Chapter 817: The Power of Order
Half an hour later, nearly 70 large and small warships of the Xu army formed seven columns. Hantong looked around and saw that the sails on the sea were like clouds, and they were ready to fight!
The sun and the southerly wind dispelled the fog, perhaps the distance between the two sides was getting closer, and in front of Han Tong's eyes, the sails of the enemy ships were also a huge expanse! It was as if the entire sea was filled with sails.
At this moment, what he has in his heart the most is no longer worry, but excitement!
The vast waves are endless, and on the spectacular fleet, the muzzles of the black holes of the artillery are showing some kind of power! Order, rules, destructive power, those unpredictable feelings, but strongly stimulated the emotions of Han Tong and the soldiers. Men seem to be instinctively manic about all this!
Han Tong stood on the wooden building at the stern of the boat, his muscles tense and his head held high, his eyes wide and he felt the excitement at the moment. He couldn't hold back his mood and shouted, "The time has come to repay the emperor's kindness!" ”
For a while, the cry of "Long live" on the Mulan ship rose with the wind, and the shout spread to the entire sea.
Loyalty is also the most important order of this era, and at this time, Erlang is not willing to resist easily, but will consciously maintain such a hierarchical order, just like filial piety.
Han Tong solemnly pulled the sword out of his waist, and the metal rubbed on the scabbard to make a special sound of "silk", murderous but full of texture. Although the sword was of little use to Han Tongshui, he held the weapon in his heart.
"Herald!" Han Tong shouted, enjoying the pleasure of giving orders, and thousands of soldiers were ordered by him, "All ships are at full speed, line up to attack!" ”
In the depths of the sea, the rising sun on the faint land shrouded this halo in the mist, and a row of soldiers blew the horns, and the sound of graceful and atmospheric preaching sounded slowly and powerfully. The yellow dragon flag on the Mulan ship "crackled" in the sea breeze against the red sun, and the pennant also changed its shape.
The heavy magnolia giant ship broke through the waves, and the "whoosh" sound of the white waves echoed with the shouts of the people, like a vast symphony.
Following the direction of the Kuroshio current, it is also a tailwind!
Although the enemy army came into sight half an hour ago, it took a long time to really get closer, and this long process gradually wore out the moment when Han Tong's mood was high, and he gradually calmed down.
The large number of ships showed no signs of shifting direction or turning around, and their tactics were very cheerful, all of them zigzags and slowly met them in the headwind.
Han Tong said quietly: "What kind of military general would show courage in such an unfavorable situation? ”
After a long time, the two fleets gradually approached! The warships that spread out horizontally were countless times larger than those of Xu's army, because Xu's army was seven columns, and there were only seven ships on the sideboard! The Yue army completely formed an overwhelming superiority in forces on the left and right flanks, and in fact they had ten times the number of ships in Xu's army.
In front of the middle, two side-by-side Mulan ships took the lead in rushing into the group of warships of the Yue Army! In a few moments, countless enemy warships rushed to the Xu army column from the left and right sides and fronts.
"Whoosh...... Many nearby warships released arrows, and some enemy soldiers on the ships with turbans on their heads or cool hats were eager to try with hooks and ropes, but the tall hull of the Mulan ship may not be easy to feint on the side.
The arrow feathers crackled and nailed to the side and deck of a Mulan ship. On the side of the lower cabin, a row of bronze cannons with bright bodies were adjusting their direction, and the muzzles of the black holes showed a murderous aura.
Suddenly, there was a loud bang! The fire erupted in white smoke, and a ten-pound iron ball flew through the bow of an enemy ship, piercing through the sails, and the enemy troops on it were in an uproar, and some people were frightened and fell on the deck, as if they had been blown over by the strong wind of the cannonballs.
With a "bang", a large hole appeared on the deck of a warship, and wood chips flew wildly, and everyone exclaimed, and screams and shouts came from below the deck. Some of them were stunned and had not yet come to their senses to notice that the hull was tilting. Someone shouted in a slang language: "The bottom of the ship is broken!" Fast...... Plug it! ”
......More than a dozen bronze guns on the starboard side of the Mulan ship opened fire one after another, and the entire sea outside seemed to be shrouded in gunsmoke.
The thunderous sound of the cannon in the cabin sounded, and the sound of the iron chain pulling and grinding sounded, the heavy copper cannon slid backwards, the rear seat rushed onto the iron wooden rails, the muzzle of the gun tilted downward, and the recoil subsided after a while. The cabin was already filled with the smell of gunsmoke.
The general shouted: "Clean up the sparks, reload now!" "The cabin was full of people and noisy.
The sub-cannon on it also popped, and the planks on the heads of the sailors were shaking! The cannon was so loud that the cannon on the port side opened fire deafeningly, and in addition to the loud shouts of the generals in the cabin, the noise of the people was also muffled.
