Chapter 296: The Battle of Danzhou (Part II)
"What do you say? Danzhou was attacked by the Jing Navy? There are tens of thousands of people on the other side? "Yazhou is stationed in a capital of the Tiance Army, which is the main force of Xue Wanli's attack on Leizhou that day after crossing the sea to recover Qiongzhou, and Feng Mofeng was originally an emerging general under Xue Wanli, but because of the battle of Guangzhou, he inadvertently killed Liu Changlu's fierce general Liu Hong, and was promoted to the commander of the capital to garrison Yazhou. At this time, he received a request for help from Danzhou, and he was in a hurry, and he had 5,000 people in his hands, and he had to shoulder the task of guarding Yazhou. You must know that Yazhou does not need to be Danzhou, this is the closest supply base to the mainland. Therefore, Feng Mofeng left 3,000 people to guard Yazhou after a long period of silence, and he personally led 2,000 people to set off towards Danzhou, and at the same time sent people to quickly cross the sea to Leizhou to report the news.
But by the time Feng Mofeng arrived in Danzhou, it was already the next day, and Li Tianxia in Danzhou City was already exhausted, and the team of more than 600 people had been killed and wounded, leaving only the last dozens of soldiers by his side, standing arrogantly on the city tower.
"Brothers, this time we are in a catastrophe, are you afraid?" Li Tianxia looked at the familiar figures around her, sighed and then roared hoarsely: "But what I want to say is brothers, we must live like in the world, we are shouldering the task of guarding Danzhou, so even if we have the last person left, we can't let the enemy enter the city." There has never been a unit in the Tiance Army that has given up its own land, and we can't be sinners of the Tang Dynasty even if we die. ”
"Wei Shuai, I didn't say it, we have already been enough, if you come again, it's a big deal to learn from the ancients, the horse leather shroud, and be a martyr who will be admired by future generations." The artist next to Li Tianxia held a long knife and said with a smile: "In the future, our children, future generations and grandchildren will be able to remember this great event we did today when they come to Danzhou one day." ”
"In that case, bring me the last box of explosives, and let's blow up these bastards." Li Tianxia looked at the Jing Navy soldiers who were swarming up outside the city and smiled coldly, put the last box of four explosives bags under the ballista, pulled the lead and said with a smile: "In the next life, we will be good brothers, and the big guy will follow the emperor to fight the world together." ”
When Feng Mofeng arrived, an earth-shattering explosion sounded on the tower of Danzhou City, and countless rubbles were swept into the sky, resounding through the sky like a huge firework. After the billowing smoke was blown away by the sea breeze, only the regimental dragon flag of the Tiance Army was still flying high there.
"Brothers, kill me." Feng Mofeng roared at the top of his throat, and the two thousand Tiance troops behind him rushed forward like a fierce tiger down the mountain. They were all predators who had survived a hundred battles, so they naturally knew what the explosion just now meant, and the little six sons who followed Feng Mofeng along the way were even more tearful, rushing forward with a long knife in his hand, and killed Jing Haijun desperately.
Originally, although the Jing Navy was dizzy by Li Tianxia's last blow-up, Danzhou was taken anyway. Before he could cheer, he was stunned by Feng Mofeng, and the battle that lasted for a day and a night made many soldiers exhausted, and they were beaten back in front of the strong combat power of the Tiance Army, and almost retreated directly into the sea. Feng Mofeng also dissipated his anger a little after commanding the head of a general of the Jing Navy who had no time to retreat in front of him, sobered up, and began to command the troops to enter the city to search for the remains of the 76th Guards while confronting the other party. Their own forces are still too small to drive the opponent off the beach, and if they chase too far, they will only be hit by the firepower of the opponent's fleet.
"Commander, this is the only body of my guard." Xiao Liuzi went crazy and found an arm holding the command knife in the ruins, and immediately cried.
"Commander, look, there are our warships on the sea." Feng Mofeng originally sighed, ready to comfort this young man who had been crazy since the news was reported, but he was awakened by the guards around him, and saw that black pillars of smoke suddenly appeared on the sea like a long dragon floating in the sky. This is a symbol that only the own navy has.
"Everyone set off immediately, let's go and avenge the brothers of the Seventy-Sixth Guard." Feng Mofeng would definitely not let go of such a good opportunity, and almost instantly reacted and directly swung his army into the attack again.
