"Boom——"

A stone bullet the size of a millstone fell from the sky and hit the lake in front of a Chu warship, causing a wave of water several feet high.

Suddenly, the Chu warship shook violently, and the Chu soldiers on the ship clung to the railings for fear of falling into the water.

However, before the soldiers on the boat could take a breath, one of the soldiers was heard exclaiming: "Here we go again! Here we go again!"

Everyone subconsciously raised their heads and saw a small dot faintly appearing in the sky in front of them. Then, the small dot gradually became larger and larger in their sight.

"No...no..."

"No--"

Amid the panicked shouts of the Chu soldiers, the second stone bullet the size of a millstone hit the middle of the Chu warship with a loud bang. The Chu soldiers on the ship only felt a violent tremor.

"The ship is sinking, the ship is sinking!"

Amidst the exclamations of more than a dozen Chu soldiers, the rest of the soldiers looked intently at the middle of the ship. Only then did they realize that the stone bullet had actually interrupted the entire ship and smashed it into two pieces.

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"Abandon ship! Abandon ship! Everyone abandon ship!"

The thousands of people on board shouted loudly, jumped into the lake first, and swam desperately to the friendly ships on both sides.

Under his leadership, the Chu soldiers on the ship jumped off the ship one after another and fled, as if they were like dumplings that had been cooked out of the pot.

But even so, some Chu soldiers still moved a little slower. These people were either swept to the bottom of the lake by the vortex formed when the ship sank, or their heads were covered by the sailboat, dragging them to the bottom of the lake together.

"Help...save me!"

"Someone come and give me a hand..."

"No, no..."

The soldiers shouted loudly and tried to seek help, but in the end, they could not be rescued.

Hearing the cry for help from behind, the soldiers who had jumped off the ship earlier looked back and saw with their own eyes that the sinking ship was pulling their comrades, slowly and slowly, sinking under the water.

After a while, the lake returned to calm again, with only some broken wood still floating on the lake.

"Gu..."

The Chu soldiers who were lucky enough to escape the disaster swallowed their saliva with lingering fear.

If they hadn't escaped quickly, they would have sunk to the bottom of the lake to feed the fish and shrimps like those unlucky Tong Ze.

"Is this the power of Wei's warships?"

"The terrifying power..."

"With just one blow, a warship was sunk..."

The soldiers of the Chu army floating on the lake looked at the dozens of Wei army warships in the distance, which were a mile away from them, with horrified eyes. They felt cold all over their bodies.

"hateful!"

On a flagship, Di Yangjun Xiong Li punched the railing of the ship with his fist bitterly. Especially when he heard the faint cheers coming from the Wei army warship in the distance, he felt angry in his heart.

More and more prosperous.

Too arrogant!

It's so arrogant!

Di Yangjun Xiong Li clenched his fists.

But immediately, he relaxed his fists again, and there was a hint of helplessness in his eyes.

Today is not the first time that he has dealt with the Huling navy of the Wei Kingdom on the opposite side. In fact, the two sides have competed several times. As for the battle situation... His warships of the Chu Kingdom, let alone defeating the Huling navy on the opposite side, cannot even deal with them.

The other party poses a threat.

At a long distance, that is, about a mile away, Wei's warships will use the trebuchets mounted on their ships to attack. Although the hit rate of the trebuchets is very low, so low that the Chu army's generals

I secretly rejoiced, but I couldn't withstand the power of this kind of war weapon. Once it happened, it would directly destroy a warship.

I heard that the soldiers and generals of the Wei State called this combat method "God's Will Tactics". Literally speaking, it depends entirely on God's will. If you are not lucky, you will waste a lot of stone bullets. But if you are lucky, it will be a waste of stone bullets.

Sunk an entire ship.

What made the Chu soldiers feel aggrieved was that at such a distance, they had no means of counterattack.

Since the Wei army cannot be attacked from a long distance, it is better to close the distance. In the first battle, this is what Xiong Li, Lord of Diyang, did.

But he never expected that when his Chu warship came within a hundred feet of the Wei ship, the Wei ship would immediately use its second war weapon - the Wei machine repeating crossbow.

The range of Wei's machine-operated crossbow is not as far as the trebuchet, but its accuracy is much more accurate than the trebuchet. Ten iron arrows as thick as fingers can hit at least six or seven. Plus this kind of

The power of the serial crossbow at mid-range is no less than that of the trebuchet, and it is also capable of sinking Chu warships. This caused huge losses to the warships led by Xiong Li, Lord of Diyang.

Don't think that Wei's warships can show off their power only at long and medium distances. In fact, the most terrifying combat effectiveness of Wei's Huling Navy is at close range within a few dozen feet. At this distance

, the Wei army could not only rely on the crossbowmen on the ship to kill the soldiers on the Chu ship with covered arrow rain, but also use the improved machine crossbow box to completely block the possibility of the Chu army trying to board the Wei ship for hand-to-hand combat.

