"A-level mission—opening up territory and expanding territory!"

Move the Tang Dynasty's "territory" to the north of the three counties of Dezhou...

Zhu Biao finally received a mission, but he ignored Shangguan Renqing and Shi Yuan's suggestions.

Just when the good news was delivered to the Tang Dynasty king's desk, an army of 200,000 infantry and cavalry had already begun to organize military supplies and armaments.

May is Zhu Biao’s 30th birthday, and he only has two months left. [Confused, I remembered it as June before] We must seize every second——

On March 20th, Zhu Biao's army marched straight to Bonan. The written decision had not yet been sent to the King of Tang, and only the news came from flying pigeons.

The main cavalry reached the north bank of Pingjiang on the 23rd, and the subsequent 60,000 infantry, together with necessary military supplies and tens of thousands of carriages, did not arrive until the 25th.

At the same time, Liu Menglong, the building general who retreated to Changpingkou [the intersection of Changhe and Pingjiang], led 5,000 naval troops and hundreds of warships, and went up the river to help. This was the same battle as the Zhou army's newly built naval camp in Pingjiang last year.

There is no winner or loser in the game.

Liu Menglong, who originally had an army of ten thousand, suffered heavy losses in the Battle of Xiling in Lechun, losing more than half of his troops, and almost collapsed. In the past half year, he could only huddle at the mouth of Changping, blocking the Zhou navy from Changhe from entering Pingjiang.

, while 'recruiting troops and building ships' to restore strength.

However, Shangguan Renqing and Shi Yuan were defeated one after another, and the war reached the gates of Chengbo City. Liu Menglong's troops staying at Changpingkou were almost cut off from the main force of the Tang army and almost became a lonely army.

If the Zhou Navy was not afraid of losses, Changhe and Pingjiang took the opportunity to attack Changpingkou, attacking from both sides. It would definitely capture Shiguiyu, an important island in the middle of the lake at Changpingkou, and capture an important fortress that the Tang Navy had operated for more than ten years.

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However, the Zhou navy did not touch Liu Menglong's men. Everyone thought that they could fight without bloodshed and use the pressure of reality to make Liu Menglong surrender obediently.

As long as the army takes Bozhou and marches into Youzhou, Liu Menglong completely cuts off the land route. Even though Shiguiyu is an important place for the navy, without land support, how long can he sustain the military supplies?

In the end, other than surrendering obediently, the only option was to set sail, enter Changhe, and head north.

No matter what choice Liu Menglong made, the Zhou army's victory would be better than attacking Shigui Island, right?

Zhou Jun's naval division and Zhou Jun's land division all made good calculations. But they never expected that the situation would suddenly change to this point.

After more than half a year of rest and recuperation, Liu Menglong's naval division has only recovered to seven or eight thousand men. Now one of them is left. Together with a battalion of infantrymen sent to Shiguiyu by Shi Yuan's troops when they withdrew from the Pingjiang North Line, they are waiting for their home base. He personally leads the main force of five thousand men.

Master, go westward along the Yangtze River!

The commander of Zhou Jun's Pingjiang Navy was Wang Wei, the Lechun guard who had tricked Liu Menglong in the first place. In the second Battle of Lechun, which can also be called the Battle of Xiling, Wang Wei also played a big role.

Wang Wei's troops totaled ten thousand people, but his warships were neither as numerous nor as complete as those of Liu Menglong's troops, so the two sides fought to no avail.

As a high-cost and high-tech branch, the most important thing for the Navy is ships, not people. Liu Menglong has many warships, large and small offensive and defensive ships, one against two. There is no pressure. For example, in the Battle of Huangtiandang in Chinese history, Han Shizhong only had 8,000

People, aren’t they still almost trapped in Jin Wushu?

"Woo...Woo..."

Warships were launched one after another from the water village. Liu Menglong stood on the bow of the ship, high-spirited and relaxed. He felt as if the speed of the warships was higher than before. In fact, the increase in speed was not his illusion, but

It's really true.

