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Chen Yuan was not in the mood to stay here for one more day, the magnificent sea now brought Chen Yuan no longer that kind of excitement, and the long-term wandering gave him an illusion of losing his sense of security. The pen %fun %Ge www.biquge.info was doing all kinds of Chengren games with Huyan Ruizhu on the search boat all day long, and he was a little confused for a long time, missing the wild flowers and weeds on the shore.

When his spirit became a little manic due to extreme boredom and frustration, Di Qing drove the Dongying people to a dead end. Now Dongying only has two choices, one is to sign an alliance under the city, and the other is to withdraw the Dongying army in Goryeo to the mainland, so that they may be able to defend their Kyoto, and they still have the capital to continue to compete with the Song Dynasty.

Chen Yuan knew that the Dongying people would definitely choose the latter, and they would come to fight him. The reason is that there is no way to sign the alliance under the castle, even if they come back, they will not be able to defend Kyoto, and the consequence is at most to sign the alliance under the castle.

However, in order to send back all the elite samurai of Dongying in Goryeo, the first thing to do is to defeat the sailors led by him.

Xiao Yu Ben will definitely come!

The first large-scale battle on the sea, with the formation of Di Qing's siege of Kyoto, could start at any time.

Chen Yuan's sailors are huge, and in terms of strength, the disparity between the two sides is obvious. The sailors of the Song Dynasty not only owned more than 30 ships of 600 tonnage, which could accommodate more than 400 sailors. There is also a "super battleship" of this era that has just been developed and has a tonnage of 1,500 tons.

This is Chen Yuan's current warship, and he called this ship the "Marauder", because Chen Yuan felt that this name was in line with the mission of this trip.

There are no two kinds of shipowners Yingren at all, the kind of large warships in their hands are the first generation of works from the shipyards of the Song Dynasty in the war between Dongying and Goryeo, and there are only more than 90 such ships, many of which are repaired after the battle, and the Song Dynasty sailors have more than 200 such warships, brand new.

There were more than 1,000 medium-sized warships in Dongying and more than 2,000 in the Song army. It is twice as large as the Dongying people, and the only thing that the Dongying people have an absolute advantage in numbers are those small boats. Dongying still had more than 2,000 small boats, but the Song army only had 300. It's not that the Song army can't afford to buy a boat, Dongying's boat is used for fighting, and the Song army's boat is used to deliver some messages that can't be conveyed by the flag, and it doesn't take much.

Judging from the overall balance of forces, there is only one advantage that the Dongying people can rely on, that is, their sailors have much more experience than the Song army's sailors. Many of the Dongying people themselves depend on fishing to survive, and those qualified sailors among them have honed their fighting skills quite skillfully in the battle with Goryeo for several years.

And the sailors of the Song Dynasty have not fought with others for more than 30 years.

"Here we are."

Huyan Ruizhu stood at the bow of the boat, staring at the sea in the east and whispered.

Chen Yuan raised his eyes and saw nothing, the sea was blue, and there was no shadow of a sail at all. He put his body behind Huyan Ruizhu: "Where did it come from?" ”

Holding Huyan Ruizhu's waist with his hand, he gently clasped it.

Huyan Ruizhu's brows furrowed, stopped Chen Yuan's dishonest hand from continuing up, turned around and said, "Xianggong, you'd better get all the battleships ready now, and then obediently go back to the cabin to hide, and when it's almost over, I will call you out." ”

Chen Yuan's still didn't see anything, he thought that Huyan Ruizhu was scaring him, and immediately said: "Don't say that, okay?" I'm not such a coward, and I'm not like I haven't fought a war, so today I'll let you see how I command on the battlefield. ”

Huyan Ruizhu smiled: "Okay, then ring the alarm bell now, the enemy is really coming." ”

When Chen Yuan heard that she was still like this, he immediately understood that she was not scaring herself into playing, because Huyan Ruizhu would never be that praise no matter how she was, and she would definitely not play the game of the princes of the Beacon Opera with herself.

