Chapter 553: Teng Jiao is mighty
The rain is getting heavier, and above the cars, boats, and ships, the big flag with the word "Gan" is messy in the wind and rain. Pen fun and pavilion www.biquge.info
Head-on, countless enemy giant ships appeared and disappeared in the rain and fog, and the momentum was extremely huge.
Liu Biao's family is a great businessman, who has been running Jingzhou for many years, and has a complete fleet of naval warships, and most of them are large fighting ships.
Water warfare, with the bow and crossbow as the most important weapon, the fighting ship is tall, not only carries a lot of troops, and the relatively low battleship has the advantage of condescending and dive, and more importantly, the fighting ship itself is a weapon, if the hull is strong and tall, you can knock the opponent over directly without fighting.
Gan Ning clenched the trident in his hand tightly, this trident was the chrome steel war halberd given to him by Gongsun Bai, Gan Ning had only heard of the sword that sharpened iron like mud, and never thought that there would be a war halberd with iron like mud in this world, which was naturally very precious and regarded as life.
He stared coldly at the approaching enemy fleet in the rain and mist, but a sneer rolled into the corner of his mouth.
He once served in the Jingzhou Army, and knew that although the battleships of the Jingzhou Army were good, they were ultimately inferior to the battleships of the Yan Army, not to mention the degree of strength, but the power alone was a big difference, after all, the Yan Army's battleships were pedal oars, and the Jingzhou Army was still a traditional hand-cranked oar.
In a matter of moments, the ships of both sides entered the battle distance.
In Cai Mao's eyes, a strong battle intent rolled out, and suddenly the blade pointed at him, and said sharply: "Order the whole army, start attacking, and kill all the enemy thieves for this general." ”
Under the command of the commander-in-chief, the flag-bearer on the mast quickly waved the signal flag.
In the blink of an eye, the enemy and our ships were approaching more than 200 paces.
Gan Ning's eyes. Suddenly a trace of cold killing machine swept by.
"Prepare a crossbow!"
As soon as the words fell, on the battleship battlements, a Wanjun repeater was erected, and behind the Wanjun repeater, there was a cloud of crossbow arrows holding a divine arm crossbow aimed at the oncoming battleship.
Woo Woo Woo ~ Ten thousand arrows were fired at once, and the powerful crossbow arrows made a sharp whistling sound in the air, like a stream of light towards the Jingzhou army.
The distance of more than two hundred steps is far from the range of the Jingzhou army, but for the Yan army's divine arm crossbow, this distance is too close, even if it is a Wanjun crossbow, it is enough to cause terrifying lethality.
Those Jingzhou sailors standing behind the battlements saw the power of the Yan army's crossbows for the first time, and they didn't expect that there would be crossbow arrows flying at a distance of more than two hundred steps, so they didn't think of dodging at all.
Burst~
A sharp arrow was like a meteor, penetrating the throat of a Jingzhou army leader, who was still struggling in horror holding his throat, the wolf tooth arrow had come out of his neck, and then shot into the mouth of a relatively short Jingzhou soldier behind him, and then penetrated the back of his head, and a blood-dripping arrow burst out.
Within two hundred steps, an arrow pierces two people, and only the unparalleled Divine Arm Crossbow in the world has such power!
"Dodge the arrows, dodge the arrows!" The generals on the front row of warships roared, and the Jingzhou navy in a large area screamed and fell, and all the Jingzhou soldiers woke up like a dream and hid behind the battlements.
Toot toot~
The crossbow arrows shot by the crossbow of the branch god arm shot into the hull of the ship, and even some of the warships were a little thinner, and they had already seen the arrows exposed, which shocked the souls of the Jingzhou army.
After a round of shots, the crossbows of Wanjun came in an endless stream, seeing that the two armies were getting closer and closer, but the Jingzhou naval army was completely suppressed under the battlements, and they did not dare to rise at all.
On top of the main flagship of the Chinese army, Cai Mao was so angry that he vomited blood, but he still refused to be reconciled, and roared: "Speed up and knock them over!" ”
The Jingzhou Navy has been crisscrossing the Jianghan Dynasty for many years, and the strength of the warships is by no means comparable to ordinary warships. In his opinion, most of the warships of the Yan army were built by fishermen and boatmen who gathered in the area of the water, but how could the craftsmen who built fishing boats be comparable to the craftsmen who built warships? The famous shipbuilders in Jingzhou have been recruited by Liu Biao in Xiangyang, and Gongsun Bai can find out what good skilled craftsmen can come? Therefore, it is conceivable that the enemy's warship looks mighty and majestic, but it must not be collided, and it may be torn apart after a collision. Even if it is not divided, it is inevitable that the boat will leak and capsize or something.
