"What is that?" Among the many Muyunzhou warships at the front, many soldiers on board saw three strange and strange ships.
It is not like an ordinary warship, it is much larger, but it is not like a building ship either. There is no way a building ship is so ugly.
From a distance, it looks like a three-headed turtle.
"Shoot fire arrows!" The generals of Muyun Prefecture who were approaching the battle quickly shouted. The intercepting Xia'er had just retreated, but now, something like this appeared again.
The fire arrows that filled the sky were thrown forward one after another, and landed on the shield ship with only fleeting sparks.
When fighting on the river, regardless of whether we are the enemy or not, the first thing to defend against is fire attack. Therefore, as early as when he was at the shipyard, Xu Mu had the Wei family's side covered not only with iron sheets, but also with a layer of animal skins coated with mud.
So at first glance, it does look a bit ugly.
The fire arrows had no effect, and the dozens of Muyunzhou warships at the head, under the command of the captain on board, surrounded them angrily.
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"Don't panic." Xu Mu said coldly. He had been preparing for this moment for a long time.
"Push the heavy crossbow and open the ship's window."
The other two shield ships, watching the movements of the main ship, also followed suit and opened the ship's windows.
Each shield ship had four heavy crossbows, and it didn't take long before they roared and fired at the approaching enemy ships.
The iron crossbow bolts that penetrated were all pierced into the bulkhead under the hull. Not long after the attack, the first Muyunzhou warship suddenly became shaken. The hole in the ship was pierced, and the river water quickly filled it.
enter.
"Steady, steady!"
Many of Muyunzhou's generals hurriedly gave orders.
But even so, three or four ships were still sunk. The soldiers who fell into the water were stepped on the bamboo rafts by the Xiaer rebels who came to help, and they were killed with arrows and hidden weapons.
"Send the boat over and hit it with the racket!"
"See that Xu flag? That's Thief Xu's main ship."
Many vanguard warships suddenly gathered around them, and the sound of mooring breaking through the waves sounded like a cry for life.
"Throw the hook, throw the hook quickly! Hook Thief Xu's main ship!"
Two or three warships were killed, and the soldiers of Muyunzhou who were hanging the ropes quickly let go of their hands. The racket poles whizzed down and collapsed towards the shield ships.
In the battle on the water, the ships turned around extremely slowly, and there were also enemy ships holding them back with hooks. At this time, it was basically an endless boarding battle.
Whoever's boat is smashed will become a ghost in the river.
boom.
A huge racket pole hit Xu Mu's main ship heavily.
There was no scene of the ship being destroyed and no one was killed. The entire shield ship just shook violently for a while. Then, it became stable again.
However, the position where the racket shaft was hit still made a large dent in the covering iron sheet.
In the shield ship, Xu Mu shook his head and calmly looked at the approaching enemy ship through the ship window. His eyes became cold for a moment. Thanks to the wind, the enemy ship was moving too fast.
"Fight back." Xu Mu uttered two words in a deep voice.
When the dozen or so soldiers on the shield ship let go, the improved bat smashed down toward the enemy ship on the side.
Boom.
A Muyunzhou warship blocking the road was immediately smashed and sank into the river. Wood chips drifted all over the river. The enemy soldiers who fell into the water but were not dead fled in a hurry to find the direction.
Next to it, the other two shield ships did the same thing, smashing and sinking several enemy ships that were surrounding them into the river.
"Paddle, keep moving forward." Xu Mu let out a deep breath.
The three shield boats going along the river seemed to be covered in scars, but they kept moving forward bravely.
"Military advisor, what kind of ship is this?"
On the main ship in Muyunzhou, Chen Changqing frowned and looked at the rickety figure on the high platform.
"I don't know either." Hu Baisong said seriously, "Covering the ship with iron sheets and using an improved racket, if you guessed it correctly, he is indeed going to engage in a boarding battle."
"Three ships?"
"There must be an ambush."
"It's a bit unreasonable." Chen Changqing sneered, "I guess I understand what Thief Xu means. Is he trying to use these three strange ships to get in front of my main ship?"
"Second and third times, this Xu thief likes to kill the king the most and then change the situation of the battle. Come, tell the warships in front to surround me!"
The general next to him hurriedly clasped his fists and walked back.
Hu Baisong's face was slightly gloomy, he didn't know what he was thinking.
He slowly raised his head and looked at the desolate ridge above. The unknown Mr. Dongwu didn't make any movement at this moment. He was sitting upright, like a sculpture.
"Why doesn't the military advisor speak?"
"Master Hou, I just feel that something is wrong."
"What's wrong? If Thief Xu had an army of 100,000 men and a thousand warships, I would still be concerned. But with only one or two hundred rotten ships, what could he do to stop him? This time, I must surround him and kill him! Only then can he be eliminated. I hate you so much!"
"As the commander of an army, is this thief Xu a fool? He stretched him out and asked me to chop him with the knife?"
"That's true."
Hu Baisong let out a sigh of relief. There was no place to hide a boat in the river section of Fushan, so what kind of trick could he come up with?
Perhaps, this is the only possibility left. The No. 1 commoner in the world has already made up his mind to die. He wants to use three strange and thick boats to show his prestige, and then let the river boats behind him follow him to fight.
It's not a clumsy plan, nor is it a good plan. At most, it's... a determination to die.
After thinking about this, Hu Baisong's face became calm again.
"A small boss with no foundation, a fledgling Mr. Dongwu. There is also a rebel-like helmsman."
"We haven't even gathered momentum to fight a big battle. It's nothing more than a stumbling block, just kick it away."
"Haha, what the military advisor said is very nice." Chen Changqing suddenly laughed, his eyes full of greed. He couldn't wait to take this great country into his arms.
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Yu Wen led 3,000 people and about 60 or 70 river boats, lined up in a long wall water formation, and waited quietly at the rear.
He received news that the Xia'er Army's riverboats that had been intercepted previously had been sunk by seven or eighty-eight. His general Xu also rushed into the enemy's formation with three shield boats.
There are not many warships, which is the most fatal problem at the moment. Not to mention the fighting ships, there are not even the most basic fireboats and boats.
The people who built the boats were many Northern soldiers who were good at horses but not good at boats. When the wind was strong, they would occasionally tip over into the river accidentally and get up wet again.
"General Yu, the water is too deep."
"Mo Li." Yu Wen shook his head. Although the things on the boat were a little heavier, they were still useful.
If we want to win this water battle in which the enemy is strong and we are weak, we can only risk our lives and survive, to catch the enemy unawares.
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A group of waterbirds flew quickly across the sky. Looking down, they saw an extremely unfair picture.
There were about hundreds of warships surrounding the three strange ships, constantly blocking and fighting them.
"Push the oil tank!" Xu Mu said in a cold voice.
Approaching the front, the heavy crossbow lost its power. The open ship window could only push the fire-breathing oil tank forward.
Huh, huh.
It only took a moment for the four ship windows to spurt out bunches of fire. The fire oil was consumed rapidly, but in the end, the ship blocked in front of them was burned and retreated.
Bang.
Another racket hit the iron sheet of the capsized ship. When we boarded, the entire shield ship shook for an unknown number of times.