Chapter 281: Twist
All ten small boats were on fire, and as soon as the fire was burning, it was surging and surging with a kind of wildfire madness, burning towards the opposite side. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info
It can be said that in the middle of a water battle, sending ten burning boats is equivalent to Xia Nan's winner and loser, since it is the winner and loser, it must be more rigorous, and you must be more careful.
The leaders of the ten small boats were all selected by Xia Nan, and they not only acted quickly and decisively, but their own strength was also good.
The leaders, having set the boat on fire, immediately jumped into the canal and entered the water, and of course they were of good water, and could dive away even in the very rough current.
Ten small boats burned together in raging flames, burning towards the Cao Gang's ships, and set some of the Cao Gang ships on fire, but Xia Nan was still very dissatisfied.
At Xia Nan's order, from the ships of the Hanyang Gang, one by one jars were thrown out like cannonballs, causing a lot of fire oil to spread on the water.
The quality of the oil is still relatively light, it can float on the surface of the water, and with the transmission of those flames, all these oil burned, making the flames burning more intensely on the canal, on the surface of the canal.
One by one, the jars were thrown out quickly, and they were thrown far away, basically falling to the place where the Cao Gang ships were, or smashed into the board of the Cao Gang ships, and also fell to the water, and there was fire oil everywhere.
For this battle, Xia Nan's preparation can be said to be very sufficient, not only sufficient, but also sufficient to the extreme, in this case, under Xia Nan's order, the power that can burst out is still relatively strong.
It is precisely because of the sufficiency of their own preparations, sufficient to the extreme, that they are very sufficient for the materials of the war, and that they have prepared a lot of fire oil, and that they are very quick and satisfied when they really act.
When Xia Nan gave the order, he was very awesome, and under a command, he threw out all the oil jars, which was called a terrible one.
The Hanyang Gang's gang members, a group of masters, that is called a powerful one, the execution is very sufficient, under Xia Nan's order, all the oil jars were thrown out.
For the battle on the water, Xia Nan is very expected, everything is in the chest, and he has already become an expert and a good leader for the water battle.
A good leader, in battle, especially in battle, can know some things before the battle, and can calculate the many materials needed in the battle.
In water warfare, it is still good to attack with fire, fire attack is a very awesome thing, although water and fire are incompatible, but fighting above the water, using fire is still a good thing.
It may be very good that water and fire are incompatible, but it is a common sense and a very normal thing, but when water and fire are together, they are often linked, which is still very strange.
In a water battle, no matter how tragic the battle is, whether it is to shoot both sides with arrows or to engage in a string battle, the battle that can play the most important role is the battle with fire.
In the previous battle, when the two sides were firing at each other, the Cao Gang pressed the Hanyang Gang to the bottom with more ships and more people, which put the Hanyang Gang at a disadvantage.
Even if the Cao Gang had the upper hand and was in a relatively advantageous position, in the battle, the damage caused to the Hanyang Gang was not too great.
No matter how many arrows there are, they can produce a kind of suppression in the shooting, but there are still not many people who can be shot by real arrows, and there are not many people who can be shot to death after all.
However, when Xia Nan took the fire attack, he set fire with ten small boats at once, and all the ships of the Cao Gang were set on fire, and the raging flames produced rose into the sky at once.
The water in the canal rises and falls above the water, and it is turbulent, but above the river, there is a fierce flame, like a barbecue, turning everyone into skewers.
When the flames spread, they burned towards the ships of the Cao Gang, and the ships that burned from the ten small boats at the beginning were not too many.
Ten small boats can get close, and the Cao Gang ships that can be ignited, not too many, only five or six, so many ships, the impact on the Cao Gang, the blow to the Cao Gang, is not too big, not enough to make the Cao Gang hurt the bones.
The two sides really made sufficient preparations for this battle, and dispatched a lot of manpower or force, and the ships dispatched were as large as the number of people, basically reaching a limit that the two sides could reach.
Under such circumstances, the ships and numbers on both sides are really overwhelming, forming a kind of stormy momentum that can sweep everything.
The Hanyang Gang had nearly 200 ships with a total of more than 50,000 people, while the Cao Gang dispatched more ships, enough to reach more than 300, and the number of people reached more than 80,000.
With so many ships and people, if you want to fight on the water, you have to be above the sea to be able to shoot it, even if it is on the Han River, you can also set up some formations to make the number of ships and people participating in the battle more large.
Although the canal is very long, it can connect the north-south traffic of the Ming Kingdom, which is very important in the Ming Kingdom, which is equivalent to a major artery of the north-south traffic, which is very awesome, but the canal is a little stingy after all.
The canal was dug out by the previous dynasty, and I don't know how much manpower and force were used, and the cost was definitely a lot, and it is a brilliant memory in human history.
Even so, the canal that was dug out is already very impressive, but it is still slightly worse than the naturally formed Han River.
The water flow above the canal is relatively gentle, so it can be used as a traffic artery, as a water traffic artery, very important.
If it is a river with rippling waves and very violent waters, a river like the Han River may not be able to be used as an important waterway for transportation, and it may not be able to reach this point.
It is precisely because the current in the canal is relatively gentle, even if a boat walks on it, it can always go down smoothly, and the canal can occupy a relatively important point.
The reason why the water flow in the canal is very gentle, so that it is extremely gentle, can allow small boats to walk on it, which is very good, and in some places within the canal, it can be relatively gentle, relatively narrow, so as not to let the more violent water flow ripple here.
