Volume 3 Chapter 310 The Battle of Yangon (4)

Due to the decisive attack of the Rangoon fleet, the resting ships barely fired a few shots in response, so the barrels were almost full. And such a barrel full of gunpowder was suddenly ignited......

It was an explosion much louder than the previous collision of ships, and in the light of the explosion, even a small mushroom cloud appeared. It's just that above the surface of the sea, it was blown away by the sea breeze in an instant.

But it was this loud noise that alarmed the entire sea battlefield, and many people even temporarily stopped fighting with each other, and then looked in the direction of the loud noise.

The power of gunpowder in the field of rest is not great, but it is not small. The result of the detonation of this barrel of gunpowder was a large hole in the hull with a diameter of four or five meters, and ignited many things on the side...... Nima! There's another powder keg next to it!

The shocked people reacted, but the reaction of the rest soldiers and the children of Yizhou was completely different. The rest soldiers jumped into the sea in a hurry to escape, but the children of Yizhou seemed to think of something at the same time.

"Brothers, stand back!!"

This is a certain Yizhou kid with a musket. But seeing that he skillfully pulled the new bullet from the barrel, and then raised his hand to aim at a powder keg in his field of vision, and the trigger was decisively pulled;

On another ship, several Yizhou disciples cooperated with each other to hit the side of a barrel of gunpowder, and then one of them smashed a hole in the powder keg, and the other broke the fire and threw it into the hole......

In this way, the ships, which were already in a state of hand-to-hand combat, continued to make loud noises one after another. And after the loud bang, these ships probably have no other fate than to become sunken ships.

Seeing that the children of Yizhou had achieved such a result, Chen Li, who had been watching the battle, was not happy. The reason is also very simple, the children of Yizhou detonate the powder keg on the opponent's ship in this way, in fact, it is no different from a self/killing/type attack. Do you really think that the children of Yizhou can escape after detonating the powder keg? In fact, more often than not, the children of Yizhou who detonated the powder keg did not have time to evacuate at all.

But Chen Li couldn't stop these hot-blooded disciples stationed in the Yangon fleet now, so he could only silently watch the sea battlefield over there, his teeth clenched and gurgling, and there were thin blood marks quietly falling from his fingers on his clenched fists.

And at this moment on the sea battlefield, the two sides have formed a very strange balance stalemate. Although the fleet stationed in Rangoon was depleted of ammunition, it was eighty against forty, which had an overall numerical superiority, and the maneuverability of the ships was better than that of the ships resting; However, on the other hand, although the number of ships is small, most of them are large ships, they have tonnage advantages, and they have ammunition, so that the fleet stationed in Rangoon does not dare to open up the distance to fight mobile warfare, and can only approach and then hit the broadside. However, when it comes to broadboard, the number of sailors is not as good as that of the other side.

Because of this reason, the two sides have reached a stalemate on the sea, and in the end, who will win and who will lose, no one on the land is sure of the Guishuang side and Chen Li's side. It was also because the fighting was too fierce on the sea, and Kushan did not attack Yangon again.

Chen Li was anxious, and he couldn't wait for him to rush to the sea battlefield to participate in the battle. This is also because he has no warships in his hands, and if there are still a few warships, Chen Li may not hesitate to send them for reinforcements.

There were a few loud noises, and Chen Li only glanced at it and knew that it must be the children of Yizhou who successfully detonated the powder keg on the ship of rest, but the children of Yizhou who detonated the powder keg ......

"Castle Guard!"

"What!? Say it quickly!! ”

Chen Li's fierce appearance startled the herald, but the herald understood why Chen Chengshou, who usually looked like a good old man, was like this now, so after straightening up his mind, the herald said loudly: "Chengshou, I received a call from General Gan's fleet just now, and their vanguard warship is less than a hundred miles away from Yangon!" General Kam also asked in a phone call how the battle was going in Yangon! ”

"Huh!?"

Chen Li's heart beat violently, and as soon as he turned around, he pressed his hands on the herald's shoulders and shook violently unconsciously: "You mean it really? I heard you right!? ”

"How dare you play child's play!?"

