Chapter 947: Seahorse Cavalry

In October of the third year of Da Chu's Jianye, just when Da Chu's eyes were focused on Hangzhou Bay, Inoue Shunji, who had been unable to provoke, finally waited for the opportunity he wanted.

After more than two months of spying, the Xiongjia, who was forcibly relocated to Yangzhou Mansion, finally delivered the distribution of the Chu army around Taihu Lake, and with the fierce fighting in Hangzhou Bay, the soldiers and horses of the Great Chu in Yangzhou Mansion, Taicang Mansion, Changbo Mansion and other places entered Suzhou, Hangzhou, and Fuzhou one after another.

And with the continuous deployment of these soldiers and horses, the forces of Da Chu in the heart of the heart suddenly became extremely empty, as for the Great Chu naval army stationed in Taihu Lake and Tianhe waters, it was completely ignored by Inoue Shunji, although more than 2,000 warships were successively dispatched to attack the coast of Yangzhou, but Inoue Shunji has been pinching the most powerful force of this western expedition.

The fleet here is composed of the Sakura family, the Matsushita family, and the most elite sea forces of the Tokugawa family, which has just been absorbed, although this fleet has only more than 1,400 warships, but one-third of them belong to sea beast warships, and the soldiers and horses on board are all elite.

Not only did half of the samurai and ninja legions of this expedition go to war, but also the mysterious Onmyoji went to battle with the ship.

On October 6, the sea was sunny and the sky was cloudless, and the main force of the western expedition sent a vanguard fleet, which was composed of 500 warships under the command of Matsushita Daimyo, which was also a force driven by Inoue Shunji's arm, after all, he was the first general under the command of Matsushita Daimyo before.

After these 500 naval warships left the Penglai Islands, they went straight to the delta of the Tianhe estuary, and it was smooth sailing along the way, Da Chu had lost the right to control the sea in this sea area, and even most of the coastal areas had taken the initiative to give up, so the actions of this fleet were not noticed by Da Chu.

It wasn't until this huge vanguard fleet arrived in the Tianhe Delta that three wolf smoke rose from a sandy island, and although most of the coastal waters had been abandoned, the Tianhe waterway was the focus of the defense of Dachu.

The Tianhe Delta belt, there are countless alluvial sandbanks, and there are lush reeds, nine forks and one hundred and ten mouths, it can be said that the river channel of the Tianhe estuary is complex and longitudinal, but if you can pass the large sea boats, and still keep the fleet, you can only take a few main waterways.

And in these main waterways, Da Chu subordinates have set up sentry towers like a net, but there is a little wind and grass that can't hide the eyes of these deployed near the waterways, even if the Japanese send ninjas, it is difficult to quietly uproot all the sentry towers.

With 500 warships, it is not easy to hide their whereabouts without being discovered, but the vanguard fleet of the Japanese people obviously did not intend to hide their whereabouts, and directly rushed into the Tianhe River with great force.

With the wolf smoke rising, the wolf smoke began to relay, and this wolf smoke is independent, only the Japanese warships invade the Tianhe waterway will be ignited, and long ago when the Japanese people continue to harass the coast, the third and fourth water and land divisions of Dachu have moved to the north and south banks of the Tianhe River.

These two water and land divisions belong to the Xuanwu Legion, and they are also the earliest water forces in the Great Chu system, born from the Taihu Lake Water Army and the Xiangyang Water Army, so the establishment of the two divisions is also the most complete, with more than 1,000 large and small warships.

One is smooth water, one is good wind, the two met unexpectedly on the main river of the Tianhe River, and the so-called enemies were very red when they met, and there was no nonsense at all, and the two sides began the estuary war.

The commander of this vanguard fleet was Konosuke Matsushita, his father was also a member of the Matsushita family, but he was an undervalued descendant, but his father was a very shrewd political opportunist, the Sakura family defeated the Matsushita family, and his father inherited the Matsushita daimyo throne, and he became a general.

Konosuke Matsushita is very good friends with Shunji Inoue, and even Shunji Inoue defected to the Sakura family because he was able to get the position of a pioneer.

The Panasonic fleet does not store large sea beasts, but the absence of large sea beasts does not mean that the Panasonic fleet is not strong, on the contrary, the fleet of the Panasonic family is among the top three among the great names of Dongyi, because the Panasonic fleet has a unique seahorse cavalry in the Wa country.

Fourth-order spotted seahorse, a sea beast species only in the sea area facing the Panasonic family, the Panasonic family has been domesticating seahorses for a long time, in the imperial crusade a hundred years ago, the Panasonic family's seahorse cavalry also showed their faces once, but in the face of the empire's huge fleet, three thousand seahorse cavalry were directly destroyed in a forbidden tsunami, so in the history books of the imperial crusade, the seahorse cavalry was only an understatement, and even one more sentence of introduction was missing.

After a hundred years, the Panasonic family once again formed the Seahorse Cavalry, a sea assault force, and has grown on the original basis.

Konosuke Matsushita stood on top of the handsome boat and raised his binoculars to look at the dense warships of all sizes spread down the river, but the corners of his mouth showed a sneer, put away the binoculars, turned his head, and said to the herald beside him: "Order, dispatch the Seahorse Legion, the glory of this first battle will belong to my Matsushita family!"

