Chapter 2861 Baekje Sailor Covered by Iron and Fire
Under Guoguang Junyong's gaze, the giant Tang Navy ships that had been arrayed suddenly opened square windows one after another.
Then, from those windows, blue-black tubes protruded. The silent and deep color made Kunimitsu Junyong feel cold in his heart for no reason.
But at this moment, the straight-line distance between the warships of both sides was less than two miles, and the warships of the Baekje Navy were almost completely crowded together. There was no way to make any extra moves and they could only bravely charge forward.
"Angle ten, three layers of chain bombs have been loaded. Angle fifteen, two layers of chain bombs have been loaded. Angle fifteen, one layer of chain bombs have been loaded..."
"Fire!"
Each of the Datang Navy artillery gunners who had been practicing hard on the sea near Tamluo Island these days lit the artillery fuses on their respective gun emplacements.
In the blink of an eye, the blue-black artillery barrel suddenly plummeted toward the rear, and was immediately blocked by the sandbag behind it.
In the eyes of the soldiers of the Baekje Navy, the nozzles of the tubes protruding from the sides of the Tang warships suddenly lit up, and puffs of white smoke spurted out from the nozzles.
All the Baekje soldiers seemed a little confused as they looked at the dozen or so giant ships, all of which spewed out tubes of thick white smoke.
Then, something seemed to cross the sky, and there was a continuous roaring sound like thunder in the sky, one after another at this moment.
It felt like something heavy hit the mast of his warship hard.
Guoguang Junyong subconsciously turned his head to look, and was shocked to find that on the mast standing tall behind him, the sail had been torn apart at some point.
Before he could recover from the shock, he saw several shield-wielding Baekje warriors standing in the middle of the ship, as if they had been swept by an invisible sword.
All the bodies were broken at the waist, and then the upper body was tilted and slowly fell to the deck. It seemed that it was only then that they realized and started to roar and scream...
This didn't stop, Guoguang Junyong suddenly felt that the warship beneath him shook several times as if it had hit a rock.
Suddenly, there was a huge roar in my ears, as if thunder appeared out of thin air. A large hole was opened on the originally flat deck, and fire burst out from below the deck...
Loud noises, screams, and wails one after another began to echo in the huddled Baekje warships.
From time to time, you can see the masts like spears pointing straight to the sky creaking and falling down, and deafening roars appear repeatedly in this dense Baekje fleet.
The Baekje warship, which was originally struggling to move forward, was directly beaten and knocked unconscious by this sudden and fierce attack.
There were even some feudal superstitious elements who jumped into the sea, howling like ghosts.
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Li Ji looked at the already chaotic Baekje Navy, the fire that emerged from the Baekje Navy from time to time, and the thicker and thicker smoke.
A gratified smile appeared on his face, he stroked his long beard and sighed rather sadly.
"With this power of artillery, is there anywhere in the world that I, Wu Ben of the Tang Dynasty, cannot reach?"
General Wu Zhonglang was still standing on the high ground of the island at this moment. He saw that the Baekje fleet began to become panicked, and the warships in front wanted to change direction.
However, the warships at the rear continued to push forward under the influence of inertia, and the sound of earth-shattering explosions still echoed one after another in the Baekje fleet.
At this time, some small boats in the Baekje fleet who were not afraid of death finally rushed out of the fleet at the risk of death, and the oarsmen were rowing hard.
The Baekje warriors on the boat raised their swords and made roars that they thought were terrifying. Their actions inspired more boats to follow them and rush forward.
"Give the order. On the third level of the gun position, continue to load chain ammunition and fire. On the second level of the gun position, load the explosive shells and prepare to fire. On the first level of the gun position, start loading grape bullets. Angle five..."
Following the instructions from the captains of the cruise gunboats, the gunners at the gun positions in the cabins became busy.
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After the second shell was loaded, the gun barrels on the ship's side were spitting out fire and gunpowder smoke, and once again roared towards the Baekje fleet in the distance.
The gun emplacements on the first floor closest to the sea had already adjusted their angles and began to face the rapidly approaching boats.
The iron helmet on his head flew away to nowhere, and Guoguang Junyong, whose hair was scattered like tangled grass, stared at the small boats getting closer and closer to the Tang Dynasty's giant ship.
As long as those small boats are attached to the giant ships of the Tang Dynasty, the warriors on board can entangle their opponents. At that time, the warships in the rear can move forward to outflank them...
"Go up, everyone, and make contributions to Baekje. At this moment, kill all these Tang dogs. These big ships belong to Baekje..."
A burly military leader was roaring loudly at this moment, but he did not forget to put up a huge shield in front of him, just to prevent the arrows shot from the ship from missing.
The roar of mourning was still echoing, and the Baekje military leader saw the mouth of the pipe near the sea that had not emitted fire for a long time, and finally erupted fire and thick smoke.
The head of the Baekje army subconsciously shrank behind the giant shield. After the huge roar, he heard a series of noises, like raindrops falling on the roof and eaves.
However, this sound seemed to be amplified dozens or hundreds of times.
He saw a rower behind him who was rowing hard, and his head was half blown off. The rower behind him had a big hole in his chest...
At this moment, the military leader felt that his legs were burning. When he looked down, he saw that a hole had been smashed out of the thick shield at some point.
And half of the iron armor on his body was immediately ripped off, and the front of his thigh was already a lake of flesh and blood...
When Guoguang Junyong saw those fast ships approaching less than a stone's throw away from the Tang Dynasty's giant ship, shrouded in flames, the fast ships were filled with dense Baekje warriors, and they swept away them directly.
More than half of it.
One by one, those Baekje warriors fell into the sea crookedly, as if they had been electrocuted. Soon, the sea area was filled with a strange scarlet color...
Kunimitsu Junyong's mind was completely blank at the moment. He didn't even know when he was dragged into the boat by the soldiers and how he escaped from the battlefield that was blazing on the sea.
All he knew was that the Baekje fleet he commanded was finished...
The warships of the Tang Dynasty navy that had originally fled were now being surrounded from all directions. The cheers of the Tang Dynasty's victory were like huge waves, echoing outside the mouth of the Baijiang River...