"Shoot the arrow!"

With more than a hundred and ten steps apart, the Song army warships issued the order first. Suddenly, thick crossbow arrows shot directly at the Red Dragon Boat, and Ruan Xiaoqi's ears immediately sounded a series of gold and iron clashes, the sound of the wooden hull breaking, and the screams of the sailors.

Many of the Tengzhu around the guardrail of the helm were shot and destroyed.

The Red Dragon Boat, which was leading the way, continued to move forward. For an eight-meter-long warship, crossbow arrows would not cost its life. What's more, the red dragon boat was surrounded by three layers of fish-scale-like vines, just like the Teng bamboo at the helm. This was the idea that Lu Qian came up with to make a protective belt with the fabricated rattan and bamboo. He thought it would be safer to hang the warship one circle, just like the outer periphery of small ships in later generations always had a circle of tires.

It can not only withstand crossbows and stones, but also withstand impacts. As for fire prevention, just cover it with a layer of raw skin. At worst, can you apply a layer of mud before the war begins?

The distance between the two sides was rapidly shortening. A cloud of fire attacked the Red Dragon Ship, which was leading the way. A large number of rockets drew a fire on the sky above the water and fell.

Only the sound of "cracking" was heard constantly, most of the arrows were intercepted by the iron plate of arrows, and a few arrows fell on people, but only a few screams sounded. More than a dozen people were shot, but most of them were wearing armor, whether it was leather armor, rattan armor or paper armor.

Ruan Xiaoqi was always standing at the bow of the ship, screaming, telling him not to even turn his head and take a look, just like the crossbow arrow just now attacking.

It was not until the warships were closer to each other that Ruan Xiaoqi shouted, and thick crossbow arrows shot out from the Liangshan Navy warship. The target shot directly at the opponent's crossbow, but few people made achievements. The quality of the Song army warships was not bad, and their solid defense was much stronger than the moral integrity of the literati and doctors. When the warships were interlaced, Ruan Xiaoqi didn't need to give an order. The warships of the two armies were fired volleys.

For a time, flames rush. Rockets can naturally burn the enemy's warships, but in today's weather with only breezes, it's really too much to expect the rockets to burn enemy ships.

But before the last moment of fighting each other, no one could use such desperate tricks as jumping gang war.

Twenty warships in the front battalion passed through the weak interception between the Jinling Navy battleships of the Song army, and then rushed straight towards the Jinling Navy troops without looking back.

This kind of indomitable momentum is called Liu Menglong on the Jinling Navy's ship, and his expression changes.

The courage to fight is also the war. The war lies in one momentum, especially the water battle. At that moment, we must put two fleets on the top and fight to the death. We must stop the warships that are rushing to the thief army.

During the fierce battle between the two sides, Ruan Xiaoqi and Zhang Shun's ships caught fire one after another, and flames rose.

Ruan Xiaoqi stood at the bow of the ship. Although the arrows and crossbows were flying around, he was unmoved. He just asked the soldiers to put out the fire, and ordered the sailors below to continue paddling forward, asking the bomb droppers to fight back, and crashed into the depths of the Jinling Navy, killing the water and fire, and blood stained the blue waves.

The Jinling Navy had more troops than the Liangshan Navy, and the number of warships was also taught that the Liangshan Navy was more powerful. In terms of strength, it was more than one better than the Liangshan Army.

However, Liangshanbo has won many battles in recent years. Even though it was an infantry army, he still called himself the navy as proud, and his bones had long condensed a spirit of victory in every battle. Moreover, this was the first battle of the navy in years. You must know how many people have been looking forward to this battle for how long.

The Liangshan Army was very calm and there were no major disputes, not as "thrilling" as the Japanese Navy and Army in World War II. But if you want to say that there was no dispute between the navy and the infantry, it was lies.

In the past, the navy was always teased by the infantry and cavalry of the Land Division, or a kind-hearted run. Although it was a joke, many soldiers in the navy secretly breathed a sigh of relief. Now, in a battle, they called themselves to dare to fight, fight to the death, and enjoy fighting.

Not to mention the significance of this battle, the Xuanzhengsi Department has already preached many times, saying that the Liangshan Army is united.

One ship has many soldiers, and one soldier dares to fight. When Ruan Xiaoer saw Ruan Xiaoqi's front battalion shocking the main force of the Jinling Navy, he immediately led the warships and rushed straight away. The two armies had their own support and fought to the death.

If the Liangshan Army dares to fight and enjoy fighting, Liu Menglong is not a waste of time here.

