Chapter 102: The Battle of Dongyang
Gu Qiuyu heard two pieces of news, one was that Xiao Wuchang had defeated Mingguo in Mangshan, and the other was that Lin Fenghuo had been defeated.
Two months ago, Lin Fenghuo led 90,000 sailors to Baishui City, opposite Dongyang City, and a month ago, Shiguo's navy captured Yangguo Yingkou City.
This Yingkou city is at a big bend of the Broken Sword River, it is a large river bay formed by the siltation of river sand for many years, the land is fertile, there are 10,000 residents, farming, fishing, silkworm raising, and there are many products.
Behind is a steep mountain, there is no mountain road to walk, in and out of the city all rely on the boat to travel, it is a fortress of the Yang country against the stone country, there are 10,000 sailors, food and clothing can be self-sufficient.
After capturing Yingkou City, Lin Fenghuo requisitioned the local people to nail a layer of white cloth to his warships, and then left 10,000 sailors and went up to Baishui City against the current.
Yang Guo and Shi Guo also have a land border, but it is a sandy plain, and it will take three or four days for either side to attack, and then face the defenders who are waiting for work, and there is almost no chance of victory.
Neither country was able to establish frontier cities in a wasteland without oases, so the battle between the two countries was only on the water.
The Broken Sword River is the water of the ice peaks on the plateau, which has been washed out of the mountains for tens of millions of years, the river is not deep, and the underwater stones are numerous, except for the high water period, it is difficult for the giant warship to travel safely.
Many years ago, there was a battle between Shi Guo and Yang Guo outside Dongyang City, Yang Guo dug the river embankment in his own territory, overnight, the river water fell several zhang, Shi Guo military ships were trapped in the water village of Jifang, attacked by Yang Guo with small boats, and most of the warships were damaged.
So much so that the mud and rocks under the water village outside Baishui City are cleaned up every year, which costs the people and money.
Lin Fenghuo had finished writing the war, and Emperor Shiguo wrote the ten major crimes of Emperor Yang, demanding that the whole country of Yangguo surrender. Yangguo also replied to the letter according to etiquette, wrote the twelve major crimes of the emperor of Shiguo, and clearly wrote that Li Hongfu made Chan Rang, otherwise he would attack and destroy Shiguo.
Both sides have their own merits in writing, and in general, Yangguo's articles are better written.
In the early morning, the water and the sky are the same, the sand gulls fly and gather, there are layers of arrow towers outside the water army village of Baishui City, and there are layers of standing trees outside the arrow towers in the river, stretching for ten miles.
Opposite Dongyang City is built near the water, along the river is a long wall of four miles, there is a gate, four small gates, outside the gate is the port, usually merchant ships and fishing boats stand in a forest, three of the four small gates are military ports.
Now there are more than 30,000 sailors and more than 10,000 infantry in Dongyang City, which is also all the military strength that Yangyang can mobilize.
Now the main force of the Yang State is facing the Cang Kingdom in the south, which is full of plains, and enough soldiers are needed to garrison the defensive line.
Lin Fenghuo stood on the wall of Baishui City, surrounded by his younger brother Lin Hongwu and Zhao Pingjiang, the governor of Baishui City, as well as Li Hongfu's supervisor Li Chengqing.
Lin Fenghuo's ability in water warfare was insufficient, and it was Shi Kehui who commanded the battle on the main ship, and Lin Fenghuo held a huge handsome flag on the city for comprehensive command.
Fighting on the river, the battlefield is much smaller than the land battle, the military strength of the two sides is clear at a glance, the warships are huge, the movement is relatively slow, and it is difficult to have surprise soldiers.
The battle between the two sides lies in the battle of one ship after another, and there will be no defeat in some battle areas on land, resulting in the defeat of the entire battlefield.
Therefore, the two ships have to get closer, and it is basically a decisive battle to the end.
The main purpose of destroying the opponent's warship in a water battle is not to kill or injure the opponent's navy, because the warship capsized, and the casualties of the soldiers on board were huge.
The intention of this battle stone country is very simple, to attack the city of Dongyang and break the city.
