Chapter 112: The Battle of Tsushima (2)
"General! The Tang warships are pressing over, we can't resist it at all, please evacuate quickly!"
When Fujiwara Shio heard his deputy's words, his already dead face was cast a darker shadow.
They came out to lure the enemy, but the Tang army attacked too fiercely, and as soon as Wu engaged, he used magic weapons and strong bows and crossbows to press his subordinates to the point that they could not raise their heads, and suffered heavy casualties, and then they broke directly into the ship formation, and they were indomitable, killing his soldiers in chaos, although the various units resisted hard, but with little success.
The opponent's entire attack posture was carried out in one go, and the more than 500 warships of the other side lost nearly half in the blink of an eye, and there was almost no room for counterattack.
"I can't go......" Fujiwara Shio muttered distracted at the bloody battlefield.
Fujiwara family rules are strict, Fujiwara Tadahei is even more clear in rewards and punishments, Fujiwara Zhixiong knows that once he fails to complete the task, he will also lose most of the soldiers, and he will definitely be dealt with by military law, and his head will be moved. Not only that, but as a defeated general, his family will also be disgraced because of this, and his status in the Fujiwara family will be greatly reduced, and his life will be difficult.
"You retreat, Ben will be broken!" Fujiwara Shio felt more and more frightened the more he thought about it, and the blue tendons on his forehead and neck gradually protruded, and finally he couldn't accept such a result, so he gritted his teeth and made up his mind.
As long as he can complete the task of luring the enemy, even if his troops suffer heavy losses, but if he dies on the battlefield, Fujiwara Tadahi will definitely look at his loyalty to his family, and will not hold himself responsible, and maybe he will add honor to himself.
In that case, your family will not have to live in humiliation, and your son will be well cultivated by the family and have a good future and future.
Fujiwara Shio, who was determined to die, ignored the hard persuasion of his deputy, pushed him away, roared, and asked him to quickly evacuate to Hongniwan with the ships that could withdraw from the battlefield in the rear, and he beckoned his own guards and pushed the warship under his seat forward at full speed!
The warp went against the tide in the chaotic battlefield and went straight to the flagship of the Tang Army.
The soldiers of the Japanese Kingdom on the surrounding warships saw Fujiwara Shixiong's ship rushing forward with their heads buried in their heads, and the speed was surprisingly fast, obviously planning to go forever, especially when they saw the figure of Fujiwara Shixiong standing on the bow of the ship, and felt the pride of the other party, many people couldn't help but feel their hearts.
"The general rushed up!"
"The general is going to give it a go, at the cost of dying?!"
"The generals don't want to die, what are we afraid of, the big guys are fighting together!"
"Serve His Majesty the Emperor!"
"For Amaterasu!"
"Wait...... Look, the general flew out from the bow of the ship, and he took his own guards and heroically killed the Tang warship, and they wanted to seize it!"
"The big monks on the Tang Army battleship also made a move, there are a lot of them!"
"The general is out, ah! The general is hit, and he flies upside down!"
"The general fell overboard......"
The soldiers of the Japanese Navy Division who could see Fujiwara Shio, their eyes were as big as copper bells, staring at the location where Fujiwara Shio fell into the water, although their hearts were beating like drums, they still held their breath, and they wanted to see Fujiwara Shio rush out of the water and kill the Tang warship again.
No one came out of the water.
The Don warships sailed through that body of water, running over the wreckage of ships floating on the water. The Tang monks leaped out of the deck and attacked Fujiwara Shio's ship, killing the stubborn warriors above them like dumplings.
The surrounding soldiers swallowed their saliva and looked at each other, and each saw the confusion and horror in each other's eyes.
"Did the general die in battle?"
"I haven't shown up yet, so I think it's ......."
"I just seemed to be good-looking, when the general fell into the water, his body broke into two ......"
"Is this true?!"
"Bastard!Why didn't you say it earlier?!"
"What do we do now?!"
"What can I do?"
"Run, run!"
"The Tang army is here, run, can't run away!"
"Surrender, surrender!"
Just now, because he saw Fujiwara Shio moving forward, the Japanese soldiers who were enthusiastic and had a little fighting spirit were like deflated balls at this time, and they no longer had any energy.
