Ewan is located on the east bank of Taihu Lake. It is surrounded by two headlands extending into the lake. It is opposite to the East and West Islands and is on the same axis as the waterway between the two islands. The water surface in the bay is about 30 miles in a radius, roughly U-shaped. However, due to severe siltation, the water depth at the lakeside after the ebb is less than one meter. It is not a suitable place for mooring boats, and it also leads to insufficient depth, making it difficult for the fleet to roam and maneuver. If you get in, you will enter a dead end.

However, there are disadvantages, which also have advantages. This narrows the frontal defense surface, but it is difficult for the enemy to raid from both wings and behind, so that it is convenient for its own side to concentrate its firepower to attack enemy ships on the frontal attack. The protruding headland on the right wing and several small islands in the lake form a fence with the western island, which also limits the enemy's mobility. The bridge ferry on the left wing has been controlled by the first brigade of the land war, which can not only block the Zhending army from getting ashore, but also evacuate if it is absolutely necessary.

The Navy of the Guardians has more than 100 warships, but the number is small but the sparrows are all small and all the organs. It is simply a small navy. The standard configuration for sailing is the Sheji and two baggage ships, and several dragon ships are accompanied by guards. They can be used in war or out of a long gate. There are also many rocket ships, gunships, and sentry ships. At present, there are only few personal guard brigades that are guarding with the ship.

Due to the limitations of terrain and war, Zhao Bing, who has always liked mobile combat and used strange tricks, has arranged a well-behaved defensive formation. The entire formation is supported by the Sheji, which is arranged in the center, and the rocket ships arranged on its two wings are the backbone. The gunships that come out in front are arranged interlaced to form the first blocking line. The baggage ships are placed in the rear army and the sentry ships are intertwined between the ships.

"Your Majesty, all the crossbows on the port side were transferred to starboard!" Chen Dun wiped his sweat and said.

"Okay, it's a good job!" Zhao Bing praised him, and still looked ahead without looking back. At this moment, the rocket ship kept firing rockets to block the pursuing enemy and gaining time for the formation. The Sheji was equipped with thirty crossbows on each side, and now it was full of defense. The crossbows on the port were no longer used, so he ordered them to be placed on the second deck on the starboard side to strengthen the front firepower, so that it could cover the area 300 steps in front of the formation.

"Your Majesty, is our formation a bit thin?" Chen Dun looked at the front and back. At the entrance of the bay, there were forty gunships, which were like the Sheji, and they were facing the enemy on the side, and two rows of front lines were arranged in an interlaced manner. There were fifteen rocket ships arranged on each side of the wings of the imperial ship. Including three baggage ships behind, the depth was only 200 steps, and they looked like a piece of paper.

"Thin?! Who do you think can break through hundreds of crossbows and cover the shooting of hundreds of rocket launchers on the front of less than four miles?" Zhao Bing asked back.

"This... this is a bit difficult, it seems to be even harder than the sea of ​​swords and fire!" Chen Dun said in a daze. After thinking for a moment, he shivered. If such dense crossbows and rockets were fired, he would face a sea of ​​fire. I am afraid that the fish and shrimp in the lake would be blown to pieces.

"Have all the soldiers of the Land War Brigade boarded the ship?" Zhao Bing asked again.

"Your Majesty, we have strengthened it to the gunship and rocket ships. However, Deputy General Zheng left the Yidu reserve team and let them hide behind the gunship array. The boat was filled with gunpowder. If an enemy ship was found invading, he would drive the ship to attack and blow up the enemy ship at any cost. He would never get close to the imperial ship half a step!" Chen Dun said softly again.

"Oh, am I really going to leave Maicheng?" Zhao Bing said with a wry smile. At that time, he was full of confidence that he could lure the enemy to Taihu Lake and he could easily destroy them, but in the end he had to rely on taking risks to win. This made him a little depressed and worried about the future battle situation.

"Your Majesty doesn't know how to do it, so you'd better go into the cabin to avoid it!" Chen Dun saw that His Majesty's face was dim and quickly said.

"Go away? Anyone can hide, but I have no reason to hide!" Zhao Bing waved his hand as he looked at the increasingly fierce artillery fire.

"Your Majesty, why?" Chen Dun still tried to pull the little emperor down the top cabin, but was stunned when he heard the words and couldn't help asking.

