Hong Chengchou lowered the Sing Sing Sex telescope from his eyes, and his face also showed a smug smile.&& His own fire attack tactics have indeed achieved results. Liu Mengjiao, the commander of the navy, also praised him repeatedly.
Of course, Hong Chengchou also knew that it was not a matter of one or two days to establish a navy army. It was impossible for the Qing army to form a navy army that could compete with the merchant army in a short period of time. Although the Qing army now has five or six hundred.
Many warships, but most of these warships transformed by merchant ships and cargo ships are actually used to make soy sauce. There are probably less than 100 people who are really useful. If you want to fight head-on with the merchant army's naval army, you are basically seeking death. Therefore, you can only
Adopt fire attack tactics.
Moreover, although Hong Chengchou has never fought a water war since his birth, he also knows that fire attack is a common tactic in water war. Whether it is the Battle of Red Cliffs that year or the Battle of Poyang Lake between Zhu Yuanzhang, the Ming Dynasty Taizu, and Chen Liang, it is all
Win by fire. Anyway, these ships are not very useful on the battlefield. It is also very cost-effective to use three to five ships to exchange for a warship from the merchant army. Then he ordered all warships with less than three hundred materials to be ironed.
The locks are connected, three ships in groups, so that once they collide with the warships of the merchant army, they will immediately be entangled.
There were more than 60 sets of such serial ships, and almost 200 ships were used, and all weapons were concentrated on more than 100 large ships with 300 materials. Each ship sent twenty
Each sailor was responsible for controlling the direction of the warships, and immediately jumped into the ship after ignition. When they went out, each fire ship was filled with dry straw and grease, and divided the more than 60 fire ships into three
The layer spreads horizontally, almost cutting off the Yangtze River. In this way, all warships of the merchant army are among the attacks of fire ships.
After the war started, the fire ships launched an attack and immediately received miraculous effects. The merchant army was caught off guard. The vanguard fleet was immediately disrupted. More than ten warships were entangled by the fire ships, spreading and burning. Although the merchants were all killed.
The army's warships all launched a strong attack on the fire ships, and indeed hit many fire ships, which even cracked the side of some fire ships and were sinking into the water.
But the fireboat did not have Qing soldiers, and the Qing army had the advantage of traveling. No matter how many shells it was taken, as long as the ship did not sink into the river, it would float towards the merchant army. Even if some ships began to enter the water,
But the fire ships are all in groups of three, and as long as the other two are not sunk, they can still be dragged and floated. At the same time, some warships that were entangled by the fire ships also traveled along the river and towards the rear fleet of the merchant army.
When drifting away, it turned into a new fireboat. This is also an obvious feature of river wars, and swimming has much greater advantages than downstream.
Just as Hong Chengchou was proud of his tactics and was about to order that the warships of the rear team followed the fire ships to attack the merchant army and expand their results, he suddenly saw a huge warship coming from the array of fire ships.
It rushed out. Although the hull and sails of the ship had many flames and a lot of black smoke, the fire was not big and did not have much impact on the hull. It was heading towards the Qing army's rear
The fleet rushed over.
This warship is the flagship Tianwei, the vanguard fleet. After He Bin ordered a forward advance, the sailors of Tianwei moved around in the Qing army's fire ship array, dodging left and right under the command of He Bin.
Flash, with his skillful ship-operating skills, of course he was also lucky. He avoided the siege of three groups of fire ships. Although there were two more impacts, it did not hurt his muscles and sank several fire ships.
, finally highlighted the array of fire ships, and threw all the ignited fire ships behind him.
At this time, the Tianwei could indeed turn and return calmly. As long as you follow the fireboat, you can return safely. But He Bin suddenly found that the Qing army's rear fleet was in front of him, and the Qing army's commanding ship was also in it. List.
At this moment, He Bin suddenly had a bold idea in his heart, and he wanted to use the power of a warship, Tianwei, to break into the Qing army's rear fleet formation and attack the Qing army's commanding ship. Because He Bin I was very angry. Since the merchant army's navy came into being, it has never been so hot. Like these small boats of the Qing army, its Tianwei Ship is enough to fight twenty or thirty ships by one, but The Qing army relied on a bunch of small broken ships and a fire attack, and actually beat their well-equipped warships so miserable. He Bin couldn't swallow anything he said. He wanted to get back his face no matter what he said. .
He Bin has survived in the sea for a long time and fought with the wind and waves, so he has developed a character of rather than breaking and deciding on one thing and going to the end. Therefore, he does not care that he only has one ship, and the other party has more than a hundred battles. The ship's huge strength was very different. After making up his mind, he immediately ordered that he would not turn around and sail directly to the Qing army's ship formation. He also ordered all soldiers on the ship to be prepared for battle.
In the Qing army's rear formation, the number of warships did exceed 100, with more than ten large ships with 500 materials, more than fifty warships with 400 materials, and eight groups of prepared fire ships. Seeing the other party's warship rushing towards him, Hong Chengchou couldn't help but feel a little funny. He was overestimating his ability. Although the ship was huge, it was just a ship after all. There were hundreds of ships on his side, and the ants If you can bite the elephant to death, even the evil tiger can't stand a group of wolves.
