open sea

Chapter 511 Fire Sea
General Manghu felt numb when he saw the raging fire at sea.

The Nanyang military government skipped heavy artillery battles, but only despised fire battles. This tradition was brought by Chen Mu.

Shao Tingda, who has always been Chen Mu's subordinate, was very ashamed to mention this point - as an admiral, he has never fought a fire, not even once.

"General, what to do!"

Shao Tingda's Chinese army's three blessing boats are still moving forward, getting closer and closer to the burning sea. The banner army dare not stop the boat without authorization because of Shao Tingda's usual power. The three warships on the right wing are fearless. There is no sea area and no fire oil in front of them. , but the left wing and the central army faced the same situation. One warship had already begun to turn the rudder, and the other two Fuchuan also showed hesitation.

The anxious flag officer couldn't see Shao Tingda's clenched teeth and livid face under the mask of God, but could only see the sea of ​​fire reflected in the general's eyes, and the voice behind the mask seemed muffled, they heard Shao Tingda's tone flat Qi, said: "Bump into it."

Zheng Cong's eyes widened, and he couldn't help asking, "Huh?"

Shao Tingda turned his head and glanced at him, ignored him, ran quickly to the forecastle, drew out a short knife and inserted it into the direction where the bow rudder was stuck, and turned back to shout.

"Our mission is here, and we have no hesitation. What if there is fire at sea? Is fire more terrifying than military law? If there is fire, we will wade across it. If we can't stop the ship, we will directly crash into the shore. All the flag soldiers obey the order, and the gunpowder on the ship is poured into it. In the sea, enter the cabin!"

The bow and stern rudders were all stuck, and the flag army listened to the order to get into the lower cabin. Shao Tingda finally stood on the forecastle and looked at the sea of ​​fire dozens of steps away. The forecastle spread its legs at the bottom of the mast, clinging to the mast with its arms and legs like a sloth.

The big tiger embraced the mast, its teeth were chattering, and it whispered.

"Hanniaohozen Gan Liniang, catch fire!"

The monstrous heat rushed towards the face, and the next moment, Fu Chuan rushed into the sea of ​​flames unabated.

As soon as the oil-fueled boat on the sea was touched, it burned, and in a blink of an eye, a wall of fire was dyed on the outside of the ship's plank. Afterwards, the two lucky boats saw the master driving the boat into the sea of ​​fire, so they gritted their teeth and could only follow along. More than half of the Fuchuan generals almost cried out.

He didn't want to go into the sea of ​​fire, but he dared not to go in. This had nothing to do with Shao Tingda taking the lead. Shi Qi on the gunboat in the rear line saw Shao Tingda rushing into the fire and almost gritted his teeth. Seeing that the left-wing fleet dared to turn the rudder and steer the bow himself The gun then bombarded the twelve-jin heavy cannon on the side of the blessing boat at a distance of a hundred steps.

This cannon made the left-wing flag officer know that stewing the flag officer in oil may not become a dish, but the rudder cannon will definitely not survive.

Gritting his teeth, another three blessing boats sailed into the flames.

The fire made the sea temperature rise sharply, and it became difficult to breathe simply. Even if he opened his mouth to breathe in the meager air, it was still extremely hot. Shao Tingda seemed to smell the burnt smell of his beard and eyebrows, so he simply held his breath. No pain at all.

A moment seems as long as a year.

He calculated the running speed in his heart. It was said in the exercise code that the speed of a boat sailing on the sea is almost the same as that of a person running on flat ground. But when he opened his eyes again, his eyes were still red, and even the sides of the lucky boat were on fire. , the raging fire ignited the sails, and the wind pulled them back to let him know that the ship was still moving forward.

