"Keep the array!" Chen Heng shouted loudly, letting the messenger convey his order with drums and flags. music - text

As the two fleets got closer, there was a din at sea, full of roars, shouts, the trill of horns, drums, and, in addition, the sound of thousands of wooden oars rising and falling.

Although the wind was not against them, Chen Heng had great confidence in this battle. He believed that taking the initiative to attack was a huge mistake by the enemy commander. If they were in the narrow Langya inland sea, no matter how many ships of Qi people were useless, no more than twenty ships would be deployed at a time, lest the blades would be delivered and contradict each other.

However, on this outer sea, since the total number of ships was three times that of Zhao Chuan, after Chen Heng discovered the enemy from a distance, he directly organized the fleet into ten battle lines, each consisting of twenty battleships. Like wars on land, fighting at sea also requires strategies and formations. The people of Qi know this deeply, and Chen Heng intends to let Qi ship encircle from both flanks and squeeze the enemy to the center and eliminate them all.

It is now the south wind, but because the fleet is changing sails and using oars, the action is not affected. With Chen Heng's flagship as the center, the fleets on the left and right flanks are already deployed, and the decks of each ship are full of archers. The aiming point of the bow and arrow is greatly lowered, but if it can shoot the arrow from the side, it can also prevent the enemy from raising his head from the deck.

Although there are many ships in Qi State, most of them are relatively light big wings, middle wings and small wings. The big wings are ten feet long and one and a half feet wide, and can carry more than 90 officers, soldiers and paddlers. There are dozens of bows and crossbows and more than 3,000 arrows in the ship. These three-winged warships are fast-attack warships. The hull is slender and swift in the sea by relying on the power of the paddles.

On the other hand, Chen Heng has already seen the six behemoths in Zhao's fleet. Although the state of Qi also has the building ships, they are basically only used as rides for Qi Hou to play, because this kind of ship is too bulky. Now, even if you follow the wind and use both sails and oars, you can only sway on the ocean surface, and in the severe sea wind, it is easy to lose your balance.

However, before Qi people made fun of Zhao people for not being able to fight at sea, the building ship that had cleared the field of vision in front of it sounded a crisp sound, something shot from the bow of the building ship, broke through the air, and landed in a Qi country. On the side of the wing, a large amount of water splashed...

For a while, the clamorous sailors of the Qi boat were all silent, and Chen Heng also looked at the waves in surprise, took a deep breath and said, "Zhao Jun has a cannon on the boat?"

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"Hahaha!" Seeing that the big wing of a Qiren didn't have time to enter the range of the bow and arrow, it was bombarded by the ballista at the stern of the building. laughing out loud.

The Black Bird had 200 oars, and the deck was lined with soldiers operating crossbows, and a ballista was placed in the bow and stern for throwing stone balls. The same goes for its five other sisters, armed to the teeth, like six moving fortresses, daunting, but too cumbersome to move swiftly.

But these ships are also the reliance of Xu Cheng's confidence to defeat the Qi fleet. Thanks to the invention and application of the ballista, the crossbow and other sharp weapons, the Langya Marine Division has only been established for a few years, and it has far surpassed the enemy in long-range shooting ability. One inch long and one inch strong, Xu Cheng's idea of ​​​​founding the army was to use the long-range weapons carried on the building ship to fight so that everyone could not lift their heads.

At this moment, the deck of the building was busy, and the sailors either started to wind up the crossbow, or adjusted the ballista on the bow, ready to aim at the Qi ship that was trying to approach and fire another shot.

Compared with the six tall building ships, the ships of Qi State are like small centipedes on the sea. The long blades are the feet that allow them to move on the sea. Their attack methods are nothing but bows and arrows, so they are all vain Within a hundred paces, it's a pity that Zhao's six building ships are protected by other boats, preventing Qi Ship from getting close.

In addition, Xu Cheng had the upper hand, and the entire fleet ran diagonally against the coastline, making full use of the wind, so that Chen Heng's attempt to use the number of ships to sink Zhao Chuan was unsuccessful, but Qi people had already been sunk and injured ten. For the rest of the ships, in a panic, the formation also began to become messy.

