Chapter 305: The Dragon Boat Dispatches
"This water will be handed over to me all the way, my five thousand people are enough, as for Gesar's main force, it depends on the two of you big brothers, let's compare and see who can eliminate the opponent in the shortest time?"
Gao Huan said to Shi Le and Chang Yuchun.
"Five thousand against thirty thousand, your guy is not small!"
Chang Yuchun pursed his lips.
"Haha, this still exalts them, the lord has said, the future war competition is scientific and technological strength, although I have few soldiers, but the technology content is high, if I don't only have one dragon ship now, I don't need five thousand at all, five hundred people are enough."
Gao Huan said confidently.
"Hmph, you kid is proud now, I didn't see the way my lord asked you to do it, and his face was even more ugly than eating stool."
Chang Yu Chun Dou said.
"At this time and at that time, people who have not really comprehended the power of science and technology can never imagine how great this power is, and the lord is also discerning, if you let Brother Chang do this, I'm afraid you won't be able to get anything out of it for a long time."
Gao Huan boasted proudly.
"Hmph, don't be complacent, when the lord comes back, I will also apply to set up a science and technology department in the infantry, it may not be worse than you."
Chang Yuchun can not be convinced.
"Okay, okay, don't quarrel, it's decided, Gao Huan, the 30,000 sailors will be handed over to you, Yu Chun and I will deal with Gesar's main force, although this battle is completely certain, but we not only want to win, but also win a big victory, so the two of you can't be careless."
Shile interrupted the two.
"Don't worry Brother Shi, we are all clear about the stakes in this, as long as this battle is won, the other princes will no longer be able to pose a threat to us, the lord has said, as long as he is given three or four years of time, the general trend of the world will be completely mastered, we are all fathers, so the main thing naturally can't be a child's play."
At this time, in a river valley fifty miles away, Gesar's army had been divided into two roads, Gesar personally led the main force of 70,000 people to Tianshui, and the remaining 30,000 sailors went down the river.
Of course, he also knew that his whereabouts could not hide from the other party's spies at all, but to do so was to make the opponent's forces unable to concentrate.
The 30,000 sailors went down the river, and the first stop was Longchuan Town, and the other party was bound to block the 30,000 troops, and Gesar expected that Tianshui would use at least 20,000 men to deal with these 30,000 people.
Tianshui has a total of 60,000 people, with 20,000 people against the opponent's naval army, there are only 40,000 left, his 70,000 soldiers against 40,000 soldiers is not to crush the other party?
Gesar still knows some tactics, knowing that this time he is far away from Tianshui his food and grass is not comparable to the other party, then it is necessary to fight quickly, if the city is attacked with all its might, then the other party can occupy the advantage by virtue of the strong city, he is now divided into two ways, the waterway in order to disperse the opponent's forces, the main force directly attacks Tianshui, if the other party retreats to Tianshui, then his main force will turn back and kill Longchuan Town, first occupy the three towns, if the other party goes out of the city to fight, then there is no support for the city, Gesar is confident that he will take the initiative.
"Hmph, I have an army of 100,000, and you only have 60,000 Tianshui, how to fight and suffer, I will crush you to death in numbers."
In Gesar's eyes, the combat effectiveness of the army depends on the number of people, and the more people there are, the stronger the combat effectiveness, and he can't beat 40,000 or 50,000 of you with an army of 70,000? Anyway, Gesar didn't believe it.
As for the 30,000 water army, this is a bait for Gesar, the weakest strength, this army is to attract the opponent's troops, even if all of them are destroyed, it doesn't matter, as long as Liu Yuetian's main force is eliminated, it will win.
Gesar completed the deployment of his troops and personally led an army of 70,000 to kill in the direction of Tianshui, of course, he had to make a detour of forty or fifty miles to disperse the opponent's forces.
He led his troops away, and the remaining 30,000 troops boarded the ship, and after half a day, they rushed down the river to Longchuan Town.
