Chapter 1134 The Baiteng River Water Battle, the Perfect Trap!
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"Da Viet's fleet appears ahead!"
"Ready to attack! Watch out for fireships!"
The naval fleet of Southern Han general Su Zhang was located downstream, while the fleet of Dayue Kingdom was located upstream. At this time, the Bai Teng River was shrouded in mist, and the fleet of Dayue Kingdom was likely to use fire to attack.
Sure enough, after Su Zhang took precautions, there were flames flickering in the mist, and hundreds of fire boats went down the river!
Su Zhang's fleet tried their best to avoid the fire boats, while Fuchuan and Doujian were surrounded by small boats to protect them.
"Meet the enemy!"
The 3,000 Southern Han Divine Crossbow Army prepared for battle on the Fuchuan, Douchuan, and 艨艟, and the divine arm bows were aimed at the upper reaches and both sides of the strait.
The Divine Crossbow Army, which has a bonus to the damage of crossbows, is Su Zhang's elite troops.
Su Zhang is well versed in naval forces, and ordinary fire attacks have little effect on his fleet.
The fire boat was burning on the river, and Su Zhang's fleet avoided the burning warship and continued to attack upstream.
"The Jiaozhou army's fleet is really difficult to deal with. Their sailors are very skilled, and the fire boats are almost useless."
Wu Quan, the general of Dayue Kingdom, led a fleet, but found that the fire attack ship he had prepared hadn't worked, so he used the prepared strategy and stepped forward to engage Su Zhang's navy.
"Da Viet's fleet has appeared!"
"attack!"
Three thousand divine crossbow troops fired in volley!
The fleet of Dai Viet is also ready to attack!
The battle broke out between the ships of the two sides on the river, and the sides of the ships and the parapets were filled with crossbow arrows from each other!
One by one, the sailors were shot by arrows and killed by random arrows, and fell into the Baiteng River, and the water splashed on the deck of the boat!
Team Fire Arrow throws rockets and burns down the opponent's warship!
"Battle on board!"
Su Zhang draws his sword, stands on a lucky boat to supervise the battle, directs the warship to go forward, and fights hand-to-hand with the navy of Dayue Kingdom!
The Jiaozhou army is strong and strong, and they are brave in battle. They jumped on the warship of the Dayue Kingdom and killed the new force of the Navy of the Dayue Kingdom!
The Divine Crossbow Army fired crossbow arrows repeatedly, and Wu Quan's Dayue Navy suffered heavy casualties.
"General Su Zhang's vanguard fleet has already engaged in battle with the fleet of the Great Viet Kingdom. According to General Su Zhang's description, the opponent should be the navy soldiers of the Great Viet Kingdom. There are thousands of warships and tens of thousands of soldiers."
"I will go to support myself."
Su Zhang's first fleet was only 30,000 people, and it was quite reluctant to meet the main force of the Dayue Navy.
Zheng Chenggong led the second echelon of warships, about 70,000 people, to support them.
Further back is the third echelon of 200,000 people.
The 200,000 people in the rear, many of them are infantry, not good at water warfare, but they are used to fight with the soldiers and horses of Dayue Kingdom on land after going ashore.
boom!
A light boat of the Dayue Kingdom was overturned by a lucky boat of the Jiaozhou Navy, and more than a dozen soldiers of the Dayue Navy fell into the river!
Hundreds of bowl-mouth guns deployed on the side of the Fuchuan ship fired at once, and the gunpowder filled the air!
The energy generated by the burning of gunpowder pushes the stone bullets, and slams into the big Viet boats on both sides of the Fuchuan!
The warships of the Dayue Kingdom were relatively small, and many of them had no protection at all. They were shot by stone bullets from bowl-mouth guns, and they were in a mess. The sailors and soldiers standing on the warships were bleeding.
"What a terrible blessing boat, our ship is indeed no match for them..."
Wu Quan led the 50,000 Da Yue Navy to fight against Su Zhang's 30,000 men, but he was actually at a disadvantage.
The huge size of the warship also has the advantage of being huge.
