Chapter 841: The First Naval Battle
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"Childe." The maidservant of the head was beautiful, but her words and deeds were extremely regular, and she did not transgress or seduce or be restless, and when she came to the young man, she bowed solemnly and naturally.
"Mother asked you to send it? Put it there! The young man was not surprised by their arrival, his expression was only faint, and he did not change at all, and said casually with a few points to the desk next to him.
"The master asked the slaves to send it." After receiving the order, the maid elegantly placed several plates of exquisite snacks on the table on the side one by one, and stood in a row, obediently waiting for the young master's orders.
The young man's expression moved, "It's nothing else, let's retreat first." He said lightly in a blink of an eye.
"No." The maidservants saluted the young man respectfully and respectfully, and then quietly left together. didn't earn half a point of young people's attention!
"Phoenix feathers, cloud cakes, calla lilies, ......"
Since he rejected the imperial court's edict, his father has not been half a good color for himself. Today, I ordered someone to bring me a snack, and it was still like this......
A glint flashed in the young man's eyes. I'm afraid that things have changed, and something big has happened!
Two quarters of an hour later, a little man in cloth came to the young man and whispered.
"Donghai City is broken?"
The young man froze, unable to maintain his previous calm demeanor. I couldn't help but stand up and walk back and forth in the shade of the trees.
Donghai City, which is extremely strong and much stronger than Qidu Zibo, how could it be broken so quickly? A figure runs through the whole thing, Zhu Biao!
The young man was very patient and thought about the impact of the situation on the east after the break of Haizhou.
The two states of Canghai are under the butts of the two countries of Qi and Lu, and now they are unified in the camp of the Tang King, which is equivalent to saying that the two countries of Qi and Lu have no worries. Unlike the Qi State, which was on the verge of ruin, the reason why the King of Qi was reluctant to express his position was also because there were two states on the side. In case the two states raise the flag of the imperial court, send troops to kill. The Qi Kingdom will be destroyed in an instant.
Cangzhou stood on the side of King Tang, which made the Qi State breathe a sigh of relief. Now that the East China Sea City is broken, and Haizhou is completely included in the Tang King's camp, the Qi State no longer has to worry about being attacked on both sides. And there's a place to ask for help!
It's just that......
And the Tang King who is under pressure from Yizhou and even the south will let the Cangzhou army go north? Compared with the dangerous Lu State, even if the Cangzhou army goes north, will it enter the Qi State?
The young man with deep resentment against the current King of Qi in his heart saw a shining way out.
When the northbound army entered Qilu, it served in the past. Historically, this is a path that has been walked by many!
It is best to go north to the Qi Kingdom......
In troubled times, men who don't have Lingyunzhi in their hearts. Those who bury their heads in the dust and ignore the world. More of a loser and a coward on the road of life.
In the fifth year of Yuanwu, in September.
Haizhou off the coast.
Zhu Biao stood on the high platform on the Wuya ship, and his own soldiers stood behind him.
In the distance, a large number of Zhou army's outer sea division fleets were already in sight, one after another warships and huge ships were connected together, spreading out for ten miles, forming a mighty team on the sea, covering people's eyes.
Zhu Biao has already seen the immensity of the Lu State Water Division, but he can appear on the sea level in front of him. The endless warships of the Zhou army paled in comparison.
Zhu Biao's face remained unchanged, but his heart was awe-inspiring, 'looking at it like a mountain'. The momentum of the Zhou Army's Outer Sea Division was like the tall five-toothed ship, powerful and vigorous.
In this era, it is the same as the guns of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries in the previous life. The momentum is overwhelming.
Three five-tooth ships, at least ten ships, fighting ships, and building ships are the main force. It was followed by a large number of loach boats. As for the vehicles and boats and sea falcons that are often equipped by inland waterway sailors, there is no trace of them.
The sea is no better than a river, with strong winds and waves, and is not suitable for cars and boats, nor is it for sea falcons, grasshoppers, and boats, which can shuttle back and forth.
There are 100,000 people, and there are 70,000 or 80,000 people. Even the coalition army with the Lu National Naval Division as the main force on Zhu Biao's side, the battle of more than 100,000 offshore sea divisions is unimaginable in the history of war on the earth!
Zhu Biao has long known the vastness of this world, and he can't help but feel broken by the courage of war. This is a pure naval division of more than 100,000 troops, as a money-burning army, the total investment of financial and material resources of the two sides, the capital is enough to overwhelm the battle of a million troops.
