Chapter 775: Water War (Part II)

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Just when the roaring fireboat was still more than 20 zhang away from Yang Jiajun's ship, Yang Jiajun's side suddenly sailed out of 30 small boats, this kind of small boat is thin and long, like a miniature version of the dragon boat, can take two or three people, there is a baffle on the upper part, and the baffle is wrapped with iron sheets, not afraid of rockets, Yang Yi once personally named this kind of small boat: Flying Shark.

Two or three people in the dinghy were half-lying in the cabin, and their feet were pushing the oars so hard that the dinghy was flying through the water at an astonishing speed.

Moreover, the dinghy was low, clinging to the water, and through the roaring fireboats, it was almost impossible for the Bushaoluo side to reach these speeding boats.

As soon as these small boats rushed close to the fireboats, strings of grenades suddenly flew out, and with the continuous sound of explosions, the fireboats were directly blown into the river, and the scattered debris splashed everywhere, looking from a distance, it seemed that the river was ignited, and the river was boiling.

Some of the scattered flames were directly drowned by the river, and some floated down with the waves, but when the big ship was moving, the waves split by the bow of the ship would naturally roll to both sides, and these scattered flames would also swing to both sides with the waves, which was no longer enough to threaten the safety of the big ship.

As soon as the threat of the fireship was solved, Le Tao did not wait for the enemy to react, and ordered the fleet to sail at full speed, the two sides were already close, and soon intertwined, and the big ship of the Yang family army walked in the center of the river, and there was a long collision angle in the bow;

Bu Shaoluo's boat could only be besieged from both sides, and the Yang family's army was condescending, with strong horses, rockets, and flintlock guns, intertwined into a web of death, and one by one the enemy soldiers were shot overboard and fell into the water, screaming and howling endlessly.

Yang Jiajun's shooting seemed to be scattered, but in fact, several people cooperated with each other to force a rocket to ignite an enemy ship. The flintlock gunner opened fire on a certain one, preventing the enemy from making a save. With this cooperation, the enemy ships were almost one by one. The river was full of fireboats, which seriously affected the maneuverability of the enemy's small boats.

If the enemy ship gets too close, a string of grenades on the big ship will be thrown down, and the enemy ship will be reimbursed immediately after a few loud noises.

Bu Shaoluo did not dare to order his small boat to go up and fight the broadside battle now, which would be tantamount to death, and could only be diffused with rockets from a distance;

The division of labor on Yang Jiajun's big ship is clear. There are special firefighters, who are well-dressed in armor to prevent injuries from arrows to the greatest extent, and if there is a fire, they immediately put out the fire.

In addition to the fierce fire on the big ship, which made the soldiers on Bu Shaoluo's side unable to raise their heads, what was even more terrifying was the twenty or thirty flying shark speedboats, which were low, close to the water, and as fast as flying. It's like a terrible shark shuttling across the river;

Once they get close, the enemy ships will not be able to survive and will soon be blown up, and these flying shark speedboats will cause losses to Bushaolo's side. Even more than the fierce fire on the giant ship.

The amazing speed of the flying shark boat just makes up for the disadvantage of the large ship's lack of maneuverability, and the two cooperate in combat. The results are significant.

Bu Shaoluo couldn't help but be filled with despair as he watched his ships being ignited or sunk one by one. This is still fighting on the river, if it is at sea. If the opponent's big ship can be maneuvered, I am afraid that I will be even more miserable, and I will not even have the strength to fight back.

He no longer knows how to fight this battle, in this life, he has experienced a lot of wars, but the battle in front of him is far beyond his imagination, the opponent's new weapons and new tactics are emerging in an endless stream, and he can't think of any countermeasures in a hurry.

Yang Yi did not interfere with Le Tao's command from beginning to end, and it was very difficult for a person who was used to leading troops to fight without saying a word in the war.

In order to resist the urge to meddle in the command, Yang Yi brought a few flintlock pistols and asked the guards to help load them, and he himself specially found the officers on the enemy ship to shoot, one at a time, to hit the enemy's command system.

Don't look at this hand as a child's play, in fact, it is very effective, the enemy is deeply inferior, morale is already lost, once the commander of the ship is shot, the whole line will often hesitate, and even secretly withdraw from the battlefield.

One, two, three, five guards around him were excitedly counting Yang Yi, he could kill one of the enemy's commanders with almost every shot, and at least half of the enemy ships chose to flee from the hellish and cruel battlefield after losing their commanders.

Yang Yi's approach once again gave Le Tao a great inspiration, and he quickly issued an order: beheading.

After receiving the order, more than 20 Flying Shark speedboats cooperated with each other and quickly slaughtered Bushaoluo's flagship. The flintlock musketeers on the large ship also cooperated with them, clearing them as much as possible with intensive fire.

The Yang Jiajun on the flying shark boat used all their milking strength, and more than 20 speedboats were like a group of sharks that smelled blood, rushing towards Bu Shaoluo's flagship from all directions.

Bu Shaoluo soon discovered the attempt of these flying shark speedboats, and his face changed drastically, and he shouted to his heralds: "Intercept them, intercept them quickly." ”

The enemy ships around them did not care about attacking the huge ships on the river, and turned their arrows one after another, and launched a fierce attack on these small boats, in an attempt to relieve Bu Shaoluo from the siege.

