Chapter 128: Temptation
On a building ship of the Jingzhou Navy Army, Cai Mao stood majestically on the top floor, surrounded by all the generals, and the dense warships around him were like stars holding the moon, looking around, he felt as if he had climbed to the top of Mount Tai, as if he had a feeling that the world was in his hands.
And opposite him is the water village where the Lujiang water army docks, and the other party has hundreds of warships, but they can only defend against the water village, and they dare not come out to fight to the death, like a maid at home, trembling in front of his obscenity.
This made Cai Mao feel even more proud, because he knew very well that although there were many warships in Lujiang, there were only more than 20,000 soldiers, and they were not his opponents at all, so they would definitely not dare to come out to fight.
After all, the water war in this era is still fought by people in the end, and warships are just auxiliary roles.
Liu Xun on the side of Lujiang Water Village had already reported that he had ordered the whole army to enter a defensive state.
Cai Mao stood on the ship, and after observing with contempt, he found that the defense of the water village was very simple, just some open piles, hidden piles, and river locks to prevent fire attacks or landings, and the offensive buildings of arrow towers and arrow towers were very rare, so he asked the deputy general beside him in wonder: "When Liu Miao sent Zhang Ying to attack this village before, how did he lose and retreat?" ”
The deputy general hugged his fists and said: "Back to Dadudu, Lujiang Water Village is equipped with a large number of trebuchets, not only has a long range, but the most important thing is that the accuracy is extremely high, and it can also throw large pots of fire oil remotely, so Zhang Ying was defeated in the shooting between the two sides and had to launch a landing operation, and the result was defeated. ”
"Trebuchet? Is it so powerful? Cai Mao was suspicious, but after a little pondering, he asked the generals who were on standby, "Where is Chen Heng?" ”
"The end will be." A military general came out of the ranks and gave up his hand.
When Cai Mao saw the person, he directly ordered: "Order you to go back to the headquarters and send ten ships to come forward to test it." ”
Chen Heng was furious when he heard this cannon fodder-like order, but he didn't dare to speak, and when the other generals saw this, they also looked at Chen Heng with a disdainful sneer.
"The last general commands." Chen Heng lowered his head and gritted his teeth to accept the order, and after answering, he turned around and got off the boat......
Chen Heng was originally Liu Xiang's general, but was later annexed by Zhenrong, and the 10 fighting ships and 30 ships he led were also the remaining naval warships of the original Liu Xuan.
After Chen Heng followed the defeated Liu Xiang to Yuzhang, Liu Xiang handed over the naval warship to Chen Heng in order to collect his heart, but he never thought that now it had become the capital of his life, otherwise he might have been cleaned up by Zhen Rong a long time ago.
Chen Heng now has the warship left behind by Liu Xuan in his hand, as well as nearly 10,000 troops, and theoretically he is not afraid of having many troops than him. But as soon as Liu Miao died, Cai Mao's army suddenly came to Yuzhang, and he had no chance to resist at all, and finally had to obediently accept the fact that he was annexed by Zhenrong, and then he was ordered to accept Cai Mao's dispatch, so he became more cautious.
Cai Mao didn't think much of Chen Hengshui's ability to fight, but because he had dozens of more warships, he didn't care about himself.
Especially for a task like the current one to test the defense capability of Shuizhai, it is most appropriate to hand it over to cannon fodder like Chen Heng, so that even if there is a loss, he will not feel distressed.
Chen Heng returned to his headquarters and obediently ordered to send ten ships to feint to attack the water village......
After a while, the ten selected ships came out of their main formation, and approached the water village in a line, intending to travel to a distance of eighty paces and test them with bows and arrows.
Two hundred paces, a hundred paces, and slowly, the ten ships were already within range of their bows and arrows, and began to prepare to shoot, but before the archers on the ship could draw their bows and shoot arrows, a large stone projectile flew out of the water village and smashed at them......
Under Liu Xun's order, the stone shells of one hundred ballistas and sixty-four thunderbolts in the water village unceremoniously slammed into the ships that came to test them, and a crackling sound and cracking sound suddenly sounded on the water surface, mixed with a terrible scream!
As if they had suddenly entered the apocalypse, the sailors on board were instantly hit with the same fierce blows they had ever attempted.
On the flagship of the Jingzhou Lou ship, Cai Mao was also startled when he saw the heavy shelling!
In this moment, he only heard a whistling sound from the air, and a black dot smashed into the ten ships, and then his eyes were blocked by the mist stirred up by the waves, and after the mist dissipated, the ten ships that appeared were already in a mess, and even some of the sails were smashed into the water by stone bullets......
"Hiss!!"
After Cai Mao saw the tragic scenes of these ships, her face was completely gloomy, and she suddenly understood how Zhang Ying failed more than a month ago!
These stones are too accurate, which is completely unreasonable! If he continues to fight like this, even his Jingzhou Navy will be smashed and sunk in a few hours.
If you want to break through the water village, the only way is to rush to the shore quickly, don't think about what to shoot, what bow and arrow to suppress, you can only rely on landing melee combat.
In Cai Mao's thoughts, the Lujiang Water Village was not idle, and the second wave of attacks smashed towards Chen Heng's ten ships......
"Governor of the Great Metropolis, General Chen Heng asks for the collection of troops."
Cai Mao was a little unhappy when his thoughts were interrupted, but when he saw that those ships were beaten and couldn't fight back, they couldn't play a tentative role, so he suppressed his anger and replied: "Mingjin." ”
“……”
"Dingding......
With Cai Mao's consent, the sound of Ming Jin finally sounded, and the generals on the ten ships heard it as if they were amnesty, and quickly commanded the warships to row towards the main formation, no longer considering what to shoot, this is not an order of magnitude attack at all.
Unfortunately, it was not so easy for them to run, and soon the ballista was re-loaded and aimed, and when they were about a hundred paces away, another ferocious blow came.
The sixty-four thunderbolts on the thunderbolt array also began to shoot at Zhu Yuan again, and when the warships reached the firing position by throwing their nets, sixty-four boulders of hundreds of catties were also thrown out, and these stone bullets were several times larger than the stone bullets of the ballistas......
When the ten ships were finally out of range of the water village, they were hit by a total of five rounds of ballistas and three rounds of thunderbolts, and they were attacked by nearly six or seven hundred rounds of stone shells, and even one hundred rounds were enough for them.
Two of the ships began to leak, and one even began to tilt, but fortunately the hull had watertight compartments, otherwise it would have sunk by now. Another mast was broken, the sail fell into the water, and the hulls of all ships caused damage of varying severity, none of them were left behind, and at least dozens of people were killed and wounded.
In less than a quarter of an hour, the ten ships suffered heavy losses as if they had experienced a great battle......