"Fire!" With a roar, several oak cannons on the side of the ship spurted out fire, and thick smoke rose up. Some of the saury boats rushing toward them risking their lives on the water capsized, and some even though

It was still floating on the water, but the soldiers above were suffering from heavy casualties. They were still more than a hundred steps away from the enemy ship, and they had already lost their combat effectiveness.

The remaining swordfish boats that were lucky enough to escape the first round waved their paddles into the air and rowed towards the enemy ships at a faster speed. If they did not get close to the enemy ships, there would be no attack on them.

Chance.

Liu Zhengtuan was sitting on the three-story ship, watching the small warships flying past the water with a look of disdain on his face.

Liu Zheng was still unconvinced when he was defeated by Jiang Xiong on the Han River.

He didn't think that his defeat was due to his inferior skills, but that Jiang Xiong was defeated by the inferiority of his weapons.

That was the first time gunpowder weapons were used in water warfare, and it was also the first time Liu Zheng saw the power of artillery. Although it was just an oak cannon, it panicked his own soldiers who had never seen such a weapon.

His hands and feet were out of ideas, and even he himself was at a loss, which led to a devastating defeat.

A horse stumbled, and Zhuzi became famous.

Today, Jiang Xiong is actually called the number one person on the water, which is really annoying.

Now, he Liu Zheng has made a comeback.

Empress Dowager Chengtian had a keen eye for people. After her defeat, instead of punishing herself, she gave herself the greatest support. She first transferred herself to serve in the imperial court in Zhongjing, and then sent her to Qi State to train naval forces.

He worked hard for several years in order to train a strong navy that could play a greater role on the Jianghuai battlefield with dense water networks.

This time the battle of Nansi Lake is just a small test.

Nansi Hunan reaches Xuzhou in the south and Jining in the north. It has vast waters, water boats, and convenient transportation. It can transport materials from the rear to Xuzhou and other frontline confrontation locations at an extremely fast speed.

The people of the Song Dynasty recruited Zhong Wuping and his son from Weishan Lake. With the support of the Song Dynasty in recent years, Zhong Wuping and his son unified the water bandits in Nansi Lake and continuously attacked and harassed the surrounding areas of Nansi Lake, becoming the Qi State.

A serious concern.

This time, the Liao Dynasty launched a large-scale offensive. On land, it had driven away the Song army that had occupied Pei County. On the water, Liu Zheng's pro-union navy wanted to clear Nansi Lake. One of the purposes was to let the newly trained soldiers

The navy first practiced with the water bandits, and secondly, it also wanted to ensure that Nansi Lake became the water lifeline for the Liao Kingdom to attack the important town of Xuzhou next.

Transporting logistics items by water is faster than by land, and more can be transported.

The main force of Liu Zheng's navy is the flying tiger battleship, which is equipped with four wheels. Each wheel has eight blades. It is very light and agile. Each ship can carry more than 300 armored soldiers. It is also equipped with walking boats, Mengchong, loach boats, etc.

wait.

The Feihu battleship was not only equipped with oak cannons on the sides, but also mounted bronze cannons on the bow and stern. However, compared with the bronze cannons of the Song Dynasty, the bronze cannons produced by the Liao people were not of the same quality.

The barrel was often blown up, so several iron hoops were added to the outside of the gun body.

Compared with the land troops who were reluctant to use such explosive-bodied bronze cannons, Liu Zheng was willing to accept anyone who came.

The only thing that can defeat artillery is artillery.

As for the Nansi Lake Water Bandits, the main battleship is a strange-shaped multi-oared boat. It has forty oars on the bottom of the lake boat, the cover of the war boat, and the bow and stern of the sea boat. It can carry more than 200 sailors.

The rest are mostly swordfish boats with ten men rowing oars, and each boat can carry thirty to fifty warriors.

At this moment, the battle has been going on for most of the day, and the Nansihu Navy led by the Zhongs and his sons has fallen at a disadvantage. Compared with the Liao Kingdom's great efforts to build it, and with a great expert like Liu Zheng leading it, with the original Hanjiang River

The Liao Navy, with its remaining strength as the backbone, was still far inferior.

Although Zhong Wuping is now known as the official navy of the Song Dynasty, he is still a water bandit in the past. Although he is integrated, he is still not a regular army. If the fight goes smoothly, he will naturally move forward bravely, but

Once something goes wrong, the various characters who have been integrated will immediately make small plans.

That is the case right now.

Liu Zheng bit Zhong Wuping's warship.

Although Zhong Wuping's multi-oared boat was relatively fast compared to ordinary warships, it was not even a bit slower than Liu Zheng's chariots and boats.

These swordfish boats were all Zhong Wuping's direct subordinates, and they risked their lives to pounce on them just to buy Zhong Wuping time to escape.

"Crossbow!" On the vehicle and ship, the officer stared at the approaching swordfish boat that had crossed the artillery range and ordered loudly.

Rows of soldiers rushed to the side of the ship with crossbows in hand. Amidst the buzzing sound, the swordfish boats were covered by crossbow arrows. When the arrows fell, the swordfish boats almost turned into hedgehogs.

The soldiers on the boat kept falling, but two swordfish boats still came up.

Anchor hooks were thrown onto the building ship one after another. The soldiers pulled the anchor ropes and climbed up, while some others held knives and axes and violently hacked at the oars. There were still a group of people who

He stood on the boat, holding a crossbow, and fired desperately at the boat to cover those who were climbing onto the boat smoothly.

The Liao Army officer glanced over his head, and saw a crossbow arrow grazing his ear, and with a crashing sound, it was nailed to the wall of the ship behind him. He couldn't help but became furious, retracted his head, waved his hand, and struck a crossbow arrow on the ship.

