The journey to the heavens starts from the underground station

Chapter 138 Login
"Where are there so many ships? They don't look like merchant ships..." Yelu Debao muttered softly, then turned to look at Deyou suspiciously.

"Battleship! Enemy attack!" Yelu Deyou stared blankly for a while with a gloomy face, then suddenly reacted, yelled loudly, pulled his elder brother and ran towards the Acropolis behind him, shouting as he ran: "Enemy attack!" ! The sailors leave the port quickly! Quickly! Quickly!"

A quarter of an hour later.

On the sea, as the fleet got closer and closer to the mouth of the Liao River, the acropolis also entered the range of the naval guns. On the deck of the flagship Pippi Shrimp, Li Yu held a telescope and looked at the panicked soldiers of the Liao Army on the shore. The warship of the Liao Kingdom Navy, who was in a hurry to leave the port, turned back and said lightly: "Let's start, say hello to the other party first."

"Yes!" Di Yuan replied loudly, then turned around and ordered: "The target enemy navy, battleships line up, and the naval guns fire a salvo!"

The semaphore soldiers immediately conveyed Di Yuan's order to each battleship through the semaphore. In less than 5 minutes, all large and medium-sized warships such as treasure ships, blessing ships, and Galen ships adjusted their sails. The portholes of the Liao navy, which was rushing out of the port around the port, all opened their portholes, and rows of black muzzles protruded.

The small warships cruised around the fleet, performing escort duties, and were responsible for preventing the enemy from setting fire to the ship.

boom! ! !
Accompanied by the huge roar of the artillery salvo, Li Yu only felt the Pippi Shrimp under his feet vibrate violently. Fortunately, he had fixed his body a long time ago, so he was not thrown over.

Countless shells were driven by the gunpowder and crossed the sky in a parabola. Most of them smashed into the sea water around the port, splashing water. Occasionally, lucky shells hit the warships of the Liao State Navy who were in a hurry to evade. , smashing in from the upper deck, smashing a hole leading directly to the lower cabin; or with huge kinetic energy, tearing a hole in the sail.

"Stop shooting! Go one mile! Change grapes!"

Di Yuan looked at the results of the first round of shelling with a telescope. Since he was using a smoothbore gun, he fired as soon as he entered the range. The distance was far, so the hit rate was naturally pitiful. Only a few enemy warships were damaged, and this It's purely delusional.Di Yuan shook his head, not satisfied, so he ordered loudly.

The semaphore soldiers quickly conveyed the order again.

The battleship that had just opened fire adjusted its sails again, and after advancing for a mile, it lined up again.

Shooting like greeting for the first time is not useless. Its purpose is not to injure the enemy, but to attract the enemy's navy out of the port, so as not to block the port and affect the landing after sinking later.

After the adjustment, the distance between the warships of the two sides was less than a hundred feet, almost sticking to the enemy's eyes and firing.

Di Yuan commanded like this, naturally he was not afraid that the enemy would cause any losses to him. In this era, apart from his own navy, when other naval forces fought, they only used bed crossbows or trebuchets, or set fire to ships, or received Side battle.This kind of tactics will at most cause some trouble for himself.

boom!
The muzzle was brightly lit, and with the start of the second round of shelling, a series of grape shells rushed out of the barrel, with a whistling sound, and went straight to the battleship of the Liao Kingdom Navy.

Grape bombs, also known as chain bombs, have one big shell and one small shell, connected by an iron chain in the middle. After hitting the enemy, it will cut the person in two. The death is extremely miserable, and it can cause a huge shock to the enemy's heart.However, the main purpose of this chain bomb is not to kill personnel, but to deal with the sails of enemy warships.

Chain bombs will tear the sails or break the mast, and the battleship will lose power and be slaughtered.

As the distance shortened, the hit rate also increased. In the blink of an eye, seven or eight ships of the Liao Kingdom Navy lost power after being hit by grape bullets, and could only float helplessly on the sea, waiting for the enemy's attack. trial.

"Quickly, let all the moving boats rush up and meet the board! Release the boats and set them on fire!"

The two brothers of Yelu's family boarded a centipede boat at the beginning, and ordered the sailors to stay away from the battlefield and head for the river behind.

They are not stupid, not to mention the enemy's warships that are three to five times larger than their own ships, but with that number, their own navy has no more than a dozen ships, and more than half of them are flat-bottomed inland river warships. What to use to counter the enemy's densely packed fleet.

Seeing that his navy was named by the enemy, and one after another lost power, Yelu Deyou hurriedly issued a semaphore, ordering the warships that were still able to move forward, to make a final resistance, drag the enemy, and buy time for his brothers to escape.

