While the main force of the Sui army occupied Poyang County, a Sui warship was heading towards Qikou in Qichun County, which was located on the opposite bank of Huangcheng County in Jiujiang County and would be the station of the Sui army's naval division. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

Although the strategic location of Qikou was very important, after the Sui army destroyed Du Fuwei, Lin Shihong did not dare to send troops to occupy it, lest the Sui army find an excuse to send troops to attack him.

At this time, the fleet sailing to Qikou was the main force of the Sui Army's naval division, consisting of a hundred warships, and the general of the fleet was the future protector of the naval master.

This was the first time that the Sui army had sailed into the core of Lin Shihong, just like an intruder had broken into the host's guest house, and Lai Hu'er also knew that the enemy fleet would inevitably react strongly, and they were very vigilant to watch the movement on the river to the south.

Lai Hu'er knew that there was a main force of the Chu Army's water division in Pengze County, commanded by Lan Pingwang, the second person in the Chu Army's water division.

If this naval division was not defeated, the Sui army's fleet would not be able to provide logistical support to the main force of the Sui army that had reached Poyang County, and before the expedition, Zhang Xuan had already set the logistics of the main army in Pengze County, so that Pengze County and Qikou on the opposite bank formed a situation of encircling Jiujiang County.

'Dangchang! ’

There was a crisp bell on the mast, indicating that the lookout soldiers had discovered the situation, and Laihu'er immediately looked south, and gradually, countless small black spots appeared on the river, and the Chu army sailor really appeared.

Laihu'er immediately ordered, "Go up to battle!" ”

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The two fleets approached slowly on the river, several miles apart, and both armies were elite armies on the water, extremely good at water warfare, and the Sui ships were tall and sturdy, and the soldiers were well-equipped and well-trained.

Although Lin Shihong's Chu army was inferior to the Sui army, it was numerous and experienced in water operations, and it was a water force that could not be ignored.

The dense warships of the Chu army have appeared, and they are rapidly deploying on the water, and the Chu army has as many as 250 warships, but most of them are small and medium-sized warships of about 500 stones, and they will use the wolf pack tactic, that is, concentrate ships to besiege enemy warships, destroy one warship, and then concentrate their forces against another enemy ship.

In the water battle with the Liang army last year, the Chu army used this tactic to annihilate more than seventy percent of the Chu army's warships, thus winning a complete victory.

The hundred warships of the Sui army are all warships of more than 1,000 stones, they put up a scorpion formation, Zhou Meng and Qi Liang each led 30 warships for the left and right scorpion pincers, leaving 20 worm clippers for the scorpion tail, and the Lord Hou'er led 50 warships for the scorpion body.

This is a classic tactic in water warfare, the requirements for cooperation and command are extremely high, a little slow will be cut off by the enemy, but once the tacit cooperation, but full of power.

The chief general of the Chu army is called Lan Pingwang, about fifty years old, and his father Lin Shihong was a naval captain in the Western Liang army in his early years, after the Western Liang was defeated by Yang Su, he followed Lin Shihong's father to be a water thief in the Yangtze River.

More than 20 years ago, Lin Shihong's father was beheaded by the Sui army, and he followed Lin Shihong again, making great contributions to Lin Shihong's growth into the Yangtze River water tyrant and becoming the second person in the navy.

Lan Pingwang is currently the first general of the Chu army, with a high reputation and extremely rich experience, and he saw at a glance that the Sui army had put on a scorpion formation, which made him secretly surprised in his heart.

The Scorpion Formation is either vain, easy to break, or extremely powerful, if it is an ordinary water thief who puts out this formation, it belongs to the former, and it can be broken with one blow, but the Sui Army is obviously not like this, they have a strong water battle strength, and the Scorpion Formation must be confident.

At this time, Lin Shihong's young nephew Lin Lei said in a loud voice: "The formation of the Sui army looks terrifying, but in fact, it is empty inside, I led thirty clippers into the abdomen, cut off the heart with one sword, and the enemy formation naturally collapsed. ”

"You're thinking too simply!" Lan Pingwang snorted disdainfully.

"Humph! It's not a simple try! ”

Lin Lei turned around, he jumped off a small boat, and headed for his own boat, Lan Ping looked at him and went away, and couldn't help but have a headache, this person is a thorn in the army, relying on him to be the nephew of the king, he does his own thing, and he is very brave in battle, but now he is facing the Sui army, and it will be bad to attack recklessly.

That being said, he couldn't stop Lin Lei and watched him go away.

General Li Ying said in a low voice on the side: "I'm afraid it's a bit inappropriate for us to use wolf pack tactics, so I suggest changing to the hive tactics and concentrating forces to attack one side." ”

Lan Pingwang shook his head, "The formation is not about good or bad, but about proficiency, we are not familiar with hive tactics, but will be broken by the enemy, I have used wolf pack tactics many times, with tacit understanding, in fact, Lin Lei is right, concentrate on attacking the scorpion body, once the scorpion body is broken, the pincer tail will be destroyed."

"Humble duty understood."

Lan Pingwang immediately ordered him: "Lin Lei is young and brave, I am worried that he will be greedy for merit, you can lead twenty ships to meet him, and I will lead the main force to support the scorpion pincers on both sides for you." ”

"Yes!"

