Chapter 325: The Turtle in the Urn
The water column from which the cannonballs fell into the sea poured Li Yingyuan through, which was very uncomfortable in the February weather, but Li Yingyuan stood at the bow of the ship and refused to go down to the cabin to hide. The pen "Fun" www.biquge.info he was calculating the number of guns on the shore and the time between each round.
"Tell the whole team, turn the rudder! Rush out of the harbor. Li Yingyuan shouted loudly to the herald.
Li Yingyuan had already discovered that the artillery on the shore was not only numerous and extremely fast, but also hidden in the castle, and the ship's artillery did no harm to them at all. If the fleet continues to fight like this, it will suffer a big loss, so he decisively ordered the fleet to get out of this dangerous place.
The fleet saw the flags waved by the heralds, and they all turned their rudders to flee from the dead coast, leaving behind dozens of ships that had been beaten so that their hulls were so damaged that they could not move, and the other ships finally turned around and fled towards the entrance of the bay, and before they had run far, Li Yingyuan saw seven ships across the entrance of the bay, two large ships and five small boats.
Li Yingyuan rubbed his eyes, it stands to reason that the ship from such a far entrance should not be seen so clearly. The distance between the two sides was a little closer, and Li Yingyuan realized that he was not mistaken, and the reason why he saw it clearly was because the incoming ship was too huge.
There were a total of seven ships at the entrance to the bay, and the five that were previously thought to be small boats were actually five No. 1 fortune boats. The other two large ships were several times larger than the No. 1 Fuku.
If such a large ship had artillery on it, its entire fleet would be more than lucky.
Before Li Yingyuan could think about it, there was a cannon sound in front of him. The sound of the cannon did not come from the big ships, they came from the peaks on both sides of the bay, it turned out that the security forces had built batteries on the peaks on both sides of the entrance to the bay, and the batteries could shoot the shells far with the advantage of the terrain, and the batteries could have given them heavy damage when the rebel fleet had just entered the bay, but they received an order to completely annihilate the enemy, so they endured until now.
The rebel fleet understood the danger from the battery, and without Li Yingyuan's order to stop the ship, and at the same time, in order to escape for his life, he could only rush forward desperately.
Although there were seven large ships blocking the entrance to the bay, there must have been a small number, and the rebels relied on the large number of ships in the hope of rushing out.
The first round of shelling on the two giant ships at the entrance shattered the illusions of the rebels, Li Yingyuan first saw the fire flashing on the two giant ships, and after a while he heard the deafening cannon sound, and then dozens of black cannonballs fell from the sky and landed accurately in the rebel fleet.
The waves stirred up by the huge cannonballs shook the boats that Li Yingyuan was riding, and several ill-fated ships in the fleet were hit by the cannonballs, and the hulls were directly pierced. Flying wood chips and debris sent a howl to the ship's crew, and the sea water quickly poured into the ship through the holes made by the shells.
Li Yingyuan understood that there were artillery on the big ship, and there were many of them, and they were very powerful. More importantly, he understood that he had been ambushed and surrounded by his family.
"Hang the white flag, hang the white flag of the whole team, surrender, we surrender." At the critical moment, Li Yingyuan was still very decisive, not only letting his ship hang the white flag, but also letting the whole fleet hang the white flag. Li Yingyuan was afraid that in this chaotic battlefield, what would happen if the other party could not see the white flag on his own ship, and a few more cannons would send everyone to the bottom of the sea, and everything would be over.
The giant ship and the battery on the mountain peak obviously saw the white flag that Li Yingyuan had raised them, and the shelling stopped. A small boat rowed over and ordered them to gather their boats, send men to rescue the rebels who had sunk into the water, and let them dock one by one to the pier in the bay. The huge ships of the Security Forces watched from a distance.
Li Yingyuan was also single, and took his boat to the dock first, became the first batch of prisoners of the security army, and explained his identity, Li Yingyuan was immediately taken to see Zhang Chu, the commander of the security army.
Li Yingyuan had close contact with the soldiers of the security army for the first time, and he found that these soldiers were very different from other officers and soldiers, even the military uniforms were all black, they were all short, there were no complicated clothing such as skirts, and the weapons used in their hands were muskets instead of swords. Although Li Yingyuan also served as an official and soldier, he couldn't tell which of them was an official and who was a soldier.
Li Yingyuan was taken to the castle on the shore, and when he went to the inner room, he saw a young man and a little eunuch who were also dressed in black, and the two were talking and laughing there, and when they saw Li Yingyuan being escorted in, the young man said to the little eunuch: "Prince, you see I said that it was a turtle caught in an urn, and none of them could escape, so they will not be caught immediately." “
Li Yingyuan wants to co-author, we have all become turtles, but the person who knows the times is Junjie, and in this case, he can only recognize anything. He didn't care what the young man was, he kowtowed to the ground and said, "The rebel general Li Yingyuan has seen the adult, please spare the lives of my subordinates." ”
"You are Li Yingyuan, your father is Li Jiucheng, weren't you very resolute when your father and son rebelled, why did you surrender so quickly, you should fight to the end." Sitting on it are Zhang Chu and Wang Chengen, Zhang Chu is very puzzled by Li Yingyuan's soft bones, he has the impression that the Northeast people are very strong, and now Liaodong has suffered from the persecution of Houjin, and those who can escape are indomitable.
"We rebelled because we couldn't survive, and now we surrender because we want to live." Although Li Yingyuan knelt on the ground, he still straightened up and said.
"Your father and son led the army to rebel, causing the lives of Shandong to be miserable, how many people died because of you, and you still dream that the court will spare you!" Zhang Chu said sharply to Li Yingyuan. However, Zhang Chu thought that with the virtue of the imperial court, if the rebels really surrendered, maybe they would really spare them.
"I am guilty of a great sin, and I am willing to accept the punishment of my lords, and I only want to spare the soldiers who have been held hostage by us." Li Yingyuan knew that his life could only be resigned to fate, so he could let his soldiers live one more time.
"You are righteous, but their life and death depend on your performance, and if you cooperate with us, you may still be able to survive. Zhang Chu left a glimmer of hope for Li Yingyuan.
"Thank you, thank you, thank you!" Li Qingyuan hurriedly kowtowed in thanks.
"Take it down, and someone will interrogate it carefully." Zhang Chu gave an order loudly, since he hadn't figured out how to deal with Li Yingyuan, Zhang Chu still left him a little hope first, or it would be bad if he was forced to die or run away.
"How? Princess, or am I to the emperor, you see so many officers and soldiers, a few of them are willing to fight, how many rebels have I eliminated this time. Shouldn't you tell the emperor a good news or something, and by the way, ask for some silver. Zhang Chu is very reluctant to do this kind of work without pay.
"General Zhang, this courtier must look like a courtier." Wang Chengen has recognized that Zhang Chu can fight, and he feels that Zhang Chu's nature is not bad, but he knows too little about things in the court, so he decided to educate Zhang Chu well. (To be continued.) )