The waves crashed against the hull of the ship, and a string of flags were raised in the formation of the Lu State Navy Division on the left hand, Zhu Biao glanced at it, and with a wave of his hand, the fleet formed by him relying on the surrendered 20,000 Haizhou Offshore Navy Divisions immediately became busy.
King Tang did not hand over Haizhou to Chen Kui, which is impossible, although the current Chen Kui has become Cangzhou Mu and has become a member of the Tang King's command. But for his loyalty and strength, Tang Wang has always given a controllable return.
State pastor, earl, Chen Kui's current status can definitely be listed in the top ten in the Tang King Group, and he is also loyal to the Tang King at the moment.
But the state and Yizhou can't end, and there is always a layer between Youzhou and Canghai, and the control is not reassuring. If Chen Kui leads the military and political affairs of Haizhou, the army under his command can be as high as one million.
No matter how loyal the subordinate is, he must also tie a rein, and really let the other party have no restraint, that is not 'sincerity', but harm others and oneself.
As a result, the governor of Haizhou fell on Zhu Biao's head, and the history of Haizhou assassination was Prince Chang.
Two months after serving as governor, Zhu Biao restored the Haizhou Navy and Army.
Fortunately, the army was okay, and many captured former Haizhou troops plus Chen Kui's 'anyway' Haizhou army, based on this, soon a team of 400,000 people was pulled up.
But the water master is in trouble.
At this time, a high-tech branch of the army is not something that someone with money can pull up immediately. It also needs shipbuilding, and it takes time.
Haizhou originally had 50,000 foreign naval divisions, but Tang Sheng withdrew 7,000 when he guarded the East China Sea, and the remaining 40,000 people went straight to the south under the leadership of General Haizhou when Zhu Biao led his troops to approach the naval division's station.
Fortunately, a considerable number of Haizhou sailors were unwilling to leave their hometowns, so Zhu Biaobao left some of the confidence of the sailors. However, a large amount of wood, tung oil, ropes, and canvas accumulated by Haizhou sailors over the years were swept away, the shipyard was burned, and many craftsmen were forcibly brought on board.
It can be said that Haizhou's official shipbuilding industry has been hit by the destructiveness, and it is simply impossible for Zhu Biao to restore the original scale of Haizhou's naval division in the short term. The shipbuilding industry in Haizhou is very well developed, but there is an essential difference between civilian ships and warships......
So two months passed. Zhu Biao's sailors are only 20,000 strong. There is a five-tooth big ship presented by the Lu State Naval Division, two ships, fifteen fighting ships and building ships as the main force, and about fifty loach ships.
Loading personnel, 800 people on the five-tooth ship.
600 people.
300,500 people for fighting ships and building ships.
50,150 people on loach boats.
Zhu Biao united with the Lu State Naval Division to face the battle at this moment, bringing out about 11,000 people. The remaining nearly half of the soldiers of the Naval Division also rode ships such as Gunge and Sea Falcons to patrol various ports and inland rivers.
For more than 300 years, Haizhou, which has not had an inland water division, has now existed.
Thirteen large and small water inspection divisions allow Zhu Biao to control all the water transportation arteries in Haizhou. For Haizhou, where water transport and sea trade are thriving, as long as Zhu Biao controls these water transport arteries. That is, it choked the blood supply artery of more than fifty percent of the powerful families in Haizhou.
In the future, it will be easier to talk about taxes.
The Chinese Ming Dynasty on the earth, the Ming Dynasty has enjoyed an undefeated reputation for 300 years, but it is a pity that it has not grasped the lifeblood of water transportation and commerce at all.
Zhu Di also knew that he had gone to the West seven times and raised enough military funds for his five grasslands, but the descendants of later generations let go of this massive wealth in vain under the pressure of the Ming civil official group. Do those emperors surnamed Zhu really think that their ancestors let 'Zheng He go to the West seven times' to work the people and lose money?
Looking at the scale of Zhu Di's five expeditions to the grassland, the three major expeditions of Wanli don't know how much inferior. The Ming Dynasty is still running as before, and if you don't see the sudden decline of the country, you know how much wealth you have during the period.