On the ships one by one, white flags were erected, and the trembling soldiers of the Japanese Navy Division knelt down against the deck, still unable to control the trembling of their bodies.
Of course, there were also many monks and warriors who resisted like crazy, and they were greeted by either magic weapons and crossbow arrows, or the horizontal knives of Tang army soldiers, as well as the wide open gates of hell.
There are many broken beams on the surface of the water, and the ships that are sinking are everywhere, of course, there are more of them are the soldiers of the Japanese Kingdom who are struggling in the water, the water surface is stained red with blood, and the smell of blood is thick and strong, and the ships of the Lingnan Navy Division with neat flags have run over this sea area like mountains and cities.
......
When Fujiwara Shio led the army to "lure" the Tang army, Fujiwara Tokihei and Fujiwara Tadahei flew into the air and closely watched the battlefield ahead. In their field of vision, more than 500 large and small warships of their own side were neatly arrayed, and there were many armor soldiers, and they were extraordinary, as if they were fortified fortresses.
Fujiwara Tadahei said ostentatiously: "Although the warships of the Tang army are larger than ours, in terms of the sturdiness of the warships, the equipment of bows and crossbows, and the number of monks, compared with the Tang army in the battle of Baijiangkou at the beginning, our sailors have achieved a comprehensive advantage. ”
"This is the result of the great price paid by the country and my Fujiwara family, and we have been a strong sailor for a hundred years, and we have never forgotten the shame of the Battle of Shirae Estuary. The sage said, "Shame and courage, we did it!"
Fujiwara was smiling, quite cheerful and happy, "The achievements you have made over the years in charge of the sailor are also obvious to all, the sailor can have today's appearance, and you have worked hard." After the victory in this battle, I will certainly ask His Majesty the Emperor for your merits! When the time comes, everyone in the world will know your name Fujiwara Tadahei!"
Fujiwara Tadahei laughed silently, "Brother, you know, I'm worried about one thing right now. ”
"Oh?
"I'm worried that Zhixiong is too brave and beats the Tang army too hard, if the Tang army can't resist his onslaught and is repelled by Zhixiong's troops, then our plan to lure the enemy will fail!"
The words were funny, and the two looked at each other and laughed at the same time. The laughter was loud and powerful, as if he was holding a divine soldier, and in front of him was a mountain of gold and silver, and his spirit was tight.
At this moment, the two armies approached, and in the "Liancheng" of the Lingnan Naval Division, a brilliant magic weapon crossbow bolt was shot, which shrouded the front of Fujiwara Shio's troops.
Fujiwara Tokihei and Fujiwara Tadahei stared at the battlefield carefully, their pupils narrowed, and the happy and unbridled smiles on their faces gradually stiffened, and their smiles slowly disappeared as the rain of arrows fell into the warships of the Japanese Navy.
When the Lingnan Navy Division hit the monks of Fujiwara Shio's department, the cattle entered the flock of chickens, and the warships of the Japanese Navy Division were constantly overturned and overturned, and they fled in all directions like frightened birds, and the soldiers fell into the water in groups, and the defeat was timed, and the expressions on the faces of the Fujiwara Tokihei brothers were frozen for a long time.
This time it wasn't laughter, it wasn't high-spirited, it was horrified.
"This ...... How could this be?!Tang Army, how could there be so many powerful magic weapons and crossbows in the Tang Army?!" Fujiwara Tadahei looked at the battlefield and then at Fujiwara Tokihei, hoping that the other party would slap him and wake him up from his nightmare.
But he found that Fujiwara Tokihei looked at him with exactly the same eyes as himself, and it seemed that the other party also wanted to be woken up by him.
Just now they were still saying that they were afraid that Fujiwara Shio's more than 500 warships would beat the Tang army too hard, but now, more than 300 Tang warships have destroyed the combat power of Fujiwara Shio's troops in front of them, and the gap is so big that the irony is too thick to look at directly.
Fujiwara Tadahei wanted to jump into the sea and bury himself, but he was really faceless.
The two didn't have time to be sentimental, and when the vanguard of the Lingnan Navy Division defeated Fujiwara Shio's department, the main force of the rear formation was divided into two parts, and they had already bypassed the wreckage of the wreckage from the flanks.
