Chapter 1452: The Han Flag World (142) landed
If there were no troop carriers behind him, Li Quanda could have dragged the Chu warships on the river, and after opening up the distance, he would blow up the opponents one by one with artillery, but now a few miles behind him, dozens of troop carriers were stopping on the river, with the current madness of the Chu army, God knows if they would take a suicidal attack again, he could only take a more violent attack.
Five battleships lined up across the river, blocking the channel, including the No. 8 battleship, which had been hit by a suicidal attack, was still floating crookedly on the river, and the sailors on board were frantically plugging the leak. And the remaining four battleships rushed head-on to the dense Chu warships on the opposite side with an indomitable attitude.
"Fire, fire!" The captains of the five battleships blocking the channel shouted frantically, each ship had dozens of guns on its side, and every salvo of hundreds of guns on the five battleships would add countless fragments to the surface of the river.
Li Quan's battleship rushed to the front, led by him, and the four battleships formed a triangular cone, rushing forward, at this time, what they could exert their combat effectiveness was a heavy gun in the bow.
"Fire!" Li Quan's saber fell heavily, and as the hull of the ship fell backwards heavily, a cannonball came out of the chamber and hit the building of a Chu ship in front of it, and with a bang, the ship tower was torn apart, and it collapsed with the raging fire, and the sailors on the ship ran desperately, dodging the scattered fragments, while the lower part of the battleship that was shot still rushed towards Li Quan's ship along the water.
"Sink him!" Li Quan roared angrily.
The battleship slightly deflected a little angle, and the moment the battleship that was going up against the current and the battleship rushing from the opposite side passed by, the Han warship turned around suddenly, and with a loud bang, the impact angle of the bow of the ship was deeply embedded in the hull of the Chu ship, and the battleship on the opposite side made a kaka sound that everyone feared, and after a while, it broke apart from it. Split into two, the Han ship squeezed out of the middle of the fracture strongly.
"Fire!" Li Quan, who had just been knocked to the ground, saw that the cannon in the bow of the ship was still firmly fixed on the gun position, and immediately jumped up, picked up the gun commander who was still rolling on the ground, paused him next to the gun position, and roared angrily.
"Accelerate forward, forward." Li Quan roared wildly.
His battleship rushed into the Chu ship, and the enemy's face was clearly visible on the enemy ship.
"All guns on the side of the side, fire!" The crazy Li Quan completely ignored that at this time, he was only a dozen feet away from the nearest enemy ship, and the soldiers on the other side were holding hooks. Prepare to hook his ship as you approach, and then jump into a duel.
They did not expect that the Han warships would lower the muzzles of their guns at this distance, and they would take a flat fire instead of life, and the consequence of dozens of guns firing at the same time was that all the battleships on each side were beaten into a coffin floating on the water.
With a bang, another Chu warship rushed up, and compared with the Han warship, the Chu warship was obviously more than one head shorter, and the two ships collided. The Han battleship only shook slightly, but the Chu battleship shook violently from side to side, and the Chu army crowded on the side of the ship suddenly fell into a ball.
Rows of Han sailors leaned out of the side of the ship, and the grenades in their hands rained down. The loud rumbling sound kept sounding, and the top of the Chu warship suddenly became a hell, with a blur of flesh and blood, and severed arms and stumps flying everywhere. And almost at the same time. On the Chu warship, there were also grenades that were thrown high and landed on the Han warship. Explosions rang out. More than a dozen sailors lay in pools of blood.
"Onward, onward!" Li Quan's left side of his face was slashed by a shrapnel, and he was bleeding profusely, but he didn't realize it, brandished the steel knife in his hand, and roared loudly.
The guns of the five battleships in the rear were still ringing non-stop, and the extended trajectory beat the Chu ships farther away into thick smoke and flames.
"Order the rear, the whole army assault!" Li Quan finally confirmed that the other party no longer had the kind of boat used for suicide attacks, and in a roar, he gave the order for the whole army to assault.
The four battleships that could still move in the rear immediately turned their bows and rushed towards the melee battlefield, while in the rear, the troop carriers, which had been watching from the wall, could not hold back at this time, and in the chorus of the soldiers, the oars flew and rushed forward at a rapid speed.
In despair, the Chu Navy General Mi Zhuang watched as his suicidal assault boats were sunk one by one on the river, and his main battleship was turning into piles of debris or bonfires burning above the river.
"I can't stop it, I can't stop it, it's not that I don't work hard, I've done my best." Mi Zhuang knelt on the bow of the boat and cried loudly, and behind him was the water city of Yingdu. The Han army sailors will definitely come to hit the water city, the more time drags on, the more nervous it is, Mi Zhuang is a mortal heart, these small boats, he took great pains to collect, and some of them are disposable items that he ordered to be made temporarily, and he also spent a lot of money to find a lot of people who dared to die, but although the result, it made people desperate and had nothing to say.
"Attack with all your might, fight the enemy in a decisive battle!" The howling Mi gave orders in a loud voice, and he had no way to retreat.
The last few Chu warships raised their sails and sailed resolutely towards the front.
