Chapter 286: The Decisive Battle

The warships of the Song army and the warships of the Jin army were intertwined, forming a melee situation, and a decisive battle between cold and hot weapons was in full swing, and both sides wanted to put the other to death. The battle formation of the Jin army fleet was arranged horizontally, which made it easier to adopt the tactics of ramming. Due to the small spacing between ships, the command ship is usually located in the center of the combat formation, which is convenient for the communication ship to communicate with the ships with sound, flags and lights.

The 'Shenwei' was the first to break through the two-layer defense circle of the Jin Army, and quickly pounced on the locked prey, it was like a silent lion at the moment without firing a cannon but biting the track of the Jin Army's flagship in pursuit, and its giant size made those small Jin Army warships that wanted to stop it from advancing could only look up, even if the waves brought up by it were twisted and crooked, and the arrows and javelins that were thrown were not even itchy.

The boats were useless, and one of the Jin Army's sea falcons, with its good stability and nimble maneuverability, stabbed obliquely to adjust its position and try to ram the stern of the 'Shenwei'. The bow angle of attack is made of hardwood inlaid with bronze or iron sheets, which can be used to hit the underwater part of the ship, and if it hits the vulnerable parts of the ship on the side and stern, it can be damaged at least and sink in an instant.

When the lookout at the stern of the Kamui spotted the enemy ship hidden in its shadows, it had already entered the dead end of the stern gun, and tried to stop it from approaching with machine gun fire, but the sea falcon seemed to be determined to die with the enemy, and did not evade the danger of being swept into the wake of the bullets, and the machine guns were helpless against it.

The two ships approached quickly, and the 'Shenwei' was a little helpless against the dogskin plaster, and could only disrupt the pursuing enemy ship by changing course and setting off a huge wake to disrupt the course. But that gave the flagship of the Jin army a chance to escape. Just as they hesitated, they discovered the dilemma of the Kamui in the nearby 'Weiming'. It immediately chased after it, and the sailors flew with oars to the sound of drums. Soon chased the bow and stern.

"Fold, turn the rudder right!" At this time, the 'Weiming' was embarrassed to find that the distance between the two ships was too close, and his hull was a lot higher than the other party, and the artillery could not hit it, and the captain Peng Dong ordered in a hurry. The oarsmen, who were playing with their lives, suddenly received an order, and hurriedly stopped their movements, and leaned their oars against the hull of the boat, so as not to suffocate an internal injury, while the Prestige quickly leaned towards the golden army's sea falcon ship by inertia.

'Click, click, click......' came with a palpitating breaking sound. The hull of the Prestige collided with the Sea Falcon, and the scales and oars of the enemy ship on both sides of the hull were instantly reduced to debris. The oarsmen of the Sea Falcons felt a sudden lightness in their hands, followed by a cry of misery, and the broken oars were now turned into deadly weapons, and flew wildly under the influence of friction, breaking bones and tendons of the oarsmen in the small bilge, breaking their heads and bleeding, and injuring eight out of ten internal wounds.

The function of the weighing plate is to enable the ship to sail smoothly in the stormy waves, and has the function of increasing the displacement area to increase the speed. The Weiyuan swept away the balancing plates and oars on the side of the sea falcon. It had become a winged falcon half-floating on the surface of the sea and struggled, but it suddenly turned to the left rudder, and the sea falcon ship, which had suddenly lost its support, immediately stood on its side and turned over greatly under the help of a wave of waves. It turned into a dead fish that turned into white, and none of the people on the boat escaped......

Got rid of the rear-end chase of the Shenwei and chased after the flagship of the Jin Army, and a fighting ship found that its master was in trouble and quickly came to the rescue and accompanied the driver. Approaching the target, the Kamui swerved slightly and plunged between the two Golden Army warships. At the moment of sailing parallel to the enemy ship, a salvo of guns from both sides. The fighting ship that came to the rescue was hit by several bullets. The hull rolled and lost its combat effectiveness, and the sailors jumped into the water to escape.

Diagonal Ali felt like a thunderbolt had fallen in his ears. He realized that his ship had been hit, and he struggled to get up with the support of his own soldiers and staggered out of the command cabin with the support of his own soldiers, and the sight in front of him surprised him, a cannonball hit the main mast of the warship, and the whole thing fell down, and the speed of the warship, which had lost its main power, was greatly reduced.

"Ha Luha, the sky will not destroy me!" In the face of the heavily damaged ship, Diagonal Ali instead drew his knife and looked up to the sky and smiled, "Sons, make meritorious contributions at this moment, follow this commander to capture and kill the enemy general!" ”

The people around were shocked when they heard this, wondering if their capital was frightened and crazy, the warship was hit hard by this and became the target of the Southern Korean naval army, now how to escape is important, he still has to lead everyone to make meritorious contributions, leading everyone to death is almost the same, a few people rushed up to protect him and got off the ship before the second round of artillery fire arrived!

