To the northwest of Taohua Island, amid the huge waves on the sea, nearly two hundred warships were approaching the dock at the northwest corner of Taohua Island.
In the big waves, even these big ships are like small boats, rising and falling uncontrollably with the waves. It is obvious that the hurricane wind has strengthened a lot, and the waves have become a lot bigger. But it has not yet reached the limit at this moment, and the battle
The boat could still barely maintain its direction and rush towards the dock.
Above the pier, the pirates of Taohua Island are swarming on the high cliff. With the reconnaissance advantage of Big Bird Island in the east of the island, the attack direction of the officers, soldiers and ships has always been under control. When it is determined that the opponent's attack target is northwest
When approaching the pier in the direction of the ship, Hai Dongqing and Xu Xing immediately issued an order to mobilize manpower from other places to focus on defense here.
Hai Dongqing's face was livid. He obviously hadn't recovered from the destruction of the underground warehouse. Because not only was the loss of materials, but also the kerosene bed crossbow and other items that could be used as effective defense methods had been destroyed, and the opponent
The momentum is coming, and the situation is really dangerous.
But Haidongqing is Haidongqing after all. Over the years, he has gone through ups and downs and fought against the court with his head raised. He has long been trained to be calm and fearless. In terms of strength, the opponent is actually in a disadvantageous situation. They want to
Attacking the pier is not that easy. In addition to the advantage of its own forces, Haidongqing has already deployed other defense methods on various piers on the island to prepare for emergencies.
When the Ninghai navy approached Li Xu outside Taohua Island, ten warships began to rush forward. Song Yanping and Wang Kai wanted to use these ten warships to break into the dock at high speed as a springboard. Once these ten ships docked at the dock,
This can open a channel for the subsequent fleet to go ashore. In view of this, these ten warships were selected from the ten strongest and most courageous ships in the Ning Navy to withstand the first wave of fiercest defense.
Ten warships encountered breaking waves rushing towards the island within 500 steps of the island. Because on the leeward side of the north of the island, huge waves surged on both sides of the island, and formed a wave after converging in the north of the island.
There is an undercurrent surging towards the shore. It is precisely based on the characteristics of this wave that Song Yanping and Wang Kai believed that it was possible for the ten warships to quickly arrive at the dock shore, just by relying on the power of the swell.
Can quickly rush to the dock.
This is indeed the case. At the beginning, they still relied on the power of oars. When the ten warships encountered the swell at the right time, they tamely rushed down the cliff like galloping horses under the huge force of the swell.
The soldiers on the ship struggled to control the rudder to avoid being driven toward the cliff by the turbulent force, and being smashed against the cliff together with the waves.
Five hundred steps! Four hundred steps! Three hundred steps!
Ning Haijun's warships were getting closer and closer, and everyone on the island held their breath nervously, staring at the ten large ships rushing towards the dock desperately. Everyone's throats were rolling and they were swallowing saliva.
"Two hundred steps!" a leader next to Hai Dongqing shouted. His voice was hoarse and monotonous, but despite the wind and rain, everyone could hear it clearly.
Xu Xing couldn't help but look at Hai Dongqing. When he saw Hai Dongqing's calm face, the tension in his heart was relieved a lot. He has been following this person for more than 20 years and has experienced dangerous situations countless times.
And every time Hai Dongqing didn't panic, he would turn danger into disaster, and it should be the same this time. The reason why he was determined to help this person was precisely because he had a calming temperament.
"Holy Duke, do you want to take action?" A leader couldn't help but ask.
Hai Dongqing raised his hand and said in a deep voice: "Why are you panicking? Wait until they get closer."
"One hundred and fifty steps!" the hoarse voice of the pirate leader sounded again. Up and down the pier, all the pirates clenched their weapons, and all the archers on the towers began to tremble when they drew the bowstring. Rain fell on their faces.
The flow up and down made them unable to open their eyes. But at this moment, no one dared to be distracted in the slightest.
"One hundred steps!"
When the ten warships coming on the waves were close enough to see the faces of the soldiers on the ships, and close enough to clearly see the minions of the Qinglong flag flying on the mast, Hai Dongqing's voice finally sounded.
"Do it!"
The horns sounded long and the drums rumbled. Dozens of war drums placed behind them made a soul-stirring sound under the beating of the drumsticks. The rain on the drums was beaten into a ball of water mist.
"Yeah!" On the top of the cliff above the pier, thousands of pirates on standby heard the sound and began to push hard to push the huge bluestones as high as a person above the top of the cliff. Those bluestones were drilled with holes.
A thick iron chain is connected in the middle. Every five boulders are grouped into a group to form a boulder chain. That's okay, the boulder chains are tied with bundles of driftwood, which look like a random wooden horse.
Dozens of bundles of these objects were tied to each chain.
These boulders were already hanging on the top of the cliff. When pushed by human power, they began to roll down the cliff. Once one or two of the boulders fell under the cliff, a chain reaction occurred, and all the boulders in the chain fell.
It fell. At the same time, dozens of bundles of messy driftwood connected by thick ropes were also pulled and fell into the cliff.
After Hai Dongqing gave the order to take action, more than 40 groups of these strange combinations of connected boulders and bundled driftwood were pushed down the cliff. For a time, there was a roar like thunder, and grass and trees flew everywhere, just like the top of the cliff.
There was a rain of boulders.
People who don’t know the details will naturally be surprised by the actions of the pirates. If such a huge stone rolls down, it will not hurt the pirates at all, because there is a pier beach conveniently under the cliff, and the pirates are still dozens of steps away on the sea.
The two were completely unrelated to each other. However, they soon understood the subtlety of this move.
