Go back to the end of the Ming Dynasty to be a soldier

Chapter 449 Jiangyin bloody battle ([-])

In the bottomless river, it is self-evident that the cabin is flooded. The soldiers on the ship will panic, and the captain hastened to order the soldiers to plug the leak.

However, a medium-sized battleship can accommodate hundreds of soldiers. In addition to the weight of the hull, this ship also weighs thousands of tons and has a draft of at least one meter. Now the bottom of the ship is leaking, so the pressure can be imagined. The high-pressure water gun hit the valve, and the sound of water entering made a loud noise. How easy is it to block it?
Hundreds of soldiers worked hard for a long time, but it was useless. The whole body of the soldiers was soaked, the water in the cabin rose straight up, already half a person deep, and soon the hull tilted.The captain saw that it was not good, and quickly ordered the transfer.Fortunately, there were many warships nearby, so they hurried to come over, and some soldiers simply jumped into the river and swam across.

In this way, the warship quickly disappeared on the river.

At this time, the sailors who jumped into the river had found out that there was a protective net under the river, and a large pillar was built every one meter below the water. These pillars were connected by iron chains, and ships with a slightly larger tonnage Impassable at all.The warship didn't hit the rocks at all just now, but hit the top of the pillar, and the bottom of the ship was leaked.

These escorting soldiers reported to the Yangwei, and at the same time organized the sailors to launch into the water to destroy the river blocking protection net.

These sailors have trained for a year in Dagukou, Tianjin. Although these thousands of sailors are not first-class, because the first-class [-] sailors have all boarded the Yangwei, but the remaining [-] sailors are not capable. Practicing in vain, whether it is on a ship or in water, it can handle it in ordinary rivers and lakes.

The commander-in-chief of the Navy quickly selected a group of those who were good at swimming and fighting in water to form a death squad of 1000.

These thousand sailors took off their armor and put on special sailor suits, because armor suits are suitable for fighting on board, and if they are in water, they are suitable for sailor suits. Reduce the resistance and weight, and after changing this, take a knife, axe, chisel, and hammer, and jump off the boat, like dumpling, causing waves to splash...

At this time, Shi Lang, who was several miles away, was watching the movement of the Ming army on the river through a telescope.He saw through the binoculars that a battleship of the Ming army was hit and sunk by the protective net blocking the river. The Ming army fell into chaos in the river one after another, and the rest of the ships, including the Yang Wei, were all stagnant in the river. Very proud.

"Yan Yingyuan used this trick to deal with this general, and this time the general will use this trick to deal with Lin. Let's see if you can fly over or swim as a fish?"

While Shi Lang was proud, he couldn't stop looking at the binoculars. At this moment, he found that many soldiers on the warships of the Ming army had changed into sailor uniforms, carrying axes, chisels and knives, and they all went into the water. Got it, and smiled contemptuously.

"I wanted to destroy my protective net blocking the river. I used this trick before. How did Yan Yingyuan deal with me? This time, I, Shi Lang, will let you try it. This is called treating another person in the same way! "

Thinking of this, Shi Lang immediately ordered, "Get ready to fight in the water!"

Some of Daming's sailors know how to swim, and Shi Lang's soldiers are even more skilled at swimming. They are all pirates.Therefore, he had already prepared a team to go into the water to protect the protective net, because it was not easy to build such a protective net, and it took a lot of manpower and material resources. Of course, the Ming army could not easily succeed.The duty of this team is that if they find that the Ming army has entered the water to destroy their protective net to block the river, they will go into the water to stop the Ming army.

At the beginning, Yan Yingyuan used this trick to block the Southern Army in Zhenjiang, each of them dispatched their own navy teams to fight several times under the water, one wanted to destroy the river barrier net, and the other wanted to protect the river barrier net.As a result, the protective net to block the river was intact, and Shi Lang's fleet could hardly get through.

Now Shi Lang is also confident, the team he sent with confidence is enough to protect this protective net.

The underwater combat teams of the Southern Army all went into the water one after another.

At the same time, Shi Lang ordered the forts on the shore to be ready, and the Ming army's ships would fire as soon as they came within range.At the same time, he ordered his more than 100 warships and more than 1 sailors to make full preparations.

"We must not lose this time!" Shi Lang gritted his teeth, staring intently at the lens of the telescope.

Then the river was very calm.

More than 100 warships of the Yangwei battleship formation stopped on the river, more than ten miles away from them, this is Shi Lang's naval battleship, ready to go.

Several forts of the Southern Army on the river bank blocked the river with their black muzzles, waiting for an order to fire at any time.

This large area of ​​water, which is more than ten kilometers long, is calm on the surface, but in fact there is an undercurrent surging underneath.

A thousand sailors of the Ming army, led by a general, swam to the place and sank under the water. When they arrived near the protective net to block the river, they started working with axes, saws, chisels, knives and other tools.

