In the middle of the river, the warships next to Cai Shan, the fortress of the Chen State Naval Army, gathered, and the Jiangxin Continent where Cai Shan is located is another naval army in the upper reaches of Sangluozhou, and it has long been prepared to resist the Zhou army. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

The watchtower on the top of the mountain lit a beacon fire, and amid the thunderous drums, the Chen army warships set up a formation, preparing to meet the Zhou army ship formation in front.

With the downstream against the upstream, and the headwind against the tailwind, Chen's army is now at a disadvantage, but the fighting spirit of the soldiers is very high, because they are ready to wait for their mortal opponents to come and die.

In that year, in the first battle of Xisai Mountain, the Zhou army resorted to the unbelievable tactic of crossing the river with iron cables, and insisted on stopping the Chen army's warships that retreated to lure the enemy, resulting in the final fiasco, and now, they have to retaliate with a tooth for a tooth.

Caishan is located in the middle of the river, and the north and south banks of the river are the land of Chen, which is under the control of Chen's army, so Chen's army takes Caishan as the center, pulls up several thick iron chains in the south and north, and sinks at the bottom of the river on weekdays, and can be lifted out of the river at any time through a huge manpower winch.

The Chen army's warship can retreat at any time, and when the Zhou army's warship catches up, the iron cable is raised to stop it, and when it is squeezed into a ball, the fire will be extinguished as soon as it passes, so even if it is not smooth or smooth, the Chen army soldiers are very confident.

Will the other party know in advance that Cai Shan has this kind of mechanism? It should be known, but the other party has no choice, because the north and south banks of Caishan are under the control of the Chen army, and the Zhou army has not yet attacked here by land, and the naval army rashly attacked, either arrogant or prepared.

How to prepare? It is nothing more than a beach landing to directly attack Caishan, but the Chen army has made all preparations, the fortress on the mountain is heavily defended, and a lot of rolling wood and stones have been prepared, and if the other party dares to attack, it will be a death.

"Wu Zhou of the Zhou State killed many officers and soldiers back then, and now Cai Shan is about to be like Wu Zhou, so that the Zhou army will not return!"

"Do you have the confidence to defeat the ?!! of the Northern Prisoners?"

"Yes!!"

"Louder!"

"There is !!"

On a golden-winged ship of the Chen army, the generals inspired the soldiers under their command, although the results of the battles with the Zhou naval army in the past few years were repeated defeats, but they were also practicing day and night, waiting for revenge, their own preparations are now thorough, and this battle will definitely be a complete victory.

Seeing the Zhou army's ship formation approaching their side, many people clenched their weapons in their hands, waiting for a while to fight to kill the enemy, and suddenly, they caught a glimpse of some behemoths in the Zhou army's ship formation revealing their bodies, and they couldn't help but stir.

"What a big ship! It's so coarse... What a tall mast! ”

In the midst of the sails, there are many huge masts, like a ladder, surrounded by other warships to ride the wind and waves, such a high mast, if you want to ensure that the ship does not capsize, then how big and how wide should the hull be?

"Quick, beat the drums, let the defenders of Caishan get ready, the Zhou army will attack the top of the mountain directly!! The Zhou army wants to attack the top of the mountain directly! ”

"The Zhou army wants to attack the top of the mountain directly? How is that possible! ”

The commotion arose, and many people couldn't believe that Zhou Jun would adopt such tactics, but when they looked at Cai Shan, they suddenly realized: the height of Cai Mountain is actually not that high.

Cai Shan is located on Jiangxinzhou, with a height of about 20 zhang, of course, this height is much higher than the city wall, and the strange building ships of the Zhou army at this time, the masts like cloud ladders, look even higher than Cai Shan.

Cai Mountain is not high, located on the west side of Jiangxinzhou, the side of the cliff is just on the riverside facing the west upstream direction, because under normal circumstances, it is impossible for a ship to be moored under the cliff, so there is no wooden stake nailed there, and the boat can directly lean against the foot of the mountain.

The top of the hill is very gentle, so there is a stockade on it, and if the opponent's ladder is set up, it will turn into a battle for the city.

Once the Zhou army captures the top of the mountain, and then condescendingly releases arrows, not to mention Cai Shan, even Jiang Xinzhou will not be able to defend it.

The situation changed, but the Chen army did not panic, and the Caishan camp began to mobilize troops to gather at the top of the mountain, because the Zhou army's warships came very quickly, and the Chen army immediately sent a large number of fast ships to meet them.

Disrupting the formation of the opposing forward fleet with clippers and then waiting for the opportunity to set fire to the fleet is a common tactic of the navy, and the Zhou army also took countermeasures: a large number of clippers attacked to clear the obstacles.

