Chapter 527 Water Battle
Knowing that the chance of winning was slim, Zhao Guang decided to fight.
Like Zhao Yingqi's idea, he had to figure out the true strength of the Han Dynasty's navy. This would be the key bargaining chip to determine whether South Vietnam would pay tribute to the Han Dynasty. If it was true, as Liang Xiao said, the Han Dynasty not only had a natural advantage in cavalry, but also had a strong navy, then South Vietnam would have no other choice and could only bow down and surrender. But if that was not the case, the situation would be completely different.
Once the rank is adopted, the independent status of South Vietnam will be degraded, and the interests of many people will be affected, and the royal family will be the most affected group. At that time, there will be only one king left in South Vietnam: the King of South Vietnam, and other kings may all be demoted to marquis. Moreover, the King of South Vietnam is also a short-lived method of the Han Dynasty against kings of different surnames. It is obvious to all that the Han Dynasty adopted ranks, which means that the Zhao family's rule in South Vietnam has entered the countdown.
Compared with this loss of profit, what is Zhao Guang's defeat? Zhao Yingqi was willing to sacrifice a lot of pearls, and he was willing to sacrifice himself. If he could defeat the Han Navy by chance and continue the Zhao family dynasty for a period of time, he would do whatever he could.
Zhao Guang carefully studied the pros and cons of both sides, summoned the generals to the commander's ship to arrange tactics.
Liang Xiao sat on the Feilu. Even without using a clairvoyance, he could see the generals of the South Vietnamese Navy rushed to Zhao Guang's commanding ship from all sides, and naturally he could feel Zhao Guang's nervousness. In fact, he was also a little nervous. Although these tower ships have been modified, their balance performance has been improved and their ability to withstand wind and waves is stronger, he did not know how good the combat ability is.
Fighting with Zhao Guang was Wei Qing's proposal, but it was just spoken through his mouth. Wei Qing and Wu were commanded by the Lou Ship to fight the Minyue Navy. The victory was a complete victory, which directly led to the King of Minyue to give up resistance. He was very satisfied with the performance of the Lou Ship and was confident in defeating the Nanyue Navy. Liang Xiao was very pleased to see Wei Qing's confident appearance.
It’s gold that always shines, and Wei Qing finally made his mark with his own strength.
Liang Xiao turned to look at Zhao Yingqi. "General Zhao seemed a little nervous."
Zhao Yingqi gave Liang Xiao annoyed and said, "Don't the lord often say this?"
Liang Xiao grinned. Zhao Yingqi was too nervous and had a bad temper, so he would explode at a moment. In fact, this was normal. After seeing the scene of the Han army's infantry and cavalry defeating Yu Shan, Zhao Yingqi had no hope for Lu Zhan. The navy was their last straw. If the navy was defeated, Nanyue would have no other choice except to accept the qualities. How could he not be nervous at such a critical moment?
Zhao Yingqi stood up, walked to the side of the side, held the railing, and carefully observed the Nanyue Navy in the distance. Just as Liang Xiao said, he saw Zhao Guang's nervousness from Zhao Guang's actions and Zhao Guang's lack of confidence, and he became even more unconfident.
Along the way, the Han army he saw was too powerful, neither cavalry nor infantry could match the soldiers of the South Vietnamese. If the navy was defeated again, what else could Nanyue negotiate with the Han Dynasty?
Time passes slowly in the unbearable torture.
Half an hour later, Zhao Guang finally lined up the battle formation and sent a signal to signal that the exercise could begin.
Wei Qing had already been preparing to stop. After receiving the signal, he waved his hand to signal the war. On the high mast, the signal soldiers in the tower waved the colorful flags in their hands and sent Wei Qing's orders out.
"Dongdongdongdong! Dadongdongdongdong!" The war drum sounded, shaking the eardrums.
"Dongdongdongdong! Dadongdongdongdong!" In fact, the war drums on the four tower ships also sounded, as if responding.
There was a loud shout from the deck, and the tower ship shook violently and began to move slowly. The beam shook for a while, but I was happy in my heart. As the saying goes, it is hard to turn around when the ship is too big. In fact, it is not just difficult to turn around. When the ship is too big, it will be more difficult to start or stop. This handsome ship has the most load and can still have such obvious shaking feeling when starting, which shows that the power system of the tower ship is strong enough.
Deng Guobin did a beautiful job. It can be seen that science and technology are the primary productive forces, which is indeed the most wise saying.
With Liang Xiao's joy, the five tower ships began to advance at the same time. Compared with the coach ship, the other four tower ships were faster. At only a few hundred steps, the tower ships had accelerated and advanced at full speed, riding the wind and waves, and rushed towards the oncoming Nanyue Navy.
