Chapter 348 The Battle of the East Sea Island (3)
Both sides were a little confused just now. Ali, who had already entered Leizhou Bay, reacted first. He didn't expect that the Song army would really dare to ambush them at his doorstep. So he immediately prepared to turn around and attack the enemy with the central army, but he had a Song army fleet coming up from afar to try to intercept him, but he was not worried. The number of warships on the other side was equivalent to that on his side, and most of the warships were medium-sized warships of about 1,000 stone, while the smallest ones on his side were all thousand stone warships, not to mention that more than half of the large ships could crush them even if they collided.
"Wow……"
"Vomit..." Ali was confidently ready to meet the enemy. Suddenly he felt a churning in his stomach, and his food was squirting straight into his throat. He finally blew his stomach out. He finally emptied his stomach, but he found that not only himself, but the soldiers around him were either holding the railing or lying on the side of the boat to vomit. This place looked like an elite Jinghu navy, which was clearly a land duck who had just gotten on the boat.
"Spray..." Ali was so angry that he sprayed out another mouthful of green bile. He couldn't understand why, but he didn't know that there was no wind in the sea and there were three feet of waves. Moreover, it was the time of high tide. They turned around again, and the river boats were far less resistant to wind and waves than sea boats, so they swayed very violently, which made the Jinghu naval army, who was used to sailing on the river, could not stand it.
When the warship finally turned around, the two armies were less than 200 steps apart. Ali saw that the Song army warships lined up to meet them. They walked downstream and shot iron bombs with "bed crossbows". But he soon found something wrong. The iron balls exploded violently after piercing the gangway of the head ship, blowing a three-foot hole into the cabin and igniting a fire in the bottom cabin. But the Song army had no intention of letting it go. The head boat was hit one after another by iron bombs, and the fire ignited from the bottom cabin quickly swallowed the ship. The gangway was penetrated many times and was unable to resist the impact of the waves. It shattered, and the sea water poured in instantly and began to sink. The soldiers on the ship fell into the water one after another, but many people were swept away by the vortex at all.
"Ah?!" Ali, who was full of confidence just now, said in surprise. It was a big ship of 2,000 stones. It sank less than the time to drink a glass of water after being hit.
"Increase the distance between each ship, catch the enemy quickly, and hit the enemy ships." After a while, the forward ships were hit one after another. Some were broken keels, some were blown up under the waterline, and some were blown up. But without exception, there were serious casualties, some were sunk slowly, and some were sinking faster. Seeing that the five warships leading the formation were either sunk or injured, Ali was anxious. If this continues, he will not be able to protect himself. He ordered the ships to keep a distance to prevent the fired ships from "infecting" each other and launch an attack as soon as possible...
Dong Yicheng's mission was to cut off the connection between the enemy's front and central army and wait for an opportunity to annihilate it. Therefore, after the battle started, he immediately led his army to catch up. He wanted to chase them and beat them, but he didn't expect that the other person turned around and rushed over in time. Looking at the enemy ship that was much bigger than his own, he was really brave, but he was still confident. After entering the range of the crossbow, Dong Yicheng ordered a quick shooting with the newly equipped flowering bullet, but he didn't expect the effect to be good. In the past, solid bullets were fired at most, at most, a large hole in the shore board. If you are lucky, you can kill a few, but it will never be difficult to sink the enemy ship.
Today, the flowering bullet not only smashed through the gangway of the ship, but also really blossomed in the enemy ship. Once it exploded, it would be a big hole and could not block it. This greatly increased Dong Yicheng's confidence and felt that these "big men" were not so terrible. Seeing that the enemy who suffered losses still did not give up, he also had to bully people with his own losses. He could not clearly suffer the loss and ordered the horizontal team to be transformed into a column, use his small advantage of the boat to rush through the enemy array, and start a melee with the enemy, but he would never be allowed to collide with the enemy.
"****, **********..." said the important thing three times, but Dong Yicheng said it more than eight times. He wanted to move the crossbow to both sides and use the opportunity to penetrate the enemy to severely damage the enemy, but his goal was achieved, but his own losses were also heavy.
The warships led by Dong Yicheng were mostly medium-sized warships, but they were not completely closed like dragon ships. At the same time, they were worried that the flowering bullets would explode in the cabin to cause the ship to be destroyed and killed, so the crossbows were all arranged on the deck or on the side of the ship. When they passed between the enemy ships, the Mongolians were not fools. How could they not beat him? The stone thrower was too close to the caster, but the crossbow and the gun were called out fiercely. Although the exposed gunners were covered by shields, they were injured more than half. When they got closer, the enemy dropped their hook ropes and tried to fight over the ship.
When Dong Yicheng's troops broke out of the formation, more than a dozen warships on his side failed to rush out. Some were because the ship was ignited by rockets and detonated the flowering bullets placed on the turret, which eventually exploded and sank themselves. Some were the enemy jumped over the ship to fight, and the two armies fought in a melee. In the event of a defeat in the battle, the gunner took the initiative to ignite gunpowder to destroy the ship, because as early as when His Majesty was there, he ordered warships equipped with crossbows and rockets to be captured, and once the weapons were in danger of being captured, they should immediately destroy their weapons and not put their secrets into the enemy.
"Kill, kill, kill..." The Qiongzhou navy has never suffered such great losses in several battles. All of this was caused by his improper command. Dong Yicheng was cut off. While ordering the small boat to put down his boat to rescue the soldiers who fell into the water, he turned the bow and chased after him, waving the sword as if crazy.
Of course, Ali did not gain the upper hand. Judging from the losses they suffered, they should be even bigger. Under the fierce rain of arrows, the Song army gunners still fought back regardless of casualties, and shot flowering bullets at close range in the danger of self-injury, causing heavy damage to the former army fleet. There were less than ten warships that escaped, but they were also smoking and fire, almost all of them were injured. However, what they thought about at this moment was not revenge, but how to get rid of the enemy ships that were catching up with again. But ahead were the Song army brigade warships that blocked the central army. If they met with the brigade, they would break through the numerous blockages and break through the enemy formation. Ali really didn't have the courage now, so they could only turn around again, hoping to use the wind to break through the red-eyed enemy block.
"Push all the crossbows to the bow of the ship and sank them all!" Dong Yicheng was not really crazy at all and ordered.
‘Swoosh…’
‘Boom…’ Both sides fought their best, and the Yuan army warships were full of firepower. They threw everything they could use. The Song army was lined up in two rows, arranged in an interlaced manner, whether it was a flowering bullet, a solid bullet or a crossbow, as long as it could be placed on the crossbow, it was fired at the other side as if it was a money-free shot.
Chapter completed!