The three water forces that protected the upper reaches of Jinghu Lake, the deputy commander of Jinghu, the deputy commander of Jinghu, the three water forces that protected the upper reaches of Jinghu Lake were controlled by the commander along the river. Shi Songzhi took over the command power at the beginning of the war. After the war, Shi Songzhi gave the Jinghu Lake the first order to defend the water surface of Ezhou, and not allow the Mongolian army to cross the Yangtze River, or go elsewhere through the water surface of Ezhou.

Or Shi Jian was in good intentions, because the other two naval forces were responsible for the river surface far exceeding the Jinge Naval Army. This was because the Jinge Naval Army had rushed into the army. After only a few months of training and sorting, Shi Songzhi couldn't figure out the real combat power of this naval army, so he had to arrange for them to sweep the snow in front of the door first, and not to take into account the disasters of his family for the time being. But to be honest, even if this task was done, did the Jinge Naval Army still have a good place. At the beginning of the war, they were busy setting up defensive water drainage in Ezhou, burying picket obstacles in the river water, and blocking the Tongtong wholeheartedly

The waterway towards Dongting Lake. Most of the Jinge naval army are fishermen from Dongting. To be fair, it is natural for them to arrange their defense in their villages so actively, but they spent too much energy on the defense of the waterway to Dongting, but they did not provide minimum assistance to Zhangda Lake in the north of the river. In addition, the Fuzhou governor neglected his duties and did not seriously formulate a plan to clear the fields. As a result, the fishermen in the Zhangda Lake area did not have time to evacuate. When Zhang Rou broke into the Zhangda Lake area, he kidnapped all the fishing boats, which became the biggest disaster for the entire river defense plan.

The Jing-E Navy's inactive attitude towards the evacuation of Zhangdahu was also due to the conflict between Dongting fishermen and Zhangdahu fishermen in daily competition for fishing catches. In this era, discipline could not prevent the infiltration of private feelings. Especially when Zheng Yunming encouraged a large number of clans in the village to join the army, it invisibly encouraged the subtle role of regional factors in the war. Shi Songzhi also wrote a letter to blame the Jing-E Navy commander Peng Man for the incident of Zhangda fishing boat being robbed, but Peng Man was obviously helpless.

So they had to bear the consequences of ignoring the life and death of their neighbors and trying to protect themselves. The Mongolian army used these tens of thousands of fishing boats as tools to go north along the Han River, received Mongolian cavalry near Xiangyang, and then went downstream to reinforce Zhang Rou's troops in Huangzhou, and jointly encircled Huangzhou.

The mission of Peng Man and the Jinge Navy was to intercept Mongolian military ships from the upstream here no matter what, and no ship could allow them to arrive in Huangzhou. But for the newly born Jinge Navy, this task seemed difficult to complete.

Compared with the tens of thousands of ships of the Mongolian army, the number of warships of the Jinge Navy is too small. Although they are all carefully built warships, the combat effectiveness of warships in this era did not exceed that of civilian ships. The first element of water warfare is the warships of soldiers. For the Jinge Navy, which failed to dispatch large warships from Dongting Lake in time, it was simply a drop in the bucket to block tens of thousands of enemy ships with dozens of light warships.

In order to try to stop the enemy troops heading east of Shunjiang, corresponding tactics must be designed.

At this time, Peng Man convened generals of the army to hold a small meeting on the shore, with the purpose of putting a final emphasis on the previously announced tactics before the war.

"There are many Tartar boats, and we will definitely not be able to stop us from the front." Peng Man used branches to draw the route of the Yangtze River on the sand: "The enemy ships went down thousands of times, without any formation, but they drifted towards Huangzhou. Although the fishing boats were short in size, they were actually made of miscellaneous wood. The hull was bulky and not as convenient as our ships. My oar boats had ten oarers to arrange. The Mongolians were not used to using oars, and the speed of the boats was not as fast as our army. Therefore, our army's tactic was to not face the enemy from the front. Instead, we hid in the upper reaches of the Yangtze River. After a large number of fishing boats coming from the Han River crossed the Chaoskou, our army immediately raised its sails and pursued the enemy ships with wind and water. We chased the slow enemy ships on the river until the enemy was wiped out."

He put the branches in his hand and asked, "What else do you don't understand?"

No one raised objections. The officers of these naval army were all prepared generals drawn from the Deputy Chief Commander of Jinge. They were good at land warfare but knew nothing about water warfare. Zheng Yunming also asked Zhao Kui to add some experienced officers from the Ezhou naval army to serve as a guide. However, after the war last year, all troops were strengthening their own strength, and no one was willing to draw combat backbones to reinforce others. Moreover, Zheng Yunming was worried that the officers drawn from other naval army would have the common timid, corruption and laziness in the Song army. Once they were infected by them, this new army might also fall quickly. However, the result of the officers who had no experience in water warfare in the entire naval army was that the soldiers and some officers in this army knew how to sail and watch the wind, while most other officers were proficient in land warfare, but no one knew how to really fight on the water.

