Just after Huang Tianxiang and others started to attack Xiaopingjin, Liu Rengui immediately ordered warships to support in the direction of Xiaopingjin after receiving the news.
Huang Tianxiang and the others launched their attack in the middle of the night. By the time Liu Rengui received the news and organized his troops to set out, the sky had already started to feel a bit bright.
Moreover, not long after Liu Rengui set out, he already encountered Han Shizhong, a stumbling block. From this, a vigorous water battle began.
Liu Rengui was a man who was both civil and military. He could fight on the battlefield when he was on his horse, and he could govern a side when he was off his horse. During the Tang Dynasty, Liu Rengui was not only a famous general who fought in all directions, but also served as a prime minister.
During the reign of Emperor Gaozong of the Tang Dynasty, in the first year of Longshuo, Liu Rengui led the governor of Fangzhou to inspect the school, joined forces with the Xinluo soldiers, defeated the Baekje army at the mouth of the Xiongjin River, and relieved the siege of Liu Renyuan, the general of Baekje Prefecture.
The next year, he and Liu Renyuan defeated Baekje in the east of Xiongjin. When he was alone and without support, he persuaded his troops to observe the changes, wait for the opportunity to pull out several fences, and capture the fortress Jinhyeonseong.
In the third year of Longshuo, Liu Rengui led his navy to defeat the Japanese troops who were rescuing Baekje at the mouth of the Baijiang River and burned 400 of their boats. After Baekje was defeated, Liu Rengui was ordered to stay in Baekje. He built fields and trained soldiers in order to capture Goguryeo.
In the third year of Qianfeng's reign, he assisted Sikong Li Ji to destroy Goguryeo, and in the fifth year of Xianheng, he led his army to attack Silla. The following year, he defeated the seventh city of Silla's important town. He also sent Mohe's army across the sea to attack the southern border of Silla, killing many people.
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Liu Rengui is definitely a famous general of the generation, and his achievements in water warfare are quite extraordinary. However, Han Shizhong, one of the four generals of ZTE, is obviously not easy to mess with, and his ability in water warfare is also not bad.
As the warships from both sides continued to approach, crossbows and bows and arrows began to fly out from each ship. Suddenly, the sky was densely filled with arrows, and the buzzing bow strings vibrated or broke the wind.
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The generals of the two sides were not much inferior to each other in terms of command. At this time, the gap in military strength began to show up. There was only half the strength of the other side. Therefore, Han Shizhong's side obviously suffered a great disadvantage in the long-range crossbow duel.
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Fortunately, the damage caused by bows and arrows to the warship seems to be minimal. Even if the rockets are fired, the soldiers on the warship will immediately extinguish them with SARS. Unless these weapons can directly hit the enemy on the ship.
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"Line up in a cone formation, step forward to engage the enemy!" Since long-range shooting could not establish an advantage, Han Shizhong had no choice but to engage in close combat.
As Han Shizhong's order was issued, the ordering soldiers around him immediately stood at the highest point of the battleship, waving the command flags in their hands, conveying Han Shizhong's order to the soldiers on other surrounding battleships.
"Send the order, prepare to join the battle!" Liu Rengui looked at Han Shizhong's troops who were charging to kill, and ordered with a somewhat solemn tone.
After a brief confrontation, Liu Rengui had clearly judged that the naval general he was fighting against was definitely a very difficult guy and definitely not that easy to deal with.
It stands to reason that when you only have half of your own troops, you generally shouldn't launch a melee battle so easily. After all, in "fighting the deck", the side with more people often has a greater advantage. But Han Shizhong actually did this.
Liu Rengui couldn't help but want to think more.
However, Liu Rengui had nothing to fear. After all, he could command twice as many troops as the opponent. Moreover, Liu Rengui was already full of fighting spirit to encounter such an opponent who was skilled in water warfare in the north.
The warships of both sides gradually approached, from fifty feet to thirty feet, from thirty feet to twenty feet, ten feet
Han Shizhong looked at the distance between the two sides getting closer and closer, and coldly issued the order "prepare to use the racket". Since Han Shizhong dared to rush forward to prepare for a close combat when his troops were at a disadvantage, he was naturally well prepared.
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The racket attack uses the principle of leverage. Its device is probably to build a horizontal bar-shaped shelf two or three feet high on both sides of the ship's edge, with a pole about eight or nine feet long running across it; one end of the pole,
Usually a conical iron block weighing several hundred kilograms or a boulder is hung.
When the warships from both sides get close, it's time to unleash this killer weapon.
When the iron cone on the racket stick hits the deck or side of an enemy ship from a height of several feet, it can often achieve an unexpected effect. With these ancient wooden war weapons, as long as it hits a vital part, even dozens of people can hit it.
Even a ship with a displacement of 100,000 tons cannot withstand a few waves.
When using the racket stick as an attack method, your own warship will also suffer "recoil", so the racket stick usually appears in a symmetrical posture, and the larger the ship, the greater the safety factor of using the racket stick.
Water warfare weapons like the racket first appeared in the late Western Jin Dynasty, but they were researched in advance by Li Xiang during the Three Kingdoms era. After all, the racket has little technological content, as long as the general principle is known
, a few more experiments will be enough to figure it out.
"Boom!" As the ships of both sides connected, the racket pole fell heavily. The pole, which was about eight feet long, was pulled by the iron vertebrae weighing several hundred kilograms and slammed into Liu Rengui's warship.
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In an instant, several small enemy warships had their bows smashed into pieces, and several battleships were smashed to pieces. The soldiers on board were also in a panic.
With the help of the cypress pole, a water warfare weapon that had never appeared before, Han Shizhong immediately caused a big loss to Liu Rengui, a famous general of the generation who was also good at water warfare.
The only pity is that this cypress pole is inconvenient to operate, and it takes a certain amount of time after each attack to launch the next effective attack.
In addition, the position of the fulcrum of the shooting pole is difficult to control. Once it is too high, the drop of the boulder is limited and the impact is not strong; when the cable on the windlass is loosened, if the enemy ship cannot be hit, it may even be hit.
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"Send the order, all warships collide, fight side by side, and board the enemy warships with all your strength!" Liu Rengui ordered with an ugly face while silently calculating the losses caused by Han Shizhong's attack.
As long as he could board the enemy's warship, no matter how sharp the enemy's attack just now was, it would be in vain. Similarly, Liu Rengui was also carefully observing the situation of the cypress poles on Han Shizhong's side of the warship.
As a famous general of the generation, Liu Rengui immediately realized that he had to find ways to learn things like the Cypress pole. After all, Liu Rengui had already been deeply impressed by the power of this thing after the round of attacks just now.