So his expression immediately became nervous: "Where? ”

Huyan Ruizhu pointed to the bottom of the water: "Have you seen the fish below?" ”

As soon as she said this, Chen Yuan found that there were many fish swimming towards her, one by one, and the speed was very fast.

"This is not the time for fish to migrate, and there is only one explanation for so many fish coming to us, and that is that there are many boats rowing in front of us, and their rowing alarms the fish."

Chen Yuan was no longer verbose: "Pang Xi, ring the bell, hurry up and ring the bell!" ”

The alarm bell sounded immediately, and the main warships of the Song army on Chen Yuan's side set up in battle formation, and at the same time, the other fleets also received the signal and began to move closer to this side.

"We have more boats here, why do those fish dare to come to us?"

After a while, he still didn't see the enemy, and Chen Yuan couldn't help but doubt Huyan Ruizhu's judgment. Huyan Ruizhu believed in his judgment very much: "Don't worry, you can't be wrong." We have a lot of boats here, but we don't move, the fish can't feel the waves, they are like birds, if there is no movement in the forest, even if there are more people and birds in the forest, they won't be frightened. ”

Sure enough, as the fleet next to them approached, many of the fish immediately turned their heads and swam back again.

The formation of the Song Dynasty sailors had just been arranged, and Chen Yuan really saw a sail shadow appear on the sea, first very few, then many, more and more! Chen Yuan, who had a lot of them, couldn't count them at all, his palms began to sweat, he knew that the big battle he had been waiting for was about to start!

"His grandmother's, it's finally here!" Chen Yuan waved the flag and asked Zhu Yuhu to command the next battle.

Huyan Ruizhu looked at him, looking a little puzzled: "Xianggong, why are you so excited to fight these Dongying people?" ”

Chen Yuan said casually: "I wanted to beat them a long time ago!" Of course I'm happy to seize the opportunity today, aren't you happy? ”

Huyan Ruizhu didn't say anything, his eyes looked ahead: "If one day you pacify the Liao Kingdom, I will be as happy as you are today." By the way, Xianggong, when the Liao Kingdom is pacified, can you bring me with you? ”

Chen Yuan then thought that he was a little forgetful, the people of the Song Dynasty basically had no hatred for Xiao Yueben, and it was far better to grit their teeth as much as they hated Liao. He carried a chair and sat on the bow of the boat: "Forget it, you can be my lady in the future, I don't allow you to ask about the affairs of the rivers and lakes, as for the war, come here, bring up the guy who went into battle from this general!" ”

Huyan Ruizhu was very surprised, Chen Yuan still has a guy in battle? Didn't you see him practice any weapons? But the soldiers understood it, and immediately brought a table and placed it in the bow of the boat, and then set a good pot of tea, and brought a plate of fried beans and a few pastries.

Chen Yuan grabbed a handful of beans and put them in his mouth, sat down at the table, and looked at Huyan Ruizhu, who was looking at him: "Lady, sit down?" ”

Huyan Ruizhu couldn't cry or laugh a little: "Xianggong, if you are so determined, but if you are determined, you just command the four words of Ruoding, it seems that the first two have nothing to do with you, right?" ”

Chen Yuan's face did not change at all: "Who said that?" Am I not commanding Zhu Yuhu anymore? ”

Huyan Ruizhu thought that he had a naval battle to fight, but he didn't expect Chen Yuan to sit on this battleship that the Song army had just built, and he had no intention of going forward to fight with the Dongying people.

