William motioned for him to continue, "Very well, tell me your suggestion. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ”

Lin Chuanzong participated in the battle of ambushing the Guangdong general He Rubin's fleet in the Qiongzhou Strait, although the results of this battle were brilliant, but he also ran away half of the ships, in the final analysis, he still had too few warships. No matter how sharp your knife is, if you kill one or two hundred immobile pigs alone, the person will lose his strength and the knife will curl its edge. He usually likes to ponder, and over time, he really figured out a stupid method, but it needs to be realized under certain conditions.

He replied: "Actually, to do this, it is not easy to say, and it is not difficult to say. The sailboat relies on the wind at sea, and if you break the sail, you can run slower than a turtle......"

The rest nodded, this is a way to draw salaries from the bottom of the kettle.

"That's a good point, but how can you destroy it?" William frowned, "Break the mast with a chain bullet?" But I was able to sink the ship in the last moment. ”

"Not with chain bombs, but with artificial destruction of sails. Our Ming boats are not as soft as Xiyi's sails, they are all hard sails, as long as they knock a few cracks and cut a few holes, they can't be seen on the surface, but once they eat the wind, they will break and collapse......" Lin Chuanzong explained.

William couldn't understand it anymore: "Lin, I don't think you're a good idea. The rebel ships must be full of servicemen armed to the teeth, and you have been shot as a hedgehog before you climb aboard their ship to destroy the sails! ”

Lin Chuanzong smiled: "Who said that when the war is going to start, it will be sabotage?" The rebel ships are anchored in the harbor, and there must not be many people guarding them at night, so we can sneak up in the dark and do it without us knowing......"

Murong Longcheng, who had not made a sound, high-fived and applauded: "Wonderful, wonderful, this trick is enough to make the rebels' ship a floating target." It's just that our ship must not get too close to Dengzhou Water City, lest the rebels suspect it, how can you sneak into Water City? ”

Lin Chuanzong concealed his smugness: "Don't hide it from you, long before joining the Qiongzhou battalion, I had a nickname called 'Sea Monkey', and I was okay with water, and I was even better at climbing the mast." There may be gates, but no matter how you set them up, there are always waterways that connect to the sea, so that boats can get in and out, and we can dive in, and then climb the mast to break the sails. ”

William was overjoyed: "Very good, just do what Lin said, and do it tonight." ”

Murong Longcheng reminded: "The rebels must be informed of the rebels' escape and our plans, so that he can prepare early." ”

William nodded: "Of course, before you start, send someone to inform the general." ”

Late that night, two Wuyi-class warships quietly approached Dengzhou Shuicheng under the cover of night.

The predecessor of Shuicheng was the swordfish inspection of the Song Dynasty, and the swordfish battle was parked, and the Khitan was prepared, and the name was the swordfish village. Ming Hongwu nine years (1376) began to build the water city, the north built the water gate, the south set up the Zhenyang gate, to the earth city around it, lead the sea water into the city, change the name of the city. There is a breakwater outside the water castle, which is about 80 meters long.

The battleship docked at the long breakwater outside the water city, and a group of people jumped into the water, boarded the breakwater, and walked to the end of the embankment near the sluice. When the iron gate is closed, it prevents ships from entering or exiting, but it does not stop people - the lower part of the gate is only a few feet underwater. These men quietly entered the water, dived under the sluice gates, and swam through the water into the harbor of the water city.

After the rebels occupied Dengzhou, the main defensive energy was put on the main city, the city was heavily guarded, the Qulu in the city did not allow anyone other than the Liao people to walk arbitrarily, and the violators were beheaded, and the city wall was defended by five people at night according to the rotation, and the arrows were passed to sleep, and from time to time people were sent to the night patrol outside the city, which could be said to have left no gap for the officers and soldiers to take advantage of the void. However, compared to the main city, the defense of the water city was almost useless, and no one could have imagined that the threat would come from the sea. From the approach of the battleship to the infiltration of several people, no one noticed the water city.

Among the several people who infiltrated the water city, the leader was Lin Chuanzong, known as the "sea monkey", who was not only excellent in the water, but also athletic, and climbed the mast as nimble as a monkey. The people he brought with him were all carefully selected, all of whom were Cantonese fishermen or pirates.

In order not to alarm the defenders of the water city, they did not go ashore and swam directly from the water to the ships moored at the pier.

The circumference of the water city is about six miles, the harbor in the water city is commonly known as the small sea, lives in the city, it is in the shape of a long bag, it is the main body of the water city, the small sea is built with stone masonry along the coast, the width is 5~10 meters, for the ship to dock, it is the place where the sailor and the boat are trained, the average width is about 100 meters, the north and south are about 700 meters long, the water depth changes with the tide, the lowest time is about 3 meters, the ship of the sailor is moored in this wharf.

Lin Chuanzong and the others swam to the side of the ship, threw out their flying claws, hooked the side of the ship, and climbed onto the deck. Seeing that it was pitch black and silent, he climbed up the mast. When the sailboat is docked, the sails are retracted, but the soft sails in the west are rolled up, and the hard sails in the east are lowered. You don't need to climb to the top to break the hard sail, you just need to climb to the height of the mast for two people.

Hard sails are made of bamboo or reeds, which are not difficult to destroy, and are more difficult for sailors to find than soft sails. Lin Chuanzong clamped the mast between his legs, removed the short knife in his mouth, and cut the bamboo strut.

There is also a point in sabotage, and the destruction is too obvious, so that people can see it at a glance, and they will be exposed. Lin Chuanzong only cut the struts out of the gaps, but did not cut them completely. In this way, when the sail is raised, it will not be discovered, but after going out to sea, the strong sea breeze will make the struts unable to support the wind and break, and when the struts are broken, the whole sail will be scrapped, and the ship without the sail will be no different from a dead fish, and can only be slaughtered.

The rest of the people chose their own targets and destroyed the sails according to Lin Chuanzong's method. After all, Dengzhou is one of the few naval divisions in the north, and there are nearly 100 large and small ships in the small sea. In order to improve efficiency, they only attacked large ships, and let boats with less than 100 materials go.

The defenders of Shuicheng are estimated to have slept soundly, and by the time Lin Chuanzong and the others finished their work, no one appeared. After Lin Chuanzong and the others succeeded, they dived into the water again and returned the same way silently.

When the belly of the white fish was exposed in the east, a tense movement began in the city of Dengzhou, and today was the day when the rebels withdrew. At this time, the Hongyi artillery at the head of the city and the "Gongcheng" had not yet begun to shoot at each other, and the officers and men had not yet buried their pots to cook, so it was a good time to evacuate.

At the end of the day, a dense group of rebels rushed out of the main city and went straight to the water city. There was no loud noise, only dense and chaotic footsteps, and occasionally an officer whispering orders. Behind the army, there were carts one after another, all of which were loaded with several large boxes, tightly tied and fixed with hemp rope, these were the gold and silver treasures that the rebels had snatched from Dengzhou and Shandong.