Chapter 18: The First Experience of Naval Warfare: Qingjing Harbor
The battle flag of the Xinyue Navy Division is a blue blue with gold edges, five golden dragons on it, wrapped around iron anchors, holding a sail at the corner of the mouth, and writing a big flag with four characters of loyalty. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info
Now, the warships flying the monotonous Luo Wei Sun Flag and the loyal Beiming Water Division flag have completely chained into Qingjing Harbor, and the sound of war is agitated.
If you don't experience something, you won't know how precious it is, and if you don't see it, you won't know how magnificent it is.
And now, before my eyes, is such a precious, magnificent poem, with the loud sound of arrows and fire.
I stood on the edge of the Qingjing Port Fort and watched the orange flames burst out from the batteries of their respective battleships below, and in an instant, there was a loud bang, shells and arrows raining down with tongues of fire, and the huge water droplets and thunderous explosions on the sea surface instantly, and the mutilated human body, splashing blood, sprayed thin in the Qingjing Harbor.
After capturing Qingjing Port, Yu Wenyong took us to the garrisoned Qingjing Port Fort, here, although Xinyue can not provide much support for naval battles, but there are still sixteen heavy artillery guns on the side of Qingjing Port that can reach the general distance in Hong Kong can play a huge role.
These sixteen heavy cannons, which can fire continuously, when ejected, such as the fire snake rapid-fire cannon, is a refit and redesign of the Franco machine gun held by a Western merchant, with an iron rear-loading smoothbore cannon, a barrel, a belly, and a sub-cannon three parts in one.
The body of the cannon is slightly blue-purple, and after continuous firing, it turns red, like wearing red clothes. When firing the gun, the gunner fills the gunpowder into the sub-cannon, and then loads the sub-cannon into the belly of the gun, and ignites the sub-cannon fire door for firing.
Sixteen heavy artillery pieces kept roaring and roaring in my ears, and the soldiers and gunners around me went into battle shirtless, constantly filling and shooting, and watching this scene in the shaking of the ground next to me, for the first time in my life, I fell into a kind of shocked gaze of naval battle, and it was difficult to calm down for a long time.
It was a roar and agitation of blood and fire in the natural realm.
"Look, look there" Yuwen waved his finger to the middle of the Qingjing Long Gorge, the two narrow and deep channels formed by the natural geographical division of the Qingjing Long Gorge, together with the barrage rope, became an undying chain of perseverance,
The flexible and fierce Luo Wei Shui Division was difficult to move, and the Beiming Shui Division, which was tall and powerful with swords and poison bombs, was also violently attacked, and the lethality of firearms was so unforgettable in such a close combat that it was never forgotten all night long.
"There are strange ships there, coming out of the sea, with a small Beiming Navy flag at the tail, look" I looked at it according to my words, and saw a team of 'sea turtles' floating out of the fire and poisonous smoke on the sea surface of Qingjing Port, and I couldn't help but feel excited.
"Don't you know Qing'er is inside?" My nails were almost in the flesh of my fingers, but I didn't even notice it.
I looked at the 'sea turtle' floating and was looking at its strange sailing course, but in less than a quarter of an hour, I saw a huge wave of air overturning the nearby boat and the 'turtle'.
The entire Beiming Naval Division, following Prince Jing's warship, cruised Zhou Xuan in a strange posture, although the mast was broken by gunpowder, it was still galloping in the flying of shrapnel and wreckage on all sides.
And next to it, a fine cross-Japanese ship that suddenly turned left and turned down, was faintly sinking, flying like a meteor, and in the light of the arrows, the warships of Luo Wei and Beiming were burned to pieces, and almost everywhere was the fire and the choking smoke that could not be known.
I looked at the three 'turtles' that were cruising backwards and moving in strange lines, and then they sank again, disappearing, and my heart was uncontrollably locked. Yu Wenyong next to him kept shouting "Release-release-release-", with a huge roar after each sound.
