Taking advantage of the fact that the chasm was not sealed, the Qin army's boat division had to stop the Chu army from building the bridge at all costs, and this time needed to be when the pontoon bridge was about to be completed. Tian Pu, the general of the boat division, wanted to take the lead and not only crashed into the sixteen pontoon bridges that had just been erected, but also wanted to kill and injure the Chu army engineers who were building bridges on the south bank, but unfortunately this proposal was not approved by Wang Ben.

After dawn, the morning sun will rise, and the morning glow will stain the sky red, and the fish-scale clouds will shine with a little golden light. The golden light shone on the east side of the battlefield, shining on the battlefield, shining on the flags and soldiers of the Chu and Qin armies waving in the wind, and approved a holy light xia robe for everyone. After the shogunate finished the discussion, the Xiongjing men and horses who had just arrived at the waterfront were also illuminated by the golden light, and he looked around the entire battlefield, mostly focusing on the surface of the chasm.

The pontoon bridge has not yet reached the center of the chasm, and in order to prevent the Qin army warships on the west side from colliding with each other, large pontoon boats similar to the previous building boats are being built. Once the pontoon is built, it is equipped with rows of armor on all sides to prevent the ship from colliding. The sixty-eight-pound short-barreled cannon was also towed to the pontoon, which was a sharp weapon for breaking the boat, as long as it hit, it would be a big hole in one hit, and there was no way to remedy it.

On the west side of the chasm, the five-oared flagship Ueda Pu was inexplicably anxious when he saw this scene, and the most helpless thing for the boat division was this kind of Chu Junlou ship equipped with short-barreled guns and equipped with huge iron armor. Based on Makizawa's experience, once this kind of building ship is across the chasm, no matter how many war boats there are, it will not be able to rush.

"Herald! Drumming. The morning sun was rising, and Tian Pu on the deck couldn't help but order.

"General, the Jingren pontoon bridge has not been completed, and it is ...... to attack it at this time. General Wang said that he wanted to wait for the Jingren Bridge to become a ......" The lieutenant on his side had just received Wang Ben's military order to attack the bridge when it was completed, and hurriedly spoke out to dissuade him.

"Does General Wang know the water war or does the general know the water war?!" Tian Pu suppressed the dissatisfaction in his heart and sighed. He is a Qi person, although he is more proficient in water warfare than the Qin people, but there is no way in the court, and his position has always been under the Qin generals. In his opinion, Wang Ben, a young general, did not understand water warfare at all, only land warfare.

"The general has an order, beat the drum!" Tian Pu insisted on beating the drum, but the lieutenant did not dare to stop it. After the flag order was issued, the building drum behind the flagship deck sounded rapidly. The wooden oars of the war boats, which had been lined up for a long time, quickly dropped their oars, and rows of wooden oars began to rise and fall in the ditch water, and the boat formation slowly accelerated and went straight forward.

"Qin people!" Before the Qin army officials beat the drums, the Chu army artillerymen on the south bank had already noticed the movement of the Qin people. As soon as the drums sounded, the drums were immediately beaten on the side of the fort, and the gunners quickly rushed to the gun position, and the workers on the water docked under the orders of the officer. Only the driver of the pontoon boat still whipped the towing cannon, and wanted to pull the two 68-pound broken boat cannons that had been put on the shore onto the pontoon.

Xiong Jing and the others on the south bank watched Qin Junzhou's division rushing towards him, and Wang Ben, who was standing behind the wall on the north bank, also saw this scene, and he couldn't help but have a little anger on his face. At this time, the pontoon bridge was erected for less than two miles, and it did not reach the middle line of the water surface of the chasm, and at this time, it was obviously inappropriate for him to attack the warboat. However, the drum was already beating, and he couldn't stop it, so he could only sit back and watch.

