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The two fleets slowly approached the river surface, several miles apart. The two armies of Jiangxia and Jiangdong are both elite troops on the water and are good at water battles.

Almost all of them were setting up formations on the water. The Jiangdong Army used twenty warships as vanguards and prepared to rush into the heart of the enemy's position and besiege the enemy's main ship.

The Jiangxia army set up a two-wing formation, and the southern navy vividly called this formation the water scorpion formation. Chen Mi and Lou Fa each led twenty warships as left and right scorpion clamps, ten warships as scorpion tails, and Gan Ning led fifty warships as scorpion bodies.

This is a classic tactic in water battles. It has high requirements for cooperation and command. If it is slow, it will be cut off by the enemy's clamps and tails. However, once it cooperates with tacit understanding, it is very powerful.

Although Huang Gai was captured for underestimating the enemy in a battle with Cao's army, he was still a veteran of the Jiangdong Army's water battle. He had a high reputation and rich experience. He could see at a glance that the Jiangxia army had set up a water scorpion formation, which surprised him secretly.

The water scorpion formation is either easy to break or powerful. If it is a Jiang bandit and a water thief, it belongs to the former and can be broken with one blow, but the Jiangxia army will obviously not be easily broken. They have strong water combat capabilities, so they must be confident in setting up the water scorpion formation.

Xu Sheng, the deputy general next to him, whispered: "It may not be good for us to use the diamond formation. Beizhi recommends changing to the Yanxing formation."

Huang Gai shook his head, "The formation does not depend on good or bad, but on proficient course. We are not familiar with the geese formation, but will be broken by the enemy. We will use the diamond formation to concentrate on attacking the scorpion body. Once the scorpion body is broken, the tail of the clamp will be destroyed."

"I understand."

Huang Gai immediately said to Xu Sheng: "General Ding can be a vanguard to defeat the enemy, but he is young and brave. I am worried that he will be greedy for me and make light progress. You can lead twenty ships to meet him. I will lead the main force to support both sides of the scorpion clamps for you."

"Abide by the order"

Xu Sheng got off the main ship and boarded his own warship. He waved the green battle flag and led twenty warships to follow the warship of the van Ding Feng closely.

Huang Gai shouted: "Beat the drum and attack"

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A fierce water battle broke out on the river surface. Two warships intertwined their teeth and fought in groups. Arrows on the river were like locusts and stone cannons attacked, hitting the enemy's hull, making a huge impact sound. The sails of more than a dozen warships were hit by burning sludge and burned rapidly on the river surface. Soldiers in terrified jumped into the river to survive.

During this battle, the Jiangdong Army also carried a thousand barrels of tincture oil supported by Cao's army. They also used rockets and trenchers to throw tincture oil barrels. The tincture oil from both sides turned the entire river into a sea of ​​fire, and the water war turned into a fire war.

The Jiangdong Army's tactics were very obvious. To capture the thief, first capture the king, and to enter the hinterland of the enemy, attempting to destroy the Jiangxia Army's main ship of a thousand stone. As long as the main ship is destroyed, the Jiangxia navy will be defeated.

This is also the main tactic of the Jiangdong Army for more than ten years. It became the fist of the Jiangdong Army as early as the Sun Ce era. The Jiangdong Army called it the Battle of Heart-drawing. Today, the general who was responsible for the mission of Heart-drawing is Ding Feng. Like Ling Tong, he was a desperate man in the Jiangdong Army.

Ding Feng led twenty warships into the hinterland of the Jiangxia navy. He kept releasing the warships to resist the Jiangxia warships that came from both sides, while he led five core warships to attack the largest Jiangxia main ship.

Ding Feng could see clearly that on the mast of the large ship of Thousand Stones, there were flag soldiers raising the flag to issue orders. This must be the main ship of the enemy. If they mainly occupied the main ship, they would win a great victory.

"Hang the tail sail, speed up the ship, and rush up"

Ding Fengxiang was catching a leopard, calmly and loudly ordered that his warship was a thousand stone warship, along with two sub-ships, and the warships were lined up in line, breaking through the first blockade and rushing towards Gan Ning, several miles away, on a ship.

Gan Ning stood on the bow of the boat and looked coldly at the Jiangdong warship rushing towards him. He seemed to smell the impatient breath of the enemy and wanted to destroy himself. Gan Ning sneered and immediately ordered: "Encircle this warship."

The flag soldiers on the mast waved the flags and issued an encirclement order. More than 20 warships surrounded Ding Feng's warship from one direction. Ding Feng's eyes were about to spit out fire. He had a chance to rush out of a gap before the enemy's encirclement was completed.

More than a dozen large ships were like gates that slowly closed, while Ding Feng's warship attempted to rush out before the gates closed, watching Ding Feng's warships about to seize the opportunity.

At this moment, a large ship of Thousand Stone suddenly came from the slant, crossing the Ding Feng warship. Amid the screams of exclamation, the two ships collided with each other, wood chips splashed everywhere, water splashed, and the two ships trembled violently.

Jiangxia's warship was smashed and cracked, a large amount of river water poured into the cabin, the ship began to sink rapidly, and dozens of soldiers dived in a hurry to escape. At the same time, Ding Feng's warship was also severely damaged and forced to stop.

This accident caused the warships led by Ding Feng to lose the opportunity to break out of the siege. Nearly twenty Jiangxia warships surrounded the warships. The dense rockets were shot out from all directions. Clay pots filled with tinder oil were thrown out by the catapult and smashed towards the Jiangdong army warship. The pots were shattered and the tinder oil burst out and were ignited by the rockets. The warship was soon engulfed by the fire.

