After the initial confusion, the Dongfan fleet finally stabilized its position, thanks to the fact that they were now on the river, and the other party's plan did not send warships to fight them, Guangguang with the rain of arrows on the shore and the underwater water ghosts who tried to scuttle the ships, could not deal a fatal blow to them, and the Da Viet army on the shore, although it looked imposing, could not attack the fleet from the water.
The largest ship in the fleet, while resisting the opponent's rockets, gradually followed the command of the officers who calmed down, and slowly turned the ships into an arc, blocking those smaller ships behind them, although the enemy's rockets are covered projectiles regardless of large ships and small ships, but the structure of large ships is always stronger than small ships, and moreover, there are more soldiers on large ships, and the stronger the ability to resist attacks.
At the same time, at the back of the big ship, the water ghosts of the Dongfan fleet, who are proficient in water, also jumped into the water with a puff, and with their comrades who were resisting the enemy's attack in front, they could compete with the other party's water ghosts to see who had better underwater skills.
Wisps of blood pillars emerged from the somewhat turbid river water, and then gradually faded as the river flowed, no one knew the battle situation under the water, but the confidence in their comrades made the upper and lower parts of the Dongfan fleet no longer worry about the attack from underwater, and at this time, they could concentrate on those rockets falling from the sky.
The sails have been forcibly unloaded in the initial defeat, a rocket, falling on the ship, no flammables, they can not cause much damage, although the number is a little large, but, the sailors with a cowhide shield, can easily extinguish those open flames in their sight, and the rockets that fall on the hull, almost only a very small number will be nailed to the hull, the Da Yue people on the shore, if you want to shoot to the Dongfan fleet, flat shooting is absolutely impossible, the only way to increase the range is to eject, which also leads, In the position on both sides of the ship, it is almost impossible to see how many arrows fall, and the places where the arrows fall are mainly the deck and the shipbuilding, although the ships of the Eastern Naval Division, although they are not their famous ironclad ships, but some of the most important key parts are still wrapped in iron sheets, in fact, if the soldiers on the ship move quickly enough, and can keep themselves from collecting damage in the rain of arrows, then, as long as they can clean up the open flames brought by the arrows that fall on the ship in time, the threat of these rockets to the ship is not very big.
The only disadvantage is that because the sails have been lowered, the maneuverability of the ship has been greatly affected, but this is not a problem, they are trapped in this water area at the moment, even if the maneuverability is good, they can't stand out, so this sail drop and hanging sail, in fact, has not much impact now.
"My lord, the enemy seems to have invested enough, and the archers on this shore are afraid that there are already thousands."
Half an hour later, the entire fleet was full of visible arrow feathers, and the frequency of the enemy's arrows falling down began to gradually decrease, Liu Qingqing stood in the shipbuilding, and Qianhu Deng Chao, who personally turned the tide in this ambush, glanced at each other, and both of them saw a trace of happiness in each other's eyes.
"Summons all ships, continue to be on alert, how is the situation underwater?"
Deng Chao turned around and asked the hundred households who were reporting to him: "Are they all cleared?"
"Chasing the remnants of the enemy" The hundred households smiled: "The brothers of the water ghost team can show their faces this time, except for a few brothers who are seriously injured, all the bodies that float up are the corpses of the other party, most of the water ghosts sent by the enemy have been ambushed, and now the brothers under the water are searching, trying to ensure that the fleet will not be attacked underwater" Liu Qingqing looked at the other party and spoke, he was not born, in the command of warships, although he is not ignorant, but he is definitely a layman, he was born in cavalry, water warfare, he still doesn't talk too much, however, he doesn't talk much, Deng Chao will not ignore his existence, in sending away the hundred households under his command, Deng Chao turned around and said: "My lord, let's stabilize" Deng Chao didn't speak, silently looked at the arrows that were still flying in the air, at this time, there were already many arrows that did not carry those burning fire cloths, probably the rockets prepared by the Dayue people were almost shot, at this time, they could only use ordinary arrows.
