Chapter 752: Naval Battle in the Storm
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"Fight, you must fight!" Looking at Pang Da in front of him, without carrying the slightest provisions, Pang Da, who fled into the Black Water Ocean without the slightest preparation, was embarrassed, his lips were grinning, these days, their only food and water source came from fishing at sea, and when they finally found Pang Jun, there was a large-scale non-combat attrition on several three thousand warships, and these people were either hungry or thirsty.
Faced with the anxious faces of his subordinates and the demand for immediate return, Pang Jun leaned back in his chair tiredly, but his tone was categorical. At this time, the Pang army had already understood that Dingzhou had a good trick to hide from the sky and the sea, what to welcome the king of Zhou back to Dingzhou to ascend the throne, their purpose was to attract themselves, so that the southern coastal areas were completely empty, and then attacked these southern important towns, and smashed and crippled these rich coastal areas.
Dengzhou is the largest military port of the Southern Army's naval division, and it is where its foundation lies, and the only shipyard in the south that can build thousands of large ships is also in Dengzhou, but now, it no longer exists. Pang Jun stood up, paced a few steps in the cabin, looked at the stares of his subordinates, and let out a long sigh, it was not his fault.
Up to now, it can be said that the battle for the Black Water Ocean has been divided into winners and losers, and he has lost, but it is a crime of non-war. This is the embodiment of the complete defeat of the entire upper echelons in the strategic competition with Li Qing of Dingzhou.
I have to fight, taking advantage of the fact that Deng Peng's sailors are the weakest now, if they can defeat the Dingzhou sailors in one fell swoop and bury them on the Heishui Ocean, then the loss of Dengzhou now, and even the loss of the entire southern coast, is negligible. Dingzhou does have a strong shipbuilding capacity now, but a qualified sailor and a mature admiral cannot be cultivated in a short time. On the contrary, if you withdraw now, in time, the opponent's three sailors will gather, and what will the southern sailors do to compete with the opponent?
But doing so is a great risk for yourself. If it wins, it will naturally be a great achievement, but if it loses, the Southern Sailor will not even have room to struggle. will completely lose the Black Water Ocean.
Whether it was a desperate fight or a risky fight, Pang Jun chose the latter without hesitation.
"Generals, the fate of the South depends on you. In this battle, it is better to fight late than early, we can't wait until the Dingzhou Navy Division has gathered all the forces before passively responding to the battle, then we will definitely lose. Even now, we will take the initiative to attack and completely defeat the main force of the Dingzhou Naval Division, as long as we do this, even if we lose the Dengzhou base, we can still run rampant on the Black Water Ocean."
Pang Da nodded heavily, "I agree, now the Deng thief must have thought that we had hurried back to help, but we just did the opposite and caught him off guard. Destroy him and avenge the victims of Dengzhou."
Pang Jun smiled bitterly, since Deng Peng sprinkled such a bait, he would never make such a mistake, maybe at this time, the other party is also looking for himself, and he is going to fight a decisive battle with himself, at this time, his army is unstable, and the other party's morale is like a rainbow, it is a good time to fight with himself. But he will not pick out this problem, but affirmed Pang Da's statement, "Yes, the opponent's defense may be the most lax at this time, even if the opponent is prepared, but the narrow road is suitable for the brave wins, our strength is still better than the opponent, at least we have seven or eight percent certainty in this battle."
Seeing that Pang Jun was so sure, the generals of the Southern Army's naval division, who were accustomed to only the Pang Army's horses, were all excited for a while.
"Hit!" A neat roar rang out from inside the cabin.
"Now, I command!" With both hands, Pang Jun said solemnly.
With a snap, the sound of military boots colliding sounded in the cabin, and all the generals stood up together and stood solemnly in front of Pang Jun.
Both armies wanted to meet their opponents, so the vast black water ocean was no longer an obstacle, and the two armies discovered each other almost simultaneously at noon. At this time, the fleets of the two sides were dozens of nautical miles apart, and when they looked at each other, they were a group of small black dots above the vast sea.
Adjust the course, reorganize the formation, both armies are aggressive, rushing towards each other.
Deng Peng stood on the Qiyuan, staring at the Southern Army fleet on the opposite side that was becoming clearer and clearer, "Pang Jun, I'm here!"
When Pang Jun was famous on the mainland, when the sun was in full swing, Deng Peng was just an ordinary general of the unknown sailor, and when Deng Peng struggled to become the commander of the Fuzhou Navy, Pang Jun had already established his position as the first sailor on the mainland. It can be said that this veteran is the goal of Deng Peng's struggle, especially when Deng Peng joined Dingzhou and had a powerful fleet, defeating Pang Jun became his greatest wish. All the water battles that Pang Jun participated in or commanded in his life, Deng Peng collected a large amount of such information through the Statistical Survey Department at that time, and studied, summarized, and summarized Pang Jun's operational thoughts, operational ideas, and operational tactics every day, which has become an indispensable part of Deng Peng's daily life.
Know yourself and know your opponent, and you will not be defeated in a hundred battles.
The distance between the two armies is getting closer. As Deng Peng expected, the weather was quite bad, the dark clouds seemed to be about to press down from the sky, the wind and waves became stronger and stronger, the waves hit the hull of the ship, boomed, bounced back, splashing white foam all over the sky. Fighting in this kind of weather is not only a competition of the combat skills of the commanders of both sides, but also a test of the soldiers' will to fight, and the sailors' skills in handling ships.
