In the vast and boundless blue ocean, waves keep coming, hitting the side of the ship, splashing large and small water splashes and snow-white foam. Facing the boundless sea that is connected to the sky, anyone will sigh at this
The greatness and vastness of the sea make me sigh at my own insignificance.
After the Youzhou navy and Qingzhou navy merged, they united together and went south along the coast, bypassing the easternmost section of Qingzhou and arriving outside Lingzhou Prefecture.
Because of the war between the two armies, the Xiaoguo Army and Navy blocked the eastern sea area, causing the merchant ships on the sea to disappear without a trace. When the huge fleet appeared on the sea outside Lingzhou Prefecture, the Guards Fleet was not even aware of it.
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It’s not that the Guard’s fleet is not good, the Guard’s fleet is part of the Yangzhou Navy. The actual combat power of the Yangzhou Navy is far higher than that of the Qingzhou Navy, because they have the support of the King of Qi behind them. The Navy is powerful, so it must be
Only when people know how to command. Tang Xian, the general of the Wuwei Army, killed Mu
After Rong Cheng's imperial edict, he let his own people take over the fleet and transport supplies and reinforcements from the rear. He did not conduct too many inspections to the north, causing the Xiaoguo Army's navy to appear in the area.
The sea outside Lingzhou Prefecture is almost close to the navy water village.
Hundreds of large and small warships appeared hundreds of miles away from the Guards water stronghold, and were finally discovered by the Guards Navy patrols. Suddenly, various flags and whistles filled the entire water.
Of course, the Xiaoguo Army navy fleet that came down the coast had no intention of hiding its traces and arrived here in a big way. This also made it quickly discovered.
After the Xiaoguo Army discovered the enemy ship, they immediately adjusted their formation, prepared for battle, and advanced slowly. According to Zhao Xun's wishes, they were to be wiped out. Of course, it would be better to capture them. The two naval forces of the Xiaoguo Army
The fleet has nearly two hundred battleships, including fifteen huge five-story ships.
This kind of large ship is nearly twenty feet long, nearly sixty meters long, and more than ten feet and thirty meters high. There are trebuchets, crossbows, racket poles on it, and there are side walls like city walls on its sides. At the same time,
Protective steel plates have been installed on key parts of both sides of the ship.
The Guards Navy also moved very quickly, and immediately started a decisive battle outside the water stronghold. Runzhou was their largest dock, and they had no way to retreat. They had no choice but to fight to the death, so they could not stay in the water.
Just wait to die in the village.
Looking through the light mist, all the building ships and sea-going ships of the Guards were lined up across the sea, facing the Xiaoguo Army's navy.
The Guards fleet has three five-story warships, one of which is the flagship. The remaining three-story warships are more than twenty, and the rest are all large and small sea-going ships.
"My lord, what I mean is to try to capture the other party's ships, especially these big ships, to strengthen your own power. Looking at so many ships, it would be a real pity if they were all sunk." Qingzhou Navy General
De said with emotion.
The general of the Youzhou navy, who was also the commander of this operation, looked at the sea and said: "I hope so!" Naval battles are different from land battles. If you want to capture the opponent's warship, you must be willing to surrender or board the opponent's warship.
The battleship.
The basic goal of the battle is to win. Under the conditions of victory, he can capture the opponent's warships as much as possible. If victory cannot be guaranteed, he has no choice but to sink all the enemy's warships in the sea.
Although the battle was more against less, most of the Youzhou navy were new recruits, while the Qingzhou navy was old soldiers, but their training was also sloppy.
The commander of the navy of the Wei Army is Zhou Ze, a close confidant of Tang Xian, who also served as a low-level navy officer for a period of time. However, he is not a true navy general, but he is loyal to Tang Xian.
This time the Xiaoguo Navy was fully prepared for a head-on confrontation. Not only did they gather all the warships, but they also gathered all the sailors who could fight in hand-to-hand combat. In a boarding battle, these people are needed to board the ship and fight. After all, it is not
In the age of artillery, one shot could sink the opponent's warship, so boarding battles were still the mainstream.
On the sea, the blue waves are thousands of miles away, and the enemy and we are clearly visible. The sky is clear and clear. For both sides, it is a good time to fight.
"Come on, put up my handsome flag! Let everyone see it! Brothers, we have no retreat now, and behind us is our water village. We are the mighty Yangzhou navy, how can we be defeated by a remnant army?
Blocked by a defeated general? Brothers, use the long swords in your hands to tell them that we, the Yangzhou navy, are the overlord on the sea." Zhou Ze glowed with pride, waving his command sword and issuing orders to his subordinates passionately.
"Fight to the death!"
The soldiers of the Guards Navy were inspired and roared excitedly.
The warships of the Guards Navy were lined up. Looking from a distance, they looked like a gray-white wall lying across the sea.
"Brothers, this is the navy of the Guards. They are transporting troops to attack Donglai Mansion and our Xiaoguo Army. They are the logistics team of the Guards. They are transporting troops and supplies to the Guards who are attacking our Xiaoguo Army.
