Chapter 145: Catching a Big Fish
As for the remaining four No. 2 Fu boats, it is really not too big, but in the face of the rebels' dilapidated warships, it is still crushed without suspense, the bow of the Fu ship is high, the bow position is firm, although there is no sharp and sharp angle in the bow of the Feizi clipper, but it can still press the enemy ship directly into the seawater, just like an iron plow, directly from the enemy ship, relying on its own impact and weight, it is pressed on the enemy ship, pressing the enemy ship into the seawater, relying on the pressure and the buoyancy of the sea, Stunned, the enemy ship was crushed in the sea.
The two sides fought for only a moment, and these sea wolf ships achieved the record of destroying twelve enemy ships, and this was not the end of the first face, after crushing the first enemy ship, the sailors on the ship immediately got up, frantically pounced on the ship's guns and the ship's side, opened fire, opened fire, shot like a storm, hit the nearby enemy ships.
Looking at these unidentified warships that were extremely arrogant, Mao Chenglu almost felt that his hair was about to stand on end, he had never seen such an opponent at sea, where was this still a war! It's just a one-sided crush!
Today he was unlucky, and he took the job in a hurry, but what he didn't expect was that he was beaten by the other party just after he came over.
Looking at these warships spewing fire everywhere, Mao Chenglu had completely shown his timidity, and shouted in surprise to call all the warships under his command, quickly disperse, get away from the enemy ships, stop fighting with them again, quickly evacuate here, and return to Dengzhou City.
In fact, there was no need for him to greet him at this time, and the remaining rebel generals on the rebel warships had already been frightened, and the rudder that had already begun to panic began to disperse at this time.
But they disbanded in a panic, which brought about another evil consequence, that is, they were thinking about their own things, and they were busy with their own things, which caused instant chaos in the ship's formation, and almost instantly, there were one after another collisions between their own family members.
Collision at sea is a big accident, these sturdy ships like sea wolves are better, and encountering smaller or weaker ships than them is basically not a big problem, but these so-called warships of the rebels are all inferior goods, the shipbuilding technology is simple, many of them are improvised patchwork, the hull structure is thin, let alone a collision, even if they encounter strong winds and waves at sea, they are easy to fall apart.
Therefore, once the ship collides, many ships will be severely damaged, and the cracked hull will instantly pour into a large amount of seawater, and it will not take long for it to capsize or sink.
The sudden blow made Mao Chenglu's fleet suddenly chaotic, and the seven warships of the sea wolf, after a while, scuttled through their ship formation and rushed behind them, Luo Feng immediately ordered to adjust the course and came back to continue the attack.
Seven ships formed a flotilla, pulled out a longitudinal formation, and began to maneuver on the sea, although after all, it was a sail warship, and the ability to maneuver at sea was affected by the direction of the wind, but the influence of this personnel was also very great.
The sailors of the sea wolf, who have been at sea for a long time, often have to receive a variety of boat handling training, and pay special attention to the ability to maneuver at sea, so in the long run, the helmsman and the helmsmen on the ship have formed a very tacit cooperation, and the helmsman only needs a simple password, and the helmsman will respond quickly, adjust the sails to the most suitable position, and eat enough wind to drive the ship to maneuver.
Therefore, the ships of the sea wolf quickly drew a perfect arc on the sea, circled, returned to the battlefield again, and once again aimed the bow position at the rebel ship group that was in a swarm of bees.
The seven boats once again gained the upper hand, and then under the leadership of Luo Feng again, they rushed straight towards the rebels' ship group, and so repeated impacts, collisions, and artillery bombardments, the battle on the sea lasted for more than three hours, that is, more than six hours in later generations.
In these six hours, the seven ships of the detachment launched a total of eight attacks on the rebel boat regiments, and almost every time, they were able to destroy several enemy ships.
From beginning to end, Mao Chenglu's rebel fleet was in a state of passive beating, the firepower was not as good as the enemy's, the speed of the ships could not keep up with the speed of the opponents, and the command was completely out of order.
The rebel ships turned around one after another and fled in the direction of Dengzhou, but the fleet of sea wolves was like maggots on tarsal bones, chasing them and beating them fiercely, like wild beasts, and when they saw the opportunity, they pounced on them and took a bite, each bite could tear off a large piece of the rebels' bloody flesh.
Seventy or eighty rebel warships, under the bite of these seven sea wolf warships, became fewer and fewer, and on the sea from the sea east of Yangma Island to the sea of Zhifu Island, leaving a piece of ship wreckage and a large number of rebels fluttering in the seawater, although many rebels knew how to swim to the water, desperately wanted to swim to friendly ships or the shore, but the distance was too far and their bodies were insufficient, so many rebels could not swim to the shore at all, so they exhausted their bodies and drowned in the sea.
