Chapter 45 Shit
Countless Qin army warships covered the Mian River, and now they covered the Great Lakes. The Zhao and Wei armies were almost all of them, with 243 soldiers and winged warships in the two armies, and there were as many as 419 coalition warships at one time. The Ba people were not familiar with water warships, and the Ba people were not three-oat big wings, but they were all old single-oat warships. Some were still large boats that could not be hit, but they chose not to retreat.
You cannot retreat! You can only eat meat together by hunting together. This is the simplest truth. Only when the Ba people fight with the Chu people, the Zhao people, the Yue people, and the Wei people, can they have a place after the war, and can they restore the Ba people's glory again. The Ba people have never forgotten their blood feud with the Qin people, and have never forgotten that the Chu people's king was defeated by their ancestors, so they could not return to their own palace.
Chengtong Army ordered the appointment to use Chu Yue as the central army, Zhao Wei as the left army, and Ba people as the right army. The central army had 176 warships, one hundred of which were arranged in a horizontal formation in front, and the other seventy-six were used as the go-que; the left army had 243 warships, because the width of the big lake was limited, only 160 warships could be shipped out on the left, and the remaining 83 were like the middle army as the go-que; the Right Army had the largest number, with nearly 300 ships, and these single-oar warships arranged two horizontal formations, occupying all the space on the right.
The two armies of Zhao and Wei and the Ba people joined the drums, and the Qin army warships were also quickly forming formations. The northern end of the Great Lakes was narrow, and the warships behind had to quickly fill the gaps on both sides caused by the widening of the Great Lakes. Seeing that the Chu army warships several miles away were about to be completed, Zhao Ying on the flagship behind suddenly ordered the drum beat, and the flags were swung quickly, and the Qin army boat formation sounded in front of them.
"Report to General, it's a good thing!" The Qin army had already rushed forward, and the Sima of the Chu army on the flagship had just completed divination.
The wind blew northeast and to the southwest. The Qin army fought on the wind, but the coalition forces all regained their sails because of their leeing. The Qin people's sails were bulging, and the wooden pulp on both sides was rising and falling, and the water splashed everywhere. The entire boat array looked like a long wall carried by countless centipedes. When the long wall hit, the sound of drums in the array stopped, and the northeast wind blew with autumn rain, hit Cheng Tong's face.
"Ji?" He finally laughed and nodded again, "Good!"
With a smile, news of Ba Shicheng forming a formation came. He nodded while drawing his sword, and pointed the sword tip directly at the long wall that was attacking: "Enter—!"
"The general has an order: advance—!" The military officer quickly pointed the Yuba in front of him, and the flagmen kept whispering to the left and right. The drums were pounding, and the flags were flying. When the flagship where Chengtong was located began to row, the drums of more than 500 warships were all beaten, and the drums and the drums of the Qin people were mixed, shocking the entire Tianchi Lake.
As the warship advanced, the soldiers on the deck rowed vigorously with wooden pulp. Unlike the Qin army's hammers and paddles with the navigator's hammer, they controlled the speed according to the orders of the boat officials. The boat officials followed the generals of the formation. The boat officials were quicker, the boat was quicker, and the boat was slower. More than 500 warships were spread across the Great Lakes. As the central army's flagship accelerated, the left and right wings also accelerated.
The distance between the two sides was getting closer and closer, and the speed of the warships was getting faster and faster. "Cross the oars!" The boatman on the armored soldiers shouted loudly.
"Collection of oars!!" The soldiers in the boat warehouse immediately stopped the oars, and the wooden oars were lifted and quickly entered the boat.
Unlike directly hitting a single-pad warship, the battle between the three-pad warships still has two developments: one is the Romans who were not familiar with water warfare. They lack the skills of interspersing and circling and then hitting, and can only use crows to hook the enemy, turning the water war into a land war;
The other is the Athenians' impact tactics. If they cannot swivel to the enemy's flanks, then they will be directly interspersed. Interspers are not collide with the enemy's warships, but they will die together. Interspers are to cut off the opponent's wood pulp. If the wood pulp loses at least more than half of the power, the speed and flexibility of the enemy are not as good as themselves. At this time, the impact will be twice as good as half the effort.
With the drums, the warships between the two sides were less than fifty steps apart. The crossbow and the archer on the deck began to shoot. The wooden oars accelerated their rise and fall, and the warships reached the fastest speed. Just when the two boats were about to collide, the warships of the Chu and Yue armies suddenly retracted their oars. At the same time, the boat officers on the deck quickly turned the wheel rudder behind the deck with arrows and iron bullets. At the high speed, the rudder was very sensitive. Once the wheel rudder turned the bow of the boat, it deviated from the existing route. The stern of the boat rubbed the opponent's bow and flew over, and the wooden oars on the side of the enemy crashed in the front corner.
The Qin people on the deck watched the enemy deviate from the course and did not collide with their own side, and the boatman also issued a command to turn. Then the order was not an action, and the steering was slower than the steering wheel with the tail rotor. When the bow of the boat began to turn, the enemy's collision angle was already shaving the wooden oar, and the broken wooden oar made a harsh "cracking" sound.
