The slave army front-line governor Liu Zhengza's ship is a three-story building ship named Feilu. Although the scale of the ship is not as grand as that of the Huainan Army Lianfang and the Chang'an ship, it is also a large warship that is several zhang wide, with a bird room for lookout, a cabin for carrying troops, and a weapon cabin for strong crossbows and bows. The two wings of the hull each carried more than 100 men and women, and the front, middle and rear masts were all helmed by the commander to lead the crowd to obey the order.

On both sides of this Feilu battleship, there were several other warships such as Chima and Xiandeng, gathering nearly 5,000 naval troops.

At this time, the front of the slave army had already been broken and disintegrated by the strong blows of the Huainan army's warships, and it was in chaos. However, due to the presence of this formed and strict drum and trumpet naval army, the rear formation has not yet collapsed and is in chaos. It's just that there are many commotions and howls among the soldiers, and the water battle at night is already chaotic, and the battle relies more on the experience of the soldiers, and there is very little role that the battle order can play.

Therefore, although Liu Zheng frequently issued combat orders on the ship, those slave ship soldiers still fought for them, and there were even fewer who were willing to obey the orders.

"These gangsters are really killing themselves!"

At the beginning of the war, he was completely disadvantaged, and the order was ignored, Liu Zheng was also indignant, and couldn't help but scold on the ship.

Although the Qingxu army does not belong to the first sequence of combat troops in the Qianguo, it is definitely not mediocre because it has been fighting against those Nandu Liumin marshals between Huaisi for a long time. Moreover, these soldiers have a variety of combat methods, not only can gallop on land to achieve field success, but also can float on the water and tread the waves to break the enemy, whether it is used in the north and south, they are all a strong brigade division.

Previously, the loss of Huaiyin was not a complete defeat, Shi Kan, who had been their main general, suddenly left the town, and although the successor Guo Ao was also a veteran of the state of Qian, he lacked much hope in Xu Zhen, and could not unite inside and outside and gather all forces. What's more, the southerners Xuzhou army they faced was also a brave army, and it was reasonable to be defeated.

Liu Zheng is a fierce general of Xu Zhen in the state of Qian, and he is by no means mediocre, and even led the army to invade the coastal counties of Jiangdong several times. But no matter how rich his combat experience is, in the face of the current chaotic situation, he is really at a loss, and he feels powerless.

Although the slave army had the advantage of numbers, it was useless other than that. And even this advantage of the crowd will be greatly reduced in specific battles. Because these soldiers on the front line of the slave army were originally mixed and organized, including the defeated soldiers from Xuzhou, the miscellaneous Hu Yicong, and the Shihu Chinese army, the banner organization was chaotic to the extreme, even if it was usually commanded, it was blocked, and in such a fierce battle, it was impossible to talk about command at all.

Therefore, Liu Zheng was in the name of supervising the battle on the front line, and the only people who could command it were the thousands of remnants from Xu Zhen in the vicinity.

In fact, Liu Zheng had already told the King of Zhongshan that there was really no need to rush to fight with the Huainan army, and there was no need to scatter the crowd to build boats. The slave army was not without ships, and there were always ships in many counties along the coast to invade Jiangdong across the sea. It's just that due to the loss of Huaiyin, this part of the warships was trapped outside the war zone and could not enter Huai, but it has not yet fallen into the hands of the southerners.

Therefore, the most important thing at the moment is to gather combat forces to open up the Huaishui waterway, transfer those warships into Huaishui, and at the same time gather the original Xu Zhen soldiers to fight as the front of the army, and after gaining a solid stronghold on the south bank of Huaishui, the successor army can be swarmed down.

However, when he put forward this opinion, he was soon opposed by Shi Hu's cronies and generals, and some people even vehemently reprimanded him for just seeking his own interests, wanting to use the power of the Zhongshan King's army to seek benefits for himself, and ignoring the difficulties of the army.

Liu Zheng is really at a loss for words, it is true that he has a certain selfishness in making such a suggestion, and wants to replace Shi Kan's position in Xu Zhen with the support of King Zhongshan, but this is also beneficial to the army. At the very least, it is not necessary to use clumsy weapons to drive the soldiers to the river to their deaths, fight indiscriminately, and only contribute to the military merits of the southerners!

