warring states careerist

Chapter 895

What made the nobleman even more desperate was that the Mohist building ship named Yu Huang seemed to wake up after experiencing a brief period of confusion at the beginning of the war.

Relying on its huge advantages in size and firepower, it was impossible for the small boat of the Yue State to attack effectively, because the road within a hundred steps around it was almost blocked by it, while the boat of the Mohists could rely on the cover of the big building boat. Reorganize the formation.

Now the body of this big ship is turning slowly, and it is obvious that it has realized what it should do. It is going to turn the ship sideways to block the retreat of dozens of nearby ships from the country of Yue.

Huge building boats feel a bit unattainable, building ships against building ships, small boats can't shake such a big thing at all.

Several small boats tried to besiege once, but the extremely high deck and hull allowed the Mohist musketeers on the upper boats to shoot calmly.

Even in hand-to-hand combat, how can the people on a big boat be compared to a small boat?

Now the Yue ships that broke into the left wing of the Mohists are already fighting with those small Mohist galleys. Once the boats are turned around to form a suppression, these dozens of ships will be completely finished.

This nobleman harbored hatred in his heart, because many of his family and relatives died in the Sishang hegemony war that year, and the Mo family also robbed almost all the land of the Yue Kingdom in Jiangbei, released the slaves and the people, and many nobles moved back to Wu. After Kuaiji, he became impoverished day by day.

He was also a man of courage. Seeing that the Yuhuang was about to turn successfully, his eyes were fixed on the rudder at the stern.

A little farther away, three small boats from the Mohists were fighting with three small boats from the Yue Kingdom. Instead of going to support them, he loudly ordered the drummers to speed up and circled around the six fighting boats. Afterwards, with the help of their cover, they quickly turned and went straight to the stern of the Yuhuang.

There is where the rudder of the ship is. If it is destroyed, the ship will be difficult to turn, and there may be a chance to destroy a Mohist building ship.

The stern is also the place where the firepower of the building ships is weakest. He chose a good position. With the cover of six ships, he avoided the guns and artillery of the Yuhuang, and slipped to the stern by taking advantage of the faster speed of the boat.

Not far away, a small boat of the Mo family also noticed him, and seemed to have guessed his intention when he escaped the six ships in the melee without going to support, and was turning to come here.

"Drumming!"

The noble shouted loudly, and the drumbeat suddenly became hurried.

The oarsmen below the deck heard the sound of the drums, and exerted all their strength, chanting along with the drums, and quickly shook the huge oars.

Like an arrow leaving the string, the boat broke through the water leaving a white wave mark, heading towards the rudder of Yuhuang.

Similar drums sounded on the small boat of the Mohists. The same drum sound had the same meaning, and it was to make the oarsmen speed up the boat as fast as possible, hoping to stop the boat from the Yue Kingdom before it hit the stern. live.

The test at this time is the paddlers on both sides and the control of the boat.

The sound of the drum became faster and faster, and the nobleman of the Yue Kingdom held a bow and shot towards the Mohist boat not far away, and the archers on the boat also moved in the same way as him.

On the other side of the boat of the Mo family, they returned the smoke and lead bullets from the muskets.

Some Yue people without bows and crossbows held the wood of the side of the boat with one hand and their own weapons with the other. They squatted on the boat halfway, accumulating strength, and waited for the melee after approaching.

A few brawny men wearing rhinoceros armor with tattoos on their necks held a few axes and waited silently.

Getting closer, getting closer, although the Yuhuang discovered this situation, there was nothing he could do about it. The stern was the blind spot of the tall ship, and he could only rely on those small boats for protection.

In the end, Yue State's boat won this life-and-death dragon boat race, and the first one hit the stern rudder of the Yuhuang. After a loud noise and shaking, the Mohist boat also hit the Yue State's on a small boat.

The sailors who were half squatting on the boat got up quickly with the sound of impact.

Bows, arrows and muskets were thrown down, spears were stabbed, and sailors with swords and shields jumped onto the opponent's ship, using everything they had learned to ensure that they would not be killed and then kill them in the small and difficult space. enemy.

Daggers, axes, copper sticks, and blunderbusses pierced into flesh or leather armor, splashing blood in clusters.

On the Yuhuang, panicked sailors wearing indigo-dyed blouses rushed to the stern, shooting down with muskets, and several Yue people were immediately knocked down and fell into the water.

Those strong men in rhinoceros armor swung their axes and slashed at the rudder of the ship.

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In the Vietnamese fleet, Xu Bin clenched his fists.

He didn't expect the defeat of Yue's naval army to be so fast. After less than an hour of fighting, the left wing of the Yue army was finished. But the left wing of the Vietnamese Navy has collapsed.

The advent of firearms has changed water warfare. It is not impossible to deal with it, but it requires blood as a price.

