Chapter 85: Turbulent undercurrent
The flag embroidered with thunder and lightning on one side of the flagship rose to the ground, followed by the sound of the big drum, and the drums followed everywhere, and the world was full of passionate drums.
"Go southwest, head against the wind! Get the upper hand!" Yan Changwu ordered.
This is the planned plan. The flagship with the high command flag slowly accelerates, but the speed of the tier 6 fast cruiser that rushes forward has already increased. They began to make violent maneuvers, turning the rudder to the left, and the stern spinnaker tensioned to assist the ship. Turning his head, in the tense work of the sailors, the girder of the foremast and mainmast also turned, and the sail was under force and moved against the wind.
They dispatched Tier 3 (2 ships), Tier 5 (4 ships), and Tier 6 (18 ships) warships, commanded by Yan Changwu, and a hodgepodge of other ships, jointly commanded by Li Ying and Storm.
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Seeing from a distance that the Southeast Mansion had such a large battleship, Yu Zigao shouted angrily: "Good thief!"
There is no regret in his heart. Knowing that the opponent's strength is strong, it is no more than the sea to fight.
Zhu Yifeng was also shocked in his heart. He knew that he was not in a hurry for success, and waited until Yu Zigao had a decision. Now at sea, there is no way to escape.
After all, he is a big official. Seeing all the generals and officials around him panicked, he shouted: "There is no retreat now, all the generals, for the sake of your wealth, prosperity and wealth, there is only one fight!"
A word to wake up the dreamer, everyone wakes up, if this battle is defeated, everything will stop!
Qianhu Ma Sheng said: "Things are urgent, I am willing to be a pioneer and break the enemy ahead!"
Governor Zhu praised his words and said with joy: "This fuss is cheering for General Ma!" (Thousand households did not reach the rank of General Ma, Zhu Yifeng did not make a mistake, but promised that once victory, General Ma Sheng would be expected)
Yu Zigao nodded and gave a few instructions. Ma Sheng hurriedly took the boat, led the fleet of nearly a hundred ships and turned to the right rudder. He will take on the heavy task of dealing with the enemy's main fleet.
He drew nearly two-fifths of the team, Yu Zigao's team seemed thinner, Zhu Yifeng saw this and made a ruthless statement, and ordered: "Today's battle, there are no defeats, until the day of success, Ben fends off Kuyin, each of the combatants has two taels of silver, and the officers fifty taels. If the arson boat burns an enemy splint, one hundred taels of silver will be rewarded (16 people on board the arson boat)."
The price is not low, and the monthly salary of the seventh-rank official of the imperial court is only five taels of silver. After the news was passed on by the speedboat, the morale of the Ming army officers and soldiers regained their morale, and they all said, "Fight!"
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Both troops are approaching. Now that Ma Sheng's troops can get the upper hand before the main force of the Southeast Mansion's splint boat, it will be the key to victory.
It is important to know that naval battles are nothing more than interceptions, impacts, shelling and fire attacks. Although the current shelling is showing up for the first time, it has not completely changed the battlefield situation. (Yan Changwu’s eighteen battleships fired a lot of artillery, but only five ships in the sinking area were hit. Explained rules), so the fire attack is the most powerful one. Burning the enemy can't beat the fire, and it can often be used to determine the victory or defeat.
Today’s sailing warships are made of wood, including the canopy, ropes, sails, boards and other objects on the ship, all of which are flammable, such as the Three Kingdoms Chibi, Cao Cao’s navy boats connected, and the flags that cover the river, but they can’t resist Zhou Lang’s The fire burned and the entire army was annihilated, which has since changed Chinese history.
Arson ships and rockets pose a great threat to sailing warships. Although there are various measures to prevent them, when the ship catches fire and is blown by the wind, it becomes a prairie fire, which is really terrifying.
Don’t look at the current Yan Changwu battleship Niu 13 coaxing, as long as the Daming Navy has the upper hand, Yu Zigao dare to say that he should send him to see his cheap father!
The horses led the team to attack, and they kept urging their subordinates to grab the wind. Now the southwest wind is blowing. The horse wins the crosswind and the opponent is headed against the wind. If they are confident that they have the upper hand, they immediately rush to attack.
Thinking of being able to burn the opponent's big ship with the arson ship, Ma Sheng's heart throbbed. This is an unworldly achievement!
was dreaming Huang Liang’s beautiful dream, and the small school next to him pushed him anxiously: "Lord Thousand Households, look!"
Ma Sheng looked intently and saw the splint ship of the Southeast Fleet speeding up quickly, like a galloping horse!
Ma Sheng is in a hurry! Roar and let the warship grab the wind, grab the wind!
Yu Zigao was dumbfounded, her lips trembled, and she couldn't say a word for a long time.
Zhu Yifeng is not familiar with maritime affairs. He saw it from a distance through the telescope and asked strangely: "Has the direction of the wind changed?"
He saw that the direction of the big bow on the ship was still the southwest wind. Although it weakened, the southwest wind was still blowing firmly.
The fleet is blowing from the southwest wind, but where is the northeast wind?
Yu Zigao said bitterly: "Yang Baihu, you can explain it to the governor!"
Hundred households Yang Shijue said: "There must be an undercurrent in the waters of this place~www.wuxiaspot.com~ to drive ships to walk."
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"Ren'er counts, how can you count the undercurrents here!" On the flagship, Yan Changwu felt that the undercurrents pushed the ship to speed up like a big wave in the Yangtze River, and forced himself to suppress his youthful nature, while others waited early. Just cheered.
As the so-called strong dragon does not suppress the snake, Yan Changwu operates here. As a future warrior, he does not know that his fleet must have a "hydrological survey ship". The job of this auxiliary ship is to record charts every time he arrives. , Climate, wind direction, ocean currents, temperature, salt concentration, etc. As for the undercurrents here, they are close to the local area, so how can it not be recorded clearly.
detailed records to **** the battleship.
It turned out that there was a reef outside of Beigang that resembled the Great Wall, which blocked a jet stream under the water and changed its direction to the mainland. Now the Southeast Fleet uses the driving force of this ocean current to beat the blowing of the wind!
Everyone knows that there are undercurrents, but where the undercurrents start, where they end, and how powerful they are, they cannot be clearly described by a ship boss. The results must be obtained by a survey ship. Here is the function of the survey ship.
When the three cruise ships rushed to the upper wind, the fastest ship in the Ma Sheng formation was also able to reach it. This was the most skilled ship boss rushing to the front, and the ships behind were still a hundred meters away.
Then the tragedy happened, and the three cruisers fired one after another!
The gunners quickly fired three side volleys. The sawdust that had been beaten to drove the ship was flying around and riddled with holes. Although it was not sunk, it had lost its mobility and was taken away by the water!
, the captain of the Kaohsiung No. 1 ship, Sires, raised the leader's flag on horseback, and the warships in the back filed in, one after another, into the battle line!
A series of artillery fire was vented towards the Ming army!
