warring states careerist

Chapter 896

The Yuhuang, whose stern rudder was stuck, was well aware of its current situation, so after a brief mobilization and a small meeting with the Mohists, the semaphore of "the stern rudder is broken and no rescue is needed" was displayed.

After a fierce battle, the Mohists' boat division has turned into a counterattack, and most of the ships on the left wing have begun to paddle forward, preparing to outflank the entire main force of the Yue Kingdom's navy.

The movement of the formation also gave Xu Bing a chance, a chance that could be said to be a little ridiculous.

Until now, he finally has the opportunity to destroy a Mohist main building ship, and it may be the only chance to destroy the Mohist building ship.

However, the Mohist boat division has a total of seventeen large ships.

Xu Bing is very aware of the current defeat. The Mohist right wing has defeated his own left wing, seized the upper reaches of the hydrology, and is unfolding; the Chinese army has also begun to counterattack; It was a big victory against Mo, but the Mo family's left-flank ships and troops still had the upper hand.

Now he has no other choice but to find a gap before closing the encirclement when the left wing of the Mohist family begins to change formations to gain the upper hand and prepare to outflank.

With the remaining one building boat, more than [-] small boats attacked the Yuhuang with its stern rudder destroyed, not for victory, but for loyalty to the emperor.

Because he has nowhere to run.

A sailing boat is not a sailing boat, it needs to rest and needs several times the supplies of a sailing boat, and it cannot survive without the port of the city.

The boats of the Mohists were equipped with bronze cannons, and the Yue Kingdom did not have a port where the forts could be deployed. If they hid in the port and huddled together, they could only become a living target for the Mohist boat masters.

This is also the reason why he insisted on choosing a decisive battle...not fighting is equivalent to waiting at the port for the Mohists to line up and bombard them with artillery, or watching the Mohist army land and bombard them with land artillery.

Today's defeat is inevitable.

When the fleet from the left wing of the Mo family had already begun to outflank, he also made up his mind and commanded the remaining ships as a reserve around him to rush out towards the gap that had not yet closed.

On the Yuhuang, the semaphore expressing no support was still floating, and the captain of the lieutenant colonel issued an order.

"Cut off the mast and throw all the canvas into the water!"

"Oarsmen throw away their oars, take their spears, and prepare for hand-to-hand combat."

The orderly at the partition staircase responded loudly to the captain's order, and the oarsmen who had been rowing received their short spears one after another.

They don't wear armor, not even the simplest leather armor, because the environment where they work is hot and humid, and there is no way to wear clothes.

When fighting on a ship, armor is very important, and a set of armor can often save lives in a chaotic battle.

The main content of the oarsmen's daily training is rowing, and they are not proficient in fighting, so they can barely use short swords. When they really need to fight, it is the time of life and death.

If there is still a chance, in fact, the paddlers should retreat in small boats first, because sailors are easy to train, but paddlers are extremely difficult to train and require very professional skills.

At this time, there are still six small boats of our own side around the Yuhuang, which are fighting with seven or eight small sailing boats from the Yue Kingdom. In the distance, the flagship of the Yue Kingdom and more than 30 small boats have rushed out of the gap and rushed towards this side. Come.

The sound of bang bang guns kept ringing, and the gunners on the Yuhuang loaded the gunpowder steadily, taking advantage of the distance that they could hit others and others could not hit themselves, and kept shooting.

What they aimed at was not the flagship ship of the Yue State, but the small boats of the Yue State, because the flagship ship was still fine after taking more than a dozen iron bullets, while those small boats often sank after taking two or three bullets.

The approaching enemy ships, the approaching drums, and the screams of approaching shells hitting the boat all made the people on board nervous.

The musketeers checked their loading status, and the combat sailors grabbed the rope on the railing with one hand, waiting for the impact before the hand-to-hand combat. The gunners tried their best to turn their muzzles to aim at the rushing enemy ship.

boom……

With a loud noise, after avoiding two shells, the flagship ship of the Yue Kingdom slammed into the sidestring of the Yuhuang with its bow.

The huge impact directly crushed seven or eight sailors waiting there, more than a dozen oarsmen behind were killed, and some fell into the water.

bang bang...

The musketeers began to shoot, and the archers on the Yue Guolou boat also began to shoot back.

The Yue Kingdom swordsman in leather armor jumped up and tried to rush to the deck of the Yuhuang from the place of collision, but was stabbed by the protruding spear and pushed into the water.

The surrounding boats threw hooks, and the Yue sailors who were good at climbing wanted to climb to the bottom deck of the Yuhuang, but just touched the wooden railing with their hands, when the sailors guarding there cut off their hands with an axe.

The captain stood at the highest point, with only some elite musketeers equipped with flint guns around him, using the high platform to shoot and kill the elite swordsmen of the Yue Kingdom.

The archers of the Yue Kingdom also aimed at the captain who was wearing a woolen military uniform on a high place, and shot feather arrows.

