Chapter 202: Forward (3)
There are many arrangements for large warships to guard against opponents, just like wolf tooth slappers, fork rods and other equipment on the city defense. But there is no doubt that no matter what kind of defensive equipment, it is not as powerful as the salvos of hundreds of bows and crossbows on the Exocet.
Moreover, these salvo bows and crossbows, because the operation is fixed, they use the magic circle to operate as a whole, and there are hundreds of arrow holes on the side of the ship, and a total of four magic circles control it. The Flying Fish ship only needs to send twenty or thirty monks to control the four magic circles, and it can make hundreds of arrow holes fire crossbow arrows.
When necessary, the crossbows in the four circles can also adjust the shooting angle as a whole, so they can only shoot upwards in mid-air. In the past, against the ordinary warships in front of the Great Food Fleet, these bows and crossbows were to fire crossbow arrows forward.
The reason why it is designed as four circles instead of one is because in this way, even if one or two circles are destroyed, as long as the other two or three circles are unharmed, the arrow holes in the front hull can still have corresponding parts of the operation, and it is easier to maintain.
Only such a Flying Fish ship can be called a sharp weapon in naval warfare.
The speed of the magic weapon warship was very fast, and the two sides were charging against each other, so in a very short time, one hundred and ten warships in the front of the two armies staggered. The scenes of the battles near these warships were much the same, the monks on the Great Eater battleship were beaten in the face, and a group of soldiers fell in the warships one after another, and the end was miserable.
It's not that there are no monks without the Great Food Battleship, and they have successfully leaped to the Exocet, and the specific situation of each ship is different after all. There are five or six Exocet ships, and there are dozens of big food monks who are fighting with the Lingnan soldiers face to face.
It's just that there are very few such battles, and they have nothing to do with the overall situation, and with the staggered depth and depth of the two armies, more and more big food warships and monks are suffering under the clever and advanced tactics of the Lingnan naval division.
Monchitaz originally thought that when the two armies came into contact, his pro-army would be able to show his powers, and he used skillful tactics and exquisite cooperation to quickly attack the Tang army's warships, and won the victory as he had done in countless previous naval battles. But he didn't expect that the two armies would fall into such an unfavorable situation as soon as they clashed, and his face couldn't help but change drastically.
"What kind of warship is this Tang Army, it is equipped with so many bows and crossbows, and it can still perform such tactics?!" Monchitaz frowned, his heart beating faster.
At first, when he saw that the size of the Tang fleet was only one-third of that of the Great Water Eater, he was full of confidence, even complacent, thinking that victory was within reach. But he never thought that the opponent's bow and crossbow were extremely powerful, and the number was so huge, and they could adjust the direction in wartime and focus on guarding the flanks.
This is something he has never seen or heard of, it is his knowledge blind spot, and he doesn't know how to break the game for a while.
The Great Food Monk who jumped tied up was like a flock of sheep sent to the tiger's mouth, it was okay not to move, but if he moved, he would be sent to death.
But if the soldiers on the Great Food Battleship really don't move, then they can't protect themselves at all, Monchitaz can see clearly, each Exocet ship has several crossbows on both wings that are obviously different from ordinary heavy crossbows, and the crossbow bolts fired are not only thick, but also extremely destructive.
Previously, the Exocet relied on this kind of crossbow bolt to directly penetrate ordinary warships, causing ordinary warships to suffer heavy losses, sinking into the water one after another, and even being dismembered.
And now, although the Great Eclipse Magic Weapon Warship is strong, it is only able to resist the attack of the middle and low-level Qi cultivators at most, and there is still not much defense in the face of this kind of bed crossbow, every time the bed crossbow on the Flying Fish Ship roars, there will be an extra big hole on the side of the Big Eclipse Weapon Warship.
However, in order to facilitate the jump-and-tie battle, the monks on the Great Food War ship connected the ships of both sides with hook locks, and they couldn't leave if they wanted to
The Fa is easy to leave, and it is really miserable.
It didn't take long for a lot of large spell weapon warships to capsize and sink after being shot through the hull by bed crossbows.
"The Tang army is really too insidious, it actually uses such cunning tactics!" Monchitaz's face gradually darkened into the bottom of the pot, and the rapid damage of his own warships and monks made his heart drip blood.
When he ordered the magic weapon warship to attack, he felt that he had paid enough attention to the Lingnan fleet, and only now did he realize that the Lingnan fleet was far more powerful than he imagined. The fact that the Tang Army has few warships and fighters is not a sign of insufficient strength, but that every combat force is extremely well armed!
Just like the Battle of Talas many years ago, the Great Food Soldiers are also the elite of a hundred battles, and in terms of personal combat strength, they may not be worse than the Tang Army, and they have an absolute advantage in numbers, but they can't help but have 20,000 Tang Army, and they were killed by the other side and suffered heavy losses.
The most important reason for this is that the Tang Army's equipment is too good and its tactics are unreasonable.
However, Monchitaz was not helpless at the moment, the numerical advantage of the Great Food Fleet was there, and he quickly ordered the magic weapon warships not to approach the Tang warships, and abandon the method of jumping and tied.
"The magic warships are entangled with the Tang warships, so that the other side has no way to get out, and the other warships are surrounded by two wings, so that the Tang fleet must be encircled! At that time, the internal and external attacks will be carried out, and the Tang army's formation will be disrupted, and then divided and surrounded and annihilated!" Monchitaz issued a complete battle order.
Although there were unexpected changes in the war, the Great Food Fleet had also suffered setbacks, and its own heavy losses were inevitable, and there was a big gap between the situation of the battle and the reality, and Monchitaz felt very uncomfortable.
But he restrained this feeling, and now he must do everything he can to win this war.
