【525】Battle of Huangquanhai (M)
As the fighting inside the harbor began, Black Pine Island outside the harbor was also shelled.
The 300 main fleets of the Northern Yin Dynasty also lined up outside Heisong Island under the cover of rain and mist, encircling Heisong Island on three sides, and it was impassable. They are all huge treasure ships made of unsinkable wood with a dragon's backbone as the keel. There are dozens of Ten Thousand Flames Flying Sand and the newly developed Ghost Fire God Cannon of the Northern Yin Dynasty.
Speaking of this ghost fire cannon, it's really a big deal. The cannon body alone is enough to be two zhang, the caliber of the cannon is more than three feet straight, and the cannonballs fired are also like the poisonous fire cannons of the Nine Shadows Kingdom, filled with solidified fierce fire oil in it, which can bring up a sea of fire that continues to burn for a long time after the explosion, and its power is so great and the range is far, which can be seen.
Under the roar of cannons, the flames on Black Pine Island were everywhere, and in the thick smoke, countless tall black turned into black charcoal in the raging flames. There were also a number of open-air batteries, which were reduced to scorched ruins by enemy ship shelling after just one shot.
The defenders on the island had already lost one-fifth of their losses in two rounds of artillery bombardment by the Beiyin Chaoshui Division. The rest of them all shrank into the secret passages and forts in the Sword Mountain to survive.
The wind was fierce, and the flames spread unscrupulously on Black Pine Island, and even some of the rocks were burned red. After being slapped by the raindrops, cracks appeared in an instant.
The Jiuyou National Army, which was cowering in the mountain fort, also began to counterattack. They not only used the poisonous fire cannons and the heavenly thunder cannons to shoot one fire bomb after another at the enemy ships, but also moved out the newly invented fire dragon bullets from the ordnance supervisor in charge of Lai Yueqi.
These things are almost identical to the shape of Xiao Shizhu's self-made incendiary canisters, the only difference is that they are no longer filled with spirits and fish oil, but with fierce fire oil and quicklime, as well as sulfur, phosphorus, and saltpeter.
They lit these weapons, called fire dragon bullets, tied them to the crossbow arrows of the bed crossbow, and used the bed crossbow to shoot these firearms out of the dark bunker, and crashed into the Northern Yin Dynasty warships that were close at hand.
For a time, fires erupted, and the dazzling flames suddenly exploded on the sea outside Black Pine Island.
The filthy sea water was ignited by fire dragon bullets one after another. Several of the main warships of the Northern Yin Dynasty were instantly encircled by flames, turning into a pile of red carbon wood.
And although the sailors of the Northern Yin Dynasty were surprised by this, they were still carrying out the dream shelling of Heisong Island. The flames burst out as the cannonballs crashed into the island, and the flames swirled and soared into the sky. A powerful explosion that tore at the hard boulders of the cliffs near the sea. Dust and smoke rose down, and several hidden forts on the cliffs, in the explosion and roar, as the fragmentation of the boulder was revealed, and the artillery and artillery hidden in it were exposed to the eyes of the Northern Yin Water Division.
There was another fierce bombardment, and the boulders on the cliffs near the sea were scattered, and the sea under the cliff caused huge waves. The red light burst out on the cliff, and the air waves swollen. In the midst of the smoke and flames, several dark forts of the Nine Shadows Kingdom and dozens of artillery pieces in the forts were instantly reimbursed.
As Xiao Shizhu once said, the Northern Yin Dynasty is a powerful lion, he has amazing strength and military strength, which must not be underestimated. If you despise the Northern Yin Dynasty, you will pay a heavy price.
The Nine Shadows Kingdom has never despised its powerful opponent, and has been dealing with the opponent carefully, but with sufficient preparation, it still can't easily defeat the opponent.
Although the naval battle around Black Pine Island has only lasted a quarter of an hour, both sides have suffered heavy casualties. The Nine Shadows Kingdom sacrificed thousands of soldiers and nearly a hundred artillery pieces, as well as several dark forts and all the open-air forts, all of which were turned into ruins bathed in flames and gunsmoke under the fierce bombardment of the Northern Yin Dynasty.
