Fenghou

1559 Sea Battle
Cao De immediately made a decisive decision to leave only [-] troops to guard the island, and the remaining [-] naval troops attacked. Thirty thousand-stone ships and twenty two-thousand-stone warships sailed out of the bay and headed towards the old port.

The first goal of the Zhuluo fleet was the city of Zhanbei. Hundreds of warships came out of the Straits of Malacca and headed straight for Zhanbei.

Although Palembang is still the capital, the economic and trade center has been transferred to Zhanbei, and all the trade and wealth have gradually been transferred to Palembang. There is only a bloated and dilapidated city left in Palembang, and the population is not much in Zhanbei.

Zhu Luoguo has been pretending to be pirates to collect intelligence about the Three Buddhas. Of course they know that Zhanbei is where the population and wealth are concentrated.

The warships of the Zhu Luo State were also very large, no less than the Wanshi ships of the Yong Dynasty, but their warships were far less flexible than the Wanshi ships of the Yong army, and they were very clumsy and slow.

But even so, the arrival of the [-] troops from the Zhuluo Kingdom still terrified Zhanbei City. The people fled here and there, and many people living outside the city fled into the virgin forest. city ​​guard.

However, Nanyang cities are generally small and rammed with mud. They are still vulnerable to the powerful fire attack of the Zhu Luo Kingdom. Even the soldiers of the Zhu Luo Kingdom can smash the city walls with giant logs.

I saw white sails like clouds on the sea in the distance, and dense ships covered the sea. The soldiers in Chamber trembled with fright, and they felt like abandoning the city and fleeing.

At this moment, someone shouted: "Look, there is a fleet coming from the east!"

I saw another fleet appeared on the sea farther to the east. It was the lucky boat they were familiar with. "It's the fleet of the Celestial Dynasty. Our reinforcements are here!"

Tens of thousands of soldiers on the top of the city immediately cheered.
The warships of the Yong army were all equipped with paddles and sails, so they sailed extremely fast. Although Cao De was also on the big ship, the commander of the battle was Ruan De, the commander of the upper army. He was the commander of the navy and had rich experience.

Ruan De discovered the characteristics of the enemy's warship from a distance. It was huge, clumsy, and slow. It was still more than ten miles away from the enemy. Ruan De ordered: "Lower the sails!"

The signal was given, other ships lowered their sails, and the fleet slowed.

At this time, Zhu Luoguo's fleet also found the fleet coming from the east. They thought it was a warship from the Three Buddhas and Qi Kingdom killed from Palembang.

The opponent's ships are not many, only fifty warships, compared to Zhu Luo's hundreds of warships, it is still too few. Zhu Luo's tactics are also very simple, concentrate their forces to surround the opponent, and then set fire to destroy the opponent's ships.

Fifty years ago, this is how they destroyed the navy of the Three Buddhas. More than 50 sailors and nearly a hundred warships were surrounded by the Chula fleet and burned to the ground. Tens of thousands of soldiers of the Three Buddhas were in The scene of being burned to death and howling on the water made Zhu Luoguo happy for decades.

"A geese formation!"

Ruan Du gave an order, and the warships of the Yong army began to disperse. Two ships were in the middle, and the other warships spread out to both sides. This is a classic naval battle formation. A small number of warships are used as bait to break into the encirclement of the enemy. , other warships attacked from the periphery.

This kind of naval warfare tactic is very risky. Generally, high-value ships enter the encirclement, so the opponent's encirclement will not be disbanded easily. In fact, they are sacrificing themselves to create opportunities for other ships.

Of course Ruan De would not sacrifice himself, he ordered a three-thousand-stone warship to follow him, and if necessary, he would use the high flexibility of the three-thousand-stone warship to break through.

The opponent's commanding flagship entered the encirclement, and Zhu Luoguo's coach was really unwilling to give up. He ordered the encirclement to be contracted, and waited for other large ships to enter the encirclement before killing them all.

A warship of Wanshi and a big ship of Zhuluo State passed each other with a distance of about [-] steps. The sailors of Zhuluo State threw kerosene pots and bottles at the ships of Yongjun. It's just that there are a lot of them, and hundreds of them throwing kerosene bottles together is quite spectacular.

It's a pity that the two big ships are more than [-] steps apart, and the manpower can throw more than [-] steps at most. Although this tactic is good, it is very unreliable in actual implementation. All the kerosene bottles fell into the sea. It can only be said that Gu Asan The genetics are strong.

However, the way of thinking of the Zhuluo people is still different from that of the Yong army. It doesn't matter if the clay pot falls into the sea, anyway, it will flow out and float on the water. When it is ignited, it will also burn into a sea of ​​flames. After a while, the enemy soldiers Falling into the sea will make them feel better.

