Chapter 565: The Five-Tooth Ship Shows Its Might
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At this time, the Tang fleet, taking advantage of the temporary retreat of the Zhao fleet, dozens of Tang warships came out of the water gate.
Zhou Zhou saw that although the ships of the Tang fleet were not tall, they were flexible, the captains who operated the ships were experienced, and the sailors were also very brave and brave, and they were not hindered by the turbulence of the Yellow River waves on the hull.
The square-headed battleships of the Tang army came by chopping the waves, and their sailors and soldiers, like dexterous apes, quickly climbed the mast, some climbed the mast, and some hooked on the mast rope with one foot, and shot arrows at the Zhao army. This kind of courage is really not like a northerner who can't fight a water war, but like a brutal Jiangdong water thief.
And Sergeant Zhao could only be on the deck, barely standing up a shield to resist.
At this time, when Zhao Jun's navy fell to the downwind, the wind rose.
Zhou Zhou looked at the joy on Cheng Mingzhen's face, and then saw the scene of Sergeant Zhao running to the deck to cheer. There is a saying in the boat, the ship sails in all directions. It is said that the boat can move no matter which side of the wind. But going with the wind, in the water war, is still very advantageous.
Especially after the fog cleared in the early morning, this sudden northeast wind started. For the Zhao army, which was fighting against the current on the north bank, it was undoubtedly the wind of victory.
"All on! Grab the upstream! Cheng Mingzhen pulled out his sword and shouted.
Immediately, the flag-bearer on the mast of the Zhao army immediately waved the flag and told Cheng Mingzhen's order to the ships.
Suddenly, the boatmen and helmsmen on the Zhao army's battleship shouted from the bow to the stern: "Hai turn the rudder!" ”
"Turning the rudder!"
The sailors shouted slogans together.
The rear fleet of the Zhao army immediately cut off the Taiping baskets hanging on both sides of the ship, and the pressure stones on the Taiping baskets and the loaded waves fell into the river one after another. Stir up a splash. The sailors on deck pulled up the sails and spread them full. It was a northeasterly wind. The sails on the mast were full of wind and bulging. The Zhao fleet headed for the upper reaches of the Yellow River. Prepare to be above the Don fleet and seize the momentum upstream.
The main ship of the Tang Army is a three-masted three-story big sand ship, Huang Junhan, the head of the Huaizhou Road March, holding a sword, standing firmly on the shaking bow with two feet in eight figures, seeing that after the fog dissipated, the sudden northeast wind could not help but secretly scream badly. Going against the wind, it was a Tang warship with half sails, and the hull of the ship swayed. The various ships hurriedly lowered their water cloaks and stabilized their hulls in the headwind.
But in the blink of an eye, the Zhao fleet cut off the stern baskets and rushed to the upper reaches of the Yellow River with all sails open.
Seeing the intention of the general of the Zhao army to seize the upstream, how could Huang Junhan allow it, and shouted at the moment: "Where is Zhang Yasha?" ”
"The last general!" A general with thick hands and feet and a swarthy face stepped forward.
Huang Junhan said: "Zhao Jun is going to rush upstream, you intercept him." Let them know your name on the Yellow River! ”
The other party said loudly: "I have been impatient to wait for a long time. ”
The words fell, and Zhang Yasha immediately disembarked from the ship.
Huang Junhan said again: "Set fire boats for me, intercept the Zhao army, and don't allow them to break through this river!" ”
"No!"
The subordinates loudly clenched their fists in agreement.
It turned out that the Tang army had already prepared upstream. Seeing that the Zhao army was about to break through the river, he immediately tore off the tarpaulin from the hidden place to reveal more than a dozen fireboats, and the Tang army pushed them down the river and headed towards the Zhao fleet.
"Steward. It's a fireboat! ”
"Fireship!"
But on the upstream river, more than a dozen ships were piled with firewood. The burning ship is going straight down the river. Straight towards the Zhao warship.
"This is going to burn the serial ship!" Zhao Xin, as a dignified county guard, is now bloodless and out of proportion, which is understandable, but whoever experiences the battle formation for the first time will be frightened.
But Zhao Xin said that the occasion was wrong, Zhou Zhou scolded: "What kind of serial boat, is our army Cao Jun, this is not Chibi, not the Yangtze River, but the Yellow River!" ”
However, Zhou Zhou also knew that the surface of the Yellow River was not wide, and as soon as this fireboat came, it was difficult for more than 200 Zhao warships to dodge.
"Panic what!" Cheng Mingzhen shouted loudly and ordered: "Order the warship to come forward for me and intercept the fireboat!" ”
But seeing the warships cruising on the left and right of the Zhao army's naval warships, they all went up together. On the warship, Zhao Jun held a penny with an iron hook for the soldiers, the penny was three or four zhang long, this was the hook used by the navy, used in the naval battle, and the enemy ship retreated to hook it, and the advance was rejected.
At the moment when the Tang military arms ship approached, the Zhao soldiers all picked up the hook and resisted, resisted the Tang military ammunition ship, and pushed it to the shore.
Cheng Mingzhen sneered: "I don't know that the Tang army is attacking with fire, but the way of fire attack is all in the wind, and now the wind is in my favor, and the fireboat can burn me." ”
Seeing that Cheng Mingzhen was calm and comfortable, Zhou Zhou suddenly admired when he heard this.
At the moment when the Zhao army's fighting ships rejected the Tang army's arms, the sound of treading water in the Tang army's array was loud, but three vehicles and ships were seen sailing out of the Tang army's battleship array like galloping horses. But seeing that the Tang army chariot and ship were surrounded by four wheels, rolling into the water like a waterwheel, they were very smart no matter whether they were advancing or retreating.