Liu Zheng was so depressed, but he didn't know that because he was not the confidant of the King of Zhongshan, he could not know the most confidential information of the slave country, even if he had a good strategy, but the fundamental foothold was wrong, Shi Hu had no intention of continuing to fight in the south at the moment, and no matter how good the strategy was, of course, he would not adopt it.

The slave army is already in a mess here, but the offensive of the Huainan army has been fierce and high-pitched. The battle scene on the surface of the vortex river today is like a tall adult playing with a stumbling baby.

Lu Yongzi has no slave to Liu Zheng's predicament that the command is not working, and the Huainan Army has been planning for this battle for a long time, and has several ways to transmit instructions such as drums, lights, and boats, to ensure that each of his combat orders can be clearly and clearly transmitted to every warship.

Although the Huainan Army had an absolute advantage on the battlefield at this time, Lu Yong did not underestimate the enemy, and did not directly order the warships to rush up and carry out a broadside battle with heavy casualties. When the fire attack was accompanied by long-range attacks such as throwing stones to tear apart the front of the slave army, the warships of the Huainan army would cruise around the river, just like the tactics of the land cavalry to surround the infantry army formation, and around the slave army ship formation, through the accumulation of layers of fire to eat away at the crowd.

Although there were also brave soldiers in the slave army who drove the boat to bully and threw hooks and cables in an attempt to climb the chord, similar attacks did not have a complete combat idea at all, and were often just the sudden actions of the slaves on a single ship.

For example, several slave ships suddenly rushed out of the chaotic military formation and rushed straight towards Lu Yong's ship, and in addition to the big ship, there were even two light boats used for heralds to be forced back and knocked away, causing great disturbance in the front line of the Huainan army. Several fighting ships in the vicinity were eager to return for reinforcements and suddenly changed their rudders, causing a lot of loopholes in the entire encirclement.

Seeing that their comrades rushed straight to the enemy's main ship, full of heroism, the slave soldiers on the front line suddenly broke out with a fierce scream, and there were no shortage of slave ships who wanted to take this opportunity to break out of the encirclement of the Huainan army's warships, but because they were connected by hooks and cables, they could not escape in time.

"The Southern Thief is coming!"

The three slave ships were juxtaposed, and the slave soldiers who rushed to the front were full of strength, waving spears in both hands and roaring. However, in response to him, the giant arm-like slapping rod of the Lianfang big ship fell with a bang, and the two slave ships bore the brunt of the sudden collapse and shattering, and although the other ship survived, it was directly overturned by the huge waves stirred up, and all the soldiers fell into the water!

"Continue the siege and do not slack off!"

Lu Yong stood on the lookout platform of the big ship's finch room, the huge lights on the left and right illuminated his heroic posture of holding his sword upright, the majestic drum and horn were inspiring, and the Huainan military formation, which was originally slightly out of balance, quickly adjusted and recovered, and continued to swim on the river, stripping off the slave ships.

The battle lasted for most of the hour, and the surface of the vortex river was already covered with fragments of boats and the corpses of slave soldiers, and most of the original huge ship formation of the slave army had been destroyed, revealing the rear camp of Liu Zheng, the slave general of the rear formation, which was only a few dozen zhang away from the Shuizha camp gate of the slave army. In addition to the few ships lost in the previous fire attack, only three fighting ships had a slight water leak in the collision of the slave ships, and some unlucky Huainan soldiers were injured by stray arrows, and there was no large-scale damage.

However, after fighting for such a long time, the manpower was also seriously depleted, and the speed of the warships that had been flying freely on the river had been reduced, and everyone from the soldiers to the men was exhausted, and some were difficult to sustain. The arrows, flying stones and other materials carried on the ship are also depleted and need to be replenished urgently.

"Attack!"

