At this time, the thirty ships that had been attacking the vanguard had only passed through the shore for a hundred or twenty paces, and they were about to reach the shore, where the water was not really deep, and many pirates had jumped out of the boats and rushed to the shore with the water. However, some of the pirates who jumped into the sea suddenly appeared to be wrong, and there seemed to be a layer of sticky things on the surface of the water, and there was a strange smell. It's not the salty smell that I usually smell often.

"What's on the sea......"

Before the pirates could understand, a gong suddenly sounded on the shore, followed by a series of sharp arrows breaking through the air, and countless ** flame arrows flew into the air, and then immediately fell, shooting at the pirates who were close to the shore.

When the arrows fell to the surface of the sea with flames, they heard the sound of "Peng", and a majestic fire suddenly ignited on the sea near the shore, forming a wall of fire that stretched for hundreds of steps along the coast. The thirty ships of the pirate vanguard were suddenly caught in this sea of fire, and only the pirates on board wailed repeatedly, and the choking smell of smoke and the stench of burning filled the entire sea.

Meng Heng was shocked into a cold sweat in the back, the Song army had already prepared, fortunately he was a little cautious just now, and sent thirty ships as the vanguard, otherwise the one hundred and forty or fifty ships from Zisi would not all be buried here.

It turned out that Yang Yan received a secret letter from Meng Lanjun, knowing that Meng Heng would attack Guangzhou tonight, so he immediately made preparations and ambushed 5,000 soldiers on the shore, 2,000 archers, 1,000 divine arm archers, 30 bed crossbows, and 30 trebuchets. He also ordered people to sprinkle grease on the sea, and when the pirate's fleet arrived, they first ignited the oil on the sea, and then the Song army in ambush killed them all and fired bows and arrows at the pirate's fleet.

At this time, all thirty ships were burning, and the fire became more violent, not only reflecting the ink-stained sky, but also illuminating the shore as bright as day, only to see that in the distance on the shore, countless Song troops were killed, one side of the sea was headed, while shooting arrows, and for a time the arrows were like raindrops and all the boats shot at the pirates. Meng Heng hurriedly ordered the archers on each ship to return fire immediately. For a moment, arrows flew back and forth on the burning sea like locusts.

The Song army had rushed to the shore, and a thousand soldiers with tower shields stood in the front row and erected tower shields, forming a long shield wall to block the pirates' arrows, while the Song archers and divine arm archers hid behind the tower shields and shot arrows at the pirates' fleet. The pirates on board also hid behind the side of the ship and returned fire, and some of them also raised their shields to block the arrows.

At this time, the other Song soldiers also moved bed crossbows and trebuchets to the seashore and placed them in the back row of the archers, and thirty bed crossbows and thirty trebuchets also moved together to join the ranks of counter-shooting.

With the addition of bed crossbows and trebuchets, the attack on the Song army's side was immediately greatly strengthened. The strength of the bed crossbow was so strong that ordinary shields and ship gunwales could not stop it at all, and many pirates were killed by the crossbow spears that pierced the shield and ship's gunwales. And the trebuchet does not produce stones, but thunderbolts, firearms such as oil bombs, which are more powerful. If a thunderbolt hits the deck of the ship, more than a dozen people around will be injured by the flying iron filings and thistles. The oil bomb is even more harmful, no matter which part of the ship hits, it will ignite a fire, and no matter how you put it out, it will not be extinguished.

In a few moments, the pirates suffered heavy casualties, and more than a dozen ships were on fire. Meng Heng saw that the Song army's long-range attack was so powerful, and knew that he couldn't please anything good today, so he was about to order everyone to retreat. Meng Huiming suddenly walked over and said, "Dad, look behind, there is a fleet sailing towards us." ”

Meng Heng turned his head to look in the direction of his son's finger, only to see that behind his left side, countless black shadows appeared, and he could vaguely see through the firelight on the sea that there were ships approaching his side, but the firelight was too far away to see how many boats there were.

Meng Heng was taken aback, he didn't expect that the Song army would ambush a fleet behind him, and hurriedly ordered, and the ships turned back to meet the battle, but it was not as easy to turn their heads at sea as on the shore. Arrows, ballistas, thunderbolts, and oil bombs rained down on the pirate fleet.

This fleet is led by Li Gongzuo, the only forty-seven ships left in Guangzhou, but the fleet includes a large Shenzhou, four small Shenzhou, so there is still considerable combat effectiveness, they have been ambushed between the small islands and states at the mouth of Guangzhou since the day, as soon as they saw the fire on the shore, Li Gongzuo immediately commanded the fleet to kill, just in time for the pirates to attack, and when they were about to escape, they killed from the left rear of the pirate fleet.

The last dozen ships of the pirate fleet immediately took the brunt of the first wave of attacks from the Song army, and many pirates were immediately killed by arrows, and seven or eight ships were hit by heavy oil bombs, igniting a fire. The other ships saw that the Song army's fleet was coming fiercely, so they had to move forward to dodge.

The ships in the back moved forward, and the ships in front went backward. As a result, the pirate fleet was immediately in chaos by the front and rear of the Song army, and many ships collided with each other, and the situation was very chaotic, at this time Meng Heng also saw clearly, the original Song army only had forty or fifty warships, in fact, now the pirates still have nearly a hundred warships, although the weapons are poor, but if the command is proper and the scheduling is lawful, it can also fight with the Song army.

However, now the pirate fleet has long been in disarray, in fact, in terms of the pirates' ship driving skills and the combat ability of individual soldiers on the water, they may not be inferior to the Song army, but in terms of unity of action, orders and prohibitions, they are far less well-trained than the Song army, and the gap between the rabble and the regular army is completely displayed at this time.

Meng Heng also wanted to command the fleet, try to kill the Song army's fleet, and then retreat in an orderly manner, but at this time, except for the dozen or so ships around Meng Heng's boat, no one paid attention to the orders from Meng Heng's boat, and all the ships were just like headless flies, avoiding the Song army's attack.

When Meng Heng saw it, he also knew that this battle, the defeat was irretrievable, and immediately led more than a dozen ships around him to escape, and other ships also scattered and fled for their lives, although the Song army had the advantage, but Bi Jing had too few ships, although Li Gongzuo ordered to chase, but it could not be contained, Li Gongzuo was helpless about it, but now he had to watch the pirate's ships flee the battlefield one by one.