The group drove the war horses to the heights. The road gradually became rugged and it was no longer suitable for horses to reach the top. Everyone abandoned the horses and climbed up with their hands and feet. Fortunately, these horses were all war horses. When the owner left, they would not run around, but stopped on their own and ate the grass.

Everyone climbed up to the top of a cliff panting. Looking around, they could see the vast Yangtze River.

Upstream, warships of all sizes, large and small, with Tang Dynasty flags hanging across the sky and the sun were covered. There were hundreds of warships, with drums rumbling and deafening. Looking downstream, the Liang army's naval warships were also clearly visible, and the number was so large that they were not under the Tang warships.

The Tang army went downstream, but at this time, the Liang Navy, who came downstream, was walking along the wind, although the sails were full of wind, and even though they went upstream, their speed was not inferior to that of the Tang warships.

"Brother Liu, you are an experienced veteran. How many% do you think the two sides will lose in this battle?" Zheng Shifu occupied the best position, and then turned to ask Liu Santong.

Liu Santong shook his head: "I used to take the Lu Army. I knew nothing about water combat. How can I predict it?"

"Of course, the Tang Dynasty Navy won 10%!" A soldier said with great enthusiasm.

"Brother Liu, just say whatever you want, don't you say that you will return to the simplicity of things to the extreme. Is the truth almost the same?" Zheng Shifu ignored the soldiers' boast, although he also thought so.

Liu Santong took two steps forward, looked carefully for a while before saying, "The number of five or five."

"Why is it the 55th?" Not to mention a few soldiers, even Zheng Shifu was a little dissatisfied. "Now our morale is high, but the Liang army is becoming increasingly decadent. How can the two sides share the same beauty?"

Liu Santong said lightly: "As far as I know, the combat methods of the navy and the land division are completely different. Strictly speaking, the navy is also a technical group of troops. On the water, if there is a theory that big ships eat small boats, they will naturally have some advantages. This is one of the first and second, the level of controlling the ship is also one of the factors that can determine the outcome. Morale is also one of them. The main force of the Liang army's navy is left by the navy in the pre-Tang Dynasty. You see, the main warships of the Liang army are all real warships. Although they are a little dilapidated, they still have many advantages over ordinary merchant ships."

"That's true!"

"All the navy led by Zheng Wenchang were transformed with merchant ships, and they suffered a lot of losses in this regard." Liu Santong: "But his sailors were all skilled water bandits and were constantly fighting. This is much stronger than the Liang army's navy. The other one is morale, and the morale of the Tang army is indeed very high."

"You just mentioned three factors. We have occupied two of them. Shouldn't we have a higher chance of winning?" A soldier hummed, looking at Liu Santong with a very bad look. Obviously, because Liu Santong was a general of the Liang army before, he thought that he was deliberately increasing the morale of the Liang army to attack them.

Liu Santong smiled and said, "No, on the water, the big ones always have to take advantage of it. If I guess correctly, General Zheng will definitely try his best to surround the main battleship of the Liang army, and then rely on helping to jump on the other side to fight hand-to-hand combat. This is what they like most from the water bandits. If he can complete this smoothly, the Tang army navy will naturally win easily. On the contrary, if the main battleship of the Liang army can try its best to avoid this and develop its own advantages to the extreme, then this battle will be a 55-5-5."

Zheng Shifu remained silent. His knowledge was naturally much higher than that of ordinary soldiers. Of course, he understood that Liu Santong's words were very reasonable.

"After all, it depends on the generals' on-site command. Liang Yuansheng, the commander of the Liang Army Navy, do you know how good he is?"

Liu Santong shook his head: "I heard from the old general Liu talk about this person. He is a veteran of the navy. As for how he commands the troops, I don't know, but I will see it today."

While speaking, dozens of small boats in the fleets on both sides had already left the brigade and accelerated towards the other side. However, there were no sails on the boat, and the speed of the Tang army boat upstream was much faster than that of the other side.

Halfway through the journey, some of the Tang army's ships suddenly burst into flames, clusters getting bigger and bigger. Gradually, the entire boat turned into a fireboat, flowing downstream and rushing towards the opposite side.

Just below the location where Zheng Shifu and Liu Santong stood, small ships from both sides rushed together.

"Stop the fire ship!" A Liang army naval officer stood at the bow and shouted loudly. The ship he was in suddenly rushed over. The sailors on the ship stretched out a hook and held back a fire ship coming from the opposite side. Their target was more to stop these fire ships, so as not to cause a blow to the main fleet.

However, the Tang army navy rushed over with fire ships and assault ships. When the Liang army navy began to intercept the fire ships, they were already killing towards the Liang army.

There was nothing fancy at all. The two ships collided fiercely. With the sound of a loud bang, wood chips flew, and the ship shook violently, and then retreated backwards. But immediately, they rushed up and stuck together. The sailors on the ship advanced into the spears and swords in their hands, and they had already fought together.