"Their archers, is a stick of incense before the start of the attack" After a while, he raised his head and asked, Deng Chao nodded, from the incident to the present, it was only half an hour, during which the fleet was attacked, and it took some time to organize the formation, but really thinking about it, the Da Yue people on the shore launched arrows, and there was really only a stick of incense, that was when the fleet began to take a defensive formation after finding that the way back was blocked, and the arrow rain did not fall like money.
"The strong archers in the army, the distance from the shore to the middle of the river, about 30 arrows, ordinary archers, there are only a dozen, once this number is reached, the archers will have sore arms, and they can no longer pull the bow" Liu Qingqing said thoughtfully: "A stick of incense incident, they have changed at least two groups of people, with the scale of this arrow rain, each group is probably more than 1,000 people, Deng Qianhu, we also met hard stubble this time, with the virtue of Dayue people not heavy bow shooting, We can pull out 2,000 archers to the other side, but I'm afraid that even all the archers in their army have been pulled out."
"What my lord means, the Da Yue army ambushing us on the shore is their main force" Deng Chao blinked: "Which genius's idea is this, the water war does not send sailors out of the battle, but it is to let those soldiers running on the shore attack with bows and arrows, this is that they have too many arrows to use up, and now that we have stabilized the formation, they want to rely on these bows and arrows to destroy us, and they think a little better."
"I'm afraid, I'm afraid, people don't just have such a hand" Liu Qingqing looked at the sky, and said with some concern: "This bow and arrow offensive will stop after a while, now they are at the end of the strong crossbow, I found that these bows and arrows can't help us, and soon there will probably be a new method of warfare, we are not afraid of water warfare, and we are not afraid of this bow and arrow, but, if it is like last time, these Dayue people rely on the advantage of numbers to fight with us, then we are dead, I am afraid that they will not even be able to hurt their bones, Dayue Ruan Dynasty, Although it is a small country, tens of thousands of soldiers and horses can still be put together, and it will not be too difficult to fight out our more than 1,000 people."
"Their sailors dare to fight, I told them not to get close to our fleet" Deng Chao said slowly, the last patrol ship was attacked, it was an accident, really prepared, with the equipment of their own fleet, the Dayue people want to use their small broken boats to fight on the side, it is absolutely impossible.
"I believe this" Liu Qingqing smiled: "I found that until now, you have ordered the defense, although the formation has been arranged, but you have not even ordered the gun doors of the fleet's guns equipped in the cabin to open, is this intended to give them an unexpected surprise?"
"This is natural" Deng Chao smiled: "I now order a counterattack, there must be people on the shore who turn over on their backs, but this is useless, they are too many, they die so little, people don't care, and our shells are counted, besides, if we do this, we will have no hole cards, after the people of Dayue know our means of response, they will definitely not stupidly send people to come to us in a boat" "Very good, very good" Liu Qingqing laughed, the arrows in the sky, as if with his laughter, suddenly stopped, and those harsh sounds in the air disappeared in an instant.
"The arrow stopped" Deng Chao looked at the sky: "My lord, wait until it gets dark, you can release the carrier pigeon, we are trapped in this ghost place, if there is no uncle's uncle's soldiers and horses, we are afraid that it will not be long after dark, I estimate that the Dayue people will start to act, if I am the other party, I will send someone to approach us after dark, and when the time comes, it will be easier to kill us on the boat than the sailor fight" "Okay" Liu Qingqing nodded: "The matter of this battle depends on Deng Qianhu and you, and I will come to ask for help from the Qingfeng Battalion."
On the shore, a group of archers were retreating in an orderly manner, and somewhere by the river, inconspicuous places, two Da Yue people dressed as generals were looking at the retreating soldiers.
From where they stood, they could see clearly the Dong Fan fleet on the river and the retreating Da Viet sergeants.
"Commander, they still have some strength to spare, and the enemy ships have not suffered heavy losses, at this time, is it too early to ask them to withdraw?"
