Zheng Qiu looked carefully at the surface of the water with his clairvoyant eyes, and when he found a tiny reed pole floating upright on the water surface, he couldn't help smiling, and turned his head and waved to Xu Shubao. Xu Shubao had followed Zheng Qiu for many years, and was already very familiar with Zheng Qiu's gestures. He immediately ordered the archers to get ready, and a group of sailors with fishing nets were waiting on the side of the ship.
Seeing that the reed was approaching the side of the boat, the sailors immediately cast the fishing net down, and four or five people pulled the rope at the same time, and soon there were water ghosts from the Northern Subei Army caught in the fishing net, still struggling crazily. The ready archers immediately released their arrows, and after a while, the water ghost in the fishing net was shot into a hedgehog.
The fishing net was only sprinkled once, because the water ghosts of the Black Banner Army Navy had also quietly descended from the other side.
On the seemingly calm river, soon there were places where blisters began to turn up, and then that piece of water turned red.
No one can see the fierce fighting under the water, but one can guess how tragic it is below from the blood that keeps pouring out. The middle-aged man on the east bank, known as Mr. Xishan, held up his clairvoyance for a while, and then his face changed color. He stood up abruptly, with a flash of anger in his eyes.
"What's wrong?"
Sun Yingdian asked quickly.
Mr. Xishan was obviously disdainful of this waste-like proprietor, but he covered it up very well. He shook his head slowly and said: "It's nothing, it's just that some fishermen have been lost. The Navy of the Black Banner Army looks like the Yangtze River Navy of the Sui Dynasty, but isn't this navy in the hands of Luo Tu? Do you understand it?"
Seeing Mr. Xishan's understatement, Sun Yingdian didn't take it seriously: "In this world, such things as betrayal are very common. What's so strange about following Luo Tu today and Fang Jie tomorrow? If I am stronger than the Black Banner Army Qiang, the navy may come to join me tomorrow."
When Mr. Xishan heard these words, he turned his head and looked at Sun Yingdian, with some vague and deep meaning in his eyes.
"Blow the horn, let the small boats go by, our boats are small but there are many, let the sailors climb into the big boats, and prevent the archers from shooting arrows here!"
Mr. Xishan gave an order, and the hundreds of small boats that had been docked on the east bank had been prepared for a long time and then rowed out.
The underwater battle between the water ghosts ended quickly. Although the fishermen of the Northern Jiangsu Army were good at water, their fighting skills while sleeping were far inferior to those of the Navy Division. It took no more than ten minutes from the beginning to the end. Hundreds of corpses floated on the surface of the water, and they drifted south with the river.
Judging by the attire of those people, most of them are fishermen.
The navy's water ghosts had almost no losses, which was very meaningful for improving morale, and the sailors on the big ship immediately burst into cheers.
The people watching the battle on the shore didn't know what happened, because they couldn't see clearly from a distance, but when they heard the cheers from the navy of the Black Banner Army, they also cheered.
"what happens?"
The people behind asked eagerly, for fear that they would miss some good show.
"have no idea!"
The people shouting at the front shook their heads: "Whatever, anyway, if the people on our side cheer, they must have won for a while!"
The people behind nodded their heads and followed suit.
Hundreds of small boats quickly approached the big boat. The soldiers in front of them were holding huge shields. Their task was to block the arrows from the big boat for the soldiers behind them. There were no archers on the small boats of the Subei Army. They are all selected soldiers with good martial arts skills, and their purpose is to board the ship.
When it was about 100 meters away from the big ship, the small boat in front suddenly shook violently. Although the soldiers of the Northern Jiangsu Army on the small boat were not landlubbers, they were suddenly a little unstable due to the shaking. At this moment, a man suddenly appeared in the water, grabbed the side of the boat with one hand and grabbed the ankle of a soldier from the Northern Jiangsu Army with the other, and pulled it hard. The soldier yelled and fell into the water. A moment later, someone slapped a knife on his neck The corpse slowly floated up.
The water ghosts of the Navy of the Black Banner Army swam back and forth under the boat with knives in their mouths, like sharks waiting for an opportunity to prey. The soldiers of the Northern Jiangsu Army on the small boat were terrified and put on full alert. Because they were going to fight in close quarters on a large boat, none of them carried long weapons, and they were somewhat powerless to deal with water ghosts.
Mr. Xishan's face was a little ugly. In just ten minutes, at least a dozen soldiers of the Northern Jiangsu Army on small boats were overturned and fell into the water. In an instant, the soldiers of the Northern Jiangsu Army who fell into the water were bitten to pieces.
"It's almost done, let the water ghost come back."
Zheng Qiu ordered lightly.
The horn was blown on the big ship, and the sound of the horn was remembered, and the calm on the river was restored. This shows how well-trained the water ghosts of the Black Banner Army are.
"Ballista!"
Zheng Qiu waved his hand, and the flag bearer on the mast immediately waved the flag. When the ships saw the semaphore, they turned the ballista around and adjusted their angles to point at the small boats.
As the flag of the order was waved, dozens of heavy crossbows smashed into the fleet of the Northern Subei Army like meteors. The heavy crossbow with fine steel as the front and thin iron as the feathers is so powerful that even a wooden boat can hardly resist it. Even if the small boat hit by the heavy crossbow is not pierced, the hull will shake violently.
A heavy crossbow directly shattered the huge shield at the bow of the ship. The arrows remained undiminished. After tearing the shield hand's heart, they continued to fly backwards. The soldiers of the Northern Jiangsu Army standing in a row behind were unlucky one by one. The heavy crossbow passed through the bodies of four people at once, and the wound caused by the heavy crossbow with the thickness of the forearm cannot be healed at all. Even if they did not die at the time, it would not last long.
