Chapter 46: Maneuver
From Philip II onwards and even before, Macedonian politics was very unclear, with assassinations and conspiracies occurring from time to time. Alexander's time was even better, and many of the generals who accompanied the Crusade were accused of rebellion, and their entire families were slaughtered. Ptolemy ruled Egypt, and although the Macedonians were all royal friends of the royal family, wearing gold brooches and purple clothes, they ruled Egypt together, but the conspiracy still existed, and someone died if they were not careful.
Needless to warn, the angry Magas's hands and feet suddenly froze. He didn't want to die in the far east, where slaves were executed by the Qinni on the Great Ze. He couldn't help but nod his head again and again, indicating that he fully agreed with Wuji's suggestion, and tried his best to exercise restraint. When he returned to Yongcheng or Humdan, he would discuss with the envoy Palops whether to protest to King Qinni.
Woogo Vala is dead, and the suspicion of espionage has been shaken off. However, Zhao Ying still looked at him differently, seeing that Bai Di was angry and he was about to ask a question, and in a blink of an eye, Bai Di became extremely quiet again. Yang Duanhe led the way in front of him and rushed towards the Jing people, and Zhao Ying, who wanted to speak, could only turn his head and look at him and Jing Ren from the Lu Li mirror.
There were only more than 100 warships that the Jing people passed through the first boat formation, although Daze became narrower the further north they went, and Yang Duan and that boat formation also had 180 warships. The strength of the enemy was nearly doubled, and Yang Duanhe, who did not adopt a dense array, adopted a hook attack tactic. While the Chinese army advanced slightly, the two flanks quickly flanked in a roundabout way. Land battles hook the enemy's formation, the enemy formation may collapse, water battles hook the enemy's formation, not to mention other things, the success rate of a side impact is far higher than the success rate of a frontal impact.
Under the flanking tactics of their own side, the drums of the thorns on the water were endless, and the warships rushed like arrows from the string. Zhao Ying saw in Lu Li's mirror that the speed of the Jingren wooden oars was getting faster and faster, and the distance between the two sides was getting closer and closer, and Yang Duanhe, who was on the flagship in front of him, urgently ordered: "Jingren is good at turning, and each boat is on guard ...... oars."
How will you fight? This is a question often discussed by the generals of the Qin Army's Boat Division. A broadside battle is impossible, it can only be a ramming battle. However, the ramming battle must have experienced boatmen and skilled oarsmen, both of which the Qin army does not have, and hundreds of large-wing warships can be built in more than three months, but there is no way to train qualified boaters and skilled oarsmen in more than three months.
After thinking about it and experimenting with it, the final solution you can use is to go on a rampage. This method is like the iron cavalry of the Jing people, constantly ramming the enemy formation like waves, and finally forcing the enemy army to collapse. But no one would have thought that the Jing people's warboat would not hit during the battle. Not only did he not hit, but the wooden oars were cut off by the Jingren warboat.
In order to pursue numerical superiority, the Qin people did not build a large number of five-oared war boats with more man-days, and mainly built three-oared war boats. The tonnage of the three-oared war boat was limited, and there were no oars on board. Especially when the Qin army came from afar, the remaining tonnage on the boat was loaded with dry food and meat sauce. Once the only paddle is cut off, even if the remaining pulp can be split left and right, the speed will drop rapidly.
Yang Duanhe was very taboo about the enemy's oar-cutting tactics, and he warned the whole army more than once that the people were good at turning, and at this time, the collision was imminent, and he once again warned the whole army to collect the oars and equipment in advance. The military order was still being delivered, and the enemy's flagship with Yu Jing was the first to rush. Fifty paces later, the enemy's boat was raining arrows, and the shields on the deck thumped. Yang Duanhe didn't care about this, he just wanted to know if he could hit the enemy's flagship.
"Reel in the oars!" Thirty paces apart, the boatmen on both sides screamed and retracted their oars. Through the gap in the shield, Yang Duanhe saw that the bow of the enemy's flagship boat was getting closer and closer suddenly to the right, and he was about to shout to the right of the Jing people, when the boatman on the deck had already shouted an order to the stern oarman: "Turn left!" Turn left quickly......"
With the order, Yang Duanhe felt a swing under his feet, and the war boat quickly turned left and faced Jing Ren. However, when he was supporting him left and right to prepare for the impact, the Jingren flagship, which was turning to the right, suddenly swung stern to the right, and the bow turned to the left.
"Turn right! Turn right quickly, turn right quickly, turn ...... quickly" Yang Duanhe's heart rose to his throat, and the boatman on the deck also shouted out his voice. It's a pity that the boat that has turned left under its feet has a huge inertia, and the tail oarman can't change the left turn to the right even if he rows hard.
Yang Duanhe on the deck saw that his boat was going to the left, Jing people were going to the right, and the warships of the two sides were staggered across several zhang. The wood pulp had been put away, and the Jing people had not broken anything. He was just as he was breathing a sigh of relief when the crossbow that had been prepared on the enemy boat threw a series of black canisters accurately, and as soon as the black canisters landed, several rockets rushed in.
'......Boom' Even though it was drizzling, flames were still several feet high on the deck.
"Fire! Fire! The whole boat was shouting loudly, and the coal tar and light oil splashed everywhere spread to the entire deck once it was ignited, and the fire oil penetrated the deck, spreading the fire to the bottom compartment, and the men who splashed the oil in the bottom compartment screamed loudly.......
"Fall, oar!" The order of the boat official echoed in the bottom warehouse of the Chu army, and with a 'bang', one hundred and sixty-two wooden pulps hit the water in unison, and then rowed. The paddling soldiers sensed that the boat was turning, and they had heard the order from the deck to fire fire oil bombs, and knew that it was time to spin around and ram the enemy's flank.
