Chapter 297: The Battle of Fuling Lake (Part II)

The warships that enter the Huaishui from Fuling Lake to explore, whether they are convoys, whaling ships, or pirate ships, are all powerful warships. However, in the face of the front and rear interception of hundreds of warships, it is completely unbearable.

The fastest response is the pirate ship. Legal pirates with privateer licenses not only went to the waters of Qi to rob Qi ships on a large scale, but they also went south to the waters of Yue to plunder.

Although the Yue Kingdom as a whole has been destroyed by the Song State and the Chu State, in the core ruling area of the Yue State, Gusu and Huiji, or the nobles of the Yue State are still governing. The pirates of Taoqiu dared to sail south and rob these savage and fierce Yue people, and the blood licking from the edge of the knife was not enough to describe the courage of these pirates!

Therefore, as soon as they saw a large number of Chu warships coming from the Huai River, they immediately turned around and rushed towards the battleships on Fuling Lake in the opposite direction!

From Huaishui to Fuling Lake, it is downstream, plus there are sails on the ship, and there are wooden wheels at the bottom of the ship, when the pirate ship is launched with all its strength, the speed is amazing! In the face of the Chu State warships that dared to intercept them, they rushed straight towards their opponents like this!

Before the ships on both sides approached, the sailors on both ships began to attack each other using long-range weapons! And the advanced weapons equipped on the pirate ships that make a living from plundering are obviously not comparable to the warships of the Chu State!

The bed crossbow that shot directly from a distance went directly towards the Chu warship with strong penetration! Anyone who is shot by a bed crossbow will be shot dead on the spot! At the beginning, the pirate ship was in the distance, and the range of the crossbow arrows equipped on the Chu warship was far from being compared with the pirate ship, so it could only silently withstand the torture and killing of the pirates! When the two ships approached, the sailors of the Chu Army, who were holding their breath fiercely, began to shoot their crossbow arrows towards the ship!

The plundering pirates, naturally, will not treat themselves badly in terms of equipment. And with their backs to such an advanced city as Taoqiu, they can naturally get those advanced equipment!

Whaleskin armor and rhino armor are almost standard equipment for sailors. Some wealthy captains, or higher-ranking leaders, can even get the iron armor that can only be obtained in the Taoqiu army!

With a strong defense, the pirates will naturally not be afraid of their opponents, and in such a confrontation on the ship, the Chu army is almost a one-sided defeat!

However, neither the intercepting Chu army nor the pirate captain paid attention to this kind of small-scale shooting! In the eyes of the Chu army, as long as they intercept the opponent, delay the opponent's time to break out of the encirclement, and buy time for the friendly troops who arrive later, they can hope to wipe out the opponent completely! And in the eyes of the pirates, what they need most now is not to fight with their opponents, but to open a gap in this tight blockade!

The pirate ship rushed through at a speed that people could not imagine in this era, and crashed into the Chu warship that wanted to intercept it!

This collision was a disaster for both sides, and the ships on both sides swayed violently because of this collision. The ship was in such a swing that there was a violent upheaval, and the sailors who stood on it were unsteady because of this turbulence.

As soon as the sailors on both sides recovered from this instability, they immediately launched an extremely fierce gang fight! The battle on the water is the most brutal battle, and it is also the most courageous battle!

For the pirates, they are the ones who can best understand the true meaning of water combat. On the sea, every inch of the shipboard is the territory, is their own living space, retreat is failure, failure is the end of falling into the water, there is no second way! In today's Warring States Period, although the battle on land is cruel, when Bai Qi has not yet become famous, and the Qin State has not yet fought a large-scale war of annihilation, everyone can't understand what a cruel battle it is to fight for every inch of land!

This difference in understanding led to the difference in the courage of the pirates and the sailors of the Chu army. When the two ships collided together, the pirates drew their swords and rushed directly in front of their opponents in a decisive manner, attacking them!

Such an attack carries an indomitable momentum! This kind of momentum can only be possessed by the most elite Mo family disciples in the Taoqiu army! Under this momentum, no matter how big the casualties were, not a single person retreated!

Fierce battles erupted from the ships that collided one after another, and the place where the ships came into contact instantly became the most fierce battlefield! The severed limbs of these colliding ships fell everywhere, and the same as the splinters that were also smashed constituted a unique beauty: the most destructive beauty!

A large amount of blood was also thrown down from these ships that collided together, and the planks of the boats were quickly dyed red, and the surrounding Huaishui and even Fuling Lake quickly turned into a river of blood and a lake of blood!

The lives of the soldiers on both sides quickly disappeared under such a cruel fight! Even though the number of warships of the Chu army far exceeded that of the Taoqiu pirates, the ships that were hit by the pirate ships quickly became completely empty ships, because all the sailors who could stand on them were all killed after the pirates spent a huge price!

The ship is a dead thing if no one is to control it. The pirates also quickly moved these Chu warships, and there was a loophole in the blocked Huaishui exit, and the pirates quickly got out of such a loophole!