More than an hour later, the rupture of the second main warship of Luo Wei was accompanied by the continuous explosion of a Beiming mother ship and a Beiming rush ship, which broke and sank into the sand, and the shattered corpses floating on the surface of the sea were like the mouths of huge beasts, devouring my heart.
At this moment, however, I saw the 'turtles' again, and although one of them was swept away by a huge blasting wave, the others were still sensitive and retreating, and I was confused.
The body of the 'sea turtle' was the same as that on the main warship of Beiming, wrapped in copper, and with its flexible and petite and steady body, it lured the Luo Wei warship to expose its side chords to the forts of Qingjing Harbor again and again.
Looking closely, in addition to the poison cannon with a very long range in Beiming, every time the cannonball used by Luo Wei fired, it would produce yellow-green gas, and those poisonous arrows that spewed tongues of fire from each other were rained down on the sea and the warship, and the flesh flew everywhere he went.
"This is the soul of loyalty, burying bones in a foreign land." Yu Wenyong muttered indifferently.
And I, but it's hard to do nothing about myself, at this moment I know that this is not a long time, what kind of feelings I have for Beiming, whether it is Qin Qing, Prince Ning, or Prince Jing,
Their sincerity is enough to make me, a man of all turns, who is a good man of all kinds, always prepared for the worst, never opened his heart, and was always on the defensive.
I finally understood that I love Beiming, different from the indisputable grievances and inseparable flesh and blood nostalgia for Xinyue, Beiming let me see a new world, this world is so beautiful, so beautiful that I am willing to exchange my life for its innocence and will not collapse.
In the first ten years of my life, what I saw was that the first emperor of Xinyue and even several dynasties spent tens of millions of dollars to provide for a moment of happiness; It's all Zhumen wine and meat stinks, and there are frozen bones on the road; There are no eternal friends and enemies, only eternal interests and disadvantages;
I am accustomed to the rigidity of the mechanism, the decay and cowardice of the official army, the hypocrisy and deception; I'm used to seeing corpses, vegetarian meals, and idle official eunuch disciples sealing their wives and shadows; I am accustomed to seeing a talented man who has never written ten thousand words in person, but is miraculous and hinders the holy hearing;
I'm used to seeing the vagaries of people's hearts, the smoothed edges and faded truths—but at this moment, I feel so ugly.
I saw Prince Jing, the son of a daughter, covered in blood, still standing upright and giving orders, boosting morale; I saw the weak and slender Xiong Luo'er, with accurate and solid kung fu, calmly going to the death to assassinate and save lives;
I saw Li Congshi, a family of medical officials in several dynasties, and Prince Ning, a member of the princes, who could have no regrets for a kind of strength - I think, maybe I am a Xinyue person, but at this moment, how much do I long for me to be a Beiming person?
I never cared about the interests of those high-ranking officials and giant businessmen, but in these days when I was in Beiming, I saw that my classmates, whether it was Prince Ning, who was powerful and supreme, or Kong Lifei, who was a common man, got along with each other on an equal footing.
Seeing Qin Qing, a woman, knowing that I came here, helpless and powerless, but without regrets for help, trust and love, I saw the sincerity and affection of someone like Fu Shao who was not in awe of his talent and ability.
If something happens to Beiming, the great idea that I don't want to live alone will collapse in an instant.
At that moment, I finally understood a sentence: a woman is a person who pleases herself, and a woman dies for a confidant.
When the self-realization that life seeks in the world can never be obtained, it will be desperate to choose utilitarianism and trade-offs, right?
There's still a strangulation down there. At this moment, I can see that what Prince Jing wants is to rather die than be merciful, but also let Luo Wei have a great victory and miracle that there is no return.
"Maybe for some people, victory is more important than life, right?" I never understood this kind of person, nor did I forgive the abandonment of life, in the story I read about my father since I was a child, the courage to be able to endure the torture and still live like a husband is the most precious, but now, I faintly touched another kind of hero.
