Chapter 678: Annihilation in World War I
On Dongguan Ridge, Li Mi's body shook, he could no longer stand unsteadily, and fell down all of a sudden.
"King Wei, King Wei" Fang Xuanzao and other generals hurriedly supported Li Mi. Pinch the pinch, push the back of the push. It took a long time for Li Mi to wake up, Li Mi's face was miserable and green, and his fingers trembled and pointed to the brilliant scene in the sky above the Yellow River in the north.
"What is that, what is that, can anyone tell me what it is?"
Just now, the round of fire dragons from the Hebei Navy Division came out of the water, and a hundred fire dragons were launched out of the water. In the end, a full hundred rockets were fired from the mouth of each dragon. If this attack had been in broad daylight, the effect would never have been as great as it is now.
In the dark night sky, Li Mi stood on the 100-zhang high Guanling Mountain in the east of Pishan, and had been paying attention to the water battle on the Yellow River, which can be said to be a full view of the battle situation. Dongguan Ridge is only less than five miles away from the surface of the fighting water, more than a thousand steps.
Even with the naked eye, it can be seen very clearly, not to mention that just now Li Mi still had in his hand the clairvoyant made by the secret agents of the Wei army who did everything possible and paid a lot of money to get their hands on it. With such a treasure in hand, standing on this Kanto Ridge can be said to see the neighborhood clearly.
But it was precisely because of this that Li Mi also clearly saw the equipment launched by the Hebei Navy Division just now. The Wei army on the Yellow River only saw the enormity of those weapons and the appearance of the dragon's head, and shouted that it was the wrath of the dragon god.
But although Li Mi also saw those, he didn't believe in the so-called ghosts and gods. He was very sure in his heart that this must be a firearm from Hebei. What he was really terrified of was the power of the firearm. A weapon of this size could actually make him fly five or six hundred paces away.
Five or six hundred steps away, the blow of this distance made Li Mi feel extremely afraid. The most powerful bed crossbow in the Wei army was only seven hundred paces away. However, in order to operate such a large bed crossbow, the Wei army had to use nearly two hundred men to operate the bed crossbow. Even if you add animal power such as mules and horses. There were more than fifty fewer people. Moreover, this bed crossbow is extremely slow to fire, and its size is huge, so it can only be used in defensive battles.
But just now, he saw it very clearly, and Chen Kefu's sailor took out this weapon. And then to the launch, it is only a matter of counting the time. Moreover, the distance of this weapon was already five or six hundred paces, and what terrified him even more was that when that weapon flew such a long distance, it would actually shoot so many rockets from the belly of that weapon.
He was no stranger to rockets, from the intelligence gathered by the spies. He had known about this rocket for a long time, which used gunpowder to enhance the range. An ordinary strong arrow has a range of one hundred and twenty or thirty paces at most. However, this kind of rocket fueled by gunpowder in Hebei is larger than ordinary arrows and has a longer range, and can shoot to a distance of 200 steps.
But now, Chen Pojun suddenly came up with a more powerful weapon, using the large rocket to fly more than 600 steps away, and then when his strength was exhausted, the small rocket in the belly of the large rocket began to be launched.
And so it goes. The range of that small rocket is equal to that from 200 paces to a range of about 800 steps. At this time, one step is a small step on each side of the left and right feet, and the standard step is five feet. Two steps and one zhang, eight hundred steps is four hundred zhang. The distance of four hundred zhang is already beyond the range of any weapon that Li Mi knows.
The oversized bed crossbow has a maximum range of 700 paces and has to be fired by more than 100 people. The rate of fire is extremely slow, and it is difficult to disassemble and transport, so it can only be limited to defending the city. But now, this sudden appearance of the weapon has a range of more than 800 paces. And it only takes two or three people to operate. It can even be launched on the bow of the ship, which makes Li Mi how not to be afraid. …,
If Chen Kefu had a large number of such weapons, as long as he went to the front of the plane, he hadn't even seen the front of the Hebei Army at that time, but the Hebei Army had already been able to use the sky rocket to defeat him.
"King Wei, Chen Kefu has such a sharp weapon, although there will definitely not be too many of them. However, after this attack, our sailors have lost all morale, and we ask the king of Wei to order the sailors to collect their troops. If you fight again, it will be nothing more than a fearless casualty. Now we have blocked Chen Kefu from front to back, left and right, he is already a turtle in the urn, we can trap him even if we are sleepy. Why bother to attack his strength with the shortness of the already and the strength of the long, and fight a water war with him. Shen Luoyan's heart also experienced a violent shock just now, but at this time, she understood that if Li Mi did that again, the morale of the Wei army would inevitably drop greatly, and there was no need to fight this battle, so she would lose for a while.
Li Mi gritted his teeth and nodded, "I didn't expect that Chen Kefu could build such a huge warship and have such a powerful combat power." The more powerful the warship, the more difficult it is to play a role on the Yellow River, and I originally wanted to defeat it first, but I didn't expect it, hey, I miscalculated, and ordered the sailors to withdraw their troops. ”
When the soldiers heard the order, they extinguished the three huge bonfires on the mountain ridge and rang the gong.
