Horse on the World

Chapter 657
Zuo Fu stood at the bow of the ship, watching the flaming fireship rush towards the Dingzhou Navy Fleet moored in the harbor like arrows. After a while, the harbor would become a sea of ​​flames, and those big ships that were showing off their might would be burned to the ground.

This port is a huge backwater area. Here, the fire boat will be sent into the harbor by the current without being manipulated by humans. Zuo Fu did not expect that today's trip would be so smooth. His Majesty the King and Prime Minister Wei Gang decided to resist desperately. After that, he was the first one to invite Sakura to attack.

Zuo Fu is a veteran of the navy and the elder brother of Zuo Gui, the current commander of the navy. Zuo Gui died in battle, and the entire navy was wiped out. Zuo Fu was sad and angry, and collected hundreds of small fishing boats. He decided to follow the example of the ancients and set them on fire. Burn the enemy fleet.A group of death squads were convened, and using their familiarity with the hydrology and geography around Taiwan Island, they managed to avoid the patrol boats of the Dingzhou Navy and approach the fleet of the Dingzhou Navy moored in the harbor.

Each fishing boat was piled full of flammable firewood, poured with grease, and immediately lit the fire when it was one or two away from the harbor. The death squads on the boat jumped into the sea one after another, swimming back desperately, and those fire The boat rushed towards the harbor through the back current, and nearly a hundred fire boats illuminated the sea surface brightly.

By the light of the fire, Zuo Fu saw the fire boat approaching, looked at the panic-stricken figures on the huge ships in the harbor, and listened to the extremely stern alarm horn, he looked up to the sky and laughed, brother, brother today I want to avenge you.

But after a while, Zuo Fu's smile condensed on his face. When the more than one hundred fire ships were about 200 meters away from the harbor fleet, they seemed to have encountered some obstacles and stopped inexplicably. After the front stopped, But the fire boat behind ran into it relentlessly, and for a while, sparks splashed all over the sea.

"Why, why is this!" Zuo Fu hissed, could it be that these Dingzhou sailors were blessed by ghosts and gods, why did the fire boat stop when it reached the arc line?
In fact, there are some ghosts and gods blessing there. The Dingzhou Navy is stationed in the harbor. On the periphery of the harbor, dozens of small boats are moored there along an arc. Bells, alarm bells, those fire boats rushing here, either collided with these small boats, or were stopped by the iron chains that sank a little under the water, huddled together on this line, but couldn't make an inch.

When Zheng Zhiyuan annihilated the Bozhou Navy, he used a fireboat to attack the enemy, and the enemy was burned to the point of crying and howling. He was stationed here, so there is no reason why he should not be prepared for the enemy's sneak attack.

"Send a message to the fleet on the far sea and ask them to form a squadron to capture the incoming enemy, and the ships in the port will sink these fireships." Zheng Zhiyuan ordered in a deep voice.

Amidst the raging flames, the signal soldiers on the Izumo climbed up the high mast, and kept raising the signal flag towards the giant ship Wanliao. At this time, the giant ship on the far sea was already alarmed and was approaching Focusing on this place, seeing the signal command on the Izumo in the translucent harbor, several three thousand warships and a dozen thousand warships immediately rushed towards the indistinct small boats on the sea.

In the harbor, the trebuchets on the ship were stringed and loaded with stone bullets in a very short period of time. With the order of acoustic launch, stone bullets flew into the air one by one, killing 200 people. The fire boats that were meters away sank one by one.

Zuo Fu knelt down on the bow of the boat, grabbed the ground with his head, and pounded the plank with his fists. At the moment when success was approaching, failure fell from the sky. The opponent's defense was so tight. He didn't relax his guard at all, which shocked the veteran admiral and felt a sense of powerlessness. The enemy in front of him was very different from what he had encountered in the past.

Although Zuo Fu is a veteran of the navy, he only dealt with small groups of pirates in the past, as well as besieged and chased some merchant ships in this sea area. Basically, he had no experience in large naval battles. He was like Zheng Zhiyuan who was very experienced in naval battles. A rich general, he does everything smoothly, leaving no chance for the enemy at all.

"Let's go, let's go back to the cabin and continue to discuss. These invading enemies can't escape much, so we don't have to stand here and blow the sea breeze!" Zheng Zhiyuan smiled and looked around. At this time, the fireboat on the sea surface was basically sunk. A group of Dingzhou navy sailed towards the cordon in small boats, preparing to check the damage of the small boats that were on guard.

This kind of battle cannot even be called a battle for the Dingzhou Navy.

"General Zuo, retreat quickly, or you won't be able to leave." A soldier shouted.At this time, on the surface of the sea, more than a dozen large ships were circled behind them, intending to block their retreat.

"Take a look at the flowers!" Zuo Fu hissed, relying on the dexterity and speed of the boat, the remaining [-] or [-] boats quickly approached the coastline, and rowed desperately to one side in the shallow water.

