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Chapter 654: Fighting on the Water

Zuo Fu stood at the bow of the ship, watching the burning fireships rush towards the Dingzhou Naval Fleet moored in the harbor, and in a few moments, the harbor would become a sea of fire, and those big ships that were showing off their might would be burned. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

This port is a huge backwater area, here, the fireship does not need to be controlled, it will be sent into the harbor by the current, Zuo Fu did not expect that today's trip would be so smooth, after His Majesty the King and Prime Minister Wei Gang decided to resist desperately, he was the first to ask Sakura to attack.

Zuo Fu is the general of the sailor, is the brother of the current commander of the sailor Zuo Gui, Zuo Gui died in battle, the whole army of the sailor was destroyed, Zuo Fu was sad and angry, collected hundreds of small fishing boats, decided to follow the ancients, set fire to the enemy fleet. A group of death squads were summoned, and by virtue of their familiarity with the hydrology and geography around Taiwan Island, they actually avoided the patrol ships of the Dingzhou Navy Division and approached the Dingzhou Navy Division fleet anchored in the harbor.

Each fishing boat was filled with flammable firewood and grass, poured grease, and when it approached a distance of one or two from the harbor, it immediately lit a fire, and the death squads on board jumped into the sea and swam desperately back, while those fireboats rushed towards the harbor by returning to the water, and nearly a hundred fireboats illuminated the sea clearly.

By the light of the fire, Zuo Fu saw the fireships that were getting closer and closer, looked at the panicked figures on the giant ships in the harbor, and listened to the terrible alarm horn, he looked up to the sky and laughed, brother, brother is going to avenge you today.

But after a while, Zuo Fu's smile condensed on his face, and when the more than 100 fireships were about one or two hundred meters away from the harbor fleet, they seemed to have encountered some obstacle, and they stopped inexplicably.

"Why, here's why!" Zuo Fu hissed and shouted, could it be that these Dingzhou sailors are blessed by ghosts and gods, why did the fireboat stop when it reached that arc line?

In fact, there are some ghosts and gods there, the Dingzhou sailors are stationed in the harbor, on the periphery of the harbor, dozens of boats are moored there along an arc, each ship is connected by iron chains, and a large number of bells and alarm bells are placed on the boats, those fireships run here, either crash into these small boats, or are stopped by the iron chains that sink a few points underwater, and they are crowded together on this line, but they are not allowed to enter.

When Zheng Zhiyuan annihilated the Bozhou Naval Division, he used a fireboat to attack the enemy, burning the enemy to cry wolf.

"Send a message to the fleets on the far seas and ask them to form a detachment to hold this incoming enemy, and the ships in the harbor will sink these fireships." Zheng Zhiyuan ordered in a deep voice.

In the blazing firelight, the signal soldiers on the Izumo climbed the high mast and kept waving the signal flag towards the distant giant ship, at this time, the giant ship on the far sea had already been alarmed, and was paying close attention to here, seeing the signal command on the Izumo in the translucent harbor, and immediately several three thousand warships with more than a dozen thousand warships forced towards the faint small ships on the sea.

In the harbor, the trebuchets on the ships were twisted in a very short time, the stone bullets were loaded, and with the command to fire, one after another the stone bullets rose into the air, sinking the fireships one by one one two hundred meters away.

Zuo Fu knelt on the bow of the boat, grabbed the ground with his head, and kept beating the board with his fists, just at the moment when success was imminent, defeat fell from the sky, the opponent's defense was so tight, after completely annihilating his own sailors, he did not relax his guard at all, which made this sailor general feel shocked and a sense of powerlessness, the enemy in front of him was very different from what he had encountered before.

Although Zuo Fu is a sailor general, he only dealt with a small group of pirates in the past, as well as encircled and pursued some merchant ships in this sea area, and basically had no experience in major naval battles.

"Let's go, let's go back to the cabin and continue to discuss, these invading enemies can't run much, so we don't have to stand here and blow the sea breeze!" Zheng Zhiyuan smiled left and right, at this time, the fireships on the sea had basically been sunk, and a group of Dingzhou sailors sailed towards the cordon in small boats, ready to inspect the damage of those small boats on alert.

This kind of battle, for the Dingzhou Naval Division, cannot even be called a battle.

"General Zuo, retreat quickly, otherwise you won't be able to leave." Some soldiers shouted. At this time, on the surface of the sea, more than a dozen large ships were circling behind them, intending to block their retreat.

"Watching the flowers," Zuo Fu shouted, relying on the dexterity and speed of the small boats, the remaining twenty or thirty small boats quickly approached the shoreline, rowing desperately to one side in the shallow water.

The sound of knocking sound sounded around the boat from time to time, it was the incoming ship firing stone bullets, the stone bullets fell around the boat from time to time, the huge splash of water drenched everyone, boom, a stone bomb hit a fishing boat on the left side of Zuo Fu, the huge impact immediately hit the small boat in two, the bow and stern of the ship were raised high, and then sank, and several soldiers on the ship only came to scream, and then suffered a catastrophe.

