Li Hongchao was surprised and excited when he received the urgent report from the vanguard fleet. Since he started patrolling along the river and concentrated the main fleet to avoid defeating each of his opponents, the Navy of the North Army stopped and rarely came out to take the initiative to challenge the bank. He did not want to attack the Wangjiangwan Navy Base rashly. Wangjiangwan is located in one of the largest tributaries of the Cangjiang River. The river surface is narrow and the water flows fast. Under such conditions, Li Hongchao did not think that Cao Xinyu would give him a chance to attack his base camp, which was thankless.

But it would be different if the other party took the initiative! Li Hongchao jumped up excitedly and ordered the main fleet to set off immediately to meet the vanguard fleet. On the Cangjiang River, he had an absolute number of ships, so the situation would be very different. I don’t know what medicine Cao Xinyu took wrong and dared to take the initiative. Don’t you know that there is a fundamental principle in water battle, that is, large ships beat small ships, and many ships beat few ships? The accidental factors of the previous two defeats were too many, and the opponent took great tricks. Now he has made all-round preparations and fights again, but it is fundamentally different from the previous few times.

Watching the ship sailing through the wind and waves, Li Hongchao was full of passion and it was time for him to take revenge. This time, Cao Xinyu wanted to learn what a real navy master is!

Since the last time I suffered a great loss, the Jingzhou Navy's ships have made many improvements to the powerful firepower of the opponent. Iron plates were installed on the side of the ship. The Jingzhou Navy, which had a very fast firing small thunderbolt cannon, could not take out the Jingzhou Navy, but could install more crossbows on the ship and equip more bows and arrows for the sailors. The Navy of the North Army seemed to be not interested in the battle of the boarding battle. This may be related to the insufficient soldiers of their naval divisions, and the battle of the boarding battle would lose a lot of combat power. They obviously could not make up for the losses of the large number of sailors. This is their biggest weakness. As long as they deal properly and they can fight against the opponent's boarding battle, the balance of victory would tilt towards them.

The crossbow arrows with dense fire speeds arranged by the opponent on the side of the ship actually have shooting intervals. Seizing this opportunity will allow you to get time for combat on the sidelines. The installed iron plates of ships can effectively protect the attack of such crossbow arrows.

In addition to trying to fight with the opponent on the water, Li Hongchao even added sharp angles to some warships. In the battle, this sharp angle of collision can penetrate deep into the opponent's hull, connecting the warships of both sides, fighting to die with the opponent, and destroy the opponent's ships.

The Navy of the North Army did not have its own shipyard. If one ship was missing, they would actually lack the combat power of one ship, but they would be different. How much they were sunk can be replenished in a very short time. The number of ships they competed for was above the absolute advantage.

With confidence in winning, Li Hongchao admired the white droplets aroused by the ship and sped all the way. There were more than ten vanguard warships, and fifty large warships here were enough for Cao Xinyu to drink a pot.

Ji Wuliang, who was the leader of the Northern Expedition Army, was extremely fierce. Although he only led ten five-masted ships at this time, he beat his opponent in a mess. At this time, the vanguard fleet of the Jingzhou Navy had already begun to flee. Although none of the ten ships sank, they were all on fire, and the smoke was pouring out the sailors on the ship ran away. Some were extinguishing the fire, and some were busy manipulating the crossbows at the stern, and shooting at the Milien Ship who were chasing him.

"Fight, fight, thunder cannon, sink it for me!" Ji Wuliang waved his sword and roared. His target was the opponent's last warship. Because the fire was too big, the ship was now far behind other ships.

Three undamaged ships lined up in a row, and the thunderbolt cannons on the ship made a roar at almost the same time. The sky was covered with stone bullets in an instant, and there was a thunderbolt sound.

In the first round, the opponent's mast was broken, and the speed of the warship, which could not rely on the wind, immediately dropped.

In the second round of strikes, a stone bullet hit the tail rudder. The unlucky warship began to whirl in the river, and the soldiers on the ship ran and shouted in despair.

This ship became the target of the Navy of the Northern Army.

When the warship began to sink slowly, sail shadows appeared far from the river surface, and Li Hongchao's naval brigade finally arrived. Seeing nine injured warships merging into the other party's brigade, Ji Wuliang sneered, "Turn the rudder, retreat, and meet with General Cao's main force. The drama is starting!"

Looking at the warships on his side that were gradually sinking not far away, and countless heads floating on the river, Li Hongchao was so angry that he suffered such a big loss under his nose.

With a gloomy face, Li Hongchao said angrily: "Mengchong ship, Chima, come forward to rescue the fallen sailors, and the main warship follows me to pursue the enemy."

More than fifty warships took Li Hongchao's warship as arrows and formed a triangular formation and advanced forward. Countless pulp leaves poked out from the cabin below the water warship. Every time they were in a row, the warships advanced a lot. The Jingzhou Navy was in a disadvantageous position, but because of the large number of ships and people, Li Hongchao still issued an order to attack.

