Chapter 57 The Battle of the Sides (Part 1)(1/2)
Liu Rengui fought back!
The Tang army's warship stopped and retreated for the first time.
They are all in one line, like a city wall on the water.
At this moment, if you look down from a high altitude, you can see the overall situation of the water battle more easily.
The harbor at Baijiangkou is like a natural embrace, and the shore base extending from both sides is like embracing the sea water of the port with both arms.
The seven Tang army's tower ships were parked behind the port in sequence.
Behind him was Zhou Liucheng.
In the middle of the port are more than 100 large and small warships retreated from the sea by the Tang army.
Liu Rengui's boat is also among them.
That is, the Tang army formed a line of defense with large and large supporting warships, protecting seven tower ships behind them.
In front, the location where Baijiangkou enters the port is the narrowest sea outlet of the entire port.
Only two or three large ships can be allowed to pass side by side.
Japanese ships were pouring in from this hole.
All kinds of small boats filled half of the port at once.
However, because the entrance was narrow, the Japanese ships could not flow in.
Even if you come in, due to the port environment, it is impossible to fully develop the formation.
Su Dawei laughed and slapped his high-high, "Close the door and beat the dog, Liu Rengui is worthy of being a famous general of the Tang Dynasty Navy."
Ashin Daozhen, An Wensheng, Cui Qi, Su Qingjie and others also woke up at this time...
Use terrain to limit the number of enemies, then concentrate troops to counterattack, first destroy the van Navy's vanguard's vanguard's vanguard to defeat the enemy's aura.
The sound of the Tang army's war drums made the strongest sound at this moment.
The passionate blood of all Tang army seemed to be shaking and roaring with the sound of drums.
It was not until this time that the Japanese knew what the Tang army's counterattack looked like.
First, the stone thrower.
From the Tang army's medium-sized warships, there are basically one to two small stone throwers.
Throw the burning fireball out of it.
The fireball swept through the air with a bright tail flame mark, like a comet, crashing into the Japanese warship fleet.
In normal times, although this catapult has a long range, its accuracy is very poor, and its deterrence is greater than actual combat significance.
Whether the enemy can be hit depends entirely on luck.
But now, due to the limitations of the water terrain, the Japanese boats were stacked together.
Such a big target can be hit even with your eyes closed.
For a moment, the Japanese warship was constantly hit by fireballs, making screams like ghosts and howling.
From time to time, warships caught fire and sank.
In addition to the stone thrower, there were gunpowder arrows on the Tang people's warship.
The crossbow arrows that are no less than the Japanese, and the bow and arrow rain greetings.
For a moment, arrows rushed to reap the lives of the Japanese in a small space.
On the Japanese warship, a commanding general made a roar with strange biting sounds.
The flag slogans on the watchtower changed.
The Japanese ships crowded together abandoned their fired companions and comrades around them, and rushed around like headless flies.
Although the Tang army's offensive was fierce and the port was relatively narrow, it was impossible to intercept all the Japanese boats.
At this time, the sound of the Tang army's war drums changed.
Liu Rengui changed his flag sentence again.
The Tang army's large and small warships separated from the middle and turned into left and right wings, giving out the pathway in the middle.
The Japanese battle, which had been burned miserably by the Tang army's fireballs and rockets, rushed in like a swarm.
In front of them was the largest warship of the Tang army.
Boat.
The two-wing warships of the Tang people continued to throw fire rains from both sides, preventing the Japanese subsequent fleet from passing and reaping the lives of the enemy.
The sailors on the tower ship began to send orders nervously when they received the flag words.
The seven tower ships, except for Su Dawei's main ship, the remaining six ships lined up and took the initiative to go forward.
It's like the two wings of the main ship.
In fact, it is a faint formation of a city wall on the sea, and the Japanese warships are wrapped inside.
The Japanese rushed in from the port, first being attacked by more than 100 small and medium-sized warships led by Liu Rengui, and then when they rushed in, they had already fallen into the Tang army's pocket formation.
But this is still not enough to show that the Tang army won the victory.
The total number of ships all the Tang people was only more than one hundred and less than two hundred.
And there were more than 1,700 Japanese warships.
If the Japanese warships cannot be destroyed in large enough damage and killing, they will probably not shake the Japanese's determination to take risks.
"Everyone is ready to fight."
Su Dawei took the helmet from An Wensheng and put it on his head.
He also made up his clothes and armor.
The personal soldiers around him came up to help him check his clothes and armor.
An Wensheng, Su Qingjie and others are all generals, and their own personal soldiers are helping to check the armor and wear them.
Being ready to catch the enemy, Su Dawei made a gesture to the soldiers watching the platform on the mast.
Soldier flag sways.
The intense offensive horn sounded.
The cabin opened, and a large number of Tang soldiers armed to their teeth rushed onto the board from the trunk of the boat, ready to participate in the battle.
The navy contest in this era is unlike later generations who can send long distances to kill.
Using a trench machine is already a rare black technology.
Generally, the medium-range distance is rockets.
The final decision on the outcome is the contact battle.
The Japanese pirates used to use small boats and fast ships, and quickly approached the merchant's ships along the current, and then the ants came up.
Get on the ship and kill people, grab the ship, and do it in one go.
But this time, they met the Datang Navy.
Before the Japanese ships that were rushing up were approaching, they were hit by a huge pole on the Tang army's turret.
At the light, the sails of the boat broke.
In severe cases, the ship's side was broken and flooded.
Even if you avoid the endless Pai Village, it doesn’t mean you can get close to the Tang Dynasty’s tower ship.
In addition to the stick, there is also a push rod.
A long bamboo pole stretched out from the tower ship, holding back the Japanese boat, making it impossible for them to get onto the Tang army warships and the tactic of ants seizing the ship.
This contact battle has reached a white-hot level at the beginning.
The Japanese all stared at Su Dawei's tower ship because the flag on the main ship was Su, the governor of Xiongjin, the Tang Dynasty.
Such a big fish made the Japanese people crazy.
Hundreds of Japanese ships poured into the port to the extreme the flexibility of the small boat.
Escape from the gap between the Tang army warships and rushed towards the tower ship.
After being intercepted by other building ships, they all shot against the Tang army without fear of death.
After some small boats were smashed by Tang Jun's pole, the people on the boat fell into the water and even rowed hard toward the Tang Dynasty's tower ship.
Unfortunately, the boat was too high and the wooden boards near the waterline were very slippery, making it difficult to climb for a while.
Some Japanese forced themselves to pull out the knife from their waists and chiseled the bottom of the Tang people's ship in a hurry.
On the water, the war continues.
Thick smoke rolls.
To be continued...