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Chapter 638: Broadside Battle (I)


Liu Renliang fought back!

For the first time, the warships of the Don army stopped and retreated.All together in a line, like a wall on the water.At this moment, if you look down from a high altitude, it is easier to see the overall situation of the water war.The harbor at the mouth of the Baijiang River is like a natural embrace, and the shore foundation extending on both sides is like embracing the sea water of the port with both arms.The seven ships of the Tang Army, in order, stopped at the rear of the port.Behind is Zhou Liucheng.And in the middle of the port, there are more than 100 large and small warships of the Tang army that have retreated from the sea.Liu Renliang's boat is also among them.That is, the Tang army formed a defensive line with large and small matching warships, and protected the seven building ships behind them.In front, the entrance to the port of the Baijiang Estuary is the narrowest entrance to the sea in the entire port.Only two or three large ships were allowed to pass side by side.Ships of the Japanese are pouring in frantically from this opening.At one time, all kinds of boats filled half of the harbor.However, because of the narrow entrance, all the Japanese ships could not be flooded in for a while.Even if they all come in, it is impossible to deploy all of them in formation due to the limited port environment.Su Dawei laughed, high-fived, and said: "Close the door and beat the dog, Liu Renliang is worthy of being a famous general of the Tang Dynasty Water Division." ”Ashina Daozhen, An Wensheng and Cui Qi, Su Qingjie and others also woke up at this time.Use the terrain to limit the number of enemies, and then concentrate forces to counterattack, first knock out the advance of the Japanese naval division, and frustrate the enemy's spirit.The war drums of the Tang Army, at this moment, made the strongest sound.The blood of all the Tang troops seemed to vibrate and roar together with the sound of drums.It was only at this time that the Japanese knew what the counterattack of the Tang Army was like.The first is the stone thrower.From the medium-sized warships of the Tang Army, they are basically equipped with one or two small stone throwing machines.Throw a large fireball from it.The fireball streaked through the air with a bright trail of tail flames, like a comet, and crashed headlong into the Japanese warship.In peacetime, although this kind of trebuchet has a long range, its accuracy is very poor, and its deterrence is greater than the actual combat significance.Whether or not you can hit the enemy is a matter of luck.But now, due to the limitation of the surface terrain, the boats of the Japanese people are stacked together.Such a big target can be hit with your eyes closed.For a while, the warship was constantly hit by fireballs, and let out a scream like a ghost crying wolf.From time to time, warships caught fire and sank.In addition to the stone thrower, there were gunpowder arrows on the warships of the Tang people.Not inferior to the crossbow arrows of the Japanese people, as well as the rain of bows and arrows.For a time, there were arrows like shuttles, and in a small space, they reaped the lives of the Japanese people to their heart's content.On the warship of the Japanese people, the commanding generals let out a strange roar.The flag on the lookout changed.The huddled boats abandoned their comrades who were on fire around them, and scurried around like headless flies.Although the Tang army's offensive was fierce and the port was relatively narrow, it was impossible to intercept all the Japanese boats after all.At this time, the drums of the Tang army changed.Liu Renliang changed the flag language again.The large and small warships of the Tang army separated from the middle, turned into left and right wings, and gave way to the middle passage.The war, which had long been burned miserably by the fireballs and rockets of the Tang Army, poured in like a swarm.In front of them was the largest warship of the Tang Army.Floor ship.The two-wing warships of the Tang people constantly threw fire rain from the left and right, delaying the passage of the Japanese convoy and harvesting the lives of the enemy.And the sailors on the ship, after receiving the flag, also began to give nervous orders.Seven building ships, except for Su Dawei's main ship, the remaining six lined up or so, and took the initiative to go forward.It's like the wings of a main ship.In fact, it faintly formed a wall on the sea, and the warships of the Japanese people were carried in it.The Japanese people poured in from the port, first suffered from the fierce fire attack of more than 100 small and medium-sized warships led by Liu Renliang, and when they poured in again, they had already fallen into the pocket formation of the Tang army.But this is still not enough to show that the Don army was victorious.All the ships of the Tang people combined, there were only more than a hundred and less than two hundred.There were more than 1,700 warships of the Japanese people.If you can't inflict enough casualties and destroy a large number of Japanese warships, I'm afraid that you won't be able to shake the Japanese people's determination to take risks."

Everyone be ready to fight."

Su Dawei took the helmet from An Wensheng and put it on his head.He redressed his armor again.The soldiers around him came up and helped him check his armor.An Wensheng and Su Qingjie are all generals, and they have their own soldiers around them to help check the armor and wear.Ready to meet the enemy, Su Dawei made a gesture towards the soldiers on the lookout on the mast.The soldier's flag waved.The rousing horn of attack sounded.The cabin opened, and a large number of Don soldiers, armed to the teeth, poured into the plank from the belly of the ship, ready to participate in the battle.The competition between sailors in this era is not like the later generations can throw kills from a distance.Using trebuchets is already a rare black technology.The general medium-range distance is with rockets.In the end, it is the contact battle that determines the victory.The tactics of the pirates were to use small boats and fast ships, and quickly approached the merchants' large ships with the current, and then the ants attached to them.Get on the boat and kill people, take the boat, all in one go.But this time, they met the Tang Water Master.Before they could get closer, they were hit by the huge slapstick on the Tang Junlou ship.At light, the sails of the boat break.In the worst case, the ship's side was shattered and flooded.Even if you avoid the ups and downs of the village, it doesn't mean that you can get close to the building boat of Datang.In addition to the lever, there is also the ejector rod.Long bamboo poles stretched out from the building boat, holding up the small boat of the Japanese people, making it impossible for it to catch the Tang army's warship and use the tactic of ant attachment to seize the ship.This contact war, at the very beginning, has entered a white-hot level.The Japanese people all stared at Su Dawei's ship, just because the flag on the main ship was Su Dawei, the governor of the Tang Dynasty.Such a big fish made the Japanese people crazy.The hundreds of boats that poured into the harbor took advantage of the flexibility of the small boats to the extreme.escaped from the gap in the Tang Army's warship and rushed to the building ship.After being intercepted by other building ships, one by one they were not afraid of death and shot at the Tang Army.After some boats were smashed by the Tang Army's slap rod, the people on the boat fell into the water, and they also rowed hard to the building boat of the Tang Dynasty.Unfortunately, the boat is too high, and the wooden planks near the waterline are very slippery, making it difficult to climb for a while.Some of the Japanese people were forced to pull out the knives on their waists and frantically chisel the bottom of the Tang people's boats.On the water, the war continues.Smoke billowed from the air.Rocks pierce the air.A rain of arrows and fireballs flew back and forth.Finally, the boat of the Japanese broke through the poles and poles on the Tang Junlou ship, and dodged the rockets and crossbow arrows of the Tang people.Finally threw the flying claws onto the warship.A large number of Japanese people let out a beast-like roar, and barefoot, along the flying claw rope, quickly climbed towards the Tang ship.What awaits them is the next round of war.How to survive under the swords and guns of the soldiers of the Tang Dynasty.The war of the sailors has gone from the near sea, to the port, to the rocket, and finally to the ship-to-ship battle, the battle.Every minute, human lives are harvested.One warship after another caught fire and sank.The entire Baijiang estuary turned into a sea of fire.()