The group drove the horses to the heights, and the road became more and more rugged, and finally it was no longer suitable for horses to reach the top, so they abandoned the horses and climbed up with their hands and feet, but fortunately these horses were war horses, and when the master left, they would not run around, but stopped in place and gnawed on the grass. Watermark Ad Test Watermark Ad Test

Everyone climbed to the top of a cliff out of breath, and as far as the eye could see, the mighty Yangtze River was in full view.

And upstream, the sails of large and small warships hanging the Tang Dynasty flag cover the sky and the sun, and I don't know that there are hundreds of warships, and the drums are rumbling and deafening. Everyone looked downstream, and the ships of the Liang army's sailors were also clearly visible, and the number was so large that they were not under the Tang warships.

The Tang army went down the river, but at this time, the Liang army sailors who came from downstream, although they went against the current, they were going with the wind, and the sails were full of wind power, although they went upstream, the speed was not inferior to the Tang warships.

"Brother Liu, you are an experienced veteran, what percentage do you think will be won or lost by both sides in this battle?" Zheng Shifu occupied the best position with his ass, and then turned his head and asked Liu Santong.

Liu Santong shook his head: "I used to bring a land division, and I don't know anything about water combat, how can I predict it?" ”

"Of course, the Tang Sailor wins out of ten!" A soldier said with gusto.

"Brother Liu, just say it, don't you say anything to the extreme, and you will return to the basics, isn't the truth almost the same?" Zheng Shifu ignored the soldier's boasting, although he thought so too.

Liu Sanxiang took two steps forward, looked at it seriously for a while, and then said, "Five or five." ”

"Why five-five?" Mo said that it was a few soldiers, and even Zheng Shifu was a little unconvinced. "Now that our morale is high, but the Liang army is becoming more and more decadent, how can the two sides be evenly divided?"

Liu Santong said lightly: "As far as I know, the combat methods of the Navy Division and the Land Division are completely different, and strictly speaking, the Navy Division is also a technical branch. On the water, there is the theory that big boats eat small boats, and if the boat is large, it will naturally have some advantages. This is one of the factors, and secondly, the level of control of the ship is also one of the factors that can determine the victory or defeat. Morale is one of them. The main force of the Liang army's naval division is left over from the naval division of the former Tang Dynasty, you see, the main warships of the Liang army are all real warships, although they are dilapidated, but compared with ordinary merchant ships, they still have a lot of advantages. ”

"That's right!"

"The sailors under the command of Zheng Wenchang, all the warships were transformed from merchant ships, and at this point, they suffered a lot." Liu Sandao: "However, his sailors are all skilled sailors and have been fighting non-stop, which is much stronger than the Liang Junshui Division." The other is morale, and the morale of the Tang army is indeed very high. ”

"You just said three factors, we account for two, shouldn't that be our better chance of winning?" A soldier snorted, looking at Liu Santong's eyes very unkindly, obviously because Liu Santong was a general of the Liang army before, he thought that he was deliberately boosting the morale of the Liang army to hit them.

Liu Santong said with a smile: "Without him, on the water, the big boat always has to take advantage of it." If my guess is correct, General Zheng will definitely try his best to surround the main warships of the Liang army, and then jump out of the gang and kill the opposing ships for hand-to-hand combat, which is what they like most when they are born as bandits. If he can successfully accomplish this, then the Tang Army Sailor will naturally win easily. On the contrary, if the main warships of the Liang army can try their best to avoid this, but develop their advantages to the extreme, then this battle will be five or five. ”

Zheng Shifu was silent, his knowledge was naturally much higher than that of ordinary soldiers, and of course he understood that what Liu Santong said was very reasonable.

"In the final analysis, it still depends on the on-the-spot command of the generals. Liang Yuansheng, the commander of the Liang Army's water division, do you know how good he is? ”

Liu Santong shook his head: "I heard that General Liu said that this person is a veteran of the naval division, as for how to lead the army, I don't know, but I can see it today." ”

As he spoke, dozens of small boats in the fleets on both sides had already broken away from the group and accelerated towards each other. However, there was no sail on the boat, and the speed of the Tang Army's boat upstream was much faster than that of the other party.

In the middle of the line, some ships of the Tang Army suddenly burst into flames, and the clusters became larger and larger, and gradually, the whole small boat turned into a fireboat, went down the river, and rushed to the opposite side.

Just below where Zheng Shifu and Liu Santong were standing, the small boats of both sides rushed together.

"Stop the fireboat!" An officer of the Liang Army's naval division stood at the bow of the ship, shouting loudly, his ship suddenly turned sideways, the sailors on the boat stretched out their hooks, and resisted a fireboat coming from the opposite side, and the goal of their attack was more to stop these fireships, so as not to deal a blow to the main fleet.

However, the Tang Army's sailors rushed over with a mixture of fireboats and assault boats, and when the Liang Army's sailors began to intercept the fireboats, they had already killed the Liang army.

There was nothing fancy to speak of, the ships of the two sides collided fiercely, and in the thud, the sawdust flew, and the ships shook violently, and then they fell backwards, but immediately, they rushed up again, and stuck together, and the sailors on the ship advanced into their hands with spears and broadswords, which were already fighting together.