Zhou Zhou knew that this car and boat was made by Xu Shipu, the assassin of Jingzhou in the Southern Dynasty, and he stepped on the boat with his feet, and it was a sharp weapon of the Southern Dynasty naval army, but he didn't expect that the Tang Army actually had this boat. However, it seems that the Tang army should only have three.
But I saw that on the middle of the car and boat, a flag was erected in the distance, and there was a word written on it, this person should be the general of the Tang Army who led the car and ship to fight.
Cheng Mingzhen said: "Tang Jun's reaction is not slow! The order went down, and the Wuya ship and the warship blocked the Tang army's advance, and the rest of the ships continued to advance! ”
Zhao Jun's flag was quickly spread, and the Zhao army's fleet was now divided into two, one way the main ships continued to rush upstream, and the other way was two five-tooth ships, leading more than 30 warships from the north shore to the south bank, facing the Tang fleet.
The two fleets approached quickly, and when they had advanced within range of their bows, the two sergeants fired arrows at each other's ships.
The arrows were as dense as locusts, and from time to time a soldier was struck by an arrow, falling from the strings of the ship and falling into the water. Both armies also fired rockets at the same time. The stone throwers on each other's ships have not stopped, but the stone throwers carried by the ships are only two or three pins, so it is difficult to break the ship.
Most of the stones and rockets shot by the Tang Army and Zhao Jun were fired at the baffles of each other's ships, invading the hull for a while.
Seeing that the Zhao army's fleet was still going upstream, Zhang Yasha, the general of the Tang Army, shouted in a hurry: "Quick, give me more treadboats, get on it, and beat his mother." ”
Zhang Yasha knew that in the water war, the bow and arrow, the stone throwing car was just a means, and if he really wanted to win, he still had to rely on the gang jumping.
Zhang Yasha was impatient at the moment, and urged his subordinates to move forward and bring the boat up.
After five or six zhang, Zhang Yasha's subordinates pulled their claws one after another and threw them towards the Zhao army's boat.
After the flying claws grabbed the side of the ship, the Tang sergeant and pawn all struggled to pull, and the two boats quickly approached, and finally slammed the side of the ship together. In the violent shaking of the hull, the Tang sergeant suddenly screamed, and rushed to the side of the ship with his knife.
The brutal battle on the side of the Yellow River suddenly turned a large area of red.
Zhou Zhou looked at the battle on the side of the nearby ship, and couldn't help but feel sorry, the two sergeants fought to the death on the narrow deck, within a square inch, that is, to distinguish between life and death, such a water battle was more than 6 on the ground, compared with the dignified two armies fighting in formation, it tested the bravery of the soldiers and the level of morale.
"Kill!"
On the more than a dozen ships on the left and right of the Wuya big ship, all of them were successfully jumped by the Tang army, and the soldiers on both sides fought on the deck to the death, and it can be seen that the Zhao army was down, and the follow-up ships of the Tang army continued to rush forward.
The Wuya ship is tall, although it is difficult for the Tang army to jump on the ship, but it does not mean that it can't, and when the Tang army packs up the nearby warships, it will kill the isolated Wuya ship.
"General, our army is advancing forward and going straight to the henchmen of the Tang Army." Zhou Zhou resolutely said to Cheng Ming.
"Haha, that's exactly what I want. I underestimated you, but I didn't expect you to have the guts to be a scholar. Cheng Mingzhen said happily.
"Forward!"
The five-toothed ship rushed into the Tang army's formation, and the Zhao sergeant on the bow took advantage of the condescending advantage to pour arrows on the Tang ships below.
The five-toothed ship broke into the school of fish like a giant whale.
When Zhang Yasha saw the five-toothed ship of the Zhao army, he immediately ordered the Tang army ships on all sides to come forward and besiege him, but before the order was issued, he saw a black overhead.
The five-toothed ship was nearly 20 zhang high to the left of the pole, and Sergeant Zhao untied the cable, but saw that the ship's wheel turned quickly, and the boulder tied to the pole fell obliquely from the height of 20 zhang at the bow.
But when he saw a loud bang, the starboard side of the car and ship where Zhang Yasha was hit by a boulder.
The whole boat was overturned in an instant, and after tilting forty-five degrees, the port side was slapped into the river, and the hull of the boat was turned over, lying on the surface of the river like a dead fish.
Zhang Yasha, who was proficient in water, jumped into the water in advance, and dozens of soldiers on the left and right all sank into the Yellow River.
The slapping rod was successful, and the Zhao soldiers on the five-tooth ship cheered together, and the morale of the Zhao army was great.
The soldiers on the side of the ship threw out more than a dozen flying claws and hooked a three-story battleship of the Tang Army. The Tang sergeants on the battleship were in a hurry, drawing their swords one after another to cut the flying claws hooked on the ship, but it was obviously too late.
"Catch this guy, release the stone!" Zhao Jun shouted on the side of the ship.
The Tang sergeant, who was wrapped in flying claws, saw the scene of the boulder on the five-tooth ship slowly falling, and his face showed a desperate look.
The Tang soldiers did not hesitate to throw themselves into the torrent of the Yellow River.
The slapping rod was smashed at the moment when the Tang sergeant entered the river, and directly smashed a big hole in the bow of the battleship, and the hull sank into the Yellow River.
Seeing the horror of the Wuya ship, the ships that the Tang Army was about to attack the flagship of the Zhao Army in all directions immediately retreated one after another.
"Kill! Kill! Zhou Zhou's eyes were red when he saw this scene. At this time, the main fleet of the Zhao army, which rushed upstream, had also completed a detour, killing the Tang fleet from the side.
Suddenly, the drums on the water surface of the Yellow River sounded loudly, and the fiery red banner of Zhao characters spread out like flames. (To be continued......)