The building boat slowly set off from the Hakata outer port. The fishermen who were standing far away on the shore, hoping to go fishing today, saw Datang's boat suddenly start and slowly sail towards the sea, all of them looked happy. , and even some fishermen have begun to tell each other that they plan to leave and go fishing after the building boats go to sea.
Li Hong had no time to pay attention to them. He held a telescope in his hand and carefully observed the three sneaky Japanese warships.
Since three warships set out, there must be a master and a second, and there must be two warships to protect the other warship.
How can we find out which one is the main warship after approaching them again
While thinking, the building ship has successfully sailed out of the outermost port and slowly entered the sea. The sound of waves crashing on both sides of the ship suddenly sounded. As the speed became faster and faster, the waves on both sides of the ship became more and more rapid. .
The first three Japanese warships have been heading north along the coast, so they have a great speed advantage for the building ships chasing them. After all, the coastline has less wind and waves, and both the building ships and the Japanese warships have reduced the speed. The risk of high winds and waves makes driving much smoother.
In less than half an hour, all the soldiers on the building ship were already in full formation. Stones, molten iron, long hooks, sword and axe-hands and other soldiers were all ready.
A loud sound of arrows sounded in the sky above the three warships in the distance ahead, which immediately caused a panic among the soldiers standing on the deck of the Japanese warships.
As more and more people looked back, the three Japanese warships began to become chaotic. Soldiers and sailors were running quickly, obviously trying to speed up.
"Female?" Li Hong put down the telescope. Just a moment ago, he discovered a woman from the first Japanese warship: "Who are they trying to protect? Japanese people are so chic. Is it possible that there are no men left?" Let women protect them?"
"Maybe they deliberately drove the main warship ahead in order to confuse the situation? They used the two warships behind as cover." Wutian finally got it right and said.
"You can teach me, you finally know how to use your brain." Li Hong patted the helpless shoulder and signaled to continue accelerating.
The two sails on the building boat have been fully opened. As the wind keeps changing the direction, sailing against the wind basically takes a zigzag shape in the sea, using the wind to hit the sails and then act on the hull.
Therefore, it is very difficult to sail against the wind. It is basically impossible to make the ship move in a straight line. Now as the sea wind becomes stronger and stronger, not only the speed of the building ship slows down, but also the three Japanese warships. Had to slow down.
Taking the zigzag pattern has no advantage for the Japanese warships, but for the pursuing building ships, the advantage becomes more and more obvious.
As the zigzag became wider and wider, due to the difference in speed, the building ship and the Japanese warship finally turned into two roughly parallel lines. Although based on the route distance, the distance between the two ships was not widened. How close.
However, since they were also zigzagging, when the two boats were traveling simultaneously, the horizontal distance between them became closer and closer. As a result, an unexpected effect appeared for Li Hong.
When it was the closest, the long hook on the building ship almost stretched out to reach the last Japanese warship.
But with the zigzag turn, the distance between the two ships began to widen laterally after missing the shortest distance.
Therefore, Li Hong had no choice but to change the speed to keep the speed of his ship at the same speed as the last Japanese warship, trying to destroy the Japanese warship before the next zigzag.
"Where's my blindfold? Give it to me quickly! Fire the crossbow!" Li Hong took the blindfold and put it on his eyes. He looked at the Japanese warships that were getting closer and closer to him and ordered to start attacking.
Similarly, both ships were equipped with furnaces for melting molten iron into iron balls. The Japanese warship had a short range and could not reach even the nearest Tanglou ship.
As for the Tanglou ship, due to the small reserve of iron balls, it could not be launched at will, but could only be launched with absolute certainty. Therefore, the pursuit battle was lifeless, and it seemed like a game. Drive away.
Fortunately, the powerful crossbows provided Li Hong with a technical advantage. After three close battles, the Japanese warships became more tilted and shaky because the hulls naturally tilted with the wind when sailing against the wind. .
It wasn't until a red and black iron ball accurately landed on the Japanese warship that the first warship was destroyed. As thick smoke poured out from the increasingly tilted Japanese warship, Emerge.
The building boat struggled to make a smaller zigzag, and when the hull was about to tilt at forty-five degrees, it finally got much closer to the second Japanese warship.
At the same time, the iron hook issued by the crossbow, like Hai Dongqing's powerful and cold iron claws, firmly grasped the last Japanese warship. Under the huge pull of the building ship, thick smoke was rising. The Japanese warship was immediately torn into pieces, with broken decks and scattered hulls scattered on the huge sea like toppled building blocks.
The second warship was also used by Li Hong to deal with the first warship. In less than two zigzags, his warship was successfully scattered on the sea. With the billowing smoke, Li Hong had no choice but to order his sword and ax soldiers to drive away those Japanese soldiers who were thrown under the ship by the waves and asked for help.
