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Chapter 1385 Capture of Bright Moon City (3)

After the deputy commander paced back and forth on the deck for a few times, the sailors on the watchtower shouted again: "Vice commander, it is the young master and the others. Twenty warships with the flag of our navy are leading the way, but the nearly one hundred warships following behind ships without flags."

The deputy commander waved his hands indifferently and muttered: "What kind of flag can a major fly, and now it's a smuggling activity, who would make a big fuss." He said loudly: "Attention everyone, immediately set up a welcome formation, all sailors on deck Line up!"

At this moment, the watchman habitually glanced around, and immediately saw thick smoke rising from the distant pier, and immediately reported the information.

The deputy commander, who was going to impress the young master, didn't care. In his mind, whether it was a fire at the pier or a rebellion, the troops in the city could easily solve it.

Whether it is firefighting or counterinsurgency, our own navy has nothing to do with land. Anyway, there are no enemy ships, so why bother?So put the matter aside.

On the flagship of the Young Lord Mingyue, Zhao Hu looked at the Mingyue navy lined up on both sides in the distance, and said with a smile: "It seems that the other party has not noticed that we have become enemies."

"Hee hee, my lord, isn't this just the right time for us to attack them? Look, they are all in a welcome formation." Zhou Wen said cheerfully.

Zhao Hu turned to Kai Hai and asked, "Are the siege crossbows and catapults ready?"

Kai Hai hurriedly said: "My lord, the preparations are ready, as long as you give an order, all arrows will be fired at once."

Although Zhou Wen and others looked down on Kai Hai as a prisoner, they still recognized Zhao Hu's appointment of this guy to be in charge of the siege crossbows and catapults on twenty warships. After all, among the prisoners, only he was the best at this .

Of course, it is impossible for this guy to betray, because he is only in charge of guiding the work, and has no power to operate at all, so don't worry that he will throw crossbow arrows and stones at his own people.

After a while, the overall outline of the Mingyue City Navy could already be seen. Kai Hai, who looked at the distance, found that Zhao Hu hadn't issued an order, and couldn't help reminding: "My lord, we're already in range."

Zhao Hu didn't say anything, so he could only keep his mouth shut obediently.

After a while, the figures of the soldiers on the battleship of Mingyue City could be vaguely seen. Kaihai was sweating and reminded again tremblingly: "My lord, if you don't attack again, the opponent's watchtower will be able to see the soldiers on our deck." The siege catapults and catapults are already deployed."

Zhao Hu nodded and said, "In that case, let's aim."

After receiving the order, Kaihai breathed a sigh of relief, as if he had changed, looked at the opposite warship with a serious face, then lowered his head and fiddled with a siege crossbow and catapult, and said: "The elevation angle of the siege crossbow is [-] degrees. , Ruler three, the front row of catapults move back one degree, pull the string five, pull the string six in the rear, and target the ship with the flag of the vice-commander in front of it."

The messenger looked at Kai Hai and then at Zhao Hu. Seeing that Zhao Hu nodded, he ran to deliver the order. At the same time, he couldn't help muttering in his heart: "My lord really believes in this flagship captain. He's only been here for a day. I'm not afraid that he will do it on purpose." A mistake made our attack fail?"

Of course, thinking about it this way, I ran to the stern and signaled to the nearby warships to pass on the information truthfully, and the orderlies on the warships close to the two sides of the flagship immediately passed on the orders.

There is no way around this. If the semaphore is displayed on the watchtower, although it is relatively fast, the opponent's warship will definitely be able to see it.

As for why the other party can understand?Come on, Zhao Hu doesn't understand maritime semaphore at all, and these semaphore is an open and unified system on the southeast peninsula, as long as the navy in the southeast peninsula can understand it.

If it weren't for the rogue sailors who took refuge in the army who were once the flag bearers of the navy, I'm afraid they could only pass orders by shouting.Using captured sailors as standard bearers?Aren't you afraid that they will join the enemy?

Zhou Wen held a command flag to Zhao Hu with both hands. After Zhao Hu took the command flag, he thought about it and handed it to Kaihai. Well, this command flag is used to command all siege crossbows and catapults, as long as you wave it, all arrows will be fired.

"I don't know much about naval warfare, let alone how to use siege crossbows and catapults, so it's better to leave it to professionals like you." Zhao Hu waved his hand and smiled, then turned around and ignored Kai Hai.

"Still not taking orders? Everyone is waiting for your orders!" Zhou Wen said coldly.

Kai Hai, who was originally scalded by Zhao Hu's words, immediately shuddered, hurriedly kowtowed and got up, and then walked carefully to the side. Zhou Wen and Sun Jie stood nearby without leaving a trace, and secretly pressed their hands on the weapons , They are afraid that Kai Hai will play tricks.

Kai Hai also paid attention to the two people behind him, his heart trembled, he took a deep breath, looked at the warship opposite, gritted his teeth, waved the command flag, and shouted: "Let go!"

