When the Weihai Navy's artillery roared, Zhao Gou was holding a wine glass and dancing with the beauties on the deck of the dragon boat.
While dancing, he unyieldingly peeled off the beauties' clothes, admiring the beauties' jade-like skin, hoping that his lower body could give them some strength.
For many years, the subordinates were still unable to do anything. No matter how many doctors tried their best, they could not cure Zhao Gou's impotence, so they could only let it go. Zhao Gou finally despaired and passed the throne to Zhao Kuangyin's descendants to accumulate some virtue for himself.
But as a man, as a man with a high dominance status, it is very shameful to be unable to hold your head high.
Seeing his courtiers and relatives having a great time and drinking, one woman after another was hugged to the bed, while he had a highly qualified and highly skilled professional bed-keeping team, but they were unable to exercise their power because they could not lift their heads.
How could this not make him feel resentful and depressed?
Even though he had given up the throne, he still had a small desire in his heart.
But he was disappointed again.
No matter how the senior technicians of the professional sleeping team who danced with him showed off their professional skills, Zhao Gou could never regain the feeling he had before he was twenty-one years old.
He could not recapture the passionate impulse of the past.
So he couldn't fire.
However, the Ming army's artillery shot woke up the man in his dream, and he instantly lost the idea of continuing to fire.
The roar of the Ming army's artillery was like thunder coming to the world, and the sound was so powerful that Zhao Gou was suddenly frightened and became incontinent. He leaked urine while escaping into the cabin, and hid shivering.
The task of commanding the battle fell on Yang Cunzhong, a veteran who was over seventy years old.
Yang Cun's heart felt cold. Seeing Ming army warships everywhere, he realized that he had fallen into a trap. The Ming army might have been waiting here for a long time.
But why?
Was someone snitching?
Why would their marching route be known to the Ming army?
He had no choice but to muster up his courage and use his last energy to command the Song warships to attack the Ming warships.
He was old and felt that he did not have much time left to live. In order to repay Zhao Gou for his kindness and favor, he felt that it would not matter even if he died here.
Therefore, he was not timid and faced the Weihai Navy head-on, fighting the Ming army to the death with determination.
More than 20 main warships equipped with artillery in the Weihai Navy took the lead and used artillery to bombard the Song Army warships that hurriedly attacked.
After a roar, the Ming army's gunboats' powerful firepower sank and damaged numerous Song army warships.
The well-trained navy of the Song Army, under the command of Yang Cunzhong, originally planned to launch a fierce gang-hopping battle with the Ming Army, fight a bloody road, and protect Zhao Gou to death on Liuqiu Island.
However, the Ming Army's gunboats had powerful firepower. A large number of Song Army's warships were sunk by the Ming Army's gunboats before they had time to engage in gang-hopping operations.
Yang Cunzhong had heard that the Ming army had a new type of firearm called artillery, which played a great role in the Battle of Xiangfan. However, he had never seen artillery in a water battle and had no strategy for dealing with it.
Seeing the Ming army's gunboats marching forward bravely and the Song army's warships retreating steadily and even showing signs of collapse, he became anxious and decided to go to war in person instead of commanding from the center, calling on the ships that could still fight to attack bravely with him and try to get closer. Ming army warship.
As long as they get close, they can start a real battle with the Ming army, avoid their extensive use of artillery, and give full play to the Song army's advantages in gang-hopping operations.
His flagship issued a call, ordering the remaining Song army warships that could still attack to move forward bravely and charge with him towards the Ming army.
However, his behavior caused his ship to be attacked by concentrated fire from the Ming army.
The Ming gunboats fired a large number of artillery pieces to attack Yang Cunzhong's ship. After more than a dozen shells hit his ship, his ship was seriously damaged and eventually sunk.
Yang Cunzhong faithfully fulfilled his mission - to protect Zhao Gou until his death.
He watched helplessly as the hull of the ship cracked and leaked everywhere, and he watched helplessly as the soldiers ran and screamed in fear, or jumped off the ship holding planks to survive.
His soldiers tried to take him to escape to other ships to continue fighting, but Yang Cunzhong already knew that this was a battle with no chance of winning. His fate was to die here to repay Zhao Gou for his many years of kindness.