Li Ying got off the main ship and got on his own warship, he waved the green battle flag and led twenty warships to follow Lin Lei's warship closely.

At this time, Lan Pingwang shouted: "Beat the drum and attack!" ”

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A fierce water battle broke out on the river, 350 warships were staggered, fighting one by one, arrows on the river were like flying locusts, stone cannons attacked, hitting the enemy fleet, making a huge crashing sound, the sails of more than a dozen warships were shot by rockets, and they burned rapidly on the river, and the terrified soldiers jumped into the river one after another to survive.

The tactics of the Sui army and the Chu army were very different, the Sui army preferred long-range combat, using bows and arrows and stone cannons to destroy the opponent's ships, even if the two sides were close, the Sui army also used the way of violent collision, using strong ships to crash into the opponent's ships, combining far and near, very orderly.

In this battle, the Sui army also carried a large number of rockets, they used rockets and trebuchets to throw, and the burning warships turned the entire river into a sea of fire, which was extremely tragic and spectacular.

However, the tactics of the Chu army are completely different, and their best skill is the wolf pack tactic, which is actually multiple ships surrounding an enemy ship, and everyone rushes on the boat to kill the enemy ship soldiers.

This is the tactic of water thieves, and it has always been a tradition of Lin Shihong's army.

At this time, a fleet of Chu ships came out from the side and quickly headed towards the middle of the Sui army's formation, and the fleet composed of these twenty warships was led by Lin Lei.

He is not only brave and ruthless, but also very stubborn, his tactics are obvious, capture the thief first capture the king, kill into the hinterland of the enemy, cut off the heart of the Sui army, that is, the main ship of 3,000 stones, as long as the main ship is destroyed, the Sui army will also be defeated.

Lin Lei led twenty warships into the hinterland of the Sui Army, and he continued to release the warships to resist the Sui warships that were killing from both sides, while he led the five core warships to the largest Sui main ship.

Lin Lei saw very clearly that on the mast of the 3,000-stone ship, there was a flag soldier raising the flag and giving orders, this must be the enemy's main ship, and if they mainly occupied this main ship, they would win a great victory.

"Hang the tail sail, speed up the fleet, rush on!"

Like a leopard hunting prey, Lin Lei was so excited that he ordered loudly, his warship was a five-hundred-stone warship, together with four auxiliary ships, and five warships lined up in a prismatic formation, and they broke through the first blockade and rushed to the enemy's main ship several miles away.

The old man stood on the bow of the ship, looking coldly at the five Chu warships rushing towards him, he seemed to smell the impatience of the enemy army, and wanted to destroy himself, Laihu'er sneered, and immediately ordered: "Destroy these five ships!" ”

The flag bearer on the mast waved the flag and gave the order to encircle, and more than 20 warships surrounded Lin Lei's five warships from three directions, Lin Lei's eyes were about to erupt with fire, and he still had a chance to rush out of a gap before the enemy encirclement was completed.

More than a dozen big ships are like slowly closing the gate, and Lin Lei's warship is trying to rush out before the gate closes, seeing that Lin Lei's warship is about to seize the opportunity, at this moment, a two-thousand-stone ship suddenly sailed from the oblique thorn, the front end of the big ship is wrapped with a huge pig iron ramming angle, in an exclamation, the two ships collided, sawdust splashed, water sprayed, and the two ships shook violently.

Lin Lei's warship was broken into two sections, a large amount of river water poured into the cabin, the ship began to sink rapidly, Lin Lei and dozens of soldiers jumped into the water in a hurry to escape, at the same time, another 500 stone warship quickly rescued Lin Lei, and the rest of the ships were forced to stop.

Nearly 20 Sui warships surrounded the four warships, dense rockets shot out from all directions, and stone bombs weighing more than 20 catties were thrown by trebuchets and smashed into the four Chu warships, the hull was shattered, the river water poured in, and two were ignited by rockets, and the warships were quickly engulfed in flames.

"General, abandon ship and escape!"

A soldier was so anxious that he shouted loudly, Lin Lei looked at the fire burning the ship on all sides, like a demonic fire opened his bloody mouth to him, and also aroused the wildness in Lin Lei's bones, he stabbed to death the soldier who persuaded him to jump ship with a backhand, and shouted to a hundred soldiers: "Whoever dares to jump into the water and abandon the ship will be killed!" ”

More than fifty Chu soldiers were suppressed, Lin Lei looked around, he saw a Sui warship on the left, less than fifty steps away from them, he pointed to the Sui warship and ordered the boatmen, "Turn around, get close to that warship!" ”

The Chu warship that was burned by the fire slowly turned around, rowed along the water to the left front, and slowly approached the Sui warship, Lin Lei held a gun in his right hand and a shield in his left, leading the soldiers to lie on the side of the ship, and the dense rockets passed over their heads, and the mast burned so creaky that it was about to capsize.

Just when he was about to collide with the enemy ships, Lin Lei jumped up, jumped onto the Sui warship, swept with his spear, and knocked several Sui soldiers to the ground, "Kill with me!" Lin Lei roared, and dozens of Chu soldiers followed him and rushed onto the Sui warship, and the two sides launched a bloody battle of life and death on the deck. (To be continued.) )