Chapter 1243. Bloody battle on the tidal flats
The roaring sound of cannons resounded through the sea, and the fire of a heavy cannon was more than half a meter long, and every time it was accompanied by thunder, there must have been a violent crash and shocking sound on the European beach opposite. Please search (#...... See the most! The fastest updated novel
The jet of the general's cannon also brought a huge reaction force, so that the sailors equipped with the huge cannon sailless sea combat platforms were violently trembling, bumpy up and down, water battles are no better than land battles, the waves of the waves make the cannon lose its target, heavy iron ball projectiles smashed into the sea, splashing one after another.
Around this, three consecutive days of large-scale artillery warfare still smashed the Roman Empire's security fortifications, more than half of the security towers towering on the shore collapsed, ambushed in the trenches, the ballistas in the barrier were also cleaned up a lot, and even the entire beach position was silent, as if the Great Min fleet was bombarding a dead field.
However, standing on the Daifuku ship and looking out, Li Yexu knew that lurking in the collapsed ruins, there must be countless enemies eyeing him who were suffering from it, because the Roman Empire was too similar to China, it was as glorious, it had a high degree of civilization, and it loved its own country.
It's just that now China has risen again after the fall, but the Romans are still in decline.
Around this, Li Yexu knew that the sergeants who stood in front of him would still firmly defend their country with their bloody bodies.
Li Yexu heard that more than a thousand years ago, there was a Persian emperor named Xerxes who led a million troops to attack Greece, when there was no Constantinople, only a small Greek colonial city of Byzantium with a population of several thousand, which could not stop the Persian army at all, but when Xerxes's army crossed the sea, the big ship used to build a pontoon bridge was overturned by the waves and drowned more than 100 people.
Every time he heard this, Li Yexu couldn't help but despise this Xerxes the Great, there was no terrible Constantinople and was defeated by Greece, a small country and a widow, if it was changed to now, let him try again, he would have to fight and cry wolf and wipe out the whole army.
Just in Li Yexu's thoughts, the shelling in front stopped, which suddenly made him feel awe-inspiring, and sure enough, not long after, Lu Ning sent someone over to inform Li Yexu that the fortifications on the shore were basically destroyed, and he could start attacking!
In the sound of the rushing water, the Daifuku ship descended to the sea like a cub, and lowered countless small vehicles and boats, sampan landing ships, and countless soldiers of the Qianniuwei climbed the soft ladder to reach the landing craft, and the dense boats filled the front of the Damin fleet like grasshoppers.
It wasn't Li Yexu who led the team this time, Sheng Lianshan wanted to go in person but was stopped by him, the big war had just begun, how could the general move lightly? The one who led the three regiments of the right Qianniuwei to land and fight was once a civilian official, called Lou Shide, who turned out to be an imperial history, who knows why the King of Min promoted a civilian official to a Zhonglang general.
However, Li Yexu did not mean to look down on this imperial history general, but was very respectful, this person was generous and extraordinary, and he came to his army not to have the kind of solitary pride of a civilian official, but always humble his colleagues and actively study, even if Li Yexu was a general, he also felt that this person was the prime minister's talent, and the future was limitless.
Lou Shide's body is quite fat and strong, at this time he is already neatly clothed, wearing a red forehead and not wearing a helmet, not having a bald head of the Qin army, hanging a human head on his waist, wearing the spirit of perseverance and fighting, before the battle, standing on the Dafu boat, Lou Shide is full of seriousness to Li Yexu to say goodbye.
"Rest assured, the general will open up a smooth road for the army!"
Listening to Lou Shide's sonorous words, Li Yexu couldn't help but boil with enthusiasm, and returned the salute with a serious face.
"Please!"
Even at sea, the bow of the Fu boat is still set up with a snare drum, and the powerful drum sound cannot even hide the waves, and more than 200 small boats row long oars together to the rhythm of the drums, shouting trumpets and rushing to the beach.
Holding the binoculars, Li Yexu also looked nervously.
As he expected, as soon as the naval guns of Da Min stopped, and on the Roman position where the beach had been beaten into ruins, countless Roman soldiers wearing scaly armor and chain mail quickly showed their heads in the ruins of the tower as if they had grown out of the ground, and what was even more terrifying was that small scorpion crossbows that were easy to carry were pushed out.
This small crossbow is a small model of the Roman ballista, and it is also launched by using animal tendon twisting, and the lethality is naturally not as high as a giant ballista a few meters high, but it is not a toy, it is a real guy who kills, and it is much more flexible than a large ballista.
"For God's sake! For Rome! ”
On the shore, the battle cries of the Roman generals sounded one after another, and in an instant, raining arrows and ballista shells fell on the heads of the Fujian soldiers who were still rowing their boats at great speed in the sea.
These people, the crossbow appeared too suddenly, the Min army on the assault boat was caught off guard, and the gang commander was standing on the bow of the boat and watching, he was directly shot with an arrow and collapsed in the water, the fastest few small boats rushed by the vanguard were almost completely annihilated, the whole ship became a hedgehog, the sound of arrows came and went, and the blood of the large group stained the bay red.
In the panic, on the Fujian boat behind, the first few soldiers hurriedly carried their shields to guard the front, and the rowers behind were even more sucky, desperately sprinting forward, and the aggressive arrows were constantly nailed to the shield, even so, when the scorpion crossbow shot over, in the loud noise of Qi Chang, the tiger head shield wrapped in iron sheet was still like paper paste, and was shot through, and the first two or three soldiers behind the shield were penetrated behind the shield.
However, it was not the Romans who posed a greater threat to the Min army, but sharks! In this era, there were still quite a lot of sharks in the Mediterranean, and the blood flowing from the warriors immediately lured the triangular fins out of the water like the most fragrant bait, and even hit the bottom of the boat with a bang.