In the Panasonic fleet, there are 100 large-bellied ships like large cargo ships, and on both sides of the ships, there are side doors, only a few feet from the waterline, and as the gate is opened, a stream of sea water gushes out of this gate, and with the water falls into the sea, there are also seahorse cavalry.

After these seahorse cavalry fell into the water, they did not surface, but launched a charge under the water, and the seahorse twisted its body, and suddenly rushed forward like an arrow off the string, like a thousand horses galloping on the grassland, and the momentum was terrifying.

"Look, what's that!" Standing on a building warship, looking at the approaching Japanese warship, the soldiers on board had already grasped their weapons and were ready for battle, and at this moment, the soldiers on the deck noticed something unusual.

Above the surface of the river, a series of waterlines suddenly pulled up, and this waterline was like a knife splitting the river downstream, sparkling ripples, and the distance was getting closer and closer, straight towards them.

Five hundred meters, four hundred meters, three hundred meters, two hundred meters, the speed of these waterlines has not decreased, and the waves of the water are getting bigger and bigger, and from under the surface of the water, the seahorse cavalry has finally shown its head.

"It's the sea beast cavalry of the Japanese people!" A loud shout suddenly aroused the attention of everyone on the ship, compared to the beast cavalry on land, the sea beast cavalry is even rarer, and now the entire Xuanwu Legion has only four battalions of blood midge water beast cavalry, which are equipped with the first four water and land divisions.

The sea beast cavalry is the treasure bump of the fleet, even the empire was at its most powerful military a hundred years ago, and the sea beast cavalry was not formed into a formation, and with the death of Emperor Shenwu, even the unformed sea beast cavalry was abolished in the following years.

The seahorse cavalry soon entered within one hundred and fifty meters, and half of its body was already exposed, and the seahorse with the main body of water blue was rippling with layers of water in the sun, refracting a colorful halo, and the long mouth like a horse's mouth shrank, and its cheeks bulged, and suddenly a water projectile with a fierce spirit sprayed out.

These water bombs were about the size of a fist, and their speed was extremely fast, at a distance of one hundred and fifty meters, and a soldier who had not yet reacted was suddenly hit by this water bomb in the blink of an eye.

Peng, this water bomb is more powerful than imagined, and it directly swept the hit soldier out, and the position where it was hit, there was obviously an ice crystal, and the biting cold penetrated into the bone marrow, although it was not a piercing injury, but this kind of freezing damage was injured through the armor.

The seahorse cavalry spit out very fast, and the number is very large, the water bombs cover the sky and the sun for a while, and the dense set up every warship in front of them, the soldiers standing on the building boat are okay, because the ship is high, so it is easy to dodge, but those flying fish and flying sharks, these small and medium-sized warships with low sides can be unlucky, and the soldiers are simply unavoidable, and they are directly hit by the water bombs.

It doesn't matter if you get one or two shots, at most you lose your combat effectiveness, but if you are hit five or six times, your whole body will freeze, your whole body will be cold, your blood will freeze, and then you will freeze to death under the scorching sun.

This water bomb not only has a destructive effect on people, but also has a destructive effect on the warship, and the ice crystals formed on the ship, and the Japanese cavalry on the seahorse held a weapon similar to a sharp hammer, like a hammer, with a cone on the hammer, and it was long-handled.

When the seahorse cavalry gets close to the warship, they will swing the aper hammer in their hand, and the position of the blow is the frozen part, near the waterline of the ship's side, the hull planks are two fingers thick, and the wood used is also tough, and the wood used is also tough, even if you want to destroy the hull of the ship, it is not so easy to destroy the hull.

But this time it was obviously different, when the cone hammer smashed into the ice crystals, only to hear a crisp sound like glass breaking, and then I saw that the canopy on the side of the ship shattered, not a small round hole, not a hole larger than a football, but a large hole with a diameter of three feet.

With just a light hammer and without much effort, a large hole was opened in the side plate of the thickest protected waterline on the warship, and the river water poured in along the gap.

The Seahorse Cavalry shuttled between the ships with great agility, and even disappeared under the bottom of the ship, constantly leaving ugly scars on the warship, and the Fourth Marine Division was shattered under a charge of the Seahorse Cavalry.

"Send out the blood midge water cavalry, protect the rear of the fleet, retreat!"

The blood midge cavalry dispatched, this kind of fierce beast in the water, very fierce, after entering the water, it launched a culling of the seahorse cavalry, but the number of blood midge cavalry is too small, a battalion only two hundred horsemen, although the combat power is good, but compared with the number of five thousand seahorse cavalry, the disparity is not a little bit.

Killed seahorse cavalry continued to surface under the river, but compared with the losses, the losses of the 4th Marine Division were obviously more than 100 times, one after another the warships sank, countless sailors and soldiers fell into the water, and the battle lasted less than two hours from beginning to end.

The Fourth Marine Division, which was full of weaving, lost two-thirds of its warships, and tens of thousands of sailors fell into the water, but it is not known how many sailors could escape from the pursuit of the Seahorse cavalry and escape ashore.

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