Chapter 407: The Artifact That Changes the Situation of the Battle!
Are you, the Zheng family, not familiar with war? Can we stop joking? If you are not familiar with naval warfare, what are the two or three hundred ships at the mouth of the river for? After testing for a long time, Zheng Cai found that there was no leak, so Ren Shuangyou had to give up. Obviously, this
Turtle Sunzi still had to watch the fire from the other side and did not make the decision to join the imperial court.
Returning to the headquarters in low spirits, Ren Shuangyou looked at the sea in a daze. If this trend continues, the plan to attack Songjiang will definitely be aborted. If this happens, he will be the only person in recent years who has not completed the imperial court.
For a general who makes strategic arrangements, his future future and that of the navy will be greatly affected.
The problem is that it seems impossible to avoid ending in defeat. The current situation is really helpless.
The next day, Ren Shuangyou was preparing to go to the place where Zheng Cai and the others parked their ship again to make a final effort in order to persuade this guy to change the situation of the war. At this moment, a small boat to explore the military situation quickly sailed in with an emergency flag.
Arrived in port.
"What big thing happened?" Ren Shuangyou hurried to the dock, hoping to receive the military information from the sentinel ship as soon as possible.
When they arrived at the dock, the people on the sentry ship quickly reported the news to Ren Shuangyou. They found that a fleet of three Fu ships, four sentry ships, and three Haicang ships had come from the north. The fleet of ten ships was leaving
More than 30 miles away from Chongming, we encountered a blockade from the Zheng family's fleet. They are currently engaged in a fierce battle. It is estimated that the situation is either dire or not!
Dengzhou clearly knew that the Zheng family was blocking the sea route recently, so why did they send a small fleet over? When Ren Shuangyou heard the news, he almost cursed.
After scolding those gangsters in Dengzhou in his heart, Ren Shuangyou quickly sent an order to Fang Ruocheng to take the main fleet out to sea to rescue this reckless southbound fleet. The sentry ship had already made a trip along the sea route of more than 30 miles.
, I don’t know if it’s too late to rescue him at this time, maybe he’s already surrounded and annihilated at sea.
When Fang Ruocheng set off with the fleet, he had the same thoughts as Ren Shuangyou. What he wanted was to rush over quickly, and maybe he could catch some soldiers from the sea to reduce the losses.
More than an hour later, when Fang Ruocheng led the main fleet to the battle area mentioned by the sentinel ship, what he saw shocked him. People were indeed fishing for people on the sea, but the Zheng family's fleet was hiding far away.
Fang Ruocheng only saw four large ships of the Zheng family leaning on the sea, and three or four small boats also leaning on the sea. The other ships of the Zheng family were hiding out of the range of the artillery.
, waiting for their crew to swim over, not daring to get close to fish for people!
What is this? Fang Ruocheng is a little confused. His side is obviously a small fleet of ten ships, so why can it achieve such great results? Not only did it sink several enemy ships, but it also forced the opponent's main fleet to
Don't dare to get close.
Suppressing his curiosity, Fang Ruocheng quickly ordered the fleet to cross over, cut off the opponent's sailors' escape route, and capture these defeated soldiers before proceeding.
Facing more than 30 main warships approaching, the Zheng family's fleet circled for a while before giving up the rescue and withdrew from the fighting sea area.
At this time, Fang Ruocheng also came into contact with the commander of the fleet going south.
"Deputy Commander Liu Juntao of the Navy's Tianjin Fleet met with Deputy Commander Fang."
"You came here from Tianjin?"
"Exactly! I am here to deliver new artillery to the Songjiang front line under the orders of the Military Command Hall."
"New artillery? Did you use the new artillery to repel this enemy force?"
"Official! The pirates were not familiar with the power of our new cannons and wanted to bully the smaller ones. They rushed towards our fleet with more than 30 large and small ships. Unexpectedly, they thought of our way and we sunk six of them.
Fu Chuan and six or seven small boats retreated to the outskirts of the battlefield in embarrassment."
Not four ships but six? What new type of artillery could have such terrifying power? Fang Ruocheng was so anxious that he ran to Liu Juntao's ship through the floating board. He wanted to see what great artifact Liu Juntao's ship was equipped with.
Liu Juntao's ship was naturally equipped with the six-barreled artillery made by Song Yingxing. After the six-barreled artillery was tested successfully, Zhu Youjian made a special batch of 100, and asked him to seize the time to transport it to the Songjiang front line and test the six-barreled artillery in actual combat.
Is this thing suitable for the battlefield?
Unexpectedly, before the artillery was handed over to the frontline soldiers, the transport team encountered a naval battle. Fortunately, Liu Juntao and his team had already installed this thing on their ship, otherwise this time it would be really bad luck. Install it on the ship of the transport team.
The multi-barreled artillery was naturally used as a reference for frontline soldiers to modify their artillery. It was such an arrangement that led to the great victory of this naval battle.
In this naval battle, only one ship on Liu Juntao's side was severely damaged and sank into the sea, while the other ships were basically intact.
When Fang Ruocheng entered the Chongming Island dock with Liu Juntao's fleet and about 400 prisoners fished out of the sea, Ren Shuangyou who came to greet him was so shocked by the good news that he went crazy!
"If you are sincere, as the news from the sentinel ship did, did you sink more than ten enemy ships? And captured more than 400 enemy soldiers?"
"That's true! When I rushed over, they had already forced Zheng's fleet back! Several severely damaged enemy ships were sinking into the sea."
"The artillery newly researched by the imperial court is so powerful? Come and take me to see what kind of artifact it is that can have such extraordinary power."
The anxious Ren Shuangyou and Fang Ruocheng had exactly the same reaction. The first thing they focused on was not how many enemy soldiers were captured, but what the new artillery looked like.
Under Liu Juntao's introduction, Ren Shuangyou saw the new artillery! With a few more barrels, such horrific results could be achieved? Why is it so incredible!
"Ruocheng, the range of this artillery is only 150 steps? Isn't it a little insufficient?"
"The range is a little closer! But I think it is enough. The artillery has a long range, and its accuracy at sea will be very poor. It is actually better to use it now. With this kind of artillery, combined with the muskets on the ship, our sea-going ships can reach nearly
Invincible."
"But! If you are invincible only in close combat, can you change the situation of the battle? You know, after the Zheng family suffered a loss once, it will be difficult for them to suffer a second time."
"It can change the situation of the battle! Don't forget that in long-distance battles, their artillery is not as powerful as ours. In sea battles, if they don't dare to get close, we can do more. With this kind of artillery, we can achieve
Use less to fight more. Use about a dozen ships to protect merchant ships from worry-free passage to Chongming. You can also use existing ships to form several small fleets to force the Zheng thieves who are blocking the river mouth out of the sea. In short, with this
With the new artillery, we can gradually take the initiative on the battlefield."
Fang Ruocheng originally thought that it would be impossible for a magical weapon that could defeat ten to one to suddenly appear. Unexpectedly, the military industry department of the imperial court gave them a big surprise. With multi-barreled artillery, it would be difficult for the Zheng family to take advantage of it!