Chapter 621: All-Out Engagement
If Zhao Hao has always used the infantry army as a shield, then the naval army is his spear. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. biquge。 infoWhen the time came, the tide began to recede, and the Baisha sailors, who had been hiding and waiting, sailed out from behind the island. Liu Wenjun, the commander of the Baisha Naval Army, led a hundred warships as the front army, and the brave army as an assault force was the tip of the spear; Liu Zhu led more than 300 warships of the Chinese army behind and lined up in front of the arrows.
When the convoy appeared in the open sea, the enemy sentinel ships immediately spotted them, and then the Yuan army's escort fleet immediately gathered to meet them. It is said that the two armies facing each other now are out of one door, and both are inseparable from the Jinghuai Naval Army, although the former brothers have become enemies, but they are very familiar with the tactics used, and they know what anyone can do when they see this.
However, the Jinghu Navy has been stationed on the Yangtze River defense line, and has not fought against the Qiongzhou Navy Division, even its commander Chen Yi has only heard that the Song Navy is equipped with a large number of firearms and is good at long-range attacks. And the soldiers and generals at the bottom have also accumulated some experience in the conflict in Qiongzhou, but they are all failed experiences, and they have never taken advantage of each battle, but today is the first time that the large corps has fought against each other.
"Let the brave army make a detour to the enemy's left flank, and after the long-range fire attack of the front army is completed, launch a surprise attack to the flank and rear to disrupt the enemy's formation!" The two armies marched opposite each other, because it was the ebb tide, and the Song army still took advantage. Liu Zhu saw on the handsome boat that the phalanx of the Yuan army was on the defensive, and he wanted to consume his own sharp energy with layers of blocking, and then approach to fight when he was trapped in the formation. He knew that in the past, the attacking side always suffered larger losses, and he had a sea current to use, so the arrangement of the enemy general should be said to be very appropriate, and at the moment, it was only convenient to break the enemy's position first.
The brave army quickly launched an attack on the enemy's left flank, their purpose was not to annihilate the enemy, but to disrupt the enemy, so they relied on their fast ship, strong ability to resist strikes, and the characteristics of independent combat to disperse and advance, avoid the blow of the catapult, and break into the shooting blind spot of the Yuan army's warships. In this way, the catapult that threatens them the most is not effective, and the crossbow can only scratch and itch it.
At close range, the biggest threat to the dragon ship is the fluttering rod, which has also become the primary target of each dragon ship, and a ballista to clear the threat is to play a good trick and collide with the enemy ship. The warships of the Yuan army were going to be hit by such a sudden attack, even if they did not sink, they were seriously injured, and they were not far from sinking to the bottom, and four or five enemy ships were scrapped in a short time.
Chen Yi was shocked, if Song Jun continued to do it like this, he was afraid that he would have to feed Wang Ba in less than half a day. However, he found that these dragon ships were not only powerful, but also very flexible in steering, advancing and retreating, while their large and medium-sized warships needed a sufficient radius to turn. But even if there are difficulties, they must go up, and they can't let them worry here, so they hurriedly ordered the warships at the end of the formation to go out of the formation to intercept them, and ordered the small warships cruising in the formation to meet the dragon ships.
The small boats in the enemy formation were attracted by the dragon boats, and Liu Zhu wanted this opportunity, he knew that once his gunboats rushed into the enemy formation in columns, the greatest threat to them was not those large warships, but the nimble small boats, which could easily enter the ballista firing corner, entangle the gunboats, and then use the hook to cross the ship and start a broadside battle. Although their own soldiers will not necessarily lose to the enemy, if a ship is blocked, the rear will lose mobility, forcing them to give up their superiority in weapons and have to engage in close combat with the enemy.
Now that he had no scruples, Liu Zhu ordered the rocket ships of the front army to meet the enemy ships in a horizontal formation, and after entering the firing range, they launched rockets to further disrupt the enemy's formation. As soon as the two armies approached Liu Wenjun, they ordered all ships to fire a salvo and rushed straight to 300 paces before turning westward to disengage with the enemy. In such a short time, their thirty rocket ships fired a total of three salvos, covering almost the entire enemy fleet.
After this wild bombardment, Liu Wenjun looked at the enemy formation and was shrouded in gunsmoke and couldn't see clearly, only to see that the warship with a bullet was on fire, especially the warship carrying the golden juice cannon was not saved once it caught fire, it was originally a gift to the Song army, but he didn't expect it to become his own life-urging charm. But what puzzled him was that the Yuan army did not send warships to pursue, but let the rocket fleet fly away, and he estimated that the Yuan army, including the enemy generals, was blown up and had not yet reacted.
"Commander, the commander ordered our gunboats to kill people from the enemy's right flank, and then turn westward, and after meeting up with the rocket fleet, attack the enemy landing fleet from the flank and rear, and reduce the pressure on the infantry army!" At this time, Guantong said.
