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c_t; At this time, halfway up the peaks on both sides, the position of the giant ballista was busy. Pen ~ Fun ~ Pavilion www.biquge.info [Almost all the books I want to read.,It's much more stable than the general station.,There's no advertising in the whole text.] The defenders were not afraid of fire on the stone-made battery, so they quickly turned the guns used on the ballistas into flame guns. After tying the head of the musket with a cotton cloth soaked in grease, the crossbowmen set the short muskets on fire.

Dotted flames burst into flames, like street lamps in the city, illuminating the entire mountainside. Seeing that the opposing battleship was already approaching, the commanders issued orders to shoot. Giant ballistae are different from catapults, as direct-fire weapons, they are easier to aim, and their accuracy is naturally much higher.

With the sound of the bowstring crashing one after another, a field of flamed throwing spears suddenly flew from the ballista positions halfway up the Tiger Mountain and Yashan Mountain. These steel throwing guns, with flames, crossed a distance of more than 200 meters and hit the Gucci Navy warships that were rushing one after another.

Although Chen Jicheng discovered the problem in advance just now, the sailboat had no brakes and no reverse gear, and it would take a long time to turn and turn back, not to mention that they were about to arrive at the main channel of the port, the water here was quite narrow, and it was not easy for a 100-ton sailboat to turn.

Because of these circumstances, the warships of the Gucci Navy were left to watch themselves being attacked. The crossfire on the mountainsides on both sides was extremely fierce, more than two hundred giant ballistas attacked at the same time, most of the throwing guns hit the hull, and the fierce flames suddenly spread to the surface of the wooden hull, and those already damaged warships suddenly turned into torches on the sea.

The fierce flames ignited the battleships, and after seeing that the flames could not be extinguished, the sailors had no choice but to abandon the ship. The demoralized sailors jumped into the water one after another, swimming desperately regardless of the south, south, north, and west, at this time there was only one thought in their minds, to get out of this devouring hell as soon as possible.

The first group of battleships was completely destroyed, and the second group of transports behind naturally did not dare to move on. The main navy has been wiped out, and if they go up again, they will only be sent to death, but the commander of the fleet has been caught in the fire, and the fleet has no one in charge for a while.

Just when the flotilla was overwhelmed, a fleet appeared behind them. A small fleet of Caravel galleons appeared, this fleet was the defending fleet of Lianyungang, and after seeing the fire in the distance, they thought that the harbor was emitting wolf smoke, but they accidentally blocked the opponent's troop transport.

These Caravel galleons were not large, about half the size of the opposing Kirk, but they had three masts compared to the Kirk with only one mast and one crosssail, and the Caravel galleon, which was a mix of crosssail and spinnaker, was greatly increased in agility and speed. Moreover, the weapons on these sailing ships are much stronger than their opponents, at least on their double decks, there are ten giant ballistae on each side, which is enough to inflict a lot of damage on the opponent.

If there is really a war, maybe the two sides will have to stalemate for a while, but now that the Gucci Navy is leaderless and has just been shocked by the strong shore fire power of the other side, these officers and soldiers are panicking. At this time, the defending fleet outflanked from the rear, which became the last straw that broke the camel's back, and as a result, the defending fleet had not yet surrounded it, and the ships of the Gucci navy had already surrendered with white flags.

The officers and men who were originally defending the fleet were extremely excited, thinking that this time they could finally show their strength and have a good naval battle. As a result, I didn't expect the other party to surrender directly, and the angry naval officers and soldiers scolded their mothers and even called the other party for not cooperating.

Now that the Gucci navy had surrendered, the defending fleet could no longer continue the attack, so they had to escort the group of ships towards the harbor. For fear that the other side would regret it, the defending fleet watched the group of Gucci ships and came to a place two hundred meters away from the main channel, which was already within the range of the ballistas, and even if they wanted to escape, it was impossible.

When he arrived here, Ryan, who was in charge of Lianyungang's defense, immediately sent someone to contact him. Accepting surrender at sea in the past has never happened before, and there is no precedent for it. Surrender at sea is different from surrender on land, if they are allowed to sail directly into the harbor, the port may still suffer heavy losses if the other party repents, and as a result, Ryan came up with a rather strange method.

At Lane's request, the sailors on those battleships were the first to lower their life-saving boats. Each Kirk sailing boat had four dinghies, which were small enough to seat six people each, and because they had no masts, they could only be powered by oars, which was very slow.

After laying down their weapons, the sailors rowed into the dinghy empty-handed. In this case, the sailors came ashore in batches, each group would not be very large, and it was clear at a glance whether they were holding weapons or not, which avoided any possible danger.

Five people were brought ashore in each dinghy, and the remaining one rowed back to the boat to pick up people. There were a total of sixty small boats on the fifteen battleships, so that three hundred men were sent ashore at a time, and after several transports, the battleships were completely empty.

After all the sailors had been brought ashore, the dinghys docked to the merchant ships, this time carrying the soldiers of the army who had come with them. The dinghy on the battleship and the dinghy on the merchant ship increased the speed of delivery a lot. However, there were many more land forces on the merchant ships, and the delivery speed was still too slow, and in the end, the small boats on the ships of the defending fleet had to join the ranks of transporting prisoners of war.

Soon the officers and men of the Gucci navy were transported to the docks, and they were escorted by armed soldiers into the makeshift prison, where they were to be well cared for and awaited Fang Ruitao's sentence, and as for the completely empty ships, they had been carefully inspected and sailed back by the merchant sailors.

The battle lasted only an hour, but it took six hours to deal with the prisoners, and by the time everything was arranged, the moon was already high in the sky. Ryan was busy writing reports of the battles, as well as the records of the exploits and the details of the prisoners, and handed them to the cavalry, and then he fell asleep.

Ryan had already fallen asleep, and Nidismak, who was holding on to Fort Tula, had not closed his eyes all night, and he had held on to it for the second day with the strength of three divisions. Due to the large consumption of feather arrows, the defense at this time can no longer be as easy as the beginning, and today the opponent has climbed to the top of the city three times, and he relied on his own guards to kill the opponent.

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