Chapter 157: Really Win?

"Battleship", a term that has never been heard before, has been a thorn in the hearts of all Jingzhou generals recently!

In the first battle with it, the Jingzhou naval army was killed by forty ships, and the other side was not damaged at all.

It's a shame!

Then they relied on the meager number of 20 ships to make Jingzhou's more than 100 warships and 50,000 or 60,000 sailors unable to advance or retreat.

And every time you confront each other on the water, you will make your side suffer different losses; And the other party just hung some arrows and went back, or was driven away by a large number of red horse clippers, and for the Jingzhou navy, there was still no gain.

The only one that succeeded was that they set themselves on fire.

There is also the kind of can't be hit; Can't catch up; The Laipi tactics that can't run away are also gnashing teeth!

It is said that this tactic was called by Yuan Yao - kite tactic.

At first, no one knew what a kite was, but later it was learned that it was a wooden bird invented by Mozi, and now it is called a wind kite.

This figurative metaphor instantly makes one understand the shamelessness of this tactic.

So when Wen Ping found the battleship rushing to the battlefield, he knew why Cai Mao had to retreat......

Cai Mao and Kuai Yue were embarrassed to transfer to a warship, and before they could stand firmly, they ordered Wang Wei to lead all ten building ships and sixty fighting ships to stay behind; He himself decisively led ninety ships to turn around and run.

It's not so much decisive as it is life-sparing! What naval soldiers, building ships, fighting ships, and gods are not as important as his safety!

The building boat and the fighting ship were the last to arrive at the battlefield, and they were responsible for outflanking the tasks left and right, so they rushed directly behind the Lujiang naval army, and it was difficult to turn around and escape again.

In addition, the speed itself is slow, and it may be difficult to escape from the pursuit of the battleship, so even if it is a pity, it is still abandoned by Cai Mao without hesitation!

However, using them to break off is a bit overkill!

10 building ships and 60 fighting ships carried a total of 40,000 sailors; The total number of Lujiang naval troops is only 40,000. Now there are more than three thousand on land; There are still more than 3,000 on the battleship, which means that there are only more than 30,000 Lujiang naval troops in the battle, and in fact, there are not as many people left behind as Jingzhou.

Fortunately, the battleship arrived in time, otherwise the Jingzhou Navy might be able to turn defeat into victory!

Yuan Hong arrived at the battlefield and, seeing the chaos, directly ordered the battleship to attack freely, while his flagship rushed to within twenty paces of the enemy ship before dropping five fire bombs......

This distance is 100 shots away!

Now that the ships of the enemy and the enemy are entangled and cannot move, the battleship does not need to worry about the enemy's side, let alone any kite tactics.

The only thing they have to worry about is accidental injury!

Because the building ship is too large to be burned for a few hours with oil bombs, Chen Wu's three-oared warship comes in handy, they can directly hit the building boat with underwater ramming angles and leak the water, and then they can sit back and wait for the top-heavy building ship to capsize by itself.

However, because there is a watertight compartment, it is not enough to hit it, and it takes five or six ships to hit it continuously, causing a large amount of water leakage to have an effect.

And the battleships led by Yuan Hong could free up their hands to deal with the slightly smaller fighting ships.

When Liu Xun led the only building ship to the battlefield, he saw the building ships in Jingzhou sinking one after another, and the fighting ships were burned one after another, and he screamed in distress!

In his eyes, these warships had become his trophies.

But there was no way, the Lujiang naval army alone could not defeat others, and the battleships were not good at broadside battles, so if they wanted to win, they could only destroy the enemy ships.

The three-oared warship was originally used for broadside warfare in the Mediterranean, but it was not easy to use in China, so it could only be used for ramming.

After destroying half of the enemy ships, Liu Xun finally couldn't help but stop Yuan Hong and Chen Wu from harming people again!

