Ji Han Grand Commander

Chapter 119. Battle of Dongting Lake (VII)
"Father, are you okay?"

On a warship, Zhu Yi quickly helped his father Zhu Huan. The ship had just capsized, and Zhu Yi noticed that it was the ship commanded by his father, so he ordered the warship he was on to quickly go over to rescue him, and finally saved his father, so that he would not have to go to the "Snow Lake" below for a tour.

Zhu Huan took a breath and looked up at the situation around him. Although the Wu army's ships were still shooting at the Han army, the Han army's counterattack was equally powerful. From time to time, the Wu ships could hear thunderous explosions, and with the sound of explosions, several large holes would appear on the Wu ships.

Following the tower ship commanded by Zhu Huan, two more tower ships were sunk by the Han army's unpredictable methods. The huge tower ship capsizing in the lake was also a disaster.

The tower more than ten meters high above overturned and crashed straight into the Wu army ships on the same side. Countless small boats were overturned by this tower, and even a battleship was almost capsized by this tower. Even if the hull was fortunately intact, many soldiers were crushed to death or injured.

As the Han army consciously targeted the tower ships, the Wu army was left with only two of the few tower ships it had. At this moment, they did not dare to approach, for fear of receiving "special attention" from the Han army.

But if they don't get close, the fire suppression that the tower ship is proud of will not be effective, and it will make no difference whether they are there or not.

Without the fire suppression of the Wu army's tower ships, the Han army's small boats became powerful again. The Han army's small grenades and Molotov cocktails made the Wu army's ordinary ships of all sizes suffer.

The warship, which was originally covered with cowhide and had good resistance to arrows, was instantly ignited by the Molotov cocktail and turned into a dazzling fireball;

The explosion of small earthen grenades mixed with stones and nails would cause blood and flesh to fly everywhere among the surrounding Wu troops.

The morale of the Wu army had dropped to the freezing point. The ordinary soldiers were uneducated and superstitious. As the news spread from one soldier to ten, and then to a hundred, the Han army on the opposite side seemed to be soldiers from heaven, holding palm thunders in their hands, punishing these mortals.

In addition, the homemade hand grenade was indeed too unbelievable. Not to mention ordinary soldiers, even many grassroots officers were already terrified. They believed in the words of the soldiers about the palm thunder by nine or even eight points.

"Sir, please stop fighting. We surrender!"

In the foul-smelling "Snow Lake", corpses of Wu army sailors were floating in the lake from time to time, as well as the wreckage of Wu army boats that were burned by incendiary bombs.

The roaring sound like thunder that came from time to time made many Wu soldiers lose the will to fight, and they simply knelt on the deck and surrendered.

"Tsk... don't panic! This is just a trick of the Shu army! Keep fighting! They are just flesh and blood!"

Xu Sheng shouted loudly on his command ship, but unfortunately the chaotic battlefield and the occasional explosions made his voice only reach a few meters and was drowned out by the noise.

Seeing that the Wu army soldiers were becoming more and more depressed, the small boats in front were almost wiped out, and the battleships were unable to stop the advance of the Han army.

"General Xu... General Xu, our troops are dissipating like snowflakes..."

A soldier reported back in a trembling voice, Xu Sheng glanced at him, he was not blind. But at this moment, the defeat was overwhelming, even Xu Sheng had no better solution.

Suddenly, Xu Sheng caught a glimpse of a tower ship with full sails under the order of the general on it, and it was actually rushing straight into the Han army formation, as if it wanted to use the size of the tower ship to break through the Han army's line and attack the enemy directly.

"Gong Ji, this is unacceptable!" Xu Sheng's eyes widened. This famous general who was always calm in the face of danger actually panicked. He recognized that this ship was the tower ship commanded by Wu general Ling Tong. Ling Tong was always brave and aggressive. At this moment, he was unwilling to be defeated. Instead, he chose to rush into the enemy camp himself, wanting to kill the general and seize the ship to boost the morale of the Wu army.

But Xu Sheng knew that it was useless for Ling Tong to do this. The Han army was clearly well prepared and had developed many methods to target the Wu ships. At this moment, Ling Tong's charge was like an egg hitting a rock, and he would only lose his life in vain. This was also the reason why Xu Sheng exclaimed.

Unfortunately, Ling Tong could not hear Xu Sheng's words, and he had no time to pay attention to Xu Sheng's flag. Ling Tong naturally saw that the current situation was that the Wu army was defeated, but Ling Tong was unwilling to accept it. He decided to set an example, fight bravely to boost the morale of the army, and save the Wu army from its decline.

As Ling Tong's tower ships rushed towards the Han army, the morale of the Wu army really improved a little. Many soldiers were determined to fight to the death with Ling Tong, causing the front small boats of the Han army to fall into a stalemate again.

"Everyone, focus your fire on this ship! Fire at the same time!"

Zhao Lei, who was in charge of assisting the command on the Han army's battleship, narrowed his eyes and saw Ling Tong's selfless fighting method. Although he admired him in his heart, he could not ignore it for the victory of the Han army.

Under Zhao Lei's order, more than a dozen giant crossbows on the Han army's warships and battleships shot large crossbow arrows towards Ling Tong's direction, of course, they were carrying kerosene or gunpowder cans.

“Whoosh—crash!”

A huge crossbow arrow hit the wall at the top of the ship's tower, and the kerosene tank it carried was instantly shattered by the huge kinetic energy. The purified petroleum inside exploded instantly, and when it touched the already lit fuse, it splashed onto the entire deck of the ship like a rain of fire.

"Don't worry about the flames! Just charge into the Han army!"

Ling Tong was already furious at this time. He completely disregarded his own safety and ordered the tower ships to continue ramming the Han army's formation, hoping to cause more casualties to the Han army.

"Report... Report! General Ling, a big hole was blown into the side of our ship. Our ship can no longer move forward!"

Ling Tong walked quickly to the side of the ship and saw that his big ship had been rotten with countless holes after the explosion and the baptism of fire. At this moment, the lake water had already poured into his ship.

"Everyone get off the boat and run for your lives. I still have things to do."

Ling Tong sighed and ordered the soldiers who were still able to move on the boat to jump into the water as soon as possible. Even if they stunk all over, it was better than being burned to death, right?
Ling Tong also took off his leather armor and prepared to jump into the river to kill a few Han soldiers and seize a small boat.

“Swoosh—boom!”

Unexpectedly, a large crossbow arrow with a gunpowder can nail shot from somewhere hit Ling Tong not far away. The gunpowder can exploded, and the stones and nails inside flew out and hit Ling Tong.

Fortunately, Ling Tong was not close to the center of the explosion, so these things did not take his life, but his brain was also hit by a stone, and he fell directly from the side of the boat into the river and lost consciousness.

As Ling Tong fell into the river, one of the last two tower ships of the Wu army also sank. The Han army's warships surrounded and attacked under the cover of countless speedboats, ready to end this night battle.

(End of this chapter)