The Legend of Shushan Xuanjian

Chapter 788
Dongting Baibo leaves thin, Yan Hong began to enter Wu Yunfei.

Wu Yunhan, Yan Hong bitter.

The wind blows and the sand sits in Xiaoxiangpu, and the Jieshi mourns the autumn and tears like rain.

When you have your heart in the daytime, you can understand the Lord according to it.

The strong man is angry, and the heroic spirit is born.

Relying on the sword of heaven, Ande slashed the long whale across the sea.

——"Linjiang Wang Jieshi Song" Li Bai

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Although the firepower of the "Meteor Crossbow" on the bed crossbow sea loach is fierce, it is only powerful to the pawns (sailors) and does not cause much damage to the hull of the warship.As long as the soldiers don't poke their heads out from the side of the ship, these arrows are very difficult to kill the soldiers.

Liu Yinjun discovered the characteristics of Ding Jiuqu's attack, so he played a semaphore on the main mast, dispatched troops, gathered dozens of giant ships, and launched a group attack on Ding Jiuqu's warships.

The giant ship overcame the thorns and thorns, rampaging, rolling towards the bed crossbow loach.The volume of the giant ship is more than ten times that of the Bed Crossbow Sea Loach. Once it hits it, the bed crossbow Sea Loach's hull will disintegrate instantly.

Ding Jiuqu judged the situation and ordered the warship to retreat.

The Tang army's navy was divided into several areas by the giant ships, and the semaphore was blocked.The battle is stalemate, the shouts of killing in the waters are loud, and the sound of retreating gold is intermittent, so I can't hear clearly.

The role of the "red horse" messenger immediately became apparent.

"Red horse" is a small boat with a narrow and long hull, each of which can only carry about five people. It is named for its painted red hull and extremely fast speed.

The "red horse" shuttled back and forth among the warships, conveying Ding Jiuqu's military orders, and coordinating the advance and retreat of Tang army naval ships.

Under the command and dispatch of "Chima", the fifty bed crossbow sea loaches that besieged the rebel navy quickly retreated.

The "Five Teeth" giant ship commanded by Liu Yin is equipped with trebuchets.Seeing the giant ship distanced itself from the bed crossbow loach, Liu Yin ordered to launch stone bombs in an attempt to destroy these annoying bed crossbow sea loaches.

The gun tip of the trebuchet is about three feet long, and the long throwing pole throws stone bullets weighing tens of kilograms, and shoots them at the bed crossbow sea loach a hundred steps away.

"boom boom"

Once the trebuchet is launched, its power is astonishing.The stone bullet drew a perfect trajectory in the air and hit the bed crossbow sea eel.

At the critical moment, the mobility advantage of the bed crossbow loach is revealed.Sea loach is well-deserved of its reputation, just like the loach in the sea, it is slippery and does not hold back.

Seeing that the stone bullet was about to hit the hull, the oarman on the loach decisively pulled down the gear, released the oar string, and the propeller at the stern rotated rapidly, instantly increasing the speed of the boat.

In the blink of an eye, the loach shoots out violently, skimming over the top of the waves, trying to avoid the stone bullets falling from high altitude.

The stone bomb hit the water surface on the side of the loach boat, splashing huge waves.

The waves splashed on the faces of the loach soldiers, not only did not make the boat operators afraid, but aroused their blood.The faces of all the soldiers were flushed, and they shouted loudly, becoming more and more excited.

The soldiers riding the loach are like riders on the prairie galloping a fierce horse, walking left and right in the overwhelming rain of stones and bullets, with ease.

Looking from afar, fifty bed crossbow loaches are like flying fish, moving swiftly among the hundreds of huge waves blooming on the lake, chasing the wind and waves.

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Seeing that the fleet led by Ding Jiuqu retreated as a whole, Liu Yin ordered to pursue it.The rebel navy launched an attack, but they did not expect that this was a trap.

The rebel navy clung to Ding Jiuqu's warship and chased it for ten miles.

Ding Jiuqu has been silently counting the number of stone bullets fired by the "Five Teeth" giant ship trebuchet.

"There should be the last ten stone bombs left, wait a little longer."

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"Three...two...one!"

Ding Jiuqu's tiger eyes suddenly opened, his eyes were full of brilliance, and the cannon in his hand shot up into the sky, and a gorgeous firework bloomed in midair.

