35 Victories at Sea (Part I)
"The whole army went out and attacked the Jin army... Head. After Li Gongzuo put down the telescope in his hand, he immediately ordered the whole army, "Within two hours, it is necessary to defeat the blocking naval army of this Jin army." ”
Now Yijing can see very clearly, the Jin army has obviously received the news of the attack on Sanmenwan Water Village, and is divided into two parts, one part of the main force, about 500 warships, is setting sail one after another to leave, evacuating the battlefield. The other part was responsible for blocking the Song army, about 200 warships, and now the sea spread horizontally, blocking the Song army's pursuit path. Then what was in front of the Song army was to defeat the Jin army fleet as soon as possible, and then join Zhang Yuan's navy to flank the main fleet of the Jin army.
After receiving Li Gongzuo's order, the warships of the Song army also quickly adjusted, and immediately lined up in a goose-shaped formation, with two large Shenzhou in the center, eight small Shenzhou divided into two wings, ironclad ships and two thousand warships in the middle, and other large and small warships also entered their respective positions, spread horizontally on the sea surface, up to several miles wide, the middle road was convex, and the two wings were slightly retracted, like a bird of prey with wings to pounce on the enemy, advancing towards the Jin army.
This time, the Song army did not want to attack the Jin army's formation in a conical shape like in a major war, but it was in full swing, as if it wanted to swallow the Jin army in one bite. But Su Baoheng knew that this was because the Song army's warships were now in their own hands in terms of quantity, quality, and actual combat ability of soldiers and sailors, so the Song army obviously intended to concentrate superior forces at the beginning and defeat the Jin army.
In the face of the Song army's tactical intentions, the best choice for the Jin army is to shrink the formation, reduce the contact surface with the Song army, and defend with all their might, so that they can hold on for a longer time. But the goal of the Song army is not to completely annihilate the Jin army, but to get rid of the Jin army on the right, to pursue the main force of the Jin army, if the Jin army is fully defended, the Song army only needs to leave a small number of warships to contain the Jin army, and other warships can go away and continue to pursue the main force of the Jin army. Therefore, knowing that he was defeated by the Song army, Su Baoheng had to launch a formation and put on a posture of attack.
Therefore, Su Baoheng also issued the same order to the Jin army: "The whole army will attack and attack the Song army." Looking back and watching the main fleet slowly leave, Su Baoheng just sighed and said silently in his heart: "Everyone, the battle in the future depends on you, and I will try to buy you as much time as possible." ”
After three days of chasing at sea, the warships of the Song and Jin wars were finally about to start a head-to-head battle.
In order to pursue the effect of a thunderous blow, the Song army did not rush to attack first, but waited until the distance between the two sides reached an effective attack range of two hundred paces, and then Li Gongzuo ordered all ships to start attacking.
As soon as the order to attack was laid, arrows and crossbows were immediately fired from all the warships of the Song army, and all long-range weapons were launched together, and crossbow guns, bows and arrows, fire crossbow rockets, etc., poured towards the Jin army's warships like a raging storm. Arrows were constantly killed, rockets and crossbows fell on the sails, decks, and shipyards, and the sporadic firelight now spread.
The Jin soldiers of each ship fought back against the Song army while fighting the fire, although the strength and density of the arrows and crossbows were obviously much worse than those of the Song army, and it was difficult to inflict the same damage on the Song army. But the Jin army was still struggling to resist, crossbowmen, ballistas, and trebuchets also started desperately firing back, and many Jin soldiers raised their shields to cover the crossbowmen.
Under the all-out counterattack of the Jin army, the warships of the Song army also caught fire in places, and many soldiers were hit by arrows, which was the result of the attack, and their own casualties would also increase. Seeing this, Li Gongzuo immediately ordered to attack the Jin army with the "fire dragon water pipe".
Suddenly, dozens of "fire dragon water pipes" were ignited together, making a loud noise, spewing out a large amount of smoke, making the sea surface shrouded in a fog, and the sharp whistling sound of the long arrows with fire pierced through the fog and shot towards the Jin army. At a distance of less than two hundred paces, the strength of the "Fire Dragon Water Cylinder" was not under the bed crossbow, and it was not something that ordinary shields could block, countless arrows penetrated the shield, penetrated the deck, penetrated the shipbuilding, and finally penetrated the bodies of the soldiers of the Jin Army. Miserable cries also resounded throughout the sea.
The Song army fired three rounds in a row, and used more than a hundred at once, all of which were 300 "fire dragon water cylinders".
In order to delay time, Su Baoheng divided the Jin army's fleet into four rows to block and rob layer by layer, and there were more than 60 large and small warships in the first row. After all the more than 30,000 arrows on the Song army's side were launched, at this time, the front of each of Zhu Yifei's warships was full of arrows, and a large number of golden soldiers fell from each warship, and the other golden soldiers also looked for places to hide and dodge, for fear that this terrible blow would come to their heads again. After three rounds of firing, the Jin army's arrows and crossbows were suddenly suppressed by the Song army.
