CHAPTER 215 CATAPULT GUNSHIP
Meng Da thought for a while and said, "However, if you leave too many troops in advance, I'm afraid that it will be easy to be discovered by the enemy." Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 info”
Ge Liang could only nod in agreement: "Yes, since Jiangdong has dared to find you directly, he naturally has many eyes and ears, and he knows more about the situation here." Therefore, I didn't dare to send my people to Nanjun and Yidu. ”
Meng Da then asked, "The military advisor has already sent a letter to General Guan?" ”
"Yes, yesterday evening, the enemy had already sent it out before he arrived in Gangneung. Hurry up and relay along the way, at this time, you should be about to get to Fancheng. Ge Liang was also a little uncertain, "I just don't know if General Guan can return to help quickly, and whether Cao's army will pursue behind." ”
Meng Da looked at the dozens of big war ships around him again, took a breath of cold air and said: "The military division has converted all the ships into this, I don't think there is a need to wait for General Guan to come back to help, the enemy's naval ships will be lost." ”
The fleet quickly headed downstream along the river, and a large number of enemy ships could already be seen on the river ahead.
Sergeant Koto was already in chaos at this time, and everyone was struggling to crowd to board the ship. Several small warships, already loaded with many sergeants, flexibly sailed away from the fleet to meet the battle.
Meng Da hurriedly said to Ge Liang: "Strategist, then I will immediately change ships and prepare to go ashore to fight!" ”
"Go, I wish Zidu to win countless battles in this battle, and build my Hanzhong Wang Junwei!" Ge Liang nodded to Meng Da, and at the same time ordered the rear team to quickly let Fan Jiang and Zhang Da also prepare to lead the army to abandon the ship and land and attack the enemy from the land.
Several warships in Jiangdong rushed out first, trying to intercept the enemy ships and protect the other sergeants to hurry on board to meet the battle, but found that the enemy ships coming in the distance seemed to be a little different from the enemy ships they usually saw, and there were several logs erected high on them.
At this time, there was a sergeant standing at the bow of the warships of the Shu army, quietly estimating the distance from the enemy ship, ninety steps, seventy steps, fifty steps, forty steps!
"Put!" With their loud roar, many long logs were suddenly erected on the warship of the Shu army, and at the top of the long logs, many large and small stones were thrown into the air, and then roared and smashed towards the enemy ship.
It turned out that Ge Liang had converted dozens of large war ships into "gunboats", each of which was equipped with two trebuchets that fired forward, and two that could be fired to the left and right respectively.
The Jiangdong sergeants only felt that there was a flower in front of them, and countless black shadows fell from the sky, and they hurriedly dodged in all directions as they drew their bows and arrows and prepared to shoot.
The stones fell, the small ones smashed the enemy soldiers to pieces, and the large ones just fell heavily on the deck, smashing the wooden deck into sawdust everywhere.
As another boulder flew in, the boats were either smashed through the board and into the water, or they were hit by the side of the boat and lost their balance and capsized, and they all sank one after another, leaving only some sergeants paddling desperately on the river.
"Well played!" Ge Liang stood on the boat and shouted loudly.
They all say that your Jiangdong naval army is powerful, I don't believe that there is no boat, you can win our big boat by stepping on the water with pants on.
As the ships of both sides approached rapidly, the enemy ships that had just been loaded with sergeants and had not had time to sail out to meet them were hit by stones falling from the sky, and many of the sergeants on board were killed and wounded, and they all rushed back to shore.
Han Dang had already boarded a big ship, and seeing that all the sergeants were so frightened that they were about to get off the boat, he hurriedly blocked the gangplank with his horizontal knife and shouted loudly: "Don't be afraid! Don't be afraid! Although the enemy's trebuchet is powerful, it is slow, and it can only hit long distances, rushing in front of them, and the trebuchet is useless! Give me all back, hurry up and sail and approach them! ”
These enemies, thanks to their imagination, actually loaded trebuchets on the ship, which is all wooden, how can it withstand the impact of falling rocks from high altitudes.
Alas, how come we didn't think of it before?
It is also said that this is far into the enemy's territory, and the city has not been captured, if the ship cannot be saved, then can it be returned? Many sergeants who had figured it out hurriedly followed Han Dang and drove the boat quickly towards the Shu army fleet.
Seeing that many enemy ships were rushing towards him at the risk of death, Ge Liang hurriedly let the "gunboats" retreat a little first, and ordered other warships to plug in to block the enemy ships, so that the "gunboats" could fire the "stone cannons across the boat" in the back.
Hahaha! In addition to "gunboats", Lao Tzu also has frigates!
Han Dang led the army to rush over and wanted to board the "gunboat", but was blocked by other enemy ships, on the one hand, he had to withstand the attack of the enemy ship soldiers in front of him, but also constantly hit by the enemy's stone artillery, rushed several times failed to rush into the enemy ship formation, seeing that the small boats around and behind him were constantly being smashed, and soon only a few large ships were still supported.
Even so, those Jiangdong warships that were far away from the attack range of the "gunboats" were not safe, because at this time, a divine bird appeared in the sky again.
Deng Bao and the others, who had already replenished the iron eggs, flew over the battlefield again, and just "threw eggs" at the rear of the enemy ships, and smashed several enemy ships.
Then, the others flew back, but Deng Bao was still hovering overhead, seemingly still looking for a target to "throw eggs".
The gentleman told him that such a "throwing egg" would not kill many enemies, but it would make them tremble.
Seeing the enemy densely packed by the river, he decided to throw the remaining two iron eggs into the crowd this time.
Adjusting his position, he began to dive diagonally.
It's closer, it's closer, okay, let's go!
As soon as the rope was pulled, the two iron eggs fell towards the densest place on the ground.
Then he quickly adjusted his posture and began to climb upwards.
At this height, he is disguised in colorful clothes, and the enemy should still not be able to see that it is flying in the sky, it is a person, right?
Then, he flew again towards the hillside ten miles away, ready to load the iron egg again.
By the river, the sergeants had now seen the consequences of the eggs laid by the Sky Divine Bird, and they were all staring nervously at the sky, and when Deng Bao swooped down on them, they quickly scattered and fled.
The two iron eggs failed to hit anyone, and only smashed a deep hole in the ground.
But this time, I heard the rumors that this attack was ambushed by the enemy, and seeing that my own fleet in front of me had suffered heavy losses, and there were still divine birds laying eggs and smashing people in the sky, no one was interested in checking what the eggs of the divine birds looked like, and seeing that the divine birds had flown away, if they came again, they didn't know how many good ships could be left, and if they didn't run for their lives, there would be no chance!
"Run! Hurry up and get on the boat and get out of this place! I don't know who shouted first, and everyone immediately rushed to board the ship in a frenzy.
If you don't run away, do you really want to wait here to be killed by the enemy, or stoned to death by the divine bird?
This battle can't be fought, so run away and go home!
Everyone rushed to get on the boat, and the first to get on the boat didn't even care about the people behind, and they were in a hurry to shake the rod when they came up, and the fewer people the better, and they ran fast! (To be continued.) )