More than a dozen of the warships of the Northern Yin Dynasty were burned by the flames, and the decks with fire were gradually sinking in the billowing smoke along with the leaky hull.
The hurricane roared, the waves soared into the sky, and the artillery of both sides continued to fire at each other without showing weakness, and the cannonballs flew over the sea, falling like falling meteorites.
Hundreds of Nine Shadow Nation troops braved the bombardment of artillery fire, carrying baskets on their shoulders, carrying a lot of underwater dragon king cannons, shuttling forward in the explosion and raging flames, basically to the coast of the island. After taking off his shoes and rolling up his trouser legs, he put down the basket he was carrying, took out the underwater dragon king cannon and put it into the sea.
The rising and outgoing tides will carry these thunder shells, which are made of cow urine bubbles, to keep the water tight, and carry them with *'s*, and float to the fleet of the Northern Yin Water Division not far away.
When the Yudu Army on the ship saw the Jiuyou Army on these beachheads, he hurriedly took the Baizi Lianzhu Gun, lay behind the female wall on the side of the deck, and raised his gun to shoot at the Jiuyou Army on the shore.
Under the sound of gunfire, many soldiers in the Jiuyou National Army on the beachhead fell into the sea water in response, and their bodies were beaten into sieves and bleeding continuously, swaying left and right in the sea with the tide.
The crimson ghost blood spread out in the turbid seawater, making the already fishy seawater even more pungent.
The underwater dragon king cannon of the Nine Shadows Kingdom rode the wind and waves forward, and after a few moments, they crashed into the warships of the Northern Yin Dynasty with the waves.
In the midst of the explosion and flames, three more battleships began to leak and sink in the smoke of the fire.
The artillery bombardment between the two sides continued, but the warships of the Northern Yin Dynasty were not only tall and strong, but also numerous, and no matter how advanced the artillery of the Nine Shadows Kingdom was, it was many times more difficult.
Even so, none of the soldiers of the Nine Shadows Kingdom quietly escaped or were cowardly, they each performed their own responsibilities, and continued to retreat in the hidden fortress in the Daoshan Mountain, using all kinds of firearms to angrily return fire on the enemy ships at sea.
Even the troops of the Xiazhou State who were incorporated were fighting bravely. Not only did the bravery of the Nine Shadows Army infect them, but also because they knew that if they didn't fight, their families and hometown behind them would face the tragedy of being slaughtered.
As long as the old ghosts who have been in the underworld for a year know that the army of the Northern Yin Dynasty in the capital has an unwritten rule, as long as they are in a bad mood, they can slaughter the enemy. This is the acquiescence of Emperor Xudu, whether you are innocent or not, the old, weak, sick, disabled, women and children, as long as the army of the Northern Yin Dynasty wants to slaughter, as long as the other party is their enemy, they can make a ghost city that was lively the day before become a dead city full of corpses and rivers of blood overnight.
For thousands of years, Emperor Xudu had always given his ghost soldiers this right, in order to create a terrifying high-pressure rule, forcing the ten continents of the underworld to rebel without large-scale rebellion, and each ghost country obediently paid tribute to the Beiyin Dynasty with all kinds of materials.
The ghost soldiers of the Xiazhou Kingdom who surrendered to the Nine Shadows Country and were newly incorporated into the Nine Shadows Army knew the brutality of the Xudu Army and knew the truth of the cold lips and teeth, so he would rather choose to fight side by side with the veterans of the Nine Shadows Country, sharing life and death, rather than choosing to sneak away or cowardly and steal his life.
Even if they die, they will die in their own fighting position.
The artillery of the Nine Shadows Kingdom became denser and denser, and the fleet of the Northern Yin Dynasty was not to be outdone, trying to use their new military products to sink Heisong Island into the sea under the violent explosion. Between heaven and earth, only rising smoke and rising flames, and the deafening sound of cannonballs.
During the fierce battle between the two sides, on the sea directly west of Heisong Island, in the ship formation of the Northern Yin Dynasty, a warship made of good wood suddenly rushed out.