The things that Wang Zhi and Zheng Zhilong all know are things that are beneficial to the country. Not to mention that it is completely corrupted in the hands of the Ming civil official clique, especially the Jiangnan civil official clique, it also has a heavy relationship with it. The wealth was transferred from the state to the Shidaifu group......
A family's view. I don't agree, hehe. It's okay, it's not related to this book.
The fleet was reorganized, drawing a curved arc on the sea. Towards the flank of the Zhou army's battleship group, kill and rush over. The sails are heavy, and the deck is full of people, ready to go to war at any time.
The war drums of both sides sounded, and they came out far away through the waves, continuously, and the battle broke out at the first touch!
Lu Suhai attacked, and one after another warships sailed out one after another.
The Zhou warships were also approaching. But apparently in terms of speed, Haizhou sailors have the advantage.
"Riser lowering the sail!"
This is the norm in the battle between the inland and foreign naval divisions, and the iron plates of the left and right arrows are erected and erected on both sides of the bulkheads, although the area is not large, but it will greatly enhance the protection against the arrow-stone rockets. Like battlements on a city wall.
When the sails are lowered, the huge hull peeks out of the boulders and sticks out of the oars. In battle, the wind and waves make the ship undulate and not drop the sails, the accuracy of long-range strikes is greatly reduced, and the oars are easier to control the speed and angle of the boat than the sails.
"Bed crossbow ready!"
"Thunderbolt ready!"
"Fire bomb ready!"
Starry torches were lit on the ship, one next to each bed crossbow and thunderbolt. Because the bed crossbow has fire arrows, the thunderbolt has fire bombs, and there is a fire cabinet even closer, fire is always the most effective means of striking a wooden warship.
"Boom ......"
The Zhou army, which had an absolute numerical advantage, sent a fleet to meet the attack, which was at least twice the number of Zhu Biao's army.
Fire bullets pierced the sky, and fire bolts pierced through the wind and waves. Before the black smoke could disperse, the fire bullets and fire arrows had already arrived in front of each other.
"Bang"
Zhu Biao felt the battleship under his feet for a while, and the five-toothed big ship was hit by two fire arrows almost at the same time. One smashed a blocking iron plate, and the other plunged into the boat.
The fireshells, which were more threatening to the battleship, missed a single one. Of course, Zhu Biaojun's counterattack also did not hit, and the stone projectile was dropped in the bumps of the sea, which was too far worse than on land.
The flaming arrows also hit the enemy ship, and with the addition of attributes, the lethality is significantly higher than that of the Zhou army. However, compared to the huge body of the battleship, this damage is obviously insufficient.
Zhu Biao can't do it, he has a thunderbolt in his hand, he is not in a hurry. He waited patiently for the ships of both sides to approach
The ships were tall and much above the water. The development of water warfare for thousands of years, the sea also belongs to the era of giant ships.
Shooting from a high position is as safe and effective as shooting down from a city.
Therefore, real sailors build giant ships, which has long become the mainstream of the times.
The distance was getting closer and closer, and the thunderbolt did not have time to load the second round, and the bed crossbow did not have time to wind up to fire the second arrow, and the distance of less than a hundred feet was drawn into the range of the bow and arrow, under the efforts of the sailors on both sides.
"Shoot!" The enemy ship gave the first order. Suddenly, only the sound of "whooshing" was heard, and a large number of rockets drew a piece of fire on the sea and shot down.
The sound of "crackling" was endless, most of the arrows were intercepted by the iron plate blocking the arrows, and a few arrows fell on people, and the loss was not large.
After all, the height of the warships on both sides was almost the same.
Zhu Biao's battleship rushed to the front and glanced at the ship's plank. It was found that in fact, the casualties were not heavy, the key was that there were iron plates to stop the arrows, and secondly, the sailors wore paper armor.
It is a simple form of armor that is framed in stiff cloth. It is then made of paper tendons. Zhu Biao's ancient China in his previous life also had this thing.
It is mainly used for infantry in the south, and because of its light body, it is used by warships and sailors. In this world. The financial resources of the imperial court were far superior to those of China in the previous life, and the infantry armor of the army was all gold and iron, and the paper armor was completely used among the sailors.
The paper is armored. The arrow can't be penetrated!
This kind of paper armor has very good flexibility and safety, because the environment where the sailors are located is humid, and the paper armor is soaked by water vapor, which is really very protective.
It's just that the rocket has a flame on it, and it has to be pulled out and thrown into the sea.