The rear formation becomes the front formation, and the front formation follows up after breaking the enemy and becomes the rear formation, after this confrontation, the entire Lingnan Navy Division will still be in a neat formation and complete in combat power. In other words, Fujiwara Shixiong's more than 500 warships, Mo said, did not cause much trouble to the Lingnan Naval Division, and even their offensive formation could not be stopped!
At this moment, Fujiwara Tadahei and Fujiwara Tokihei, looking at Tang Jun's appearance of riding the wind and waves, no longer have the confidence in their hearts that they had before, they only felt that the other party was extraordinary, as if an immortal soldier descended from the sky, shocking!
Fujiwara Shio's division had been defeated, and there were originally some ships that could escape back, and the Lingnan Naval Division, which could be killed from both wings, was blocked by those Japanese ships that fled without a formation in the process of sailing to their positions, so the Lingnan Naval Division shot a rain of arrows from the sky, covering those warships from both sides.
Some of the great monks even took direct action, and in a short period of time, they destroyed these warships of the Japanese Kingdom that stood in the way, and also killed or forced the soldiers above into the sea.
Then, the neat battleship team of the Lingnan Navy Division drove by, ignoring the wailing Japanese soldiers under their own ships, and successfully gathered together, formed a new offensive formation, and continued to move forward.
At this point, Fujiwara Tadahei's so-called plan to lure the enemy has been declared a complete failure, and the Tang army was not led by Fujiwara Shixiong to Hongniwan, looking at the direction of progress, it was clear that he was planning to kill them directly at their water village, which made Fujiwara Tadahei so anxious that he broke out in a cold sweat.
"Zhongping, what should we do now? The warships are all set up in ambush in Hongniwan, and there is not much defense in the water village, once the Tang army breaks through the water village and takes away our grain and straw baggage, our sailors will become rootless duckweed! Larger warships are just that, and on the small battlefield, there are no materials for them to cross the strait!"
Fujiwara Tohei is also in a hurry, he is the Minister of Zuo, and he has a lot of authority in the Wa Kingdom, but he is a general of the Navy, and he knows a little about naval warfare, but he is not very proficient, and he can only pin his hopes on Fujiwara Tadahei at this moment, hoping that the other party can turn the tide and save the Wa Sains in danger.
He's panicking right now.
He saw with his own eyes the strength of the Tang Army, which was much stronger than he had expected.
It is even more clear that if this battle is lost, the country itself will be threatened!
The Fujiwara family can't withstand such a failure, otherwise it will inevitably be criticized by Daigo and the courtiers, and they will be in a disadvantageous position, and the forces that can control the court and control the overall situation of the country accumulated over decades will suffer a major blow!
As the leader of this generation of the Fujiwara family, Fujiwara Tokihei doesn't want to be spurned by the descendants of his clan!
Fujiwara Tadashi stabilized his emotions, thought calmly, turned his mind sharply, weighed the pros and cons, and looked for a way to deal with it, and soon had a way, "Now that the plan to lure the enemy cannot be implemented, the warships that have set up an ambush in Hongniwan must be transferred back immediately." Fortunately, the Tang army is still a long way from Shuizhai, and even if our warships can't all come back immediately, they can quickly mobilize considerable combat power.
"The strength of the Tang army lies in the fact that there are many magic weapons and crossbows, if we open the formation, it is difficult for us to resist, and the soldiers will suffer heavy casualties, but if we rely on the water village, organize the warships in an orderly manner, fortify them layer by layer, and reduce the range covered by the bows and crossbows, we can effectively reduce losses.
"Magic weapon crossbow arrows are bound to be expensive, I don't believe it, these crossbow arrows in the Tang army can't be used up! As long as we stabilize our position, we will be able to run out of their magic weapons and crossbow arrows sooner or later, so that the battle situation will return to a normal situation. Brother, there are also many great monks in the Tang Army, and when necessary, please ask my brother to take action!"
Fujiwara Shihei nodded again and again when he heard this, "Don't worry, I will sit in the center and prevent the Tang Army Grand Cultivator from being arrogant! Although I am here to watch the battle this time, I have also brought a lot of family Grand Cultivators just in case!"
Fujiwara Tadahei regained his confidence and gritted his teeth and said: "I don't believe that the Tang Army's warships can still use 'flesh and blood' to directly break our ships and rush into our water village! As long as they can't rush like this, our defense line can be stabilized!"
"Of course they can't!"