Chapter 229: Hitting Horns and Shooting Rods

Not everyone has the courage to charge in the face of a rain of bullets, some Jizhou military warships did not wait for the flagship's order, and then turned and fled without authorization, and some ships panicked and collided with their own warships.

Seeing this, Xu Sheng issued an order, notified the ships with flags, turned forward, and ordered the Mengchong boats to charge.

At such a close distance, the counterweight trebuchet had already stopped firing, and only the human trebuchet was still carrying out the last two rounds of projection, and it would stop attacking before Meng Chong charged.

The whistling sound of the suffocating trebuchet attack finally stopped.

Zhao Fu hurriedly ordered all the large and small warships that were still capable of fighting to prepare for close combat, and at the same time, he saw the Mengchong warship of the Central Army rushing quickly.

Although he was surprised by the incredible speed reached by the other party's Meng Chong, he just thought that the other party was going to rush over and fight with him.

As he got closer, he realized that these Mengchong warships were different from the Mengchong warships that he was familiar with in the past, and even the ones he was equipped with in his army.

The ship was narrower and lower, and there was no movement visible from the outside, and it was tightly wrapped.

The outer walls and decks of the cabin are made of iron plates and cowhide, and there are few exposed wooden structures, and the draft is a little deeper than its own.

There seemed to be something at the stern of the boat, and the waves created by the high-speed advance formed a long ripple in the stern, and the track was clearly visible.

It doesn't seem like you want to rely on the side to fight, but it looks like you're going to crash into it, yes, it's just to crash into it.

The direction of the advance of these Mengchong warships of the Central Army was the side of the Jizhou Army warships, not the bow.

Although I don't know what these Mengchong warships rely on to do this, and they dare to use this desperate tactic, they can't just let it happen!

"Quick, turn the bow of the ship, the bow of the ship will meet the opponent's Meng Chong, quickly, order the whole army to deal with it accordingly!"

It's a pity that the means of communication in this era are too backward and inefficient, and the speed of the Central Army's Meng Chong is too fast.

Before Zhao Fu's own bow could be adjusted, he was hit the side by a speeding Meng Chong.

The high-speed sprint brought huge kinetic energy, and the sturdy ramming angle easily smashed through the bulkhead below the waterline of the Jizhou warship.

The warships of the Jizhou Navy did not have as many watertight compartments as the warships of the Central Army, and a large amount of water ingress caused the warships to sink immediately.

The Meng Chong of the Central Army, on the other hand, reversed backwards, reversed a long enough distance, and then accelerated again, preparing for a second impact.

However, there was no need for a second impact, and Zhao Fu's ship had gradually sunk due to a large amount of water and began to tilt.

When the impact occurred, everyone standing on the deck was shaken to the ground by a huge shock.

Seeing the rapid sinking, Zhao Fu immediately made a decision and immediately asked his subordinates to transfer Guo Jia and the others to a small boat and send them to the civilian boat in the distance.

Then he gave the order to abandon the ship, and some of the crew moved to the boat, while others jumped directly into the water and swam away with all their might.

At this time, there were crossbows shooting out of the reserved holes on both sides of Mengchong, and many Jizhou sailors were shot.

Fifty ships of the Central Army's Meng Chong, a wave of sprint, sank at least thirty large and small warships of the Jizhou Navy.

Only a few ships had to be rammed twice, most of them sank with one hit, and some ships even crashed in two.

Zhao Fu ordered the civilian ships to flee for their lives, this trip to Chang'an was already impossible, and he himself led the navy to resist and delay for some time.

Guo Jia was naturally extremely depressed, and he finally came up with a clever plan to attack Chang'an, but he didn't expect to run into Lu Bu's army hiding in the shadows.

How can this Lu Bu think so thoughtfully and comprehensively about everything, and walk ahead in everything, does he have the ability to predict the future and predict the future? Or it's more appropriate to call it supernatural powers!

Thinking about it, it is important to run for your life quickly, Zhao Fu's army can't stop it for long.

If they are caught up by the warships of the Central Army, these 15,000 elite cavalry will be lost in their own hands.

Hundreds of civilian ships scrambled to turn around and return after being given the order to flee.

They all saw the picture of the battle between the two armies, and they also saw the tall ships of the Central Army, although they did not know how the Central Army sank and sank so many warships.

But they knew that their ship had not been explained by the warship, that it was not as fast as the warship, and that it was full of men and horses, and that it had run late, and that it had fallen into the hands of the enemy.

The boat is all the belongings of the boat bosses, and they depend on it for food! It's really unlucky, how did you run into these Kwantung Army?

The sailing speed of the fighting ships and building ships of the Central Army is also quite fast, after all, the hybrid of oars and sails is less dependent on the wind direction than that of sailboats.

Most of the warships of the Jizhou Navy still followed Zhao Fu and Cheng Lian, who had changed ships, to meet the Central Army, and did not escape.

Meng Chong of the Central Army broke through the formation of the Jizhou Navy and rushed to the warships that fled downstream.

When the Jizhou Navy excitedly greeted the warships of the Central Army, looking forward to a broadside battle between the two sides, they were greeted by the clap rods that fell from the sky one by one.

When the two sides were still seven or eight feet away, they knocked on the Jizhou warship over and over again, and the heavy hammer smashed the deck and smashed the bulkhead.

Xu Sheng and Li Meng were actually using actual combat to test the various equipment and various tactics of the Central Army's warships, so after smashing and sinking more than a dozen Jizhou Army warships, they ordered to help take over the shipboard.

They have to go through the side battles and finally test the training results of the naval assault brigade.

The warships of the Central Army, whether they were fighting ships or building ships, were a cut above the warships of the Jizhou Army.

Therefore, when the warships of the two sides collided together, only the soldiers of the Central Army jumped on the warships of the Jizhou Army, and the soldiers of the Jizhou Army could not jump on the warships of the Central Army.

The space is narrow and the terrain is complicated, so the equipment of the officers and men of the naval assault brigade is specially made.

The horizontal sword is shorter than that used by the infantry, and is wider and thicker, which is good for slashing and blocking.

The size of the crossbow is also shorter and lighter than the army's crossbow, although the range and power have decreased a lot, but the space on the ship is limited, and the range of 180 zhang is not needed, 30 or 40 zhang is enough!

When engaging in broadside battles, spears are not used, but are equipped with a simplified version of the Mo knife, and the body is also wearing special leather armor, which is fireproof and waterproof, light and tough.

Therefore, the soldiers of the assault brigade plus these equipment are like a tiger with wings, how can their combat effectiveness be comparable to that of ordinary sailor soldiers?

Of course, these equipment also cost Lu Bu an astronomical amount of money like building ships and trebuchets.

So they quickly swept away one enemy ship after another, and both Zhao Fu and Cheng Jian died in the chaos.

The soldiers of the Jizhou Navy Army either died or fled or surrendered, and it didn't take long to end this final battle.