I didn't let the king wait too long.

When the bright sunlight shone the river in a flash, the first warship appeared in his field of view. Then there was the second, the third, the hundredth, and until Wang You's field of view was filled with white sails.

At the end of the vision, the river turned a corner, and the mountains blocked his sight, making him wonder how many enemy warships there were on the other side of the mountain.

He swallowed with some difficulty, and the enemy was afraid that there were tens of thousands of people.

"Ring the war drums, prepare for battle!" He pinched his fingers in his palms, and he tried hard to retract his soul back into his body. At this moment, he could not show any timidity.

There were many enemies, but the place where they could land was the place in front of him. Looking around the heavily guarded position, he breathed a little relieved.

It's not without the power of a battle.

Dozens of warships suddenly accelerated, escaped from the huge fleet, and went upstream along the river. Above the warship, Li Hao raised the monocular lens in his hand and carefully observed the enemy's defense at the scheduled landing site.

As a veteran, he still highly appreciates his opponent's arrangement. It can be said that if he follows the usual playing style in the past, he is afraid that his side will pay a huge price on the beachhead.

He looked back at the four dark cannons on the side.

But now it's different.

The emergence of artillery will greatly change the way of fighting.

When Li Xiang started to organize people to develop gunpowder, they never thought that such a thing that seemed to be of no use would eventually develop such a terrifying weapon.

Thinking about the initial craze of bees, thunder fire, and the things that are nicknamed by everyone, Li Hao couldn't help but laugh.

When developing this thing, it costs money like flowing water. People died several times in the middle, and many people opposed it. But as the power became stronger, the voices of opposition gradually became smaller.

Life accidents are still happening, but the power of the explosion is getting stronger and stronger. From the initial accidents, basically the fire, to the later accidents, most of which are caused by violent explosions, the voices of opposition are basically gone.

Because everyone sees its potential power.

But the emergence of artillery still refreshed everyone's perception.

And this was still successfully developed under the leadership of the young master. With the power of this thing, this thing has the power of the present. In addition to the huge amount of money, there are really many people who die!

After touching the cold cannon body, Li Hao thought to himself.

However, all this is worthwhile. The life spent in the development process will be exchanged for more lives on the battlefield to be saved. Of course, for one's own side, there will only be greater casualties for the enemy.

"The warship is ready to shell the enemy's positions. The assault ship is ready to carry soldiers to land on the beach!" After giving this order, Li Hao glanced at an artillery officer standing beside him, and then took a step back.

Next, it depends on the ability of these professionals who work on artillery every day.

Ten warships lined up in the river, and iron anchors were thrown into the river, fixing the ships.

The artillery officer knelt on one knee on an artillery, and worked hard for a while, then stood up, slashed his right hand and said simply: "Fire the cannon!"

With a loud bang, a smog of smoke rose up on the deck, and the entire ship slumped backwards, a black projectile broke out, crossed the river surface, crossed the beach, and smashed on the embankment with a loud bang. In Li Hao's telescope, he could only see the deep hole that was smashed out by the shells.

"It's approaching!" he shook his head.

This is a calibration bullet. After one round landed, all the gunners on the warship began to calibrate the elevation angle of their artillery based on the landing point of the shell.

On the dam, when the loud noise came, Wang was startled again. He watched the black projectile crossing several miles away and hit the embankment heavily. He was frightened again, but then nothing happened.

He was still in shock and immediately sent someone to dig out the black projectile deeply embedded on the embankment and send it to his eyes. Seeing the iron ball that was still bloody and burnt, the king was silent again.

If this fucking wipes and goes side by side, he will immediately lose his life.

What weapon is this and why is the range so far? He looked back at the dense trench trench behind the embankment, and suddenly had a bad premonition in his heart.

The trencher is arranged behind the embankment, and the range of the entire distance can only hit the shallow water area above the river surface, and it cannot reach the enemy warships on the river surface at all.

"Everyone be careful to avoid the enemy's attack!" Wang You's words had just fallen, and a loud rumbling sound like thunder sounded again on the surface of the river.

But this time, it was no longer a sound, but continued to ring.

Above the river, thick fog rose, so that the king could no longer see the warships.

But the trajectory of the iron ball that broke through the air was so clear.

They drew a series of red and fiery arcs in the air and fell downwards toward the embankment.

