Chapter 288 Water War

With a "clang", the iron chains across the river broke and fell into the water. The coalition soldiers on the warship behind us cheered, raised their anchors and rushed forward. The floating bridge had been burned by countless fires, revealing countless gaps. The coalition warships passed through the gaps and sailed back to the Wu Yongdu camp.

After passing through the high ground where the Wuyongdu camp was located, the river turned a bend and suddenly widened. As soon as the coalition soldiers on the warship were around that beside the bend, they heard a fierce drum sound, and then more than twenty warships appeared. The mark on the ship was marked as the Huzhou Navy's warship. It was supposed to be Hu. Hang Observer Lu Fang sent to assist Wuyongdu. The coalition soldiers who participated in the dock battle on the ship could not help but feel a little scared, the "ghost fire" used by the enemy last year.

The power seemed to be still in front of him. While he was hesitating, the enemy's drums suddenly became fierce. With the rhythm of the drums, the enemy warships lowered the sails, and the oars on both sides slid rhythmically. The speed of the warships was getting faster and faster, and rushed towards this side. Although the vanguard of the coalition Navy's warship was a little panicked here, the flames surged into the sky on the floating bridge behind him, and it was impossible to retreat. He had to bite the bullet and go forward to fight.

In ancient times, water warfare, due to the lack of long-range weapons such as artillery that can destroy the hull, victory was nothing more than fire attack and shore combat. Moreover, since the main battlefields were in rivers and lakes, the area was much narrower than the sea. Because the large hull was huge and inconvenient to move, in order to prevent the opponent's fire attack, the tactics were generally to stay behind large ships with more soldiers, and then carry soldiers forward to attack with small boats. If the soldiers on the small boat were tired or consumed, then return to the large ship to load them. This was repeated, and the coalition was no exception. Most of the Huzhou Navy was a medium-sized warship with only more than thirty or forty soldiers.

The two ships that rushed to the front had a strange appearance and had no masts to carry sails (which could be folded down). The entire hull was wrapped in black boards. Only two rows of oars extended on both sides, rising and falling in the water, moving rapidly, looking like a giant tortoise exposed on the water. In a blink of an eye, the two armies were approaching. The soldiers of the coalition had seen many protrusions on the two strange ships, and there were many iron marks on both sides and bows, reflecting cold light. The dragon head of the bow rose and fell with the waves, spitting out a stream of white smoke from time to time, under the cover of the smoke, it looked particularly ferocious.

Zhou Anguo stood in the bow cabin, looking at the situation opposite through the lookout hole. The light outside shone on his face through the lookout hole, which was dark and uncertain. With his black face full of flesh, it smelled like a door god. Seeing that the two sides were only more than twenty feet apart, the enemy ship opposite began to fire arrows and stone bombs at this side, but most of the stone bombs and arrows were bounced open by the shells outside the warship. The soldiers and sailors in the cabin could only hear a sound of hail smashing on the roof. Seeing that the warship was as the commander said before, we were the only ones who hit them, and without them, even the paddler's horn gate was three points higher.

Zhou Anguo nodded with satisfaction. He had just confirmed that the wind was blowing towards the coalition fleet at this time, and ordered loudly: "Take the sulfur and asphalt quickly, and the blower, we want to give the boys from east Zhejiang a little color."

The soldiers in the ship immediately took the sulfur and asphalt prepared, opened a furnace, threw it into it, quickly sealed the hole, and then shook the fan with all their might. It turned out that the faucet on the bow was empty, connected to the furnace in the cabin. Once war started, they could burn sulfur, asphalt and other things that could release irritating poison gas, and then blow it out with a blower to hurt the enemy.

At this time, the warships of the two sides were only seven or eight feet apart. Seeing that the arrows of the two enemy ships on the opposite side could not be injured, the soldiers of the coalition no longer waste arrows. They prepared tools such as radial hooks, lassoes, springboards, etc., preparing to lean on to capture the enemy ships by the mount battle. But suddenly, a stream of yellow smoke ejected from the mouth of the bow of the opponent's bow, which floated towards them with the wind. As long as they were touched by the thick smoke, no one would not have red eyes, unable to see things, and had difficulty breathing, and fell to the ground to cough violently. Although some used smoke to break the enemy during water war, the terrain on the water was wide and there was wind on all sides, and the effect was minimal. But unexpectedly, the Huzhou navy had such sharp weapons. The situation of the several warships in front was immediately chaotic, and some simply rushed over, forgetting the taboo of not being able to use the hull to fight the enemy during war.

"Okay, the paddlers work harder, Master Wang, aim at the middle of the boat ahead, and use it to eat it today."

Seeing this, Zhou Anguo shouted loudly, the warship was originally closed and the space was narrow, and his voice was loud, almost deafing the soldiers inside.

