Chapter 174: The Battle of Runzhou (2)
The sun shines all over the surface of the river, but the river water is shaking like ten thousand golden rays, looking forward to the battle.
The Shenwei Navy is eager to try, and the Shenwei Navy is waiting for Zhu Lingyun at the bow of the ship, and the next fight with the Runzhou Navy is just an internal strife within the country, no matter who wins or loses, it will be harmful to the Tang Dynasty, but no matter what, it is bound to be a battle today.
Metropolitan Supervisor Qicheng stands on the building ship, this building ship of the Tang Dynasty, the deck building is particularly huge, the ship is high and wide, and the appearance looks like a building, so it is called the "building ship". The so-called building ship, because the ancient water war was mostly based on bow and arrow shooting, ship collision and jumping hand-to-hand combat, the size of the ship directly determines the number of sailors and fighters that a single ship can accommodate and the impact force of the ship, so the building ship served as the main ship of water warfare to a large extent in ancient times. However, due to the high height of the ships and the unstable center of gravity, they mostly served as the main force in inland water warfare.
Metropolitan Supervisor Qicheng thinks that the "Lou Ship" ship is tall and can attack from afar and in close combat, and everything must not be feared. Now that he saw that Du Yu was waiting for Zhu Lingyun to be just on defense, he immediately turned around and went down, planning to cut down first and then play with the duty of supervising the army, even if the new emperor Li Congqing was investigated in the future, Qicheng would take the responsibility of supervising the army as a reason to protect himself. Qi Cheng thought about it, he thought that the responsibility of supervising the army was the greatest in the entire army, so he quickly walked to the middle of the naval army camp and immediately ordered his henchmen to go down, he planned to bypass Zhu Lingyun.
Under the sun, the northwest wind on the horizon has been blowing at this moment, as soon as the northwest wind comes, Qicheng looks at it and thinks that the use of fire attack is the most effective method, because it is smooth sailing for the Shenwei Naval Army, so Qicheng took a part of the men and horses, and directly ordered the ships to approach the Runzhou Naval Army, and he thought that only taking the initiative to fight was the best way.
Under the leadership of the overseer Qi Cheng, the Shenwei Navy has prepared flammable materials such as oil. After that, the boat on the side of the Shenwei Navy suddenly started, and the boat was rocking the oars on the river, following the river waves, and the speed of the drive was very fast, rushing towards the Runzhou Navy at a fast speed, and people who didn't know thought that they were fighting to the death.
Zhu Lingyun felt that the deck was moving, he raised his head and saw that the ships on his side suddenly rushed towards the other party, he suddenly felt strange, he did not give the order to start, so he asked everyone loudly, only to see that the soldiers on the ship were looking at him in a panic, for fear of being punished by Zhu Lingyun.
Zhu Lingyun also knew what these soldiers were thinking, so he ran over with his armor and asked some soldiers why.
Zheng Bin, the head of the closest Divine Guard Army, saw the commander coming, he hurriedly gave up his hand, looked at Zhu Lingyun with panicked eyes, and said: "General, this is an order from the supervising army, and the last general has to obey the order." Although Zheng Bin said this, Zheng Bin also felt that Zhu Lingyun was really a weak and assertive person who delayed giving the order to fight.
"What, it's Qicheng, he put all my Divine Guard Water Army to death." Zhu Lingyun stretched out his hands, and then clasped the shoulders of Zheng Bin, the head of the Divine Guard Army, and shook his shoulders vigorously, looking very excited.
Coupled with the turbulence of the ship, Zheng Bin was shaken by Zhu Lingyun and was about to vomit, but he was just a military leader, and everything had to obey Zhu Lingyun's orders, "Yu Hou-"
"Damn." Zhu Lingyun's face had become very ugly, he knew that all this was done by the prison army, just because he was Li Congqing's cronies, he was arranged to monitor himself in the Shenwei Water Army, he quickly let go of Zheng Bin's shoulder, because all this was not Zheng Bin's fault.
Zheng Bin breathed a sigh of relief, his face had regained his calmness, and he was a little angry in his heart, just because Zhu Lingyun controlled the Shenwei Water Army, and he was his subordinate, so he was not easy to attack.
"Zheng Juntou, I'm sorry." Zhu Lingyun said.
"It's fine." Zheng Bin shrugged his shoulders and smiled, but the moment he turned his head, his face was gloomy, and then he turned around and walked away. "I can't afford to provoke and can't hide." He muttered.
In a quarter of an hour's work, the large and small ships of the Shenwei Navy had already rushed to the Runzhou Navy not far away, and Zhu Lingyun's ship was also left behind.
At this moment, on the side of the Runzhou Navy in the distance, although the weather is sunny, the wind direction is not static. The northwest wind reversed, but suddenly it became the southeast wind, today's military division had said to the Runzhou Navy that the wind direction had changed, and now the wind direction has changed, it is smooth sailing for the Runzhou Navy Army.
On the bow of the Shenwei Navy Military Building, which was three or five feet away, all the flags changed direction, and the military flags were blown very loudly, and they were blown in a line towards the northwest.
Zhu Lingyun's face suddenly changed greatly, but he didn't know if the Runzhou Navy would take a response next. If you use the opponent to attack with fire, then everything is over.
