Chapter 182: On the Battle of the Small Sea

Now Wang Kou's fleet is only ten nautical miles away from Zhang Yongjie's flagship, and Zhang Yongjie can already see the other party's flag from a distance.

At this moment, Zhang Yongjie has no experience in arranging troops, relying entirely on imagination, seeing that the war is about to begin, this pride in his heart arises spontaneously.

After all, this is also to do his part for the Ming Dynasty to exterminate the Japanese Invaders, and he is worthy of the identity of the Ming Dynasty's man.

Zhang Yongjie thought to himself that if he could accurately find Wang Kou's flagship, and then take a small boat by himself, with his amazing martial arts, he could quickly board the ship and behead Wang Kou.

If this scenario becomes a reality, it will play a very crucial role in the battle situation and greatly enhance the chances of your own victory.

Thinking of this, Zhang Yongjie immediately ordered the sailors to put down a small boat, take the small boat by themselves, and row to Wang Kou's team first.

Lao Xie hurriedly stopped: "Leader Li, don't fight this ridiculous battle, as the commander of the 'Ningshan Civil Extermination Brigade', how can you easily leave the flagship?

Uncle Zheng and Uncle Li have already been appointed by Zhang Yongjie as the captain of a team, and when they saw Zhang Yongjie acting like this, they also came to dissuade them.

Zhang Yongjie thought to himself that Wang Kou's fleet was dense, and if it really fought, it would be a life of nine deaths, and he had to take this risk and behead Wang Kou.

If the decapitation operation is successful, Wang Kou's ships will be suddenly leaderless and their formation destroyed, and at that time, this victory will be even greater.

Zhang Yongjie frowned and thought, and immediately said to Lao Xie: "When I am not there, it is up to you to make the decision." ”

Zhang Yongjie's words naturally regarded Lao Xie as his deputy and granted Lao Xie the right to give orders when he was not present.

After the arrangement was completed, Zhang Yongjie immediately rowed the speedboat and rowed in the direction of Wang Kou's fleet.

When Zhang Yongjie's boat was still five nautical miles away from Wang Kou's fleet, Zhang Yongjie had a bad premonition, and Wang Kou's ship in front of him was like a big scary.

Those main warships were not only more than twice as large as the wrecked ship that Wang Kou left on the island, but also larger than the ships that Wang Kou had sacked Ningshan back then.

Zhang Yongjie was already a nautical mile away from Wang Kou's fleet at this moment, and was about to enter the range of bows and arrows and crossbows.

At that time, although artillery had already been introduced, after all, it was expensive, and not ordinary fleets could be equipped with artillery.

Therefore, most of the weapons of warships at that time were mainly bows and arrows and crossbows.

As for the way of engagement, when it is a little farther away, it directly uses a fire ball wrapped in tree oil and the like to launch the first round of attacks. When the ships of both sides meet, they board each other and engage in hand-to-hand combat.

Zhang Yongjie was already very close to Wang Kou's warship at this moment, so close that he wanted to look up at Wang Kou's warship.

Zhang Yongjie only felt that these warships were extremely huge, and the bow seemed to be as high as the Yanjing city wall.

Although this is an exaggeration, it is not exaggerated, and it does feel very tall.

The vast majority of Wang Kou's main fleet is this kind of ship, can this battle be won?

Zhang Yongjie is all over the world, crisscrossing the rivers and lakes, and never takes Wang Kou and the Japanese in his eyes, but that is only a strategic contempt for the enemy.

Zhang Yongjie did not reach the point of arrogance that he didn't know how many catties and taels he had, and immediately judged that the two sides of this battle were extremely unequal.

I thought it was nine deaths and a lifetime, at least a glimmer of hope for victory. But at this moment, Zhang Yongjie is already desperate.

In this case, if you forcibly engage Wang Kou and engage in a hard confrontation, it is tantamount to hitting a stone with an egg, and it is tantamount to looking for death.

Zhang Yongjie immediately turned the dinghy and rowed in the direction of his own team, but when Zhang Yongjie turned the dinghy, he found that his side's fleet had already shifted to the northwest.

