Chapter 1160 Provocation Zhang Luan said: "The enemy warships are equipped with steel plates, which greatly enhances the defense, but correspondingly, it also greatly reduces the flexibility of the warships.
In terms of the agility and speed of the warships, our warships have the advantage.
However, the morale of the soldiers is low now, and they are even more afraid of the enemy warships.
If there is another battle, it will be difficult for our army to win. " Shangguanxiu rubbed his chin and pondered for a long time, so long that everyone present thought he didn't want to talk anymore.
He suddenly said: "The navy continues to implement harassment tactics, even if they are defeated, and even if they dare not confront the enemy head-on, they will still harass them."
There will be no peace for the enemy” "Your Highness" Zhang Luan responded with his hands raised.
Shangguan Xiu turned to look at Luo Ren and said: "A Ren, order the soldiers to cut down the trees, collect straw, and rush to build rafts."
Hearing this, Zhang Luan and others were shocked and asked: "Your Highness wants to cross the river to fight?"
Shangguan Xiu said expressionlessly: "I can't wait here for half a year.
Within half a month, I must capture the East China Sea Navy.
If it cannot be used by the imperial court, it must cease to exist."
"But" Zhang Luan and others looked anxious.
Fighting across the river was simply unrealistic.
Those improvised rafts were of no use.
As long as the East China Sea Navy came over, under the collision of the warships, the mere rafts would be destroyed.
They all have to be smashed.
"General, I will obey."
Luo Ren stepped in and took the order.
He didn't care about that, he would carry out Shangguan Xiu's orders.
Over the years, he has already realized that Brother Xiu will not lead them into an uncertain battle.
As long as Brother Xiu believes that crossing the river is feasible, then this tactic will definitely be feasible and his side will definitely be able to implement it successfully.
Under Shangguan Xiu's order, the Zhenjun Army began to cut wood and make rafts on the south bank of the Dongjiang River with great fanfare.
Many nearby people were also hired by the Zhenjun Army to assist the Zhenjun Army in making rafts.
The rafts made by the Zhenjun Army are not foolproof.
The wood on each raft must be of the same thickness, and then tied repeatedly with thick hemp ropes, and finally, thick straw is spread on top.
Using such a raft to cross the river can effectively protect the ammunition from getting wet.
There were many civilians helping the Zhenjun Army, tens of thousands of them.
Most of the civilians were fishermen in the Dongjiang River area, and they were all whispering to each other while they were rushing to make rafts.
"We have made quite a few rafts these days, at least a thousand," a dark-skinned man in his early thirties muttered in a low voice.
“I’ve seen thousands of fish,” another elderly fisherman replied.
"Brother, why do you think the Central Army wants to build these rafts?"
"Don't you have to ask?
It must be for crossing the river."
The swarthy man narrowed his eyes and said, "Cross the river."
The older fisherman burst out laughing and said: "Brother, you don't understand this, do you?
What kind of army is this Central Army?
Zhenjun Army Zhenjun Army is king and hegemony on land, but when it enters the water, it can't They are all weaklings.
Not long ago, the Southeast Navy Army lost another battle.
Now the Zhenjun Army can only fight in person.
But in a water battle, the Zhenjun Army is no match for them.
They can only find a way to cross the river secretly.
Fight on land with the East China Sea Navy."
"So that's how it is."
The dark man had a teachable look on his face.
That night, after leaving the Zhenjun Army's camp and returning to his home, the swarthy man took the carrier pigeon from the backyard and released it.
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The news that the Zhenjun army was cutting down trees and rushing to build rafts soon spread to the Donghai Navy camp.
After reading this information from the spies, Li Yongfu sneered at it.
The Zhenjun Army had already tried to fight across the river, but was beaten to a pulp by their own side.
Now they are going to do this again.
Isn't this asking for death?
It's ridiculous to think about using rafts to cross the river.
While the Zhenjun Army was rushing to build rafts, the Southeast Navy was not idle either.
