Chapter 277: Fire Attack

Although he has a vulture to make his own decisions, but the big tart Buye still does not dare to offend those Jurchen masters, he knows that even if he makes great achievements, he is only a foreigner, a conquered, it is impossible to gain the trust of the Jurchens, but he can make his life better.

"General, if you can make meritorious contributions, Ben Shuai will ask the emperor to give you the whole clan as Jurchen, and we will share the glory!" Wushu saw what the big tart was thinking, and immediately promised a heavy reward.

"Master Xie, don't do your best!" Da Tart Buye was excited when he heard this, and Shi Li thanked him, he knew that the Jurchens of the Dao Dao had also compiled some Khitan, Bohai, Xi people, and even Tatars into the clan as Mouke over the years, but most of these people became the subordinates and slaves of those Susmiers, and they were named Jurchens, but they lived a life that was inferior to that of cattle and horses. However, the Jurchen birth is to enjoy special treatment, have their own land and tribe, and are very different from those people.

"Don't just say it nicely, it's only the ability to sink the Song army's warship!" Wanyan Yulie pursed his lips and said, he still has a 'debt' of thirty whips on his back, but Da Tart Buye was promised a heavy reward, which made him very unhappy, and he didn't want him to come up with any good ideas, otherwise he would be on an equal footing with himself.

"Taishi, most of the enemy ships moored in the river are large ships, in order to prevent being swept away by the current, they must be fixed with anchors, we can use small boats to carry the fire to get close to the enemy ships and ignite them and rush to the enemy ships, at that time, even if the enemy ships find it, it will be difficult to move for a while, and they will be ignited!" The big tart Buye ignored the provocation and offered advice to the vulture.

"I thought it was a clever plan!" Wanyan Nie Er sneered and said, "Our two armies are facing each other across the river, and the distance between them is at least two hundred steps. How to get the boat close to the enemy ship, even at night, the sound of paddling will be discovered by the Song army. I'm afraid I'll be sunk before I arrive! ”

"General, Nie Er is right. How do you get the ship of fire close to the enemy ship? "Wushu thinks about it, and asks the big tart if it's wild.

"Taishi, the last general is a little bit of astronomy, there will be a northeast wind blowing in the near future, we will hide the ship downstream will not attract the attention of the enemy, wait for the night wind to rise and rush to the enemy ship, and then light the fire when it is close, and wait for the Song army to find out that it is too late to open fire!" Big tart Buye said.

"I'm afraid it's your wishful thinking, and the soldiers who sail the ship get close to the enemy ship and then light the fire. Even if he wants to jump into the water to escape, the river is cold and the people will freeze to death, but he is afraid that the ship will be set on fire before the ship arrives, and the people will also flee for their lives, how can they ignite the enemy ship! Wanyan Yu Lie said with a smile, the Song army's warships have also learned to be smart after being attacked by trebuchets, and they no longer put the warships close to each other, but arrange them sparsely, and no one can guarantee that the fireships can accurately hit the enemy ships. It turned out to be empty.

"This last general has also thought about it, we can tie a small boat behind the fire boat, and after the fire is ignited, the person who operates the boat can go down to the boat and escape back in chaos, and save his life without worry!" Don't wait for the vulture to ask again. The big tart is not wild, so he fully laid out his own plan.

"Well, the general has thought it through, and the marshal thinks it is feasible. What do you think? Wushu nodded, then looked at the others and asked.

"It's all up to the Grand Master. The end will obey! "Everyone nodded in agreement when we heard you, do we dare to say any more opinions? Do whatever you want!

"General. This matter will be carried out by you, and there will be a great reward for the whole after the deed! Seeing that there was no objection, Wushu granted the Great Tart Buye full authority to command the battle of the fire attack......

Da Tart was not allowed to accept the order, and he had the promise of being the top military and political leader of the DPRK, knowing that this was an opportunity to change the fate of himself and future generations, of course, he did his best. He first selected a team of soldiers in the army who could handle boats and water, and ordered people to search for usable boats along the river, which he was not picky, whether it was a fishing boat or a ferry, as long as it could float on the water, it was a disposable thing anyway.

In order to prevent the Song army from detecting the plan, Da Tzu Buye set up the base of the 'suicide boats' in a reed swing on the Datong River, four miles away from Xijing City, and began to transform and arm these boats. The requisitioned are all civilian ships, most of them are flat-bottomed sloops for easy maneuvering, and the bow is equipped with inverted spikes to ensure that it will not be separated from the enemy ship after the impact, and the stern is hung with a 'lifeboat', which is connected to the fire boat with an iron ring in the middle, and the two ships can be separated by cutting off the iron ring. The ship was filled with dry reeds and burning cream, and the wind was ready to blow!

The vagaries of the trade winds in the early morning turned to the northeast, and the great tart Buye succeeded in hiding his intentions, and the warships of the Song army on the river were still anchored on the river outside the city, not realizing that danger was approaching him. In order to ensure the success of the raid to the greatest extent, the time of the attack was chosen at the ugly time, which is the time when people are most sleepy and vigilant.