The rod suddenly fell.

Amidst the roar, a swordfish boat was suddenly cut into two pieces.

On the wall of the building ship, a plank was pushed open, and spears protruded from it and stabbed outwards. Those who were climbing onto the ship were stabbed to death one by one.

In an instant, nearly a hundred people on the two swordfish boats that finally came up either fell into the water or were killed on the spot. Only a few tattered empty boats and even wooden boards were left floating on the water.

However, their sacrifice was not unworthy, because in this time, Zhong Wu Ping's multi-oared boat had already traveled far and was about to disappear from Liu Zheng's sight. He raised his head and looked at the direction of the wind.

Liu Zheng shook his head, knowing that he couldn't catch up.

"It's okay to run away!" Liu Zheng finally stood up.

"Commander, why did you run away?" The person who had been directing the battle just now was a Liao officer named Xiao Qi.

The Liao people were good at horse fighting but not familiar with water. When Liu Zheng was retraining the navy, Empress Dowager Chengtian Xiao Chuo transferred a group of Liao people to join the navy and handed it over to Liu Zheng.

In the end, less than ten of the hundreds of Liao officers were left behind, and Xiao Qi was the leader among them, and was now the captain of Liu Zheng's ship.

"Killing him has the advantages of killing him!" Liu Zheng smiled and said: "But not killing him also has the advantages of not killing."

"What's the benefit?" Xiao Qi was a little stunned.

"Although today's battle was won, it was not a complete victory. There were too many people and boats." Liu Zheng said: "They are hidden dangers. Do you know what I am most worried about? I am worried that they will just go away."

Break them into pieces, poke them here today, and pick them up there tomorrow. How can we catch them? The big troops are dispatched. If they just drill into that small ditch, can we find them? If it's less, maybe they will.

Come back and bite us."

Xiao Qi pondered for a moment, then suddenly understood, and said: "If Zhong Wupian is still here, he might be able to gather these scattered guys again. Then we only need to find their lair and we can hit them hard again."

They are just the commander, Zhong Wuping suffered a loss this time, I'm afraid that even if he gathers his troops again, he won't confront us head-on, right?"

"Didn't you see this battle today?" Liu Zheng said.

"What do you see?"

"Among Zhong Wuping's subordinates, some are loyal to him even if they die, but there are others who have no choice but to follow him because his power has soared in the past two years, so we are still at a stalemate today.

At that time, some water bandits did not work hard, and finally ran away first."

"What does the commander mean by inciting some of these people to rebel?"

"With our current momentum in Daliao, this shouldn't be too difficult, right?" Liu Zheng said. "When these people are gathered again by Zhong Wuping, does Zhong Wuping still have secrets for us?

When the time comes, we will strike again and capture him in one fell swoop. At that time, Nansi Lake will truly belong to us!"

"The commander let him go on purpose, right?"

"That's not true!" Liu Zheng shook his head: "Zhong Wuping still has a few moments left, and I really want to kill him. Xiao Qi sent an order to the entire army to rush to Weishan and raid Zhong Wuping's lair.

He has been operating there for many years, so he will never be poor. The brothers have been working hard with me for several years. All the gains this time will be shared with the brothers."

"Thank you, Commander!" Xiao Qi was overjoyed and turned around and ran away.

A moment later, the horn sounded, and the Liao navy navy began to converge on Liu Zheng's boat from all directions, and then sailed all the way towards Weishan.

On the third day after the Weishan Lake Water Battle, in Zhaoshan Lake, a small boat lightly split the blue waves and sailed into a secret waterway. After going forward, after twists and turns, a water village suddenly appeared on the boat.

In everyone's sight.

"Ambassador Liu, this is the water village we built in Zhaoshan Lake. Compared with Weishan Dazhai, it is much shabby." Zhong Gui looked sad, "We lost so much in the battle at Weishan Lake.

Unfortunately, it was too fast. The Liu thief took advantage of the victory and marched directly into Weishan. Of the tens of thousands of family members in our Weishan village, less than 30% were able to evacuate. The rest were killed by the Liu thief."

Liu Fengkui's face was also very heavy. He really didn't expect that the Zhongs and his son would be defeated so quickly and so miserably. This was a team with hundreds of large and small warships and four to five thousand sailors!

"Is this water village safe?"

"Safe." Zhong Gui said: "This water village is currently only known to us people from Laowei Village. Without people from Laowei Village to lead the way, people who come in will basically go around in circles. If there is a mistake, we will be stranded. We

We are preparing to regroup here, and we are just waiting for you to send us the weapons to assist us, and then we can go and fight Liu Zheng to the death."

Liu Fengkui smiled and said, "Let's talk about it after we meet your father!"

The boat slowly docked, and Zhong Wuping, Zhong Ju and others were standing on the wooden trestle to greet it.

Liu Fengkui stood up from the boat, dusted off the snowflakes on his body, and laughed: "General Zhong, your head is now worth ten thousand guan to the Liao people! Of course, there is another reward, if you surrender

Ah, even a commanding officer cannot run away from you."

"Ambassador Liu was joking. Although Zhong Wuping came from a bad background and didn't read many books, he wouldn't be a slut for Liao dogs, right? But is my head really worth only 10,000 yuan?" Zhong Wuping

He touched his head and said, "I originally thought it would be worth at least 50,000 yuan."

"Because you lost the battle at Weishan Lake, the price dropped!" Liu Fengkui got off the boat with a smile and looked Zhong Wuping up and down: "Well, although you lost the battle, you haven't lost anyone yet, and your complexion is still there.

That's right. General Gao Da is still very worried, fearing that you will never recover!"
To be continued...