Chapter 163: The Soul Returns to Its Hometown

The warships of the Yuan soldiers came up one by one from behind, and countless arrows were like rain, shooting non-stop around more than a dozen warships of the Song army, and soon wiped out the remaining little counterattack force.

Wang Bao, who was hit by dozens of arrows in his body, laughed heartily before he died, because he watched his soldiers successfully climb onto the warship of the Yuan soldiers and cut down dozens of Yuan soldiers, even if they all died on other people's warships.

The Yuan soldiers followed and began to use scratching hooks to catch the Song army's warship, and the warriors armed with scimitars under the cover of the archers began to board the ship for hand-to-hand combat, and the Song soldiers hiding in the cabin were also quite numerous, and began a real hand-to-hand combat.

Dozens of Yuan soldiers surrounded more than a dozen Song army warships and began a wave of bloody killings with more attacks and fewer attacks, but because the cabin of the Song army was small, no matter how many Yuan soldiers were on board, they could not use it, and only seven or eight people could rush to the front to fight.

One step forward, the blood flowed like a river, the Yuan soldiers killed the red-eyed Song army was also not weak, in a desperate situation, watching one by one comrades fall, the remaining Song army's combat strength increased greatly, and this hand-to-hand combat was killed for nearly an hour before it ended.

It's like a group of hungry wolves surrounded a few powerless goats, and the ending was doomed from the beginning, but the process in the middle was long and short, and the horned goats were still quite angry, and they overturned a few fierce hungry wolves before they died.

However, a large number of goats were watching not far away, and the rumbling cannons and fierce soldiers dispelled their hearts to rush to the rescue of the besieged ships, but fear was not the only reason, the decisive reason was the activation of the huge fleet.

Zhang Shijie ordered all to set sail and bypass the Yuan soldiers who evaded interception from Goose Island, this time he did not name anyone to send to carry out the interception mission, but the generals commanding on the ship knew that whoever fell in the end was the destined hero.

And the same tactical arrangement, Zhang Hongfan copied from the back of the Song army, and the Song army that fought against him was not as brave as Wang Bao's department, and the brave cannon on the side of the Yuan soldier ship finished firing a round, and when he turned to change the cannon on the other side, the Song army did not rush forward, but retreated backwards in a hurry.

The flotilla that met Zhang Hongfan was Lan Shize, the former general of the Wenzhou Naval Division, who led more than 100 large ships of the old department to parade and cover in the rear flank, and after the first wave of more than a dozen ships were bombarded by artillery, they mixed with the flotilla that rushed over in the process of retreating, and two ships also collided together.

"It's really a waste, pass on my general order, set up a position to meet the enemy, which one step back will not be spared!"

Lan Shi was eight feet tall, holding a long-handled nine-ring broadsword, standing majestically at the bow of the ship to press the formation, and the standard-bearer of the herald hurriedly passed the order, and the panic just now was suppressed, and the warships on both sides were not far from each other to start a confrontation.

"General Lan, Lord Zhang has passed down the order, and the entire fleet will set sail, bypass the Goose Island in front, and all of them will speed up to get rid of the intercepted Yuan warships!"

Lanshi slammed the big knife in his hand, and with a snap, a hole was poked in the sturdy plank.

"Hey! Or run away! How long are we going to escape! Escape to somewhere! ”

Lanz looked back and saw that the huge fleet had lifted anchor and headed for the deep sea in the direction of Goose Island. In the panic, some people's boats were slow, and they were hit by large boats with many oarsmen, and they capsized directly into the sea, and the water was full of people who had fallen into the water.

There were also a few big ships that had already leaned on the pier of North Bay, and without waiting for the last force to carry the water, they directly lifted anchor and left the pier, and when they ran over with all their might, they could only stand on the shore and watch the shadow of the sail go away.

The confidence of defeat before the battle has been lost, although the number of ships is far greater than the two pursuing Yuan armies, but Zhang Shijie has never thought of a decisive battle in his mind, only the idea of fleeing to Guangzhou and then making plans.

"Fighting while retreating, we will be the fleet of His Royal Highness, and let the emperor go as far as possible! Children, you are willing to accompany Lao Lan to walk around on the knife edge, and continue to follow the emperor to fight the world, and the unlucky brothers will die here, I believe that God will let us return to our hometown with the sea breeze! ”

"I do! We all do! ”

"Yes, I'm willing to die on the battlefield!"

"The soul returns to its hometown and dies on the battlefield!"

These are the soldiers of Jiangsu and Zhejiang who have followed Lanshi for many years, a year of turbulence and exile on the sea, and a year of humiliation, they have never fought the enemy head-on, and they always flee thousands of miles away when they hear the wind.

But today's opportunity has come, and the fierce Yuan soldiers are already face to face, the previous round of shelling has killed and injured hundreds of brothers, no matter what, today is going to fight! It is that they want to speed up the escape from the Yuan soldiers, and the chance is not too great, unless they leave more than half of their companions here to stop them, and the remaining warships accelerate to leave, and follow the large army to evacuate in the direction of Goose Island. But they are all sons of the same country, and many of them are related to your brother and his brother, who can leave his brother and run away alone? Even if the blood is splashed on the ground in five steps, the head cannot escape alone.

Lan Shize's fleet retreated at a high speed, and confronted the Yuan soldiers' warships, which greatly annoyed Zhang Hongfan, the flagship of the Yuan soldiers' fleet.

"The cannon is too slow to reload, order them to speed up, use the cannon to blast their formation, the ships that rush over do not stay and fight, and speed up the pursuit of the little emperor of the Song Dynasty who escaped!"

Zhang Hongfan knew that Zhu Qing's main force had been bypassed, and the direction in which Zhang Shijie fled would inevitably meet Zhu Qing's main force again.

Empty courage and confidence do not necessarily bring good results, one advance and one retreat, the Yuan army cannons that are closely chasing the Lanshi Ze warship, constantly firing cannons to scatter the fleet, and the warships that follow closely behind surround and fight.

In a short period of time, more than 30 of the more than 100 warships of Lanze were damaged, and the distressed Lanze screamed, but what if there was no means to hurt the enemy! The same Yuan soldiers were also one hundred and fifty warships, and with the long-range lethality of the Divine Brave Cannon, Lan Shi who actually fought had no strength to fight back, and could only watch his men being bombarded by the cannons again and again.

"Damn, I'm not leaving, I'm fighting with them! The children gave me the order to reverse the direction towards the ship with the cannon and sink it for me! ”

Lanze gritted out his teeth, and finally decided to resist the death, and the warship with full combat strength was raised, raising its speed to the maximum speed, looking for an opportunity to ram the warship equipped with the Divine Cannon. However, Zhang Hongfan's subordinates had already taken precautions against this, and there were two or three warships around each gunboat to escort them, and the Song warships that rushed over were naturally intercepted by them.

Under the consumption of each other's strength, the two sides killed on the sea in the dark, and the killing lasted from morning to dusk. Lan Shi was killed by an arrow falling into the sea, more than 100 large and small warships were damaged, and more than 20,000 officers and soldiers of the Wenzhou Navy Division died on the battlefield.