Arrows rained down on these boats, which, though fast, could not withstand such a dense blow, and in an instant, seven or eight of them were ignited by rockets, and the soldiers on board could not save them, so they had to abandon them and flee into the water.

But Bu Shaoluo can't stop all, this kind of wolf pack tactics, often can prevent this side but can't prevent that, after all, let a few flying shark boats get closer, in order to avenge their companions, the approaching flying shark boats threw grenades at Bu Shaoluo's flagship as if they didn't want money, and a huge roar was accompanied by a ball of fire;

Bu Shaoluo's flagship of two or three hundred could not withstand such a fierce bombardment, and the whole ship was soon covered in flames, and a large hole was blown open in the stern, and the river water quickly poured into the hull, causing the bow of the ship to begin to rise, and the enemy troops on the boat, with their bodies full of flames, either jumped into the river or were burned to death.

As for Bu Shaoluo, he didn't even rush to the cabin on the top floor of the south, he was already surrounded by fire, even if the hull had slowly sunk into the river, Yang Jiajun on the flying shark boat still didn't understand his hatred, and he still kept throwing grenades at the top cabin, blowing up all the top cabins, in this case, Bu Shaoluo had no physiology.

The soldiers of the Three Buddhas watched the Lord being bombarded indiscriminately, and there were no corpses, they already suffered heavy losses, how could they withstand this kind of blow again, Jiangshang immediately evolved into a comprehensive rout, no one was willing to risk death to attack the Yang army, just hope to escape from the battlefield quickly.

Le Tao ordered to sink as many enemy ships as possible if they could only sink them, but the premise was that they could not slow down, and from this moment on, the fleet must move at full speed towards Bolinbang.

In this water battle, Yang Jiajun sank more than 140 large and small enemy ships, annihilated more than 1,600 enemy troops, and the rest were all defeated at the cost of slightly wounding two ships, losing 11 flying shark boats, killing 42 people, and wounding 70 people.

The river was covered with the corpses of the enemy, the blood stained the surface of the river, and there were scattered wooden blocks of ship planks everywhere, and more than 20 warships were full of sails, ploughing a blood-colored river wave, and slaughtering Bolin State in a mighty way.

For hundreds of years, Sriwijaya has occupied a hegemonic position in the South Seas, especially in water warfare, although they can't build big ships with their national strength and technology, but the people live by water, the water is excellent, and they are definitely not weak in water warfare;

In this battle at their own doorstep, the three Buddhas were full of confidence, believing that although the enemy ships were large, it was difficult to maneuver in the inland river battle, and Bu Shaoluo was at least seventy percent sure that the incoming enemy would be completely annihilated, and even if he could not be completely annihilated, it would not be difficult to block the enemy.

Therefore, when he received the news that the navy was defeated and Bu Shaoluo was killed in battle, Pu Ying slapped the soldier who reported the news a few times, he really couldn't believe this fact.

There are two or three hundred large and small warships on their own, and there are about 20 on the other side, as the saying goes, ants bite elephants to death, and they still have the advantage of upstream, how can they lose so badly?

But the battleship of the Yang family army then arrived, and it was impossible to believe it or not, leaving no time for the three revijaya monarchs and ministers to react, and the cannon that exuded a murderous aura was already aimed at the water gate of Bolin State.

Bolin Bang is tired of the city, the circumference of the whole city is dozens of miles, the surrounding terrain is flat, the highest altitude is 12 meters, the Moxi River passes through the city, the waterway in the city is vertical and horizontal, it is a famous water city, it is called the Venice of the East in later generations, whether it is the people or the king, the travel is by boat;

The city's depressions, which cover 15 percent of the city's land area, are greatly affected by the tides, and when the tide rises, the water that pours up along the Moxi River floods these depressions. Because of this, people often choose to build houses on bamboo rafts, and the houses are high when the water rises, so they don't have to worry about being flooded during the long tide.

As soon as Yang Yi's fleet arrived, he immediately ordered the gunners to load solid bullets and bombard the water gate in the north, such a city wall was far less thick than the wall of the Great Song Dynasty.

The defenders in the city were also bombarded to cry and shout for their mothers, scattering and fleeing, this phenomenon was expected by Yang Yi, in front of the cannon, the defenders with knives and bows in their hands only waited for death, who would not run?

The city of Beijing is much stronger, and there are many more troops, and it is not an instant bombardment by thousands of foreign devils.

Therefore, it was not surprising that the defenders fled. Yang Yi quickly adjusted his tactics according to the current situation, led 1,500 men and horses, abandoned the ship and went ashore, rushed into the city from the collapsed city wall, opened the way with flintlock guns in front, and fired a volley when encountering resistance, and ignored the fleeing soldiers and civilians, and just went to the palace of the Three Buddhas to kill.

The key to this battle is a quick word, no matter what, none of the three brothers, Pu Ying, Pu Tuo, and Pu Luo, can let him escape.

Yang Yi's current intention is not to fully occupy Sriwijaya, but to control it by means of semi-colonial rule, and to achieve this goal, it is necessary to wipe out these three brothers in order to control them.

If you escape one, you will be in great trouble in the future, so you must act quickly and catch the other party off guard!

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(To be continued......)