Liu Menglong is not ordinary if he can sit at the commander of the naval army in Jiankang Prefecture, Jinling, Jiangnan. Not to mention his strange phenomena when he was born, it is mostly empty. Just seeing him doing his best to fight against thieves in Xichuan Xiajiang can make people look up to him.

The Xiajiang River is not Xiajiang County, Jiangxi, but refers to the upper reaches of the Yangtze River above Kuizhou. In the Northern Song Dynasty, who dares to say that the officer who could fight against bandits in the upper reaches of the Yangtze River was not a general?

But compared with the million-dollar army of the Zhao family, the ceiling of the navy is really lower. Liu Menglong has reached the ceiling when he has achieved his current position. It is necessary for him to have great contributions, so he will be like this in his life.

Before Liu Menglong could accept his old age, he was helpless in hiding, but now he clearly saw the opportunity. If he didn't fight for it with all his might, he wouldn't be Liu Menglong.

——As long as he crosses Liangshanpo, he can become the commander of the land and land military commander of the mansion.

In ancient Chinese troops, whether they can fight, whether they dare to fight or not, depends on the generals of this army. If they were escaping generals like Liu Guangshi, the Yue family army on the Great Wall would be led by him to turn into a scud like the wind. Liu Menglong was trained in the Xichuan Xiajiang River, and his personality was determined to be firm and he was even more persevering in combat.

In the original work, he was plotted by Liang Shanbo, suffered from the loss of unfamiliar geography, and also suffered from Gongsun Sheng's magic. Of course, he himself was also responsible. But what about now? The Liangshan army took the initiative to kill, and the two armies were in a head-on confrontation.

This happened to show the leadership of the Navy of the Official Army.

From the morning of Si and hour to the second hour of Shen and hour of Shen, the shouts of killing were shaking the sky, and the continuous screams of tragic sounds rippled on the waters. Looking at the waters outside Shigou Town, there were floating and unsinkable ships floating and dead bodies, and the moors for several miles were dyed red.

As the battle was fought, the Liangshan Army, which had arson bombs, still had the upper hand.

Because most of the warships of each other are small, there are very few slap rods and some crossbows, but their firing speed is too slow. In a word, both of them lack sharp means to effectively kill each other's warships.

In this case, compared with the Jinling Navy, which is already a rocket, fire tank, impact and jump gang battle, although the types of Liangshan Army are no different from that, they actually have arson bomb with stronger arson ability, which is like an ant hole on the Qianli Dike. It was not conspicuous at first, but as time passed, it showed its effectiveness.

Not to mention that the Liangshan Navy's warship had prepared sand and dilute mud on it, which was specially used to deal with fire pots. It cannot be said that this can be called fire pots completely. The power of the rockets is lost, but this increase and decrease accumulates into a small amount. The final result is that many warships on Liangshanpo are injured but not destroyed, but many warships on Jinling Navy were burned to ashes by the fire.

"General, the battle is fierce, please let the general back the ship." Several times, the Liangshanpo warships rushed to Liu Menglong's ship, and the flying arrows fell on the ship from time to time. Seeing this, Zhang Gongyu, the commander of the Jiankang Prefecture of Jinling, could not help but change his color. He immediately advised Liu Menglong not to take risks personally, but to retreat to the distance to watch the battle.

Liu Menglong naturally didn't want to take a look at the locust, but he was silent at this time.

Now that the fierce battle is on the ranks, the bandits seem to have the upper hand. Once their ship retreats, there will be a disaster.

Liu Menglong immediately refused: "The soldiers are fighting to the death. How can I retreat and send orders to the troops to fight bravely to kill the thieves."

At this moment, Liu Menglong's ship suddenly shook, and he almost fell down when he watched the formation on the helm tower, but two thick crossbow arrows were hit by the guardrail of the helm tower, tearing the long sign blocking there so much.

Liu Menglong looked at the crossbow arrows and saw a red warship still burning with flames pounced towards him. The force of his force made him frown.

Liu Menglong believed that he was like this warship. The ships in the rivers and lakes were actually the front and tail of the sea ship. This was the first time he had seen such a ship in the rivers and lakes, which made him deeply remembered.

In today's water battle, there were three warships in the Liangshan bandit array, each of which was wearing the name Ruan flag. It is reported that the chief leader of the Liangshan bandits was three powerful thieves surnamed Ruan. They were from Shijie Village on the edge of Shijie Lake. They followed the thieves early and were their confidants.

There was such a warship that rushed to the front earlier today. During the battle, he wanted to attack his ship several times, without fear of bows, crossbows, fire arrows, and collisions. He was extremely brave. The other two such warships rushed towards his ship several times, but they had never succeeded and were forced back by the escort warship.