Seeing the signal, the [-] "Mongolia" suddenly turned around and let the boat go downwind.

Liu Yin sneered and said, "You still want to repeat the old trick and hit my boat?!

I'm not afraid to tell you that the bows of these warships are covered with iron horns, and the hulls are covered with copper and iron armor. They are extremely strong, far superior to Xu Yi's warships.If you have the guts, let your horse come here! "

Liu Yin ordered to adjust the hulls of dozens of warships, aiming their bows at the [-] "Jiang" sailing downwind, ready to collide.

Hundreds of oarsmen (paddlers) on each warship put down their oars, chanted chant, rowed in unison, and turned the bows of the boats to meet the [-] "boats" of the Tang Army Navy.

When Feiyun was switched on, [-] Tang Army "Wangji" came galloping, but this time they aimed not at the prow of the huge rebel ship, but at the hundreds of huge oars on both sides of the huge ship.

This is exactly the way of water warfare mentioned by Bai Fu when planning this water warfare.

The tactics developed by the Daqin (Roman) Navy during the Hundred Years’ War against pirates: to manufacture smaller warships, use the ships themselves as weapons, and use rams to destroy the oars of enemy ships.

The rebel navy was caught off guard, hastily, and was at a loss for orders, and it was too late to retract hundreds of huge oars.

"Crack!"

The twenty "Jiang" sailed down the wind, brushed past the hull of the huge ship, and hit the most vulnerable part of the huge oars, breaking hundreds of oars.

Without these hundreds of oars, the giant ship immediately lost its power, spinning in the middle of the lake like duckweed floating on the water.

Ding Jiuqu's tactics caught the rebel navy by surprise.

Liu Yin panicked and ordered the sails to be hoisted, trying to take advantage of the wind to retreat.

At this moment, the wind direction suddenly turned against the wind, blowing dozens of giant ships into a nearby reed swathe.

These huge ships were transformed from sea ships with a relatively deep draft. They ran aground on the reedy beach one after another, lost the chance to break out of the encirclement and escape, and were surrounded by warships of the Tang Army Navy.

Hundreds of warships intertwined, fighting each other.

Ding Jiuqu ordered the "Thunderbolt Sea Falcon" to fire!
The gunner on the "Thunderbolt Sea Falcon" pulled away the iron hook of the cannon pole, and the boulder immediately fell, pressing down the tip of the cannon, and the stone bullet was thrown out suddenly.

After the stone projectile was fired, the recoil of the throwing pole caused the "Thunderbolt Sea Falcon" to shake violently.If it is an ordinary hull, it must capsize.But the floating boards on both sides of the "Thunderbolt Sea Falcon" quickly stabilized the hull.The time of six flicks can continue to launch.

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Clay pots filled with kerosene were thrown by the trebuchets installed by the "Perak Sea Falcon" and smashed into the rebel warship. The pots shattered, and the kerosene burst out and sprinkled on the deck.

Dense rockets shot out from the bed crossbow dolphin in all directions, drawing beautiful arcs in the sky, falling down like a meteor shower, igniting the sails and the kerosene on the deck.

The rebel soldiers hurriedly took out the sand and tried to extinguish the flames.

The second round of attacks by the Tang army navy came one after another. The arrows were like locusts and the stones were like bullets.

The rebel soldiers hurriedly hid behind the parapet and under the deck, regardless of putting out the fire.

No one put out the fire, and the blue flames spread joyously.

The wind helped the fire, and the kerosene burned rapidly on the deck and sails, turning the entire lake into a sea of ​​fire, and the water battle turned into a fire battle.

The terrified rebel soldiers no longer cared about fighting and jumped into the water to survive.

There was a croaking noise on the water, like thousands of herring tumbling and jumping in the fishing net when fishermen catch and reel in their nets.

"General, abandon ship and escape!"

Liu Yin's personal soldier Xiaowei yelled anxiously.

The devil-like fire opened its bloody mouth to Liu Yin, who was commanding in a panic on the bow. Looking at the burning fire in all directions, Liu Yin knew that the battle had been lost.

Liu Yin let out a long sigh, stamped his feet, and threw the command flag into the flames. Under the protection of his own soldiers, he jumped into the boat and fled.

(End of this chapter)