The sky was getting darker, and the night was coming.
Compared with the not-so-bright lights on the swarthy boats on the river, the lights on the riverbank are bright.
If it was not clear what the enemy was doing on the bank of the river during the day, at this moment, the lights on the bank of the river were bright, which clearly illustrated a problem, and the Da Yue people were gathering heavy troops to fight this battle.
After the archers withdrew, the Da Yue people did not stop, they would not give the Dongfan fleet in the river time to breathe, and they did not know that they had collected so many sampans from there, after the rocket attack was ineffective, dozens of small sampans ran out of the hidden river channel, and went directly to the fleet on the river, these sampans themselves have no attack power, but if the sampan is full of ignited fire-starting things, and in front of the sampan, there are long iron spikes, then it is another matter.
What's worse is that there are two or four soldiers on the sampan, who act as boatmen, and after the speed and direction of the sampan are correct, they will jump into the water and retreat towards the riverbank, leaving the flaming, extremely fast sampan that will be nailed to the enemy ship and burn until it disintegrates and crashes suicidally towards the fleet.
This is the second plate axe of the Da Yue people.
Just like the three-plate axe that everyone in the Ming Dynasty knows about Cheng Biting Jin, Ruan Tian also prepared a three-plate axe for the Eastern Sailor Division, the first plate axe, which is naturally a rocket that gathers all its strength, this is a bit difficult, after all, although there are archers in the Great Vietnamese Army, it is definitely not a strong point, whether it can mobilize enough archers to destroy the enemy, even Ruan Tian himself does not count on it, however, if he relies on this first wave of attacks, he will dispel the enemy's sharpness, Ruan Tian still feels that it is worth it.
And the second plate axe, is this fireship attack, this idea, in fact, is based on the Ming Dynasty's Dingyuan Bo Qian Wuxian in the battle against the Westerners, but, at that time, Qian Wuxian was on the sea to deal with those red-haired ghost warships, and compared with the vast sea, the Dongfan fleet squeezed in this small piece of water, it is obviously easier to make this tactic achieve miraculous results, and coincidentally, the sailors of the Ruan Dynasty may not be able to build a big ship like the Ming Sailor warship, but, build a small sampan, That's absolutely no problem, Ruan Tian has already collected all the fishing boats in the vicinity, loaded them with fire-starting things, and is waiting for this moment.
The attack of the fireships really made the Dongfan fleet on the river chaotic for a while, and it also paid a certain number of casualties.
None of the trapped ships were ironclads, and if these fireships were allowed to burn like this, it was obvious that they would be doomed without the enemy's action, so they would not let these fireships get close to the fleet under any circumstances.
Qianhu Deng Chao for such an attack, maintain enough restraint, he knows, the enemy's killer has not yet been sacrificed, then, his biggest hole card will never be shown, without the long-range strike of the cannon, when these fireships approach, the fleet is already unavoidable, just when the Dayue soldiers on the river bank saw this situation, they all showed joy one by one, arranged in an arc of the Dongfan fleet, loosened a gap, two Cangshan boats led a few smaller ships, rushed out of the gap, Rush directly at the burning boats, and use their hulls to disperse and block all threats to the fleet.
The so-called success is also Xiao He defeated, narrow waters, concentrated enemy ships, so that this fireship tactics play the greatest power, but if the strong man breaks his wrist, in this way to counteract the attack of the fireship, the effect is also exceptionally good, those small ships that come out to resist these fireships for the fleet, there is no need to move fast at all, just a few turns, these fireships can be stopped, not let a fish that slip through the net drill through their defense line.
Of course, such a defense also has to pay a price, and in the end, back in the protective circle of the fleet, there is only one Cangshan ship, while the other Cangshan ship and the rest of the small boats are in front of the soldiers of the two armies, turning into several huge flames, burning in the heart of the river, and then slowly sinking.