Qi Cheng didn't know it, he felt that as long as he won the battle now, he didn't need to think about the rest, but Zhu Lingyun's face was very ugly, Qi Cheng didn't tell him at all and ordered to attack the Runzhou Navy without permission, which is a big taboo in army combat. Zhu Lingyun ordered the Qitou Army to command the rest of the ships to evade quickly, but it was too late for him to give the order at this time.
Not far away, the bow of the Runzhou Navy Army, at this moment, a military leader saw the change in the wind direction of the flag, he immediately ran to the cabin of the commander of the Runzhou Navy and said: "Yu Hou, the wind direction has changed, do you use fire attack?" ”
Everything is ready when they set off, although the strength of the Runzhou Navy is not as good as the Shenwei Navy in Hukou, but Lin Renzhao has also made sufficient preparations, and the Taoist military division also told them about the wind direction before leaving, he originally thought that the other party was playing tricks, but today he saw the change in the wind direction, and he had to admire that Wuyongzi in his heart.
"Well, although you came this time with a part of the Shenwei Water Army, but the marshal told us to be careful in everything, you immediately ordered, ordered everyone to prepare the fire oil cylinder, rushed to the Shen Wei Water Army Zhu Lingyun's department, and immediately cast the fire oil tank when the distance was one zhang away, and be sure to hit it with one hit." All shouted hoarsely, such things as fire oil cylinders had long been prepared in the Runzhou naval army.
The fire oil cylinder, this weapon is used most frequently in the five dynasties and ten countries, it is imported from Southeast Asia and Arab countries to put the fierce fire oil (that is, oil) in an iron barrel, made into a kind of "oil cylinder" that can be thrown, thrown into the enemy ship in a water war, so that the enemy sailors into a sea of fire.
"Yes." The soldier went down, and all the sailors on board were ready.
"Quick, the enemy army is an elite Divine Guard Water Army, you should speed up the transportation of the oil cylinder." The sailors were urging the soldiers to carry barrels of oil cylinders, which had been set up on the anchor table one after another, waiting to be fired at each other.
On the entire river, the Song State, the Tang State Shenwei Navy and the Runzhou Navy combined, a total of more than 1,000 warships, opposing each other on the river, and the warships are mainly based on the building ship, there are five tooth ships in the Shenwei Navy, and the big shot rod seems to be the most well-equipped on the river is the Shenwei Navy.
And the Song army didn't move at all, their ship was moored on the river at the moment, following the southeast wind to see the six roads and listen to all directions, the general on the side of the ship was still using the clairspace in his hand to observe everything on the water, and after seeing it, he had a strange smile on the corner of his mouth. "Tell us to go down, our army doesn't have to attack, just pull up a barrier on the river." Song Jun is just a spectator for the time being, and all this is not worth interfering with.
On the river in the distance, the Shenwei Water Army retreated against the current, but the speed of this headwind and water was naturally not as fast as that of SF Shunshui.
"Ladies and gentlemen, the ship of my Divine Guard is tall, the head of the ship is high and wide, one hundred and twenty paces square, and it is subject to two thousand men. Take wood as the city, get up the building, open the four out, and all have to gallop back and forth. It is what those Runzhou boats can match. "The world of nerds will always have some knowledge, but the reality is not like this, it is not the more that determines the victory, nor is it the well-equipped, the Shenwei Water Army Prison Qicheng thinks so, and it is this consciousness that he preaches in the army at the moment.
"Quickly retreat, speed up, withdraw - don't let the Runzhou Navy catch up, they have oil cylinders on board." Zhu Lingyun roared as hard as he could, and only his loud roar could be heard on the entire boat.
The southeast wind was still blowing, but some generals beside him said: "The enemy army is not terrible, it is Yu Hou who is too worried." ”
"Alas-" Zhu Lingyun sighed, he looked at the flag blowing towards the northwest wind, he had nothing to say, and a layer of frost seemed to accumulate in his heart, but at the moment, he could only hope that the other party would not be so smart.
But the other party's speed is too fast, it's too late, the sweat on Zhu Lingyun's face and back has also accelerated, he has already predicted everything behind, because at a distance of one or two zhang away, he has already seen the bow and stern of all the Runzhou Navy and all the ships are equipped with oil cylinders, and his heart is like entering an ice cellar, so cold that it can't be colder anymore.
"How is that possible, this?" Zhu Lingyun knelt on the ground, and he looked up.
And the capital supervisor Qicheng didn't realize anything, this was the first time he was in the navy, everything was to follow Li Congqing's orders to monitor Zhu Lingyun, in his eyes, he only had to make meritorious contributions, as long as he picked the fruits of the final victory, for him the war was a half-hanging, in fact, half-hung was not a half-hanging.
The sun was still warm, much warmer than at other times, but the southeast wind whined, singing in contrast to today's weather, and the wind swept like a sharp blade on the sails and flags, and I don't know what its purpose was.
The faces of each soldier of the Runzhou Navy were filled with a confidence and smile, and the distance was getting closer and closer, and at a distance of almost a zhang, the Runzhou Navy suddenly withdrew its sails, and then ordered the whole army to throw oil cylinders.
"One, two, three, put-"