The deputy commander of the Mingyue Navy said with a sullen face, "Order the flag bearer to play the welcome flag."

As soon as the words were finished, I suddenly discovered that the young master's twenty warships were flying out of a group of densely packed black spots...

what is that?
This question was answered with the expansion of those small black spots, huge crossbow bolts and head-sized stones!It was projected from the standard configuration weapons of Mingyue Shuijun warships!
"why?"

As soon as the deputy commander had this idea, he was very unlucky to be pierced by crossbow arrows on the deck, and he couldn't hide at all. The densely packed crossbow arrows and stones completely enveloped the ship.

It is normal to have such a density. Who told this warship to hang the flag of his deputy commander, and to stand in the first place in order to meet the young master at the first time so as to flatter him?

Such a conspicuous target, of course, fell into the eyes of Zhao Hu's knowledgeable shooters, so they all aimed their weapons at the warship.

The unified attack of the twenty warships was extremely powerful. A single salvo shattered the deputy commander's vehicle into a sieve, and the influx of sea water quickly pulled it into the deep sea.

Zhou Wen and Sun Jie immediately jumped up and cheered loudly, while Kaihai looked at the flagship in the distance in a daze, until Sun Jie patted him on the shoulder and shouted: "You are so powerful, you can kill the other flagship in one go!" It's done! Hey, don't be dazed, it's going to war!"

When he woke up, he didn't know why, his face was flushed, his eyes were shining, and he raised the command flag neatly, and the shooters immediately put their weapons in place.

After receiving the signal that all the shooters were in place, Kai Hai waved the command flag again, and he shouted "Let it go!" full of anger!

The screams and the sound of the hull being torn apart completely stunned the other Mingyue sailors.

They all knew that the twenty warships flying their own flags on the opposite side were the young master's personal guards, but why did the young master attack the deputy commander?

Even if there is some reason to kill the deputy commander, there is no need to be so arrogant. As long as there is an order, someone will naturally cut off the deputy commander's head and give it to him.

When they were stupid, the second round of attacks came.

This time, the warships on Zhao Hu's side were divided into five groups under the command of some rogues with experience in the navy. A group of four warships aimed at one of the attacking ships, while the ships behind them covered in patches did not die. Leaping forward for hand-to-hand combat.

The second round of attack once again caused the five warships of the Mingyue Navy to lose their combat effectiveness, while the remaining warships only came to their senses at this time, and began to move the siege crossbows and catapults on the deck to fight back.

But not long ago, the dead deputy commander stupidly issued an order for all personnel to line up on the deck to welcome them.

This order not only caused the warship to lose power and vision, but also caused the deck to be in chaos. Waiting for the sailors to run back to the oars room, climb up to the watchtower, pull up the sails, pull up the rudder, and deploy the siege crossbow and catapult. At that time, Zhao Hu's side had already made more than a dozen warships of the Mingyue Navy lose their combat effectiveness, and the ships in hand-to-hand combat also approached.

The Mingyue Navy, which has lost its unified command, can only fight on its own. The great thing is that the two nearby ships help each other.

On Zhao Hu's side, [-] warships attacked from a distance, and covered the melee ships to move up.

If it was just a simple long-range attack, the Mingyue Navy would still have the confidence to kill this group of enemies after the panic, but after Zhao Hu's more than 100 hand-to-hand combat boats pounced on them for hand-to-hand combat, the feeling that there were enemy ships in the front, back, left, and right was enough to make Mingyue Dozens of warships in the navy realized that they were fighting alone and surrounded by groups.

This psychological blow can make the sailors lose their fighting spirit more than the bloody scene.

Soon the naval battle was over, and Zhao Hu, who had the upper hand, won.

After counting the results of the battle, 31 ships of the Mingyue Navy were sunk, [-] ships were captured and half disabled, and none of the warships was intact.There were more than [-] captives captured. The main reason for the capture of so many captives was that the Mingyue Navy lost their fighting spirit.

However, even with the great advantage, Zhao Hu's side was sunk with more than [-] hand-to-hand combat ships, and even more were maimed, and nearly a thousand people were killed in battle.

However, most of the dead were sailors from bandits, and a small number of militiamen. Zhao Hu's servants lost one or two unlucky ones, and these two unlucky ones were still shot by stray bullets.

The loss of the servants was so small, it was entirely because Zhao Hu didn't let them participate in hand-to-hand combat, but just shot arrows at close range. After all, letting these prairie people fight at sea is equivalent to letting them die.

After the inventory was completed, Zhao Hu didn't stay long, leaving ten warships to deal with the aftermath. He didn't even occupy the military port, and directly led the fleet to the pier billowing with smoke.

It can be seen by looking at it that the people who sent people to contact Mod and Nan Gongdun last time were effective.As for the military port?Without the warships, the military port would belong to Zhao Hu.

(End of this chapter)