Although he spoke tactfully and tried his best to shift the responsibility to Huangfu Gong and Che Li, Cai Renyuan was still so excited that he rushed to the window with a roar, "Nonsense, who gave him the courage?! He is fighting, not playing tricks!"
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In naval battles, the flexibility and responsiveness of battleships are extremely demanding. Even if a new ship is put into service, it requires repeated drills by officers and sailors before it can exert its full performance.
There are huge differences between the Song warships and the Goryeo warships in many details. Han Qing rashly put the captured Goryeo warships into the combat queue. Not only would the combat effectiveness of the Song Navy not be improved accordingly, but it would also cause the sailors to
Poor ship control drags down the entire fleet!
Unless, unless this fleet is only used to transport supplies and personnel and will not participate in water warfare at all.
Or, the commander of this fleet is an out-and-out amateur!
There is no obstruction on the sea, and people's field of vision is much wider than on land. The flagship's first floor is far higher than the sea level.
Cai Renyuan stuck his head out of the window and easily saw the fleeing target fleet.
In order to maintain a high speed, the Song fleet adopted a standard flying geese formation. Two Song-style warships were responsible for taking turns cutting the waves at the front, and the remaining warships followed in a herringbone formation.
Because the operation was not skilled enough, the right wing of the wild goose formation was obviously lagging behind the left wing. And among the right wings, as Cai Qing just reported, were all Goryeo warships!
A total of fifteen ships, no, seventeen ships. There are two warships trailing on the left wing of the wild goose formation, also of the Goryeo standard!
In other words, Han Qing initially only had fifteen battleships in his hands!
And so far in the war, no fewer than 150 Korean warships have been destroyed in his hands!
In the Battle of Jiaowan, Han Qing only used fifteen warships and hundreds of fishing boats to destroy the left and right wing squadrons of the Goryeo Navy.
In the battle last night, he used fifteen warships to destroy 80% of the Goryeo Navy's baggage!
There was a sudden pain in the pit of his heart, and immediately afterwards, Cai Rengui felt his throat was sweet. He quickly held his breath and closed his mouth tightly to hold back the hot blood that had surged into his throat.
"Commander--" Cai Qing, the deputy commander of the army, was so frightened that he rushed forward and held his arm.
Cai Renyuan ungratefully freed his arm, tried to adjust his breathing, pointed at the Song Dynasty fleet in the distance, and shouted loudly, "Send all the sentry ships out and entangle them. Then the whole army will be escorted!"
The man surnamed Han did not understand naval warfare, although he took advantage of the Goryeo navy. However, if he knew naval warfare, he should not have incorporated the Goryeo warships into his fleet, let alone bring more than half of the newly captured warships with him.
Boat, show off your power in front of Mr. Cai!
"Woooooooooo!" The conch roared, sending out Cai Renyuan's orders in waves.
The entire Goryeo main fleet accelerated again, and under the huge battleships, the oars protruded densely like centipede legs.
This kind of tactical action cannot be maintained for too long, but it can increase the speed of the warship by a level in a short period of time and shorten the distance between it and the target.
More than forty picket ships without any load rushed out of the fleet like barracudas and pounced desperately on the Song army ahead.
Using a dozen pickets to attack a warship worth nearly a hundred materials is tantamount to suicide. However, this method of combat can overwhelm the warships.
As long as the Goryeo sentry ship can slow down the Song Dynasty fleet, the Goryeo fleet that launches a sprint will have a chance to catch up and annihilate it with more than three times the force!
The Song Dynasty fleet ahead quickly discovered Cai Renyuan's intentions and began to work hard to increase its speed.
However, as Cai Renyuan had previously judged, in just a few days, Song sailors could not fully grasp and exert the full capabilities of the Goryeo warships.
Although the Song sailors on the battleship tried their best, the distance between the enemy and ourselves was still rapidly closing.
Soon, the first batch of Goryeo sentinel ships caught up and plunged into the Song army's wild goose formation at the expense of destroying the ship and killing people.
The collision occurred quickly, and the four sentinel ships were knocked over one after another. The Korean sailors on board jumped into the sea to escape. The speed of the warship that collided with it was also obviously slowed down.
More Goryeo sentry ships chased after them, and the officers on the deck roared fiercely, and one after another threw out the flying grabs tied with ropes to grab the side of the Song Dynasty warship.
Don't seek to jump into a gang to fight, just seek to slow down the target.
On the deck of the Song Dynasty warship, the soldiers had to concentrate on dealing with Feizhao, cutting the ropes trailing behind Feizhu, and everyone was in a hurry.
"Bang!" A warship released its crossbow and shot a sentinel ship through.
However, it was unable to stop more sentry ships from continuing to approach them.
The wild goose formation was disturbed and could no longer remain intact. Especially the Goryeo-style battleship on the right wing was disturbed to the point where its speed dropped significantly and almost left the formation.
The Song army suddenly launched a counterattack, and the eleven sentry ships stopped advancing and turned around to fight the chasing Goryeo sentry ships. The Goryeo standard warships in the Song Dynasty team also adjusted their tactics, or used crossbows to shoot at the Goryeo sentry ships that were chasing them to interfere with them.