The vanguard engaged, and the Chen army was soon at a disadvantage, because the Zhou army's clippers were more tightly protected, just like an ordinary clipper covered with a shell, and the hands were tightly protected, and the Chen army and the Zhou army could not gain the upper hand in the confrontation.

Arrows continued to shoot out of the arrow holes, and the bow of the Zhou clipper's boat seemed to be strong enough to knock the Chen army's clipper out of a large hole, and the Chen soldiers tried to shoot rockets and set it on fire, but the top shell of the other party's turtle shell was covered with many pig skins.

There are many pigs in Huangzhou, so it is not surprising that the Zhou army warships used so many pig skins, seeing that the clippers lost the battle, the main warships of the Chen army began to attack from both sides of Caishan, one to intercept the opponent's ship, and the other to lure the enemy.

However, the speed of the Zhou army's building ships was very fast, and they approached Cai Shan under the escort of the two-wing warships, and the defenders on the mountain couldn't help but be surprised when they saw their true faces: the reason why these building ships could have such high masts and not capsize was because the hull of each building ship was made of three large ships connected side by side.

Such a trimaran ship is very calm on the river, so even if the mast is high, there is no danger of capsizing, but in this way, the ship itself is not flexible.

The firelight lit up, and it was the Zhou army that released the fireboat from both wings and rushed towards the Chen army warships on both sides of Caishan downstream.

"Wan Jun Divine Crossbow prepares, wait for them to get close and listen to the order to release arrows!"

"Archer prepare!"

"Quick, get everyone to the top of the mountain!"

The hoarse generals of the Chen army commanded the Caishan garrison to assemble at the top of the mountain, they were not unprepared for defense, but they did not expect the Zhou army to directly attack the top of the mountain, so the main forces were arranged at the foot of the mountain Shazhou fort.

Just as many Chen soldiers were gathering towards the top of the mountain, among the Zhou army's trimaran ships approaching Cai Shan, many of the boats suddenly flew out of the fireballs, falling towards Cai Shan like meteors, which were the fire cannons of some of the building ships.

The waves on the river were turbulent, and no matter how stable the ship was, it was inevitable that it would sway, so the accuracy of the gravity trebuchet of the Zhou Jun ship was very poor, although many fireballs were thrown, but most of them missed, and eight out of ten shots missed.

Many fireballs were outrageous, not to mention hitting Cai Shan, not even Jiang Xinzhou, but those few fireballs that hit the top of Cai Mountain still caused chaos.

A fireball fell on the camp on the top of the mountain, killing several people on the spot, and the sputtered fire oil ignited more than ten people, and the fireball rolled to the side on the ground, rolling all the way and burning all the way, and a few people couldn't dodge and were lit by it, turning into a burning man howling 'run for their lives'.

In order to avoid these burning men, the soldiers of the Chen army, who were originally ready, were in a mess, and at this moment, a Zhou army trimaran ship rushed to the beach, and the tall mast like a ladder was just close to the top of the mountain.

With a snap, the top suspension bridge smashed down and landed on the edge of the mountaintop, and the soldiers of the Chen army saw the enemy soldiers rushing out, howling and rushing forward, but saw that the other party threw many small canisters on fire at him, and smashed them on his body with a "boom" and exploded, and countless burning fire oil bloomed like flowers.

In the screams of the Chen soldiers, the Zhou soldiers rushed out of the cloud ladder mast, and the first one was waiting for Chen Jun's crossbow, although he was holding a shield, but he was still pierced by the giant arrow and the shield, and fell off the cliff for the momentum, while more Zhou soldiers continued to rush forward without fear of death, waving the weapons in their hands and crashing into the crowd.

The other Chen army crossbowmen were about to shoot, but they were shot down by the Zhou army archers on the ladder, and several more trimaran boats leaned in front of the cliff of Caishan, and more Zhou troops rushed to the top of Caishan Mountain on the suspension bridge at the top of the ladder, and the sound of killing was everywhere, stirring up bursts of blood mist,

On the three-body building ship, countless Zhou army foot soldiers climbed up the ladder-shaped mast to reinforce the companions who directly attacked the top of the mountain, seeing that the Zhou army had not yet decided the victory or defeat in the water battle, and the Chen army generals could not sit still.

Many Chen warships not far from Caishan immediately approached, and the soldiers jumped on the tidal flats and went up the mountain to reinforce, while the Chen warships, which had just finished dodging the Zhou army's fireboats, rushed forward to prevent more Zhou troops from rushing to the beach and landing on Jiangxinzhou to attack Caishan.

The rhythm of the change of attack and defense was very rapid, and many Zhou ships rushed up, and their appearance was a little special, which made the Chen soldiers feel inexplicable: What kind of ship is this?