Chapter Eighty-Eight: The Sea of Fire

General Manghu looked at the monstrous fire at sea, and his heart was numb.

The Nanyang Military Government jumped in heavy artillery warfare, but despised fire warfare, and this tradition was brought by Chen Mu.

Shao Tingda, who has always been Chen Mu's subordinate, is very ashamed to mention this - as a naval general, he has never fought a firefight, not once.

"General, what to do!"

Shao Tingda's three Fu ships in the Chinese army are still moving forward, getting closer and closer to the burning sea, the flag army is taken in Shao Tingda's consistent prestige and does not dare to stop the ship without authorization, the three warships on the right wing are fearless, there is no sea in front of them and there is no oil, but the left wing and the Chinese army are facing the same situation, one warship has begun to change the rudder, and the other two Fu ships are also hesitant.

The flag officer who was in a hurry couldn't see Shao Tingda's clenched teeth and Tie Qing's face under the god's armor, and could only see the fire reflected in the general's eyes. ”

Zheng Cong's eyes widened, and he couldn't help asking, "Huh?" ”

Shao Tingda turned his head and glanced at him, no longer caring about him, ran quickly up the bowhouse, pulled out a short knife and inserted it into the direction of the first rudder, and shouted back.

"Our mission is here, and we have no hesitation, but what if there is fire on the sea, is fire more terrible than military law? If there is a fire, it will wade over, and if the ship cannot stop, it will directly hit the shore, and all the flag troops will obey the order, and the gunpowder on the ship will be poured into the sea and enter the cabin! ”

The bow and tail rudder were all stuck, the flag army listened to the order and drilled into the lower cabin, Shao Tingda finally stood on the bow tower and glanced at the sea of fire dozens of steps away, put the knife into the sheath, sighed deeply from behind the face armor, walked down the bow and crossed his legs at the bottom of the mast, obediently held the mast firmly with his hands and feet like a sloth.

The big tiger hugged the mast in his arms, his teeth chattering, and his whispers were loud.

"Containing the bird and the fox and the dry rite mother, there is a fire!"

The monstrous heat came to his face, and the next moment, the fortune boat had rushed into the sea of fire unabated.

As soon as the sea oil fortune ship was touched, it burned down, and in a blink of an eye, a wall of fire was dyed on the outside of the ship's board, and then the two fortune ships saw that the master would drive the ship into the sea of fire, and they could only follow the approach, and the general of the fortune boat, who had turned more than half of the rudder on the left wing, almost cried.

He didn't want to enter the sea of fire, but he didn't dare not enter, this had nothing to do with Shao Tingda being the first soldier, Shi Qi on the rear gunboat watched Shao Tingda pour into the fire and almost gritted his teeth, seeing that the left flank fleet dared to turn the rudder, he personally operated the bow gun and bombarded the twelve pounds of heavy artillery on the side of the Fu ship with a hundred steps.

This cannon let the flag officer of the left wing know that the flag officer braised in oil may not become a dish, but the rudder cannon will definitely not survive.

Gritting his teeth, three more lucky ships drove into the sea of fire.

The fire made the temperature at sea rise sharply, and simple breathing became difficult, even if he struggled to open his mouth and breathe in the meager air, it was extremely hot, Shao Tingda seemed to smell the smell of his beard and eyebrows being burned, and simply held his breath, and there was no place on his face under the mask that did not hurt.

It seemed like a year ago.

He silently calculated the speed of running in his heart, and said in the drill that the boat was sailing on the sea, and the speed of the ship was almost the same as that of a person running on flat ground, but when he opened his eyes again, his eyes were still red, and even the sides of the lucky ship were burning, and the raging fire ignited the sails, and the fire was dragged backward by the wind to let him know that the ship was still moving forward.

I don't know what this fiery tiger thought, but when the plate was almost half served, he laughed out loud, pulled his burned face and cried out in pain, ", this boat hasn't run fast yet!" ”

Just more than 200 steps, just more than 100 breaths, suddenly Shao Tingda felt that his whole body was clear, and even his ears could hear a whistling sound, the fire fortune boat rushed out of the sea of fire, followed by just when his mind was relaxed, there was a sudden boom, the bottom of the boat hit the beach, and the huge inertia threw him up half a step, all relying on his legs crossed on the mast so that he was not falling out of the miserable state.

Beneath his ass, a large wail of pain was heard.

General Manghu grinned, listening to the sound of his subordinates falling worse than him, pulling down the iron armor, his face was full of pain, his nose and cheeks were scorched with the armor, and his dried eyebrows and beard fell off at the touch of it.

He didn't dare to take off his helmet, but he was afraid that his hair would not be much better, so he hurriedly endured the pain and put on his mask, got up and scolded loudly: "It's all for Lao Tzu to come out, it's on the shore!" ”

The sword was no longer enough to quell the anger in the heart of the reckless worm, who had almost turned into a hard dish, and he dropped his saber and raised a dagger under the side of the ship, which was still burning with the edge of the flames, and with two swashes, he was very satisfied.

At this moment, one by one, his fierce subordinates crawled out of the cabin, like evil ghosts.

Although Shao Tingda's subordinates are equipped with armor, it is obvious that many banner soldiers have realized that they no longer need this piece of iron armor, and they have lost their beard and eyebrows, which is already more hideous and terrifying than the armor.

With a few booms, the two Fu ships that followed also rushed ashore, ran aground on the beach with a blazing fire, and one by one the Nanyang Flag Army greedily breathed in the long-lost air, and then the nearby fortress had guns and arrows splashed on the ship.

On the contrary, the three lucky boats on the right flank reacted much faster than the Chinese army, they did not rush into the obstacle of the flames, a piece of boat board on the beach, and even some flag troops simply grabbed the sail rope and jumped off the boat, under the command of the flag officer to form a formation, under the big shield opened the road more than 200 flag troops divided into two teams, one team on the spot to lay the tiger squatting pile, several tiger squat cannons from the Shicheng district 30 steps into a pound of bombs to blast towards the foundation.

There is no gate on this side of the fortress, and if you want to attack the fortress, you have to run around the city, or you can only use some special methods.

Over there, the tiger squat cannon blasted out, the ground was not tight enough to make the tiger squat this kind of light cannon jump backwards, the farthest one was even jumped into the sea directly by the back seat, but piling is better than not piling, in the end when the cannon is ejected into the 30 steps of accuracy is okay, the big iron bullet is still accurately bombed into the wall of the boulder into the stone village, blasting out a deep mouth of nearly a foot, the cannonball is deeply embedded in it, and the surrounding area is densely covered with cracks and fine lines.

The cannon opened, and several other teams of jumping soldiers had rushed to the city, in a group of two, one person held a long card to support, and the other person knelt to the cannon hole with a thick five-pound bamboo powder cartridge, the diameter of the bamboo barrel was slightly smaller than that of the cannonball, ignited and plugged, stuffed with the cloth caught from the beach and wrapped in sandbags, and retreated quickly.

The flag army that rushed to the city was far less than the one that ran back, there were not only fire bolts and arrows in the city, but also ancient city defense ordnance such as rolling stones and sasswoods, and the smashing of the head and face was not at all something that ordinary big shields could resist.

When Shao Tingda led his army to jump from the fireboat, several explosions came from the foundation of the towering stone city on the right, blowing up several terrible gaps under the city, but it did not blow through the thick city wall, and the right wing banner army was carrying out the second blasting, and at the same time, the three lucky boats on the left wing were belatedly running aground on the beach with raging fire.

Another artillery fire from behind hit the city, and the hairless general looked at the stone city full of potholes, and the hand axe was simply inserted back into his waist, and shouted to the left and right: "The bird gun team will be released under the city, and the rest will climb the city with me, and the first to climb the city will be rewarded with two hundred taels of silver!" ”