Shiguiyu is completely out of danger, and it doesn’t feel too good to ‘join’ the large army again.

Opposite the water village, on the bank of the river in Lechun County, the camp of Zhou Jun's Pingjiang Navy was also receiving a steady stream of warships.

The second confrontation between the two armies at Pingjiang is just around the corner.

"Commander, can General Liu win?"

Xing Mao looked at the river with some worry. Five thousand versus ten thousand. Even if the warship had the upper hand, he still couldn't rest assured about Liu Menglong.

The generals behind them also looked worried. Liu Menglong's navy was their only hope to cross the Pingjiang River and capture the seventeen counties in the southeast. If this battle failed, the Pingjiang River, which was four to five miles wide, would really be a natural chasm.

Zhu Biao was the only one with a plain face and full of confidence. After he met Liu Menglong, Liu Menglong's department was automatically recruited under him, and the system increase has enveloped Liu Menglong's navy. 20% combat power, speed, defense

Increase, how can Liu Menglong be defeated today?

"Crash——"

The distance between the two armies on the water was getting closer and closer. Zhu Biao raised his telescope and said silently in his heart, the strongest combat skill of the A-level navy - collision, stimulation!

When there are no naval battles, there are dazzling scenes of flint falling from the sky, fire crossbows flying like rain, water battles in rivers, and warships being downgraded to a different level compared to naval battles.

In the naval battle, the lowest-level sea falcon ship is already a medium-sized warship when placed within the Pingjiang River. However, it is also a building ship and a fighting ship. The building ships and fighting ships in the Pingjiang water battle are compared with the building ships and fighting ships in the East China Sea naval battle.

The ship-to-ship is two levels smaller.

The battleships here carry 300 people.

Water battles here rely on collisions, bows and crossbows, not stone throwing.

"Click... click..."

Even on the shore, Zhu Biao and others could clearly hear the violent sound of the warships colliding and the planks breaking.

"Haha, did the craftsmen in Zhou Jun's cabin cut corners?"

The result on the water made the people on the shore wait for a moment of silence. After a while, Dou Bing's surprised voice changed the tone of his howl.

There was a buzz, confusion, disbelief, disbelief, and the many inner emotions turned into words, noisy in Zhu Biao's ears.

During the collision between the two sides, Zhou Jun's navy actually sank two large ships and two fighting ships in one breath, and several sterns were parked on the river...

Wang Wei stood on the forecastle of the flagship, using a telescope to peer at the front line not far away.

The navy ship of the Tang Dynasty was three feet high, painted with red paint, and had three floors, upper, middle and lower. It was equipped with all rooms, with many rafters and sails, and the warships covered the river. It was indeed very grand.

It is better than our own warship, but our own warship is not so weak that it will collapse upon collision, right?

After watching for a while, Wang Wei put down his telescope and said to the general beside him: "The enemy ship is connected from end to end. The ship is strong and strong. Although it has great momentum, it advances and retreats slowly. We can use fire to attack."

"General, although the east wind is blowing, you can still choose brave men to sail a small boat filled with oiled firewood, approach the enemy ship, and set fire to the wind. However, the Tang army's warships are equipped with shooting poles. They can get on top and take pictures. I'm afraid they can't.

Easy to get close to."

Fire prevention of warships: 1. Apply mud to the hull, or cover it with copper sheets or iron sheets. 2. Install huge logs on the bow of the ship to hold up the incoming fire ship and make it inaccessible. 3. Pay attention to the wind direction before starting the battle, and try to occupy the windward position.

Water direction. 4. Priority is given to long-range attacks in water battles. Try to use crossbows, trebuchets and other long-range weapons to avoid close combat. 5. Around the main ship, use small boats to patrol. Lose the car to protect the commander. 6. The racket is installed on the side of the ship.

It weighs hundreds of thousands of kilograms and is tied up with a winch. No matter whether a small boat or a large ship approaches, the falling of the racket pole will cause a heavy blow.

A small boat such as a fire ship can sink to the bottom of the water in one stroke.