"Spread out, spread out, close to the shore." Zuo Fu shouted.

The screeching of the eight-ox crossbow cast a thick shadow of death over the hearts of the people, and only one of the eight-ox crossbows that was like an arm's arm would be shot, and the boat they were sitting on would be overturned. Zuo Fu operated the oars, sliding forward desperately, while looking sideways at the brightly lit enemy fleet chasing after him.

He is very familiar with the eight-bull crossbow, but the intensity of the opponent's eight-bull crossbow shooting makes him frightened, the opponent's crossbow can be four in one shot, compared to one shot at a time on Taiwan Island, the eight-bull crossbow that is slower than the turtle is not much more powerful.

The 3,000 battleships had been thrown far away, but the other side still had several 1,000 warships in hot pursuit.

"Lead them to the crooks." Zuo Fu shouted.

Sheephorn Bend, is a place name of Taiwan Island dozens of miles away from the harbor, the water surface here seems to be calm, but under the sea surface, it is a dense reef, which can only accommodate small fishing boats to enter and exit, and slightly larger ships enter here, most of them are the end of hitting the reef. If these Dingzhou sailors are still desperately chasing after them, then Zuo Fu doesn't mind cleaning them all up.

The dozens of remaining small boats slid desperately, and finally entered the sheep's horn bend under the endless blows of the battleships behind.

"General Zuo, we are safe!" A captain looked like a *** cheered, but then a stone bullet fell from the sky to disperse all his words, the stone bullet fell, the planks were scattered, the captain was shocked to fly high, pierced hands and feet fell, porphym into the water, a series of splashes rose, but his people never floated again.

Zuo Fu turned around, and several thousand-year-old battleships still chased after him relentlessly. "Keep moving!" He yelled.

"Capture them alive!" Behind him, there was the cheerful call of the Dingzhou sailors.

"Capture us alive?" Zuo Fu sneered, and immediately made you look good. Dozens of small boats scattered like frightened flocks of birds.

With a bang, there was a huge crash sound behind him, Zuo Fu was overjoyed, looked back, and sure enough, a thousand-material warship chasing in front hit the reef, and the huge force of the hull and the reef collided made some elated sailors on the ship be thrown high under surprise, and then fell into the water, and there was an exclamation from the boat.

The first ship hit the rock, but the next few ships saw the opportunity very quickly, immediately slowed down, one by one huge iron anchors were thrown into the water, and the ship was forcibly stopped in an unpleasant creaking sound.

Zuo Fu looked at the distance of nearly 100 meters between the first warship that ran on the reef and the next few ships, and couldn't help but be overjoyed, "Turn around, destroy this ship!" ”

At the sound of an order, dozens of small boats sailed back like arrows.

The shipwreck and the fleet behind him immediately discovered the danger, and countless stone bullets rained down, *** the direction the boat was coming. More than a dozen small boats were lowered from the battleships behind, each with a full load of heavily armed soldiers, rowing with all their might towards the warship that ran aground.

This blow caused Zuo Fu to lose several more small boats, but it also allowed him to successfully get close to the thousand-material battleship that hit the rocks, "Climb up and kill them all!" ”

At this time, the battleship was like a tempting honeyball, full of small boats, hooks and poles on the warship's gang, and the soldiers shouted and climbed up.

The ship's hull began to sink slowly, drawing their swords and shouting at the ship's saber to fight the enemy as they climbed upward.

All of a sudden, the sea filled the sea with the sound of flesh and blood flying on both sides of the ship, roars, screams, and the tooth-squeaking sound of knives slashing into the body. The Taiwanese soldiers on the small boat poured buckets of grease on the battleship and threw torches, and in an instant, the ship's landings were blazing.

"Kill!" In the firelight, the Dingzhou sailor boat that was behind rushed over, and hit the enemy warship on the opposite side heavily, and the sailors rose from their own boats, pounced on the opposite boat, and fought desperately on the undulating boat.

Although the scale of this fight is not large, but the danger is more thrilling than the previous fight in the harbor, the soldiers on both sides are almost the same, there are dozens of sailors on the Qianliu battleship, and there are dozens of Dingzhou sailors who came from behind to support, and there are more than 100 people on each side participating in the battle, while the other Qianliu warships in Dingzhou can only wait and see from afar, at this time, they already know that this water area is extremely complicated, and the slightest carelessness will be the end of hitting the reef.

In the fighting, the sophisticated equipment of the Dingzhou soldiers began to show great power, compared with the opponent's rudimentary weapons, the hand crossbows equipped by the Dingzhou sailors, and the war knives wrapped with steel blades, made the opponent suffer heavy losses. The fight did not take more than half an hour, and the sailors of Taiwan Island could not bear their strength.

Zuo Fu sadly found that his sailors were not only incomparable with the other side on the battleships, but also in terms of individual combat power, his own troops could not have the slightest upper hand.

"Retreat, retreat!" He said sadly and indignantly, if he continued to fight, he was afraid that no one in this army would survive.