Volume 14 The Angry Waves of the South China Sea - Minyue Volume Chapter 11 Water War
Next. Fusu pulled out a big boat and sent the gloomy Princess Yinhua back to the Qin army camp in Shitun, and sent Ni Zhong back to Mindu City Village. This scene couldn't help but make the generals very puzzled, although they knew that something strange must have happened, but Fusu didn't say it, and everyone didn't dare to ask, so they had to stuff it in their stomachs!
So, Fusu, who had nothing to do, immediately led the Qin army into Nanpuxi in a big way, and went all the way north to find a decisive battle between Fujian and Vietnam's Pushui Division!
Only one day after entering Nanpuxi, the Qin army began to encounter the large and small sentinel ships of the Minyue army, and after a burst of chaotic arrows retreated, Fusu knew that the main force of the Minyue Pushui Division was nearby! Not daring to slack off for a while, he not only ordered the army to be on strict alert, but also sent a large number of sentry boats and scouts along the river to search for the traces of the enemy!
And when the enemy situation was unclear, Li Xin's troops did not dare to cross the river at will, but followed the main force from a distance and watched the situation!
Early the next morning, as soon as the main force of the Qin army was marching out of camp, he heard a warning signal from the sentinel ship in front: "Qiqi Jun, fifteen miles ahead, the main force of the Fujian and Vietnamese Pushui Army, about 30,000 people, is sailing through the waves, going down the river, and coming straight to our army!"
Fusu was overjoyed, and said after taking the case: "Okay! I've been waiting for it for a long time! Come, first, order the sailors to immediately set up their positions and prepare for battle; 2. Inform General Ren Huan on the shore to prepare to meet the enemy; 3. Inform General Li Xin to immediately start building a bridge to cross the river!" Whoa!"
Fusu said with great ambition: "I want to see how your Minyue naval army can stop my 200,000 army!"
"Report, the enemy ships have approached our army for ten miles!"
"Probe!"
"Report, the enemy ship has approached our army for five miles!"
Fusu stood up abruptly and shouted: "Pass my general's order, the swords of each ship are unsheathed, the bows are wound, the generals are in place, and they are ready to fight!" Whoa!"
At the beating of war drums, people on the Qin warships of the brigade came and went, and a charcoal fire rose. One by one, the ballistae were opened, just waiting to give the enemy a head-on blow! And on the shore, the Ren Huan Department also deployed crossbowmen to the shore, and heavy weapons such as trebuchets and crossbow machines also stared at the river!
"Your Majesty, the enemy army is coming!" The lookout soldiers on the sentry tower at the top of the handsome ship shouted!
Fusu stood on top of the handsome ship, and when he heard this, he built a pergola with his hand, and looked into the distance: sure enough, in the distant sky, a large sail shadow appeared, and gradually a huge hull appeared, which was going straight down the river. Straight to the Qin army!
Fusu's heart was surging for a while, and he couldn't help but clench his fists fiercely: "Min Yue soldiers, come on, see who is the king of water warfare!"
At this moment, suddenly there was a fire in front of him, and then a hurried warning signal came from the sentry ship: "Report, Your Excellency, the enemy army is going down the river and releasing a large number of fireboats!"
"What!? Fireship!?" Fusu was taken aback. He secretly said in his heart: "It seems that this general of the Nanpu Water Army wants to give me a dismount, and use my trick of burning the fish belly!" Stop. This trick is poisonous enough, our warships are so dense, if we let it burn. Not to mention the heavy losses, even the formation will be chaotic. If you don't fight, you've already lost! In water warfare, the advantage of geography can sometimes be decisive!"
He didn't dare to slack off, and hurriedly shouted: "Pass my order, and all ships must not panic." Immediately use trebuchets to shoot boulders and sink enemy ships!" Whoa!"
"Squeak and quack......," a strange sound immediately sounded in the sky above the Qin fleet.
Before the "release of the ......," two portable trebuchets in the bow and stern of the warships were immediately launched. Hundreds of boulders roar in the air, rushing forward!
Four or five hundred paces away, hundreds of small fireboats were emitting raging flames, almost blocking the Nanpu River. It's whistling and running.
"Bump! Touch! "......The boulder fell like rain: when it fell into the water, it immediately splashed into the sky, and the fireships staggered and collided with each other; Some directly hit the fireboat, "How can the small fireboat withstand the blow of this 30-pound boulder, and it was suddenly smashed to pieces, and the bones sank into the water!"
