attacked Jiangning along the canal and waterway.

Therefore, this Gyeonggi naval army was actually built in the Chai Rong period of the Later Zhou Dynasty.

However, before the bathtub fleet in Bianliang City in Tokyo could be formed, Chai Rong died of illness.

In the second year, Zhao Kuangyin launched the Chenqiaoyi Mutiny, holding the orphans and widows of the Chai family in his own hands.

However, the international strategy of the Northern Dynasties has not changed, and the Southern Tang Dynasty is still the number one target for the Northern Song Dynasty to get rid of as soon as possible.

Therefore, Zhao Kuangyin not only built fleets in Yangzhou and Jingzhou, but also did not forget to strengthen the naval base west of the capital.

Zhao Kuangyin then asked people to continue to expand Chai Rong's pool, mobilizing more than 35,000 people before and after, expanding the area of the pool to a radius of 4.5 kilometers, and even built the five halls of Shuixin in the center so that he could watch the fleet drill in person.

But this pool was not completed yet, and the war to destroy the Southern Tang Dynasty began.

Zhao Kuangyin went to see off the Gyeonggi Navy with passion, hoping that this Navy Army, which had wasted Chai Rong and a lot of his hard work, could wipe out the Southern Tang Navy in one fell swoop.

But the result was that as soon as the Gyeonggi Navy arrived on the battlefield, the Southern Tang Navy was defeated by the real Navy trained by the Northern Song Dynasty general Cao Bin in the Jingchu region in the south.

As a result, the Gyeonggi Navy was nothing more than a logistics and transportation department in the southward stage of the forbidden army, and its actual role was hardly worth mentioning.

In the period of Zhao Guangyi, Zhao Guangyi wanted to use the Gyeonggi Navy to help him recover the sixteen states of Yanyun, so he personally went to dig Zhao Kuangyin into a bathtub and named it Jinmingchi.

At the same time, a large number of residents of the Jianghuai valley or the Southern Tang Dynasty were selected and sent to Bianliang City in Tokyo to serve as sailors of the most important naval army of the Zhao and Song dynasties.

But with the failure of Zhao Guangyi's Northern Expedition and the strong counterattack of the Liao *** team, the Gyeonggi Navy did not come in handy at all.

But in line with the emperor's need to control the most elite army in the country, this bathtub army is still consuming a lot of resources of the Northern Song Dynasty.

In terms of establishment, the rest of the country's naval forces are only local van troops, but the Gyeonggi naval army is classified as a forbidden army, so the "soldiers" of this naval army enjoy the highest welfare benefits.

During the Song Zhenzong period, which was no longer willing to continue the Northern Expedition, some ministers suggested dismantling the old ships of the Gyeonggi Navy and allocating resources to the coastal defense area.

But Zhao Heng was very dissatisfied with this, he said that every spring and summer, many people, including himself, go to Jinmyeongchi to watch performances, and even spontaneously give rewards, why do you want to abolish such a good-looking Gyeonggi sailor?

Since then, the Gyeonggi Navy left by Hou Zhou Chai Rong has been completely reduced to an entertainment project for dignitaries and nobles to watch

As soon as the time of the year arrived, the emperor of Zhao and Song would personally go to the five halls of Shuixin to take up his position and watch the Gyeonggi Navy perform hard around him.

The ever-changing array of long snakes, rectangular formations, and circular formations, as well as the "soldiers" of the Gyeonggi Navy Army, who performed the preset destruction of imaginary enemy ships with rockets and fireships, are very spectacle-looking.

And the people of Bianliang City in Tokyo do not pay attention to its actual combat effect, but only try to achieve the best visual effect under the fluttering of colorful flags.

No one expected that Zhao Song would send this honor guard to participate in the battle.

But even with the addition of this seemingly large honor guard, this patchwork naval army, whether in terms of numbers, ships, or personnel and equipment, is far from comparable with the Tiger Army.

Therefore, although this navy is coming, Niu Meng still doesn't care, and is even ready to find an opportunity to teach this navy a lesson, brush up on his military exploits, and brush up on his prestige, especially when Niu Meng heard a general tell the origin of the Gyeonggi Navy army.

Within a few days, Niu Meng waited for the opportunity he wanted to wait.

Around the time when the reinforcements of the Song army's western front arrived in Jiangzhou and Hongzhou, the Song army's navy suddenly drove into the Yangtze River, and then launched a provocation against the Huben navy.

The capital eunuch Sun San was stunned, feeling that things were abnormal, and persuaded Niu Meng not to fight, beware of the Song army's fraud.

Niu Meng pointed to the colorful boats of the Gyeonggi Navy and laughed, "Why are they afraid?"

Since the war with the Song army, the battle between the water army and the tiger army has not been defeated in a battle.

This made Niu Meng very proud, thinking that the Song army was all northern soldiers and did not practice water warfare, and felt that the Song army's ships were not good, and even the Qian donkey was poor in skills to get the honor guard to participate in the battle, so he was careless.