I saw the posture of Ding Rongfang, the chief soldier of the Bird Fortune Ship, commanding at the bow of the ship, and behind the Bird Fortune fleet, the ship is as tall as a city, the bottom is sharp and wide, the head and tail are high, there are guard plates on both sides, the ship is divided into four layers, the lower layer is equipped with earth and stone ballast, the second floor is the soldiers, the third floor is the main operation site, and the upper floor is the combat site.
Condescendingly, bows and arrows and artillery are downward, the first is high, and the wind presses down to sink the enemy ship and win with the strength of the ship. I saw Ding Rong waving the five-color flag, opening the geese through the boat formation, cruising flexibly with the twin rudders and four sails of the bird's blessing boat.
The ship's Franc cannon barrels are constantly fired, and the poison bomb projectors are also thundering, while the opponent's cross-sailed warships have long pointed heads, small beam arches, and arced deck ridges, and the transverse structure of the hull is composed of tight ribbed keels and bulkheads.
The longitudinal strength is strong because of the steel structure design, and the seaworthiness and endurance are not trivial, but it is trapped in the Qingjing Long Gorge, and it is difficult to develop its multi-sail and multi-directional flexible advantages, so it puts on a crescent-style battle formation to meet the battle.
The two sides took a corner of the land, threw stones and bombs at each other, and fiercely bombarded each other. They continued to swim away, trying to attack the enemy's weak points, and the ships on both sides kept burning and extinguishing.
I saw Prince Jing commanding the flagship, putting on a T-shaped battle formation, crossing three large concave circles before and after, and continuously inducing many of the most sophisticated and powerful ironclad warships to the flagship, and quickly changing angles like swimming fish.
Exposing the Luo Wei warship to the range of the land cannons in Qingjing Harbor, Yu Wenyong continued to seize the opportunity as if he had a heart, shouting "Release-release-release-"
And many ironclad warships of Luo Wei continued to crash into Prince Jing's warships with a kind of broken cauldron like a fish dead net, and the dense artillery fire like a drug addiction turned each other's masts and crossbows to take off.
The clouds were dyed purple by the fireworks, and the sun, which was as red as molten iron, seemed to be boiling in a pot.
The warships in the T-shaped array opened fire on both wings of Luo Wei, and more than a dozen "fire dragons" that had repeatedly fired fish leaps out of the water hit the cross-sail ironclad warship that Luo Wei was rushing towards Prince Jing's flagship warship and trying to collide with each other.
The flames exploded suddenly, first with a blazing sound, then with a loud bang, and finally with a loud roar from the bottom of the ship, and in an instant, the ironclad warship with its teeth and claws was no longer able to move.
I finally understood what the 'turtle' was doing, the shrewd helmsman on the turtle, with the long pole next to the rudder, constantly tied the explosives and the "underwater dragon cannon" under the sea magnet again and again.
Adsorbed to the iron ship that Beiming was the most unbearable, and held up the ammonium nitrate black oil explosive, which ignited again and again, and the turtles that floated out were less and less each time, and my heart was tight and difficult to breathe.
For the first time, I resented that the forts in Qingjing Harbor were so weak, that they could not move, that they could not help, that I could see them, but that they could not hit them. For the first time, I felt that I was wrong, and that the Luo Wei who I thought were very brave and strict in their interests were actually just a bunch of unscrupulous gamblers who would do anything to win.
I clearly saw that when the Beiming Naval Division was already very proficient in firing a single round, they could fire three or four rounds, and in order to pursue the frequency of firing cannons, Luo Wei's shells were all laid on the deck in a two-tone posture.
At that moment, I really wished I could fly, throwing igniters from the sky to ignite them, however, at this moment, the harbor fort next to me could not hit them, and sighed, letting them use their last rage to fight with the Beiming Naval Division into a bloody picture.
I saw that as the battle progressed, countless warships caught fire and sank, and the warships of both sides were now using their flagships as guides.
