Last year, there were almost no warships available in Huai'an. Why use
The word "almost" is because there were three warships in the entire Huai'an defense line last year. They were saved by Mr. Shen when he was suppressing Japanese invaders in the southeast, and they were sent to Huai'an for emergency response.
Three warships are difficult to use in water warfare. But things are different now. Mr. Shen went back to Jiankang and got a lot of benefits from the court and the emperor. For example, there are now more than 20 usable warships in Huai'an, all of which were rushed by the Ministry of War. of.
Although these ships are not as huge as the three that Mr. Shen himself built in the southeast, they can be regarded as big compared with Qi Ren's ships.
Therefore, even if only half of Huai'an's more than 20 warships were at the Xiangshui camp on the eastern front, Shen Yi would still be sure to fight a water battle with the Qi people.
Dozens of Chen's ships and hundreds of large ships and small boats of the Qi people met on the Huaihe River. The warships on both sides began to fire their cannons to bombard the other side's large ships.
The sound of artillery was particularly obvious in the silent night. Mr. Shen was on the shore, holding a telescope and watching the battle on the front line. He saw one of his own warships firing, and one shot hit a small boat. There were only about ten people on the small boat, and the hull was directly hit by solid lead bullets. A big hole opened up, and the huge impact overturned the boat. More than a dozen people immediately fell into the cold icy water in early spring!
However, it was night now, and the enemy ships were not very dense after all, so the hit rate of the artillery shells was not high. The ships on both sides bombarded each other for a while, with poor results.
Xue Wei personally commanded the battle on a large ship with more than 300 soldiers. This large ship sailed from Yueqing. He was also an old friend of the anti-Japanese army. Xue Wei trained troops in his early years and pursued pursuits at sea. This was the ship that was used during the Japanese invasion, so it is naturally easy to use now.
The ten cannons on the ship had already fired fifty or sixty rounds of lead bullets in less than half an hour. When Xue Wei was about to give another order, someone hurriedly ran up to him, raised his hands and said: "General, something bad has happened! "Xue Wei frowned and asked: "What happened?" The messenger lowered his head and said anxiously: "Our ship, as well as the nearby warships, were blocked by some small boats. , all the people on these small boats are setting up ladders and preparing to climb to the deck!" Xue Wei's eyes lit up when he heard this, he pulled out his sword from his waist, spat, and cursed: "Mother's follicles! Keep going! Staring at the artillery, I didn’t even pay attention to those around me, but these bearded brats were plastered on my face!” He waved his hand and shouted: “Take two hundred people and follow me to the deck to clean up these bearded brats!”
"Moreover, send a signal to the approaching warships and ask them to be careful of people boarding the ship. Especially our warships must not be lost or robbed by the people!" At this point, Xue Wei looked at what was already going on. The Qi people's ship, which was not very far away from us, gritted its teeth and said: "If the Hu people's ship rushes to the south again, we will directly collide with it!" If Da Chen's ship keeps fighting on the river, it will definitely suffer losses. , but they were blocking these Qi people from landing, so the number of ships seemed a bit insufficient.
Therefore, he could only pick up medium and large ships to block them. As for the small ships, Xue Wei really had no choice but to let them slip through the gap.
However, Xue Wei was not polite to some Qi people who wanted to sneak onto the flagship warship. He personally led the people to stand on the deck and killed one or two groups who tried to
After the small group of "meritorious" people gathered together, they looked up and saw that there were more than a dozen small boats trying to get close to their own warships!
Xue Wei sneered, waved his hand and said, "Front-on, hit him directly!"
"The bearded bastards on both wings, if they want to come up, let them come up!"
"I'll skin them alive!" At this point, Xue Wei seemed to have remembered something. He turned back to look at the messenger and said loudly: "Send a signal to the nearby warships. If they are approached by a large number of small boats, try to find a way to escape first." For the best!" He Xue Wei can fight, and so can his followers, but the people on other warships may not necessarily be able to fight. Even if one of these big ships is taken away by the Qi people, it will be a huge disaster for Chen loss!
Fortunately, Xue Wei has finally grown up. If it was in the past, he only cared about his own happiness, how could he care about the friendly troops next to him?
Now, although General Xue is still aggressive, he is much better than before.
On the Huaihe River, the situation became anxious. These Northern Qi navymen were just fighting with the Dachen navy on the Huaihe River, because their big ships couldn't get through, and the number of people coming over in the small boats was not large enough, so they didn't dare to land!
He was blocked by Xue Wei on the Huaihe River! Time passed by, and the two sides fought fiercely all night. Artillery, rockets, and arrows were shot out countless times, but until Dongfang Yubaibai, neither side made any substantial progress.
As for Mr. Shen Yi, he and Su Ding watched the battle by the river all night. When the sky slowly brightened, Su Ding turned to look at Shen Yi with some doubts: "Mr. Shen, something is wrong with these Qi people..."
"They have many boats. If they forcefully cross the river, our boats can't completely stop them. But one night, they didn't even have a decent force to break through!"