Just as the two big ships passed each other, the Yong army also launched an attack, 'Bang!boom! There were two muffled sounds in a row, and two small trebuchets launched at the same time. What they fired was burning kerosene, but the target was the sail of the enemy's large ship. Dots of kerosene flew towards the sail, and dozens of groups The fire sludge hung on the sails and burned, and the sails quickly turned into a mass of fire. The soldiers of Zhuluo State exclaimed and rushed to set sails to put out the fire.

At this time, the mast should be cut off, instead of letting down the flaming sails, the burning sails fell, and the deck was full of flames, causing the soldiers of Zhuluo to be in chaos.

At the same time, the porthole on the hull of the Yongjun warship opened, and three stone cannons stretched out, which are actually giant crossbows. The three stone cannons were fired together, and the three spiked iron fire mines were fired together. The stone cannons were not projectiles. Accuracy is much higher than projectile.

The long spikes of three ten-pound iron fire thunders were inserted into the hull and nailed to the hull, emitting green smoke. Soldiers on the side of the ship saw the iron fire thunders and pointed at them and shouted loudly .

At this moment, "Boom! Boom! Boom!" Three explosions sounded at the same time, flames burst out, black smoke filled the air, three large holes were blasted into the hull, sea water poured in, the hull tilted rapidly, and the enemy soldiers Falling into the sea, the kerosene floating on the sea was ignited by the fire on board, and there was a scream on the sea.

The ship began to sink, creating a huge vortex on the surface of the sea, and sucked all the soldiers into the bottom of the sea. The surface of the sea was clean, except for some bits and pieces of kerosene still burning.

But this is just the beginning. The warships of the Yong army have mastered the weaknesses of the enemy's ships. Thirty three-thousand-stone warships have given full play to their maneuverability and are interspersed among the enemy's giant ships. The rockets shot at the sails, and within a moment, more than half of the sails of hundreds of warships were set ablaze.

Without the sails, the Zhuluo Kingdom's giant ship lost its power. It was already slow and clumsy, but now it was even slower, like elephants trapped in the mud, unable to move on the sea.

Ruan Du's flagship relied on its wheels and paddles to exert its huge speed and flexibility advantages, and it continued to take the initiative to attack. It stared at the enemy's flagship.

This is also a flagship of nearly ten thousand stones. Its sails have been burned by the fire mud thrown by the three thousand stone warships, and it cannot move on the sea.

But Ruan De's ship had just approached the enemy's giant ship, and the rain of arrows shot at it, but it had no effect. The soldiers on the ship did not dare to throw the kerosene tank, otherwise the kerosene would burn in the sea, and they would only fall into the flames.

The enemy's flagship was also aware of the danger, and the soldiers on board rowed desperately with long poles, but with little effect, and could only move slowly eastward along the ocean current.

"Seventy steps, turn right!"

Ruan De gave the order, the left wheel oars stopped turning, the right wheel oars turned quickly, and the hull also turned right quickly, parallel to the enemy ship. At this time, the two
A few iron fire mines shot across, one fell into the sea, and the other two were nailed to the hull of the ship. The iron fire mines in the sea exploded first, setting off a huge wave, and then the iron fire mines on the ship also exploded,' boom!boom! 'The explosion was deafening.

The ship lost its balance, capsized on the surface of the sea, and soon sank into the sea. Together with the commander, five hundred soldiers died at the bottom of the sea.

The warships of the Yong army became more and more courageous as they fought. They were merciless and aggressive. Huge ships were blown up and sank in despair. Soldiers who fell into the water were also shot to death by random arrows, leaving no one alive.

This is a classic naval battle. Although the nearly [-] giant ships of the Zhu Luo Kingdom are huge in size, their technology is very backward, and they are completely driven by wind power. broiler.

Although the number of warships of the Yong army is not as many as that of the opponent, they are superior in that they have advanced firearms and projection technology, as well as flexible and flexible wheels, so that the ships can sail at high speed on the sea without relying on wind power at all.

As long as you don't get close to the opponent, so that the opponent's close-range hand-to-hand combat cannot be played out, then there will be no suspense about the outcome of this naval battle.

It took the Yong army one day to wipe out nearly [-] giant Zhuluo ships and [-] troops from the sea.

The Sanfoqi army watching the battle from a distance also witnessed a powerful Celestial army, and they were even more terrified from the bottom of their hearts. For hundreds of years since then, the Sanfoqi Kingdom and later the Majapahit Kingdom have always surrendered to the Celestial Kingdom , all because of this.

Shortly after the war, the Chula Kingdom was destroyed by the Pandya Kingdom established by the Tamils ​​in the south.

(End of this chapter)