Chapter 52 The first appearance of artillery in the water battle, and the cold torture in the dungeon
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Since the continuous rainstorm, the water level of Nawu Township has increased sharply by more than three zhang compared with the past, and it is already level with Yushe City.
It was only when he saw this that Zhong Wei knew why his father couldn't return to the camp that day, and if there was a flash flood on the road, even if they had 100,000 troops, they would have to be completely destroyed.
Knowing the right time and the right place is not so simple.
According to the past moment, he sighed in his heart for his father's wisdom, and at the same time inspected the city defenses to ensure the safety of the entire Yushe City, so as not to be attacked by the Red Phoenix Army.
At this moment, a fast falcon cut through the water and quickly came to the dock that had been repaired nearby.
Zhong Wei looked at it, and immediately saw that the place where the iron armor nailed the hull of the ship was blasted open enough to fit into a person, and the muddy river water was pouring into the boat from this hole.
In a few moments, the river was already in the middle of the boats.
His face was instantly embarrassed, Zhong Wei hurriedly raised his martial arts, and only clicked a few times on the water surface, and then lifted out the few people who had fallen into the river and brought them to the riverbank.
As soon as he stood still, he asked, "Tell me, what happened?" and as he looked at the fast falcon that was gradually disappearing into the river, he felt a twitch between his brows, and a faint feeling that something was wrong.
"Sunk...... It's all sunk......"
"Sinking, what is sinking?"
"Dead...... They...... They're all dead......"
"Dead, what about the grain ship?"
"It's gone...... It's all gone......"
Probably because after an unimaginable battle, these people looked uneasy and extremely frightened, and even their words could not be said completely.
Looking at the appearance of a few people, Zhong Wei immediately scolded in a low voice: "Damn, it must be a good thing done by that red demon again." ”
After months of continuous fighting, he had already understood that the Red Phoenix Army in front of him was by no means the same as the soldiers of the Jin Dynasty who had been defeated with one blow, let alone the Red Jacket Army, which was as undisciplined as the Red Jacket Army, and even the forbidden army of the Song Dynasty could hardly match it in terms of discipline.
The military discipline is strict, the morale is high, and the combat style under his command is even more treacherous and changeable, mostly with the cooperation of various arms to fight with each other, so that they can defeat the opponent with fewer victories, and are extremely good at using the terrain to delay, trap the enemy, and finally give a fatal blow.
It fights like the hunters who live in the woods for a long time, provoking and luring the ferocious tigers, bears, and wild boars into their traps by smell, food, and provocations, and causing them to be bloody in every struggle, and finally delivering a fatal blow at the last moment.
Looking at the floating broken planks, Zhong Wei felt as if he had fallen into a trap that had already been placed, and he would be tightened by the other party anytime and anywhere.
This feeling really made him quite uncomfortable.
Thinking of the plan that the other party might take, Zhong Wei didn't dare to slack off, and hurriedly returned to the camp to spread the news of this place to Monk Yu He.
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"Damn, where are those goddamn red demons?"
Hiding behind the daughter wall, Zhang Wushi was already in a cold sweat.
When Mongolia did not go south, he was a school officer in the Jin Dynasty's naval army, because he was a Han Chinese, so he was often excluded and suppressed by those Jin people, so he was never promoted, and he also had a dislike for the Jin Dynasty in many years of military affairs.
Later, after the Mongol victory over the Jin Dynasty, he made a good advocacy and directly led his naval army to surrender to the Mongols, and was responsible for transporting grain and grass.
Now, he is responsible for transporting the food supplies of more than 12,000 soldiers stationed in Yushe City. But today, when he had just led twenty sand ships and ten war falcons north, he was in the middle of the voyage when he was attacked from the shore.
On the other side, there was a blonde guy who scolded in a low voice: "Zhang Wushi, give me to repel them immediately, otherwise I will definitely go to Marshal Gao and let him condemn you to death." ”
"Fearful of the Vultures, the other party's offensive is too fierce, and it is not something we can fight. Zhang Wushi's body trembled suddenly, and he shook his head violently, making all the fat wrapped in a layer of skin tremble.
"Zhang Wushi. Do you know how important this grain is?"
