readx;?readx; Chapter 685: Armageddon (Part II)

Although Dongting Lake is not as tidal as the sea, it has clear periods of high water and dry water. Pen fun and pavilion www.biquge.info

During the wet season, which begins at the turn of spring and summer, the lake widens considerably, and this area near the north-east shore has no shoals and reefs at all, and any boat can pass through it. However, as the rainy season passes, the height of the lake gradually decreases, and the waters are naturally much shallower, and in some places there are even reefs exposed. If it is dry in winter, it will become a lakeside swamp, and the possibility of traveling with it will be completely lost.

It's the turn of autumn and winter, and the water is already very shallow, and only an experienced helmsman can find a hidden channel, and if you sail indiscriminately, you will definitely run aground. It can be seen that there is a risk in passing through here, if the other party does not chase after him, but watches the play from a distance, wouldn't it be thankless?

Of course, there are advantages - as long as you pass through this shallow water area within a radius of dozens of miles, you will directly reach the battlefield on the other side of the battle between the two armies, and immediately form a favorable situation of three times the strength of the enemy. And if you want to detour, it will take more than an hour, and such a long period of time is enough to clean up the left flank of the Qin army.

It is clearly a three-way duel between the left, the center and the right, in fact, the left fleet is used to lead the Qin army's right fleet away, and then use the shoal to leave it on the south side, forming an absolute advantage in local forces, which is the proud work of the general of Shangzhuguo!

The general who Shangzhu Guo chose to carry out the order was also very cautious, he first used several red horse boats to quickly pass through this passage of about 500 zhang in parallel, and confirmed that there was no explosion, and then commanded the troops to fight and retreat, and drove into the shallow water area.

Relying on their familiarity with the terrain, they walked between the reefs and the shallows like long snakes, and their speed was naturally not fast, as if they were provoking the Qin army and dared not to keep up.

However, he saw that the Qin army fleet stopped advancing and slowly formed a formation, as if it was going to block the Chu army in shallow water.

"It is foolish to choose to fight in the inner lake of the enemy country; I don't even know the water situation, and it's a pipe dream to win! "In the eyes of the generals of the Chu army, the Qin army was already doomed. As long as his left-wing detachment crosses this shoal, and the right-wing detachment flanks the Qin army on the left left and right. With nearly three times the strength of the troops, how can it be invincible?

As soon as he thought of this, the general of Chu was so excited that he could not control himself, he seemed to have seen victory beckoning to him, so he ordered his troops to advance at full speed.

However, at this time, an earth-shattering explosion woke up the sweet dream of the general of Chu State, and he watched as a battleship in front of him was lifted up by a column of water that rose into the sky, and the stumps and broken trees flew all over the sky. Immediately after several loud bangs, the battleships were overturned and blown up one after another, the dead and wounded soldiers floated all over the lake, and the entire front team was already in chaos.

The water column flew into the sky and turned into a downpour, drenching the general of Chu into a soup chicken, he looked at the constantly exploding lake blankly, and said blankly: "Isn't there no thunder?" ”

This is his loneliness, Qin Jun can even make triggered mines, and the simpler non-triggered ones are naturally not a problem.

It is still those coffin-like underwater mines, the difference is that there is no branch-like triggering device, but the firing devices of hundreds of underwater mines are held in series with ropes, and then a long string of mines is anchored under the water, quietly waiting for a ship to pass by, once the line is hung and the firing fuse is pulled, it will cause a series of explosions and destroy the enemy ship.

The legendary 'no devil is not hung strings', this is what it means.

Because they could control the timing of the explosion of this mine as they wanted, without worrying about accidentally injuring their own side, or just blowing up the first ship and alarming the rest of the enemy army, the Qin army carried a large number of this kind of guy called 'underwater thunder', and used two nights to dispatch blackened transport ships to quietly arrange the mines in pre-set locations, including this shallow water channel that the Chu army was likely to use.

What the people of Chu didn't know was that Qin's extremely powerful Southern Chu Espionage Bureau had already figured out the water conditions of Dongting Lake a few years ago. And spy reports show that at this time last year, the Chu army was still frequently practicing how to pass through this section of water smoothly. This gave Marshal Bo Xian at least two pieces of information, one is that the decisive battle venue chosen by the Chu army is Dongting Lake; Second, they want to make something out of this water.

regarded Zhu Lie as a great enemy of life and death, and spent his whole life studying his Marshal Bo Xian, and it was not difficult to guess the article of the Chu army, and it was the best choice to calculate it.

The old marshal had already made up his mind about how to use it, and his subordinates only needed to follow the steps, so he let the Chu army cocoon himself and lift a stone to hit himself in the foot.