For a time, the waves on Nanpu Creek were turbulent, the roar was rumbling, and from time to time there were fireboats that were smashed into pieces, and there were large and small broken wooden planks and oil splashes floating on the river surface for a while! Suddenly, the number of Minyue fireboats on the river increased sharply, and one after another was smashed into the bottom of the river by the roaring boulders in the sky!
"The fireboat ββ! one hundred and fifty steps away from our fleet, and there are less than fifty of them!" The lookout shouted with all his might!
Fusu frowned, and shouted: "Don't panic, pass on my command: after the gill net ship is broken, the army will fight and retreat, keep a distance, sink the fireship at full speed, and counterattack with all your might!" Whoa!"
At the beating of the war drums, the well-trained Qin army immediately began to adjust the formation, the bow of the ship did not turn, and the hands quickly rowed back, widening the distance between the enemy and the enemy's fireboat, and gradually leading the enemy army into the range of joint attack with the Ren Huan Department!
"Whoosh...... boulders roared in mid-air and slammed into the enemy ships that were still following the pursuers, hitting the remaining fireships one by one and sinking them one by one!
Gradually, the fireship was lighter and much faster, and it was necessary to chase the gillnet ship after the Qin army! At this moment, Ren Huan's department, which was a little slower on the shore, rushed up, and saw that the situation of the navy was a little bad, and hurriedly ordered to intercept the Minyue fireboat!
"Whoosh...... On the east bank of Nanpuxi, the hastily arranged land troops of the Qin army attacked the fleet that followed closely behind them with large and small crossbows and trebuchets.
For a while, the arrows and rocks on the river suddenly became dense, and the waves of "plopping, plopping ......" splashed everywhere! Twenty or thirty fireboats, which had suffered almost double the power of the blow, were hit one by one and sank helplessly into the river!
In the end, the only three remaining fireboats dodged the rain of stones and crashed headlong into the gillnet boat after the Qin army's break! When they were about to collide, the fireboat suddenly slammed into a slam and immediately stopped ten paces away from the gillnet.
It turned out that Fusu had long expected that there might be a fire attack in water warfare, and not only equipped each battleship with trebuchets of different sizes, but also equipped some ships with gillnets. This gill net has many functions, not only can it stop the enemy's 'water ghosts' who come from underwater, but also can hold the enemy's fire ship ten steps away, which is very good. This is a little knowledge that Fusu learned from Xiang Yan in the battle of Duhuai!
Even so, the Qin army on the broken gillnet boats was still roasted by the raging flames emitted by the fireships ten paces away! Although the Qin army was not panicked, they immediately followed the usual tactics of chaos, drenched their wet clothes with cold water, and then smashed them into the fire ship with boulders! Several gillnets next to it also rushed to help, and the giant crossbow and arrow stone greeted the fireship fiercely!
In the midst of the blazing flames and the fire snakes, the Qin troops on the gillnet boats took turns to pounce. Desperately threw himself into the flames. The eyebrows were burned off, the hair was burned, but Yashi still rained down! One, two, three...... Soon, the three fish that slipped through the net were quickly sunk by the full force of more than ten gillnet boats after the break!
"Whewββ!" Earth-shattering cheers erupted in the sky above the Qin fleet!
Fusu Yizhen's heart in his throat was finally put back into his stomach at this time, and he shouted viciously: "Pass my general order, cover it with the whole army, and teach me a hard lesson about these Minyue barbarians!"
"Kill ββ!" The Qin army fleet immediately let out an earth-shattering shout of killing, and all the Qin army soldiers were lightly dressed and waved the sharp swords in their hands. Cheer loudly! A large number of rowers are also doubly brave at this time, their arms muscles are stretched, and they strive to change direction and destroy the big ship to kill the generals!
"Report to General ββ! Yan, our army's ground fireships did not cause any damage to the Qin army, and they were all sunk by the Qin army's flying stones! The Qin army has now turned the bow of the ship, reorganized its formation, and attacked it!"
"What!? Flying Stones!?" Yan Zhong, the general of the Pushui Army in Fujian and Vietnam, was dumbfounded! This more than 100 small fireships didn't even hurt a few hairs of the Qin army, this is simply unbelievable!
But it's no wonder that trebuchets appeared not long after they appeared in the Central Plains. It is far from spreading to this wild land in the south, where did Yan Zhong know that there was such an attack!
"General, the Qin army has already come up to meet it. Decide!" The general behind him looked at Yan Zhong with a shocked look and hurriedly reminded!