In a low voice, the Vultures Kachin threatened: "If this grain is lost, can you bear the responsibility? You must know that if there is no such grain, then in another week, the whole army will fall into the predicament of lack of food." If the other party takes this grain, we will both be put to death. ”
"I know, I'm going to command!"
Gasping for breath, Zhang Wushi immediately stood up tremblingly, as if in order to be able to dodge the opponent's attack in time, he also deliberately bent down and hid half of his body behind the daughter wall, so as not to be hit by the other party.
And at this time, there was a "boom".
About a foot away from him, a soldier who was also hiding behind the parapet wall suddenly staggered the upper half of his body and the lower half of his body, even with the protection of the parapet, he still couldn't protect himself, which shows how powerful the firepower of the fleet was shelling the river bank.
Frightened by this, Zhang Wushi immediately curled up, lay on the deck, and shouted again and again: "God open your eyes, don't let me die here." ”
"What kind of weapon did the red demon use, and why was it so powerful?" On the other side, Kaqin asked in a low voice with a frightened face.
After all, this weapon is too powerful to resist by ordinary means.
"Looks like you're going to surrender?"
After looking at it from afar, Li Chang looked at the warriors who jumped down from the river from the battle falcon in the distance.
At this moment, on the river, which was already more than ten feet wide, about a dozen war falcons, shaped like a city wall, protected dozens of flat-bottomed boats in the center, and on them, crossbowmen pushed out the thick crossbows, and put the crossbow arrows into them to shoot towards the mountains and forests in the distance.
But when the stones and crossbow arrows hit the solid stones and shields, they all became useless, and could not kill the warriors behind them.
In the mountains and forests, there were also bursts of gunpowder smoke rising, accompanied by the sound of strong cannons, and the war eagles that once crisscrossed the rivers in the past immediately shattered into pieces, even if the iron armor was staring at the boat gang, it was difficult to prevent them from being shattered by the artillery, making huge holes.
Even though they tried their best to scoop out the river water that had been immersed in the boat, they were unable to stop the Falcons from sinking.
Under the bombardment of the fierce artillery, the war falcons could not resist at all, they had already been bombarded in tatters, and they could not support themselves at all, and after being poured into it by the river, it was even more difficult to dodge.
"Give me the other party's wheels, and don't let the other person escape from here. ”
Li Chang whispered, and then the soldiers beside him stuffed the prepared stone bullets into the tiger squat cannon, and then under the impetus of gunpowder, the huge wheels were completely shattered.
The paddles scattered into the river and flowed down into fragments.
The wheels that were originally used to propel the war falcons were completely shattered by the tiger squat cannon, and they could not have the slightest effect, but like the bat with their ears blocked, they were allowed to continue to suspend in the middle of the river by the propulsion of the river, and it had no effect at all.
In the fierce battle of the Red Phoenix Army, this group of people simply couldn't hold out for long.
"Zhang Wushi. You're not going to fight back, you know, we're going to be drowned. ”
With a "bang", the fearful Kaqin suddenly noticed a layer of mist under his feet, and he jumped up as if he was crazy, and then shouted at Zhang Wushi who was not far away.
Zhang Wushi's eyes kept rolling, he shook his head again and again, and replied: "Counterattack? How to counterattack? Our bows and catapults can't destroy the other side at all, but the opponent's artillery destroys our warships every time. In this way, how do you tell me to fight back?" he clasped the deck, but he was motionless, like a fat pig on the verge of death.
At this time, he felt that only by doing this could he avoid becoming a target of the other party and survive.
With his words, the bow of the war falcon was suddenly hit by a cannonball, and the whole bow of the ship immediately shattered, and after a large amount of river water poured into it, the whole war eagle was immediately cocked, and the whole battle eagle was upside down on the river, as if it had been inserted directly here like a naughty child.
The Vultures Kachin immediately imprisoned the deck next to him, trying hard to hold it so as not to fall, and shouted loudly: "Then let me escape!"
"Escape, how to escape?" Zhang Wushi swept his gaze, and saw that the rest of the war eagles were also like him, and the wheels had already been completely shattered by the artillery.
The huge wheels are one of the most powerful tools for the warlords to cross the water, even against the wind and the water, but the extremely wide wheels are now the most critical flaw. Its large, bulky shape meant it to be the first target of artillery in a naval war.
