Chapter 174: The Battle of the River (Part II)

The Yuhuang, whose stern rudder was jammed, knew very well about its current situation, so after a simple mobilization and a small meeting with the ink people, it played the flag "The rudder is broken, no need to rescue".

After a fierce battle, the Mo family's boat division had turned to a counteroffensive, and most of the ships on the left flank had begun to row forward, preparing to outflank all the main forces of the Yue Guo Naval Division.

The movement of the formation also gave Xu Yan a chance, an opportunity that can be said to be a little ridiculous.

Until now, he finally has a chance to destroy one of the Mo family's main building ships, and may be the only chance to destroy the Mo family's building ships.

However, there were a total of seventeen building ships in the Mojia Boat Division.

Xu Zhi is very aware of the current defeat, the right wing of the Mo family has defeated his left flank, seized the upper reaches of hydrology, and is unfolding; The Chinese army has also begun to counterattack; The left flank played a one-to-one exchange ratio, which can be called a first-class victory of the princes over Mo since the rise of the Mo family, but the left wing ships and troops of the Mo family still have the advantage.

Now he had no other choice but to take advantage of the fact that the left flank of the Mo family began to change formations to seize the upper hand and prepare to outflank, and find a gap to drill out before closing the siege.

With the remaining building ship, more than 30 small boats attacked the Yuhuang with the destroyed rudder, not for victory, but for the sake of loyalty.

Because he has nowhere to run.

The galleys are not sailboats, they need to rest, they need to be supplied several times as many times as many as the sailboats, and they can't survive without the city port.

The ships of the Mo family were equipped with copper cannons, and the Yue Kingdom did not have a port where the forts were deployed, so if they hid in the harbor and shrank in a mess, they could only become a live target for the Mo family's boat division.

That's why he had to choose a decisive battle...... Not fighting a decisive battle is equivalent to waiting in the port for the Mo family to line up and bombard it with artillery, or watching the Mo family's army land and bombarding it with land artillery.

Today's defeat is inevitable.

When the flotilla that had turned on the left flank of the Mo family had begun to outflank, he also made up his mind and commanded the remaining ships around him as reserves, rushing out towards the gap that had not yet closed.

On the Yuhuang, the flag expressing no support was still fluttering, and the lieutenant colonel gave the order.

"Cut off the mast and throw all the canvas into the water!"

"The oarsman abandons the oars, receives the short spear, and prepares for hand-to-hand combat."

The heralds at the partition staircase responded loudly to the captain's order, and the oarsmen who had been paddling received their short spears.

They don't wear armor, not even the simplest leather armor, because the environment in which they work is so hot and humid that there is no way to put on clothes.

In a ship fight, armor is very important, and a set of armor can often save lives in a chaotic battle.

The main content of the oarsman's daily training is rowing, and he is not proficient in fighting, so he can use a short sword, and when he really needs them to fight, it is already the time of life and death.

If there is still an opportunity, in fact, the oarsman should give priority to retreating in a small boat, because sailors are easy to train, while oarsmen are extremely difficult to train and require very professional skills.

At this time, there were still six of their own small boats around the Yu Huang, which were fighting with seven or eight small sailing boats of the Yue Kingdom, and the flagship of the Yue Kingdom and more than thirty small boats in the distance had rushed out of the gap and rushed towards this side.

The sound of thumping artillery continued to sound, and the gunners on the Yuhuang calmly loaded the gunpowder, taking advantage of the distance to be able to hit others and others not to hit themselves.

They were not aiming at the flagship ships of the Yue Kingdom, but the small ships of the Yue Kingdom, because the flagship ships were still fine after eating more than a dozen iron bullets, and those small ships were often sinking after three or two rounds.

The enemy ships getting closer and closer, the drums getting closer and closer, the screams of the boats hitting the boats getting closer and closer, all this made the people on board nervous.

The musketeers checked their loading, the combat sailors clung to the ropes on the railings with one hand, waiting for the impact before hand-to-hand combat, and the gunners turned their guns with all their might to aim at the approaching enemy ships.

Rumble......

With a loud bang, the flagship ship of the Yue Kingdom, after avoiding two shells, slammed its bow into the side chord of the Yuhuang.

The huge force of the impact directly crushed the seven or eight sailors waiting there, and more than a dozen oarsmen behind were killed, and some fell into the water.

Bang bang......

The musketeers began to fire, and the archers on the Yue Guo Lou ship began to shoot back.

The Yue swordsman in leather armor jumped up and tried to rush to the deck of the Yu Huang from the place of collision, but was stabbed by the outstretched spear and pushed into the water.

The boat threw out its hooks, and the Yue sailors, who were good at climbing, tried to climb the lower deck of the Yuhuang, but as soon as their hands touched the wooden railing, they were cut off with axes by the sailors guarding there.

The captain stood at the top, surrounded only by a few elite musketeers armed with flint guns, shooting and killing the elite swordsmen of the Yue Kingdom with the help of the high platform.

The archers of the Yue Kingdom also aimed at the captain wearing a woolen military uniform on a high place and shot feathered arrows.