The naval army commanded Li Kai, even in front of Ruan Tian, deliberately maintained respect, but his words still unconsciously revealed that the military order of the commander of the first army was not discussed with his subordinates, even if this subordinate was from the forbidden army and was the brother of the queen's mother, because of this question, he was dragged out and beaten with dozens of military sticks, and there was no place to be reasonable.
The generals around Ruan Tian glared angrily at this domineering guy who didn't know the height of the sky, for this kind of generals who came up by nepotism, none of them had a good impression, but the other party was lucky, the first battle from the royal capital to here, it was fought very beautifully, the navy won a big victory, and captured the enemy ships, which greatly boosted the morale of the army, which made them very depressed.
Li Kaicai doesn't care about the eyes of these guys, here, there is only Ruan Tian in his eyes, perhaps, Ruan Wen's guy can also be counted, but it definitely does not include the subordinates of these two guys.
"The attack has no effect, and if you continue to attack, you will hurt your morale in vain" Ruan Wen was not very surprised by his tone, but fiddled with a clairvoyant mirror in his hand, looked at the movement on the river, and replied in his mouth: "Moreover, the arrows in our army's reserves, the rockets to be made, have been almost consumed, and the ordinary ones are simple, for a big ship like them, it has not much effect."
"Then I'll send another team to attack them from underwater, even if it's to scuttle a ship, it's worth it" "The last team of people, didn't they only come back, they are all iron-blooded good men of Dayue, so don't waste their lives in vain" Ruan Tian put down the clairvoyant mirror in his hand and looked at the sky: "If you want to send someone to dive underwater, I mean, you still have to wait until it gets dark."
"What the marshal means, let's fight again when it's dark" Li Kai's face moved, if that's the case, his sailor can move, this big victory, he has to share at least half of the credit, if this is won to the imperial court, but the battle is great "It's my people who fight, your water army, it's okay to be responsible for sending people to the river" Ruan Tian looked at him: "Or, you can send some water monsters to cooperate with my people."
"The enemy army has become a turtle in the urn, and the marshal still does not allow my sailor to fight, is it afraid that I will steal the merit and damage the prestige of the marshal?"
Li Kai said with some resentment: "My navy is a forbidden army, and there is no need to listen to the orders of the governor's mansion."
"If you dare to act without permission, if you don't obey the military order, I will dare to kill you in front of the battle" Ruan Tian was slightly stunned when he heard this, and then laughed, revealing a mouthful of white teeth: "Guess it, will the queen have no choice but to get me when the time comes?"
Li Kai was shocked in his heart, looking around, those generals around Ruan Tian, looking at him, seemed to have some ill intentions, he didn't dare to be tough, in Beijing, maybe Ruan Tian would buy him some face, but here, he was really worried that the other party would do this kind of thing.
"It's Li Kai who doesn't choose what to say, vainly guessing the use of the marshal's troops, and the marshal forgives the sins" He can bend and stretch, Ruan Tian looked at him, snorted slightly, and seemed to be very satisfied with his performance: "Let your navy ships be on standby, after dinner, there will be elite soldiers on board, you make proper arrangements, this battle, your credit is indispensable" "Li Kai obeys the order" Li Kai replied solemnly, and he didn't dare to chirp crookedly anymore.
When his people left from this place, a general beside Ruan Tian came to Ruan Tian's side and said in a low voice: "Dashuai, this Li Kai is arrogant and domineering, will it ruin Dashuai's affairs, otherwise, I will take someone to look at him, and don't let him participate in the action at night."
"It seems" Ruan Tian shook his head: "It's not necessary, moreover, the navy is a navy after all, he has been in charge of the navy for so long, more proficient in water warfare than us, and besides, he has many henchmen in the navy, and he looks like he will cause unnecessary trouble, he can't snatch it" "Understand, I'm going to make people prepare" The general retreated, in their eyes, their own marshal is a god-like character, and there is never anything wrong with what he said, even if his own marshal eats the Qingfeng Battalion and loses several times, it is definitely not the fault of his own marshal, but the people of the Qingfeng Battalion are too cunning and fierce, and the soldiers and generals below are incompetent, and it has little to do with their own marshal. aa2705221 t1706231537: