Text Chapter 299 The drums of war thundered into the sky

Under the blue sky, on the sea more than ten miles away from the mouth of Yongchuan, the surging sea began to stir up huge waves. However, this is not because the wind rises, but because of the fierce battle!

It is said that it is a fierce battle, but in fact it is somewhat inaccurate. To put it more accurately, this should be a one-sided slaughter.

As a child of a nobleman, Han Yan has never really been on the battlefield, nor has she ever killed anyone. Since entering the palace to accompany him, his horizons have naturally broadened a lot over the years, but the grandest scene he has ever experienced is that Lin Yuan's thousands of horses rolled up Pinggang on Zhongnan Mountain and shot away the beast.

In the dreams of teenagers, the bow horse riding and shooting in the bloody killing field should be the most generous heroism. In those years as a gentleman of Chang'an, the heroic exploits of the ancestors often became the pride of their drunken boasting. When Han Yan led the guards of the Yulin Army to gallop beside the emperor, he had imagined countless times what it would be like if he really went to the battlefield one day.

But he never thought that the first battle in his life would be at sea. Crossing thousands of miles from the river to the sea to come here, Han Yan felt that she had lost half her life. This standard landlubber who had never been on a boat had vomited all the way to the sea, and his mind was dizzy, and he had been lying in the cabin for the past few days, not wanting to move.

Whenever she saw Yuan Zhao's gloating face flashing in front of her, Han Yan couldn't help but have some deep suspicions, this guy agreed to bring him so happily in the first place, did he have expected such a day?

The soles of your feet are like stepping on clouds, and the taste of eating and vomiting is really uncomfortable! The one thing Han Yan is looking forward to most now is to get ashore quickly, only when his feet are on the solid ground, he feels that he can come back to life.

Just when he was in a daze and didn't know what time it was, he suddenly felt something strange. When he opened his eyes, he found that everyone in the cabin was gone, even the Black Hawk Army, who had been recuperating. Even he didn't know why, and his heart suddenly beat violently!

In the next moment, he knew that his hunch was not wrong. The first drums of war began to beat, right above my head, and I heard it right! He knew it was the sound of the largest cowhide war drum on the very top side of the main warship.

Immediately after, the dense sound of war drums on ships near and far began to beat. With the heart beating to the beat of the drum and the blood surging in the pulse, a true warrior is never afraid! Han Yan didn't understand where the strength came from, he jumped up suddenly, stumbled a few times, he steadied himself, and rushed out of the cabin with a bow and a knife.

The world in front of him suddenly became vast, the sun in the east radiated a thousand rays of light, and the sparkling blue waves were surging layer after layer, and all the big men and women were in place, guarding the edges of the decks around the ship, ready for battle. Countless Shinban ships are coming in dense circles in front of the vision, and the faces of the Shinban people and the flicker of weapons are already clearly visible.

When Han Yan raised her head, she saw Yuan Zhao on the highest platform of the building ship. Thousands of rays of sunrise dyed a brilliant color on his body, and the young man in an ordinary green shirt was so dazzling at this moment, like a fairy figure, not like everything in the world! Two huge log drum hammers were held in his palms, arms staggered, left and right bows, "Knock, knock, knock......!" The sound of the drum shook the heavens and the earth, and also shook everyone's soul.

This descendant of Han Wangxin held back the throbbing in his heart, and also pulled out his Han sword, at this moment he is no longer a noble child, he wants to rely on his true ability to make contributions, he wants to use his actions to prove that he and his ancestors are real generals, not only opportunistic fortunate ministers.

There are many people who are in the same mood as Han Yan. The elite of the 1,000 Black Eagle Army was divided into two teams, and under the leadership of Gongsun Rongnu and Zhang Cigong, two military captains, they were ordered to watch the battle. There was no chance for them to make a move on the sea today, but they did not regret it, and from time to time someone secretly looked up at the figure of the drum cheering, and their hearts were boiling.

Also watching the battle on this main general ship was the crown prince Liu Ju, who was protected by the guards. Listening to the excited discussions of those palace guards, his heart was even more agitated. He watched with his own eyes as the huge Han ships lined up one by one, and the Han sergeants were nervously assembling the combat weapons on board. The boats below deck for the special loading of weapons were opened, and the bundles of crossbow arrows, as well as the round boulders in large wooden crates, were hoisted by improvised wooden frames on pulleys and piled up around the bed crossbows and trebuchets.

Yuan 13 on the forward ship and all the commanders on the rushing warship had already received the battle order issued by the flag on the general's ship, and when the time came, they were free to fight!

When Yuan Zhao's war drum struck the sixth beat, Yuan Thirteen decisively issued the first order to attack. The three bed crossbows installed on the vanguard ship were fired at the same time, and nearly thirty huge crossbow arrows locked onto the real ship that charged at the front, piercing the humid air on the surface of the sea and roaring away!

