Chapter 174 Linjiang Water Battle (Part 2)
The Yu Huang, whose stern rudder was stuck, knew his current situation very well, so after a brief mobilization with the Momen, he uttered the flag saying "The tail rudder is broken and there is no need for rescue."
After fierce battle, the Mo family's boat troops had already entered a counterattack, and most of the ships on the left wing had begun to row forward, preparing to encircle all the main forces of the Yue Kingdom Navy.
The formation moved, and Xu Feng also gave him a chance, an opportunity that could be said to be somewhat ridiculous.
Until now, he finally had the opportunity to destroy a main building ship of the Mo family, and may be the only chance to destroy the Mo family building ship.
However, the Mo family boat master had a total of seventeen building ships.
Xu Feng knew very well that the current defeat was that the Mo family's right wing had defeated its left wing and seized the upstream of hydrology, which was unfolding; the central army had also begun to counterattack; the left wing made a one-to-one exchange comparison, which was a one-to-one victory over Mo since the rise of the Mo family, but the Mo family's left-wing ships and troops were still dominant.
Now he had no other choice, so he could only find a gap before surrounding the Mo family while the left wing began to change the formation and seize the upper wind direction to be encircled.
With the remaining building ship, more than 30 small boats attacked the Yuhuang, whose stern rudder was destroyed, not for the sake of victory, but for the sake of loyalty to the emperor.
Because he has nowhere to run.
A sailboat is not a sailboat. It requires rest and requires several times the supply of a sailboat. If you leave the city port, you will not be able to survive.
The Mohist ship was loaded with copper cannons. Yue Kingdom did not have a port where the fort was deployed. If he hid in the port and shrank, he could only become a living target for the Mohist boat master.
This is also the reason why he insisted on choosing a decisive battle... Not having a decisive battle is equivalent to waiting in the port for the Mohist family to arrange a formation and bombarding with artillery, or watching the Mohist army landing and bombarding with land cannons.
Today's defeat is inevitable.
When the fleet that was turning over the left wing of the Mohist family had already begun to encircle, he made up his mind and commanded the remaining ships around him as reserves and rushed towards the gap that had not yet been closed.
On the Yu Huang, the flag saying that he did not support was still floating, and the Lieutenant Colonel Captain issued an order.
"Cut off the mast and throw all the canvas into the water!"
"The oarsman abandons the oars, collects the short spear, and prepares for hand-to-hand combat."
The messenger at the partition stairs responded loudly to the captain's order, and the paddlers who had been paddling received their short spears one after another.
They are not wearing armor, not even the simplest leather armor, because the environment they work in is stuffy and humid, and they have no way to wear clothes.
When fighting on a boat, armor is very important. A set of armor can often save lives during chaos.
The main content of paddlers' daily training is rowing. They are not proficient in fighting, so they can barely use short swords. When they really need to fight, it is already time for life and death.
If there is still a chance, paddlers should actually give priority to retreat by boat, because sailors are easy to train, while paddlers are extremely difficult and require very professional skills.
At this time, there were six small boats around the Yuhuang, fighting against seven or eight small sailboats of Yue Kingdom. In the distance, the flagship of Yue Kingdom and more than 30 small boats had rushed out of the gap and rushed towards this side.
The sound of banging artillery continued to sound, and the gunners on the Yuhuang were calmly loading gunpowder, and they kept firing at the advantage of being able to hit others in the distance.
They were not aiming at the flagship ships of Yue, but the small ships of Yue, because the flagship ships were still fine after eating more than a dozen iron bullets, and those small ships often sank after eating a few rounds.
The enemy ships were getting closer and closer, the drums were getting closer and closer, and the screams of shells hitting the boat, all of which made the people on the boat nervous.
The musketeers checked their loading situation. The fighting sailors grabbed the ropes on the railing with one hand, waiting for the impact before the hand-to-hand combat. The gunners tried their best to turn the muzzle to aim at the enemy ship rushing towards them.
boom……
With a loud bang, the flagship ship of Yue Kingdom avoided two shells and hit the side string of the Yuhuang with its bow.
The huge impact force directly crushed seven or eight sailors waiting there, more than ten paddlers behind them were killed, and some people fell into the water.
Bang bang...
The musketeers began to shoot, and the archers on the Yueguolou boat also began to shoot.
The Yue Kingdom swordsman in leather armor jumped up and wanted to rush to the deck of the Yuhuang from the collision point, but was pushed down by the spear out.
The small boat that surrounded him threw out the hook rope. The Yue Kingdom sailor, who was good at climbing, wanted to climb to the bottom deck of the Yuhuang. As soon as his hand touched the wooden railing, the sailor guarding there cut off his hands with an axe.
The captain stood at the highest point, with only some elite musketeers equipped with flint guns beside him, and he used the platform to shoot and kill the elite swordsmen of Yue Kingdom.
The archer of Yue Kingdom also aimed at the captain wearing a wool uniform on a high place and shot feather arrows.