The casualties in the front battle were so heavy, even if these soldiers did not belong to him, Liu Zheng also regretted such a tragic battle situation in front of him. Nearly 10,000 slave soldiers and hundreds of boats and boats in the front were almost completely destroyed by the Huainan army! Only some of those who were close to the rear remained because of the cover of the strong crossbows and stone throwing of the water battalion, but in addition to Liu Zheng's thousands of sailors, there were only a few dozen small boats and less than 2,000 soldiers on the river at this time.

At this time, Liu Zheng also sensed the weakness of the Huainan army's offensive, and immediately ordered an attack, so his ship, including several fighting ships nearby, rushed towards the Huainan army's ship formation like an arrow off the string. Before the man was near, the crossbow had already been wound, and the stones were whistling out.

When this Xuzhen slave army rushed out, even if two warships were too close to the slave formation, the mast of one of the warships was broken by a stone, and the stern also collided with a slave ship, and more than a dozen soldiers fell into the water due to the huge earthquake of the hull when they boarded.

The slave army of Xu Zhen was naturally not as disorganized as the slave soldiers who rushed to their deaths before, the upper slave soldiers on the building boat drew their bows frequently to suppress the counterattack of the Huainan army, and the lower slave army threw out long cable hooks and hooked the side of the enemy ship near the shore, and then the noose narrowed the distance between each other. When the two ships were smashed into each other, there were already slave soldiers rushing along the cable and fighting against the Huainan army!

At this point, the two armies, which have always been incomparably strong, finally broke out into some mentionable battles. Although the warships were controlled to connect with each other, the Huainan soldiers did not panic, the soldiers on one side of the chord waved their swords and guns to meet the battle, and the soldiers on the other side firmly protected the side cabins of the boats to ensure the power of the boat, and the soldiers also gritted their teeth and shook the ship sideways to obtain the cover of the friendly forces nearby.

"Rush forward!"

Nearly a thousand men worked hard under his orders, and this large ship like a floating city on the river rushed straight to the center of the battle. As the warship sped up, the river splashed several feet high under its crushing, like an eternal desolate beast, and the huge shadow outline in the night went straight to the slave warship!

"Stay away, stay away!"

Liu Zheng has also been paying attention to the dynamics of the main ship of the Huainan Army, and when he saw its majestic momentum, he hurriedly ordered and said, his heart was also full of deep resentment. Xu Zhen also has such a large size of warships, and there are not a few, even in terms of boats and weapons, compared with the Huainan Army, but due to the fall of Huaiyin, these warships are isolated in the Huaishui offshore and cannot be used, and now they have to be oppressed by the enemy's sharp weapons.

The slave ships that had already approached the Huainan Army's ship formation quickly turned their rudders and circled, and such a large ship did not have any other way to attack, and the huge waves stirred up alone could line up the approaching ships far away, and even the boats were killed.

The rest of the slave ships could still retreat, but the slave ships that were fighting with the Huainan army did not have this calmness, seeing that the big ship was rushing straight in this direction, those slave soldiers could not care about fighting with the Huainan army anymore, and they jumped back one after another. The officers and men of the Huainan Army, who were able to escape, also quickly put the side walkers into the water and quickly evacuated the warship.

After another quarter of an hour, the big ship was already rushing straight in, and the thick timber of the bow of the ship directly bombarded the hull of the two ships that were closely connected. These two warships were hit by this, and when even a small half of the hull was damaged and burst away, the wreckage of the remaining ships also cut dozens of feet away from the surface of the river, and hit the water fence of the slave camp heavily!

At this point, the big ship gradually regained its momentum, but it still rushed to a complete halt outside the water fence near the slave camp. Because of its rapid coming, such a behemoth was placed on the river, so that the nearby camp slaves did not dare to approach easily.

"Encircle and suppress this ship!"

When Liu Zheng saw this big ship rushing straight into the formation, he couldn't help but be happy in his heart. Although the big ship is huge, it is a dead thing after all, and if it runs, it is indeed invincible, but once the speed of the ship slows down, it is only a floating bunker on the river, and it is not invincible. If you are besieged, there is no help from the left and right, and it is not difficult to conquer and capture. Although there is still no shortage of Huainan Army warships in the left vicinity, they are all tired and tired after a long battle, so they are not a problem. If you can capture this big ship, the next battle situation will be reversed! Unfortunately, with such a big ship in charge, the slave army will no longer be the same as before.