Facts have proved that Marshal Bo Xian's prediction was completely correct, and the Chu army really crashed headlong into this dead water, and the Qin water ghosts who were ambushed behind the reef naturally took all the orders, sounding the death knell to the underworld when the Chu army crowded the passage.

To make matters worse, even at the sight of the terrible sight ahead, the following ships could not stop immediately, only to see them slowly but surely crash into the blown up ships...... If it can be pushed away by the trend, it can be regarded as the state of Chu has not yet exhausted, and the fire of the state of Qin has not yet arrived. However, the narrow channel in the shallow water area limited the speed of the battleship, and the momentum generated was not enough to push away the battleship that broke the loss control, and after barely pushing it out for a few feet, it slowly stopped.

The battleships behind also didn't have time to stop, dozens of battleships collided head to tail in a row, and the huge impact force was transmitted to the front row, and finally the damaged battleship was split in half and knocked out of the channel, and even the first battleship that collided was pushed out.

Seeing the sudden brightness in front of him, he felt that the battleship was suddenly accelerating, and the officers and men on the warship cheered and shouted: "God bless Dachu!" "I have to muster up all my energy, rush to the battlefield on the right flank, and beat the Qin army so that I don't even know my mother!

When the warship sailed a certain distance, the overly excited officers and men remembered to look back, and this did not matter, which immediately extinguished the enthusiasm of the officers and men, and the battleship, which was still bustling with activity, suddenly became silent.

Behind them, only three warships followed, and the fourth one deviated in the impact, ran aground with a crooked body, and blocked the channel again. The battleships behind were blocked by it, and suddenly twisted and crooked, and there was no longer momentum, and they were all blocked in the channel.

This time it's completely blocked......

Looking at more than a quarter of the warships and explaining like this, the general of the Chu army was like a knife, but he didn't have time to express his pain, because there was something more important waiting for him - now he had to turn around and turn around the more than 150 Chu ships that had not yet entered the passage and compete with the Qin army again.

The difficulty of the matter lies in the fact that it is very difficult for the large warships with the dense formation to complete the turn.

Qin Jun naturally would not let go of this excellent opportunity to 'take advantage of his illness to kill him'. lined up in a wolf pack formation that had already been lined up, heading straight towards the Chu fleet from all directions. The Chu army hurriedly blocked it with the catapult cannon placed in the stern, and the Qin army did not show weakness, and returned fire with the strongest firepower.

But after a while, it became clear who was strong and who was weak - when the Qin army was at a disadvantage in numbers, they all relied on accuracy and power to occupy a slight advantage in this mutual shooting, and now the Chu army was broken by two and a half, and it couldn't turn around, so it could only use the forty percent slinger on the butt to fight back, and the power was naturally broken and broken, and it was no longer the opponent of the Qin army.

After completely suppressing the opponent, Chu Po gave up this kind of safe play, ordered his subordinates to rush up, crash into the enemy ship, and quickly resolve the battle with broadside battles, even if the losses would increase greatly, he did not hesitate. Because of the news from the scouts, the situation in the middle lane is a little bad......

At the same time as the battle on the left flank began, the battle in the central waters of Dongting Lake also began, and this was also the main battlefield of both sides.

At this last moment, Zhu Lie finally took out the last trump card, fifty 'Giant Spirit Divine Ships'. You have to admire the shipbuilding ability of the Chu people, who have completely digested and absorbed this technology in just five years from imitating the most primitive paddle steamers of the Qin State, and carried it forward, creating giant warships that meet their aesthetics.

These big guys, called 'Giant Spirit Ships', are five floors high, ten zhang high, can accommodate more than 800 soldiers, and are equipped with four sets of huge slap sticks, and are wrapped in cowhide iron armor above the waterline, and there are all kinds of rolling stone and wooden stone throwing cannons...... But if you think this thing is a big slow elephant, you're wrong. It has twenty-four wheels and oars alone, and it doesn't suffer when it gets up to speed...... Of course, slow starting, difficult steering, is a common problem of all big people, and it cannot be avoided.

On the Qin army's side, the capital ship is only three floors high, six feet high, accommodating more than 400 officers and soldiers, and there is no weapon that is considered to be eliminated. Compared with the three-headed and six-armed iron King Kong-like super battleship of the Chu State, the Qin army did lose three points before the battle...... After all, it is an indisputable fact that the higher and bigger the ship, the more powerful it is.

Feeling the unprecedented pressure, Yang Wenyu did not dare to slack off, and immediately recruited Qin Youde's reserve team to step forward to form a large fleet of more than 300 ships, trying to make up for the lack of quality with quantity.