They only rely on the ten so-called water war rules issued by Zheng Yunming, and the first one of the rules is: In case of water wars, one must have the upper hand in the upper reaches. The meaning of upwind and upsurge is by no means empty so-called momentum, but because of its advantage in mobility and speed, the navy can take the initiative in the upper hand and upsurge. They have the power to freely choose the battle and what kind of battles to fight. Just like the tough cavalry targeting slow-moving infantry brigades. If Peng Man rolled dozens of small ships on the river in accordance with the usual tactics of the Song army's navy, he welcomed the

The large number of enemy fishing boats that came from the upstream not only moved slowly, but also exposed their own number disadvantages. After the Mongolian army used a few fishing boats to restrain the Jing-E naval army, the other ships could still be loaded with soldiers and generals downstream through the Ezhou river. The best way is to wait for a large number of enemy ships to pass through the Chaokou, just like the Peng Man commander, and wait for a large number of enemy ships to pass through the Chaokou, the Jing-E naval army suddenly emerged from the rear, taking advantage of the clumsy and slow weakness of the fishing boats loaded with soldiers, and opened the wind and sailed the Mongolian ships from the rear, chasing them all the way until they killed the enemy.

This is the best way they can think of at present.

Peng Man continued: "Once you find that all the enemy troops pass through the Chaokou, the entire army will immediately pursue. Twenty water-sentenced horses are as vanguards, forty paddling boats are as the central army, and five iron-headed boats are on both wings are under the formation. Commander Zhang led thirty plyboats behind the hall, and the entire army will be fully raised. Be sure to annihilate all the enemy troops before the enemy ship arrives in Huangzhou!"

He stood up, and all the generals stood up. Peng Man looked around and frowned. In the morning, Zhang Lian was invited by a familiar customer in Ezhou City to have a drink. Peng Man could only turn a blind eye and let him go. However, Zhang Lian had not returned yet, so he could only send someone to find him.

One of the preparatory generals asked, "President Zhang is not here, who will take the plywood boat?"

Peng Man pointed at Zhang Weixiao: "I am not on my son, so the young general leads the plywood boat."

Zhang Weixiao just nodded silently and said nothing. His few months of working together could not completely dispel his dissatisfaction with the government, although he was already a member of the government army in any aspect.

Peng Man wanted to give a few more words, but suddenly a series of tight and urgent gongs sounded from where the warships were mooring. Peng Man hurried to the river and looked out. The river was dotted with stars, all with white sails, hundreds of boats competing for the current, thousands of Mongolian fishing boats were carrying black flags and black armored soldiers, slowly coming towards the Chaokou.

"It's coming so fast." Peng Man exclaimed: "If we had a day earlier, our army would have been caught off guard."

He turned to face everyone and shouted: "According to the arrangement, let the enemy ships go first, and our army covers the enemy's ships from behind. Let's go and prepare and act according to the orders!"

The generals made a promise and immediately dispersed and boarded their own command ships. The military discipline of the Jing-E navy was still well maintained because it inherited the tradition of Zheng Yunming's army. After the soldiers went to war, they did not apply for any special application. After the main general released the battle notice, they even held their positions in turn and were ready to enter the battle situation at any time.

Peng Man boarded his command ship. Originally, when he was commanding the generals, he was always used to leading the way. Because most of the shooters, he was in the front row and would greatly suppress the morale of the enemy. At this time, as the commander of the navy, he still maintained this habit. Originally, the standard command ship should be the only medium-sized warship in the entire fleet - a four-car ship "Yushan". But Peng Man handed over the command to the deputy general, and he took his personal soldiers and general flags to board an iron harrier ship commanded by the front army. He was still used to taking arrows and stones on the front line. Even if it was a water battle, the generals would still be effective in charging forward.

The Jinge Navy was scattered on the sandbank on the river bank and waiting, watching thousands of fishing boats slowly descending the Yangtze River and heading towards Huangzhou. The Mongolian army did not fail to find that these hundreds of Song army warships were about to rush, but they were only concerned about rushing, leaving only about a hundred fishing boats moored at the river estuary, monitoring these dormant Song army warships.

Once he saw the Mongol fishing boats sailing across the river estuary, Peng Man immediately issued an order to set sail. The Song army warships put away the stone anchors and used poles to support the ships off the river bank. They hung sails and rushed towards the direction of the Chaokou.

The Jinge Navy's fleet still could not skillfully arrange its formation today, so it had to move forward in order in waves. The forward was a water whistle horse ship as a harassing team. Peng Man himself led the forty oars as the main force to advance, and Zhang Weixiao led the slid ship to haul the back. The three fleets were about a hundred feet away and rushed towards the river mouth.

When the Mongolian army saw the Song navy coming in a fierce manner, more than 100 fishing boats guarding the river mouth also left the river bank and came to the middle of the river to intercept them. They didn't talk about any formation and cooperated, but the soldiers on the ship rowed hard and approached the Song army's ship desperately.
Chapter completed!