A gust of river wind blew, taking away the damn thick smoke. Qu Wu felt a little more comfortable. He climbed to the side of the boat, untied the blue scarf from Baotou, soaked it in the river water, wiped his face full of snot and tears, and felt a little relieved. He tried hard to open his red and swollen eyes, and saw a black enemy ship rushing towards his warship, with sharp corners rolling on the water surface, revealing the metallic luster. He opened his mouth and wanted to make any sound, but the huge fear strangled his throat and could not make any sound.

With a loud "boom", the warships driving at high speed hit the waist of the enemy ship, almost immediately cutting them into two pieces. The most pitiful ones are the paddlers. Because their seats are under the cabin, the sharp impact angle penetrates the side plates of the ship, the broken wooden boards and broken paddles splashed everywhere, piercing into the bodies of many people. The deformed side plates have huge potential energy and hit the torso of the paddlers, breaking their ribs and shattering their internal organs. Even if a few lucky people avoid these, a large amount of river water poured into the rupture will wrap them and hit hard objects, and then the people who faint will be drowned soon.

Qu Wu was one of the few lucky people on the ship. After the ship was destroyed, he was shocked into the water. He immediately dived deeper. He knew that it would be easy to become a good target for archers on the enemy ship when it floated to the surface. He swam for seven or eight feet long, and it did not float to the surface until he couldn't hold it in. At this time, he was far from the central area of ​​the battlefield. The two armored Huzhou Navy warships had already entered their formation and rushed into the formation. They were so powerful. Their arrows and stone bullets were bounced away by their shells, and even the thrown oil barrels and torches slid into the water, causing no harm to them. Although the other party looked very clumsy, they were very agile when they moved. They either hit or shot with crossbows, like a lion rushing into the flock of sheep.

"Work harder, everyone knows the military merits and rewards of Moye City. After this battle, I, Zhou Anguo, promised that those without wives on the ship can marry their wives, and those with wives can still get a small fuck." Zhou Anguo's vulgar voice echoed in the cabin, and the sailors and soldiers burst into laughter. In just half a cup of tea, they had already sank two enemy ships, shot and killed them, and drowned at least hundreds of enemy soldiers. In fact, Zhou Anguo's words were not false. After this period of battle, the greatest harm suffered by the people in the cabin was that a soldier did not stand firm when loading the enemy ship, fell to the ground, and was cut through his palm by the arrows placed on the ground. After discovering that the other party had almost no way to deal with them, people's morale became more and more high. The oars almost rowed the entire boat.

At this time, two coalition warships were clamped from both sides, and their intention was very obvious. They wanted to break the opponent's oars through side strikes, causing them to lose their mobility, and then use the counter-attachment to eliminate the difficult enemy. Zhou Anguo saw the opponent's intentions and ordered his subordinates to put more than ten torsional spring crossbows on both sides of the ship on the full string. Since the whole body of the turtle ship was decked, it was naturally impossible to capture the enemy ship through counter-attachment. Therefore, the people in the cabin were either shooters or sailors, so the speed and firepower were much larger than those of the same size of enemy ships.

In a blink of an eye, the two ships got closer. From the hole, they saw that the other party's hull filled the entire space and seemed even larger. The veterans in charge of commanding the crossbows looked back at Zhou Anguo from time to time, waiting for the order to shoot, but Zhou Anguo's fat and mediocre face was calm at this time and ordered loudly: "The sailors took back the oars, but the shooters on both sides were not allowed to shoot without my order."

"Captain, the opponent's oars were suddenly put away." The lookouts on the coalition warship suddenly shouted loudly.

"That guy is not a fool. He knows that we are going to break his oars, but he put away his oars. Can't we board the ship directly to fight?" The leader of the coalition naval army sneered. He saw that the two enemy ships were so fierce, so he specially attacked the two warships with the largest number of soldiers on his side. There were more than a hundred soldiers on each of the two ships. For convenience, only seventy or eighty sailors were included. Three were dealing with one, saying that he could take down anything. Thinking of this, he couldn't help but smile on his face: "I ordered brothers to take off their shoes, prepare the radial hook, and come to the cabin. Don't let this fat fish go later."

Seeing that the warships of both sides were getting closer and closer, even the radial hooks extended by the coalition soldiers leaned on their own warships, Zhou Anguo then issued a firing order. With the terrifying trigger pulling, the soldiers waiting to board the ship on the other side were swept away. With huge potential rock bullets and short spears, they penetrated and shattered all obstacles on their flight route. Many short spears fell into the water, carrying three or even four half-dead bodies. The survivors were almost stunned by the scene in front of them, and the enemy ship in front of them seemed like a giant
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