Gradually, the handsome ship landed behind, and four building ships rushed to the front of it, like four horses pulling a chariot, protecting the front of the handsome ship.
At the same time, the Nanyue Navy also accelerated and quickly approached the tower ship.
The Nanyue Navy also has large ships, but it is not as big as the tower ship. But overall, there are more small and medium-sized warships. These ships are large and can carry hundreds of people, while the small ones can carry dozens of people. Two-thirds are sailors, and no more than one-third of the real warriors. The weapons of warriors are roughly divided into two types: bows and arrows and swords and spears. They start shooting arrows after more than a hundred steps apart.
After all, it is not a real battle. Archery is just a symbolic, or a habit. The soldiers of the South Vietnamese took it seriously, and the Han army on the tower ship did not take it seriously. The tower ship was tall and there was a thick wooden female wall beside the ship. As long as they hid behind the female wall, the Nanyue navy was shooting upwards, they could shoot with the cover of the female wall and shoot with all their might.
Speaking of which, the tower ship is a moving city, and the Nanyue Navy is like infantrymen coming to attack the city. What is more troublesome to the infantry is that their feet are unstable and they will fall into the water if they are not careful. Although their water nature will not flood, they are more restricted than those of down-to-earth siege soldiers.
After shooting a few rounds of arrows, the forwards of both sides began to contact.
The Nanyue navy shouted loudly, rowed the boat, passed between the towers, and quickly approached the coach.
The four front-drive tower ships ignored them and could not do so. It was obviously not a wise decision to compare flexibility with these small and medium-sized warships. The four tower ships simply gave up their fight and wedged straight to the depths of the Nanyue Navy.
When Zhao Yingqi saw this, he was overjoyed. He turned to look at Liang Xiao, and smiled with a smile: "June, the one who saved me is here."
"Let's talk about it when they come up." Liang Xiao waved his hand disapprovingly, but looked at Wei Qing hesitantly. He saw Zhao Guang's tactics, but could not see Wei Qing's tactics. Zhao Guang clearly wanted to play the more flexible characteristics of small and medium-sized warships, fight slowly with fast and slow. He used the shortcomings of inflexible control of the tower ship to intersperse directly. He directly surrounded the coach ship. Then he climbed onto the ship and "rescue" Zhao Yingqi. How would Wei Qing deal with it? Do you have to rely on infantry?
Just when Liang Xiao was puzzled, Wei Qing smiled slightly. "You'd better sit down, you might feel a little dizzy later."
Liang Xiao was puzzled, and Zhao Yingqi was even more confused.
Wei Qing waved his hand and issued an order. The messenger standing on the deck shouted: "Turn left"
Under the deck, a shout came: "Turn left"
With this loud shout, the quickly advancing ship suddenly turned to the side, and the hull tilted to the left. Liang Xiao was sitting, but just slid for a while, but Zhao Yingqi was in trouble. His feet became soft and he fell to the ground with a "thump" sound, becoming a rolling gourd. If it weren't for the railings blocking him, he might have slid down. Many of his guards also fell down and screamed in shock.
Compared with the screams on Feilu, there were more screams on the water.
The South Vietnamese warship that was speeding towards the boat was approaching the tower. It was stretching out its hook and preparing to help climb. Unexpectedly, the tower ship suddenly turned, the hull came across, and directly hit their warship. At the same time, a row of windows suddenly opened on the side of the boat, and a thick and long hooked iron spear stretched out from each window, hooking the warship of the South Vietnamese Navy mercilessly, making them unable to escape.
The two sides were too close. Although the warships of the South Vietnamese Navy were flexible, they had no time to react. Several warships were hooked by iron spears and overturned. Countless warriors fell into the water and made a series of exclamations.
The tower ship is like a giant beast. With just a simple turn, it squeezes and sanks countless warships close to it.
The boat continued to rotate, and it became faster and faster.
The world was turning in front of his eyes, and Liang Xiao and others could only hold on to the things around him tightly to ensure that they would not fall because of dizziness. Zhao Yingqi was the most pitiful. After falling for no reason, he couldn't get up. He finally found the focus point and stabilized his body. The boat was spinning at full speed. The blue sky was spinning above his head, making him dizzy and his chest restless.
Those South Vietnamese warships who wanted to rely on the gang were knocked down and did not dare to get close. In the face of the huge size gap, even if they wanted to fight for their lives, they were powerless. Apart from being directly hit and sunk, it was difficult for them to have any substantial impact on the tower ship.
More Nanyue navy passed through the gaps between the four tower ships and surrounded Wei Qing's tower ship in the middle. However, facing this crazy rotating tower ship, they were helpless and could only look at the ship and sigh, but could not get close, and they had no chance to climb the tower ship to save people.