A lot of blood and broken hands and short limbs had accumulated on the deck, and the sailors of the Yue Kingdom who had climbed up everywhere had finally jumped onto the lowest deck.

The musketeers on the side strings threw away their muskets, drew their daggers and rushed into the crowd, and there was basically no formation, all they could rely on was the last fighting skills.

A Yue nobleman in iron armor had just stabbed to death a Mo sailor, and his head was smashed to pieces by a sailor armed with a big axe. At the same time that the sailor stoned the nobleman, his own eye was also shot by the archers of the Yue Kingdom. The Vietnamese archers who were accumulating fire were killed by the iron thunder thrown down from the ship......

The ship was like hell on earth, and it was difficult for such a tragic hand-to-hand combat to occur in land battles unless it was surrounded and the defensive circle was compressed.

The commander of the Yue Kingdom, Xu Xu, was wearing heavy armor, and constantly slashing and killing under the escort of the servants around him, such a small space and no formation battle, the nobles and the soldiers around them had a great advantage, and the value of their off-the-job training since childhood was vividly reflected at this moment.

The oarsmen who obeyed the order stood together as much as they could with short spears in their hands, but the narrowness of the space and their weakness of not being good at fighting, after being slashed and slashed by the swordsmen of the Yue Kingdom, finally some of them could not stand it and jumped into the water and fled.

Compared to Xu Huang's bravery, the captain of the Yuhuang is a little weak, although he can also fight, but he certainly does not have that kind of personal bravery, and he does not have armor on his body, but wears a woolen military uniform.

Unlike the nobles who have been trained off duty since childhood, the lieutenant colonel captain has also been trained by academy officers, but the content of the training is flag language, distance measurement, looking at the stars, looking at the sun, formation, etc., naturally they have also learned short sword fighting, but they cannot be compared with professional sailors.

Compared with the army, this group of students of the Xiliu Military Academy was promoted relatively quickly, especially after the Mo family began to expand the military war seven years ago, the original non-commissioned officers were promoted to school officers to make up for the lack of cadres after the expansion of the army.

They don't have much experience, and even many people have never killed anyone, and their tactics sometimes lack agility and are somewhat rigid, but it is this rigidity and lack of agility that makes this Jiangkou water battle Mojia win: when the troops, firepower, and logistics are superior, what is needed is not agility, but rigidity.

The Mo family's boat division did not have much tactical genius, and compared with the army that often fought each other, it was difficult to promote some experienced talents who dared to seize opportunities.

But under the advantage of the whole system, you don't need too many geniuses to win, but this kind of victory is in the overall situation, and when it falls to hand-to-hand combat, it is a little insufficient.

If the captain can kill with a sword at this time, kill several people with one enemy and three, and his morale will be greatly boosted.

But at this time, he picked up the pen, and wrote an experience that could be regarded as a last word in the environment of feathered arrows flying and screaming constantly.

"The big ship is slow, not as big and slower, with more copper cannons to shoot sideways as a fortress, and a small boat to cover."

After writing, he stuffed it into a bottle, tightened the cork, and threw it far into the water.

Then he let the musketeers shoot freely, drew his short sword and jumped off the deck, joining the fight, for there was no longer any need to command.

As soon as he jumped down, a stray arrow feathered arrow shot into his eye, and he pulled out the feather arrow in severe pain, and stabbed a Yue man with a short sword that showed his flanks, and he was also hacked to death by several Yue people who followed.

More than thirty small sailing boats and a building ship finally defeated the Yuhuang, whose stern was stuck.

The previous battles were not counted, but from the moment Xu Huang began to launch a decisive attack, the Yu Huang destroyed five small ships with copper cannons.

More than 300 sailors and officers of the Mojiazhou Division on the deck were killed in battle, but in exchange for the results of more than 150 Vietnamese people being shot by muskets and more than 200 people dying in hand-to-hand combat.

The blood on the deck was already sticky enough to wet their shoes, and except for some sailors and oarsmen who had escaped by diving, there was no longer a living Mo sailor on the deck.

The Yue people had already killed the red eyes, and all the Mo sailors who were wounded on the ship were stabbed to death, or their heads cut off in retaliation.

Several Yue Ren swordsmen descended into the cabin to see if there were any living people hiding inside.

They saw a man, a man wounded in the leg, sitting beside a large pile of barrels, smiling, holding a short gun in his hand, and wearing a woolen military uniform.

The Yue swordsmen hated this kind of enemy wearing woolen military uniforms, because most of them were ink scholars, and they often resisted to the end, and there were even cases where such people rushed into the crowd with a lit iron thunder before they died.

Just as the Yue Ren swordsman was about to rush forward to kill the injured ink man, the Mo family smiled and recited two lines of poetry.

"Profit the world, life and death?"

Then he raised the short gun in his hand, aimed it at the piled up barrels, and pulled the trigger with a smile.

There was no buckshot in it, only gunpowder.

The flint ignited the primer with the force of the leaf springs, and the flames that came out ignited the black powder scattered next to the barrel......