Chapter 618 Those who do not descend will be punished
Shi Lang made a desperate bet and threw all the fireships at hand into the battlefield, he wanted to break through the blockade of the official army in one fell swoop, and then seize the upwind on the left side to cover the departure of the main fleet.
Suddenly the fire on the river burst into the sky, and puffs of smoke rolled up, and dozens of fireboats, driven by the non-commissioned officers on the ships behind the chain boats, crashed into the direction of the Jingbei Army's naval division.
"Quick, fire the cannon quickly, let Lao Tzu continue to attack Zheng Jun's rear ship, and let our fast ship prepare to intercept the opponent's fireship."
The main direction of attack of the Zheng army was still the left flank of the Jingbei army fleet, and Huang Zhongli gave orders when he saw the Zheng army's serial ships appear on the battlefield.
He knew that the length of the chain ship was long, and although the firepower of the previous side was stronger than that of the Zheng army, the hit rate was not very high, and it was not wise to attack the small fireship with artillery at this time, so it was better to continue to attack the main fleet of the Zheng army that was closely behind the chain ship, and then use the fast ship of the side to intercept the Zheng army's fireboat.
In the rumbling sound of cannons, more than 70 Jingbei Army clippers were like arrows from the string, facing the rolling Zheng army ships.
The clipper is actually a type of fortune ship, but it is the smallest fortune ship, with six sailors, ten soldiers, four musketeers, four fork hands and two shield bearers, this kind of ship is set up to guard against enemy arsonists.
"Brothers, lift all the forks and bars for Lao Tzu, and the musketeers are ready to shoot."
The hundred households who commanded the Jingbei Army fast boat, named Wang Er Mazi, was originally a bandit in the waters of Dengzhou, the Jingbei Army surrendered in Shandong, and the fleet of the naval division became stronger and stronger, Wang Er Mazi felt that there was no way out, so he took 300 troops to join the Jingbei Army Naval Division, This time he was also full of strength, and he wanted to show his skills in front of Su Guodong.
More than a dozen first-mover clippers rode the wind and waves, and soon approached the chain ship that was pushed over by Zheng Jun's sailors, and the two shield soldiers in the bow of the ship put the iron shield more than four feet high on the deck with a bang, and several fork hands pushed the big fork in their hands desperately towards the incoming ship along the gap in the shield.
The front half is made of iron, and the second half is made of light and tough ash rods, which is also designed to be lightweight and imitate heat conduction.
At the moment when the iron fork pressed against the fireboat, the firecrackers on both sides raised their firearms one after another and shot wildly at each other.
The crackling sound of firecrackles and shouts of killing on the river surface became one, although there were shields on the Jingbei Army's fast boat, but there were still soldiers who were hit by the guns fired from the flanks, of course, the fork hands and sailors of the rear ship of the Zheng Army's chain ship could not escape the fate of being hit by the guns.
The soldiers on both sides of the enemy and the enemy continued to fall into the water, and the surface of the river was stained with blood, and everywhere there were floating corpses and floating in the water, and the wood pulp that rolled with the waves, and the slag of the wood was even more spread all over the water.
Although the attacking Jingbei Army paid heavy casualties, Zheng Jun's arsonist ship was finally intercepted in an area less than 300 paces away from the main fleet, and only three or four fish escaped the net, breaking through the blockade of the clippers, and being pushed by the Zheng army on the back of the chain ship to the Jingbei Army's fleet.
By this time, Zheng Jun's arson ship was already at the end of its crossbow, and even the fire on the ship was much smaller.
"Water Dragon!"
Huang Zhongli ordered again, and dozens of sailors of the Jingbei Army raised the bamboo tubes in their hands one by one and sprayed water columns at the arson boats coming from the Panjiang River.
The arsonist boat, which had already burned down, suddenly rose with puffs of green smoke, and then was washed away by the rolling river, scattering into sections of scorched wood on the spot.
"Boom, boom, boom......!"
