Chapter 241: Closing the Door and Releasing the Tiger
However, now that there was a ship coming at us, how could there be so much room for thought, and in such a stunned manner, the fourth ship lost even the chance to safely avoid the shallow water.
"Let's avoid a head-on collision!" The human nature of selfishness and greed for life and fear of death flares up, and when he sees a thousand-ton ship crashing into it violently, the captain instinctively chooses to avoid the head-on collision, and tries to order his men to get out of the way.
It's a pity that the most instinctive reaction is often the worst choice, Qiao Daqing was personally at the helm at this time, and he couldn't believe his good luck when he saw the ship on the opposite side make such a stupid choice.
"Sink Yoshino, hmm, no, what is Yoshino? Is the author's instinct to babble again?" At this time, the situation was urgent, and Qiao Daqing shouted words of unknown meaning in his mouth and crashed into the ship in front of him.
In this collision, Qiao Daqing calculated the angle of the impact, hit the side of the British ship with the worst protection, and successfully knocked the British ship over, falling on its back on the sea.
And that's not even counting the fact that the Stanford came sideways under the force of the impact, just enough to block the remaining waterway, just as Wang Xiaoming and Chen Guangsheng did in the back.
When the fifth search ship of the British fleet arrived, they found that there had been a number of collisions ahead, and that one of its own ships and a local ship had crossed over the waterway, and the waterway was firmly blocked.
If you keep going, you'll only collide your own boat with the ship in front of you, and then you'll do gang jumping tactics or something.
It's just that, not to mention how seriously your ship will be damaged in that case, the collision of three ships will only block this narrow waterway more tightly, and it will not mean anything to the whole battle situation.
"Drop anchor, lower the sails, stop. The captain of the fifth search ship sighed and ordered the ship to be stopped as soon as possible.
"However, in this way, we will not be able to support the battle ahead. His first mate couldn't help but point out the possible consequences of this order.
"The Vora is a warship, with two hundred soldiers and one hundred and fifty sailors, and more than forty guns, which is much stronger than our merchant ships.
I believe they should be able to take control and kill all the pirates inside. The captain said irresponsibly, as to whether he himself believed what he said, then God knows.
The first mate understood that it was useless to say more, so he wisely shut up and stopped admonishing.
At this time, according to the prior plan, Li Xian's side successfully used the captured new ship and the Stanford ship to block the east and west ends of the Longgu Waterway, creating a situation of close contact with the British.
Now, the captured new ships crossed over at the tail to block the waterway, the Oxford, where Li Xian was located, was attached to the Vora, the Harvard collided with the second ship of the British fleet, and the Stamford collided with the fourth ship of the British fleet and blocked the waterway.
The British fleet had a huge fleet and personnel, but it could not send troops into this small artificially created battlefield, and could only watch from the outer circle as ships such as the Vora Suspicion fought alone.
"Great, the British are finished!" Qiao Daqing perked up his spirits, and took Ling Hu Zhan, the warriors, and the escorts to jump onto the British ship that collided with him, and started a fight.
The British ship was an ordinary merchant ship, with less than eighty sailors on board, no superheroes like Captain America or Captain England, and was not itself a highly trained regular soldier, far inferior to the British sailors on the Vola in terms of combat ability and will.
At this time, Qiao Daqing only took fifty or sixty people up, relying on strong martial arts and musket cooperation, and soon caused the sailors on the ship to die, escaped, and controlled the ship.
The British fleet tried to send small boats to support, but Qiao Daqing had a high advantage on this side, and gathered the artillery to one side and started a bloody battle with these ordinary crews, which simply consumed the fighting will of the sailors who were not soldiers in the first place, and did not dare to step forward again.
As for Yang Tianming, Ren Yingying and others on the Harvard, they also successfully eliminated the enemy on the ship and captured the ship.
At this time, the battle situation was very clear, only Li Xian led the personnel of the Oxford to fight desperately against the soldiers on the Vora and the masters under the British captain, and in other battlefields, the Leizhou Bay side won a decisive victory.
Li Xian led the escort of the Oxford to fight to the death with the Vora Suspicion, and in the case of the British captain Brian's extraordinary performance, he could not achieve too many results for a while, and several adventures were attacked, and he was almost counterattacked by the British troops on the Vora Suspicion and was pushed into the sea.
This is also related to the previous personnel arrangement, as early as before entering the Longgu Waterway, Li Xian expected that this battle would be very difficult, with four large ships and three small boats playing an important role, so the forces were relatively evenly distributed among each ship.
The troops brought by Li Xian this time included more than 300 escorts and 1560 warriors, a total of about 500, and the previous casualties in the battle of the decoy boat were 500 or 60, so that Li Xian's troops were only about 450 people.
Among them, Wang Xiaoming and Chen Guangsheng led 60 people to the back of the hall on the bait boat; 80 people each boarded the Harvard and Stanford; more than 20 people each sat on the other three small boats; and Li Xian's Oxford had only about 160 people.
The Oxford was the largest number of men, but it was not facing an ordinary merchant ship, but a British warship, with 200 naval soldiers and more than 150 sailors on board.
At this time, seeing that the British warships responded calmly to the battle, and their own side took the risk of attacking but suffered unnecessary losses, Li Xian no longer sought a quick victory, but commanded his subordinates to fight steadily.
The two sides began to stalemate, and no one could help the other, but as time went on, the British officers and soldiers on the Vora began to get agitated.
It turned out that in the battle of several other ships, Li Xian's side had a certain advantage in numbers, and a large number of warriors participated in the battle, all of which quickly suppressed the resistance of the British merchant ships, controlled the ships, and then began to support the Oxford.
The soldiers on the Vora Suspicion began to feel faintly uncomfortable, under the actions of Li Xian's fleet, the waterway was blocked in front and back, which meant that there would be no more reinforcements coming, and the Vora Suspicion could only fight alone.
At this time, the battle on several large ships had come to an end, and the warriors and guards on Li Xian's side put down the lifeboats on the big ship and rowed their oars to the Oxford.
British captain Brian wielded the sword in the stone and was extremely brave, Wang Jiuxuan fought against it for a long time, and finally let him see the opportunity to hit the shield in Wang Jiuxuan's hand with the sword in the stone, and smashed the shield to pieces.
Then the flames on the sword in the stone were sheng, and they swept towards Wang Jiuxuan, forcing Wang Jiuxuan to change his body three times before he barely escaped, but in the process, the sword in Wang Jiuxuan's hand was also cut off by the sword in the stone, and he was burned by the flames in several places.
A Grandmaster with superb martial arts skills is holding a weapon that no one can touch, and it is indeed very difficult to deal with, even if he wants to besiege it, he can't do it.