It can be seen from the battle formations of the two sides that the two sides are very different in terms of combat strategy.
The Southern Army Naval Division uses two giant ships Ningzhou and Dengzhou as the arrows, and discharges a wild goose antelope formation, similar to a capital English letter M, but the two verticals on both sides are extremely open to the hypotenuse, which is the formation of Ningzhou and Dengzhou as the vanguard, with its huge size and powerful striking ability, to defeat the opponent's formation in one fell swoop.
The Dingzhou Naval Division is obviously not the same as the other party, the Dingzhou Naval Division is to use the Wanliu giant ship as a support combat platform, on the several decks of the Qiyuan and Kaitai, densely arranged with a lot of long-range strike weapons, and with the 5,000 material battleship and the 3,000 material battleship as the main combat unit, the 10,000 material giant ship is more to provide fire support.
"General Deng, can we win?" At some point, King Zhou climbed up to the highest deck, stood beside Deng Peng, and asked with some wistfulness.
Deng Peng turned his head, looked at King Zhou, who was trembling slightly, and said with a smile: "The Dingzhou army has never lost, not in the past, not now, and even more impossible in the future, His Royal Highness King Zhou should go to the cabin to rest, and when the fight starts later, it will be quite dangerous outside, if you lose a hair, I will win the battle against the guy, and there will be no good fruit to eat when I go back!"
"It's going to rain!" King Zhou looked up at the sky, a lightning bolt tore through the clouds, hooked a silver line in the air, and it was fleeting, followed by a thunderbolt in the sky, and the rumbling thunder continued, Deng Peng looked up and laughed, "Even God is not willing to be lonely, and he came to join in the fun!"
Suddenly pulled up a small red flag in front of him, waved it in the air a few times, and above the main mast of the Qiyuan, the signal soldier who had been staring at Deng Peng quickly repeated Deng Peng's flag.
"Prepare for battle!"
King Zhou went down to the cabin with a nervous mood, and now, he could only return to the cabin and silently pray that the ancestors of the Zhou clan would bless the Ningzhou sailors to successfully defeat the southern army in this battle.
When the first drop of bean-sized raindrops fell from the sky, hitting Deng Peng's helmet, making a crackling sound, above the sea, above the ships of both sides, there was a loud bang at the same time, that is, the two fleets began to fire stone cannons, crossbow arrows and other long-range weapons at the same time, and in an instant, the sky was covered by stone bullets as dense as flying locusts.
The heavy rain was out of control at once, and it became heavier and heavier, and the wind swept the torrential rain, so that people could not open their eyes, and the waves on the sea became bigger and bigger, and the hull of the ship shook violently, and it was the first time to fight in such a big wind and waves, no matter what aspect it was.
In the midst of the wind, thunderbolts, lightning, and huge waves, the ships of both sides collided with each other.
The first to contact were the clippers of both sides, such as the red horse, the first to board and other sentinel ships, these thousands of warships in the river are considered large ships, but above the sea, they are like a drop in the sea, pitifully small, under the attack of the waves, even if the sailors try to stabilize the ship, it is powerless.
In the first wave of ships on both sides, a large number of such small ships collided violently, and without a single intersection of swords and guns between the two sides, the ships capsized under the force of the collision, and the sailors on them turned over and fell into the sea, in such weather, in such a battlefield, the chance of survival was almost zero.
The Southern Army's Ningzhou and Dengzhou giant ships are used as arrows in Pang Jun's combat mode, so they must maintain a certain speed, for which he has to sacrifice some long-range weapons, like this kind of giant ship, it can carry a large number of trebuchets, but the weight of the trebuchet itself is extremely large, and with a large number of stone projectiles, the load of the ship will reach an amazing value, at this point, Pang Jun and Deng Peng have completely embarked on two completely different paths. Contrary to Pang Jun, Deng Peng greatly strengthened the firepower of the Qiyuan and Kaitai, and the long-range weaponry on one Qiyuan was almost twice that of the Ningzhou. Of course, the speed of the Qiyuan will be greatly affected, so around the Qiyuan, other frigates surrounding Dingzhou will only protect him and minimize his chance of being hit.
On the side of the Dingzhou Naval Division, the strike force with the two giant ships of Qiyuan and Kaitai as the core concentrated the first blow on the Ningzhou and Dengzhou of the other side, and in comparison, the strike of the Southern Naval Division was much more dispersed.
On the Ningzhou, stone bullets rained down, and from time to time soldiers were hit by stone bullets, flesh and blood flying, smashed decks, smashed trebuchets, flying in all directions, just the first round of shooting, let the Ningzhou deck flesh and blood fly.
Pang Jun stood upright on the command platform, not moving, even if a stone bullet landed not far from his side just now, knocking down one of his guards, and the splash of blood rained all over his body, he didn't move. The first time he saw the opponent's combat mode, Pang Jun knew that the opponent and himself were not on the same path at all.
Which is right and which is wrong, the soldiers of today's battle will see and know.
"Forward!" Pang Jun choked, pulled out his saber, and roared loudly.
Although the Ningzhou suffered countless stone bullets, such a blow was not enough to affect his combat effectiveness, and the Ningzhou accelerated forward.