The four hundred and seventy-fifth round
(I'm sorry, I missed the time for overtime, so I will temporarily use the old manuscript that has not been modified, and the bottle will rush to the manuscript overnight)
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If Lu Ren's bombardment of Quanzhou a few days ago was the first time that artillery was officially used, then now is the first time that artillery has been officially used in naval warfare. As for www.biquge.info results...... It seems that there is really no need to say much.
Is masonry hard or wood? Everyone understands this. Although the caliber of Lu Ren's current artillery is not large, the gunpowder and shells have been improved by Shirley as much as possible, and the power should not be underestimated. And the ships of Dong's fleet are all normal wooden ships in the Three Kingdoms period at the end of the Han Dynasty, how can they withstand the destruction of hundreds of artillery pieces on Lu Ren's side?
Therefore, after only a few rounds of bullet rain passed, the more than 100 ships of Dong's fleet were already full of holes, and the worse ones were already broken and disintegrated. And it wasn't until this time that Dong Xian remembered some of the things Sun Shangxiang had said to him, and couldn't help but look up to the sky and sigh: "The county lord didn't deceive me!" ”
On Lu Ren's side, Liu Ye looked at the fifty gunboats that had smashed more than 100 ships of Dong's fleet into broken wood and shrums in the blink of an eye, and he couldn't help but secretly wipe his sweat in his heart. In the previous bombardment of Quanzhou, Liu Ye was certainly one of the participants, but after all, he was only "watching the fire from the other side" in the middle of the night, and only went to see the ruins of Quanzhou afterwards, in other words, although he was frightened at the time, there was no direct visual impact. But now that he clearly sees the huge destructive power of artillery, the direct visual impact on Liu Ye is different.
I remember that when Lu Ren decided to bombard Quanzhou, Liu Ye once asked Lu Ren if he really planned to do that, and Lu Ren replied in anger at the time:
"Why don't I figure it out? Ziyang, why are fierce beasts terrifying? It's because their sharp fangs can be intimidating! Now to deal with Sun Quan, we must use what should be used! I didn't take it out before, because our self-preservation strength was still insufficient, and the premature appearance of this thing would bring a consequence of guilt. But now that we have the corresponding strength, what am I afraid of? Of course, it is impossible to destroy Sun Quan if you destroy me, and that is not realistic. But now if we fight a fierce battle and defeat Sun Quan and subdue him, then we will be able to make peace for at least thirty years! ”
However, it was said that after the artillery bombardment on Lu Ren's side ended, there were still some ships and personnel left in Dong's fleet, and the water was full of soldiers and soldiers who had fallen into the sea and were still struggling at the moment. At this time, Lu Ren's main artillery ships were no longer needed, but handed over to Gan Ning and Lu Ren's follow-up ships to clean up. And this so-called sweeping...... Well, just throw a bunch of burns/burns/bombs on the remaining ships of Dong Raid, and then fly away. As for what supplies and prisoners and the like, Lu Ren was not interested in them.
Seeing that this battle was nearing its end, Lu Ren ordered the entire fleet to temporarily retreat and recuperate. Because Lu Ren knew that Sun Quan's main force was not far from him, and the sea journey of more than 100 miles would not take long to reach it if he ran faster under the condition of a tailwind. And Lu Ren is also ready to have a big ...... with Sun Quan
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The naval battle between Lu Ren and Dong Zheng actually didn't last long. From the time Gan Ning led the leading fleet to block Dong's attack, to the end of the final artillery fire and the clearing of the battlefield, it only took about two hours before and after. The distance between Sun Quan's main force and Dong Raid was about 100 kilometers, and at the regular speed of those ships at that time, after Lu Ren's fleet had cleaned up the battlefield and retreated for half an hour, the vanguard of Sun Quan's main force arrived in this sea area.
When Sun Quan's main force of the Chinese army arrived and saw the broken wood on the sea, the horror in his heart also arose. In that era, in ordinary water battles and ordinary battles between ships, in fact, it was rare for even the ships to be destroyed, not to mention that it was not one or two ships that were destroyed, but more than 100 ships of the Dong Raid Vanguard Army, and none of them were intact until now, even if they were relatively intact. Even the remaining ones, such as Dong Xi's flagship, which are relatively sturdy and thick-skinned, are already full of holes, and all of them are meowing to extinguish the remaining fires on the hull.
Of course, the thousands of people who attacked Dong were not dead at this time, there were always some people who were either fluttering in the water, or busy fighting the fire and saving people on the rotten boat, Sun Quan would naturally hurry to rescue these people, and then Sun Quan learned from these people what happened in the naval battle just now. When he heard how the hundreds of behemoths of Lu Ren's fleet were spewing white smoke and flames from a long distance, he then shot out one by one the balls full of fire, and how his own ships were hit into thousands of holes.
