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Chu's two thousand navy forces attacked three thousand black armored forces.

If the two are similar in terms of military strength, especially the two thousand navy troops of the Chu Kingdom are only one of the main forces, they only need to hold on for a while and there will be reinforcements to rescue.

But another important factor in the battlefield is speed.

If reinforcements have not been put on the battlefield by the end of the battle, these reinforcements are equivalent to none.

So this is not a matter of Xiang Yan's decision.

Xiang Yan immediately transferred the two thousand navy forces to the south for reinforcements.

However, the two thousand navy forces are moving upstream and the battlefield is still nine miles away. It will take half an hour to reinforce the battlefield.

There was no problem in rushing to the reinforcements for half an hour.

Because according to common sense, the Chu Army can hold on for at least half an hour, after all, the Qin Shui Army is only training for more than a month, and the Chu Shui Army are all veterans.

However, the fierceness and speed of the battlefield is not what Xiang Yan can imagine:

As soon as the two naval forces of Qin and Chu came into contact, they reached a verdict.

The two armies faced the enemy with a square formation, and the warships of both sides inserted between the enemy warships through the gap between each other.

This situation usually means that both the enemy and the enemy have confidence in their own combat effectiveness and hope for a quick fight, because this will allow full contact with enemy ships.

From the perspective of the Chu army, their combat mission was to block the Qin reinforcements.

General Chu's guess is that this reinforcement will not have too much strength.

In addition, Chu Jun thought he was prepared and unprepared, so of course Chu Jun had confidence in his combat effectiveness.

As for the Qin Army, it goes without saying... Their confidence is based on equipment and seeing through the enemy's tactics.

However, Shen Bing was still a little uneasy.

After all, this is the first actual combat of the Black Armored Army.

Can the wheel warship play the expected role?

Will the morale and combat effectiveness of Wei's troops support this battle?

Will there be any problems in the actual combat?

All these are unknowns.

However, after the two warships contacted, Shen Bing's hanging heart dropped halfway.

Qin Jun’s battleship blasted his head with a random arrow at Chu Jun, only to scream Chu Jun...

This is not to say that Chu Jun can't shoot arrows.

In fact, the same warships of the two armies carry 25 people.

The problem is that the number of combatants in the two armies is different.

As mentioned before, the Chu Army warship requires fifteen people to control another ten people to fight, while the Qin Army warship only needs nine people to control another 16 people to fight.

As a result, the arrows shot by the Qin army were much denser than those shot by the Chu army.

What's more important is that the Qin Heijia soldiers wear rattan armor and hung a large rattan shield on the side of the ship for cover.

So the arrow shot by Chu Jun was almost harmless, either nailed to the vine shield or blocked by the vine armor.

The arrow shot by Qin Jun was not like that...

The Chu army must have a few people paddling on the side of the ship's gunwale. Because these paddling Chu soldiers had to paddle, it was inconvenient to add a shield on one side. They could only add helmets and shirts to enhance protection.

This is very common in the cold weapon era, which is to strengthen the protection of soldiers who have no evasion ability.

For example, the same is true for the rider of the chariot. The rider cannot block or evade because he has to drive the vehicle during combat.

So the driver has a coat and armor, and a horseshoe lock is added to the coat.

The so-called lock is a piece of metal protruding from the armor plate, which will make the shirt uneven, making it difficult for halberd or arrow attacks to penetrate.

This protection can be said to be the most comprehensive in infantry.

The same is true for the navy. Because the oarsmen are unable to dodge and block, all of them have shirts and helmets. The sides of their helmets are thickened. When paddling, they deliberately put their heads aside to avoid fear of arrows.

However, this still does not help.

When Shen Bing was training the Black Armor, he confessed that the soldiers would attack the target at a 30-degree angle in front.

To be precise, it is not "confession," but that's how training is done during wartime.

Simply put, the archer only shoots the angled warship and ignores the warship on the side, even if the warship is shooting arrows at them...

The reason is simple.

At an angle of thirty degrees, after the arrow was shot, it was likely to be inserted diagonally into the death triangle of the enemy ship's oarsman's face and neck. It was difficult for the oarsman to even turn his head to cover it.

On the contrary, if you directly attack the oarsman on the front, it is actually an ineffective attack on the helmet and shirt.

If there is any difficulty in this training, it is that the ancients had no idea about the thirty-degree angle, so Shen Bing had to think again.

This is actually a kind of synergy:

Attack the target diagonally above, and hand the enemy on the flanks to the friendly ship behind.

This tactic is very effective.

Because the Chu Army oarsmen suffered heavy casualties in the first place.

Then there was the embarrassment of the substitutes mentioned by Shen Bing: the combatants must replace the oarsmen, otherwise the warship will not be able to move normally, and the combatants will seriously weaken the combat effectiveness if they replace the oarsmen.

More importantly, the combatants do not have the special armor of the oarsmen, especially without the shirts, so after the replacement, they are a target, almost one by one to die...

The Qin Army Wheel Warship did not have this concern at all. Their oarsmen were at the bow and stern, and they were protected by rattan shields.

Commanding this Chu army was a lieutenant named Zhang Yao.

The two-thousand-member navy was originally enough to send a military officer to command, but Xiang Yan believed that it was very important to block the reinforcement of the Liang navy, so he sent a lieutenant.

As soon as he saw the situation, he realized that the situation was not right, and hurriedly used the banner to order people to release a beacon for help.

On the other hand, he commanded the navy in close combat.

Zhang Yao's decision is obviously correct, at least within the scope of his cognition.

If the bow fight is at a disadvantage, of course, it cannot continue like this, and the navy should be used as infantry to fight close combat.

As a result, the Chu army warships approached the enemy ships one after another, and then reached out their halberds to hook the target or even directly hit the enemy ship and tried to attack the enemy ship.

However, Zhang Yao soon discovered that close combat was not a good option, and even worse...

But seeing the mast-like thing on the enemy warship turning aside, a huge boulder fell from the sky with a "boom".

Suddenly, the Chu army warships that approached were smashed into a big hole, and some of them even lost their balance and capsized the ship.

Seeing this, Zhang Yao couldn't help but change his face and asked:

"What is that? It is so powerful?"

But no one on the side of the guard can answer.

That is actually the "stick".

This racket rod is also called a lifting rod. Its structure is very simple, that is, one end of the beam stands on the battleship and the other end is tied with a boulder and tied with a rope.

When an enemy ship approaches, turn it to the direction of the enemy ship and put it down...

This is something unique to the Song Dynasty. The historical record reads: "The official boat will be broken when the pole is set aside."

Shen Bing used it to prevent close combat.

Zhang Yao had a headache:

The bow fight can't fight melee and can't make it. How can this fight be fought?

So had to hurriedly ordered the withdrawal of troops.