Chapter 134: Water War (7)
He Yun can't remember how many times he scolded today, although he has paid great attention to the young people in front of him, he didn't expect the other party to make him so wolf!
"He Fatty, what are you going to do now?" Although Kong Ke has always adhered to the principle of not asking what he doesn't understand, but now this situation has made him lose patience, and now there are only a few hours before dawn, if they can't take down the other party before dawn, their operation this time will be considered a failure!
"There's no way, the other party's trebuchet is too powerful! We can only use that thing!" He Yun said helplessly.
Kong Ke frowned when he heard this, and then nodded and replied, "Okay! But in this case, these people must be quickly eliminated!"
"I know this!" He Yun replied, then beckoned his soldiers to start fiddling with the thing on the deck that had been covered with black cloth.
After the black cloth was uncovered, what appeared in front of everyone was a strangely shaped object, first a shelf similar to a wooden bed with a length and width, and then three huge bows and arrows were placed side by side on it, and the bow arms were as thick as a child's arm!
Then, the soldiers turned their gears, and with the sound of squeaking, the thick bow arms began to bend slowly, and when the whole bow was drawn into a full moon shape, the soldiers put three arrows on it, only to see that the bow and arrow actually required a stout soldier to exert all his strength to hold it, and this arrow was actually made of pure iron!
Five ironclad ships, each with one on its deck, and a moment later, fifteen iron arrows were wound, and then a stout soldier raised a huge wooden hammer in his hand and smashed it hard against a mechanism at the end of the wooden bed!
Suddenly, fifteen iron arrows were like fifteen black flying dragons, and in an instant, they flew towards Zhou Kang's boat behind the flames!
"It's not good! It's an eight-bull crossbow!" After Zhou Kang saw the movements of the enemy on the opposite side through the flames, he hurriedly shouted a warning to the teenagers when the opposing soldiers raised the wooden hammer, and the teenagers almost reflexively leaned down and hid under the boulder pile.
A moment later, fifteen iron arrows flew in, and the thick outer wall of the cabin still could not resist the attack of the iron arrows, and was shot directly through a hole, and finally the remaining strength was still able to cross the entire interior of the cabin, and once again pierced through the wall on the other side, and finally penetrated more than half of it, leaving only a small part of the tail still in the cabin.
And the remaining few actually shot directly through the gap in the wall of the ship, directly shooting through the trebuchet placed on the side of the gap, and destroying nearly half of the trebuchet at one time!
Fortunately, Zhou Kang reminded in time, and the teenagers hid their bodies behind the thick stone pile, although a few of them also pierced into the boulder pile, but the thick stone still resisted the attack of the iron arrow.
It's just that in this way, in the face of such a terrible weapon as the enemy, the teenagers have lost even the possibility of organizing a counterattack, and can only hide their bodies tightly behind the stone pile, meeting the enemy's attacks one after another......
"Commander, more than half of the iron arrows have been consumed!Do you want to continue the attack?" the little leader in charge of the Eight Ox Crossbow on He Yunzuo's ship ran to report to He Yun.
He Yun looked up at the already dilapidated enemy ship in the distance, there was no complete wooden plank on the outer wall of the entire hull, there were traces of iron arrows passing through, and even the sail of the mainsail was pierced by an iron arrow, fortunately, the iron arrow was still left on the sail, otherwise the mainsail would inevitably collapse due to loss of balance, if that was the case, the two teenagers on the lookout would be seriously injured even if they did not die!
"Commander, what should we do next?" the little leader then asked.
"What else can I do? Send someone to clean up the two abandoned ships in front of you, clear the passage, and then rush in!" He Yun said calmly.
Now that after a few rounds of shooting from the Eight Bull Crossbows, the trebuchets of the teenagers have all been destroyed, and the enemy, who has lost the means of long-range attack, is no longer a concern for He Yun's side.
"Fourth brother, they're coming!" On the second floor of Zhou Kang's boat, behind the pile of rocks, Hao Xin poked his head out and looked at it, and said to Zhou Kang.
Zhou Kang looked up and looked outside, only to see that the two ironclad ships of He Yun's fleet were throwing out a large iron hook with an iron chain attached to the back at this moment, hooking the sides of the two abandoned ships that were still burning, and then driving the ironclad ships backwards, so the two abandoned ships slowly moved to both sides, and it would not be long before the entrance and exit at the pass would be reopened.
"There's no way! Later, let's all evacuate to Lao Liu's ship, and then let all the sailors on the ship rush out when they come in and have an unstable foothold, and now there are only a few people who can run!" Zhou Kang said calmly.
Hao Xin is still young, so naturally he can't understand the other meaning of Zhou Kang's words, Zhou Kang is ready to let all the sailors flee for their lives, but he just wants to use them to create chaos, so as to create a chance for the teenagers to escape, after all, as the one who made the order, Zhou Kang has an advantage over everyone else, and can seize the opportunity to escape for himself and the teenagers.
