Chapter 379: Cold-blooded and ruthless
Yesterday, Li Jiucheng was very depressed, his son Li Yingyuan estimated that it was over, and no one in Dengzhou escaped and arrived in Shuicheng. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 info
And Li Jiucheng estimated the military strength of his subordinates, more than 5,000 infantry troops, in fact, there were only 3,000 of them who could go into battle, more than 5,000 sailors, and more than 400 warships.
It is said that it is a warship, but in fact, large and small ships are added to one place, and there are more than 50 real warships.
As for the sailors, they are all sailors and beggars, and the boats are okay, so the battle is exempted.
His strength plus more than 300,000 yuan of silver is his family foundation, and Li Jiucheng knows that he has only one way, to invest in Liaodong.
Li Jiucheng also knew that Zhao Lie had a sailor, that is, more than 20 Xiyi warships, and he couldn't intercept so many sea ships, so he felt that it was still very promising to rush out of Shuicheng to Liaodong.
Yesterday was a busy day, repairing ships and sail ropes, today is rice grain and fresh water boats, waiting to set off early tomorrow morning, Yang Fan went north, there is not much grain and rice in the city, plus the imperial army may arrive, Li Jiucheng can't wait.
As for the son, there is news today, no, he is kneeling opposite.
"Dad, Lord Zhao said, as long as you go out of the city and return to Shun, you will save the lives of my father and son, otherwise my son will have to be executed by Ling Chi." Li Yingyuan was crying half a mile from the city.
Li Dashao's current image is a bit miserable, his face is bruised and swollen, a few front teeth have been lost, his hair is scattered, his clothes are tattered, his hands are clutched, and there are almost no homeless people on the street.
It is certain that it will suffer some hardships in the hands of the Broken Army, and it is already a favor to not lack objects.
Behind Li Yingyuan was the cavalry of more than 1,000 broken captives.
Zhao Lie also did not arrange for the infantry to suppress the formation, there was no need, as long as Li Jiucheng dared to come out. This more than 1,000 cavalry is enough to break the enemy. I'm afraid that Li Jiucheng won't dare to come out.
Zhao Lie also knew that Li Jiucheng's miscellaneous ninety percent could not be lowered. But if it really falls, human nature is too complicated, and no one can say this, so there is Li Yingyuan's cry.
"Yuan'er, it's not that the father doesn't surrender, but that the Ming Court has always been capricious, and he has also done it in Dongjiang and Liaodong before. Yuan'er, you can think about it for your father and give you an answer tomorrow. Li Jiucheng was also full of tears and choked up.
As for whether it was human tears or crocodile tears, God knows.
No matter how Li Yingyuan pleaded, Li Jiucheng said this sentence and replied tomorrow.
Li Yingyuan was unwilling to be taken away from Shuicheng by the Broken Army, he really couldn't understand that he was his father's only son, and the Broken Army was so threatening. Why doesn't his dad come down.
In the middle of the day, Li Jiucheng ordered the rebels to start boarding the ship. This is not an easy job, the exit of Shuicheng is to the east, and the exit can be observed from the flank, and the rebels have to be shipped, and Zhao Lie's troops cannot be detected.
As a result, Li Jiucheng could only let the sea ships dock cautiously, and at the same time let the infantry not make noise.
In order to control the sailors on the ship from surrendering to the enemy, he let the infantry board the ship to guard, and if there was any abnormal movement, he would immediately kill him.
By the beginning of the day, only a few hundred rebels with torches on the walls had not boarded the ship.
"Marshal Du, do you send someone to know about them and let them board the ship?" One of the guerrillas asked.
"Alas, this trip to the sea is dangerous, and I don't know if I can get to Liaodong safely, so it is a way out for them to stay here." Li Jiucheng sighed.
The guerrilla's mouth didn't close for a while, but he said in his heart, you old thing is really ruthless, your son doesn't want it, in order to stabilize the official army, let hundreds of brothers wait stupidly in the city.
All the ships sailed out of the bay and headed north.
Li Jiucheng breathed a sigh of relief until the water city in the distance was out of sight, and there was no major movement on the surrounding sea.
He stared at the direction of Dengzhou, and said in his heart, Yuan'er don't complain about his father, his father is also forced to do so, and his father will give you sacrifices every year, so that you can wait for bliss early.
Marshal Li Du had just finished sighing, and a cannon sounded in front of him, which was the sound of an alarm cannon.
In the distant sky, there are a few sail shadows, not many, only a few, but at first glance it is not a hard sail.
It's his mother's Zhao Lie's department again, Li Jiucheng was speechless and asked Cangtian, nearly 100,000 of the entire Denglai rebels were defeated by Zhao Lie, Kong Youde, Geng Zhongming, Mao Chenglu including him Li Jiucheng was played by Zhao Lie in the palm of his hand.
He Li Jiucheng now has no son, and he just wants to find a way to live, but he can't, it's really... , Li Jiucheng scolded and scolded, he really didn't have a trick with Zhao Lie, he couldn't beat him, he still had to escape.
As a military general born in Dongjiang, he knows a little about naval warfare, and if the opponent's ship is large, he will use a fireboat to defeat the outnumbered, but there are no fireships at all on this trip, and now when the army's heart is scattered, who do you let risk to rush into battle.
It would be nice if the sailors of the Dengzhou Naval Division and the captured Tianjin Naval Division could sail the ships to the place well.
So it's a lot of ships, so let's run.
