At the top of Jiangling City, a large flag with the words embroidered in common leaned against the battlements, which was full of holes. Several Han soldiers walked along the corpses of the city, one of them raised the Han army flag on the top of the city, and the other picked up the large flag and threw it under the city.

The big crow fell to the city, covering the corpses with broken legs in front of the door hole. Among the piles of corpses were both Han army and Linjiang soldiers, which showed how fierce the battle for the city gate was before.

On the river surface outside the south gate of Jiangling City, there were countless ships that were stranded and stranded on the adjacent banks. Most of the navy in Linjiang were annihilated by the Bashu Navy of the Han army during this battle, but a small part of them fled with Gongwei Shunjiang a few days ago.

Liu Jia stood at the top of the city, looked at the rolling river, and ordered coldly: "The entire army pursues the Linjiang army, and will surely wipe out the Linjiang army."

"General...Isn't this city a place to be stationed?" asked the gentry general next to Liu Jia in confusion.

"Only two thousand soldiers and twenty marshals can be left to guard the garrison. The 50,000 army of Zhou Yin is coming from Xiangyang. The Gong family and his son have been in Linjiang for many years, and they are intricate. Only by killing the Gongwei and his pseudo royal family can we issue an edict to all counties in Linjiang. Otherwise, one city will conquer and one city will send troops to garrison."

"But what if someone takes the opportunity to seize the city."

"If an enemy is coming to Jiangling, the enemy can only be Xiang Yu's army, then they will collide with us head-on on the river. Even if they come from Yunmengze in a small boat, brave the sun, wind and rain, and travel hundreds of miles from Yunmengze, they will be intercepted by our crafts outside Jiangling City. The craftsman dealt with these small boats like cutting watermelons. Don't think too much, go and send orders!"

"promise!"

Amid the drums and whistles, some of the Han soldiers began to board the remaining ships in the water battle one after another, and the other was marching down the river along the bank of the Yangtze River.

...

Almost at the same time as the Han army conquered Jiangling, twenty centipede ships, thirty ships, twelve tower ships, and hundreds of large troop transport ships also set off from Jiangxia under the leadership of Xiang Yu. The fleet had newly equipped three thousand new camp soldiers from Cangwu County.

The fleet had only sailed for more than a hundred miles and found a large number of ships on the river ahead. Xiang Yu's flagship quickly played flags and the ships quickly formed a battle formation. When the two fleets approached, they found that it was the fleet of Gongwei.

Soon the two fleets leaned against the shore together. Xiang Yu, following a large number of personal guards, boarded a tower ship in Linjiang Kingdom. He went to visit the Gongwei who was injured by an arrow.

"Thank you for your help, the king said weakly.

"The King of Linjiang only cares about raising his injuries and illnesses, and I will seek justice for you." Xiang Yu said while checking the injury of Gongwei. Based on Xiang Yu's lifetime experience, he knew that according to the current medical conditions, Gongwei had been sentenced to death.

"Xiao Wang regrets that Linjiang did not send troops to Xi Chu to assist the king."

"Don't mention the past."

Gongwei suddenly thought of something important and said to Xiang Yu:

"Now, the Bashu Han army has about 50,000, and is advancing along the water and land. We are coming closely behind me. We are now at the mouth of Dongting Lake. I hope the king will prepare early. Xiao Wang also brought more than 10,000 remaining soldiers and 200 ships of all sizes and large numbers, all relying on the overlord to dispatch it."

Xiang Yu comforted Gongwei a few more words before leaving. He ordered only twenty centipede ships, three hundred boats and other small boats, carrying three thousand shield and sword heavy infantry, three hundred system storm archers, five hundred reclamation soldiers and crossbowmen, and two hundred martial soldiers and soldiers coming from Xia Yue.

All the other ships and soldiers retreated to Jiangxia and asked the order soldiers to bring a warrant to Xia Yue.

After watching the fleet return to Jiangxia, Xiang Yu ordered indifferently: "The remaining ships rushed into Yunmengze and advanced towards Jiangling in the west."

...

The centipede ship sailed in the east wind to break through the waves in the cloudsweep. Xiang Yu looked at the vast ocean siege with a total area of ​​about one third of the Bohai Sea, and his heart was surging. Unlike the sea, you can often see large areas of wild water lily duckweed in shallow water. These water lilies play the role of natural beacon lights.

The heavy rains lasted for several days saved the soldiers on the small boats from the sun, but they were soaked. However, it was summer, and it was not only uncomfortable to be wet.

As the journey from the previous marching along the river line to the route from Yunmengze to Jiangling straight from Yunmengze, the distance was greatly reduced. After sailing west for a day and night, it was approaching Jiangling City. Yunmengze here suddenly deepened, with an average depth of four or five meters, which was no different from ordinary lakes, and ships could gallop with confidence and boldness.

...

The twenty large ships in Jiangling City were divided into two teams, one patrolling the river water, and the other patrolling the Yunmengze.

In the Yunmengze waters northwest of Jiangling City, a boat quickly moved closer to a boat flagship. The soldiers boarded the boat from the boat and then said to the navy captain on the boat: "Report to the master, dozens of unknown small boats were found five miles eastward."

"Only small boats?"

"Report to the general, there are only small boats in the ship we found. To the west is a large shallow water area, and even large ships cannot drive."

"Send an order to take back all the surveillance boats and set up formations to prepare for war."

"promise!"

Under the flagship flagship, the ten ships lined up in a row, with a wide spacing. This is a frontal impact formation, specifically designed to deal with groups of small boats.

Soon, little boats appeared on the horizontal line in the West. The Han Navy Captain smiled on his face. Such small boats were here to send people to their heads and military merits, and they were not afraid of any number of them. Through frontal impact and side shooting, you can slaughter at will.

But soon his expression turned into surprise, because more than twenty strange-shaped ships rushed out from behind the small boats.

Then his surprised expression turned into surprise. When the twenty strange ships approached, they found that they were not small in size and suddenly began to accelerate. The dense long oars on both sides of the hull were flying up and down neatly, stirring up rolling white waves, and the hull seemed to fly. The speed was about the same as a dragon boat.

"Quick, order to change the formation and prepare for the battle on the side." The captain knew that he could not confront him head-on, so he ordered decisively. Not long after he finished speaking, a loud bang, and a centipede ship had already crashed into the hull of the flagship from the side.

The captain suddenly lost his center of gravity and fell heavily on the seriously tilted deck. At this time, the side of the ship was hit by the corner of the centipede ship and the large hole was broken into the hull. A large amount of lake water poured into the hull.

The other five warships also suffered the same fate. The other two were broken by armor-breaking crossbow guns fired by the centipede ship and began to slowly sink. Seeing that the situation was not good, the remaining two had already turned the bow and fled eastward. But they were soon caught up by four centipede ships.
Chapter completed!