At this time, the Jing Navy Navy Division troops who were originally assisting in the retreating Jing Navy Army were in a big mess, and the attack of this day and night made the formation of these wooden warships messy, and at this time, I suddenly saw the Tiance warships coming from a distance and hurriedly began to arrange, and the horn continued to sound and beckoned the ships to line up to meet the enemy, and the Jing Navy and Army on the beach also began to hurriedly respond to Feng Mofeng's attack.
At this time, it was naturally Luo Dahai's Fuxing and Yangwei who came to help. Luo Dahai also heard the violent explosion before. There is only one Tiance army with explosives bags, and there must be an accident in Danzhou. So he almost ordered the engine room to push the speed to the extreme, and the Fuxing even loaded its shells in motion to prepare for the attack.
However, Luo Dahai began to frown when he saw the hundreds of ships of the Jing Navy Naval Division near the beach, he only had two ships at full capacity, and it was impossible to beat so many ships on the other side. Although the ironclad battleship is extremely powerful, if the opponent approaches and uses a broadside battle to board the Fuxing, it will definitely not be able to fight. Therefore, Luo Dahai began to greet the Yangwei almost instantly, and scattered left and right, and at the same time, the artillery aimed at the Jing Navy Army on the shore and ordered the artillery to be fired.
The six guns of the two warships opened fire in an instant, and the explosion quickly set off an boundless explosion on the beach, blowing up the Jing Navy that had just been organized, and the chaotic situation made Feng Mofeng almost shout three times at the navy, which was typical to help himself quickly open up the situation. Feng Mofeng almost entered the position of the Jing Navy in the first moment when the explosion disappeared, and the two thousand soldiers of the Tiance Army behind him quickly followed up and disrupted the opponent's arrangement, surrounding the opponent's middle legion.
At this time, the two ironclad battleships on the sea quickly dispersed after assisting the army to complete the attack, and began to use their free power advantage to attack the Jing Navy Naval Division warships beside them. After the tempering of large and small battles, the Tiance Army and Navy have matured a lot, and the accuracy of artillery bombardment in naval battles is also rising rapidly. The continuous explosions made the formation of the Jing Navy Naval Division's troops recover unusually slowly. The Fuxing and Yangwei, on the other hand, took advantage of the speed of their ships to constantly play around their opponents, using their artillery superiority to attack their opponents.
"Boom." The Yangwei took the lead in opening the situation, a cannonball hit a Jing Navy Navy warship next to it at close range, the fiery red projectile rushed into the opponent's wooden hull and exploded, sawdust flew, the battleship was blown open a big hole, the sea water poured in, and the people who did not die in the warship kept jumping into the sea.
The first-generation flowering bomb actually did not have the function of armor piercing, but fortunately, except for the Tiance Army, there were no other navies with ironclad warships. Flowering bullets against wooden ships is basically equivalent to flowering bullets plus armor-piercing shells. The sailboat was flooded by the sea and quickly sank in a whirlpool.
With the first battle, the results of the two ironclad battleships quickly appeared, the Fuxing under the personal command of Luo Dahai hit an attack ship next to it, the bow of the three-masted galleon was penetrated, the explosion exploded in the bow, and the bow of the entire ship was blown off, and the attack ship that suffered a huge blow could no longer support the balance, and directly capsized, the three-masted mast fell down and smashed on the sea, and the whole ship quickly sank to the bottom of the sea.
After the Fuxing and Yangwei achieved the victory, they passed through the opponent's formation and returned to the previous departure position, and at this time, the forward detachment of the Jing Navy Division was basically formed and began to meet the Fuxing.
Luo Dahai watched the other party coming towards him, his face did not change in the slightest, he just looked at the number of the other party and frowned, although he had achieved the result of sinking two ships, but there was no change in the number of the other party, and he didn't know when the follow-up army would arrive? However, this is not the time to think about this, the Fuxing and Yangwei began to intersperse left and right, the artillery began to quickly aim at their respective targets in the march, the shells kept falling, and the earth-shattering water column on the water surface was constantly lifted, which was more shaky for a wooden sailing ship, and many Jing Navy soldiers could not stand on their feet.
The "Boom" Fuxing made another victory, and the guns in the bow hit a wooden sailing ship directly opposite, directly bulldozing all the superstructures of the opponent, and even after the shell exploded, the mast broke, and the sail was ignited by the fire, turning into a fireship in an instant.
