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    Julia also shook her head: "I don't think so. Julia has been wandering on the sea since she was a child. She doesn't have deep feelings for Rome, but she feels a little uneasy. Based on the time traveling to and from Rome, her uncle should be here too, but at this time  There has been no sign of her to this day. Julia is worried that the general has told her that the downfall of Queen Odosia will implicate her uncle. "Hey, Julia, don't worry too much, good people have their own destiny," Wang said.  Lian didn't know what to say, so he had to give some advice. After all, Rome was too far away. With Wei Feng's current ability, it was basically impossible to go to Rome. Even if he went there by force, it was still thousands of miles away.  The dust has settled.  Julia smiled bitterly and said: "I'm asking for your good advice. By the way, don't mention this to the envoy, so as not to embarrass him." "Yeah!" Wang Daolian just nodded and suddenly pointed forward: "Zhu  "Leah, there's someone in front of you!" "Humph!" Julia snorted confidently: "The water flow in the river is gentle, as expected. It seems that we are bullying our small boat, and there may be pursuers behind us!"  " As if Julia really had the ability to predict the future, the sentry on the mast called out: "General Julia, there are ships chasing from behind, about 20 miles away, about a hundred ships. " Julia took her time!  Said: "The front team will advance with my general, and the rear team will stop and turn around immediately. We must wipe out all the enemies!" "Follow your orders!" Flags were sent to the ships one after another.  Normally speaking, it is extremely difficult for a fleet to turn around in the river, but the water flow is gentle and the width is sufficient, about two hundred and fifty to three hundred feet, and the fleet led by Julia is all eight to fifteen  The inland river warship is flexible, has strong maneuverability, and has a small turning radius. At the same time, the almost stationary water flow also provides convenience for turning around.  The one hundred ships in the rear group turned their bows one after another, staggering in a canine-tooth shape. The first row was eight medium-sized warships running horizontally, and the ninety-two ships behind them had their bows touching the stern.  Almost covering the entire water surface!  The rear group formed a formation to fight, while the front group's hundreds of boats continued to move forward. During the process of traveling, they tried to spread out and compress as much as possible.  About five hundred steps in front of the fleet, a pontoon suddenly appeared, ten feet wide, spanning the entire river.  The bridge was piled with earth and rocks and looked extremely solid. There were sandbags every few feet to protect the crossbowmen and pikemen behind it. The boats used to carry the pontoon bridge were actually loaded with firewood and hay.  Along both sides of the pontoon.  Hundreds of carts each gathered in a formation, and the backs of the carts were filled with crossbowmen, all with their bows and arrows ready, looking like they were ready.  Wang Daolian smiled coldly: "Liu Jinu has spent a lot of money to intercept our army. If our army breaks through the pass by force, he will set the pontoon on fire. The ships chasing from behind will attack and intercept them from behind.  To destroy it, I have to say that his idea is too beautiful and too naive. He thinks that our boat is easy to bully?" "Well!" Julia nodded seriously: "Since Liu Jinu has taken away the brotherhood with the envoy.  Put aside the identity, then Julia will teach Xingnan and Sister Jiaojiao a lesson, lest he persist in his obsession and hurt the hearts of Xingnan and Sister Jiaojiao!" With that, Julia scolded:  "Send the order, the whole army slows down the march, and give me the stone bullets to greet me!" "Yes!" Flags were played one after another.  On large battleships, five throwing ballistas are placed on the bow, but the deck area of ??small and medium-sized battleships is limited.  Only two and one ballista were installed respectively. Although the firepower was greatly reduced, ships were crowded together and hundreds of ballistas were fired at the same time.  The momentum is still overwhelming!  "Bang bang bang~~" Bursts of stone bullets hit the pontoon bridge hard. Although it could not collapse the pontoon bridge, there were howling ghosts and wolves on the bridge. Corpses with broken arms and legs were thrown into the air. The Beifu soldiers could only hold on tightly.  They had to stay close to the sandbags to avoid being hit by stone bullets, and plow darts were fired out from the side of the ship. In just a few moments, more than twenty vehicles were bombarded into a pile of rotten wood.  Shen Linzi was shocked. He had asked Liu Yu to come to intercept the Ming fleet and led a total of 30,000 troops. When he thought about it, such an impregnable defense plus Liu Yi's 30,000 naval troops would total a total of 60,000 troops to encircle and suppress the Ming Dynasty.  Aren't the army's two hundred boats already within reach?  Unexpectedly, although the Ming army's ship was small, its firepower was extremely fierce!  "What a fool!" Shen Linzi, who was hiding behind the car, punched the ground hard and couldn't help but cursed angrily!  One of the generals felt the same and said: "The Ming army was so cunning that he actually stayed still. His stone bullets and crossbow arrows hit far. The brothers had no way to fight back and had to be beaten. What a fucking coward! This is a shame."  The water is so damn tight that even the fire boat can't get out!" Another general said, "General Shen, I have a plan. Although the water is still, people can paddle on it!  The fireships advanced, launching hundreds of them at once. Although the Ming army's trebuchets were fierce, they would not destroy all the fireships. As long as a dozen or so ships came close, the Ming army wouldThe boats are so close together that the fire will burn them all!  ¡± The previous general shouted: ¡°General, even if you narrowly escape death by driving a fire ship, there must be a brave man who will be rewarded with a heavy reward. When the fire ship comes, as long as you dive in time, you should be 30 or 20% sure that you can swim back to the shore.¡±  , it will be fine if you keep it for a while!  " "Hmm~~" Shen Linzi was about to nod, but suddenly realized that the Ming army's stone bullets had completely covered the pontoon. Now there was no chance of launching fire ships. He couldn't help but cursed: "Why didn't you tell me earlier?  " "This" The two generals looked at each other! "That's it, that's all!  Shen Linzi understood that he was being unreasonable and waved his hand: "Liu Yi chased from behind. His ship has been modified and equipped with an iron cone on the bow. If it collides with it, the Ming army will be unjust. Let's just watch it first!"  " Shen Linzi pinned his hopes on Liu Yi, but Liu Yi was miserable. He didn't expect that the Ming army would be so ferocious even if they changed their boats. The dense plowshare darts came in bursts, and his ships couldn't even attack them.  You can't get past it! Even if you have a big iron cone, it will only work if you hit it!  Fifty of them were equipped with large iron cones on their bows. Looking around, nearly twenty of them had been sunk. The ships were originally unable to enter the sea, but Liu Yi understood that it was difficult to defeat the Ming Dynasty with fighting ships alone.  The army and navy must use flexible and light ships for assault. Therefore, he used each fighting ship to drag two ships into the sea, from Rugao, the estuary of the river at that time, to the estuary of Huai River (today's Lianshui County, Huai'an City, Jiangsu Province).  ) about six hundred miles, but fortunately there were no strong winds and waves, and they bumped into the Huai River. Liu Yi had a gloomy face. The plowshare darts and stone bullets fired by the Ming warships were so dense that his own ship could not get close.  , how to fight this battle? So far, Liu Yi has only realized that the Ming army's ballistae is powerful, but he has not realized that with the application of long-range strikes, the navy's tactics have undergone earth-shaking changes. In the past, they relied on collision and gang-hopping.  The era of picking up the side to determine the outcome of a battle is gone forever. Those with long-range strike power will be king on the water. Just like Liu Yi now, there are many rackets on the fighting ship and the stern is equipped with iron cones, but it still falls!  All the generals looked anxious, and one general couldn't help but persuaded: "General, annihilating the Ming Navy is no longer realistic, and it is even more worrying.  Yes, if this continues, our entire army will be annihilated sooner or later. We might as well abandon the ship, go ashore to join General Shen, and go to Taiwei's army to find other solutions.  " In fact, Liu Yi already had the intention to retreat, so he hesitated for a moment and said: "I was defeated by the Ming army. If I go to the Taiwei, wouldn't it be a waste of time for him to strip me of my military power?  The captain showed me mercy, but in fact he was very afraid of me. No, I couldn't go to Qiao. Although I had to go ashore, I had to go to Shouchun!  ¡± All the generals were secretly disdainful. In fact, for them, defecting to Wei Feng was the worst choice when they were at the end of their rope, because Wei Feng was an outsider, and the Beifu Army was a well-organized military and political group, which was quite exclusive, not to mention them.  I also understand that the result of defecting to Wei Feng will be to be disbanded, and it will never be possible to retain the organizational structure of the Beifu Army, and even the generals will be demoted to serve the people! On the contrary, the difference between defecting to Liu Yu or Liu Yi is not big.  When they heard that Liu Yi was unwilling to surrender to Liu Yu, some people immediately started to think of launching a mutiny. However, the military discipline of the Beifu Army was strict and the following offenses were capital crimes. In other words, Liu Yu could kill Liu Yi. They  But he could not touch Liu Yi in the slightest. Liu Yi also felt that the generals were dissatisfied with him, but he was confident and unmoved. He was about to give the order to abandon the ship, but the lookout on the mast stopped.  He shouted urgently: "General, something bad has happened, there is another ship behind us!  "    "What?  Liu Yi's expression changed: "How many ships are there?"  Which side?  "The lookout post replied: "Return to the general, there are about a hundred boats, the appearance is the same as the ships of the Ming army, they must be the Ming army!  "    "not good!  A general said with an ashen face: "We were ambushed. Unexpectedly, with the mantis stalking the cicada and the oriole behind, the Ming army could be so cunning!"  "Another general said in confusion: "That's not right. If the Ming army had ship reinforcements, they would not be able to hide it from Yanjiang Fengsui. Where did he get the ships?  "Liu Yi's face was pale, and he took over and said: "Don't forget, there is a Ming navy in Fangtou. This navy must be flowing down the Yellow River. Our army has no beacons along the Yellow River. How can we find the enemy?  trace?  Okay, it's useless to talk more at this time. Send an order to the whole army to get ashore quickly. They can escape as much as they can!  "Actually, Liu Yi guessed wrong. This is not the Fangtou Navy, but the Tianjin Navy. The Fangtou Navy Wei Feng has another purpose. In the future, Yao Xing, Liu Bobo and Tuoba Qu will be defeated and return to Guanzhong.  Assault on the Yellow River, and dispatched separatelyThe Tianjin navy is even more hidden. Once they leave the port, they are facing the vast sea, and no spies can find them.  The Tianjin navy had already left Tianjin Port before Wei Feng sent troops, and was lying in ambush on the back of a sand dune fifty miles away from the river's outlet. As soon as the Beifu navy set out to sea, it followed behind them and followed them into the Laishui River.
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