The two boats were staggered, and Zhu Biao calmly ordered: "Release!" ”
"Boom, boom!"
Behind him, ten sharpshooters with large yellow crossbows pulled the trigger. A crossbow bolt with two thunderbolts on each of them, Zhu Biao's blow is 100 gold.
The five-tooth ship went straight to the middle of the opponent's two five-tooth ships, five on each side of the ten marksmen, and the crossbow bolts were all under the waterline of the five-tooth ship.
There were loud bangs, smoke, and flames.
The system is produced and must be a high-quality product. The sparks from the thunderbolt fire shot out in all directions in a violent moment, and a waterline appeared lightly in the upward direction, and the flames were burning on the gang of the five-tooth ship, and even the sea water that crowded out the gang from time to time could not be extinguished.
The two menacing five-tooth ships of the Zhou army shook violently, and then chaos and panic arose from the battleship.
The sides of the two huge ships were lowered, and several huge openings three feet square were pouring water into the warship. The results that Zhu Biao had obtained in the previous practice on the scrap ship were now confirmed on the new warship of the Zhou army.
The Wuya Ship has eight water tanks, but in this explosion, at least two of the water tanks on one side entered the water. Of course, the five-tooth ship will not sink yet, but looking at the slowly widening gap and the burning side, it is obviously impossible to repair it quickly.
The two dense water tanks filled with water were enough to tilt the Wuya ship more than thirty degrees, and the two giant ships had already lost their follow-up combat effectiveness.
The warships of the Zhou army that swarmed were shocked, and some of the commanding officers of the fighting ships and building ships around the Wuya big ship turned pale, lest the same misfortune land on their heads.
But it was too late, and it was too late for them to distance themselves from Zhu Biao Shuishi. The roaring explosions rang out one after another, and when I closed my eyes, I suspected that it was the Western naval battle of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries on Earth, not this time and space, which completely eliminated the possibility of firearms fighting.
It was this confrontation that the main warships of the Zhou Army's naval division, which were twice as strong as Zhu Biao's army, were 'remnant', a full twenty-one.
Putting aside the loach boats that are completely soy sauce at this stage, only talking about the main warship, it is Zhu Biao who has the advantage.
The governor of Lu Guoshui, Qu Ning, was stunned.
Chen Lin, the deputy governor of the Great Zhou East Sea Division, was dumbfounded.
What's going on?
Twenty-one main warships were broken in the blink of an eye, and there were two five-tooth ships among them?
The Zhou Army Naval Division that came to crusade only had a total of five five-tooth ships, and the Lu State Naval Division only had four five-tooth ships, and after transferring one to Zhu Biao, there were only three such war weapons left in their army......
A sense of horror surged into the hearts of the two ** generals of Zhou Lu at the same time. The rumbling explosion hit their hearts like a hammer.
On the deck of the Zhou warship, there was not a single row of displacement soldiers, blood splattered, and there was no desolation and dilapidation, but they were under the most dangerous threat at the moment.
After a round trip, all the Zhou warships were eager to stay as far away as they could from Zhu Biao's sailors. But they can't leave, twenty-one ships are 'on strike', and they have to help take care of it. Otherwise, they will go back, and they will not have any good fruit to eat.
Zhu Biao's water master is powerful, and the knife in Chen Lin's hand is not an ornament. Hard-headed, they also have to resist Zhu Biao Shuishi.
"Put"
Bullets of fire streaked across the sky.
Zhu Biao, who has a small background, never thought of a regular battle with the Zhou Junshui Division. After the thunderbolt and thunderbolt fire took the lead, the stopped Zhou army sailor warships became the best target, and it was also the best drag on other warships of the Zhou army's navy.
All he had to do was to leave far away, go around the butts of twenty-one warships, and keep setting fire bombs and arrows......
"The whole army stopped advancing"
The main force of the Zhou army, on a five-tooth ship in the center of the front, raised a new flag.
Chen Lin looked at the warship on the side with an iron face, fire bullets and arrows, coming and going, it was really intense. If it weren't for the twenty-one ships that had no power to fight back
"Whether it's a battle or a go, the governor should also make a decision quickly," the generals around him bowed to Chen Lin.
Countless eyes were focused on Chen Lin, and the sailors and officers on the big ship he was on were all looking forward to hearing the orders they hoped from Chen Lin's mouth.
"U-turn! Prepare the chains, back up" (to be continued)