The left wing of the Mo family's boat master, on the Yu Huang's horn.

This main tower ship, originally affiliated to the South China Sea of ​​Qi Min, is now the far left wing of the fleet.

The copper cannon on the top floor has been loaded, and the drums are thundering, and the paddlers are conserving their physical strength, making the already slower building ship even slower.

Not far ahead of the Yuhuang, there are three small boats. These boats are like small fish surrounding the big fish, mainly to prevent the fireboats on the opposite side.

The arson ship is very fast and the ship is very small. It is most suitable for dealing with such large ships. Although it will most likely die halfway through the journey, you will make a profit as long as you succeed once.

Therefore, to deal with such arson ship, the building ship must follow some extremely fast boats.

Once you find that something is wrong, you must hook the arson ships in advance, drive them away, cut off the sails, or blow them up directly.

However, the Yue people did not use the arson ship, but chose to rush over, hoping to use the abundant martial virtues of the nobles to meet the brave ones on a narrow road.

Lieutenant Colonel Captain is on the top floor of the building, with a musketeer next to him being responsible for the guards.

When the nearest ship of Yue was only 150 steps away, the cannons at the front of the building ship began to shoot. As the waves overturned, the accuracy of the shooting was very low.

But two small boats from Vietnam were still hit, and the ships behind had to avoid the bow and subconsciously avoided the sides.

After two shootings, the Yue Kingdom's ships were already close, and the drums became rapid. The tower ship that had been moving slowly began to accelerate. With the help of its huge body, it collided towards a Yue Kingdom's boat.

Several small boats from Yue Kingdom approached, and their extremely low hulls compared to those of the building ship made it difficult for Yue Kingdom soldiers to pose an effective threat to the top of the building ship.

The musketeer held his breath and waited until the small boat in Yue was approaching forty or fifty steps, and then he hooked the trigger.

The musketeers on the second deck are still using heavy heavy-coat rope guns that have been eliminated and fixed with brackets. Such heavy-coat rope guns can shoot further.

Most of the small boats of Yue Kingdom bypassed the Yuhuang. Because they were not broken by the impact corners, they would be entangled by the hooks and ladders on them. The number of people was too big, and they attacked upwards, so they had no chance of winning at all.

The only chance for Yue Kingdom to win was to rush into the back of the building ship against the small boat of the Mojia boatman.

If the small sailboat on the left wing of the Mohist family can be completely destroyed, then there may be a chance to rely on the speed advantage.

The quantity and quality of artillery are not enough to become the main force in sailing and boat wars.

The bangs kept coming, and the real cruel hand-to-hand combat had begun.

The Mo family's boat master's boat began to accelerate, forming small plum blossom arrays around the tower ship. With the help of the firepower on the tower ship, he started a hand-to-hand fight with the Yue country's boat.

A small Mohist sailboat on the back could not be avoided and was stuck in a small boat from Yue Kingdom.

The soldiers on the ship shouted loudly, shooting with muskets here, and fighting back with bows and arrows on the opposite side.

After a rumbling and impact, two small sailboats hooked together. The officers of Yue Kingdom wanted to get close to the hand-to-hand combat, and the Mo family boat, who knew that they could no longer avoid, also chose to go up to the hand-to-hand combat.

When the two ships started to fight, more than 30 people on both sides had lost their combat effectiveness.

More than a dozen sergeants from the Mo family were shot at close range by Yue people's bows and arrows. The Yue people were killed by muskets, and they were also shot at close range by small hemp rope cannons that approached, causing a large number of casualties.

The tower ship not far away can no longer use artillery. The distance is too close and a little bump may hit its own people. Moreover, Si Shang attaches importance to the army, and the best gunners are all in the army, and the hit rate of the tower ship is not very high.

The Lieutenant Colonel Captain was actually a little confused at this time. He had never really fought such a big battle. Although he had learned a lot, he was still a little confused when he actually fought.

The flags on the fleet flagships farther away are to maintain formation battles. According to what is learned on paper, the ship has slowed down at this time. Relying on the firepower and number of people of the tower ship, it provides cover for the surrounding friendly boats; the surrounding friendly boats must find ways to force the Vietnamese boats between the tower ships and their own boats.

However, the reality that came into his eyes at this time was completely different.

The small sailboats of the Mo family's boatmen are also novice, and they are a little confused when they are rushed by Yue people who have grown up in the water. Although the officers know that they have seized the position and forced the Yue country's boats to the shooting range of the building ships, the Yue country's nobles are not stupid.

Their years of water battles gave them rich experience, and the few artillery shootings at the beginning of the battle allowed them to find the advantages and disadvantages of the tower ship.

The firepower is very strong and the speed is very slow. The best way is to fight to the small sailboat behind and fight to the sidelines.

So they drove the boat flexibly, and the oars were paddling quickly as they listened to the drums, jammed the slightly hesitant Mohist sailboats, and stuck them on them when they found an opportunity.

The Lieutenant-Collector captain could only issue orders to allow the musketeers to shoot and support, stabilize the situation, and then talk about it. Since the flag language said that they should keep their formation, then use the tower ships as mobile fortresses according to the scheduled plan to cover the small boats to fight.

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The other side of the Vietnamese navy.

Xu Feng also looked worried.

It’s not a confusion, but a worry that is too big a gap in strength.

