Chapter XVII: King Yue 3

A sailboat has the advantage of a sailboat, and a galley boat has the advantage of a galley. In the deep sea, a galley may not be as fast as a sailboat, but in an offshore bay, a galley is far faster and more agile than a sailboat. As long as there is still an intact war boat in the harbor, Tian Pu will go to sea by boat to avenge the murder of his father in the past.

The smoke of gunfire in the bay had not yet cleared, and the low sound of drums gradually sounded. First the assassins, then the shelling, the corpses were full of corpses in the Zhifu Harbor was in chaos, the recruited Qi people had already scattered as birds and beasts, fleeing for their lives in all directions, and the boatmen and soldiers did not see the boatmen and generals, and the people were also panicked. The low beat of the drums finally calmed them down.

"The general has an order: board the boat quickly, board the boat quickly, and pursue the Jing people!" Soon it was the voice of the soldiers. Yang Duanhe and Tian Pu didn't dare to say that Zhao Ying was dead, so they could only give an order in the name of Zhao Ying. The boatmen soon boarded the boats with the missing left toes, and all the warboats that were not injured by the shells, whether they were their own or not, quickly boarded the boats and set up in a hurry.

However, before they could set sail, the Qin pawn on Lao Ye Ridge exclaimed again: "Jing people! Jing - people! ”

Including the injured Qingqiu, the fleet led by Shen Yinshang turned back. Six compass points are the insurmountable limit of sail warship, but the two six compasses are only 135 degrees. Limited to six compasses, only 0 (0 is due north, 90 is due east) - 102.5 and 327.5 - 360 on the compass of the Geesan cannot be sailed, and all 225 degrees outside of this can be sailed.

The specific operation is that the fleet course first takes 260, sails out of Zhifu Bay along the mainland coast on the south side of Zhifu Bay, and then quickly turns to 320, and sails to the northwest with the wind; After sailing for a nautical mile against the wind, the fleet turned around against the wind, headed for 120, and rushed into Zhifu Bay as before.

This is also due to the direction of the wind, because the bottom of Zhifu Bay is almost parallel to the direction of the wind, so that the fleet can continue to rotate in this narrow sea area. It's just that when the fleet entered Zhifu Harbor for the second time, it couldn't fire its guns a few hundred meters from the coast like the first time, and this time the guns were fired at a much longer distance, starting from a thousand meters away. This was a threatening artillery bombardment, aimed at preventing the Qin people in the harbor from boarding the war boats and setting sail.

The Qin army did not have an iron anchor, and the stone piers that held the war boats were very heavy, and before the fleet entered the effective firing range, the three-legged Golden Crow took advantage of its advantage of being able to sail with the wind and both winds to preemptively sail into the bottom of Zhifu Bay for artillery bombardment. Although the number and power of the three fifteen-pound guns were not as chaotic-level armaments, the three-legged Golden Crow, which used the spring buffer device of the large-wing gunboat, had an extremely fast rate of fire.

When the Geesan sailed in, the twelve gunboats repeated the scene just now, and bombarded the warships moored outside the inner harbor of Zhifu Harbor. With the experience of the previous time, this time the gunboats were very spaced apart and the speed through the bottom of the bay was extremely slow. Including the Three-legged Golden Crow, thirteen gunboats circled around a triangle with a circumference of five nautical miles, constantly bombarding the Qin warships and continuous camp tents on the shore. It was not until all the barrels were red that they could not be fired, and the flagship, the Mt. Geesan, issued a flag to withdraw from the battle.

Following the course of the compulsion, the fleet sailed fourteen nautical miles to 325, then turned into the wind, and sailed towards Chengshan Jiao by the six compass points. A new Suzaku-class boat waiting outside Zhifu Harbor waved flags one after another, indicating that there were wounded people who wanted to board the ship.

