warring states careerist

Chapter 894

On the left wing of the Mohist boat division, Yu Huang.

This main building ship that originally belonged to the Seven Minnan Sea is now the far left wing of the fleet.

The copper cannon on the top floor has been loaded, the drums are beating, and the oarsmen conserve their strength, making the already slow building ship even slower.

Not far in front of the Yuhuang, there were three small boats. These boats were like small fish surrounding a big fish, mainly to prevent the arsonist boats on the opposite side.

The speed of the arson boat is very fast, and the boat is small. It is most suitable to deal with this kind of big boat. Although it is likely to die halfway, as long as it succeeds once, it will make money.

Therefore, to deal with this kind of arson ship, some extremely fast boats must be followed in front of the building ship.

Once the situation is found to be wrong, it is necessary to hook those arson ships in advance, or drive them away, or cut off the sails, or blow them up directly.

However, the Yue people did not use the arson boat, but chose to rush forward, wanting to use the abundant martial arts of the nobles to meet the brave and win.

The captain of the lieutenant colonel was on the top floor of the building, with musketeers guarding him.

When the ships of Yue State were only a hundred and fifty paces away from the nearest one, the artillery at the front of the building boats started firing. The accuracy of the shooting was very low under the capsized waves.

However, two small boats from the Yue State were still hit, and the ships behind had to avoid the bow and subconsciously dodge towards the sides.

After two shots, the ships of Yue State were already very close, and the sound of drums became more rapid. The building boat that had been advancing slowly began to speed up, and with its huge body, it rammed towards a small boat of Yue State.

Several small boats from the Yue State approached, and the extremely low hull compared to the large ships made it difficult for the soldiers of the Yue State to pose an effective threat to the top of the large ships.

Holding his breath, the musketeer pulled the trigger when Yue's boat approached forty or fifty paces.

The musketeers on the second deck are still using heavy arquebuses that have been knocked out, fixed with brackets, so that such heavy arquebuses can shoot farther.

Most of the boats from the Yue State bypassed the Yuhuang, because even if they were not smashed by the corner of the collision, they would be entangled by the hooks and ladders above. Odds.

The only chance for the Yue Kingdom to win is to face the artillery fire, break into the back of the building boats, and confront the small boats of the Mohist boat division.

If the small sailing boat on the left wing of the Mo family can be completely destroyed, then relying on the advantage of speed, there may still be a chance.

The quantity and quality of the artillery are not enough to become the main force of the galley water battle.

The sound of bang bang kept coming, and the real brutal hand-to-hand combat had begun.

The small boats of the Mohist boat master started to speed up, forming small plum blossom formations around the big boats. With the help of the firepower on the big boats, they started a hand-to-hand fight with the small boats of the Yue Kingdom.

A small sailing boat of the Mohists at the side and rear couldn't dodge it, and was stuck by a small boat from the Yue Kingdom.

The soldiers on the ship shouted loudly, firing with muskets on one side, and returning fire with bows and arrows on the other side.

After a bang, the two small sailing boats hooked together. The officers of the Yue Kingdom wanted to get close to the hand-to-hand fight, and the Mohist boat, knowing that it was impossible to avoid it, also chose to go up to the hand-to-hand fight.

At the beginning of the battle between the two ships, more than 30 people on both sides had lost their combat effectiveness.

More than a dozen Xiliu sergeants of the Mohist school were shot at close range by the bows and arrows of the Yue people, and seven or eight people were killed by the muskets on the Yue people's side, and they were sprayed once by the small hemp rope guns that approached at close range, causing a large number of people to die. casualties.

The building ships not far away can no longer use artillery. If the distance is too close, a slight bump may hit their own people. Moreover, Sishang attaches great importance to the army, and the best gunners are among the army. The hit rate of the building ships is not very high.

The captain of the lieutenant colonel was actually a little confused at this time. He had never really fought such a big battle. Although he usually learned a lot, he was still a little confused when he actually fought.

The semaphore on the flagship of the fleet farther away is to maintain formation and fight. According to what I learned on paper, the speed of the ship has slowed down at this time, relying on the firepower and superiority of the number of buildings to provide cover for the surrounding friendly boats; Find a way to force the boats of the Yue State into between the building boats and their own boats.

However, the reality that caught his eyes at this time was completely different.

The small sailing boats of the Mohist boat division are also newbies, and they are a little messed up when they are rushed by the Yue people who grew up in the water, although the officers know in their minds to seize the position and force the Yue country boats into the shooting range of the building boats. , but the nobles of Yue are not stupid.

Their years of water battles gave them a wealth of experience, and the few artillery shots at the beginning of the battle allowed them to find out the advantages and disadvantages of the building ships.

The firepower is fierce and the speed is very slow. The best way is to rush to the small paddle boat behind and fight on board.

So they steered the boat nimbly, and the oarsmen paddled quickly listening to the sound of the drums, getting stuck on those slightly hesitant Mohist sailing boats, and sticking them when they found an opportunity.

The captain of the lieutenant colonel can only give an order first, let the musketeers shoot and support, stabilize the situation, and wait and see.Since the semaphore said to keep them in formation, then according to the predetermined plan, use the large ships as mobile fortresses to cover the small ships for combat.

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On the side of the Vietnam Navy.

Xu Que also had a worried look on his face.

It's not ignorance, but a kind of worry under the great gap in strength.

The Chinese army was already engaged in the battle, and before the battle, a single artillery shot by the Mohist boat division destroyed more than ten small boats of the Yue Kingdom's Chinese army.

