Chapter 152: The Battle of Diaoyu Island (Part I)

Taihabuha reacted at this time, no wonder the city was unguarded, and he couldn't help but secretly despise, Fang Guozhen was a person from a small family after all, and he didn't even dare to confront, so he dared to cross the sea. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info

"Boom"

Before Taihabha could finish despising Fang Guozhen, the port outside the city resounded with a roar, and hurriedly asked, "What's wrong?" ”

After a few moments, a soldier of the sailor ran in and cried out, "My lord, the thief has taken our ship and run away!" ”

"Ahh

Taihabuha was stunned on the spot, and only then did he understand at this moment, he fell for Fang Guozhen's plan to divert the tiger from the mountain, and immediately shouted: "Go back to the port!" ”

What caught his eye was the devastation of the port, Fang Guozhen plundered ten warships and left, and the remaining ships were either in the sea of fire or were blown up by fire bottles.

Taihabha's cold sweat came down in an instant, he came this time, but he brought one-third of the main warships of Jiangsu and Zhejiang provinces over, if the losses are too great, the guy who eats on his neck doesn't want to stay.

In a trance, Taihabuha barely stood firmly, and almost fainted, but fortunately, a cronie next to him grabbed him and hurriedly comforted: "My lord, there are a few ships over there that are still intact!" ”

"Quick, chase the thief!" Taihabuha came to his senses in an instant, gritted his teeth and said angrily, at this moment, clenching his fists, he must catch up with Shang Guozhen and get his head to relieve his anger.

Fang Guozhen and the others left in a hurry, only destroying more than ten ships, leaving eight ships. Knowing that the thieves were heading north, Taihabuha immediately shouted and raised anchor in pursuit.

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For the firearms of the Yuan army's warships, fortunately, they had captured a few ships before, and the sailors probably knew how to use them, otherwise, they really didn't dare to confront the Yuan army.

"Li Junshi, I don't understand, why do we want to go in the direction where the Yuan Court Water Division is stationed?" Winning the warship so smoothly, and controlling the initiative of the battlefield in his hands, he had to be grateful to the young man in front of him, Fang Guozhen didn't dare to slack off at the moment, but he still asked suspiciously.

Li Xingze hugged his fists and said: "This time it's the kid Meng Lang, I think so, if we don't hurt the sailor in this battle, it is estimated that Leader Fang will not have a good time in the future!" ”

After several years of crisscrossing the sea in Jiangsu and Zhejiang provinces, the Fang family is familiar with the hydrology here, and the second is that it is enough to provoke such an opponent, and it is purely an act of death to easily cross to other provinces.

"The sailor has caught up!" Fang Guoying, who had been attached to the back of the fleet, came over with a flag.

Several people hurriedly looked behind them, and on the empty sea, from a distance, several small figures appeared.

Li Xingze estimated that the distance between the two sides was less than ten miles or so.

"Alas"

Fang Guozhen patted his thigh and said, "I knew I shouldn't be in a hurry!" ”

The ships of both sides are the same, and the skills of the sailors who operate the ships are about the same, and the distance will not change in the slightest.

Li Xingze saw that the canvas on the mast was all bulging, and it was borrowed from the wind, and he wondered: "What is the wind direction now?" ”

Fang Le looked at it and said, "Now the southwest wind!" ”

In other words, driving against the wind, Li Xingze's eyes suddenly lit up, and he said in surprise: "Leader Fang, I have a plan, do you think this will work?" ”

When Li Xingze said the plan, Fang Guozhen thought about it, nodded and said, "It's not impossible, but it has to be changed slightly!" ”

Fang Guozhen's experience can completely make up for the shortcomings of Li Xingze's plan, and the corners of his mouth immediately curled, and he sneered: "Maybe this time I can beat the provincial sailor, and I don't dare to touch my family's mind again!" ”

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"Look at the route of the thief, how is it in the direction of Taizhou!" Taihabuha muttered to himself.

Seeing this, he had to follow closely for a day, but Fang Guozhen's course never changed, and he kept sailing in the northeast direction.

After passing the Taizhou archipelago, that is Sanmen Bay, the important place of Chen Bing of the Naval Division, Taihabuha expected that Fang Guozhen would not dare to take only ten warships to find trouble.

On the ships of the sailors, in addition to the two firecrackers in front of the deck, there are two firecrackers on each side of the ship's chord.

Li Xingze's suggestion was to put the two firearms in front of them in the side chord position, and the firepower was intensive, and the Yuan court's sailors and warships would inevitably have a greater chance of winning.

Fang Guozhen didn't completely adopt this method, he had to consider the weight of the warship when it turned the rudder at a large angle.

Now the two sides are sailing against the wind, and the sailors keep turning their sails in a zigzag pattern, and in general, it will be almost the next day to reach the Taizhou Islands.

It took four sailors to move a firearm on a bumpy warship, and Fang Guozhen planned to turn around on the Taizhou archipelago and turn around just in time to meet the sailor warship that had been in hot pursuit.

After arriving at the Taizhou archipelago at noon, Fang Guozhen immediately ordered a turn, and the ten warships completed a large U-turn in the wide sea area.

The eight warships of Taihabuha had approached the Fang family's fleet for about five miles, and at this time, with the help of the southwest wind, the fleet led by Fang Guozhen all faced the wind head-on, puffed up their sails, like arrows off the string, and flew towards the Yuan army.