The sailors of the Chu army who intercepted it did not expect that the pirates in Taoqiu would be so brave and able to quickly escape from the encirclement of the warships! And after the three ships escaped, the Chu army also began to really exert its strength, and the main battleship of the Chu army appeared from Fuling Lake!

This tall capital battleship is an incomparably powerful building ship!

Compared with the tall building ships, whether it is the Meng Chong fighting ship of the Chu army or the pirate ship, they are all like ants! The building ship of the Chu army is more than 100 zhang long, as high as 10 zhang, with a four-story building, towering like the god of the sky. As soon as it arrived near the ship, a huge clapper stick stretched out from it, and with a full blow from the clapstick, the ship that had just escaped was split in half!

Such a powerful ship immediately boosted the morale of the Chu army sailors who had to intercept them, and the Taoqiu sailors who intended to pass through the interception line immediately sank in their hearts, and they couldn't help but feel a sense of despair!

At such a critical moment, the real main force of the Taoqiu Water Division, which was completely smashed by the Yi Mansion with money, and the "regular army" that used the blood of the Onozawa water bandits to raise combat effectiveness arrived! And on one of the main battleships of these ships, Dai Yan personally stood on the bow of the ship, looking at the complicated battle situation in the distance.

Seeing the extremely powerful building ship, he immediately ordered his subordinates to find a way to deal with the building ship, so that the surrounded sailors could rush out of it!

If it is a one-on-one decisive battle, it can only compete with it unless a building ship is mobilized from the Taoqiu Sailors. And in the absence of a building ship now, any warship that comes close to this kind of giant is a move to seek death!

Fortunately, the sailors of Taoqiu did not want to completely defeat or even capture it, they just wanted to get the ship out of this battlefield!

The five battleships rushed to the place not far from the building boat, but none of the battleships were willing to approach the other party, and then from the five battleships, several bed crossbow arrows were fired one after another, these crossbow arrows were the special crossbow arrows used by Taoqiu to grab the boat, and it was the first time that they were used on a giant like the building boat!

When the battleship tied up the building ship, the five battleships immediately moved in the opposite direction, and actually relied on their own powerful power to drag this giant building ship to Fuling Lake! On the wide Fuling Lake, the pirate ships that escaped don't have to worry about being attacked by their opponents!

And after the Taoqiu battleship joined the battle, the battle became even more intense! The Taoqiu Naval Division did not intend to annihilate the Chu Army's naval division on a large scale, but used the same method as dealing with the Lou ship, grabbed the Chu army's battleship with crossbow arrows, and dragged it to Fuling Lake, giving the naval division who was sandwiched by the Chu army's two breads a way to escape!

After such a strong team of teammates joined the battle, the plan of the Chu army's sailors to intercept and attack the Taoqiu sailors on both sides failed. The failure of the Chu army's plan to clamp the two breads only means that the Chu army's plan to completely annihilate the Taoqiu Sailor Division has failed, but it does not mean that the Taoqiu Sailor Division has no losses! In fact, this time the Chu army deliberately attacked and caused heavy losses to the Taoqiu Naval Division!

The speed of turning around and escaping was far behind the corsair's escort and whaling ships, and it was inevitable that they would be stabbed in the ass by the Chu warships that were pursuing them later. More than 30 warships were sunk and damaged, and the casualties were almost half of the number of warships entering Huaishui!

And under such a failure, even if the sailor avoided the end of being completely surrounded and annihilated, facing the Chu army sailor with nearly 300 warships, even Dai Yan did not have the confidence to fight the Chu army in a decisive battle on Fuling Lake!

So Dai Yan ordered all the fleets of the Navy Division to withdraw from Fuling Lake and retreat the Navy Division to Surabaya, intending to intercept the opponent's attack in Surabaya!

Through this lure and ambush, although the Chu army did not completely defeat the Taoqiu Water Division, it also formed a huge strategic advantage, took all of Fuling Lake, and completely suppressed Taoqiu on the waterway!

In this way, the entire Taoqiu from both sides of the waterway has completely fallen into a disadvantage! This situation had a great impact on the entire battle situation, and the morale of the Taoqiu army became low. And the Suiyang army, the Chu Zhao army, and the army led by Tian Wen who confronted Taoqiu were all jubilant, and what they had to do now was to continue to wait! As long as the Chu army and sailors can kill from Fuling Lake along Surabaya to Pengcheng and cut off the connection between the various forces in Taoqiu, then Suiyang can become the victor in this Song civil war, and they can also obtain incomparable benefits!

The real battle for life and death in Taoqiu is coming!

If it were the general forces that were at such a disadvantage in the war, I am afraid that they would have been overwhelmed and fell apart long ago! However, when the entire Taoqiu was tied together by Dai Yan with the interests of bonds, no Taoqiu people were willing to back down! They know very well that to retreat is to fail, and to fail is to go bankrupt!

After following Dai Yan to prosperity, they can't tolerate this kind of failure! Subsequently, at Dai Yan's initiative, Dai Yan, who was personally sitting in Xiapi, proposed a crazy water war plan, which was approved by everyone!