What they attacked was indeed the numerous catapults behind the embankment.

Compared with the first one that fell silently, the dozens of projectiles that flew over this time suddenly sounded violently again after they landed on the ground.

Those iron balls actually exploded.

Wherever it fell, the wooden trencher collapsed as if it was hit by a strong wind and waves, and then it burned wildly. The soldiers near the trencher were swept to the ground like they were cut leeks.

Wang You's head was blank.

After the entire embankment, everything went into chaos.

Never seen a Lingnan soldier who had attacked like this before suddenly became confused, panicked and scared.

Is this Grandpa Lei showing his soul?

The dead soldiers were everywhere, the injured soldiers screamed, and the frightened soldiers ran around. Of course, some people stood there in wood sculptures, not because these people were brave, but because they were scared to be incompetent and could not move even if they wanted to.

Unknown things are always the most terrifying.

There was still chaos on the dam, and the second round of artillery bombardment began again on the surface of the river.

Ten warships equipped with artillery lined up in a row, and every attack, forty shells flew in one go. Not every shell was a flowering bullet, and there were solid bullets inside. The main attacks of these solid bullets were those catapults.

Not far behind Wang You, Teng Jian, who was watching the battle above the Ezhou city, reacted like Wang You, at this time, as lonely and helpless as Wang You. They really couldn't think of any effective way to resist such attacks from their opponents.

After a long time, Teng Jian finally reacted.

"Come here, go and tell General Wang You immediately, withdraw and retreat to the city."

He said tremblingly.

Above the river, the third round of artillery began. This time, their target turned into a dam, with dense crossbows and Lingnan soldiers running around.

"The assault ship landed in the stall!" Li Hao issued the second order with satisfaction, and at the same time, he patted the artillery officer hard: "War a good fight, I will remember the merits after I look back!"

The artillery officer grinned.

Hundreds of small boats rowed out from behind the battleship, each of which was loaded with eight to ten soldiers, with paddles flying, and the boats rushed towards the shore like arrows off the string. In a moment, they arrived at the shallow water area. At this time, the catapults should have played a blocking role behind the dam and killed the opponent in the shallow water area in large quantities. However, now, these catapults have been blown up to a small extent. Although the remaining few are still firing hard, the sparse stone bombs are almost no threat to these ships rushing to land on the beach.

The boat sailed straight out of the water, slid forward for a long distance on the beach, and then stopped. The soldiers on the boat quickly turned over from the ship, snatched shields, spears, and swords from the ship, and quickly approached the embankment.

On the surface of the river, the artillery did not fire again, the warship slowly sailed away in the upstream direction, and a large number of merchant ships transporting soldiers replaced the warship's position and approached the river beach.

As they drove into the shallow water area, from the merchant ship, the soldiers rushed into the river, flowing with the river water, approaching the embankment.

Wang You's soldiers on the river embankment were completely in a mess at this time. Some were running, while others were still thinking of resisting. The large number of crossbowmen who were originally arranged could perform less than 20% of them at this moment, causing extremely limited damage to the Northern Tang soldiers who came to the beach. On the contrary, the caltrops they had previously arranged on the river beach played some role, causing many Northern Tang soldiers to be attacked.

But compared with the Northern Tang soldiers who came ashore, this level of killing is not worth mentioning at all.

Wang, who had returned to the soul, looked at the soldiers of the North Tang who were rushing across the river and snatching the embankment, and then looked at the soldiers of his own who were in chaos and completely lost their effective system. He sighed and turned around and left.

From the Northern Tang warships arrived at the battlefield, to the king's defeat from the embankment and fleeing back to Ezhou City, less than an hour later, the first line of defense arranged by the Southern Alliance army collapsed.

There were still many soldiers returning to the city. Apart from the dead, they fled in panic, they didn't know where to escape. The Lingnan soldiers who followed the king back to Ezhou City were still more than 3,000, but they lost all the catapults, powerful crossbows and a large number of arrows.

The soldiers of the Northern Tang Dynasty began to pack up the seized items without any haste, dismantle them one by one, and then transported them to the city of Ezhou and reassembled them. The original weapon to block the enemy has now become accomplices of the enemy.

In the evening, all the main forces of the Northern Tang Dynasty came ashore, and they also transported more than ten artillery pieces to the city of Ezhou.
Chapter completed!