The ships on both sides were tangled together and fighting, and the sound of falling into the water sounded from time to time. Even if they fell into the water, the battle continued.

A Liang army captain fell into the water and sank directly. He held his breath. He looked up and looked up. His long legs were stepping on the water above his head. He suddenly reached out and grabbed the man's ankle and dragged the man to the bottom of the water. At the same time, the short knife in his other hand had already stabbed the man's calf hard.

Circles of blood rippled in front of his eyes.

Tang Jun was in pain, and his other big foot stomped on the head of Captain Liang's head. Captain Liang suddenly let go, stepped on his legs hard, and rushed up with a hula sound. The knife in his hand was penetrated hard again. When he encountered obstacles, he suddenly increased his strength.

The whole person continued to float up and he saw the face opposite him.

The face was full of fear and fear at this moment. Captain Liang Jun poked out his left hand, grabbed the other party's hair, and pressed the man hard into the water. The knife in his right hand was stabbed out again, this time, hitting the other party's neck.

After letting go of his hand, the man had already sunk.

When he poked his head out of the water again and took a deep breath of the air that was extremely precious to him, a sharp pain suddenly came from his shoulders. A scratch hook hooked his shoulders, and then he leaned back. He was dragged backwards toward the back, lying on the water surface. He could even see a fired ship not far away. A Tang army, who was on fire, was dragging him to the side of the ship with a grim smile, and beside him, a Tang army was holding a spear in his hand and stabbing him hard.

He screamed and suddenly waved his knife to the scratch hook on his shoulder. With a choke, the scratch hook pole was cut off by him, but almost at the same time, the spear in the hand of the Tang soldier who was holding a spear on the ship had already stabbed hard.

The spear entered the body, and he was pushed into the river. He abandoned the knife with both hands and held the spear head desperately. The blood expanded in circles in the water. The Tang Bing, who was on fire, jumped into the water with a loud bang.

Captain Liang Jun felt a pain under his ribs, and his eyes were getting dark. He felt that his strength was being lost in his body. He moaned and reached out to press down on his ribs, but the spear in front of his chest pierced in with a loud bang.

He sank down, only had time to take a look at the sun that was gradually turning west.

Zheng Wenchang stood on his flagship with a long knife in his hand, with a grim expression. The several main warships opposite were two of the warships under his feet, and on top of this standard warship were equipped with regular long-range strike weapons such as trenchers. Their warships transformed from merchant ships had only strong crossbows. Heavy equipment like trenchers were simply impossible to install.

"Send all ships and all powerful crossbows to aim at the opponent's main battleship, prepare to fire volleys, and use special powerful crossbows!" He shouted sternly.

The so-called special crossbow is that after the powerful crossbow is installed with a fierce ignition oil bomb, the debris generated by the explosion can kill the opponent's sailors, and can use the characteristic that fierce ignition oil is not easily extinguished to ignite the opponent's ship.

"Preparation!" Zheng Wenchang raised the big knife in his hand high.

"shoot!"

The whistling sounded, and dozens of powerful crossbows crossed the small boat that was still fighting fiercely in the middle, rowed across the sky, and flew towards the enemy warships that were pressing like mountains in the distance.

At the same time, stones bounced through the air on the large warships lined up by the opponent and smashed heavily at the Tang Army Navy.

The sound of explosion sounded.

The flames ignited on the Liang Army Navy battleship.

When the stone bomb of the Liang Army Navy fell, the Tang Army Navy warship was in a mess. A medium-sized ship was even unlucky. The stone bomb fell and smashed the rudder. The ship immediately lost control and turned into a circle in the water, crashing into other friendly ships around him, causing waves of chaos.

"Accelerate, get close to them. Change ropes and crossbows, nail their warships, and fight on the side. Each unit will kill the enemy freely!" Zheng Wenchang shouted loudly. "Turn left, turn left, avoid the front of the enemy ship."

The ships of both sides mercilessly crushed over the small boats that were fighting, and they didn't care about their own ships.

The Liang army naval commandered his ship's size and rushed forward fiercely, trying to use his size to directly sank the opponent's warship. Although the Tang army naval commander was much smaller, it was more convenient to operate. They avoided left and right, circled around the side of the Liang army naval commander, and then shot out one by one, nailed it to the opposite ship. The sailors on the ship picked up the rope of the crossbow, shouted loudly and pulled the long rope, so that the distance between the two ships was constantly approaching.

The Liang army navy waved a long sword to cut off the rope crossbow, while the crossbowmen on both ships took the opportunity to shoot the crossbow arrows in their hands, shooting the opponent's sailors exposed to the range one by one and fell into the water.

The war reached a level of heat in a very short period of time.
Chapter completed!