The attack was carefully planned, taking advantage of the only window of time when the river water surged due to the continuous rain in July. Of course, the submarine boat, a new type of vessel that had never appeared before, hid it from the enemy's eyes and ears along the way.

Driving directly into the temporary water stronghold of the Liao Navy also played a great role.

Liu Zheng was a naval expert, and his defense against enemies was ultimately limited to some known methods.

This kind of ship that was almost completely hidden under water was really beyond the scope of his imagination.

All attacks have obvious purposes and are not just random attacks on a ship.

Almost all the rudders of the ships that were attacked were destroyed, and almost all of these ships were on the periphery.

These ships, which had lost their direction or even the ability to move, lay across the waterway, blocking the intact ships inside.

Liu Zheng rushed out of the cabin in disheveled clothes. He looked at the fire shooting into the sky outside the water village, the thick smoke billowing upwards, and the violent explosions heard one after another in his ears, and his eyes could not help but burst.

"Weigh anchor and rush out!"

"Commander, there are ships blocking the waterway!" the panicked officer said in panic as he looked at the densely packed ships of various sizes around him.

"Crash it over!" Liu Zheng roared angrily: "Do you think this is all the attack? The main force of the enemy's navy must be on the way to us at this time. Every time we delay here, the danger will increase.

One more point. As long as the main battleships remain, other ships can be easily replenished. Send the order to the main battleships, break out, break out!"

Liu Zheng's flagship weighed anchor amidst his angry roar, and its four impellers spun slowly to rapidly. Its huge hull, with just one turn, directly knocked over a swordfish boat beside it. On the swordfish boat

More than a dozen sailors screamed and fell into the water. Before these people could escape, the hull of the building ship had already rolled over. The huge suction force easily sucked the fallen sailors into the belly of the ship.

Under this condition, no matter how good their water quality is, they will still be dead or alive this time.

The building boat surged forward.

Different from ordinary warships, Liu Zheng's building ship was equipped with sharp iron rams in the front, and some iron plates were also installed on the sides, which made the defense of this building ship

He has an extremely powerful advantage in close combat, but this advantage has not yet been brought into play when fighting against the enemy. However, this time he has fully demonstrated his advantage against his own family members.

A horse boat in front was desperately turning its course. The captain of the horse boat seemed to be an extremely experienced expert. As soon as the attack started, he was ready to run away. However, as a transport vessel, the hull of the horse boat was not

Xiao. As soon as the hull of the ship was knocked sideways, the three-story high-rise ship was already crashing into it like a mountain bearing down on top.

There was a clicking sound, and the sharp collision angle easily cut into the middle of the horse-drawn boat. Along with bursts of breaking sounds, the horse-drawn boat was pushed forward and moved sideways, breaking while moving, and finally

, was forcibly cut into two by the building boat.

As the building boat rushed past the broken place, the horse boat that was broken in half capsized and sank rapidly.

The horse boat is no better than the swordfish boat, with hundreds of soldiers on board.

The main warships parked in the inner perimeter followed suit, turned around, and rushed towards the outer perimeter with the greatest strength and fastest speed. However, the small and medium-sized warships blocking their channel suddenly suffered disaster.

.Except for a very small number of people who are quick to spot opportunities, have good boat handling skills, and whose boats are small enough to be able to escape through the gaps in the warships in a thrilling manner, the others are basically unable to escape their misfortune.

Another horse boat blocked Liu Zheng's path.

The building boat showed no intention of slowing down and rammed straight into the horse boat.

The people on board the ship were holding on to something to steady themselves, and they could even clearly see the desperate and angry eyes of the sailors across from them in the blazing fire.

On the horse boat, a sailor suddenly yelled. He stretched out his hand and took out a hand cannon from the belt on his waist. He lit it with the fire on the side and threw it towards Liu Zheng.

building ship.

"You son of a bitch, you're going to die together!"

People on the deck of the building panicked and fled.

At the same time that the building ship hit the horse ship, the hand cannon exploded in the air above the deck.

While the people on the horse-drawn boat were thrown away by the huge impact, some sailors on the deck of the building also fell down screaming in agony.