"Bastard, bastard!" Diagonal Ali punched and kicked several kind-hearted subordinates all down, "Help me to do something, hurry up and gather the generals, put down the board, and cross the boat to fight!" ”

The subordinates who were beaten up looked in the direction of Du Tong's finger at this time, and suddenly realized that it was not Du Tong who was crazy, but he was frightened. It turned out that the destroyed mainmast on their ship fell and landed on the Song army's battleship, hooking their side, and the cables on the sails were entangled, and they couldn't get rid of it for a while.

The soldiers of the Jin Army who reacted were greatly inspired, they had suffered the anger of the Southern Korean Navy these days, and they were attacking them from a distance with artillery, and the trebuchets and bows and arrows on their side could not touch their side at all, and they could only be beaten passively, and they could not play the broadside combat they were best at. Today is really God's eyes, they hurt others and themselves, and sent themselves to the door.

The flagship of the Jin Navy was of course the largest and most well-equipped warship in the army, and there were thousands of sailors, who must have an overwhelming advantage in close combat, and they rushed to the deck and the side of the ship, and threw hooks and cables to draw the two ships closer, ready to lay the plank, and some anxious soldiers had already climbed along the mast between the two ships towards the Song ship. He was ready to ride across the ship to fight, capture the enemy's flagship, and show the might of the Dajin naval army......

Cheng Xishou didn't expect such an inch of things to be spread out today, the mast was on his battleship, and the sail cables were entangled, like grasshoppers tied to a rope that could not be separated for a while, and the Jin army took the opportunity to launch a counterattack. He was a little funny in his heart, his flagship was once the emperor's imperial ship, the most advanced warship in the Great Song Dynasty, equipped with hundreds of large and small artillery, and strong firepower, but now he had to end the battle with the initial white-knuckle battle.

"In addition to the helmsman and gunner, all the sailors of the ship are gathered on the starboard side and ready to fight!" Cheng Xishou watched the Jurchens who were screaming and began to prepare for the broadside battle, put on the armor that had not been used for many years, put on a helmet, and hung up the Fusang knife that the emperor gave him back then, and ordered, this job is also their ability to start back then, and the broadside battle is no stranger to the veterans of the year, and most of the officers and pro-soldiers have actual combat experience, so he is not worried.

"The starboard gun reduces the charge and loads the shotgun!" The distance between the two ships is too close, and if you shoot rashly, you will accidentally injure yourself, and if you sink the enemy ship, you will be dragged to the bottom of the sea by them for burial, but you can't watch the arrogance of the Jin army on the opposite side, and the gunner commanded.

"Shoot in turn, shoot in turn!" At this time, the battleship was pulled hard by the Jin army sailors, and the two ships were closer, and they could clearly see the eyebrows and eyes of the Jurchens on the opposite ship.

'Boom, ......boom' In the trembling of the battleship, more than 50 guns on the three-tier gun deck were fired one after another, like a metal storm, and the bayonet on this cannon was fired at such a close range, although the charge was reduced, but the power could not be underestimated. Thousands of small projectiles erupted, and in the blink of an eye, the frontal ones turned into a pile of flesh, the bones were shattered, and the flags, barricades, and women's walls on the port side of the enemy ship were destroyed in an instant.

'Da Da ......'

'Bang, bang......'

After the artillery bombardment, machine guns and bead guns rang out one after another, sweeping towards the enemy troops gathered on the side of the ship. Diagonal Ali was angry at the moment, his war horse was beaten into a honeycomb, and blood was gushing everywhere, and Song Jun took advantage of the chaos to get on his ship along the bridge he had built, he roared and gathered the remnants of the army to respond, and the two sides were on the deck, on the side of the ship, in the cabin... A battle of life and death has begun!

The warships of the Song army had already divided the enemy fleet into several parts, reorganized themselves into formations on their respective battlefields, and under the command of their respective flagships, adopted the tactics of interspersed flank attacks and combined attacks of the two teams, giving full play to the superiority of artillery to come and go in conflicts. Atuhan's ship was shot in many places, the cabin leaked and could not move again, he transferred to a fighting ship to fight again, and was sunk again in a blink of an eye, so he could only jump on the small boat tied to the stern to escape, and was sunk in the melee, and he did not know whether he was alive or dead!

At a critical juncture, the Jin army suddenly found that the handsome flag on the flagship had fallen, and after losing its command, it was even more chaotic and disheartened, and at this time, the bane of the Jurchen officers in the Jin army who oppressed foreign soldiers broke out. As soon as the officers were killed or wounded, the ships immediately raised and lowered the flag and abandoned the battle, and even the disgruntled soldiers took advantage of the chaos to kill the officers on board and surrender to the Song army and turn to their own teammates.

It was slowly getting dark, but the ships that had been shot and caught fire everywhere wanted to float on the surface of the sea with torches, illuminating the battlefield and the sound of gunfire was also sparse. The battle between the flagships of the two armies has also ended, Xianmao Ali was killed by indiscriminate shooting, more than half of the sailors were killed and wounded, more than 200 people were captured, and the warship was captured.

In this battle, the Jin Shui Army was almost completely wiped out, the two main generals were all killed, and only more than 20 of the hundreds of warships slipped away in the chaos, marking that the Great Song Navy had become the maritime hegemon in Southeast Asia after the war, and no one could compete with it...... (To be continued......)