"What is that?" Among the many Muyunzhou warships at the front, many soldiers on board saw three strange and strange ships.
It's not like an ordinary warship, it's much bigger, but it's not like a tower ship either. How can a building ship be so ugly?
From a distance, it looks like a three-headed turtle.
"Shoot fire arrows!" Muyun Prefecture's generals 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 ourselves, the first thing to guard 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.
…
"Don't panic." Xu Mu said coldly. A long time of preparation, just for this moment.
"Push the heavy crossbow and open the ship's window."
The other two shield ships, watching the movements of the main ship, also opened their windows.
Each shield ship had four heavy crossbows. 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 rocking. The hole in the ship was pierced, and the river water quickly filled it. enter.
"Steady, steady!"
Many of Mu Yunzhou's generals hurriedly gave orders.
But even so, three or four ships were 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.
"Drive 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, 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 Muyunzhou soldiers who were hanging ropes quickly let go of their hands. The racket rod whizzed down and crashed towards the shield ship.
In the battle on the water, the ship turned around extremely slowly, and there were also enemy ships dragging them 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 shipwreck or loss of life. The entire shield ship was just shaking violently. Then, it became stable again.
However, the position where the racket shaft was hit still made a large dent in the covered 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 turned cold for a moment. Taking advantage of the wind, the enemy ship's speed was 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 slammed 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 and keep moving forward." Xu Mu let out a deep breath.
The three shield ships 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 right, 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 here, 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, and he didn't know what he was thinking.
He slowly raised his head and looked at the barren ridge above. The unknown Mr. Dongwu showed no signs of movement at this moment. The way he sits upright is 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 and a thousand warships, I would still be concerned. But with only one or two hundred rotten ships, what can 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 Fushan section of the river, so what kind of trick could he come up with?
Perhaps, this is the only possibility left. The No. 1 commoner in the world was already determined to die. He wanted 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 bad plan, nor is it a good plan. At most, it's...a determination to die.
At this thought, Hu Baisong's expression became calm again.
"A small boss with no foundation, and a fledgling Mr. Dongwu. There is also another one, the thief-like helmsman."
"We haven't even gathered momentum to fight a big battle. It's just 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 three thousand people and about sixty or seventy river boats, lined up in a long wall water formation, and waited quietly at the rear.
He got the news that the Xia'er Army that had previously blocked the river had been sunk. And his general Xu also rushed into the enemy's formation with three shield ships.
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 fire boats 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 accidentally capsize into the river 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 have to risk our lives to survive and catch the enemy unawares.
…
A group of waterfowl flew across the sky. Looking down, they saw an extremely unfair scene.
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.
As he got closer, 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 kerosene was being consumed rapidly, but in the end, the boat blocked in front of them was burned to the point of retreating.
Bang.
Another racket hit the iron sheet of the capsized ship. Immediately, the entire shield ship shook for an unknown number of times.
