Chapter 128: The Turmoil of the He Clan (10)

The sailors on the warships of the Yellow Clan's fleet erupted in heart-rending cries of panic.

Rosen looked up at Cloud Guam and saw countless rockets piercing the dark night sky, covering the Yellow Fleet overwhelmingly.

"Helmsman! Turn right rudder! Back off! Grim tried his best to remain calm and commanded the fleet to retreat, fleeing from the range of the rockets.

It was only at this time that Yan Pu realized that the defenders on Yunguan Island had been prepared. When the fleet approached Yunguan Island, the defenders on Yunguan Island did not react at all, and they deliberately pretended to show them, and the defenders on Yunguan Island wanted to lure them into the range of rockets and kill his fleet as much as possible.

The ships of the time were all wooden ships, and there was no such thing as an ironclad ship. Wooden warships are extremely afraid of fire, although the warships of the Huang fleet are covered with skins on key parts to prevent fire, but the ships are all wooden, as long as a fire is not extinguished in time, the entire warship will face a catastrophe.

Yan Pu was not alarmed, and gave the soldiers of the Huang fleet a shot of strength, and the chaotic situation of the Huang fleet improved. The warships, under the command of the flagship, withdrew in an orderly manner.

After all, the speed of the warship was not as fast as the arrows were fired, and the arrows launched from Yunguam Island were wrapped in a fireball and crashed into the ships of the Huang Clan's fleet.

The Huang fleet was suddenly plunged into a sea of fire, and the middle arrow of the warship was the first to catch fire, and the flammable materials tied to the oil-stained arrows flew everywhere, igniting the ship.

The sailors either took off their clothes, or took out the cloth and quilts on the boat, and poured them on the fire to cover the flames, and some of the soldiers put down their buckets and brought sea water from the sea to extinguish the fire.

Yan Pu was hit by three or five rockets on the side of the ship, but fortunately, the sailors on the ship found it in time and brought up a few barrels of seawater to extinguish the flames, and the fire was brought under control and did not spread.

Yan Pu caressed his heart, breathed a sigh of relief, and then looked at the surrounding ships, although each ship had different degrees of fire from the arrow, but the fire on each warship was under control. This is mainly due to the fact that most of the sailors brought out this time are old sailors from the Mingzhou Water Battalion, so they can face the fire attack of Yunguam Island more calmly. If the history of the water pawns brought out is mainly the water pawns recruited locally in Liaodong, it is estimated that Yan Pu is even in the mood to jump into the sea at this moment.

Thinking of the Liaodong sailors, Yan Pu's attention shifted to the sea-drumming ship that was about to sink. There were about fifty sailors on the ship, and the leader was a son of the Huang clan. Yan Pu vaguely remembered that this son of the side branch of the Huang clan entered the water camp just to get a bite to eat.

Yan Pu was not happy to accept this incapable waste into the water camp, and the water camp retreated. But the Huang water camp is a water camp built by the Huang people. The children of the Huang clan wanted to enter the water camp, and Yan Pu could not refuse, so he could only accept it.

Although the status of the Huang clan side branch on the sea falcon warship is not high among the Huang clan, otherwise they would not go to the water camp to seek food. But he is also a child of the Huang family, Huang Yongtao has the grace of knowing Yan Pu, and if the Huang people are not saved, it is difficult for Yan Pu on Huang Yongtao's side to explain the past.

On Yunguam Island, not long after a wave of rockets was launched, another wave of rockets burst out of the air with a sharp whistling sound.

At this time, the warships of the Huang fleet, except for Yan Pu's boat, were still within a mile of Yunguan, and the rest of the ships had more or less retreated some distance.

The thousands of households on the boat persuaded Yan Pu to retreat, but Yan Pu refused. The rest of the ships could have retreated, but his ship must not retreat at this time.

He was going to stay behind to pick up the sailors on the sinking sea falcon.

More than 20 red horse boats drift on the floating sea like leaves, red horse boats are small and easy to move, each red horse boat can only accommodate six to eight people, if more than eight people, the probability of the red horse boat capsizing on the sea surface is very high.

For safety, Rosen brought out the red horse boats, each of which carried only two or three sailors. The sailors on the Red Horse Boat paddled with all their strength and floated towards the sinking sea falcon. A cannonball landed next to a red horse boat, and the waves stirred up the sea overturned the red horse boat.

The two sailors on the red horse boat fell into the middle of the return, fortunately, these two sailors are old sailors from Mingzhou, the water is good, struggling to float on the sea, a red horse boat near the two fallen sailors who fell into the water, and the two fallen sailors are connected to the boat.

The sea falcons began to sink slowly, and there were already sailors on board who jumped into the sea to survive and swam to the red horse boat that met them. The remaining sailors did not dare to jump into the sea, and still stayed on the boat and waited for the red horse boat to come to rescue them.

After two round trips, most of the sailors on the wreck have been rescued. When Lawson dragged his tired body onto the ship, Yan Pu finally ordered the ship to retreat and sail back.

The rocket jets on Yunguan Island did not stop with the retreat of the Huang fleet, and there were still rockets constantly flying towards the warships of the Huang fleet. At this time, only Yan Pu's building ship was still within range, and the rest of the warships had already escaped the range of the rocket.

After a volley of rockets, three more rockets hit Yanpu's boat, and one of the sailors' clothes was ignited, and his flesh was burned by the flames.

The air was filled with a strong foot stench, which was suffocating.

All the flames on the ship were extinguished, and after the ship withdrew from the range of the rocket, it assembled the fleet and returned to the sea in formation.

Yan Pu stole chickens and rice this time, and the fleet on this expedition suffered heavy losses. A 500-hundred-year-old ship sank, and the rest of the ships were traumatized to varying degrees. After the fleet returned, the not very skilled shipwrights of the Hopeful Sea Shipyard were busy for a while.

Yan Pu's only good fortune was that the number of casualties was not large, and it was within the range that he could accept, more than 60 sailors were killed, and most of the more than 60 sailors killed were local recruits in Liaodong. Most of them should die because they are not accustomed to water after falling into the water, and a small number of them die from arrows and shells.

Yan Pu is not distressed about how many soldiers recruited in Liaodong have died, such a water pawn, as long as you have money, you can raise as many as you want.

Only those old sailors from Mingzhou are fundamental, as long as the old sailors from Mingzhou do not have too many casualties, the vitality of the Huang Clan's water camp will not suffer much loss.

"The enemy ships have all been evacuated, is our sailor going out to sea to pursue them?" Wan Ming watched the Huang fleet with sparse flames on the hull return to the ship, and slightly overlooked it to ask Ke Dinghai's opinion.

Ke Dinghai held up the monoculars in his hand to observe the fleet of the Huang Clan's water camp.

After some thought, Ke Dinghai shook his head: "The quality of the water guards of the Huang Clan's water camp is no worse than that of the Jinling water guards, the retreat is strict and orderly, and the risk of pursuing is too great, but it is possible that they will be dumpling." ”

Wan Ming raised his glasses and observed the Huang fleet, and sighed: "I really can't catch up, the commander of this Huang fleet is not simple, I can't imagine that there are such a proficient talent in Liaodong." It seems that we can still have a lot of luck to repel them, so it's better to be cautious in the future. ”

Ke Dinghai smiled: "Most of the water pawns of the Huang clan water camp are the sailors of the former Mingzhou Navy, and the one in charge of this water battalion is Yan Pu, the former Mingzhou Sailor General. ”

Yan Pu, the former general of the Mingzhou Navy, this name is not unfamiliar to Ke Dinghai and Wan Ming, who were born in the Navy, (to be continued.) )