Chapter 480: Formation Flat Push
Liu Quan's gaze swept over the river repeatedly, but until the Song warship approached, he didn't see the iron ship.
Almost all of the 40 large vehicles and ships collided face to face, making an earth-shattering loud noise, and the bows of several warships were directly smashed by the bronze horns, and the river water quickly poured in, but after these warships collided, they were all crookedly entangled together, and did not sink immediately.
The follow-up ships of the two sides continued to move forward, blocking together, squeezing more and more, but the warships of the Song army were obviously more neatly arranged than the warships of the Yuan army.
At this time, only a cannon sounded, the Song army warship began to shoot stones and fireballs at the Yuan army warship with a stone thrower, and countless crossbowmen shot rockets at the Yuan army from the ship building and the surface of the ship, the Yuan army was well-trained, and immediately launched a counterattack at the first time, and the arrows on both sides rained down for a while, and the fire and roar and killing on the river for a time rushed to the sky.
Liu Cheng carefully observed the battle situation, and he soon saw that many warships of the Yuan army were destroyed and sunk, while the warships of the Song army were not many damaged.
The reason why this is the case is that the thick vines entwined on the Song army's warships are working.
These vines are like strong giant ropes, connecting one after another Song army warships, so that the Song army fleet forms a solid huge phalanx, and these vines are like living creatures, whenever the boulders and fireballs launched by the Yuan army fall on a Song army warship, and the warship has no way to dodge, those vines either raise to push the boulder fireball aside, or puff up to cover it, so that although the boulder fireball shot by the Yuan army warship can hit the Song army warship, most of them are pushed down into the river, The few targets that hit the target were also unable to cause fatal damage to the Song warships due to the cover of the vines.
Soon after the two sides fired, the Yuan army was obviously at a disadvantage, and most of the 20 large vehicles and ships in the front of the Song army were capsized and sank due to a large amount of water ingress due to the breach caused by the angle of attack of the Song army's warship, while the Song army's vehicle and ship that broke the Yuan army's warship at the angle of attack were blocked in time by the vines growing in the body, and the firm connection of the vines did not sink a single one, only a few ships with a little more water were slightly tilted.
The Song army fleet began to push forward, after the Yuan army vehicles and ships in front sank, most of the Yuan army warships behind did not have an angle of attack, and after the Song army vehicles and ships were hit, they quickly capsized and sank, and the Yuan officers and soldiers on the ship often did not have time to escape, so they all sank into the river with the ship.
Liu Cheng realized that something was wrong, and what the Song Army was showing in front of him today was a completely new look, and the combat effectiveness that burst out was something he had never seen before.
The phalanx of the Song army fleet connected by those green vines was like a boulder, slowly crushing the Yuan army fleet forward, and under its continuous impact, the Yuan army warships in front were destroyed and sunk one after another, and the Yuan army warships behind were huddled together, and it was impossible to dodge.
After realizing that the threat of the 20 large vehicles and ships with punching angles in front of the phalanx of the Song army fleet was too great, Liu Cheng ordered the Yuan army to start a broadside battle to seize those vehicles and ships, and soon the drums and horns sounded, and the Yuan soldiers rushed out of the warship, brandishing swords and spears, stepping on the wreckage of the ships in front and shouting and rushing towards the Song warships.
Seeing that the Yuan army was charging, the Song army did not show weakness, and the Song army of the brigade roared and rushed out of the cabin and started a fierce hand-to-hand combat with the Yuan army.
The Yuan army rushed onto the Song army's car and boat, and the two huge streams of people collided fiercely, and for a time the swords and guns jumped, the flesh and blood splashed, and the sound of the impact of weapons, the sound of slashing into the body and the shouts of killing drowned out everything.
The Yuan troops who rushed to the Song army's warship were extremely brave, and they cut down the Song army in an instant, but the Song army did not retreat and swarmed up, blocking all the Yuan troops in the bow of the ship.
The bloody battle between the two armies on the surface of the ship did not affect the sailors under the Song army's vehicles and ships, driven by their hard stamping, coupled with the Song army warships behind them with their sails open, and the oarsmen struggling to shake their oars, the Song army's large ship formation was still slowly moving forward, as more Yuan warships were knocked over and sunk, the Yuan soldiers who boarded the Song army vehicles and ships became fewer and fewer.
Liu Cheng felt that something was wrong, and he saw that the front army of the Yuan army was all in chaos, and immediately ordered the rear army of the Chinese army to retreat and widen the distance from the front army.
Although he still hasn't found Sun Hui's iron ship, he has decided to use his killer weapon.
Because if it is not used to destroy the 20 large vehicles and ships with angles at the front of the Song army, the naval army he has worked so hard to build is likely to be wiped out here.
Liu Cheng passed down the orders one after another, and they were immediately executed, accompanied by the sound of golden drums, the rear army of the Yuan army began to retreat, the Chinese army retreated, and spread out to the two wings, and the twelve large war ships slowly moved forward.
At this time, the Yuan army, which rushed to the Song army's vehicles and ships, was quickly annihilated by the Song army because they could not get backup. The Song army vehicles and ships continued to push forward, and the twelve Yuan army war ships quickly dispersed, and stretched out the angle of attack that was originally hidden in the bow, and some of the wreckage of the destroyed Yuan army war ships pushed the Song army vehicles and ships, some drifted from both sides of these Yuan army war ships, and some directly crashed into the angle of attack of the Yuan army war ships, making a thunderous roar.
Seeing the Yuan army change formation, the Song army did not stop advancing, but continued to rush forward.
At this moment, the twelve Yuan army ships stopped advancing and anchored in the middle of the river.
Jiang Cai, the general of the Song army who commanded the battle, noticed the strange behavior of the Yuan warship, but inspired by the victory in the first battle, he did not think much about it, but ordered the Song warship to continue to advance.
At this moment, he admired the "formation and flat push" tactic formulated by Sun Hui so much that he didn't think about any accidents at all.
Because it was possible to form such a strong ship formation, it was all thanks to that beautiful little fairy girl. And if there is any unexpected situation, as long as this little fairy girl is there, it should be able to be solved.
At this moment, he saw that on the bow wooden platform of those Yuan army war ships, someone was peeling off some gray cloths, revealing one huge downed copper pillar after another.
On the bow wooden platform of every Yuan army warship, there are two such large bronze pillars.
Jiang Cai carefully watched the other party's actions, only to see some Yuan soldiers peel off the wooden cover at one end of the copper pillar, revealing the mouth of the black hole, and suddenly turned from a copper pillar into a copper pipe, and then some other Yuan soldiers quickly stuffed a huge cloth bag into it, stuffed another log cover, and then stuffed a huge black ball into it.
Jiang Cai stared blankly at the shiny huge copper pipe, this thing seemed to evoke his memories, he remembered as if he had seen something similar in a book.