Just when the Jingbei Army's clippers and Zheng Army's arsonist ships were entangled, the artillery on the Jingbei Army's fleet was still spraying.
The Zheng army's fleet that followed closely behind the serial ships was once again subjected to fierce shelling, and one after another Zheng Jun's warships that followed closely behind the serial ships were suddenly blown to pieces, and the columns of water rushing to the sky on the river rose one after another, screaming and wailing into a one.
"Damn, the Northern Army Sailor on the dog day, how can this battle be fought? Beat the flag and let the sons and daughters go back first. ”
The strategy of burning the naval divisions of the Jingbei Army was to no avail, and their artillery was hit quickly and densely, on the contrary, the number of artillery and the specifications of the warships on the other side were not very different, watching one warship after another overturned by the artillery fire of the Jingbei Army, Shi Lang finally shuddered.
Because of the powerful firepower of the Jingbei Army, the Zheng Army's fleet, which was already devastated, suddenly changed direction one by one as if it had been amnestied and retreated back to Nanmen Port after receiving Shi Lang's military order to withdraw his troops.
"Boom...... Rumble......! ”
The shelling continued, and in the spirit of beating the water dogs, Huang Zhongli once again ordered all the artillery of his fleet to be fired.
"Click......!"
Two cannons weighing more than five catties coincidentally bombarded Shi Lang's Haicang ship like a meteor catching the moon, and the powerful impact directly broke the keel of the wooden ship, and the ship suddenly began to tilt, and the more than 100 sailors and soldiers on the ship were still standing firmly, one by one falling on the deck like a rolling gourd, falling into the soup pot like dumplings.
"Jump ship, jump ship."
Of course, Shi Lang was no exception, holding on to a broken mast and jumping into the river first.
As one of the leaders of the navy in the Zheng army, his water nature is naturally excellent, and at the moment of falling into the water, he turned over by inertia, and then held the broken wood and rowed back desperately.
Shi Lang's water nature is good, but where is the speed of swimming faster than the Jingbei Army's clipper, only half a pillar of incense time, was caught up by the Jingbei Army who caught up.
"I'm ......!"
Looking at the Jingbei Army warship that was getting closer and closer, Shi Lang could no longer muster the courage to struggle, poked his head out with great effort, spit out a mouthful of water, and wanted to ask the Jingbei officers and soldiers on the ship to surrender, but he only said one word, and several two-zhang long spears stabbed Shi Lang with a cold wind.
"...... Your grandma! ”
Shi Lang saw that the situation was not good, and a fierce man rushed into the water, but unexpectedly he was slapped by the oars of a Jingbei Army sailor, where did the thigh still have the strength to kick the water, but the speed of the stroke was half a beat slower than the spear that had just been stabbed, and he was stabbed by two spears.
"Where is the herald, go to the rebel army now, and Zheng Hongkui will surrender immediately, otherwise, the whole army will be punished."
The front team of the Zheng army was completely wiped out, and the chain ships of the Jedi counterattack were also burned, and now the exit of the waters of Nanmen Port was blocked by the water division of the Jingbei Army, and Su Guodong did not believe that Zheng Hongkui would still fight the trapped beast.
"Whoa!"
A few soldiers who followed closely behind Su Guodong responded to the order, and then got on a fast boat and galloped towards the Zheng Jun's fleet at the dock.
"What do they want to do......
On the verge of desperation, Shi Fu and Shi Lang were killed one after another, which made Zheng Hongkui, who had always been brave and good at fighting, panic all day long.
"Zheng Shuai......!"
Yang Qiu's face was also pale, and he watched in a daze as the Jingbei Army's clipper ship entered the port downwind, he really couldn't figure out how Li Xingzhi had built such a large-scale army of land and water in just three years.
In the stunned eyes of Zheng Hongkui and Yang Qiu, the boat shot out a white banner with a length of a few feet, and the flag was written with a red pen, "Those who do not surrender will be punished!" "Six big, bloody characters.