Book 51 Chapter 7 – Wheel Warships Showing Off Their Might (1/2)
Book 51 Chapter 7 – Wheel Warshi+ps Showing Off Their Might
Translator: Foxs' Wuxia
Turned out after running away for half a day, Kou Zhong and Yang Gongqing finally could not take it anyically situated and easy to defend place to take a little break; ould have thought that not even half an ene knew in his heart that the turn of events was not too encouraging, he guessed that Li Zitong was seizing this golden opportunity to attack Liangdu ahead of hiqing and Ma Chang, he left the Thousand-Li Drea across aa e, he rushed back along the canal Fro would fly up into the sky to scout the road ahead for hi and the others
The two sides met, they learned about each other’s situation, naturally they were very happy After understanding thoroughly that the eneer to , to notify him not to rush back in a hurry, because the safety of the troops was the top priority
After another bout of busyness of , histoward a large rock at the lower reaches of the gorge to sit down “Xiongdi!” he said, “I arateful to you, otherwise I would lose this battle very badly; not only Liangdu would be difficult to protect, my Shao Shuai Ar’s! Gui Xiliang and Xing Rong, these two kids, are really not human I trusted the said, “I knew you were going to blaly The friendshi+p that has been established since childhood is the most sincere friendshi+p; they definitely are not that kind of shameless disciples” And then he explained his analysis
Kou Zhong’s entire being relaxed; he laughed and said, “Luckily I have you around to dispel doubts and solve the probleht ht’s battle will be under your, LaoGe’s coht now I am so tired that I only want to lie down and sleep Huether with Li Zitong on one boat, not only we can confir who betrayed us, but we can also slaughter hi said, “Our odds of success in this battle is very high, because Li Zitong does not know at all that we have Yang Gongqing and his arht that you emptied the city and went out; therefore, he will only care about colect to take precautions What’s your plan?”
Kou Zhong s of a strike we can inflict on Li Zitong’s navy fleet The flywheel boats’ speed and flexibility are far superior to any shi+p in Li Zitong’s navy, plus we are going with the current Attacking them while they are unprepared, perhaps we could completely wipeout his more than a hundred shi+ps At that tio down south We cut off all ay traffic to and froli; at that tieneral not surrender? If Zhongli falls, Gaoyou will be the object inside du and tre looked up at the bright moon in the sky, he said, “The command authority over the entire arzhi, you and I will board one of the flywheel boats; with your Shooting the Sun Bow plus my Mulberry Wood Bow, I am sure the ene said, “Xingzhi? He does not have any experience conductingto his head, Xu Ziling said, “But he hasas there is an experienced person, such us Bai Wenyuan – by his side working together with hi-reborn kind of ability Other than Xuan Yong, he is thehirasp, it would bring inestie and confidence Moreover, you need someone whose ability and wisdoeneral situation whenever you go out to battle”
Noticing Kou Zhong appeared to be still hesitating, Xu Ziling reet that ill be personally involved in the battle; if so, we can still re finally agreed; he said, “Your proposals have never been wrong There is notShao to suzhi will have the authority and responsibility to conduct this battle”
Twenty-eight flywheel boats, each one was five zhang long, two zhang wide – were storing up moorge All the sails of the boat were dis used, the boats would be propelled purely by foot power The best thing was that the big round wheel at the aft had more than sixty live plates mounted on the wooden wheel, connected to the rudder Therefore, if the angle and direction of the plates as they hit the water were adjusted, the flywheel boat would be able to glide on the surface of the water as if it was flying, just like a fish
The crossbow machine on the shi+p’s boas the most fierce and severe heavy weapon of the flywheel boat; each machine could continuously shoot twelve special-ht hundred paces When a cloth soaked in kerosene was added to it, it would beco weapon in naval battle
On both sides of the shi+ps, steel plates were installed to guard against the arrow, extended frole anda roof, with round holes on it, for breathing and for shooting arrows The soldiers and the hel inside
The bow of the shi+p was also equipped with sharp steel cone, the original construction was similar to the one fitted on ordinary warshi+ps; however, due to the flywheel boat’s flexibility, on collision, naturally the destructive poas so that ordinary bulky warshi+p would not be able toand Bu Tianzhi stood on one of the boats, which, at the last shi+p’ Xu Ziling was in charge ofhad the Shooting the Sun Bow in his hand As for the fire arrows, he was assisted by four Shao Shuai soldiers, ere particularly nimble, to supply him with the arrows On the hel the boat Bu Tianzhi was in charge of the overall situation, he would give the co’s orders using flag signal
The canal was thick with the tense at in high altitude above the gorge Suddenly she dove down and flew in a circle before diving doard Kou Zhong Kou Zhong raised his right hand to let Wuhed and said, “Sweet baby darling, is the ene’s pair of eyes, like torches, stared fixedly in the direction of the gorge, she spread out her wings, her appearance was hed aloud and said, “Go back to the sky and play!”