"I have nowhere to avoid the day I ascend to the throne." Zhao Bing said leisurely, "I was granted the title of Deputy Commander of the World's Army and Horses to move to Qiongzhou to Kaifu. I thought I could stay away from war and be a free king in that overseas place. I just wanted to make Qiongzhou a place where people are happy and prosperous. Who would have thought that luck would make people? The late emperor passed away and handed over the heavy burden of restoring the country to me. From that moment on, I could only let go of everything and shoulder this almost difficult task, even if there were swords, fires and thorns ahead, and I even knew that even the abyss ahead, I had to go on without hesitation!"

"Your Majesty, I am willing to stay by your Majesty's side forever, even if I burn my bones!" Chen Dun used to think that the little emperor was living a self-abuse life and was simply asking for trouble, but he didn't expect that these were not what he wanted, but just because of responsibility, no preferences or interests, and even more so. This shocked him and said solemnly.

"Okay, we have no use here. Give me a gun, and we will go to the bottom to guard the boat and hit the land!" Zhao Bing patted Chen Dun on the shoulder and said with a smile.

"Yes!" Chen Dun was so excited that he stood attentively and saluted by the little emperor's words. Zhao Bing still just smiled, took the bulletproof vests handed over by the guards, tied up his armed belt, hung up the ammunition box, took the musket, and led a team of guards to the deck to lay defense...

Although the seaway grain transport army was nominally an army, it was actually just a labor force with a military roster, and it was also in charge of the public security along the coast of the water transport. Therefore, they did not have the Longwan Navy's vehicles, ships, stone throwers, gold juice cannons and other heavy weapons, and even fewer powerful crossbows for water battles. In the first battle, they finally defeated the enemy with their large crowds and the little courage they had developed as pirates and finally drove them to Nanhu.

However, Zhang Xuan was still feeling distressed. In the battle, the entire army lost more than 100 warships and more than 2,000 soldiers. The key was that the food that was robbed by the Song army had not been taken back. When he was about to breathe for a while, when the foolish boys of the Longwan Navy surrounded the Song army and both sides were in a defeat, he would pick up another vacant person, which could be considered as a way to atone for the merits and escape the crime of losing grain. This was also his original intention of sending troops.

However, before they launched an attack, the Song army took the lead in attacking, fortunately, heading for the Longwan Navy, whom Hubid. But he did not dare to be careless and ordered the front army to prepare to prevent the Longwan Navy from defeating, so that the Song army could seize its own retreat. However, he did not expect that the Song army's firepower and attack speed were so fast that it easily broke through the Longwan Navy's array. Another Song army's navy took advantage of this opportunity to plug in from the waterway between the two islands and headed straight for its rear army.

Zhang Xuan did not expect that the Song army would dare to provoke them even if they were defeated, but there were only thirty ships to seize their own way of retreat. He knew that the rear army was his weakness, most of which were the recruits and sailors who had been forced to recruit from Songjiang Prefecture in the past two years. Although these people were his own countryside, his reputation was not good, and the Yuan court was increasingly exploiting Jiangnan. Most of them came for the treatment of "Bit Give Lumi". They did not willingly accompany him on this extremely risky sea route. Many of them were devoted to the old dynasty, not like those old brothers who had lived and died with him were willing to work for him.

So Zhang Xuan urgently ordered Zhu Qing to immediately lead a thousand households to reinforce the central army to wipe out the enemy ships that broke into his own formation. Unfortunately, he had never heard of the fact that when the Qiongzhou Army was first established, the little emperor of Qiongzhou rushed into the Liu Shen Shui Army formation with ten dragon ships, sank, injured more than a hundred warships, captured his ship, and almost killed his life. Otherwise, Zhang Xuan's decision at this moment would definitely be to shrink the formation and retreat quickly, rather than attack him.

However, Zhang Xuan did not seem to have this awareness and no time. The Song army launched an attack from the front. They lined up several columns and rushed over. They opened fire as soon as they entered the range. But Zhang Xuan was not worried at this moment, because he knew that in the water battle, the two armies fought each other in a horizontal line, and the columns were often used to break through. The enemy was attacking from the front and back to try to escape, and that partial division was to attract the attention of the Longwan Navy and create conditions for the main force to escape, so he could force the central army and the remnants of the front army to press forward and fight against these enemy troops who were no longer in a fight.

However, the Yuan army was not all confused. Zhang Xingzu, who was watching the battle on the East Island, found that the development of things was not right. In fact, he felt inappropriate when he entered Taihu Lake. When the defeated army guarding Pingjiang fled here, he found that the Song army did not flee in panic, but instead launched a counterattack. In theory, an army knew that its strength was not as strong as the opponent, should evacuate as soon as possible to avoid greater losses. However, the enemy's counterattack did not retreat, which shows that it was possible to lead its own side into an ambush circle.