"Dutong is unloading the mill and killing donkeys, let us do the most dangerous work, but when we eat meat, they send us away!" Liu Wenjun muttered very dissatisfied, but he also knew that the military order could not be violated, and commanded the gunboats to change formation and attack the enemy in two columns.
"The commander doesn't know, just now the command saw the news from the water camp, and now the battle is fierce, even His Majesty has commanded the emperor's boat to go into battle, blocking the mouth of the river so that the enemy army does not rush into the Nandu River!" Guantong hand reported.
"Quick, quick, let the ships speed up the battle, and then go to reinforce Your Majesty!" When Liu Wenjun heard this, he immediately became anxious, threw aside the 'favoritism' to Liu Zhu, and hurriedly urged. He knew very well that if His Majesty was to lose, it would not be Qiongzhou that would be lost, but the last national vein of the Great Song Dynasty would be cut off, and they would become sinners through the ages.
Water warfare is different from land warfare, when the land battle is arrayed, the formation is required to be tight, so as not to be easily rushed into the formation by the enemy, and the two wings generally send cavalry to cruise in case they are flanked; The navy is to use the warship as a platform to fight, the warship is large, and it is fighting on the water, walking does not mean that it will stop if you want to stop the brakes, and the warship needs a lot of space to turn and turn around.
Therefore, whether the navy is marching or arraying, in order to prevent itself from colliding with each other, it must maintain sufficient spacing, and during this period, only small warships can transmit information back and forth to prevent enemy ships from invading the formation. At this time, Liu Wenjun had to take advantage of the gap between the enemy ships to lead the gunboats to rush in, use the ballistas arranged on both sides to open bows left and right, attack the enemy ships, and then go all the way through the formation.
Now the Qiongzhou Navy first used dragon boats to carry out assaults, then bombarded with rocket boats, and finally charged with gunboats, which is what Zhao Yu summed up based on several major battles. Speaking of it, it is a three-plate axe, but ordinary people really can't bear it, and now it has become the standard mode of various naval armies in the battle of large corps. Although it may seem simple to say, in fact, the requirements for commanders are also very high, not only to be familiar with ocean currents, tides, and meteorology, but also to be good at grasping fighters. The cooperation of various departments also needs to go through a long period of training and running-in in order to advance and retreat freely and give full play to their own advantages......
As the tide begins to recede, the submerged seabed is gradually revealed. Zhuang Siqi stood on the sand bank and looked forward, the enemy army also followed the tide and regrouped on the sandbar exposed beyond the range of the rockets, leaving only broken ship planks and wrecked enemy ships on the shallows, and the corpses that had not been carried away by the tide covered the entire beachhead, bright red blood and silt mixed together, crusted into a disgusting black-red under the sun.
"General Zhuang has worked hard!"
"The last general will see Your Majesty!" Just as Zhuang Siqi was checking the enemy's situation and thinking about how to deal with the next round of attacks, a crisp child's voice sounded behind him. He turned around and saw Ni Liang standing under the sand bank with His Majesty, and hurriedly came down to pay respects.
"No courtesy, everyone has worked hard!" Zhao Yu raised his hand to let Zhuang Siqi get up, and then arched his hand to the surrounding army and said loudly.
"Long live Your Majesty, long live, long live!" As soon as Zhuang Siqi gave such a salute, the troops resting behind the embankment found out that this child with a big flower face was the little emperor, and immediately knelt down and saluted.
"Excuse me, today's army sacrifices life and death to resist the enemy, the people of Qiongzhou, the people of the Great Song Dynasty and I will not forget your exploits, and your heroes will forever be recorded in the annals of history!" Zhao Hao stood on the high platform, looking at the soldiers whose faces were also blackened by gunpowder smoke and sand, it was difficult to distinguish who was who, and many of them were blood-stained robes, wrapped up in wounds and fought again, he raised his arms and said loudly with some excitement.
"My emperor is mighty, my emperor is mighty, my emperor is mighty!" Although it was only a few words, it came from the mouth of the emperor, which made the army extremely moved. Having just personally led the warship to assist them in repelling the enemy army, and now that they are at the front in person, their morale is boosted, and they cheer in unison with swords and guns raised.
"Today, you have repelled more than a dozen attacks by the Tartars, and many of the Paize brothers died in battle, but they sacrificed for the country, for the hundreds of thousands of people and families behind us, these are in my eyes, and the people will not forget you." Zhao Yu pressed his hand to silence the army, and said loudly, "Qiongzhou is ours, Jiangnan is ours, and the Central Plains is ours, and if you want it, you have to exchange it with blood and life!" ”
"Ours, ours......" The mood of the army was mobilized again, and they chanted.
