At the end of the Sui Dynasty

Chapter 823 The Might of Water Thunder
The vast river, the water is mighty, rushing eastward.In the morning of early winter, a thin layer of mist filled the surface of the river. The navy of the Qi army covered the river from the lower reaches, with flags sweeping across the sky, and the navy of the Chu army stood ready in the upper reaches. Countless warships occupied the surface of the river for ten miles, like a wall of iron and steel.

Gao Fadeng, Feng An's deputy general, pointed at the general flag on the Qi army's warship and laughed: "Who did I think it was, but it turned out to be Cui Zisheng and Cui Zijian, the defeated generals again. It seems that there is really no one in Qi. Send them again to lead the charge."

Feng Ang said calmly: "This is most likely a trick of the Qi army's arrogant soldiers. General Gao must not be careless."

Gao Fadeng put away his smile when he heard the words, but he felt a little disapproving in his heart, and cupped his hands and said, "In this case, why don't I let the general test the Qi army's reality?"

Feng An's heart moved, and he said calmly: "That's fine, General Gao, please be more careful."

Gao Fadeng immediately took the order to go. At this time, the Qi army in the lower reaches beat the war drums, and nearly a hundred warships slowly approached the upper reaches. Puff after puff of water exploded from the surface of the river.

Gao Fadeng said contemptuously: "The Qi army's artillery is indeed very powerful, but the accuracy is too poor."

As a result, as soon as the words were spoken, a centipede ship next to it was hit, and only a loud bang was heard. The stern of the centipede ship was smashed to pieces by the hot iron ball, and a piece of broken wood rotated at high speed from the top of Gaofadeng's head. Flying over, the latter could even feel the airflow, so frightened that he hurriedly crouched down with his head in his arms.

Looking at the centipede boat again, the stern of the boat was completely rotten, and it was sinking rapidly. The soldiers on the boat fell into the river in embarrassment. Fortunately, the surrounding boats rescued them, otherwise they would all be buried in the river.

The Qi army's artillery continued to roar. Although the hit rate was not high, there would always be one or two hits, so the psychological deterrent to the Chu army was great. In addition to the long range, the Chu army's warships without artillery could only be beaten passively. .

Gao Fadeng didn't dare to be negligent, and immediately commanded the mother-child ship to attack. It really was a trick that was popular all over the world. Last time, the mother-child ship used fire to attack and it worked, so naturally it will continue to use it this time.

I saw hundreds of bow and mother ships crossing the line from the Chu army's fleet, rushing downstream at a very fast speed by taking advantage of the downstream.Brothers Cui Zisheng and Cui Zijian suffered from the mother-child ship last time. When they saw the other party making this move again, they immediately ordered their archers to prepare. Volley.

swoosh swish...

But seeing arrows raining down on those mother-child ships overwhelmingly, and the soldiers of the Chu army on the mother-child ships were obviously prepared. They were in groups of two, one was responsible for holding the shield, and the other was responsible for rowing the boat with all their strength, so the speed was not the slightest bit. No reduction.

Of course, under the heavy rain of arrows, nearly one-third of the mother-child ships were successfully sniped. The soldiers on the ship fell into the water with arrows, and no one lit the fire, so the mother-child ships naturally lost their threat.

In the end, two-thirds of the mother-child ship broke through the rain of arrows and sailed near the Qi army's warship. The firewood on the mother-child ship was immediately ignited, and with raging fire, they hit it like an arrow.

However, at this time, more than a dozen clipper boats of the Qi army suddenly rushed out toward those fire boats. There was clearly a long fishing net between every two clipper boats, and the big boats were caught in an instant. Some of the fireboats were caught.

Seeing this, Gao Fadeng couldn't help but change his face slightly. Obviously, the Qi army had already thought of a way to break the fire boat formation, no wonder he dared to come again.

Just when Gao Fadeng was secretly screaming, a dramatic scene happened. The fishing nets of the Qi army were actually set ablaze, and under the impact of the fire boat, the two fast boats connected by the fishing nets of the Qi army collided with each other. Together, the fire on the fishing net soon burned to the boat, and the scene was chaotic for a while.

Gao Fadeng was overjoyed, and laughed loudly: "Look, Qi's fishing nets are on fire, and the boat is also on fire!"

Feng An is also a bit funny, the generals of the Qi army were clever but were misunderstood by their cleverness. They even used fishing nets to intercept the burning boat, and the improper operation finally led to the burning of the boat. God help me!

Feng An made a decisive decision and immediately ordered all the warships to rush downstream with overwhelming momentum. This time, he wanted to completely destroy the Qi army's fleet.

Seeing the Chu army's sailors coming from the upper reaches overwhelmingly, the Cui brothers seemed to panic again. They even dropped a dozen fast boats connected by fishing nets, turned around and fled downstream, which was worse than last time. Embarrassed.

Gao Fadeng laughed loudly, waved the command flag hastily, commanded the warships under the command to speed up the pursuit, but the dozens of fast boats discarded by the Qi army lay across the river, together with those burning fireboats, formed a wall of fire, It blocked the way of the Chu army fleet.

The Chu army fleet had to go around carefully, so it wasted a lot of time. At this time, the Qi army fleet had already escaped a long way, but Feng An obviously did not intend to give up this opportunity, leading thousands of warships to continue Hunting down the river, if there is a chance, Feng An also intends to destroy the water army camp built by the Qi army in Wangjiang County downstream, once and for all.

