Volume 1 Rising in the Rivers and Lakes Chapter 43 Two Naval Battles I
On Swallowing Moon Island, Chen Zuyi was training with his escort team, and their training volume was very large, and it was no longer comparable to the original.
After four months of high-intensity training, the members of their C-shaped team have all developed a body of tendon meat and standard eight-pack abs! They are all flexible, their eyes are resolute, and they scream every day to find the enemy to fight to be happy!
"Boss! Someone in Lombok sent a message! Go check it out! "It was Cui Sinan of the first squadron of the third squadron who came to call people, and it happened that their third squadron was on duty for training today.
In order not to be discovered by the Lombok Island, Chen Zuyi set aside two training grounds, one on the former site of the Mengyuan Hall in Tunyuan, and the other in the middle of the Tunyue Island, where there are hills all around, and the outside cannot see the situation inside.
Chen Zuyi rode back to his small courtyard quickly, and Li Yuanliang came over in person.
"Ao, Brother Yuanliang has been waiting for a long time! Why did you come here in person? Chen Zuyi threw the reins of the horse to the guards and walked into the living room with a smile.
"Captain Chen, this time the helper has explained a very important matter, I don't worry about others doing it, this time I will run this trip in person!" Li Yuanliang got up to greet him.
"Sit! I don't know what the helper has to say? ”
"This ......" Li Yuanliang looked at Chen Zuyi's guards, and stopped talking.
"You go out and guard the courtyard around, and no one is allowed to approach!"
Wang Yi led all the guards out of the small courtyard and arranged the guards around.
"Yuan Liang said, there is no one now!"
"The gang leader said that the T-shaped team and the E-shaped team colluded with foreign enemies to prepare a sneak attack on the three brigades of Geng, A, and B, and may eventually attack Lombok Island again!"
"Well, tell me more!"
Then Li Yuanliang told today's events from beginning to end, and said, "This time, the gang leader guessed that after the three teams had robbed the Srivijaya merchant ships, there would definitely be enemies attacking the three teams of warships." Therefore, the gang wants you to hang behind the third team, and once someone attacks, we will attack from both sides and kill the sneak attackers. ”
"And then? Are we going back to Lombok or going back to Tunyue Island? ”
"The gang leader asked you to go back to Moon Swallowing Island, after all, the enemy may also take the opportunity to attack Moon Swallowing Island! But the helper said that there will definitely be a share of the loot, and he will personally deliver it after he finishes cooking the two teams! ”
"The loot doesn't matter! Go back and tell the helper now, and I'll do what the helper has arranged!" ”
Chen Zuyi said and stood up, "I won't keep you, I'm going to gather soldiers now!" ”
"Good! Captain Chen, please please, Yuan Liang didn't dare to delay, this is going back to Lombok to report, there will be a period later! Take care! ”
"Take care!"
When the two separated, Chen Zuyi immediately asked Wang Yi to call the three squadron leaders. Leave Li Song's three squadrons to guard Swallow Moon Island, and each of the other two squadrons will leave one more team out, so that they will almost bring more than 140 soldiers, a total of 12 detachments.
All 49 of his escort team were brought with him, so that there were more than 190 people, and the combat strength of the C-shaped team was already strong, and so many people would not fall behind against four times the enemy!
Not long after Li Yuanliang's clipper departed, he saw the C-shaped warship sailing out to sea. Li Yuanliang couldn't help but sigh, this C-team assembly is fast! Even Lombok's own team is faster than them!
Team C set off about an hour later than Team 3, so there was no shadow of the three warships along the way. They know the approximate route, and they are not in a hurry, they just go there slowly.
As evening approached, the Propylene found a side of the island and prepared to anchor. At this time, the observer of the warship came to report that there was a large ship's mast faintly found on the other side of the island, and it was not sure who it was.
"It can't be such a coincidence, right!?" Chen Zuyi said in his mouth, called a small team of Jia Maochen, and asked him to arrange a detachment to take a fast boat to the opposite side to reconnoiter what kind of ship it was.
About half an hour later, it was already dark, and Jia Maochen came back to report, "Boss Chen, there are five Wanli Gang warships on the opposite side that have anchored for the night, what should I do again?" ”
"Well, I see! Don't worry, you can arrange for them to rest! I'll let you know if there's something! ”
"Yes! Subordinates retire! Saying that, Jia Maochen took his team to rest.
"Boss, it's not the same as we are at night..."Song Hai had been listening to the side, gesticulating a knife cutting gesture.
"In terms of combat power, we can indeed take out five of them on land! But it's on a boat! How can one of our ships do with five other people's ships? Do you want to be beaten into a sieve by artillery? ”
Chen Zuyi glared at Songhai dissatisfied, this guy is sometimes so careful that he can't even tolerate a hair, and sometimes he is so careless that it makes people angry!
"Hey, hey, hey~ Mistake! Blunder! It's been a long time since I've been fighting, and my hand is raw! The mind is also rusty! Song Hai scratched his head awkwardly and smiled.
"Alas! It seems that they are preparing to attack the enemy of the three teams, you send a clipper ship to deliver a message to the three teams early tomorrow morning, and when they succeed in the robbery, immediately turn around and flank the Wanli Gang with us! This time I want all five of them to stay on the sea! ”
"Okay, I'll arrange it now, and they'll leave tomorrow at dawn!"
