The rooster crows for the second quarter (1:30).

When the rooster crows, the rooster does not crow, but in the camp of Chencheng, there are human figures flickering and human voices are heard from time to time, as if more than 200,000 troops are still stationed here.

At the same time, five miles after the camp of Chencheng, the downstream section of the chasm.

Xiang Yan stood on the top of the Feiyun Tower ship and said in a deep voice: "Order!" ”

"Fifty flying boats (small scouts with a displacement of two hundred husks and cabins) go ahead."

"Ten scouts (large scout ships with a displacement of five hundred hues and cabins) tail fixes."

"If you encounter an enemy situation, immediately raise a fire to tell us!"

Fifty flying boats that could barely hold a few people spilled over the chasm.

Every fork in the road, the inlet will be skillfully turned into it to strictly investigate, and from time to time it will be disembarked at the shallow place to go ashore to investigate.

Ten scout boats with more than 10 people sat on the chasm river, receiving news from the flying boats from time to time, and with more oarsmen, they were able to quickly swim upstream and deliver the news to Xiang Yan.

Knowing that there were no enemy troops for ten miles ahead, Xiang Yan spoke: "Order!" The main army is the front army, the Xiang family, the Qu family and the county soldiers are the middle army, and the rest of the clans are the rear army. ”

"Order the oarsmen of all boats not to paddle except in control of the direction."

"If you dare to speak, everyone around you can be killed!"

"The army sets sail!"

No one answered.

The army of more than 200,000 people was divided into three groups and went down the river.

Every oarsman on the boat held the oars carefully.

Only when the captain gives the order can the best oarsman adjust the direction of the boat with a few gentle strokes.

After the Chu fleet quietly descended for fifteen miles in the most quiet form, a fire suddenly lit up in the distance.

Immediately after that, there were two regiments! Three regiments! Up to the Ten Regiments!

Ten scout ships were on fire at the same time, which meant that the number of enemy troops in front of them had far exceeded what was expected before the battle.

Qu Huan's pupils shrank, and he exclaimed: "The Qin army has a large army in ambush? ”

Xiang Yan's face was still flat.

In Xiang Yan's opinion, it was really normal for the Qin army to ambush tonight.

Xiang Yan just said in a deep voice: "Ling! ”

"The flying boat rushes forward with fire and probes the enemy!"

Fifty flying boats raised torches at the same time, illuminating a stretch of water.

The oarsman on the flying boat no longer controlled his strength, picked up the oars with both hands and shook wildly, rushing forward!

The Qin army did not hesitate to return fire with crossbow arrows.

Under the shooting of Qin's crossbow, fifty flying boats have come and gone!

But the river they illuminated was already visible to the scout boats.

A scout quickly returned, and the scout on the ship jumped onto the boat and said in a solemn voice: "Shangzhu State, the enemy sailors are not Qin ships, but Wei ships. ”

"It has been preliminarily proved that the enemy has 500 small wings and 200 middle wings, and the rest of the boats and ships have not yet been detected."

The naval division of the Qin State is still on the battlefield of the Zhao State.

However, after destroying the Wei State, Cen Bian was able to take all the boats of the Wei State Sailors, and even recruited many Wei people and soldiers who were good at boats and boats on the spot to serve as sailors.

With the encouragement of the military merit system, although this naval army is newly reorganized, its combat effectiveness can be described as reborn.

Xiang Yan thought thoughtfully: "In this way, the Qin Army's sailors are pouring out. ”

"Send another fifty light boats, cruise five miles in front of the front army, and don't venture in."

"Tell all the departments, drop anchor and rest, and wait for dawn!"

The plan to slip away at night was completely shattered.

The pitch-black night made Xiang Yan unable to exert his water combat ability even if he had a strong ability.

Only when the sky dawned and Xiang Yan was able to look at the whole audience could he make further judgments based on the comparison of the strength of the enemy and us.

However, Xiang Yan wanted to wait for dawn to show his water fighting ability.

Cen Bian has no water warfare ability to play at all!

The darkness obscured the field of vision, and also pulled the combat effectiveness of the generals on both sides to the same level.

Cen Bian would not let go of this opportunity!

On the ship of the Qin Army, Cen Bian ordered in a broken voice: "Order!" ”

"With the small wings as the edge, the whole army rushes forward!"

Behind Cen Bian, the two drummers took off their shirts to reveal their sturdy upper bodies.

