Chapter 167: Divine Beast Yaqi Great Snake
Without much gossip about technology, after agreeing with Stark, Zhao Dagui also began to prepare to defeat the pirates of Peach Blossom Island.
Originally, if the security regiment and the British navy attacked together, the momentum of the two sides would become extremely huge, and this battle would be much easier, but Zhao Dagui had various concerns and reasons, and he was unwilling to join forces with the British, so the security regiment could only attack independently.
Also, the previous battles were all cannon to fight mosquitoes, and it is difficult to say what practical training effect there is for the security regiment, but this time it is just a matter of using pirates to hone the security regiment.
While ordering a batch of weapons and ammunition from Stark, Zhao Dagui was anxious about his important officers to discuss how to fight this battle.
Zhao Dagui summoned the senior officers of the security regiment and sent them the information he had obtained from the British, especially the combat oil paintings painted by the British Navy painters, which really caused an uproar.
"How is this possible, what era is this, and there are such monsters, it's not scientific. The first one to call out was not someone else, but Yang Willy, who has always been calm.
"Well, there are quite a lot of monsters in the sea, but such big monsters are quite rare. On the contrary, Ma Hansan, who came from the whaling team, was more likely to accept the fact that there were monsters in the sea.
The others were speechless for a moment as they circulated the materials and paintings Stark had sent.
The British Navy has always had a fine tradition of employing painters in the army, and likes to paint battle scenes into oil paintings to pass on, so that others can have a more intuitive understanding of the battle.
The oil painting sent by Stark depicts two warships tilting their guns at a pirate, and on their seaward side, a monster with a length of 100 meters rammed into one of the warships with its huge body.
This giant beast, not to mention the huge body, the key is that it actually has eight heads and eight heads, hideous and terrifying, and several of the heads still have half-pulled corpses in navy uniforms in their mouths.
This monster is very famous in later generations, and Zhao Dagui knew that this was the famous Yaqi Snake, and there was no one who liked video games who didn't know.
It's just that such a monster that should only exist in the imagination appears in real life, and it also attacks the British warship, giving people a strange sense of disobedience.
"God, how many surprises do you want to give me!" Since coming to this world, Zhao Dagui has known that he is not going back to the past, he should have reached a relatively similar historical overhead plane, referred to as a parallel world, otherwise it would be difficult to explain this martial arts, flying swords, magic weapons, or something.
It's just that there are monsters like Yaki Orochi in this world, which is still a bit beyond imagination.
According to Stark, the British Navy's last failure to conquer Peach Blossom Island should be said to be a non-war crime, or more of a loss of insufficient intelligence.
It turned out that two light warships should be more than enough to crusade against Peach Blossom Island, which was guarded by more than 300 pirates.
After the British army arrived near Peach Blossom Island, the method of attack was similar to that of Zhao Dagui's security regiment (it should be said that the security regiment comprehensively learned the practices of the British army), and after reaching the target sea area, it blocked the port with two warships, fired artillery, and cleared the shore defenses and pirate resistance.
Then, the warships maintained a high-pressure posture on land, and 200 army troops rowed to the island, and then landed, and built artillery positions and defenses to serve as a bridgehead for attacking land.
After establishing a position on the shore, more soldiers can be brought up, and the original soldiers will continue to advance, using weapons such as artillery and muskets to suppress the enemy's firepower, and finally achieve the goal of crushing the enemy.
There are more than 300 pirates on Peach Blossom Island, led by grandmaster-level masters, and their will to fight is much stronger than the rabble that the security group has seen, and they are not immediately defeated by the British army, but retreat step by step, retreat to the position prepared in advance, and lie down.
Originally, this was nothing, the British army fired a large number of artillery, destroyed the earthen walls built by the pirates, etc., but because many pirates took the opportunity to lie on the ground, they could not destroy the enemy by artillery fire alone.
As a result, the British commander who went ashore ordered the infantry to line up and advance step by step, which is the so-called queue shooting tactic.
At this critical moment, an accident happened, and a monster with a length of hundreds of meters suddenly appeared behind the two warships, that is, the Yaki Orochi with eight heads, which suddenly appeared from the water to attack the warship, and bit many soldiers to death on the spot.
Suddenly attacked, and such a strange monster appeared, the morale of the British army fell to the bottom for a while, and many people were at a loss.
At this time, the infantry of the British army had advanced to a very close place with the pirates, and seeing the instability in the rear, there were many fluctuations in mood, taking advantage of this opportunity, the leader of the pirates with several real masters, suddenly launched an attack and launched hand-to-hand combat.
Originally, the British infantry's white-knuckle combat ability was not weak, but this pirate leader was a grandmaster-level master, ordinary smoothbore guns may not be able to break through the defense, and it was even difficult to hit, and the subordinates he led were all advanced masters, taking advantage of the British army's mind to attack, he actually killed a lot of infantry, so that the British army fled in embarrassment.
Fortunately, the British artillery was powerful, and it was easy for the pirates to win for a while, but if they continued to pursue, they would be exposed to the range of the artillery, so they had to retreat after killing and wounding a certain number of British troops, but the morale was also immediately high, and there was no previous low level of passive beating.
The British warships were very strong, they were designed to withstand the target of close attack of the artillery within tens of meters, which was much stronger than the Chinese ships.
The Yagi Snake is also a legendary beast, but it is only flesh and blood, only with the mouth bite and body collision and other primitive means, although it hit the British ship several times, and bit to death many naval soldiers, but it is very reluctant to sink the warship.
Of course, if it is a small boat of one or two hundred tons, with the brute strength of the Yaqi Snake, it may be able to be towed underwater, but the naval warship is light, and it is also a tonnage of 800 tons to 1,000 tons, which is not something that a single divine beast can solve.
In short, the Yaki Snake raged for a long time, but it couldn't tow the British ship away, but it also damaged the mast and caused damage to the hull of the ship under the accidental collision.
Moreover, the British Navy was really elite, and when it encountered this strange situation, it also reacted quickly, began to open the cannon window, and bombarded the Yaqi Snake, although the Yaqi Snake was not killed, but it was also injured a lot, and finally had to enter the water to escape.
In this battle, the British Navy also sweated, thanks to the fact that they had two ships, which could support each other, if it was a single ship, maybe this divine beast would really be able to get it.
At this time of the war, there were too many accidents, and the navy was not sure if there were other hole cards on the pirate's side, and although the warship that was attacked by the Yaqi Orochi was not sunk, it also needed to be towed back to the port for repairs, so it had no intention of continuing the attack, so it could only retreat in disgrace.
In this way, the British army's first expedition to Peach Blossom Island ended in failure.