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Chapter 481: Scuttling the Ship

The next day soon it was dark, this day Jingzhou naval army achieved good results, in addition to sinking and damaging a number of Soochow gunboats, the key is that those boats have basically cleared all the fishing nets in the reef area, and the next step can be considered to clear the reef.

However, it is getting late now, and there is nothing to do until tomorrow. Six of the 12 cement warships of the Jingzhou Navy retreated to the rear camp for the night, while the other six stayed behind to continue to guard the edge of the reef area. This caused Ling Lie and Zhang Cheng to annihilate the twelve warships of the Jingzhou Navy overnight, and half of the Jingzhou Navy Army's plan to break their muscles and bones was frustrated.

These six warships are parked at the front line, and of course they will not fail to do enough security measures. Numerous small warships played the role of scouts, and they cruised around the six large warships with bright lanterns, guarding and escorting them. The sides of the six battleships near the waterline were also covered with lanterns, illuminating the nearby water as brightly as day.

Although the Jingzhou Navy was heavily guarded, the Eastern Wu Navy still launched their secret operation at night. The reason why they are so fearless when the Jingzhou Navy is heavily guarded is because they also have their own confidence. Before the advent of firearms, the Soochow Navy was undoubtedly the most powerful in the Three Kingdoms, and perhaps even the most powerful in the world. This kind of power is not just in one aspect, but in all aspects.

Among them, the use of "water ghosts" for special operations is also an aspect of their strength. The Han navy also had "water ghosts" special operations forces, and even Huang Xu's "water ghosts" troops played an important role in defeating the Soochow navy. However, in fact, the "water ghost team" of Eastern Wu is no worse than that of the Jingzhou Navy and the Huangxu army, and is even stronger than the first two in terms of personal water nature and numbers.

It can be said that if the "water ghost team" of the Jingzhou Navy meets the "water ghost team" of the Dongwu Navy and everyone fights fairly, the Jingzhou Navy will not have a chance of winning. The fair engagement mentioned here refers to the fact that the "water ghost team" of the Jingzhou Navy Army is not allowed to use some scientific and technological means beyond this era, such as firearms, organs, etc.

The soldiers of the Eastern Wu Dynasty had not been in contact with firearms for a long time, and they did not have a deep understanding of the characteristics of firearms, and they believed that it was impossible for such a thing that emitted fire to be set off underwater. In fact, it is true that the Han army has not yet developed an underwater pistol, but underwater bombs have long been used, that is, mines.

Although the soldiers of the Eastern Wu Dynasty had a certain understanding of mines, they selectively forgot about this thing at this time. Because they have no way to retreat, and they have no other way to do it, they can only try their best, so no matter how difficult and dangerous this trip is, the "water ghosts" of Dongwu will not back down, and of course, their superiors will not allow them to retreat.

At midnight, in the dead of night, there was a lack of nightlife in this era, and there was a strict schedule in the army, so at this time, except for some people who were responsible for vigilance and special tasks, everyone else had already fallen asleep. This is a good time to launch a sneak attack.

More than 100 "water ghosts" quietly sneaked close to the cement warships of the Jingzhou Navy Army, these people were indeed the elite of the Dongwu Navy Army, and they still had two brushes, and they were familiar with infiltrating in such a heavily guarded situation.

When they encounter the patrol boats of the Jingzhou Navy Army, they dive into the water, and after bypassing the patrol boats, they rise to the surface of the water to breathe, and when necessary, they will also use reed poles to stay at the bottom of the water for a short time. Although there are many patrol boats sent by the Jingzhou Navy Army, it is impossible to block the entire river after all, and there is still a gap between the ships.

Moreover, the lighting equipment of this era is really bad, the lighting range of the windproof lantern is very small, far from being compared with the searchlights of later generations, even the searchlights of later generations cannot 100% prevent the infiltration of smart agents, let alone dim lanterns. Those Soochow "water ghosts" quickly sneaked into the six cement boats and found that there were only six boats, which surprised them a little.

According to their original plan, they were going to deal with twelve large enemy warships at the same time, so this time their "water ghost team" poured out, a total of more than a hundred people, and planned to allocate an average of more than a dozen people to each battleship. Because this kind of battleship usually has a water trap, only one or two holes are drilled in the bottom of the ship, which will only let one or two water traps in, which will only slow down the speed of the battleship and will not lead the battleship to sink.

There were clever shipbuilders in Soochow, and according to their calculations, if a ship of this tonnage had ten tanks entering the water at the same time, it would definitely sink. Therefore, these Soochow water ghosts decided to chisel more than a dozen water compartments at the same time to ensure that they would be fatal to the enemy ship with one blow.

At the same time, these "water ghosts" have learned the structure of large warships under the guidance of shipbuilders, and know the location of each water compartment of a general battleship well, so that they can quickly find the exact position after diving to the bottom of the ship and carry out their work as quickly as possible.

The battle plan originally formulated by the Soochow "Water Ghosts" was to deal with twelve warships, but now there are only six, although they are not reconciled, but there is no way to do this, so they can only continue to carry out this task. Since there was less than half of the battleships, there was no choice but to improvise, and the captain who led the team made a quick decision to distribute the remaining personnel to six battleships equally.

In this way, there were more than 20 people on each ship, and the abundance of manpower made these "water ghosts" more confident in scuttling enemy ships. After the captain assigned the task, all the "water ghosts" quickly dived to the bottom of the boat, dive to their respective positions at the bottom of the boat, and without saying a word, took out the hammer and chisel and began to scuttle the boat.

It is actually very difficult to do things underwater, because the water pressure and water resistance are stored zài, and ten percent of the strength is exerted, and only fifty percent of the action on the object may be left. The key is that people can't stay in the water for too long, so they must complete the task in a short time, which poses a great test to the "water ghosts" of Soochow.

However, these Soochow "water ghosts" are not ordinary people, and the worst of them can stay underwater for more than five minutes, (I have seen a TED public class before, a foreigner dives for 17 minutes, which is estimated to be a world record), which means that they have to complete the task within five minutes, which is a very difficult task.

The shape shì does not allow them to waste a little time. In addition to not staying underwater for too long, there is another reason, that is, after a long time, there is a danger of being discovered by the Jingzhou Navy on the ship. After all, the chisel still makes a certain sound. If someone hears something strange, it will be troublesome to find them after tracking.

The sound of "dong dong" kept ringing, and tonight's qiē looked smooth, but the hearts of the "water ghosts" in Dongwu sank to the bottom. For they found that no matter how much they chiseled, the bottom of the enemy ship was unscathed, not at all like the ships they had chiseled before, which had been chiseled into a hole.

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