Chapter Seventy-One: Praying Mantis Catches Cicadas

It is said that before the combined fleet arrived at this Linhai City, it was ready to take advantage of the dawn to take Linhai Town in one go. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 Info So, towards the west of Linhai City, the two huge doorways near the sea, launched a charge.

However, before they reached the doorway, countless rockets were fired from the city walls, and the sails were burned to the ground. Fortunately, the city lords of the two cities are veterans of the battlefield, and they immediately prepared damp sand to extinguish the fire to prevent the fire from spreading, and at the same time hurried up the time to drive into the door hole.

However, the doorway is unusually dark and long, and there is basically no wind inside. The boat came in and climbed like a snail, and the boat that came in behind hit the boat in front directly. Fortunately, the boat behind came in, and there was not much speed left. Otherwise, one is not good, and your own ship will be damaged!

It turned out that Li Tang took defense into account when he designed this doorway. Under normal circumstances, there are few boats coming in, the door openings are empty, and the breeze can still make the boat sail. But when there are more boats, the wind is much lighter.

Although it is said that a good boat can make the wind in all directions, and some masters can handle the sails, if they handle it well, the speed of the ship can be much higher than the wind speed. Of course, this is the effect that can only be achieved by sailing against the wind, and no one can sail when the wind is downwind (provided that the water speed is less than the wind speed), and it is even more wasteful to sail when there is no wind.

On weekdays, there are two 3-meter-wide roads on the walls on both sides of the doorway, which are 7-8 meters above the water, and mules and horses can be placed on them to act as slender men, in case there is no wind, or when the tide rises and falls.

Now, there are no mules and horses acting as slender men on these two roads, but some archers are lying in ambush on them, and now they have not moved, and naturally they have not been discovered.

They were now waiting for an opportunity, for all the ships to be crammed into the doorway. When you are in a dilemma, no matter how many arrows you fire at once, you can ensure that all the warships can be burned, which is no worse than using iron cables to connect the ships together!

It's a pity that when the warship behind meets the warship in front, the two treacherous and cunning city lords immediately realized the possible danger, but they didn't expect to encounter the terrible scene of rockets, if they could, they would probably turn around and run away.

They thought that the ship had no speed in the doorway, and it was not a solution. After all, if a ship touches a ship, the ship can easily be damaged and fall apart. I didn't expect that the door hole was so long, it is estimated that the urn city was built.

It is indeed too reckless for the whole army to rush in like this, and a foolproof plan must be considered.

As a result, the two city lords immediately ordered the rear army not to advance. All the ships that entered the doorway in front of them exited the doorway.

It's just that it's easy for the ship to enter the doorway, but it's hard to get out! After all, there are a large number of ships inside, and it is impossible to make a U-turn, so you can only slowly adjust the angle of the sails to let the boat float out.

And so it was, and hours passed, and it was already dark. At this time, it is no longer appropriate to attack again. After all, attacking at night, without taking advantage of the land, and not being familiar with the environment, are easy to be attacked by the enemy, can only find a leeward harbor at night to anchor and recuperate, and the attack will be talked about the next day.

Fortunately, the leeward harbor has long been found, and this little thing is a piece of cake for these seasoned old pirates.

There was nothing to do overnight, but Linhai City sent a few teams out of the city to harass a few times, but because the pirates were well defended, they didn't take advantage of anything, so they simply didn't continue to harass.

It was night, and most of the pirates had rested after a busy day's work. However, the two city lords were apprehensive and gathered all the generals to gather together to discuss the plan to break the city.

It's just that no one knows how long the waterway of this doorway is, what the situation is like out of the doorway, everyone has no bottom! Especially the city lord of Wangxiang City, his mood is even more up and down.

After all, his city is being attacked, in case it is breached, and Linhai City cannot be attacked, he is like a lost dog, and he has not received a flying pigeon from the city for several hours, and there is always an ominous premonition in his heart.

Sure enough, it didn't take long for him to get a hint from the main god, and his identity as the city lord was lost!

"It's over!" When the city lord of Wangxiang City got the news, his eyes flickered, and he almost fell to the ground, but fortunately, he was supported by the guards!

Seeing the strange appearance of the city lord of Xiyu City, the city lord of Xiyu City hurriedly asked, "City Lord Wang, what happened!" Why are you so alarmed? ”

The Wang City Lord of Wangxiang City had a face like ashes, and muttered: "It's over, Wangxiang City is gone, it's all over!" ”

At this time, the generals of Wangxiang City understood what had happened, it turned out that Wangxiang City was lost, from Linhai City to attack Wangxiang City, to Wangxiang City fell, but in one day, Linhai City was so powerful!