"Hey, everyone, look, what is that?" Suddenly someone pointed to the downstream river and shouted.

Gao Fadeng stared and saw that there were indeed a lot of logs floating on the downstream river, and he didn't know where they came from, densely packed like a star dotted.

"What?" A trace of doubt flashed in Gao Fadden's eyes.

Due to the fog on the river, when everyone saw the logs on the river, they were already very close. In addition, the speed of the boat was so fast that Gao Fadeng had no time to think about it. Warships had already hit these logs.

Boom, boom, boom...

There were explosions one after another, and the warships of the Chu army hit mines bow after bow, and were blown dizzy and into a mess.Gao Fadeng turned pale with fright. He thought it was the Qi army's artillery firing, but such dense firepower didn't look like artillery. What's going on?
"No, what kind of wood are they? Be careful to avoid those woods!" Gao Fadeng finally discovered the mystery of the explosion, and warned hoarsely at the top of his lungs, but at this moment, there were waves of explosions, water jets one after another, and screams everywhere. Shouts and exclamations were in a mess, and no one listened to him at all.

"Turn around...turn around quickly!"

--boom!

Gao Fadden felt the boat shake violently, and then suddenly tilted. The people on the boat rolled all over the ground like gourds, and Gao Fadden himself was almost thrown overboard. When he took a closer look, he found a big hole in the side of the boat. The river was rushing in, and he couldn't help but frightened his complexion, and hurriedly hugged a wooden board and jumped into the river to escape for his life.

dong dong dong...

With the sound of fierce war drums, the Qi army turned around and came back from the downstream. Thousands of warships could not be seen at a glance. It was Yu Chigong who led the main force of the Qi army's navy to fight back.

Boom boom boom...

Dozens of cannons opened fire at the same time, tsk tsk, the power was like destroying the world, and the fleet of the Chu Army was blown into darkness by the mine at the moment, and it was already in a mess, densely crowded on the river. The best target, so the Qi army's artillery does not need to be aimed at all, and it will always get something if it hits it.

Boom boom boom...

Cannon fire raged, wood splattered, flesh and blood ran wild, and countless corpses floated down the river along with the broken wood of the sunken ship, like purgatory...

Veteran Feng An was not calm at the moment, he was so frightened that his heart was broken, he hurriedly ordered to turn his head and flee upstream, hey, it is easy to go down the river, but it is difficult to turn around against the current. Shelling, there is no power to fight back, let alone feel aggrieved.

When Feng An led the remaining ships back to the vicinity of the Jiujiang Water Village, there were only a thousand bows left among the thousands of warships, and two thirds of them were lost, what a tragedy.

However, the worst was yet to come. Just as Feng An was preparing to rectify the fleet to defend the entrance of Poyang Lake, the Qi army fleet led by Pei Xingyan also came down from the upstream Jiangxia County. It completely collapsed.

Seeing that the general situation was over, Feng An couldn't help sighing, abandoned the Jiujiang water village, and fled into Poyang Lake with more than a dozen remnant warships in embarrassment, joining the [-] Chu army sailors stationed in Poyang Lake.

Yu Chigong and Pei Xingyan joined forces, bit their tails and chased them into Poyang Lake. The front of the soldiers pointed directly at Yuzhang City on the west bank of Poyang Lake.

Lin Shihong was shocked to hear that Feng An was defeated, and the navy of the Qi army had already entered Poyang Lake, and immediately jumped up from the throne in shock. The civil and military affairs of the Manchu Dynasty were also completely silent, deathly silent!
"Feng An misunderstood me, Feng An misunderstood me!" Lin Shihong stamped his feet and yelled, and fell back down on the dragon chair dejectedly.

At this time, the news that the Qi army had entered Poyang Lake had already spread in Yuzhang City, and the whole city was shaken suddenly, and some people who reacted quickly had already dragged their families and escaped from the city gate, lest the flames of war would become disasters. And the pond fish.

boom……

Suddenly there was a loud bang, and black smoke billowed from the northeast corner of Yuzhang City, shaking the city walls a few times, and collapsed several nearby houses. The power was astonishing.

"What happened? Did the Qi army come here so soon?"

All of a sudden, the soldiers and civilians in the city panicked even more, and the streets were full of wolves, causing chaos.

Above the court hall, Lin Shihong and all the court officials were also panicked, the former tried to calm down and shouted: "The guards in front of the palace, hurry up and find out what happened!"

The guards in front of the hall immediately ran to check, and came back after about a stick of incense to report: "Reporting to the emperor, the loud noise just now was an explosion in the weapon field in the east of the city, and it was not the attack of the Qi army."

Lin Shihong heaved a sigh of relief when he heard the words, but immediately his face changed drastically, and he rushed to the weapon field, only to find that the weapon field had been blown into ruins. After an emergency search and rescue, all four master craftsmen were found, but died on the spot. Three of them were killed, and the remaining one had both legs broken by the blast. He was dying, and he probably couldn't survive.

Lin Shihong's heart suddenly became cold. These four are the top master craftsmen in Chu, and the gunpowder was imitated by their research. The master was unexpectedly taken over by one pot.

"Could it be that the destiny is really in Gao Qi?" Lin Shihong's complexion changed, and he looked up to the sky and sighed.

(End of this chapter)