But last year, he got a way to prevent fire oil from the local population, which was to cover it with sand. After several tests, it was confirmed that this method was valid.

It was the piles of extremely cheap sand on the river beach that built Zhang Yun's courage to intercept Jiangxia's warships, but I didn't know how long the things made of sand could last.

Zhang Yun stared at the five warships and drove towards Jiangxia's navy with a winged formation. He was also a little uneasy. After all, if there was no fight in the year, would Jiangxia have a sharper weapon?

In fact, this is also the main reason why Zhang Yun decided to fight. He did not want Jiang Xia to suddenly take out weapons that he could not accept, causing him to lose.

The same is true for the Jiangxia Army. Rather than saying that a small-scale battle was a test of the Jiangxia Army, it is better to say that this is an experiment of the Jiangxia Army.

After all, the Jingzhou army is not Cao's army, but a valuable resource for Jingzhou, and Liu Jing does not want to carry out a large-scale annihilation war.

The Jiangxia warships were led by Li Jun and were distributed in a zigzag shape on the river surface, quietly waiting for the arrival of the enemy.

Li Jun held a spear weighing ten pounds in his hand. Although his martial arts skills were not very high, he was careful and did things without any leakage. He also had a strong command ability. Liu Jing brought him out this time to let him fight the first water battle of the Jiangxia army.

Li Jun knew the heavy responsibility he was shouldering, and he could only win but not lose in the first battle. Although the drums on both sides rumbled, Li Jun was extremely calm in his heart. He shouted sternly to the Bian Wangbing: "Call me in five steps"

He turned around and ordered: "Preparation of stone catapults"

Six small stone catapults on both sides of the main ship began to creak, and fire pills and fire pots were installed in the throwing pocket. The so-called fire pills are a good name. In fact, they are mixed with tincture oil and soil into a mud state to increase the viscosity of the tincture oil.

Use fashion in a pottery basin, ignite it and smash it out with a trencher, which can be stuck to the sails and the walls of the boat. This is a method that an old navy soldier thought of and is very practical.

The fire pot is a pot filled with tinder oil, thrown out with a trench machine and shattered on the opponent's deck. In recent years, Jiang Xiajun has refined a large amount of tinder oil. Their tinder oil is no longer as viscous and black as before, but is a light yellow and clear tinder oil after refining.

At this time, the gaze soldiers shouted on the mast: "General Li, the enemy's main ship has arrived five steps away."

Li Jun shouted again: "Call me two steps away"

He issued another order, "Boundman Preparation"

On the warship, there were dense sailors on both sides of the ship, holding military crossbows and staring at the approaching ship.

"General, two steps have arrived," the lookout soldiers shouted on the mast.

Li Jun had already seen it clearly that the enemy's main ship appeared on the left side, less than two steps away, while the other warship was about four steps away from the right side. It was obvious that the other party wanted to attack the warship where he was located.

The main warship in Jingzhou has drifted away from the foot, and a soldier shouted: "Cut the sails"

The sails fell quickly, in order to prevent the other party from burning the sails with tinder oil. The fire of the sails before the New Year left a profound lesson for them. When they entered the step, they had to retract the sails.

At this moment, a muffled bang sounded, and a talc shot out from the Jingzhou warship, drew an arc, fell into the water, and took the initiative. The main ship of the Jingzhou army took the lead in launching an attack, and the arrows shot like raindrops.

On the river, the main ones were bows and arrows. After more than one step apart, they officially entered the attack range. Not only were arrows like raindrops, but the stone cannons installed on the large ship also launched talcs at the same time.

This stone bullet weighs more than ten kilograms and is polished very smoothly. It can shoot more than one step away and can break the walls of enemy ships. However, to be truly destructive, it must be within sixty steps. When the Jingzhou navy snatched the stallion, it used this stone cannon.

Li Jun did not order a counterattack. His warship was gradually approaching the enemy ship. The two ships were getting closer and closer, and they were less than fifty steps apart.

At this time, with a loud bang, a talc hit the side of the ship, making a gap in the side of the ship, and wood chips splashed everywhere. A soldier behind the side of the ship could not dodge, his head was shattered by the talc and fell softly to the ground.

Then a few more sounds of collisions were heard, and the talc hit the wall of the ship. At this time, a scream came from the mast. The gazebo hiding above was shot by a runaway arrow and fell from the mast at a height of 1. He bleeded blood from the mouth and nose, and died tragically on the spot.

The Jiangxia army did not receive the order to attack and was suppressed by the enemy ship's arrows. The Jiangxia army was in a passive state for a while. Li Jun looked cold and was not moved by the decline in front of him. However, in order to avoid the main ship being attacked, another Jiangxia went up to the enemy ship on the right.

The enemy's main ship and the Jiangxia army's main ship formed a one-on-one situation. The two ships were only more than twenty steps apart. Seeing that the two ships were about to collide, the Jingzhou army's main warship was slightly biased and wanted to pass by the other side. Li Jun was waiting for this opportunity. He immediately ordered, "Start the fire mud brazier."

The soldiers lit the sludge in the basin with torches, and set up scattering machines to fire at the same time. The ignited brazier flew across the air and shot towards the main enemy ship. The soldiers of the two large ships exclaimed in surprise. The soldiers of the Jingzhou army warship also stopped shooting and looked up at the fireballs flying from the sky.

Deputy Chief Chen Shuo secretly called something wrong. They were just afraid of the other party's turmeric attack. Sure enough, he shouted urgently: "Prepare to put out the sand."

Dozens of soldiers rushed out of the cabin with sand buckets. At this time, the fire mud brazier had already landed on the ground. One fire mud brazier shot into the river, and the other two fire mud brazier hit the target accurately. One fire mud fell on the deck, and oil and mud spilled out, causing a large fire to ignite on the deck. The soldiers poured the sand on the fire, and they were in a hurry and in chaos.

Another fire mud brazier hit the wall of the ship, and the sticky mud was stuck on the wall of the ship. The fire burned the wall of the ship, and the thick smoke rolled. The ship was suddenly in chaos. Chen Shuo shouted anxiously: "Brush off the things on the wall of the ship."

More than a dozen soldiers extended a long pole cloth to the fire of the ship wall, trying to remove the oil and mud on the ship wall. At this time, Li Jun issued an order to shoot arrows. The Jiangxia army warships were fired at the enemy ships at once, and the arrows were shot at the enemy ships. More than a dozen soldiers holding long poles were shot by arrows and fell down from the river with screams.

Immediately afterwards, another fire brazier roared and fired, and another place on the wall of the enemy ship caught fire. As the fire pots fell on the deck one after another, the clay pots were broken and the tinder oil flowed all over the ship. The warship was already a sea of ​​fire.
Chapter completed!