Every day they sent several waves of ships across the middle line of the Dongjiang River to the north bank to harass.
If the East China Sea Navy does not go out to fight, the Southeast Navy's warships can still fire a few pretentious cannons.
As long as the East China Sea Navy's warships leave the port, the Southeast Navy's warships can run faster than rabbits.
This morning, more than twenty warships from the Southeast Navy left the south bank and headed for the north bank.
However, this time the warship went very deep into the north shore, and did not stop until it was only 150 meters away from the north shore, and launched a bombardment on the warships moored in the port.
The East Sea Navy has been harassed endlessly by the Southeast Navy in recent days.
The key is that the Southeast Navy does not fight them at all.
When they see the warships of the East Sea Navy coming, they turn around and run back.
In terms of speed, the East Sea Navy really It was unable to catch up with the Southeast Navy.
More importantly, the Southeast Navy had the Zhenjun Army as cover on land, and the East Navy did not dare to go deep into the south bank.
This time, the Southeast Navy was even bolder.
It went deep into the north coast and directly bombarded the port.
How could the East Navy endure it?
The East China Sea Navy immediately dispatched more than 20 medium-sized warships to fight.
As in the previous situation, when the East China Sea Navy's warships left the port, the Southeast Navy's ships turned around and ran away.
More than twenty medium-sized warships could only watch helplessly as the ships of the Southeast Navy swept away.
More than twenty warships had just returned to the port when warships from the Southeast Navy arrived again.
The generals on the Donghai Navy side were so angry that they ordered their subordinates to stop using heavy warships and use light warships to catch up with the enemy and annihilate them in one fell swoop.
This time, the East China Sea Navy dispatched a total of more than fifty small and medium-sized warships, forming a fan shape to surround the more than twenty warships of the Southeast Navy.
These more than fifty warships are completely different from the more than twenty medium-sized warships in front of them.
Especially the small warships among them are so fast on the water that they are like arrows leaving the string.
Maybe even the Southeast Navy did not expect that the speed of the Donghai Navy's warships suddenly became so fast.
More than 20 warships stopped on the river and did not move away at all.
They seemed to be stunned and frightened.
Soon, the roar of artillery and the firing of muskets came from the small warship.
Due to the limitations of the hull, small warships only have two or three cannons on them, and they are all small cannons with a short range and low power.
In water warfare, the main purpose of small warships is to use their speed advantage to penetrate the enemy's formation and rush into the enemy's interior to cause chaos, thereby disrupting the enemy's formation.
It can also be used to transport water ghosts, sneak under enemy ships, and drill through the bottom of cabins.
The role of small warships in water battles is still great, but using small warships to engage in head-on confrontation with the opponent's ship array is to seek death.
On the warships of the Southeast Navy, artillery fire was fired, and they launched a fierce bombardment on the small boat that was the first to attack.
In the first round of shelling, not a single bullet hit, and all of them hit the river.
Seeing this, the officers and soldiers of the East China Sea Navy all laughed and laughed.
Are the Southeast Navy troops in front of them all new recruits?
Concentrate your artillery fire as soon as they come up.
You Are you so sure that you can hit the target that you don’t even need to use three shots to locate it?
Three artillery positioning was an artillery term at that time.
The artillery at that time did not have a scale, and the shells fired were all based on feeling.
The experienced artillery troops would first fire one shell for positioning before the entire army concentrated fire.
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Calculate the distance of the deviation, then adjust the muzzle and fire the second shot for positioning.
Talented veteran artillerymen can almost hit the enemy with the third shot after positioning two shots.
Even untalented artillerymen can almost hit the enemy after positioning three shots.
The Southeast Marine Corps, on the other hand, did not care about whether they were positioned or not, and launched a volley of fire as soon as they came up.
Such a waste of precious shells was obviously a mistake only made by new recruits.
The Donghai Navy guessed correctly.
These Southeast Navy troops were indeed new recruits, and they were all female soldiers.
After a round of volleys with no results, the female soldiers immediately reloaded their weapons, and soon began a second round of volleys.
