Because the large Shenzhou is huge, it has a great impact force for attacking and breaking through, and it has a large loading capacity, and there is no shortage of weapons and ammunition, so it can still maintain complete combat effectiveness, which can be said to be the only hope for the Song army. It depends on whether the offensive formation formed by these three Shenzhou can break through the blockade of the Jin army and open the way for the other warships of the Song army.

At this time, the distance between the two sides was less than two hundred paces, and both sides fired crossbow guns, rockets, artillery, stones, and other objects at each other. The Song troops on the Shenzhou were well-trained, some fired weapons at the other side, some held shields on the side of the ship to block the arrows and stones fired by the other side, and some were busy extinguishing the flames caused by the fire fired at their own ship. Each has its own responsibilities, although they are busy. However, the hull of the Great Shenzhou is huge, and it has a condescending advantage, although it has suffered a lot of arrows and stones, but it is almost undamaged, on the contrary, there are already three ships in the Jin army array that are on fire.

At this time, the distance between the two sides quickly narrowed, and Shenzhou broke through the Jin army's formation. The speed of the Great Shenzhou rushed up at full speed, with a huge potential energy rushed into a medium-sized building ship of the Jin Army, only to hear a loud "bang", sawdust flew, the mast broke, the medium-sized building ship was hit into a side spin, overturned in the sea.

And the Song Army's Great Shenzhou did not disappear, and then it collided with the side front of the second Jin Jun Lou ship, knocking the front part of the Lou ship into the side and scattering it, causing the deck to break, and it was no longer good. However, after two impacts, the front end of the Great Shenzhou also cracked a lot, and the speed was significantly reduced. Qin Shiliang breathed a sigh of relief, the Jin army was still not used to water warfare in the end, if it was his own army, he would never be so still, waiting for the Song army to collide. Instead, the whole army was ordered to speed up and hit the ground running. As a result, the momentum of the Song army first overwhelmed the Jin army.

And the other two small Shenzhou also crashed into an enemy ship each. The other warships of the Jin Army were also shocked by the huge power of the Great Shenzhou, and for a while, no ship dared to step forward to meet the Shenzhou. The warships that stood in front also retreated. However, at this time, the three Shenzhou went deep into the Jin army's ship formation, and the front, left, and right sides were all Jin army's warships, and suddenly rockets, stones, and artillery flew all over the sky like locusts towards the three Shenzhou. Although these three Shenzhou are large in size, they cannot withstand such a concentrated blow, and each hull is on fire in many places, and the soldiers on the ship who are fighting the fire cannot be extinguished. Moreover, the other warships also engaged the warships of the Jin army.

And because the Song army had already broken into the Jin army's ship formation at this time, the overall speed slowed down, and the rear formation was caught up by the Jin army, and many warships behind were all hit by the Jin army. Qin Shiliang commanded the Song army to fight back, and on the other hand, he ordered the Great Shenzhou to re-accelerate and continue the assault.

At this time, thick smoke billowed from the sea, and all the wrecked masts floated on the water.

The three Shenzhou restarted their speed, continued to assault in the Jin army's ship formation, and sank three more enemy ships, damaging five, and finally opened a breakthrough in the Jin army's ship formation and rushed out. At this time, the three Shenzhou were scarred. And other Song warships also rushed out of the gap one after another.

Qin Shiliang breathed a sigh of relief, and when he looked back, he found that the rear team of the Jin army had completely caught up with the Song army, and overtook it from both wings, surrounded the Song army, and divided the Song army's fleet into several pieces, surrounded and intercepted, and broke out of the Jin army's encirclement with only a dozen ships, and the Jin army was gradually closing the gap, seeing that the remaining Song army warships were about to be surrounded again.

Qin Shiliang looked back at the battlefield, at this time, he immediately retreated now, although he could guarantee that he would return to the East China Sea safely, but in addition to the dozen or so warships that had been encircled, the remaining warships might not be able to escape, and they would be completely annihilated by the Jin army, but if he went back to rescue other warships, he might fall into the encirclement of the Jin army again, and this time he wanted to rush out again, but it would not be so easy.

Qin Shiliang thought about it for a while, and finally ordered to turn around and return to the rescue of other warships. The three Shenzhou slowly turned their bows, Qin Shiliang looked back at the direction of the East China Sea, and silently said in his heart: "Li Bao, if I leave the soldiers and retreat like this, I won't have the face to go back to see you." Only this time we're afraid we'll never see each other again,"

The three Shenzhou rushed back into the Jin army's formation, and the gap that had just been closed by the Jin army was broken away by the Song army again, and several Song army warships rushed out of the Jin army's encirclement, but more warships fell into a melee with the Jin army. Qin Shiliang ordered that the other two small Shenzhou would hold the gap and prevent the Jin army from blocking the gap again. He drove the Great Shenzhou and then rushed into the Jin Army to rescue other warships.

Sure enough, the Great Shenzhou picked up again and rushed into the Jin Army's ship formation again. At this time, there were many breaks on the side of the Great Shenzhou, and three sails were on fire, but they still clashed left and right in the Jin army's array, rescuing their own warships, and finally made many Song army warships get rid of the siege of the Jin army and break out of the encirclement of the Jin army.