Therefore, giant warships were used to transport troops and siege equipment, and Dongyang City had a huge defect in defending the city, and the Yang State Navy was to stop the Shiguo warships on the river and prevent the Shiguo warships from approaching the city walls.
Lin Fenghuo was excited at this time, a few days ago, Xiao Wuchang came to the military again to report that the Mingguo army stationed in Mangshan was attacked by the Shiguo Iron Cavalry, and the grain, grass and baggage were burned, and they were unable to fight again.
It's just that almost all the forbidden troops brought with him were killed, and the military affairs of Chenzhou have been under the command of Xiao Wuchang.
Now as long as Dongyang City is occupied, the gateway to the Central Plains will be opened, and the immortal military exploits will be in front of you.
The handsome flag waved, and Lin Fenghuo gave the order for an all-out attack.
Shi Guo had a total of more than 50 huge ships with four-story arrow towers, 200 clippers, and less than 200 ordinary two-story arrow tower warships.
At this moment, the sails are swaggering, the river waves are in the air, the sails of the Shi State warship are full, the river wind is strong, and the ten flags on Shi Kehui's main ship are divided into ten colors, flying fiercely in the air.
The ship moved very fast, and hundreds of white warships marched forward in several rows in the Broken Sword River, which was very spectacular.
And the warships outside Dongyang City were also moving out in batches on the battle line several miles long, and the soldiers standing on the bow of Shiguo at the front could already see the opponent's warship clearly.
The other party is also a sail, counting dozens of ships, although these ships are not as big as Shi Guo's ships, they are faster and rotate flexibly.
Among the warships of the Yang Kingdom, there were five of them that suddenly came out of the crowd, the five ships were not big, they came by the wind and waves, the speed of the ships was extremely fast, and in a blink of an eye, they had arrived at the arrow and place of the warships in front of the Yang Kingdom, which was a lot lower than the warships of the Shi Kingdom.
The officers leading the army on the ship of Shi Guo gave the order, and the archers began to shoot at the opponent, but the wind was strong, and the speed of the opponent's ship was too fast, and most of them shot into the air, and the other half shot either the sail or the middle deck, so there was no threat.
At this time, I saw that these ships were scattered, moving at an incredible speed, and when they came to the Shiguo warship, there was no one on the deck.
The officers leading the army were in a strange situation, and a ship from the Yang Kingdom suddenly crashed into the side of a two-story arrow tower warship in the Stone Kingdom.
With a muffled sound, the bow of the ship cracked and began to sink.
The rower under the warship felt that the hull of the ship shook, and when he rowed harder, the boat did not move, and then the other four ships also crashed into the other two-story arrow tower warship.
The officers of the ships went down to inspect and saw that the ships that rushed over had installed seven or eight long iron spears under the water, which actually pierced the warship more than two feet into the water, and tightly connected the two ships together.
The opposite boat sank rapidly, dragging the five ships in the water, unable to move.
The ship is hollow, and as long as the place where these iron spears pierce is expanded, after the enemy ship sinks, the iron spears will naturally be brought into the river by themselves, and the water entering the ship will not be enough to submerge the warship.
This method did not do much except delay the attack of the ship.
At this time, the officers of the five ships had different ideas, and carefully thought that the enemy ships were so fast, and it was impossible to sacrifice such a good ship just to delay the attack of their own ships, and ordered the duck soldiers to go into the water to check the situation under the water.
Even more daring orders were given to break the ship's planks, and others made the boat shake from side to side to get rid of the connection.
For a fleet of several hundred ships, the problem of these five ships was nothing more than a small one, and the other ships continued to move forward and engage the Yang State warships one after another.
Dozens of big warships of the Yang Kingdom also followed behind, all of them had four-story arrow towers, larger than the main ship of the Stone Kingdom, and the bow of the ship was inlaid with different statues, and the bow of each ship stretched out a long angle of attack, rushing straight towards the warship of the Stone Kingdom.
Suddenly, the war drums on the river thundered, and thousands of arrows were fired in unison, and the opposing warships were trying to seize the upwind position.
The Yang Kingdom warships mainly collided, and also knocked over some of the two-story arrow tower warships of the Shi Kingdom, and then many ships on both sides were entangled together, and some of the melee ships were close together.