The boats that were not afraid of death to attack the past all avoided the large boats of the Mohist army, pushed back, and chose those small boats to fight.

It seems that the Mo family's formation is a bit chaotic, but the Yue Kingdom does not have much advantage in the real fight. At most, it destroys the Mo family's formation advantage, but the final hand-to-hand combat against the Yue people did not take much advantage.

Xu Ting could tell that the Mo family's boat masters were inexperienced. Although they were the ones who launched the attack, they were still fighting a defensive war of attrition.

The coordination of the three armies was very problematic, so they gave up the offensive coordination of the three armies, but imitated the bastard tortoise, kept the formation, and moved forward little by little.

This is very difficult for him to play.

If he wants to win, he needs the Mo family to make mistakes, especially mistakes such as disobeying orders and actively chasing away from the main force to expose the flanks.

The Mohist boat division has superiority in military strength and firepower, so it is okay to fight without haste, but Xu Yan can't fight like this, he can't afford it.

In fact, he could see that the right wing of the Mo family had missed an opportunity. After the fleet of the Yue people's left wing seized the upper reaches of the hydrology, they couldn't capture the four large ships and could only choose to fight with the small boats behind.

He didn't deploy too many troops on the left wing, so even in such a melee, the Mohists actually had an advantage.

If those four buildings give up the old-fashioned formation, choose to bypass the melee area, seize the upper reaches at full speed, go around to his side, go down the current, and rush to his center formation with artillery and rams, he is now Consider retreating.

But the right wing of the Mo family didn't seize the opportunity, and the four building boats were still rigidly cooperating with the small boats to besiege and kill the small sailing boats from the Yue Kingdom.

But this only gave Xu Bing a chance to continue fighting, but it didn't give him a chance to win.

The plan conceived at the beginning seems impossible to realize now, the left wing of the Mohist boat master is already fighting with his right wing, those huge buildings are not ready to change formation as he imagined, but are learning from the turtles, placed There was a mobile fortress to cover the small boats in battle.

The building where Xu Tong was located had been hit by shells three times. Fortunately, these broken iron balls could only smash the wood of the building, and did not cause irreparable damage to the building, which was still within the acceptable range.

The flagship on the opposite side was hidden behind the Chinese army, covered by small boats. As the flagship, it didn't take the initiative to attack and take advantage of it. There is no chance for the army to kill the general and capture the flag.

Xu Ting sighed, and thought to himself that if I had this fleet, I'm afraid I would have won by now.

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On the left wing of the Mohist boat division, near Yuhuang.

A Viet galley was burning, and out of it many oarsmen jumped into the water, clutching a plank, or trying to catch a fallen mast.

Not far away is a small boat from the Yue Kingdom, and the nobles of the Yue people on board witnessed the terrible scene just now.

Mohist boat masters are very stupid, not as flexible as them in rowing. The boat from the Yue Kingdom that is burning now took this opportunity to stick past from the side, and used the hook to hold back the opposite Mohist boat.

However, as soon as the hook was hooked, the short, clumsy cannon on the Mohist boat with a range of only tens of meters opened fire, and a large amount of gravel and iron sand sprayed on the sailors on the Yueguo boat who were about to jump into hand-to-hand combat.

Immediately afterwards, someone on the Mo family's boat threw iron mines, which was completely unruly and risky.

The nobleman had heard that the hand-to-hand sailors on the Mohist boat division were all trained by the elite Beicheng gatekeepers under Mo Zi, while the Beicheng gatekeepers on land were trained by the first campers in the Sishang army. Grenadiers, but they didn't expect that these two divisions, which came from the same source but were divided into land and water, would use similar methods.

After a few explosions, the sailors on the Mohist ship jumped onto the Yue ship, and through the confusion, they crowded many Yue people into the water. They chose to attack with short swords and small shields.

Although two boats from the Yue Kingdom seized the opportunity to lean over and formed a three-on-one situation, the people on the Mohist boat actually destroyed one of the Yue people's boats in such chaos, and seriously injured half of them. ship.

In the end, the Mohist ship was captured, but the problem is that the Mohist forces already had the upper hand, and such a desperate one-for-one strategy would be a disaster for Yue.

Those people may be inexperienced, and they may even be sailors who have been trained according to the melee drills on land. Even though there are oarsmen, the awareness of paddling is not enough. The sailor frightened.

In the battle just now, there was a Mohist boat beside them. After seeing their teammates being surrounded, they actually chose to support from behind instead of beating the drums quickly to let the oarsmen quickly seize the inside.

He thought, if he was from the Mohist side, in the situation just now, as the ship next to him, he shouldn't have rushed over to try to support him, but would have quickly cut to the inside, blocking the escape route and attacking from both sides.

But even if they made such and other mistakes, the Yue country still failed to control the situation, and instead caused a nearly one-for-one loss in the melee.

In terms of the Mohists' equipment, firearms superiority, numerical superiority, and hand-to-hand training level, this is actually very embarrassing. It proves that they have not controlled the mutual cooperation between the small boats at all, and their experience is insufficient. Compared with their tactical level on land The difference is much worse, and it is difficult to form a situation of one more fight, and the Yue State Navy often uses experience to create a situation of partial fight one more.

But this is of no use to the Yue Kingdom. The Mohist small sailboats, which are more numerous in number, are coming from behind and are constantly throwing themselves into the battle.

(End of this chapter)