Chapter 777: The Forgotten Grand Don Navy

The bloody battle finally began on the Yangtze River.Whether it is Chen Ying or Li Shimin, it is very clear.What really determines the victory of the Jiangnan battlefield is not the gains and losses of one city and one place, but the control of the Yangtze River.

Whoever controls the waterway of the Yangtze River means that he has the initiative on the battlefield.Losing the initiative of the Yangtze River means losing the initiative on the battlefield.

To this end, Li Shimin had to take out the blood book, and Chen should be a longer short.For example, three or four hundred ocean-going transport ships were singled out from the ocean fleet.

Although the ocean fleet is the lifeline of Li Shimin's loss from Fusang mainland to the Central Plains, in order to compete for the control of the Yangtze River channel, Li Shimin has not cared so much.In fact, with the failure of participating in the battle of the East China Sea and the loss of several storms, Li Shimin's ocean-going fleet has dropped to more than 6,000, despite heavy losses, this number is still several times the advantage of the Datang Water Division.

Of course, the most important function of this ocean fleet today is not to transport people, but to transport supplies, such as food, such as equipment, and various supplies.

In contrast, the great Tangba Shu water master led by the search for the face seemed much more shabby.There was no water division built by Li Jing in Jiangnan, no Dengzhou water division, and even Luoyang Yellow River Marine Division did not participate in the war.The only warships participating in the war were mainly collected sand ships and squares, and the number was only poor thirty-seven.

There is no way, Chen Ying found that Li Shimin's main force comes from the huge ocean transport fleet, he will be all the water division warships of Datang, all together, ready to ambull this ocean transport fleet, the second step is to completely destroy Li Shimin's captain in the central and southern peninsula.

Only by destroying Li Shimin's oceanic transport fleet, this war will not be fought endlessly.

Yangtze swallows.

Fuso Marine Division three or four hundred escort warships, the sails are heavy, covering the sky, Wei spectacular.Although the Grand Donbas Shu Shu master is nearly ten times worse than the Fuso Mariner in quantity.

But they were not afraid, raised the bloody battle flag, and the sails rushed downstream!

On both sides of the Yangtze River, in the hands of the Fuso coalition, everyone ran out to see the war, saw their own fleet was vast, and when the number of Tang army fleets was scarce, many people laughed at it, a white-clad show only shook the fan, shaking his head: "Looking for the old thief's warship is only a part of my royal fleet, although it is down the line, actually dare to fight, when it is really a car!"

Several students laughed and said: "The king's fleet is flourishing, and it is flowing down the river, and more than one million Jiangnan people are helping, all day and earth and people are doing their best, winning tickets are in the running ah!"I waited and relaxed my heart to see how His Royal Highness the Prince broke the thief's chieftain and plucked up the old thief's beard!"

A student whispered, “That old man is not good to deal with... His Royal Highness, after all, is afraid that he is not his opponent!”

His voice was so light that he could only hear it himself, and of course, deliberately did not dare to be heard.

By this time, the distance between the two fleets had been very close.Several giant ships in Fuso opened fire at the same time, of course, these weapons were all gunners of Roman origin.

Although the gun is called a gun, it is similar to the eight cattle of the Tang, and it is all using the tension of the crossbow arm as the firing kinetic energy.Although the power is small, the range is very limited.

The bowl of large stone bombs flew out at high speed, and then smashed a row of drainage columns outside six or seven hundred steps, which was quite spectacular, but unfortunately useless.

But the group of students shouted, and the white-clad students said: "First to seize people, without war to deter the enemy, very good, very good!"

Some people wondered: "Strike so many guns, even the sails of the enemy ship have not been wiped, this is also good?"

The white-clad bookman looked at the guy and hummed coldly: "This is called weakness to the enemy!"It means that it can be shown as not, and it is not necessary to use it, you know?”

The man wondered even more: "You just said that you want to seize people first, how can you suddenly become weak than the enemy?"

The white-clad student: “...I don’t understand it to a rough person like you!”

Watching the water division of the Fuso coalition forces closer and closer, the smile on the face of the search grew stronger and stronger.

Thirty-seven ships of the Ba Shu Shushui Division habitually side-slitted against the enemy, and then anchored.This is also no way, although the rocket can be fired in the march, but the strike is launched, the target is not easy to control, in order to hit the target, you must look at the mood of the rocket.

The thuds of sweatyness, the first salvos of thirty-seven warships were fired upon, the waves were tumbling, the smoke was cut, and a terrible sea of fire was raised in the Fuso Water Division.

Although the hull is tall, the ocean transport ship generally has a load capacity of a thousand tons in the future, the key is because it is large, the target is also large, and it is easier to hit the target.In order for the rocket to accurately hit the target of the size of the human body, it is estimated that one hundred fire bombs are difficult to hit, but it is much easier to target the warship that is as long as 25 or six feet long.

Countless ocean-going warships hulls raised a terrifying flame, and even a rocket bomb broke through several decks, exploded inside the warship, breaking into two, and sinking rapidly at a speed visible to the naked eye.

