The crossing starts from the Datang Shuanglong

Chapter 128 Goguryeo Naval Battle

The scorching sun is in the sky, and there are no clouds in the sky.

Under the howling sea wind, the "Piaoxiang" was full of wind and swelled up, strongly pushing the ship to ride the wind and waves and sail forward at high speed in the sea.

Under the guidance of this giant ship, more than 30 sea ships followed closely behind and lined up.

Sailing in the vast ocean, this huge fleet can naturally cover its tracks at will with the help of the boundless ocean, but when it travels close to the coastline,
It can be said that it is unobstructed, and naturally there is no way to hide its whereabouts. Therefore, when this huge fleet passed Baekje and Goguryeo, and when it passed by the shore, it immediately caused a riot. .

At the beginning, there was a small ship that was not too big, almost smaller than the smallest ship in Chu Tianxiu's fleet. It was chasing after it with the Goguryeo flag, as if it wanted to ask something.

Li Jing saw the two enemy ships with his own eyes, and after beckoning casually, the five trebuchets on his car started operating at the same time, and threw a round of stone bombs fiercely in the direction of the fleet, knocking them out. sunk in the sea.

Today is a war, so there is no need to ask the enemy's purpose and cause and effect, and don't show any kindness, just destroy the enemy.

The destruction of this ship is just the beginning.

After all, Goguryeo is a vast country with thousands of miles of land bordering on the ocean. Even during the three conquests of Goryeo by Emperor Sui Yang, almost all of their naval forces were wiped out, but the emaciated camels were bigger than horses. In recent years, the Sui Dynasty had civil strife. Going on and on, there is no time to take care of this side, so Goguryeo has lived a peaceful life for a few years, and gradually formed a new navy.

When Chu Tianxiu's fleet was about to approach the port of Pyongyang, he found that there were many large ships in the sea in front of him, even though there were not many large ships with a physique of more than five feet, only a dozen There are only a few boats, but the number of small fast boats with small specifications is indeed extremely large. It seems that there are at least two or three hundred ships.

Ants kill elephants!
Even if the rules of naval warfare are completely different from those of land warfare, the number of ships is also the key to victory if there is no technological gap.

Just when the traces of those warships appeared in Chu Tianxiu's eyes, the warships on the opposite side also discovered their existence, causing the dark fleet on the opposite side to gather here, and these ships were not only distributed There is a pattern, forming an inverted triangle formation, and there are ships scattered left and right, coming towards this side, as if they want to outflank the attack here.

It seems that because the army attacked across the sea by Emperor Sui Yang was a little bit hard, Goguryeo reacted to the naval battle, making them seem to have prepared beacon towers, alarm ships and other things on the shore. If traces of enemy ships are found, the country will usher in an all-out attack.

"Shoot! All ships, a quick shot!"

Li Jing didn't care what the purpose of those ships was. After discovering that these ships had entered his attack range, he asked the navigator to wave the flag and use the semaphore to order the catapults on all the ships to launch an offensive to sink those ships.

Even though Chu Tianxiu didn't understand real naval battles, but under the influence of whispers and eyesight in his previous life, he still knew some basic naval regulations.Don't think the biggest use of these ships is as a troop carrier, but the captain and sailors who drive the ships are all trained according to the specifications of those navies he knows.

If the cable is not coiled up, it is unqualified.

The cabin must be kept clean, the knots need to be unified, and the debris needs to be fixed. Before sailing, make sure that the rats have been successfully killed, and carry enough soybeans and semaphores for navigation.

Even after Chu Tianxiu had a fixed site, the action of letting his subordinates burn sand to make glass was not very successful, and the glass could not be completely removed from impurities to produce fully qualified glass, but he still spared no expense to buy a big one. Blocks of clear crystal were used to create three long telescopes.

Compared with the last attack by three catapults, this time the momentum of the throwing was extremely powerful. Hundreds of catapults moved almost at the same time, causing the densely packed stone bullets to move towards the opposite sea ship as if covering the sky and blocking out the sun. It hit it like a rain of stones.

Even though the sea is too wide and the movement of the ships is too flexible, the probability of the trebuchet hitting the enemy ship is very low, but after this round, there are still some lucky stones that hit the target, and this kind of stone that weighs almost a hundred catties The damage of heavy stones to enemy ships is undoubtedly fatal,
So that except for a large ship that was only scratched by the stone bomb, the medium ship only broke some boards, which is not serious, as long as those ordinary small fast boats are hit by the stone bomb, they will be hit. A broken body, drowned in this cruel ocean.

"shoot!"

"Shoot again!"

Even if Chu Tianxiu was just watching the battle on the Piaoxiang and did not personally command it, he would still feel his blood boil for a while, let alone Li Jing himself who personally commanded a large-scale naval battle. Even if he knew it well, as long as he spoke His words would be converted into semaphore by the navigator and conveyed to other fleets, but he still shouted hoarsely to vent the joy in his heart.

Stone after stone bounced with good effect, and almost every moment enemy ships were lost in the sea, although the Goguryeo ships seemed to want to fight back.

But unfortunately, in their fleet, only the dozen or so medium-sized ships are equipped with trebuchets, and there are only one or two on each ship. There is no way to effectively counterattack, so the captains of those ships can What I did was just drive the ship a little faster, trying to draw the ship closer, and prepare for a gang fight.

But they didn't expect that after Li Jing issued a semaphore to let their ships adjust their direction and keep the distance between the two sides at a suitable position, he gave a very cruel order:

"Remove the stone bomb and replace it with whale oil!"

Over the years, Chu Tianxiu has been ordering his navy to swim in the nearby waters, hunting and killing whales wandering in the South China Sea and the North Sea, in order to train his navy.

In this process, not only a steady stream of meat is obtained, but also some by-products are obtained, including whale skin, whale baleen, and whale oil, which is a precious fuel.

On the market in Jiangyin, whale oil is very expensive, and its smokeless burning characteristics make it possible to make the best kerosene lamps, but if they are used on the battlefield, the quality of these whale oil But his identity has changed again, becoming the most ferocious fire weapon.

(End of this chapter)