This Jingzhou navy has enough arrogance, so it is understandable.
Liu Zheng smiled and said nothing.
In fact, he already had a plan on how to deal with the boarding battle and the Jingzhou pole.
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He preferred to watch these generals discussing and clashing their wisdom.
This kind of atmosphere is what he likes.
Jiang Xuan did some research and then said: "The Jingzhou building ship is suitable for collision. Of course, in terms of collision, it is naturally not the opponent of our Yinzhou ship! However, the opponent has the advantage of the river bank, which must be guarded against!"
Xiao Qi nodded: "Besides, the draft of the building ship is not deep. The enemy will definitely release the water first or set up obstacles under the water based on the disadvantage of our Yinzhou ship blowing too deep water!"
"In this case, a boarding battle will be inevitable!"
Everyone discussed and discussed, still shaking their heads.
There is still no way to avoid a boarding battle.
This is the biggest headache for the Liangzhou Army now.
Liu Zheng was about to speak.
"What if it's a fire attack?"
At this moment, someone suddenly asked.
Liu Zheng's eyes lit up, he clapped his hands and smiled: "Finally we've come to the point!"
Everyone was shocked immediately.
Fire attack?
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In ancient times, no matter what naval warfare tactics were used by any nation, they all had one thing in common, that is, all warships used were made of wood, and the best way to deal with wooden warships was to attack them with fire.
Apart from the Byzantines who were good at using fire attack (Greek fire) in naval battles, the only ones who used fire attack tactics to the extreme in water battles were the Chinese.
There are two main types of weapons that are most common in water warfare. One is a long-range weapon that projects burning objects at enemy ships, such as rockets (the arrows are tied with burning objects or gunpowder packets) and gunpowder arrows (the arrows are propelled forward by burning gunpowder).
, trebuchets, thunder cannons, etc. The other type is the fire ship, which is a warship loaded with flammable materials. It is set alight during combat, and then uses the wind to rush towards the enemy fleet to achieve the purpose of burning the enemy ship.
The two Song Dynasties were the peak period of the development of water warfare in ancient China. During this period, not only did many new weapons that combined hot and cold appear due to the needs of war, but also many wonderful examples of water warfare occurred. In the fourth year of Jianyan of the Song Dynasty, Han Shizhong led the Southern Song Dynasty Water War.
The Song division intercepted the Jin army returning north, Wanyan Zongbi, and the two sides fought fiercely on the Zhenjiang River. Because the Song army's ships were huge, often several times larger than the gold ships, they had the upper hand in the water battle and gradually drove the Jin army to the backwater port of Huangtiandang on the south coast.
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The navy of the Song Army blocked the exit of Huangtiandang. If the Jin Army broke through in light boats, they would use sea ships to attack them from two sides. When the two sides approached, the soldiers of the Song Army threw iron hooks and dragged them over. The Jin Army was besieged for nearly a month, and then the local villagers were bribed with a lot of money.
, learned that there was an old Laoguan River nearby that could lead to the Yangtze River, so they dug overnight and returned to the Yangtze River, but the Song army was still no match for the water battle.
Zongbi spent a lot of money to find a way to defeat the enemy. A Fujian man named Wang Zhiquan gave Zongbi advice and taught the Jin people to fill the boat with earth and lay flat slabs on top to prevent bumps and hooks on the hull. "Don't get out when the wind blows."
"If the wind dies down, then it will come out" and fired rockets at the awnings of the Song army's ships. The Jin people used this trick and later defeated the Song army.
In the 23rd year of Shaoxing, a naval battle broke out between the Song and Jin Dynasties on Tang Dao. The Song army used gunpowder weapons for the first time in a human naval battle. "Bao Ji Ming Fire (Powder) Arrows were shot in a ring. When the arrow hit, the smoke swirled up and burned for several seconds."
Hundreds of ships", and finally defeated the Jin army. In October of the same year, the gold lord Wan Yanliang led his army to invade the south, and a fierce water battle broke out with the Song army on the Yangtze River. Song general Yu Yunwen commanded the Song army to launch thunder cannons at the Jin army. Many enemy ships had
The burned ones defeated the Jin army after two days of hard fighting. The gold owner Wan Yanliang refused to retreat and was eventually killed by his subordinates.
The Battle of Chibi in the late Eastern Han Dynasty was a classic example of a fire ship attack: Cao Cao's army connected the war ships end to end to form a huge water camp. Zhou Yu asked his generals to feign surrender to lower Cao Cao's vigilance, and then
Ten small boats loaded with flammable materials were sent to use the wind to rush towards Cao Jun's water stronghold. When the opponent had no time to react, they suddenly set fire to them and burned most of the opponent's ships in one fell swoop.