Chapter 74: Hand-to-hand combat

Zhuge Xiaosheng quickly realized that the other party was playing a delaying tactic.

They are all short-handed, and they do not directly attack in the situation of having a great advantage, but first issue an inexplicable war letter, which is not at all in line with common sense, so there must be fraud in it!

Several orders were issued in quick succession.

"Send a signal to Commander Lin, let him pay attention to the sides of the ship, strengthen the guards of the front and rear gun emplacements, and be careful that the other party sends water ghosts to swim over to launch a sneak attack!"

"All archers pay attention to the sides of the ship, and when you see someone coming up, you can release arrows directly, you don't have to ask for your life!"

"The water dragon team is on standby, if the water ghost comes, he will definitely bring a fire bottle and a fire jar, and if he finds the fire, he will extinguish it immediately!"

"Reply to that Yokoji Sato, and say that I have decided to surrender, but the iron anchors on both of our ships are broken and we can't moor, so now we are moving towards you at a constant speed, so please be sure not to attack...... Temporary General Soldier Zhuge Xiaosheng respectfully. ”

The first few orders are understood by the big guys, but the latter one is a bit ridiculous, are you sure we are going to surrender?

"Soldiers don't get tired of cheating!" Zhuge Xiaosheng ordered the two boats to sail directly over.

"General Zhuge Bing, I understand that you deceived the enemy, but why do you really rely on it?" Liu Haishan felt that Zhuge Xiaosheng's move was too reckless.

The enemy is strong and I am weak, so we can only find a way to take an evasive posture and take advantage of the slight advantage of our shipbuilding to deal with them, why did we take the initiative to send them over?

Isn't this death?

"Our mobility is too poor, once we get close to the enemy, we can't avoid it at all, it's a passive situation, it's better to rush over and fight them in close combat, and we have a chance of winning."

"But we're at a big disadvantage in numbers." Liu Haishan felt that this was hitting a stone with an egg.

"When we meet on a narrow road, the brave wins!" Zhuge Xiaosheng had already thought of this battle plan from the beginning.

This is the only chance to win.

He knew the situation of his own side, saying that it was 700 people, but in fact, there were only 500 people who could fight a water war.

The brothers of Xichang and Jinyiwei don't understand water warfare at all!

You don't think you can even use a bow and arrow, and half of them are landlubbers who can't even swim, and the other half are very good at walking on the boat......

But they are all strong in martial arts, and their melee combat power is extremely awesome.

Now that the wind and waves are calm, fighting on the deck is not much different from fighting on the flat ground, and you can fully exert your own strength.

So once the two sides are short-handed, the outcome is unknown!

Yokoji Sato was a little confused by Zhuge Xiaosheng's divine operation.

Why did I just say that casually, and you really surrendered?

No, I can't.

Although I know that the Great Zhou Water Division has just been formed, and its combat power is not good, it will not be to this extent?

So there must be a fraud in this move.

But if you want to say that there is fraud, now that both sides have entered the range of artillery and bows and arrows, they are stunned that they have not fired their cannons and arrows, which is also very strange.

But whoever leads the troops, whether it is land or sea battles, is the first to strike!

But the other side has already driven about 300 meters and has not yet launched an attack, do they really want to surrender?

It's not entirely impossible.

Because according to the information he obtained, the actual leader of the other team's fleet was the guy who was responsible for escorting Liu Guifei.

That guy is a young eunuch named Xiao Chen in the Great Zhou Palace, and the eunuchs are all very timid to work.

So when I saw my great feng shui master coming, I was scared to pee.

Yokoji Sato was ordered to attack the fleet of the imperial concubine of the Great Zhou this time, with the purpose of provoking a dispute between Burma and the Great Zhou.

As long as Burma declares war on the Great Zhou, neighboring countries will inevitably take the opportunity to find an excuse to send troops to reap the benefits.

The Great Zhou fought in the southern Xinjiang together, and the Great Zhou would inevitably take care of one and lose the other, so they could take advantage of the situation to expand their sphere of influence in the eastern seas and lay a solid foundation for the future invasion of the Great Zhou......

Now that he has found the concubine's fleet, it can be said that most of the task has been completed, and then as long as the two ships are sunk, he can ask for the reward.

Of course, if Liu Guifei can be captured alive, two large ships can be captured, and all of them are brought back intact and dedicated to Emperor Amaterasu, then the credit must not be doubled?

The treasures of the other two ships must have been great......

There is another reason why Yokoji Sato did not attack categorically, that is, he has already sent a hundred elite teams of daring water ghosts to swim over and sneak attack the other party.

It should be quite close by now, and the sneak attack could start at any moment, if he ordered the attack now, wouldn't those brave subordinates die in vain?

Therefore, he hoped that when the water ghost team boarded the opposing ship and caused great chaos to it, he would take the opportunity to attack.

After hesitating for a while, the Fengyi and the Shenlong had slowly approached a distance of about three hundred meters.

His generals kept urging the generals to attack immediately!

Liu Haishan and the others were also anxious, and their palms holding the handle of the knife were sweating.

What a Zhuge general soldier, it's so close, you don't fire the cannon and let the arrows start, what are you waiting for!

What they didn't know was that Zhuge Xiaosheng had actually started a war with Yokoji Sato, but it was psychological warfare, and now he was slightly better, because the other party was obviously hesitant and had missed the best opportunity to attack.

It would be better if it could get closer, as long as it was entangled with the opponent's Anzhai battleship, and those few small ships would not dare to attack with artillery fire, and they could only choose to engage in hand-to-hand combat......

But when the two sides were about two hundred meters apart, Zhuge Xiaosheng had to attack in advance, because there were already water ghosts quietly climbing up along the sides of the boat on both sides!

While the archers were whizzing their arrows, he also gave the order to attack!

At a distance of 200 meters, there was no need to aim at the cannon, the cannon in the bow of the Shenlong ship fired first, and one shot hit a closed ship, and the huge iron pellet penetrated the side of the ship, penetrated the bilge, and smashed a small half of the oarsmen inside into pulp!

As soon as the cannon was fired here, more than 100 oarsmen below immediately rowed with their lives, and the distance of more than 200 meters was instantaneous, and after sticking to an Anzhai battleship, the side cannons of both sides fired at each other like bayonets!

The soldiers on both ships also began to throw iron hooks at each other, and they couldn't wait to pull each other down.

The Fengyi also followed, sticking to the flagship of another Sato Yokoji, and after a few rounds of artillery bombardment, Sato Yokoji found that it was not good, because the Fengyi was too strong!

Although the firepower on his side was strong, it did not cause any practical damage to this behemoth, and his own ship building was bombed by others.

He made a decision immediately, put down the side of the ship with iron spikes and firmly nailed it to the Fengyi as a board, waved the sword in his hand, and shouted a few to give!

Hundreds of soldiers swarmed out, and with their hands and feet together, they stormed along the board!