The officers and soldiers on the ship jumped into the water in time and swam towards their own fleet, at this time, a wave of arrows more dense than the rockets launched when they had just encountered shot out of the river bank, Da Yue's archers did not completely withdraw, their most elite archers, have been hiding in the shadows, waiting for this opportunity, and this time their target is not those huge, shooting warships that have little effect, but those human heads swimming in the water.
The river was suddenly blood-red, and the results of this wave of arrow rain were much more than the results of the simultaneous attack of thousands of people, and the Dongfan fleet lost almost forty or fifty people in the water, and never returned to the fleet.
On the boat, Liu Qingqing looked at the scene in front of him, his face was a little ugly, seeing his soldiers in front of him, being slaughtered by the enemy in this way, it was definitely a very uncomfortable feeling for the leader, and Deng Chao's face beside him was even more iron-blue, his eyes looked at the riverbank, and he was about to burst into flames, a few sampans, some worthless fire-starting things, made him pay such a price, and this was all his personal order.
"The carrier pigeon has been released, and within two or three hours, Guangping should receive the news" Liu Qingqing knew that at this time, it was useless to say anything, it was better to say something useful, "Deng Qianhu, Ci is not in charge of the army, this is a war, don't be distracted by a small setback" "I know" Deng Chao nodded fiercely: "These brothers all died because of my orders, these are my siblings."
He gasped a little hurriedly, as if he was trying to calm himself down: "This account, I will write it down, I will ask the Dayue people to get it back, as long as I can live this time, I swear, I will definitely get this account back for my brothers."
Another batch of fireboats were released, this time, the Cangshan boat in the protection circle never came out again, a lucky ship at the end of the team, received an order, took the initiative to start patrolling in front of the fleet, when it was on the side of the ship, densely filled with those burning sampans, it slowly and leisurely turned the hull sideways, and changed the tactics of war, Deng Chao, who had been prepared, had already ordered the soldiers on other ships, one after another, rushed to the bow, with a large number of ballast stones, the fireships attached to the side of the ship were smashed.
The ship toured back and forth, returning to his position, and another ship took over his task and began a second cruise, and then brewed in the same way.
At this point, the attack of the fireship was completely bankrupt.
"My lord, it would be nice if you told me this method earlier" Deng Chao looked at the fire boat that no longer burned on the shore, and his brows furrowed: "Our previous brothers won't die in vain" "I don't understand water warfare, I don't dare to command an insider" Liu Qingqing shook his head, and he was also relieved for a while: "I don't know if this method has any effect, if it doesn't work, then what we will lose is those brothers and a few small boats."
"I really don't understand" Deng Chao looked at him, the look on his face was a little strange, for such a tactic, how to deal with it, the Dongfan Sailor Lecture was not unspoken, but when Ding Yuanbo personally lectured, he also listened carefully, for this kind of tactics invented by Ding Yuanbo, he himself said that if he encountered this kind of fireship, the best way is to use artillery to scatter them from afar, if they can't be scattered, then spread the battle formation as much as possible and avoid them, his old man didn't say that there was such a method at that time,In a hurry, he ordered his subordinates to resist the fleet,The strong man broke his wrist and lost the car to protect the commander,This tactic is probably the uncle commented on his ruthlessness and lack of dexterity.,If you ask the inspection master before you give the order.,The previous defeat.,About seven points may be avoidable.
"I really don't understand" Liu Qingqing nodded, and said with certainty, however, I think, whether it is land warfare or water warfare, roughly the purpose of all tactics is the same, it is to destroy the enemy as much as possible and save yourself, then, whether it is land warfare or water warfare, there must be something in common, like the tactics I just came up with, in your infantry battle formation, it is actually very common, this is needless to say, when the soldiers form a battle formation against the enemy, if there are soldiers injured in the battle array, what will you do?"
"Of course, it is to transport the wounded soldiers to the rear," Deng Chao said without thinking.