I don't know what this Huozhi Huohu thought, but when the plate was almost half on the table, he laughed out loud, pulled his burned face and cried out in pain, "Damn, this boat can't run as fast as me! "

Just over two hundred steps, just over a hundred breaths, suddenly Shao Tingda felt his whole body become clear, and even his ears could hear a whirring sound, as the raging fire boat rushed out of the sea of ​​flames, followed by him just as his mind relaxed. At this moment, there was a sudden bang, and the bottom of the boat hit the beach, and the huge inertia threw him half a step upwards, only because his legs were coiled on the mast, he was not thrown out of the misfortune.

Under his buttocks, at the same time, he heard a large wail of pain.

General Manghu grinned happily, hearing the sound that his subordinates fell worse than him, pulled off the iron mask, his face was full of pain, his nose and cheeks were blistered by the mask, his dry eyebrows and beard were even worse. It's just one touch and it's gone.

He didn't dare to take off the helmet, fearing that his hair would not be much better, so he hurriedly put on the visor enduring the pain, stood up and cursed loudly: "Get out, I'm on the shore!"

The saber was no longer enough to appease the anger of Mang Chong, who had almost become a hard dish. He dropped the saber and took out a short ax for side-to-side warfare under the side of the ship that was still burning with flames and was already carbonized. He was very satisfied with two swipes .

At this time, one by one of his ferocious subordinates crawled out of the cabin, like evil spirits.

Not everyone likes the visor, which is more deterrent than practical. Although Shao Tingda's subordinates are equipped with visors, it is clear that many bannermen have realized that they no longer need this armor. Those with eyebrows looked more hideous and terrifying than the visors.

After a few bangs, the two lucky boats following behind also rushed ashore, stranded on the beach burning with fire, and the Nanyang flag soldiers greedily took a long breath of air, and then there were guns in the fortress that was close at hand. , Arrows splashed towards the ship.

On the other hand, the three Fuchuan ships on the right wing reacted much faster than the Chinese army. They were not hindered by the fire, and the boards on the ship were laid on the beach. Form a formation under the command, the more than [-] banner troops were divided into two teams under the big shield, the first team laid down the tiger squatting piles on the spot, and several tiger squatting cannons were stuffed [-] steps away from the Shicheng District. .

There is no city gate on this side of the fortress. If you want to break into the city, you have to run around the city, or you can only use some special methods.

The tiger squatting cannon blasted out over there, and the ground that was not firm enough made the light guns like tiger squatting jump backwards, and the farthest one was even jumped into the sea by the back seat, but piling is better than no piling, after all Thirty paces of accuracy was not bad when the cannon was ejected from the chamber, and the big iron bullet was still accurately blasted into the wall of the stone village built of huge boulders, blasting out a mouth nearly a foot deep, and the shell was deeply embedded in it, and the surrounding area was densely covered with cracks and fine lines.

The cannon was fired, and the other teams of jumping soldiers rushed to the city. In a group of two, one held a long card to protect, and the other held a thick five-jin bamboo gunpowder tube and knelt down to the gun hole. After stuffing it well, stuffing it with a cloth wrapped in sandbags grabbed from the beach, I quickly retreated and returned.

There were far fewer flag troops rushing down the city than those running back. Not only were there firecrackers and arrows on the city, but they were also equipped with ancient city defense weapons such as rolling stones and trees. Several shield warriors died of broken arms, bleeding from their mouths and noses and protruding eyes when they were hit by the wood.

When Shao Tingda led his army to jump off the fireboat, several explosions were heard from the foundation of the towering stone city on the right, and several terrifying gaps were blown under the city, but the thick city wall was not blown through. The right-wing flag army was conducting the second blast At the same time, the three blessing boats on the left came late with raging fire and ran aground on the beach.

Another artillery fire from behind hit the city. The hairless General Manghu looked at the stone city full of potholes and holes, and simply put his hand ax back into his waist, and shouted to the left and right: "The bird gun team is just under the city." Let go, and the rest will climb the city with me, and the one who climbs the city first will be rewarded with 200 taels of silver!"

(End of this chapter)