"Do you still dare to resist?" Di Yuan, who was in charge of the command, questioned suspiciously, and sneered disdainfully when he saw a few sporadic arson boats rushing towards him.

Without Di Yuan's order, there were already small battleships cruising around the fleet waiting in full force.

Yan Si is the captain of a small battleship. The battleship he sat on was only a [-]-material Galen sailboat, equipped with [-] cannons, and the caliber was only three inches, which was far less than the eight-inch size of large battleships such as the Pippi Shrimp. main gun.

Seeing his colleagues firing thousands of guns, getting addicted to their hands, Yan Si had already felt itchy, but he had received the task of escorting the fleet, so he could only watch helplessly. The enemy was not as big as his own battleship. The ships were named by colleagues one by one.

Finally, Yan Si was overjoyed when he saw the enemy taking pictures of the arson boat, the opportunity finally came.

Without waiting for the semaphore soldier to send an order, he jumped into the cabin anxiously, and shouted: "Break bullets, aim at the arson boat rushing over, and fire!"

Several gunners have many years of experience in operating cannons, and the distance is short. With a slight adjustment, with the bang, several shells with burning fuzes accurately hit the arson ship.

At the same time, on other small warships, gunfire sounded almost at the same time. The arson ship released by the Liao Kingdom Navy was hit by the firing shell at the same time. The wooden tube fuze ignited the gunpowder inside, and the gunpowder exploded. The thin wooden hull was torn apart and the kerosene carried on board was ignited.

After several explosions, only some broken wood and some soldiers howling in the kerosene remained on the sea.

"Send a semaphore, let the small battleship rush up, and stop the centipede boat that wants to escape!" Di Yuan confirmed the result of the battle again, and immediately found the centipede boat of Brother Yelu that had rushed into the river mouth.

After receiving the order, several small battleships hung their sails and rushed towards the mouth of the river driven by the wind, and adjusted their muzzles on the way. After a few roars, several shells fell into the water on both sides of the centipede ship and exploded The splashed water drops landed on Yelu Deyou's face.

This was a warning bombardment, because the centipede ship was driven by human oars, and it burst out faster than the small Galen ship in a short period of time, so seeing that it could not catch up, Yan Si, who was ordered to pursue, immediately ordered the gunners to shoot, Warn the opponent to stop the ship and surrender.

"Brother, I can't run away anymore." Yelu Deyou wiped the water from his face and sighed with a sad face, "If you run again, they will blow us up."

Although Yelu Deyou didn't know what kind of weapon the enemy was using to project the iron ball to such a long distance, the explosion couldn't fool anyone, it was definitely the movement made by gunpowder.

Gunpowder is also used in a large amount in my navy, but it is used to get close to arson, or to launch it with a catapult. The range is only more than a hundred steps, which is far worse than the enemy's weapons.

"Then surrender." Yelu Debao Xiao Suo agreed, he never felt that surrender was a shameful thing, at worst, he would change his master, whoever sacrificed his life is not sacrificed one's life!As long as you can guarantee your own glory and wealth!The only pity is that the box of gold, silver and copper coins on the boat may not be kept.

"Your Highness, it's over."

Seeing that the enemy army had lost the ability to resist, Di Yuan trotted excitedly to Li Yu and reported.

"Very good." Li Yu praised lightly, pointing to the Acropolis by the mouth of the sea: "The next goal is to take down that city."

"Yes!"

A quarter of an hour later, the fleet separated several large warships and lined up in sequence facing the sea, with their guns pointing at the Acropolis by the sea.

Unfortunately, before the naval guns exploded, the gates of the Acropolis opened wide, and thousands of unarmed Liao soldiers came out of the Acropolis.

This is normal, the fierce battlefield on the sea has long stunned the Liao army in the Acropolis. The enemy only attacked three times, and defeated the navy army on their side. Gunpowder will explode, and their little acropolis built of rammed earth cannot withstand the bombardment of that thing.

Moreover, the guard Yelu Deyou ran away by boat, and the rest were just some miscellaneous soldiers, why bother to resist desperately.

"Order the large and medium warships to be on alert, and the small warships to gather the Khitan navy who surrendered. Anyone who dares to resist will be killed."

"The troop carrier enters the port, the Shenji battalion disembarks, occupies the acropolis, accepts the enemy's surrender, and must not invade the people in the city!"

"Di Yuan and Lu Qiusuo lead the squadron around the battlefield and into the Liao River."

An hour later.

The mouth of the sea was blocked, and the surrendered warships of the Liao army and the smuggled merchant ships that were affected by the fish were all dragged into the port, and the soldiers of the Liao army were also detained.