The long array dragged out ten miles of trajectory on the river surface, and countless small Mengchong ships, Red Horse ships, and assault ships shuttled and reciprocating between the big ships, with a huge momentum.

Upstream, the Cao-character flag fluttered in the wind, with the two wings, the horse-character flag and the Ji-character flag accompanying left and right. In order to cover the horse-character flag, He Chong, who replaced the horse-character team, still raised the horse-character flag.

The two armies had almost the same formation, and they both used the most powerful main ships as arrows.

The Jingzhou Navy's ship-borne thunderbolt cannon was slow, but the range was even longer. When it was still a little far away, the thunderbolt cannon on the Jingzhou Navy's ship burst out with a huge sound. Stone bombs bounced from the ship and flew towards the Navy of the North Army.

Cao Xinyu stood on the top of the battleship in the front, leaning on a big knife in his hand, "Accelerate. Accelerate!" He ordered loudly.

The navy of the Northern Army was flowing down the river and the ship was already very fast. After Cao Xinyu issued this order, hundreds of plasters of pulp stretched out in the cabin and rowed neatly. The ship ran forward like a wild horse.

"Get close to them. Prepare for thunderbolt guns!" The flag was changed above the flagship, and more than 30 main battleships of the Navy Navy began to change their formations, from the beginning of a cone to three smaller arrows.

The stone bomb fell, and the waves soared into the sky on the river surface were not very good, but the accuracy was not good, but it was because of the large number. With the sound of dong dong, several warships were hit by several thunderbolt guns, especially Cao Xinyu's command ship in the front. Several stone bombs hit, and the three decks were immediately pierced. The stone bomb fell into the bottom cabin, and a scream sounded. It was obvious that the sailors in the bottom cabin were injured or killed.

Cao Xinyu didn't even turn around and take a look. There were special officers on the ship responsible for repairing war damages or extinguishing fires. They would report to themselves unless the warship could not save it.

"Accelerate, prepare for thunderbolt!" The dark face had no expression on it, and it was about to enter the range of its own thunderbolt. They would soon taste what intensive shooting is.

"Braised meatballs, three rounds of shooting!"

The iron bullets that were burned red were carefully clamped with large iron pliers and placed on the throwing arms. Although it was winter, these people were still roasted and their faces were red and their bodies were sweating.

"Flash!" With a command, countless red iron eggs were shots commonly known as braised meatballs by the navy of the Northern Army, and flew towards the other side.

Compared with the opponent's thunderbolt cannon, the density, accuracy and destructive power of the Navy of the Northern Army were obviously much greater.

Above the warship opposite, a raging fire ignited, and the rolling smoke rose up.

"Go forward, move forward! Get ready for the battle on the sidelines!" Cao Xinyu decided not to avoid hand-to-hand combat with his opponent this time.

"Pulifire ready!"

"Demon-subduing Crossbow, prepare to shoot!"

Above the warship, as the flag changes, a group of bed crossbows raised their heads, and the sharp linoline sounds tore through the cold wind. At almost the same time, both sides began to use bed crossbows to shoot at the same time.

Thirty warships differed twice as much in strength against more than fifty warships, but on the battlefield, it was not as obvious as the numbers. Cao Xinyu and Li Hongchao's command ships passed by dozens of meters away. The Thunderbolt Fire began to show its power, and the linoleums shot at the opponent like water. The iron plates placed on both sides of the ship gang were established this time. With the dense sound of the Dangdang, most of the shooting of the Thunderbolt Fire were blocked.

Both Cao Xinyu and Li Hongchao could clearly see each other's faces, staring at each other fiercely, wishing they could swallow the other person in one bite.

Nearly a hundred warships strangled together on the river surface more than ten miles wide. This time, the two sides adopted the most traditional naval tactics, with large ships against large ships, small ships against small ships, strangling each other and joining forces to fight.

Ji Wuliang's warship collided with an opponent's five-masted warship. The huge squeeze made the hulls of the two ships squeak, as if they could fall apart at any time. Ji Wuliang was wearing armor and pulled out his big knife with a grim smile, "Brothers, come on!"

A group of soldiers in armor poured out from the cabin. Compared with ordinary sailors, their dress was obviously different. The sailors rarely wore iron Kai, which made them very inconvenient to move on the deck, but this group of people were wearing Kai, which seemed to be specially set up for the hand-to-hand combat.

The group of people jumped onto the opposite warship like wolves and tigers, like tigers and sheep, rushing left and right, completely destroying the opponent's equipment and killing the opponent to complain.

This is a new tactic created by Cao Xinyu. Since he decided to fight with his opponent, he could only pay attention when the number of people was less than that of his opponent. He specially set up a team of good players who fought with his opponent in this way, and let the sailors who manipulated the ship and the sailors responsible for long-range strikes be liberated.
Chapter completed!