Seeing that the war here was already stable, it moved southwest, but when the other side was also erected, the Zhending Army realized that the West Island Water Village was an empty village, and the troops who had not disembarked quickly turned to the East Island, and those who were on the island hurriedly boarded the ship and retreated to the East Island. The Longwan Navy moved southeast to prepare to catch the enemy, so as not to be blocked by the Song army in the narrow waters between the two paths and be difficult to move.

"This battle is interesting!" Zhao Bing looked for a moment, putting down the telescope and said meaningfully.

"Your Majesty, is there any mystery?" Zheng Yong also picked up the telescope and looked at the enemy formation. Except for the enemy ships, he did not see any difference, and asked in confusion.

"Haha, the three armies have no commander, so they fight for themselves!" Zhao Bing said with a smile.

"Oh, is that?" Zheng Yong felt inexplicably. The little emperor could see the problem with a look at it, but he was still confused and said in a vague way.

"Do you see the enemy's commander's flag?" Zhao Bing knew that he was still confused when he saw his appearance, so he spoke again.

"No, really no!" Zheng Yong picked up the telescope again and glanced carefully. He did not find the enemy's coach's flag on both battlefields. This was really strange.

"Okay, they fight each other, but we can dispatch them in a unified manner and defeat them one by one!" Zhao Bing said with a smile on his face.

The commander's flag is the soul of a military army. It is not only a symbol of the commander, but also a commander of the entire army. Therefore, as long as the commander is in charge, the flag cannot be used. Zhao Bing only saw the general flag on the seashore canal soldiers, but did not see the commander's flag. It is still the same when he turned here. He could conclude based on this that the three enemy troops of the Yuan army did not have unified dispatch and command, and it is not impossible to think about it carefully.

Zhending Wanhu Military Mansion, Longwan Naval Army Wanhu Mansion, and Seaway Transportation Wanhu Mansion, and the three prefectures are parallel to each other according to the Yuan Dynasty military system, and there is no distinction between superiors and inferiors. Zhending Wanhu Mansion is under the jurisdiction of the Wanhu Mansion of Jiangsu and Zhejiang, and the direct superior is the Privy Council; although the Longwan Naval Army Wanhu Mansion is located in Jiangsu and Zhejiang provinces, it is not under the jurisdiction of the Wanhu Mansion of Jiangsu and Zhejiang, but it is directly under the Privy Council; the appointment of the Wanhu Mansion of the Seaway Transportation of Grain comes from the center.

Therefore, there are three military units that do not belong to each other, and no one can control each other. If the war is not urgent and threatens their respective interests, it is unlikely that they will cooperate with each other. But the forced melon is not sweet after all. Although they fight together, they are in harmony and are in harmony. When things happen, they talk about "democracy" and everyone discusses it. If it is not common, it doesn't matter, but talking about democracy in war may miss the opportunity for war. Without absolute authority, it is difficult to do it immediately under the protection of their own interests.

This is the case at the moment. The sea route warriors wanted to play tricks and avoid tough battles, but they didn't expect to be faced by the Song Shui Army. They were too tempted to go forward even if they could not avoid it. Zhang Xingzu showed more obvious in self-protection. When he found out that he was trapped, he immediately wanted to leave a way out for himself, which fully demonstrated the distrust between them. The Longwan Shui Army can be said to be a young man, who only wanted to make achievements. When he saw the Song army attacking, he was red in his eyes. Before the Zhending Army could be transferred to the East Island, he rushed up in everything, which deepened the distrust between the two sides, but he didn't know it.

"Zheng Yong, that's the car and the ship!" Zhao Bing's eyes kept staring at the battlefield. At this time, an enemy warship rushed out of the corridor between the two islands. They quickly occupied the waters in the southeast of Taihu Lake and quickly formed an array. He saw that there were warships in his vanguard fleet without oars and sails, which was the main feature of the car and the ship, but he was not sure, so he turned his face and asked Zheng Yongdao.

"Your Majesty, I have never seen you!" Zheng Yong also observed carefully after hearing the little emperor's question, shook his head and said.

"That's the steamship, yes, I've seen it in my early years!" Chen Dun, who was standing aside, responded.

"Oh, it's the first time I've seen you!" Zhao Bing responded and thought about it carefully...

Vehicles and ships were used as paddle steamers that invented human-driven operation in ancient China. As a student of ship design in his previous life, Zhao Bing would certainly have known this kind of vehicle and ship, which is known as the originator of ships. He also saw graphics and imitation models, but it was the first time to see them in real objects. Before the advent of modern steamers, the advancement of human ships mainly relied on wind and manpower. The former used sails and the latter used oars.

