Chapter 360: The Battle of the Sea

Du Sheng regretted it!

Before, he thought that he could be like the assassins who could stab the king in ten steps in the biography of the assassins, such as Zhuzhu and Qingji, and he could capture the enemy general hidden in the Nan Tianzhu water army in one fell swoop, so that he could force Nan Tianzhu to retreat by capturing the thief and the king.

However, because of the great victory against the Inpo City Naval Army during the First Battle of Pearl Island before, and the ease of attacking the Nantianzhu Naval Army, these made him greatly underestimate the combat effectiveness of the Southern Tianzhu Naval Army, and at the same time, he also overestimated the combat level of his fleet soldiers.

At the beginning, with the superior performance of the newly built warships in the East China Sea, Du Sheng could continue to fight with the Nantianzhu naval army on the sea, coupled with a large number of advanced weapons carried on his own ships, he could even bully Nantianzhu's warships.

However, when he rushed into the encirclement of the Nantianzhu naval army, the performance of the ships between the two sides was immediately leveled, and at this time Du Sheng finally understood that he was 'attacking the other's strengths with his own shortcomings', and he could obviously attack the Nantianzhu army through guerrilla fighting, but because of his great achievements, a large number of Xia soldiers were killed.

He felt that he was most sorry for the brothers who rushed in with him without regrets, many of these people were Du Sheng's partners who grew up together, and many of them were soldiers who had followed him for many years, but it was a pity that they were brought to a dead end by themselves like this.

The fifteen Xia warships that rushed in with Du Sheng at the beginning, only eight of them are still insisting on fighting, four of the other seven warships were sunk by the Nantianzhu naval army, and the other three were unable to move because the ships were damaged and became prisoners of war of the Nantianzhu people.

Seeing many Han soldiers being tortured and killed by the Nantianzhu people, He Liang was overwhelmed with grief and indignation, especially when he saw a Xia soldier who had fallen into the water and was shot alive on the water by the Nantianzhu Navy on a nearby ship, Du Sheng's eyes were split at this moment, and his heart wanted to drip blood.

He pulled out the dagger in his hand and cut his wrist, stained his right hand with blood, and swore to the blood of the heavens: "Haotian God is above, if Sheng can get out of here today, he will take revenge for this great revenge, slaughter the royal family and nobles, turn the people of his land into the slaves of the people of our country, and make the god of Haotian God spread on the Western Ocean!" ”

When several soldiers next to Du Sheng heard Du Sheng's blood oath, they also shouted: "Destroy all the thieves and raise my Haotian Shenhui!" For a while, the soldiers struggled to keep their spirits up and continue to fight.

Until now, almost all the soldiers of the Xia army, including Du Sheng, could not hold on, but it may be because the Nantianzhu people also wanted to capture such a few very advanced warships completely, after all, as long as there were such ready-made ships, they could also build this kind of new ships according to this kind of ships, so the attack of the Nantianzhu people was unexpectedly much weaker.

But even so, Du Sheng felt more and more difficult, because after the soldiers of Nan Tianzhu were short-handed, the soldiers of the Xia Army were able to hold on to the present, in addition to their height, that is, with their own sophisticated weapons and leather armor with better protection.

After finally eliminating some of the Nantianzhu soldiers who had boarded their ships before, at this time, a large group of Nantianzhu sailors jumped over from the enemy ship on the opposite side with cables, these Nantianzhu soldiers were not big, but they were extremely flexible.

The short stature is extremely dark, and they all wear shorts and a short blade in their mouths, because there are very few long weapons that can be used on the sea, and even armor will rarely be worn, otherwise it will be impossible to escape after falling into the sea.

The remnants of the Xia Army soldiers under Du Sheng worked hard to wave the weapons in their hands, but the number of Nantianzhu people was too much, and even Du Sheng began to feel that his arms were a little weak, and the double knives that he once wielded like windmills had now become extremely heavy.

Although Du Sheng's martial arts skills are good, he has been stabbed a few times so far, even with the protection of leather armor, a long scar was still cut on his shoulder, and the originally thin clothes were all soaked with hot blood, and then gradually dried up, and then soaked again.

A large amount of blood loss, as well as the pain of the wound, greatly consumed Du Sheng's physical strength, a large amount of blood loss made Du Sheng even feel a burst of blackness in front of his eyes, several times if it wasn't for the soldiers under his command to save him in time, I am afraid that Du Sheng would have already died at the bow of the ship.

"At the beginning, His Majesty said that I was a scourge for thousands of years, and I didn't expect to die now!" By this time, Du Sheng was already a little unstable on his feet, and a Nantianzhu soldier saw Du Sheng's identity, and brandished a short knife with a cruel smile and slashed at Du Sheng.

Without waiting for this Nan Tianzhu soldier to hurt Du Sheng, a dagger was plunged directly into the person's chest, it turned out that Du Sheng was saved by his own soldier again, and the soldier was also injured a lot, but he still tried his best to drag Du Sheng to the back of the deck, so that Du Sheng stood against the cabin.

But there were too many soldiers of the Nantianzhu people, and when this group had not yet retreated, the Nantianzhu soldiers on several other ships jumped up, although Du Sheng was already a little dazzled, but his ears were extremely sensitive at this time.