At that time, Wang Kou's fleet was due south, and the warships of the 'Ningshan Folk Extermination Brigade' were due north.

Now the ship of this team has moved to the northwest, which is obviously an act of escape. And this order to escape was obviously given by Lao Xie.

Zhang Yongjie felt both happy and angry, angry that Lao Xie actually didn't care about his own leader, and used chicken feathers as an arrow, and actually ran away without permission! Fortunately, Lao Xie's order was done very right.

If you don't run now, when will you stay? Do you want to stay and be beaten?

But how could Wang Kou easily let the warship of the 'Ningshan Folk Extermination Brigade' escape?

This 'Ningshan Folk Extermination Brigade' burned down the Wanjiangshan Islands, which he had been managing with all his heart for several years, and if he let this group of people flee back to the mainland, wouldn't it be rubbing his straight face on the ground?

Wang Kou's fleet immediately sprang out sixty or seventy speedboats, and by the way, these speedboats, of course, were lowered from the big boats, and each speedboat was sitting with eight Erkou, and they chased directly to the northwest.

The speedboat has a shallow draft, as long as it can entangle the ships of the 'Ningshan Folk Extermination Brigade', it can buy precious time for the big ship.

Zhang Yongjie was also aware of Wang Kou's strategic attempt, and immediately slid the boat and rowed towards the path that Wang Kou's clippers must pass in the shortest direction, in an attempt to block these clippers.

Whoosh, more than a dozen bows and arrows were already shooting at Zhang Yongjie.

On March 24, the 38th year of Jiajing of the Ming Dynasty, at four o'clock in the afternoon, the naval battle between the Ningshan People's Extermination Brigade and Wang Kou officially began, and Wang Kou's fleet took the lead in opening fire.

However, Zhang Yongjie, as Zhang Shaoxia of Qiandao, dodges bows and arrows every day, and this is no problem, he easily dodged more than ten bows and arrows.

Zhang Yongjie hid sideways in Xiaoting, urged the internal force, and rushed forward at great speed, and when he was still ten zhang away from Wang Kou's pursuit team, Zhang Yongjie immediately rose into the air, and with a strong palm force, he fell from the sky and hit the speedboat closest to him.

Zhang Yongjie swept away, and the speedboat immediately jumped and was in a mess. In the blink of an eye, Zhang Yongjie had already killed more than a dozen second cowards.

Zhang Yongjie not only reached the peak of martial arts, but he also grew up in Qiandao Lake since he was a child, so the water is also a good lever!

I saw Zhang Yongjie immediately jump into the sea, and Wang Kou's speedboat kept punching out big holes, so that seawater poured into the boat.

And when those two cowards fell into the water, Zhang Yongjie used the power of the thousand islands to directly corona these two couges.

In this battle, Zhang Yongjie fully demonstrated his peerless martial arts and heroism, which made those two cowards stunned and frightened.

However, because Zhang Yongjie was single-handedly and weak, he not only had to attack the speedboats around him, but also had to be distracted to avoid bows and arrows shot from afar, so Zhang Yongjie's sniping effect was very limited.

The two cowards on those speedboats, because they had more important tasks, they did not shoot arrows at Zhang Yongjie in the style of local tyrants. Most of the fleet directly ignored Zhang Yongjie's presence and pursued the ships in the distance.

Although Zhang Yongjie is very brave and has already destroyed more than a dozen speedboats, Wang Kou's pursuit force has sixty or seventy speedboats, how can Zhang Yongjie be able to stop it alone?

Although Zhang Yongjie fought bloodily and tried his best, there were still more than 50 speedboats that broke through Zhang Yongjie's blockade and pursued the ships of the 'Ningshan Folk Extermination Brigade' at great speed

If there is an inappropriate idiom to describe Zhang Yongjie's behavior, it is 'mantis arm blocking the car'.

Even Zhang Yongjie himself feels this way, of course, this idiom is not appropriate. Because the idiom of 'mantis arm blocking the car' is to describe the unjust party, it cannot be used to describe Zhang Yongjie's righteous behavior.

