Killed all the millions of soldiers in the south of the Yangtze River, and the sword on his waist was still bloody!
The old monk didn't know the hero, so he just kept asking for his name.
——"Don't mess with the nunnery and show the monks" Zhu Yuanzhang
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The navies of both sides slowly approached each other on the lake, several miles apart. Liu Zhan's warship had an obvious advantage in size.
Among Liu Zhan's warships, the most eye-catching ones are the dozens of giant ships painted with fangs and monsters. The largest one is fifteen feet long, two feet wide and several feet high, and can accommodate eight hundred soldiers (sailors). .
The giant ships were built with parapets, battle grids, banners, crossbow windows and spear holes, and stone and iron linings for throwing chariots, making them look like city fortresses. Rope nets soaked in mud were often hung on the sides of the ships to resist the enemy.
The giant ship has a large tonnage, deep draft, stable navigation, and a large number of rowers. The middle cabin of the hull is airtight, which is the cockpit for the rowers (rowers) to row together; the bottom cabin is made of ballast earth and rock bags to reduce the turbulence of wind and waves.
The giant ship is divided into three floors. During the water battle, the tall building at the stern can not only look out, but also shoot arrows from a high position. On the first deck, the rebel cavalry mounted tall horses and galloped back and forth on the deck, showing off their power.
How majestic was it when Chen Honghu led the Jianghuai Navy to defeat the Silla Navy in Dengzhou?
Unfortunately, Chen Honghu didn't listen to what Bai Fu said. He was so complacent after the victory in the naval battle that he underestimated the enemy, which resulted in the complete destruction of the Jianghuai Navy.
There is a "Wangshan" on the front of the crossbow body, which is marked with a scale, which can greatly improve the shooting accuracy. After loading the arrow, the crossbow shooter aims at the target through the "Wangshan" and adjusts the launch angle according to different distances.
After winding is completed, the loader quickly pulls the handle, the arrow in the quiver is automatically loaded into the crossbow chamber, and the arrow bites the crossbow string, completing the chamber loading.
The soldier who was hit by the arrow covered his throat with his hands, screamed, and fell upside down from the side of the giant ship into the water.
On the deck of the giant rebel ship, horses neighed, queues were lined up, and swords and halberds stood everywhere. The rebel soldiers held weapons and long hooks, ready to wait for the warships to line up and get closer. The children are fighting.
The base of the "Meteor Repeating Crossbow" has a rotating shaft that can rotate up and down, left and right, ensuring that the crossbow does not have a blind spot for shooting. Even if it shoots upward from the sea loach at the huge rebel ship, it is effortless.
The crossbow loaders and crossbow shooters trained from the sailors were accustomed to the speed of the sea loach, and they stood upright on the hull of the ship as if they were walking on flat ground.
"Boom"
One crossbow arrow was shot, the loader quickly loaded the second crossbow arrow, and the crossbow shooter continued to aim at the target and fired continuously...
However, under the huge water pressure, the hatch could not be opened at all. In less than a moment of burning incense, the lake water overflowed over everyone's heads, and hundreds of oarsmen were drowned in the bottom cabin.
When Liu Zhan was feeling proud, Ding Jiuqu led the vanguard navy to advance slowly, and when they were less than one mile away from Liu Yin and Xu Yi's five-ya battleships, they took the lead in launching an attack.
Due to the inconvenience of movement, the rebel giant ships were unable to repel the first wave of attacks from the Tang navy. The Erlong water formation quickly became disorganized.
Liu Zhan's warship is not used for water warfare, but at most it is a combat platform for infantry. The reason why it is built so large is to use it as a highly mobile troop transport or a ladder for siege.
Ding Jiuqu commanded the "艨艉" and took advantage of the momentum to rush towards Xu Yi's five-tooth battleship. Unprepared, Xu Yi was greatly panicked and hurriedly turned the bow of the ship and retreated.
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The oarsmen were so frightened that they dropped their oars and rushed towards the hatch overhead. Everyone was in a mess.
The "Meteor Repeating Crossbows" on the fifty Crossbow Sea Loaches opened fire at the same time, weaving a net of arrows in front of the side of the rebel ship, and the suppressed rebel soldiers were unable to raise their heads.
When the rabbit was up and the falcon was about to fall, Ding Jiuqu gave an order, and the pilot on the "艨艉" decisively pulled down the machine lever, released the oar chord, and the propeller at the stern rotated rapidly, tripling the ship's speed.
Seeing the silhouette of the rebel soldiers appearing in "Wangshan", the Tang army's crossbow shooter pulled the trigger and fired the crossbow arrow.
