Thirty-six Victories at Sea (Part II)
After saying goodbye to Su Baoheng, Mo Ran Shi Qita led the main fleet of the Jin army to turn the bow of the ship and sail north) Because he was afraid of encountering another attack by the Song army on the way, Mo Ran Shi Qita divided all the warships into two parts, and let Lu Zhongxiong take two hundred warships first, and he led the remaining more than three hundred warships to a distance of about ten miles behind and followed.
If the Song army is ambushed in the middle of the road, the warships in front can meet it first, and then the main fleet behind them will catch up and support, and defeat the Song army together. It was this tactic used by the Jin Army to achieve a great victory in the East China Sea at the beginning.
Sure enough, when the fleet of the Jin State sailed to the area of Sancao Mountain in the sea area of Qingyuan Mansion, the alarm came, and the naval army of the Song Dynasty appeared.
It turned out that when Li Gongzuo saw the main force of the Jin army retreating, he guessed that the Jin army would never return to the army to save Sanmen Bay, but to protect the naval army Dazhai of Qingyuan Mansion. In fact, Li Gongzuo knows that the current Qingyuan Mansion's naval army Dazhai is the same as Sanmenwan, it is an empty village, even if this Dazhai is leveled, for the Jin army, the actual loss is not big, but it is just to build another Dazhai.
At present, the goal of the Song army is still to annihilate the warships of the Jin State, so Li Gongzuo immediately sent a clipper to Zhang Yuan to give an order, asking him to leave Sanmen Bay immediately, lay an ambush on the sea route to Qingyuan Mansion, and rob the Jin army halfway, and at any cost, he must drag the Jin army, wait for himself to defeat the blocking fleet, and then lead the army to arrive, and attack back and forth, so that he can break the Jin army.
At present, Zhang Yuan's subordinates have more than 220 warships, including two large Shenzhou, eight small Shenzhou, ten 2,000 warships, and 12 ironclad ships. After the Jin Army's Sanmenwan Water Village, it has been moored in the bay between Big Buddha Island and Niutou Mountain, waiting for Li Gongzuo's next order.
After receiving the order, Zhang Yuan immediately ordered to open and lay an ambush in the area of Sancao Mountain, preparing to intercept the Jin army halfway. Not long after the Song army arrived at the sea of Sancao Mountain, they saw the arrival of the Jin army's fleet. Zhang Yuan immediately ordered an attack, and the warships of the Song army immediately blocked the sea.
However, Lu Zhongxiong was also prepared, and as soon as he saw that the warships of the Song army were killed, he immediately sent someone to the back to deliver a letter to Mo Ran Shi Qita, asking him to come and answer him immediately. At the same time, he also ordered the whole army, mainly to attack the Song army.
At this time, Zhang Yuan saw clearly that this Jin army only had about 200 warships, and it would never be the main force of the Jin army, and when he saw that the Jin army actually took the initiative to attack him, he immediately understood that the main force of the Jin army was behind, and this was just a front station force. However, at this time, this Jin army cannot be left alone, anyway, the current task is to drag to the Jin army, just wait for Li Gongzuo's fleet to arrive, and the Jin army can be defeated by flanking the front and back. Therefore, Zhang Yuan also ordered the Song army to meet the battle.
At this time, the number of warships on both sides of the Song and Jin sides was about the same, but the combat effectiveness of the Song army was not only far above the Jin army, but also the Jin army had been on the sea for three or four days. As soon as the two armies came into contact, the Song army's warships and arrows were fired together, and the fire was fired at the Jin Army, and the Jin Army was suddenly defeated, and more than a dozen ships were burned by the Song Army.
Lu Zhongxiong saw that the situation was not good, but fortunately, he was only the vanguard force, and there were reinforcements behind, so he didn't have to fight with the Song army, so he led the fleet to fight and retreat, wanting to lure the Song army to chase after him, waiting for the fleet behind to arrive to support, and defeat the Song army with all his strength.
As soon as Zhang Yuan saw the movements of the Jin army, he immediately understood the intention of the Jin army, and immediately restrained the Song army's warships.
In this way, the two sides fought for less than half an hour, and sure enough, seeing that the Jin army's large warships arrived, fortunately, Zhang Yuan had prepared in advance, and immediately ordered the whole army to shrink the defensive line and defend with all its might.
Seeing that the Song army had few ships, he immediately ordered Jiagu Su and Ulitanda to take one hundred and fifty warships each and overtake them from the two wings. Lu Zhongxiong also turned around and launched a counterattack from the middle, the warships on both sides came and went, and the fighting was very fierce, although the Jin army was tired, but the number of warships was more than twice that of the Song army, so the two wings of the beggar tower ordered the two wings to attack desperately, preparing to encircle the Song army in one fell swoop.
But the Song army's formation is rigorous, there are no flaws, and this Song army has been hidden in the Yushan Islands since its departure, waiting for the opportunity, everyone has held back their strength, want to fight with the Jin army, and now finally get the opportunity to fight, naturally everyone is brave, although there are few ships, but they also do not show weakness, and the Jin army is inseparable.
