Chapter 283: Scuffle
Due to the fierce cannon fire of the Song warships and the long range, and the backward weapons of the Jin army were difficult to effectively suppress the Song army, the two warships had not yet touched, the Jin army was at a disadvantage, and Chi Zhanhui hurriedly ordered the warships to withdraw to their own team.
"Command, the last general will see that this Song army fleet is mostly merchant ships, it must be used to transport materials, and it is not equipped with artillery, if it is better to entangle the battleship with a boat, and use the fighting ship to attack behind its flank, and rush into its formation, then it will be difficult to take care of each other, and it will not be able to shoot with artillery, it will be able to make a contribution!" The lieutenant general Saqiri suggested to Chi Zhanhui that he had discovered the weakness of the Song army, and that this team was not very strong in combat.
"Yes, my target is small, the advance and retreat are flexible, and the enemy's guns are difficult to hit, as long as they are close to their ships, the artillery will become an ornament, and then we can make full use of the strength of our army, board the ship and fight hand-to-hand, and capture the enemy ship!" Chi Zhan Hui said, everyone likes to pinch soft persimmons, and now there is no way back, so it is better to pull a few cushions.
"Commander, the last general is willing to lead a team forward, destroy his ship, and capture and kill the enemy general!" Saqiri pleased.
"It's okay, when attacking, the formation is scattered, and after approaching, I am concentrating my forces to attack, and I will lead the fighting ships to destroy its fleet to avenge the humiliation of the destruction of the flagship that day!" The flagship of the rear army was sunk, just like the handsome flag was captured, he can only be transferred to the command of a fighting ship in the army, and since they engaged the Song army, they have not even sunk a slightly larger warship, and they are often teased by their colleagues because of this, Chi Zhanhui regards it as the greatest shame of his half-life campaign, and now he has the opportunity to set this precedent......
Looking at the Jin army fleet attacking from three sides, Liu Han only smiled bitterly, the number of ships on his side was better than the other party. But most of them are transports that have no combat effectiveness, like a flock of sheep meets a wolf. He is taking care of one thing and losing the other, and he is completely exposed to Chi Zhanhui's attack at this moment. Fortunately, the supplies and landing force had been unloaded on the way back, otherwise even if a ship was lost, it would have been a hundred deaths.
The golden ships came up from behind, and the convoy hastened forward, but the abominable headwinds made it impossible for them to hurry. The short transport ships are thinner than the warships, and the speed is slow, and most of the transport ships have removed the guns in the bow in order to load more supplies, and only the big ships are still retained, and the most powerful weapon on those small and medium-sized transport ships is a six-barreled machine gun fixed on the aft deck, which is vulnerable even in front of the Jin Army warships with cold weapons. A single violent impact can wreck their ship.
On the frontal battlefield, the large fighting ships of the Jin Army have withdrawn, and many walkers have rushed up, they are not in a hurry to attack, but wander outside the range, like waiting wolves looking for flaws, Liu Han knows that as long as there is an opportunity, these walkers will rush up and attack the transport fleet through the defense line. In front, a group of Jin troops were rowing forward with all their might, trying to intercept the convoy with their own speed advantage, and it could be said that they were attacked on three sides. But there are only forty warships, and once there is a hole in the defense, it will be a disaster!
"Order, five Yongzi-class battleships will meet the Jin Army Fighting Ships, and the Weizi-class will accelerate to intercept the Jin Army in front. open the pathway; The rest of the ships marched with the convoy to block the enemy in front; The large ships of the transport fleet formed a circle and attacked approaching enemy ships with self-defense weapons. Be sure to stay in formation and keep up with the big pack! Although Liu Han knew that defending on all sides of the road would inevitably lead to a lengthened battle line. When the enemy can take advantage of it, there is no better way to passively divide troops to resist. I only hope that at the moment of crisis, the Song fleet will hear its own cannon and rush to the rescue......
"Speed up, don't let the Song battleship turn!" Saqiri already knew that the most powerful of the Song warships was their two-sided guns, and as long as they were not allowed to face their own ships, it would be difficult to give full play to their superiority in firepower.
'Knock, knock, knock', the mortar cannon in the bow of the Song ship began to fire, making a dull explosion.
"Release, release......" With the sound of the password, the stone thrower arranged on the foredeck by the Jin army also shot stone projectiles.
At this time, there was not much difference in firepower between the two armies, and even the firing speed was almost the same, but no one dared to underestimate the other party, and it was not easy for anyone to be next to each other with 20 catties of iron bullets and 30 catties of stone bullets.
Unable to meet the Song ship parallel to the Song ship for fear of artillery attacks, Saqiri struggled to get his warship's bow to the starboard side of the Song ship Valian, but unexpectedly this engagement caused a drop of up to a zhang between the decks. Although the dead soldiers who were about to jump the gang tried their best to pounce on the Song ship, due to the narrow area of the bow and port, a large number of soldiers were not allowed to climb at the same time.
Song Jun saw that the Jin Army wanted to get on the ship, of course, he did not agree, the machine gun erected on the top gun deck first rang out, the first wave of bad luck was the Jin Army archers who were hiding in the cabin through the crossbow window to release arrows, the wooden cabin covered with cowhide arrows could not take it, but the bullets could easily penetrate it, and under a fierce strafing, the arrow rain turned from heavy rain to sporadic light rain.
