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Chapter 263

"Boom...boom...boom..."

In the face of continuous stone bombs, giant crossbows, and arrow attacks, most of the warships of the Jingzhou Navy were damaged, and there were many casualties. Moreover, because of the lack of large-scale war equipment on board, there were really not many means that could be used to counterattack opponents, only strong bows and heavy weapons. Just a crossbow.

However, there was a distance of a hundred steps between the two sides, Liu Jing's army was occupying high above the city wall, and the Jingzhou army's generals were attacking with their backs.

In such a passive and beaten situation, Cai Mao's face was livid with anger, but he was full of helplessness.

In response, he had to send out part of his warships to approach the west bank of the Xiangshui River and attack Liu Jingjun on the city wall of Ling County at close range.

But although this method suppressed Liu Jingjun's bow and crossbow projection to a certain extent, it could not suppress large war tools such as trebuchets and bed crossbows.

But in the end, Liu Jingjun restrained himself and could no longer attack unscrupulously.

Cai Mao took the opportunity to order the Chinese army to quickly pass through Ling County. At this time, Cai He's front army had already begun to engage Liu Jingshui's forward fleet.

Compared with Liu Zhu and Wang Qiang, Liu Zong still trusts his old subordinates Chen Jin and Huang Wu more. The younger brother Liu Cheng is in charge of the rear.

The vanguards of the two fleets collided with each other after making some tentative attempts with light boats and walks.

"put……"

Liu Jingshui's warships had huge poles with a length of four or five feet, carrying huge boulders and slamming at the enemy ships.However, during the last year's battle, the pole was broken and everything was invincible, but this time it failed to achieve the desired effect.

Most of the more than ten poles were blocked by the forked crossbar on the bow of the enemy ship. Not only did they fail to hit the enemy ship, but because the point of force fell on the wooden poles, most of the poles broke.

The officers and men of the Jingzhou navy were very frightened at first. After all, although most of them had never seen the power of the pole-shooting with their own eyes, the reason why the hundreds of ships and thousands of soldiers at the front of the Jingzhou navy were wiped out last year was all due to the force of the pole-shooting. Therefore, how can they not be afraid in their hearts?

Seeing that shooting poles can't do any harm, the morale of the Jingzhou navy officers and men was immediately boosted. The only thing they were afraid of was shooting poles. Now that shooting poles has no effect, what more worries do they have?They are not afraid of Liu Jingshui's army in the battle with real swords and guns.

However, Liu Jing’s sailors turned pale with fright. Because of the brilliant achievements made by patting poles, all the sailors, from Liu Zong down to the soldiers, had an almost blind confidence in patting poles, thinking that they had patting poles. The Jingzhou navy is like the meat on the floor, allowing it to be slaughtered.Reality gave them a blow to the head.

In fact, Liu Zong had noticed the Changqi wood installed on the bow of the Jingzhou Navy's ship before. Although he had some guesses in his heart, he didn't pay attention to it.

"kill……"

Seeing that the morale was available, some generals of the Jingzhou navy immediately led their soldiers all the way to the enemy ship, and fought fiercely with Liu Jingjun.

Seeing the miraculous effect of the Changqi wood he made, Cai Mao couldn't help being overjoyed, and immediately ordered the whole army to speed up and join the former army as soon as possible to attack Liu Jingshui's army.

The generals of Liu Jingshui's army panicked at the beginning. Facing the enemy's onslaught, several ships changed hands one after another. Fortunately, Chen Jin and Huang Wu were both courageous and courageous.

Re-stabilizing the ground, Liu Jingshui's soldiers quickly discovered that Changqi wood is not omnipotent. First of all, it is wood, and if it is hit by a boulder from a pole, it will immediately be shattered.Secondly, it is only installed on the bow, and the sides and rear of the ship are not protected by long wood.

One's own side can start from this point. Moreover, one's own building ships and some large fighting ships have clapping poles not only on the bow, but also on both sides. As long as they rush into the enemy group, they can clap left and right, and fully exert the powerful power of the clapping pole.

After figuring this out, Chen Jin and Huang Wu made an appointment, each led a few large ships, and rushed into the densely packed enemy ships.

"Boom...boom...boom..."

The reels at both ends of each ship turned sharply, the poles lost their restraint, and fell at an extremely fast speed. As long as the enemy ship's buildings, decks, and ship sides were hit by boulders, they would immediately be reduced to ruins.People are even more helpless when facing the pole. It is lucky to be directly shot to death, but they are afraid that they will not die if they are shot, and they will not be able to survive or die.

Wang Qiang is on the left wing of the whole army. From the moment of the battle, he has been paying close attention to the battle situation ahead. When he received the information from the former army, he learned that the Jingzhou navy made long Qimu to resist shooting poles. After a while, he decisively led the warships under his command to slant towards the middle.

In Liu Zong's heart, he was quite dissatisfied with Wang Qiang's self-assessment, killing first and playing later, but he also had to admit that attacking from the side can maximize the weakening of Changqimu's effect, which is indeed the best way to deal with it at present.

Liu Zongqiang endured his unhappiness, and ordered Liu Zhu on the right wing to cooperate with Wang Qiang, so that the left and right wings were like two large pincers to the center.

Liu Zong's pincer tactics were very successful. In the final analysis, Changqi wood is like the antlers in front of the army. Although it can play a certain protective role, it can only be used as an auxiliary on the battlefield. A sharp weapon for winning or losing a war.

Cai He's former army was besieged by Liu Jingshui's army on three sides, and they could only defend the frontal Changqimu.

At a critical juncture, Cai Mao's central army arrived on the battlefield. Taking advantage of the superiority in the number of warships, he arranged his fleets in horizontal formations, densely covering the entire river, making it impossible for Liu Jingshui's army to attack from the flanks. storm.

The warships of the Jingzhou navy had the upper hand, while the Liu Jingshui army had the pole. The two sides were roughly equal, and once again fell into a fierce fight.

The battle lasted until noon, and the Jingzhou navy took the lead in retreating. Liu Zong did not take advantage of this battle, and was unwilling to let the enemy retreat, so he chased all the way to Ling County.On the east wall of Ling County, which had been silent for a long time, stone bullets and arrows flew out of the sky again.

At the cost of the sinking of nearly ten large ships, the Jingzhou navy returned to the camp on the north bank of Leishui.

Since then, the water battle has officially ended.

More than [-] large ships such as Liu Jingjun's building ships, fighting ships, and boats were sunk and captured, and there were countless small ships.The Jingzhou navy lost more than [-] large ships, and the exchange ratio between the two sides was nearly two to one.

It seemed that Liu Jing's navy had taken advantage of this battle, but it was not. The Jingzhou navy relied on the entire Jingzhou and could receive continuous assistance from the rear.But Liu Jingshui's army can only rely on himself. Although Liu Jing has stored a batch of shipbuilding timber in Zhongshui and Pingyang Townships before, he can rush to build a batch of warships in a short time, but compared to his opponents, he is still far behind.

Moreover, only the towering boats as tall as mountains can truly display the great power of the pole. Unfortunately, the shipbuilders under Liu Jing do not have the craftsmanship to make towering boats, so they can only enlarge the size of the fighting boats as an expedient measure.

(End of this chapter)