The ship continued to move forward.

"Fuck them!" someone yelled in the chaos.

The entire temporary camp has become a mess.

Liu Zheng realized that at such a juncture, he did not have time to organize a safe and orderly retreat for everyone. In such chaos, everyone would naturally have a desire to survive. As a result, everyone wanted to escape.

None can escape.

Cutting off his tail to survive was his only option.

Compared with the various auxiliary warships on the periphery, the main warship is taller and thicker. With its speed, it can knock over and push away those small boats without any problem.

As long as the main battleships still exist, given time, they can make a comeback.

It went smoothly at first, but when they were about to protrude, these main warships abandoned their comrades, disregarded their comrades' lives and even used them as support, which finally aroused everyone's anger.

When these main warships rushed over, the soldiers on board threw hand cannons and fired crossbow arrows at them. Some horse boats even set up oak cannons and opened fire at these large ships.

When Liu Zheng finally rushed out, the entire battleship was also covered in scars. The sailors on the deck were even more dead and wounded. Many of the other main battleships that rushed out after him were even more unbearable.

Some were even crooked, and some even ignited fires. If the main sail was burned, Liu Zheng didn't think they would be able to escape the subsequent pursuit of the Song Navy.

"Go, go!" Amidst the sound of drums and trumpets, dozens of main warships rushed out with Liu Zheng's flagship as their guide, and fled in panic. In the temporary camp, some small boats or ships that were lucky enough to escape also followed them desperately.

Behind him, he rowed the boat with all his strength in the darkness.

Although the water surface is wide, not everyone has a suitable place for boating. In the night, there are sounds of banging and banging from time to time, which means that a ship has run aground.

When the Bi Fang arrived here, the raging firelight reflected the chaos here. Jiang Xiong didn't even take a second look here, and immediately led his first fleet to move forward. He was going to pursue the fleeing Liu Zheng.

The battle on the Han River allowed Liu Zheng to escape. In a few years, this guy built a fleet of this size and competed with him in the Jianghuai waters for more than half a year. This time, he wanted this troublemaker to escape again.

If so, God knows what troubles he will make in the future.

For this battle, Jiang Xiong brought over four big warships: Bi Fang, Chong Ming Niao, San Zu Wu and Bi Yi Niao. Only in such a flood season can these four large warships sail into such a place.

He must withdraw these four large warships before the end of the flood season. Otherwise, once the water recedes, the river will become shallower and narrower. Not only will large warships such as the Bi Fang and the Chongming Bird lose any advantage, but they will also

It will become a living target for small warships.

This time, in order to hide the enemy's spies, the two fleets, the Chongmingniao and the Sanzuwu, were loitering in other places. Only the Bifang and the Biyiniao participated in this battle.

If we put aside the two battleships Bifang and Bijiniao, the other battleships do not have many advantages compared to the Liao Navy. However, the train runs fast, all because of the headband, Bifang and Bijiniao

Heavy artillery was installed on the bow and stern of the ship, and a total of sixteen artillery pieces were deployed on the two warships on the three decks.

As for the Liao Navy, even Liu Zheng's flagship was only equipped with oak cannons. The two were not on the same level at all.

The Bifang left directly, but the Biwing Fleet stayed behind.

Looking at the chaos in front of him, Ye Tao, the captain of the battleship Biyiniao, gave an order, and half of the artillery fired a salvo. A struggling horse-drawn boat that had just sailed out slowly sank in the light of the sky.

As the Bifang moved forward, the faint firelight of the enemy ships in front was their guiding light.

As the sky grew brighter, Liu Zheng desperately discovered that the enemy's warships were getting closer and closer to them.

The Liao troops stationed on both sides of the strait gathered on the shore, but they could only watch silently the fleets chasing each other on the wide river. They were powerless to fight on the water, especially when one of the Song Navy warships was in

At a turning point, after giving them a shot with the main gun on the bow of the ship, the Liao troops on both sides of the strait even retreated further.

If Liu Zheng desperately docked, he could of course escape with his life and survive, but he was unwilling to abandon the battleship. Without the battleship, he was nothing to the Liao people.