Yuan Hong saw that the remaining Jingzhou naval army could be handed over to the Lujiang naval army to deal with, so he no longer stayed and went with Chen Wu to pursue the fleeing Cai Mao.

Lu Shangwen saw that Cai Mao had run away, and the rest of the navy army was also defeated, and finally died of the fighting spirit, and he also ordered half of the people to stay behind, and he led the other half to turn around and escape, otherwise when the Lujiang navy freed up his hands to support the land, then he couldn't run if he wanted to.

Yuan Yao, who had been surrounded, fought back, but the morale of the other party was lost, and he was finally defeated and fled.

Yuan Yao looked at the ground and wailed, emotionally wanting to stay and serve the wounded soldiers, but reason told him that he had to pursue the enemy immediately, otherwise he might cause trouble for the battleship if he was hired by Wen again on the Red Horse Clipper.

He didn't have time to hesitate, and after a little thought, he ordered the lightly wounded to stay behind and take care of the seriously wounded, so that the soldiers of less than two thousand would be even more thin, and only a little more than a thousand could follow him.

Yuan Yao was terrified in the process of pursuit, you must know that there are two or three thousand soldiers who withdrew from Wen Ping, and if half of them ambush him, then he will be stupid.

But fortunately, Wen Ping doesn't seem to be in the mood to play ambush warfare anymore. But when Yuan Yao chased him to the place where he landed, he found that there were only twenty converted boats on the shore, and the more than 600 Chima clippers were gone.

Yuan Yao's heart tightened when he saw this, although now that the defeat of Jingzhou was decided, even if Chima returned to the battle sequence, it would not change the battle situation, but it was still possible to cause trouble to the battleship. So Yuan Yao ordered a thousand soldiers to pick out ten well-modified ships and push them back into the water, and then prepare to return to the water to support the battleship.

These thousand soldiers had been tossing for several hours in a row, and now they were also exhausted, but Yuan Yao had no choice but to say a few words that were not salty or indifferent to boost morale, and then took them onto the warship, and then killed Peng Lijin.

Cai Mao has fled, Yuan Hong will chase again, and the target can only be Peng Lijin. But when Yuan Yao came to Peng Lijin, he found that there was not a single sampan on the dock, let alone any Jingzhou warship, and even a figure was not even seen on land, looking lifeless.

"Could it be that Cai Mao directly gave up Peng Lijin?" Yuan Yao was surprised, but after thinking about it carefully, he felt that it was very possible.

The Jingzhou Navy was defeated, and the remaining warships were no longer the opponents of the Lujiang Navy Army, so even if there was a Red Horse Clipper to contain the battleships, it was useless, and staying in Peng Lijin was no different from waiting for death, so it was better to retreat early.

Yuan Yao looked around blankly, not knowing where to go, in front of him was the huge Peng Lize, that is, Poyang Lake, the largest lake in China in later generations, Cai Mao could go anywhere, Yuan Yao had no clue, so he had to give hope to Yuan Hong.

However, Cai Mao's run is equivalent to selling Zhuge Xuan and Zhenrong, these two are now besieging Tai Shici in Poyang County, with Huaxin's territory in the south, Danyang County in the east, Peng Lize in the west, and Peng Lijin in the north. If Yuan Yao occupies Peng Lijin, it is equivalent to trapping Zhuge Xuan and Zhen Rong to death on the east bank of Peng Lize, and there is nowhere to escape without a naval army to meet them!

After thinking about it for a while, Yuan Yao ordered a landing, first occupied this no-man's land, and then after destroying the enemy on the water, he would rely on this place to take Pengze County near Zhenrong, and then he could go to Poyang to support Tai Shici, so that his strategic goal was achieved!

After occupying Peng Lijin, Yuan Yao looked at the busy soldiers around him, his eyes were a little confused......

"Really...... Won? Or did I command? Yuan Yao, who suddenly relaxed, was like a world away, a battle of more than 100,000 people was won like this, and he couldn't even believe that all this was true!