For the war falcons, if the wheels were destroyed, it would be equivalent to cutting off two human feet, and it could be said that it would be difficult to move an inch above the river.
"Are we destined to die here?"
The Vultures Kachin looked at the corpses flowing beside him, and after being soaked in the river again, the corpses were even a little swollen.
"Jump!"
Gritting his teeth, Zhang Wushi replied.
The vultures asked, "Jump, jump what, don't you ****** know that I don't know how to water?"
"Jump from here, of course. ”
Listening to the sound of the battle falcon's keel being shattered by artillery, Zhang Wushi immediately let go of his hand and hurriedly jumped from the boat into the river. Although the river was fast, it did not stop him from swimming towards the shore, and this guy was a fat man with agility.
As for the still wailing Vulture Kachin behind him?
He didn't care!
At this time, the most important thing is your own life.
As for what will happen after that, only God knows.
"Oh, it looks like the other party is completely broken. The order was given to the convoy to be intercepted at once. With a hideous smile, Li Chang immediately conveyed the order.
In a river that had been hidden long ago, dozens of small boats immediately rushed out, and the small boats were only about three feet long, and there were a total of ten warriors on them. With bows and arrows in hand, they aimed at the swimming soldiers above the river, each of which immediately killed each other.
After that, more than a dozen boats approached the punt and threw the rope out, and then climbed into it from the boat gang and tied up the soldiers who had long since lost their fighting consciousness inside.
Thus, a battle that was destined to go down in history for the first time to attack a ship with artillery came to an end.
After capturing the entire fleet, Li Chang also quickly left here with the prisoners and the seizures, so as not to be counterattacked by the other party's reacting naval army.
Now, it's not time for a full-scale battle.
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It is surrounded by a solid stone wall, and there are water droplets dripping from the side.
In this cramped dungeon, which is only more than three feet long, there are two people staying,
"You are Zhang Wushi?"
Carrying a dagger, he looked coldly at the fat pig on the ground and asked in a low voice.
The whole person seemed to be scared stupid, and Zhang Wushi replied again and again: "That's right, I am." ”
Although he decisively jumped off the battle falcon and luckily got his life, he never escaped the search of the Red Phoenix Army and the navy, so he surrendered quite simply in order to save his life. It is better to die than to live, Zhang Wushi, who once betrayed the Jin Dynasty, thinks that he is not the kind of loyal and righteous man, so he has no burden in his heart at all.
"Good. Then tell me, how is the Tartar's naval army arranged?"
Leng Li turned the dagger slightly, adding his thin lips.
Almost pure white skin, because of the long-term detention in the boudoir, a face that should be extremely handsome, but it is extremely cold and indifferent, and the extremely slender figure, it is even more difficult to imagine that the cold and noble son in front of him is such a sadistic pervert.
After all, the name Leng Li was originally given by him to abandon the past and give himself a new future.
The past is unknown, the learning is unknown, and the age is unknown, after joining the Red Phoenix Army, there are no other requirements, the only request is to kill those Tartars who were captured by the Red Phoenix Army.
Therefore, Xiao Feng simply let this person become a member of the intelligence section under the General Staff, so that he could carry out some things that were not easy to put on the surface.
At this time, the number of Tartars who died in the hands of this man has exceeded 100.
However, Zhang Wushi shouted again and again: "I don't know!"
"I don't know?" Leng Li swept the knife, and immediately cut off a thin slice of flesh from Zhang Wushi's thick body.
The blood oozing out made Zhang Wushi feel extremely cold, and looking at the pieces of flesh that had been shaved off, he said with more and more horror: "I'm just a small military marquis from the ninth grade, except for the things under my command, I really don't know." ”
"Oh, is that really the case?"
A low voice, cold and cold, like that Shura, slowly shaved its flesh from the bones.
"That's right. I don't really know. Finally couldn't help it, Zhang Wushi wailed again and again: "But that is for the fear of Kaqin knows." You must know that he is a grain overseer, a man of color eyes, and a superior people, and that fellow must know. ”
"Vultures Kachin?"
Putting away the dagger, Leng Li made a cold sound from his throat, like a ghost crying wolf, which made Zhang Wushi's whole body chill even more, and he just wanted to escape from this person's hands. (To be continued.) )