Chapter 4024 Lure the enemy to pursue the former army.
Liu Daogui's eyes flashed coldly, and he said in a deep voice: "Yes, that's it. The Pheasant Tail Torch is very powerful. It's a small weapon that can defeat a large force, and a weak weapon can defeat a strong weapon. However, it can only be fired from a long distance, and it has to hit from the side.
Otherwise, even if you can fire it with a ballista, if it hits an enemy ship a hundred steps away, it will fall on its deck and not cause much damage."
Having said this, he looked at Tan Daoji: "Daoji, do you still remember how we defeated Huan Chu's five-tooth warships?"
Tan Daoji laughed: "Of course I remember, Brother Daogui and I were on the same boat at that time. We rowed with all our strength and sprinted. Regardless of the flying arrows and stones in the sky, we rushed past the side of the enemy ship.
At that time, we raised our sharp swords and spears in the air, cutting off the oars on the side of the enemy ship, and then their five-tooth warship lost the power to move forward and started spinning on the water."
Liu Zunkao also followed up and said: "Yes, Brother Daogui, your more than 20 fast boats quickly cut off the enemy's oars, while the warships we followed behind jumped on board to fight hand-to-hand with the enemy.
Or you can directly use rockets to greet enemy ships. In this water battle, if there is no oar, it becomes a target without the ability to move and can be attacked at will."
Cai Lunzhi said: "But even if the eight-foot giant ship cannot move, it is still a water fortress. Dozens of ballistae and trebuchets, racket poles, hanging stone poles, and iron hooks from the top are just to deal with this kind of situation."
It is too difficult to win a small ship attacking from the side by boarding the ship. However, the pheasant tail torch tactics just now can defeat this huge ship, but..."
Having said this, Cai Lunzhi paused and frowned slightly: "It's still the same old problem. In the process of approaching the enemy ship, I am afraid that many ships will be sunk and many people will be sacrificed."
Speaking of this, Cai Lunzhi said sternly: "Actually, as long as you can get to a position about a hundred steps away from the enemy's giant ship, you can fire this pheasant tail torch with a ballistae and hit the front of the enemy ship, because the deck of the giant ship is too large.
It is high, so the curved front plate is facing us, which is the ship plate with the ferocious monster painted on it, and that is the biggest weakness of the giant ship."
Lu Gui was stunned for a moment, then smiled and said: "Haha, I understand, the front side of the building facing the front is painted with such monsters or monsters. I originally thought it was used to scare people, listen to you
The purpose of saying this is to block the enemy's attack on this position."
Cai Lunzhi smiled slightly: "Yes, this is the same as when we wear a mask and need to use a ghost mask, and the scary ghosts and beasts are painted on the shield, it is the same reason. The less we want the enemy to attack,
, the more these things are painted to scare people. The forward ship or the forward belly is the most vulnerable part of all warships. If it is attacked with a ram or a ram, this is also the easiest weakness. Therefore,
I hope Zhengxi can think carefully about whether to use the Huanglong warship to advance a hundred steps and then focus on firing pheasant tail torches to attack the belly of the enemy's ship?!"
Liu Daogui shook his head: "I remember when we fought with the Huanchu navy, the enemy's five-toothed warships would not be left alone on the river for us to attack the belly of the ship. Several ships would be lined up in front of them.
There are more than ten small and medium-sized warships in order to prevent our army from directly attacking the belly of the ship. Therefore, we will use side high-speed impact. Instead of engaging those small and medium-sized warships, we will rush directly from the side to cut off the enemy's five-tooth battle.
The boat’s oar tactics, right?”
Cai Lunzhi nodded: "Yes, there must be small and medium-sized warships in front of the Wuya warship. Just like when the army forms a formation, the general will not let the formation be in front of the army. However, that time
The battle was a bit special. The Chu general at that time, He Danzhi, wanted to lure the warships of the Beifu Army to attack, so he deliberately hung his own ship with the general's flag and placed it at the front of the army, while he was on the other side behind.
Commanding a five-tooth warship."
Tan Daoji smiled and said: "It's just that he was self-defeating. I knew about his arrangement, but the soldiers under his command did not. So we rushed directly to the enemy's line, cut off the oars of his five-tooth warship, and then burned it.
When the soldiers of the Chu army saw that the flag had fallen and the flagship was on fire, their morale was shattered and the whole army collapsed. No matter how He Danzhi raised the flag to signal a counterattack, he could not stop the defeat."
Cai Lunzhi said with a smile: "The attacks were too fast and too determined. We didn't even understand the situation from behind, and the flagship caught fire. However, it was because He Danzhi commanded blindly that the flagship rushed forward.
The Beifu Army has such an opportunity. The demon thieves this time are good at water warfare. I think they will not give us such an opportunity. In front of the giant ship, there must be a fleet of hundreds of ships. They will not let us easily.
Then approach from the side."
Liu Daogui nodded: "So, for our attack this time, we need to first divert the escort fleet in front of the enemy's giant ship. Just like in a land battle, if we want to attack the enemy general's formation, we must first defeat or divert it.
It’s the same as attacking the enemy’s front-line troops. Commander Cai, how about I leave this task to you?”
Cai Lunzhi said in a deep voice: "The general is willing to obey all the military orders of Zhengxi. However, the general does not know how Zhengxi can ensure that the enemy's former escort fleet will be diverted by the general."
Liu Daogui said calmly: "We need to conceal our true intentions. If we attack the enemy's giant fleet head-on or sneak attack, then they will definitely put up a ship formation to fight, with a large number of frigates in front to prevent our army from approaching the enemy.
The giant warships only attack our warships with the long-range weapons on the giant ships. But if our army does not attack the enemy ships, but wants to break out and escape, or transfer food and grass, that is another matter.
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Cai Lunzhi's eyes lit up and he blurted out: "You mean to send a fleet to escape in the direction of Wuling, right?"
Liu Daogui nodded with satisfaction and said: "Yes, and not only the fleet, but also the ships are loaded with grain, grass and ordnance, so as to support Tan Zhi before the enemy blockade, so that he can hold on in Wuling County. Let the enemy
The army discovered that we were sneaking across the country at night, and then they panicked and threw down the food, grass and ordnance on the boat, and fled to the southwest as fast as possible."
Tan Daoji laughed and said: "High, it's really high. The demon thieves will definitely think that we really want to move the fleet and send the last batch of supplies to Wuling. Then most of the former army's escort fleet will definitely pursue it.
Our army's Huanglong warship, but a large number of our army's warships have lured the enemy like this. Even if the enemy's giant ships are freed up, we don't have much strength to attack them."