The Shinban Naval Army at Yongkawaguchi did not wear armor, they were all well-versed in water and did not need these bulky equipment. Their unified combat configuration is shields, bows and arrows, straight knives, and spears. Although each person also has a piece of leather armor, most people don't wear it. True warriors have always gone into battle shirtless, so that they can deter the enemy and be unstoppable.

At the forefront were often the bravest samurai, and the ship at the head was relatively large, carrying nearly two hundred soldiers on board, led by a lieutenant general of the navy. Dozens of sailors rowed like flying, seeing that they were less than a few thousand meters away from the Han army's big ship, and they would soon enter the range of bows and arrows. At the sound of the order, the soldiers covered their shields over their heads in unison, and joined the entire ship to form a large impenetrable wooden cover.

This is a good way for the real water army to go through countless water exercises, no matter how much the enemy's bow and arrow are fired, it will not help, and it will not hurt a single person at all. Use this cover to get close to enemy ships, and then either dive underwater to scuttle the boat or board the ship with a hook and rod to engage the enemy in hand-to-hand combat. Winning with such a combat strategy is a hundred tried!

When he noticed that the Han army began to release arrows, the deputy general who led the charge couldn't help but sneer in his heart, this is still two or three arrows away, the other party panicked and began to release arrows? What a bunch of cowards!

However, the next moment he sensed something was wrong, and his smile suddenly stiffened on his face. With the loud sound of the bolts piercing the air, the breath of death, with the dampness of the sea, suddenly descended.

Where are these arrows! It was clear that dozens of spears that fell from the sky with irresistible strength penetrated deeply into the body and inserted into the plank, and some even penetrated the thick plank.

There was a wail on the ship, and there was a great confusion, and those thick wooden shields, under such blows, were no different from thin pieces of wood. The lieutenant general, who was standing majestically in the bow of the ship with a sword shirtless a moment ago, was pierced through the chest by a crossbow as thick as an arm's arm, and he was completely dead. The body is still carrying a trembling crossbow, standing upright, dumbfounded. I don't know who my surname is, but I don't know who the poor general is, I'm afraid I'll never understand why he died like this before he had time to show half a point in his super martial arts!

Thus began the Battle of Yongchuankou. Many years later, there are many local legends that can be used to get a glimpse of what was really going on at that time. However, after searching all the history books of the Han Dynasty, there has never been a trace of the battle that took place here. This made some people who studied Yuan Zhao's life in later generations inevitably have many regrets.

In fact, the reason why there are no sporadic records of such an important battle is that many witnesses at that time knew it. The so-called "for His Holiness" is just that.

The historians of the Han Dynasty either got some kind of hint, or out of their own emotional choices, and intentionally or unintentionally ignored this incident. After all, there were two important figures on the Han warship at that time, Changle Hou Yuanzhao and the crown prince Liu Ju. For the sake of their reputation, the Yongchuan war of words was easily erased from history.

Don't complain that history is written by the victors. Because, this battle is too tragic. Or rather, for the naval army of the real country, it's too tragic! Omitted and not written, in a way, it is also to take care of the emotions of the descendants of the Zhenfan clan.

I have to say that the real navy army at that time was indeed very brave, the water war had just begun, and the two armies were still separated by such a distance, and more than a dozen warships were wiped out in a moment, and hundreds of soldiers were buried in the sea, but this did not make them retreat. The death of their siblings only aroused their hatred, so that all the ships hastened forward, the sailors paddled desperately, and the soldiers kept firing arrows, hoping to get close to the enemy ships before death came.

Nearly fifty or sixty Han army ships lined up on the front line and attacked in turn, and they didn't need to participate in the battle at all, just that's enough. The range of the bed crossbow was more than four or five times that of ordinary bows and arrows, and there were nine shots at a time, and so many warships fired in turn, dealing a devastating blow to the soldiers on the flocking flocks to the real fleet.

For the real people who are not afraid of death, this is a situation of passive beating, and there is no power to fight back. Moreover, after the shipload of dead and wounded, an even more terrible attack followed!

The power of the trebuchet on the ship of the Great Han Tower was exerted to the extreme at this moment. Like a boulder the size of a millstone, when it smashed into a wooden ship, the human body was eroded and the hull was shattered, and no one was spared......!

It has only been a short half an hour since the two armies came into contact and started the war, but more than half of the thousands of Shinban warships that came out of the mouth of Yongchuan have already been lost. If there were a suitable word to describe the present form, it would be "devastating and vulnerable"!

Fragments of the ship's hull and the corpses of soldiers floated on the surface of the sea, and blood stained large areas of water. Such a tragedy, even many Han soldiers on the building ship were a little unbearable. However, the battle did not stop, and the real people still rushed forward and rushed to kill. The latest order was issued from the ship of the Great General's Seat.

"Sweep away all obstacles on the sea, and those who are obsessed will not be killed!"