A series of four soldiers of the Northern Jiangsu Army fell into the water, and the surface of the water was immediately stained red.
"Archer! Shoot!"
After the boats got close, the generals of each ship no longer needed to look at the semaphore on the flagship, and commanded separately. Feather arrows aimed at the small boats and shot over, as dense as a torrential rain. Although there was a huge shield in front of them, many soldiers of the Northern Subei Army were shot by arrows and fell into the water.
After losing hundreds of people, the small boat of the Northern Subei Army finally had the opportunity to approach the big ship of the Black Banner Army.
But just as they prepared the ropes and iron claws to board the ship, dozens of centipede clippers suddenly rushed out from behind the big ship. Like a monster crawling fast on the water, it slammed into the fleet of small boats in Subei fiercely.
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The centipede clipper can carry fifty sailors, and everyone can paddle. But when fighting on the surface, half of the well-trained sailors will participate in the battle, and the other half will operate the oars. On each centipede fast boat, more than 20 soldiers massacred the soldiers on the small boat of the Subei Army at a medium distance with a conveniently portable crossbow.
The Northern Subei Army had only one purpose, which was to allow soldiers to risk boarding to prevent the Black Banner Army's big ship from docking, so they didn't bring bows and arrows at all. At this time, they were simply living targets for the Black Banner Army sailors. The centipede clippers passed through the fleet of the Northern Jiangsu Army, and their crossbows fired continuously. Soldiers of the Northern Jiangsu Army fell down one after another, howling. Some fell into the water and were quickly rushed downstream by the river.
The gap in equipment, training level, and combat experience makes the battle on the water not a battle at all, but a massacre.
"Let the archers line up on the shore!"
Mr. Xishan's face was a little ugly: "We don't know anything about the Black Banner Army. We never knew that the Black Banner Army had such well-trained sailors. Now we can only wait until the Black Banner Army comes to attack. Take control. Blow the horn and bring the boat back!"
The soldiers of the Northern Subei Army hurriedly blew their horns, and the soldiers on the small boat were eager to retreat immediately. When they heard the signal, they immediately turned the bow.
At this moment, Du Dingbei, who was standing on the shore, stared coldly.
"Beat the drum, attack!"
As the drums sounded, countless centipede clippers were pushed out from the shore. The soldiers pushed the boat into the river, then ran down the river and then climbed up. Countless centipede clippers were suddenly carried out from the crowd of soldiers on the shore, as if the real countless huge centipedes had descended into the river one after another.
"not good!"
On the other side, Mr. Xishan's face changed drastically this time. He thought that the Black Banner Army would rely on those big boats to cross the river, but he didn't expect that the other side would be so cunning, hiding the centipede boat among the crowd on the bank, and only carrying it out when attacking! As the drums of the Black Banner Army sounded, one after another centipede boats entered the river, and the soldiers slid their oars at the same time, rushing towards the east bank as if flying close to the water.
At this time, the fleet of the Northern Jiangsu Army hadn't had time to retreat to the shore, and their speed was obviously much slower than that of the Centipede Clippers. They were quickly overtaken by the soldiers of the Black Banner Army after half the distance of the river. , the boats on both sides are mixed together.
"How to do how to do!"
Sun Yingdian hurriedly stood up.
"Let the archers shoot their arrows!"
Mr. Nishiyama shouted loudly.
"no!"
Sun Yingdian shouted: "My people are still there and haven't come back!"
"I can't care about that much anymore!"
Mr. Xishan gave Sun Yingdian a hard look: "Let the soldiers of the Black Banner Army stick behind our boat and come back. Once they land, the loss will be much greater than this!"
He ignored Sun Yingdian, went directly to grab the flag and waved it. Seeing the order, the archers of the Northern Jiangsu Army on the bank were obviously stunned for a moment, but they soon began to shoot arrows at the boats on the river under the command of the general.
Du Dingbei was sitting on the bow of a centipede clipper boat. When he saw that the archer had already shot his arrow, he immediately turned around and shouted: "Low down! Don't pay attention! Just go forward and row harder!"
Feathered arrows shot over like overwhelming the sky, and many soldiers were hit by arrows. Du Dingbei held up a shield to cover his half body, looking at how far he was from the shore from time to time. At this moment, he had forgotten his nervousness and his fear, and all his attention was on the enemy on the other side.
"remember!"
He turned his head and shouted loudly: "Don't rush forward when you get on the shore, and make an open space for the follow-up team to land!"
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Fang Jie watched the battle with clairvoyant eyes, and nodded: "It's quite satisfactory, and basically everything that can be done is done. It's a bit new to use a big boat to attract the enemy's attention, and use a centipede speedboat to cross the river and mix with the enemy's rout."
Wu Yidao nodded: "It's really unexpected. Zheng Qiu almost attracted the attention of the other side. The enemy's arrow array was almost set up to guard against the big ship. It was a little late to rearrange the arrow array after seeing the centipede clipper launch. A little bit, and the loss of crossing the river is minimized, this boy can be used."
On the river, Zheng Qiu saw that the team led by Du Dingbei was already rushing over, and commanded the big boat to approach the east bank.
"Don't feel sorry for Yu Jian, let me shoot the arrow pot empty!"
He drew out the horizontal knife and pointed forward and roared, and the archers on the big ship immediately poured out their feathered arrows.
the other side
Mr. Xishan took a look at the Black Flag Army fleet rushing straight towards the shore of the Chinese Army, and immediately guessed the enemy's purpose. He turned around and ordered: "Get the three hundred heavy armors ready and wait for my order at any time." ! Once the enemy troops land on the shore, I will crush them and drive them into the water!"
at this moment
In the distance, several cavalry came on horseback with anxious faces.