"Well, you should also go and rest, and prepare for tomorrow's fierce battle!" After speaking, Chen Zuyi walked back to the cabin.
More than 30 miles away from Team C, the sky was just getting dark, and a clipper approached the three teams of warships. Qian Wu personally received the visitors.
"You're saying the Wanli Gang has five warships trailing behind us?" Qian Wu confirmed the elimination again.
"Not bad! This is what our detachment saw with their own eyes! So our boss Chen said that after you finish the robbery, you will immediately turn your head to face the Wanli Gang. We're going to hit them from behind, and we're sure we'll be able to catch them all this time! Zhao Li slowed down his speech and tried to speak more clearly.
"Good! With Brother Zuyi behind, I'm relieved! Are you going back, or are you coming with us? ”
"The subordinates are going back, and we naturally have to fight with Boss Chen!"
"Then take care!" Qian Wu didn't keep it, the C-shaped team only had one warship behind it, and it really wanted to flank the opponent's five warships, if it wasn't for the strength of the C-shaped team, others would definitely think that Chen Zuyi was crazy!
When the clipper ship circled back to the C-shaped warship, the five warships of the Wanli Gang had already set sail, and they were chasing the three teams of the Black Shark Gang. It's just that what they didn't expect was that there was a battleship following them behind them!
Sailing until noon, the observer came to report that he had found two cargo ships, and the direction of the voyage should be from the old port.
"Raise the flag! Artillery ready! ”
The three warships lined up and rushed towards each other. The other party was indeed a sailor soldier, and he greeted him without fear. The two sides are getting closer and closer, and the observer hand nervously reports the distance:
"A thousand steps!"
"Eight hundred steps!"
"Five hundred steps!"
"All ships turn laterally and the side guns are ready!"
At this time, the three sea ships slowly crossed over, and the opposing warships were also within 200 paces.
"Fire!"
"Bang!"
"Bang!"
"Bang!"
……
A series of cannons rang out from the three warships, and even the hull shook incessantly.
After all, the other party was a professional sailor soldier, but at two hundred paces, he slid separately to both sides. Most of the shells fired by the Black Sharks landed in the air. One or two projectiles hit the opposing ship, and the damage caused was limited.
When the two opposing ships circled to the ends of the three ships lined up, the guns on both sides of the two ships began to fire. A volley of cannons fell, and five or six out of ten landed on the decks of the two ships on the outside. Suddenly sawdust flew, and the archers on the deck were killed and wounded.
There were also casualties among the Sriwijaya Navy, which were arrows fired by archers from the two ships outside the Black Shark Gang. After the four ships passed by, the archers all went into hiding, and both sides once again prepared their artillery.
"Turn the rudder! Turn the rudder to the southwest! ”
"Right artillery ready!"
The A-shaped warship in the middle of the Black Shark Gang turned ninety degrees quickly and protruded backwards. In this way, the guns on both sides of the A-ship were barely able to reach the target.
"Put!"
"Put!"
"Put!"
The three warships fired at the same time again, and another rain of bullets slammed into the opposing two ships. This time, a small number of shells finally hit the enemy ship, and one of the projectiles on the Gengzi happened to hit the main mast of the enemy ship on the opposite side, and the thick mast fell obliquely, and the warship with it was also a little tilted, and even the Sriwijaya archers who were preparing to counterattack on the deck also made a bunch, and they looked embarrassed for a while!
"Pull in!"
"Archer Shoot!"
The Gengzi approached the Srivijaya as quickly as he approached, and the archers on the deck shot as many arrows as they could. The sailors of the Srivijaya on the opposite side fell down with a miserable howl, and a few of them just stood up and tried to fight back, but were shot into hedgehogs before they could draw their bows. This round of arrow rain alone killed and wounded more than half of the sailors of the Sriwijaya Division, and there was a wail on the deck!
After a few rounds of arrows, the Gengzi battleship finally approached the Srivijaya warship, and when the pirates hooked each other with anchor hooks, the two ships were finally forcibly pulled together.
"Kill! Not a single one to stay! Kill them all! ”
Zhou Shuo pulled out his waist knife and pounced on the Srivijaya battleship like a mad tiger. As soon as he jumped over, regardless of the sword light of the opponent's direct chop, he swept away, and the three sailor soldiers who were blocking in front fell down with a wail, and the steel knife that came straight up didn't know where it flew.
When the Three Buddhas united with the Four Holy Gang to encircle and suppress the Dragon King of the South China Sea, Zhou Shuo was only a squadron leader. The entire brigade was sent by Black Shark to rob a merchant ship, and when they returned, they found that the entire main island of Natuna was in flames, and pirates were besieged and killed. It was also in that battle that his mother-in-law and two sons were killed. Whenever he thought of his two lovely sons, he was in pain, and it was because he never married or had children. He once vowed to kill all the Three Buddhas and the Four Holy Sects in this life.
The sailors of the Three Buddhas roared angrily and drew their swords to meet them, their eyes red one by one, and a meaningless roar came out of their mouths. The Black Shark Gang, who had just been beaten by their own sailors a few years ago, dared to rob themselves today, which made them feel humiliated by contempt!