It was frozen overnight, and some of the ditches that had been broken in the first half of yesterday froze again in the second half of the night, but fortunately this did not hinder the attack of the boat division. The Qin army's boat formation rushed to the Chu army's pontoon bridge that had not yet been erected in a line of forty war boats, a total of three lines. At a distance of about four or five miles from the pontoon, the speed of the boat reached its fastest, and one hundred and twenty three-oared war boats were like cavalry galloping on the water, and were about to make the final sprint.

The sound of artillery sounded at this time, and the artillery of the Chu army placed on the south bank of the chasm opened fire one by one, and in the firelight, the shells fired at the warships that were getting closer and closer, and the smoke of gunpowder was blown by the fierce north wind to the array of the Chu army on the south bank.

The warship with the dragon's rib is not the old-style single-oared warboat, and the ten-pound field cannon and the thirty-two-pound siege cannon are not a sharp weapon for breaking the boat. The generals who had known this for a long time hurriedly sounded the gold amid the sound of the cannons, and the soldiers on the shore retreated farther before the warships rushed in. The pontoons that had been launched early had not yet been properly arranged, and they were urgently pulled to the shore by the workers on the shore.

The sound of cannons, drums, and gold intertwined, and the warships rushed like arrows, crashing into the sixteen pontoon bridges that had no resistance. In the sound of rushing water, these pontoon bridges were all broken by the war boats, and some of the rafts twisted and turned up in pain. The sheep's fur under the rack was also squeezed out, and puffs of water vapor were spewed out in the water. Only then did some of the warboats slow down and tilt.

Although Tian Pu violated the army's orders, Wang Ben would not miss any opportunity to boost the morale of the Qin army and hit the morale of the Chu army. The 200,000 Qin soldiers behind the earthen wall shouted under the orders of the commander of the hundred generals, and some of the Qin soldiers even rushed onto the earthen wall and cheered loudly at the striking warboats.

"This is a bad arrangement!" Zhuang Wudi angrily accused, "With the order of the shogunate, we should build a building ship first and then build a pontoon bridge!" ”

"The divisions are in a hurry to cross the water, and there are forgivable mistakes." The pawns belong to the divisions, not to the generals. The divisions had already erected pontoon bridges before the shogunate issued a specific battle plan, which naturally led to the current situation in which the building ships had not yet been launched and the pontoon bridges had already been erected. "Just don't hurt the soldiers."

Xiong Jing said that he was not injured, and the pontoon boat that had just towed two broken boat cannons was violently hit by a war boat, and although the impact angle did not break through the huge deck on the side of the pontoon, the violent shaking was still inevitable. The two ship-wrecked cannons did not have time to be fixed, and slid sideways with the violent undulations of the pontoon. No matter how light the sixty-eight-pound cannon was, it was almost two tons, and once the two-ton thing moved, it was difficult to stop it from sliding, and before the rope was lifted, the twelve horses were also dragged by the artillery to the rear.

The pontoon boat is forty-five zhang square, and although the boat is large, it is very light. Two cannons and twelve horses slid to one side, and the whole ship was cocked at once. The gunners hiding behind the oars and shields could not pay attention to the arrows fired by the enemy boats, and rushed out of the oars and shields and pulled the reins tightly, trying to drag the two shipwrecked cannons back to their original positions. However, at this time, another enemy boat slammed in, and once again hit the pontoon boat violently, and the horse could not drag the artillery, but was dragged to the outside of the pontoon by the artillery. The pontoon tilted at an even greater angle, and even the oars and shields fell on several sides.

"Chop the rope!" Xiong Jing, who was staring at the pontoon, had a handful of sweat in his palm, and shouted loudly from afar, but unfortunately he was a mile or two away and against the north wind, and the pilots and gunners on the pontoon boat couldn't hear his voice at all. I don't know if I didn't want to abandon these two guns, or if I thought I could pull back the horse, no one rushed between the horse guns to cut the ropes.

