Chapter 142: On the Importance of the Great Ship
Heilong Bay, located in the northeast of Liangshan Shuibo more than 50 miles away, is named because of the shape of a black dragon.
And there is no more familiarity with this place than the leaders of the navy in Liangshan, where their navy training is sometimes carried out.
And among them, there is no doubt that the three Xiongs of the Ruan family know best, they used to come here to fish and run boats when they were in Shijie Village, and they can be said to know everything about the grass and trees here.
As for why the decisive battle was chosen here? There are two reasons: first, it is the closest place to Shuibo, which is convenient for them to deploy troops; Second, the terrain here is narrow, which is convenient for small boats and boats to fight, while large ships are somewhat unwieldy, and the latter is the advantage of the imperial court.
Huang Tong, the commander of the right wing, didn't know anything about this, and after Murong Zhizhou gave an order from Qingzhou Mansion, he immediately commanded nearly 10,000 sailors, and thousands of ships were dispatched, and the marching speed of this navy was originally slower than that of the Ma army, so their vanguard had already been dispatched one step ahead.
This time, Murong Rongda also strongly supported their actions, and gave them almost all the ships that Qingzhou Mansion could deploy, and those small boats were just that, but as many as ten of them were three-story dragon head boats, which were not trivial, and this kind of boat was the same level as the ships of famous prostitutes such as the "Qinhuai Eight Uniques" that Ye Ling had encountered in the Qinhuai River in Jinling back then.
In fact, these ships are very difficult to build, only the "Shipbuilding Division" under the Ministry of Industry of the Imperial Court has the technology to manufacture, which is also the place where the head of the jade banner pole Meng Kang, who is now responsible for the manufacture of all boats and ships in the cottage, once stayed, although his shipbuilding skills are very good, but after all, it is difficult to speak alone.
And the technology is enough, Meng Kang can also train assistants, but many important conditions such as materials, venues, and drawings are completely inadequate, so Liangshan can only make a ten-zhang long, two-story high-level boat now, while the dragon boat is fifteen zhang long and three stories high, which is obviously higher than their level.
However, it took a lot of important resources such as manpower and material resources of the country to build such a good warship, but it was given to famous prostitutes and used as a tool to collect money, and it can also be seen how dark the country is, so it was suppressed and bullied militarily in the later period, and to some extent, it was also self-inflicted.
Water warfare is also a relatively special kind of battle, the dependence on ships is far more than horse warfare, after all, people are not fish, it is impossible to tread the waves to fight in the water, you must take a boat, after all, such as Zhang Shun, a "three days and three nights underwater" metamorphosis level of water masters is really one in a thousand, can not be regarded as the norm.
Therefore, the importance of this ship can be imagined, one side is on a tall and strong ship, and the other side is on a short and fragile ship, and if you really want to fight, the former will definitely have the advantage!
And Ruan Xiaoer and the others chose the battlefield in Heilong Bay, the purpose is to minimize the gap between the two sides in terms of warships, where the big ships cannot be used, but their small boats are easy to move.
But Huang Tong opposite them didn't know these at all, he turned out to be a water thief, and he was also very familiar with water warfare, so he naturally understood the power of this kind of dragon warship, he had fought with the officers and soldiers of the imperial court many times before, and suffered many times on this kind of ship, and he also understood that with the power of the rivers and lakes, it was impossible to confront the regular army, at least in this way of water warfare.
So he finally accepted the government's recruitment, from a thief to an official, and he is proficient in water, dares to fight and kill, and is very good at water war command, and is also a very rare talent, and the imperial court has excellent warships, but in these aspects it is very scarce, Qingzhou Prefecture Mu Rongda spent a lot of effort to recruit him.
I have to say that his move was very prescient, after Huang Tong's ability and the technology of the imperial court were combined, it really formed the effect of one plus one is greater than two, and then in the next few years, Huang Tong unceremoniously changed and began to ruthlessly strangle those "peers" before, and the effect was very obvious.
In just a few years, the somewhat famous water thieves within a radius of 100 miles of Qingzhou Mansion have been exterminated, and Huang Tong has also stepped on the corpses of his past peers to accumulate credit, and has become a middle-level official of the current Qingzhou Mansion Navy General Commander Gao Sipin.
For Huang Tong, this is already the glory of the ancestors, you must know how many people have been in the officialdom for most of their lives, and they may not be able to climb to this position in the end, but he has done it as a water thief, so he is really grateful to Murong Zhizhou, and he regards it as a Bole, and this action is also wholeheartedly.
At this time, he was standing in the center of the most gorgeous dragon head ship, this time he commanded nine such super warships, the second level of the second layer of the flying shark ship is as many as a hundred, and then there are nearly a thousand small boats, in his opinion, this is a nearly invincible force on the water, even if you look at the entire Qingzhou Mansion, who can stop it? This Liangshan Shan Kou is not directly crushed.
On this day, the sky happened to be as people wished, and they caught up with the smooth wind and water, and their speed was nearly twice as fast as normal, and they galloped quickly along the channel towards Liangshan like an arrow from the string.
A day later, a personal soldier had already reported that the front had arrived at a place called Heilong Bay, and it was only a few dozen miles away from the 800 miles of Liangshan.
Huang Tong nodded with satisfaction, and ordered the army to continue to advance, but also be careful and vigilant, and be ready to attack at any time if you see those Liangshan thieves.
The order was soon passed down, and due to the special terrain here, the ships could no longer "compete with each other" as before, but changed formation, lined up in a row, and began to turn into a long line.
Just after the last ship entered Black Dragon Bay, Huang Tong nodded with satisfaction, and passed down the order for the soldiers to prepare for dinner, and then after resting here for the night, he will officially attack Shuibo Liangshan tomorrow!
At this moment, however, several arrows were suddenly heard, far away in the silent night, and then soon numerous small boats appeared from the surrounding reeds, all of which stood with many crossbowmen, and began to shoot wildly at them.
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And it's all rockets!
The officers and men were completely unprepared, and they were taken by surprise at once, and in less than a moment they saw that hundreds of ships on the outermost periphery were all hit by rockets, and the raging flames immediately engulfed them all.