With the issuance of the military order of Monchitaz, the rear formation of the Great Eater Warship, when facing the Tang Warship, did not bury its head in the rush again, but in a group of ways, concentrated shuttle and rush from different directions.
They strive to avoid the warships being caught and killed, and each ship is slammed by the side crossbow of the Exocet, and at the same time, by increasing the thickness of their own formation, enhancing the combat power and defense of the unit team, they intend to achieve the goal of finally dividing the Exocet formation and cooperating with ordinary warships to surround and gather and destroy.
It's just that the ships in front of the Great Eater Warship have been fighting with the Exocet Ship at this time, and they want to get out and move forward, but it's not that simple.
Relying on the power advantage of the side-chord crossbow, the Exocet pursued them and fired fiercely, so that the monks on the Great Eater Warship could not raise their heads and could not control the warship freely.
In particular, those Great Food Battleships that were linked to the Exocet ship, after the attack was frustrated and the monks suffered a lot of losses, they were jumped up by the Lingnan Sea Division soldiers on the Exocet and seized the ship.
The same is true for the other Exocet ships in the melee, as long as they find the ship fighting with them, after the casualties of the Great Food Monk reach a certain level, they will send out a sortie and fly over the sea to carry out a jump and tie battle.
Offense and defense are easy to do in a blink of an eye.
The battle in this sea area was chaotic, the two warships chased each other, you fought for each other, and in the dense air explosion, there were ships constantly emitting thick black smoke, or capsizing or sinking, or charging and fleeing against the burning hull.
Dense crossbow arrows like locusts, flying all over the sky, like waterfalls like streams, constantly shooting at the opponent's warship, the monks of both sides showed their magic in between, the low cultivation was close to the warship, and the high cultivation was like a bird's sparrow back and forth.
The light of all kinds of spells was as bright as the sunset, the streamer was like mist, and people were constantly shot by the opponent's crossbow arrows and spells, and they fell into the sea with a puff, and were drowned by the rain of arrows, and they never succeeded again
Flying, only blood stains the water red.
In the sea that was swallowed by the spiritual qi and the billowing smoke, a group of large spell eater warships either rushed out or circled around.
They were like sharp arrows like swords, like mountains like waves, and pounced on the rear of the Exocet; their formation was complete and their defense system was sound, and although they did not fire as many crossbow arrows as the Exocet in the course of the charge, the losses they suffered were not too great, and they were at least acceptable.
Seeing that they were about to rush into the rear of the Exocet ship, completely disrupting the Lingnan fleet and permeating the entire battlefield, Yang Xingmi's eyes searched left and right, catching the ordinary warships surrounded from the flanks farther away, and his eyes inadvertently became a little sharper.
He would certainly be able to extrapolate the deployment of Monchitaz.
"General, the number of Great Food warships is several times that of our army, if the Exocet ship is entangled in the opponent's warship, and it can't quickly resolve the battle and win, once we fall into the other party's encirclement, we are in a worrying situation!" A staff member hurriedly made a suggestion to Yang Xingmi, hoping that he would make up his mind as soon as possible.
Naval battles in the fleet are no better than river battles, and they are also different from army battles on land, especially when there are magic ships and great monks, the Great Food Fleet can quickly spread the battle to most of the warships, and the two warring sides are far more than the boundary line of the army battle.
And now, Monchitaz was resolute in his fighting spirit, and the Great Eater Warship was moving forward bravely, obviously not thinking of retreating and regrouping his formation.
"The big cannibals want to fight with us, and we don't have anything to hide, so let these savages see how sharp the Datang's warships are. Signal cruiser, forward!" Yang Xingmi decisively gave a military order.
When the staff heard this, they were obviously stunned, and letting the cruiser attack forward at this moment, instead of covering the Exocet to adjust its formation and retreat, was tantamount to pressing the strength of the entire fleet.
There will be no retreat for the Lingnan fleet!
In the vast sea thousands of miles away from Datang, without a rear and no stronghold, facing an opponent several times his size, he will throw everything he has as soon as he engages, leaving no room for turn, this kind of military order can be said to be a big gamble, once lost, the army will be annihilated!
However, this staff member has no room for opposition, this is a military order.
Eighteen cruisers moved at the order, like awakened beasts in the sea, breaking through the huge waves and moving forward, passing through the rear formation of the Exocet ships that adjusted their formation to expose the passage, and directly took the large spell weapon warships in front!
Yang Xingmi's face was as pale as iron, and his feet seemed to have taken root on the deck, motionless.
At this point, he was already well aware of the advantages and disadvantages of both sides. The victory of the Great Food Navy lies in the huge scale, and the victory of the Lingnan Fleet lies in the "strong ships and guns", and it is impossible for them to retreat if they retreat, once this happens, they will be surrounded and entangled and eaten away, and only by bravely advancing and making a big push can it be possible to defeat the Great Food Fleet.
The movement of his own fleet to advance the combat deployment was very smooth, and Monchitaz, who was standing in the bow, was quite satisfied, although the large spell weapon battleship that had fought with the Exocet had already suffered heavy losses by this time.
More than 100 warships were either sunk or captured, and nearly 200 warships were being chased and beaten, each of which suffered a lot of damage.
But seeing that the rear formation magic weapon warship successfully broke through, bypassed the chaotic battlefield, and entered the rear formation of the Exocet, and the speed of ordinary warships was not slow, and when it reached the predetermined position on the two wings, the tactics of flowering in the center were about to be realized, and Monchitaz's eyes gradually regained a little confidence.
Until, he saw eighteen special warships that were several times the size of the Exocet ship, sailing out from behind the Exocet battle formation, like mountains and cities, crushing towards the Great Food Warship, and his expression suddenly froze.