What's more, these improvised patchwork sailors will inevitably stand unstable after colliding with the ship, and where will there be any combat effectiveness.
So although the crossbow arrows were suppressed, Cai Mao was still full of confidence in defeating the Yan army, and the Jingzhou Navy had been crisscrossing the Jianghan for a long time, and its reputation was not in vain.
With such a dense array of battleships, if the Tengjiao army dodge, the formation will inevitably be scattered, and the only way to do it is to fight hard, not to mention that Gan Ning didn't think of dodging at all.
His Majesty had a decree before the war, and he was going to hit it, but he was really afraid that he Cai Mao would not hit it, even if it was damaged, he could build one in the blink of an eye by using immortal arts, and it would take him Liu Biao to build a battleship for at least a few months, and it would be over after the collision.
"It's all for Lao Tzu to stand firm, hit them to death!"
This time, the orders of both sides are surprisingly consistent, and the goal is also the same, both trying to knock the opponent apart.
The warships of the two sides were getting closer and closer, and the first of the lines were large warships such as fighting ships, and the convection of the river was almost boiling, and the waves that stirred up rolled up to a height of one or two zhang, hitting the hulls of both sides fiercely, and then scattered.
One hundred steps......
Fifty steps......
Twenty Steps......
Boom boom boom~
The loud crash roared like thunder on the river, and the waves jumped and rolled in the air. Immediately after, screams, falling water, and wood cracking sounded, and the whole river exploded, as if it were boiling.
It is not afraid of not knowing the goods, but afraid of comparing goods! The fighting ships manufactured by the system are the most advanced technological level of this era, while the vehicle-ship fighting ships have reached the most advanced shipbuilding technology of the Southern Song Dynasty, which is a cut higher than the warships of the Jiangdong Navy, not to mention the fighting ships of the Jingzhou Army.
Under the violent collision, although most of the soldiers of the Tengjiao army were unstable and fell down a large area, the queue of the battleships was not chaotic, but the Jingzhou army column on the opposite side was knocked to the ground and staggered, and it was a mess, and many of the warships' boats were broken, and even some of the battleships leaked, and there were not a few Jingzhou troops who were knocked out and fell into the water.
Although Cai Mao's flagship was in the Chinese army, it was also knocked to the ground, and his flagship was the tallest warship among them, standing on the deck to see the battle situation on the entire water clearly. He sadly found that although they had the advantage of the downwind direction, they suffered a great loss in this collision, and the opponent was almost unscathed, which meant that the Yan warship, which he regarded as a broken fishing boat, was far stronger than the Jingzhou warship.
When the Jingzhou army on the river was in a panic, countless crossbow arrows poured towards them, and then one after another the battleships flew forward, close to the warships of the Jingzhou army, one by one, wearing paper armor and carrying steel knives, Tengjiao army jumped onto the enemy warship and launched a fierce fight.
In the face of the Tengjiao army, which was sharp and thick, the Jingzhou army was already at a great disadvantage in terms of equipment and was in a state of chaos, while the Tengjiao army came in a vigorous and orderly manner. Although this nouveau riche sailor, although floating under his feet, is not like those old birds who have been begging for a life on the water for a long time on the boat, but relying on skillful offensive and defensive cooperation, as well as the advantage of equipment, he soon killed the Jingzhou naval army and retreated.
From time to time, the Jingzhou Navy was split off the bow of the ship and fell into the water, and some people saw that they could not resist the enemy, and they jumped directly into the water and fled, and the water between the warships was red, and there was a bright red splash everywhere.
Ren Cai Mao's hysterical command and shouting on the flagship, the defeat was unstoppable, but in half an hour, Tengjiao's army occupied more than a dozen battleships in the front row, and then spread towards the battleships in the back row.
"General, quickly order the battleships to spread out on both sides, do not collide with the enemy head-on, and then surprise from both flanks to disrupt the enemy formation!" Wen Ping on the side said urgently.
Cai Mao's arrogance and frivolity, from the very beginning, despised the strength of the Tengjiao army, coupled with the advantage of being able to ride the wind, he directly adopted a hard-hitting style, so that the warships on both sides were all crowded together, the water battle became a hand-to-hand battle on the shipboard, and the Jingzhou army was completely at a disadvantage.