Countless boulders fell from the cliff more than ten feet high. With the help of huge inertia, they did not stay in place, but dragged the mud, sand and driftwood all the way, crossing the beach dozens of steps with extremely ferocious momentum.
Rushed into the sea. In just a short moment, hundreds of boulders formed a barrier of driftwood and bluestone in the sea in front of the pier. Where the water was shallow, the bluestone formed a reef. Where the water was deep, the bluestone fell to the bottom of the sea.
, but the messy driftwood floated on the sea, forming an artificial obstacle.
Soon, these obstacles showed his power.
Ten large ships rushed towards the dock at extremely fast speeds. When the huge rocks and debris on the cliff top rolled down, they were already less than fifty steps away from the dock. Driven by the tide, their speed was already too fast to control.
At such a short distance, they had no time to react.
The original plan was for ten warships to use the power of the swell to rush to the beach. Even if they were stranded, it didn't matter. They just wanted to rush to the coast in one go. However, what they encountered was not a trivial matter like stranding, but a very fast speed.
It hit a bluestone reef in the sea.
"Boom, crack." There was a burst of explosions. Except for one of the ten warships, which was lucky enough to hit a mess of driftwood floating on the sea, the rest all hit the man-made structure head-on.
The rocks and the bow of the ship shattered. The huge inertia threw hundreds of soldiers on the ship to the shore. Some fell into the rushing waves, and some simply fell on the beach of the pier like white fish.
"Fire arrows!" Hai Dongqing shouted. Arrows rained down from the top of the cliff. With the wind in hand and from a high position, the power of the bow and arrows doubled. Even if there were dozens of steps away from the beach, the range of the arrows could cover an entire area.
A range of one hundred and fifty steps. The violent storm, mixed with dense arrows, completely enveloped the ten warships. The officers and soldiers on the ten warships had already suffered a huge impact, and nearly half of them fell into the sea. The remaining
The people were still in a miserable state, and the rain of arrows made it worse. The soldiers in the sea were living targets, just like sea tigers in the sea. The ruthless arrows pinned them to the sea and nailed them to the sea.
On the beach, the turbid water on the shore was surging with dark red blood. The situation of the officers and soldiers on the ship was slightly better. After a short period of confusion, they could find hiding places on the ship to avoid the attack of arrows. But even so,
Still, more than 200 people were shot and killed in the chaos.
The battle lasted only a short moment, and the Ning navy navy that washed up on the beach paid a huge price. 1,500 navy soldiers were shot and killed, more than 700 people were killed, and ten warships were paralyzed 30 meters offshore.
In the remaining water, the bow of the ship was smashed to pieces. If the water depth here was not enough, even if it sank, the soldiers would not suffer a disaster, it would be a more tragic outcome.
At this moment, it is fortunate that Lin Jue destroyed the pirates' warehouse. Otherwise, according to Hai Dongqing's design, the rockets soaked in kerosene would be fired at the ship, and the crossbow's strong bow would also use kerosene.
The capsules were shot onto the decks of ships and then ignited by rockets. Then all the people on board the ten ships were either killed in a sea of fire or in a hail of arrows.
Hundreds of steps behind on the sea, Prince Yan Zhengsheng, Song Yanping and others on the Dragon Head ship were stunned to witness all this. They never expected that they would suffer such a heavy blow in the first round.
The ten warships stayed away from the dock beach and failed to successfully wash the beach. On the contrary, looking from a distance, they could see countless dead and wounded soldiers on the sea and suffered heavy losses.
The casualties suffered were actually expected. These ten ships were originally intended to be suicide squads for beaching. The casualties of the soldiers on them were also expected. However, the cost of casualties is only worth it if the beaching is successful. And the current situation is
, ten warships are anchored twenty or thirty steps away from the shore, and the short distance of twenty or thirty steps from the dock is nothing if it is on land. It can be broken through forcefully with some casualties while carrying the shield.
However, in the turbulent sea water, the distance of twenty or thirty steps is difficult to walk. If you want to rush to the beach through these twenty or thirty steps, you will probably have to pay ten times the price on land. Such a result,
It is absolutely unacceptable.
"Damn it, Hai Dongqing is really cunning, he actually has such skills. He's such a bitch." Song Yanping cursed.
Yan Zhengzhen frowned and said: "We should have thought of it a long time ago. When we attacked Yueya Island, didn't the bandit soldiers of Yueya Island have the means to block the dock? It's just that they didn't have time at the time. We should have thought that Haidong Qinghui would come to do this.
ah."
Song Yanping stamped his feet and said: "I thought about it, but I thought they would fill the boat with sand and sink it in front of the dock. I didn't see anything just now. Who would have thought that he would spend so much effort to get these big rocks?"
On the top of the cliff? This is a bad idea."
Guo Kun said loudly: "What's the use of regretting now? Find a way quickly."
Song Yanping stamped his feet and frowned, unable to think of a countermeasure for a moment. Wang Kai said: "Commander Song, I will lead people to rescue the brothers who are trapped on the ship. We can't just watch them be helpless. We must at least rescue them."
Song Yanping nodded and said: "Okay, be careful not to go too fast. The surge is too strong."
Wang Kai said: "Don't worry, I will raise half the sail and use the wind to fight against the swell."
Guo Kun shouted: "What do you mean? Are you not going to attack?"
Song Yanping spread his hands and said: "My young prince, I'm afraid we can't attack in this situation. Let's discuss a feasible strategy before making any calculations. The attack will not be effective at this time, and it will be in vain if we can't rush to the pier beach.
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Guo Kun cursed continuously, but there was nothing he could do.