Chen Li finally let out a long breath: "It's coming, it's finally here!" Quick, call back to General Gan immediately, and ask General Gan to speed up a little faster, otherwise the children of our ships stationed in Yangon will be wiped out! ”

The herald hesitated: "Just say it? ”

"Just say it! Call me back if the!! ”

Chen Li, who was in a hurry, had long lost his usual elegance, and kicked the herald's ass with a kick. The herald took the time to look at the battlefield on the sea just now, although he couldn't see it clearly, but with his understanding of Chen Li, he also knew that if the situation wasn't bad, Chen Li would never be so out of shape, so he hurried back to the communication room after being kicked.

Here Chen Li looked back at the battlefield on the sea, and when there were several loud noises, Chen Li only felt that the loud noise made his heart ache for a while. After a little more hesitation, Chen Li shouted loudly to the surroundings: "Which of you has the means to tell the fleet to leave the battlefield? Those who can do it are rewarded!! ”

This is not Chen Li's nonsense, but the sea battlefield over there is already a chaotic battle pattern, and the flag exchange with Yangon City has long been useless, and only the adventure sends someone to inform him. The scale of the Yangon fleet is not large, but it is Lu Ren's hard work, and it is also Chen Li's heart. Now that reinforcements will arrive soon, there is no need to let the sons of the Rangoon fleet go to the death, of course, we must find a way to let them live more.

Dozens of people immediately responded to the call. There was a waterway in Yangon, and they lowered their small clippers and rushed down the waterway into the sea, rushing to the other side of the battle.

Small ships have the advantage of small boats, so it didn't take much effort for them to contact a few of their own warships on the battlefield, and then these warships would bring the news to the other participating ships. And the ships on Lu Ren's side have the advantage of maneuverability, so when they decide to evacuate, the warships on the rest side really can't do much with the ships on Lu Ren's side. Although the resting warship could fire a few shots after disengaging from the port closer, there was not much threat to the Yizhou warship that was bent on evading and evacuating.

However, for the rest fleet, the withdrawal of these "desperate Saburo" also made them breathe a sigh of relief. To be honest, who wouldn't panic in the face of such a desperate opponent? Now that they have evacuated, they don't have to play with them anymore, and they can fight to a position where they can shell Yangon City, which is enough. As for pursuing them...... Nobody has that in mind.

Therefore, the existing 20 or so warships of the Rest Fleet, as well as the combat effectiveness, "parted ways" with the evacuated Rangoon Fleet and sailed to their predetermined sea area with great arrogance. And at this moment, they are a little arrogant; Looking at the Kushan nobles on the land, they were as excited as if they had been beaten...... By the way, the Kushan nobles got the news of the Sabbath fleet, and this Sabbath fleet came to help, of course, after the defeat of Yangon, the Kushan side wanted to mean something.

The rest of the fleet is showing off its might, and the Kushan side is also adjusting its forces to prepare for another siege. In their eyes, they are now full of confidence, and the rich city of Yangon is about to become their pocket. But at this moment, Chen Li was very calm. He counted the time, and when he received the telegram, the vanguard of Ganning's fleet was less than a hundred miles away from Rangoon. One hundred miles is actually more than 40 kilometers, and the maximum speed of the Yizhou ship is at most an hour. And sending someone to inform the fleet stationed in Rangoon and then withdrawing still delayed for more than forty minutes, counting the time when the fleet sailed into the predetermined sea...... In other words, Gan Ning's vanguard can rush to the battlefield within ten minutes. And even if Yangon City is not beaten again, will it not even be able to withstand these ten minutes?

"Castle Guard, ...... Now"

"Inform the whole city that General Gan's fleet is about to arrive, and all we need to do now is to teach these bitches a hard lesson! The artillery at the head of the castle on the seaside side is ready! Don't let them think we're only going to be beaten!! ”

The ammunition for the Rangoon fleet was exhausted, but there were still stocks in the city. Therefore, after getting Chen Li's order, the artillery on the city head of the city on the coastal side has been adjusting its muzzles, and just waiting for Chen Li's order, these artillery will greet those uninvited "guests" fiercely.

"Fire!!"

With Chen Li's order, the artillery at the head of Yangon began to spit tongues of fire; Not to be outdone, the Sabbath fleet also began to shell and return the color. All of a sudden, the shells fired by both sides staggered back and forth in the air, and the scene was a little dizzying.

