"Draw quickly, if you win, you will have meat to eat when you go back!"

On the battleship that was racing on the sea, Ruan Xiaoqi roared excitedly.

On the deck below him, the drummers beat the drums vigorously, and the forty long oars on both sides of the slender hull rose and fell like a huge worm on the sea, and more than a hundred soldiers in paper armor were waiting behind the bulwark.

The water is all paper armor.

This thing's protection is still okay, at least it can block arrows.

The choice of this is not because of the price, the iron armor has long been worthless in Wang Yue, but once the iron armor is worn on the water, few can quickly take it off, and if you can swim with a two-millimeter thick steel plate on your body, it has to belong to the legendary level of fierce generals, and the water is either leather armor or paper armor.

And the protective ability of paper armor is definitely better than that of leather armor.

Of course, the image is almost, just like the Xinhua dictionary on the body, but if you really want to hang the Xinhua dictionary, I'm afraid that the shotgun can't wear it.

And under this deck, on either side of each oar sat two oarsmen who were rowing hard, both slaves, chained to their oars, like flesh and blood engines that drove the battleship until they died of exhaustion. Of course, if they don't die of exhaustion, they will still be free at the end of the contract, which is the only thing that these slaves with complex origins can fantasize, from the time they were sold here to have such a day.

Whether or not they will survive to that day is another matter.

"Draw quickly, the general said, you will have meat to eat when you win the battle!"

The overseer shouted in Goryeo with a whip.

Well, this ship is full of Goryeo slaves, and in fact they are slaves themselves, but they originally belonged to the serf owners of Goryeo......

At this time, except for the Great Song Dynasty, which was a tenant, most of the lower levels of other forces were slaves and serfs.

The Great Song Dynasty is really the most civilized country in this era, this is a fact, although the tenants of the Great Song Dynasty are just as miserable, but in this worse world, it is really the most civilized, even if Europe at this time is actually serfdom in nature.

The slave traders did not need to fool around at the bottom of Goryeo, in fact it was impossible, if the upper echelons of Goryeo did not nod their heads, they would be hacked to death, but they could buy from the Goryeo serf owners, who fooled their serfs for them or simply sold their own slaves.

As long as there is money to be made,

Although Wang Yue had just obtained a large number of party prisoners, Ruan Xiaoqi, a naval general, still preferred these indentured slaves from Goryeo, as well as the Japanese slaves sold by the Goryeo from the Wa Kingdom, because these people ate less, were obedient, and even liked their work. I really like it, they are happy to be rowing slaves here, after all, all they have lost is their freedom, but the possibility of them starving to death in their own homeland is definitely more likely than exhausting here.

In their hometown, they don't have enough to eat!

But on board you can.

As for the overseer's whip, it was not worth mentioning.

It is true that they will be whipped here, but in their hometowns, the thugs of the serf owners and the servants of the government are also indispensable to whip them, and these people will take away their rations, but after they are smoked here, they can be given wine and meat!

Being a slave to Daming is also a kind of happiness!

Well, because of the institutional restrictions of the Great Song Dynasty, the subordinate of these rowing slaves was the Ming Dynasty, and then they were hired from the Ming contractors as the victorious army of the Song army.

They belong to labor dispatch.

And Ruan Xiaoqi, who was high on the bow tower, of course didn't care about the slaves below.

He was on the bow tower, protected by a circular wooden wall, staring closely at the chaotic bay ahead, at the warships that had set sail and anchored, at the soldiers rushing to the battleships on the docks, at the terrified men scattered on the shore, and it was clear that his raid had been very successful, and there was no defense. He had already moved from Dengzhou Daoyu Village to Rushan Village a month ago, as the commander of the Changsheng Army, of course he couldn't sit back and watch the transportation of the Jiangnan Navy Division here, but he didn't care about it before.

In winter, he had to do his best to ensure the transportation of Liaodong.

But with the thaw of Liaodong Bay, those large sea ships with pure sail power can already sail Niuzhuang, and there is no need for his fleet.

"The transport ship on the left flank burns the dock, the Chinese army meets the enemy warship, and the right flank lands on the island to capture Zhao Gou alive!"

He said as he looked at the dozens of warships in front of him that had finished anchoring and were coming downwind.

The herald behind immediately waved the flag.

His Chinese flagship waved the same flag on each of the equally large warships, then one turned to the dock to the northeast and plunged directly into the shore, rushing towards the large transport ships that had no time to raise their sails, and the other turned due east, avoiding the frontal fleet, and prepared to land on Tang Island behind them, while Ruan Xiaoqi's Chinese army continued forward.

The huge fleet of nearly two hundred centipede ships quickly divided into three small fleets and continued to chop waves on the sea.

Ruan Xiaoqi was still staring at him straight ahead.