A wharf outside Longchuan Town, where the river level has slowed down a lot, and a large number of wooden wedges have been nailed under the river by Gao Huan's order, and the warship will run aground here.
"Hurry up, everyone, the enemy is still two hours away."
Gao Huan shouted to his soldiers.
Thousands of soldiers were already on standby, five hundred musketeers, two thousand crossbow infantry, and another two thousand men operated a hundred trebuchets, each with more than twenty stone bombs next to it.
These days, Gao Huan has built more than 200 trebuchets and a thousand muskets, half of which he kept and the remaining half to Chang Yuchun and Shi Le.
"You all told me, our purpose is not just to defeat the other party, but to fight quickly, to eliminate these guys, we have to help Shi Le and Chang Yuchun, our army will be the main force of Tianshui from now on, we can win if others can't win, and we can defeat the enemy that others can't, do you hear?"
Gao Huan shouted.
"Don't worry, general, within two hours we will have the enemy feed all the fish and shrimp."
The subordinates were very confident.
"General, the enemy has reached five miles away, and is about to enter our encirclement."
A spy arrived on a fast horse.
"Okay, then give them a greeting gift first, and the dragon boat will set off!"
As soon as Gao Huan gave an order, the black dragon boat with spikes rushed out of the dock, operated by five soldiers, each of whom was holding a repeater.
The dragon boat was like a giant beast on the water going upstream, and it only took a cup of tea to meet the army of Gesar who was going downstream.
"What's that?"
Where have the Tibetan soldiers seen such a big steel ship, one by one standing on the small sampan and looking at it from afar.
Without any scruples, the dragon ship rushed into the enemy's ship formation, and one of the most advanced sampans was directly knocked over, and even the keel was broken, and the speed of the dragon ship did not slow down at all, and it crashed towards the next ship.
"Boom! Bang! Bang! ”
In a few moments, more than a dozen sampans were knocked over, and the Tibetan army reacted, shouting one by one and surrounding the dragon boats, trying to block each other.
"Bang! Crash! ”
Where are these small sampans that can block the speeding dragon boats, five sampans are lined up together to block the dragon boats, and the result is that two of them flew into the sky, and the remaining three were smashed into a pile of wooden blocks, and more than 20 people fell into the water one after another, and were killed by the crossbows fired from the dragon boat as soon as they floated on the river, and their bodies sank into the river.
The dragon boat rushed left and right, and when it was close, it hit it directly, and when it was far away, it shot with a repeater, but in a quarter of an hour, more than a hundred sampans were knocked and sunk by him, and seven or eight hundred people fell into the river.
"Wow wow, stop him for me, if five doesn't work, use ten, if ten doesn't work, use a hundred, you must stop him for me!"
The commander shouted, and the Tibetan soldiers also became angry, and drove the ship to the dragon ship without dying.
There are more than 100 zhang at the widest part of the Jinsha River here, and more than 40 zhang at the narrowest place, and hundreds of sampans quickly surrounded the dragon boat, and many soldiers could not attack the kind of shooting, but the dragon boat was all closed at this time, and the steel hull was not at all able to penetrate by crossbow arrows.
"Haha, these guys don't want to die one by one, okay brothers, our mission has been completed, rush out!"
The people in the boat laughed, and then they started with all their might, rushing downstream.
How fierce is a dragon boat with full speed? There were already more than a dozen sampans gathered in front of them, and the dragon boat directly crushed over, "Click, click, click!" ”。
The spikes all over the body cut through the fluffy wooden hull, and in the blink of an eye, they rushed out of the dozen or so sampans, and then looked at the dozen or so ships, one by one, one by one, none of them were intact.
The roof of the dragon ship that broke out of the encirclement was opened, and the crew inside bared their heads and shouted.
"Haha, a bunch of idiots, if you have the guts, you'll chase us!"
This angered the Tibetan army, and the commander shouted and led the army to chase after the dragon boat.