Great Wei Overlord

Chapter 1117 Please tell me how to resist

Chapter 1129 Please tell me how to resist

Since the Bungo Waterway is a waterway that Wei's merchants often pass by, Wei's Yingzhou Army and warships did not launch a battle search formation, but the long-distance running general clipper ship in Wei's transport ships acted as the vanguard.The shipbuilding industry of the State of Wei is getting more and more developed now, and the big ships are getting bigger and bigger. After all, the bigger the ship, the bigger the transportation volume, and the greater the ability to resist storms.A typhoon of class [-] can knock a thousand-ton ship into the sea, but for a [-]-ton aircraft carrier, a typhoon of class [-] is just a small scare.Although Wei Guo can't build a [-]-ton sailboat, he has built a [-]-ton clipper ship based on a steel keel.This flying shear ship is twice as big as the flying fish warship of Wei State, and it can run at a speed of twelve knots under the condition of tailwind.

Weidao's four clipper ships suddenly found densely packed Yamato sailing ships on the sea. Yamato sailing ships are very small, usually less than [-] materials. Even the largest flagship is actually only a [-] ship. Three-masted sailing ship.Among them, dozens of Yamato sailboats rushed towards the flying shear boats and surrounded them.

The sailors and captains of these clipper ships were veteran sailors, watching the actions of the Yamato battleship, if they couldn't guess their intentions, it would be a waste of food.The captain of one of the clipper boats said: "I'm not mistaken, are these Japanese dwarfs actually semaphore asking us to stop the ship and surrender?"

"Zhang Tou, you read that right, that's what the semaphore means!"

Captain Zhang showed the taste of playing cat and mouse: "Ask them, what will they do if I don't stop the ship?"

After a while, the opposite Yamato battleship raised a black flag.The black flag on the ocean represents death. Once the pirates hoist the black flag, it means that they will not leave alive.

"His mother's, it's interesting!" Captain Zhang said, "The sun came out from the west today? These dwarfs from Japan are quite courageous!"

"Captain, what shall we do?"

"Stop the ship!" Captain Zhang rushed to the bow without doing business, and pressed down the anchor wrench at the bow. The anchor weighing [-] kilograms quickly fell into the water, but a Yamato battleship happened to be in the anchor. Directly below, the [-]-jin iron anchor sank to the limit, directly smashing the Yamato battleship into the bottom of the sea, and more than a dozen Yamato warriors became the sons-in-law of the Sea Dragon King.

The Yamato samurai on other Yamato battleships screamed angrily when they saw this scene.

The other four anchors followed Captain Zhang's example and greeted the Yamato battleship rushing down.In just a few breaths of time, two more Yamato battleships were smashed to the bottom of the water.

Captain Zhang did not lower the sails, but directed the sailors to raise the anchor that had fallen into the sea, and then relied on the advantage of the size of the ship to rampage through the Yamato battleship formation.The main force of the Yamato battleships are sloops, and the deck height is nearly three feet shorter than that of the clipper ship. With such a height difference, unless the Yamato warriors can insert wings, they cannot jump to fight at all.

The warships of the Yamato Kingdom saw that the battleships in front were at a disadvantage, and they didn't even need to go to Lai Hobetsu to order them, and rushed towards the merchant ships of the Kingdom of Wei.Although the merchant ship has certain armed capabilities, it is not a real warship. First of all, the sailors are not psychologically qualified. They are terrified at this time, and they hurriedly sent a distress signal to the main fleet behind.

"His Royal Highness, look at such a large ship, which can transport thousands of people at a time." Dazai said, "As long as we capture these four large ships, we can dominate the world."

Qulai Hobetsu said: "It's just that these four warships shouldn't be easy to take down!"

Just when Dazai was about to persuade His Highness the Crown Prince not to worry, a Yamato general next to him was a man who was looking for life on the edge of a sword. He felt that the sun above his head seemed to dim for a moment, and he was shocked in his heart: "No! Retreat, hurry up!" retreat!"

He pulled Golai Hobetsu and ran back. Before Golai Hobetsu knew what happened, he only heard a miserable cry from behind.Originally, the eight-ox crossbow was fired from the flying shear ship, and several Yamato warriors were worn like candied haws.

The captain of the clipper ship was full of anger at this time, with several black lines drawn on his forehead.Secretly said to his grandma, the little dwarf in Dongying is so courageous, he actually looked at the banner of the Huaxia Business Alliance of Wei Guo, and went to grab it without saying hello.Such an act of tearing one's face is rare at sea.