With the mallet in both hands, it slammed on the drum surface!

"Boom! Knock knock! ”

The war drums sounded, and more than 5,000 Qin army sailors shouted in unison: "Rush and kill!" ”

The oarsmen strained their muscles and slid their oars to drive the warship upstream, rushing towards the Chu army!

Xiang Yan: ???

Looking at the Qin army that was charging towards him, Xiang Yan was stunned.

If you can't see anything at night, you have to go to war, and that's it.

The Qin army even put the whole army on the line, and directly started the decisive battle?

The generals of the Qin army, are you so reckless!

Xiang Yan immediately drank the order: "Order!" The whole army put away the anchor and continued to march in the three armies. ”

"Order, flying boats, scouts on both sides of the strait."

"Summoning the commander Xiong Ao's department, and lead the bridge to the front line."

"Ordered the commander Xiong to hide the department, hide behind the bridge, and prepare for war!"

Under the command of Xiang Yan, the front army of the Chu army quickly divided its warships and waited for it.

When the Qin army rushed to the front of the Chu army for five hundred zhang, Xiang Yan ordered again: "Summons the commander Xiong Zang, advance at full speed!" ”

Twenty heavy ships, two zhang (4.62 meters) wide and nine zhang (20.79 meters) long, with extremely strong hulls and copper-clad wooden ramming angles on the bow, suddenly accelerated and rushed towards the Qin army.

And after the spurt.

One hundred ships are one zhang (2.31 meters) wide and six zhang (13.86 meters) long, and the whole ship is painted in crimson, with bamboo canopies on the top and covered with ripe cowhides, surrounded by red horses and trailing all the way.

At the back of the fleet, Captain Xiong Zang stood on a bridge and shouted angrily: "Sudden acceleration, the formation of arrows!" ”

"Rush!"

While shouting, the leader of the sudden attack slammed into a small wing of the Qin army.

The heavy hull and the high speed of the ship give a great deal of kinetic energy to the ramming angle, which makes the copper-clad wood ram angle like a bamboo, breaking the winglet in half!

After crashing into a winglet, the kinetic energy of the sudden attack was completely exhausted, and it had to stop at a distance.

But soon, one of them suddenly bypassed the scene of the accident, accelerated to the front, and rushed towards the other Qin army's wings.

The broken small wings of the Qin army were trapped in the Chu army's boat formation, the Chu army's red horse accelerated forward, and the ship's sergeant held a spear and stabbed down the Qin army in the water without hesitation!

"Get out of the way!"

"The Chu army is unstoppable, give way!"

"The oarsman is stunned, hurry up and row!"

Under Xiang Yan's deployment, the sudden attack is like a battering ram, and the red horse is like a cavalry, and the two are matched to enter the Qin army as if they were entering a no-man's land, and they slashed through the Qin army's boat formation!

On the ship, he looked at Cen Bian and was stunned: "How can the Chu army be so sharp!" ”

"Our army has obviously used the warships of the Wei State, why is it not a unified enemy in front of the Chu army!"

Cen Bian couldn't understand why the Chu army was so murderous!

"Captain, the general has an order!"

Hearing the call of the herald, Cen Bian hurriedly looked at the shore and saw two flames burning on the shore.

"A decisive battle as originally planned?"

Reading out the agreed signal, Cen Bian gritted his teeth: "Since General Wang gave such an order, there must be a reason for General Wang." ”

"Order!"

"The middle wing stepped forward, approached the Chu army's boat, and waited for it!"

"Those who dare to retreat, make a decision!"

Under Cen Bian's order, the middle wing of the Qin army crossed the small wing and suddenly approached the Chu army.

Xiong Zang smiled softly: "You want to flank our army?" ”

"The Qin army treats our army's red horses as nothing?"

"Order! Akama accelerates, cover the guards! ”

The red horses of the Chu army immediately accelerated, intercepting between the middle wing of the Qin army and the sudden attack of the Chu army.

Cen Bian was indifferent to the Chu army's change of formation, or he couldn't see the Chu army's intention to change the formation at all.

The distance between the central wing of the Qin army and the red horse of the Chu army is getting closer and closer.

After the two rounds of arrows were scattered, the two sergeants hung their bows on the bow presenters in the ship, and Cen Bian shouted: "Raise the fire!" ”

Five Chu soldiers picked up their spears, but ten Qin soldiers picked up wooden sticks, lit the torches fixed at the top of the sticks, and poked the torches out of the boat a foot away.

