It’s sea ice!

In the charming winter of the sixth year of Apocalypse, cold winds raged inside and outside the Great Wall and across the land of Liaodong. Juehua Island was frozen three feet straight to the bottom of the sea, and Zhangshan Island hung alone in the sea five miles away, and its surroundings were also covered with ice.

An ice floe dozens of paces wide.

This floating ice once exposed the 30,000 soldiers and civilians on the island to the iron hoof of the slave soldiers, but now, it has also become an obstacle to the slave soldiers.

Jiannu's two hundred leather canoes were divided into east and west routes to land on Zhangshan Island. They paddled hard through the icy water and pushed away the large and small ice floes. But as the coast approached, the sea ice became thicker.

Untamable. The ice blocks slowly swam, collided, and rotated under the surging waves and undercurrents. The slave soldiers fought with them with oars and spears, making their steps difficult.

If you rush forward, there will be a thin layer of ice. When the canoe hits, the ice will burst into pieces one after another, blocking the canoe and unable to move. If you dare to jump on, the ice will collapse with a crash. The slave soldiers will

Use spears, axes, and maces to slash your way forward and open channels in the ice.

The speed of the kayak has slowed down, it is closer to the coast, and the arrows fired by the Ming army are more accurate. At this moment, the slave soldiers must raise their shields to cover their heads and faces, pounding the ice with great effort, and advance foot by foot.

The battle fell into a stalemate.

After overcoming the initial panic, the Ming army gradually calmed down and increased their shooting frequency. The archers greeted each other and concentrated on shooting at the leather boat closest to the shore. More than a dozen arrows flew together, and the leather boat was filled with arrows.

There were screams. Occasionally, a lucky arrow would penetrate the gap in the protective plank, puncturing the pigskin air bag and leaking air. Each boat was made of 6 pigskin bundles. If half of them were shot through,

There will be a wonderful scene: five miserable ghosts in a boat scream in unison. The raft under them becomes softer and softer, gradually deforming, and then a surge of ice water rushes in, and finally the churning water splashes over them.

Devour them all.

But at the same time, some slave soldiers struggled all the way to the hard ice area. The Longwu sailors rushed up in a spear formation, using 10 times or 20 times the strength to surround and annihilate the slave soldiers.

The slave soldiers who came ashore all fought bravely, glaring like wolf-like eyes and howling, but their agility was extraordinary. At the moment of joining the formation, they used their shields and swords to resist the spears, jumped in, and slashed at close range.

The spearmen and the sword and shield men on both sides of the Ming army's array - if they were not frightened out of fear, they would rush into the formation with a roar, using their shields and swords to cut and hit with all their might, like crazy.

Every time a group of five slave soldiers is killed, at least five Ming soldiers will be killed!

There was already a lot of fighting on the coast, and the dripping blood was splashed on the white snow and quickly froze. Every living man was chopped down, stabbed down, pierced by projectiles in the roar, and half of his head was smashed by a mace, wailing.

He rolled on the ground and finally lay quietly among the ice, twitching and slowly cooling down.

Sometimes a group of soldiers were fighting fiercely on the edge of the ice. In an instant, the ice exploded, and dozens of men rolled together in the ice water. Almost no one survived. They were all heavily armored, and they wailed and fluttered several times.

Then it sank to the bottom of the sea. Only a few soldiers who happened to be on the edge of the fault were left, watching all of this blankly, and then started to attack another group of enemies as if they were awakened.

There were more and more Ming troops, and all the light infantrymen from the collapsed camp were pressing forward. The blood mist in the air also poured into their chests, stirring their hearts and minds.

But the Ming army's front was retreating - more and more canoes were rushing to land on the beach, and in some places dozens of slave soldiers had gathered to resist. They held an ice area, and they died there one by one.

But there were more canoes rushing towards us from behind.

…

At this time, a new group of soldiers rumbled into the Ming army's formation: they were wearing light gray short cotton-padded clothes, none of them had armor, but they were carrying heavy crossbows in groups...

They are the remnants of the Shandong Denglai Navy, Jin Shiqi's grenadiers.