More is to be blown flesh and blood flying, there is no trick to not be busy happy, the rocket explosion after the fire, immediately let the hull blaze!Ocean-going giant ships that can accommodate nearly a thousand sailors immediately burst into the sky, exploding, and many sailors rolled from the deck into the river with a fire, and the desolate screams were sensational.

The people on both sides of the strait were dumb when they landed, and the eyes of many people fell on the white-clad student, who was embarrassed and said: "The victory and defeat are the common thing of the soldiers, we have hundreds of warships, but they have lost dozens of building ships, why should we care?"

Obviously, Prince Li Chengqian also thought so, he commanded the fleet to hold the pressure, intend to rely on the number of dead, your rocket is so powerful so dozens, Laozi's warships are faster than your rockets more, a wave of waves hit past, do not believe the pile will not die you!

Li Chengqian is not a false name, in the era of the winner is king, he was despised as a poor loser.As a prince, there are two princes in history who can not be a villain, one is the Wei Prince Liu, who also dares to resist in anger in the face of his old son, Hanwu Emperor Liu Che.According to the Chinese book, Liu Shi began to raise the flag at noon in July, and he was defeated in July, that is to say, nine days later.Although Liu only supported for nine days, he did not have an army, relying only on criminal prisoners and the dead in the East Palace, and was able to climb up to the sky with Liu Cher for nine days.

The second prince is Li Chengqian, who was united with Hou Junjie when Li Shimin was preparing to abolish him, and jointly plotted against him, and finally lost.And no matter what ability, the person who dares to call Li Shimin is the only one among the sons of Li Shi.

Li Chengqian smiled coldly and said, “Fire the ship!”

At this moment, countless Fuso watermasters began to release that small elongated boat.The boat is extremely shallow, similar to the dragon boat of the future, with more than 30 oarsmen, and the speed of sailing at full speed can be drawn at 189 knots.

Looking unexpectedly at the small, strong and powerful sailors, he said indignantly, "It is a nun!"

This is a more skillful point of Li Shimin, he found that Xingmatai's slaves are extremely obedient, and they are very unsatisfied in fighting.

At this time, the search felt wrong, these small fast boats are particularly fast, can not be aimed at the end of the line, although a rocket hit a velocity hit a velocity, then exploded, forming a fire of more than 200 steps.

The rocket is not as powerful, and the only explanation is that the fast ship has something similar to fire oil.

At this moment, the search felt the pressure.No matter how powerful your fleet is, no matter how powerful your fleet is, in the face of this group of fire ships that rush at tens of kilometers per hour, only the part of being smashed into the bones, who wants to fight with such a crazy opponent?

I don't want to find it anyway!

But now they do not want to, the river is so wide, the forward is good, want to retreat is a little difficult, everyone wants to leave this right and wrong place, avoid the kiss of death of the rocket ship, panic under the inevitable collision, the hull fracture sound is endless, the rocket ship offensive has not yet launched, their losses rose in a straight line.

And Li Chengqian did not waste such an opportunity, a command, the rocket ship ignited, the little man above the look of feverish, shouting "onboard", the manipulation of hundreds of pounds of fire oil of the small boat arrows a swept across the river, a head into the Ba Shu master chaos in the middle of the fleet disappeared.

The explosion rang like thunderstorms.

Explosions flashes like a festive ceremony dazzling.

The pillar of fire held up a large piece of hull fragments.

Fires were fired inside the ruptured hull.

Seeing that his fleet had lost more than half, he also caught fire.

“Daughter, isn’t it just hard?Who is afraid of whom!”The searcher screamed, “The general ordered, don’t step back, and fire all the rockets out!”

As the sad war rallied from the sky, the remaining dozen rocket ships ignited the remaining rockets, and they did not take into account the tail flame of the rocket, and the brain launched all the rockets on the ship.

Since then, the whole river has become more lively.

In particular, the large amount of tail flame and gas generated by the rocket launch covered the entire river surface, and rockets like meteor showers exploded from time to time in the middle of the Fuso Marine Division warships.

The Fuso Water Division, who is trying to die by means of a number of people, has a worst nightmare, and their formation is so close and chaotic that the rocket can hit a warship with closed eyes, and once it is hit, it will explode, and most warships are only blown into two pieces!

Those sailors also tried to shoot at the Tang army sailors with crossbow guns, but there was no use, and the rocket ships occupied an absolute advantage, regardless of range or shooting speed.

Wave after wave in the "onboard" call rushed, the search of the ship hit the fire, and more Fuso Marine battleships were blown up!

Blood and fire stained the river surface, and the Jiangnan people watching the battle on both sides of the Yangtze River watched the battle blindly watched this terrible massacre, and the birds were silent.

As for the white-clad Confucian who seemed to have read several military books, he had already become dumb, staring at all this, and could not say a word.

If you look closely, you will find that this verb's face has become as white as his clothes, and his two legs are shaking more than cotton.

