readx;?readx; Chapter 682: The Dragon King is mighty

This made the Shangzhu State greatly appreciated, rewarded the relevant personnel, and directly promoted the craftsman who came up with the idea to the craftsman minister, and the official residence was the third grade, which can be described as a step to the sky. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

Encouraged by this honor, the craftsmen of the Chu State were greatly motivated, and they developed many new types of weapons and equipment. Among them, there is a kind of 'Keju bomb' that is cheap and very vicious, which is mixed into a huge mud ball with yellow mud and cow red deer hair, or exposed to the sun, or dried by fire, and its weight is less than a quarter of the same size stone bullet, but it is also killed when it is shot, which greatly increases the bomb load of the Chu army.

And this thing will shatter on the ground, so you don't have to worry about being picked up and beaten back by the enemy like a stone bullet.

The Chu army used these various artillery shells to attack the Qin army, and the raindrops of artillery shells crackled and fell, some of which specifically injured people, some of whom specialized in smashing ships, and some of which were smashed with people and boats. After an attack that did not distinguish between the enemy and me, more than 30 ships of the two warships of Qin and Chu that were entangled disappeared...... Of course, most of them are already crumbling Chu ships.

"***, the wind is blowing!" Qin Youde's left arm was bounced open by the scattered flowers of the Chu army, and he grinned in pain, seeing that a ** warship on his side was sinking, he quickly ordered his subordinates to retreat.

The Chu fleet took advantage of the situation to follow up the attack, although because of the bumps in the march, the accuracy was greatly reduced, but the dense artillery still left more than 20 Qin warships at the bottom of Dongting Lake forever.

In the first round, the Qin army lost 30 warships, and the Chu army damaged 60 ships, which should be considered a tie according to the strength comparison of the two sides.

But this can only be regarded as a warm-up, and the real show is yet to come.

Is it easy to get the title of 'famous general' of the martyrs? Through the first round of contact, he found that the Qin army had changed its previous style and seemed to be going to use hand-to-hand combat to fight it out.

"Think beautifully!" General Shangzhu sneered and said, "Order the troops to keep their distance and bombard them with artillery!" He saw that the Qin army had such a great advantage in hand-to-hand combat, so he guessed that the Qin army should want to win by surprise, so he brought more assault soldiers. But the load of the ship is so large, the number of shells they carry can be imagined.

The Chu army took advantage of the momentum of the Qin army to be defeated and launched a counterattack, and the left and right fleets led by the two generals of the Qin army, Chu Po and Chu Luo, stepped forward to resist, and the two armies launched fierce mutual fire. The cannonballs in the sky whistled and flew around like flying locusts, and from time to time a warship could not withstand the blow, and sank to the bottom of Dongting Lake with a whirlwind, and the whirlpool regained its calm after swallowing up the officers and soldiers who had fallen into the water, leaving only some pieces of wood floating on the water.

More warships caught fire and burned, and black smoke rose from the lake, which could be clearly seen from the Yueyang Tower in the distance.

At this time, the upper floor of Yueyang City was indeed crowded with the people of Chu who were watching the excitement, but there was no usual interest, and no one even made a loud noise. People stood on tiptoe and looked at the river nervously, nervously waiting for the results to come out, and the atmosphere was extremely depressing.

It's a battle that concerns everyone, and if you win, life goes on; Defeat leads to the destruction of the country...... Then life goes on.

Although the dead country is very depressed, after all, they are all descendants of China, and the Chu people's rejection of the Qin people is not so heavy, and there are even many guys who secretly bought the war bonds of the Qin State, secretly praying that the Qin State will not fail, otherwise the bonds will become a blank slate.

Before I knew it, it was already approaching the west, and the two armies had been fighting for nearly a day. The formation of Qin and Chu has long been chaotic, this section you are in the east and I am in the west, and you are in the west and I am in the east in that section, uneven, staggered.

Although the two sides were close, the fighting was noticeably less intense than it had been at noon. Driving warships and throwing artillery stones were very physically demanding tasks, and both sides were exhausted by the time they fought.

Just when the generals of the Qin army were about to gradually retract their formation and rest for the next day, the Chu army suddenly launched an unexpected attack!

We know that among the ships that participated in the war between the two sides, although the pulp steamers accounted for the majority but not all of them, the Chu State had 500 warships of other styles in the list, and the Qin army also had more than 200 warships, which was almost all the warships that the two countries could drive.

When the batter battled, these ships also joined the warband. Although they are not fast and the catapults they are equipped with are very backward, making them unable to become the main force, it is still very cost-effective to use them to contain or even threaten the opponent.

