Chapter 1248: Black Flame Blooms
Tamna Island is only 300 miles from Be'a Xi.
Cheng Mingzhen issued an order, and the whole fleet set sail for Baekje.
In one day, he arrived near the mouth of the Rongshan River, Cheng Mingzhen did not rush into the river, but first anchored on a deserted island on the nearby coast to rest for the night.
Only when it was still slightly bright the next day did he order the fleet to close anchor into the river.
The fleet went up the river.
When they approached the Japanese fleet, they were unprepared.
Lao Cheng was dressed in armor and stood at the bow of the ship with a spear in his hand.
"These Japanese people would never have imagined that Lao Tzu would raid and attack from behind!"
At this time, the river is not wide.
On one side, there were more than 300 Japanese ships close to the edge of the city, crowded and densely packed, all of them collected their sails and lowered their anchors, and most of the Japanese soldiers and sailors on board also went ashore to rest.
On the other hand, the Qin army took advantage of the morning fog to raid, with more than 30 large treasure ships taking the lead, and more than 100 armed merchant ships escorting them on all sides.
Mighty slaughter.
Wei Zhongxian didn't expect the Japanese people to be so careless, and said excitedly, "Today I will burn Chibi and prepare to release rockets!" ”
Cheng Mingzhen hurriedly shouted and slowed.
"How?"
"Father-in-law Wei has thought of a good plan, but a fire attack is a good plan, but we are now downstream, and the river is narrow, if the Japanese ship burns, I am afraid that it will endanger our fleet. Now that the Japanese have not yet discovered us, they just go around from the north shore to their upper reaches, and then attack them with rockets, and then it will be a great success. ”
Wei Zhongxian couldn't help wiping his sweat when he heard this, indeed, the river here is already very narrow, and hundreds of boats on both sides are so close that the river is empty. If the Japanese ships were on fire and they were to go down the river, wouldn't it endanger them?
"That's exactly what I meant, go around the upstream and release the rocket."
"My father-in-law is clever, I'll give the order."
On the river, the Japanese finally discovered the Qin warship.
The Japanese people became agitated in all directions.
"Leave them alone, scramble for the top!"
Cheng Mingzhen has experience in suppressing pirates, and he still knows a lot about water warfare.
But at the moment, it is not as good as the usual sea thieves, at sea, the sea is wide, it is easier to operate, and it doesn't matter if you don't have the upper hand, after all, the average pirate is not as big as their ship.
But now, the river is narrow and there are many ships, so it is still the key to compete for the upstream.
The Japanese people on the shore rushed to the ship with a scream, ready to get on the boat to intercept it.
And some of the boats have already raised their sails and are rowing over.
"The boat that still relies on the paddle dares to stop us, it's really looking for death!"
On a treasure ship, all the cabin guards have boarded the deck.
The sailors continued to sail the ship, but the guards had already drawn their bowstrings, and the crossbowmen had opened the crossbow windows on the side of the cabin, and the winch crossbows were already in place.
A Japanese boat was very simple, and the Japanese sailors with only the crotch cloth rowed hard, and rushed towards the treasure ship as if they were dying.
On the ship, there were more than 20 Japanese soldiers, most of them holding straight iron knives, and a few of them carried naginatas, which was a long-handled weapon, like a long stick with an eyebrow knife on it. Because the Japanese did not know how to make spears, they created this kind of naginata instead of spears.
These Japanese people seemed to be fearless in the face of huge treasure ships.
"Why are these thieves so mad?"
In the distance, on the flagship deck where the ships were escorting the crossing, Wei Zhongxian was surprised.
"It's just ignorance and fearlessness, and when they taste the power of my battleship, they will know that they are afraid." Cheng Mingzhen didn't think anything of it, they used to sail on the sea, and there were often those brave pirates who came to rob, and some dared to rob with a small boat, but they didn't suffer a loss, and they didn't know how powerful they were.
The Lushun treasure ship, which is a huge treasure ship with a length of 30 zhang, belongs to the top treasure ship, a four-masted ship.
It has three decks.
Not only is there a god cannon on the deck, but also in the cabin, each side of the ship is equipped with a lot of bed crossbows, and when the crossbow window is opened, there are twelve crossbow beds on the upper side of the ship.
"Don't let the Japanese come close!"
On the ship, the guards all shouted orders.
In the cabin, the crossbow captain is directing the crossbow beds to be in place.
