Chapter 156 Large-scale naval battle
The first time Tian Yu saw a warship that was indistinguishable from the front and back. Although it seemed plain, it did not need to be different from the small sampan to the sea. It was just right to row wherever you wanted.
But this is also extremely extraordinary. It is not fishermen's boats used for naval battles, but large warships.
A warship full of seventy people can actually move and change like this, especially in a naval battle where you chase each other. This kind of attack or retreat that can suddenly change direction, the place of life and death is often in an instant.
He slapped his right hand on the railing and sighed: "What kind of divine help does this Yan thief have? He has such a skill. He will only shoot with arrows and not chase them too close. The Yan ship is extremely cunning and moves forward and retreats in an instant, without turning around, and not afraid of wind and waves. It seems that there are such a clever craftsman in Liaodong, who should be from the Liu clan. Otherwise, Gongsun Xiu would not have married the daughter of the Liu clan and granted his two brothers the title of official position. It seems that it has a deep meaning."
Tian Pengzu immediately ordered someone to send orders to pursue the enemy ships that were not too close, and only shot with crossbows.
When Liu Zhi saw the Wei Navy set a distance between them, he was obviously worried about fraud and sneered in his heart: "If you keep the distance, you will become a living target."
Each dragon ship is equipped with three sky-breaking crossbows, which can be operated by nine crossbowmen. Two people immediately turned the winch and one person installed an arrow. At the same time, they carefully wrapped cotton cloth soaked in tinder oil on the arrow and ignited it with fire.
Finally, he hit the rocker of the Sky Breaking Crossbow with the wooden hammer in his hand. With a loud "collapse", he flew straight out with the arrows of fire and power, and had a range of seven or eight hundred steps.
Wei Jun was shocked and looked at the arrows flying all over the sky, so he was so shocked that he turned around and dodged.
Liu Zhijia urged to shoot arrows, and hundreds of flying dragon boats immediately turned the bow and crossed the river, making it easier to find the correct head on the crossbow.
For a moment, hundreds of fire lights flew straight into the sky at a forty-five degrees, falling towards the Meng Chong of the Wei army like a storm in the air, like a sharp wind and rain, as if a meteor fell to the ground.
The Wei army avoided it, some shot into the hull, and some were unfortunately shot on the spot. The soldiers hurried in their shields and hid in the cabin. The long distance of this shooting exceeded the range of the weapons in the hands of the Wei army. The range of bows and arrows and crossbows was within 200 steps. The strange weapons used by the enemy could actually shoot out three arrows, which was basically a dimensionality reduction attack.
Liu Zhi ordered the shooting again. The two archers who operated the crossbow cooperated perfectly. They shot out an arrow and immediately turned the winch back and pulled the two hard bows that were both positive and negative again. Finally, they were loaded, ignited, and corrected by another archer. Finally, they were hit by the wooden hammer. The bent rocker fell down and the arrow flew out.
This operation is complicated and slow, but it can be defeated by the distance and the cycling of the wheel, which gives people an extremely shocking feeling.
Although the Wei army could avoid arrows, they could not avoid the shaky sails. More than 30 Meng Chong were shot on the spot. With a "huh", the arrow pierced through the sails, leaving a big hole on fire, which instantly expanded from small to half of the sails. The Wei army was only surprised and could not even care about the pursuit. They quickly lifted the bucket to put out the fire. If the sails were burned, the vast sea would become a masterless soul, and they could only rely entirely on paddlers to row as the power of the ship.
Liu Zhi was deeply moved: "The King once said that the Sky-Breaking Crossbow is more powerful when defending the city and naval battles. It is really good. In land battles, it is very easy to dodge. Even if it hits, it can only shoot on one person and one horse, and the effect is minimal. The ship is clumsy and inconvenient to move. Using the Sky-Breaking Crossbow to break the enemy ship at a long range is the best weapon."
Seeing the arrows falling like rain, the enemy ship was shot straight into flames, he was a little surprised: "Strange, the king once said that in the battle of Liaodong that year, Sima Yi had learned all the tricks of the Sky-Breaking Crossbow, and had already learned it. Why has it been several years since Wei State actually didn't refer to the Sky-Breaking Crossbow in the army? Could it be that they are all stupid people?"
He heard Gongsun Xiu say that the enemy might also be equipped with the Sky-Breaking Crossbow. Liu Zhi deliberately made a large number of shields to guard against the enemy's head-first shooting. He thought there would be a fierce battle. Unexpectedly, the Qingzhou soldiers under Tian Yu did not have a bed crossbow, which became a unilateral attack.