How is the defense of Wangxiang City, the generals of Wangxiang City are quite clear, ordinary three and five hundred thousand people come to attack, even if they can attack it, it is impossible to have a few times!

However, what made the generals even more frightened and expected happened, that is, they lost their status as generals, and without the identity of generals, they were just a small soldier! To order the three armies again, it is a bit unworthy of the name!

It was not until the sailors were dismissed that the most terrifying thing happened, and the entire fleet suddenly wailed, not only the fleet of Wangxiang City, but even the fleet with Xiyu City thought that the enemy was attacking, and they all went out of the cabin to defend, and after a few hours, they realized that the city of Wangxiang City was lost.

However, it is inevitable that the news will be mistransmitted at night, and in the end, many fleets in Xiyu City thought that their Xiyu City was lost, and they all began to worry about their families in the city! Anyway, at the end of the night, few people slept peacefully.

Fortunately, although there are disadvantages to such a thing happening at night, it is also advantageous, after all, there is a lot of time to adjust the team, and if such a thing happens during the attack on Linhai City in broad daylight, then it will be a lot of fun!

After some negotiation and adjustment, the city lord of Xiyu City deployed some generals to lead the soldiers of Wangxiang City, plus those generals who had tiger talismans, they were not worried about losing their status as generals, and basically stabilized the vast majority of the field soldiers.

It's just that in this way, the strength of the entire combined fleet has seriously declined, and even the strength of the fleet with Xiyu City has also declined!

After all, the combat effectiveness of the soldiers is closely related to the cooperation of the generals, and if a military commander is changed to be in command in the future, or a military general who only commands 100 people on weekdays, and now suddenly commands 150 people, there must be a process of adaptation.

After a night of adjustment, although the city lord Wang was a little lonely, he was not as desperate as last night. Originally, he could compete with the city lord of Xiyu City, but now the situation is stronger than people, and he is one step behind even walking, walking behind the city lord of Xiyu City.

After discussing it, everyone thought that it was too reckless and inappropriate to rush into the city cave, and they should send a small boat with manpower to paddle to investigate the situation, and then the army would follow up.

And there is a way to solve the problem that there is no wind in the doorway and the ship cannot move, that is, when the tide rises, the army pours into the waterway, and let the tide wash the ships out of the door and rush into the city.

I have to say, ginger is still old and spicy! None of these pirate city lords were fuel-efficient lamps, and they quickly thought of a strategy to break the enemy, and according to this method, they could indeed attack the coastal city.

Therefore, as soon as the morning dawned, the two city lords sent a lot of small boats to rush into the waterway, but they were greeted by ten thousand arrows on the wall of the urn city, and the small boats suffered heavy casualties, but there were still small boats under the protection of the heavy shield, escaped from the waterway, fled back to the combined fleet, and reported what they had seen and heard.

After hearing the description, the two city lords were secretly thinking to themselves, or the city lord Wang, who had lost his identity as the city lord, was the first to speak:

"Brother Jiang, now that even the boat can escape, and the attack of Linhai City is nothing more than that, I still suggest that we take advantage of the tide, drive the whole army, and rush into the city in one fell swoop, but we have to pay attention to controlling the speed of the ships behind, so as not to collide with the ships!"

That Jiang City Lord also nodded yes, he didn't understand what Wang City Lord was thinking, that Wang City Lord is now like a gambler who has lost money, trying every possible way to win back the lost money, this is too normal!

However, what Wang Cheng is talking about is still the truth, and he thinks the same way, and now he has earned it no matter what! Even if he can't capture this seaside city, he can annex Wang City Lord's army, because Wang City Lord is now cornered! There is no second way to go except to go to yourself!

Even if City Lord Wang wants to take the boat and take the people away, he won't be able to take many people and ships with him, because without a stable rear base, the food supply alone is a big problem!

If you want to take 300,000 people away, it's simply impossible, because it's not 300,000 people, but 300,000 mouths to eat! If there is not enough food, the 300,000 mouths for eating will eat people, and it will be a question of whether or not a Wang City Lord can survive when the time comes!

Therefore, as long as that Wang City Lord does not lose his heart, he will inevitably only be able to take away more than 10,000 elites and a small amount of grain and run away.

However, when the tide came, the ships did rush through the doorway, but that was all, and the big ships could not go any further!

The sailors probed and found that a meter below the surface of the water, a chain the thickness of an arm was lying across the water, blocking the ship's advance.

At this time, when the tide is high, the chain is underwater, and if it is at low tide, it should be on the water! However, even if you understand this truth, it is useless!

At any time, the iron rope across the river is very difficult!

Now there is no way to advance or retreat, all the ships are crowded together, and the ships in the rear are still driving into the waterway, and finally many ships are crowded together.