So the warships of the Xu Zhennu Army turned around one after another and headed for the big ship of the Huainan Army. However, even if the big ship stops, it is by no means a soft persimmon that can be handled, there are more than 2,000 soldiers on board, all of them are recuperating, even if they do not use the slap rod and throw stones, they are only shooting in battle, the height of the big ship is nearly two zhang higher than the slave warship, and it is absolutely condescending.

"Continue to urge the soldiers to disembark, and we must take this big ship!"

Seeing that the battle situation had taken such a turn for the better, Shi Hu in the water camp couldn't help but lift his spirits, and continued to order. At this time, the warships in the slave camp were seriously insufficient, and the soldiers who had driven them to board the ships earlier also sensed that the war was not good, and although they boarded the ships, they did not dare to move closer to the front line to die, and they all gathered near the water fence. It is true that after boarding the ship, the retreat was cut off, but it was inconvenient for the commanders and generals on the shore to force them forward to die.

With Shi Hu's order, the Chinese slave soldiers who had already filled the battalions stepped up to drive the soldiers on the ship forward to fight fiercely, and even led bows and arrows to drive them away. At the same time, Shi Hu was worried that the return of the big ship would be difficult to stop, the fighters would be fleeting, and even some Chinese soldiers were thrown into the river, and if the warships were not enough, they would directly dismantle the wooden fence in the camp as a floating board, and they would definitely take the big ship!

For a time, the big ship seemed to be caught in the midst of wolves, although the fire was still rapid, the slapping rod was waved frequently, and the stones were thrown down like hailstones, but the slave soldiers still swarmed in, and gradually some slave soldiers threw the hook and rope up, and climbed along the rope to board the ship. On the big ship, including Lu Yong, everyone ran along the ship to fight the fire on all sides.

This continued for nearly half an hour, and although the slaves had not yet successfully boarded the ship on a large scale, they surrounded the large ships. There are nearly 10,000 slave soldiers around the big ship, and as far as the eye can see, there are dense crowds of people's heads, and you can hardly see the waves of the river! The entire big ship is already completely trapped, and it's only a matter of time before it is taken down!

However, just when the slave soldiers were completely crazy and rushed to take the lead, a large number of lights appeared on the western river, and the boundless almost the entire river surface was paved, and the Huainan Chinese army fleet finally arrived at the battlefield!

"It's a trap, it's a trap! Quickly withdraw and return to camp! ”

When Liu Zheng saw more warships of the Huainan Army speeding towards him, he shouted loudly when he came to his senses, and at the same time ordered the soldiers on the ship to quickly beat drums and order to retreat. However, although he is called a general, he has no control over the army at all, and even his descendants cannot be dispatched at this time. Because his men and horses are the closest to the big ships of the Huainan Army, the encirclement around the big ships is stacked layer by layer, and his men and horses are also surrounded at the core, and they can't get out of the battle at all.

At this time, although the large ship was surrounded by groups, it itself resembled a castle floating on the river, and it was not possible to complete it in a short period of time if it was to be captured. However, the rear army of the Huainan Army has already rushed closer, and once it arrives at the battlefield, it will be a catastrophe for these slave troops!

"Burn the ship!"

Under the crisis, Liu Zheng made such a decision, as for the fire to be burned, it is naturally not the Huainan Army's Lianfang ship, this large ship has excellent fire prevention facilities, and the hull alone is protected by three layers of covers, as for how the higher decks are arranged, it is not clear that the slave army is attacking all the way. Even if you set a fire, it is very difficult to grow the fire in a very short time.

So, with Liu Zheng's order, the slaves on the ship picked up the clay urns and firewood filled with ointment, and threw them on the friendly ships nearby. The nearby slave troops retreated one after another to avoid the fire, which allowed Liu Zheng's boat to gain a little space to move, and it was difficult to turn the bow of the ship and evacuate backwards.

"The Nanren ship is used as bait to lure our army to attack indiscriminately, and quickly withdraw to the battalion, and still be able to save his life!"

