Chapter 335 First Battle

Li Shenfu's army had always been strict. As the call continued, the raindrop-like arrows flew towards the small boat. Although they were far apart and the damage was minimal, the Huainan Army's resolute actions had already shown Li Shenfu's attitude. The school on the ship quickly pushed Li Shenfu's son into the cabin, shouting and turning the ship to his own camp.

As Li Shenfu refused to surrender the enemy, the Huainan Navy began to form formation and launched an attack on the enemy who was ready to fight. Although Li Shenfu was very angry at the local behavior of taking his wife as a quasi-qualified person, the Huainan Zhoushi's attack was very calm. The main warships did not enter the battle, and only a small number of scattered battleships lined up in sparse formations to launch an attack. The Xuanzhou Navy only sent some light warships to compete with them, so the two sides fought in the river. The Xuanzhou Navy's Battle

There were more soldiers on the ships. They tried their best to get close to each other, wanting to use hooks or ropes to board the enemy ship, and then seize the enemy ship through platoon battles. The Huainan warships only fired with crossbows at a certain distance, or tried their best to hit the side of the enemy ship with the bow, and directly sank the enemy ship. Xuanzhou warships also gradually saw the other's intentions, began to gather formations, cover each other, and tried their best to drive the enemy ships away. As the war continued, the battlefield was gradually moving towards the Huainan side.

At this time, most of the sun had sunk into the horizon. The light shining from the west hit the Xuanzhou soldiers' eyes, which made them unable to open their eyes. The Huainan warship took the opportunity to widen the distance and shot rain-like arrows. The front Xuanzhou ships were killed and injured, especially the unarmored sailors were even more severely injured. Seeing the formation becoming more chaotic. Seeing that the battle situation gradually became beneficial to their side, cheers erupted from the Huainan army's warships.

"General, the battle situation is not good. While it is not difficult to reverse, send reinforcements as soon as possible!" Wang Jian, who was standing at the bow of the ship, said anxiously.

Wang Tan hesitated and replied: "This is just a outpost battle. The victory and loss have nothing to do with the overall situation. Our army has many large ships, which is more beneficial on the narrow river surface of Jiyangji. It is better to let the warships retreat back into the formation and wait for the effort. Why take risks?"

"General." Wang Jian took a step forward and whispered in Wang Tan's ear: "Do you hear that Jingnan Jiedushi is where is today?"

Wang Tan was stunned when he heard this and said, "Of course I know that Li Shenfu led his army to Junshan to defeat his crowd half a month ago, and Cheng also threw himself into the water and died."

"No," Wang Jian pointed to the Huainan Navy in the distance and said, "Na Cheng has worked hard to run the navy for many years. There must be many tower ships in the army. After the Junshan battle, even the people died of the water. The tower ship was inconvenient to travel, so they must have been acquired by Li Shenfu. But at this time, there were only a few large ships in the Huainan Navy, most of which were small and medium-sized warships. It must be that Li Shenfu thought the tower ship was too slow and led the fast ship as a pioneer. The brigade of warships thought it would be a successor. If the general did not take advantage of the opportunity of the enemy's troops being divided, he would be weak in defeating the enemy in one fell swoop, I am afraid he would regret it in the future."

Wang Tan was right and couldn't help but nodded repeatedly. However, he heard Wang Jian's hinting at his left and right and continued. "What's more, the soldiers in our army were old subordinates in Huainan, and they were mostly favored by Yang Xingmi. If the battle situation was unfavorable, and the enemy soldiers arrived, I was afraid that all the people in the boat would be enemy countries. At that time, even if Jiyangji was a natural danger in the Yangtze River, what would be the benefit?"

Hearing this, Wang Tan carefully observed the faces of the soldiers. As expected, the more he looked, the more he felt that someone might turn against each other at any time. Thinking that he had just used his youngest son as his qualifier and forced Li Shenfu to surrender. Once he was held by the rebels, he was sent to Li Shenfu's command. His tragic situation was conceivable. He couldn't help but burst into cold sweat and ordered: "Come, beat the drum and march, and order the ships to raise sails and attack the Huainan army."

With a rumbling drum sound, the commanding ship where the king was located raised the flag. When the ships saw the order, they raised their sails and anchored them. Driven by the river wind, they went up against the current and rushed towards the Huainan Navy. The six or seven towers of the Xuanzhou Navy rose from the sails. From a distance, it looked like small hills moving. The light of the setting sun shone on the sails, like clouds, and was spectacular.

Seeing the main force of the Xuanzhou Zhoushi sailing out of the narrow river surface of Jiyangji, the Huainan Navy Clippers who were besieging turned the bow and retreated to their side. Because they were in a position against the wind, they did not raise the sails at the beginning, and were driven entirely by oars, so they were very agile. After a while, they drove to both sides of their side and formed a "v"-shaped goose-shaped formation. The bottom of this "v"-shaped is the flagship of the Huainan Navy, Li Shenfu's ship. Obviously, the purpose of the Huainan Army was to use their speed and upstream advantages to encircle the enemy.