Just a joke, who dares to snatch Wei's merchant ships at sea?Ran Ming has abandoned the situation of petty fighting ever since he pulled the elite of the Wei family to colonize overseas.At this time, there are more than 3000 ocean transport ships active in Nanyang, [-]% of which belong to the Huaxia Business Alliance. The bandits and bandits who wash their hands, the sea merchants of Wei State have always been courageous. They are still law-abiding products within the territory of Wei State. When they go out to sea, they are lawless characters.Even if no one provokes them, they still have to fight unreasonably, let alone being beaten by others at this time?
At this time, the merchant ships of Wei State were almost all armed merchant ships. The court of Wei State did not ban Baoxu and Magong Crossbows on the sea, especially the sea was too big. The speed of warships in this era is too slow, even if they are separated by tens of nautical miles, the warships have to sail for several hours.In such a long time, enough pirates can easily kill all the people on board.

Wei Guo’s maritime merchants armed the crew and sailors in an all-round way. The horizontal knives, eight-ox crossbows, shields and even active-duty fierce fire oil tanks eliminated from the Wei Guo regular army are all necessary equipment on sea ships.

"His grandma's, dare to snatch my boat. I'm really tired of work, hurry up, adjust the eight-ox crossbow, and shoot the mother!" Captain Zhang jumped up on the deck and cursed.The sailors on the ship moved the machine without haste, and pointed the crossbow at the enemy ship.The huge mallet slammed on the machine bracket, and the thick giant crossbow flew towards the enemy ship with the scream of death.

"Crack!" A huge crossbow hit the mast, and under the huge impact, the mast fell down, and a dozen Yamato warriors were smashed under the mast.

Although Yamato has more than 3000 ships, it is a pity that these ships are all small fishing boats. They are not as strong as warships, and they do not have long-range attack capabilities. Since they are jumping to fight, they can't jump on them Such a tall clipper ship.A group of show dancers, no matter how joyously they dance, are still unable to do anything to the tiger.After nearly half an hour in the naval battle, more than a dozen Yamato ships sank along the way, and none of the four flying shear ships lost a hair.

Relying on the size and strength of his ship, Captain Zhang rampaged among the Yamato ships, like a pack of wolves.When a Yamato ship took a cold breath to approach the stern of Boss Zhang's clipper ship more than thirty steps away, I saw Captain Zhang shouting with a ferocious face: "Die to me!"

With a huge roar, a fire dragon as thick as a bucket flew towards the Yamato battleship. In just a few breaths, the fire dragon enveloped the sloop in a sea of ​​flames.

Another ten minutes passed, and the four tall clipper ships were fired with eight-ox crossbows in the distance, and the horse-gong crossbows in the near ones, or the oil tanks were burned fiercely, and four more Yamato ships were sunk.

A Yamato samurai was hit by a crossbow arrow, jumped into the icy sea water, struggled a few times, and drifted along the ocean current to the clipper ship.At this time, Dazai also stabilized his mind. He knew that Yamato's ships were too short to jump on them, and they couldn't hit the clippers.Some people will say, why not use fire attack?

In fact, in this era, kerosene is a very precious strategic material, with limited mining capacity, and it all depends on self-flowing wells. How many self-flowing crude oil wells are there in the world?Yamato has no such financial resources at all, nor is it prepared.However, fighting is mainly related to one's own strength. The rich fight like the rich, and the poor fight like the poor.The Yamato Kingdom did not prepare fireships and rockets, but there were many samurai with outstanding water abilities.Dazai ordered: "Ghost attack!"

The so-called ghost attack is exactly the water ghost's underwater attack to scuttle the opponent's warship.But it's a pity that the warships of the Wei State all adopt the design of water-tight tanks. Even if one-third of the water-tight tanks are hit by a rock, the ships can still sail safely to the port.If the Yamato samurai wanted to scuttle the clipper ship, it was impossible, but two-thirds of the 56 tight water tanks of the clipper ship, at least [-] or more, had to be filled with water before it could sink.

Seeing the Yamato samurai jumping into the sea like dumplings, Captain Zhang put away his contempt. Regardless of ancient naval warfare or later naval warfare, the most difficult thing to defend against is the attack from underwater.Zhang Laodao: "Sign up the flag, these Japanese dwarfs are too difficult to deal with, let's not play with them anymore."