At the beginning of the battle, the advantage began to slide towards the Langya Naval Division.

Now Chen Heng only feels that it is stupid for him to rush to the south. Fortunately, his preparations for this battle are far more than that...

Seeing that the so-called "Flood Dragon in the Sea", the boat master of Qi State was about to smash his halberds and sink into the sand in this sea area in front of his home, while the six ships of the Langya Navy would beat Qi people down and become the new overlord of the sea, but it was at this moment. , The several guard ships arranged by Xu Cheng at the rear of the fleet suddenly made a loud noise and ignited wolf dung on the deck...

The wolf smoke was blown by the sea breeze, slanted into the air, and quickly dissipated. Xu Cheng looked back at the smoke with a solemn expression.

This is the signal of the presence of the enemy in the rear...

The next moment, a large sail shadow appeared on the sea horizon in the south.

Xu Cheng raised the telescope to look, and found that the largest of them was also an eye-catching building ship. It was protected by thick wooden boards, and the sails were bulging under the south wind. As for those who ride the wind and waves in front of the building ships, they are long and narrow ships. Without exception, they have sharp bronze rams at the capital of the ship, and the hull is covered with black rawhide. They use both oars and sails, and the speed is extremely fast downwind, that's all. Without dodging, he rushed towards the Langya Navy...

"It's 艅艎 and 艨艟..." Xu Cheng couldn't believe it, his hands were shaking, "It's the sailor of the Wu people!"

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The drum beats the rhythm of the battle, and dozens of boats rush forward, the bows with bronze rams splitting the turbulent blue sea. The cumbersome Zhao's building in front was turning, trying to avoid them. The oars beat the sea, the black bird flag fluttered in the wind, and the bow and stern had ballistas for long-range shots. Stone bombs were fired at them, but even if one of the ships was hit and sunk, the rest continued to break through the waves without hesitation.

Just because they are "Mengchong", they exist only to ram the enemy ship, ram the enemy ship, and fight on the line.

To be fair, Wang Sunluo has always felt that this time Wu Guozhou was invited by the people of Qi to go north across the coastline of thousands of miles, and it was really unnecessary. In his opinion, the Zhao clan's boat division occupying Langya only has dozens of ships, and the Qi people dispatched more than a hundred warships, which can completely kill them all.

But King Wu's order could not be violated, and Wang Sunluo could only set off from Zhufanggang with Wu Guozhou's teacher. On the way, the sea breeze was not good. On the day of sailing, two small boats hit a reef and sank at the mouth of the big river. It was an ominous start. Later, when Huaiyi sank another big wing and approached the coastline of Zhongwu, the fleet was attacked by strong winds, the formation collapsed, and some ships were even blown to the outer sea. Fortunately, it was the area controlled by the Wu State. They completed the reorganization along the coast of Zhongwu, and finally arrived in Langya before the agreed date. This unfamiliar sea area has not been invaded by the Yellow River, and it is still clear water and blue sky.

The southern vassal states made an expedition to the north by sea, a feat that had never been done before, and after entering the battlefield, Wang Sunluo was stunned to discover that his presence was still necessary.

What did he see? Qi Guozhou's boat division, whose number is three times that of Langya's marine division, is being chased and beaten by Zhao people?

Wang Sunluo was not worried but happy, and immediately ordered the fleet to speed up, break into the battlefield from the back, and go straight to the ship of the Langya Navy!

The Langya navy tried to prevent the Wu people from approaching, but the small boats that were in the way were entangled by the middle and small wings ahead. In addition, the Wu Guozhou navy was threatening and moving very fast. bumped right into...

Bang! The force of the impact was so violent that both ships vibrated and shook violently, and even half of the sailors of the Wu State who were preparing to take over the ship fell down, and Zhao Bing also fell down. But the oars of the building boat also snapped and snapped, which was like a wonderful movement in Wang Sunluo's ears, which meant that the building boat had been entangled by the scorpion and had nowhere to escape.

