After returning from fishing, the boat was not tied up, and Jiangcun was sleeping under the moonlight.
Even if the wind blows away all night, it is only by the shallow water of reed flowers.
——"Jiangcun Shishi" Sikong Shu (Tang Dynasty)
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(PS: Chapters 813 and 814 were revised yesterday, all book friends are welcome to watch again.)
Nearly 30,000 Japanese soldiers were killed by flying rocks and rockets. The remaining soldiers jumped on small sampans, passed through the shoals on the sandbank, and drifted down to avoid the fatal attacks of Tang army's trebuchets and crossbows.
Bai Fu had already made arrangements for the "death sandbar" after the river receded.
The small boats sent by the Tang army to hunt down Japanese pirates could travel freely in the shallow waters between sandbars. This small boat is called a shuttle boat, which is a slender fishing boat with a width of only four feet and a length of two feet. It is popular in the south of the Yangtze River.
You can see them everywhere in the reeds, and there is usually a row of ospreys standing at the stern of the boat.
The advantages of this kind of shuttle boat are that it has a shallow draft, is fast, is extremely flexible, and can travel through shoals.
However, the shortcomings of this kind of shuttle boat are also obvious, that is, it is difficult to control, and it can travel in the river. Once it shuttles on the river, a wave can overturn it. Unless you have extremely strong control skills, sailing on the Yangtze River is risky.
great.
The Yangtze River Waterway is the territory of the Dajiang Gang.
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The navies of Hangzhou Bay, Quanzhou, and Guangzhou have been lurking at the estuary of the Yangtze River for many days. When Ono Ichiro led three warships to meet Yamamoto Takano, Changsun Yanxing led the navies of the three places to quietly go north and captured the Japanese country in one fell swoop.
of warships.
Bai Fu fought with the Japanese navy many times and immediately understood Yamamoto Takano's intentions. He waved his flag and shouted: "Get ready!"
When the sailors heard this, they were in high spirits. Six huge racket poles like Optimus Prime were ready!
Different from Liu Zhan's five-tooth battleship, the racket pole on Bai Fu's flagship is not tied to an ordinary boulder, but a hammer made of pig iron!
There is an eight-edged iron hammer on the left and right sides of the ship, and two mace hammers on the bow and stern. Once used, the power is extraordinary.
When the Japanese warship entered the shooting range, the command flag of the hanging battle flag was raised. A dozen soldiers shouted and pulled the trigger. The long pole with the mace hammer fell down in response, and with a whistling sound, it hit the enemy ship head-on.
go.
In order to save their lives, the soldiers had no choice but to dive into the water to escape.
At this moment, the soldiers beside him shouted in horror: "General, it's coming again!"
Just like the massacre of infantry by cavalry, thousands of shuttle boats roared past in front of and behind the Japanese pirates' small sampan, and the blazing crossbow arrows shot the Japanese pirates into the water one by one.
The hull broke into two halves, and the sailors in the cabin jumped into the water to escape. However, the broken Thousand Stone Warship was too huge. When it sank into the river, it created a vortex with strong suction, pulling dozens of sailors who had no time to swim away.
Wrapped in the river bottom.
Yamamoto Takano looked at this wooden pole that looked like 'Thor's Hammer', and he was terrified. It was the first time he saw this kind of weapon, and it was so powerful.
The other two thousand-rock Japanese warships were not spared. Bai Fu's flagship sailed past and sank the Japanese warships that were stubbornly resisting one by one.
When they were approaching the waters of Jiangyin, they saw three Japanese warships with a thousand stones appearing on the river. A general stood on the bow of the ship, looking anxiously. It was Ono Ichiro.
In desperation, Yamamoto Takano could only lead the remaining troops and continue down the river in a small sampan.
A violent thump was heard on the deck, and the crack on the deck became several feet wide, and the crack quickly spread to the hull.
Yamamoto Takano was overjoyed, waving his headband and shouting: "Ono-kun, come and save me!"
"not good!"
Yamamoto Takano's deputy general Okamuraji was furious and began to gather sampans from all directions, organize his men, and fight back against the shuttle boats.
Yamamoto Takano suddenly woke up and roared: "Speed up the boat, turn the rudder and leave!"
In the violent shaking, Yamamoto Takano lost his footing and was thrown more than ten feet away. He grabbed the cable to avoid falling into the water.
"@%￥...crash and sink the Tang Army's flagship!"
On the Japanese warship, Yamamoto Takano finally breathed a sigh of relief. He ordered a glass of strong wine and poured it down his throat, which lifted his spirits a bit.
