Neon Clothes and Iron Clothes

Chapter 114 Fragile defeat
The violent sea breeze made Cui Hongdu's voice erratic. Wang Wenzuo walked across the deck, slapped the soldiers on the shoulders, stopped from time to time, called out someone's name, made a joke or said a few words of encouragement, until the other end of the deck, He stopped and shouted at the top of his voice, "Oh, oh, win!"

"Oh, oh, Victory!"

At the beginning, there were only a few sporadic soldiers, but soon the deck was filled with war songs, and then other ships also heard war songs. The rhythmic singing drove away cowardice, and filled courage and strength. Every human body, cowards become warriors.

Ohh Ohh ohh!

The continuous sound of horns swept across the sea, and the drums of the Japanese fast boats became faster and faster, and the speed of paddling followed immediately. — Puff.On the deck, the barefoot pioneers slapped their shields with their swords, while the archers quickly set up their bowstrings and drew feather arrows from the quiver on their waists.As the two sides approached, the shadow of the ship on the opposite side became bigger and bigger, the waves undulated, and the rusty steel horns on the enemy's bow were exposed to the sea from time to time. As long as you avoid the impact of the horns and lean on the enemy ship to start the siege, you will win... …

A wave of swaying firebirds flew out from the fleet of the Tang army. This was a burning spear-the spear shaft was made of pine wood soaked in turpentine, and it flew towards the Japanese fleet with a long tail of fire.The sea water swallowed most of the birds, and a few landed on the deck of the ship, exploded and scattered sparks.There was chaos on the deck, and the Monobe warriors shouted loudly, forcing the soldiers to restore order.But the second wave of attacks came one after another, this time mixed with flying arrows, and the Tang people's archers also started shooting. A helmsman covered his heart, and the arrows pierced through his chest, overturned the ship's side, and fell into the bottom of the sea.

According to the records in the later history books, it is difficult to determine who shot the first blow of the first confrontation between Tang and Japanese—four of the captains of the six ships that participated in the battle all said in the family history that they were themselves. The history left a name, so in the "Dongguo Chunqiu" handed down to later generations, the biographies of these four people in the book are all recorded according to the biographies of the masters, which is also a joke passed down to later generations.But one thing is certain, it is the Tang army and not the Japanese—the reason is very simple. The Japanese naval warfare projectile weapons at that time were very simple, at best there were rockets and spears, and their power and range were incomparable with the continuous ballista on Wang Wenzuo's ship. When the Tang army opened fire, the archers on the Japanese deck were still a hundred steps away, dozens of steps away from the effective range.

Although the first wave of attack by the Tang people was fierce, it was completely expected by the Japanese. The warriors on the ship brandished long spears to boost the morale of the oarsmen and soldiers, and tried to fire rockets with vine bows to burn the enemy after about fifty paces. Dropping the sails of the Tang people and shooting the oarsmen of the Tang people, according to past naval battle experience, this is the only way for small ships to besiege large ships. As long as they lose their maneuverability, no matter how strong and tall a sea ship is, it is just a living target.

But they soon discovered that this past experience seemed to be invalid. The "firepower" of the Tang warship had exceeded their imagination. Arrows and spears rained down, as if hundreds of archers were shooting arrows in turn. generally.A surviving Monobe warrior found [-] arrows on his shield afterwards, and some Japanese even jumped into the sea in order to escape the rain of arrows from the Tang ship.The oarsmen and helmsmen suffered the most casualties, and soon the small boats lost power, they stopped crookedly, and even entangled everything.

The first direct contact between the two sides was on the left side of Wang Wenzuo's ship. The high-speed Tang army warship's angle of attack was astonishingly powerful, crushing the enemy ship. Oars, the impact brought by the collision to the wooden oars is enough to knock the oarsman at the other end off the bench. The archers of the Tang army are condescending, shooting at the Japanese boats on both sides, throwing torches, and the warships pass by, leaving only the sea surface Floating wreckage and ship debris.

Standing on the deck, Monobe Renxiong looked at everything in the distance in pain. Most of the dozen or so tengu clippers on the detour mission had turned into shipwrecks and floating corpses.A few minutes ago, he was still fantasizing about the loot he could get from these Tang ships, but now it no longer exists. The facts are clear: the warships of the Tang Dynasty have an advantage over the Japanese warships. Quantitative advantages can be compensated.

"Blow the horn! Turn the bow and retreat!"

"What?" Mobu Shouheng was stunned, and he pointed at the distant sea with some trembling: "Patriarch, there are still many soldiers in the family fighting hard over there!"

"Withdraw the troops, we will die in the past!" Monobe Renxiong's voice was very low, as if it came out of his throat: "Retreat immediately, or it will be too late!"

The retreat of Monobe Lianxiong became the last straw that overwhelmed the Japanese who were still desperately resisting. Abandoned by their own family, they threw down their weapons one after another and begged for surrender to the Tang people.Wang Wenzuo rejected the suggestion of his subordinates to throw them all into the sea and drown them. He ordered all the living Japanese to be driven to the two remaining Japanese boats and let them paddle behind.

"Sanlang, you really have a bodhisattva heart. If it were me, I would have thrown these guys into the sea to feed the fish!"

"These are all hard labor. After going ashore, digging, logging, and moving things are all needed!" Wang Wenzuo smiled: "Besides, the imperial court has never confronted the Japanese before. This is the first time we have encountered it. After taking so many captives over, the superiors will definitely reward you heavily!"

"That's true!" Cui Hongdu said with a smile: "Anyway, I'm not afraid of them playing tricks on the sea. If something goes wrong, just sink the ship."

For Wang Wenzuo and his party, the confrontation at the mouth of the Baicun River was nothing more than an unexpected encounter. They didn't even stop the boat to salvage the loot floating on the sea, and continued sailing north along the coastline to their destination. land.But for the ambitious Monobe Renxiong who came from afar, it was nothing less than a blow to the head.He realized that he had to make changes to his original plan, otherwise the Monobe clan would be doomed.

Zhou stayed in the city.

"When I was in your country, I have heard about the prestige of the Monobe family for a long time!" Fuyu Fengzhang smiled, and he could even say that he was flattering: "I didn't expect that you would personally lead the source of troops, and the day of my restoration of Baekje is not far away! "

"Don't dare!" Monobe Lianxiong raised his glass coldly, but he didn't even touch his lips. His contempt for the man in front of him was beyond words. It's no wonder he, no one would respect a man who was sent under the fence not long ago. Hostage, even now he is wearing a golden crown and a brocade robe.

　Seeing that there are too few updates in the discussion forum, I can only say sorry. Weber has a job, so he can only find time to write books. He is not a full-time writer, and [-] words a day is almost the upper limit.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)