The ships on both sides wrestled together and scuffled, and the sound of porphyry falling into the water sounded from time to time, and even if they fell into the water, the battle continued.

A Liang military captain fell into the water, sinking straight down, holding his breath, he looked up, two long legs were stepping on the water above his head, suddenly reached out, grabbed the man's ankle, and dragged the man to the bottom of the water, at the same time, the short knife in the other hand was already fiercely pierced the man's calf.

Circles of blood rippled before his eyes.

Tang Jun, who was stabbed, was in pain, and the other big foot stepped on the top of Captain Liang's head, Captain Liang suddenly let go, stepped on his legs hard, and the whole person jumped up with a sound, and the knife in his hand was thrust again, and when he encountered obstacles, he suddenly strengthened.

The whole person continued to float, and he saw the face on the other side.

That face was now full of horror and fear. Captain Liang reached out with his left hand, grabbed the other party's hair, and pressed the man into the water fiercely, and the knife in his right hand pierced out again, this time, hitting the opponent's neck.

Let go of the hand, the man has sunk down.

When he poked his head out of the water again, and took a deep breath of the air that was incomparably precious to him at the moment, there was a sudden sharp pain in his shoulder, and a hook hooked his shoulder, and his body fell back sharply, and he was dragged backwards, lying on his back on the water, and he could even see a burning ship not far away, a Tang soldier with a fire on his body, was smiling and dragging him to the side of the boat, and beside him, a Tang soldier holding a spear in his hand was stabbing at him fiercely.

He shouted and slashed his knife against the hook on his shoulder, and with a choking sound, the hook pole was cut off by him, but almost at the same moment, the spear in the hand of the spear-wielding Tang soldier on the boat had already pierced fiercely.

The spear entered his body, he was pressed into the river, abandoned the knife with both hands, and held the spearhead with all his might, the blood expanded in circles in the water, and the Tang soldier who was on fire jumped into the water with a thud.

Lieutenant Liang had a pain in his ribs, and his eyes were black for a while, and he only felt that his strength was draining from his body a little, he groaned and reached out to press his ribs, but the spear on his chest was pierced into it with a bang.

He sank down, barely having time to catch a glimpse of the sun that was gradually setting west.

Zheng Wenchang pressed the long knife in his hand, standing on top of his flagship, his face was a little grim, the main battleships on the opposite side were two of the size of the warship under his feet, and on top of this standard battleship, they were equipped with long-range strike weapons such as trebuchets, and their warships transformed from merchant ships had long-range weapons, only strong crossbows. Heavy equipment like a trebuchet is simply impossible to install.

"Order all ships, all strong crossbows, aim at the opponent's main battleship, prepare for a salvo, and use special strong crossbows!" He shouted.

The so-called special strong crossbow is a strong crossbow equipped with a fierce fire oil bomb, after shooting on the opponent's ship, the fragments produced by the explosion can kill and injure the opponent's sailors, and can take advantage of the characteristics of the fierce fire oil is not easy to extinguish, igniting the opponent's ship.

"Ready!" Zheng Wenchang raised the big knife in his hand high.

"Shoot!"

A whistling sound sounded, and dozens of powerful crossbows with fire flashed past the small boats that were still fighting fiercely in the middle, rowed through the sky, and flew towards the enemy warships that were pressing like a mountain in the distance.

At the same time, on the large battleships lined up by the other side, stone bullets broke through the air one after another and smashed heavily into the Tang Army's naval division.

The sound of explosions rang out.

The flames ignited above the battleships of the Liang Army's naval divisions.

And the stone bullet of the Liang Army's sailor fell, and the Tang Army's sailor warship was also in a mess, and there was even a medium-sized ship that was unlucky, the stone bomb fell and smashed the rudder, and the ship immediately lost control, spun in circles in the water, and crashed into other friendly ships around him, causing a burst of chaos.

"Speed up, get close to them. Swap ropes and crossbows, nail their ships, and engage in battle. Kill the enemy freely! Zheng Wenchang roared loudly. Turn left, turn left, and avoid the front of the enemy ship. ”

The ships of both sides ran over the small ships that were fighting without mercy, not caring that they were their own.

The Liang Jun's sailors relied on their own ship's size, and viciously rushed head-on, wanting to use their size advantage to directly sink the opponent's warship, while the Tang Army's sailor ship was much smaller, but it was more convenient in operation, and they avoided left and right, and went around to the side of the Liang Junsailor, and then one by one the rope crossbows shot out, nailed deeply to the opposite ship, and the sailors on the boat picked up the rope of the rope crossbow, shouting loudly and pulling the long rope, so that the distance between the two ships continued to approach.

The sailors of the Liang army brandished long knives and wanted to cut off the rope crossbows, while the crossbowmen on the ships on both sides took the opportunity to shoot the crossbow arrows in their hands, shooting the opposing sailors who were exposed to the range one by one and falling into the water.

In a very short period of time, the war entered a white-hot level.

On the cliff, Zheng Shifu and Liu Santong both watched this battle with a little distraction.