Wangtan arranged his warships into dense formations. If you look down from the sky above the battlefield, the entire formation would be like a huge spindle. Those small and medium-sized ships surrounded the six or seven tower ships, just like countless small fish guarding the head fish. His tactics were very simple. First, they directly broke through the central front of the Huainan Navy and broke their command system. Due to the lack of information exchange methods in ancient water warfare, once separated from the main force, it would be almost impossible for the two armies to cross the enemy to fight together. Then the Xuanzhou Zhoushi can use its tonnage advantage to force the enemy ships on the north shore to the shore. In addition to the sandbanks, there are many shallow reefs on the north shore. At this time, the sky

It was too late, and it would be dark after a while. At that time, many Huainan ships would strand or hit the reef because they did not know the local water conditions. In this way, the Xuanzhou Navy could destroy half of the enemy without spending one soldier. Another reason for choosing this tactic was that it was too late and his subordinates were not very morale. If they were arranged in fronts parallel to the enemy, as usual, they would be difficult for them to command their subordinates at the left and right ends of the front. Once the situation was slightly unfavorable, they might cause a general collapse. In this way, the entire army would be gathered together by a few subordinates with unsolicited fighting spirit, and they would not dare to do anything when they saw that they were all warships around them.

On the flagship of the Huainan Zhoushi, when I saw the mountain-like Xuanzhou warship coming towards me, even though the army was full of elite soldiers who had experienced many battles, I couldn't help but show a look of fear on my face. After all, this water battle is to defeat the small one with a strong and crisp voice, let Xiang Yu be reborn and evil again. If the warship is sunk, it will only be mermaid meat when it falls into the water. As the enemy warship approaches, the slapped poles on the tower ships become clearer and clearer. Even the big rocks tied to the top can be seen clearly. If the slapped poles are released, they will be like thunderbolts, and the people will turn into thin air. This is something that these small and medium-sized warships in the Huainan army will definitely not be able to withstand.

"The whole army set sail!" Seeing that the distance between the two sides was gradually approaching the range of the crossbow, the Xuanzhou army issued an order to reduce the area of ​​the opponent's rockets and oil bombs. The sailors and soldiers were nervously carrying sandbags and buckets for extinguishing fires onto the ship. Bags of limes are all ready. Once both sides start fighting on the side, they throw limes at the enemy ships to confuse each other's eyes and throw dry beans on the ground, making it easy for the enemy soldiers to slide. As for their own side, they naturally had already changed into pre-prepared wooden clogs. When everything was ready, the sailors hurriedly hid in the cabin, while the soldiers were full of bows and crossbows, hiding in shields or their cover-up phenomena, waiting for the decisive battle.

As the two sides approached, almost at the same time, the Xuanzhou Army and the Huainan Army ordered arrows to be fired, first with a long range of crossbows and catapults, followed by rockets. Raindrop-like arrows and oil bombs flew intersected in the sky. The warships in front of both sides immediately screamed, and most of the soldiers hit by the stone bomb died without saying a word. The projectiles shot by these heavy machinery were very powerful. Those who were hit were often broken and bones were immediately killed. Only a few unlucky guys who were broken were still rolling and wailing in the cabin. Due to wound infection and insufficient rescue, they would follow in the footsteps of their companions soon. The officers were in a verge of faces and commanded the sailors to move the wounded into the cabin, otherwise their wailing would have a great blow to the morale of the remaining soldiers.

Soon the distance between the two sides approached the range of the crossbow, and raindrop-like arrows poured out to each other. Due to the wind direction, the Xuanzhou Army's arrows were longer and more powerful. In the aftermath of dusk, you could vaguely see the warship of the Huainan Navy turning the bow and raising the sails. Obviously they wanted to escape.

"Roar quickly, row for me." Xu Du urged the sailors loudly. He was originally a captain of the Xuanzhou Zhoushi. When he saw the Huainan Navy fleeing without fighting, his courage wanted to get enough pig shit bubbles. It suddenly floated up. He seemed to be unable to hear the cry of the wounded soldiers beside him. Now, only the land and money and silk floats in front of him. He kept saying that he saw his warships on both sides began to rise sails, and then he remembered to drive his soldiers to chase after him.

Since the formation formed by the Huainan Navy at the beginning was a geese-shaped formation, and its formation was far more scattered than that of the Xuanzhou Navy, the directions of the escape were not entirely connected. Although the overall direction was upstream, the river was so wide that more than a hundred Huainan warships were divided into several strands and fled in dispersion. Only about forty ships followed Li Shenfu's flagship and remained unavailable.

Seeing the Huainan Army in this way, a small number of Xuanzhou Army warships were also scattered and pursued them. Most of the warships were bound by the royal altar and bit the enemy's flagship tightly. At this moment, he and Wang Jian had already thrown their pre-war uneasiness out of the sky and were blinded by the credit for capturing the No. 1 general under Yang Xingmi. They knew that although their warships were large, their sailors were waiting for their labor and their physical strength was not comparable to Li Shenfu's army, which had been rapidly advanced for many days. Moreover, they were completely visible on the river. They were not worried that Li Shenfu had ambushed, so they couldn't help but urge their subordinates to speed up their speed, and they would never let the great achievements they had obtained missed from their fingers.
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