Chapter Seventy-Four: Running Out of Ammunition and Food
In other words, this combined fleet has fallen into a dilemma. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info
Retire! To be honest, I'm really unwilling! Finally, one chain has been broken, and only two chains remain. It is said that everything is difficult at the beginning, only when the beginning is good, and then the gourd is drawn, it seems that the difficulty is not too great.
Although, the chain behind it was put under water, and it was not so easy to burn off. But there are always more ways than problems, after all, there is a way to scoop up the chains, and then concoct and burn them in the same way, isn't it? At most, a ship dedicated to salvaging chains was modified, the chains were tightened, and then burned.
Let's attack! Even if you know the details of the previous situation, you may not know what other moths will appear.
After all, the two city lords didn't know anything about the information inside this Linhai City!
Of course, at the strong request of the city lord Wang, the city lord Jiang still agreed to spend another day to refit a salvage ship similar to a fireboat, with a three-claw tow hook towed at the stern, which can hook the chain at any angle, and the tow hook is connected to the winch, which is actually the original anchor wheel on the ship, which can tow thousands of catties of heavy objects.
From this point of view, this Wang City Lord is definitely a clever inventor! Always quick to think of ways to deal with the enemy.
Linhai City found that the chains were easy to burn on the water, so they put them under the water, and this Wang City Lord thought of dragging the chains up and burning them.
Of course, fortunately, Linhai City has two water gates, and there is one more direction of attack when attacking.
Otherwise, if nothing else, it would be enough to clean up the wreck in that doorway. Inside the previous doorway, more than 200 ships were burned down due to fire.
The hulls of these vessels were sunk in the waterways by the ship's ballast stones. The wreck seriously blocked the waterway, and the big ships behind wanted to enter the waterway, so they had to clean up the wreckage first. Otherwise, you will never be able to get in.
After these 200 ships were burned, a large amount of unsinkable loot washed into the harbor of Linhai City due to the high tide, but it was cheaper for Linhai City. A small amount of floating materials went out of the tide, and they were collected by the pirates.
And those trophies that sank to the bottom of the water, in the later years, were all salvaged by the fishermen of Linhai City, anyway, to clean up the waterway! Of course, that's another story.
And when the fireship and the salvage ship are ready, and a chain has been fished up. And when it burned out, news came from Xiyu City, saying that the siege of Linhai City was very fierce and needed to be reinforced. whereas
It will only be a few days before Linhai City breaks the city, and now it will take at least 2 days to rush back to Xiyu City, if you rush back to the rescue, when the fleet of Linhai City returns to the city, there will be no chance to capture this giant city!
At this time, City Lord Wang's opinion was actually not good. It was the city lord Jiang himself who made the choice.
How to choose? Attack or retreat! If you attack it, you will get a huge city. and their own cities may be lost; If you retreat, you may be able to keep your city, and you will miss out on this giant city!
After a battle between heaven and man, Jiang City Lord gritted his teeth and resolutely decided to attack! After all, there are many benefits to attacking! If you get the giant city, you may not lose your own city, and go back to rescue the city, but you may not be able to save it.
After the city lord Jiang decided to attack, he replied to the defenders in the city and asked to hold on for a few more days, after all, there were not many attacking teams than the defending teams, and it was still possible to hold on for three or five days.
This is a bitter for the defenders, the city wall has been lost, and it can't be done for a day, and it will be held for several days! There was a huge disagreement within the defenders suddenly, some people stood in the main station, some people surrendered, and the final result was that after a night of fighting, the majority of the main surrenderers surrendered directly to Li Tang!
If the combined fleet here wants to burn the chains, the defenders of Linhai City will definitely not let the coalition force get their wish, at least not so smoothly!
Therefore, when the fireboat was about to burn the second chain, several red horse boats came quickly, quickly shot many soldiers on board, and sent fireboats to burn the allied tugboats and fireboats.
Fortunately, the combined fleet was not unprepared on its side, taking advantage of the past few days, a number of such ships were refitted, and one after another, and finally all the chains were burned before dark.
Of course, this is still Linhai City's deliberate release of water and deliberately let them burn out, the purpose is to attract them outside Linhai City and not run around. If they become wanderers, it will be difficult for the Penghu Sea to have peace.
Otherwise, with a few fireships, how could it be possible to burn so many chains? When they burned the chains, a large number of ships had already come out to block them! How can they burn the chains safely?
The chains were burned, but they could not attack at this moment, because one was dark, and the other was not in the tide, and they could only attack when there was a tide early tomorrow morning.
This night, neither city nor the city slept well! The mood is full of apprehension. City Lord Wang fantasized about the scene after entering the city tomorrow, while City Lord Jiang was also worried about what happened to his Xiyu City.
Finally, when it was dawn, the city lord Jiang ordered all the combat ships to leave the anchorage sheltered from the wind, and prepared to rush into Linhai City in one fell swoop and take Linhai City.