"General, the bandits are sharp, so let's avoid it for the time being!" Zhang Gongyu was Liu Menglong's confidant. When he attacked Xichuan to fight against the bandits, he followed him. Seeing this, his face changed drastically and he said.

Liu Menglong hesitated for a moment and shook his head to deny the proposal: "I just ordered the soldiers to fight to the death, so I will avoid the enemy and retreat, and the morale of the army will be in chaos. How can I destroy myself? Let me continue to ask the soldiers to prepare for the war." At this moment, Liu Menglong seemed to have returned to Xichuan at that time. At that time, he was so afraid of danger and arrows that he was able to make contributions again and again, and finally took up the position of the commander of the Jinling Navy.

After hearing this, Zhang Gongyu sighed, turned around and asked the drummer to summon the surrounding warships to come to guard, ordered the sailors to turn the wheels and raise the speed, and at the same time ordered the ship to wait for the armor and soldiers.

Reports coming from the helm and deck are constantly flowing.

At this time, Ruan Xiaoqi's eyes were wide open.

Piloting a red dragon boat was like a tiger going down the mountain, leading five or seven loach boats straight ahead of Liu Menglong's ship. It was not easy to catch Liu Menglong's ship. Not to mention the surrounding Song army guard ships, nor to mention the number of enemies and we are few, but to only talk about the speed of Liu Menglong's ship, it seemed that it was about to go far away.

The speed of the car and the boat is not weaker than that of the sailboat.

"Stop, stop, really stop. What a white strip in the waves, what a Zhang Shun."

In a daze, the Living Yama clapped his hands and shouted on the helm. However, the ten-chariot ship representing the Jinling Navy's flag was suddenly stopped in the water. Naturally, the ship was not moving at all, but compared to the previous speed, it was like a mountain pressing on it.

Of course, it was not that the water wheel of the other person's car and ship suddenly broke down at this critical moment, but that Zhang Shun led a group of masters among the sailors and secretly filled the spokes of the car with all the artifacts, causing the cyclist in the ship to trample it.

Ruan Xiaoqi took a deep breath and ordered the Red Dragon Boat to rush forward and call him to wear armor in person. It was a set of vine armor with good looks.

This is the armor commonly used by the Navy of Liangshanpo in the future. Compared with leather armor, paper armor is lighter than leather armor, so there is no need to mention iron armor. Even Zhang Shun's water-like nature is like that, and it is difficult to escape when he falls into the water with a set of thirty or forty kilograms of iron armor. The effect and disadvantages of the latter in water battles are simply 50% open.

The rattan is soaked in tung oil and woven into armor, which has strong protection against cold weapons. Compared with metal armor, it also has the advantages of light weight, not afraid of water, and strong breathability. Of course, this does not mean that the rattan armor is more awesome than the iron armor. The invulnerable vine armor only exists in the Romance of the Three Kingdoms. Here it is regarded by Lu Qian, but it is only because the rattan armor is inherently suitable for the navy. It is easy to obtain materials, and the cost of a single piece is not high.

Although there are defects of fear of fire and cold, the former can be compensated with leather.

Liangshanbo is not the poor clan villager in the southern mountains. The latter is not able to skin the vine armor, but what does this mean to Liangshanbo? Even if this is called vine armor, the cost of vine armor is much higher, but compared to orthodox leather armor, iron armor, and vine armor are still much cheaper.

Just like the rattan used by the army of the Ming and Qing dynasties in later generations, in order to enhance its fire resistance, a layer of leather is not difficult to put on.

Compared with its actual function, this defect is completely tolerant. However, defect 2 - fear of cold, is it afraid of going on? Very few people use navy fights in the northern wars.

In other words, the time for the development of the rattan armor was still short, and it was far from enough to ask all the sailors of Liangshanbo to be equipped with.

But Zhang Gongyu on Liu Menglong's boat was as angry as fire-breathing. The warship actually stopped. It was really abominable, damn.

He knew that there must be a bandit in Liangshan who were causing trouble under the water, so he called out the crossbowman and kept a close eye on the surroundings. Whenever a water ghost emerged, he would shoot and kill him.

But the plan was far from changing quickly. Just when Zhang Gongyu angrily called the crossbowman Zhang Kan on all sides, a soldier suddenly shouted in the cabin: "The bottom of the ship is leaking!" - I don't know if there are watertight compartments for the car and ship, anyway, China had already invented this kind of thing at that time.

When the water rolled into the water, Liu Menglong, who had always been calm, couldn't help but feel panic, and he felt a sense of trance after his dream was shattered. But he was the first to take off his military uniform and wear it.

When the warship was majestic, it was majestic in military uniforms; but when the warship sank, it was the culprit that killed people.
Chapter completed!