Chapter 787 Shark Tactics

Kill all millions of soldiers in Jiangnan, and the sword on his waist is still bloody!

The old monk didn't know the hero, so he just asked for his name.

——"Don't mess with monks" Zhu Yuanzhang

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The navy from both sides slowly approached the lake, several miles apart. Liu Zhan's warships had a clear advantage in scale.

Among Liu Zhan's warships, the most eye-catching one was dozens of giant ships painted with fangs. The largest one was fifteen zhang long, two zhang wide, and several zhang high, and could accommodate 800 boatmen (sailors).

The giant ship is lined with female walls, battle grids, banners, crossbows, windows, spear holes, and throwing cars to build stone and iron juice, which is like a city turret. The ship is often hung with rope nets soaked in mud to resist the enemy.

The giant ship has a large tonnage, deep draft, stable navigation, and a large number of oars and soldiers. The middle cabin of the hull is closed, which is the cockpit for the boatman (oarder) to row together; the bottom cabin is a ballast bag of earth and stone, which reduces the storm and waves.

The giant ship is divided into three levels. During the water war, the tall buildings at the stern of the ship can not only look out, but also shoot arrows from a high place. On the first deck, rebel cavalry rode high-headed horses, galloping back and forth on the deck, showing off their might.

How powerful was Chen Honghu leading the Jianghuai Navy to defeat the Silla Navy in Dengzhou?

Unfortunately, Chen Honghu did not listen to what Bai Fu said. After winning the naval battle, he was proud and underestimated the enemy, resulting in the entire Jianghuai Navy's army being wiped out.

There is a "Wangshan" in front of the crossbow body, and a scale is marked on it, which can greatly improve the shooting hit rate. After the arrow is loaded, the crossbow shooter aims at the target through "Wangshan" and adjusts the launch angle according to different distances.

After the string is turned, the loading hand will quickly pull the handle, and the arrows in the cassette will automatically be loaded into the crossbow chamber, and the arrows bite the crossbow string, and the loading will be completed.

The soldier was caught in the arrow, covered his throat with his hands, screamed, and then he planted a green onion back and fell into the water from the side of the giant ship.

The war horses neighed on the deck of the rebel giant ships, lined up in order, and swords and halberds. The rebel soldiers held weapons and long hooks in hand, ready to wait for the warships to line up and jumped onto the deck of the Tang army's "trailer" and fought each other.

The base of the "Meteor Crossbow" has a rotating shaft that can rotate up and down, left and right, ensuring that there are no dead spots for shooting the crossbow. Even shooting from the loach on the back of the rebel giant ship is effortless.

The crossbow loaders and crossbow shooters trained from the boatmen (sailors) are used to the speed of the loaches, and stand on the hull as if they are walking on the flat ground.

"Boom"

A crossbow arrow was shot out, and the loader quickly loaded the second crossbow arrow. The crossbow shooter continued to aim at the target and fired continuously...

However, under the huge water pressure, the cabin door could not be opened. In less than a stick of incense, the lake water overwhelmed the heads of everyone, and hundreds of oars were drowned in the lower cabin.

When Liu Zhan was proud, Ding Jiuqu led the vanguard navy to advance slowly, and took the lead in launching an attack when it was less than one mile away from Liu Yin and Xu Yi's Five-Oral Battleships.

Due to the inconvenience of movement, the rebel giant ship was unable to repel the first wave of attacks from the Tang Navy. The second dragon emerged from the water formation soon became disorganized.

Liu Zhan's warships were not used for water battles, but were at most infantry combat platforms. The reason why they were built so large was that they were used as highly mobile troops transporting and baggage teams or ladders for siege cities.

Ding Jiuqu commanded the "Shizi" and took the opportunity to rush towards Xu Yi's Five-Tooth Battleship. When he caught off guard, Xu Yi was very panicked and quickly turned the bow of the ship and retreated.

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The oars were shocked, and threw down the oars and rushed to the cabin door above their heads. Everyone was in a mess.

The "meteor crossbows" on fifty bed crossbows and sea loaches opened fire at the same time, and a net of arrows was woven in front of the rebel ship's side, which made the rebel soldiers unable to raise their heads.

As the rabbit rose and falcon fell, Ding Jiuqu ordered, the boatman on the "Ship" decisively pulled off the frame, released the strings, and the propeller at the stern turned quickly, increasing the speed of the boat to three times.

Seeing the rebel soldiers appearing in the "Wangshan", the Tang army's crossbow shooter pulled the trigger and shot the crossbow arrow.