The central army was already engaged in the battle, and before the battle, a cannon shooting of the Mojia Zhou Division destroyed more than ten small boats of the central army of Yue.

The ships that were fearless and rushed past avoided the tower ships of the Mo family's army, and inserted them backwards, choosing those small boats to fight.

The formation in the Mo family seemed a little confused, but in real fighting, Yueguo did not have much advantage. At most, it would destroy the formation advantage of the Mo family, but the final melee Yue people did not gain much advantage.

Xu Fu could see that the Mo family's boat troops were not experienced enough. Although they were the initiator of the attack, they were actually still tactics of self-defense war of attrition.

The cooperation of the three armies was a problem, so I gave up the attack cooperation of the three armies, and instead learned from the turtle, maintained the formation, and moved forward little by little.

This is hard to fight for him.

If he wants to win, he needs to make mistakes from the Mo family, especially mistakes such as not obeying orders and actively chasing away from the main force and exposing his flanks.

The Mo family's boat division has the advantage of military strength and firepower. It is okay to move forward without rushing and impatiently, but Xu Feng cannot fight like this, so he can't afford to fight.

In fact, he saw that the right wing of the Mo family had missed an opportunity. After the Yue people's left wing fleet seized the upstream of hydrology, he could not capture the four tower ships and could only choose to fight with the small boats behind.

He did not deploy too many troops on the left wing, so even in such a melee, the Mohist school actually had an advantage.

If the four tower ships abandoned their old-fashioned formations and chose to bypass the melee area, seize the upstream at full speed, go around his side, go downstream, and rush into his central army formation with artillery and horns, he is now considering retreating.

However, the right wing of the Mo family did not seize the opportunity, and the four tower ships were still working hard to surround and kill the small sailboats of Yue.

But this just gave Xu Feng a chance to continue fighting, but did not give him a chance to win.

The plan conceived at the beginning now seems unlikely to be realized. The left wing of the Mo family boat master was already fighting with his right wing. The huge tower ships were not prepared to change formations as he imagined, but were learning from turtles and putting them there as moving fortresses to cover the small boats to fight.

The building ship where Xu Wu is located has been hit by shells three times. Fortunately, these broken iron balls can only smash the wood of the building ship, and have not caused irreparable losses to the building ship, and are still within a bearable range.

The flagship opposite was hidden behind the central army, with a small boat cover. As the flagship, it did not take the initiative to attack and give full play to its advantages. Instead, it shrank there and destroyed the nearby Vietnamese boats little by little, so that Xu Feng had no chance to go straight to the central army and kill the generals and seize the flag.

Xu Feng sighed and thought to himself that if I had this fleet, I would be sure to win now.

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The Mo family's boat master left wing, near the Yu Huang.

A Yue country's sailboat was burning, and many paddlers ran out of it and jumped into the water, either holding a wooden board or trying to grab a falling mast.

There was a small boat from Yue Kingdom not far away. The Yue nobles on the boat witnessed the terrifying scene just now.

The Mo family boat master was very stupid, and his boating flexibility was not as good as them. The small boat from Yue that was burning now took this opportunity to stick it over from the side and used a hook to hold the Mo family ship opposite him.

However, just now, the short and rough cannon on the Mo family ship, which had a range of only a few dozen meters, opened fire, and a large amount of gravel and iron sand blasted on the body of the navy on the Yue country's ship, which was about to jump into the hand-to-hand combat.

Immediately afterwards, someone threw iron thunder on the Mo family's ship, which was a completely useless fight.

This noble had heard that the hand-to-hand naval soldiers on the Mo family's boat division were trained by elite city guards under Mozi back then. The city guards on the land were trained by the first camp grenades in the Si Shang army. However, they did not expect that the two divisions had similar methods to the same origin but divided into water and land.

After a few explosions, the sailors on the Mo family ship actually jumped onto the Yue Kingdom ship, and in the chaos, they squeezed many Yue people into the water. They chose to attack with their daggers and small shields.

Although two Yue ships seized the opportunity to lean over and formed a situation of three to one, the people on the Mo family ship actually destroyed one Yue ship in such chaos and seriously injured half of them.

In the end, the Mo family's ship was captured, but the problem was that the Mo family's troops were already dominant, and such a desperate way of fighting was a disaster for Yue.

Those people may not have enough experience, or even trained sailors according to the melee exercises on land. Even if there are paddlers, they are not aware of paddling and grabbing positions, but they are extremely brave and are not scared by the Yue people sailors who have broken hair and tattoos and shouted endlessly.

In the battle just now, there was a small boat from the Mo family next to him. After seeing his teammates being surrounded, he actually chose to support him from behind instead of quickly beating the drums and allowing the paddlers to quickly seize the inside.

He thought that if he was from the Mo family, under the circumstances just now, the ship next to him should not have snatched it up to support him, but would have quickly cut to the inside, blocked the retreat road and attacked both sides.

But even though they made one mistake or another, the Yue Kingdom still did not control the situation, but instead formed a loss of nearly one-for-one change in the melee.

For the Mohist equipment, firearm advantages, quantity advantages and melee training level, this is actually very embarrassing. It proves that the mutual cooperation between the boats is not controlled at all. It is not experienced enough, and it is much worse than their tactical level on land. It is difficult to form a situation of fighting one more, and the Vietnamese navy often uses its experience to create a situation of fighting one more.
Chapter completed!