General, the enemy fleet has been spotted ahead! "I'm about to arrive near Hakuba, and the go-to who was sent out will come back to report.

"Tell the ships to get ready for battle!" Lu Xiang immediately ordered, sometimes he felt that the navy was troublesome, and the communication between ships still needed to be flag-like. If it is a battle formation, you only need to be notified by the herald, or you can give the order with the war drum.

As the flagship sounded on its side, the other ships approached one after another, forming a battle formation. On the periphery are walkers, that is, brisk boats. Ten people are allowed, somewhat similar to a dragon boat, without sails, and the main means of combat is gang jumping. In the middle was a small warship, with a sail and a pair of stone throwers in the bow, allowing twenty to thirty people, by means of stone throwing and bows and arrows, and the last resort was a gang jumper.

In the center is a large warship, with a sail, a stone-throwing machine in the bow, and strong crossbows arranged on the left and right sides, relying on stone-throwing and rockets to attack, and setting a ramming angle, which can be used to destroy ordinary boats by impact. There are 100 soldiers on board, and they can also engage in gang jumping.

In other words, before the large-scale popularization of firearms, and even the main core of water warfare in the late Ming Dynasty, it was still gang warfare.

Within the line of sight, they quickly saw each other, the same boat in front, medium warship behind, no big ship, or small warship. I don't know if it's not, or if it's not arranged.

"Is that really good?" Lu Xiang smiled faintly, "Don't fight us now, when we go to the water village, no matter how many boats there are, they will only be our trophies!" ”

Looking at the sparse pulling, there are more than 1,000 people at most, and at this scale, it is estimated that it is not enough for them to collide in one round.

"General, be careful. At the moment we are downstream, and the other side is upstream. If we want to pass, it is going upstream, and the other party wants to come, but it is going downstream, and the speed is completely different. Mao Kai next to him reminded.

"If they're going to come and die, it's too late for me to welcome it!" Lu Xiang disagreed. The Yellow River is quite wide, but their fleet has almost blocked the river, and the other side can't do it if they want to make a detour, so they can only engage head-on.

Yuan Shao's navy had 20 large ships, 50 small warships, and 200 other ships. Considering the scale, the large ships are divided into three rows, with small warships on the periphery and walking boats on the periphery, and the whole ship formation is shuttle-shaped.

The battle formation looks very long, but it covers almost the entire Yellow River, and the other party wants to go around the back, but he is afraid that he will be caught as soon as he comes to the side, and then all kinds of attacks.

The Ganning Navy has 20 ships and more than 100 ships, and there are only 2,000 soldiers. The middle ship is in the rear, and the boat is in the front, in a conical formation. It looks a bit sparse, but it's very convenient to turn, and turning left and right is not a big problem.

"Why, don't you dare to come here?" Seeing that the other party didn't mean to take the initiative to come, Lu Xiang sneered, and then turned around and gave an order, "Advance over, I want to see how the other party plans to deal with it!" ”

Everyone uses similar bows and arrows, all use similar crossbow arrows, and even stone-throwing carts are similar.

The key is that the other party can't rush over, if you turn around, relying on the oars is not comparable to their sail paddle powered boat, they can catch up soon, and when the time comes, they can directly beat the water dogs.

"Although I am a halfway monk, I have also heard that water warfare is to seize the position of the upstream, although you are upstream, but you don't know how to make good use of it, it's a pity." Lu Xiang smiled, and then ordered, "Tell you to go up, tear a course, and then hit it with a warship!" ”

"Yes!" The subordinates immediately received the order, and then went to play the flag.

"The other party really seems to be planning to bully us with a big ship? Water battles on the river are not big boats that can bully people! Sometimes it's too much, and it's a burden! Gan Ning smiled contemptuously, then turned around and gave an order: "Attack!" ”

The flag was played, and the boat in front immediately moved forward rapidly, which already occupied the advantage of going downstream, coupled with the long-term training of the sailors, the nutrition could also keep up, and the speed of rowing was not comparable to Yuan Shao's sailors.

So the distance between the two sides is rapidly getting closer, but for Lu Xiang, these more than 100 ships are not enough to see.

However, when we got closer, we found that there were at least three types of boats: the first was a normal boat, an uncovered clipper with ten soldiers on it; The second type is a wooden canopy, but that's all. The third kind is a two-size-bigger boat, with a ramming angle in front, which is not a boat at all, this is a ship!

Because of the relationship between the canopy and the sail, so from a distance, it is similar to the boat, this kind of clipper is mainly for the purpose of ramming, needless to say, the target is naturally a ship above a small warship!

Just as he was about to give the order, a soldier stood up on the boat in front of him, and then took out a fishing net and threw it towards his own army's boat. The fishing net was covered with the oars, and the boat could not move at once, and the key position of these boats was still the position of the countercurrent, and the oars on one side could not move, so the boat was rushed backwards by the current.

Through the fishing nets, these walkers forcibly separated Yuan Shao's water army. Then the ship sped forward, adjusted its angle, and slammed into the side of the small warship in front, knocking it away, not only destroying the wood on the hull, but also squeezing a passage out.

At this time, the last kind of boat rushed over and flew towards the big ship at a high speed.

"Catapults, archers, shoot, shoot!" When Lu Xiang gave the order, it was already a little late. Fortunately, the generals on the ship have begun to take the initiative to counterattack, and arrows and crossbows continue to shoot down, but except for the first type of boat, these ships have hardwood tent covers, and they are stained with water, and the arrows cannot be shot through at all.

"General, look!" A soldier next to him pointed to the last kind of boat in panic, this kind of boat looks like it is not bad from the first kind of boat without a canopy, and at most a canopy is added. But when you look closer, it's amazing, and under the water, the bows of these walkers are hidden by stakes.

"Shoot, shoot, don't let them bump in!" Lu Xiang immediately understood that this kind of ship was specifically for big ships. In the event of a collision, the big ship does not have an advantage at all.

"Rocket, get on the rocket! Pour oil down on me and burn those ships! Lu Xiang was a little flustered and ordered repeatedly.

However, the boats and small warships of their own army had been torn open by the other party, and these boats quickly collided with them and hit the large warships. On the five or six large warships ahead, at least two or three of them were rammed into each of them.

"Anchor!" On the side of the Ganning Army, a general gave an order, and the soldiers on the boat only got down the first mechanism, and the two anchors hanging under the wooden stakes had already fallen into the water. When the second mechanism is pressed, the bow section begins to separate from the hull, and the boats begin to turn their bows and start to the rear side. Their task has been accomplished, and there is no need to delay here.

"Want to run? Give me chase! Seeing that the oil had been poured, and then under the action of the rocket, some enemy walkers had already been ignited, but the other party actually wanted to run away when they hit it, Lu Xiang was very angry and hurriedly commanded the fleet to pursue.

"General, our ship can't move!" Not long after, a soldier came to report, "The other party seems to have anchored!" ”

"General! There is a flotilla in the rear, approaching us! Another soldier hurriedly came to report, and Lu Xiang's eyes suddenly turned black.

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