The soldiers of both sides crossed the side of the ship and entered the other ship's ship to fight.
At this time, there was a horn sound from the main ship of the Yang Kingdom, and huge crossbow machines were lifted from the four-story arrow tower warships of the Yang Kingdom, and they began to fire burning crossbow arrows at the Shi Kingdom warships with the bows and arrows of the Shi Kingdom.
A large number of crossbow arrows were shot on the ships of the Stone Kingdom, but after these crossbow arrows were fired on the ships of the Stone Kingdom, they were only burning on their own, and they did not ignite the wood on the ships of the Stone Kingdom, and the layer of white cloth on the ships of the Stone Kingdom did not even change color.
This surprised the Yang State Naval Army, but on the contrary, the rockets of the Shi Kingdom warships set the Yang Kingdom warships on fire.
At this time, in the melee, there were four giant warships in the Yang State Naval Army, which exceeded the ships of the Yang Kingdom, rushed to the depth of the Shi State warship, and went straight to Shi Kehui's main ship.
Shi Kehui's main ship went to intercept the two escort warships, but they were directly knocked over by the Yangguo warship.
The soldiers who fell into the water swam towards the nearest warship, but the Yangguo warship did not shoot arrows at them, but still went straight to Shi Kehui's warship.
These warships were very huge but extremely fast, far surpassing the warships of the Shi Kingdom, Shi Kehui stood at the bow of the ship, ordered the ships to seize the upper hand, and ordered more than a dozen ships to surround these four ships with the flag.
Shi Kehui's lieutenant Huang Yu said to Shi Kehui: "Sir, these ships are so fast, I didn't know before the war, and when they get closer, they will use a disturbance hook to put on our ship, and in the current situation, other warships can't keep up at that time." ”
Shi Kehui's heart sank and said, "Yes." Once our ship cannot move and the battle flag is plundered, it will affect the command of the entire battlefield. Command all the officers and men of the ship, and never let the enemy get on board. Topaz shouted as the soldier brought out a dozen slender crossbows.
The ship of the Yang Kingdom is getting closer and closer, and it is no more than ten zhang now, from the mouth of the four-story arrow tower, hundreds of rockets are fired on Shi Kehui's main ship, fortunately, there is a white cloth on the warship that has not burned, otherwise the ship will be dangerous now.
I could only hear Topaz shouting at the bow of the ship: "Shoot the arrows!"
With his order, more than a dozen crossbow machines were fired at the same time, and a row of iron spears rushed straight towards the warships at the forefront of the Yang Kingdom.
The iron spear was shot at the opponent's arrow tower, piercing the wooden frame and shooting out from the other end, killing many soldiers.
The soldiers of the Yang Kingdom did not expect the Shi Kingdom crossbow to be so powerful, so they stopped shooting arrows for a while and found a safe place to hide.
But the speed of the ship did not decrease, and it was about to approach Shi Kehui's warship, at this time, several burning huge canisters were thrown from Shi Kehui's warship, and the soldiers of the Yang Kingdom were about to eliminate these canisters, but they found that all the arrows on the Shi Guo's warship were fired at this point, and they could not get close.
At this time, the distance between the two ships was only three feet, and even the appearance of the opposing soldiers could be seen.
The soldiers of the Stone Kingdom who stood on the deck did not shoot the soldiers of the Yang Kingdom, but still shot all the arrows at the place of the jar, and as a result, these soldiers of the Stone Kingdom became targets, and hundreds of people were killed and wounded.
The officers of Yangguo noticed that something was wrong, and they also knew about the damage caused by the ghostly fire of Mingguo, and when they ordered the soldiers to throw the jar into the river at any cost, the jar exploded, and after one loud noise after another, the ship shook violently, and half of the boat was destroyed, and the deck suddenly became a sea of fire.
The Yang Soldier Division screamed and fell into the water, and Shi Kehui's warship also shook, and the fire fell on the boat.
Shi Kehui ordered the ship to turn sharply and took the initiative to approach one of the Yang Kingdom's warships, but distanced itself from the other two ships.
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