The Mulan ship took the lead, rushing straight into the depth of the enemy group, and a military warship in front of it was not in a hurry to dodge, and the Mulan ship was approaching quickly with the wind and current! "Ah......" The helmsman and a few soldiers stared at the front with round eyes. The commander on the ship's floor shouted: "Hit! ”
"Wow!" The people on board cried out in horror. A group of people couldn't even bother with bows and arrows, and some of them were shaking with their hands holding longbows! Everyone was shouting, staring at the giant ship in front of them as it approached quickly...... Under the bow of the ship is an iron sheet, which is filled with a sharp point like a plowshare!
The two soldiers under the mast turned their heads to look at the hemp rope on the sail of the ship. But it was too late, and after a while, there was a loud "bang", a violent vibration and the sound of "clicking" wood breaking, and some people on the deck fell straight into the sea without standing firm.
The ship was completely out of control, and the weight was not in the same order of magnitude as the Mulan ship at all, and it was immediately driven by the huge hull inertia to float upside down to the north, and the hull was gradually pressed into the sea by the Mulan ship, and the broken ship board and collapsed canvas made the sergeant shout in panic. A samurai sat up on his knees from the sloping deck, threw away his bow and arrows, and scrambled to pull out the short knife in his arms and cut the rope from his armor......
"Bang bang bang ......bang" The sub-mother gun soon opened fire again, and the huge lead shot hit the flank warship, the wood chips flew, the deck and hull were cracked and damaged by the dense lead bullet impact, and the people who were hit by the lead bullet screamed and struggled on the deck.
As soon as the Mulan ship sailed past, the light boat that followed closely followed approached the wounded enemy ship, and the "bang bang bang" light boat was full ......of gunsmoke, and lead pellets roared, making the military wooden ship a mess, and the planks were cracked and leaking in many places. The Japanese army on the ship has lost the strength to fight back, and their surviving men are busy scooping water with wooden barrels and repairing the hull.
However, the arriving light boats approached ten paces away and fired a third round of artillery fire at them! There were screams on the boat, blood flowed everywhere, bows, arrows, and tools were thrown everywhere, and the hull was flooded! Those who survived quickly removed all the metal fittings on their bodies and prepared to fall into the water to escape.
On the surface of the sea, the magnificent field at this time is unprecedented!
The smoke and fog in the air mingled together, surging in the wind and water, and the large sails were like clouds. "Boom, boom!" "Bang bang bang!" In the midst of the smoke, there were flashes of light everywhere, like thunder and lightning flashing in the clouds.
It was as if it was not a mortal person in motion, but a scene of the creation of a natural divine force, and countless people struggled and shouted helplessly in the roar and flicker.
Broken planks, canvas and debris floated on the surface of the sea, and many heads rose and fell in the water and shouted, as if they were refugees after an earthquake or flood.
Han Tong looked at the scene around him and couldn't judge whether the Yue army was vulnerable or brave and good at fighting...... Because their bows and arrows were almost no threat to the Xu army, it was almost like being shelled against the front door. But the army is still rushing to kill, bows and arrows, and receivers, all rushing up!
An enemy ship succeeded in hooking a light ship, but the situation of a group of soldiers on the deck was simply miserable, first being bombarded by the gunfire below the deck of the light boat, and then the ships of the adjacent column were reinforcing this side with a salvo of guns and arquebuses. "Ahhh......h
On the vast sea, the seven columns of the Xu army flickered with firelight, and the momentum was like a bamboo, and they directly penetrated the middle of the fleet along the tide. Then, with the southeast wind, the whole army turned its direction and broke through to the west.
Before noon, the convoy had completely lost its formation and control, and its admiral was afraid that it would be difficult for him to order so many ships, and the sea would be in chaos. A large number of warships on the western side broke and sailed away from the land of Kyushu.
Xu Jun pursued for half an hour, and saw that the army was only concerned about escaping, and there were no ships to fight together, so he turned around and returned to the original warship. Han Tong wanted to kill back the carbine and attacked the eastern flotilla again.
But at this time, most of the remaining ships of the army ran away!
The sea of the battlefield was full of people, and many people were floating in the water with wooden planks and shouting.
Xu Jun's ship sailed by, and many people swam towards the ship first, shouting to the deck. The soldiers of the Xu army couldn't understand what they were saying at all, so they had to appear on the deck with a row of arquebuses and guns, "crackling......" The water splashed on the sea, and the people who fell into the water screamed everywhere. Xu Jun's firearms were fired in turn, and the sound of guns was endless, and the defeated soldiers in the sea of the army shouted and shouted everywhere.
In the midst of the waves, countless people fluttered in the mess and lead bullets raining down. The sea seems to have the illusion of thunder and lightning and heavy rain, but in fact the hazy sunlight in the clouds is shining on the sea; It was as if the sea had been boiled, and the surface of the water was boiling.
On Xu Jun's flagship, Wenwu silently looked at the scene in front of him. Han Tong said angrily: "The commander of the army wants to do this himself, Hugh blames me, do you think Lao Tzu will be soft?!" ”
Lu Duoxun said: "This official thinks that the army does not want us to be soft, but thinks that the decisive battle can be won!" ”
Everyone gradually ended this big battle in a state of absurdity, prepared for several months, and ended in half a day.