Seeing this scene, Tian Yu was so shocked that he couldn't speak. He frowned and said, "What kind of weapon is this? It's so far away?"
Immediately beat the drum to send the three armies to disperse and march in an encirclement mode. As expected, Meng Chong instantly dispersed outward, forming a huge encirclement circle, gradually expanding the encirclement circle and breaking away from the range of the Sky-Breaking Crossbow. After dispersing, its hit rate naturally decreased.
Liu Zhi immediately urged the soldiers to disperse and break through the enemy's encirclement, and quickly selected the right time to break the deadlock.
Tian Yu became more and more surprised when he saw this. The enemy and us on the sea put into battle with each other. The scene was huge and could no longer be described as a hundred boats fighting for the current.
Judging from this situation, two hundred Mengchong may not be able to stop the hundred flying dragon ships, but it was temporarily blocked, and the word "even-match" was a bit reluctant.
He turned his head to look at the South Island and said coldly: "The Yan thieves passed by the method of advancing sea and land. If I want me to attack the island, I cannot attack the ship, and if I attack the ship, I cannot attack the island. This idea is really whimsical. If my troops are roughly the same as the Yan army, we naturally have no chance of victory. But at this time, I have 30,000 soldiers and only a few thousand Yan army, and they are divided into two places, which is stupid and stupid."
Tian Pengzu nodded: "With Meng Chong as a protection outside, he cannot attack on both sides. He can take advantage of the situation of rushing forward with a tower ship to rush to the beach to land on the island, and use several times the forces of the Yan bandits to sweep the two islands in the north and south, so that the tension in Donglai can be relieved."
When Tian Yu heard this, he couldn't help but look at his son with a thumbs up, thinking that in a few more years, he could barely be a third-rate handsome man. He thought to himself: "I just hope that after my old bones die, the Great Wei will also unify the Jiuzhou. Don't have another war, so that the younger generations of future generations can enjoy a peaceful and prosperous era."
His thoughts fluctuated. He followed Liu Bei in his life since he was young. Later, because his mother still needed support, she did not dare to seek career with him, so she resigned from office and returned to her hometown. Later, she followed Gongsun Zan and relied on Xianyufu. Finally, she urged Xianyufu to join Cao Cao.
In Cao Wei, he served four generations of monarchs, Cao Cao, Cao Pi, Cao Rui and Cao Fang.
This resume and qualifications are enough to comfort my life. It was also obtained by Tian Yu's military service from his youth to his twilight years.
He has seen too many heroes and talented generals with his own eyes, but now they have become a piece of loess.
It vaguely evokes decades of past past, remembers the young Liu Bei of the past, responds to the slogan of extermination of the Yellow Turbans and supporting the Han Dynasty; and remembers that Cao Cao, who was eager to unify China on the eve of the Battle of Red Cliff...
The years passed by. The minor official who followed Liu Bei's tent was now a white old man. However, after such a long time, the war still did not end: from the Yellow Turban Rebellion in the late Han Dynasty to the Dong Zhuo Rebellion, there were warlords fighting again. In Lu Bu, Liu Biao, Liu Zhang, the two Yuans, and Zhang Lu all became a passing cloud and smoke, and then entered the situation of the three kingdoms coexisting.
Now, the Gongsun family in Liaodong is no longer restless and attempts to become kings. Although they are nominally submissive, they are just like the story of Sun Quan back then.
In Tian Yu's mind, the mission of unifying the world must fall on the shoulders of the descendants of the Cao family of Wei. As for Liu Chan, Sun Quan of the Wu Kingdom, Gongsun Xiu of Yan Kingdom, sooner or later, they will turn into dust of history under the iron hooves of the Wei army, and no one can stop the trend of unification of the world.
He thought to himself: "The thief of Yan is just like Sun Ce back then. He defends himself in Jiangdong and becomes a dog of the gate. In addition to the people hanging upside down and the lives of life, what is the benefit of the country? Gongsun Xiu does not know the destiny, and he will only die."
Seeing that his father said nothing, Tian Pengzu was stunned when he looked at the sky and asked tentatively: "Father? What are you still hesitating about?"
Tian Yu came back to his senses, as if he had woken up from a dream. He shook his head and smiled: "I just remembered some old friends' past."
Then he looked serious and issued an order: "Beat the drums and march, attack the island with a large ship, and regain the island chain."
Chapter completed!