Wen Ping's tactics were to quickly open up the distance on the river, and then use the Jingzhou Navy Army's skillful control of the battleship to quickly turn to raid the two flanks of the Tengjiao Army and disrupt the array of the Tengjiao Army.
This kind of tactics, if used at the beginning, although it may not be able to win, but at least there will not be such a one-sided situation, after all, those Jingzhou troops who have been fighting on the water for many years are much more proficient in the control of battleships than most of the Tengjiao troops who have only been trained for one year and have no actual combat experience.
Cai Mao finally woke up from a dream, and hurriedly ordered the Jingzhou warships to withdraw left and right and raid the two wings.
The flags rolled layer by layer, the horn sounded, and the Jingzhou battleship that had been ordered quickly lowered its sails, shook its oars, and scattered in a hurry.
Gan Ning, who was standing on the flagship, saw it clearly, and a sneer appeared on the corner of his mouth.
"Flying Tiger Battleship, dispatch!"
With a finger of the halberd, Gan Ning shouted.
The order was passed, and the iron-clad Flying Tiger battleship, which was hiding behind the fighting ship, suddenly came out from both sides, and the sailors drove their oars to the maximum. Gan Ning also personally boarded a Flying Tiger warship and rushed towards the big ship of the Jingzhou Army like the wind.
Seeing this, Cai Mao on the flagship had a slight strange look on his face, as if he was surprised by the enemy's bravery, and then shouted: "Shoot arrows, don't let the enemy approach!" ”
Arrows rained down, but the speed of the Flying Tiger fleet did not slow down in the slightest.
The Flying Tiger Battleship, although the hull is small, but the speed is extremely fast, and the outside is covered with iron sheets, which is enough to withstand the blows of the Jingzhou army's strong bows and crossbows.
The elite soldiers of this Flying Tiger Fleet are composed of 800 water robbers who follow Ganning across the Jianghan River, all of them are crocodiles in the water, and killing the enemy on the water is as simple as the cavalry of the Yan Army riding on the plain.
More than 30 Flying Tiger warships, chopping waves and waves, like huge swordfish, rushed forward in the dense rain of arrows, and penetrated into the Jingzhou naval warship array like the wind.
Gan Ning personally sat on a Flying Tiger battleship and headed straight for Cai Mao's flagship.
At the moment when the two ships approached, Gan Ning shouted, jumped onto the enemy ship with his halberd, and took the lead in killing the Jingzhou army that was caught off guard.
Immediately afterwards, all the troops on the Flying Tiger battleship abandoned their oars and changed their swords, followed Gan Ning and rushed up, killing the enemy ship.
Gan Ning, who boarded the enemy ship, was furious, and the three-pronged halberd waved like the wind, and the halberd bladed everywhere, wantonly harvesting human heads.
Blood splashed, blood and rain fell all over the body, and Gan Ning in the bloody wind and rain was like a demon general of Shura, extremely fierce.
Cai Mao on the upper deck was so frightened that his face was as white as paper at this time, and in the panic, Cai Mao was even more horrified to find that Gan Ning, the Jinfan thief who had only served as a military marquis under his command, killed all the way, and was like entering a no-man's land, unstoppably killing himself.
"Quick, hurry up and give Ben general to block Gan Ning!" Cai Mao was shocked.
Cai Mao stepped back step by step, constantly having his own soldiers moving forward, blocking Gan Ning's footsteps.
It's just that the ants can not block the chrome steel halberd in Gan Ning's hand, and the halberd is like a paper paste when the halberd crosses, and the swords, guns, swords, and halberds blocked by the enemy are like paper paste, and they will be broken when they are swept away.
But seeing the cold light of the Dao Dao flying, in the blood rain, from the bottom to the top, Gan Ning cut a bloody path and went straight to the second deck.
In the midst of the loud shouts, the three-pronged halberd stabbed out with the strength of the hunt, and actually pierced the last enemy pawn through the chamber, and the halberd blade that broke out of the back brought out a water of flesh.
Gan Ning, whose eyes were bloodshot, was the only one left in his eyes.
He dragged the blood-dripping halberd, his hair scattered, like a devil, and Cai Mao approached step by step.
Shout~
At this moment, the wind sounded, and a sharp arrow rushed towards Gan Ning like a meteor!