This time Jin Shiqi learned his lesson and discussed with Cha Yingcai first to put his last strength on the battlefield. Zha Yingcai left General Wei Bai in charge of the labor brigade in the center of the island and dispersed the eight small-banner grenadiers.

Send them to both sides of the Taiwan Strait and add them to the Longwu Hundred-Man Corps.

There were 20 grenadiers in each small flag, carrying five large crossbows and rushing to the ice. Under the cover of several small shields, they kept getting closer and closer. They hurriedly set up the crossbows and measured the distance.

Hearing a loud "click" sound, a fire brick spun and flew out!

In the early morning of the 27th day of the first lunar month of the sixth year of the Apocalypse, the Grenadier's first performance began on the beach of Zhangshan Island in Liaodong.

The first fire brick was thrown 24 steps while spinning, and landed safely on a raft. It did not explode, but it killed a slave archer in the ice water.

Immediately afterwards, dozens of fire bricks were ejected, and the furthest one reached a distance of 30 steps! In an instant, light cyan smoke marks were drawn on the battlefield. The accuracy of the fire brick projection was worse than expected. Jian

The slave's raft was only a few feet wide and was moving. In a round of 5 salvoes, at most one fire brick could hit the target. Only a few of the fire bricks that hit fell into the cabin and burst into flames.

Once it explodes, the effect is really gorgeous! First, the golden light bursts out, and then colorful flames shoot up on the bodies of several men. Then thick smoke rises, and the smell of pig skin floats.

On average, three or five volleys are fired to ignite a raft. The price-performance ratio is quite high.

After the initial panic, the slaves immediately focused on attacking the grenadiers. The slaves were almost born hunters and warriors, and they keenly targeted the targets that aroused the most hatred. Arrows shot over them intensively, and several groups of grenadiers immediately came.

They all fell on their backs. There were also some slave soldiers who came ashore. They withstood the first round of siege and rushed out to kill the grenadiers.

The on-site officers of the Ming army immediately called for reinforcements to stop them, and then sent infantrymen holding large shields to protect the front of the crossbow throwing position, carrying large shields on their shoulders to withstand rounds of arrows.

At this moment, the Ming army formed an array, with the chief officer Zha Yingcai guarding the banner in the center of the beach, the team leader Wei Guangliang guarding the center of the island, Jin Shijun guarding the west coast, the great Jin Shiqi guarding the east coast, and Tian Shuguang in the middle to provide support.

At this moment, Jin Shiqi was standing on the beach with a sword, a bow and an arrow on his back, and a few soldiers. He roughly counted that 20% of Jiannu's canoes had been destroyed in the ice floe area, and 40% were still struggling to move forward in the ice water.

Forty percent of the people have already come ashore - half are killing people and half have been killed.

But at this moment, the Ming army's array has reached the peak of its load. The weak light infantry can only support it in sections. Feng Hu in the back is already killing deserters. The front is relying on Longwu's sailors.

They took turns rushing to the most dangerous areas, fighting non-stop everywhere.

Jin Shiqi lamented: "Damn! I'm so busy like a whack-a-mole!"

At this time, someone exclaimed: "A ship is coming!"

Jin Shiqi hurriedly looked over and saw that there were actually two ships on the northern sea, sailing out of the morning mist, sails spread out and breaking through the waves. The ships did not fly the Ming Dynasty's Suzaku gold flag, nor the Navy's blue sea flag.

Many people had discovered the ship and were speculating on its identity. The ships were sand ships of the Ming Navy, but they came from Juehua Island... Jin Shiqi's heart suddenly sank, and he remembered -

—Those two sand boats are from the six boats previously hidden on Juehua Island!

There were clearly soldiers on the boat. Although it was at least 2 miles away, it was gradually clear that there were densely packed people on it. Jin Shiqi thought desperately about how the slave soldiers pushed the boat into the water. Yes, Zha Yingcai said that

The shape of the sand ship is rather evil...the most terrifying thing is that it can rush onto the ice floe, directly into the hard ice area, and unload the ship full of people!….