Vehicles and ships were improved and designed based on oars. The use of hand power and foot power of vehicles should be a significant improvement. According to the examination, it had appeared as early as the Southern and Northern Dynasties, but there was no basis to prove it. But it is clear that Li Gao of the Tang Dynasty played a role in the development of vehicles and ships. The vehicles and ships he made were moving forward quickly with human power, but in the Song Dynasty, the vehicles and ships were at their peak.

Ancient Chinese vehicles and ships were only used for military purposes, and they were only used on a large scale during the Southern Song Dynasty. Vehicles and ships were classified as standard based on the number of rotors used. A group of two rotors was called a car. At that time, cars and ships ranged from one car to more than twenty cars or even more than thirty cars. The more cars, the larger the hull. Many vehicles and ships were used together, and inland rivers and lakes could achieve very high speeds without wind power, and many new ship types were developed.

As Zhao Bing knows, the large vehicles are 2, 30 meters long, and the draught is about 1 meter, which can accommodate 7, 800 people; medium-sized vehicles and ships generally carry 2, 300 people. There are also many types of vehicles, 4, 5, and more than 20 vehicles. Later, small vehicles and ships gradually developed. During the reign of Emperor Xiaozong of Song Dynasty, Jiankang Prefecture manufactured a car of 1, 12 oars and 400 materials warships, totaling about 22 tons today.

Ezhou also built eight vehicles and five ships. Because it was too stagnant to be used, it also renovated seven vehicles, six vehicles, and five vehicles in total. One hundred horse ships were built on Jiangxi Road, with female heads, wheels and oars secretly placed to make them foldable. This kind of ship that can be disassembled and disassembled at any time was also technologically advanced. During the reign of Emperor Ningzong of Song Dynasty, a kind of iron-walled crust ship was built, carrying four hundred materials, two seats on each side and three oars were installed, and the hull was 92 feet long, and it could carry 70 soldiers, pedaled soldiers, and twenty people at the tip.

The warships in the Song Dynasty were also used for actual combat many times. The Yangmo Peasant Rebel Army launched a fierce water battle with the official army in Dongting Lake, and the main warships used were vehicles and ships. The hulls were large, with a 36-meter-long hull, and could accommodate more than a thousand soldiers. They used 22 to 24 groups of rotors. However, this type of large vehicle and ship was suitable for the vast water surface, so it was not commonly used. The main use was small and medium-sized vehicles below eight or nine vehicles.

The power of the Song army's vehicles and ships was in the quarrying battle in Shaoxing in the 31st year. The Wanyan Liang Jin army swept across Huainan and drank the horses and was preparing to cross the south, but was blocked by the "flying" Song army's vehicles and ships, and ended in failure. After the war, the government counted as many as 6,000 civilian treadmill drivers. They also used vehicles and ships against the Yuan Dynasty. In the Battle of Xiangyang, Song generals Zhang Shun and Zhang Gui drove ships to rescue Xiangyang, and then fought with ships out of the city and fought along the river, but they both failed.

"I can't see the car, but I can see the boat walking like a dragon!" This is the biggest feature of the car and the ship. Zhao Bing has seen the enemy ship's side. It does have a raised frame structure, which should be the guard plate outside the string. Its function is similar to the side skirting plate of a modern tank, and is used to protect exposed paddle blades.

Because whether vehicles and ships are sailing on the water or fighting, they need to protect the blades from impact from enemy ships or river banks of water village wharfs, whether they are sailing on the water and fighting on the water. The blades above the hull water line are hidden in the skirt board, and the paddles below the water line are covered by waves and are also invisible, which gives people the wonder of only seeing the boat and not seeing the sail.

The car and ship are fast and can move forward and back freely, but they also have advantages and disadvantages. They have two difficult disadvantages: one is that they cannot navigate in shallow water, and the other is that they cannot enter the sea. This is also the reason why Zhao Bing was discharging the car and ship when he chose a warship. In addition, he just discovered that the car and ship were not as magical as the legendary turns, and he could turn around with an extremely small turning radius. Instead, he had to slow down and maneuver with a large arc to complete, and the bigger the ship, the clumsy it became.

"Your Majesty, our dragon boat is out!" Zheng Yong whispered to remind the little emperor.

"Dong Zhengzheng wanted to fight quickly!" Zhao Bing turned his eyes to the battlefield again after hearing this, looking at the situation and saying.

The Yuan army vanguard was led by two twenty sets of paddle wheels, more than ten medium-sized ships with ten sets of paddle wheels as the base, and more than forty four sets of eight-wheeled "Flying Tiger Warships" as the main force. They maneuvered quickly to the south, trying to detour to the left wing of the Song army fleet for encirclement, and then took advantage of their number to encircle.