"Swoosh swish swish"

Seeing the Tang army loaches coming, the rebel soldiers poked their heads out of the side of the ship, trying to descend from above and shoot the Tang army's soldiers with crossbow arrows.

A spear with feathers shot out at a speed that was difficult to detect with the naked eye, from bottom to top, hitting the neck of the rebel soldier.

Ding Jiuqu led the way, and used twenty "pilots" as the vanguards to rush into the heart of the Liu Zhan Navy's two dragons coming out of the water formation, besieging two enemy main ships, the Five-Tooth Battleship.

The so-called "monk" refers to the hull covered with cowhide to improve its defense ability. The so-called "crisis" refers to its good at charging and breaking the enemy's formation,

In order to strengthen the effect of the "rushing" of the "Mengchong" warship, Ding Jiuqu changed the hull structure. The hull was changed to be as slender as a shuttle to increase speed, and an iron shock angle was extended at the bow of the ship, shaped like a large steel cone.

It was a long time to say that, and fifty crossbows and sea loaches broke out from the Tang army camp with a thunderbolt force and rushed from the top of the waves, like a group of sharks, surrounding the Five-Tooth Battleships and besieging the giant ships from different angles.

The rebel giant ships were separated by the upper and lower decks, and the upper and lower people were silent. It was difficult for the oars to hear the orders on the deck.

The lake water immediately poured back into the cabin of the giant ship.

The crossbows and sea loaches are loaded with arrows, and the arrows are placed in the arrow box. One arrow box contains thirty arrows. The arrows are like bamboo slips, and are threaded side by side with thin ropes.

Xu Yi was not at a loss for defense, but unexpectedly Ding Jiuqu took the initiative to launch an attack and hurriedly sent a fleet to fight, trying to strangle these twenty "barriers" into the formation.

Today, the Tang navy, once known as the King of the Seven Seas, could only stand on his own warship and look up at the enemy ship.

"Swoosh"

The "Tianzi" under Ding Jiuqu's command is also known as "Mengchong".

Ding Jiuqu divided the hundred warships into ten squads, each with two "pilots", five crossbows, sea loaches, two thunderbolts and a bright red "red horse".

Both sides set up formations on the water at the same time.

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The loading hand had already inserted the arrow cassette into the crossbow fuselage, stepped on the pedal with its feet, rotated the gears, and pulled the crossbow string.

The arrows used by the "Meteor Crossbow" are made of wood as poles and iron sheets as feathers. They are actually a spear with feathers, with a longer range. Before the loaches entered the range of the rebel crossbow arrows, the Tang army's "Meteor Crossbow" had already opened fire.

Liu Zhan's navy set up a two-dragon water formation, which is a classic tactic in water battles, and has extremely high requirements for cooperation and command. Once they cooperate, they are very powerful. As the saying goes, the two-dragon water formation will be captured with both claws.

The "big steel cone" at the bow of the "Trail" suddenly pierced into Xu Yi's five-toothed warship, like a city hammer breaking through the city gate, knocking the giant ship out of a big hole the size of a millstone.

Just as Bai Fu's evaluation of the rebels, Liu Zhan's naval tactics are still the way for infantry and cavalry to fight. He did not understand the tactics between ships and did not regard warships as super weapons.

The oars in the lower deck of the Five-Tooth Battleship didn't know what happened, but they felt the hull shaking suddenly, breaking a big hole, and hundreds of buckets of cold lake water poured into the hole.

Seeing the fighter plane appear, Ding Jiuqu personally drove the boat, letting the boat go down the wind, taking advantage of its speed to chase to the side of the Xuyi Five-Tooth Battleship.

Liu Zhan’s younger brother Liu Yin and Xu Yi each led a five-tooth warship as the left and right dragon heads. Each of the five-tooth warships has five giant ships guarding each side, just like the left and right five claws on the golden dragon.

When Liu Zhan saw that the Tang army naval army was just a hundred warships, not even a five-toothed warship, he suddenly felt underestimated the enemy.

The Five-Tooth Battleship drank too deep and slowly sank into the bottom of the lake. It was trapped in the depths of the mud at the bottom of the lake, surrounded by floating green algae...

Before the ship sank, Xu Yi quickly jumped onto a small boat under the cover of his personal soldiers and drove away from the battle formation like a wind.

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The first wave of charge by the Tang army's naval army caused thousands of rebel soldiers (sailors) to die in this battle.
Chapter completed!