With the rumbling of war drums, the warships of the Wei clan behind them finally discovered them.
"Come here, open the sail and hoist them, but don't let them get lost!"
Looking at the Wei clan warships behind him, Wen Ge gave instructions casually.
"Sir, those Han people are provoking us!"
Behind him, the navy soldiers of Wei's North Korea immediately understood the Han army's intentions.
"Catch up as fast as I can, I'm going to skin them!"
Basically all of these soldiers are from around here, and many of their families live in this city.
Among them is Min Jingwen's family. His old father died in the fire last night.
The enemy who killed his father was right in front of him. How could he let them go at this time?
"promise!"
"The general has orders, pursue at full speed!"
Following his order, more than thirty warships spread their sails and chased the four warships of the Han army towards the deep sea.
After all, Min Jingwen and the others were on their home court, and they were very familiar with this sea area.
In addition, the Han army was not exerting its full strength now. As time went by, they finally slowly caught up.
"How far is it from the intended target?"
Seeing the distance between the two sides getting closer, Wen Ge hurriedly looked at the captain beside him.
"Replying to my lord, we still have about thirty miles to go! Should we move forward at full speed?"
"Thirty miles? Let the trebuchet prepare and aim at the ship in front. When they are far enough away, give him a hard hit."
Wen Ge smiled and then said.
"But if they hit the mast, I'm afraid we will have to walk around without food."
In any case, there are many trebuchets on the other side's ship.
Moreover, the two sides have never officially fought. Even the captains know all about the Wei Navy through those merchant ships.
If there is any deviation from this, it will not be fun at that time.
"Look at the trebuchets on our ship. These were made by the madmen from the Wuhan Institute. Do you think the trebuchets made by those barbarians can compare with this thing?"
Wen Ge is not worried at all about this.
Anyway, their boat is fast, and they can stop and go at the same speed.
Completely blocking those Wei's naval forces out of their own range.
"promise!"
After his analysis, even the captain of the ship suddenly became energetic.
This is a good time to make achievements. It is already a huge achievement for them to attract these people this time.
If we could kill one or two of these ships along the way, our military exploits would be even greater.
As long as all these naval forces can be annihilated, the entire coast of the Datong River will be like an uninhabited country!
Of course, behemoths like the Kunpeng and Jinyang cannot enter the inland river, but these small ships responsible for escort tasks do not have this worry.
With the elite level of the Han army, as long as they could send a few thousand troops to the hinterland of the Wei family, the only outcome that awaited the Wei family and his son was defeat.
After all, the Han army's 60,000 troops were approaching in Liaodong, and all their main manpower had to be concentrated on the Liaodong front line.
There are very few combatable soldiers in this country that can be mobilized. Even if they could improvise an army, how could they fight against the elite Han army?
"Prepare the trebuchet, everyone is ready to join the gang and fight! Hold up the racket stick for me!"
In this day and age, the naval combat methods of these Wei clan North Korea are still somewhat old-fashioned.
Basically, it's still a matter of using bows and arrows and trebuchets from a distance, shooting sticks and hook locks from a distance, and then jumping onto the opponent's ship for close combat.
Compared with them, the Han army had many more options for combat methods.
If he didn't want to expose the existence of gunpowder weapons, Wen Ge would have ordered it to be blown up with explosives.
Although the use of gunpowder weapons in naval battles is a brand new field, there is a bug like Liu Deng.
Coupled with the group of lunatics from the Wuhan Institute, in just half a year, they came up with seven or eight kinds.
Some people use trebuchets to throw them in the distance, and some people use wooden barrels to detonate them along the river.
Melee combat is even simpler. The fire dragon gun, grenades, and the abridged version of the Morostov cocktail are all absolute killers.
Especially the fire dragon gun, this thing is a real "fire" gun!
A long tube made of animal hide and bamboo, coupled with a simple manual pressure pump.
It only takes a few people to cooperate, and barrels of kerosene can be sprayed onto enemy ships.
In this day and age, no one except Liu Deng can wrap steel plates around ships.
Therefore, once the purely wooden ship was set on fire, it seemed that they had no other choice but to jump off the ship.
After all, this kind of refined kerosene is also mixed with white phosphorus and molasses. This thing has terrible adhesion, so long as it sticks to the body, unless you cut it off with the skin and flesh.
Otherwise, the final outcome will be to be burned alive!
In this day and age, the power of this thing is simply unparalleled.
"Sir, the distance is almost there!"
Seeing that the distance between the two sides was almost the same, and even without a telescope, it was possible to clearly see the beards on the faces of the sailors on the opposite ship. The captain immediately reported to Wen Ge.
"Change to solid bullets, aim at the side of their ship, and give them a big hit!"
Wen Ge suddenly became energetic, stood up immediately, and came to the trebuchet in person.
Several soldiers directly adjusted the limit plate of the trebuchet to the maximum, and then a dozen people worked together to start turning the winch.
Along with the heart-wrenching squeaking sound, the ropes made of cowhide mixed with steel wire began to make bursts of overwhelmed groans.
Although there is only one trebuchet on this ship, the range of this thing can send iron bullets weighing 50 kilograms 500 steps away, even in headwind conditions.
Under the infusion of this powerful kinetic energy, this huge force is simply not something that ordinary wooden ships can withstand.
As long as it can hit, the power will definitely not disappoint!
"put!"
Following Wen Ge's order and the dull buzzing of the trip wire, the trebuchets on the three warships simultaneously launched three black projectiles towards the front Wei's warship.
"not good!"
The soldiers on the Wei's warship finally realized something was wrong, but this was not the high-tech warship of later generations.
If this ordinary sailing boat wants to turn, there is no way it can be done in a hurry...