Moreover, Hong Chengchou Ma thought that the Qing army had already occupied a lot of money in this water battle, but the losses were indeed quite large. If this big ship could be captured, the victory would be even more perfect, and at the same time it would greatly encourage the Qing army. The morale also made a good start for his journey south this time. Therefore, Hong Chengchou immediately ordered that no fire ships were dispatched, and other warships were besieged together, and that the Tianwei must be captured alive. Therefore, in the battle formation of the Qing army, More than 30 warships were sailing out at once and siege towards Tianwei.
He Bin stood in the boat building and closely observed the movements of the Qing army's fleet. He saw that the Qing army's warships unfolded in a fan shape and rushed in towards the Tianwei, but even though it was the largest five hundred materials of the Qing army. The warship, compared with the Tianwei, is also significantly smaller, so it does look like a group of hungry wolves besieging a tiger.
Soon, the Qing army's warships had been arranged on the left, front and right sides of the Tianwei. The distance between the two sides was less than forty steps. However, since Hong Chengchou's order was to capture this ship alive, the Qing army did not fire. .And just then, He Bin also yelled: "Open the fire."
The artillery on both sides of the Tianwei were launched at the same time, attacking the Qing warships that were besieging him, and at the same time, five 36-type thunderbolt rocket boxes were fired in succession forward.
Suddenly, the cannon sounded roaring, and the smoke filled the gun. The sharp sound of breaking through the air also rang out in large quantities. Because the distance was too close, the shooting rate of the cannon was extremely high. On the left, there were seven warships hit, and on the right, Only five were hit, but ten of the twelve heavy artillery shot, and three Qing army warships were beaten to the side of the ship, surging like river water, unable to move on the water. The thunder rockets were flying all over the sky, The young master flew to the main formation of the Qing army.
He Bin saw the result of this round of artillery clearly at the ship tower, so he immediately ordered: turn right, side sail, and turn to protrude from the Qing army's encirclement from the right.
The sailors of the Tianwei took action quickly. In a narrow range, the huge hull slowly turned around. Although other Qing army warships also launched artillery attacks, the Qing army's artillery was small and medium-sized.
Moreover, a ship only has three or four cannons. Therefore, although the Tianwei hit more than ten rounds in a row, the damage was not large. He took advantage of this loophole and immediately passed through the gap on the right side. At the same time, the left and right sides of the
The artillery kept firing and counterattacking, and hit seven or eight Qing army warships in succession.
When the Qing army's warships rushed back to chase, the Tianwei had already emerged from the encirclement and drew an arc on the river surface, rushing into the right side of the Qing army's ship formation.
Because most of the thunderbolt rockets launched by the Tianwei just now fell into the Qing army's ship formation, and the Qing army had too many warships, so they tried to shoot randomly, but they could still hit many warships, even Hong Chengchou's handsome ship
Two were also hit, tinder oil splashed everywhere, and fired in many places on the hull. Although the fire was not big, the sailors on the ship were also busy and flew out the fire. Other warships hit by the thunder rockets were also all
It's similar.
At this moment, the Tianwei had already rushed into the Qing army's ship formation, and the cannons on both sides also fired, and at the same time they also fired the thunder rockets everywhere, only making the Qing army's warships turn dizzy
Some ships fired guns and fired rockets randomly. Not only did they not shoot the Tianwei, but they accidentally injured many of their own warships. Some of them couldn't figure out the direction, and they collided with each other, and the entire fleet was in chaos.
A group of two groups of prepared fire ships were hit by the thunder rockets, causing fires across the ship, and during the impact, it spread to several surrounding ships, which was even more chaotic. In fact, the Qing army's water was
The army had just been formed, not to mention its combat effectiveness, but also its organizational and coordination capabilities were poor, so at this time the Tianwei ship was messed up in chaos.
During the melee, Hong Chengchou's handsome ship was inevitably affected by Chi Yu. He was hit by his own warship a few times, but fortunately he was not seriously injured. But he saw an opponent's ship surrounded by more than a hundred warships.
Among them, they were like entering a no-man state, like a tiger entering a flock of sheep, rushing left and right, rushing around, and injuring many of his own warships. Hong Chengchou couldn't help but regret it, and shouldn't have been greedy.
With a temporary effort, I wanted to capture this warship alive. As a result, I became what I am now.
In fact, the Tianwei rushes into the Qing army formation, not just breaking around. He Bin always pays attention to the direction of the Tianwei , but actually takes a big turn from right to left in the Qing army's ship formation.
Then he broke out from the Qing army's ship formation, followed the river and returned to his side. He finally let out a sigh of anger.
It took Hong Chengchou a long time to organize the ship formation, and then ordered to continue attacking the merchant army with eight groups of fire ships as the vanguard.