Chapter six hundred and sixty: victory
Li Hao took the lead and rushed out of the enemy's vanguard fleet. With him, eight warships rushed out. Li Hao looked back at the battlefield behind him. There was no one that rushed out. It seemed that there was a problem with the rudder cabin. He was spinning in place, and several scarred enemy ships approached. A pair of anchor claws were thrown on the warship. The enemy was jumping onto the warship with a knife. A fierce hand-to-hand combat broke out on the warship.
Li Hao withdrew his gaze and looked at the second wave of enemy fleet ahead.
"Accelerate, rush over!" he sternly said.
He was not too worried about being behind him, because his small warship had rushed over and joined the battle group. The last madness of the enemy who had been beaten to pieces would soon be destroyed by them.
The only thing he was worried about was whether the lost warship could repair the rudder cabin as fast as possible and join the final battle.
After all, he only had ten large warships and one missing, and his combat effectiveness would inevitably be greatly reduced.
With the experience of the vanguard fleet, the second wave of enemy ships obviously became smarter. At the front, they sent extremely fast boats to meet them. The boats were mobile and flexible, twisting like loaches on the river surface, and soon approached the Tang army warship. A fire suddenly ignited on the ship, and the soldiers on the ship turned over and jumped off the ship.
The hull shook slightly, and these small boats leaned against the anchors on the bow and nailed to the Tang army warship. The burning flames licked the warship's gang.
The Tang soldiers on the deck lifted the heavy anchor and smashed it down with a loud bang. The boat was penetrated, and the river water tumbling into the boat, and the fire soon became smaller.
The winch at the bow made a rumbling sound, and huge rocks were thrown out and flew towards the enemy's large warships farther away.
The enemy warship, which flew more and had a very long front, effectively avoided greater losses this time. After several rounds of attacks, only two enemy warships suffered severe damage.
More enemy ships rushed up.
The hull was shocked, and Li Hao's warship was hit by two flat-headed warships at the same time. The enemy generals who were driving the ship were obviously veterans on the water. They used their superb ship driving skills to avoid Li Hao's front and bumped up from both sides at the same time.
Li Hao staggered and almost fell on the deck. Seeing the boat gangs on both sides being knocked out, he couldn't help feeling distressed.
"Accelerate, move forward, get rid of it!" He pulled out his knife, jumped down from the second floor command platform, and landed on the first deck with a thud. At this moment, from both sides, enemies were already pouring onto his warships.
As a command ship, Li Hao's warship has been targeted by his opponent for a long time. At this moment, the two largest warships in Pinglu are also the two largest warships. One such warship can carry more than one hundred warriors.
"Kill!" Li Hao raised his sword and shouted.
There seemed to be no more manpower on the Tang army warship before, but at this moment, the hatch doors suddenly opened, and from the inside, teams of Tang army rushed out and went to the deck.
The descending sail suddenly rose. After adjusting the angle of the sail, the warship began to accelerate slowly, and actually dragged two abutting Pinglu warships all the way up.
In the bottom cabin that everyone could not see, a shirtless officer beat a small drum in front of him vigorously. In front of him, hundreds of equally shirtless men held the handrail tightly with both hands, kicked their legs on the blades in front, accompanied by the drum beat, bent their legs, and their upper bodies also leaned down.
The drum beats became more and more urgent, and the big men stepped on the leaves faster and faster, and in contrast, the speed of the warships was getting faster and faster.
On the bow of the boat, Li Hao cut a enemy opposite to the ground with a knife. Beside him, two personal guards held a shield to protect him, allowing him to move forward with concentration.
The Tang army on the warships were all wearing half-body armor. This half-body armor weighing only more than ten kilograms would not have much impact on the soldiers' combat effectiveness, but it was effective in protecting the soldiers. In contrast, the Pinglu soldiers had no armor at all, and some even rushed over with their arms bare hands.
The number of enemies rushing onto Li Hao's battleship was about 300, and Li Hao's battleship was only 200. The combatants had to subtract the strong men in the bottom cabin. On the bow, they basically fought against two.
But above the bow of the ship, the Tang army was the one who prevailed.
The combat effectiveness of both sides was fully reflected at this moment. Even in such a narrow space on the ship, the Tang army still formed an effective combat team combat mode, with some attacking and some defending, just like Li Hao, when he was concentrating on chopping the enemy, there were always two guards on both sides to guard the attacks on both sides. Some even stood on a high place, holding crossbow arrows, shooting the soldiers of the Pinglu Army one by one. There were not many such crossbow archers, but the damage caused was particularly large.