"The battle is inherently difficult, but it depends on the soldiers' lives." Wang Wei said without hesitation, and ordered: "Pass my military order and the fire ships will attack!"

"promise!"

With an order, hundreds of boats rushed out from behind the large and medium-sized warships, and like a school of fish, they crossed the river to grab the limelight.

Everyone can clearly see Zhou Jun's move.

Zhu Biao's eyes flashed, knowing that Zhou Jun was going to set the ship on fire.

The war drums roared and the sound shook the river.

Liu Menglong was leading his army to take advantage of the victory to attack. The Tang army's warships were agile and mobile, especially a fleet led by Liu Menglong. Seventeen warships attacked bravely and were unstoppable wherever they went.

The fire arrows were as dense as rain, passing through the void on the river. From time to time, fires arose from the enemy's and our own fleets, and the flames surged, setting sails on fire, or burning the hulls of the ships. The warships on both sides were disrupted.

During the fierce battle between the two sides, Liu Menglong's boat also caught fire, but he stood on the bow deck and remained unmoved despite the flying arrows. He just scolded the soldiers to put out the fire and ordered the sailors below to continue paddling hard.

The crossbow fired continuously, causing the clouds and water to churn, and the lake surface to be stained with blood.

The Tang army's naval vessels were well equipped with elite soldiers, and their strength was already superior to that of the Zhou army. Now that it has been boosted by the system, their combat power is even more incomparable to that of the Zhou army.

However, the Zhou soldiers were so numerous that each ship could be fully manned with three hundred men, and four hundred men or even more were forced to be packed into it. With the strength of the troops, the Tang army was able to kill them all in a hurry.

The two armies each have their own agenda and fight to the death.

From morning to afternoon, the sound of collisions, shouts of death, and screams of agony filled the sky and the earth. As far as the eye could see, the whole river was filled with dead bodies of floating and unsinked boats, and the river was completely red for miles.

As the battle continued, the Tang Navy's navy, which had a systematic increase, had gained the upper hand.

It was already the end of the hour. Liu Menglong saw that the Zhou army was strong. One warship was defeated and destroyed, and another warship came to top it. Although he had elite soldiers, he had few people. If he kept fighting like this, even if

If they could win, they would definitely suffer heavy losses in the end. So they decided to send an elite force to bypass the main battlefield where Zhenglie was fighting, and attack the ship of Wang Wei, the commander of the Zhou army's navy, from the side.

The reason Liu Menglong was able to do this was indeed because the Tang army had the upper hand. In the confrontation with the Zhou navy, he still had enough time to send manpower to find Wang Wei's flagship.

"General, the navy of the Tang Army is..." Wang Wei's general's expression changed immediately when he saw a detachment of the Tang Army's navy bypassing the front of the battlefield and rushing towards Wang Wei in a boat.

"Why panic? Send someone to take over——"

Wang Wei's expression did not change. He could not risk the arrows himself and rush to the front, but there was no problem in standing behind the formation and commanding and supervising the battle.

A partial force wanted to force him back, but Liu Menglong underestimated himself.

After Wang Wei refused, he shouted loudly: "My general and soldiers are fighting desperately. I will never take a step back. I am sending an order to all the troops. I will do my best in this battle and never retreat!"

As soon as these words were spoken, the morale of the entire warship was shaken. The Tang Army detachment's attack on Wang Wei's ship was completely blocked by the courageous Zhou Army escorting the naval warship.

But when a small boat arrived at the shore, things changed again.

"Commander, Pingjiang is not as good as Fujiang. Zhou soldiers are more powerful. I'm afraid..."

"There's nothing to be afraid of. No one in this river and sea can stop me——"

After waving his hand to interrupt the words of the generals behind him, Zhu Biao surged with strength from his feet and launched a missile towards the river.

The white waves rolled just under Zhu Biao's feet. He was unable to cross the sky for several miles, but he could cross the water as if he were walking on flat ground, but it was no problem at all.
To be continued...