Chapter 383: Fire Attack
Zhao Hao thought that the nightmare might become a reality, and couldn't sit still anymore, so he took a few people to the top deck, where he could clearly see the battlefield in front of him. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info he took the telescope and looked at the Yuan army water camp in the distance, at this time the sun gradually rose, the mountain shadow on the sea slowly disappeared, the banner on the camp was half-dead like the north floating, the fog floating on the sea made him unable to clearly see the other party's arrangement, but he could not see the slightest change, the meteorological conditions did not seem to have the conditions for fire attack. But he knew that it was the time of the monsoon, and that it was just calm and calm, and in the blink of an eye, the wind and waves would surge.
......Just as Zhao Yu turned his gaze to the water village, the handsome flag hanging high on the mast made a shaking sound, and then he also felt a cool breeze blowing in his face, and the fog suspended in the sea also quickly drifted to this side, and at the same time, he could see the surge rushing from the sea gate to the inland sea, pushing the boat to sway gently.
"What should come will come!" Zhao Hao's luck was blown away by the wind in an instant, he muttered, and turned his gaze to the Yuan army camp again, as the wind increased, the fog was quickly blown away, revealing his true face.
'Woo woo ......' a long horn sounded, the enemy's formation changed, and the warships began to slowly press towards them in three directions.
The alarm bell on the side ......of the Song camp rang almost at the same time, followed by the thunderous drums, and the various armies also rushed to the wall, ready to counterattack the attacking enemy.
"Fireship!" The enemy fleet suddenly changed its formation again, rushing out of the front row of 100 small boats, they were full of firewood and grass, hung with full sails, and then the north wind was getting bigger and bigger and faster, Zhao Yu was the first time to see this kind of warfare, in history, it was these seemingly inconspicuous small boats that had changed the course of history many times and modified the situation of the war, which made him a little surprised.
"Tartar is enough to make money!" Zheng Yong also looked at the sea and said.
"Take a closer look, which is their blood, but it's just borrowing flowers to offer Buddha!" Zhao Hao snorted coldly, he could see clearly that these ships used as fire ships were all captured Song army's warships and the brave Wuyan ships, which were taken from the enemy and used by the enemy, saying that it was to borrow flowers and offer Buddha purely to put gold on his face.
"Alas......" Zheng Yong sighed and didn't say anything more, but thinking about his own side, it was the same, the Qiongzhou Navy started with three merchant ships, and the imperial court gave more than 20 broken ships, but now the enemy ships captured by several major battles have become a powerful naval army with more than 800 warships, and no one dares to despise them.
Zhao Yu didn't pay attention to Zheng Yong, who was full of emotion, the fireboat released by the enemy army followed the wind and tide to move faster and faster, and his heart was also jumping faster and faster at this time, as if it was about to pop out of his mouth, but he felt that Zhang Shijie should be the most nervous. As the saying goes, once bitten by a snake for ten years, afraid of the well rope, it set up a series of arrays in Jiaoshan, which made the Yuan army burn in a mess, lost nearly 100,000 soldiers, and buried almost all the last bit of blood of the Song army, so that it was no longer able to stop the southward movement of the Yuan army, it can be said that the fall of the Song Dynasty has an unshirkable responsibility from a military point of view.
Now the line will be moved to the sea, so the re-application of the technique to form a chain of formations can be said to be Zhang Shijie regardless of everyone's opposition, if the Yuan army is set on fire again, I am afraid that it will not be able to explain to the court, nor can it be explained to himself. Zhao Yu saw his figure appear in the head of the village many times in the camera, instructed the soldiers to lower the long poles, and asked the volunteers to continuously draw water from the sea to soak the mud on the side of the ship, and hang countless buckets on the stern of the ship to block the attack of the fireboat.
"The Tartar is on fire!" Zheng Yong shouted loudly. When the fireboat was about 100 paces in front of the wall, the soldiers on the ship took the rudder and bolted the sail cable, and lit the firewood and grass piled up on the ship with torches.
"Let the boats secretly put away the planks and evacuate the formation!" Although he saw that he was ready to set fire, Zhao Yu still didn't dare to take risks, there was a case for everything, but in order not to cause panic, he could only prepare quietly, and he didn't want to shoot.
Zhao Hao's eyes still did not leave the warship, and at this time he could see clearly without the help of a telescope, and the Song army did not dare to slack off at the moment of life and death, and a group of more than a dozen people moved against the speeding fireboat with a long pole, making it impossible to get close to the water village. At this time, there were soldiers holding long hooks and hooking the buckets hanging above, so that the water in them tilted down to extinguish the flames, and the volunteers desperately drew water from the wall and poured it down, raising clouds of mist.
"Prepare gunboats and rocket ships, calibrate the firing range, use long fuses!" Although Zhao Yu's ship was still a long way from the battlefield, he felt that it was himself who was roasting on the fire, and the underwear on his body had been soaked with cold sweat, so he wiped the sweat from his palms and ordered again.
Zhao Hao saw that the enemy fleet at a distance of Li Xu had anchored and stopped the ship, and the bow of the ship was full of Yuan army generals, they pointed and laughed, but it was like watching a play, and in his view, it was more like a group of vultures who ate carrion corpses were waiting for their prey to die slowly, and they were so eager to share the food. But the facts disappointed them, Zhang Hongfan failed to reproduce the glory of the original battle of Jiaoshan, under the tenacious extinguishing of the Song army, the fireboat could not help but burn the flames and slowly began to sink, the fire gradually disappeared, revealing the blackened but still intact water village.
But before the Song army could breathe a sigh of relief from the invasion of the fireboats, the Yuan army released the fireboats again, followed by dozens of small and medium-sized warships, full of archers, who specialized in shooting and killing the Song soldiers and volunteers who were fighting the fire. Although people continued to fall to the ground with arrows, the Song army did not dare to relax in the slightest, and desperately put out the fire regardless of casualties under the supervision of the officers, and at the same time sent archers to condescendingly shoot at the hostile in an attempt to drive the enemy away. In the flames that rushed to the sky for a while, the arrows collided back and forth like flying locusts, and the battle became more tense......
"Hold on a little longer, and the enemy will retreat!" Repelled the attacks of three rounds of fireships in succession, and although the Song army suffered some losses, the enemy's fireships were unable to break through the defense. Zhao Yu looked at the sky, the sun was already overhead, it was already ten o'clock in the afternoon, and the tide should be low in about an hour, and the enemy army seemed to have run out of fireships, and there were no more ships to send, so they had to retreat at that time.
"Your Majesty, the Tartars are crazy, they are going to use a big ship as a fire ship to charge the battle!" As soon as Zhao Yu's anger was halfway through, he heard Zheng Yong shouting loudly...... (To be continued.) )