By this time he had already understood that he had failed!

"That's it, brothers, let's go to Huangquan together today!" Du Sheng let out a long sigh, and then said in a loud voice, "Splash the fire oil in the cabin, and set the boat on fire, and you can't leave it to the people of Nantianzhu!" "Wonderful

The superiority of the ships in the East China Sea has been spreading everywhere in the past two years, although Du Sheng also knows that a few ships have fallen into the hands of the Nan Tianzhu people, but he still wants to minimize the number of warships obtained by the Nan Tianzhu.

Just as Du Sheng was commanding dozens of soldiers to spill all the fire oil, a violent explosion was suddenly heard, and then a large number of Nantianzhu warships surrounding the periphery of Du Sheng's fleet suddenly panicked.

"It's our reinforcements" After Du Sheng heard the explosion, the strength of his whole body immediately seemed to disappear, and a soldier beside him said excitedly: "Yes, it's our reinforcements!" It's the First Fleet led by General Sun, and we're saved! ”

The soldiers on the ship cheered excitedly, it turned out that their own reinforcements had arrived in time, and it was the large army brought by Sun Xing, they were saved, of course, they also knew that they had to hold on until Sun Xing rescued himself from the encirclement.

So the soldiers on the eight warships under Du Sheng's command who were still insisting on fighting suddenly broke out again, and they worked hard to expel the Nan Tianzhu soldiers on the ship, and at this time, some soldiers took out the only short crossbows on their bodies.

Cowhide short armor, short crossbow, and goose feather knife used to be one of the standard configurations of the East China Sea Army, and of course Du Sheng's naval army will not lack these things.

Especially in the past two years, because the Sword Casting City began to produce a large number of soft steel, the power of the short crossbow has become more and more great, and during the water war, because many Nantianzhu people do not wear armor, so such a short crossbow can destroy all unarmored enemy soldiers within thirty meters.

Before, Du Sheng and the others were not reluctant to use these powerful short crossbows, they had just fired the first round when the Nantianzhu Water Army had just rushed up, but then they found that these crossbow arrows needed to be wound, and it was very time-consuming to put on the quiver.

In the fierce battle just now, the soldiers of Du Sheng's department did not have the slightest time to wind the short crossbow again, so they could not use the advanced weapons, which was undoubtedly a little aggrieved.

At this time, with the rescue of Sun Xing's department, the soldiers of Nan Tianzhu did not have the appearance of an endless stream of attacks just now, so they just played these roles, and under Du Sheng's order, all the soldiers who could still move hurriedly got on the short crossbow.

At this time, many soldiers of the Southern Tianzhu Navy saw that many warships on the periphery of their fleet were quickly destroyed, and they fled in fear, of course, a small number of them still wanted to continue to charge, but as the soldiers of the Xia Army fired crossbow arrows one after another, these Nantianzhu people quickly retreated.

Du Sheng didn't have many arrows left in their short crossbow, but the soldiers of Nan Tianzhu had suffered a lot before, and when they saw that Xia Jun still had arrows to shoot, and they were shooting in order combined with the experience of the last time, they were even more frightened and fled back to their ships in a hurry, and there were many soldiers who hurriedly fell into the sea.

When these Nantianzhu naval forces learned that Du Sheng did not have many remaining weapons, Sun Xing's fleet had already broken through the encirclement of the Southern Tianzhu naval army and came to Du Sheng.

Only now did everyone discover that in the battle just now, seven ships under Du Sheng's command were destroyed and captured, and the other eight surviving ships were also in urgent need of repair.

Although the fifteen warships and twenty armed merchant ships led by Sun Yu were not so damaged, they could not cross the ocean again before they were overhauled.

Sun Xing's subordinates performed a lot more significantly, in the battle just now, one of the warships under his command was injured, and the other warships were not damaged at all, and their result was that they destroyed nearly 100 Nantianzhu naval warships in the battle just now.

This number is extremely amazing, plus the ships destroyed by Du Sheng, Sun Yu and others before, there are only more than 200 warships left in the Nantianzhu Naval Army, which can be described as a great loss of vitality.

The sea that had just ended the fierce battle was covered with fragments of the warships of the Nantianzhu Navy, and more were the corpses of the Nantianzhu soldiers, as well as the Nantianzhu soldiers who were constantly struggling on the sea, if no one went to rescue them, I am afraid that it would not take long for these people to be wiped out by the sharks who heard the news.

At this time, the Nantianzhu people already had the heart to retreat, but they didn't dare to withdraw directly, after all, the combat effectiveness of Sun Xing's fleet impressed them too deeply, if they retreated like this, I am afraid that they would be sunk before they returned to their homes, and now they can only use some of the captives as hostages to make the Han people throw rats.

In addition, the Nantianzhu infantry army on the Pearl Harbor did not want to retreat so quickly, after more than a day of attack, the Pearl Harbor Castle was already crumbling, which made them feel that they could conquer the Pearl Harbor as long as they worked harder.

But at this time, Shang Shengmao and Huang Sheng had already led the second and third battalions of the Yizhou garrison division to land respectively.