Su Baoheng's ship building was the last row, and it had not yet been attacked. At this time, he stood on the high platform, looking at the soldiers who were beaten by the Song army and hiding in Tibet, Su Baoheng couldn't help but smile bitterly in his heart, it seems that the strength of Dajin's naval army is still much worse than that of the Southern Song Dynasty. If you want to compete with the Southern Song Dynasty on the water, I'm afraid it will take more than ten years, but I can't see that day.
At this time, the distance between the two sides was one step closer, and the distance was about 100 paces, and the effective attack range of various firearms was reached. Therefore, the warships in the front row of the Song army began to launch one after another, and smoke balls, thunderstorms, tribulus fireballs, fierce oil bombs, etc., fell from the air towards the Jin army and smashed into the Jin army's warships. The strikes on the warships in the front row of the Jin army were further intensified.
After all kinds of artillery shells fell, most of the warships in the first row of the Jin army were surrounded by fire, and the surviving Jin soldiers of the ship could only jump into the water to escape, the sea was full of choking smoke, broken decks, broken masts, broken sails, floating on the sea, falling everywhere, and countless Jin troops were struggling to escape in the sea.
Because the first row of warships was beaten by the Song army and had no power to fight back, the Song army barely encountered any decent resistance at this time. The two sides were not at all a face-to-face contest, and when the troops, ships, and firepower were all at a disadvantage, the Jin army still chose to attack the Song army, and naturally it would only be defeated.
The strong sea breeze blew away the smoke that filled the sea, and a row of warships on both sides began to pass by, and some of the desperate Jin soldiers steered the warships that were on fire with the Jingjing, and crashed head-on with the Song army's warships, hoping to die with the Song army.
This was somewhat unexpected by the Song army, and several warships that rushed forward were all hit by the Jin army. But the warships of the Song army were usually larger than those of the Jin army, and they were much stronger, and even if they were hit, they would not be too damaged. As a result, only two ships were incapacitated by the fire of the Jin warships. Most of the other ships passed safely through the first row of the Jin army.
The warships behind had learned a lesson, and they flexibly turned their rudders to dodge, and avoided the warships on fire. However, they were not polite to those warships that were not on fire, and often two or three warships forced one, and then the Song soldiers kicked the enemy ships one after another to carry out the ship-pedaling battle.
At this time, Li Gongzuo handed over the remaining warships to the warships in the back row to deal with, and he led the first row of warships of the Song army, adjusted the formation slightly, and continued to rush towards the second row of warships of the Jin army.
The second and third rows of warships of the Jin army are less than forty in each row, and they are all small boats, and the largest ship is only a thousand materials, so it is not vulnerable at all, the two large Shenzhou of the Song army are even more unstoppable, rampage, and sink several small boats in a row, the Song army's first row of warships did not even use firearms, only used bows and arrows to defeat the second and third rows of warships of the Jin army, and it only took more than half an hour of effort, the Song army penetrated the second and third rows of the Jin army's warships, blocking the front of the Song army. Only the last row of warships remained.
However, because of the Jin army's layer-by-layer fortification tactics, although the losses of the Song army were not large, it was quite time-consuming to continuously break through the Jin army's formation, and the battle had been carried out until now, after an hour and a half, and at the same time, in order to quickly defeat the Jin army, the Song army also spent a lot of water warfare equipment.
But now there is no other way, without doing this, it is impossible to quickly defeat the Jin army and pursue the main fleet of the Jin army. However, the battle has reached this point, and the Jin army only has the last row of warships left, so it can be said that the defeat of the Jin army is decided, and now it is only a matter of how much time it can be dragged to the Song army. Therefore, Li Gongzuo ordered the Song army's warships to rearrange their formation, merge into a row, and rush towards the last row of Jin army's warships.
The last row of warships of the Jin army was also the strongest of the four rows, and the total number of warships that had returned from the previous rows exceeded seventy, including more than a dozen medium-sized ships of more than 2,000 materials, and two large ships of 3,500 materials. There is one that is now Su Baoheng's flagship.
Su Baoheng looked back at the direction where the main fleet disappeared, and at this time, there was only a line between the sea and the sky, and the sail shadow of a ship could not be seen. It seems that the main fleet has been safely withdrawn, Su Baoheng felt a little comforted in his heart, and silently read in his heart: "Everyone, I can only do this for you, I hope you will have time to arrive at Qingyuan Mansion, and in the future, Dajin's sailors will rely on you." ”
Then Su Baoheng turned his head, looked at the Song army warship that was approaching him, and said loudly: "Pass the order, and the whole army will fight." ”
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