To be honest, many of the words of these remnants are exaggerated, for example, the total number of ships dispatched by Lu Ren is only about one hundred and seventy, and the gunboats are only fifty, but in the mouths of those Wu soldiers who were bombarded by indiscriminate shelling, they have become behemoths with three or four hundred in Lu Ren's fleet, and each of them is the kind of sea monster that can spew flames and thunder...... It's not that they're shirking anything or deliberately exaggerating something, but they were really frightened by Lu Ren's artillery, and they lost their ability to judge in a calm state in many places.
The words of these remnants made Sun Quan's brows lock tightly in one place. As a smart person, Sun Quan certainly knew that some of the words of the remnants were credible and some were not, but what was credible and which was not, where could Sun Quan figure it out at this time. I wanted to ask Dong to come over and ask...... Well, poor Dong Raid was dizzy at this moment, stunned by the shock wave of a cannonball that exploded at close range. Who let him ride the flagship? Once the gunboat on Lu Ren's side is discovered, then don't you focus on it?
However, the only thing that is certain is that Lu Ren's naval strength is far beyond Sun Quan's imagination. Or is it the same sentence, in the water warfare of that era, where did there ever be such a thing as now, when a fleet was almost beaten into broken wood debris in the sea? Although the ships of the main force led by Sun Quan were good, they were not much stronger than the hundred or so ships that Dong attacked against. If it was really a few dozen of Lu Ren, or a few hundred as the remnants said...... Sun Quan didn't dare to think about the rest of the matter.
However, after all, Sun Quan had the information that Sun Shangxiang brought back, so Sun Quan knew that Lu Ren must have gathered all the troops that could be mobilized at hand. In other words, Lu Ren hurriedly put on a decisive battle posture after Quanzhou was attacked, and Lu Ren's strength was obviously inferior to Sun Quan, if Sun Quan could use this battle to defeat and cripple Lu Ren...... Relying on the superiority of their own forces, it seems that this is not impossible. For example, Lu Ren took advantage of that just now, but why did he retreat? So is this a trick to lure the enemy, or is it that Lu Ren's side is not able to continue his efforts?
Smart people are often suspicious, that's because they think too much when they encounter things, and Sun Quan happens to be such a person. At this moment, Sun Quan was arguing whether to attack Lu Ren or retreat back to Wu in the face of this tragic scene, and several generals around Sun Quan were also arguing about this issue.
Rescuing the wrecked ship and the soldiers who fell into the water obviously took some time, and Sun Quan was taking this time to think. Suddenly, a flash of light flashed in Sun Quan's mind, and he exclaimed urgently: "Not good! This is Lu Ren deliberately left this battlefield for me! Quickly send an order to all boats, let them leave the soldiers in the water for the time being, and all ships are on strict alert, put away their sails and slowly retreat! ”
Just when Sun Quan gave this order, many ships under Sun Quan's command were still busy salvaging the supplies in the water and the soldiers who were trying to survive, and Sun Quan suddenly remembered that this kind of practice was not similar to the tactics of throwing money and food in land battles to lure the other party? It's just that under this water, it was the first time that he encountered this kind of ship destruction, and Sun Quan didn't react at once.
Now that Sun Quan had given the order, it had just been conveyed to some ships, and before many Wu soldiers had reacted, some Wu soldiers with good eyesight had already discovered that a fleet of dozens of ships was approaching them at a speed they could not imagine. Sky! They're driving against the wind! And they didn't have any sails raised on their ships, and they didn't see oars sticking out of their sides! But why can such a ship be so fast in a headwind?
The exclamation woke up many Wu soldiers, and soon even Sun Quan, who was in the middle army, knew about it, and hurriedly ran to the high platform above the ship to look into the distance. When he saw the dozens of clippers that he had never seen before approaching at a rapid pace, Sun Quan shouted in his heart that it was not good, but also understood one thing, that is, Sun Shangxiang's previous words did not lie to himself.
As if to reflect Sun Quan's thoughts, the dozens of ships that came over there did not approach again when they were still more than 600 meters away from Sun Quan's fleet, but changed their direction slightly, and after they lined up like a long snake formation, the sides of all the ships were facing Sun Quan's fleet. Many of the generals and soldiers of the Wu army were still a little unclear, but some of the soldiers under Dong Xian's command who had been rescued on the ship before had already exclaimed in panic:
"Oh no! Those strange ships are going to summon the thunder again! ”
"Run, everybody! That's how we were ......."
The chaos of the ships actually brought out a chaotic effect, and the command system of many ships was confused. And the soldiers of Wu, who had been frightened in the naval battle just now, were even more chaotic like frightened rabbits, running around the ship, looking for a place they thought could withstand the bombardment of the "heavenly thunder" sprayed by the Yizhou strange ship. In order to maintain the composure of the soldiers, many generals had to make the decision to kill the indiscriminate soldiers.
But soon, they realized that what they were doing was not going to help. When groups of flaming orbs bombarded their ship, even the soldiers, who had been quite calm, began to believe that the exclamations of the pawns had not deceived them or not. And when the horrific images that others had spoken of now really appeared in their eyes, the unprecedented horror was even greater...... (To be continued.) )