Yan Zhong suddenly woke up. Suddenly, he pulled out the long sword under his waist with all his might, and shouted loudly: "Heroic sons, my Minyue country has reached the point of life and death, and today is not the death of the enemy. It's me who dies! Kill! Fight to the death with the Qin people!"
Minyue people have always been brave, but now there is no way to retreat, there is no way to avoid it, and they can't help but inspire a fierce spirit. Jumping on the hull of the ship and shouting wildly, those fiery eyes were full of decisive battle intent!
The two fleets approached rapidly at an extremely high relative speed, rapidly approaching within four hundred paces.
Fusu shouted: "Trebuchet attack, give the Minyue barbarians a little color!" Whoa!"
"Knock knock knock...... "Earth-shattering attack, the drums beat!" Whoosh...... "The sky is full of whistling boulders, rolling in mid-air and roaring through beautiful parabolas and running towards the target!"
"Whewββ!" The Qin army was so excited that they howled wolf, but unfortunately there was water all around them, if they were on land, they would have rushed up like crazy!
"Bumper Bumper ......" all over the sky and arrows and stones fiercely smashed down in the formation of Minyue Sailors, and in the splashing waves, from time to time ships were hit by flying stones! Sawdust flew around, mixed with a lot of blood and flying stumps!
Suddenly, a similar whistling sound sounded on the east bank, and Ren Huan's department was also brave, starting the trebuchet with all his strength and smashing it with all his might!
For a while, the unprepared Minyue Navy was smashed and screamed, hugging their heads on the boat! From time to time, people scream and get hit by rocks, or fall into the water in the crowd!
In the blink of an eye, before the Minyue Navy and the Qin Army officially met each other, dozens of warships in the front army's leading position were smashed to pieces and began to enter the water! The Minyue army couldn't help but panic and began to plug the leak in vain!
"Oh!" From a distance, when the soldiers of the Qin army saw the embarrassed appearance of the Minyue people, they couldn't help but sweep away the depression just now and laughed loudly! All kinds of slang are also pouring out, asking the female ancestors of Hou Minyue!
"Order, the heavy crossbow machine is at full speed! Greet me again Minyue people!" Whoa!"
Where the war drums continued to beat, the crossbow machine of the Qin army, which had been silent, also spoke. In the screams of "Lin Lin" in the sky, the ultimate long-range precision weapons of ancient times exerted their great power: a famous Min Yue soldier was pierced through the chest by a huge arrow and firmly nailed to the ground on the ground; Arrow towers, female walls, and raccoon dogs were cracked by giant arrows, and sawdust flew wildly!
Suddenly, the Minyue army was even more panicked! Although the Qin army was swimming against the current, it relied on the cooperation of sharp weapons and shore-based forces to fight the Minyue people who couldn't raise their heads, and it took half a day to release a few stray arrows!
Gradually, the distance between the two fleets approached 200 paces, and the Minyue people, who lacked heavy crossbow machines and trebuchets, finally began to counterattack in a more orderly manner: countless stray arrows poured out from the Minyue warships like flying locusts, although from time to time some people were hit by the arrows of the Qin army, but the Minyue people still fought back bravely!
"Pounce pounce pounce...... In the chaos of arrows in Minyue, the Qin army finally suffered casualties. For a while, the Qin army did not dare to be exposed to the air recklessly, and shrank behind the female wall to fight against the Min and Yue army, releasing arrows from each other!
And as the distance between the two ships narrowed, the arrows fired at each other also changed from no fire to fire. For a while, the rockets on the river surface flew wildly, roaring, like a huge meteor shower, the wide river surface was almost impermeable, and the sky was fiery red!
The fire was quickly ignited. The forward warships of the two armies that bore the brunt of the attack couldn't help but start to catch fire one after another, and the river was hot for a while! The officers and men of the two armies couldn't help but attack each other while busy extinguishing the fire, and the battle began to enter the white-hot stage!
Fusu frowned, and ordered: "Order, the front army will attack the enemy's vanguard fleet with bows and crossbows, and the trebuchets of the Chinese army will begin to extend to the rear of the Minyue fleet to block the reinforcements of the Minyue fleet!" Whoa!"
Suddenly, the stone rain of the Qin army began to move from the front army of Minyue to the Chinese army, and the originally safer Minyue Chinese army was suddenly beaten by the stones. I deeply felt the pain of my brothers in the former army. Even Yan Zhong's handsome ship did not dare to approach the front army too much after being hit by a boulder and smashing a few wooden planks at the bow of the ship, so he had to temporarily anchor in the river. Command the battle remotely!