So he stood there, sinking to the bottom of the sea with his ship.
Yang Cunzhong died, and Zhao Gou was hopeless.
In order to show his status and enjoy luxury, Zhao Gou's ship is the largest and most luxurious in the entire fleet. One ship is worth seven or eight ordinary warships.
There are four levels of cabins on the deck. He and his beauties and chamberlains live on the top floor. They can overlook the ship and the sea. The beautiful scenery is unobstructed and makes people feel relaxed and happy.
Other service staff and soldiers on the ship live in the lower floors. All the departments that serve him in the palace are here, but the scale is a little smaller. But although the sparrow is small and has all the internal organs, it is equivalent to It's a miniature version of the palace.
Some people cook for him, some make his clothes, some play music for him, some make aromatherapy for him, some heal his body, some even keep pets for him, and so on.
Even if he is fleeing, Zhao Gou must maintain his quality of life and never do anything that damages his identity.
After the Ming warships surrounded the entire Zhao Gou fleet, they sank dozens of warships, captured dozens of warships, and almost completely destroyed the Song fleet.
Zhao Gou's dragon boat was the last to be surrounded by the Ming army. When the Ming army's warships surrounded the dragon boat, the Song soldiers on the dragon boat were still firing arrows to resist, but in the face of the Ming army soldiers' attacks from all sides, this resistance was in vain. of.
Zhou Mancheng took a fancy to this ship and planned to capture it and offer it to Su Yonglin. For Zhao Gou's safety, he did not bombard it with artillery. Instead, he sent elite sailors to board the ship and kill the Song army guards. The entire ship was captured intact.
Gang-hopping warfare is not a mainstream tactic of the Ming Navy, but it does not mean that the Ming Navy is not good at gang-hopping warfare. They rushed onto the dragon boat in large numbers. The Song Army on board tried their best to resist, but faced the fierce Ming Army battle formation. , it was meaningless, and they were quickly defeated, and were killed by the Ming army into the cabin.
In the end, most of the guards on the ship died in the battle, and the remaining few surrendered decisively, knelt on the ground and stopped resisting.
Other personnel on the ship, such as chamberlains, palace maids, clerks, musicians, etc., had no strength to resist, and the Ming army did not embarrass them. They were all captured in large numbers.
On the top floor of the cabin, the Ming soldiers did not find Zhao Gou. Even after Zhou Mancheng boarded the ship in person, he did not find Zhao Gou here, so some people suspected that Zhao Gou was not here.
But Zhou Mancheng insisted that Zhao Gou was here, and ordered the search to continue, and finally found the horrified Zhao Gou in the dirty hut at the bottom of the ship.
This guy had a quick wit in the moment of crisis. He ran all the way from the top of the cabin to the hut on the bottom and hid. He also changed into coarse clothes, smeared dirt on his face, and pretended to be a manure digger. However, because he was too handsome, he was still The Ming army discovered something was wrong.
How could there be such a rich and old manure collector?
Sure enough, this guy is Zhao Gou.
He resisted with all his strength, and when he found that he couldn't resist, he knelt on the ground and burst into tears, begging Zhou Mancheng not to kill him, but to give him a way to live so that he could continue to live. As long as he could survive, he would give Zhou Mancheng everything.
Gold, silver, treasures, food and wine, or beautiful women, whatever he wants is given to him, as long as he lives.
Seeing the panic and panic on his face, Zhou Mancheng couldn't hide his disgust for him.
"What an extremely foolish and foolish king. Even though he has come to this point, he still wants to make a show. How much does it cost to build such a big ship and be so extravagant? How many soldiers can he raise with so much money? What a waste of money for you? If you use your money to support the army, will you end up in this situation?"
Zhao Gou replied tremblingly while crying.
"Please general, please don't kill me! Don't kill me! I'll give you whatever you want! I'll give you whatever you want!!"
No matter what Zhou Mancheng said, Zhao Gou just begged for life and said nothing else. His cowardly look was really unbearable for Zhou Mancheng.
So he waved his hand and ordered the soldiers to tie Zhao Gou up. Because he didn't want to continue listening to his chatter, he ordered his mouth to be blocked with a cloth to prevent him from talking more.
