"General, find an enemy fleet ahead!" The walker who was about to arrive near the White Horse was sent back to report.

"Tell all ships to prepare for war!" Lu Xiang immediately ordered, sometimes he felt that the navy was troublesome, and communication between ships also required flag words. If it was a battle formation, only the order was sent to the soldiers, or the order was issued with the war drum.

As the flagships were tying up the flag, other ships moved closer and formed a battle formation. The outer side was a boat, that is, a light boat. Ten people were allowed to ride, which was a bit like a dragon boat and no sails. The main combat method was to jump gangs. In the middle was a small warship, with one sail, and a rock-throwing machine on the bow. Twenty to thirty people were allowed, and the means were to throw stones and bows and arrows, and the last method was to jump gangs to fight.

In the center is a large warship, one sail, and a stone thrower on the bow. Strong crossbows are arranged on both sides of the left and right sides. They rely on stone throwing and rockets to attack and set up collision angles. They can knock down ordinary small boats through impact. There are hundreds of soldiers on the boat, and they can also engage in jumping gang battles.

In other words, before the large-scale popularization of firearms, or even the main core of water wars in the late Ming Dynasty, was the jumping gang war.

Within the line of sight, I soon saw the other party, who were walking in front and medium-sized warships behind, and did not see large ships or small warships. I don’t know if it wasn’t, or if it was not arranged.

"Is this really good?" Lu Xiang smiled faintly, "If we don't fight with us now, when we go to the water village, no matter how many ships there are, they will be our spoils!"

Looking at the sparse, there are more than a thousand people at most, and at this scale, it is probably not enough for them to collide in one round.

"General, be careful that it is the upper. At present, we are in the downstream and the other party is the upperstream. We want to go over, that is going upstream. The other party wants to come over, but it is going downstream. The speed is completely different." Mao Kai next to him reminded.

"If they want to come and die, I'm not too late!" Lu Xiang disagreed. The water surface of the Yellow River is quite wide, but their fleet almost blocked the river. The other party could not do it if they wanted to detour, so they could only fight head-on.

Yuan Shao's navy had twenty large ships, fifty small warships, and another 200 boats. Considering the scale, the large ships were divided into three rows, with small warships on the outside, and the boats on the outside, and the entire ship array was shuttle-shaped.

The battle formation looks very long, but it almost covers the entire Yellow River channel. If the other party wants to go around the back, they are afraid that they will be caught and attacked in various ways just after they come to the side.

The Ganning Navy had twenty middle ships and more than a hundred boats, and only two thousand soldiers were counted as the middle ships. The middle ships were behind and the front ships were in a conical shape. They looked a bit sparse, but they were very convenient to turn left and right, and there was no big problem of turning left and right.

"Why, don't you dare to come over?" Seeing that the other party had no intention of coming over, Lu Xiang sneered and then turned around and issued an order, "Pushing forward, I want to see how the other party plans to deal with it!"

Everyone uses similar bows and arrows, similar crossbows, and even stone throwing cars. They fight with more and less, and the big ones, and they have greater advantages.

The key is that the other party can't rush. If you turn around, relying on the oars is not comparable to their sailboats. You can catch up quickly and you can directly hit the dog in the water.

"Although I became a monk halfway, I have also heard that water war is to seize the upstream position. Although you are in the upstream, you don't know how to make good use of it. It's a pity." Lu Xiang smiled and immediately ordered, "I ordered the boat to go up, tear apart a route, and then crashed into it with a warship!"

"Yes!" The subordinate immediately took the order and then went to slap the flag.

"It seems that the other party really plans to bully us with a big ship? The water battle on the river is not something that big ships can bully people! Sometimes there are too many, but it is a burden!" Gan Ning smiled contemptuously, then turned around and issued an order: "Strike!"

The banner was launched, and the boats in front immediately moved forward quickly, and they had the advantage of going downstream. In addition, the long-term training of the navy soldiers, the nutrition was also kept up, and the speed of rowing was not comparable to that of Yuan Shao's navy.

So the distance between the two sides was quickly getting closer, but for Lu Xiang, these more than a hundred boats were not enough to see.

However, after getting closer, I found that these boats were divided into at least three types: the first type is a normal boat, a fastboat without a shed, with ten soldiers on it; the second type is a wooden boat covered by a shed, but that's all. The third type is a boat with a size two, with a collision angle in front, which is not a boat at all, it's a boat!

Because of the relationship between adding a shed and removing the sail, it looks similar to a boat ride from a distance. This kind of fast ship mainly aims at impact. Needless to say, it is naturally a ship above a small warship!

Just as he was about to give the order, soldiers stood up on the boats ahead, then took out a fishing net and threw it out towards the boats of his army. The fishing net covered the oars, and the boats could not move. The key was that the position of these boats was still in the countercurrent position, and the oars on one side could not move. As a result, the boats began to rush backwards by the current.

Through the fishing net, these boats forced Yuan Shao's naval army to separate. Then the ship sailed forward and quickly. After adjusting the angle, it suddenly hit the side of the small warship in front. While knocking it open, it not only destroyed the wood on the hull, but also squeezed out a passage.

At this time, the last kind of walking boat rushed over and flew towards the big ship at a rapid speed.

"Stone throwing cart, archers, shoot, shoot!" When Lu Xiang ordered, it was already a little late. Fortunately, the generals on the ship had already begun to counterattack, and arrows were constantly shooting down. However, except for the first type of boat, these ships had hardwood sheds and were covered with water, so the arrows could not be shot through at all.

"General, look!" A soldier next to him pointed to the last type of walking boat in panic. This type of walking boat looked different from the first type of walking boat without shedding, and at most it was added. But when you looked closer, it was amazing. Under the water, the bows of these walking boats were hidden by wooden stakes.

"Shoot, shoot, don't let them crash!" Lu Xiang immediately understood that this kind of ship was specifically targeted at large ships. In the case of collision, large ships did not have the advantage at all.

"Rocket, get on the Rockets! Pour the turbulent oil down and burn those ships!" Lu Xiang was a little panicked and ordered repeatedly.

However, the enemy's walking boats and small warships had already been torn a crack by the other party. The walking boats quickly collided and hit the large warships. At least each of the five or six large warships in front was hit by two or three such walking boats.

"Down the anchor!" On the Gan Ning Army, a general gave the order. The soldiers on the boat had just stepped on the first mechanism. The two anchors hanging under the wooden stakes had fallen into the water. Then the second mechanism was stepped on, and the part of the bow began to separate from the hull. The ships began to turn the bow and start to the back. Their mission had been completed and there was no need to delay here.

"Want to run? Chase me!" Seeing that the turmeric oil had fallen, and under the influence of the rockets, some enemy boats were already ignited, but the other party actually wanted to run away after they beat him. Lu Xiang was very angry and hurriedly commanded the fleet to pursue him.

"General, our ship is extremely moving!" Soon after, soldiers came to report, "The other party seemed to have laid an anchor!"
Chapter completed!