"Restore my mountains and rivers, and they are all Bianliang!" Zhuang Siqi roared.
"Return to Bianliang, restore my mountains and rivers!" The armies shouted again in response.
"Okay, today we will kill all the Tartars and capture Ali Hague alive!" Looking at the passionate generals, Zhao Hao's heart was surging and his blood was boiling, and he only sighed that he was too young to fight......
Taking advantage of the short opportunity for the two sides to rest, the fire army sent lunch, and Zhao Yu remembered that he had not beaten his teeth from morning to now, although he only sent rice balls and broth, but he also felt drooling. Seeing the little emperor's wolf-like eyes staring at the rice bucket, and the belly of 'grunt, grunt', Zhuang Siqi knew that he had not yet eaten, so he invited him to have 'lunch', and Zhao Yu of course agreed happily.
Thinking that the emperor and a group of soldiers were eating on the beach, and the smell of gunsmoke and blood was really not good, and besides, the little emperor had always been approachable, but it still seemed lazy to be entertained with only broth and rice balls. So Zhuang Siqi wanted to ask His Majesty to open a small stove in the back and be more stable, but he refused verbally, and sat down after all the soldiers had been given food.
"Your Majesty, wash up first!" Zhuang Siqi asked people to bring clean water and asked His Majesty to wash his hands.
"No need!" Zhao Hao waved his hand, rubbed his hand casually on his body as the other soldiers learned, picked up a rice ball and asked for it.
"Your Majesty, the food is really vulgar, and the subordinates are really ashamed!" The only privilege of His Majesty and the army is to sit under the buttocks with a shield, and three big shields stacked in front of him to commit crimes, so he didn't squat on the ground and hold a bowl to eat, Zhuang Siqi personally held the broth and said, and then an old fire army served a bowl of meat.
"Old Wu Tou'er, have you embezzled the food money of the generals?" Zhao Yu looked up to see that the old fire army was still an acquaintance, it was a 'talent' left over from the selection of troops in Jiazi Town, so he nodded it with chopsticks and asked.
"Your Majesty, don't dare to talk nonsense, if the little one is greedy for a penny, Your Majesty will chop off my hand!" Old Wu Touer was not afraid of him, and patted his chest and said.
"It's good if you don't have it, so the meal money allocated is not enough?" Regarding Lao Wutou's unreasonableness, Zhao Yu didn't think it was a pestle, and asked again.
"Your Majesty is enough, if you don't believe it, you can ask everyone!" Old Wu replied simply, turned around and knocked on the rice bucket and asked the army who were eating, "Do you say that the food is good?" , Today's war, His Majesty rewarded him with a double portion of food expenses, and the meat pipe is enough! ”
"Good, good, there is meat every day, and I am full!" As soon as Old Wu Tou'er's voice fell, a soldier said.
"Yes, this is much better than when I was in Lin'an!"
"In the past, the Huai army claimed to have the best food among the armies, but it was just that it was full, where was there meat to eat every day!" ……
"Your Majesty, the villain didn't say anything, everyone said yes!" Old Wu Tou'er turned around again and said proudly.
"Don't be rude to Your Majesty!" Zhuang Siqi saw that he was talking so casually, and scolded in a low voice.
"It's okay, it's okay!" Zhao Yu waved his hand to stop him.
"Commander, back then, Your Majesty and everyone ate the food cooked by my old Wu Tou, and when you were hungry, you went to the room to steal food, and I didn't admit it when I caught it, isn't it Your Majesty?" Old Wu straightened his waist and said to Zhuang Siqi.
"Hehe, it's true, but at that time, I was hungry after eating dried fish and rice every day!" In the laughter of everyone, Zhao Hao said with an embarrassed smile.
"Thinking about it, it was really bitter at that time, in order to feed everyone, His Majesty even sold the queen mother's reward. So some boys complained, old man, I have to tell them that His Majesty couldn't eat these things back then, and now that life is better, he still only uses the commander's meal money! Old Wu pointed and looked at the soldiers here.
"General Zhuang, so it's good to have rice and meat, I'm not so squeamish, not to mention that there is so much meat in the soup today, and eating it with everyone is even more lively!" Zhao Yu scooped up a piece with chopsticks and put it in his mouth and said with a smile, "Everyone eat quickly, Lao Wu Tou said that there is enough meat today, I can't wait for you, I will have a bowl later." ”
"Your Majesty, your subordinates ......" Zhuang Siqi said with a look of shame.
"Don't talk nonsense, when the tartars come up later, you can't eat if you want to, and you know what to eat for the next meal!" Zhao Yu crushed the rice balls and put them in the broth, picked up the bowl and ate it without scruples. He knew very well that the soldiers who had been fighting hard for a long time faced with waves of deadly attacks from the enemy army would have a very shocking impact on everyone's psychology, and the next battle would be even more intense......