But the threat had already come. The sailors of the Southern Army were holding water splitting knives in their hands. This kind of knife was different from the knives used for fighting on the shore.

These sailors of the Ming army had to stop their work in the water to meet the enemy.As a result, below the surface of the river, the two teams started a life-and-death struggle. From time to time, blood surfaced on the surface of the river, and then merged into the rolling river water...

"Master Jian Guo, don't be restless, our sailors will soon be able to remove the obstacles below." A navy captain said to Lin Yi.

However, Chen Mingyu, who was beside Ji Dong, was very worried, and said disapprovingly, "My lord, the protective net to block the river is different from their shipwreck fire. These pillars are connected by iron locks and are very strong. If our sailors encounter interference, it will be difficult to reach them." Purpose."

Chen Mingyu, one of the three princes of Jiangyin, is Yan Yingyuan's right-hand man.He was the one who built Zhenjiang's protective net to block the river. He knew that this kind of protective net was very strong, and it was not easy to destroy it when working underwater. What's more, it was impossible for Shi Lang's soldiers to stare at them and let them destroy it. Send sailors to interfere.

Back then, Zhenjiang City's underwater protection net blocked Shi Lang's tens of thousands of sailors going upstream, so Shi Lang sent sailors to dive underwater in an attempt to destroy their river protection net.They sent troops into the water to protect the river barrier and interfere with their sabotage operations.

As a result, the two sides fought several times underwater, but Shi Lang and the others failed in the end, so Chen Mingyu was very pessimistic about this matter.

Ji Dong was noncommittal, looking at the vast river with binoculars from time to time.

The time was not long, and the sailors who went down from the Ming army quickly got out of the water, all in a mess, and some were covered in blood. Of the 1000 sailors, only a little more than 1/3 came up in the end.There are still many injured.There is no need to ask about the rest, they must have died in the river.

After the sailors recovered their breath, they told about the underwater situation, and Chen Mingyu was right.

The strength of the fierce battle under the water was also not equal. The Ming army had 1000 sailors, while the Southern army had at least 1500 sailors.The 1000 of them wanted to destroy the protective nets blocking the river. They were 1500 members of the Southern Army. They had to guard these protective nets and disturb their underwater operations.

This time, the sailors and generals on these ships all looked at each other in blank dismay, not knowing what to do.They trained sailors in Dagukou, and they only had so much ability.If this underwater obstacle cannot be cleared, the ship will not be able to get through.No matter how large the tonnage is, no matter how fierce the firepower is, no matter how powerful the navy is, it will be futile after all.

Therefore, these soldiers looked at Ji Dong with dejected faces. The more than 300 survivors were exhausted from stumbling around on the boat. They were stumbling around, and the injured grinned. Some military doctors rushed over to bandage and treat the wounded.

But Ji Dong still had that kind of resolute face, he didn't panic when Mount Tai collapsed in front of him, and there was nothing more to be seen from his face except calmness.

After thinking for a while, Lin Yi said: "Yinger, Zhezhe, Su Moer, this time it's up to you!"

"Brother Lin, make sure everything is safe, just listen to the good news!" Xiaoying is still the commander of the women's battalion, and she is very excited to receive such an order.

Daming's Marine Corps has been gearing up for a long time. After three months of hard training in the water, it's finally time for them to show their talents.In the battle of Zhenjiang, Yangwei showed its might, Xiaoying and the others were eager to try, but after all, there was no dance from them. This time it was their turn, Xiaoying and Zhezhe even couldn't wait.

Lin Yi said again: "Listen, your mission is to cover their underwater operations and deal with those Southern Army sailors who come to interfere with them." The general said, "If you are not disturbed, can you people destroy their river barrier?"

"Answering people's words, of course there is no problem." Mr. Qian, the sailor, looked at the soldiers who came back, and there were no less than 300 of them who could fight. Then he looked at Xiao Yingzhe, Su Moer and others and said again, "Just, just..."

He came here for a few "just" and didn't dare to say it directly, he said in his heart that Mr. Jianguo is really romantic, and he always brings beautiful women with him everywhere.Don't look at them in military uniforms, can they fight? , and we have to go underwater to cover us, isn't this a joke?
Xiaoying saw it, and couldn't help turning her almond-shaped eyes. She strode over and grabbed the boss Qian, "Just what?"

"Oh, oh, oh," the boss Qian felt that these were not the hands a woman should have. They were like iron tongs, which made his bones tingle and his heart and lungs painful, and howled like a pig.

Lin Yi laughed, "Yinger, don't be rude."

Xiaoying was still angry, so she reluctantly let go of him.If Ji Dong had spoken slowly, Xiaoying might have thrown him off the ship and onto the shore.

The sailor, Mr. Qian, grinned bitterly and moved his wrist bones for a long time before returning to normal.

(End of this chapter)