Chapter 316: Burning Langya

The sailors of the Qi State fought a big victory. 20,000 Wu sailors were annihilated. All the ships were captured, and of course, there were some that were completely burned out and could not be used, so they were discarded, but most of the repairs were still usable.

What's more, all the supplies on board, especially food, were seized. The expeditionary ships have to prepare half a year's rations, two hundred catties per person, that is, millions of catties of grain. The greater significance is that the Qi State Water Division has no opponents since then, and an army without opponents will live too nourishingly.

The joy of victory cannot be controlled, it must be celebrated, and the revelry takes place on the shore.

There is a base on the shore, and there is also a large barracks where the sailors can go ashore to rest, and there are also a large number of military supplies hidden in the base, workshops for maintaining and repairing ships, and a large amount of military rations.

There were no women in the barracks, and the content of the sailors' carnival was mainly eating and drinking, a lot of wine, a lot of fish and meat, eating and drinking from the sea. To eat and drink is to play, horse racing, jousting, and wrestling.

They have no worries in their hearts, because they are safe, there is no enemy on the sea, if the Wu army attacks on land, they will get on the boat, get on the ship, leave the coast half a mile, you are a million army, you can only do it in a hurry, there is no way.

The Qi army sailors have been carnivaling like this for several days. The officials feel that this is not good, and if they continue to play like this, they will not look like an army. It was decided that the next day, the army would still get on board and resume normal training. What does the army do if it doesn't train? Military discipline and military law are all derived from training.

The good news has already sent a special person to Linzi on a fast horse, but the reward of the imperial court has not come for a long time, they have won a big battle, shouldn't they be rewarded? You're welcome. But the commendation has not yet come.

They didn't know that maybe it was because of their victory this time, they had caused big trouble for the Qi State, and the courtiers were angry about their victory, would they still reward them?

Originally, the State of Qi raised troops to attack Lu, but before the fight, the State of Lu released Yi Ziyi and sent a special car back to Zoucheng. The purpose was achieved.

Although the country has suffered some losses, forget it, if it continues to fight, regardless of whether it wins or loses, the losses will be even greater. A war should end there.

Who knew that the news came that the Qi State Naval Division had completely annihilated 20,000 Wu State Naval Divisions. Can King Wu agree? You must know that the five-nation alliance army has 200,000 horses! Isn't this a big deal in Qi State?

These circumstances were not known to the Qi State Naval Army.

The order has come down, the revelry is over, tomorrow is the ship, and there is one last night tonight. Then you can eat meat and drink bars.

But the capacity of a person's stomach is limited. When you are full, you don't eat, and when you get drunk, you don't drink.

It was late at night, and everyone was full, drunk, tired, and staggered to sleep. The barracks fell silent.

The two creeps woke up with urine, got up, and came out to pee in a daze. After a soak of pee, I suddenly heard an abnormally slight sound. After all, he was a soldier, and he was immediately alert.

"Who? What for? ”

Suddenly, I felt that my mouth was covered, and I only felt a cold in my chest, and a sharp knife was inserted into it, and before I could snort, it passed.

The two Wu troops, with a wave of their hands, rushed forward on the beach outside the barracks. On the other side of the beach, there were also coalition troops running over, and soon, the two groups of men and horses ran together, and a large group of soldiers continued to pour in behind. The beach is soft fine sand, on which people walk without even a little movement.

The barracks were two miles from the seaside pier, and the beach was soon filled with troops.

In the harbor outside the wharf, there were countless battlefield ships of the Qi Army's naval division.

At this time, all sides of the barracks were already covered with coalition troops, and when they waited for an order, they rushed into the operation to divide and encircle them. The Qi army and sailors, who had experienced a great victory, were already doomed to perdition.

This was a well-planned sneak attack, a few days of reconnaissance and exploration, to find out the situation of the Qi State Naval Division, and the topography. Develop the most complete battle plan. Blocked the news on the way to the army, and tens of thousands of troops, people unknowingly moved to Langyatai, forming an encirclement of this ashore naval army.

And the sailors of the Qi State are still immersed in the carnival.

Placing heavy troops on the beach can prevent the sailors from boarding and escaping on the one hand, and burn the ships on the other hand.

I could only hear the sound of "Shoot the arrow!" "The soldiers lit torches and lit rockets on the torches, and tens of thousands of flaming rockets roared into the sky and then fell to the ships in the harbor, which were made of wood, and the surface was painted with tung oil to make it waterproof, which was particularly flammable.

The rocket was covered with grease, and when it hit the ship, it burst into flames, and soon set the wooden boat on fire.

Another wave of rockets was launched, and tens of thousands of rockets flew into the sky, just like the large-scale fireworks show in later generations. The firelight illuminated the sea for more than ten miles.

I was afraid that some of the ships did not ignite, and another wave of rockets was fired.

Rockets were fired continuously, some flew up, some fell, some fell into the sea, but most fell on the ship.

The wooden boats were set on fire, each with a few to a dozen ignition points, and the flames heated the air and made those wooden boats burn even more vigorously. Every battleship was covered in flames, and the military port became a sea of fire.

There were also a few soldiers left behind on the ship, who were awakened by the fire and hurriedly lifted anchor and sailed. But such a large battleship, how can a few people be able to move, some soldiers jumped into the sea to escape, and some were directly burned to death by the fire.

Sailors are generally good at water, and although the water is cold, they still swim to the shore, and there are countless bows and arrows waiting for them on the shore, and in the light of the fire, the soldiers swimming towards the shore can be clearly seen. So ten thousand arrows were fired, and before the soldiers had time to shout, they sank to the bottom of the sea.

The ships and soldiers of the Qi Army's naval division were all killed in the fire, and none of them escaped with their lives.

Here, the coalition troops besieging the barracks, as soon as they saw the rockets rising on the seashore, immediately rushed up, cut down the wall made of wood, opened more than a dozen gaps, and the army poured into the barracks like a tide.

According to the original arrangement, the army was interspersed and divided, and soon dozens of encirclements of large and small were formed in the barracks, and then the frenzied slaughter began.

The 20,000 soldiers of the Qi army are 20,000 drunkards. Some were killed in a big sleep, and some jumped up, and before they could figure out what was going on, they saw Hades. There are many people who pick up weapons to resist, but after getting drunk, they are weak, and their combat effectiveness can be imagined.

The most terrible thing is that 20,000 soldiers, without organization and command, are fighting on their own, in chaos, where is there still combat effectiveness?

Moreover, they were sailors, accustomed to fighting on ships, and now they fought on land and with the army, without the slightest advantage.

The massacre continued until dawn, and the battle was largely over. The Qi army and sailors who had just won a big victory were all annihilated, and none of them slipped through the net!

The next step is to clean up the battlefield, and all the military supplies and food that can be transported are loaded and transported away.

The soldiers set fires, and the flames and smoke rose into the sky. The battalion of 20,000 sailors and warships was reduced to ashes,

King Wu, Wu Zixu and several leaders of the participating countries, Le Ma stood on a high place, silently watching this massacre, King Wu showed a hideous sneer on his face: "Pass the order, march to Laiwu!" ”