Taming beasts starts with understanding bird language

After Gu Chan finished scolding Xu Ziguang, she suppressed her anger and left the patrol office and went back to the lord's mansion to rest.

She was indeed not comfortable being held in the small courtyard of the patrol office during this period. Only after returning to the lord's mansion could she lie comfortably on the bed and sleep soundly.

Early the next morning, before daybreak, Xu Ziguang quickly sent people to various places in Jiangnan City to post notices. According to Gu Chan's strategy, the tragedy of the massacre of the entire Censorate was shifted to the enemy country. However, as to which country this enemy was, there was no clear explanation in the notice.

Everyone just made their own guesses.

As early as last night, Xu Ziguang wrote hundreds of secret letters overnight and sent people to deliver them to all the members of the Second Prince's party in various places in Jiangnan.

So at this moment, everyone has understood that the culprit behind the massacre in the Censorate's Mansion was the Crown Prince, not Gu Chan, which also changed everyone's attitude towards Gu Chan.

However, the problem is that today is the day for the military exercise agreed upon by Gu Chan and Zuo Wangfeng, and everyone has chosen to watch, wanting to see who will win and who will lose in this first battle. Only then will they consider whether to continue to stand with Gu Chan to fight against the prince, or to quickly find a way to get away.

Gu Chan knew exactly what these people were thinking, but she didn't care. She just pretended not to care and continued to wait quietly in the lord's mansion.

On the other side, on the Tiancang River.

Shortly after dawn, Shuiyue led more than 30 warships and a total of more than 10,000 troops southward along the waterway, intending to rush into the tributary Jiangnan River, and then use the advantage of water warfare to directly attack Jiangnan City.

However, what she didn't expect was that Gu Chan had already set up an ambush at the intersection of Tiancang River and Jiangnan River.

Just look, more than an hour later, when Shuiyue led the warship to the intersection.

"Aim at their warships."

Yan Kuan, who had been lying in ambush for a long time, could no longer wait. As soon as he saw the enemy warships show up, he waved his hand and shouted orders.

"Boom, boom, boom, boom..."

Following his order, a series of loud explosions were heard from the twenty warships lying in ambush at the intersection.

The cannons mounted on the warships fired shells crazily at the approaching enemy warships, which then began to explode, and Shuiyue was caught off guard.

As she had never seen such a powerful weapon, she had no idea how to fight back and could only order archers to shoot arrows to counterattack. However, because the warships were full of holes blown by the shells, many of them quickly took on water and began to slowly sink.

The archers standing on these warships had no mood to continue shooting arrows in retaliation. They all jumped into the water and swam towards the shore.

Yan Kuan stood on the bow of his warship, laughed and said, "She is the best female general in Kyoto! With such little strength, she dares to lead troops to attack Jiangnan City? I think she is too arrogant."

"General, are we still fighting? I think they can't hold on any longer!" a deputy general stepped forward and asked.

Yan Kuan laughed and said, "How can you not hold on? Didn't the previous round of bombardment only destroy four or five of their ships? They have more than 30 warships! Don't underestimate them, continue the second round of bombardment."

"Yes, General." The deputy general said, trying not to laugh.

After saying that, he immediately ran over and gave orders to the soldiers on the ship to reload the second round of shells, and soon started the second round of shelling.

Shuiyue was already confused by the first round of bombardment. When the second round came, she was completely stunned and had no power to fight back at all.

In desperation, she could only yell, "Quick, retreat, retreat!"

"General, it's too late. The several warships we sunk have blocked the river. Now all the warships are squeezed together, and it's impossible to smoothly exit this tributary river. Moreover, the water of the Tiancang River is already very turbulent after flowing into the tributary, and it has been pushing our ships downstream." The deputy general explained with a bitter face.

Shuiyue opened his eyes wide, looking at the shells flying towards him, and he was completely in despair.

No matter how strong she is, under such circumstances, she alone cannot save the lives of tens of thousands of soldiers!

Fortunately, Gu Chan's men were only shelling their ships and not targeting the tens of thousands of soldiers under her command, otherwise, countless soldiers would have been killed and injured in the first round of shelling.

The deputy general exclaimed, "No wonder Gu Chan dared to go against the prince. It turns out that he already possessed such a powerful weapon. It seems that we have lost the first offensive and defensive battle today. General, hoist the white flag and admit defeat!"

"Hang the white flag? You are insulting me. Order all soldiers to drive the warships forward. We must ram and sink their warships." Shuiyue roared with gritted teeth.

"General, don't be impulsive!" the deputy general begged.

Shuiyue's eyes narrowed, and she suddenly reached out and pulled out the long sword from her waist, and with a single swipe she killed the loyal deputy general, and then she kicked the deputy general into the water.

The soldiers were stunned where they were, unable to believe their eyes.

Shuiyue held the bloody long knife and said sternly, "Charge forward! Anyone who dares to disobey the military order will be killed without mercy."

"Yes, General." The soldiers were frightened and quickly responded.

Then everyone followed her instructions and drove the warships that had not been sunk yet, rushing towards the twenty warships led by Yan Kuan.

Seeing this, Yan Kuan laughed so hard that he couldn't close his mouth and said, "Originally, the distance was far, so it was really hard to aim. I didn't expect the enemy to sail the warship towards us. Wouldn't it be easier to aim?"

"I guess the enemy general was beaten by us without any chance to fight back, so he wanted to rush over to ram our ship and die with us!" said the deputy general.

"That's exactly what I want. Let's continue with the third round of bombardment. This time, aim carefully and sink all their warships." Yan Kuan gave the order coldly.

The deputy general responded respectfully and immediately organized a third round of artillery fire.

And not surprisingly, as Shuiyue led the warships closer and closer, the soldiers on Yan Kuan's side aimed more and more accurately. After the third round of shelling, more than a dozen enemy warships were blown up and sank. The soldiers on the warships jumped into the water and swam to the shore on both sides to escape.

After the fourth, fifth, and sixth rounds of shelling, all the thirty-odd warships led by Shuiyue were blown and sunk into the water, blocking the already narrow river channel.

Many soldiers were floating in the water holding a piece of wood, which was a very funny scene.

Shuiyue was protected by several deputy generals and escaped unwillingly in a small boat.