"East China Sea No. 1 and No. 2, your two ships have the highest maneuverability. They will be divided into east and west ends. Once the enemy ships begin to rout, immediately encircle them from left to right."
"Here!"
"Donghai No. 3, No. 4, No. 5, the enemy ships will definitely attack at night, so we will take advantage of it. Once night falls, we will immediately launch the hot air balloon into the sky and prepare for an aerial attack."
"Yes, Duke Ping!"
"No. 7, No. 6, of the East China Sea, formed a formation to the east of the Taihao ship. No. 8, No. 9, formed a formation to the west of the Taihao ship. No. 10, No. 11 has set up fire support from a high platform behind the Taihao ship!"
"yes!"
Following Tang Ping's orders, the captains of each ship took orders and began to prepare.
This time, the other eleven warships that formed the fleet along with the Taihao ship, although they did not use iron armor structures, were definitely among the strongest warships of this era.
The No. 1 and No. 2 ships are not large, but they have the strongest maneuverability. Their speed is still higher than that of the Taihao. They are currently the fastest warships and are used for pursuit and containment.
Numbers 3 to 5, the ships are huge, just like the aircraft carriers of later generations. Each ship has four latest hot air balloons, or it is more appropriate to call it an airship.
The newly made airship can take off, land and change direction freely. The only shortcoming is that in order to reduce the counterweight, it does not carry much fuel and cannot fly for long and long distances. However, if it is launched from a battleship, it makes up for this. deficiencies.
Numbers 6 to 9 are the main gunboats similar to Taihao. They have new Tang Shenwei cannons and Frangi cannons on the sides and bow and stern. In addition, the Taihao ship's five battleships pour instant firepower. It is definitely The nightmare of all battleships in this era.
As for the No. 10 and No. 11 battleships, their main functions are supply ships, but they are not without combat effectiveness. The two huge ships have tall platforms similar to observation towers, each with nearly a hundred shooting positions, equipped with Li Tai A firecracker built based on the gun brought by Tang Ping.
Although the range is only more than a hundred meters, they are condescending. If an enemy ship approaches and wants to engage in a boarding battle, these muskets will deal a heavy blow to those enemies who are ready to join forces.
In fact, judging from the photos sent back by Tang Ping and others from the drone, with only the Taihao ship and the five warships No. 6 to No. 9 lined up, after two salvos, the enemy ships would surely suffer heavy casualties and then be defeated. .
But since he wanted to fight monsters and upgrade, Tang Ping planned to practice by treating the opponent as a regular East Vietnamese army.
The opponent was hiding behind a small island dozens of miles away and would naturally not launch an attack before dark. Tang Ping also asked the officers and men on each ship to have a good meal and recharge their batteries for the night battle.
"Hey, don't tell me, after going ashore once and getting back on the boat, I actually don't feel seasick anymore!" Lao Du rocked the boat twice with a happy face and found that although the boat was still in the water I feel swaying, but I don't seem to feel nauseous so easily.
"It may be that you are about to fight, and your adrenaline begins to secrete, making your resistance stronger." Tang Ping opened the box and began to put it on.
All the navy officers and soldiers who came out this time were not wearing the traditional equipment of the Tang Dynasty, but body armor and bulletproof helmets that Tang Ping purchased in large quantities from modern times. The 20,000 navy soldiers were all treasures of the Tang Dynasty, plus Baozi After the Battle of Chengdu, Tang Ping never wanted to see the soldiers following him die beside him, so he prepared these equipment.
At first, some people questioned whether this kind of armor without any metal could be compared with the metal armor of the past. However, when Xue Rengui could not penetrate these body armors even with a fully drawn strong bow at a distance of ten meters, everyone was confused. It smells so good. After getting dressed, all the ships fell silent, and the combatants hid behind the shooting positions. Only the drones observed each other from a distance in the sky.
"Today's sunset is also beautiful!"
Wang Qingluan said with a sigh as he looked at the setting sun that was about to set below the sea level.
If there wasn't a war coming soon, I would probably have a romantic evening with Tang Ping tonight.
"Haha, it's okay. After we deal with the Zhen family this time, we will take Tangtang to the beach to play. We will show her the sea and play with the sand!"
Beautiful things are always short-lived.
Such beauty
The beautiful sunset disappeared under the sea in just a moment. The entire sky began to darken, and then the darkness seemed to spread from one side of the sky to the other, until finally the entire world darkened.
"The enemy is moving!"
In the drone footage, the pirates' warships were like the eyes of hungry wolves, and they began to surround Tang Ping's location.
"Hot air balloon please take off!"
"Agreed to take off!"
Accompanied by the sound of waves and sea breeze, the hot air balloon slowly rose to an altitude of nearly 100 meters, and then began to slowly move forward for a few hundred meters, hovering in the air.
This position is the line of fire of the Taihao and other gunboats. When the enemy ships enter this position, the Taihao fleet will launch the most violent attack.