"Shark! Defend against sharks! Prepare a big crossbow for Ben now! We must not allow the shark to devour our soldiers! ”
Shocked by Li Yexu's shouting, countless soldiers of the Qianniu Guard, groups of crossbowmen rushed to the side of the ship with standard steel crossbows, and the crossbow arrows with light were splashed in the sea like machine gun bullets for a while, and more than a dozen huge gray sharks were full of steel crossbow arrows on their backs, floating with blood, but there were still dozens of arrows that passed through the arrows and rushed to the landing army.
The formation of the naval army of Damin is like a huge city, in front, there are shelled sea combat platforms and huge ships equipped with heavy ship-destroying guns, and behind are the Fuchuan troop carriers.
It turned out that Lu Ning had been prepared.
Watching the sailor soldier skillfully shoot a speargun more than a meter long into the sea, the shark that crashed into the shark and was covered in blood saw that he couldn't rush over, and sniffed the blood and killed each other.
The crisis of the shark was solved, Li Yexu finally breathed a sigh of relief, and at this time, the vanguard fleet finally rushed to the shore, dropped the oars, and the Fujian soldiers who were holding their breath roared and ran to the defense circle of the Romans.
The Min saber shield hand also used the shield, the Roman heavy infantry also used the shield, the iron-clad tiger head yuan shield hit the kite-shaped wooden shield fiercely, in the angry scolding of the two languages, the horizontal knife of the Min country and the Roman long sword pierced in the gap non-stop, every time the red knife went in and the white knife came out, the soldiers of the two sides kept falling on the beach, and the sticky blood stained the white sand.
The first batch landed only six regiments of more than 1,800 people, on a front of more than 1,000 meters, obviously a little thin, the Roman heavy infantry drilled out of the trench out of the thick and not good, seeing that the Fujian army was in danger, and the crushed was about to be driven back to the sea, but this effort, the Romans behind the position sounded shouts of killing.
Under the incredulous gaze of the Roman general, countless Arab light cavalry rushed from the plain behind them with a shout, and crashed right behind the Roman defenders.
It has been holding on to the artillery fire of the Fujian people for more than three days, seeing that the first wave of attack is about to be repulsed, but this kung fu is suddenly attacked by the enemy, and the Roman defenders suddenly panicked, and the Roman defenders who broke down mentally ran around, no longer obeying the general's command, and the edge even collapsed directly and fled backwards.
Seeing that the fighter plane had arrived, Li Yexu was immediately overjoyed, and shouted loudly: "Release the ship and attack the !!."
The rapid drums of war were almost connected together, and more cars and ships fell into the sea like dumplings under the sampan, and the main force of the left and right Qianniuwei was full of energy, and their faces were flushed and pedaled to the shore on the wheels, and even the sailors sent small boats to follow ashore, and the sailors rushed ashore with bayonet guns and shouted with wawa, and the entire Roman position was once again plunged into war.
More than a dozen Roman heavy infantry pushed the shield, and squeezed a few right thousand Niu guards to the center, more than a dozen people pushed the long sword to the middle of a burst of puncture, in the loud scream, several Fujian soldiers were all stabbed into a sieve, screaming and dying, but did not wait for the leading centurion to shout excitedly, but Leng Buding suddenly cooled behind him, and looked back in disbelief, and saw a big Fujian sailor full of anger and pulled out a bayonet gun.
The Da Min stabbing spears were all sharp three-edged thorns, relying on the tension of the muscles to stop the bleeding at all, and blood gushed from the chest cavity behind his back, and the centurion's eyes were dark, and he staggered and knelt on the ground.
A steady stream of thousands of guards poured ashore, and the precarious Roman defenders, who had been charged by the Arab light cavalry behind them, melted away at a speed visible to the naked eye like butter falling into a hot pan, and the Roman heavy infantry, who had a nervous breakdown, abandoned their long swords, took off their heavy armor, and fled.
At this time, Li Yexu and Sheng Lianshan also boarded the coast by boat, seeing that the battlefield was full of teams of Romans who were broken through the shield wall and running around, and there were more than ten Roman defenders beside them who were knocked to the ground by the Damin sailors, and the bayonet in their hands pierced headlessly, smelling the strong smell of blood, Li Yexu nodded with satisfaction, seeing that the entire tidal flat was about to be destroyed by the Great Min.
But at this time, more than a dozen Fujian troops who had already entered the enemy's vanguard ran back anxiously like a hot ass, the battlefield was too noisy, and more than a dozen people were shouting at the top of their voices.
"General, the Roman dogs are up again!"
As he was talking, on the ruins of the coastal defense tower that had been crushed by artillery, the gray Roman armor once again surged up like a tide, and the rise of a Wu Min army chasing and killing happened to hit the surging new enemy army, and was immediately slapped on the ground by the Roman kite shield, and was immediately divided by the sword.
"Array !!"
Drawing his sword and running anxiously on the beach, Li Yexu roared all the way, and the arrows fired by the Romans on the opposite side grazed the edge of his armor, and some even rubbed a series of sparks on the leaves of his armor.
Under Li Yexu's command, the nearby Fujian troops who were fighting for each other slowly gathered together, the shields were spelled into a shield wall, and the swords and guns were facing outward, but before the Fujian army could stand firm, the new Roman army had already raised the shield and came up fiercely, and there was even a particularly strong Thracian man who jumped high with a shield.
With a muffled bang, several Fujian soldiers were directly slapped on the beach, and in the next second, the sound of shields colliding, sword strikes, angry scolding, wailing, in an instant, the symphony that was enough to take away people's souls with countless bright red colors was played violently on this messy beach.