Chapter 71 Siege 4
When the sun came out, the water gate in Nancheng suddenly drove out the large winged warship with a battle flag. The boat leader stood on the deck of the boat, holding the Lu Lijing and looking at the entrance of the lake three miles away. There was no trace of the lake mouth, and there were only dense crowds of Qin troops. The morning breeze blew, and the flags behind the army flew, setting off the red sun that had just risen from the horizon.
Facing the sun is not conducive to observation. Fortunately, Hukou is the place where the boat master enters every day. Under Xiong Jing's order, the boat master has conducted hydrological surveys on it. The floating barrels that calibrated the deep water area are no longer visible, but any qualified boatman knows where the waterway is. But everyone knows where the waterway is, but they don't know how wide the Qin people's bridge is; there are copper cables, and no one knows how many copper cables are under the water, and they can't see them on the water surface.
"Send the order!" said the red wall that had put down Lu Lijing and shouted, "Quotu quickly remove the underwater copper cable."
"The general has an order to quickly remove the underwater copper cable." The command boat is different from the ordinary large-wing boat, with several more signal flag bearers. After the flag bearer issued the order, the four boats shouted and rushed to the entrance of the lake like arrows.
The new-style large-wing warship has a draught of one meter. Maotu is a small boat with a draft of less than ten tons, with a draught of less than six meters. If the Qin army's copper ropes want to play a role, they can only be arranged more than one meter under the water. The lake water is clear, and a depth of one meter can be found as long as it is close. Maotu has to do now is to find the copper rope and then destroy it with an iron hook.
On the wide lake, four ships with the Chu army flags rushed over. The Qin army's war drums were immediately ringing, and the crossbow array was already on the strings and was about to shoot. However, there were shields on the bolt, and crossbow arrows might not be able to hurt people.
The storm was getting closer and closer, so close that it was within the range of the crossbow. The army commander of the crossbow formation could not help but shouted "Shoot!". The black rain of arrows flew towards the four storm. The rain of arrows was too dense and the target was too small. When the arrows fell, they frequently collided and fell into the lake. But this was only a few. More rain of arrows shot on the shield, on the side of the ship, and on the flying military flag.
"Roard, row!" The sudden sound of the arrows was blown by the rain of arrows, and some arrows even fell into the cabin. The soldiers immediately changed their qualities. The boatman stepped on the arrows without caring and continued to order them to paddle.
"Shoot!" There are more than ten thousand crossbowmen in Zhang. In order to stop the Chu army's boat troops, Xin Wu not only mobilized the Qin army's powerful crossbows, but also mobilized the Wei army's powerful crossbows. Many crossbows guarding the city have also been brought in - since the crossbows shot on the city wall can knock down the chariots outside the city, then the crossbows can also capture the Chu army's large-winged warships. Unfortunately, the ones who are coming now are Mao Tu, and the crossbows cannot fire arrows.
The arrows fell like raindrops, and the four ships quickly shot into hedgehogs, but the boat continued to move forward. The boatmen and soldiers carried the Qin army to scan the lake. Finally, they found a copper cable three feet below the water surface.
"Catch it!" The boatman gave the order, and the soldier's hook and sickle hooked the copper rope.
"Transmith. Withdraw." At this time, Maotu was only a dozen steps away from the Qin army on the bridge. Maotu, who hooked the copper cable, began to return.
This is true for one ship, and the other two ships are the same. Only one stays behind, wandering back and forth above the copper rope. Looking at the ropes that are as if there is nothing behind, the deputy general An Qi felt that it was not good. He bowed and said, "General, the people of Jing want to pull out my copper rope."
"It was pulled out." Li Xin also saw the ropes left under the water, without any intention of using a crossbow. "Can there be sharpshooters in the army, can they shoot those ropes?"
The rope that hooked the copper rope floated on the water surface and did not straighten it. Until it reached two hundred steps away, the rope was tied to the rope thrown out of the two large wings. The ropes were stretched out of the water surface and pulled straight. The two large wings pulled a rope, and a drum sounded, the boat was paddling with all its strength. "Wow..." The copper rope was immediately pulled out of the water surface, and the section hooked by the hook sickle was pulled into an obtuse angle. The iron hook sickle and copper rope made a rattle because of this force.
"Shoot!" Even if the copper rope was pulled out by the hook sickle, it was only twenty steps away from the bridge. It was not difficult to shoot at such a close distance. However, the arrows were all conical armor-breaking arrows, not rope-cutting arrows, and the angle was not right. The arrows were shot in the direction of the rope, rather than vertically cut. So everyone saw that there were many arrows inserted on the rope, but the copper rope was pulled farther and farther away. Finally, with a "bang", the wooden pillars that hit the lake at both ends of the copper rope were pulled up, and a copper rope was pulled away by the Chu army.
The copper rope was not a bamboo rope. There were only eight copper ropes in front of the bridge, and half of them were gone. When Li Xin's expression was still, the master Yan Wuyi couldn't help it. Seeing Maotu's small boat coming again, he said, "General, if the copper ropes go all out, the Jingren Zhou Army will hit the bridge."
"Don't worry, the great craftsman is the one who is going to hit the bridge." Li Xin smiled and said, "Don't the great craftsman want to look at the Jingren's big winged warship?"