The cannon slid down more and more, and finally fell into the icy ditch with a 'plop', and the twelve horses neighed and struggled on all fours, and they were being dragged off the pontoon little by little. The artillery was no more than four tons, and the horses were at least five tons. At the moment before the horse fell into the water, the nine-ton thing pressed against the corner of the pontoon, and the huge hull was already cocked at 45 degrees. When everyone thought that the pontoon was about to overturn and buckle, there was a loud "pop", and the wooden beam on the pontoon broke in half, and the first half fell from the air, splashing a huge splash, and the second half was dragged down the chasm because the horse had been pulled, and the corner of the water bounced up as quickly as a ball that had been forced into the water.

"My horse!" The chasm was several feet deep, and as soon as the horse fell into the chasm, it disappeared without a trace, and Xiong Jing screamed sadly.

"Da Ao?" The cannon was still roaring, although the Qin warships that crashed the pontoon bridge were retreating, but the retreat was more difficult than the impact, the warboats near the south bank were pierced into a sieve by the shotguns from the artillery, and only those warboats on the north side slowly retreated.

There were no casualties on the pontoon, but the twelve dragon horses fell into the chasm like this, and Xiong Jing was distressed. He waved his horsewhip and shouted angrily: "Stop building bridges!" ”

"Da Ao has a life: stop building bridges!" Ling Ran forward to pass the order, Xiang Liang and Zhou Hou Ruo quickly arrived.

"Before there are ten building ships, stop building bridges!" Xiong Jing glared at Xiang Liang and Zhou Hou Ruo, and said angrily.

"Yui!" Xiong Jing felt sorry for Longma, and Xiang Liang and Zhou Hou Ruo felt sorry for artillery. They knew that the short-barreled boat-breaking cannon was extremely valuable, and the two of them were thinking about how to get those two guns out of the chasm.

"Go ahead, don't be in a hurry." Xiong Jing waved the two back, looking at the Qin army's warboat slowly sinking on the ditch. One hundred and twenty warships were not afraid to rush to death, and about a quarter of them were left behind by a single artillery bombardment, and a quarter of them were seriously wounded, and only those warships on the north side were still worthy of a battle.

This is mainly determined by the power of artillery, there are many ten-pound guns, but the power is too small, and the penetration is seriously insufficient. Forty warships can only penetrate one or twenty, not all; Thirty-two pounds of guns had enough penetration, but there were very few of them, earlier there were sixteen, and now there are only twelve. There are a large number of 68-pound short-barreled guns, but the range of these guns is limited, and there is not much damage after more than one mile.

The water of the chasm, which is four or five miles wide, is deadly only in the form of a floating boat. When these pontoons are lined up, the warboats will only collide directly on the huge deck on the side of the pontoons, and then there will be a fierce bombardment of the broken boats, and seven of the ten rushing warships will not be able to go back, and the whole boat will be injured and can not fight again.

The Chu army stopped building bridges, and the Qin generals on the north bank couldn't help but be happy, which meant that the enemy's bridge-building operations had been sabotaged by the boat division. Tian Pu, who was on the flagship on the west side of the ditch, felt bitter in his heart, he knew very well that the war boat was not the opponent of the Wuwu Mansion Boat, and it was a matter of time before the Chu army built a bridge to cross, but he still wanted to make a last fight.

As the sun rises, the thin mist on Mizusawa dissipates, and the warm sunlight shines on everyone. This should have been comfortable to make people moan, but Tian Pu's face was gloomy and terrifying, and he said, "Summoning the Boat of the Dead." ”

"The general has an order, summon the ship of the dead." The military order was transmitted to the rear, and sixty undifferentiated three-oared war boats slowly stepped forward into the battle, and at this time the boat formation was no longer a line of forty boats, but a line of sixty boats, and there were only three lines as before. The sixty warships that had been incorporated into the formation from the rear were at the front of the array, and in front of them stood thick slurs and shields, and the chieftains in gray-white cloth armor stood on the deck, and the number of armorers was twice as large as the rest of the boats.

"I want to board the boat and fight." Qin Jun's intention did not escape Xiong Jing's eyes, and this posture was entirely for hand-to-hand combat.