A lot of blood and severed hands and limbs had accumulated on the deck, and the Vietnamese sailors who climbed up from all over finally jumped onto the bottom deck.

The musketeers on the sidelines threw away their muskets, pulled out their daggers and rushed into the melee crowd. They basically had no formation, and all they could rely on was their final fighting skills.

A nobleman of the Yue Kingdom in iron armor had just stabbed a Mohist sailor to death when his head was smashed to pieces by a sailor holding a big axe.While the sailor smashed the nobleman to death, he was also shot in the eye by an archer from Yue.The archers of the Yue Kingdom who were shooting were killed by the iron mine thrown from the building...

The ship is like a hell on earth. Unless the land battle is a melee that compresses the defense circle after being surrounded, it is difficult for such a tragic melee to occur.

The coach of the Yue Kingdom, Xu Wei, wore heavy armor and kept hacking and killing under the guard of the servants around him. In such a small space and without a formation, the nobles and the servants around him had a great advantage. The value of their off-the-job training since childhood is here It is vividly reflected in a moment.

Those oarsmen who obeyed the order stood together as much as possible holding short spears, but the space was narrow and they were not good at fighting. After being attacked and killed by the swordsmen of the Yue Kingdom, some people finally couldn't stand it and jumped into the water to escape.

Compared with Xu Ting's bravery, the captain of the Yu Huang was a little weak. Although he could fight, he definitely didn't have that kind of personal bravery. Moreover, he didn't have any armor on his body, but wore a woolen military uniform.

Unlike nobles who have been trained off-campus since childhood, academic cadets like lieutenant colonels have also trained off-campus, but the training content is semaphore, ranging, watching stars, watching the sun, formations, etc. I have learned dagger fighting, but I can't compare with professional sailors.

This group of military officers is the first batch of the new generation after Sishang was occupied by the Mohists, and they were reused after they came to power. Years ago, after the Mohists began to expand their army and prepare for war, the original non-commissioned officers were promoted to school officers one after another to make up for the lack of cadres after the expansion.

They don't have much experience, and many of them have never killed anyone. Their tactics are sometimes lacking in agility and rigidity, but it is this rigidity and lack of agility that made the Mohist victory in this Jiangkou Water War: troops, firepower and logistics are superior In this case, what is needed is not agility, but rigidity.

The Mohists' boat divisions don't have too many tactical geniuses. Compared with the army that often fights, it is difficult to promote some experienced talents who dare to seize opportunities.

But given the advantages of the entire system, it doesn't take too many geniuses to win. It's just that this kind of victory is for the overall situation. When it is reduced to hand-to-hand combat, it is somewhat insufficient.

If the captain can fight out with a sword at this time, beheading several people with one enemy three, his morale will be greatly boosted.

But at this time, he picked up the pen, and in the environment of flying feathers and arrows and screaming, he wrote an experience that was regarded as his last words.

"The big ship is slow, if it is bigger and slower, it is equipped with more copper cannons to fire sideways to serve as a fortress, and a small boat to cover it."

After writing, stuff it into a bottle, tighten the cork, and throw it far into the water.

Then he left the musketeers free to fire, drew his short sword and leaped off the deck to join the fray, for there was no longer any need for command.

As soon as he jumped down, a streamy feather arrow shot into his eyes, endured the severe pain and pulled out the feather arrow, and stabbed a Yueman with his flanks exposed with a dagger, and he was also shot by several people who came after him. Yue people hacked to death.

More than 30 small paddle boats and a building boat finally defeated the Yuhuang, which was stuck at the stern.

The previous battles were not counted, only from the moment when Xu Bi started to launch the death attack, Yu Huang destroyed five small boats with copper cannons.

On the deck, more than 300 sailors and officers of the Mohist boat division died in battle, but in return, more than 150 Yue people were shot by muskets and more than 200 died in hand-to-hand combat.

The blood on the deck was sticky enough to wet shoes. Except for some sailors and oarsmen who dived and escaped, there was no living Mohist sailor on the deck.

The Yue people were so red-eyed that all the Mohist sailors who were injured on the ship were stabbed to death, or their heads were chopped off in retaliation.

Several Yueren swordsmen went down to the cabin, wanting to see if there were any living people hiding inside.

They saw a man, a man with a wounded leg, sitting beside a pile of barrels, smiling, holding a musket in his hand, and wearing a woolen uniform.

The Yueren swordsmen hated this kind of enemies in woolen uniforms, because most of them were ink fighters, and they often resisted to the end. In the fight just now, there were even cases where such people rushed into the crowd with a lit iron thunder before they died.

Just when the Yueren swordsman was about to rush forward to kill the injured Mohist, the Mohist smiled and read two lines of poems.

"Going to benefit the world, life and death?"

Then he raised the short gun in his hand, pointed it at the piled barrels, and pulled the trigger with a smile.

There was no buckshot in it, only gunpowder.

The flint ignited the primer under the great force of the leaf spring, and the flames also ignited the black powder scattered beside the barrel...

(End of this chapter)