Many of the Japanese and Persian sailors led by Alberts were pirates, and they used pirates' ability to rob merchant ships to preserve as many of the warships of the Japanese navy as possible.
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Seeing Yamamoto Takano's warship, these Japanese warships quickly separated in a pincer shape, forming an encirclement, revealing a huge Tang Wuya warship in the center.
Yamamoto Takano was shocked, and five thunders struck his head. With a clang, he fell down on the deck.
Gangcunci was naked to the waist and brandished a Japanese sword. He had already fixed his eyes on the boat where the commander Ruan Jiangliu was. When the shuttle boat approached the sampan, Gangcunci jumped onto the bow of the boat. He swung the Japanese sword and blood burst out.
The Tang army soldier holding a crossbow on the bow screamed and fell into the river.
The soldiers of the Japanese state only felt a huge fang hammer falling from the sky. It was like an enraged giant spirit leaping down from the clouds and swinging the hammer of thunder to strike at his own warship.
Yamamoto Takano sighed and said: "Fortunately there are still hundreds of thousands of stone warships, otherwise I don't know how to explain to His Majesty the Emperor.
On the main mast of this giant ship, a large banner is hung high on the top, flying in the wind, with a majestic large character written on it - "白"!
A man stood proudly on the bow of the giant ship, with a slender figure, dressed in white and wearing a feather fan and turban, looking down at Yamamoto Takano with disdain.
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Alberts personally took action to seize the ship.
The disciples of the Dajiang Clan who operate boats all year round are such experts. Bai Fu noticed this when he took a boat from the Dajiang Clan across the Three Gorges.
The Japanese warship sailed on the river for half an hour and arrived at the waters of Jiangyin. In the distance, the Japanese warship was anchored and waiting.
Ono Ichiro, who was shouting on the deck, was instantly smashed into a pulp. Before he could shout, he and the boat sank to the bottom of the river.
When half of the ship's hull slowly sank into the water, Yamamoto Takano sat cross-legged on the deck, tore open his shirt, exposed his navel, took out a short-handled Japanese sword, roared like a wild beast, and committed seppuku.
The small sampan of the Japanese pirates was a rescue boat on the warship without any protection. When escaping, the pawns carrying shields could rely on the shields to carefully resist the arrows. The pawns without shields were attacked by the shuttle boat's crossbows.
Lamb to the slaughter.
The wolf-toothed iron hammer on the five-tooth giant ship used the power of ten thousand Ren to hit the Japanese warship with thunderous force, and smashed the Fuso warship into powder with one hammer.
With military orders like mountains, Ruan Jiangliu could only lead his troops and evacuate in anger.
Thousands of Tang troops fired arrows in turn, blocking the two-mile-long landing port and suppressing the Japanese soldiers on the sampan, making them unable to land.
The victory of Ruan Jiangliu inspired the soldiers of the Tang army, who followed the same example and fought bravely to kill the enemy. After a while, most of the Japanese sampans gathered together capsized, and all the soldiers on board were killed.
Ruan Jiangliu threw down the rudder and stood up Huo Di, holding an Emei thorn in his hand, staring fiercely at the uninvited guest on the bow.
"Woo..."
Gangcunci roared and slashed with his sword with a fierce force. Ruan Jiangliu smiled coldly and put a thousand pounds of force into his legs. He exerted force on his left and right legs in turn, and the shuttle boat suddenly started to shake violently.
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Ruan Zhouxing shouted: "Suppress the enemy with bows and arrows, and don't allow these bastards to land!"
Ono Ichiro said to Yamamoto Takano: "I received a pigeon message. Liu Zhan's navy was completely burned down by Bai Fu. Liu Zhan himself and his generals were all killed in the battle. I was worried that the general would make a mistake, so I personally led the way.
Three warships came to respond. The remaining warships are still anchored in place and on standby."
When Ichiro Ono saw the general, he quickly sailed the warship over to welcome Yamamoto Takano on board. With these three Senshi warships escorting him, the shuttle ship had no choice but to use crossbows to shoot at the Japanese warships.
There was a loud noise, and the racket whipped hard on the deck of the Japanese ship like a giant whip. Wood chips flew across the deck, opening a long crack. Several Japanese pirates were smashed into meat patties, and the ship's hull shook violently.
The mast is also crumbling.
Ono Ichiro hurriedly consoled him: "How can you blame the general? The Tang people are really too cunning!"