Cen Bian ordered again: "Spray oil!" ”

Five Chu soldiers held hook locks, intending to hook the boats of the two armies, but twenty Qin soldiers picked up 橐 (tuó) 龠 (yuè)!

Seeing this, Xiongzang was a little confused: "Isn't this an object used for forging?" ”

"The soldiers of Qin don't hold blades, but they hold tools?"

"Even the hand-held tool should be held, not this dragon!"

Xiong Zang was confused, and the Chu soldiers were even more confused.

Facing a pair of bewildered eyes, Sergeant Qin's arms were tense, and he used all his strength to press down the grips on both sides of the sword.

The oil hidden in the skin of the slug is squeezed by external force and grows out along the bronze hoop at the top of the slugg.

Chu Jun's bewildered gaze turned to horror.

Just because the moment the oil passed through the torch, it rose into a raging flame!

The squirt can only spew oil seven or eight feet away.

But this short distance is enough to cross the gap between the middle wing and the red horse, and spew burning oil into the red horse!

The roof of the red horse is fireproof and will not be ignited by rockets.

But the inside of Akama's cabin is not fireproof!

Under the attack of oil, the red horse has become a real 'red' horse!

"It's on fire!"

"The ship can't be saved, take the boat of the Qin army!"

"Fetch water to put out the fire!"

"Nope! You can't get water, open a sandbox, and pounce on it with sand! ”

The red horse caught fire, and the Chu army on board wanted to seize the Qin army's boat as soon as possible.

But the middle wing of the Qin army did not have the slightest intention of entanglement after completing the arson, and turned around and left without hesitation, heading towards another red horse.

The Chu army could only open the sandbox in a panic and try to extinguish the flames with sand according to the generals' explanations.

One red horse after another was set on fire by the Qin army.

In the panic, the red horses scattered, not only could they no longer maintain their formation and high mobility, but even ignited the sudden attack that was protected by them!

On the north bank of the chasm, looking at the flames rising one after another, Wang Ben was like a child who had gotten a new toy, and his eyes were full of joy: "Chang'an Jun's new ordnance is really easy to use!" ”

Xin Sheng's eyes were also full of excitement: "I heard that even Chang Anjun himself hasn't had time to use it." ”

"This is the first time that this set of ordnance has shown its edge in actual combat!"

"General, you will definitely go down in history because of this battle!"

But Wang Ben shook his head: "Chang'anjun has never used this weapon, not only because there is too late, but also because this weapon is extremely restricted by the environment and is easy to be cracked by the enemy, but it can only be used for sneak attacks." ”

"Ordered Cen Bian, the front army continued to advance, and the middle and rear armies retreated."

"The boat locks the river, be cautious!"

Names such as winglets, medium wings, and large wings were originally used for specific ships, but in the late Warring States period, they were used as broad names for certain types of ships, just like the current names for battleships, frigates, and aircraft carriers.

Wu Zixu compared the big wing to a heavy land car, the small wing to a land light car, and the bridge to a light hussar.

Small wings, middle wings, large wings, sudden attacks, building boats, bridge boats, these six kinds of warships, at the latest in 500 B.C. have come out, in the "Literature General Examination" and "Zuo Chuan", only the building ship in this series of warships is independently developed by Wu State, and the rest are from the King of Chu Zhuang to the King of Chu Kang between several generations of Chu King support craftsmen to build, King Chu Kang had a great victory over Wu with this series of boats, after Wu Zixu rebelled against Chu to Wu, and brought the manufacturing method of these warships to Wu State. In the record of the "Book of Yue Jue", the above six types of warships were all pioneered by Wu Zixu, and later the manufacturing technology of five warships was stolen by the spies of Chu State, and after Chu destroyed Wu, he seized the manufacturing technology of Lou ship. This section of the public case cheese will not be commented, but combined with the literature, it can be seen that as early as 500 B.C., the manufacturing technology of warships such as Lou Ship and 'Wing' series has been leaked, and at the latest around 400 B.C., most waterfront countries have been equipped with these warships, but the specific models and positioning are very different.

For example, the positioning of the Wu State Surprise is an assault vehicle, but the Chu State Surprise is mostly used like a siege vehicle.

In addition to these six basic ship types, various countries are also developing new ship types, such as the Chu State further developed the faster Red Horse on the basis of Xiao Wing, which was still used until the Han Dynasty.

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