"Long live! Long live! Long live..." Including the flagship where Cheng Tong was located, most of the warships in the central army quickly turned with the advantage of the wheel rudder before the collision, and broke the oars from the side of the Qin warship. Listening to the extremely pleasant sound of broken oars, more than 40,000 Chu Yue soldiers paddling in the warehouse could not help but shout for long live. The enemy cut off the boat oars on one side, and when they had to intersperse and circulate, they were the fish on the sacrificial board and let them slaughter them.
"Drop the oars! Drop the oars!" Before the boatman's order came, the oars on both sides quickly fell down. But strangely, the warship continued to row forward and did not immediately turn around to hit the enemy boats that had lost half of their power.
"General, the enemy paddlers have good paddling skills. They can suddenly turn and hit our paddles at the last moment..." On the deck of the Qin army's flagship, Zhao Ying stood beside Magas, Wu Ji and others. They set off from Yongcheng in the middle of the night to chase the boat troops going south, and finally boarded Zhao Ying's flagship before the decisive battle. Zhao Ying was the general who commanded this battle. Magas and Armenias were only equivalent to the strategist of the boat troops' shogunate.
The vast lake of Tianchi is less than twenty miles wide. Like the coalition forces, the Qin army's warships could not be all set. Behind the first array led by the right general Tian Pu, there was also a slightly shorter second array of warships led by Yang Duanhe; behind the second array led by Yang Duanhe was the third array led by Zhao Ying. All the Qin army's warships were fighting on the wind. Because of the blockage of Fang Fan, Chu Yue Zhouye, who passed through the first array of boats, saw the two arrays behind the Qin people.
"What should we do?" Wu Ji, who was called up in the middle of the night, thought he was arrested by the Tingwei Mansion, but later he realized that he was going to the battlefield. He had a pale face and gave an interpretation to Zhao Ying, Magas and others.
"We must immediately merge the warships on the two fronts to line up a closer formation, and prevent them from exerting their excellent paddling skills through frontal impact..." Magas discussed a few words with Armenias and expressed his suggestions.
The Qin army's boat troops could not engage in platoon battles like the Spartans or Romans. Their paddlers all lacked one foot, which restricted them from platoon battles. The enemy's paddlers were reported to be all soldiers. Once they were platoons, two or three hundred soldiers, including the enemy ships, would beat their troops to howl.
"What do Baidi people mean?" The northeast wind was sandwiched with autumn rain. Wu Ji not only had a pale face, but his body was also shaking. But what was more painful than his body was his tormented heart. He heard that Ah Ge Wala was dead. This stranger who was not a Xia person actually died for the freedom of the Xia person, but he, the Xia person, was helping the Qin people defeat the Chu army.
The Chu army in front was shouting long live, and Zhao Ying stared at his face with an unhappy look, enduring the unhappiness.
"The Baidi people said..., that the general needs to hit the Jing people head-on to make it... so that he can't use the paddling skills." Wu Ji's body trembled even harder, and for some reason he began to hiccup. He lowered his head, avoiding Zhao Ying's gaze.
"That's true?" No one could understand Greek, while Magas and Armenias could not understand Xia's words. Zhao Ying was a little suspicious when he heard this, and saying this meant he didn't say it. Just now, Tian Pu was hitting the Jing people head-on, but this was only useful to the left and right wings of the Jing people, and useless to the Chu and Yue warships of the Central Army.
"That's true." Wu Ji restrained his trembling and plucked up the courage to look at Zhao Ying's gaze.
"General, General Yang in front..." Bai Di taught the craftsmen of Shaofu how to build a three-oared warship, and also taught the boat troops how to contact each other in wartime. The messenger told Yang Duanhe's inquiry ahead.
"Telection: Hit it again and attack!" Zhao Ying said viciously. He had no other tactics. This was not the boat war he was familiar with. After the order was issued, the second boat formation began to row forward.
Not all warships can cut off the boat paddles of the Qin people and pass through the Qin army's boat formation. Although the warships of the left-wing Zhao and Wei armies also have wheel rudders, the warships who are neglecting water battles cannot grasp the opportunity to change directions. The warships either turn too big or turn too late. Most of the 160 warships collided with the Qin army's warships that were rushing towards them;
On the right wing, poverty made the Ba people no money to buy the Chu warships. Their homemade old wings did not have wheels and rudders. They didn't bother with the paddling skills of the Chu-Mike warships, rushed up and fought on the side. This was what Ba people were thinking about.
The warships on the left and right wings collided with the warships. The soldiers on the deck attacked the enemy soldiers across the sides, and the water was pouring under their feet, and the fighting on the deck was also booming. Only nearly a hundred Chu and Yue warships in the central army passed by and after discovering the second ship formation of the Qin army, these warships quickly assembled.
Seeing his second array approaching, but his third array did not come forward and merge with it, listing a closer array. Magas looked at Wu Ji and asked in confusion: "Why don't merge immediately and launch a closer array?"
"The general believes that the failure of the first array is caused by you, and your suggestions are all shit! He doesn't want to listen to any of your suggestions anymore. He says that he can defeat the Chuni fleet alone." Wu Ji, who no longer trembles, changed back to his calm appearance before, and said dirty words with a smile on his face.
"He..." Magas seemed to be struck by lightning when he heard this. He clenched his fists for a while before he shouted: "Insult! This is an insult! I will definitely report to King Qinni, tell him, his commander-in-chief of the Navy..."
Chapter completed!