"Don't use the Black Fire Crossbow yet, we haven't gone upstream yet, so we'll use an ordinary crossbow."
The river is no better than the sea, although there are waves but not much undulation, which is no different from the flat land for the crossbowmen on the thirty-zhang treasure ship, and it is condescending to the small boat.
The Japanese were still rowing violently.
"Why are there so many windows on this ship?" One of the widows asked the other.
"Maybe the ship is too big, so it's for ventilation."
Before he could finish speaking, suddenly a large ballista shot out of those portholes.
The powerful twisted crossbow is wound in a ratchet wheel and is extremely powerful, capable of shooting 700 paces away.
Dozens of crossbow beds on the side of the Lushun fired a salvo at the boat, no more than a few dozen paces, and almost all of them hit.
Just now, I was still asking why there were so many windows, but I only heard a loud scream, and the next step was hit in the chest by a giant crossbow.
A large ballbow gun the size of an egg hit the man's chest, and it directly pierced him, and a huge blood hole in the chest caused the man to die on the spot.
The simple Japanese ship, which was not too big, was hit by so many crossbows at once, and the hull was pierced many times, and it immediately began to leak.
As for the dozen sailors and more than 20 Japanese soldiers on the ship, most of them were killed or wounded.
The unfortunate boat was crying wolf, and just now they were thinking of jumping on the big boat, and then cutting down the people on board and robbing all the things on board.
But who expected that in just one round of attacks, they would penetrate the ship, and most of them would be killed and wounded.
"Stop shooting, look for the next target."
The crossbow captain shouted, stopping the crossbowmen who were about to continue reloading their ballistas.
Such a small boat, the salvo just now was a waste.
On the top deck.
The crossbowmen stood on the side of the ship, holding the crossbow machine, staring coldly at the sinking ship, watching them jump ship helplessly.
But they won't let them go.
The drowning widows splashed and tried to swim to other boats.
But the crossbowmen, who had already locked on to them, pulled the crossbow machine, and shot the newly arrogant Japanese soldiers one by one with their crossbow nails.
On the surface of the river, clumps of blood flowers bloomed.
The thief gradually stopped struggling, and with fear and reluctance on his face, he slowly sank to the bottom of the river.
The drums of war beat.
The Qin fleet was speeding up.
The Japanese people also screamed and boarded the ship, rushing over one after another to try to intercept and surround the Qin people's boats, wanting to board the ships and seize them.
However, the small ship could not get close to the big treasure ship at all.
In just a few moments, more than a dozen Japanese ships had been sunk.
The Bohai Fleet finally sailed to the upper reaches of the Japanese people.
Seeing more Japanese ships rushing to catch up, Cheng Mingzhen stood on the deck and laughed.
"These stupid widows, don't you even know the slightest bit of the art of water warfare? My Great Qin fleet has already seized the upper reaches of this narrow river, and they are still huddled in a group to chase after them, so they are not afraid of fire? ”
"Maybe they don't read much and don't know about the burning of Chibi in the Three Kingdoms." Wei Zhongxian said with a smile.
"Then I can't blame others, and after the next reincarnation, remember to read more books."
Cheng Mingzhen waved his hand.
The god cannons on the upper deck of more than thirty big treasure ships finally got orders.
The gunner took out black fire bullets from the box, which were filled with stone grease from Yan'an and other real estates, and a little fire would become a black fire that was difficult to extinguish.
When it comes to water warfare, it is used to attack ships, and it is extremely powerful.
The black fire bomb is placed in the throwing basket, ignites the fuse, and is then thrown out by the cannon.
After making a graceful arc in the air, it fell into the fleet of Japanese ships that were scrambling downstream.
The black fireball smashed down on the ship, and the leather bag broke, and the black oil in the bag splattered like a black flower blooming. It's just that the flowers are not beautiful, and they are even a little dirty.
The next moment, the black flowers were ignited, and the boat burst into flames.
The combination of the flame and the black flower immediately ignited a fierce fire.
The Japanese hurried to bring water to pour it, but a bucket of water rushed up, not only did not extinguish it, but made the flame rise higher and the fire more fierce.
The Japanese people shouted and called for more water to be poured on.
But the more you water, the bigger the fire, and soon a Japanese boat was wrapped in flames, and it burned fiercely, and those Japanese people could not escape, and were engulfed in flames!
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