"General, abandon the ship and escape"

A soldier shouted in panic. Ding Feng looked at the fire on all sides and opened his bloody mouth to him, which also aroused the wildness in Ding Feng's bones. He shot the soldier who persuaded him to jump the ship with a backhand, and shouted at the soldier: "Who dares to dive into the water and abandon the ship, killing him without mercy."

The soldiers of Jiangdong were stunned. Ding Feng looked around and saw a Jiangxia warship on the left. He was less than fifty steps away from them. He pointed to the Jiangxia warship and ordered the shipman to say, "Turn, approach that warship."

The Jiangdong warship, burned by the fire, slowly turned around and rowed along the water flow to the front left, slowly approaching the Jiangxia warship. Ding Feng held a gun in his right hand and a shield in his left hand, leading the soldiers to lie on the side of the ship. The dense rockets passed by their heads, and the masts were creaking, and they were about to fall.

Just as the enemy ship was about to meet, Ding Feng jumped up and jumped onto the Jiangxia warship. He swept his spear and knocked several Jiangxia soldiers to the ground. "Kill with me." Ding Feng yelled, and Jiangdong soldiers followed him onto the Jiangxia warship. The two sides launched a bloody battle between life and death ships on the deck.

The city of Chaisang was very quiet. The Jiangdong Army implemented martial law in the city and no one was allowed to go to the streets. A group of soldiers patrolled the streets. In addition to the patrol soldiers, there were also yamen runners with swords. They were all natives of Chaisang. Their duty was to monitor the possible civil unrest in Chaisang and use the advantages of the locals to control Chaisang for the Jiangdong Army.

The yamen runners were wearing black and red soap clothes, with long swords on their waists and five-color sticks in their hands. There were a total of 180 people, divided into six teams, and unified by the command of the county magistrate Zhu Xun.

At this time, the war was going on fiercely on the river, and teams of yamen runners were patrolling extra hard. The team of yamen runners were returning to the county yamen. Cao was the thief in charge, with a small figure and a young man on his back. This person was Liu Zheng, the leader of the Eagle Fighting Army who was placed as a yamen runner by Zhu Xun.

Not only Liu Zheng, but also ten people in this yamen runner team, all of which were Liu Zheng's subordinates. The Jiangdong Army never thought that the yamen runners patrolling the streets with them turned out to be the most elite Eagle Strike Army in Jiangxia.

Liu Zheng had already disguised himself and his face changed drastically. No one knew him as the famous eagle monkey in Jiangxia's army. As soon as Liu Zheng led his men to the steps of the county government, the county magistrate Zhu Xun hurriedly came out of the county government and waved to him, "Haoist Cao, please come here."

Zhu Xun led Liu Zheng to a secluded place, took out a volume of information and sent it to him, and whispered: "The pigeon letter my father just sent just now seems to be very urgent."

Liu Zheng opened the pigeon letter and read it. It was an order sent by military advisor Jia Xu. He nodded immediately, "Thank you, county magistrate, I understand."

He returned to the team and told everyone: "Redirect to the West City."

This yamen runner patrol team set out again and headed towards the west city

The southwest of Chaisang City is the location of Cangcheng, which is the concentration of the army's stockpiling of grain and military supplies. It covers an area of ​​more than 5 acres and has a warehouse inside. A circle of warehouse walls is built around it. The warehouse wall is slightly shorter than the city wall and is relatively thin. It is impossible to walk on it like the head of the city. However, there are five sentry towers built around, and dozens of sentries closely monitor the movements in the warehouse city.

In addition, there is a circle of Gucang River outside Cangcheng. You can only get close to the gate of Cangcheng through a suspension bridge. Gucang River is also a Caohe River. You can take a small boat to enter Cangcheng from the water gate to transport materials. This is also the characteristic of southern cities. Most freight is transported through water.

It was noon at this time, and the Jiangdong Army focused on the river outside the city. The Cangcheng was very deserted and soldiers were not inspected around. The yamen runners walked across the river outside the Cangcheng and did not stop. They continued to go south, cross a small street, and then went east, but at this moment, one person was missing in the team.

Leader Liu Zheng disappeared, and the sentry guard in Cangcheng would naturally not notice such subtle changes. No one paid attention to this. They all looked at the north of the city and were concerned about the battle on the river surface of the north of the city.

The bank of the river was full of overgrown thorn branches. At this time, Liu Zheng secretly showed his eyes from the thorn bushes. He was about to start his action. This was also his mission to sneak into Chaisang City, burning down the warehouse city and severely damaging the supplies of Jiangdong Army.

He had been waiting for the order, and just now, he finally received the order from Jia Xu, which was naturally Liu Jing's order. However, Jia Xu's order was to immediately burn down the turbid oil stored in the warehouse city. It was noon now, and it was not convenient for ten people to move at the same time, so he could only find a way to start alone.

Liu Zheng has been through Cangcheng countless times in the past ten days. He has already made a careful plan. His eyes were on the Shuimen, which would be the key to his entry into Cangcheng. Liu Zheng was not in a hurry and was waiting patiently for the opportunity.

About half an hour later, a fleet of twenty ships sailed from Caohe into the Gucang River and headed towards the Watergate. The opportunity Liu Zheng had been waiting for finally came.

This is a team of stone flat-bottom cargo ships, with Jiangdong soldiers on the ship. They approached the water gate along the narrow waterway and shouted to the water gate: "After the order of the governor of Zhou, come and get the turbulent oil and open the door quickly."
Chapter completed!