"Bump!" The forward warships of the two armies finally collided in the middle of the river, and the sound of violent collision was amid. The soldiers of the Qin army and the Minyue army could not wait for the battleship to stop completely, so they grabbed the enemy warship one after another and began to fight hard! For a time, the two armies on the river began a tragic hand-to-hand battle! The Qin army was brave and the Minyue was good at fighting. The two sides are inseparable!
At this moment, the Qin troops on the shore, who could not help the front army for a while, began to move a large number of crossbowmen and trebuchets to the positions of the two armies in Minyue and the central and rear armies, and the two sides began to shoot at each other! In this way, under the stone rain attack of the Chinese army of the Qin Water Division. Under the efforts of the shore-based troops of the Qin army, the Minyue Naval Division's assistance to the front army and land gradually fell into exhaustion!
Gradually, the Minyue front army, which had already suffered nearly half of the losses in the initial confrontation, couldn't help but be unable to resist the Qin army's brave offensive, and gradually showed its defeat! The warships of the Minyue former army were very reluctantly seized control by the Qin army one after another!
Seeing that the war was gradually developing in the direction favorable to the Qin army, Fusu couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief, and said in his heart: "Although it is the first water war, there are still many deficiencies, but to this point, it will be successful!"
waved his hand and said: "Pass my order, 'wolf fangs' all go into the water and start to scuttle and attack!" Whoa!"
Amid the overwhelming drums of the Qin army, the 1,000 'wolf teeth' warriors who had stripped naked and wore only a pair of narrow leggings jumped into the water one after another with a hammer in one hand, a chisel in the other, and a short dagger stuck in the back of their waists, and rushed towards the fierce front of the battle!
In the blink of an eye, these thousands of trained 'water ghosts' swam under the water of the former army in the midst of fierce battles, although their target was not here, but when they encountered the Minyue navy that fell into the water, they were still unceremoniously making up for a submersible bandit
Soon, these 1,000 'water ghosts' swam through the staggered front battlefield of the two armies and approached the Minyue Chinese army. At this time, the Minyue Chinese army was busy dealing with the overwhelming arrow and stone offensive of the Qin army's water and land bases, and they didn't pay attention to the reed pipes floating over on the water surface while taking advantage of the chaos!
Qin Hu led the 'wolf teeth' warriors to break under the warships of Minyue and Vietnam, and each aimed at an enemy ship, hammered and chiseled together, and "bumpered" the operation! Suddenly, a strange and dull crashing sound sounded on the river!
"What's the sound!?" The soldiers of the Minyue Chinese army, who were struggling to cope, were surprised to inquire about each other.
Soon, piles of wood chips floated under the water, and then someone shouted at the bottom of the boat: "Oh no, there are people underwater, the bottom of the boat has been chiseled!"
"What!? Someone underwater!?" Yan Zhong was taken aback on the handsome ship, and his face changed drastically, and he hurriedly shouted: "Quick, each ship will send a part of the people into the water and kill the Qin army!"
The Minyue sailors panicked, so they had to draw 2,000 men from the already overstretched Chinese army to prepare to launch to protect the warships.
"Quick, get me into the water, get me into the water......" The officers of Minyue drove one sergeant after another into the water!
"Plop, plop...... On the water surface, like dumplings, they immediately jumped into countless Minyue sailors. Immediately, the fierce underwater battle began, and the fierce 'wolf tooth' warriors and the Minyue naval army of Shanshui began to meet each other underwater!
Fierce underwater battles are no better than those on the ground or on warships, and the comparison is who is higher in water and whose hands and feet are faster. After all, in the muddy water, the line of sight is not very clear. If you are a little slow to react to an enemy within a few steps, you will be attacked by the enemy first. And underwater, once the blood is wounded first, then the strong water pressure will destroy the combat power of the wounded first, so the water battle should be water-based first, reaction second!
In comparison: in terms of water nature, the 'wolf teeth' warriors who have been strictly trained for a long time are by no means inferior to the Minyue navy, and even because of the cruel training of Fusu in the past three months, they have surpassed the Minyue navy; And in terms of reaction, the 'wolf tooth' warrior who is one in a hundred miles is even more incomparable to the ordinary Minyue naval army! Moreover, the dagger of the Qin army is far stronger than the thick long sword of the Minyue army, so the melee attack is even more fierce!