It is precisely because of the canal that some places are relatively gentle, and some places are not too spacious to accommodate the hundreds of ships of the Cao Gang and the Hanyang Gang, and there are only a dozen ships that can be placed on the canal.
In fact, the place where a dozen large ships can be placed is still relatively spacious, at least, many ships can pass on it, and it is still good to get there as a transportation, but it is nothing as a place for fighting.
Although such a battle was limited to a certain extent, the casualties suffered were relatively small when the battle was fierce.
Just like when the two armies shot at each other before, when the gangs of the Hanyang Gang and the Cao Gang were shooting at each other, the fierce roaring sound was really resounding in the sky, and the casualties caused were relatively large.
Maybe the casualties are still relatively large, but, relatively speaking, compared to the tens of thousands of people on both sides who fought on both sides, the casualties of dozens of people at a time are really not too much.
And then, when Xia Nan took the way of fire attack, the situation was different, when Xia Nan gave an order, ten small boats rushed forward, and after catching fire together, the Cao Gang's ships were set on fire, and the casualties caused were relatively small.
The casualties of the Cao Gang were really relatively large compared to the casualties of the Hanyang Gang, under this fire, five or six ships were burned at once, and the people on the boats did not know how many were burned to death, and nearly a thousand people died at once, and there were people who entered the water one after another, maybe they could escape their lives.
This kind of result is still relatively good, but Xia Nan is still not satisfied, and continues to throw out the hot oil jars one by one, and the rivers are full of hot oil.
It just so happened that on this day, the southeast wind was blowing on the canal, and the wind was blowing one after another, which was not a strong wind, but it was not a breeze either.
Under such a wind, there are naturally waves when there is a wind, and one after another wolf heads rush towards the south, and the water waves rise and fall, which is very violent.
Under such wind and waves, if the small boat is above the river, it will definitely rise and fall slightly, but if it is a large boat, it will be different, on the undulating water, it is as stable as Mount Tai.
The big ships have always been as steady as Mount Tai on the undulating waters, but when the flames burn, the situation is completely different.
Under the blowing of the southeast wind, the waves of water went to the south, the water was rushing, like waves, when Xia Nan threw the fire oil of the Hanyang Gang into the canal, the layers of fire oil spread out, spreading a layer on the surface of the river.
The undulating surface of the water was covered with a layer of oil, and the whole river was covered with oil, and under the raging flames, all the oil was ignited.
The flames that rushed to the sky, under the support of these oils, burned more violently, and the flames burned like a fire dragon, forming a kind of surging momentum, like a fire dragon, rushing open in the sky above the canal.
In the sky above the canal, flames rose together, like a dragon formed by lanterns, the kind of burning flames that would burn everything out.
In this case, a strong flame arose, and at first it burned only five or six large ships, until it reached seven or eight ships again, and the flame became even stronger.
The flames became stronger and more intense, and originally, they would have been limited to the ten ships in the first row, but when the flames burned more violently, when the oil spread, the flames would inevitably burn more violently.
Under this powerful flame, as the southeast wind blew, as the waves rushed towards the south, the flames also rose more violently, burning towards the other ships of the Cao Gang.
The Cao Gang dispatched a total of more than 300 ships and more than 80,000 people, what a large army, and the power generated must be earth-shattering, it must be very amazing.
More than 300 boats, lined up on the canal, are still quite impressive, quite shocking, like a long dragon array, lined up.
This kind of one-word long dragon is still quite amazing, and the strength shown by such an army is really amazing.
It is no exaggeration to say that even the navy of the Ming Kingdom, compared to the Cao Gang, may not be comparable to the combat effectiveness that the Cao Gang can touch.
In the Ming Kingdom, the management class of the imperial court paid more attention to the land, and really didn't pay much attention to the things on the sea, not too much.
In this case, the imperial navy of the Ming Kingdom is really not very powerful, and the number of people it has is not much, only 30,000 at most.
30,000 people seems to be a lot, if it is for a water gang force, the number is still relatively large, it is a relatively powerful force, but if it is for the powerful Ming court, an army of 30,000 people is really not too much.
This time, the Cao Gang dispatched an army of 80,000 people at once, and the Hanyang Gang in a month's time, Xia Nan could mobilize more than 50,000 people, and the upper hand was overwhelmed, it is conceivable that the strength and heritage of the Cao Gang are so strong.
So many people, so many ships, in the middle of the battle, it seems that the role that can be played is not too big, after all, on the canal, even in a wide place, it is impossible to line up more than three hundred ships.
If there are more than 300 ships on the sea, although there are many, they are nothing at all, they are nothing, they are not even a drop in the ocean.
Compared with the ships and numbers of the Cao Gang, the ships of the Hanyang Gang are more than 100 less, and the number of people is 30,000 less, which is a completely different role if the battle is fought on land, and the army of 50,000 and the army of 80,000 people fight.
An army of 80,000 people, if it is not for the incompetence of the commander, in order to fight steadily, it is not a problem at all to defeat the imperfect army.
However, the battle on the water is different, it is completely different, the battle on the water is a different world, and the battle on the sea presents two completely different states, not at all.
In the previous battle, the Hanyang Gang was already at a disadvantage in the confrontation with the Cao Gang, and was already in a relatively bad state, if this situation continued, even if the Hanyang Gang failed, it was not a strange thing to lose this war.
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A chapter is delivered. (To be continued.) )