As if she understood huh into the sky, and becaht moon in the blink of an eye
Greatly astonished, Xu Ziling asked, “I thought she only understands Tujue language?”
Shrugging his shoulders, Kou Zhong said, “Even ghosts do not kno she understands it either;Han language, over ti wryly, Bu Tianzhi said, “I a, unexpectedly you guys are still in the mood to chat and joke; I wonder if you can teach ?”
Kou Zhong cheerfully said, “After fighting two more battles, Zhi Shu will be like us, won’t take any battle too seriously This is a question of habit Huh? Xingzhi wants us to pull back two li? What the hell is going on?”
Xu Ziling szhi and not you, Kou Zhong Military orders are likeQuickly do as he said!”
The crowd looked up at the top of the cliff The bright nal the nodded to Bu Tianzhi, noas Bu Tianzhi’s turn to wave the flags to signal the twenty-eight flywheel boats to turn around quickly ‘Whoosh!+ Whoosh!+’ the water was stirred, just like that, the boats went against the strea the time to make a turn
Two enee one in front of the other
Watching this, everybody was disappointed, but they understood The tarshi+ps were twenty zhang apart If the other eneorge, then at any orge Even if the trebuchets were able to coe, it would be no e to the eneinal plan, when the enee and they ie fleet could coht back With the eneth, they would definitely have to pack their food and leave before they finished eating
Xu Xingzhi y at the last e before starting to cast the stones in violent attack, to cut the enemy’s fleet into two sections so that the head and the tail could not correspond to each other, and then use the flywheel boats as thethe newest invention in boat technology, the new and original tactics, attacking the eney that the enemy had no time to deal with it
Bu Tianzhi nodded and said, “Xu Xiansheng indeed has original position inShaoshuai’s trust”
One enerandiose procession, covering the river section before their eyes, extending continuously, unending, lance
Nearly forty enee, the sail ; obviously, as they got closer to Liangdu, they were in a state of high alert
The battle drums on top of the cliff were suddenly sounded, the stone-throwingshouted loudly, “Brothers! Charge!”
Inside the steel-plate reinforced cabin, thirty warriors, sixty legs stepped on the pedals at the same time, the flywheel boat turned around quickly With Chen Laoshi+p was the first tospeedily toward the first ene away
The torch was lighted, it ignited the fire arrow
Kou Zhong blow out his qi and raised his voice, he pulled open the curtain of the battle between the two navies by shooting the first fire arrow Fro a wonderful, colorful trajectory over the air above the canal, hitting the fully opened sail of the ene fla immediately unleashed the crossbow machine, twelve fire arrows shot out one after another, either breaking into the hull, piercing through the shi+p’s hold, or hitting the other side’s sail et
This moment the enemy’s archers woke up with a start and returned fire, but under Bu Tianzhi’s command, the flywheel boat ahead nimbly darted toward the shore, so that the flywheel boat behind it met the eneht injury
By the ti the enemy’s first shi+p, the afore- fla thick smoke; one after another the enemy soldiers jumped into the canal to run for their life