With that said, Captain Zhang ordered the clipper ship to disengage and prepare to leave.There is a Yamato ship that is dead and stuck in the channel of Captain Zhang's retreat. There is nothing to say, and there is no discussion about bumping into you.The bow of the clipper ship hit the right rear side of the unfortunate Yamato ship, and there was only a loud bang, and the hulls of the two ships squeaked, which made people feel uncomfortable.

Because of this collision, the Yamato ship was small, and the collision was too disadvantageous. A dozen Yamato warriors were knocked down on the boat on the spot, and fell into gourds.Wei Guo's clipper ship was too big, although there was a violent vibration, but because the sailors were well prepared, there was no loss.

Due to the flying scissor design, the flying shear boat can easily run at a speed of [-] or [-] knots in a downwind situation. If it is fully loaded and lightly loaded, the top speed can even run at a speed of [-] knots per hour.But at this time, the speed of ordinary sailboats is pitiful. Fishing boats and transport ships have a speed of seven or eight knots, which is better than the slender warships, but only eight or nine knots, which is a full three or four knots slower. The gap made the clipper ship easily out of contact.

Qulai Hobetsu looked at the merchant ship of Wei State that had gone away, his eyes were about to burst into flames.This time the Yamato Kingdom fought so aggrievedly that the mere four merchant ships of the Wei State fought for nearly two hours without any results. Instead, they were hit and beaten by the opponent, and nearly three ships were lost, and the samurai were also lost. Nearly 200 people.

Thirty ships and two hundred samurai are naturally nothing to the Yamato Allied Forces with more than 3000 ships of various sizes and nearly [-] troops.In other words, Yamato is really too poor.Grain production is extremely low, and one stone of grain per capita can last for a year.It is an indisputable fact that Yamato is short of supplies and its economy is seriously backward.Yamato Kingdom continued to guard the poor area of ​​Namba, and there was only one dead end. After finally guarding this excellent opportunity for expansion, naturally it would not let it go.

It's a pity that more than 200 warriors were buried in the belly of the fish before they died.

It could be seen that Hobetsu was in a bad mood, so Dazai had no choice but to comfort him: "His Royal Highness, the Kingdom of Heaven is too powerful. This is just their private merchant ship. If we encounter their warship, I am afraid our losses will be even greater. Big."

The tragedy of Yamato is that there are many mountains and few lands, and the volcanoes are frequent, so it is hard not to think about poverty.If their fishermen catch more fish, they can always rely on the sea to feed their stomachs.In fact, many influences of the Yamato Kingdom come from China. For example, Buddhism is prosperous, almost all the people are vegetarians, and there is not enough food. If you don’t eat fish and shrimp, it is strange that people don’t starve to death.In fact, in ancient China, the coastal areas were all unified and very poor.There is no way, and the Chinese do not have the tradition of fishing for food from the sea, but this tradition has been completely changed by Ran Ming, a butterfly from another world.

At this time, the state of Wei would harvest more than 1000 million tons of fish and shrimp from the sea every year. This amount would not be enough for future generations, but it is very scary when calculated per capita in the era.Wei State has a population of more than 2000 million, including slaves, and each person can get nearly [-] catties of high-protein supplements such as fish and shrimp every year.What's more, there are more considerable sea salt and kelp.The iodized salt processed by Wei Guo has always been a strong commodity in the Nanyang region, and can even be used as currency.

Hobetsu looked at the four flying clipper ships going away, drooling, "What a beautiful ship, if these four big ships belonged to Yamato, the navy of Yamato could follow the coastline and try to beat Shikoku Island It is Shikoku Island, if you want to hit Honshu, you can hit Honshu. You can even hit the Korean peninsula from afar.”

In response to that sentence, the ideal is very full, but the reality is too skeletal.

It was originally just an armed voyage, but the samurai from Yamato country bumped into it without opening their eyes.Rear Admiral Tang Mao, captain of the 24th Division of the Wei State Navy, received the news that the first four clipper ships were attacked by the Yamato Navy.Tang Mao shouted excitedly: "Hang up the black battle flag, and send the little Dongying into the sea to be the son-in-law of the Sea Dragon King!"

The black battle flag only represents one meaning in Wei Guojun, and that is a battle to the death.Jiang Xie, who was on the transport ship, noticed that the navy was not abnormal, and immediately ordered: "Put up the semaphore, and ask what's going on?"

After a while, the No.20 No. [-] Squadron flagship of the Navy sent a response: "More than [-] warships from Japan are preparing to ambush our army in front."

(End of this chapter)