The sentry ship shot, or directly pressed its bow against the sentry ship's hull!
"Cut off the tail to survive?" Seeing the changes in the Song Army's tactics from a distance, Cai Renyuan's brows quickly tightened.
The draft of the battleship is five to eight times that of the sentinel ship. If they give it a try, they will immediately gain the absolute upper hand. However, this also means that they have given up their chance to escape and are about to be overtaken by the Korean main fleet and surrounded and annihilated!
As soon as he finished speaking, the outcome of the battle in the distance was already decided.
After losing 30% of the more than 40 Korean sentry ships that rushed to entangle them, they lost the courage to continue their mission and took the initiative to slow down.
The Goryeo-style Song ships and sentry ships left behind by Han Qing struggled to regroup, and then changed their course again.
"Catch them, surround them, don't let any of them go." Cai Renyuan instinctively felt that the situation was about to get out of his control, and shouted loudly at the top of his voice.
"Wooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooing, his fleet launched the final sprint, mightily pounced on the target two miles away, like a bad wolf that had been injured.
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"Wooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo for of responses.
Immediately afterwards, all the ships began to sprint, instead of chasing their own boats in front of them, they headed towards the nearby coast!
"Crazy people, a bunch of crazy people!" Cai Renyuan was furious, staring at the red eyes, and slammed the window frame hard.
There are no piers or natural harbors nearby. There are only towering coasts and rugged rocks.
The battleships and picket ships rushed over, and there were not many opportunities to run aground. Basically, the final result was that they hit the rocks and were shattered to pieces.
"They, they used our boat, our boat! These Song people, they don't care at all!"
"They stole the boat, they stole the boat!"
"These damn guys don't even know how to feel sorry!"
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Downstairs, there were Korean soldiers shouting curses at the top of their lungs. Every word fell on Cai Renyuan's ears like a knife stabbing him.
As if to confirm the curse, the Song Dynasty warship that escaped the fastest had collided with the rocks on the shore. The ship suddenly stopped, jumped out of the sea more than three feet, and then rolled over the rocks and moved forward.
It rushed a full three feet away before stranding on a rocky beach. Along the way, broken boards were scattered everywhere.
But the big Song Erlang on the boat did not feel any regret at all. One by one, he jumped off the rope and ran towards the shore. In the blink of an eye, he disappeared without a trace.
"Bang!" Another warship hit the rocks, and a huge hole was knocked out of the bottom. The soldiers of the Song Dynasty on the deck were thrown around, but when they stood up, they were all very happy.
"Bang!" "Bang!" "Bang!"...
One after another, every time a warship or a sentry ship collided with the rocks, the sound was like muffled thunder, hitting Cai Renyuan's ears.
Both battleships and sentry ships are of the Korean style!
It is all made by Cai Renyuan who has spent many years supervising it!
For a moment, Cai Renyuan suddenly wanted to shout loudly, asking the Song army not far away to stop charging on the beach and stop destroying the battleships and sentry ships. For this reason, he would rather give in and stop pursuing them!
However, he opened his mouth again and again, but he didn't shout out a word. Deep down in his heart, he also knew clearly that even if he shouted out, the other party wouldn't be able to hear him!
The only thing he could do was to urge the warships under his feet to speed up and stop the Song Army's crazy behavior. Every ship he could save would be saved.
However, before his warships could get close enough to fire crossbows, the seventeen Goryeo warships that had just been captured by Han Qing a few days ago and the eleven Goryeo sentry ships that came from the same way had all washed up on the beach and destroyed themselves.
The big Song Erlang on the boat, laughing and joking, stepped on the rocks and fled to the coast. In the blink of an eye, he disappeared into the picturesque fields.
"Chase, turn around and chase Han Qing. He must be on those Song ships. I will cut him into pieces!" Cai Renyuan roared loudly, suppressing the waves of disgust in his chest.
The man named Han was deliberately irritating him.
The man named Han didn't understand naval warfare at all, so he used this underhanded trick.
He won't be fooled!
He must catch the man surnamed Han at sea, and then make him pay with blood!
"Thank you, Governor Cai, for the boat!" A group of people poked their heads out on the shore, waving flags and shouting, extremely arrogant!
It was Han Qing's recognition flag. He was not on those departing Song Dynasty warships at all!
Just now, among those Goryeo-style battleships that self-destructed, there was one that he temporarily regarded as his home ship!
Now, he has landed.
From beginning to end, he never thought about having a naval battle with anyone!
Unless the main fleet of Goryeo follows what he did just now and takes the initiative to hit the rocks. Otherwise, there will be no way to send troops ashore to pursue him!
Even if we send troops ashore, we may not be able to catch up!
This place is less than two hundred miles away from Dengzhou Port. If a war horse is hidden on the shore in advance and Han Qing jumps on the horse, he can successfully return to Dengzhou within two days!
"Pfft -" Cai Renyuan finally couldn't suppress it, and a mouthful of blood spurted out from his throat.