"Rush over and fight on the strings!" Wang Sunluo raised his Wu Jian high, roaring and shouting, and more scorpions, ignoring their comrades who had the whole boat overturned due to the collision, continued to be like sharks preying on giant whales. It slammed into the building ship, the bow with its metal ram pierced deeply into its hull. The warriors of Wu State also struck their shields with their swords, and climbed on the Zhao State building boat with their hands and feet on the ground to meet the sailors.

When the distance was narrowed, the ballistas and crossbows on the Zhao ship were no longer useful. The sailors of the Langya Navy could only pick up the weapons around them and wanted to drive the invading Wu people into the sea, but the Wu people fought meleely. How brave, they climbed up from all directions, and joined the battle group with a roar, hand-to-hand combat, blood splattered, and corpses continued to fall on the deck in all directions, or fell into the sea that had been dyed red.

For a time, the entire outer sea of ​​Langya became a melee of three fleets, and the situation of pros and cons reversed in vain...

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"My pheasant, my pheasant!"

Because the Xuanniao was protected by the other boats layer by layer, it avoided the first collision of Wu Guo's cog, but the array was completely scattered, and it was directly cut into two by Wu's boat, and the head and tail could not be matched.

So Xu Cheng had to deal with the counterattack of the ships from the state of Qi, and at the same time he could only watch helplessly as several of his high-rise ships were boarded by the people of the state of Wu.

On the deck of the huge building ship, the soldiers of both sides scuffled and fought into a ball. For a time, swords, lights, swords and shadows were everywhere, and blood splashed. On the battlefield, the sound of war drums, horns, the shouts of soldiers, and the screams of wounded soldiers intertwined, resounding through the sky!

The navy of Langya put a lot of effort into practicing water warfare and long-range shooting, but once he was approached, facing the brave soldiers of Wu State, even if he fought bravely, he was somewhat unable to resist. Finally, the Zhao soldiers retreated in the face of the tidal wave of the Wu people, some trying to escape to the bottom of the deck, and others crying out for mercy.

But Xu Cheng also saw that on the "Zhai Pheasant", a large group of people gathered beside the mast and continued to resist. They formed a circle side by side, facing the dense swords and arrows of the Wu people, more and more people fell down, and the deck It became greasy, and there were piles of dead bodies and dying people lying on the left and right. In the end, they had no choice but to set fire to the ship...

The Xuanniao, where Xu Cheng was, and another building ship with more than ten small boats left this chaotic battlefield by luck, but Xu Cheng knew that he lost this naval battle...

At this time, it was already evening~lightnovelpub.net~ The outer sea of ​​Langya was in chaos. Two of the Langya building ships were on fire, and the other one was occupied and controlled by the people of Wu State. More boats were surrounded by Qi and Wu ships. In the middle, there is no way to break through. The ships collided, some burning, some sinking, some being knocked to pieces. The water between the hulls was like a boiling soup, dotted with countless corpses, broken oars, and people scratching on the wreckage.

"It's over, it's over, I've failed your lord's expectations and hurt the sailors' soldiers..." Xu Chengdun beat his chest, so embarrassed that he almost wanted to run to the side of the boat and throw himself into the sea.

The navy officer on the boat quickly grabbed him and said, "Outnumbered, there is nothing to do, the general should keep his body in order to atone for his sins..." After all, he persuaded Xu Cheng to stop, and following the evening wind, the remaining fleet Away from the battlefield in a hurry, flee towards Langya port...

Regarding the events of that day, the history books contain: "In the spring of the first year of the first year of the Marquis of Zhao Wuxi, Xu Cheng, the commander of the boat, met the boat division of Qi in Langya, and the battle was in full swing. Surrounding Langya..."

ps: (Ten years in the spring) Xu Cheng, the commander of the boat, will enter Qi from the sea, and the people of Qi will be defeated, and Master Wu will return. "Zuo Zhuan. Ten Years of Ai Gong", the battle of Langya was the first naval battle recorded in China's history. In the novel, due to the change of history, Qi and Wu changed from hostility to alliance, and the battle changed from two sides to three sides, three years earlier. (To be continued.)