When the time came, the small boats full of fire-burning things were rowed out of the bay in turn, and there were ten fireboats participating in the attack, and there were twelve sailors on each boat, all of whom were dead soldiers selected by the great tart Buye, and were given heavy rewards, promising that as long as they burned the warships of the Song army, they would be promoted to the third rank if they came back alive, and the material stimulation made the blood of these soldiers boil, and also made them put life and death out of the way.

The 'clatter' sound of the Baihu boat pressing over the frozen thin ice on the riverside was quickly drowned out by the howling wind, and the fleet formed a horizontal line on the river, raising its sails and speeding towards the Song army fleet upstream of the river! The sailors on the boat carefully manipulated the angle of the sails, the others lowered their bodies and crouched on the sides of the ship with oars in their hands, and the helmsman at the stern held the helm handle tightly to ensure that the boat sailed up the river to maintain its course in the rapids, knowing that the key to success was to hide their tracks as much as possible before the attack was launched.

Turning a river bay, you can already see the fleet of the Song army in front, they are like a giant whale bow diagonally across the river along the direction of the river, the shipbuilding and the side of the ship are hung with air dead wind lanterns, and torches are inserted all over the river surface to illuminate the river surface within a radius of 100 steps, and the tall hull is connected together, which makes people think that this is a city floating on the river in a trance. The helmsman kept adjusting the course, and the sails were lowered halfway down, so that the boat could blend into the darkness of the river as much as possible, and reduce the sound of the bow piercing the water.

Gradually, there were still 200 steps away from the anchorage of the Song warship, and the soldiers on the fireboat could already see the Song soldiers patrolling back and forth on the warship, and heard the clear sound of drums in the city against the wind. The wind was their friend and their enemy at this time, and the strong northeasterly wind blew away the haze that hung over the river, exposing them to the lights of the warships, but also allowing them to approach the enemy ships as quickly as possible.

"Full sails, paddling!" Less than one hundred and fifty paces away from the target, the first ship gave the order to speed up, they were to increase the speed of the ship to the highest before it was exposed, as close as possible to the Song warship, and at the same time increase the impact force so that the bow of the nail could be deeply nailed into the Song warship and would not easily break away, and it was best to sink them.

"Enemy attack!" Under the action of the wind and oars, the fireship rushed towards the Song warship like an arrow from the string, breaking into a light from the darkness, and it was inevitably discovered by the Song sailors patrolling, who immediately raised the alarm.

'Boom, boom......'

'Da Da ......'

Amid the deafening sound of artillery fire and heavy machine-gun fire, the fireboats quickly divided into several groups and rowed quickly towards their respective targets, and the shells that exploded around them slammed into the skyrocketing water columns, and the bullets were sent out with the firewood and grass piled up in the bow of the ship. Chirping like a ghostly howling, people who are hit by stray bullets often only have time to make a muffled sound before planting themselves in the dark river, and disappear without a trace in the blink of an eye, but the daredevils of the Jin Army have no way to retreat, and can only desperately move forward, in order to get into the dead corner of the enemy's gunfire before being hit.

"Ignition!" The first ship dodged the fire net woven by artillery fire and machine guns and rushed into the shadow of the Song warship, the naval guns were no longer a threat to them, and the death captain saw that there were six fireships around him, and he gave the order to light the fire loudly.

The sailor who was handling the oars made the last effort and withdrew to the small boat tethered to the stern, and the helmsman corrected the course after the last stroke, holding the rudder in place so that the fireboat would not deviate from course, and at the same time he jumped into the boat, the fire was thrown into the fireboat. The reeds, which were sprinkled with sulfur, saltpeter, and other fire-inducing things, were immediately ignited, and the wind quickly spread, igniting a raging fire.

With a crisp sound, the sailors who had avoided the boat cut off the iron rings connected to the fireboat, and they had done their best, and the success depended on the will of heaven, and they rowed in unison to break away from it, and quickly turned around and fled downstream along the river. The captain glanced back at the other ships, only three followed, and two fireboats dragged the escape boats towards the Song warship, they failed to break away or were killed by the scattered bullets when the fire was ignited......

"Cut the anchor chain and catch the fireship!"

"Put the long pole and hold it against the fireboat!"

"Drop the kit!"

Peng Xiuyi, the captain of the Courage, issued several orders in a row, the enemy attack was too sudden, and in a hurry, the battleship guns fired together, although four were sunk, but there were still six ships that took advantage of the opportunity of the gunsoft reloading to slip through the net, seeing that the fireships were getting closer and closer, he decided to use his battleship across the waterway to block the incoming fireships in order to protect the safety of the entire fleet, but it was too late to raise anchor, he immediately ordered the sailors to cut the cable directly to buy time.

Dealing with an incoming fireship is the most basic tactical training, and at the captain's command, a few wooden poles several feet long are lowered from the deck, which is a necessary thing on the warship, which is used to push the fireship that rushes towards you away, so as not to set yourself on fire. The explosives were invented by the emperor, and the water jets that blew up could extinguish the fire, and the waves could deflect the enemy ship from its course, or even overturn the fireboat, of course, it was necessary to control the distance and the amount of medicine so as not to hurt the battleship...... (To be continued......)