Regarding this battle, many of the nobles of the Yue Kingdom's royal family were pessimistic and disappointed, and they were all trying to find a way out for themselves.

What many people think is to let the fleet delay time in front and surrender to Chu State quickly. Taking advantage of the road now, they give up everything in Yue State and flee to Chu State with gold, silver, pearls and jade.

Everyone is aristocrat, and there is always the same enemy. Chu State should accept it, and it also gave Chu State a legal principle to occupy Yue State.

But Yue Wang Yi didn't want to escape.

He went from being ambitious to defending the tomb in his life to trying hard to maintain it, all because of the rise of the Mohist family on Si.

Although the dream of Yue's country to dominate north from the Goujian era was long ago shattered, although it had been poor in strength, and had long been a swollen face and fat man, it was finally revealed in his hands.

He hated, so he wanted to die in a battle, but he was nothing more than death.

When Fuchai was captured, Goujian gave Fuchai a chance and gave him a hundred households, but Kuffa still hanged himself.

Even though he did not have the courage and strategy of the previous king Goujian, he did not want to be a minister in Chu.

Faced with this feeling of failure and despair, King Yi of Yue just waved his hand and said, "Do your best."

Xu Feng said withdrew, and King Yi of Yue wiped his bronze sword and sighed.

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May 5th.

The estuary of the Yangtze River.

The slight southeast wind is windy, but the water is facing east.

There was no clouds and no fog on the river. There was a roar of drums early in the morning and shouting along the river.

The Mohist family is the attacking side, while the Yue Kingdom is the defending side.

The Mohist navy set up the fleet into a formation that was twice as good as the right and left.

Four of the seventeen large tower ships were deployed on the right wing, which is the direction of the upstream of the river.

The four building ships on the right wing are not arranged in a flat line, but are formed in a column to cover the right wing.

Various small boats cruising behind the four building boats.

The central army had eight tower ships, spread out in one line, and maintained a safe distance, and the remaining small sailboats followed behind.

The left wing is the remaining five tower ships, three in the front and two in the back.

If you set up a formation, you can’t talk about knowing yourself and your opponent. At most, you can play to your strengths and avoid your weaknesses.

This is an obvious formation that takes advantage of the wind and abandons water. As the main attacker, it is difficult to grab the upstream of the hydrological dynasty in front of the Yue Kingdom Navy, because the Mohist ships are larger and move slightly slowly.

So I gave up the upstream of hydrology and strive for the upper hand.

The purpose is to confront the central army, defeat the right wing of the Yue Kingdom's Zhou Division with the left wing, rely on the left wing of the tower ship to seize the upper wind direction, cut into the central army of the Vietnamese army, and form an encirclement.

The big ship is ahead, one is to give full play to the advantages of artillery before the battle.

Another reason is that the tower ship is too large and has a horn and is condescending, the Yue Kingdom either sends tower ships to fight, or can only send small sailboats to avoid the collision of tower ships and cuts into the back through the gaps in the line-by-lined tower ships.

Use the tower ship as a natural parting.

Therefore, the arrangement is to set up a large ship in front and a small ship behind, with the large ship as the center, which is somewhat similar to the arrangement of the stingers in the chariot battle formation: once the cross-bow ship is inserted, the Mo family's small ship will fight around the large ship.

The intention of this formation is very obvious, but often the more obvious the intention is, the easier it is to achieve. Strategy is used strategically, and when you are in the battle, you rely on formation confrontation and the grasp of fleeting fighter jets.

In addition to these obvious intentions, the Mo family was preparing to wipe out the formation of the Yue State's Zhou Army, because in this case, the Yue State would definitely grab the upstream of hydrology.

The Vietnamese country must prevent the Mojia boat troops with superior military strength from seizing the upstream on the right wing, thus forming a situation that goes down the river.

In this case, once the left wing of the Mo family's Zhoushi seized the upper wind and completed the siege of the Yue Guozhou Army, the Yue Guozhou Army would not even have the way to defeat and escape.

This is also the purpose of the Mo family. This battle is not to destroy Yue at this time, but to completely destroy the Yue country's naval army, thereby completely controlling the Yangtze River, and preparing for the next attack on Chu.

South side of the river.

On the boat, the doctor Xu Fu turned his ears and listened to the loud drums in the distance, spread his arms, waiting for his servants to dress him up with the iron armor he bought from Si for a large price.

This is a very useful equipment for water battles, especially during melee, which can often save lives. Of course, the price is also very expensive. It is said that the price of aristocrats buying this set of armor is enough to train two martial knights, six light cavalry or thirty square musketeers with guns.

"Did you hear it? The drums are very organized."

The scholars around him were good at fighting in the water. After calming down and listening, he said, "Yes, it's very organized. He is slowly moving forward, and the paddlers are conserving their physical strength."

"They eat very well, with sugar, lard, and fish. We fight for a long time, and our paddlers can't row theirs."

Xu Feng smiled and said, "You forgot that they still have bronze cannons. The battle in the riverside was the best. The crossbow was the best now, but it seems that it is not the case."

The scholar asked, "A gentleman thinks we will win this battle?"

Xu Feng shook his head, and then said firmly: "Eat the king's fortune and loyalty to the king. It's nothing more than death."

After dressing neatly, he and several close-fitting soldiers boarded the top of the stairs, and the drums began to beat here.

The drum beats the oarsman’s rhythm, fast when it should be fast, slow when it should be slow.