I don't think there are many defenders in Linhai City, otherwise why would there be just a few small hairy ships to block his fleet!
When the pirate army left the col with its front foot, a fleet slipped in on its hind foot.
This fleet was, of course, the fleet of Rinkai City, and they drove through the small river behind Rinkai Castle. Their goal is the supplies and supplies left in the col by the pirate fleet.
The pirates had to attack with all their might, and the warships did not have so much food, grass and fresh water on board. After all, reducing the load of the battleship is of great benefit to the speed and maneuverability of the battleship. Moreover, what other risks can a supply ship take to follow the fleet?
Unfortunately, their opponent is Linhai City. When the fleet of Linhai City sailed into the mountain pass, these remaining cargo ships naturally became lambs to the slaughter.
Grain carriers, protected only by a small number of warships, simply could not withstand well-trained fireships. Once rarely, the soldiers of Linhai City no longer saw money and regarded everything they saw as private property. Instead, without hesitation, he ordered to burn all the grain ships with fireboats, rockets, etc.
After the Combined Fleet received the news that the grain and grass had been attacked, it did not hesitate at all, and immediately made the decision not to return to defense. Because, at this time, it is the key to attack, and there is no way to retreat if you want to.
Although, it is only an hour's journey from the mountain pass. But it is absolutely impossible to retreat the attacking ships, and then form a whole team, without an hour or two. Besides, the enemy is burning grain, not taking food, and there is no way to save it for such a long time!
At present, the only way to do this is to break through Linhai City and then go to find food!
At this time, another fleet, the Nie Jun Navy Seal Legion, with some members of the Wind Shadow Legion, began to return to Linhai City. Their ships were all built by Coastal City itself, and their speed was extremely fast.
When the combined fleet successfully rushed into the gate of Linhai City, the most tragic thing happened, Xiyu City was lost, the military generals were dismissed, and the soldiers were expelled, which can be said to be a wail!
However, wailing and wailing, the ship still rushed into the city with the tide. At the same time, there are also some generals with tiger talismans who can also suppress some soldiers, so that these soldiers will not all collapse!
Of course, Linhai City can let these ships in, and it must be more than just a means of crossing the river with iron cables.
It turns out that there are two urn cities behind the doorway! The walls on both sides of the city are 2,000 meters long and 500 meters high, and a huge cistern is set up at the top of the city, which leads to the waterway behind the door opening with huge ceramics, which is blocked by baffles on weekdays.
Now, when all the boats enter the waterway, the baffles open together. Think about the impact of the water column left at an altitude of 500 meters!
More than 300 warships that entered the waterway overturned and sank hundreds, and dozens of them were washed dizzy and flowed into the coastal city, and were easily captured by the defenders.
Of course, many more pirate soldiers fell into the water, were washed into the city, drowned half to death, and were rescued by the city. The remaining boats were all washed out of the doorway by the current, and some of the boats collided with the boats behind them that did not enter the doorway, causing serious damage.
After this battle, almost all of the remaining 400 ships in the combined fleet were injured, and some were basically unsuitable for navigation, some looked like they were about to fall apart at the slightest touch, some looked like they were about to sink, and some had broken masts, but only 320 of them could continue to operate.
Before the start of the war, more than 800,000 soldiers, now nearly 150,000 have been captured, and there are not many losses in several battles, mainly because this time it is estimated that there are 2-30,000 soldiers with bad water performance, after all, such a high water column rushed down, and many people were directly washed to the ground and knocked unconscious.
Fortunately, some people were pushed into Linhai City by the tide and rescued, and many people were washed out of the city and sunk into the water, and they were not rescued by the soldiers.
Now there are only about 300,000 soldiers intact, and there are more than 300,000 soldiers with injuries on their bodies, basically all of them are bruised and bruised, which shows that water and fire are ruthless! Linhai City is defended with water and fire, and it is indeed difficult to conquer!
Now, the nest is lost, and Linhai City is also difficult to capture, after all, the iron cable Hengjiang can still be cracked, and the high-altitude torrent is difficult to solve!
Hurry up and escape, while there is still some food, grass and fresh water, you can escape to a small village or small town! As for the other cities under Linhai City, the two former city lords never dared to make up their minds.
After all, his lair is gone, and there are no supplies, attacking the city, it's okay to fight, but it's over if he can't fight, and now his subordinate soldiers have basically become wild soldiers, not so obedient, only a small number of generals can control some soldiers.
What's worse is that there was not much grain, grass and fresh water stored on a ship, which was originally equipped with the standard of 1,000 people for 15 days, but now each ship is 2,000 people on it, and the consumption is doubled, and the grain and fresh water on the ship has been consumed for a few days, and it is estimated that the remaining share is only 3-4 days!
You can also save some food and catch some fish, shrimp and shells to satisfy your hunger, and fresh water must be found ashore! But the top priority is to leave this unfortunate place first and find a way in the direction of the mainland! I heard that all the villages in the Penghu sea area have been destroyed by Linhai City!