"But the integrity of the battle formation will not be affected, right, unless there are too many dead and wounded soldiers, at that time, the entire battle has been lost, and it doesn't make much sense to maintain the integrity of the battle array, we can look at these ships in the fleet, they are all regarded as a huge battle array, these ships, that is, the soldiers in the battle array, as long as they do not die, we can maintain the integrity of the battle array and maintain combat effectiveness" Liu Qingqing looked at Deng Chao, hesitated for a moment, and continued: "Deng Qianhu, I don't mean to accuse you of your tactics, but your right approach is to let the weaker soldiers in the battle formation go out to resist the attack of the entire battle formation for the safety and integrity of the battle formation, without giving them the opportunity to return to the rear of the battle formation after being injured."
Deng Chao was silent, and actually agreed with him in his heart.
The two of them stopped talking, and looked towards the river bank together, the battlefield after this wave of offensive seemed extraordinarily quiet, whether it was the river bank or the river surface.
"It's getting dark" After a long time, Liu Qingqing sighed softly.
"Yes" Deng Chao also said with great feelings: "Today is really a difficult day, perhaps, not only during the day, but at night we will be even more difficult."
"I believe that tonight is also a very difficult night for the Dayue people" Liu Qingqing turned around, his eyes shining a little in the twilight glow: "Deng Qianhu has been enduring the whole day, isn't it just waiting until the night to give them a profound lesson?"
"It must be very profound, very profound" Deng Chao said viciously word by word: "My cannon is already hungry and thirsty" The military and political yamen of Guangping City is brightly lit and heavily guarded.
The letter received half an hour ago made the high-level leaders of Guangping City gather here, Lin Xiaohong waited for two days for the news, hoping to wait for the news that the Eastern Sailor Division would kill all sides in the waters of the Ruan Dynasty, but he didn't expect to wait for such news.
"I don't hide it at all, I'm not surprised that the Dongfan Water Division can directly hit Thang Long City, but it's only been a few days, and such news has come back, Brother Wushuang, are you sure that Liu Qingqing is really your father-in-law's right-hand man, not a little white face who relies on his posture" Lin Xiaohong probably just fell asleep, and was woken up by such bad news, and her mood was very bad.
"Let's not talk about whether these are useful or useless, people's letters for help have arrived, let's discuss what we should do first, just when we hired an unreliable mercenary" "It's good if it's really a mercenary" Lin Xiaohong said angrily, "Take the money to work, life and death have their own destiny, and we don't have to bother about it, it's a big deal to invite another one, and now we have to rescue them, at the beginning, they were so angry that they didn't need our cooperation, I thought it was really powerful, they didn't even need to cooperate with land and water, they deserved to be ambushed again and again, let them show off" When Lin Xiaohong vented the resentment in her heart, Lin Wushuang slowly spoke: "Save, we still have to save, the question is how to save" Everyone nodded in unison, this does not need to be discussed, Changnan has no water power at all, and it is a pity that a water army that was finally obtained is gone, if Changnan wants to develop again, the safety of this waterway must be solved, whether it is the Ruan Dynasty or the Zheng Dynasty, the power on the water is countless times stronger than Changnan, and in a hurry, the establishment of a water division is a dream, and this ready-made combat power is the best to use.
"How to save it, we don't even know where they are, we can only calculate their current position according to the speed and time of their journey down the river, and no matter how they calculate, they are now in the hinterland of the Ruan Dynasty, Ruan Tian's soldiers and horses will not let our soldiers and horses advance to that position as they wish, and even if we do our best to advance to their location, the time spent during this period is not a day or two, and they are under the siege of the enemy, not to mention fighting, there is not even a place to supply, Will they make it through that day?"
Lin Xiaohong shook her head, obviously she had thought it through: "Everyone knows that they should be saved, but the current situation is that even if we try our best, we are afraid that we will not be able to save them." aa2705221 t1706231537: