Verse 26 Battle of Tsushima - Egg Basket
The Nine Demons were glad that his ancestor's tactic of "hiding a gun in a shield" had succeeded, and that the light "arsonist boats" hidden among the slower iron ships could delay the enemy's advance and inflict considerable losses on the enemy. Seeing that a large number of his "arson ships" were almost in contact with enemy ships, he could hardly hide the joy in his heart, and even a smile line faintly floated in his eyes.
"Order, the left and right sides of the enemy are encircled, and the middle flotilla continues to advance towards Tsushima Island......"
You can't put all your eggs in one basket, this sentence we all understand, is a risk-averse strategy. Naturally, the Nine Ghosts Zhibao Water Army would not completely put the landing force in the last cluster, so his main fleet was also mixed with some warships transporting troops, carrying a landing army of about 10,000 people.
They are the front army of the landing, and there are several small boats tied to the big boats, those are small boats used for landing, of course, their purpose is not at all like the Shenzhou army to grab beaches along the sandy beach, their purpose is to garrison the dock of dozens of "whale-class" amphibious assault ships.
These situations were unpredictable, and according to the established plan, they resolutely rushed towards the enemy's last warship carrying most of the landing army.
The crew of the arsonist ship that rushed to the vicinity of the destroyer were killed and injured by the "Xiaofei Shen Crossbow" and the "Slingshot Grenade Launcher", of course, the most damaged to them was the "Xiao Fei Shen Crossbow", which was extremely fast, and the raindrop-like short arrows shot at the ship, piercing the wood and making a depressing "tuk-tuk" sound.
After penetrating the ship's wood, the bare tail of the arrow trembled with great inertia. Due to the relationship of distance, the crossbow takes a certain angle of "hanging shot", due to the gravitational acceleration in the air, the already sharp crossbow arrow is more powerful, and the crossbow arrow that can only pierce the body when shooting horizontally can often pass through the human body when "hanging and shooting". With a rain of blood, the shafts of the arrows were stained red with blood, and the tail often dragged a few strands of flesh from the human body.
From beginning to end, the "Gale-class" destroyers are equipped with a total of six levels of "flying crossbows" and "slingshot grenade launchers", so the crossbow arrows fired at the "arsonist ships" are extremely dense. The unobstructed paddlemen on an "arson boat" were often killed and wounded more than half of them when a row of crossbow arrows came down.
This is not the most terrifying, when they advanced to the destroyer fifty meters, they were faced with a burst of grenades fired by the "slingshot grenade launcher", the grenade function of these porcelain projectiles is mainly to kill people, and now their other function is to ignite the ignition on the "arsonist ship".
The Fuso sailors roared, and rushed out of the cabin with a few reserve pulpers, helpless to replenish and consume really disproportionately. Soon the paddlers were wiped out, and the "arsonist ships", which were originally quite fast, slowed down, and they could never compare with the destroyers of the Shenzhou Army only by being driven by sails.
A large number of grenades exploded on the "arsonist ship", and the sparks from their explosion ignited the ignition on the ship, and the arsonist ship was instantly burned into torches.
The Nine Ghosts looked at the flames burning on those "arson boats" and were excited. Due to the distance and the wind and waves, it was impossible for him to see clearly the "arsonists" that were burning within 50 meters of the destroyer, and he received a report that all 40 "arsonists" had hit.
"Aha, no matter how brave you are, you will be defeated by my ancestors' famous tactics of 'hiding a gun in a shield'! Hmph, just get back the ...... Tsushima Island this time! ”
Huang Kehui had a sneer on the corner of his mouth, watching the staff officers take down the small models that represented the "Vertical Ship". His gaze did not linger long, but looked ahead, where the enemy army was carrying the landing soldiers.
"Ammonium is scheduled to attack ......" Huang Kehui's eyes swept over there, looking at the clock hanging on the wall, his train of thought only stopped here for a moment, and then extended forward, seeing that the final goal was about to begin, and the main force of the Fusang Navy Army in the entire western Fusang was the most fundamental purpose.
The Shenzhou destroyer ship formation launched a standard one-line artillery bombardment formation, divided into two formations of nine warships, and began shelling from both sides of the flank of the old ironclad ships and wooden ships that the Fuso Navy had fallen behind.
The loud sound of the 100-mm cannon firing was heard far away on the sea, and it was only then that the Nine Demons realized that none of the forty "arsonist boats" had hit. He was a little disappointed, but of course he was not disappointed, because his two hundred ships were taking advantage of the wind to be not far behind the ships that had already begun to shoot at the 60 ships.
As long as the more than 60 or so ships entangled with the enemy ship and their more than 200 warships started a big battle with the enemy, would they still be defeated? As for the landing soldiers on the sixty warships, they couldn't run fast, and they were all light firearms, how they were entangled with the destroyers, the nine ghosts didn't think much about it. After all, the lives of those soldiers were worthless in the eyes of a man like him.
After the two groups of nine destroyers had formed a bombardment formation, they relied on their extraordinary mobility to walk in a circle formation around the enemy formation, and as far as possible to drive back into the ranks of those ships that had been collected by the adversaries, and the encirclement became smaller and smaller.
More than 60 warships were initially fired at each other with their iron cannons and the destroyers' 1647 Thor-J cannons, which soon showed them that this was a foolish act. The ships used to transport soldiers were extremely slow, and many iron cannons were removed in order to carry more soldiers.
In the face of continuous human fire from 100-mm guns, some warships still braved their own guns and firearms such as iron cannons and large barrels to meet the Shenzhou military destroyers.
The fate of these boatmen is often more tragic, and a series of 100-mm shells will take "special care" of them, and in the dense shells, if only one hit, such a wooden ship is likely to fall apart or ignite a fire. Scattered gunpowder and cannonballs often cause explosions, and people and limbs and all kinds of bits and pieces will fly all over the sky like scattered flowers in the explosion.
More than 90 1647 Thor-J cannons continued to shoot a barrage of human shells, sinking the warships that escaped from the queue and wanted to meet or escape. More men and ships were crowded together, and as far as possible, the guns on the ships covered each other to resist the attack of the destroyer fleet.
As a result, the distance between the troop carriers and the people is getting closer and closer, and although the warships in the outer ring can cover each other, the firing range of artillery fire on the ships in the inner ring is blocked by the warships outside, and it can no longer be cast at all.
Under the command of Huang Kehui, the destroyer fleet of the Shenzhou Navy circled the sea, braving artillery fire to compress the enemy forces together.