On the surface of the Yellow River, Zhang Zhongjian on the Anlan heard the sound of gold from Li Mi on the mountain, and sneered disapprovingly, "King Chen has a good saying, anyone can start a war, but if you want to end the war, it only belongs to the right of the victor of the war." Now that we are the victors, Li Mi wants to withdraw his troops and stop fighting, so he has to ask us first if we are willing to do it. Chuan Ben Marshal ordered that the enemy naval division had lost its fear, and ordered the battleships in the front to launch rockets and throw stones to completely annihilate the enemy naval division. ”
The Wei army cobbled together this naval division had 10,000 horses, hundreds of large and small boats, and even a lot of wooden rafts. It seems that there are many people, but the attack of the fire dragon out of the water just now by the water master is really shocking. For these rebels, who were mostly peasants, it was the wrath of the dragon god. They simply don't believe that anyone else in the world can make such a weapon.
As soon as the battle began, the morale of the Wei army's sailors had fallen to the bottom, and a large number of soldiers abandoned their swords and soldiers and prayed on the bow of the ship. When a hundred fire dragons suddenly shoot out of the water and 10,000 rockets, if the rockets in the sky are on the shore and deal with the infantry phalanx, they may not have much effect. But when 10,000 rockets shot into the sky with a whistling sound like a rainstorm of pear blossoms, it was a rather fatal blow to those chaotic ships.
Whether it's a big boat, a small boat, or a wooden raft, they are all made of wood. What Mu is most afraid of is death, there are not many Wei troops who were directly killed by 10,000 rockets, but there are many ships that were shot and ignited.
One ship after another was ignited by rockets, the blazing firelight, the rockets that covered the attack from the sky, the miserable howl of the arrow-fighting soldiers, and the many frightened soldiers who were frightened by the wrath of the dragon god, completely confused the entire Wei army's sailors. Few soldiers would have thought that they would be willing to fend off the rockets head-on, and they scrambled to jump into the Yellow River, dodging the rockets, but no one put out the fire on the ship.
When the battle formations in front of the Hebei Navy Division were killed downstream, they did not encounter decent resistance at all. The Hebei Navy Division and the Jianghuai soldiers on the ship cooperated in the division of labor. The Hebei Navy Division manipulated the ships, launched rockets and threw stones, and broke and sank the Wei warships one by one. And the soldiers of the Jianghuai Army took the super-long lance in their hands one by one, and stabbed them one by one at the Wei soldiers who were like dumplings in the next pot.
The flames boiled the river, igniting half of the night sky, and the blood of the Wei soldiers stained the turbid Yellow River water with a brilliant red. …,
From beginning to end, as the main force of the Hebei Naval Division, the Wuya Great Warship, the Three-Story Yellow Dragon Great Warship, and the Qinglong Great Warship, these main warships did not shoot at all. They are just like huge and monstrous monsters, crouching to the side, waiting to choose someone to devour.
In less than an hour, from the back of the Wei army's naval division from behind Hexinzhou, to the end of the annihilation, the total did not arrive for an hour.
"The order is that the whole fleet occupies Hexinzhou, and Hexinzhou anchors and relies on. Speedboats and flat-bottomed troop carriers are on alert on all sides. Zhang Zhongjian did not have a happy expression on his face to defeat the Wei army's naval division, and quickly issued a new military order.
"Dashuai, aren't we going to feint Luokou? Why did you dock at Hexinzhou? "Wang Xuanying had just seen the almost invincible weapon of the Hebei Water Division, and his confidence in defeating Li Mi suddenly skyrocketed countless times. I thought that Zhang Zhongjian would immediately order a direct attack on the beach and a decisive battle with Li Mi. But he didn't expect that at this time, he would stop at Hexinzhou.
Hexinzhou was in front of them, in the middle of the Yellow River in the upper reaches of Luokou, two miles long, and about two miles wide. It is only less than ten miles away from the Guanling Mountains in the east of Pishan.
"King Chen's order is a feint, and we are a feint. And now the more than 10,000 men and horses led by King Chen are still at the mouth of the Jishui River. Now we have swept away Li Mi's fleet on the surface of the Yellow River, and just took advantage of the night to cover His Highness's men and horses to sneak eastward in small boats. Zhang Zhongjian explained.
Wang Xuanying was still a little unwilling, "We just won a big victory, and now the morale of the soldiers is high, it is better to simply inform King Chen, let's directly attack Li Mi with King Chen." Li Mi was only 120,000 people, he had just lost 10,000, and now he only had 110,000 left, and he had suffered a defeat, and his morale was low. Let's add the troops in King Chen's hands, but there are 120,000 people, and they will surpass Li Mi. What's more, we still have such a powerful weapon just now, if we don't attack Li Mi now, I'm afraid that Li Mi's reinforcements are about to arrive. At that time, we didn't have such a good opportunity. ”
"King Zheng, King Chen is not only the commander of my Hebei soldiers, but King Zheng's soldiers and horses are also acting according to King Chen's orders. The previous battle plan was the most agreed, and the military order was issued immediately, so how could the order be changed overnight? King Zheng, you also go and prepare, and we will have to launch a more fierce attack immediately to cover the passage of King Chen's men. Zhang Zhongjian didn't give Wang Xuanying the face of the prince at all.
ps: Huolong Chushui is a two-stage rocket, recorded in the Ming Dynasty sailors firearms equipment in the Wubei Chronicles, according to records, the range of this two-stage rocket reached more than two miles...... Awesome