Faced with the rapid advance of enemy ships, Dong Yicheng obviously realized the enemy's intentions, but when facing the fast enemy ships, it was too late to mobilize gunships to intercept them. In addition, the Song army equipped mostly sea ships with deep drafts to facilitate driving in the sea. Although the enemy's vehicles and ships were also highly drafted, they were structured with flat-bottomed sand ships, which had an advantage over himself. They sailed close to the lake shore, making it difficult for rocket ships to unfold. Even if they acted forcibly, the enemy ships might have entered a dead end in the shooting. Therefore, he mobilized the fast dragon ships to intercept them, and at the same time, the gun ships were shipped out in a row and crossed in front of the formation, trying to block the enemy with the gun guns.

After many battles and exercises, the Song army's dragon ships have formed relatively mature tactics. They use their speed advantage to fight in columns, and then repeatedly attack the enemy flanks with their side cannons until they disrupt the enemy formation, and then break into the enemy formation in a way that can be destroyed. However, today this tactic has encountered trouble. Both ships are very fast. When they move opposite each other, they can be said to have passed by each other. The dragon ship only has time to fight for one round and has to turn around to chase after them. If they move towards each other, they can only run parallel to the adjacent enemy ships. The enemy ship next to them is unlucky and is pressed down and beaten to death, and they are very moved soon.

The advantage of speed is still lost, and the dragon boats also felt the threat. The enemy's large vehicles and ships are not only equipped with slap rods, but also large stone throwers, while the medium-sized warships are equipped with small and medium stone throwers to attack the enemy and break the village. In theory, the dragon boats are thick in skin, and ordinary crossbows cannot penetrate the slap plates and cabin roofs. Even if the four or five stone bullets fired by the slap machine are directly hit, it is difficult to cause fatal damage. Therefore, as long as they are not hit by the huge rocks on the slap rod, no one can harm them.

But today it is different. When the Yuan army found that the stones fired by the stone thrower had no effect on them, they were killed and injured by the shells fired by their opponents, so they changed their tricks. Speaking of which, the dragon boat was afraid of something - fire. Although the roof was covered with raw cowhide for setting fire, it was okay to deal with small fires. But this time, the Yuan army threw the oil tank directly over, and the oil was broken in a "bang". The fire was lit and it was "bang". Even if you turned it into the water, it would not be wiped out.

The dragon boats have always been the main assault force of the Song Shui Army. Only the best soldiers can be selected. But today they were defeated as soon as they fought. Two dragon boats were concentrated by oil tanks and ignited a fire. They immediately left the array and drove towards the open waters in accordance with the regulations. While the other dragon boats added shooting strength, they moved to the outside and escaped the attack range of the enemy stone thrower.

"Go and pick me up immediately and grab the person back!" Zhao Bing was shocked when he saw this and urgently ordered Zheng Yong to send a warship to pick up the injured dragon boat.

After he saw a dragon boat hit by the roof leaving the brigade, they immediately sent sandbags upwards through the watchtower, covering the flames with wet sand, and finally suppressing the fire; while the other dragon boat caught fire on the starboard side, which was very difficult to extinguish, and there were flowering bullets in the cabin. Once it exploded, the ship would be destroyed and the people would be killed. The crew hurriedly threw the flowering bullets from the port door into the lake, trying to extinguish the fire with a wet blanket, but the fire spread too fast and the starboard side was soon surrounded by a fire.

"Abandon the ship, order them to abandon the ship!" Zhao Bing saw that the sailors were still trying to row the warship to the shore, and the flames had spread through the cannon door to the cabin, and he ordered again.

"Rise the anchor, sideways to the outside, use heavy crossbows to fire solid bullets to block the enemy ship!" Zhao Bing ordered again. Now the enemy warship broke through the interception of the dragon ship and approached the front set up by the gun ship. Now he has fired at full force. He is very fast in his sight, and sacrifice is enough to rush over the gun ship to intercept it, so the Sheji joins the shooting ranks.

"Your Majesty, why don't you use rockets to cover and shoot?" Chen Dun asked in confusion.

"Idiot, have you seen that those vehicles and ships are equipped with tincture oil tanks? As long as our rockets hit, they will catch fire. The tincture oil leaking into the water will turn this area into a sea of ​​fire. Now the enemy is going downstream, and the fired enemy ships and water flow will ignite all our warships. At this moment, they can only be isolated to avoid burning the camp." Zhao Bing cursed.

"What should we do? If they do not hesitate to destroy themselves and press forward step by step, wouldn't we have no choice?" Chen Dun spread his hands and said in surprise.

"What should I do? The fleet will evacuate to Hubei first to avoid greater losses!" Zhao Bing glared at Chen Dun and said unhappyly.

"This... I'm saying that I want to wipe out all the people. I'll just start fighting and withdraw it first!" Chen Dun became an angry pump and curled his lips and teased.
Chapter completed!