As the most important force at sea in the Chu State, the Chaos-class gunships are equipped not only with a healer, but also with a blood man. The two people who snatched it back from the corpse pile, Su Wuzhu and Zhu An, were seriously injured and still had no breath. Mo Xiangjia was shot through by the Qin people's crossbow arrows, but he could penetrate into the body and did not stab the internal organs, but if he didn't carry out a blood transfusion immediately, the two of them might not last tonight.

"Yue Ren?" In the sea off Zhifu Port, Shen Yinshang, who was worried about the Qin army chasing him, did not really want to accept the wounded in the sea off Zhifu Port.

"The more people are also." The sea communication is not as good as that on land, and the reason why the commander said that it was the Yue people who were injured was because he saw four Yue people's large-wing war boats, and it was natural to judge that they should be Yue people's wounded.

"Before the artillery bombardment of our army, the Qin people were besieging and killing the Yue people, and the arrows were like rain for a while." Bu Liangju remembered. At dawn, thousands of Qin people were surrounding some people to fire arrows, and then the Jinshan opened fire. The arrows shot by the Qin people were as dense as rain, and he thought that those people were dead, but he didn't expect that those people were not dead but were seriously injured.

"If you are a warrior, you will be accepted by the Mt. Geshan." The scene described by Bu Liangju made Shen Yinshang feel the same hatred and hatred. He didn't care who it was, as long as he was an enemy of the Qin people, he was an ally of the Chu people. When the wounded men boarded the ship, he realized who it was and what happened to their previous intrusion into Zhifu Bay.

"Zhao Ying is dead?!" Shen Yin still couldn't believe it. The fleet made a surprise attack on Zhifu Harbor and did not say who it was going to kill. The purpose of the surprise attack was to destroy the Qin army's war boat and hit the morale of the Qin people's boat division, but unexpectedly, more than a dozen Yue people rushed into Zhifu Port and killed Zhao Ying.

"Yes, yes." The boat official who spoke was a Yue person and didn't understand Chu language, but fortunately, Shen Yinshang knew that the head of the injured person was Zhao Ying's head. "The king of Minyue mistakenly thought that Fanjun Wu Shen was Zhao Ying, so he first killed Fanjun Wu Shen, and Ouyue Zhijun knew who Zhao Ying was, so he killed Zhao Ying, but was surrounded by Zhao Ying's short soldiers. Seeing this, the king of Minyue turned back, climbed to the high eaves of the Hong Kong Command Mansion and jumped down, angrily beheading Zhao Ying, and the Qin people were shocked for a while......"

Zhu Bo described the scene of Su Wuzhu killing Zhao Ying, and the surrounded Zhu An knew that he couldn't kill Zhao Ying, so he quickly climbed the stairs and wanted to re-enter the Ming Hall, intending to borrow the hall to defend it. The big room was shocked to see him fall from the beam, and when he heard the shouts of Zhu An, he knew that he had killed the wrong person. In order to kill Zhao Ying and save Zhu An, he was also like Zhu An, who climbed the sorghum without walking on the ground, and jumped down from the eaves while the Qin people were unprepared, and knocked down Zhao Ying who was pressing down the stairs and killed him.

"This strong man too!" Although the assassination was not a glorious act, Shen Yinshang still sincerely admired Su Wuzhu.

He ordered the left and right to treat each other carefully, and while the Yue people were no longer in the palace, Bao Bo immediately waved away the others and said in a low voice: "This Yue King is also!" ”

"King Yue?" Shen Yin was still puzzled, "This is not the king of Minyue and Ouyue?" ”

"It is indeed the army of Minyue and Ouyue, but Da Ao has allowed the Yue people to be kings, and the kings of Zhuyue sneaked into Zhifu to kill people in order to fight for the throne. The king of Minyue killed Zhao Ying, took his rank, and became the king of Yue. The thing that Bao Bo asked was not only how Su Wuzhu killed Zhao Ying, but also why a few people had to sneak into Zhifu from Langya Port to kill people.