In the subsequent battle, Zhang Xingzu felt even more like the feeling of being in a slum. The water camp was an empty village, and the food had long been transferred, and the enemy had no need to fight this battle with them. Then the two sides broke out fiercely. Their navy repelled the Song army with the help of the water. It seemed that they had achieved a great victory, but in the eyes of the veteran, he was indeed defeated by his side. Although the Song army was forced to retreat to Nanhu, they had advances and retreats in an orderly manner, with extremely small casualties. The lake was full of destroyed warships, and almost all of them were the corpses of their own soldiers wearing Yuan army uniforms.

Zhang Xingzu felt that the Song army was defeated in a row, but Taihu Lake had many waterways, so it was not enough to evacuate from Songjiang Waterway. Instead, it did not retreat, but instead formed a formation again. He vaguely felt that his worries were true. The enemy was deliberately introducing them into Taihu Lake and wanted to gather and annihilate them. Then he took advantage of the truce and transferred all his troops to Dongdao and prepared to retreat from the ferry bridge to Wuxian. No matter how strong the enemy navy was, he would not be able to land on a boat to chase them.

All signs indicate that his side had fallen into the trap of the Song army. When Zhang Xingzu was about to inform his two colleagues, he thought about it and went back to hold it back. Zhang Xuan was so arrogant that he relied on the Khan's favor. He didn't take him seriously at all. Not only did he make a fortune, he also monopolized the overseas trade of Jiangsu and Zhejiang provinces. It would be better to let him suffer some losses this time. Moreover, the Khan died without a backstage, and it would see how long he could be rampant. As for the young and strong faction, he relied on his Mongols, but he did not listen to his greetings on his territory, and he would often use his identity to suppress others. Let's forget it!

Of course, Zhang Xingzu also had selfish intentions. If it was really a pit as he expected, then someone would have to fill it. The person who would better fill it is not him. So he kept monitoring the movements of the Song army. At first he was puzzled why the Song army's attack point chose to be on the right wing of the Longwan Navy, which would obviously be trampled by him. But he soon understood that the Song army was only dispatched by a partial division, and the purpose was to defeat the Cao army first, and the Clippers team assigned to cut off their retreat. But when the Song army retreated into Ewan, he was a little confused, which was equivalent to falling into the trap!

But when Zhang Xingzu understood, he immediately regretted his decision. After retreating into Ewan, the Song army immediately sent an army to occupy the headland on the east side of the lake bay, as if to meet the trapped naval army. However, he realized that the Song army was targeting him. It occupied the Bridge Ferry to cut off the passage for his landing. They had a very big appetite and still wanted to take their side in one fell swoop...

Three battlefields in Taihu Lake were fired at the same time, and Ewan was under great pressure, but Zhao Bing felt very at ease. He knew that he was holding two companies with one hand, not only holding the other two battlefields of Taihu Lake, but also holding the two battlefields of Jiankang and Hangzhou. As long as he dragged the new army of Longwan tightly, it would be of great significance to both the local and the overall situation, and even making a certain sacrifice would be worth it.

"Flower bullets, full fuses, four hundred steps away, move right fifteen degrees, raise one point!" Zhao Bing held a telescope with a telescope to lock a large enemy warship. It was equipped with a large stone thrower, which could throw five kilograms of stone bullets into the array of gunships. At that time, he had destroyed two warships on his side in succession, with more than ten casualties. However, his position was far behind, and it was close to the range limit of the heavy crossbow. He organized several shootings but failed to knock it out. In a hurry, he couldn't help but go on the battle to control the shooting himself.

"Report to Your Majesty, the shooting is ready!" the cannon leader replied.

"Okay, keep calm, keep calm, start fire!" Zhao Bing waved his hand and said in a deep voice.

‘Bang’, the torsion string that had been exerted to the limit suddenly loosened and the flowering bullet on the support shot shot quickly. However, everyone found that the shells shot were not straightforward in flight as before, but were a little erratic, and couldn't help but worry about whether they could hit the target. But in a flash, the shell fell down and exploded at the height that had not yet touched the mast, causing a ball of fire to rise.

"Your Majesty, I'm hit!" Although everyone could not see the flying shrapnel, they could see the fire rising from the ship and spread rapidly. In just a few breaths, the fire was no longer controlled. The Yuan soldiers above fled in scattered and dived to survive. It was obvious that the scattered shrapnel shattered the oil tank on the ship, and the sparks ignited it, which spread so quickly. Everyone couldn't help but cheer.
Chapter completed!