Wanyan Changzhi stood on the lookout of the ship, watching the Song army's great Shenzhou clash back and forth in its own ship formation, injuring many warships in a row, and unexpectedly in the situation of his absolute superiority in the warship, and with the assistance of almost perfect tactical arrangements, he still couldn't completely annihilate the Song army's fleet, and finally let the Song army break through the encirclement, and the losses he suffered were not small, it can be seen that the Song army's water combat ability is still much better than the Jin army, and he can't help but shudder a little in his heart. If it weren't for the fact that the naval forces in the East China Sea were transferred nearly halfway, the outcome of this battle may not be known.

Wanyan Changzhi immediately ordered that it was okay to let go of other Song army warships, but he must not let go of that large Shenzhou, he must concentrate his own large building ship, and he must sink the Song army's large Shenzhou.

At this time, on the battlefield, after the back and forth rescue of the Great Shenzhou, most of the trapped Song warships rushed out of the encirclement of the Jin army, Qin Shiliang breathed a sigh of relief, and ordered the soldiers to also sail back to break out of the encirclement.

But it was too late, the twelve Jin army's building ships surrounded the Song army's Great Shenzhou, Qin Shiliang commanded the Great Shenzhou to rush left and right, but the Jin army was extremely tightly surrounded, and the Great Shenzhou was also very seriously damaged, only seven of the twelve sails remained, and only fifteen of the twenty-four waterwheels remained, and the speed was greatly reduced.

At this time, the firepower of the ships of the Jin army was opened, and the rockets and artillery were fired at the Great Shenzhou, and the Great Shenzhou was now powerless to fight back, under such a concentrated and intensive attack, many cracks were blown up around the side of the Great Shenzhou, and the sea water had been poured into the cabin, and the hull was on fire everywhere, and even Qin Shiliang himself was hit by two arrows, and his life was in danger. Wanyan Changzhi showed a smile at this time, although he failed to completely annihilate the Song army, but if he sank this great Shenzhou, it would also be a big victory for the Jin army.

At this moment, the watchman sounded the warning horn, and a row of sails appeared in the distance to the south, heading in the direction of the battlefield. Led by a large Shenzhou, the handsome flag fluttered, and the word "Li" was written on Douda.

It turned out that this was Li Bao's receiving warship, Li Bao was quite suspicious of the sudden attack of the Jin army from the sea this time, and saw that Qin Shiliang took the fleet to fight and did not come back for a long time, and there was not even a person to deliver the letter later, so he felt that it was not good, so he personally led all the remaining warships to go to sea to meet Qin Shiliang.

Wan Yan Changzhi looked at the sky, and it was almost dusk, so he thought about it and immediately ordered: The whole army retreats.

Su Baoheng was a little puzzled and asked: "Zuo Jian Army, even if Li Bao leads the army to the battlefield now, the Song army only has more than a hundred warships. The number of warships of our army is still far greater than that of the Song army, not to mention that the battle just now was also a great victory for our army, and it was when the morale was at its peak, and it was time to take advantage of the victory to march and defeat Li Bao again in one go. Then go straight to Lin'an. Why do you want to withdraw your troops instead? ”

Wanyan Changzhi shook his head and said, "Although our army won the battle just now, now the soldiers are also very tired, and most of the bows and arrows and firearms have been consumed, and they need to be replenished. However, the reinforcements of the Song army were waiting for work at ease and had sufficient weapons. And it is Li Bao himself who leads the army, so he cannot be underestimated. After a pause, he said: "What's more, my Dajin Shui Division has always been afraid of the Song army and its morale is low, but now that he has won the first battle, he can get the merit of 'Lishi' and boost the morale of the army." It is really not advisable to be greedy for great achievements. If you take the liberty of fighting with Li Bao, even if you win, it is just the icing on the cake, and if there is a mistake, it will become a snake to add to the picture, and the victory in the first battle will also become useless. ”

Su Baoheng nodded and said, "What my lord has seen is extremely true. ”

Li Bao couldn't help but be surprised when he saw that the Jin army had dispatched so many warships this time. Now seeing that the Jin army was withdrawing, and the weather was getting darker, and he was afraid of being ambushed again, so he didn't dare to chase after him, but he just ordered the boats to rescue the Song soldiers who fell into the water, and extinguished the flames that were still burning on some warships, but when he found the fire to pass through the uncontrollable Great Shenzhou, Qin Shiliang died with his anger. Li Bao held back the grief in his heart, ordered to pack up the remnants of the army, take Qin Shiliang's body, and retreat to Donghai County.

The results of this battle on both sides were: the Song army lost a total of 62 large and small warships, including a large Shenzhou and two small Shenzhou, and another 17 warships were damaged, of which 12 warships were seriously damaged, more than 3,000 soldiers were killed, and Qin Shiliang, the commander of the naval army, was also killed. The Jin army lost only 56 warships, including 5 building ships, another 47 warships, and 15 of them were seriously damaged, but 9 warships of the Song army were captured and more than 2,500 soldiers were killed. The main generals did not suffer any casualties.