This warship is very different from other warships of the Northern Yin Dynasty, with a length of ten zhang two and a width of three zhang three on both sides of the hull, the outer void frame is three feet each, and there are six pairs of round wheels inside, and the head of the wheel enters the water about three feet more, rotating like a fly to stir up layers of white waves, making this ship much faster than other warships with oars and sails.
As soon as the ship burst out of the formation, it turned and faced Black Pine Island sideways. Eight wooden windows lined up on the deck were pushed open, and the eight guns hidden in them protruded from the pitch-black muzzles of the guns one after another, pointing straight at the Black Pine Island.
"Fire!" In the shack, the demon soul with a tiger's body and eight tiger feet, but eight human heads, none of which was a tiger's head, roared these two words at the same time from eight mouths.
Then the gunners on board lit the guns.
In the roar of the cannon, the ten colorful tiger tails behind the demon soul strands were gently raised, and the strong wind was thrown up.
This demon soul listened to the pleasant roar, and a look of satisfaction appeared on the face of the eight people, he was none other than Tian Wu, the general of the Emperor Xudu in the Xiazhou Kingdom, and it turned out to be a divine servant.
When Gonggong came to blockade the coastline on Xiao Shizhu's orders, Tianwu's warships and fleet did not have decent artillery, and he could only be beaten, after losing more than ten warships, Tianwu successfully escaped by virtue of his familiarity with the Huangquan Sea and his long-term naval combat experience in exterminating pirates along the coast of Xiazhou State.
Gonggong did not take advantage of the victory, after all, it was not his task. And Tianwu, who escaped, originally wanted to cross the Huangquan Sea and go to Xudu for help, but he never thought that the warship would reach the mouth of the Lechuan River, and he encountered the huge fleet assembled by the Emperor Xudu. Tianwu didn't go to the capital anymore, so he simply turned around and came with the fleet of the Northern Yin Dynasty rushing straight to Junzi Port.
This time, his warship had the firearms provided by the Northern Yin Dynasty, which made him proud and arrogant. Seeing the flames on Heisong Island all over the place, most of the open-air forts turned into rubble and ruins, and after the ruins and broken walls, Tianwu, who was able to get too over, actually dared to rush out of the ship formation alone, crossed the vanguard fleet of the Beiyang Fleet, and approached the west coast of Heisong Island.
His arrogance instantly attracted the attention of many artillerymen in the dark fort of the western defense line on Black Pine Island. These veterans of the Nine Shadows Kingdom, seeing that this enemy ship with a unique appearance was close at hand, they simply didn't put the power and range of the Heavenly Thunder Cannon and the Poisonous Fire God Cannon of the Nine Shadows Kingdom in the original, so they tacitly decided to let this enemy ship feel what it means to fire several cannons at once.
Tian Wu, who was on the battleship, naturally didn't know what the ghost soldiers of the Nine Shadows Country thought, when the artillery of the Nine Shadows Country, controlling dozens of artillery, aimed at him one after another, he was looking at the island through the window of the shed.
But seeing the fire rising from the sky on the island, the thick smoke covering the sky and the sun, and the explosions continued, Tianwu, who was thrown away by countless rubble, swelled in his heart, and his triumphant heart increased instead of decreasing.
"Reload. The artillery on his ship had only finished a round of bombardment, and he could not wait to urge his artillery to reload.
Unfortunately, before he could speak, more than a dozen cannonballs shot out from the flames on the island, roaring in unison and breaking through the air, dancing towards the warship he was on.
In the blink of an eye, more than a dozen shells, without exception, hit Tianwu's warship one after another. Panic appeared in Tianwu's eyes, and the eight mouths on the eight faces of the eight people opened, and when they were about to shout and scream, the fierce rolling cannon roared and roared on time.
As the broken plate flew sideways, the raging flames brought up by the explosion headed towards Tianwu. The heat wave drowned him and his men along with the wave of flames, and in just an instant, they were left with nothing left, and the situation was terrible.