"The second step, of course, is to launch our hot air balloon air force!"
Zhen Yougan pointed to the small dot rising from the Tang Dynasty warship in the distance. Although it was far away, everyone knew that it must be a hot air balloon released by the Tang Dynasty.
In the battle at Baozicheng, Da Wei also suffered a lot from hot air balloons.
Humanity has never given up on conquering the sky. Back then, there were spies in Chang'an who could secretly make hot-air balloons to blow up the Tang Dynasty's ammunition depot. Over the years, the Wei Dynasty naturally found some ways to make hot-air balloons.
Although their current hot air balloons are almost the most open in the Tang Dynasty. They cannot turn except for taking off, and their progress can only rely on wind power or being towed by battleships, but they are still aerial power that cannot be underestimated.
After all, it is not too difficult to build this thing as long as you know how to do it. With Wei's financial resources, he could prepare a lot at once.
And they have all seen the artillery. They know that it is impossible for the Tang Dynasty to mount the artillery on the hot air balloon, so everyone is on the hot air balloon. The attack methods are the same.
In addition to throwing kerosene down there, they just used crossbows to shoot at each other.
Another reason why Wei chose to attack today is the wind direction. The current wind direction is blowing in the direction of the Tang Dynasty navy, so even if everyone uses warships to lead the hot air balloon, their own hot air balloon will definitely be able to float to the Tang Dynasty first. In the sky above the Tang Navy, as long as the kerosene is thrown down and one Tang warship is burned, they will lose one.
Following Zhen Xiong's order, one or two hot air balloons were launched into the sky on almost every large warship of the Wei Navy. Their number was more than ten times that of the Tang Dynasty. To describe it as overwhelming, it is not an exaggeration at all.
"Report, dozens of warships of the Tang Navy have begun to retreat, and two more warships are heading towards our flank, very fast, but there are still a few warships coming towards us."
The lookout on the flagship shouted loudly.
"Do you want to run away? Then use a few battleships to cut off the rear?" Zhen Xiong muttered with some uncertainty.
If he is on the opposite side, this should be the best choice.
Dozens of warships faced off against the Wei navy, but they were nothing more than a mantis. The opponent's ideal combat method should be to divide and defeat them, so Tang Ping used his prodigal son to deceive more than a hundred warships from Maoshanjiao.
Now facing the full combat power of the Wei navy, the opponent probably knows that they can't win, so they want to use a few warships to break up the rear and give other warships a chance to escape, and then deal with their guerrillas in the future?
You must know that it is impossible for the Wei navy to be out in force on the vast sea like this for a long time and hide and seek with the Tang navy. But with these few warships, do you want to cut off the rear? Do you look down upon your own Wei navy too much?
"Father, I'm afraid it's a scam, but please don't take it lightly." Zhen Youqian suddenly said at this time.
"Oh? Why?"
"Because..." Zhen Yougan hesitated and said, "I don't think Tang Ping is the kind of person who would give up on his colleagues..."
This was how he felt after he and Tang Ping had been on a desert island for a while. Although there was no convincing feeling, he just intuitively felt that Tang Ping was definitely not the type to let some people stop him and then run away first.
Zhen Xiong shook his head. It seemed that his son was still a little tender.
"Have you read the popular story about the Three Kingdoms in the Tang Dynasty?"
"I see... I heard the singer sing."
"Now that we know it, then how did Zhuge retreat to Sima Yi when he was surrounded by the Wei army in the west city after the defeat of Jieting?"
Zhen Yougan thought for a moment, and then said: "Father, are you talking about... the empty city strategy?"
"That's right, the way of using troops is unreal and real. Now from the surface, Tang Ping only sent a few warships to fight, which is extremely unreasonable. He may not have the idea to make us think this is some kind of strategy."
"Who knows that this kind of method is still a bit immature for my father. You have to remember that the method of using troops is to surround an enemy ten times and attack it five times. Now the strength of our army is more than ten times that of the opponent. This is so vast.
On the vast sea, could he, Tang Ping, still be able to control the wind and rain? If not, then just use the army to cover them up, no need to hesitate. "
Although Zhen Youqian felt that what Zhen Xiong said made sense, he felt something was wrong in his heart.
However, they could no longer think too much about the battlefield situation at this time, because the assault ships of the Wei Navy had already approached the few battleships left by the Tang Navy at extremely fast speeds.
The Tang Dynasty did not expect that the Wei navy would use so many small ships to charge. After all, when Qian Laosan and Luo Siye were dealing with the East Vietnam Navy in the past, they relied on huge new warships to crush their pirate ships. .
Although the warships of the Tang Dynasty's East China Sea Fleet were mainly powered by steam engines, they were large ships after all. If they turned around, they would still not be as fast as these small speedboats approaching at high speed.
Therefore, Qian Laosan and Master Luo also issued orders immediately.
"All gun positions, two volleys. Then the musketeers prepare to engage."
What Zhen Xiong, the navy of the Wei Dynasty, did not calculate was that although the navy of the Tang Dynasty was equipped with artillery, they were not the big and stupid Tang Dynasty Shenwei cannons like those in Baozicheng. They were modified by Li Tai based on the Frankie cannon. Version 2.0 of the Tang Shenwei Cannon.
Its power and range are not as good as the Tang Shenwei Cannon of the past, but its rate of fire is much faster.
The current East China Sea Fleet warships are not far apart, and they are no more than three kilometers away from the Taihao ship in the middle, so they don't even use semaphores, and the two people's orders are passed on through the walkie-talkie.
Just after the swarm-like assault ships of the Wei navy entered the artillery range, Tang Ping's artillery specially prepared for naval battles truly appeared in this world for the first time.
You must know that the last time they tried to intimidate Qian Laosan and the others, they did not use all their strength.
There are more than ten gun positions on the sides of each battleship, and this can be regarded as a hundred guns firing at once.
The navy of the Wei Dynasty cannot be said to have never seen the world. They have been galloping around the sea for many years. What kind of wind and rain have they not seen?
They had seen typhoons like the one Tang Ping and Zhen Youqian encountered several times.
But this is the first time I have seen this kind of scene.
The roaring sound was endless. Some assault ships were directly hit. Needless to say, the consequences were that they were sunk directly on the spot.
Although other shells did not hit those assault ships, the waves they caused may not be a big deal to large battleships, but for such small ships, it was also a disaster.
Many assault ships were not hit, but were overturned by the waves.
"Rush, the only way to survive is to rush over!"
Someone on these assault ships yelled. They knew what their own role was from the moment they boarded the ship. It was to consume the opponent's ammunition and artillery reloading time.
If they back off now, not only will they not be able to get a good deal, but their family members back home will also not have a good life.
On the contrary, with the fearless charge now, there is still a good chance of survival.
There were a large number of these assault ships. Although two salvos destroyed a little more than a third of the assault ships, the others were still approaching the Tang Navy.
Zhen Xiong was also startled when he saw hundreds of cannons fired from the opposite side. Although he still looked calm on his face, he was actually clenching his toes.
He even almost blurted out an order to the warships behind him to postpone their advance.
Fortunately, he held back and watched as almost two-thirds of the assault ships approached the Datang Navy. After two rounds of salvo fire, the Datang Navy's artillery fell silent.
He thought he was loading cannonballs, and finally a smile appeared on his face.
"Yougan, do you see? The force is unpredictable. The artillery of the Tang Navy just now really exceeded my expectations, but what's the use? In the face of absolute strength, it's all in vain. Hahahaha, the overall situation is decided!"
