Chapter 515 The Battle of Hepu
On the sea, there were not only hot bombs, but also stone bombs. It was not only Liang's crossbows that were shooting, but also Wu's giant crossbows that were equipped on warships, that were bed crossbows, which were also shooting crossbow guns. The Wu Navy also took a revolutionary step to mount heavy long-range weapons to the warships.
It is just based on the difference between the ejection principle and the launch object, the crossbow gun shot from the bed crossbow is obviously not as accurate as the crossbow cannon, and it is impossible to correct the next shot based on the landing point of the last shot.
Wu Jun's crossbow guns also have a type of fire-induced fire-induced effect of fire bombs. These special crossbow guns are hung with cloth bags, which are filled with flammable objects such as sulfur toner and catkins.
But hanging these things on the head of the crossbow gun will reduce the hit rate of the crossbow gun. If it were not for the target that was very close, it would be almost impossible to hit. Moreover, the fire-induced objects in the cloth bag must not be as good as naphtha.
The dozen warships of the Wu army were blocking the end of their entire fleet, and the soldiers on it struggled to control the crossbow. As soon as one of the ships fired a crossbow, he heard a muffled sound. Six-foot-high flames rose into the air on the deck near the crossbow. Several Wu soldiers who had wound the crossbow immediately turned into firemen. They wailed and rolled on the deck, and were almost dying when the flames were extinguished.
Several Wu soldiers around him rushed up, took their posts, and skewed the crossbow, but found that the winding winch was idling and could not exert force at all. After careful observation, they found that the bow string of the crossbow was blown by flames and had been burned.
Then another loud bang came from the Wu soldiers' ears, which was the sound of stone bombs shattering their ship's side. The entire hull tilted violently, and most of the Wu soldiers were unstable and rolled on the deck in a sloping ball. When the hull stabilized again, the sea water had poured in from a large hole that appeared on the ship's side...
As the ships on both sides got closer, the two sides were shooting faster and faster. In the night sky on the sea, fireballs passed by like meteors, and together with the flames rising from the deck, illuminating the sea.
The huge sound of falling into the water caused by the stone bomb entering the sea, the wood shattered after the stone bomb hit the hull, the sound of wood chips splashing, the muffled sound of crossbow guns shooting into the wood, the explosion sound of the fire bomb falling on the deck and the wailing crying of the wounded soldiers resounded through the night sky.
During the two sides' shooting, the dozen warships of Wu's army were only beaten, and the crossbow guns shot out could hit the opponent's side, and even if they hit, they would not have much effect. The captain of Wu, who was commanding them, saw the way and knew that if this continued, they would not be able to hit the opponent's side, and all his dozen warships would be destroyed. He shouted: "The oarsman did his best to paddle! Go forward at full speed and approach the enemy ship. Everyone was ready to jump into the gang battle!"
Unfortunately, he only thought of approaching the opponent at full speed and conducting close-range hand-to-hand combat with the jumping helper, but forgot that the opponent's crossbows were also the closer they were to fight. In the end, except for two of the dozen warships of the Wu army, the rest were burned and sunk by Liang's army before they even got close. Burning wreckage and slowly sinking ships could be seen everywhere on the sea.
When two surviving ships, one of which was seven or eight distance from the opponent's sailing warship, the crossbow gun shot from the bed crossbow drilled into the porthole under the top deck of the opponent's warship. A Liang army paddler was nailed to the deck on the spot. But then more than ten fiery bombs fell on its deck almost at the same time. The deck of the Wu army warship suddenly became a sea of fire, and then the sails burned. On the ship, Wu army soldiers wailed and rushed into the sea.
Another Wu army warship successfully leaned on another Liang army's sailboat. Its deck was full of Wu army soldiers who were preparing to jump to fight. They all held swords, guns, bows and crossbows, and hooks and sickles for jumping to jump to the opponent's deck to kill the enemy soldiers.
But Liang's sailboat was tall and they needed to climb to climb to the deck of each other's warship. Before they could start climbing, spears and arrows had already fallen from the deck of the sailship like a sudden rain. The dense crowd on the Wu army's warship fell down like harvested rice...
The Wu army fleet was still advancing towards the coastline of Hepu. Several famous generals and officials such as Sun Ce, Taishi Ci, Xu Cun gathered on the stern deck of the flagship to observe the battle situation. They could see the fierce battle situation, and also saw many ships turning into fireboats. They could vaguely hear the noise of the battlefield, but they didn't know who won and who lost.
They were getting farther and farther away from the battlefield, and the fire ships had become "lights". At this time, a clutch took a boat to catch up with the flagship of the Wu army's fleet and ordered the soldiers to go to the deck to report to Sun Ce: "Report to the king, the dozen battlefields that our army broke... have been wiped out, and the enemy seems to have chased after him again."
"The entire army was wiped out so quickly! How much did the enemy lose?" Sun Ce asked with a dark face. He knew that these dozen warships could not stop the entire fleet of the other side, but it would not have been wiped out in just two or three quarters of an hour.
Lingbing replied truthfully: "A single ship of the enemy has not been damaged, and casualties are unknown. However, according to the effectiveness of the crossbow guns shot by our army's giant crossbow, it should not actually kill many enemy soldiers."
After hearing this, Sun Ce took a breath. He said that the navy with such combat power should not dream of destroying them, and at the same time, he must also preserve the ships and strength.
Thinking of this, Sun Ce made a decisive order: "Transfer the orphan military order and accelerate toward the shore of Hepu. All land soldiers are ready to land. Once the ships dock, land at the fastest speed."
In this way, the fleets of both sides rushed towards the Hepu coast at their fastest speed.
The Wu army fleet finally approached the Hepu coast when the other party was still four or five miles away from him. Moreover, the coast in this area was a beach plain terrain, which was very suitable for landing. However, because they were too anxious, some of the ships rushed to the shallows and ran aground. Under the orders of generals at all levels, the Wu army soldiers on the ship jumped off the ship and waded on the water. Sun Ce and Taishi Ci had already set foot on the land of Hepu County in the first wave of landing brigades. The highest position of Wu army generals on the ship was the governor Xu Cun.
However, when the Wu army was halfway through the landing, Liang army's hot bombs and stone bombs once again passed by the night sky like flying fire. The flames in the air shone clearly on the entire landing ground of Wu army.
Sun Ce's forehead was full of sweat, and he shouted anxiously: "Hurry up, get ashore!"
A Wu army warship burned again, but it had already broken down on the shore. When Wu soldiers who were waiting to get off the boat saw the fire, they jumped into the waist-deep sea water in advance and touched the shore. The Liang army's warships were getting closer and closer, and the crossbows were shooting more and more accurately. But they suddenly stopped. At more than 300 battles from the Wu army's landing ground, they just fired the fire bombs and stone bombs with the crossbows. Sun Ce on the shore immediately understood that the other party was afraid of stranding and did not dare to approach the shore.
Chapter completed!