An Nanguo's small boats had no way to take these huge ships. Even if they wanted to engage in a boarding battle, there were hundreds of soldiers on the Fuchuan, and it was difficult for the dozen or so sailors on the small boat to seize the ship.
In the rear, Zheng Chenggong's 70,000 sailors had emerged from the mist and joined Su Zhang.
The Jiaozhou navy has a strong force and has the upper hand in an all-round way.
"Retreat, lead them to the ambush!"
Facing the huge blessing boats and fighting ships, Wu Quan chose to use traps to ambush the Jiaozhou navy.
Su Zhang led the fleet, followed closely, and took advantage of the situation to advance.
From Baiteng River to Shenglong Mansion, there is still a long distance.
"General Su Zhang has defeated the Navy of Dayue Kingdom and is chasing and killing the enemy!"
"It seems that the information is really good,
The ships of the Dayue National Navy are small, and they are no match for our large ships and giant ships. But here is foggy, the river is densely covered, small boats are easy to ambush, so be careful..."
Zheng Chenggong looked around, maybe the small boats of the Dayue Kingdom were not suitable for a frontal battle, but they must be suitable for the terrain of the Baiteng River.
"You bring 40,000 people to meet Su Zhang and strengthen Su Zhang's army."
Zheng Chenggong still kept an eye on it, and led 30,000 people to break the queen.
In the battle with the Dayue Navy, Su Zhang lost 10,000 people, and received 40,000 reinforcements from Zheng Chenggong, with a force of 60,000, and pursued the Dayue Navy with all his strength.
After Wu Quan led Su Zhang's fleet to the ambush site, he ordered the fleet to hide and scattered in Baiteng River. These small boats disappeared quickly.
After Su Zhang's fleet lost its target, it waited to join Zheng Chenggong's fleet.
"General, the Dai Viet fleet has disappeared!"
"They must be hidden in the bushes on the bank, or hidden in the tributaries. The river network here is criss-cross, and there are at least a dozen tributaries. It is not easy to severely damage the main force of the Dayue Kingdom."
Su Zhang was also a little distraught because of the guerrilla tactics of the Great Viet Kingdom.
The small boats of Dayue Kingdom use fog, trees, and tributaries to hide their whereabouts. Once scattered, it is not easy to find the navy of Dayue Kingdom.
Suddenly, the lucky boat that Su Zhang was on shook for a while, and Su Zhang lost his center of gravity and almost fell down.
"what happened?!"
Su Zhang and several naval generals hurriedly searched for the source.
The sailors in the cabin came up in a hurry: "Generals, the bottom of the cabin was pierced by a wooden stake, and the cabin is flooded!"
Not only the lucky boat that Su Zhang was in, but also many other lucky boats and fighting boats were pierced by wooden stakes, and the river flooded in!
"Where did you get the stake?"
When Su Zhang and other naval generals marched, they should be cautious and naturally guard against the damage of the warship by wooden stakes.
The situation is more complicated when fighting in inland rivers and at sea.
It is basically impossible to set up wooden stakes in sea warfare, but in inland rivers, wooden stakes may damage the bottom of wooden boats and allow water to enter the cabin.
When Su Zhang pursued Wu Quan, he sent a lucky boat to explore the way ahead.
Even if a wooden stake is encountered, at most one blessing ship will be lost, and the warships behind will stop advancing immediately, and there will never be a large-scale destruction of warships by wooden stakes.
After all, Su Zhang is a general of the navy department, and suddenly he thought of how the other party set a trap.
"The Baiteng River is an outlet to the sea. Affected by the waves, there is a big difference between high tide and low tide. They led us here during high tide. These wooden stakes are completely undetectable during high tide. When the tide ebbs, this place will become a Jedi!"
Su Zhang was also shocked by Wu Quan's trap.
This kind of trap makes full use of the law of high tide and low tide of Baiteng River, as well as the topography of Baiteng River.
