Chapter 44 Zhang Shunshui ghost scuttles the boat at night
Zhang Shun led the water ghost troops and touched Huang Zu's fleet.
Ships stopped at night, especially warships, were to be partially ignited and partly not ignited. Why? In fact, it is afraid of sneak attacks.
Ignition at night is to expose the target, and this truth is not only understood by modern people, but also by people in ancient times. Therefore, only fishing boats will light the lights, and warships often do not light the lights.
A large number of warships are not lit, and only patrol ships at a certain distance from the warships will be lit, which can not only observe whether anyone is approaching, but also prevent the enemy from discovering the anchorage of the warships, and release the fireboats down the river, so as to catch them all.
The same is true for Huang Zu, whose warship is also light-controlled, and only a few patrol boats around it are lit.
Zhang Shun led people to touch the vicinity of the training ground and discovered this problem. If you are not familiar with water warfare, you will definitely be deceived by the training boat, and you will be caught just attacking the patrol boat.
But Zhang Shun is different, he let the water ghosts stay far away, and he relies on the good water to observe closely. Finally, from the route of the patrol ship, I guessed the anchorage of the Huang Zu warship.
When he came back to call the water ghosts, Zhang Shun took them to dive through the route of the patrol ship and directly touched the location of the warship.
Huang Zu dispatched more than a hundred large and small warships this time, occupying a large area on the water, as long as he touched the vicinity, it was easy to find out.
Because under the nose of the enemy, Zhang Shun did not speak, but gently waved his arm three times, informing all the water ghosts that there was only three tea time, that is, a quarter of an hour.
In this quarter of an hour, according to the previous reservation, the big ship was chiseled first, and then the small boat was chiseled.
The water ghosts dispersed, and Zhang Shun also dived into the group of warships, touched a large ship, dived to the bottom of the ship, took out a hammer and an iron chisel, and chiseled down at the seams of the ship's planks.
At this time, the big ships are all wooden, and they are also square, the bottom of the ship is flat, and the board is slotted, as long as the slot part of a plank is chiseled off, one end of a plank can be damaged, and it is difficult to repair in the water.
The wound chiseled out in this way leaked very little at first, and it was impossible to detect it at all. But as time went on, or as the boat walked, the water pressure increased, and the opening became bigger and bigger, until finally the planks flew out.
If you find it at the beginning, you may be able to plug it with cement. But if you find it late, it's hard to block it.
After chiseling one off, Zhang Shun immediately dived to another big ship. Scuttling a boat is also a laborious job, and it takes half a cup of tea to chisel a boat, and three teas are only four or five boats at most.
Zhang Shun has good water ability, great underwater strength, and swims fast, and he was stunned to chisel through six boats with three teas.
But this also reached his limit, and Zhang Shun immediately swam out.
Halfway through the swim, I heard someone shouting from the boats: "The enemy is attacking, and there are water ghosts scuttling the boat!" ”
The shouts spread far and wide through the night, alarming many Huang Zu sailors. The soldiers and soldiers of Huang Zu woke up in shock, and they lit the lights one after another to check whether their boat was leaking.
Zhang Shun was in the water, and it was not yet the scheduled time, and there must be brothers who have not escaped. He immediately swam towards a small boat, where Huang Zu's sailors were inspecting his boat.
Zhang Shun suddenly jumped out of the water, grabbed the boat gang with one hand, grabbed a Huang Zu sailor with the other hand, pulled him underwater, and then dived to the bottom, stabbed him in the throat with a chisel, held it steadily, and only after he stopped moving, did he press him to the bottom.
Zhang Shun floated up again, jumped directly to the bottom of the boat, and then shook, shaking all the several sailors on the boat.
"Ahhh
Huang Zu's sailor screamed in fright, and immediately attracted the attention of the surrounding warships.
"There are enemies, there are enemies here!" Huang Zu's navy immediately beckoned his companions, and then shot arrows around the warship.
"Don't shoot arrows, have your own people!" The Huang Zu sailors, who were rocking on the warship, shouted in fright, and a few arrows almost missed them.
Zhang Shun saw that he attracted the attention of some warships, and immediately stopped moving, and directly stabbed down with a fierce man, dived through several warships, and took a breath under another warship, and then dived out.
Zhang Shun sneaked to the reeds and found that many water ghosts had returned, so he asked, "How many brothers have not returned?" ”
"There are more than thirty people!"
Zhang Shun's eyes shrank, and he glanced at Huang Zu's group of warships, "Wait another quarter of an hour, and we'll go back." ”
After a while, a few more water ghosts returned. When the time limit of a quarter of an hour was up, there were still more than a dozen water ghosts who did not come back, Zhang Shun smashed it on the water with hatred, "Let's go!" ”
It's the turn of winter and autumn, and although Poyang Lake is located in the south, the water temperature is still very cold. Zhang Shun can't let these water ghost brothers soak in the water and wait for someone, no matter how long it takes, they will be exhausted.
Back on the boat, Zhang Shun waited for another quarter of an hour, and took advantage of this effort to clean the water on everyone's bodies and wrap them in blankets. These blankets were woven from the wool that Zhang Yi got from the few sheep under his rule, and they were very warm.
After waiting for another quarter of an hour, there was still no water ghost to find back, and Zhang Shun knew that they would not be able to come back.
On the other side, Huang Zu jumped like thunder, more than 100 warships, more than 90 were missing, and the rest were also damaged.
After a night of remediation, more than eighty ships were successfully recovered, but thirteen still needed to be sunk. And more than half of the more than 80 ships rescued need to be returned to the dock for repairs, how can this not make Huang Zu angry?
"Fish them up for me first, and then we'll go back to Chaisangkou!" Huang Zu ordered: "As for those, the corpses of water ghosts, let them feed the fish!" ”
When Huang Zu salvaged the people and corpses that had fallen into the water, looking at the hundreds of corpses and the corpses of more than ten water ghosts floating in the lake, Huang Zu's face was even more angry.
But he held back, and it didn't help for him to get angry again at this time, because the current navy army had reached the point where he had to go.
Huang Zu wanted to retreat, but Zhang Shun didn't want him to retreat. Zhang Shun followed behind Huang Zu with the boat, and then kept attacking him, preventing him from going too smoothly.
Huang Zu was very helpless about Zhang Shun's harassment, and if he wanted people to break off, he couldn't go far if he had more, and if he had less, it was not enough to stuff Zhang Shun's teeth.
I don't know how Zhang Yi built so many big ships, these warships are even bigger than his own. Where did he find the shipbuilder?
Where Huang Zu was puzzled, it was Zhou Yu's doubts, Zhou Yu had fought against Gan Ning a lot during this time, but every time he was defeated by the opponent's big ship, if he hadn't seen the opportunity to run fast, maybe he would have consumed the Jiangdong Navy a long time ago.
"Where did he find the shipbuilder? It was possible to build such a large ship. ”