While Li Xingchen handed the battle report to Cao Zhong and asked him to read it, he raised his head and looked at Wang Chang who was standing higher up:
"Conquer Tongluo Gorge within half an hour!"
Wang Chang was immediately startled. Li Xinchen had never given him a death order before. In the past two days, the Nanchen Navy had not launched a rapid attack, but only practiced under the Wild Boar Rock. Obviously Li Xinchen was not panicked. Counting this time, it was already...
This is the most violent attack in the past three or four days.
But now the relaxed look on Li Xingchen's face has completely dissipated, replaced only by perseverance and murderous intent.
Wang Chang immediately did not dare to neglect, raised his hand to Li Xingchen, and immediately shouted loudly: "Send the order, step up the attack!"
"Attack!" The drums beat suddenly and urgently, and the Nanchen warships began to speed up one after another. The generals and lieutenants commanding the warships walked onto the flying hut one after another, holding their swords in their hands and staring closely at them.
ahead.
And the building ship at the front, protected by several mengchong, fought hard to move forward against the enemy's arrows.
As for the several boats of the Bajun Navy on the opposite side, they had either begun to take in water and sink, or they could only float on the water because all the people who could move on the boat had been hit by arrows. Only the two boats at the rear could see it.
I couldn't hold on any longer and started to turn around and run away.
The two rivers gradually separated to both sides, and a few lights appeared on the river between them, flowing down the river faster and faster.
"Fire ship!" Cao Zhong saw the fire ship appearing at the end at a glance. The enemy's Meng Chong was retreating. Under such circumstances, releasing the fire ship meant that this should be the opponent's last resort.
"Bang the drum, rush over!" Wang Chang held his sword in his hand and looked powerful.
In the past, when faced with the ferocious fire ships coming down the river, Navy Nanchen could only use the most primitive methods to block them. However, after Wang Chang noticed this problem in the past two days, he modified the fire ships so that they could be easily blocked.
The front and sides of the fireship impact were all added with extended bamboo poles and bamboo baskets, some of which were similar to the mine protection nets hung on the outside of battleships in later generations, and some of which were like the wolf trap invented by Qi Jiguang, a famous anti-Japanese general.
In this way, the fire ship can be blocked before it directly comes into contact with the tower ship, and it is even possible to directly guide the fire ship in another direction, thus giving the soldiers on the tower ship more opportunities to sink it.
Originally, in addition to long-distance attacks, the function of the building ships was to ram enemy ships at close range. Therefore, there were generally no extra things hanging outside the hull. However, because the enemy did not have any building ships at all and only had a few rams, this function was
There wasn't much room for improvement, so Wang Chang simply gave up on this function.
After all, when the opponent rushes into the range of the trebuchet and bed crossbow of one's own ship, there is only a dead end.
Without the protection of these things hanging on the outside of the hull, Wang Chang would not have the guts to directly order to rush over. If he had to lose a building ship to deal with such an enemy, then he would be in a big loss. What's more important is the river surface.
It is so narrow that the building boats can move forward in a column. If one building boat is damaged, it will not be easy for the following building boats to move forward.
"Bang!" The two leading Nanchen Mengchong shuttled leisurely through the gaps in the fire ship. After these few days of marching and fighting, these soldiers were obviously familiar with the more rapid currents in the upper reaches of the river, and they became more comfortable in controlling the ships.
.Coupled with the long and narrow hull of Mengchong, it is still very easy to shuttle among these fire ships.
The Meng Chong behind them were not to be outdone and followed their companions one after another. These Meng Chong did not block the fire ships like before, but directly charged towards the last two enemy Meng Chong. As a kind of warship used to attack the enemy ship array
, this may be the time when they can finally play a role in Bashu.
Not only Meng Chong, but also the walking boats and red horses tied behind the building boats and carried by the building boats also overtook the slow building boats and rushed towards the enemy first.
This is already the last enemy, and of course everyone wants to beat him up.
Li Xingchen frowned. Meng Chong, who had separated from the large ship in front, was undoubtedly reminding him that the large ship was the basis for the Nanchen Navy to travel across the river. However, the current large ship was undoubtedly telling Li Xingchen that the speed of such a large ship was really real.
It's too slow.
When faced with a situation where the enemy is not strong, the building ship falling behind does not even have a chance to directly engage the enemy. This, to another extent, means that the small ships such as Meng Chong and Zuo Ge who are charging in front have no chance to fight.
To catch up with the enemy and destroy them, greater efforts and sacrifices must be made.
"Bang!" There was a soft sound from the front, and a fire ship hit the outer layer of bamboo, immediately igniting the bamboo. The fire burned fiercely and wrapped the bow of the building ship. However, as the speed of the building ship did not slow down,
The surging river water quickly extinguished the flames. The fire boat in front of the building shook violently for a few times, and was finally pushed over by the bamboo pole behind it, and was easily crushed by the main body of the building.
Situations like this kept happening on the river, and the building boat leading the way was already surrounded by raging fires.
However, the speed of these building ships was not affected at all. On the contrary, the officers on board were excited because they successfully withstood the impact of the fire ships. The building ships moved a little faster. One by one, the building ships easily ran over the fire ships.
, and then attack the enemy.
"Breakthrough!" A smile finally appeared on Wang Chang's lips, and he ordered with high spirits. Li Xingchen gave him half an hour, but now it only took two quarters of an hour, and there was basically no loss. Of course, the task was successfully completed.
The sound of the drums became more rapid, like the sound of a heavy rainstorm. On the narrow river in Tongluo Gorge in front, I saw the enemy's building and ship wrapped in blazing fire, but the speed of advance did not slow down at all. The Northern Zhou Dynasty, who originally had some expectations,
The navy soldiers finally collapsed inevitably. The two men who had been surrounded by Nanchen Navy warships rushed up, leaving only the kneeling soldiers of the Northern Zhou Dynasty.
"Damn it, I surrendered before I even jumped on the boat." A Nanchenzhuang general who had just jumped onto a Meng Chong of the Bajun navy couldn't help but cursed.
A companion next to him put away his knife and said with some disappointment: "We have captured the Tongluo Gorge, and there will be no more water battles in the future."
"Don't worry, one day the general will lead us out of Bashu again." General Zhuang said through gritted teeth.
The companion raised his eyebrows and subconsciously looked towards the approaching building boat.
I hope so.
"Call Chen Zhishen, Tongluo Gorge has been captured, and Laoyashan can also launch a general attack." Standing on the flying hut of the building ship, Li Xingchen didn't care about the battle situation in front of him. This was a battle that was bound to be won, but
It didn't matter how much he lost. What he was more concerned about was the changes in the war situation in Ba County. "Wang Chang!"
"The general is here!" Wang Chang trembled and responded hurriedly.