As for the life and death of those sailors, Zhou Kang couldn't care about it at this moment! At this point, all the teenagers chose to acquiesce.
After more than ten years of begging career, the teenagers have long seen enough of the warmth and coldness of the world, and for these teenagers at this moment, only the brothers next to them are the only thing worth caring about!
After receiving the order, the teenagers began to slowly retreat from the already tattered boat, and the two teenagers on the lookout also quickly withdrew along the rope, because He Yun's fleet was busy cleaning up the residue left by the burning of the abandoned ship, they did not notice the small movements of the teenagers, and the pungent smell of the burning flame also hindered the black-faced teenager Xiaosi's sense of smell.
Since the space in the pass was not large, after a dozen ships squeezed in, there was not much space left between the boats, and it didn't take long for the teenagers to retreat to Liu Jin's boat.
As soon as Zhou Kang found General Liu Jin's plan and said it, the elf-like old man Liu naturally understood what Zhou Kang meant, and used his decades of cultivation to make up a more perfect lie and convey it to all the sailors.
It took some time for He Yun's fleet to finally clear the passage, and now only the hedgehog-like Zhou Kang's ship was left in the direction of progress, and now the ship was pitch black, and at the same time the silence was abnormal, and the atmosphere seemed a little depressing.
For the teenagers who had repeatedly surprised him, He Yun didn't dare to relax his vigilance at the moment, so He Yun had to order the boats to slow down and move forward slowly.
Seeing that the ironclad ship was gradually approaching, the sailors of the ships in the pass who had already received the order from Liu Jin had already performed their duties, and they all held the things in their hands tightly, ready to take the opportunity to launch the final "counterattack......
"Zheng Tai, is it our turn?"
At this moment, in a backlit and dark place nearly ten miles away from the pass, such a sentence suddenly sounded.
"Well, it's time!" replied a teenager in the darkness, putting down a bronze cylinder in his hand and turning to another teenager beside him.
This young man is Zheng Tai, and the young man who spoke before is naturally Wang Tieniu!
"This time, if it weren't for Big Brother's telescope, we wouldn't have been able to track these ironclad ships in front of us from a distance!" Zheng Tai couldn't help but caress the cylinder in his hand and said with a smile.
As a teenager who aspires to cross the world, the meaning of the telescope in his hand is naturally clear.
"Yes, I really didn't expect that the other party actually had the same scouts as the little dog, if it wasn't for Brother Chai noticing it in advance, we would have been discovered by them!" Wang Tieniu turned his head to look at Chai Qi beside him and said.
"Now that the other party has been fighting for a long time, the hole cards have been forced out by the fourth brother, and then it's time for us to break the enemy!"
"Yes! The new warship designed by the eldest brother also needs time for us to familiarize ourselves, if we attack rashly just now, the victory or defeat will be unpredictable! After all, our brothers only came here this time, and the rest are all people from Peng Da's family, and the cooperation between the two sides cannot be completed overnight!"
Zheng Tai and Wang Tieniu talked word by word.
While the two were talking, the sailors on the ship were quickly making preparations in front of the station, and this time Zheng Tai brought five new warships made by Xu Chen's shipbuilding team.
I saw that these warships were shaped like turtles, the hull was not big, only two zhang long, one zhang wide, the bottom of the ship protruded downward, with the shape of a sea ship, the hull was covered with a small house-like bunker, and there were many perforations left on the walls of the ship around it, and the top of the house was naturally a thick cover, and the top of the cover still flashed from time to time, and it seemed that it must be inlaid with a thick layer of iron plates.
The whole bunker is like a turtle shell on top of a boat, and with more than a dozen oars sticking out from both sides, it is no wonder that later generations have vividly called it a "turtle boat."
This kind of "turtle boat", which was invented by the famous Korean general Yi Sunsin, and is known as the most advanced warship of that era, appeared in this world more than 800 years in advance through Xu Chen's hand!
Sure enough, it is known as the most advanced warship of that era, the turtle ship is small in size and light in weight, and the speed at which it travels is worthy of his title of "turtle ship"!
At a distance of ten miles, the five turtle boats led by Zheng Tai crossed most of them in a moment!
"Commander He, it's not good! Someone is approaching!" Although the black-faced boy Xiao Si has been keeping his mind in the pass, his sensitive sense of smell still senses the fresh smell coming from the wind, which means that a new person has appeared near the battlefield!
"Commander, good ......"
Before Xiao Si's last word could be spoken, He Yun already knew what he was trying to express.
Because, on the surface of the water less than a mile away, five ships with strange shapes, which He Yun had never seen before, were speeding towards them at an unusually alarming speed......