Thereupon. The fierce battle under the water was quickly decided: although the Minyue army had the advantage in numbers, the 'wolf' tooth warriors, who had the advantage of quality and leisure, quickly destroyed the combat strength and will of the 2,000 Minyue army. For a while, streams of blood appeared on the surface of the water from time to time, and then one after another floating corpses poured onto the water! Of course, ten of the floating corpses are all Minyue Army!
Maybe that's the difference between professional special forces and amateurs!
Soon, the Minyue sailors who were killed and broke their courage came out of the water one after another, climbing the edge of the boat and trying to escape to the boat! Seeing this, the Minyue officers were furious and shouted: "Go back, go back!" Chop your head and cover your face with a flurry of chops, and drive the deserters into the water again! It's a pity. How can a person who has lost his fighting spirit be able to win a bloody battle, but in a moment, the water will calm down. There was a clanging chisel again!
The warships of the Minyue Chinese Army, which had already been chiseled with holes everywhere, were injured more and more this time, spraying water everywhere like a huge lotus showerhead. The bilge immediately turned into an ocean! In addition, the Qin army's attack on land and water continued, and for a while, the warships of the Minyue Navy began to sink into the water, and the water surface was full of Minyue Navy troops who were diving and escaping!
Yan Zhong couldn't see it well at this time, and the front army was basically finished. The Chinese army is almost finished, and this battle is lost! Immediately ordered: "Quickly withdraw!" It's a pity that at this time, there are very few warships that can still have the ability to row backwards in Fujian and Vietnam!
Fusu watched from afar, a satisfied smile on his face. waved his hand and said: "Order, the three armies cover up, and completely destroy the Minyue army!"
"Qin Feng! Qin Feng ......" The Qin army shouted, shouting in unison, and the two armies of the middle and rear rushed together, instantly destroying the already dismembered Minyue front army and killing the Minyue Chinese army!
At this time, most of the warships of the Chinese army in Fujian and Vietnam have begun to sink, and the ones that have not sunk are also on fire and leaking below.
This time it hit the heart of the Qin army, the Qin army on the big ship was stabbed with arrows, and the Qin army on the small ship was stabbed indiscriminately, and the Minyue navy floating on the water was killed with corpses all over the river, and the river was red. It's just a pity that the Minyue soldiers in the water have no power to fight back, and the Qin army's move is suspected of beating the water dogs!
At this time, the 'wolf teeth' warriors, who were also exhausted from the battle, also floated up from the water one after another, and got on the boat to rest slowly under the response of the Qin soldiers on the ship!
"Your Majesty, we have killed the Minyue Chinese army!" The sturdy Qin Hu diligently asked for merit in front of Fusu, the muscles on his strong body were stretched, and the river water was still dripping!
"Well done! I didn't weaken my reputation as a 'wolf's fang' miracle!" Fusu is also very satisfied!
Qin Hu grinned and said with a smile: "This Minyue army is also too vegetable, I don't feel like it takes much effort!"
Fusu laughed and said, "That's because you guys are too powerful!" However, if you say this to the Lord of Minyue, I am afraid that he will be ashamed to death!" Hahaha!" The crowd burst into laughter!
"Come on, it's better to chase after the poor! Don't let go of the Minyue rear army, the whole army will pursue, and the one who beheads the enemy will be rewarded!" Fusu is really in high spirits now!
The army of the Qin army could not listen to the word 'reward', and when they heard the word 'heavy reward' at this time, they were even more courageous, rowing the warship fast and covering the Minyue rear army in a big way!
At this time, the Minyue rear army, which had already begun to turn around and flee, saw that the situation was not good, and even more quickly rowed the pulp and fled quickly to the north! How was the Qin army willing to let go, and pursued all the way, and the two armies chased and fled to the north!
Seeing this, the army of Ren Huan's headquarters knew that the victory was decided, and according to the prior arrangement, they no longer pursued, and quickly went south, joined Li Xin's army, and began to rush to cross Nanpu River!
This pursuit battle on the river lasted for almost a day and a night, and Fusu used the principle of cavalry pursuit warfare to order the front, middle and rear armies to take the lead and pursue the enemy in turn, until they were exhausted by the remnants of Minyue and Yue, and were finally trapped by the Qin army's naval divisions.
Under the fierce battle, the Fujian and Vietnamese Pushui Divisions were annihilated, the general Yan Zhong was killed, and the Qin army also lost nearly 10,000 yuan! But at this point, Minyue no longer has the strength to stop the Qin army from advancing westward! The eastern gate of Chengcun City has been opened to the Qin army!