A lot of blood and broken hands and short limbs on the deck had accumulated, and the Yue Sailors who were climbing around finally jumped onto the bottom deck.
The musketeer on the side string threw away the musket, drew his dagger and rushed into the melee crowd, and there was basically no formation. All he could rely on was the final fighting skills.
A nobleman of Yue in iron armor stabbed a Mo family sailor to death, and his head was smashed by the sail hand holding a large axe. While the sail hand hit the noble, his eyes were also shot by the archer of Yue. The archer of Yue who was shooting was killed by the iron thunder thrown from the tower ship...
The ship is like hell on earth. Unless the land battle is surrounded and compressed by the melee of the defense circle, it is difficult to have such a fierce hand-to-hand combat.
The commander of Yue State, Xu Fu, was wearing heavy armor and constantly chopping and killing under the escort of the Congshi's guards. In such a small space and battle without formation, the nobles and the Congshi's surroundings had great advantages. The value of their professional training since childhood was fully reflected at this moment.
The paddlers who obeyed the orders stood together as much as possible with short spears, but the narrow space and their weakness of fighting were slashed by the swordsmen of Yue Kingdom. Finally, someone could not stand it and jumped into the water and escaped.
Compared to Xu Feng's bravery, the captain of the Yu Huang seemed a little weak. Although he could fight, he certainly did not have that kind of personal courage. Moreover, he did not have armor on his body, but was wearing a woolen military uniform.
Unlike the nobles who have been trained from childhood, the academy officers like Lieutenant Colonel Captain have also trained from school, but the training content is flag language, ranging, star, sun, formation, etc. Naturally, they have also learned short sword fighting, but they cannot be compared with professional sailors.
This group of officers was the first group of new generations after Si Shang was occupied by the Mo family. After they came to power, they were valued. Compared with the army, this group of students from Xiliu Military Academy were promoted faster, especially after the Mo family began to expand their military and prepare for war seven years ago, the non-commissioned officers were promoted to school officials to make up for the lack of cadres after the expansion of the army.
They have little experience, and even many people have never killed anyone. The tactics sometimes lack agility and a bit rigid, but this rigidity and lack of agility make the Mohist school win this battle in Jiangkou: when the troops and firepower are superior, what is needed is not agility, but rigidity.
The Mo family's boat troops do not have many tactical geniuses, and compared with the army that often fights, it is difficult to promote some experienced talents who dare to seize opportunities.
However, under the advantages of the entire system, there is no need for too many geniuses to win, but this kind of victory is in the overall situation, and when it falls into the hands-on battle of the building, it is somewhat insufficient.
If the captain can fight out with his sword at this time, and fight against three, killing several people with one and killing them, his morale will be greatly boosted.
But at this moment, he picked up his pen and wrote an experience that was considered a last word in an environment where feather arrows flew around and screamed.
"The big ship is slower than bigger and slower. It is equipped with more copper cannons to shoot sideways to serve as a fortress and cover the boat."
After writing, he stuffed it into a bottle, tightened the blockage, and threw it far away towards the water surface.
Then he let the musketeers shoot freely, draw out the dagger and jump off the deck, join the fight because there is no need for command.
As soon as he jumped down, a scattered feather arrow shot into his eyes. He endured the severe pain and pulled out the feather arrow. He stabbed a Yueman with a short sword and was also hacked to death by several Yuemans who followed him.
More than 30 small sailboats and a building boat finally defeated the Yuhuang, who was stuck at the stern.
The previous battle did not count, but from the moment Xu Wu started the decisive attack, the Yu Huang destroyed five small boats with a bronze cannon.
More than 300 sailors and officers from the Mojia Zhou Division were killed in battle on the deck, but more than 150 Yue people were hit by muskets and more than 200 people died in person.
The blood on the deck was already sticky and wet the shoes. Except for some sailors and paddlers who had dived and escaped, there was no living Mo family sailor on the deck.
The Yue people were already red in their eyes. All the Mo family sailors injured on the boat were stabbed to death, or their heads were cut off in revenge.
Several Yueren Jianmen came to the cabin to see if there were any living people hiding inside.
They saw a man, a man with wounded legs, sitting next to a pile of wooden barrels, smiling, holding a short gun in his hand, wearing a woolen military uniform.
Yue people swordsmen hated such enemies in woolen uniforms because most of them were Mo people and often resisted to the end. In the battle just now, there were even cases where such people rushed into the crowd with lit iron thunder before they died.
Just as the Yue swordsman was about to rush up to kill the injured Mohist, the Mohist chanted two poems with a smile.
"If you benefit the world, do you have to live and die?"
Then he raised the short gun in his hand, aimed it at the piled bucket, and pulled the trigger with a smile.
There is no lead bullet inside, only gunpowder.
The flint ignited the induction medicine under the huge force of the leaf spring, and the flames ignited the black powder scattered beside the wooden barrel...
Chapter completed!