Kai Fu Han

Chapter 131 The Sea Battle at Lion’s Mouth 2
"Warriors, kill these thieves on board, and reward one tael of silver for killing one! Kill the leader and reward one hundred taels of silver!"

A general on the Jin Kingdom warship shouted loudly to the Jin Kingdom navy soldiers.

When the navy soldiers of the Kingdom of Jin heard about the reward, their morale was greatly boosted, and they actually withstood the offensive of the Xinghan League soldiers who boarded the ship.

"Kill the general of the Kingdom of Jin who shouted, reward him with a hundred taels of silver, and bestow immortal spells!"

As soon as Liu Xinqi boarded the deck of the Jin warship, he saw this scene and immediately shouted.

Hearing Liu Xinqi's shout, the soldiers who had attached the card were relatively calm. The ordinary Xinghan Alliance naval officers and soldiers felt like they had been beaten to death. Their morale reached its peak in an instant, and the defensive circle suppressing the Jin Kingdom Navy soldiers became smaller and smaller. .

With Liu Xinqi's current attributes, on the battlefield, as long as he doesn't seek death, basically no one can hurt him.

I saw that after he finished shouting, he immediately joined the battle. His offensive was sharp, like a tiger entering a flock of sheep, rushing left and right, cooperating with the soldiers on the Mizhou, and in a short time, the enemy's defensive formation on the deck of the enemy ship was completely broken up. .

The naval officers and soldiers of the Xinghan League formed a formation in twos, with one person as the main attacker and the other as an auxiliary, killing the enemy until they were unable to fight back.

The Jin general who had announced the reward was planning to jump out of the boat and escape. When Liu Xinqi saw him, he pulled out a short gun from the gun bag on his back, took aim and shot him in the back. The short gun strung up his body, crossed the side of the ship, and fell. to the sea.

The enemy general was killed, and the morale of the remaining Jin navy soldiers dropped sharply.

In less than half an hour, the naval officers and soldiers of the Xinghan Alliance eliminated all enemies on the Jin Kingdom warship and eliminated all resisting enemies on the deck.

In fact, the Yixing Han Alliance currently has more than a thousand soldiers, even if it only covers the officer class above the squad leader level, if it faces any force in this era, as long as the difference in numbers is not too big, it will show an overwhelming advantage.

Two teams were left to continue dealing with the Jin State sand ship. The others returned to the Mizhou, cut the connecting rope between the two ships, pulled up the racket, separated the Mizhou from the Jin State sand ship, and then drove the Mizhou The State continued to set fires and seize ships.

Once again, the sail of an enemy ship was set on fire, and after Tiebangzhan captured a two thousand shi Jin Kingdom sand ship, Liu Xin inspired Jin Guo Navy to have more than a dozen warships out of the battlefield and were preparing to sail south. Escape.

"Send a signal and all the Fu ships will break away from the battle and pursue the escaping Jin warships."

The signalman on the mast immediately waved the colorful flag in his hand at the Qingzhou next to the Mizhou, and used the flag language to pass Liu Xinqi's order to the Qingzhou twice. He only stopped after the Qingzhou sent back the message to confirm that it was correct.

Then the signal soldiers of the Qingzhou began to deliver orders to the Qizhou not far away.

Half an hour later, only two blessing ships (Qingzhou and Qizhou) followed Mizhou, and Dengzhou was trapped in the middle of the battlefield and could not get out for the time being.

Time was running out, Liu Xinqi no longer waited, and after giving the order to set off, the three blessing ships formed a long snake formation and chased the escaping Jin Kingdom Navy.

Fuchuan has a pointed bottom, high mast, and large sail area, and its speed is slightly faster than that of sand boat.This is why Liu Xinqi only asked Fu Chuan to pursue him. The pursuit of other sand boats of the Xinghan League was in vain, and they may not be able to catch up to Jinxi Port.

In this era without radio, the transmission of maritime combat information was a huge difficulty.

Due to the obstruction of sails, masts and other debris, any orders from the flagship can only be transmitted to the ships approaching it, and then gradually passed to the next ship. The information transmission speed is very slow.Moreover, if there are any mistakes in this fancy communication method of drumming, it may cause errors in subsequent command transmission.

In order to alleviate this shortcoming, Xinghan League has formulated some measures:
First, after receiving the complete order, the ordering ship will repeat the order to the ordering ship. The ordering ship confirms that the order repeated by the ordering ship is correct and will give a confirmation flag, and then the ordering ship will pass the order to the next ship. , although this will slow down the command delivery speed, it can greatly improve the accuracy of command delivery.

The second is to arrange capable, meticulous and good-sighted soldiers in the signal soldier position. If the number of soldiers increases later, this position will gradually be replaced by soldiers, increasing the transmission distance of orders.

In addition to these measures, drums are also added to the semaphore command transmission. In environments with less interference and noise, such as before and after battles, drums are used to transmit simple commands, so that the speed of command transmission will be improved. Much faster than semaphore.

Because semaphores can only convey orders in one direction, drums can convey orders in all directions at the same time.

Due to the long delay in summoning the lucky ships, the enemy warships set off for half an hour first. In order to recover the half-hour voyage, the three lucky ships of the Xinghan League took three hours.

It was not until midnight that they bypassed the Tieshan Waterway and entered the depths of Liaodong Bay. The three ships of the Xinghan League took advantage of the soldiers' good eyesight at night and dared to sail quickly at night, and then they caught up with the ships that had slowed down due to darkness. The fast Jin escape fleet.

Liu Xinqi did not directly fight the ships behind the fleet. He sailed past the Jin escape fleet, then turned around and picked up the three largest ships. The three Fu ships intercepted these three ships one by one.

Three ships of the Jin fleet were intercepted. The other ships didn't know whether they didn't see it because it was dark, or they were just running away. No ship stopped to help.
The soldiers and the naval officers and soldiers on the Mizhou all jumped onto the deck of the Jinguo ship that was hooked by the hook rope of the Mizhou. Liu Xinqi joined in after seeing that other Jinguo fleets did not stay.

At night, the advantage of the Xinghan Alliance navy was even greater, and the role of the soldiers was maximized. The soldiers on the Jin Kingdom's warships began to surrender before the loss reached one-fifth.

The first person to surrender followed suit, and the surrender quickly spread to the entire ship.

The ship was captured faster than the first ship captured today. It only took less than half an hour to control the entire ship, including the cabin below the deck.

Liu Xinqi didn't know the outcome of the naval battle at Shizikou, but his pursuit battle here was over.

By the time these three large ships were captured, the previously escaping ships were far away again. If they were pursued again, they would probably have returned to Jinxi Port before they were caught.

……

In Shizikou, at Unity Time on June 26, the sky was gradually getting dark.

In addition to the dozens of ships that had escaped before, the remaining Jin warships either had their sails burned or were entangled by the warships of the Xinghan Alliance Navy and were unable to escape.

Fierce fighting has been going on.

Zhao Liang's Dengzhou must have captured the flagship of the Jin Kingdom Navy. This sand ship has a huge hull, with a visual estimate of more than [-] stones. It is the largest ship that the Xinghan Alliance Navy has encountered so far.

(End of this chapter)