After saying that, Niu Meng went out with the whole army.

The Tiger Ben Army is like this, in wartime, the generals have the say, and in peacetime, the supervising army has the say.

Moreover, Niu Meng was the first person to follow Li Cun, and was once the No. 3 person in the Tiger Ben Army, with old qualifications and high credit, coupled with his personality, so that in addition to Li Cun, Niu Meng was very strong in front of others.

In this way, not to mention that Sun San was stunned, even Fang Wuji, the prefect of Jiangning who stayed in Jiangning City, did not dare to care about Niu Meng.

You must know that Fang Wuji is also an old qualification, and he is still the first literati to follow Li Cun, and once assumed the duties of the chief steward and transfer envoy of the Tiger Ben Army, and the credit is by no means under Niu Meng.

But then again, the current comparison of strength between the enemy and us is indeed the absolute advantage of the Tiger Army.

Therefore, whether Sun San stayed or Fang Wuji, hesitated for a moment, and finally did not stop Niu Meng from fighting.

As a result, Niu Meng personally commanded the Huben Naval Army and the Song Naval Army to fight fiercely on the river.

At the beginning of the war, the Tiger Warrior Army had an absolute advantage, and it can be said that the five-tooth battleship of the Tiger Warrior Army could smash a Song Army's naval ship with one shot, even the largest flower boat.

As for the bed crossbows and javelins of the Tiger Army, everything is deadly.

It is no exaggeration to say that the strength of the two sides cannot be compared at all.

But just when the two sides were in the middle of a fierce battle, a strange thing suddenly happened!

- The warships of the Tiger Ben Naval Army did not move.

Soon there was a quick reaction and realized that the warships of the Tiger Ben Naval Army were all big ships, and it was difficult to move without wind, and now there was no wind!

What happened next really made Niu Meng regret it.

I saw countless rockets shot out from the flower boat of the Song Army's navy, specifically shooting the sails of the big ship of the Tiger Army.

The big ship of the Tiger Ben Navy could not be moved, and it became the target of the Song Army's rockets.

At the same time, the Song army's navy set fire to the big ship of the tiger army.

After a while, more than half of the ships of the Tiger Ben Navy were set on fire by the "soldiers" of the Gyeonggi Navy who were good at setting fires.

What's even more terrifying is that some of the fires burned the thunder and explosives bags that were used as secret weapons by the Tiger Ben Naval Army, and as a result, they were burned and exploded, and in an instant, the Tiger Ben Naval Army lost more than half of its warships.

The Song army and the navy still want to continue to concoct the same method

Burning the remaining warships of the Tiger Ben Naval Army, fortunately, Sun Sandu saw that the situation was not good, and personally took the remaining naval army to row a small boat to meet the enemy.

Later, the soldiers of the Huben Navy on the big ship did not fight the fire anymore, and shot the soldiers of the Song Army and the Navy in the face of the fire.

In the end, the Song army's navy was repelled by the tiger army that was not afraid of death.

According to statistics after the war, the Tiger Ben Navy lost almost two-thirds of the warships, many of which were Li Cun's five-tooth warships as treasures, and the Tiger Ben Navy also killed hundreds of soldiers, two of whom were captains who Li Cun was very optimistic about, and they all made great contributions in the process of fighting with the Song army.

Undoubtedly, Niu Meng poked the big basket.

This matter was quickly reported through layers of reports, and finally reported to Li Cun, who was paying close attention to the decisive battle between the Song army and the Fang La Yi army.

Li Cun saw that the belongings he had saved by digging out his heart were lost so much by Niu Meng in the first battle, and he was very distressed.

But Sun San stayed in the recital and said very clearly, although there was an element of Niu Meng's carelessness in this battle, the main reason for the defeat was that the wind suddenly stopped, and God helped Zhao Song, and Niu Meng could not be blamed entirely.

Considering that Niu Meng was the first person to follow him, and he made great contributions to himself, and his only younger brother Niu Wei also died for himself, Li Cun's punishment for Niu Meng was to be demoted and retained, and punished for half a year.

Li Cun raised the board high and fell gently.

Just wait for the future, Niu Meng will make some more military achievements, and Li Cun will reinstate Niu Mengguan.

Let's talk about Niu Meng.

After getting Li Cun's disposal, he was both relieved and unlucky, he should have made a great contribution, but because the wind stopped, it became a big one.

In a bad mood, Niu Meng took a few of his own soldiers to the tavern where he often went to drink, ordered two side dishes, and poured himself a drink.

When Niu Meng was almost seven points drunk, he was going to get a wine jug and pour another bowl of wine.

But at this moment, a hand picked up Niu Meng's wine jug, and while helping Niu Meng pour wine, he said, "Niu Dutong, do you remember Xiao Ke?"

Hearing this, Niu Meng raised his drunken eyes and blurted out, "It's you?!"

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That one...... I know it's my fault that I'm out of context.

But I still brazenly hope that everyone will reward me with a two-chapter monthly ticket for the sake of me adding nine classes to code words for everyone.