Ruan Jiangliu was planning to use the shark swarm tactic to besiege the Japanese warships, and then wait for an opportunity to jump on the enemy ship and engage in hand-to-hand combat. The messenger came to report, and Ruan Xingzhou ordered him to retreat. General Bai had his own arrangements for the follow-up attack.
There was a frightening cracking sound from the entire hull, and even the main mast could not support it. After shaking violently twice, it collapsed.
Now, there are heavy casualties, so without further delay, let’s withdraw to Fuso as soon as possible.”
Along the hundreds of miles of waterway, the Japanese soldiers rolled and crawled, being chased by the Tang navy. Tens of thousands more Japanese soldiers died under the fire of crossbows. The remaining Japanese soldiers hid on small sampans and went down the river.
, tried to land in an open space on the lower reaches of the Yangtze River, but the landing did not go smoothly.
Seeing the small sampan docking on the two-mile long shore, groups of Japanese soldiers rushed out of the boat. At this moment, Ruan Zhouxing led thousands of Tang army infantry and cavalry to the landing place.
"Crossbowmen prepare!"
The mace hammer on the side of the ship fired first.
Seeing that all 100,000 Japanese soldiers were killed and hundreds of elite warships fell into the hands of the Tang army, Yamamoto Takano was furious. He waved his Japanese sword, roared and ordered the Japanese soldiers to raise all sails, and crashed into Bai Fu's flagship at all costs.
, attempting to launch a suicide attack.
Bai Fu contacted the Dajiang Gang through the Sichuan Gang. Under Bai Fu's mobilization, the Ruan brothers joined the Tang Army Navy and quickly trained soldiers skilled in water warfare for the Tang Army.
Yamamoto Takano breathed a long sigh of relief and was about to call the warships in flag language when he suddenly discovered that the flags on these warships had been changed to the flags of the Tang Dynasty Navy.
The bow of this giant ship is painted with a fanged tiger head. There are five buildings on the ship, more than a hundred feet high. There are six racket poles on the left and right, fifty feet high, thick and tough. Each racket pole is tied with a giant hammer on the top of the wooden mast.
, it is equipped with windlass, parapets, battle grids, banners, crossbow windows and spear holes, and stone and iron bases for throwing carts. It looks like a city fort. Rope nets soaked in mud are often hung on the sides of the ship to resist the enemy.
Ruan Zhouxing shouted loudly, and thousands of crossbowmen immediately drew their bows and arrows, aiming at the Japanese soldiers.
Ruan Zhouxing gave an order, and the Tang army fired arrows at the Japanese soldiers intensively. The hundreds of soldiers who had just landed were caught off guard, and most of them were knocked down by the overwhelming arrows. The remaining soldiers hurried back to the sampan.
When Yamamoto Takano heard this, he was like a defeated rooster, dejected. Yamamoto Takano said angrily: "I regret that I didn't listen to Ono-kun."
Ruan Jiangliu led thousands of shuttle boats. Each boat had two soldiers, one at the stern to steer and paddle, and the other stood at the bow to shoot enemy soldiers with crossbow arrows.
There were at least 3,000 outstanding sailors in the navy of the Tang Army who could control this kind of shuttle boat to fight and kill the enemy.
"shoot!"
‘Bang!’
Ruan Jiangliu felt very happy and energetic. He raised a horn and blew it vigorously.
But it was too late, and the racket slammed down violently for the second time. This time, the two mace hammers at the stern fired together, which was more powerful than the last time.
Gangcunci stood unsteadily, staggered under his feet, and swayed to the left. He slashed the air with his sword. Ruan Jiangliu was waiting for this opportunity. He jumped to the top, and the Emei thorn struck out like lightning, hitting Gangcunci's throat. He only heard a scream.
, Gangcunci was killed on the spot, and his body fell into the river.
As if shooting into the water was not enough, the second wave of shuttle boats saw the Japanese soldiers who had fallen into the water struggling in the water, and shot another arrow into the heads of these Japanese pirates, sending them on their way.
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At this point, a Japanese invasion force of 100,000 people was buried in the Yangtze River, feeding the fish and shrimp in the Datang River.
Just as Bai Fu planned before the war, after this battle, the Japanese country no longer had the national strength to launch a war against the Tang Dynasty.
The Japanese government and the public had no choice but to imitate the Zhongshan wolf, secretly putting away its fangs and claws, pretending to surrender, and constantly sending Tang envoys to Chang'an to peek at the light of Tang civilization, waiting all the time for the day when they would fight back against their benefactor...