A large camp has been set up outside the port, and there are teams of soldiers armed with guns on the periphery of the camp. From time to time, soldiers will carry supplies from the troop carriers that enter the port one by one, and they are carrying out the landing work in an orderly manner.

In the guard's mansion of the Acropolis, Li Yu looked at Brother Yelu who looked like a quail with great interest, and asked, "Are you the guards of the Acropolis by the Sea?"

"Yes." Yelu Debao carefully glanced at the general who controlled the fate of his brother, and replied with a forced calm: "I am the Jiedu envoy of Chenzhou, Yelu Debao who knows the state, this is my brother, Chenzhou Yelu Deyou, the guard of the guard city, I wonder which general this general is from the Song Dynasty? The Liao and Song Dynasties are a country of brothers, why did the general suddenly attack our city of Daliao?"

Yelu Debao could tell from the enemy's clothes and accent that it was Song people who attacked him, and he was very puzzled. Could it be that the Song Dynasty is tired of living a peaceful life and wants to go to war?
"This king is Zhao Kai, King Wu of the Great Song Dynasty, who was ordered by the emperor to lead his army across the sea to destroy Liao." Li Yu made a pretense: "The Khitan stole the Liaodong and Yanyun lands of my Han family for a hundred years, and it is time to pay back. "

"Impossible!" Yelu Debao didn't believe in the rhetoric of "following the emperor's orders" at all. There was a hundred years of peace between Song and Liao, and the emperor of Song Dynasty sent envoys to Daliao every year, reiterating the peace between the two countries , How could it be possible to send troops to sneak attack for no reason?
Moreover, this King of Wu, Zhao Kai, has also heard of it himself.Over the years, sea merchants have continuously entered Liaodong and bought a large number of giant trees. It is said that this is the man of King Wu, and he has received tribute from the sea merchants under King Wu.

"Believe it or not!" After learning that Yelu Debao turned out to be the guard general of Chenzhou, Li Yu was very happy in his heart, but he did not show his face, and warned: "Since you have chosen to surrender, then next, the king Ask, you answer, good answer, this king will not touch a hair of your two brothers, but let you go back to Khitan. But if the answer is not what you asked, then I'm sorry, understand?"

"Please show me, King Wu."

Yelu Debao was also happy. Although he abandoned martial arts and followed literature and was steeped in Confucianism, he didn't have the stink of southern literati. Since he chose to surrender and become a prisoner, what he wanted was to survive, or even go further, to convert There is nothing to be reserved about the smooth progress that the hall hopes for!
"You are the guard of Chenzhou. This king asks you, how many Liao troops are in Chenzhou? all information."

"To the King of Wu," Yelu Debao's eyes flashed, he thought for a moment, stopped his words, and answered with cupped hands: "Chenzhou Fucheng is located more than ten miles southeast of the Acropolis here, and it is an important gateway to defend Liaoyang Mansion. The city is surrounded by four miles, and the city wall is five feet high. There are four gates, and each gate has an urn. There are three hundred palace tent troops in the city, all of whom are Khitan cavalry, which are the personal guards of the tribe below; The Bohai and Han armies were stationed in two barracks in the north and south of the city, each with [-] cavalry, and the rest were infantry. The Bohai navy was stationed in the south camp, responsible for defending the east and south walls, and the Han army was stationed in the north camp. Yuxi and North City Walls."

"There are another [-] township soldiers, of which [-] township soldiers are stationed in the capital city of Chenzhou, serving as auxiliary soldiers for the tribal army, and the remaining [-] township soldiers are stationed in the Weicheng and Wubao around the capital city of Chenzhou to meet emergency needs. .”

"There are more than 300,000 grains stored in Fucheng, and there are more than [-] people. They live together from various ethnic groups. Khitan accounts for [-]%, Han and Bohai each account for [-]%. Rods, kerosene, gold juice, trebuchets, etc., the foreign minister is willing to draw a detailed map of the city defense of Chenzhou Prefecture and present it to His Highness, and is also willing to open the city gate for His Highness to try and cheat, so that His Highness will do less damage when attacking the city and release innocent people. The people have a way of life.”

After finishing speaking, Yelu Debao lay on the ground, lowered his head, and kept rolling his eyes.

"Hey! Yes!" Li Yu was shocked. Although this guy looks ugly, his behavior of surrender is also contemptible, but he actually remembered all the details of Chenzhou in his heart. Although he didn't know the truth, it was enough to prove that he was a dry official.

PS: I was exhausted from working overtime for several days in a row, I was so sleepy that I couldn't keep my eyes open, and I didn't bother to write chapters.

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