Chapter 169: The momentum of the first battle is rising
An enemy cannonball hit Zhao Wujie's command ship, directly beating one of his personal soldiers into a blur of flesh and blood, and the other personal soldiers exclaimed one after another, rushing forward to surround Zhao Wujie.
For this kind of protection, Zhao Wujie thought that it was simply a manifestation of their loyalty to him, and it would not play any role at all. Because the shells hit anyone's body, they simply can't stop it.
Pushing away the pro-soldiers in front of him, Zhao Wujie stood up and walked directly to the bow of the ship with his clairvoyance, he wanted to carefully observe the enemy on the opposite side.
According to the intelligence, the enemy on the opposite side is a rabble of people, but the shells they fire are more skilled and deadly than those veteran artillerymen who have been in battle, why is this? Is there a mistake in your own information? This is unlikely, because the secret agents composed of Japanese ronins who are proficient in Chinese have already disguised themselves as Han Chinese, entered this Hangzhou city, and thoroughly touched the entire city defense system in Hangzhou, and there will be absolutely no deviation in the intelligence, so where is the deviation?
When you put the clairvoyance in front of you, the situation on the vague wall in front of you is immediately clear.
There are only more than 100 artillery pieces on the city wall, and the enemies who are busy around those cannons are all dressed in different clothes, which is enough to show that the enemy is still those people, which is no different from what is shown in the intelligence.
But the speed and density of their launches, judging from Zhao Wujie's experience, that is, it should be done by a veteran of a hundred battles, how could a group of people do it?
As he observed, one of the battleships in front of him touched the mine again, blowing through the bottom of the ship, and the waterline of the battleship continued to deepen, proving that the battleship was about to sink. And at this time, the enemy's cannon on the city wall began to turn its muzzle, and dozens of iron eggs flew over, four or five of which smashed directly on the unlucky battleship, and watched it turn into a plank and gradually sink to the bottom of the Qiantang River. Such accuracy, such power, is something he has never seen before, what is it? Let those people become the elite of a hundred battles in the blink of an eye, and become sharpshooters. He didn't have an answer.
Another battleship next to him triggered a mine, this time the battleship was quite powerful, and instantly blew that battleship into a plank, and the brothers on the battleship fell into the water one after another, and the miserable howls and cries for help spread throughout the river. And that huge bàozhà wave shook his battleship as well.
But Zhao Wujie was nailed to the deck like a nail, and he was not shaken by this huge shock wave at all, which was an ability that an old pirate must have.
Holding clairvoyance, a steady hand, continued to observe the enemy on the city walls.
In the face of the attack of hundreds of their own warships, the enemy on the city walls did not show panic. As the battle progressed and their losses increased, the newcomers on the city wall not only did not panic, but became more and more relaxed. Although I couldn't see the expressions on their faces clearly, it was clear from their increasingly skillful and smooth movements that they were changing from folk to real warriors.
With a long sigh in his heart, he put down his clairvoyance, walked back to his seat with a calm expression with his hands behind his back and sat down, looking at the brother with a heavy face, Zhao Wujie said lightly: "Today we are just a tentative attack, although we have lost some battleship brothers, but this does not say who won and lost the war." We have seen a lot of winds and waves, and we fought with the Red Hair and the Europa people across the South Seas, and there were more fierce battles than this, but in the end we were all victorious. Therefore, don't be discouraged now, in this battle of Hangzhou, time is the key to determining the outcome of this war. Then he said with a relaxed face: "Fortunately, we have plenty of time." ”
The reason why he said so calmly was because he did have plenty of time.
"Hangzhou is the political and economic center of Zhejiang, and its transportation and waterways are well connected, in principle, if you want to capture this Hangzhou, you will naturally go deep into the layers of siege. But is this the reality of the situation? No. The facts are in front of us, we have come all the way, and witnessed the emptiness of the interior of the Ming Dynasty, and the places we have passed cannot be described as devastating, because we have not encountered the resistance of the enemy at all. Everyone may be worried that the sailors of the Ming Dynasty will copy our back road, which is simply impossible. Because we have reached an agreement with the king of Kaitai, they sent 500 of the most powerful warships and 20,000 sailors to attack the Zhejiang and Fujian sailors. Yan Siqi's naval combat ability is obvious to all. Invincible in the South Seas, there is no invincible in every battle. At that time, the sailors of the Ming Dynasty were also sure to win every battle, but unfortunately, under the indiscriminate assignment of those mediocre emperors, the sailors of the Ming court had declined, so it was impossible for him to become Yan Siqi's opponent. In this way, we have no worries, and the Qiantang River has been our vertical and horizontal place. So what we are doing now is to attack the water gate of Hangzhou City with confidence and boldness, and there is time for us to calmly schedule. ”
There is no one under the hand who is not convinced of this. So although there are some losses now, everyone can accept them, because the current battle is just a test of the opponent's strength, as long as the opponent's method of holding on is mastered, everyone has adjusted the method of re-attacking, and everyone firmly believes that victory must belong to themselves.
"It's like doing a business and losing some of it now, but it's just the capital to get our huge profits. As long as these costs are paid, we will get 10 times the 100 times the 10000 times the profits, as long as Hangzhou is opened, the wealth of hundreds of billions of taels will become our bag, with this money, we will build a more powerful fleet of sailors, when the time comes, it will no longer be our dream. ”
Again, combat mobilization is necessary, but to talk about national righteousness with this group of guys, it is still to play the piano to the cow, and for pirates, it is the most practical to divide gold and silver, drink wine in large bowls, and eat meat in large pieces. Zhao Wujie's insipid mobilization instead spoke to the hearts of this group of robbers.
"Today is just a tentative attack, and everyone should know it. We will withdraw our troops now, and then we will sum up the lessons together, and tomorrow will be the real big battle. Then he put the clairvoyance in front of his eyes again, and in the barrel of the mirror, he saw a Ming Dynasty general in a fiery red cloak, with one foot in the battlement, and also holding a clairvoyant to look over.
Zhao Wujie felt that the other party's eyes collided with his own, but his own eyes did not leave, and he also felt that the other party's eyes did not leave, and the two of them silently looked at each other so firmly across the broad river and the thick city wall.
I don't know how long it took, Zhao Wujie felt that his eyes were sour, so he calmly put down his clairvoyance first, and whispered to the blurred figure opposite: "Today I made you proud, and tomorrow we will divide the winners and losers." Then he raised his hand and ordered indifferently: "Today's game is over, let's go back to the camp to drink wine and eat meat, and tomorrow, we must take Hangzhou City." ”
When the bow of the ship turned, Zhao Wujie looked up at the south of Hangzhou City: "I don't know what the results of the puppy are?" It is estimated that he will also run into a bloody bloodstream, because that guy is an arrogant and conceited person, and I hope his losses are not too big, after all, war is not achieved overnight, it will take time. ”
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