Taking out the expensive telescope with a gold-shelled copper shell, Xu Feng looked at the Mo family fleet in the distance, observed for a long time, and murmured: "It's very organized, neither fast nor slow, and I've been maintaining the formation."

When fighting on the water, it is easy to observe the opposite formation, which is not a secret matter.

The Mo family's Zhou Shi Shi ship opposite was in front and the small boat was behind, densely packed, and kept the formation forward as much as possible at a speed that was not too fast.

Xu Feng observed for a long time and pointed to the left wing of the Mo family fleet in the distance and said, "The only hope for our victory is to rely on their left wing to make mistakes."

"This is the only possibility of winning, luring their left wing away from the central army, revealing the gap and eating their left wing."

The adviser around him said, "What if they didn't make a mistake?"

Xu Feng was silent and had no answer.

If the other party does not make mistakes, there will naturally be no chance at all, and there will be only one way to fail.

The Mohist family's intention to set up this formation is very obvious, but even so, he can only pin his hopes on the possibility of his opponent making mistakes.

The so-called famous generals are just seizing opportunities on the battlefield, breaking the surface with points and fighting less with more. But the current situation is that the forces of the three Mohist armies are not something he can easily eat, and no matter how much planning is, it will be meaningless.

The only possibility is to retain a fleet in the rear of the east side, so that the left wing of the right wing on its side and the Mo family, which was in the downstream of the hydrology, would tempt the left wing of the Mo family's boat division to leave the brigade, revealing a gap, making the central army unable to support it.

Once the gap is exposed, the part of the fleet that was left rushes up with the help of the wind. The army of his commander passed through the gap and defeated the left wing of the Mo family fleet, thus revealing the gap, encircling from the side and behind, taking advantage of the opportunity of melee battles to destroy the Mo family's small sailboats and retreat from the battlefield.

If you learn to learn to be turtle and turtle on the other side, you will keep the formation unchallenged, not pursue, and not seek merit, then you will have no chance at all.

He can not mobilize many troops.

The Mohist family deployed four building ships on the right wing, not lined up but lined up, obviously protecting their own flanks.

But Xu Feng could not ignore the right wing of the Mohist school.

If nothing is left, the Mohist right wing can be used as a flank defense or switched to an offensive formation, seize the upstream of the hydrology and go downstream, and you will lose yourself.

Therefore, we must also divide troops and rely on paddlers and wind power to seize the upstream of hydrology, that is, the right wing of the Mo family fleet appears, threatening its right wing, and not let them quickly turn into an offensive formation to occupy the upstream, and go down the river and penetrate straight to his side and behind.

For the central army, the difference in strength is really a lot. The number of tower ships in the central army alone is more than the number of tower ships in the current fleet of Vietnam. It is impossible for the central army to assault, so it can only be held back.

The left wing wanted to hope that the Mo family would make mistakes, but they also needed to find ways to lure them into making mistakes, find ways to get them to pursue, and thus tear open the gap between the left wing and the central army so that they could encircle them.

In fact, even if you win, you will definitely win miserably.

But there is one advantage, abandoning the flanks upstream of the hydrology, and the remaining fleets can escape along the current.

If enough Mohist sailboats can be eliminated, then the Mohist will not launch an attack in a short time. The tower ship needs the protection of the small boats, as is the case according to experience.

Because he deployed two building ships on his left wing, and one-fifth of the remaining ships, to quickly seize the upstream and fight with the Mo family's right wing, so as not to let them seize the side of the upstream bag.

The deployment of the central army was relatively weak, but the thickness was larger, so it was to entangle the central army of the Mo family's Zhou army after the war started.

Once the right wing successfully lure the enemy, once the left wing of the Mo family's Zhou army begins to pursue and reveals a gap, the rear troops in the central army can cut in through the gap with all their might and eat the Mo family's left wing that is protruding because of the pursuit.

"Beat the drum and march!"

He shouted loudly, the horn was melodious, and the strong man was naked, revealing his tattoo on his body, and beating the war drum with a thump.

The oarsmen in the bottom cabin listened to the order, shook the heavy oars and shouted the trumpet.

They don't know what's going on outside, so they are the most obedient group and just need to follow orders and concentrate on doing their own things.

As for the outcome outside, they can't see it, and they don't know that this is the biggest advantage of the country's country of Shui War: if you don't play the strategy of seducing the enemy well in land battles, you will easily be taken to break through. If the paddlers in water battles cannot see the situation outside, this is easy to do.

After the tower ship, a large number of small sailboats were also rowing forward. These small boats were warships, all of which were simple double-deckers.

There is a layer of partitions on it. The navy troops responsible for hand-to-hand combat are on the partitions. Once they approach the enemy, they will shoot a few crossbows, and then get close to each other.

This kind of water battle has a small space, so it is particularly cruel. There is no way out, and you will either die, surrender, or win.

After the melee, breaking hands and short feet are all things that are common.

Although you can survive by falling into the water, those who ultimately win and control the battlefield are qualified to deal with those who fall into the water and escape.

Above the tower ship, a group of swordsmen were wearing heavy armor, surrounding Xu Feng.

On the upper floor of the cabin are archers and musketeers, and two large crossbows.

These archers wore leather armor, some of which were inherited from the ancestral rhino armor, and also carried short swords or short axes around their waists. These are elites, most of whom are gentlemen.

On the deck below are some spearmen and archers, as well as hooks and wooden ladders responsible for hooking the opponent's ship. Going down is the oarsman who only needs to shake the oars as he orders.
Chapter completed!