"The defense lines that the generals and others have arranged in advance have no place at all!" Shen Yi put down the telescope, yawned greatly, and smiled at Su Ding: "Why doesn't General Su say that General Xue's navy is too powerful? ? You know, two days ago he came to get angry with me because of your position, clamoring to give up his Guangzhou Guard Commander to you." Su Ding also knew about this, and he was even there at the time. At the scene, I was quite moved in my heart, but at this time, Su Ding did not speak for Xue Wei, but took a deep breath and whispered: "Shen Gonghuiyan, if the abilities of these Qi people only stop here..."
"That's too unreasonable." Mr. Shen stretched out and wanted to say something more. Suddenly a scout ran over and lowered his head and said a few words to Shen Yi. After hearing this, Shen Yi looked up at Su Ding and said : "Qi people's ships are returning to the north bank in small groups one after another." Mr. Shen paused and continued: "But they will only stop on the north bank for about a stick of incense, and then they will sail back to the river and continue towards the river. Coming from the south bank." Su Ding was thoughtful. He looked at Shen Yi and said, "Mr. Shen, most of these barbarian ships are..."
"Replacement!" This time, the reinforcements of the Southern Conquest Army have arrived. The army that General Zhou can directly mobilize exceeds 200,000 people. An army of this size will not only not be clumsy to use, but will be more flexible. .
Because it is easy to perform some tactical moves, such as this, one group of people go back to rest after fighting all night, and another group of people come on board to compete with Chen Guo's navy.
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After the "wheel battle", it won't take long for Dachen's navy to be exhausted and unable to fight anymore. Shen Yi nodded slightly and said, "There must have been a change of people, no need to doubt it." Master Shen clasped his hands behind his back and slowly left the tent and walked outside.
Su Ding followed him, lowered his head slightly, clasped his fists and said, "Mr. Shen, General Xue must be very tired too. I'm going to ask for orders to replace General Xue!" After thinking about it, Shen Yi nodded and smiled. : "Okay, go and get him down. Remember to bring new soldiers up who are familiar with water warfare!"
"Yes!" Su Ding clasped his fists in salute and strode away. Shen Yi glanced at the red sun slowly rising in the east, squinted his eyes, and said nothing.
In this way, the first water battle in Hongde's twelfth year lasted from the night of February 17th to the morning of February 19th.
During this period, Xue Wei and Su Ding took turns taking command. Many naval officers were exhausted, but they still gritted their teeth and persisted.
At noon on February 19th, Mr. Shen was still watching the battle along the Huaihe River. Su Ding stood behind him, looking at the Huaihe River, very puzzled: "Mr. Shen, these Qi people are very strange! They have been fighting for nearly two days and two nights. Although they tried their best, they are still killing people. But he just didn't want to die, so he forced himself to land on the south bank. I don't know what he is waiting for..." Shen Yi glanced at the river and said calmly: "They are waiting for my reinforcements." As soon as Mr. Shen finished speaking, a messenger hurriedly He ran over, half-knelt in front of Shen Yi, bowed his head respectfully and clasped his fists, and said: "Mr. Shen, General Zhang Mengzhang, the commander of the Wenzhou Guard under General Ling on the Western Front, was ordered to lead five thousand soldiers to come for reinforcements. We are now far away from Xiangshui Camp. There are only more than ten miles left." Mr. Shen turned to look at Su Ding, clapped his hands, and said with a smile: "General Su, look, my reinforcements have arrived." After he finished speaking with a smile, he ordered the messenger: " Send an order to General Zhang Meng and ask them to rush to the battlefield along the Huaihe River and be ready to meet the enemy at any time!" The ordering soldier knelt on the ground and bowed his head respectfully: "Yes!" He got up, turned around and took a breath.
Su Ding looked at Shen Yi with wide eyes, somewhat puzzled: "Mr. Shen, you said Qi people are waiting for our reinforcements?"
"Yes." Mr. Shen said quietly: "If my reinforcements don't come, how can the Western Front become weak?"
"The Xiangshui Camp and the Lianshui Camp are more than a hundred miles apart. It will take more than a day to get back, even if it's days and nights. Now my five thousand reinforcements can't go back." Shen Yi looked calm.
"So, our western front has become extremely weak at this time." Su Ding was stunned. He looked up at Shen Yi with confusion on his face.
"But Mr. Shen, where is General Ling..." If he didn't understand Shen Yi's personality, he would almost suspect that the little boss in front of him was a spy of Qi Ren, or had already turned to Qi Ren!
Su Ding lowered his head, confused. In this case, the best situation is naturally for Shen Yi to lay an ambush on the western front and wait for Qi Ren to dive in.
But now, the entire Huai'an military force is here! It's all out there! Where did the ambush come from?
He suddenly looked up at Shen Yi, was silent for a while, and asked: "Mr. Shen, is it the Huaihe Navy?" Shen Yi shook his head silently.
"The Huaihe Navy won't help us, let alone risk their lives." Seeing that Su Ding couldn't understand, Shen Yi didn't say anything more, and just patted Su Ding's shoulder quietly.
"General Su, just watch."
"In my hometown, Shen is known as the man who counts every ten steps." He comforted Su Ding with a smile.
"Can't go wrong."