The officers and men on the main warships of the two armies often disdain these 'inferior warships' that flood the battlefield...... As long as you don't get too close to threaten yourself, you don't even have the ** to attack them.

Just when the Qin fleet was about to gradually break away from the enemy position, the inferior warships of the Chu army suddenly rushed out of the hundreds of Chima clippers, which were slender and lightweight, generally used for reconnaissance and transmission of military information, and the speed was extremely astonishing—even more than that of the pulp steamers.

The officers and soldiers of Qin didn't care at first, but when the warships about three zhang long drove closer, they found that these 'red horse speedboats' were just two zhang in the front like a ship, and there were only two help boards in the back more than a zhang away, and the abdomen was empty, and there was a small boat hidden behind!

An experienced Qin army general woke up from a dream and shouted, "Beware of fire attacks!" After he said this, the officers and men immediately noticed that the ships were full of unknown objects, and although they were covered with curtains, they must not be condolences!

Sure enough, these 'red horses', which were either sailing along the water or riding the wind with sails and rushing from all directions, suddenly rose from a position less than fifty zhang away from the Qin army, and then saw that all the sergeants on the boat had retreated to the boat, and then separated from the mother ship and rowed back with the boat.

The Qin army hurriedly scattered to evade, but many of them were still hit by those motherships that were like arrows from the string. The bow of those mother ships was nailed with sharp steel nails, and as soon as they touched the Qin ship, they would use the forward momentum to nail them together with the opponent, and eventually cause the enemy ship to blaze fire.

This is the 'mother ship' invented by the Chu State, which was obviously upgraded after suffering from the hardships of Marshal Bo Xian.

It seems that seeing that the effect is good, the Chu army actually sent a second wave of motherships to continue to attack the Qin army from the same angle, and several huge capital ships also followed, looking ready to follow behind and take advantage.

As soon as they saw the state of Chu putting on this posture, the Qin warships did not dare to stop it. Just by the previous order of 'gradual retreat', they scattered in all directions, preparing to get out of danger first and then regroup.

When the 100 'red horses' rushed along the route of the last time, everyone thought that under the curtains of these 'mother ships', there were still flammable materials such as firewood and grease, and they just retreated vigorously, and did not look closely - at this time, something unexpected happened!

I saw that although these red horse speedboats came from different directions, they had only one purpose, and that was a position on the left in the Qin army's formation. There was originally an unusually dense concentration of Qin ships there, but the formation of the Qin army had been dispersed by the first wave of 'mother ships', and now there were less than ten warships left.

Ordinary officers and soldiers of the Qin State didn't notice anything, but the senior generals were shocked into a cold sweat and shouted one after another: "Where is the prince!" "One of the eight warships looks exactly the same as the other seven, but with an unremarkable black flag on the top of the ship, it is Qin Lei's ship!

Because the prince was not ready to command the battle, the Zhennan generals, who knew that being 'conspicuous' on the battlefield was equal to danger, asked him to sit on an ordinary warship, and arranged it in the reserve far away from the end of the battle, thinking that this would be foolproof.

Who knew that after a day of fierce fighting, the fleet had already lost its formation, and under the impact of the Chu army's 'mother ship', the Qin ships were even more scattered, and at this moment, there were only seven warships left to protect the king ship tightly!

Obviously, the Chu army has accurately positioned the prince's battleship, and it is obvious that their series of tactical moves are all to tear away the gap and deliver this fatal blow!

Show one’s true colors in the end!

Unexpectedly, the Chu army harbored such evil intentions, and the Qin army was immediately panicked, and all fleets sent clippers to meet them, hoping to stop these hateful 'red horses'.

Helplessly, the clipper is a clipper, although the body is weak and can't help the wind, but at this time, the wind and water are smooth, and the speed is no longer comparable to any big ship. Before I saw an eye, a hundred light boats had left behind the approaching warship, and the price paid was only seven small boats being sunk.

The seven frigates of the Qin State were desperately escorting the king's ship to the east to get closer to the main force, but when they saw that the small boat of the Chu army had quickly surpassed all the pursuers, they immediately slowed down and wanted to break off the queen for the prince.

The death squad of the Chu State galloped and brought the two sides closer and closer, but at this moment, something strange happened.

Without any contact and without any attack, the five small boats in the front suddenly exploded and caught fire, and two of the hulls were even lifted three feet high.

Many officers and soldiers of the two sides knelt down on the spot - there was no impact, no bullet, and it was impossible for the purely artificially powered ship to explode itself, so there was only one possibility - the dragon lord of Dongting Lake was powerful.

At least many officers and soldiers thought so, and said in their hearts: 'Also, after fighting on his old man's land for half a day, the lake water has been dyed red, and whoever becomes the master will be unhappy.' ’