It is true that the Mohist boat masters lack actual combat, but their tactics are the tactics of the gunpowder era, and they are also inexperienced for the Yue Kingdom.

I thought I could hold back the right wing of the Mohist boat division for a while and find a way to break through on the left wing, but the battle on the right wing of the Mohist family was basically over.

Using the building boat as a mobile fortress, and using small sailboats to surround the building boat to learn the tactics of the turtle's tenacious defense, made the previous experience of the Yue Kingdom meaningless.

Relying on the advantages of numbers, firearms, and the number and size of ships, the Mohists relied on this somewhat cumbersome tactic to squeeze the space of the Yue Kingdom's navy little by little, crushing the last bit of pride of the Yue Kingdom.

After fighting fiercely for so long, none of the seventeen buildings and boats of the Mo family were captured, captured or sunk.

On the other hand, on the side of the Yue Kingdom, a building boat rushed towards a Mohist building boat bravely, and seized the opportunity to plunge in obliquely, only being hit four times in the process.

Ordinarily, there is a great possibility of capturing one ship in this way, but I don't want to be hooked together, the guns on the Mohist ship fired, and then threw a bunch of iron mines.

There were more than [-] combat sailors on the big boat of the Mo family, but there were only more than [-] combat sailors on the big boat of the Yue country. After a scuffle, not only did the big boat of the Mohist family fail to take down, but the Yue country was hacked to death first. a doctor.

Xu Ting originally planned to rely on the right wing to feign defeat to lure the left wing of the Mohists to leave, but it was simply unrealistic to actually fight.

In the past, relying on bows and crossbows and short swords to fight, if the opponent wants to win if they are feigned, they must pursue them.

The Mo family has been imitating the tortoise, and tried to feign defeat. As soon as they retreated, the cannons on the big boats over there were violently bombarded.

Xu Wei can be regarded as the No. 1 in the Yue Kingdom who is proficient in water warfare, but where has he seen such a method of warfare?
If they are far away, they will bombard them, and if they are close, they will shoot with muskets. The small boats surround the big ships like dolls that cannot be separated from their mother's milk.

Now the biggest result that Xu Que can see is that the rudder of a Mohist building ship in the east was destroyed by the warriors.

As for the others... The commander of the Mohist boat division is like a crab hidden in a conch shell. He rides on the largest battleship but does not rush to the front line at all, but keeps beating drums and raising flags in the distance.

Several times I wanted to break through and cut the general, but I was beaten back by the reserved reserve team. The Mohist fleet is much larger than that of the Yue Kingdom. What can I do?
In the fierce battle until now, victory has been basically impossible.

After cleaning up the small boats from the Yue Kingdom, the right wing of the Mohists began to counterattack, and gradually seized the upper reaches of the hydrology at an extremely slow speed, and they were already ready to outflank.

In the melee of the Chinese army, the main force of the Mohist school has also caused heavy damage to the main force of the Yue State water army, and it is impossible to form an effective offensive. Even if a few small boats are destroyed, the remaining small sailboats of the Mohist school are still surrounded by the building boats. The system is not chaotic.

Xu Que felt that this tactic...was like a big tortoise carrying a fortress city on its back. The speed was very slow, but it couldn't be crushed, and it was crushed bit by bit, leaving him nowhere to go.

There is nowhere to escape.

The port does not have forts densely covered with copper and iron cannons like the north shore, hiding in the port is a dead end.

Although these big tortoises swim slowly, there will always be a moment when they will crush themselves.

Building boats and sailing boats are not sailing boats. A large number of paddlers need supplies and rest. They cannot fight for a long time, let alone run away when the situation is not good. Without the logistics of the coast, these sailing boats can't go anywhere.

Only the left wing of the Mohists, which has achieved some results in the battle, is lying there with the building ship whose rudder was destroyed, but the surrounding small boats still provide protection. Moved, still difficult to win.

Now there is only one large boat and thirty small boats left in the reserve team in Xu Ting's hands.

The right wing of the Mohists has begun to slowly occupy the upper reaches of the hydrology, changing from the tortoise defensive formation to an offensive formation. The four buildings are lying across the river, and they can immediately be thrown into the outflank of his central army.

The Chinese army can no longer hold on.The right wing of one's own side has not achieved much results after fighting half of it. On the contrary, the opposite side has begun to change flags, and the fleets on the left wing have begun to charge forward and prepare to outflank.

As for the building boat whose rudder was damaged, the Mo family seemed to give up at all, and instead let the other building boats and small boats on the left wing start to sweep towards the center, trying to seize the upper wind.

Both the left wing and the central army are finished.

Failure is only a matter of time, Xu Bi knew it very well.

So he set his sights on the Mohist boat whose rudder was destroyed.

I thought, this battle must be defeated, but even if I fail, I have to destroy a Mohist building ship, give myself an explanation, and give the king an explanation. Convenience means defeat, right?

(End of this chapter)