Water Margin people

575 Sea Battle
"Loach warship! Then... the skull flag!"

Hu Yanqing at the bow had a strange expression on his face. He recognized the ship, which was a loach warship commonly seen in the Song Dynasty Navy, but there was a skull flag flying on the tallest mast of the ship.

"Have you ever heard of anyone using such a flag?"

Hu Yanqing looked at the officers under his command and asked, especially the dozen or so gray-haired veterans, all of whom had been in the Ping Navy for 20 years, so they were well-informed.

"I've never seen it before. The flag has always represented the identity of the army, and it is usually written in words. Goryeo and Japan like patterns, but they have never heard of skull patterns."

The soldiers shook their heads and replied.

"Open all sails and chase after me!"

Hu Yanqing observed for a long time, and found that there was only such a strange ship, and he didn't care so much, he just chased it and took it.

Hu Yanqing was on a merchant ship this time, and the speed of a merchant ship was far inferior to that of a warship, so in order to speed up, he emptied out all the unnecessary cargo in the cabin, and even removed some of the heavy objects in the cabin because there were no waves. , for the ultimate speed.

"The horn is raised!"

With a wave of Hu Yanqing's hand, the horn sounded on the ship, and the sound of the horn echoed on the sea.

"The first team outflanks to the left, the second team outflanks from the right, and I bite the rest!"

Hu Yanqing saw the movement of the loach warship and gave an order.

On the loach warship.

"Hey, fooled!"

Wang Dingliu looked at the chasing fleet and smiled.

"Turn around and set sail, I will let him know what a warship is!"

Wang Dingliu directed to the soldiers.

Even though the sea was vast and boundless, the sea loach warship turned around in a big circle.

Hu Yanqing originally thought that the loach warship would run away, but he didn't expect to make a circle and rush towards him.

"Scatter, scatter! Get ready to board."

Hu Yanqing looked at the huge copper ram on the loach warship, if hit by this thing, his own merchant ships would surely sink.

"Want to take over? Don't ask me if I agree!"

Wang Dingliu stood on the tallest mast and looked at all this with a sneer. He also knew a little about the tactics of the court navy. When he was in Jiankang Mansion, he watched the navy training by the riverside. Then there is the gangway jumping, nothing new at all.

Hu Yanqing was commanding the army to approach from both sides, when suddenly holes appeared on the sides of the loach warship, and then the black gun barrel was pushed out.

"No, it's a firearm, go back!"

Hu Yanqing yelled in horror, but it was too late, the artillery started to fire, and the shells came in rows, and the hit ship was instantly torn apart by the shells, and big holes were punched out.

The power of the artillery stunned Ping Haijun for an instant. They had never encountered this kind of equipment in a naval battle, and they couldn't even get close to the enemy ship.

"Catch up from behind!"

Hu Yanqing quickly thought of a countermeasure. There were cannons on both sides of the sea loach warships, and they could avoid the cannons by chasing from behind.

Wang Dingliu did not fight with Hu Yanqing, and commanded the boat to head towards the predetermined direction.

Hu Yanqing is not willing to let this lone ship go, leading the army to chase after it.

"Woooooo!"

A burst of trumpets sounded.

Hu Yanqing's face changed drastically, and he looked around only to find dozens of huge warships appearing on the surrounding sea, a huge encirclement circle had surrounded his fleet, and a skull flag was flying above each battleship.

"How come there are so many warships!"

Hu Yanqing's hands were shaking, he couldn't deal with so many warships at all, Ping Haijun had never had so many huge warships before.

"Quick, retreat into the reef!"

Seeing those warships approaching, Hu Yanqing didn't hesitate, and commanded the warships to hide in the island group, where there are countless hidden reefs on Ming Island, those large enemy ships dare not come in.

"Think these reefs can stop me? Fire!"

Fei Bao sneered, Hu Yanqing thought of him too simply, it's just some hidden reefs, can they be safe by hiding in them?If you directly bombard him, you don't believe that Hu Yanqing can hide for a lifetime.

The artillery bombarded round after round, and those merchant ships and fishing boats trying to hide in the reef were torn apart by the artillery.

"Brother, why don't we bring people in!"

Ni Yun, Bu Qing, and Di Cheng challenged Fei Bao. Although the hidden reef is troublesome, as long as you are careful, the loach battleship can still enter. As long as you follow the enemy's path, you don't have to be afraid of hitting the reef.

"No, every ship is the property of the cottage, we can't take risks with it."

Fei Bao shook his head and said, he didn't know how important a big ship was until he entered the sea, and a naval battle was nothing more than fighting for the strength of a ship.

"Huyanqing's fleet is so big, they can't hide on this island and reef. As long as they round up two rounds, his fleet will definitely disperse!"

Fei Bao pointed to the fleet of ships meandering through the reefs and said, Hu Yanqing had a simple idea, but the space in the reefs was limited, so there was no way he could hide so many ships.

Seeing the cannons smashing the ships, Hu Yanqing was also extremely anxious. He never expected that the enemy would have so many ships and so many cannons.

"Where did this thief come from!"

Hu Yanqing wondered for a while, even pirates couldn't possibly have such strength.

"Hu Yanqing, those who are sensible, lower your sails and surrender, or you will all be buried in the sea!"

Fei Bao shouted upwind with this big horn, using Wu dialect in Jiangnan.

"This is... a Southerner!"

Hu Yanqing listened to the shout, and finally solved a doubt in his heart, why there are so many warships, it turned out to be people from the south.

"General, we are surrounded!"

The soldiers pointed to the surrounding warships, and the exits of the main reef were all blocked. If they broke through, the casualties would be heavy.

"Go Chiki Island!"

Seeing that he was surrounded, Hu Yanqing pointed to a relatively large isolated island and ordered that this is a military base of the Dengzhou Navy near the sea, and he will be stationed there during training, so he can stick to it for a period of time.

At the same time, Hu Yanqing also called a confidant to send back the news that the enemy came from the south.

Hu Yanqing commanded the fleet to go to Chiji Island, Fei Bao was not in a hurry when he saw this, he waved the flag, and the surrounding warships pursued and continued to bombard.

"Go to the island!"

When Hu Yanqing saw Chiji Island, he ignored the ships and immediately let the soldiers board the small boats to dock. These big ships are already cumbersome compared to the enemy's warships.

Seeing that the camp was approaching, the soldiers on the beach looked ecstatic, and they were not afraid of the guns of the thieves when they went to the camp.

"Hu Yanqing, I've been waiting for you for a long time!"

Ni Yun, Bu Qing, Di Cheng, and Wang Dingliu led people to appear in front of Hu Yanqing, blocking Hu Yanqing's peaceful navy on the beach.

Ping Haijun, who was still laughing and ecstatic just now, froze for a moment. They never expected that they would escape into the trap of the thieves after running around. Now that they had abandoned the boat, they couldn't escape even if they wanted to.

"Hu Yanqing, if you don't surrender, then I can only kill you and throw you into the sea to feed the sharks."

Ni Yun opened his mouth to scare Hu Yanqing and the soldiers. Anyone who eats at sea is not afraid of sharks.

"You are from the south! Why did you come to my Dengzhou!"

Hearing Ni Yun's accent, Hu Yanqing confirmed that the people in front of him were from Jiangnan.

(End of this chapter)