Thirty-seven ships lost their full twenty-nine ships, and for this part, the retreat of any fleet was inevitable, but the search for three consecutive flagship commands was still not half the intention to give up.

However, Li Chengqian, who lost nearly half of the ocean battleship, was only a hairy child, and his heart first collapsed.

Under half push and half under the lower part, Li Chengqian retreated.

As Li Chengqian retreated, other Fuso water masters also followed the retreat, and the swallow rocky water war gradually came to an end.

There were no winners in this battle, and only four of the 37 warships were finally stumbling back, while Li Chengqian lost more than 300 warships, and as many as 100 as many as the fireboats.

...

Along the drive all the way to the south and east, Chen and Su Dingfang will meet with Su Ding.

Looking at the dense Tang army camp as dense as an ant, Chen Ying and all the generals of the Tang army were grim and silent.

Only He Yueer still with a cynicism smile, looked at Chen Ying smiled and said: "We are about to fight with the Fuso coalition, is it strong?"

Chen Ying's face smiled bitterly: "It is not an idiot who is not nervous, I am not a lack of heart, I am not, of course, nervous."

He said, “Actually, you don’t have to be nervous.I have seen through it, all this seems to be destined, and the tension is useless!"

Looking at He Yue, who never seemed to be timid, and the nerves were as thick as a woman of steel, Chen should be dumbfounded and laughed.

He Yue said, “Don’t laugh, what I say is true!”

"Well, I believe that everything you say is true... maybe all this is not really fixed, we are nervous and useless, only to fight to death, kill him a river of blood, see if this single-minded God who is forced to death can open his eyes and give us a little way to live..."

Chen should finish, his eyes are deep looking at the night sky in the south, and he seems to want to penetrate the layers of fog and see the battle on the Yangtze River.

The battle on the Yangtze River itself, Chen should not worry, and the temporary defeat does not mean anything.After the reconstruction of the shipyard in Rongzhou, Ba Shu has a complete shipbuilding industry system in the upstream.

In fact, the shipbuilding industry is not worse than Jiangnan, and can even be said to be higher.As early as the Spring and Autumn Warring States Period, the Chu Guoshui Army was the most powerful, while the Qin State only had a small number of battleships in the Yellow River.Therefore, Qin Chu fought, and the Chu Guoshui Army often used the interlaced rivers in its territory to attack the Qin army.In order to completely solve this problem, Qin Huiwang was determined to form the Qin Guoshui Army.On the basis of the compilation of the former Ba Shu Water Army, Qin Guo established a shipyard in Ba Shu, building a large number of building ships and fighting ships with strong combat capabilities, and loading the Qin Guos Marine Corps.As a result, the Qin State Water Force began to take shape.

In 279 BC, the white commander Qin Guojian attacked Chu Guoxiandu by riding a land route.At the same time, Sima went wrongly set out from Ba Shu, 100,000 unified water forces, 10,000 large ships, and 6 million beards in the rice, attacking Chuguo along the Fuling River.Under the strong offensive of the Qinguang Waterway Federation, Chu lost a large part of its land and was forced to move to Chencheng.Since then, the Qin Guojun has shaken the princes.

Now the shipyard in Jianzhou (now Sichuan Yibin) has been installed in large fighting ships, with the help of rockets, fighting consumption, absolutely not afraid.

Because Li Shimin in order to control the Yangtze River waterway, it is necessary to transfer distant-water warships from the distant ocean fleet, once the more pumping, the greater the advantages of Datang Marine in the battle of the ocean will be more obvious.

Now, the biggest problem is to see whether Li Shimin's courage is large enough, can give up everything, regardless of the Yangtze River war, the whole line to advance, so since then, it is not good to fight.

In such a large-scale battle, in fact, the ambush and local advantages are no longer important.Even if the annihilation of Li Shimin's thousands of troops, it makes no sense to him at all.

...

Linhuai City, Li Shimin finally received the results of the battle of the Yangtze River swallows, this result he was not too unexpected, experienced Li Chengqing's mind is greater than the battle itself, and this battle is accurate to say that the loss is a little bigger.However, it regained temporary control of the Yangtze River.

However, there is a strange uneasiness in Li Shimin's heart.

He couldn’t tell the question of where, but the uneasiness grew stronger.

Du Ruyu suddenly said, “Your Majesty, how long has there been no news of the Datang Mariner?”“

Li Shimin shook his head: "Since the battle of the East China Sea, there has been no news for half a year, and now I don't know where they are!"“

"Not good," Du Ruyan said, "they didn't go to Fuso?"“

Li Shimin shook his head: "We almost vacated Fuso, where the gold and silver mines are also all given to the clan door valve, even if their sailors went to Fusang, some people are working hard with them!"More to say...”

At this point, Li Shimin's face became extremely ugly.

Fuso mainland is very large, and hundreds of warships of the Datang Marine Division alone cannot be swallowed down at all, and may be able to die.

The ocean fleet...