The sound of dong dong sounded around the boat from time to time. It was the incoming ship firing stone bombs. The bullet hit a fishing boat on the left side of Zuo Fu, and the huge impact immediately split the boat in two. The bow and stern were raised high, and then sank immediately. The catastrophe.

"Scatter, scatter, get close to the coast." Zuo Fu shouted.

The shrieking sound of the eight-ox crossbow cast a heavy shadow of death on everyone's hearts. As long as one of these eight-ox crossbows, which are as impeding as arms, were shot, the boat they were sitting on would be overturned.Zuo Fu held the oars, and while sliding forward desperately, he looked sideways at the brightly lit enemy fleets that were chasing after him.

He is very familiar with the eight-ox crossbow, but the intensity of the opponent's eight-ox crossbow shooting makes him terrified. The opponent's crossbow can shoot four at a time, which is slower than the turtle on Taiwan Island. I don't know how much more powerful the eight-ox crossbow is.

The three thousand warships have been thrown far away, but the opponent still has several thousand warships chasing after them.

"Lead them to Yangjiao Bend." Zuo Fu shouted loudly.

Yangjiao Bend is the name of a place on Taiwan Island tens of miles away from the harbor. The water surface here looks calm, but under the sea surface, it is densely covered with reefs, which can only allow small fishing boats to enter and exit, and larger ships enter here. Most of them are the end of hitting the rocks.If these Dingzhou sailors are still desperately chasing them, then Zuo Fu doesn't mind picking them up.

The remaining dozens of small boats slid desperately, and finally entered the Yangjiao Bend under the endless blows of the warships behind.

"General Zuo, we are safe!" A man who looked like a school captain cheered loudly, but then a stone bullet fell from the sky and scattered all his words. Flying high, he fell with a pricking sound, and fell into the water with a bang, a series of water splashes rose, but his person never floated up again.

Zuo Fu turned his head, and several thousand warships still pursued them relentlessly. "Keep going!" he roared.

"Catch them alive!" The Dingzhou sailors shouted happily from behind.

"Catch us alive?" Zuo Fu sneered, and immediately made you look good.Dozens of small boats spread out in the Yangjiao Bend like frightened birds.

There was a bang, and there was a huge impact sound behind him. Zuo Fu was overjoyed, and when he looked back, sure enough, a thousand-material battleship chasing at the front hit the reef. Caught off guard, he was thrown high and then fell into the water. There was an exclamation from the boat.

The first ship hit the rocks, but the following ships saw the opportunity very quickly and immediately slowed down. Huge iron anchors were thrown into the water one by one, and the ships were forcibly stopped amidst an unpleasant creaking sound.

Zuo Fu looked at the distance of nearly a hundred meters between the first warship that hit the rocks and the following ships, and couldn't help being overjoyed, "Turn around and destroy this ship that hit the rocks!"

With an order, dozens of small boats sailed back like arrows.

The warship that hit the rocks and the fleet behind him immediately realized the danger, and countless stone bullets rained down, blocking the direction of the small boat.More than a dozen small boats were released from the battleships behind, and each small boat was fully loaded with heavily armed soldiers, and they rowed towards the warships that hit the rocks with all their strength.

This burst of blows caused Zuo Fu to lose several small boats, but it also allowed him to successfully land on the grounded Thousand Material Battleship, "Climb up and kill them all!"

At this time, the thousand-material battleship was like a tempting honeycomb, covered with small boats, and a hook was attached to the side of the battleship, and the soldiers shouted and climbed up.

A large amount of sea water poured into the warship that hit the rocks, and the hull began to sink slowly. The sailors on the ship drew out their swords, shouted and rushed to the side of the ship, fighting with the climbing enemies.

All of a sudden, flesh and blood flew across the sides of the side of the boat, roars, screams, and the piercing creak of the sword cutting into the body, filling the sea.The Taiwanese soldiers on the small boat poured buckets of grease on the warship and threw torches. In an instant, the warship that hit the rocks was ablaze.

"Kill!" In the flames, the boat of Dingzhou Navy who came to help rushed past, and slammed into the enemy warship on the opposite side. On the ups and downs of the boat, they fought desperately.

Although the scale of this fight was small, it was more dangerous than the previous fight in the harbor. The soldiers on both sides were about the same. There are also dozens of divisions, and more than a hundred people from both sides participated in the battle, while the other thousand-material warships in Dingzhou can only wait and see from a distance. At this time, they already know that this water area is extremely complicated. The fate of hitting the rocks.

During the fight, the excellent equipment of the Dingzhou soldiers began to show great power. Compared with the opponent's simple weapons, the hand crossbows and steel-clad swords equipped by the Dingzhou navy caused heavy losses to the opponent.After fighting for no more than half an hour, the Tai Island navy couldn't bear it anymore.

Zuo Fu found sadly that not only were his sailors incomparable with the opponent on battleships, but also his own troops could not gain the slightest advantage in individual combat power.

"Retreat, retreat!" He said in grief and indignation, if he continued to fight, he was afraid that no one in this army would survive.

(End of this chapter)