Yamamoto Tadaichi wasn't actually running away, after all, 200 of his men died, and if he went back like this, he would definitely be laughed at, and maybe he would never be able to raise his head in the future. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info

Therefore, Yamamoto Tadaichi must save face this time, and it is based on this intention that he ordered his fleet to retreat to a hundred paces away from Li Xian's fleet, and then ordered all the fleets to fire arrows together.

All of a sudden, only the sharp sound of breaking the sky was heard, and the feather arrows attacked like flying locusts, and seeing this scene, many people couldn't help but change color on their faces and dodged one after another.

"This, this damn thief, it turned out that he was not going to withdraw, but he was going to scatter and release arrows at us, so many arrows, how can we be good?" Seeing this scene, Li Yiyan couldn't help frowning, and scolded the widows, but there was nothing he could do except scold.

At this moment, I heard a person say: "You guys quickly retreat, just leave this matter to me and wait for it." ”

Li Yiyan looked at it when he heard the sound, but saw that it was a man, with a dark complexion and a short figure, but he was also very stout, with a loud voice and a lot of energy, although he didn't know him, he also knew that this person was a steward on the ship, he couldn't help frowning, and said secretly: "A little merchant ship steward, what can you do in the face of the enemy's arrow rain?" ”

The man seemed to see Li Yiyan's suspicions, and couldn't help but smile faintly, and shouted loudly: "Brothers, deploy defense." ”

"Okay." I could only hear the shouts of hundreds of crew members, and they ran to the side of the ship, and they didn't know where they touched, but they heard a strange sound, and a guardrail more than a foot high was raised out of thin air on the ship, which was a layer of oil mantle, and although the enemy's bows and arrows were sharp, they could not penetrate these oil mantles, and could only fall weakly into the water.

What is even more amazing is that there is a small battlement on the side of the ship, and the crew members returned fire with bows and arrows at the battlement, only to hear a scream not far from the opposite side, and it didn't take long to hear dozens of screams, and it seems that at least dozens of people were wounded by arrows.

"This, this, I really didn't expect that these crew members have such skilled combat experience, even in the face of the Japanese army, everything is in order, without the slightest panic, this Ming Tang firm deserves to be my first merchant in the Tang Dynasty, it is really admirable."

Li Yiyan looked at all this, with a hint of admiration in his eyes, and nodded in admiration.

Seeing this, Li Xian on the side couldn't help but have a smile on the corner of his mouth, because Li Yiyan didn't know that the biggest backstage of this Ming and Tang Dynasty business was his prince, and he didn't know that after Li Xian's secret training, each of his fleets had been trained into an elite navy, because in the process of sailing, they would inevitably encounter pirate robbery, so these fleets had strong defense organs, and many of these crew members were coastal villagers, and some of them were retired Tang Dynasty sailors, He is proficient in water warfare, and he is also proficient in water warfare, so the entire fleet of the Ming and Tang Dynasty merchants is actually an elite naval army secretly trained by Li Xian.

Of course, the number of this team is actually not much, only more than 3,000 people in total, but this fleet will become a key part of Li Xianda's sailing plan in the future.

However, in order to avoid violating the weapons ban of the Tang Dynasty, this fleet was not equipped with ballistas, and the crew did not have armor, and the weapons used were only horizontal knives and bows and arrows, but even so, it had such an effect.

In fact, during this period, many crew members were also hit by arrows, but they all gritted their teeth, did not snort, and continued to grit their teeth and persist in fighting.

After about a cup of tea, the feather arrows of the Japanese people gradually thinned out, Li Xian knew that they had finished shooting this round of feather arrows, but he knew that the other party would definitely have a back hand, so he did not remove the oil mantle to cover it.

Sure enough, a moment later, another round of arrow rain hit, but this round of arrow rain still did not have any effect, and all of them fell into the water weakly.

At this time, Yamamoto Tadaichi on the opposite side was surprised, because he didn't expect that the other party would have such a strong defensive means, causing them to shoot tens of thousands of feather arrows, which almost didn't have any effect.

"Damn, a small merchant ship has such means of defense, I underestimated them, give me the order, lean over, light torches, and burn the enemy ship." When Yamamoto saw that his feather arrows did not work, he immediately had another plan and prepared to burn the big ship of the Tang Dynasty.

But unexpectedly, at this moment, they suddenly suffered a fierce counterattack, and the sound of breaking the air was extremely sharp, and many Japanese people were killed by arrows before they could react.

"This, how is this possible? How can these Tang thieves' feather arrows be so powerful? It was unexpectedly inflicted such casualties on our troops. Yamamoto Zhong couldn't help but be shocked when he saw this, and when he found out that the so-called feather arrow turned out to be a crossbow arrow, he finally understood the reason, and exclaimed loudly: "This is a crossbow, it turns out that the other party used a crossbow machine, no wonder our army suffered such heavy casualties!" Damn, the Tang thief actually has a crossbow machine! ”

"Huh?" Hearing Yamamoto Tadaichi's words, the surrounding soldiers also panicked, because the lethality of crossbows in the era of cold weapons is far greater than that of bows and arrows, especially some large crossbow machines, which are even more lethal, whether it is cavalry or navy, crossbow machines have absolute restraint.

Fortunately, the Tang army did not have many crossbow machines, and the lethality caused was very limited, Yamamoto Tadaichi was a little relieved, but he also knew that it was not a way to continue the confrontation like this, the Tang army's resistance was very tenacious, and he had to find a way to "outwit".

After some thought, he led the army to continue to lean forward, when he came to the big ship of the Tang army still more than ten zhang, he shouted: "Listen to the Tang people on the other side, even if you resist stubbornly, you will inevitably perish in the end, today Ben will be merciful, willing to let you go, as long as you hand over the goods and women on the ship, we can let you wait for a way out, the patience of the general is limited, give you a pillar of incense time, if you don't agree, Hugh blame Ben will order to set fire to the ship." ”

"Hmph, it's just a matter of asking for our army's property, but you dare to ask for a woman! You dog, do you know who the women on this ship are? You don't even deserve to look at them, you originally wanted to spare a dog's life today, but it seems that you don't need it today. A trace of fierceness flashed on Li Xian's face, and he called the captain over, and whispered a few words, and the captain nodded again and again, and immediately came to the side and gently commanded the crew under his command. (To be continued.) )

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