Li Hao attaches great importance to this navy, so when he took these people to Haixing Special Training, he selected the most elite soldiers. These tigers, which were originally covered in land, became dragons on the water after two years of training.
Blood flowed into a river on the deck.
There were fewer and fewer soldiers in Pinglu, but there were more and more Tang soldiers wearing iron armor on the deck.
When Li Hao kicked a Pinglu general who was fighting in front of him, the speed of the warship increased the fastest. In front of him, a small Pinglu warship looked at the enemy's tall warships crushed over like a mountain, and they all shouted and turned over and jumped into the water.
Accompanied by the crackling sound, the small Pinglu warship was forced into the water by Li Hao's ship. Li Hao, who stepped on the hideous tiger head on the bow of the ship, looked at the Pinglu soldiers who were swimming desperately to the sides with a grim smile and were ruthlessly crushed underwater by the big ship.
These people are hard to survive.
The warship rushed out, and the enemy's warship could no longer be seen. Li Hao looked up at his own sail that was burning, waved his hand, and the sail fell down with a loud bang. The soldiers rushed up, cut off the sail rope, and lifted the sail into the water.
"Switch the rudder!" Li Hao wiped the blood from the knife from the enemy's corpse on the ground and said sternly.
Liu Xinda on the shore looked desperately at the Pinglu Navy, which had an absolute advantage in number, was raging and crushed by the Tang Navy. He watched his warships lose their momentum and go with the flow. He watched his warships burning with each other and the warships crowded together, but he could no longer see the active soldiers on the ship. Seeing the only remaining warships, he no longer cared about fighting with the enemy. After rushing out of the battlefield, he never looked back and fled downstream in a panic.
On the south bank of the Yellow River, above the Pinglu Army's defense line that lasted more than ten miles long, tens of thousands of Pinglu soldiers witnessed the navy's heavy failure with their own eyes. The drums were no longer loud, and everyone held their breath and calmed down. But the expression of disappointment and fear appeared on everyone's face.
On the other side, cheers were heard above the nine heavens. With the rumbling of war drums, the infantry and military formations slowly moved towards the riverside, and the navy won a complete victory. Then, it was their turn to cross the river to fight.
"Come on the leader, prepare for the battle!" Liu Xinda yelled angrily with gritted teeth.
The navy was defeated, but he still had the Yellow River, the mudflats and muddy silts of a distance of about a kilogram, and the silt. The Tang army wanted to go ashore easily, but he still had to ask whether he would agree or not.
Above the river, the Tang army navy has begun to clean the battlefield and reap the results.
Many Pinglu Navy warships were trapped on the river surface and could not move forward or retreat. At this moment, they could only raise the white flag to surrender to the Tang army. The Tang army's boats shuttled and froze on the river surface, holding a hook in their hands. Whenever they saw someone reaching out to call for help, they would scratch the hook and hook the person, and then tied it up and threw it into the cabin after dragging it onto the boat. It was very clever for them to tie people. A thin rope tied the opponent's two thumbs tightly, and the opponent could no longer feel rebellious.
These sailors can catch the alive, and this is Li Hao's order. After all, cultivating a qualified sailor is much more difficult than cultivating a qualified army soldier.
Sailors, after all, are still technical troops.
When there were no longer floating and heavy heads on the river surface, the Tang army navy began to bring over the broken or intact enemy ships one by one, and then tied them together. The superstructures of the large ships were mercilessly demolished, and the wooden boards were laid on the ships. A pontoon bridge on the river quickly extended from the north bank to the south bank.
The scarred Tang army warship slowly leaned onto the south bank, and the springboard was put down. Teams of Tang soldiers stepped on the springboard and boarded the warship. The battle was over. Now they were going to transport the Tang army infantry to the other shore as transport ships. It is far from enough to rely on a floating bridge.
"There are mudflats about a mile long on the other side, and the mud floor is extremely difficult to pass!" Li Hao looked at Cheng Xu, who was a pioneer, and said in a deep voice.
"Liu Xinda did not strike the pontoon bridge. The warship meant that he wanted to kill a large number of landing soldiers in this place. On such a ground, it was difficult to move forward and it was not easy to retreat."
"All we are preparing!" Cheng Xu pointed to the soldiers who were boarding the ship. Each of them carried pieces of wooden boards or bundles of branches and thatch. "There are always more difficult than difficulties."
"I can provide you with some long-range attacks, but there are only ten ships and limited capabilities."
"It's okay, we carried a large trench machine ourselves, and we could assemble it after crossing the river." Cheng Xu smiled and said, "General Li Zhonglang has made great contributions, which has opened our eyes. Next, it depends on us."
Chapter completed!