Taihabuha didn't expect that Fang Guozhen, who had been burying his head in the process, turned around and fought him head-on, and was overjoyed, and shouted repeatedly: "Prepare to add guns!" ”

In less than a moment, the two fleets had drawn closer to a mile or so.

"Put"

With the order of the Taihabuha ship, the fire of the naval warship rang out one after another.

With the loud 'bang', one projectile after another flew rapidly closer, and Fang Guozhen hurriedly shouted: "Be careful, prepare to ignite the fire!" ”

The first wave of the Yuan Court Sailors shot the projectiles too early, and they fell into the water one after another in front of the deck of the Fang family's fleet, raising a column of water.

It only took about five minutes to reload a firebolt, and at this time, the fleet led by Fang Guozhen had approached the Yuan Court sailors by almost two hundred zhang.

There is no better opportunity than at this time, Taihabuha hurriedly shouted: "Release, release!" ”

There was another 'bang' sound, and the projectile flew towards the Fang family's fleet with unmistakable accuracy.

Long before the Yuan army was about to ignite, Fang Guozhen hurriedly shouted: "Lower the sail!" ”

At such a close distance, the power of the firearm was truly reflected, and the projectiles hit the Fang family's warship one by one.

For a time, sawdust flew and the deck was a mess of projectiles.

There were a few sailors who didn't have time to avoid it, and they were directly wiped out by the projectiles, and blood and scraps of flesh were sprinkled all over the deck.

Just when the Yuan army was reloading the projectile, Fang Guozhen, who had been holding back until now, roared angrily: "Hit me!" ”

The Fang family's fleet was all staggered between the naval warships of the Yuan Court at this moment, and the sound of 'bang' sounded continuously, and the dense projectiles flew towards the Yuan troops on both sides.

Almost opening the bow left and right, in the stunned eyes of the Yuan army, the projectile smashed the side chord and the deck.

Many soldiers were busy on the deck, who would have thought that Fang Guozhen would take advantage of the wrong moment to blast the projectile out.

This wave of projectiles beat the Yuan army to cry dad and mother, and three warships of the Yuan court were directly broken masts and fell to the deck with a 'bang'.

The Yuan soldiers who were suddenly attacked still thought so much, and as soon as the projectiles fell, one by one the fire bullet bottles were thrown over.

The deck of the Yuan court's warship suddenly flashed with fire, and even the hull of the ship was affected, except for a few fire bullet bottles that did not enter the sea, almost half of them were smashed on the body of the sailor.

The two sides just staggered by, and Fang Guozhen roared: "Raise the sails!" ”

One by one, the warships raised their mainsails, faced the southwest wind, puffed up their sails, and quickly left the battlefield.

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In an instant, he was caught off guard by Fang Guozhen, Taihabuha was about to cry, not to mention the casualties of the sailors, only four of the eight warships were still like normal warships, and the other four were beaten a little miserably.

Looking at the columns of black smoke rising from the warships, Taihabuha slowly pulled out his waist knife in despair, closed his eyes, and put it on his neck.

Before he could make a move, the cronies next to him snatched down the scimitar and urgently persuaded: "The adult has the heavy responsibility of protecting the sea, how can it be like this because of a defeat!" ”

This time he lost nearly one-third of the maritime power of the province, and he, the marshal of the capital, could not escape the blame, looking at the devastation, he was sad, closed his eyes and muttered: "That's it, let's see what General Polo Timur does!" ”

When Polo Timur got the news of Ryan, he had been in Qingyuan for two days.

"Bang"

Polo Timur slammed the teacup in his hand to the ground, and shouted angrily: "The thief deceived me too much! ”

Polo Timur would never think that Fang Guozhen was attacking by land, thinking that Taihabha had missed the blockade and let them attack it.

After turning around twice, Polo Timur said angrily: "Order, the whole army gathers, and immediately go to Lianjiang Port!" ”

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Fang Guozhen said with a smile: "Master Li, no one would have thought that we would go to Ogilu Town!" ”

A small naval battle can exhaust the firearms on the ship, and Fang Guozhen, who is extremely familiar with this sea area, plans to copy another arsenal of the Yuan Court sailors.

This time, we went south from Taizhou Road and Haihai, and traveled with the wind, and in less than two days, we could reach Fuzhou Road.

Li Xingze nodded and said with admiration: "It's still the leader of Fang who thinks about it thoroughly, otherwise, I will lose money when I come here this time, and I won't even have to take a firearm!" ”

"Haha"

This remark caused several members of the Fang family to laugh, and Fang Le said angrily: "How good it is to be free at sea, it's not as easy as that Huangzhou!" ”

Although he didn't mean to say this, it made Fang Guozhen's heart tighten, he wanted to leave Li Xingze and Zhang Junbao behind, but he didn't know how to speak.

Li Xingze did not answer positively, but quietly looked at the ocean of water and sky, and said with a smile: "I think I was just a down-and-out person at the beginning, but fortunately my master and Marshal Xu took me in, and now I can stand here!" ”

Although Fang Guozhen didn't say it explicitly, Li Xingze saw some clues, and in order to stop the thoughts of the Fang family, he had to say it tactfully.

Several people in the Fang family all looked at each other, there are really many people who know about this matter, and the contradiction between Li Xingze and Mingjiao Zhao Junyong and others is not caused by this.

Fang Guozhen suddenly shouted: "Kill into Ogilu Town, brothers, don't think about the mothers, hurry up and move the firearms!" (To be continued.) )