"Fire!" Looking at the Chu army warship that was speeding on the opposite side, Li Quan showed a sneer on his face, he looked extremely hideous with blood on his face, and the flag of the main general fluttering on the Chu army warship made him clearly know that after sinking this Chu army warship, the battle on the water would be over.
The two battleships crossed the hull, and dozens of guns opened fire in unison, all targeting the sturdy command ship.
Mi Zhuang's body flew high into the air, and at the last moment, his eyes saw the Great Chu banner still fluttering above the city wall of Yingcheng, and a few tears fell silently.
With a pop, he fell into the icy water, and his ship had become a pile of debris above the river.
There are no more Chu warships on the river, all floating on the river are the remains of the warships or the heads of the people who are lying in wait, and the Han soldiers are hooking the Chu soldiers who have fallen into the water with scratching hooks onto the boat, and when one comes up, they tie one up, and then stuff it into the bottom cabin. And what was presented in front of them was already the water city of Yingdu. Above, beside the towering trebuchets, the Chu army was running in a panic, and a moment later, an explosive bag that lit the fuse flew high.
However, the position where Li Quan's warship stopped was just outside their range, Li Quan coldly watched the cannonball bag fall weakly in the air, and then fell to Jiang Xin, a moment later, Jiang Xin roared, puffed up a big bubble, splashed upward, and then turned into nothingness.
"Aim their catapults, destroy!" He said coldly, raised his hand, and pushed away the soldiers who were ready to bandage his wounds, this battle was extremely dangerous, and the firepower of the sailors was countless times more fierce than the opponent, and the warships were much stronger than the opponents, but Rao was so, the ten three-story battleships he brought were also riddled with holes, and two of them had completely lost their combat effectiveness and became rags floating on the river, even if they were dragged back, they could only be burned as firewood. After this battle, the inland water division wants to restore its former strength, but it will take another year or two of hard work, and the only gain is that the soldiers have matured greatly after this battle.
The artillerymen on the warship don't have to worry at the moment, they aim and fire one by one, this kind of pleasure that you only have me to hit you, and you can't hit me, is indeed incomparable.
Above the water city, explosions came and went, and the tall trebuchets overturned and collapsed, and finally not a single explosive bag was thrown from the inside.
Small boats sailed out of the queue of battleships, and the sailors cautiously moved forward, exploring the passage for the battleship, and behind them, the battleship slowly followed the small boats forward.
"There are chains underwater!" The soldiers on the boat shouted, and immediately, several soldiers dressed in water jumped into the water, and one of them plunged to the bottom of the water, and after a while, he floated up to change his breath, and then plunged down again, and when they floated up again, their faces were already pale, and they couldn't speak, but they nodded again and again, and the people on the boat pulled them onto the boat, and immediately someone handed them a pot of spirits, and poured them into their stomachs in a few sips, and finally their faces were a little bloody.
The underwater obstacles were cleared little by little, the battleship opened fire while moving forward, and the gate of the water city was detonated after a small boat full of explosives rushed up and detonated, and the gate of the water city of Yingdu was open in front of the Han army.
Bursts of cheers erupted from above the battleship, and Li Quan's battleship took the lead and sailed in.
In the Chu Palace, the Guanghua Palace, a Chu soldier stumbled in.
"Shoufu, Taiwei, it's not good, Shuicheng is lost, General Mi is killed, the Han army has captured Shuicheng, its army has landed from Shuicheng, Yingdu City is broken, the city is broken!"
Huang Xie sat back in his chair heavily, his face pale.
Qu stood up, picked up his helmet from the table, and put it on: "Brother Huang, although Shuicheng is broken, but the other armies of the Han army have not yet broken through our city, I will immediately take people to the direction of Shuicheng, block them, and the king, I will hand it over to you." ”
Huang Xie looked at the resolute yield and nodded with difficulty.
"If I die, the military command of Yingdu will be handed over to Bi Xuan." Dropping this sentence, he walked out with a stumbling stride.
After breaking the water city, what appeared in front of the Han army was already the inner city of Yingdu, as the bottom of the troop transport ship touched the river heavily, rope ladders were lowered from the boat, and the soldiers of the Marine Corps of the Navy Division surged down along the rope ladders. This marine corps was transferred from the Han army by Gao Yuan, and its composition was extremely complex, and all of the pioneers came from the four islands of Fuso, an overseas territory. After the Navy conquered the four islands of Fuso, thousands of sailors were recruited on the islands, and these extremely poor island warriors became Han soldiers, and with the navy to fight everywhere, they were famous for their extreme ferocity throughout the navy, and they were also the first troops to go ashore after the navy captured a place.
They are not afraid of death in battle, and their only thought is to obtain military merits and then get the opportunity to settle in the Han mainland. This is the promise of the naval commander to them. The four islands of Fusang are too poor now, and the Han country itself is rumored to be an opportunity for gold and silver treasures everywhere, and this time they were transferred back, and after seeing the prosperity of Cangzhou, Fenzhou and other places, they were even more determined in this idea. (To be continued.) )