Liu Zheng ordered the soldiers to call for warnings, and the ship rushed straight to the water gate. He had already seen the strength of the firepower of the southerners in the front battle, and at this time, the successor army came again, and the slave army, including his subordinates, if he still stayed on the river to meet the enemy, then it would definitely be dead or alive!

At this time, as long as the slave army on the river was not blind, they could see the huge fleet of the Huainan army approaching quickly, so they all rowed the river back desperately. However, when he wanted to return to the camp, he encountered obstacles, and the gates of the Shuizha camp, which had been wide open, all fell, and at the same time, a desperate roar sounded in the camp: "Kill the enemy in battle, there is no advance or retreat!" Anyone who is cowardly and retreats will be killed immediately! ”

This military order was by no means a threat, and the roar was accompanied by sharp arrows shot from the slave army's array, and all the slave soldiers who approached the camp gate were hit by arrows and fell into the water!

"The slave master is dead, ** vying for the throne! Ji Long is cowardly, and he is bent on returning! A thief will die, and a slave will be killed! ”

As the Huainan Chinese army came to cover up, the first thing to reach the front line was not the sharp arrows, but the loud roar of the Huainan army.

"I see, I see, I ...... so"

Liu Zhengza's ship was also blocked outside the camp gate, and when he heard the roar of the Huainan army, the confusion that was originally caused by the King of Zhongshan's faint moves and indiscriminate command suddenly broke through, and a breath of adverse qi stirred in his chest, and then he realized that these people were just the bones of this slave on the way home!

When the slave soldiers who were blocked out heard this roar, the situation could not help but become more panicked, and the floating boards rushed left and right to find a way to live, but they collided with each other, and the number of people who fell into the water was unknown.

Many of the slaves of Xu Zhen were blocked from the camp at this time, and they were all panicked at this time, and some of them approached Liu Zhengzao's boat, boarded the boat, and wept and mourned: "General, could it be that I am going to die here today?" The King of Zhongshan is cruel and unkind, building a flesh and blood barrier with our lives, and following such a vicious thief, is it not that today is the punishment of God? ”

Liu Zheng also had no idea for a while, and came out against the blood, although he had heard the name of Shi Hu's cruelty, but he didn't expect that this thief's cruelty had no bottom line at all. At the moment, even if he surrenders in battle, he will definitely not get any benefits, because he has repeatedly invaded Jiangdong in Xuzhen before, and his hands are also bloody, not to mention that now that the Huainan army has gained the upper hand, it is impossible to accept a slave general with a bad track record like him.

"Let's go, don't die for the slaves!"

Liu Zheng's eyes were full of blood and tears, and he jumped onto the ship's finch room and shouted: "The slave is miserable and inhumane, and he does not care about the old people, and the death of the slave master is the punishment of God to destroy the thief." Soldiers and all those who want to live, follow me to escape from the battle! The Huainan Wang Division only kills the traitor Ji Long, and will never chase after the crowd! ”

The slave soldiers in Xuzhen nearby suddenly shouted and repeated Liu Zheng's roar, so those chaotic slave soldiers seemed to have the backbone and approached Liu Zheng's boat. And the roar of these slave soldiers was also heard by the Huainan army, and sure enough, the ship formation gradually shrank, leaving a way for these routs to flee for their lives.

"The dog thief hurt me!"

Seeing such a situation outside the camp, Shi Hu in the water camp was already furious, swinging his knife and slashing. Originally, he was still able to stabilize the morale of the army on the front line, and he could slightly break the shaking of the Huainan Army's roars to the morale of the army, but now the generals in his army fled with the crowd, but the accuracy of the news was confirmed.

For a while, with the rout and escape of the slave army on the river, the slave army in the camp gradually became agitated and began to be restless.

"Impact, crash camp! If you can capture Ji Long alive, boast of the north and south, and promote China, you will have a great reputation, and the leopard tail will be crowned the marquis! ”

The large ship of the company, which was densely surrounded by the slave army before, was now no longer hindered, and the bow of the ship slowly adjusted to the slave camp, and it rushed unstoppably!