Seeing that the machine guns suppressed the archers of the Jin army, the sailors in the Song ship rushed to the side of the ship with bead guns, straight knives and big axes, and the dozen or so dead soldiers of the Jin army who finally climbed up under the guns and axes returned to their positions. After all, these sailors are not marines who specialize in combat, and the ships are not equipped with a single gun, but this does not hinder their fighting. Guns were fired at the commandos lining up on the deck of the enemy ship to climb, and they stood guard on the side of the ship with knives and axes, chopping off whoever showed their heads.
Seeing that the enemy ships were under fierce fire, several attacks were repulsed, and the soldiers on the deck were almost almost unwounded, he knew that the opportunity was rare, and if he got it, he would not be able to let go, and as soon as he retreated, he would be pursued by the Song gun. Now there is a situation where there is me without you, and there is you without me, so I can only fight to the death. Unable to win after repeated attacks, Saqiri personally led his troops to climb to the top of the mountain, wanting to play with the Song army!
At this moment, the two ships were too close to each other, and the guns of the "Brave" could not be fired, and those artillerymen looked greedy, and they could not leave their positions without permission, so they hurriedly leaned out of the gun window and lit the medicine bag and threw it at the enemy ship. The machine guns were just a string of fires, they blew up a piece, and in an instant the enemy ship was full of flesh and blood, and there was a terrible howl, and the explosion tore the arson hide, and the spark ignited the anti-decay tung oil.
Although the boat was floating on the water, it was most afraid of fire, and the fire quickly spread to the whole ship by the wind, and the soldiers of the Jin Army could not put it out at all, and everyone rushed to jump into the water regardless of the cold sea. As the saying goes, 'a fire at the city gate will cause damage to the fish in the pond', and the two boats are next to each other, and if they don't get it right, they will be burned, so everyone hurriedly pushes the enemy ship out of control with a long pole, and quickly turns the rudder out of the fire.
Saqiri was wounded in the wrist and chest, and when he saw that his grandsons had set his ship on fire, he wanted to leave, how could he be willing to suffer this dumb loss, and despite the obstruction, he struggled to the wheelhouse to take the helm 'himself', and drove the ship to ram the enemy ship, intending to die with the enemy, he couldn't do it, and the helmsman ran away early when he saw that the ship was on fire!
The 'Brave', which had just broken away from it, saw that the other party was going to play with his life, and if you were careful, your ship was worth 10,000 taels of silver, and the artillery on Lao Tzu's ship was more than this money, so he hurriedly 'dodged' the rudder and let the enemy ship rush over, and walked in the opposite direction. Seeing that the two ships were almost parallel, the artillerymen who had caused the trouble hurriedly made meritorious atonements, lowered their muzzles and fired a salvo at the two ships less than thirty paces apart.
If they can't hit at such a close distance, it is estimated that Cheng Dadu will be able to let them go, and the emperor will not spare them, so he has to kick them all out of the navy and change their port numbers. More than a dozen solid shells smashed a series of holes in the side and deck of the enemy ship, and the oblique spurs pierced through the bilge, and one of them was lucky enough to hit the keel of the battleship, breaking it from it.
The keel is like the backbone of a person, and if it is broken, the person will collapse. The enemy ship, which had been hit by a dozen bullets, began to tilt under the action of the sea, and a swell sent it to the crest of the wave, and when it fell, it became two sections, and in the blink of an eye it sank to the bottom of the sea, and Saqiri tragically followed, leaving only two huge whirlpools on the surface of the sea, as if to mock his inadequacy!
After two quarters of an hour of fighting, the Brave sank the enemy ship and returned to the battlefield, at this time the other four warships of the Song army also worked together to damage and destroy one enemy ship each, and were constantly maneuvering with the enemy on the sea, seizing the advantageous battle position and firing to prevent them from pursuing the transport fleet. At this time, a Song ship was ignited by a rocket thrown by an enemy ship, and lost power, and two enemy ships took the opportunity to lean up from the stern to attack the Song ship. After a loud bang, the whole ship burst into the ship, and the sharp angle of attack on the inlaid bow pierced the enemy ship, cutting a long hole in the belly of the enemy ship......
The Jin army lost four large fighting ships in succession, but the situation on the Song army's side was still grim, and the Jin army's boats attacking from the front were small and flexible, and they distanced themselves from each other, which greatly reduced the power of the Song ship's artillery fire, and it was difficult to hit directly, but they could take advantage of the gap between the reloading of the Song ship's artillery to suddenly accelerate forward, and three groups of two rushed into the firing corner of the artillery. Then he quickly threw a hook to the battleship to climb, so that the Song ship had to be distracted. However, this gave the enemy ships wandering nearby another opportunity, and they took advantage of the weakening of the Song ship's firepower and slowing down the speed of the ship to break through the blockade line of the Song ship through the gap and rush to the transport fleet in the defensive circle.
The two armies of the Song and Jin armies on both sides fell into a melee, and the battle situation in front of them was not good, and the Jin warships in front of the Song fleet also launched a formation to intercept the transport ships of the brigade. The Song Junwei-class battleship responsible for opening the way was also unable to exert the power of its gunwales against the Jin army boats traveling oppositely, and could only overturn them by rushing and the swells brought up when driving, but they could not cover everything because of the loss of one or the other, and the defensive circle in front of them was also lost, and a big melee began...... (To be continued......)