During the Daliang Water Battle, all the tower ships built by the Shaofu painstakingly sank the Chu army's boat troops. Like Jing Bibiao, Yan Wuyi and others could not imagine how the Chu army's large-winged warship did this. The Qin army's large-winged warship hit the tower ship, but it either couldn't hit or the large-winged warship broke the head of the boat. Hearing that Li Xin was going to capture the Chu army's large-winged warship, Yan Wuyi immediately stopped talking.
‘Dongdongdongdongdongdong--’ After pulling out the four copper ropes, the drums on the big-wing warship sounded again. This time the arrow finally shot two ropes, which made more rushing over. Under the cover of the rush, the last two copper ropes were also pulled out.
"Prepare for the crossbow!" Looking at the big winged warship in the distance, Li Xin secretly shouted to his left and right.
"Preparation of the crossbow!" The order was passed down layer by layer, and the crossbows behind the Qin army array were erected one after another, just waiting for the big wings to arrive.
"Impact the turn of the pass!" The big wing where the red wall was located finally made this order. The four big wing warships that had already aimed at the deep water channel made drums and rushed towards the turn of the pass at a speed of ten knots. The other sixteen big wings lined up in four teams, waiting two hundred steps away.
‘Dongdongdongdongdongdongdong—’ The sound of the drums was mixed with the shouts of the big winged wielding players. When Li Xin thought that when he captured the big winged wielding, the speeding warship hit him with a blow. It took only five seconds to rush over at two hundred steps, and five seconds was already short. In addition, the crossbow-handed soldiers were frightened at the speed of the big wings. When they wanted to fire the arrow, the four big wings had already rushed in front of him.
‘Boom, boom--!’ Four loud noises, and the water splashed several feet. The Qin soldiers on the passerby were hit and flew up. The passerby itself was shaking. When the passerby was shot out, it was almost all the crossbows lost, and only a few hit the targets. But this was useless. After the four big wings hit, they began to row back. Just as the Qin soldiers on the passerby pulled up the ropes on the crossbows and wanted to leave the retreating big wings, the other four big wing warships crashed from the gap in the front row.
"Boom, boom--!" The first collision directly destroyed the first turn, and the second one was tilted. The second impact caused the second one, and the third turn, and the third turn, broke and destroyed the Qin soldiers standing on the bridge, who wanted to hold the big wings were unable to stand firmly, so they could not stop the rope at the end of the crossbow. They could only watch the first batch of big wings go quickly.
Immediately afterwards, the third row of large wings hit fiercely. At this time, the "bang!" of the turnover bridge was completely broken. The four big wings had not yet disappeared and rushed into the Honggou waterway. The fourth row of four big wings no longer targeted the turnover, but hit the Qin soldiers floating in the water. The soldiers on the boat braved the arrow rain and used hooks and sickles, and the barbarian spears to stab the Qin soldiers in the water. The scene was in chaos for a while, and the remaining Qin soldiers on the turnover hid on the shore one after another.
"Shoot!" Zhang's crossbow, the twelve stone crossbow began to shoot at the big-wing warship boat. Some soldiers on the boat were shot down, but the soldiers killed the Qin soldiers in the water even more violently. At this time, the fifth row of large wings hit the scene quickly, and this time the impact was no longer a fifty-step deep water area, but a shallow water area on both sides of the deep water area.
"Boom" several times. Although the big wings were stranded in the mud, the impacted till the bridge was broken. At this time, the boatman stayed with a sound. The soldiers on the head of the boat and the soldiers on the head of the boat did not care about killing the Qin soldiers in the water, and they all ran to the back end of the boat. The remaining thorns used their strength to paddle. As the head of the boat raised, the already stranded big wing warship slowly retreated into the deep water area.
"Long live! Long live! Long live the boat army!!" When the boat army started to crash, Xiong Jing stood on the east city gate, and there were more county soldiers watching. When the first row of big wings hit, they wanted to shout long live, but as soon as the Qin army fired a crossbow, the word "Long live" was swallowed by them. It was not until the continuous impact completely broke the Qin people's turnover bridge that they shouted.
"Good fight!" Xiong Jing smiled, very satisfied with the command of the Red Crane. The power can break the tricks. The Qin people ambushed the crossbows, but they underestimated the speed and power of the Big Winged Warship, and lacked understanding of the fierce attack of the boat master.
"King, the Qin people should not be underestimated." Lian Po stood on Xiong Jing's side, and he also cheered for this wonderful collision. However, the Hukou in autumn and winter is too narrow. This time, the Qin army was caught off guard against the transfer and was turned off, and it would not be so simple next time.
"Then wait for Yingdu to send food and fodder quickly." Xiong Jing restrained his smile. The telex pole thirty miles outside Chen Ying City was destroyed by the Qin army, and he is now in a state of loss of contact. Therefore, every big wing involved in the impact received an order, namely: after knocking out of the East Lake and heading straight to the nearest telex station, quickly informing Yingdu that the waterway of Chen Ying was cut off by the Qin army, and asked Yingdu to send food and fodder and military preparations to Chen.
"How could the Jing people's boat army be so fierce? How could the bridge that turns the pass... almost like a ox and a wooden horse! almost like a ox and a wooden horse!" Most of the Qin army could not do anything about water. Seeing the thousands of soldiers floating in the lake being killed by the Chu army, Li Xin wanted to jump into the water.
Chapter completed!