Prince Jing has taken the lead, where is the supervision of the army of a prince and grandson, it is clear that the commander of the first army deserves to be a brave general, he has always stood in the flagship, constantly giving orders to command, inspiring morale, the flagship continues to lure the enemy, and then the rest of the warships and turtles cooperate with the port battery to encircle and annihilate the plan, the beginning of the temple is to win the bet, Luo Wei will be the prince of Jing, the main general's bravery inspired crazy to shoot at the flagship, bombardment.
Completely unintentionally fell into the place of death. I never hated myself for not knowing water warfare and understanding the doorway as I do today, but I know that Qingjing Port, which passes through ambushes and heavy iron cables, is a place of death, and as long as all the Luo Wei ships are led here, only the question of who will die in the end remains, and the Beiming Naval Division and Prince Jing, General Zhu, will not let me down.
A Beiming mother ship and a warship, suddenly carrying a full of fireworks from the side and rear straight to the Luo Wei flagship, with a concealed and firm attitude, crashed away, in an instant,
On the side of the warship, I saw the last heroic appearance of the owner of Yushan Island, who had been aggrieved by Luo Wei all his life and did things of betrayal and humiliation.
Choose such an ending and die like a hero, perhaps, no matter which side of the people, will eventually forgive him for what he has done in his life, and hang down his high eyes for him.
At this moment, I may not know that after a long time, there will be poets who will revisit their hometown, leaving behind "beacon green mirrors, Huaibeiming, old people are not frightened." One is guilty of the same crime, and the green mountains welcome each other. A thought of embracing the same leaning, and the famous will be in love through the ages. Songling Fengyuan Dai is self-purifying, why bother to worship the moon and the sky? Words.
At this moment, the explosion of those piercing shots continued, and the two sides were still approaching the election, swearing to fight to the death, and the only 'turtle' that could continue to slide was still working hard to destroy the last tricky ironclad warship with sea magnets and explosives.
The flames soared into the air, accompanied by the earth-shattering "put-put-put-" Yu Wenyong was indescribably excited,
"Look, look, another one", the eye-burning red light set off a terrifying wave, sucking the 'turtle' into and spewing out of the sea, throwing it far away, the fragments floating in all directions, and the warship that emitted the last red light also shattered in two, and together with the screams and sorrows, it sank into the port of Qingjing.
And I, finally, saw my Qin Qing again in the ruthless destruction of gunsmoke.
Although she stumbled out of a 'turtle' that had tumbled to the shore, her face was black with gunpowder, her apricot eyes were still slight, her phoenix eyes were awe-inspiring, and she was lovely, but I felt that her appearance was beautiful, as if it were a perfect sound.
Every time I meet in another world, I feel even more sorry for this confident and unyielding beauty.
Whether it is Qin Qing or Xiong Luo'er, as women, they do not have the strength of men, nor can they be said to have the intelligence of genius, however, they are precise, keen, and meticulous to integrate all technology and strength to the extreme, and they have perseverance and perseverance that men cannot match.
When the history books say that this woman and the eunuch are both crazy, I clearly understand that there is no kind of person who is not crazy, and there is no kind of person who is not amazing.
Qin Qing made me irrepressibly shaken by the beauty of her persistence, her perseverance, so that she could achieve anything that required concentration and consistency that I could not achieve, whether it was playing chess, sword fighting, fighting, or infiltrating the enemy camp alone.
And her stubbornness is not her most trustworthy beauty. She and Qin Qiong, people like General Qin Yi are not the best scout candidates, but maybe the other party is honest, Beiming can no longer find a more persistent and loyal person to take on this sword-like duty hanging over the heads of internal and external dignitaries, right?
"It's her, that's my lady," I said to Yu Wenyong, but after watching the battle, I was speechless.
"That?" Yu Wenyong was stunned and said, "It's a female general." ”
This is a nonsense, however, I am very pleased with this evaluation.