"Well done, come again." Luo Dahai clapped his hands, and the Fuxing quickly turned its rudder like a nimble petrel to bypass the fireship and began to attack the next target. However, compared to the Fuxing, which relied on artillery to hit one again, the Yangwei directly and arrogantly passed by one sailboat after another, and used the advantage of iron armor to directly plow and sink the opponent's three sailboats. This terrifying record made the soldiers of the naval fleet of the Jing Navy tremble. Although the other party only has two boats, they are as slippery as loaches, and they are also iron guys, can their own wooden boat beat them?
When Luo Dahai's side was fighting fiercely, Guo Chongtao and Hu Xiaosi were also rushing over at full speed, originally the distance between them and Luo Dahai was not so far, but they took a little fork in the road halfway, and there was a little error in positioning, so along the way, Guo Chongtao kept urging the fleet to speed up. He knew how many ships the Jing Navy Navy had in the sea, and if hundreds of sailing ships were not to surround Luo Haihai, they would definitely have to flee in the wilderness.
"Don't worry, we haven't stopped, we will definitely be able to catch up. Are we ironclad warships still defeated by a pile of wood? Taking advantage of the tailwind, Hu Xiaosi saw that Guo Chongtao even asked several Fuxing-class warships around him to raise their sails, knowing that he was in a hurry, so he comforted.
"Report to the Director, there's a flash of fire on the horizon ahead." The shouts of the lookout on the rudder made Guo Chongtao and Hu Xiaosi quickly come to the command room of the bridge, and the little fire in the distance made Guo Chongtao almost without thinking about it begin to prepare the ships around him to attack and prepare for battle.
In fact, the huge column of smoke of Guo Chongtao and his party was also quickly discovered by the lookout on the Fuxing, and the news of the arrival of the large army also boosted the morale of all the soldiers on the Fuxing, only to hear a "boom", the Fuxing gunner under the excitement once again played a good result, two shells hit the same sailboat one after the other, and the impact of the two explosions instantly destroyed the sailboat, and even the water splashed and sank quickly.
After Luo Dahai achieved the results, he quickly waved the flag and the sound of the horn to greet Yang Wei, and the horn quickly crossed and retreated, ready to meet the arrival of the fleet. At this time, the black smoke on the horizon also let Jing Haijun know that the fleet of the Tiance Army was probably here. But what was in front of them was what to do with the army on the tidal flats. If the army retreats, it will definitely be too late. These people were crushed by Feng Mofeng's troops on the tidal flat position, the combat power of the Tiance army made up for the numerical inferiority, and the Jing Navy was not an opponent at all. However, if they do not respond, they are afraid that before the naval division can distinguish the winner or loser, the army will be completely annihilated.
The commander of this battle of the Jing Navy is Qu Chengmei's younger brother Qu Chengxing, and the occupation of Danzhou was also proposed by him. Therefore, after hesitating again and again, Qu Chengxing decided to divide his troops into two routes, most of the attack ships went to meet the Tiance Navy, and the remaining warships quickly responded to the retreat of the land army. Qu Chengxing's plan not only wiped out all the naval divisions of the Jing Navy in the later naval battle, but also caused nearly 10,000 troops to die in the belly of the fish.
Guo Chongtao's side had already rushed up when Qu Chengxing was hesitating, and almost immediately after merging with the Fuxing, he crossed left and right and separated, using the sideways hull to shoot at the dozen warships chasing the Fuxing. A total of 26 guns of eight ironclad battleships opened fire almost instantly, and the sea suddenly became thick with smoke, and the explosion was deafening, and the three ships in front of them were hit and caught fire almost at the same time, and the fire spread and countless Jing Navy sailors jumped into the sea to escape.
After finishing the three sailing ships, Guo Chongtao did not stop, the naval flags fluttering high rose from each ship, and the Izumo under Guo Chongtao's feet and the Going Sea beside him each took three Fuxing-class warships and began to rush back into the formation of the Jing Navy Sailors, taking advantage of the continuous closing distance, the guns on the two flagships also began to sound to the sky. After the two teams dispersed, the ships of the Naval Division were hit. On the other hand, because of the lack of modern weapons and equipment, even if the opponent has an advantage in numbers, he can still only rely on crossbow machines and arrows to counterattack, and he is also bent on fighting a jumping gunwale, so their counterattack is tantamount to scratching his boots for the Tiance army hiding behind the iron armor, especially the Izumo class, the hull of the ship is more than twice as large as the revival class, and the speed has also increased significantly, and it even directly knocked over several other warships on the way.