Chapter 348: Battle of Donghai Island (3)
Both sides were a little dazed at the start of the fight, and Ali, who had already entered Leizhou Bay with the lead, was the first to react, he didn't expect that Song Jun would really dare to ambush them at his own doorstep. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. biquge。 Info immediately prepared to turn around and come back to flank the enemy with the Chinese army, but he found that a Song army fleet had come up from a distance to try to intercept him, but he was not worried. The number of opposing ships is the same as that of your own, and most of the warships are medium-sized warships of about 1000 stones, while the smallest of your own ships are all 1000 stone warships, not to mention that there are more than half of the large ships, even if they collide, they can be crushed.
"Wow......"
"Vomit ......" Ali was full of confidence and prepared to meet the enemy, but suddenly he felt a churning in his stomach, and what he ate went straight to his throat, and a mouth squirted out. It was easy to vomit his stomach, but he found that not only himself, but also the soldiers around him were either holding on to the railing, or lying on the side of the boat and vomiting, like an elite Jinghu sailor, who was clearly a landlubber who had just boarded the boat.
"Spit ......" Ali was so angry that he squirted out another mouthful of miserable green bile, he couldn't understand why, but he didn't know that there was no wind in the sea and three feet of waves, not to mention that it was the time of high tide. They turned around sharply again, and the river boat's resistance to wind and waves was far inferior to that of the sea boat, so the swaying was very violent, so that the Jinghu sailors who were accustomed to boating on the river could not stand it.
When the warships finally turned their heads, and the two armies were less than 200 paces apart, Ali found that the Song warships were lined up to meet them, and they went down the river to fire iron bullets with 'bed crossbows'. But he soon realized that something was wrong, and the iron balls exploded violently after piercing the gunwales of the head ship, blowing out a three-foot-sized hole in the hatch and igniting a fire in the bilge. But the Song army did not let it go, the head ship was hit by iron bullets one after another, and the fire ignited from the bilge quickly engulfed the ship, and the gunwales were broken many times and it was difficult to resist the impact of the waves, and it shattered, the sea water poured in instantly, and began to sink rapidly, and the sergeants on the ship fell into the water one after another, but many people were swept into the bottom of the sea by the whirlpool before they had time to swim away.
"Huh?!" Ali, who was still full of confidence just now, said in surprise, it was a big ship of 2,000 stones, and it sank before he could drink a glass of water after being hit.
"Increase the distance between the ships, quickly engage the enemy, and ram the enemy ships." At this time, the kung fu forward ships were hit one after another, some were blown up and the keel was broken in two, some were blown up under the waterline, and some were blown up. But without exception, there were serious casualties, some of which sank more slowly, some faster. Seeing that the five warships that took the lead were either sunk or injured, Ali was anxious, let alone saving the Chinese army like this, he could not protect himself. He ordered the ships to distance themselves so that the ships on fire would not 'infect' each other, and to attack them as soon as possible......
Dong Yicheng's mission was to cut off the connection between the enemy's front army and the Chinese army, and wait for an opportunity to annihilate it. Therefore, after the battle started, he immediately led the army to catch up, and wanted to chase them butt beating, but he didn't expect them to turn around and rush over in time, looking at the enemy ship that was much larger than his own square head, he was really a little bold, but he still had some confidence. After entering the range of the ballista, Dong Yicheng ordered a rapid fire with the newly equipped flowering shells, but he did not expect the effect to be good. In the past, the most solid bullets fired were to make a big hole in the gunwale, and if you were lucky, you could kill a few, but it was absolutely difficult to sink the enemy ship.
Today, the flowering bomb not only smashed through the ship's gunwale, but also really bloomed in the enemy ship, and when it exploded, it was a big hole, and it couldn't be plugged even if it wanted to. This made Dong Yicheng feel a lot more confident, and he felt that these 'big men' were not so terrible. Seeing that the enemy army that has suffered a loss still does not give up, and still relies on a big bully. Nor could he clearly suffer immediate losses, so he ordered to turn the horizontal column into a column, and took advantage of the small size of his ship to rush through the enemy array and engage in a melee with the enemy, but he was never allowed to collide with the enemy.
"**** mother's, **** mother's ......" important things were said three times, but Dong Yicheng said more than eight times. He originally wanted to move the ballista to both sides and use the opportunity to inflict heavy damage on the enemy, but the goal was achieved, but his own losses were equally heavy.
Most of the warships led by Dong Yicheng were medium-sized warships, but they were not fully enclosed like dragon ships, and at the same time, they were worried that the flowering bombs would explode in the cabin and cause the ship to be destroyed and killed, so the ballistae were arranged on the deck or the ship's side platform. And when they passed between the enemy ships, the Mongols were not fools, could they not beat him hard? The catapult was too close to be used, but the bow and crossbow and spear were greeted violently, and although the exposed gunner was covered by a shield, more than half of it was injured. When they got closer, the enemy dropped their hooks and tried to cross the boat.
When Dong Yicheng's troops broke out, more than a dozen warships on his side had not been able to rush out with them, and some of them were ignited by rockets, and they detonated flowering shells placed on the forts, and as a result, they were blown up and sunk by the explosion. In the case of losing the battle, the gunners took the initiative to ignite the gunpowder and self-destruct the ship, because as early as when His Majesty was there, it was strictly ordered that once the warships equipped with ballistas and rockets were in danger of being captured, they should immediately self-destruct their weapons and never fall into the hands of the enemy.
"Kill, kill, kill...... Qiongzhou Navy has never suffered such a big loss in several battles, and all of this is caused by his improper command, Dong Yicheng is heart like a knife, he ordered to put down the boat to rescue the soldiers who fell into the water, while turning the bow of the boat to chase after it, waving his sword and shouting like crazy.
Of course, Ali did not have the upper hand, and purely from the loss received, they should be even greater. Under the fierce rain of arrows, the gunners of the Song army still counterattacked regardless of casualties, and fired flowering shells at close range at the risk of self-injury, which also inflicted heavy losses on the fleet of the former army. However, what they are thinking about at the moment is not revenge, but how to get rid of the enemy ships that have caught up again, but in front of them is the warship of the Song Army Brigade that intercepts the Chinese army, and the rendezvous with the brigade is about to break through the many interceptions and break through the enemy formation.
"Push all the ballistas to the bow of the ship and sink them all!" Dong Yicheng is not really crazy, and ordered.
'Whoosh ......'
Both sides of the 'boom ......' were desperate, and the warships of the Yuan army were also full of firepower, and all the trebuchets, bed crossbows, bows and arrows that could be used were thrown over; The Song army lined up in two horizontal columns, staggered, whether it was a flowering bullet, a solid bullet, or a crossbow arrow, as long as it could be put on the ballista to shoot, it didn't cost money to shoot at the other party.
"Ahh Poof......" Ali, who was standing on the bow tower and commanding the battle, suddenly let out a short exclamation, and an arrow shot into his chest, and his body, which was three hundred pounds, flew upside down a few steps and was nailed to the pillar, and his head was tilted...... (To be continued.) )