Wang Kou's big ship is approaching him, Zhang Yongjie knows that there is no shortage of bows and arrows on the big ship, as long as he enters the range of Wang Kou's big ship, he will inevitably be shot into a sieve by bows and arrows.

Zhang Yongjie immediately grabbed a speedboat, and while following Wang Kou's speedboat, he dealt with the enemies on those slightly slower speedboats.

Zhang Yongjie felt quite irritable in his heart, according to the current situation, Wang Kou's speedboat troops would inevitably catch up with the fleet of the 'Ningshan Folk Extermination Brigade', and once entangled, it was conceivable that Wang Kou would be caught all by him.

At this time, Zhang Yongjie found that the ships of the 'Ningshan Folk Extermination Brigade' had divided into six warships, and not only gave up retreating, but instead charged towards Wang Kou's speedboat.

Zhang Yongjie clapped his hands and praised, good old Xie, he really has two brushes, and he even knows that the strong man broke his wrist and sent someone to break it.

As long as the ships can contain Wang Kou's speedboat team, they can buy valuable time for most of the ships of the 'Ningshan Folk Extermination Brigade' to further break away from the battlefield.

The warships of the 'Ningshan Folk Extermination Brigade' are medium-sized ships, and one boat can accommodate more than 30 people, so although the number of these six warships is small, there are more than 180 people.

Although the number of Wang Kou's speedboats is large, each speedboat is only about eight people, and the two speedboats on the speedboat add up to about 400 people, and the gap between the two sides is about double, which is not an absolute crushing.

I saw that the six warships were scattered, blocking the way of Wang Kou's speedboat as much as possible, and the two sides were still half a nautical mile when they gathered, and immediately released arrows at each other, and it was another crazy battle.

At this moment, Wang Kou's speedboat troops were attacked by Zhang Yongjie and the six warships separated from his team from the north and south, and they had already suffered heavy casualties.

There were some two people on the speedboat, and at this time I realized that the person behind him was a person, but he felt that he had the courage of ten thousand people, and this person must not be taken lightly.

Those angry Erkou were red-eyed, and immediately fired bows and arrows at Zhang Yongjie, thinking that they would send this difficult guy behind him to the west no matter what.

Zhang Yongjie was shocked, hurriedly took a breath of cool air, and immediately plunged into the seawater, trying to slow down the speed of the bow and arrow through the blocking of the seawater.

Although this move worked, two arrows still grazed Zhang Yongjie's arm, scratching the skin and showing a trace of blood.

Zhang Yongjie was in the sea, holding his breath, unable to hold on for a long time, and inevitably took the opportunity to surface for ventilation.

Some of the two men at the rear of the speedboat also guessed that this guy would have to pay for the water and ventilate. Therefore, they all calmly looked at the situation around them, and once there was a disturbance, they would immediately bow and arrow.

Zhang Yongjie forcibly opened his eyes, wanting to observe the situation on the sea. The sea water irritates the eyeballs, and it is spicy and painful. But at this moment, when you are on the battlefield, you may lose your life anytime and anywhere, how can you be afraid of pain?

After all, the sea water was turbid, and he could only barely look at the position of the ship, unable to see other scenes clearly, Zhang Yongjie didn't have time to think about it, and immediately chose to rush up a speedboat.

On the one hand, the people on the speedboat will not be able to stand firm and fall into the water, and then they will be able to send these two men to the west with the help of the Thousand Islands electric energy.

On the other hand, you can also take advantage of this gap to use the shield of the speedboat to ventilate in time.

In an instant, the broken rear fleet of the 'Ningshan Folk Extermination Brigade' had already come into contact with Wang Kou's speedboat pursuit force, and the two sides went into battle shirtless and started hand-to-hand combat.

The sound of killing shook the sky for a while, and one by one the lives were lost by the war in the blink of an eye.

Zhang Yongjie was afraid that the Thousand Island Electric Power would accidentally injure the Ming men of the same camp, so he immediately stopped launching the Thousand Island Electric Power, but jumped out of the water and fought with the enemy.