Some people may say that at the beginning, it was not enough to put the Sabbath fleet directly into the water and use the artillery of Rangoon City to fight it? In fact, if it were to be completely put in and then carry out artillery warfare, Yangon City would suffer a lot. After all, Yangon City is a fixed target, while the resting warship can be adjusted according to needs, and it is a movable target. Whoever knows what kind of target is easy to hit. Moreover, if the walls of Yangon are blasted out of a big gap by the resting warships, the next thing is to deal with the frantic rush of the city from the Kushan side.

Well, that's not. The artillery battle between the two sides was fierce from the very beginning, and both sides were also shot. But Chen Li didn't care, what he had to do now was to buy a little more time for Gan Ning's side.

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The artillery battle in Rangoon was underway, and on the other side of the sea, Ganning's vanguard fleet had already met the Rangoon fleet that had withdrawn from the battlefield.

Ganning himself was in the vanguard fleet. In fact, his vanguard fleet only has more than 20 warships, but these more than 20 warships are all the most sophisticated warships existing under Lu Ren's command without exception, and Gan Ning's flagship is one of the six special warships in Yizhou.

I won't say much about this, except that Gan Ning was also taken aback when he saw the withdrawn fleet stationed in Rangoon. Originally, there were more than 80 ships in the fleet stationed in Rangoon, and there were a total of 50 large ships and small ships in the case of pure warships, but when Mouning saw them, there were only about 30 of the 80 ships of various types, and they were injured, and the most damaged ones would definitely have to enter the dock for overhaul after the war.

As soon as he saw such a scene, Gan Ning was on fire at that time; After learning about the battle situation at that time from the mouths of the withdrawn Yizhou disciples, Gan Ning was even more angry. Speaking of which, Gan Ning has been following Lu Ren for almost twenty years, and in the past twenty years, the fleet led by Gan Ning, or the fleet under Lu Ren, can be said to be completely sideways in various sea areas, and once upon a time has suffered such a loss?

In modern terms, Gan Ning, as one of the two naval commanders under Lu Ren, felt that he had been slapped in the face, and this field had to be taken back no matter what.

So Gan Ning gave an order, and the vanguard fleet sped up a little faster, and rushed to the battlefield of Yangon like a wind. Because of the excellent performance of these ships, they even left behind the retreating Rangoon fleet. But it doesn't matter, there is still a large group of men and horses behind Gan Ning, and they are also waiting for them to meet the retreating fleet in Rangoon.

When Ganning's fleet arrived in the waters of Rangoon, the city of Rangoon was engaged in an artillery battle with the Sabbath fleet, and the ground forces of Kushan had begun to attack the city again. Seeing this, Gan Ning didn't say a word, and immediately ordered the fleet to open fire in full force, and first sank the two dozen warships that rested in peace!

When Ganning's fleet appeared, the rest fleet was also aware of it. In order to avoid being attacked on both sides, the Sabbath fleet chose to temporarily leave the waters of Yangon City to fight the Ganning fleet again. But what they didn't expect was that these two dozen or so warships of Gan Ning were the most elite warships under Lu Ren's command, fast and maneuverable, so when the ships of the rest fleet had just started, they were shocked to find that Gan Ning had led the fleet to seize the upper hand.

Then, when the Ganning fleet gained the upper hand and put on a "T" tactical formation, the whistling cannonballs immediately hit the ships of the rest fleet and capsized on their backs. I hadn't been able to feel anything on the Rangoon fleet before, but now I have enough material for the resting warship to feel it well.

This incident caused cheers in the city of Yangon, and the Kushan, who were besieging the city, were dumbfounded. And this time the battle on the sea was fought very quickly, after all, the elite warship that Lu Ren was proud of was not an ornament, and its powerful firepower could even make a large warship at rest lose its combat effectiveness with just one round of salvo from the side, and another round could make it sink into the sea and become garbage on the bottom of the sea.

Without further ado, it was about half an hour before six of the rest fleet were sunk, and the rest fled in panic. Gan Ning's fire is great, but it is not so bad that he will lose his judgment because of the fire. Seeing that the remaining ships of the Sabbath fleet began to flee, Gan Ning did not chase after him, but ordered the fleet to approach the coast and began to use artillery to support the city of Yangon.

There was no shortage of heavy artillery on these elite warships, and after a few rounds, the Kushan side that was besieging the city was stunned......