"The commander...the warship, the warship was hit by tinder oil..."

He looked in the direction of the Chief of Staff and rushed to the front of the warship, which had already ignited a raging fire.

Because of the wooden deck of the warship and the splashing stubble everywhere, the huge warship turned into a huge fireball floating on the water in just a blink of an eye.

Among the fireballs, soldiers whose bodies were ignited made screams and jumped into the Yangtze River like dumplings.

"It's over, this warship is completely finished, and the soldiers will definitely suffer heavy losses..." When Zhao Yun looked at all this with a serious face, the Chief of Staff's worried words once again reached Zhao Yun's ears...

Faced with this situation, Zhao Yun, who had a solemn look on his face, couldn't help but sigh: "Now it seems that this Yangtze River is not as easy as I thought..."

"I don't find a way to break the turbulent formation of the government army. Now such an attack is no different from a death..."

"I really didn't expect that the stone catapult we had never paid attention to, plus tincture oil, would have such a huge power..."

Speaking of this, a trace of unprecedented serious expression appeared on Zhao Yun's face. He decisively ordered the Chief of Staff who was anxious beside him: "Retreat the troops... Let the remaining warships retreat immediately... Our mission is to put pressure on the new army of the court on the other side of the Yangtze River. There is no need to fight against them with the lives of the soldiers..."

"Architecture, continue to attack the heavy artillery troops of the government army, and continue to attack the heavy artillery troops of the government army, until they have no temper..."

In this way, the roaring war lasted for an hour before it slowly ended.

Soon, a war damage report was sent to Zhao Yun.

The thirteen warships that attacked lost a total of three. As for more than 2,000 soldiers in a regiment, more than 500 people were directly lost. Especially the warships that were directly hit by tinder oil, including the navy soldiers, more than 400 people survived, even the next time they were not even there.

More importantly, more than 100 cannons he drew from the entire army directly lost more than 30 cannons in the emergency artillery attack of the government army.

If more than 100 heavy mortars in the city join the battle in time, the losses of cannons will be even greater.

Of course. Such losses are nothing to love you for the entire Tiger and Leopard Army...

However, this is just a tentative attack on the official army. If even tentative attacks have such huge losses, then in the real decisive battle, the losses of the Tiger and Leopard Army are not greater...

Faced with this situation, Zhao Yun subconsciously showed a gleeful smile with lingering fears on his face...

If the prince Wei Zheng had not decided on his plan and adopted the tactics and tactics of fighting the east and west to defeat Jiangnan. Then he would have to be prepared to fight the Yangtze River with heavy losses and smash the Yangtze River defense line of the official army.

Now, with the prince's plan, the heavy losses that may occur in the attack on the Yangtze River defense line of the official army may not require any effort at this time.

Zhao Yun looked solemnly, while looking at the loss report, thinking about possible broken solutions.

The new general of the imperial army on the south bank of the Yangtze River also showed a very complicated expression on his face.

There are surprises and excitement, as well as solemnity and worry.

Surprise and excitement. There is no doubt... I defeated the Tiger and Leopard Army's attack, and caused considerable losses to the Tiger and Leopard Army's attacking troops, and also destroyed three warships and unknown heavy artillery.

Such a result is a great result for the entire court, not to mention a third-rank new army general of the court who only commanded 5,000 troops.

It is certain that as long as this result is reported to the court, it will not take long for me to go from being a third-rank chief general in the court to becoming a second-rank chief general in the court.

However, the general was full of concern for his future.

Of course, this worry does not mean whether he can be promoted by the court for his military achievements after he arrives in Nanjing.

Instead, it means that with his remaining strength, he can still block the Tiger and Leopard Army's attacks of such a scale.

It should be clear that during this hour-long battle, although the official army under his command repelled the attack of the Tiger and Leopard Army, it also caused a lot of losses to the attacking troops of the Tiger and Leopard Army.

However, as the defensive side, I also paid a very high price.

As a defensive weapon, more than 100 red-clothed cannons have lost nearly half of them.

Although there was no loss in the catapult, in the battle just under an hour, almost three thousand cans of tincture oil were used up in a hundred catapults.

You know, that is not an ordinary jar. As long as you want, you can cook as much as you want.

For the imperial court, jars were easy to burn paper, but tincture oil was difficult to obtain.

After working hard for half a year, almost 30,000 cans of tin oil were stored in this section of defense.

Now, just one tenth of the attack on the Tiger and Leopard Army crossed the river.

At this consumption rate, will these turbulent oil tanks be consumed completely after blocking the Tiger and Leopard Army's ten attacks?

Once you consume all the tincture oil, what defensive weapon do you have to block the attack of the Tiger and Leopard Army in the next defense?

And this is just a loss in equipment.

During an hour of battle, although the soldiers under his command did not have head-on contact with the attacking troops of the Tiger and Leopard Army... However, thousands of defensive soldiers were always under the artillery fire of the Tiger and Leopard Army heavy artillery troops.

I don’t know if there are too many heavy artillery shells in the Tiger and Leopard Army? Or why?

Even though more than ten warships had not been admitted to the south bank of the Yangtze River, the heavy artillery troops of the Tiger and Leopard Army had almost fifty guns from beginning to end, and they kept facing the guns to the defending positions on the south bank of the official army.

Not only that, these more than 50 heavy artillery have also been firing flowering bullets at this position that has defended 5,000 new troops.

Under the continuous attacks of thousands of flowering bullets, the losses of the five thousand new troops cannot be called destructive.

However, even if you don’t die, you will be blown away by so many flowering bullets...

More than 800 soldiers died in battle... More than 400 soldiers completely lost their combat effectiveness...

In other words, the soldiers under their command lost almost one-third of their troops before they actually hit the attacking troops of the Tiger and Leopard Army.

On the surface, the new imperial army used its own endless means to repel the attack of the Tiger and Leopard Army.

However, the new army of the court also suffered heavy losses, and the whole form is not optimistic. It is absolutely not an exaggeration to use the four words "even-match" to describe the two opponents of the Tiger and Leopard Army and the new army of the court...
Chapter completed!