It only took two quarters of an hour for the broken fleet of the 'Ningshan Folk Extermination Brigade' to annihilate all of Wang Kou's speedboat pursuit force, but the headquarters also paid the price of more than 100 casualties, which can be described as a painful price.

Wang Kou, including some of his commanders, was heartbroken when they saw such a battle, but they were helpless.

In this sea battle, it can only rely on the speed of the ship, although it can see the scene ahead, but it cannot fly over to help.

Zhang Yongjie immediately boarded the ship and shouted: "Everyone retreat quickly, disengage from Wang Kou's warship as soon as possible, and join up with this team." ”

The competent sailors immediately adjusted the sails, and the fleet quickly headed northwest.

In any case, more than 500 people have been wiped out, and the results have been fruitful, and it can be said that a battle has been won, and everyone's mood is very excited.

However, there are unforeseen circumstances in the sky, and people have good and bad luck.

The weather at sea is treacherous, confusing, and confusing. The breeze was blowing from east to west, but in the blink of an eye, the direction of the wind changed, and it became a strong wind blowing from north to south.

Wang Kou's fleet was in the south, and this north wind blew a lot of the fleet of the 'Ningshan Folk Extermination Brigade', which was about to disengage from Wang Kou, to the south. The distance between the two sides has become shorter again.

Many people complained, what is the meaning of this sudden north wind? Do you not take the 'Ningshan Folk Extermination Brigade' in your eyes?

It's useless to complain, no matter how you complain, you have to face the facts.

Wang Kou obviously also noticed the change in the direction of the wind, immediately collected the sails, and tried his best to stay the fleet in place, waiting for the approach of the fleet of the 'Ningshan Folk Extermination Brigade'.

At this moment, there was no need for an order, and the fleet of the 'Ningshan Folk Extermination Brigade' had already put away its sails and rowed to the northwest as best they could.

But it didn't work, the ships of the 'Ningshan Folk Extermination Brigade' were smaller, and they followed the wind to move southward, always much faster than Wang Kou's big ships, and if the wind direction did not change, the two fleets would inevitably meet again.

In this case, you can't fight if you want to, it seems that God wants everyone to fight a happy battle, and we must fight to the end.

Lao Xie had already ordered all the ships to pull up their sails and rush south at great speed, this kind of order made Zhang Yongjie feel incomprehensible, didn't he die fast enough?

Zhang Yongjie signaled the six warships around him not to pull the sails first, and then make a decision after meeting with the team as soon as possible.

After a while, the people on the six ships around them noticed that their ships were not moving due south, but to be precise, to the southwest.

It turned out that Lao Xie tried to take advantage of the speed advantage of the small boat and rush from the west to the south as soon as possible from the west of Wang Kou's big ship. Taking advantage of the direction of the wind, he quickly retreated south and disengaged from Wang Kou.

After understanding Lao Xie's strategic intentions, Zhang Yongjie felt that this move would inevitably lead to a local battle with Wang Kou, which was very risky, and could be described as a dangerous move.

But there is no other better way at the moment, Zhang Yongjie immediately ordered the six warships around him to pull up the sails, adjust the angle, and use the most reasonable route to meet the 'Ningshan Folk Extermination Brigade'.

Everything was arranged, Zhang Yongjie said casually: "If we rush to the south and suddenly blow a south wind from south to north, then it is time to settle the ledger for God." ”

Although everyone respectfully calls God a lord and recognizes him as a god. But the descendants of Yan and Huang have never taken any immortals too seriously, after all, immortals are meant to serve people.

I worship you, you must do things for me, if you don't do things for me, then I won't worship you, not only will I not worship you, but I will also scold you.

Zhang Yongjie's tone of calculating the general account in his mouth was, of course, very polite, expressing an angry emotion.

Someone next to him said: "Leader Li, don't worry, although the weather at sea changes frequently, it is absolutely impossible to change so quickly." ”

Another person also said: "Yes, we are all the people of Ningshan, people who beg for a living on the sea all year round, and we still have this experience." This north wind will blow for at least three or four hours, and it is impossible for it to suddenly become a south wind. ”

Hearing these experienced people at sea speak like this, Zhang Yongjie felt quite relieved.