Eastern Jin Invincible Iron Army

Chapter 319 Surrender
Ma Yuan fell down on the deck in a daze. He was about to ask the guards to help him up. Just as he was about to open his mouth, a large stream of muddy river water poured into his mouth, blocking what he wanted to say. .

"Oh!" Ma Yuan managed to spit out the river water in his mouth, and was surprised to find that his ship had slowly tilted upwards. This was because the stern of the ship was seriously flooded, which caused a serious shift in the center of gravity of the warship.Ma Yuan is also a seasoned old bird, he immediately reacted: "Hurry up, abandon the ship."

As he said that, Ma Yuan climbed to the ship and swung his knife to cut off the lifeboat tied to the side of the warship.Of course, lifeboats in this era are actually sheepskin rafts of nomads. Each sheepskin raft is small in size, but it can carry seven or eight people without sinking.

The counterweight trebuchets of the Ninth Fleet of the Xia Army Navy threw stone bullets at the Yan Army Chang water warship as if they didn't need money.Stone bullets fell like raindrops.It's just a pity that most of the stone bullets did not directly hit the target, but fell into the water, causing waves several feet high.

The Xia Jun navy's trebuchet hit rate is extremely low, and there are many reasons for it.First of all, the Yellow River has high winds and rough waves, and it is not easy to aim.The second is Xia Junshui's soldiers and officers, basically Qing Yishui's own hands.In fact, Zhu Yingting was also dissatisfied with the performance of the soldiers of Xia Jun's Ninth Fleet.

A soldier didn't put a stone bomb, and fired the machine directly.It is necessary to know that the catapult is fired with empty ammunition, and the loss of the catapult throwing arm is considerable.If you shoot several times in a row, it is easy to break the projectile arm.Fortunately, this kind of thing only happened once, so Zhu Yingting could bear it.

What made Zhu Yingting furious the most was that four soldiers carrying stone bombs accidentally dropped the stone bomb on the deck and hit one of the soldiers in the foot.The No. 1 wounded soldier of Xia Jun also appeared. What made Tian Tingxun feel dumbfounded was that this wounded soldier was actually caused by a mistake.Because the [-]-jin stone bullet was too heavy, the foot of this soldier from the Xia army was smashed to bloody flesh, and the bones must have been comminuted.Yet in this day and age, disability is sure to fall.

Zhu Yingting looked at Tian Tingxun and said: "Sijian Tian, ​​please handle this matter according to your discretion, and give him an injury! Their family is still counting on him to live in the future!"

"Tian is not unreasonable!" Tian Tingxun looked at the stone bullets fixed on the decks of the ships, and saw that the stone bullets consumed nearly one-third of the stone bullets, but they were able to hit two warships of the Yan Army Commander's Navy. One of the blind cats hit the dead mouse and actually hit the waterline. As a result, this unlucky Yan Army warship sank to the bottom of the sea in less than a quarter of an hour, even faster than Ma Yuan's warship. many.

Zhu Yingting saw that the No.12 Fleet and the Seventh Fleet were deployed separately. At this time, there was no need to worry that the Yanjun Navy would break through the encirclement and run away. Zhu Yingting did not order the Ninth Fleet to approach and attack.

Tian Tingxun looked at Zhu Yingting puzzled and frowned and said, "General Zhu, why don't you order the Ninth Fleet to approach and attack, the closer the distance, the more accurate the attack?"

Although a little dissatisfied with Tian Tingxun's layman's statement, Zhu Yingting still patiently explained: "I don't know what the supervisor, our Xia Jun navy, from generals at all levels to grassroots soldiers, are all novice, how can we usually train?" It is impossible to achieve the effect of training troops under such actual combat conditions, so it is better to let the soldiers practice their hands while the enemy is isolated and helpless!"

Tian Tingxun suddenly realized, and only then did he understand Zhu Yingting's plan.In fact, even if Zhu Yingting didn't explain to him, he couldn't ask about the specific battle command. Unless Zhu Yingting wanted to surrender to the enemy, he was not qualified to interfere with Zhu Yingting's battle command.However, as the catapult operators of the Ninth Fleet of the Xia Army became more and more proficient, the hit rate of the counterweight catapults on the Xia Army's ships became higher and higher.

The ship of Yan Guo Changshui Captain Ma Yuan finally boarded a warship on the right wing in a small boat. As soon as his general flag was raised, he was attacked intensively by six bird ships of the Ninth Fleet.After holding on for less than half a stick of incense, the warship was hit by three stone bullets in a row, especially the three stone bullets hit the belly of the ship in a dense manner. As a result, the warship sank quickly within the time of two sticks of incense. .

Ma Yuan fell into the river with the sinking of the warship, but his water quality was good, and he swam to a Yanjun warship. Three warships sank in a row, which made Ma Yuan sober.At this time, the equipment of Yan Guochang's navy was still more than ten years ago, not to mention trebuchets, and there was not even a bed crossbow.The only long-range attack method is the bow and arrow.But the range of their bows and arrows is only more than a hundred steps, and the warship of the Xia Army Navy is at least three hundred steps away from the warship of the Yan Army. Their bows and arrows can't even catch the opponent's hair.

Wanting to run, looking at the Xia army warships slowly encircling them in all directions, Ma Yuan couldn't help but despair.

From the boat came the screams of crying father and mother: "Mother, our boat has been hit!"

At this time, Ma Yuan didn't even think about how he and Buqu's family members in Yecheng were doing, and stammered: "Don't...don't...don't...beat...vote...vote... surrender."

However, the Yan army commander and the water army soldiers on the warship were so frightened that they didn't hear what Ma Yuan shouted at all.When the Xia army still used drums and semaphore to convey orders, the Yan army's backward command system still relied on manual transmission of orders. In this case, too many delays were inevitable.

On the battlefield, the delay of military orders means blood and death. The main mast of a Yanjun warship was hit by a catapult on a Xiajun navy warship, and the mast fell on the warship. Smashed into a fuzzy mass of flesh and blood.Of the eleven large and small warships in the Yan Army Commander's Navy, only five were intact at this time, and the other six were either sunk or bruised...

Ma Yuan really couldn't believe that in just half an hour, more than half of the eleven warships in the Changshui Army of Yan State that were still sailing normally lost more than half.However, the fact is so, he can't help but not believe it.

Just as the officers and soldiers of the Ninth Fleet of the Xia Army Navy carried the stone bombs enthusiastically and continued to bombard the Yan Army warship like a target, they suddenly heard the order "stop fighting" from the Chinese Army's war drum.

Ma Yuan breathed a sigh of relief, secretly said: "Finally, I can save this life!"

In fact, it was too early for Ma Yuan to hold high. One must know that Ji Kan, the current dean of the Xia State Inspectorate, is the younger brother of the former General Wei Guowei, Ji Jian. Died from exhaustion.Almost all the veterans of the Jizi Battalion gritted their teeth with hatred for the traitor Ma Yuan.Although Gao Jingzong is not a person who is easy to kill with historiography, there are many times when he has to consider the feelings of all the soldiers.

More than 460 people from the five warships under Yan Guo Changshui Xiaowei Ma Yuan surrendered. Zhu Yingting accepted the troops directly without hesitation. Go to Sui County.God knows what the veterans of Jizibattalion will do with him.

　Tomorrow, I will go to Luyuan to report, and Lao Cheng will be able to see some great gods who have only heard their names but never seen them.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)