This time the deviation distance was slightly smaller, but still not a single shell hit the enemy ship.
As if they didn't know how valuable the shells were, the female soldiers reloaded and fired again.
This time, two small boats failed to escape and were hit by the female soldiers of the Southeast Navy like a blind cat hitting a mouse.
With two loud booms and booms, the two small boats were instantly blown into the sky.
Seeing the enemy's small warship getting closer and closer, the female soldiers on the deck loaded their muskets one after another, aimed at the approaching small boat, and launched a salvo.
Fireguns can be regarded as the nemesis of small warships.
The small warships may be able to avoid artillery bombardments by traveling at high speed, but they cannot avoid the firegun fire.
Moreover, the hull plates of small warships are too thin, and firegun projectiles can directly hit them.
Puncture the ship's planks and kill the crew inside.
While the female soldiers were condescendingly shooting at the small warship, the soldiers on the small warship also fired back.
Both sides came and went, and the ships were almost close to each other.
On the female soldiers' side, the person in charge of the command was the regiment commander named Hu Jingqiu.
She was originally a general under Li Ying.
After the establishment of the women's corps, she was transferred by Li Ying to serve as the commander of the corps.
Hu Jingqiu has been in the Southeast Navy longer than Li Ying and is an experienced veteran.
Seeing that the enemy's boat was close at hand, and people fell into the water from time to time, and there was no blood in the water, Hu Jingqiu thought about it and understood what was going on.
It was the enemy's water ghost.
She immediately sent an order for her own water ghosts to go into the water and kill the enemy's water ghosts.
The water ghost has two weapons, one is a hammer and the other is a chisel.
After entering the water, it has only one task, which is to penetrate the bottom of the enemy's boat.
The water ghosts on both sides went into the water one after another and bumped into each other under the water.
Seeing the water ghosts from the Southeast Navy approaching, the water ghosts from the East China Sea were dumbfounded.
It's not that they haven't done underwater combat training, but they've never seen a female water ghost before.
I saw the water ghosts of the Southeast Navy, all wearing tight-fitting water clothes, with curvy figures, especially on the chest, the two large plumps were particularly dazzling.
The male water ghosts did not expect to meet so many female water ghosts in the water.
While people were in a daze, the female water ghosts were not idle.
They swam up quickly like fish in the water.
They smashed them with hammers and stabbed them with chisels.
In just a moment, more than a dozen male water ghosts were smashed and stabbed.
Light red blood continued to surface from the inside of the river.
The water ghosts on both sides were fighting underwater, and on the river, the ships on both sides were also fighting fiercely.
The warships of the Southeast Navy seem to be loaded with countless ammunition that can never be used up.
Each artillery has never stopped since the beginning of the battle between the two sides, and has been firing continuously.
The Donghai Navy laughed at the fact that the female soldiers in the Southeast Navy were all new recruits and could not even locate three artillery pieces.
How did they know that the Southeast Navy's volleys were aimed at positioning.
Zhenjun's continuous supply of ammunition gave them sufficient To waste the capital and be willful regardless of the cost.
The gap in firepower between the two sides was quickly exposed.
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The Southeast Navy only had more than 20 warships, but its firepower was so fierce that it even overwhelmed the more than 50 warships of the East China Sea Navy.
Moreover, the warships of the East China Sea Navy were not equipped with steel plates this time.
As long as the shells fell on the ships, they would cause huge damage.
Seeing his own warships being sunk one after another, while the enemy's warships were still attacking with gunfire, the eyes of the commander-in-chief of the East China Sea Navy were red.
Since the beginning of the war, our side has been winning battles.
If we were defeated and fled, how would we explain it to the general when we got back?
"General, the southeast and southeast naval forces all seem to be female soldiers."
The deputy general put down his telescope and looked at the commander in surprise.
It is not surprising that there are female generals in the navy, but from top to bottom, from generals to soldiers, they are all women.
Everything they see and do is unheard of
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