.Everyone said, what should we do?”
You Zhengyang also roared loudly.
"Destroy them!" the Xiaoguo Army's navy responded with the same indignation.
"All-out attack!" "All-out attack!" the coaches of both sides shouted in unison.
Immediately, the warships of the two armies began to approach each other. "Hoo ho ho!" The first to move was the trebuchet. The stone bullets rose into the air one after another and hit the navy warships hard, and then hit them hard.
The stone bullets continued to fall on the water, splashing high water columns and making a splashing sound.
Because of the instability of the warships and the lack of clear and stable coordinates, the trebuchets on both sides were not very accurate. Therefore, when the stone bullets fell, they were basically empty. The originally calm sea surface was constantly hit high by the stone bullets.
The high water column gradually became turbulent and surged, forming chaotic waves. The warships on both sides began to rise and fall slightly with the waves.
Of course, some navy boats were hit by accidental collisions. Stone bullets fell from the sky. Most of them tore off their sails first, and then hit them hard on the deck. On the deck
Make a big hole.
If multiple stone bombs are concentrated on the same sea-going ship at the same time, and they happen to penetrate its side, it will be terrible. Seawater will continue to pour in, and it will sink until it sinks. Of course, such a situation is rare.
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"Chirp chirp chirp!"
The large crossbows on both sides also began to roar, and the arrows screamed across the water and flew towards their targets. The crossbows from both sides came back and forth, and the ships on both sides were hit by a lot of arrows. Generally speaking,
Said that crossbows are very useful for large ships
, does not have much effect, and can only work hard to kill and injure the opponent's personnel. The most deadly place is still on the sailors operating the sails. Those sailors operating the sails at the top of the mast are completely exposed to the crossbow arrows, and there is no trace of them.
A place to hide.
The crossbow arrows whizzed past, shredding the sails, making a harsh rattling sound, and some crossbow arrows hit the mast directly. The arrow penetrated deeply, and the arrow shaft was still shaking violently. Operate on the mast
sailor sailor luck
Okay, you can escape one or two rounds of crossbow arrows. If you are unlucky, you will be shot off the mast by the first round of crossbow arrows. After several rounds of crossbow arrows, the top of the mast is usually not there.
There will be people who survived.
Without enough sailors to control the sails, the stability of the warships was naturally affected, causing the shooting accuracy of their trebuchets and crossbows to be greatly reduced. Many crossbow arrows were shot without knowing where they were.
Some of the stone bullets landed in the middle of the battle between the two armies, still twenty or thirty feet away from the target. The commanders of each ship had to use various methods to order their sailors to bravely climb the mast.
Go up there and adjust the sails.
Because stone bombs continued to fall on the water, the ships on both sides were trying hard to perform various maneuvers. The huge hull stirred the river water, causing turbid waves to roll on the water surface, and the entire water surface looked like
It was like boiling, and the surging waves in turn affected the stability of the warship.
The river is constantly surging, and waves are constantly stirring between ships. Crossbow arrows or stone bullets are constantly falling in the middle, and then they are swallowed up by the returning water, or ships are sinking, leaving only one person behind.
The whirlpool. The corpses and the wounded floated away along the current, but the survivors struggled hard in the river, and finally disappeared without a trace.
If the Guard fleet was commanded by a navy general, it might be possible to even out the numerical gap between the two warships. However, Zhou Ze was still not very good at naval combat, and his own land combat methods were not suitable for the navy. Gradually, the number of warships increased.
The disadvantaged Guards fleet fell into a disadvantage.
"Boom..." A stone bomb focused on the First Guards navy ship, directly blowing off its mast and immediately overturning more than ten people on board.
"Sir, the mast is broken! The ship can't move!" The sailor on the ship said with a frustrated look on his face as he looked at the empty ship.
"Fight!" Looking at the approaching Xiaoguo Army warship, the captain of the ship shouted coldly.
"Whoever surrenders will avoid death!" the Xiaoguo Army sailor on the opposite side shouted sternly.
"Surrender? There are no cowards in our Yangzhou navy who would surrender!"
"Really! Come on, throw the thunder to me!"
Immediately, three thunderbolts were thrown over, one fell into the water and two fell into the boat.
"Boom..." The explosion sounded, and the ship's surface seemed to be swept by some huge force. In an instant, the ship's surface was half empty.
"Come on! Grab the boat from me. Humph, Xiuxiu can still be used!" the Xiaoguo Army officer said coldly.
"Bang..." There was a burst of high water splashes in the water village. Because the thunder used by the water army had the fuse wrapped inside the waterproof tarpaulin, the short fuse was detonated directly in the water.
You Zhengyang's method is to use his own advantages to attack the enemy's disadvantages. Use multiple warships to surround the enemy's warships, force-land or conquer the opponent's warships, and weaken the number of local warships until they are completely annihilated.