The bodies of the drowned rebels floated everywhere on the sea, and some rebels grabbed the wreckage of some ships on the surface of the sea, and let out a terrible cry for help.
Mao Chenglu himself was not spared, his handsome ship was of course the best boat among the rebel ship regiments, and his handsome flag was also hung on the ship, so that Luo Feng and the lookouts on each ship under his command were staring at his boat at a glance.
So Mao Chenglu's boat, became their key target, when the fourth attack, Mao Chenglu's boat has been beaten a thousand holes, a large number of water into the hull, about to sink into the water, Mao Chenglu this guy actually died a great blessing, in such a rain of bullets, was actually unscathed, seeing that the boat was no longer done, Mao Chenglu had to abandon the boat and escape, jumped into the water and tried to swim to the nearest island called Jia Dao.
But before he could swim to the island, a sea wolf's boat appeared near him, and a few hook guns probed into the sea, hooked Mao Chenglu's clothes at once, dragged him to the boat like a dead dog, and was instantly tied into a rice dumpling and thrown into the cabin.
It is pitiful to say, Mao Chenglu Xingchong led 3,000 rebels and sat on seventy or eighty warships, but after this battle, there were only more than 20 warships, and finally escaped from the battlefield and fled back to the direction of Dengzhou.
And the rest of the warships were either wrecked or sunk on the spot by the ships of the sea wolves, or were injured by Yan zhòng, and were half-sunk in the seawater, sinking and floating, and they couldn't be saved.
There were also more than a dozen warships, because their sails or sails were destroyed, so they had to fly white flags on the sea and surrender, becoming prisoners and trophies of Yu's army.
Luo Feng led the fleet and chased it all the way to the area of Zhifu Island, and seeing that it was getting late, he began to order the return voyage.
At this time, several large ships followed into the battlefield again, chased behind the warships, cleaned the battlefield on the sea, picked up some flooded half-dead rebel generals, dragged some surrendered rebel warships, and then on the way back to Luo Feng's fleet, they joined together, and after nightfall, returned to Yangma Island.
The people of Yangma Island already knew that their warships had won a great victory at sea this time, so they were already excited to welcome these naval ships back on the island.
After this battle, although the 3,000 rebels were not completely annihilated, only less than 800 people fled back to Dengzhou, including Mao Chenglu himself, and this battle was also captured by Yu's army.
On the way back, the ships began to conduct a preliminary screening of the prisoners, Mao Chenglu, as the main general, was picked up and slipped out at the first time, and learned that this time they actually captured Mao Chenglu such a rebel general, Liu Wei and Wu Shengtian were all happy to grin.
And Luo Feng was naturally very proud, knowing that this time he had made a great achievement, and catching a rebel general like Mao Chenglu was an unexpected surprise for them, this time they had to be like Liu Wei and Wu Shengtian and the guy called Li San, who was rewarded by the general order issued by Yu Xiaotian himself, which would definitely be of great benefit to their promotion in the future.
However, on the issue of how to deal with prisoners like Mao Chenglu, everyone has a certain disagreement, this time the rebels came to invade Yangma Island, undoubtedly tearing up the agreement reached between the two sides before, some people mentioned that they simply beheaded this Mao Chenglu and sent the head to the government, or simply sent someone to Yu Xiaotian's army.
However, Liu Wei has exercised considerable political wisdom during this time, and immediately saw the potential value of Mao Chenglu.
So Liu did not insist that he could not kill Mao Chenglu without authorization, let alone return it to the rebels or sell it to the government, the value of this guy was not as simple as hundreds of thousands of taels of silver, although he didn't know what use this guy might have, but he still thought that this matter should be immediately notified to their lord Yu Xiaotian, and let Yu Xiaotian decide it himself.
For Liu's different opinions, everyone felt that it made sense after listening to it, catching such a big fish, for them, killing them without permission is not necessarily a good thing, and if they don't get it right afterwards, they will be guilty of this matter, so it is best to keep it for the first time and wait for the Lord to come up and send it.
So they immediately sent people to sneak out of Xishan Village in the starry night, rushed to Pingdu, went to find Yu Xiaotian, and reported the incident, but what people didn't expect was that the person sent out disappeared on the way somehow, and it was very likely that on the way, they were met by the rebels who did not collect at night, and were attacked by the rebels who did not collect at night, and were either killed by the rebels at night, or they may have been captured.
So by mistake, it wasn't until after July that they sent the news to Yu Xiaotian, and Yu Xiaotian didn't know until this time that Luo Feng actually captured a rebel general named Mao Chenglu.
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