At least 100 slave soldiers can be crowded on a ship! The combat effectiveness and fighting will of the slave soldiers are very beasts. On the current floating ice area, 10 slave soldiers can stand firm, and 30 slave soldiers can control a large area of ​​ice.

layer, now we need to transport 100 of them at a time, which will turn the tide of the war!

Sure enough, when the Jian slaves on the beach saw the arrival of reinforcements, they immediately shouted wildly. The two groups of slave soldiers fought their way out of the encirclement, joined together to form a circular formation of nearly 50 people, and were pushing towards the shore. The Ming army

But they gradually became panicked, and several hundred generals screamed and summoned the Longwu sailors to go and kill them. Unfortunately, there were only 600 sailors, and only half of them were assigned to this beach. So far, less than 200 have been able to fight hard.

Finally hearing the sound of firecrackers, Master Tian arrived with the last team of 30 firecrackers. Jin Shiqi rushed over aggressively, grabbed his arm and shouted: "Look at the good things you did, that ship is

Your baby! Didn’t you smash the boat when you retreated?"

Master Tian said angrily: "I chiseled it! They must have repaired it again!"

"That's unreasonable!" Jin Shiqi said angrily, "Zha Shoubo said it would take half a month to repair a boat, why did they launch it on the same day!"

Master Tian shook him off: "I did chisel it, the ship's planks were dismantled, and the keel and ribs were broken."

"Ha!" Jin Shiqi was so angry that he pointed at the two sand boats that were rushing towards the sea with the wind, "Then why are they sailing so happily, but they are sinking!"

As soon as he finished speaking, he suddenly saw a boat swaying slightly and tilting a little. He looked anxiously at the slave soldiers on the boat running around in a panic. The boat was gradually getting lower and lower on the sea.

Jin Shiqi's mind went blank. He stared blankly at the astonishing scene a mile away, with his hand still pointing over there. In an instant, the ship half-rotated on the spot and sank! Jin Shiqi turned around and said to

Looking at the battlefield on the east coast, he roared like a thunder god: "I did that!"

An enemy ship actually sank!

On the coast, the Ming army was so excited that they all screamed wildly! It was like a sign from God, like a blessing from the gods!

"Press up!" "Press them all up!" the officers roared. "Kill!" "Cut your ass off!" "You're so stupid!" the soldiers screamed. The Fire Gun Team finally completed a charge.

They were equipped and fired at the dense array of Jiannu, and the smoke was blown all over the bloody coast by the north wind.

Jin Shiqi stared at the other boat, pointing at it with his finger and chanting wildly. But the boat was very strong and was rushing towards Jin Shiqi's continuous curses. The Ming army on the coast had already fallen into a crazy fight, and everyone understood

:The battle must be resolved before the boat washes ashore.

In the howling north wind, the ship was sailing very fast. It had avoided the front coast and came to the east of Jin Shiqi. There was a long wave trail behind the ship, and the sound of the horn on the ship seemed to signal a decisive battle.

signal. When it arrived outside the east coast, the soldiers on the ship were seen busy pulling on the cables and sails. At the same time, the ship turned crookedly to the west, with dozens of oars around it turning wildly and diagonally.

Rush to the shore.

The fighting on the shore has become fierce. Hundreds of Ming troops have surrounded the last 30 Jiannu slaves, and are killing them. The grenadiers also used fire bricks, lit them, rushed up and threw them into the formation, where they suddenly

There was a ball of fire.

The encirclement tightened little by little, blood poured out from the feet of the soldiers, and scraps of meat and severed limbs flew above the heads of the crowd. The swords and spears finally intertwined, drowning the last few stubborn slave soldiers. Then,

A roar like a tsunami erupted on the beach!

But on the ice beside them, there were still the last 30 or so slave soldiers in canoes struggling to dig the ice ashore, and sporadic slave soldiers were already coming from all directions. On the sea, the big sand boat carried

More than a hundred heavily armored Jiannu heavy infantrymen were breaking through the waves.

The waves rolled on the straight bow of the ship, and it broke through the heavy ice and crashed into the ice!

"Form up!" Jin Shiqi brandished his sword and roared, "Decisive battle!"
Chapter completed!