A little shadow of the sail is the clipper, and when the two clippers approach, one accompanies them for miles, and the other immediately returns the way they came.
The speed of the boat is so fast, there will be no shadow for an hour, Li Jiucheng's heart is cold, if Zhao Lie's department is at this speed, they can still run out, and there is no door.
Li Jiucheng looked at the rebel ships covering the sea, according to the number, it was also a huge fleet.
It was simply the merger of the Dengzhou Naval Division and the Tianjin Naval Division, but Li Jiucheng looked at the speed of the Xiyi ship and was worried.
Boom, several cannon sounds came from a distance, and the Xiyi ships that had been accompanying them responded with their cannons.
Three times like this, I saw the shadows of the sails in the distant sky, approaching here.
Gradually, huge Xiyi warships were revealed, and there were more than a dozen of them, except for two large ones, the others were not too big, and they were about the same size as the large Fu ships.
Li Jiucheng breathed a sigh of relief, these ships are easy to handle, not too many, four hundred large and small ships, they can't take care of them.
It's just that he relaxed a little earlier, and when these sea ships approached two or three miles, a large number of sail shadows appeared in the direction from which the Xiyi fleet came.
Li Jiucheng is like falling into an ice cave, I'm afraid he can't be good today.
Zhang Gusheng sat on the Wei Qing, looking at the rebel warships covering the sea with a long telescope, and he was also a little worried, too much, so he could only stare at the big ship, and I believed that some famous rebel generals could not take a small boat. The same goes for gold and silver.
Zhang Drum ordered the men to use flags and horns to know the other ships. Aim for a larger ship to strike.
The vanguard of the rebel sailors was a number of small sand boats and sea cangs. They didn't have redcoat cannons, and they had to get more than half a mile to fire.
The two sides approached less than a mile, and many rebel warships opened fire, and for a while, it was full of momentum, after all, there were twenty or thirty warships on which the small Furlong opened fire, and the sound shook the sky.
It's just a pity that these projectiles either fell into the sea. Either they left a few bullet marks on the shipwrecked warship, broke some of the sail ropes, and that's it.
Boom, boom
A sea was struck by two patrol ships at the same time, and was dismantled almost instantly, and several huge holes appeared on one side, and Tiago's can opener was powerful.
There are several holes in it just near the waterline. A large amount of seawater poured in frantically, and the ship tilted almost instantly.
A sand boat was hit with a hard sail. Immediately, both hard sails were torn to pieces, and there were no sails, so they could only drift on the sea.
As soon as Fang engaged, three or four sea ships were severely damaged, and it was a tragic situation of being torn apart, which was too ferocious.
Fortunately, many rebel ships were forced by infantry soldiers with knives and guns, and these sailors did not dare to slack off, and had to move forward.
In this way, after two shelling and six or seven ships were damaged and destroyed, the Breaker Army Sailors broke through the formation and smashed into the middle of the rebel Sailors.
The large and small artillery of the rebel naval division began to bombard frantically, of course, the artillery accuracy of the long-lost battle array was extremely poor, most of them fell into the sea, and only one percent hit the ships of the broken army, but the destructive power was limited.
The vanguard of the rebels were all small boats, and the largest artillery was nothing more than a thousand pound francs, and hitting it only left some bullet marks on the Galen ship, and as for breaking the ship's plank, it was a matter of imagination.
Boom, boom, the seven or eight patrol ships that took the lead in the formation fired one after another, and this time they fired their bows left and right, because as they were all rebel ships, they could have a good fight.
This was the outbreak of 156 12-pounder, 18-pounder, and 24-pounder guns, and the destructive power was astonishing, and at once five or six small Haicang and Sand Bird ships of the rebels were severely damaged.
In fact, there are no sea ships in this situation, and there is another method of warfare, that is, to take advantage of the large number of ships and get close to the side battle, which is the only way to win.
Li Jiucheng also knows that the question is which ship has the strength to sacrifice itself for other ships, and now every sea ship only cares about rushing out by itself, and the others can't take care of it, and they still get on the boat to fight, leaving their own home, and letting others escape.
When the Wei Qing and another 400-ton warship rushed into the enemy line, it set off a bloody storm, and soon more than a dozen rebel warships were damaged under their huge cannons, and the Wei Qing even used its ramming angle to overturn a small rebel sand ship.
The rebel sailors were stunned by the furious performance of the Breakers, who had not seen naval battles, but they were only small artillery attacking each other, causing the enemy to suffer some losses, either attacking with fireships or finally boarding ships for a bloody battle.
In short, artillery bombardment is just an auxiliary means, and the final victory or defeat has to be taken into the side battle, but these Xiyi warships can hit the warships one by one with their guns, and even use the bow to overturn the ships, they have never seen it, and they have long experience.
It's just that if this insight is witnessed by one's own flesh and blood, it will be too bloody, and no one can afford it.
The morale of the rebel sailors immediately dropped, and they had no choice but to be beaten and unable to fight back, and no one could stand it.
What's more, more sail shadows in the early innate world are approaching, these are not the smaller Xiyi warships in front, but the Xiyi warships that are larger than the largest Weiqing, they are hoisting the battle flag of the Broken Army, and they are approaching violently.
Li Jiucheng saw more than a dozen ships in the rear, no, more than 20 ships, no, more than 30 large Xiyi warships pounced fiercely.
The corners of his eyes kept twitching, he couldn't control what he said, and he was now completely confident of breaking out of the encirclement of Zhao Lie's army. (To be continued.) )
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