There were about thirty or so Jiangnan warships that were the first to set sail and anchor, and these were essentially galleys, but they used oars, and most of them were eight oars, but because they were downwind, the speed was not slower than their centipede ships. In the middle of these ships were multi-storey wooden buildings, on which were dominated by crossbowmen, in fact, in terms of pure combat power, they were superior, because they were much larger than centipede ships, and they were also much taller.

At this time, the battle on the water is a gang war.

Big ships against small boats, high ships against short ships, that is all the formation of hierarchical suppression.

However, it is obvious that Ruan Xiaoqi and his soldiers did not realize this.

"Hurry, hurry!"

He roared excitedly.

The tempo of the war drums increased noticeably, and the slaves below paddled wildly.

The speed of the centipede ship continued to increase, the towering bow ploughed the waves on the sea, and the eighty centipede ships that followed the Chinese flagship on both sides also continued to accelerate.

Thirty Jiangnan warships on the opposite side, which were obviously taller than them, also increased their speed in the tailwind, and the sailors on the ship's tower who were also wearing paper armor were waiting for them, one by one bows and crossbows poked out from behind the parapet, and soldiers holding lime bottles, torches and even oil cans were also waiting.

This is an inevitable result.

But......

"Turn right!"

At the moment when he was about to collide with a battleship opposite, Ruan Xiaoqi yelled at the copper pipe in front of him.

All the oars on his left side were raised, and with the combined action of the tail rudder and the oars on the right, the centipede ship, which had already exceeded eight knots, quickly turned, and then plunged diagonally into the enemy ship on the other side.

Then the left oar falls.

The battleship moved forward at full speed.

And at this very moment, all the centipede ships that had been charging at the surface of the sea against the enemy ships, like their flagships, suddenly turned to rush to the enemy ships on the other side before they were about to collide.

The sheen of the metal shines beneath the clear blue waves.

"They have horns of attack!"

Ruan Xiaoqi could even hear the screams from the battleship behind him.

Then the old water thief smiled proudly, and raised his shield to shield the sharp arrows falling overhead, and in his laughter, the ten-zhang long centipede ship crashed into the enemy ship that was passing downwind in front of him, and with a huge crashing sound, the angle of attack wrapped in the underwater iron sheet instantly crashed into the hull of the latter.

Of course, this is not fatal.

Because the warships of the Great Song Dynasty all had watertight compartments, and usually had more than eight watertight compartments, they would not be sunk by the angle of attack.

But......

"Put!"

Ruan Xiaoqi roared.

More than a dozen bowls on either side of him erupted flames at the same time.

With a loud sound, countless shotguns swept across the ship building overhead, and the sailors who had just woken up from the chaos of the impact and were poking their heads out to attack downwards screamed in the stormy shotgun bombardment at close range. You must know that the two sides are currently next to each other, the bow of the centipede ship is only slightly shorter than the opposite side, and at a distance of less than ten meters, a dozen bowls filled with shotguns are almost mushy faces, although those shotguns are just some iron sand.

But even a bird bullet with a ten-meter paste-faced face is terrifying!

What's more, it is not dozens of shotguns that can be stuffed into the bowl, in fact, this thing is stuffed with hundreds of shotguns, and thousands of shotguns will hit the opposite side in an instant, and few of them will be intact.

Those unlucky Jiangnan Navy soldiers, in the horror of almost being sprayed into the face by the flames, felt the sharp pain coming from outside the protection range of the paper armor, they were not high in the will to fight, they were completely frightened at this moment, they fell to the ground one by one screaming, crawling in the smoke of gunpowder in chaos, and even jumped down in fright. And at this moment, the loud sound of the bowl mouth gun firing on the entire sea surface continued to come, and all the centipede ships that had completed the impact with the angle of attack spewed flames at their opponents one by one, and the iron sand that was not fatal but very painful swept across the warships of the Jiangnan Naval Division.

Then came the third round of attacks.

Truly the deadliest attack, a decisive blow.

"Stand back!"

Ruan Xiaoqi yelled at his brass pipe.

The oars of the centipede ship began to roll backwards, and the angle of attack of the battleship quickly detached from the point of impact.

Ruan Xiaoqi stood on the bow tower and looked proudly at the battleship in front of him, which had been heavily damaged, and then took a porcelain bottle from his subordinate, the latter's bottle was stuffed with a strip of cloth, which was obviously soaked in something, and then the subordinate carefully lit the strip of cloth for him, and the flames immediately rose.

He looked at the enemy ship that was moving away, and without hesitation, he smashed the porcelain vase at the side of the opposite ship.

The porcelain vase smashed into pieces on the opposite side of the ship, but at the same time as it was smashed, it turned into a ball of flames, and then the side of the ship began to burn.

Well, there's whale oil in there.

"Those who descend will not die!"

Ruan Xiaoqi yelled at the other side.

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