The result of the inquiry was that the king of Zhuyue entered Zhifu Harbor to kill people in order to fight for the king. Gongshi Si and Fu Fu Shan did not sneak into Zhifu Harbor, and killed some recruited Qi people outside the port and returned to the battle boat, only Wu Zhu and Zhu An sneaked into Zhifu Harbor, and both of them wanted to kill Zhao Ying.

"The Yue people have a king, which is a great harm to my Chu country." Boom continued. "Incorrigible."

"The Yue people are my alliance, why don't you save them?" Shen Yinshang was a little surprised, surprised that Bao Bo said such a thing.

"Today is my alliance, tomorrow it will be my mortal enemy." Bo shook his head. "The Chu people have war boats, and the Yue people also have war boats; The Chu people have sea boats, and the Yue people also have return boats; The Chu people will refine the ju, and the Yue people will also refine the juju now, and in time, ......"

"The world is so big, why should Chu Yue turn against him?" Shen Yinshang sighed and asked rhetorically. "And the Yue people are my alliance, if you don't save them, let them die, this is not faithful."

"No one knows about it, but they died of blood loss." Bao Bo argued. "If the general doesn't want to, I can do it."

"No one knows, but the gods know." Shen Yinshang was silent for a while, but still shook his head. "And why are I, the Chu people, afraid of the Yue people? Will the Yue people refine the jug, and the more people will cast artillery? Does it make gunpowder? ”

"The matter of gunpowder ......" Shen Yin still didn't say that gunpowder was fine, but as soon as he said gunpowder, he suddenly thought of one thing, "Yizhou and Penglai all have sulfur, but the king of Minyue has nothing." Last year, my Chu people went to Penglai, and the other side said that there was sulfur on the island, and this matter was selfish. ”

"Ji Yin searched for sulfur in Chu State, and he didn't see him for several years, is Ji Yin private?" If Shen Yinshang talked about this matter alone, he might believe what Hao Bo said, but these things were said together, and in the case of preconceived circumstances, he always felt that Hao Bo was making excuses for not saving people. After he refuted Kuo Bo, he officially warned: "The Chu people are not villains, and they can't do such a trivial thing; If you want to kill someone, you can go ashore and kill again, not on the ship. ”

"Today's two are unlucky, but the Qin people are unprepared, this is all because of the king of Yue!" Bao Bo didn't seem to hear Shen Yinshang's warning, and talked to himself about the reason for the bad fortune, and his expression was shocked on the spot.

"Nonsense!" Shen Yinshang's heart froze, but he still scolded angrily. "Someone ——! coming"

There was a soldier outside the jue, hearing Shen Yinshang shouting a sergeant, Bao Bo came back from the horror, he stood up, and said prophetically before leaving the jue's room: "I have seen it, and the general will regret it today." ”

After saying that, Bao Bo left the knight's room, and the armor stood at the door for a long time before Shen Yin Shang waved him back, and then sat alone in the knight's room.

The surprise attack was completely successful, except for the collision between the Qingqiu and the Mio, and then some of the artillery guards burned their hands because of the red barrels, and the fleet did not suffer many casualties. The blow to the Qin people was fatal, and more than 700 warships and more than 400 transport boats were all bombarded. Although it was only a solid shell with two holes, it still had a great damaging effect. It can be said that more than 700 Qin army warships are all injured, and it will take at least one or two months for Zhifu Port, which lacks craftsmen, to repair those warships.

Moreover, Zhao Ying, the general of the Zhou Division, died—if Zhao Ying really died, the morale of the Qin people plummeted. The Vietnamese warships in Langya Harbor could take advantage of this opportunity to launch a strong attack and directly capture Zhifu Harbor with the fleet.

Shen Yinshang quickly dispelled Bo's prophecy and conceived his next plan. He believed that as long as this strong attack was launched within ten days, the Qin people would definitely not be able to parry. "Someone!" He shouted again into the Lord's room.