The flagship maneuvered behind the enemy's flank, and the rest of the Chuyue warboats that passed through the Qin army's boat formation also followed the enemy's flank. This maneuver was not aimed at the enemy ship that had just passed through the fire bomb, but followed the previous trend of turning right, quickly completing a 300-degree turn, and while the enemy ship was on fire and did not drop its oars, the war boat would violently ram up from the left rear.
"Excuse me! Sickness also!! Before the turn was complete, the boatman cried out. Turning 300 degrees, the angle between the bronze bow and the body of the enemy boat is 30 degrees. According to the regulations prepared by the Operations Department of the Great Sima Mansion: at an angle of 30 degrees, the impact speed must reach 8 knots before it can break through the enemy's boat; At an angle of 60 degrees, it only takes four knots to break through the enemy's boat; At 90 degrees vertical, the speed of two knots can break through the hull of the enemy's boat.
This is a ramming regulation for the Chu army's war boats, and no one knows how strong the Qin army's war boats are. If the impact angle cannot be changed, you can only find ways to increase the impact speed of the warship.
The boatman shouted to increase his speed, and the rowing soldier blushed with all his strength, and accelerated the rowing with all his strength. Although Cheng Tong, who was standing on the deck, couldn't help the paddling soldier hard, he clenched his fists tightly, staring at the enemy boat where the fire was still spreading, and he couldn't help but shout to get sick.
The Qin people on the deck spotted the turning enemy boat, and their wooden oars also fell sharply, splashing in patches. The oars rose and fell rapidly, and the decline of the warboat was immediately terminated. 'Whoa-whoa-whoo-whoo......, whoa, whoa, whoop, whoop ......' Chengtong's heart gradually raised, but fortunately, the sound of water splashing on both sides became more and more urgent, and the distance between the two sides became closer and closer.
Finally, with a loud 'click', the Qin army's warship, which could not speed up, was hit by the stern, followed by a 'bang', the high-speed warboat suddenly stopped, and finally there was a 'click', the stern of the enemy boat was completely cut off by the bronze collision, and the water quickly poured into the broken boat, and the hands in the bottom compartment suddenly wailed and struggled. However, their struggle was in vain, and Cheng Tong seemed to see that the men were somehow stuck in the oars, and could only get up, unable to escape when the war boat sank.
"Cheap slave!" Listening to the wailing of the Qin people, Cheng Tong cursed fiercely. He remembered that these people only cut off their left toes because of the mercy of the king, and did not all of them beheaded or killed in a pit like the Qin people did with the enemy. They should have all been killed in the first place, if these soldiers had been killed in the first place, where would the Qin people, who had exhausted their troops, go up to find so many soldiers?
"General, look!" Jun Sima Chengji pointed ahead.
The Chinese army broke through the first array of the Qin army, and now the whirling rammed and sank the second array of the Qin army, but this is only the Chinese army. When the Chinese army broke through the first array of the Qin army, most of the warships on the left and right flanks collided with the Qin warboats, and a brutal broadside battle began. In the face of the Zhao Wei soldiers and the Ba people who poured out of the nest, the Qin army was completely defeated in the broadside battle, and the war boats floating on the water were all controlled by their own army.
However, the left and right flanks of the Qin army, which could not succeed in flanking themselves, took advantage of the chaos of the broadside battle to aim at those war boats that were still floating on the water, and sank them one by one, regardless of the enemy and me. Many of the Ba people who fell into the water knew how to swim, and they either floated on the surface of the water and waited for rescue, or swam to the right bank of Daze. The Zhao Wei soldiers who fell into the water were miserable, most of them didn't know how to water, and as soon as they entered the water, they made countless splashes, and soon sank straight up.
Cheng Ji wanted to see that Zhao Wei's pawn who fell into the water on his left flank, and which piece of water seemed to be boiling under their pounce. If the rescue is not urgent, the 50,000 Zhao troops and 15,000 Wei troops on the left wing will definitely drown on Daze.
'Knock knock...... Cheng Tong hadn't yet ordered a rescue, and there was a drum behind him, and the third war boat of the Qin army was advancing in the drum. He had to sigh and said, "Quickly order You Que to save him." The whole army turns, array! ”
"The general has an order: the whole army turns! Columns-Arrays! The military officer repeated Chengtong's military order, and the winged warboat slowly turned and quickly assembled.
Including more than 20 Zhao Wei warships that penetrated the first array of the Qin army, after the second encounter, there were less than 100 remaining warships. The wall of the Qin army's boat coming from the opposite side still obscured Daze, and the number was twice as large as his own. In addition to the numbers, the soldiers who rowed on their own side were extremely tired, and some of the oarsmen on the deck were replaced, but most of them were still out of breath.
After the assembly, the Chu army did not beat the drums, and the ninety-three warships drifted quietly on the surface of the Ze. At this time, the sun had already set, and the autumn rain that had been falling for almost a day also stopped at this time, looking at the last glow in the west, Cheng Tong praised: "What a beautiful husband!" ”
"General..."The Qin army's battle boat is getting closer and closer, and the drums are getting louder and louder, Cheng Ji hurriedly reminded.
"Ji no?" Cheng Tong turned his head and asked him when he heard this.
"Yoshiya." Cheng Ji didn't expect Cheng Tong to ask again, so he had to tell the results of the divination again. However, the hand he touched the tortoise shell in his arms did not immediately take out the tortoise shell, but pressed it directly on it, as if he was worried that Cheng Tong would suddenly snatch it. Cheng Tong watched his movements with a smile on his face, he no longer looked at his Sima, and his eyes met the Qin people who were rushing quickly.
"Drumming," he shouted, his chest heaving, and after taking a sharp breath, he exclaimed with all his strength, "Kill!" ”
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