Simply impeccable!

How to fight this?

After several battles with each other, Xiong Li, Lord of Diyang, finally realized a truth: the Huling navy of Wei State on the opposite side was too terrifying and could not be defeated by his navy at all.

After understanding this, he completely gave up his plan to defeat the Wei army on the opposite side, and just hung the Wei warships from a distance to monitor their every move.

However, the Wei ships on the opposite side were too arrogant. After realizing that the Chu warships could not pose any threat to them, they repeatedly took the initiative to provoke them. From time to time, they suddenly launched attacks and fired several stone bullets at the Chu warships.

If you miss, you'll be fine. If you're lucky enough to hit, you'll definitely hear the cheers from the Wei warships on the opposite side.

It’s so deceiving!

"Li Huo, you son of a bitch!"

Looking at the general flag with the word "Li" flying on the Wei army's warship opposite, Di Yangjun Xiong Li cursed in a low voice.

"A...A...Ache!"

Opposite the Chu navy led by Diyang Jun Xiong Li, Li Huo, the general of the Huling navy, stood on the flagship and rubbed his itchy nose.

Then he smiled and said: "Xiong Li opposite is probably gnashing his teeth and cursing me."

Hearing this, all the Wei soldiers on the ship laughed.

Or a soldier asked out of curiosity: "General, do you have any grudge against that Xiong Li?"

"Qiu?" Li Huo asked in confusion, "Why do you ask that?"

The soldier snickered and said, "Look, you have almost forced the Chu army to land in the past few days..."

"Ha ha ha ha."

Li Huo laughed. Then he looked back at the trebuchet loaded on the ship and said with a smile: "It's just to test the power of these weapons in actual combat. Don't you want to try it?"

The nearby Wei soldiers and generals glanced at each other and couldn't help laughing.

Indeed, this is like someone getting a sharp sword. They must cut something to try the sword. But unfortunately, although there have been simulated battles within the Huling Navy in the past, the most they are

It was just a simulation of a boarding battle, and there was no chance to use the trebuchet and machine-operated crossbow. After all, these two war weapons were so powerful that even the Wei Army's Tiger warships could not withstand a few hits.

Therefore, the soldiers and generals of the Huling Navy were inevitably itchy in their hearts, and they wished they could personally operate the terrifying weapons on board. However, it made them feel physically painful to hit the lake with these weapons, so they kept holding back until

This time, Chu's warships broke into Weishan Lake, finally giving the Huling navy something to test their war weapons.

For this reason, the two generals, Li Huo and Chen Si, have been chasing the fleet of Diyang Jun Xiong Li these days, from the Huling of Weishan Lake and the waters of Tengdi, southward for more than thirty miles, all the way to "Liu County"

The water area was not enough, and the Chu navy was almost forced out of Weishan Lake and back to Si River.

It must be said that the behavior of the Huling navy was indeed arrogant, and it was no wonder that Diyang Jun Xiong Liqi was so angry.

Just when the Wei soldiers on Li Huo's flagship were happily preparing to entertain the Chu fleet in the distance again, suddenly several soldiers hurried from the stern to the bow and said to Li Huo: "General, Chen

The sentinel ship under General Si sent a message with a flag, asking my fleet to move closer to him."

"Huh?"

Li Huo was stunned and quickly ran to the stern of the ship. Sure enough, he saw a stern following his fleet. There was a soldier on the stern holding a black and red flag and waving it constantly.

"Huling...urgent report, request...return..."

Li Huo squinted his eyes and murmured to himself while interpreting the flag language: "Could it be that Cai Qinhu and Zhou Kui and the others can't hold on anymore?"

Thinking of this, he no longer wanted to play with the fleet of Diyang Lord Xiong Li in the distance, and immediately ordered: "Contact all our warships and return immediately."

"yes!"

With an order, Li Huo's dozen Tiger warships and dozens of escort ships quickly turned around and returned to the north.

When he returned to the middle of Weishan Lake, he saw Chen Si's fleet docked in the middle of the lake. He didn't know whether they were blocking the lake or waiting for him.

The two sides issued flags, and immediately, the flagships of Li Huo and Chen Si gradually moved closer. Then, the soldiers of the two armies used ropes and poles to park the two flagships side by side, and finally laid the treads.

"Li Huo."

Chen Si, a general from the Beibo Army, pedaled to Li Huo's boat and said to the latter: "I just received an urgent report from Huling. Cai Qinhu, Zhou Kui and the others asked you and me to retreat immediately.

Retreat to Dingtao along the Lianglu Canal."

"What?"

Li Huo was shocked when he heard this.

You must know that Song County has the weakest defense force among all the war zones in the Wei State. Except for the Huling Navy, which can be regarded as the first echelon, the rest of the garrison troops are either the county troops of various counties or the nobles of the Wei State.

Compared with the elite divisions such as the Shang Shui Army, Yanling Army, and Wei Wu Army, the strength of the private army is completely different.
To be continued...