After bypassing the billowing smoke, Li Hong raised the telescope again, and heard several shrill screams from time to time. The Japanese soldiers were stabbed into the sea mercilessly by the soldiers of the Tang Dynasty, one after another. One got on the boat.
"Damn it! The wind has stopped!" Li Hong looked up at the two sails above his head, and then at the last Japanese warship that turned back to sail in a diagonal straight line. When he was destroying the other two ships, he actually killed him. The distance has widened again.
Lawless looked at Li Hong's anxious look. The two of them, one on the left and the other on the right, went down to the cabin along the side of the ship and ordered the rowing soldiers to speed up!
Then like an ape, he sprang out from nowhere and ran to the sail soldier. He looked at the same big sail. Although there were only two sails, why was it so much slower than Suzaku and Xuanwu? .
Li Hong watched coldly as Lawless clasped his hands together as if praying for two sails after saying a few words to the sail-carrying soldier. He wished he could go up immediately and throw these two ignorant things into the sea to feed the sharks!
"Release Meng Chong! Release half of it to catch up with their warships and hinder their progress, you idiot!" Li Hong held up a trumpet. After two small-scale naval battles just now, he was now wearing a pair of shorts and was naked. Standing on his feet on the bow of the boat, he yelled at Lawless.
Lawless was stunned for a moment, then jumped down from a high place and started to release seven Mengchong into the water with other soldiers on the boat. Then he personally led the soldiers to catch up with the last mangchong at the speed of Mengchong's small, fast and flexible speed. A Japanese warship.
The improved Mengchong was similar to the one-man sailboat of the previous life. A sail was erected in the middle of the ship. Dozens of soldiers sat on both sides. They put down their crossbows and spears and replaced them with wooden oars. Then the two men Then he controlled the sail and rushed towards the Japanese warship very quickly.
After Li Hong watched the seven Meng Chong leave, he picked up the telescope in his hand to observe the Japanese warship. At this time, the figure of the woman who had just disappeared in a flash appeared more in his field of vision.
From several fleeting expressions, it can be discovered that the woman seems to be the leader of three Japanese warships. Now, her warship is speeding up and preparing for war in an orderly manner under her command. .
When the seven Mengchong ships were not far away from the Japanese warships, they suddenly dispersed. The iron balls on the Japanese warships were smashed down from the air, and then fell on the sea. A puff of white smoke rose up, but there was no trace of it. An iron ball hit Meng Chong.
Meng Chong, just like the pirates in the previous generation who intercepted the cargo ship, surrounded the Japanese warship from a distance. From time to time, someone took out a crossbow and started shooting at the soldiers on the ship, trying to prevent the Japanese warship from continuing to accelerate.
"Let me go, there is a racket pole." Li Hong watched as the iron balls the size of a human head fell into the water like rain, but they did not cause any real damage to Meng Chong.
The most thrilling one was just splashing sea water on the face of a soldier who rushed up from a boat. The others were not a threat at all.
But what he didn't expect was that when he saw a Mengchong dodge the attack of the iron ball and dodge the bow and arrow and was about to approach the Japanese warship, it was actually hit by a racket stick, and everyone on board Mengchong didn't notice. Unprepared, Meng Chong was knocked over, and dozens of people on top fell into the sea at once.
But even so, it still effectively blocked the speed of the Japanese warship, so that the building ship was almost close to the Japanese warship and could immediately enter the range of the iron ball.
The remaining six Mengchong ships were no longer approaching the Japanese warships at this time. They were waiting for the response from the large ships. Otherwise, if they got closer, they would still be knocked over by the Japanese warships.
The strange thing is that the racket poles of the Japanese warships are not standing at the four corners of the cabin as usual, but are placed horizontally at the four corners. This made Meng Chong not notice at all when the impact came, and waited for attention By then, the racket pole had already been smashed down from bottom to top.
Time passed slowly, and with Li Hong's order, a wave of up to four red and black iron balls flew out from the rear end of the building ship.
"Your sister!" Li Hong cursed unhappily. Unexpectedly, only one of them hit the stern of the Japanese ship, and the other three actually fell into the water.
But what followed was that with the vibration of the stern of the boat, the two racket sticks at the back were all ignited. As the little Kuailing rushed back and forth to lure the two racket sticks back and forth twice, It actually broke the moment it was lifted.
"Release Mengchong!" Li Hong looked at the remaining six Mengchong ships, all running towards the stern of the Japanese warship that had no close-defense rods. Two small boats were also released from the bow of the Japanese warship. He took the only woman on the boat and quickly abandoned the ship.
(End of chapter)