The sound of the steam engine on the hot air balloon reached the surface of the sea, and had long been covered up by the sound of waves and sea breeze. Not to mention the pirates, even Tang Ping and the others could barely see the hot air balloon in the sky with telescopes from their battleships.
Only the pirates didn't know that they had been discovered long ago.
Because in their opinion, even an observer standing on the observation deck can see the situation at most more than 20 miles away in today's weather, but they were hiding behind an island 40 kilometers away.
In addition, there are several small boats disguised as fishing boats observing the other party from a distance. Not to mention the other party sending out small boats to patrol, no one has even been on the observation deck.
I don’t know where the rookie led the fleet. Not only are they fat sheep, they are also blind fat sheep!
In addition, the direction they are traveling in is not only following the wind, but also following the ocean current, so the ship is very fast.
"Boss, after this vote is completed, are we really going north?"
An old pirate asked beside Fourth Master Luo.
"Hey, I don't want to leave either, but you have also seen that business in this sea area is getting harder and harder. East Vietnam has monopolized all shipping business from Fuyu, Fusang, Goguryeo to the south. We usually want to find an ordinary The little fat sheep are in trouble, and they haven’t opened much in the past two months.”
"The Hou Junji on the land in the north is now divided into one side. Even the Tang Dynasty has no time to pay attention to him. The grandson is going crazy and searching for money and plundering the people for the army. When the time comes, the Tang Dynasty will not only have a war with East Vietnam, but also There is also a battle with Beiyan who is now in Hou Junji. We are caught in the middle, and if we are not careful, the result will be irreversible."
After taking a sip of the wine from the wine gourd, Fourth Master Luo wiped his mouth with his sleeve: "This sea area was left by Brother Huzi to me and Qian Laosan in the past. Of course I don't want to give up like this, but this is all for nothing. As for the solution, we can only continue heading north to find trouble with those white-skinned and bearded people."
"Hey, Fourth Master, don't you have a crush on someone else's fair-skinned little lady?" A short-toothed pirate asked with a mean smile.
"Hahaha, Wu Yazai, those fair-skinned women are much taller than you. They are just as big as fair-skinned ladies!"
"Hehehe, we like the big ones!"
A group of pirates did not take this trip seriously. Judging from the various reported intelligence, not only did the other party not have weapons such as crossbows, they did not even have the proper vigilance. This was a big fat kid that had arrived at their doorstep. sheep.
After everyone makes a lot of money from this vote, it would not be a bad idea to go to the north to cause trouble for those white-skinned and bearded men.
"Okay, we'll be there in three miles. Send a signal to Qian Laosan's people." This sea area is where Fourth Master Luo grew up. He has been on this sea since he was born, even if there are no lights now. , but just by looking at the stars in the sky and the strength of the wind today, he knew where he was.
A pirate took out a whistle and made several sharp seabird calls. The sound was so high and loud that if you didn't know it, you wouldn't be able to tell that it was made by humans.
Then soon there was a response from the boat next to him. Master Luo, who cooperated with Qian Laosan tacitly, knew that the other party was also ready to attack.
The pirates finally started to get serious and took out the crossbows they had prepared long ago.
first round of attack
, they would attack with bows and arrows soaked in kerosene tied to their arrowheads.
Although human beings cannot live without fire, their fear of fire has never weakened for thousands of years. If they are suddenly attacked by fire in a dark night, even if the opponent's ship has armed forces, it will definitely be in chaos in a short time. At this time, they will use their most familiar gang-hopping method to jump onto the opposite ship to engage in a boarding battle. After mercilessly eliminating the people on the other side's ship, everything will be theirs.
At this moment, several shrill sounds suddenly sounded in the distance, and then light bombs flew into the sky with tail flames, illuminating the entire sea surface.
At this moment, Fourth Master Luo discovered that there were more than a dozen strange things flying above his head.
This has been discovered!
Although I don't know how the other party did it, since they were discovered in this way, it was too late to turn the wheel. As I said from the beginning, it was smooth sailing for them to come here, but it was not the case when they left.
The attack in this direction was originally intended to make it difficult for the opponent to escape, but now it has become a trigger to bury them.
"Come forward and start a gang fight!"
Fourth Master Luo shouted loudly, so what if he found out? The opponent's ship didn't even have a decent crossbow, so it couldn't pose a threat to its own warships. They had a total of forty-eight warships. As long as they surrounded them, they would be able to swarm the other side even with a crowd!
"Kill, kill, kill!" They were all licking blood from their swords. Under such circumstances, these pirates were aroused. They raised their weapons high and shouted while looking at the twelve weird ships opposite with ferocious faces. stand up.
Then soon, the sound from the opposite ship exploded in their ears like a thunderstorm during a summer typhoon.
"boom!"
"Boom boom!"
"Boom boom boom!"
For the first time in the Tang Dynasty, more than a hundred artillery salvos appeared in the sea near Sea Rat Island.
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