Undoubtedly, Wu Quan was a very sinister naval general. He was familiar with all the conditions of the Baiteng River, so he easily designed Su Zhang to use the timing of the Baiteng River's low tide and stake traps to severely damage Su Zhang's naval fleet.
Fuchuan with deeper drafts was the most severely damaged. One Fuchuan was even torn into cracks by a few iron and wooden piles, and river water poured into the cabin.
The boats and boats with relatively shallow drafts are safe and sound.
Obviously, the length of the iron and wooden stakes set by Wu Quan has been calculated.
The more this happened, the more worried Su Zhang was.
His fleet, except for the small warships such as 艨艟 and walking 舸, no matter whether it is a blessing ship or a fighting ship, could not move at this time.
After the tide ebbs, the wooden piles laid on the surrounding water will threaten the undamaged Fuchuan and Douchuan.
Only when the tide is high can Su Zhang lead the big boat away.
However, since Wu Quan had already calculated the length of the stake, he would not allow Su Zhang's fleet to leave after high tide.
Sure enough, with the sound of a cannon, the small warships of the Navy of Dayue Kingdom appeared from all directions, and all arrows were fired!
These small boats are different from the lucky boats. They have a shallow draft and are not affected by wooden stakes. They besieged Su Zhang and wanted to take Su Zhang's big boat!
"Give it to me!"
Wu Quan drew his sword and commanded thousands of small boats to besiege Su Zhang's 60,000 people!
A considerable part of Su Zhang's large warships were severely damaged by wooden piles, and he had to take a small boat to fight the ambushing ships of the Great Viet Kingdom on the river!
The Dafu ship and the fighting ship building ship are equivalent to a stranded state and are difficult to play a role.
After the first joint battle between the two sides, the second joint battle broke out soon, with arrows raining down and swords facing each other!
"Hold on until Zheng Chenggong comes to help!"
Su Zhang knew that he still had follow-up troops, so he personally stepped forward to supervise the battle and confront Wu Quan!
Suzhang's fleet was designed by Wu Quan's stake trap, morale dropped sharply, and combat power was affected.
In the rear, Zheng Chenggong led 30,000 naval forces as backup, and he had already seen the walking warships retreating from the upper reaches.
"General Su Zhang was ambushed and asked for reinforcements!"
"Su Zhang can be regarded as a cautious general, how can he fall?"
After hearing the scout's report, Zheng Chenggong was also shocked by Wu Quan's elaborate design.
If Wu Quan simply set wooden stakes at the bottom of the water, with Su Zhang's prudence, he would send a few large ships to clear the way ahead.
But Wu Quan's insidiousness lies in the fact that he combined the law of rising and falling tides of the Baiteng River with the wooden stake traps he set up, and even went to lure the enemy himself.
Because Baiteng River is an estuary, the water level before high tide and low tide is obviously different.
It is simply a seamless trap.
"go ahead."
Zheng Chenggong couldn't help but rejoice that he had an extra heart and personally left 30,000 people as backup, so Su Zhang's fleet could still get Zheng Chenggong's support.
On both sides of the Bai Teng River, another general of the Dai Viet Navy was observing Zheng Chenggong's fleet in a small boat.
Wu Quan knew that there were other fleets behind Su Zhang's fleet, so he ordered the lieutenant to block the rear fleet in order to wipe out Su Zhang's fleet.
"pull!"
Wu Quan's lieutenant general gave an order, and the soldiers and horses of the Dayue State on the embankment turned the winch together, and the iron cables that sank at the bottom of the river straightened, and suddenly appeared on the surface of the water!
Iron rope Hengjiang!
Boom! !
A big lucky boat collided with the iron chain and was caught by the iron chain. The sailors and soldiers on the warship were staggering due to inertia!
Ambushes on both sides of the Baiteng River fired at Zheng Chenggong's fleet in the middle with a volley of crossbows!
Zheng Chenggong's fleet was blocked by a few thick iron cables, dense arrows rained, and even crossbow arrows flew over Zheng Chenggong's head!
"..."
Zheng Chenggong found that the opponent's general was not strong in frontal combat, but his ability to set traps was amazing.