When the Nanyue navy dog bites a hedgehog and has no idea where to go, the four Han army's towering ships successfully approached Zhao Guang's commanding ship.
Zhao Guang's coaching ship is a large ship with a size of nearly half of the tower ship and is surrounded by dozens of small and medium-sized warships to protect him. If it is normal to get close to his warships, it is not easy, but the opponents he meets today are different from the past. These four tower ships are larger than his coach ships, and those escort warships are even more worth mentioning and cannot provide effective protection.
The four tower ships were divided into two teams and crossed from both sides.
As soon as he saw the tower ship turn the bow and rush towards him, Zhao Guang understood the intention of the Han army navy. He regretted it. Although he made combat adjustments based on the actual situation of the Han army navy, he still underestimated the insidiousness of the Han army. He originally thought that the four tower ships were the guardian ships that were protecting Wei Qing, but now he found that Wei Qing's guardian ships did not need to be protected at all. The four tower ships were for his guardian ships.
Zhao Guang was so anxious that he shouted repeatedly, ordering the coach to turn and avoid it. He knew very well that with the size difference between the two sides, as long as he was hit by a tower ship, his coach would be severely damaged.
The sailors received the order and did not dare to neglect them. They tried their best in unison and forced the coach to turn around, and avoided the collision of the first building ship on the left. The boat overturned the two escort warships rudely and rudely, and rushed past the back of Zhao Guang's coach ship, less than five feet apart.
Zhao Guang didn't have time to be glad because another tower ship rushed over from his right side, pointing directly at his bow.
Zhao Guang was scared and sweated coldly, and urgently ordered and turned again.
The sailors roared angrily, used their strength to paddle hard, stirring up waves of water, and pushed the warship to turn around. The warship almost leaned over, drew a large arc, avoiding the collision of the tower ship again, but lost control and started to turn in its original place.
Seeing this, Zhao Guang lamented. Even if he had a place to return to heaven, he could not control the warship and avoid the collision of the other two tower ships. Although his ship was not as huge as the tower ship and was relatively easy to turn, turning twice in such a short time was already the limit of his ability. No matter how hard he tried, he could not avoid the collision of the remaining two tower ships.
Sometimes human resources are poor, which is a reflection of Zhao Guang's mood at this time. He grabbed the railing tightly and watched another tower ship break through the waves from the left, hitting hard in the middle of his handsome ship.
"Boom!" With a loud bang, the handsome ship was hit, and the thick gangway was broken by the iron corner of the bow of the building, making a painful moan. The tower ship was cast and pressed over like a mountain, squeezing the handsome ship for dozens of steps, and the hull was tilted. Many people were unstable and fell to the ground.
Before they could react, another tower ship rushed over from the right and collided with Zhao Guang's handsome ship head-on.
"Boom!" The bow of the handsome ship was cracked and was crushed underwater by the tower ship.
"Crack" the boat board cracked, the sea water surged in, and there was a scream in the cabin.
The stern of the boat was raised high, and many people slid forward, and the sound of falling into the water was endless. Zhao Guang quickly grabbed the railing and half hung his body in the air. He raised his head and looked at the tall figures of the two tower ships, his heart was dark.
The tactics he carefully designed did not work at all. Wei Qing used four building ships to simply and roughly sank his handsome ship, ruthlessly trampling on his dignity and the dignity of the Nanyue Navy. In the face of the powerful strength of the Han army navy, any exquisite tactics are a joke.
He had thought about losing, but he didn't expect that he would lose so thoroughly and so simply. In just one round, his handsome ship was sunk.
Not only was Zhao Guang stunned, but almost all the soldiers of the Nanyue Navy were stunned. They watched the tower ship crash into the coach ship with their own eyes, but they were unable to resist. They could only watch Zhao Guang's coach ship being hit by two tower ships one after another, and being pressed into the water, unable to move. In front of the tall tower ship, Zhao Guang's coach ship seemed so weak and helpless.
"It's...it's over?" Zhao Yingqi sat on the ground, turned his head, looked at the desolate scene in the distance, and said in a hoarse voice.
"What else do you want?" Liang Xiao slowly adapted to the rotation of the tower ship and barely stood up. He was a little dizzy, but his mood was so good. He joked: "Zhao Guang's handsome ship has been dealt with by the tower ship. Do you expect other ships to overturn?"
"This...this is too rough." Zhao Yingqi murmured: "I won't leave any face for me."
"I was not under Panyu City, and I was sinking your navy in front of the king and minister of Nanyue, which was to give you the greatest face." Wei Qing stood up, as stable as Mount Tai. "The person who knows the times is a hero. Your Highness, you should know what to do now, right?" -
Chapter completed!