Zhang Yuan saw that the Jin army was attacking the two wings with all its might, and knew that the Jin army wanted to encircle the Song army, so he decisively deployed two large Shenzhou and eight small Shenzhou all on the two wings to resist the Jin army's attack. With the addition of several Shenzhou, the firepower of the two wings of the Song army suddenly increased greatly, and the rocket fire and flint all came to the Jin army, and the Jin army was immediately suppressed by the Song army, and many warships were on fire and could not fight. also firmly guarded the two wings, so that the Jin army had no chance to take advantage of it.
In the middle of the Song army, Zhang Yuan gathered ten ironclad ships, formed an assault team, took the initiative to attack, violently attacked the middle of the Jin army, and rushed into the middle of the Jin army at once, rushing left and right.
Jin Jun never thought that the Song army would take the initiative to attack, and was immediately caught off guard by the Song army, and more than ten warships were all hit by the Song army all over the ship, and most of the Jin army encountered the ironclad ship for the first time, and there was nothing to do about the almost invulnerable monsters. After the Song army's assault team killed a circle in the Jin army's array, it broke out of the encirclement and returned to the Song army's fortress.
Mo Ran Shi Qita also knew that although the Song army had few ships, it was not easy to deal with, so he immediately changed his tactics and no longer pursued the total annihilation of the Song army, but only wanted to be able to defeat the Song army and return to Qingyuan Mansion safely. Therefore, the forces were adjusted, the large ships were concentrated in the middle, and the rocket fire and crossbow forces attacked the Song army head-on. Some of the warships that were on fire drove directly into the Song army's formation, rammed the Song army's warships, and fought with the Song army.
Because the task of the Song army was to block the Jin army, and the Jin army's warships could not run away, so in the face of the fierce attack of the Jin army, the Song army could not avoid the real and the false, Zhang Yuan had to gather all the big ships and fight with the Jin army. At this time, the Song army suddenly fell into a bitter battle. However, the number of warships of the Jin army was far above that of the Song army, and under the onslaught in turn, the Song army also lost a lot, and three small Shenzhou were attacked by the Jin army's concentrated rocket fire, and then hit by several fireboats, igniting a fire.
There were also two ironclad ships, which were collided by more than ten 2,000 large ships of the Jin Army in turn, and were hit ten times in a row, and finally were knocked into a loose skeleton and could not support it.
In the face of such a fierce attack by the Jin army at any cost, although Zhang Yuan tried his best to command, the Song army was still a little unable to support it, and the tight formation was also loosened. Many Jin troops broke through the formation of the Song army and turned around to kill back. The Song army thought it was precarious.
But at this moment, Li Gongzuo's fleet finally appeared.
In fact, the losses of the Jin army at this time were not small, and when they saw Li Gongzuo's fleet killed, they dared to fight there, and they broke through the defense line of the Song army and fled to Qingyuan Mansion.
Li Gongzuo's fleet defeated Su Baoheng's resistance and it took more than two hours. The Jin army was routed, Su Baoheng was killed on the spot, and most of the Jin army's warships were sunk by the Song army. But there were still forty or fifty warships of the Jin Army left on the battlefield, and there were still many scattered battles. Moreover, the Song army also captured more than twenty warships.
Li Gongzuo didn't care about this, because the time had been delayed a lot, leaving Xu Jiang with fifty warships to clean up the mess of the battlefield. He led other warships to aid Zhang Yuan.
In fact, although Li Gongzuo's warships rushed to the battlefield, there were only more than 180 warships, and after repeated fierce battles, the Song army was also very tired, and more importantly, there were few firearms, bows, arrows and crossbows left in the fleet, but Li Gongzuo concentrated all the remaining weapons in Shenzhou, ironclad ships and a few large ships of 2,000 materials to use, in order to give the Jin army a head-on attack, and the other 1,000 warships at this time did not have the ability to attack remotely, so they could only carry out pedaling operations.
At this time, the Jin army basically broke through Zhang Yuan's fleet, and the total number of warships was about 3560, and the rocket fire crossbow was quite complete. If you dare to turn around and fight a decisive battle with Li Gongzuo's fleet now, you may not lose so badly, but now the Jin army is physically and mentally exhausted, and they don't know the reality of the Song army, and this time the troops have been repeatedly attacked, and they still dare to fight there, and they suddenly broke and fled. Even Mo Ran Shi Qita and Lu Zhongxiong each fled the battlefield with their fleets.
After Li Gongzuo and Zhang Yuan joined forces, they chased after them, but they didn't dare to be too tight, they just intercepted dozens of warships behind, and after killing them for a while, they also collected their troops and went back.
At this time, Xu Jiang also cleaned up the mess, taking the captured warship with Li Gongzuo and Zhang Yuan. Still moored on Big Buddha Island. This battle lasted for four days, and finally ended with the Song army's victory at sea and the Jin army's Sanmenwan Water Village.
This naval battle was fought from Guangdong by the Song army and lasted nearly a month. The Song army invested 472 warships and more than 43,000 sailors. The Jin army invested 847 warships and more than 68,000 sailors, and the two sides experienced three large-scale naval battles, all of which ended in the victory of the Song army.
By the end of the battle, the Song army had lost a total of 157 warships of various kinds and more than 7,200 sailors, but captured 69 large and small warships of the Jin army and more than 2,000 soldiers, and now there are more than 400 warships in total.
After the Jin army fled back to Qingyuan Mansion, there were less than 300 warships left, and the navy army was only more than 28,000 people. From then on, the Jin army at sea was no longer able to compete with the Song army.
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