And if he loses this fleet and the Song navy no longer has any restraint, then the Liao army that is besieging Xuzhou will be in danger.

If this was the case, even if he escaped from Jiang Xiong's hands, Yeluzhen would probably chop him up inch by inch.

He didn't want to be like Cui Ang, who ended up being turned into a pile of minced meat and died miserably.

Liu Zheng didn't want to escape like this, but it didn't mean that the other ships thought the same way. They didn't want to die here, let alone become food for fish and shrimp.

After discovering that its speed could not be compared with that of the Song Navy and that it would only be a matter of time before it was overtaken, one of the warships immediately turned its rudder and sailed towards the shore.

There were Liao troops on the shore, but they didn't want to believe that the Song navy could still chase them ashore.

But they ignored one thing, that is, the water on the shore seemed to be surging, but in fact the water was not deep. After their warship walked for a while, with the sound of the bottom of the ship touching the ground, no matter how hard the sailors tried,

The ship couldn't move any further.

The sailors on the ship only hesitated for a moment, then immediately jumped off the warship and swam desperately toward the shore.

The navy of the Song Army, which came from behind, did not let go of these empty ships.

Several cannons on the flanks fired a single volley, smashing the stranded Liao warship into pieces. They didn't care about the sailors who jumped into the water and escaped.

Without ships, what role can these sailors play?

More and more ships were sailing to the shore. With the ship destroyed and no one alive, everyone unanimously chose to abandon the ship.

Liu Zheng became a loner.

Only one of his battleships was left, still trying to escape.

It's just that the speed is getting slower and slower.

The sailors on this ship are all his close relatives and veterans who have been with him for many years. Most of them have the surname Liu.

It's just that no matter how loyal they are, they can't overcome the gap in strength.

Although the battleship of the Bi Fang was larger than his, it had half as many propellers and half as many sailors. Under the current situation of going downstream with a favorable wind, they could not escape even if they had three heads and six arms.

Liu Zheng called his son Liu Gang, pointed to a small boat hanging beside the boat, and said: "Put down the boat and run away!"

"Dad, let's live together and die together!" Liu Gang shouted with red eyes.

"It's not necessary!" Liu Zheng shook his head and said, "But after you escape, don't go back to Liaoying or go home. Find a place where no one knows you and hide your name."

"I don't!" Liu Gang shook his head.

"Leave a root for the Liu family. I failed. No matter the Liao people or the Song people, they will not let go of our Liu family. The old Liu family must keep people who burn paper! The rich and the second nobles will lead

Young master, let's go!" Liu Zheng slashed Liu Gang's neck with his palm. Liu Gang's vision went dark and he slowly fell to the ground.

Two barefoot veterans ran over, and one of them picked up Liu Gang.

"Take him away!" Liu Zheng waved his hand.

The boat was put down, and Liu Gang lay in the cabin. The two veterans paddled hard towards a branch of the river not far away. Liu Zheng, on the other hand, commanded his flagship to turn on the river.

He made a big turn and stopped escaping. Instead, he faced the Bifang and drove at full speed.

On the Bi Fang, Jiang Xiong laughed loudly: "Old thief Liu Zheng, I will show you today who is the real number one in the river!"

Yeluzhen was riding on her horse, looking at the majestic Xuzhou City in the distance.

It was midday, and in the city of Xuzhou, smoke from cooking stoves rose up into the night sky. After flying to a certain height, the smoke finally gathered together, like a cloud, and slowly flew into the distance.

Just a quarter of an hour ago, Yeluzhen received the news that the entire naval force was destroyed and Liu Zheng was killed in battle.

The navy's complete failure gave him another hard kick in the butt, which was already on the edge of the cliff.

There is not much time left for yourself.

Presumably at this time, the Song people's reserve team was already getting ready. They gathered at the dock, waiting for their fleet to load them, and then passed through these crisscrossing waterways to reach the rear of the Liao army and cut off the Liao army.

return route and cut off the Liao army's food route.

Maybe it will be seven or eight days, maybe it will be three or five days. If I still can't take Xuzhou City, then I can only issue an order to retreat across the board.

The southern expedition failed.
Chapter completed!