"Swish swish"
Seeing the Tang army approaching, the rebel soldiers stuck their heads out from the side of the ship, trying to be condescending and shoot the Tang army soldiers with crossbow arrows.
A spear with feathers was shot out at a speed that was imperceptible to the naked eye, from bottom to top, hitting the rebel soldier's neck.
Ding Jiuqu took the lead, with twenty "艨艉" as the vanguard, rushed into the heart of Liu Zhan's navy's Erlong water formation, and besieged the two enemy main ships, the five-tooth battleship.
The so-called "Meng" means that the hull of the ship is covered with rawhide to improve its defense capabilities. The so-called "charge" means that it is good at charging to defeat the enemy and break up the enemy's formation.
In order to enhance the "charge" effect of the "Meng Chong" warship, Ding Jiuqu changed the hull structure. The hull was changed to be as slender as a shuttle to increase the speed, and an iron attack angle was extended at the bow, shaped like a large ship.
Steel cone.
It was too late to say, but it was fast. Fifty crossbow sea loaches rushed out of the Tang army camp with lightning speed, galloping from the top of the waves, like a swarm of sharks, surrounding the five-tooth warships.
Siege the giant ship from different angles.
The upper and lower decks of the rebel giant ship were separated from each other, and the people on and off the ship could not hear each other. It was difficult for the rowers to hear the orders on the deck.
The lake water immediately poured into the cabin of the giant ship.
The bed crossbow is loaded with arrows, and the arrows are placed in the quiver. Each quiver contains thirty arrows. The arrows are like bamboo slips, threaded side by side with thin ropes.
Xu Yi was caught off guard. Unexpectedly, Ding Jiuqu took the initiative to launch an attack and hurriedly sent out a fleet to attack, trying to strangle the twenty "艨艉" ships in the formation.
Today, the navy of the Tang Dynasty, once known as the King of the Seven Seas, can only stand on its own warship and look up at the enemy ships.
"Whoosh"
The "艨艟" under Ding Jiuqu is also known as "Meng Chong".
Ding Jiuqu divided the hundreds of warships into ten squadrons, each squadron was equipped with two "艨艉", five bed crossbow sea loaches, two thunderbolt sea falcons and a bright red "red horse".
Both sides set up formations on the water at the same time.
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The loader has already inserted the arrow box into the crossbow body, depresses the pedal with his foot, the gear rotates, and the crossbow string is pulled.
The arrows used in the "Meteor Repeating Crossbow" use wood as the shaft and iron pieces as feathers. It is actually a spear with feathers and has a longer range. Before the sea loach has yet entered the range of the rebel crossbow, the Tang Army's "Meteor Repeater"
The crossbow" had already fired.
Navy Master Liu Zhan set up a two-dragon water formation, which is a classic tactic in water warfare. It requires extremely high coordination and command. Once the cooperation is tacit, it is very powerful. As the saying goes, the two dragons come out of the water formation and capture with both claws.
The "big steel cone" on the bow of the "艨艉" suddenly pierced into Xu Yi's five-tooth warship, like a battering ram breaking through a city gate, knocking out a large hole in the giant ship the size of a millstone.
Just like Bai Fu's evaluation of the rebels, Liu Zhan's naval tactics were still based on infantry and cavalry fighting. He did not understand the tactics between ships and did not regard battleships as super weapons.
The oarsman on the bottom deck of the Five-Tooth Battleship didn't know what was happening, but felt the hull shake suddenly, opening a large hole, and hundreds of buckets of cold lake water poured in from the hole.
Seeing the fighter plane appear, Ding Jiuqu personally took control of the boat and let the boat sail down the wind. Taking advantage of its speed, he chased to the side of Xu Yi's Wuya warship.
Liu Zhan's brothers Liu Yin and Xu Yi each led a five-tooth warship as the left and right leaders. Each five-tooth warship was flanked by five giant ships on the left and right, just like the five claws on the left and right of a golden dragon.
When Liu Zhan saw that the Tang army's navy consisted of only a hundred battleships and not even a five-tooth warship, he suddenly felt he was underestimating the enemy.
The Five-Tooth Battleship drafted too deep and slowly sank to the bottom of the lake. It was sunk deep in the mud at the bottom of the lake and was surrounded by floating green algae...
Before the ship sank, Xu Yi quickly jumped into a small boat under the cover of his own soldiers and sailed away from the battle formation like the wind.
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The first wave of charges by the Tang Army's navy killed thousands of rebel soldiers (sailors) in this battle.