She walked over from the bow of the boat, sat down beside Chen Yuan, picked up a pastry and ate it slowly, and said casually: "Alas, it's a pity." ”

Chen Yuan looked at her: "What is a pity?" Not to your liking? How about I ask them to stir-fry two dishes for you? ”

Huyan Ruizhu patted the ship's board: "It's a pity that such a good ship!" I don't understand, why are you sitting on this ship when you're not going to go up? Do you know that if this warship rushes over, it can sink those ships of the Dongying people! ”

Chen Yuan looked around, and suddenly lowered his voice: "It's just that the boat is good, so I use it myself, in case there is any accident, those Dongying people don't dare to come to hit me." Besides, this ship is the largest and the highest, you can see how clearly you can see it from here! ”

Hu Yan Ruizhu shook her head, she still felt a little sorry for this ship, but thinking about Chen Yuan's surname, she suddenly smiled. Chen Yuan smiled when he saw her, and also poured her a glass of water: "Come, the lady will accompany her husband to watch the play together." ”

The sea is no better than the land, especially when the steam engine has not yet been invented, and the boat is rowed by hand, and when both sides see each other's ships, there is still plenty of time to make some preparations.

The five hundred clippers of the Song army pounced first, arranged in a goose line, and plunged into the middle of Dongying's fleet at that extremely fast speed, and the huge body of the "Marauder" also appeared in the sight of the Dongying people.

A daimyo whispered in Fujiwara Yoritsu's ear: "General Fujiwara, the fleet of the Song Dynasty is too big, and we don't have the ability to fight them at all, I suggest that we take a step back and wait for the right time." ”

Fujiwara Yoritsu said coldly: "The time can't wait, don't talk about such a problem." ”

He slowly turned around and looked at the Dongying fleet behind him, indeed, compared to the big ships of the Song Dynasty, their fleet looked more like a minor standing next to his father.

Fujiwara Yoritsu took a deep breath: "For the sake of the emperor, we will either defeat the Song Dynasty sailors, or we will perish with Dongying." Tell all the warriors to meet the sailors of the Song Dynasty! We must use all our strength to entangle the Song army and buy time for Miyamoto-kun. ”

The battle began, and although Zhu Yuhu's fleet pressed down on the Dongying warships like a behemoth, those clippers did not take advantage of the first collision.

The sailors of the Song Dynasty were not skilled enough, and there were many problems in their U-turns and turns in the melee of the fleet, and some ships originally wanted to hit each other, but after being dodged by the Dongying warship, they did not know how to dodge immediately, and they were not immediately prepared to deal with the enemy's broadside battle, and at this time they were killed by the Dongying people.

There are few successful examples of Song Dynasty warship ramming.

There were also some who originally planned to use broadside battles to fight the enemy, but the teammates next to them obviously lacked a sense of cooperation, and instead they were rammed by the warships of the Dongying people, causing many sailors to fall overboard.

But fortunately, the Song army's weapons are advanced and the equipment is also good.

The stone cannons of the Song army gave the Dongying people a blow that almost destroyed their surnames. There weren't many stone cannons in the Dongying fleet, and they were still the first generation of round ones. And this time, although the cannonball brought by Chen Yuan was also round, it added three more pointed awls to the performance.

This is a stone cannon for water warfare that the Song army improved after summing up the experience of naval battles between the Dongying and the Goryeo. At present, all the stone cannons are detonated by the lead, and if they hit the opponent's hull in a naval battle, they will fall directly into the water, and if they happen to hit the opponent's deck, the opponent will also have plenty of time to throw it into the sea.

So three awls were added, so that when the stone projectile flew over, the awl would penetrate the plank, as if it were nailed to the plank. This will prevent it from falling into the sea if it hits the opponent's hull, and it will make it impossible for the opponent to pull it out if it falls on the deck.

There is also a flamethrower, this thing can burn for a while, when the two ships pass by, the flames from the flamethrower of the Song army can ignite all the masts on the other ship! Even in the battle between the sides, this thing is the best weapon to expel the Dongying people.

The battle lasted for half a day, and from Chen Yuan's point of view, the fight was not very pleasant, and it was a little depressed. How to say it, Song Jun is like a strong man who is not very flexible, catching loaches in the water, as if he can't use his strength.

(To be continued)