"A Thousand Steps from the Enemy" Li Chao stood on the deck and could already see the fleet coming from the sky and the lake on the opposite side, more than a thousand large and small warships, all covered as far as the eye could see.
The battle is about to begin, and the army of King Qin is ready.
Li Chao just shook his head and sighed, then turned around and returned to the captain's room in the stern.
"Teacher" Shangguan Yi saw that the teacher's mood was not high, and asked suspiciously, thinking that Li Chao was worried about the outcome of this battle.
"There is nothing to watch in this upcoming battle, there will be no glorious victories, there will be no glory and glory, only cold and merciless cannibalism.
Both sides of the battle were the people of the Han family in the Central Plains, both soldiers of the Tang Empire, they were originally brothers, like brothers and sisters, and they were brothers who could trust each other's lives.
But at this moment, they are killing each other here, which is a tragedy. ” "Let him finish it early" Li Chao sighed and turned to enter the cabin.
The Governor of Hongzhou, the Shangshu of the Criminal Department, General Zuo Xiaowei, and Liu Zhenghui, the Duke of Xing Guo, looked at the dozens of boats that were getting closer and closer, and let out a victorious laugh.
"Don't measure yourself, mantis arm blocks the car" Li Gaoqian said with some uneasiness, "Liu Shuai, does Li Chao want to rely on those twenty or thirty ships to hit our fleet of more than a thousand ships, what is he thinking?"
"Perhaps, he still has some conspiracy" "What kind of conspiracy can there be, on the surface of this wide lake, there is an unobstructed view, where did the conspiracy come from Li Chao is just exhausted, after we blocked here, the dog jumped over the wall in a hurry."
Although Liu Zhenghui was also surprised that Li Chao rushed over with only such a small boat, instead of running away, he felt that he had won.
More than 1,000 boats, 50,000 horses, and 20 or 30 boats Liu Zhenghui is a native of Huazhou, and in his early years, he was Sima of Taiyuan Yingyang Mansion, subordinate to Li Yuan, and was Li Yuan's loyal confidant.
At the beginning of Wude, Liu Zhenghui stayed in Taiyuan, and after Taiyuan was lost and captured, he resolutely did not surrender, and secretly tried to report the enemy situation to Li Yuan to help the Tang army recover Hedong.
As one of the heroes of Taiyuan Yuanmou, Liu Zhenghui's qualifications are very old, but when it comes to the ability to command and fight, it is only average.
He used to be just a Sima of the Eagle Yang Mansion, and he had never fought any big battles alone.
As for water warfare, he doesn't understand it even more.
Facing Li Chao's fleet, his battle plan was very simple, catch up, surround it, and collide.
This is the simplest and most commonly used method of army water warfare, to put it bluntly, it is still the set of gang warfare, and he does not even know the ordinary water combat tactics such as speedboat fire attack and water ghost scuttling boats.
These tactics were mentioned, but Liu Zhenghui refused.
More than 1,000 boats, 50,000 horses, besieging twenty or thirty boats, why do you need such complicated tactics to catch up directly, surround them, and then collide with the gang, jump on them and win.
When the warship rushing in front was less than a hundred paces away from the Huai warship, Liu Zhenghui stood on the deck and smiled even brighter.
The Huai army seemed to be frightened stupidly, they didn't know how to escape.
Instead of running, he turned his ship sideways toward them.
It's like posing for their gangside.
"One Hundred Steps" "Ninety Steps" "Eighty Steps" "Here they are" The flagship Bashang, the gunner, holding a telescope, carefully observed the enemy ships, and rushed up like a swarm, without any formation, and without echelon formation, just like rushing to the market.
The other party seems to really treat them as a flock of fat sheep, ready to rush up and eat them alive.
"Seventy Steps" The officer next to him reminded him loudly.
But the gun commander still didn't give the order, and he was still waiting.
They have artillery, which is more powerful on the water than on land and in the field.
In particular, most of the other party's boats were temporarily requisitioned by merchant ships and fishing boats, which were far worse than Li Chao's sailboats that were biased towards combat.
The distance is getting closer.
Liu Zhenghui was already giving a loud order, ready to jump to the gang to seize the boat.
"Whoever captures Li Chao alive will be rewarded with 100,000 yuan."
Suddenly, Liu Zhenghui saw the portholes of Li Chao's big ships on the opposite side spewing out clusters of orange-red flames.
In the next moment, a dull thunder sounded.
No, that's not thunder.
The first shell hit a small boat that rushed ahead, and the boat was not big, it was still a hard sailing ship.
The two-pound iron bullet smashed a large hole directly into the side of the ship, and the fragments of the wooden planks that exploded were destroyed, killing and injuring a large area.
The boat was not big, in addition to the crew, it also carried many soldiers, and the draft was very deep, and this time, more than a dozen people were directly killed and wounded.
A second shell whizzed in.
The distance was only sixty or seventy paces, but Liu Zhenghui's fleet was so densely lined up that the hundreds of guns of Qin Wangjun's army almost didn't need to be aimed, and they could hit it casually.
When the fierce artillery fire swept across the front line of the fleet, Liu Zhenghui's smile froze on his face, and he only then thought of artillery.
Actually, he didn't think about artillery now, but he didn't take artillery too seriously.
He had seen the artillery of the Divine Machine Army, the musket had a very short range, and it was very troublesome to load, far less powerful than the bow and arrow.
And several kinds of artillery, a broken cannon of dozens of pounds, is very convenient to carry, but it is only a large musket, not stronger than a crossbow.
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As for those big general cannons, even siege mortars, they are too big.
The lightest one is also thousands of catties, most of them are thousands of catties, and he definitely can't fit such a cannon on a ship.
But now, the continuous shelling made him suddenly discover that Li Chao's ship had cannons, and there were many cannons.
Here's how they did it "Rush over, rush" Liu Zhenghui's forehead was full of beads of sweat, but he couldn't retreat at this time, what if Li Chao had more cannons, it would take time to reload, and Li Chao only had a few boats, but they had more than a thousand boats, and many ants could bite the elephant, as long as they got closer, Li Chao would be finished.
Another bombardment came, and he was surprised to see that it was actually two iron bullets with chains bolted together, whistling and spinning.
The chain bullet hit his ship, wrapping itself directly around the mainmast.
The tremendous force broke the upper part of the mast.
The creak of a broken mast tugged at the sails and the cable boat fell.
The crew on deck scattered and fled.
Liu Zhenghui ran to the side, but a cable was torn off, and it whistled over, like a long whip on his back, knocking him to the ground in one fell swoop.
He turned to get up, only to see the broken mast grow bigger and bigger in his eyes.
In a hurry, a lazy donkey rolled, and Liu Zhenghui was able to avoid being hit by a mast.
Finally crawled out of the canvas, but Liu Zhenghui saw that his fleet was already falling apart and fleeing, and no one paid attention to his battle orders.
Defeated He stood there stunned, thoughts of disbelief flashing through his mind. t1706231537: